Following the conferred of the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC) on Guyanese and West Indian cricketing legend, Sir Clive Lloyd, the Guyana Cricket Board has sent out salutations to one of Guyana’s finest to ever play the game.
“The quintessential statesman who continues to receive outstanding awards and accolades from around the world 39 years after the curtain fell on his illustrious playing career”, said GCB President Bissoondyal Singh.
While the award has been described as a “celebration of excellence among the peoples of the region”, Sir Lloyd is the second Guyanese after Sir Shridath Ramphal (1992) to be awarded the OCC and also the fourth cricketer after Sir Garfield Sobers (1998), Mr. Brian Charles Lara (2008), and Sir Viv Richards (2022).
In a release yesterday, the President, Executives, and Members of the GCB joined in “congratulating Sir Clive Lloyd on being the recipient of this prestigious accord at the recently held 47th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of CARICOM.”
“Our modest and soft-spoken national hero has once again added to his expanding honour roll, which includes his knighthood in January 2022 from the Duke of Cambridge Prince William at Windsor Castle and his induction into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2019”, the release further stated.
