The beleaguered Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) executives yesterday filed a motion in the High Court stating that the setting up of an Interim Management Committee by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport was unconstitutional.
Yesterday’s motion also sought to have the Court decide that the placement of locks on the GCB’s office on regent Street was also unconstitutional.
Attorney-at-Law Roysdale Forde yesterday filed the motions on behalf of the GCB President Ramsey Ali representing the GCB and Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC).
This is second time in two months that GCB officials have made an appeal to the High Court with regards to what they view as unlawful government behaviour.
The previous motion was filed on December 28 by lawyers Fenton Ramsahoye and Sanjeev Datadin on an application by Lionel Jaikarran and Chetram Singh in their capacities as trustees of the GCB.
They had sought to have the government’s decision to set up the IMC to run the affairs of local cricket squashed. That motion was thrown out by the High Court.
On December 23 last year, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, in a press release, announced the decision to set up the IMC stating that this was done in keeping with the ruling of Chief Justice Ian Chang following a challenge to the legality of the Ramsey Ali-led GCB executive.
The ministry’s release stated that meetings were subsequently held between Dr. Anthony and various representatives of the previously recognized boards while former president of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo and Lloyd had met with president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dr. Julian Hunte.
Yesterday’s injunction follows the decision by the IMC on Tuesday to name a 30-man squad to prepare for the upcoming regional West Indies Cricket Board’s four-day cricket tournament.
The GCB also named a 31-man squad on Tuesday, a squad that is slightly different to that of the IMC’s.
