VICE-President of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Anand Sanasie has obtained a Court Order that will stay the DCB’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Elections, scheduled to be held at the Lusignan Community Centre tomorrow. According to the Court Order which was obtained and signed in the Chambers of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, the DCB’s AGM, which was advertised in the Stabroek News for tomorrow, must be stayed until the hearing and determination of an Originating Summons #868/SA of 2010.
The said summons was brought against Sanasie, Rohan Sarjoo, Nazimul Drepaul, Krishchan Mangal, Lalta Degamber and Rajendra Singh, who are all executive members of the DCB, but were relieved of their positions by DCB’s president Bissoondyal Singh after they failed to attend four (4) consecutive meetings of the DCB’s Executive Committee.
Such Order, which was also signed by Robert Adonis in his capacity as chairman of the senior selection committee of the DCB, Prittipaul Jaigobin (Treasurer of the DCB) and Samaroo Jailall (Assistant Secretary of the DCB), was filed in the Supreme Court Registry on November 11, 2010.
According to the affidavit in support to the summons, the DCB’s Constitution provides that the quorum for any DCB AGM, Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) or Special General Meeting (SGM), shall not be less that 50% of the members of the DCB, while the quorum for the DCB’s Executive Committee shall not be less than 50%.
However, the applicants for Summons #868/SA of 2010 are contending that although meetings were duly summoned in January, March, April, June, July, August and September of 2010, they could not have been held as a result of the absence of a quorum deriving from an absence of the defendants, saying their failure to attend the meetings was deliberate and intended to frustrate the DCB from discharging its constitutional responsibilities and mandate.
Based on the advice of Attorney-at-Law Anand Nandlall, the plaintiffs of Summons #868/SA of 2010 verily believe that the defendants by their deliberate absence from four consecutive summoned meetings of the DCB’s Executive Committee have ceased to be members of that said Executive Committee.
According to Sanasie, they did respond to the Summons #868/SA of 2010 within the eight-day period, but Singh went ahead and advertised the date of the DCB’s AGM, even though the decision was still pending by the Court, hence his move to block tomorrow’s scheduled AGM.