Bissoondyal Singh re-elected President of Demerara Cricket Board

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has held its Annual General Meeting, and all its member Associations, such as the East Coast Cricket Board, East Bank Cricket Association, Georgetown Cricket Association, Upper Demerara Cricket Association, and the West Demerara Cricket Association, along with their respective allocation of delegates, attended.

At 5:30pm on Friday, January 06, 2023, at the LBI Cricket Facility, East Coast Demerara, President Singh, chairman of the board, called the meeting to order, and thereafter conducted the business of the meeting efficiently.
During discussions, a number of issues were highlighted, the most important being the phenomenon of senior GCA members regularly failing to attend Executive meetings of the Demerara Cricket Board.
It has been recorded that GCA President Neil Barry attended 5 out of 9 meetings, Vice- President Roger Harper attended 4 out of 9 meetings, and Treasurer Azad Ibrahim attended 2 out of 9 meetings.
It was also disclosed that Barry, as Marketing Committee Chairman, had failed to acquire a single sponsor throughout the year; while Roger Harper never convened a single Cricket Development Committee meeting, although he was the Chairman for that period.
Members expressed total dissatisfaction with this very unacceptable state of affairs, and opined that GCA was deliberately underperforming. The nomination/election process that followed saw GCA members being excluded from any position.
Immediately after this meeting, Ombudsman Mr. Malcolm Peters began the election process, with the delegates nominating Mr. Arnold Sukraj as the Returning Officer. The first nomination for office was that of the President of the DCB, where the GCA-nominated Speaker of the National Assembly (Parliament) Manzoor Nadir came up against Mr. Bissoondyal Singh and was trashed by a margin of 24 votes to 7 votes.
The delegates of the GCA immediately walked out of the meeting after that embarrassing loss, and were thereafter not recommended for nomination to any other position for the remainder of the election process.
The following members were elected to office of the Demerara Cricket Board.
1. Mr. Bissoondyal Singh as President
2. Mr. Puneet Jaigopaul as 1st Vice-President
3. Mr. Bradley Fredericks as 2nd Vice-President
4. Mr. Davteerth Anandjit as Secretary
5. Mr. Ronald Williams as Assistant Secretary
6. Mr. Vicky Bharosay as Treasurer
7. Mr. Azeem Troy Khan as Assistant Treasurer
8. Ms. Kavita Yadram as Chairperson of the Competitions Committee
9. Mr. Clarence Brotherson as Public Relations Officer
10. Mr. Anil Beharry as Marketing Manager
11. Mr. Fazal Ishak as Trustee
12. Mr. Avinash Ganesh as Trustee
13. Chaitram Ramdial & Associates as Auditor