Dear Editor,
I WISH to bring to the attention of the Cricketing Public of Berbice and the country at large of the illegal action of the “De-facto Berbice Cricket Board”. These people 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 but functioned admirably by competing at levels of cricket in the region, without the legal 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 to seize control of the Berbice Cricket 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 are portraying themselves to be good, honest and disciplined individuals, who profess to want to develop Berbice cricket are but pawns/ pimps in a wider net of an individual who is using them for personal aggrandizement and gains.

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 colours again unless they play for a particular club and the list can go on and on.
We wonder if cricket is now only for the elite and wealthy.

The Berbice Cricket Stakeholders Committee endeavors in the strongest terms to elitist practice. We the Berbice Stakeholders Committee would therefore like to inform all cricket supporters, the business community and most importantly cricket clubs and players of the anti-cricket policies of these power-drunk persons who want to destroy the powerhouse of Cricket in Guyana. We also reiterate that the sole surviving persons from the 2014 Berbice Cricket Board are: Qualis Winter, D. Sumwaru, Veeren Walters, Angella Haniff, Albert Smith, Hubern Evans, Rabindranauth Saywack and Julian Cambridge. These members/ executives have not been removed in anyway by any elections since 2014.

Regards,
Berbice Cricket Stakeholders Committee