Attorney General Anil Nandlall and Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony have been given 48 hours to return the asset to the Demerara Essequibo Berbice (DEB) Essential Organisation Incorporated following the granting of a Court Order yesterday.
The order, which was granted yesterday, was expected to be served late yesterday on Anthony and Nandlall.
According to order which this publication got hold off, a motion filed by lawyer Roysdale Forde stated was upheld by the honourable made Dawn Gregory and Justice James Bovell Drakes in the High Court.
The order stated that: “All Books, records, computers, computer hard drives, flash drives, and any other media whatsoever, computer records, cheque books, deposit books, accounting records, minutes of meetings, correspondence received, and copies of correspondence dispatched, used by or to or for the credit or use of the purported Guyana Cricket Board; and any documents or records relating to any of the items as aforesaid or to any goods, chattels, cash, funds held in bank accounts, movable and immovable property whatsoever” be retuned the DEB Essentials Organizations on behalf of plaintiff’s Anand Sanasie and Faizul Bacchus.
Apart from Sanasie and Bacchus, Ramsey Ali, Alfred Mentore, Dru Bahadur, Anand Kalludeen, Colin Europe, Troy Mendonza, Terrence Holder, Rayon Griffith, Nazimul Drepaul, Raj Singh and Sheikh Ahmad were appointed directors of the new limited liability company on August 29.
Also, a Deed of Transfer executed by Chetram Singh, former President and Trustee of GCB, and Lionel Jaikrarran, also a trustee of GCB, transferred to D.E.B Essential Organisation Incorporated all assets and properties of the GCB and thereby authorized D.E.B Essential Organisation Inc. to take all necessary legal steps to regularise ownership of the properties.
The properties include all office and other furniture, cricket gear, the LBI hostel and practice facility, Anna Regina hostel, the GNIC Practice Facility, the GCB office, one minibus, the media centre at Bourda, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Account No. 1084826; Demerara Bank Account No. 400-7217, Bank of Novia Scotia Account Nos. 6717 and 7312, Republic Bank Account No. 650-556-4 and New Building Society Account No. C1873
On March 22, the government issued a 21-day ultimatum to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), requesting that all records relating to the failed Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) into the DEB limited liability company, be rectified to reflect the interest of Guyana.
In response to this on March 24, during the recent WICB Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Cool Palm Hotel, St. Lucia, WICB president Dr. Julian Hunte had stated that the board was currently seeking legal advice on the matter.
