Guyana Cricket Board Ecstatic With Manniram Prashad’s Appointment To CWI Directorship

GCB ecstatic at Manniram Prashad’s appointment to CWI directorship
President of the Guyana Cricket Board, Bissoondyal Singh, and members thereof have expressed congratulations to Manniram Prashad on his appointment as a non-Member Director of Cricket West Indies (CWI).

He joins three other such Directors in Dr Akshai Mansingh, Daren Sammy and Debra Coryat-Patton.
Prashad, or Mannie as he is popularly known, is a former Minister in the Government of Guyana, and also a former Presidential Advisor on Trade and Investment within the Office of the President. He also served as Honorary Consul of Trinidad and Tobago for a number of years.
An outstanding and highly successful Insurance Broker in the Caribbean, Prashad is also the proprietor of the popular Palm Court nightclub, a past President and present Executive Member of the Private Sector Commission, Consul General for the Philippines, and the Founding President of the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber.

Mannie has been a keen follower of cricket for over 40 years, and in fact served in many administrative capacities in cricket in Guyana and the United States. He served for a decade as an Executive Member of the prestigious Georgetown Cricket Club, the oldest cricket club in the Caribbean, and also as President of the Gandhi Youth Cricket Club.
As an enthusiastic supporter of West Indies Cricket, Mannie keenly follows the fortunes of the various West Indies teams, especially at Test cricket level.
GCB President Bissoondyal Singh was particularly pleased that a Guyanese has secured the fourth and final position among the “Independent Directors”. President Singh posited that Mannie’s very impressive curriculum vitae had clearly bowled over CWI and won him the position unopposed. He expressed confidence that Manniram, with his wealth of knowledge and experience in business, politics, administration and social responsibilities, would be value-added to CWI.
The GCB President expects that Prashad would bring to CWI the same levels of commitment and success for which he is known in Guyana and further afield. President Singh added that he is looking forward to working with Prashad on the plans and programmes of CWI towards the continued progress and development of cricket in the Caribbean.