Guyana govt will move to court if WICB fails to fulfil request

The Guyana government will move to the court if the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) fails to comply with its request to have all records relating to the failed Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) rectified to reflect the interest of Guyana, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.
Nandlall, through lawyers for the government, on March 21 wrote a letter to the WICB, requesting that all records relating to the dissolved GCB be rectified to reflect the interest of Guyana.
The WICB has until April 12 to make available all the necessary records requested by the GoG, whose Interim Management Committee (IMC) has taken over cricket in the country. In the letter sent to the WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire, this publication had learned that two “Class A voting shares and one “Class AP share” were issued to the GCB at the time of incorporation of the WICB and those shares still remain registered under the name of GCB, which became defunct after Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang granted an injunction preventing the executive and Trustees from performing any functions of the Board and after the entire executive tendered their resignation last month.
Nandlall said, “Those two shares belong to Guyana and as such the government will do anything in its power to protect them.” This publication understands that the two Class A voting shares mean that the GCB had full voting rights on the WICB, but cannot ascertain any information on the one Class AP share.
In the letter titled: ‘Purported Guyana Cricket Board Shares in West Indies Cricket Board’ from Fraser, Housty & Yearwood firm to WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire it stated that the government “stand willing to provide whatever information and assistance you (WICB) may require to facilitate the process.” In the missive the government contended that it was exercising its “sovereign right of bona vacantia (ownerless goods)” to have share certificates be re-issued in the name of the Guyana government.
The Guyana government will move to the court if the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) fails to comply with its request to have all records relating to the failed Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) rectified to reflect the interest of Guyana, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall. Nandlall, through lawyers for the government, on March 21 wrote a letter to the WICB, requesting that all records relating to the dissolved GCB be rectified to reflect the interest of Guyana. The WICB has until April 12 to make available all the necessary records requested by the GoG, whose Interim Management Committee (IMC) has taken over cricket in the country. In the letter sent to the WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire, this publication had learned that two “Class A voting shares and one “Class AP share” were issued to the GCB at the time of incorporation of the WICB and those shares still remain registered under the name of GCB, which became defunct after Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang granted an injunction preventing the executive and Trustees from performing any functions of the Board and after the entire executive tendered their resignation last month. Nandlall said, “Those two shares belong to Guyana and as such the government will do anything in its power to protect them.” This publication understands that the two Class A voting shares mean that the GCB had full voting rights on the WICB, but cannot ascertain any information on the one Class AP share. In the letter titled: ‘Purported Guyana Cricket Board Shares in West Indies Cricket Board’ from Fraser, Housty & Yearwood firm to WICB CEO Ernest Hilaire it stated that the government “stand willing to provide whatever information and assistance you (WICB) may require to facilitate the process.” In the missive the government contended that it was exercising its “sovereign right of bona vacantia (ownerless goods)” to have share certificates be re-issued in the name of the Guyana government.