A Court Order granted by Justice William Ramlall on Tuesday which stated that the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Alfred King, had 24 hours to remove the locks placed on the office of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) was yesterday served on King and Interim Management Committee Chairman, Clive Lloyd.
According to lawyer for the GCB, Roysdale Forde, the ministry has until noon today to comply with the order failing which the GCB has the right to remove the locks.
Earlier yesterday, at a press conference held at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s boardroom, Quamina Street, Dr. Anthony addressed the issue of the locks placed on the GCB office.
He told reporters that the former GCB members failed to co-operate with the investigators.
“I am of the opinion that the former GCB members want to impede the investigation process and are showing major double standards,” Dr. Anthony stated.
“I see big story in the papers about who is being locked out of offices. When last I checked, we told the former GCB members that `since you have the keys we can go to board office in the presence of the police, state officials and even the media and open the doors.’”
“When the day came they never showed up but kept stating in the media that they want to co-operate in this investigation,” said Dr. Anthony.
The minister said the reason for locking the office doors was because they did not want any evidence to be tampered with.
“Thus we had no choice but to lock the doors since we didn’t want evidence being manipulated by the same people who are being accused. We have continued to tell them whenever they are ready we can open the doors together, but yet somehow they and the WICB hierarchy are spinning this as us interfering with their daily affairs,” the minister explained.
