Attorney General Anil Nandlall, SC, has welcomed the successful holding of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) election, which, he said, will now bring order and move Guyana’s cricket forward, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.
“We had to go to the Parliament and pass a Cricket Administration Act, and it has been marred in litigation. Persons were holding offices in the GCB … by virtue not of the ballot, but by virtue of court orders, which they were able to get from the court system through various initiatives,” the AG said recently.
“Everything wouldn’t last for long, and that use of the court system to remain in office came to an end. It would have come to an end; I told the players that, that after a while, every rope has an end, and finally those cricket elections were finally held, and a new body was democratically elected,” he told DPI.
The Legal Affairs Minister said he is hoping for a responsible cricket administration that will represent accountability and transparency. Those characteristics, he said, were absent for many years.
“Finally, the curtains have come down, and that period is now behind us, and we have some fresh blood, some respectable people and I hope that they can put their shoulders to the wheel and they can push the cricketing agenda forward”, he added.
