The Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will now take place on November 20.
This is one of several decisions taken by the executives of the GCA at a Special General Meeting convened last Thursday at the Malteenoes Sports Club.
The GCA had originally planned to stage its AGM last February but an injunction filed by Everest Cricket Club member Nazimul Drepaul prevented this.
The GCA was scheduled to hold its AGM on February 19 at the Malteenoes Sports Club but Drepaul had obtained an injunction on the grounds that a declaration that the resolution passed by the GCA at their AGM last year which was to extend the term of office for the president to two years be null and void and that the notice of this year’s AGM published in the Guyana Chronicle on January 17 for the meeting was contrary to the constitution.
Thursday’s meeting was convened in accordance with an order from the Honourable Chief Justice (AG) Ian Chang.
Chang, at the hearing of the injunction on February 27, had given the GCA the option of deciding whether to waive the rules of the Georgetown Cricket Association; of providing for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held outside the month of January; of setting a new date for the AGM and of deciding whether the 2012 elected executives will function as executives up to and including the AGM.
According to a press release from the GCA, based on the ordered agenda the members of the GCA decided unanimously:
.To waive the rules of the Georgetown Cricket Association
.To provide for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held outside the month of January in the year 2014 only
.By majority, to set the date for the AGM to be held on the 20th November, 2014.
.By majority, that the 2012 elected executives will function as executives up to and including the AGM set for the 20th November, 2014.
Also present at the meeting was former Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) secretary Bishwa Panday, who was an official delegate representing the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO), while Assistant Commissioner of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Balram Persaud, former GCB executive Ronald Williams and GCA’s Colin Alfred were also present.
GCA president Roger Harper, in the press release stated that his executive would like to thank the members for giving them the opportunity to continue to serve them and cricket in Georgetown until November 20, 2014.
“The GCA is delighted to be able to get on with is main business which is running cricket in Georgetown thereby providing our players with the opportunity to showcase their talent and develop their skills,” Harper was quoted as saying in the release from the GCA following Thursday’s meeting.
