The Court of Appeal yesterday decided that they will now set a date for the ruling on the consent order to stay the Cricket Administration Act when the court resumes in January.
The matter was heard before Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire and Justice Franklyn Holder, who, after hearing the response by Attorney-at-Law, Roysdale Forde, indicated that the court will recess at the end of the week and upon resuming in January, a date will be set for the ruling. The next session is expected to resume on January 13.
Forde related that he was responding to the application to set aside the consent order to certain sections of the Cricket Administration Act which the court is to determine whether or not the Stay of those sections is in keeping with the law.
The counsel argued that the stay provided interim relief since the functioning of the body cannot act in a vacuum as the ruling had determined that the staff of the Guyana Cricket Board continues to function.
Meanwhile, Attorney-at-Law, Arundranauth Gossai related in chronological order how the events unfolded since the act came into existence back in 2014. He posited that the stay to certain sections of the act did not benefit the public but rather those in authority.
Earlier in the year, the courts ordered that “the effect and operation of the Guyana Cricket Administration Act be Stayed save and except for section 6, 10 and 17 thereof and clauses 5,6,7,8,9,10, 17 and 18 of Schedule of the Cricket Administration Act until hearing and determination of the Summons.”
Section 6 deals with the Executive Board while Section 10 speaks about the Cricket Ombudsman and Section 17 deals with the holding of the first elections of the Guyana Cricket Board.
