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CCJ Upholds Justice Navindra Singh’s Order on Demerara Cricket Board Election
– As Sanasie and Kalladin Action Dismissed
Anand Kalladin
Kaieteur News – According to a release from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), The CCJ on the 24th February, 2023, dismissed an application filed by Anand Sanasie & Anand Kalladin challenging Justice Navindra Singh’s decision to order an election for the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) in February, 2021. The CCJ held that the Applicants failed to establish that their challenge to Justice Singh’s Order had any likelihood or chance of success. The Applicants were also ordered to pay the costs of the Respondents.
The Applicants, Sanasie and Kalladin, were represented by Mr. C.V. Satram and Ron Motilall while the Respondents, Roger Harper, Davteerth Anandjit and Bradley Fredericks, were represented by Mr. Arudranauth Gossai.
Anand Sanasie
The holding of the DCB Election in February, 2021 paved the way for the Honourable Minister of Sports, Charles Ramson Jr., to appoint a Cricket Ombudsman and to have the long awaited and much delayed lawful election of the Guyana Cricket Board which was subsequently held in March, 2021.
The decision of the CCJ brought an end to almost twelve (12) years of litigation where Sanasie and Kalladin sought, in every conceivable way, to prevent a lawful election of the DCB.
Justice Singh had ruled since June 2019 that an election be held for the DCB in August, 2019 but same could not be held because an appeal was filed against Justice Singh’s Order, a Stay of that Order was granted by the Court of Appeal and the Guyana Cricket Administration Act was suspended by an Order of a single judge of the Court of Appeal.
That suspension of the Cricket Act was eventually lifted by the full bench of the Court of Appeal in September, 2020 and Sanasie and Kalladin withdrew their application to Stay Justice Singh’s Order. The way was then clear for a DCB election to be held.
Sanasaie and Kalladin, however, did not stop their quest to stymy the holding of a lawful election and they appealed Justice Singh’s Order to the Full Court which dismissed their appeal with costs. They then appealed to the Court of Appeal and again their appeal was dismissed. Their final attempt to derail the lawful election of the DCB was brought to finality by the Judgment of the CCJ which was delivered by the Honourable President of the CCJ Mr. Adrian Saunders.
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