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Some persons are trying to dominate cricket administration out of power lust

Jul 02, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wish to bring to the attention of the cricketing public of Berbice and the country at large the illegal action of the “de facto Berbice Cricket Board”. These persons prevented the legally elected executives of the Berbice Cricket Board of Mr. Anil Beharry and others from functioning in 2015. However, this constrained board actually survived harsh times and functioned admirably by competing at all levels of cricket in the region, without the subvention from the Guyana Cricket Board. It is now public knowledge that the persons who would have acquired the restraining order against the then Berbice Cricket Board have teamed up /or joined hands with the gullible, power hungry members of the former Anil Beharry Administration.
This was to seize control of the Berbice Cricket Board with the help and advice of the power crazy individual who claims to have national cricket development at heart, but instead wants to satisfy his personal ego of controlling Guyana’s cricket and by extension the lives of so many young Guyanese people.
These people who portray themselves as good, honest and disciplined individuals, and who profess to want to develop Berbice cricket are but pawns in the wider net of an individual who is using them for personal glory. They are not developing Berbice cricket but destroying it. A typical example is the composition of the teams selected to represent Berbice, the overhaul of the First Division Level to include clubs supportive of this “de facto cricket administration, former national youth cricketers being told that they will never have a chance to wear national colors again unless they play for a particular club and the list goes on and on.
Therefore it is no wonder that this honest, disciplined and good administration would seek to have one of their own “bad fellows” be appointed to manage country teams, who it is alleged have in their camp a non-selectee on tour for dubious reasons. So Mr. President, is this how we develop cricket in Berbice
Further, Editor it was bought to the attention of the Berbice Stakeholder Committee that Mr. David Black who portrays himself as the chairman of the Competition Committee, has circulated a registration form for teams wishing to play Second Division with a stipulation that $1000 must accompany the returned registration form. This is unheard of and a practice that the Berbice Cricket Board ruled against years ago in the interest of cricket development.
We wonder if cricket is now only for the elite and wealthy. The Berbice Cricket Stakeholders Committee endeavors in the strongest terms to prevent this elitist practice. We the Berbice Stakeholders Committee would therefore like to inform all cricketing supporters, cricket lovers, the business committee and most importantly cricket clubs and players of the anti-cricket policies of these power drunk persons who want to destroy cricket in Guyana. We also reiterate that the only surviving persons from the 2014 Berbice Cricket Board are; Qualis Winter, D. Sumwaru, Veeren Walters, Angella Haniff , Albert Smith, Hubern Evans, Rabindranauth Saywack, Julian Cambridge These members/executives have not been removed in anyway by any election since 2014.
Communications Office
Berbice Cricket Stakeholders Committee

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