THE Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Awards Ceremony is scheduled for May 20, 2018, at Albion Community Centre from 13:00hrs after an absence of three years.

A release from the BCB indicated that 17 major awards are expected to highlight the ceremony.

Among the awards to be presented are Berbice Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 Players-of-the-Year, Most Improved Youth, Most Improved Senior, Berbice Under-19 Female Player, School-of-the-Year, Senior Coach-of-the-Year and Club-of-the-Year.

President of the BCB, Hilbert Foster, is expected to provide a comprehensive review of the BCB for the last three months while plans for the remainder of 2018 will be unveiled.

Attorney-at-Law Arud Gossai will deliver the feature address on the Topic:  ‘The Importance of Discipline and Unity’.

Among the cricketers expected to receive accolades are: Devendra Bishoo, Veerasammy Permaul, Romario Shepherd, Karran Arjpaul, Marvin Prashad, Kevlon Anderson, Kevin Sinclair, Sabrina Munroe and Shabika Gajnabi.

Three coaches, Julian Moore, Esuan Crandon and Tremayne Smartt will be honoured for outstanding performances in 2017 while Imran Moakan and Moses Ramphal will be honoured as the best umpires. Lower Corentyne Secondary will receive the School-of-the-Year award.

The Berbice Cricket Board will also be launching five educational posters as part of its Cricket Development Programme.

Members of the Berbice Under-19 and the Berbice female teams will be recognised for winning their respective Guyana Cricket Board’s tournaments.

Erva Giddings will be honoured as the female MVP while Kevlon Anderson would be the Under-19 MVP recipient.

Meanwhile, the BCB will host a Pre- Level 1 Coaching Seminar for 40 potential coaches at the Albion cricket ground tomorrow.

The two-day programme concludes on Saturday May 26. Level III cricket coach Winston Smith will conduct the clinic with assistance from Tremayne Smartt, Balram Samaroo and Andre Percival.

Foster stated that the main objectives are to have a pool of coaches in Berbice, to prepare persons to sit the CWI Level I Coaching Programme and at the same time ensure every first division team in Berbice has players capable of serving as coaches.