“Counsel said we will compel Cricket Ombudsman to do his job”, DCB President says

What is the next move as it relates to the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB’s) elections? That is the question being asked by many at this point.
Elections that were to be held on Friday, February 26, were postponed because the Essequibo Cricket Board raised numerous issues in relation to preparation.
According to President of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB), Bissoondyal Singh Snr, counsel has advised the DCB of a move to the court to compel Cricket Ombudsman Kamal Ramkarran to do his job.

“We will be moving to court to compel him to do his job, and that will be done (on) Monday morning. Failure to do so, we will ask the court to call it,” the DCB President has said.
After Friday’s events, Singh has said he is uncertain whether or not Attorney-at-Law Ramkarran should be the Cricket Ombudsman, but he said the DCB would meet and make the necessary decisions.
Singh is also contending that, based on the Guyana Cricket Administration Act, the presence of two County Boards and the full quota of delegates means elections could have been held on Friday last.
Singh’s attorney, Arudrunauth Gossai, was surprised at the turn of events on Friday. He said he and the Ombudsman had on Thursday successfully fought against an interim order to stop the Guyana Cricket Board from holding elections.
“Now, the law is clear: The Minister sets a date for the first elections, which the Minister did; and so, in my mind, anybody (who is empowered) to change that election date must be the person who fixed it. And so, in the absence of the Minister directing the Ombudsman that the election is not to be held today, the Ombudsman was bound under the law to conduct election,” Gossai told media operatives via telephone on Friday.
Cricket Ombudsman Kamal Ramkarran has decided that the GCB elections would not be held until the complaints made by the Essequibo Board are resolved and each county is ready to participate in those elections.
DCB President Bissoondyal Singh and his board were disappointed at that decision being taken, since two of the three county boards – Berbice and Demerara – were present and constituted a quorum under the Guyana Cricket Administration Act.
Each county board has nine delegates, and 15 delegates constitute a quorum. The Essequibo Cricket Board did not submit a list of delegates, as Boards were mandated to do by 16:00h on Thursday last.
“In the email sent by Mr Satram, Attorney-at-Law, which I shared with you, Mr Satram has raised the issue of my function of verifying registers. Now, I have seen no registers, I know that your (DCB) elections were held pursuant to court order, and I believe the same was (done) for the Berbice Cricket Board. I do not believe the same (was done) for the Essequibo Cricket Board; but if one of the functions of the ombudsman is to verify registers, and the Essequibo Cricket Board raises the issue of the verification of registers, if everyone would agree, sure, registers are above board, then we can proceed. But the Essequibo Cricket Board last night raised the issue of the verification of registers. I could not, in good conscience, proceed (with) elections in their absence, in light of that allegation that there are issues to be resolved; and I could not, in good conscience, proceed to hold elections,” the Cricket Ombudsman has noted.