Guyana Cricket Board’s AGM/General Elections for 2025: Bissoondyal Singh returns unopposed as President

Incumbent President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Bissoondyal Singh, has had his mandate renewed during the Annual General Meeting of that body, hosted on Saturday afternoon at the GCB cricket facility at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.

Having not even been opposed, Singh’s slate has been unanimously elected for another four years at the helm of the body responsible for administration of the affairs of cricket in Guyana.
The Executive membership of the Guyana Cricket Board is now as follows:
President: Bissoondyal Singh
Vice-Presidents: Deleep Singh and Dr. Cecil Beharry Secretary: Ronald Williams Assistant Secretary: Davteerth Anandjit
Treasurer: Dr Brian Sukhai Assistant Treasurer: Vicky Bharosay
Competition Committee Chairman: Shaun Massiah, Marketing Manager: Rabindranauth Saywack
Public Relations Officer: Edwin Seeraj
Trustees: Mirenda Cornelius and Zaleena Anderson.

After these elections, President Bissoondyal Singh openly reflected on the state of the GCB when he was first elected President, and highlighted the work the Executive Committee had done in that time.
“We’ve travelled a far distance. When I was elected to office in 2021, there was no funds actually; the Guyana Cricket Board account had 4000 Guyana dollars and there was a private company running the operations. So, it was a real tedious task to get funding, human resources. Essequibo Board had problems with elections for a long time, the whole place was in a state of disrepair, so most of the time for the first two years was to reconstruct the cricket structure and put it back in place; and we’ve successfully done that and managed to reinstate all the inter-county, cause they had abolished the inter-county,” Singh detailed.
“We brought some technology, improved our Public Relations Department, and start live- streaming all our important tournaments and so on. These were not easy tasks, it was tedious, in the night also. During that period, we recognized the world was moving ahead with the shorter version of the game; so, after hard work, [we got] a company to sponsor the T20,” he further detailed.
“We’re on the verge now of signing on to another company: that when we see that revenue comes up, we’ll get a part of that revenue,” he announced.
“When I got into office, they had no Guyanese in the West Indies team. For the male and the female, they had only two. We manage to now have 7 Guyanese in both versions, the red ball and white ball, and we have 5 females in the senior West Indies team, and there’s still lot’s more work to be done,” Singh declared.
Further, Singh revealed that the Board has already achieved the goals set out in the initial 5-year strategic plan, and are likely to plan ahead for another 5 years, with women’s cricket being in focus.
“The reason it was five years is that we have an extra year. Because prior it was two years’ tenure in office, (but) the County Boards decide that we need four years. So, you still have a year to be implemented, but most of it already implemented. We probably will need to set up another 5 years’ strategic plan, because we’ve already achieved what we’re supposed to achieve in 5 years in 4 years,” he shared.
In regard to plans for the new tenure, Singh added, “So, we need to sit down as quickly as possible. And as we discussed in this meeting, there’s a new idea: we’re going to now set up a Women’s Strategic Development Committee to come up with programmes and plans to fix female cricket across the country, and that’s going to be done ASAP.”
The new auditors of the Guyana Cricket Board are the audit firm PKF Barcellos Narine and Company.