Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie said yesterday that the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) will continue to function although they have been asked to hand over to an Interim management Committee which is expected to run the affairs of the GCB for the next six months.
Asked yesterday whether the GCB will act accede to the request of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in the aforementioned regard Sanasie, who is also a Director of the West Indies Cricket board said no.
“The answer to that is no. We do not think they have the authority and our lawyers will be handling that.
The GCB has selected a high powered trio of lawyers in Sanjeev Datadin, Roysdale Forde and Fenton Ramsahoye to argue its case and their lawyers are expected to institute a legal challenge to the minister’s request next week.
The GCB had been written to by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport which had asked the body to hand over the relevant documents to an Interim Management Committee headed by International Cricket Council’s Match Referee Clive Lloyd. “We had sent in writing to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, a letter through one of our attorneys that basically spelt out how we felt about it.
“Other than that, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been informed and they are fully behind the previously stated position that the GCB is the recognized body.”
He went on:” We have been keeping them abreast and they will be issuing a statement as soon as their legal people will have had time to look at the matter.”
