Home Letters Extremely disgusted at way cricket in Berbice is being managed
Dear Editor,
By an order of court dated 08th September, 2017, granted by the Honorable Justice Navindra Singh in Chambers, it was ordered that an Annual General Meeting be held on October 8th, 2017 to elect office bearers of the said Berbice Cricket Board.
It was also ordered that Mr. Sumwaroo ensures that notices for this meeting be served on all members. It was therefore very surprising when Mr. Sumwaroo personally, and in the company of another person, hand delivered notices to some member clubs while the majority did not receive any — a clear violation of the order.
He was clearly in violation of Article 3, which states that these notices were to be sent by the secretary via registered mail.
Mr Sumwaroo clearly overstepped his authority when he chose not to send notices to bona fide member clubs such as Guymine, Mount Sinai, Fort Canje Hospital, and Chesney, among others.
One is now left to wonder if this is a deliberate ploy of Mr Sumwaroo’s to disenfranchise these clubs. It is also pertinent to note that Fort Canje Hospital, Mount Sinai, and Guymine were recently in the news after receiving sports equipment from the Director of Youth and Sports, Mr Christopher Jones .This fact Mr Sumwaroo and his accomplices cannot plead ignorance of. Further, this person, who claims to be a cricket enthusiast with a penchant for developing youth cricket, is not even a member of the Chesney Cricket Club, the community from whence he hails. It is also alleged that notices had been given to persons to vote for clubs to which they have no membership.
Mr Sumwaroo just recently claimed (in an article in another section of the media) that sponsors were hard to come by, yet this same Sumwaroo procured the services of the Conference Room of the Classic Hotel and Suites to host the Berbice Cricket Board Elections.
It is also alleged that the cost for this service is in excess of 0,000, while second division teams are made to pay entrance fees to participate in tournaments. The question now being asked is: where is this money coming from, taking into consideration the state of the BCB’s finances. It behooves one to now ask who is sponsoring the event, and for what in return?
Editor, Mr Sumwaroo has asked to be judged on his performance but he should be reminded that he was judged in the High Court by a competent puisne judge who found him to have illegally secured the Presidency of BCB, a position he is now seeking again. So how much more does he want to be judged?
Editor, as a cricket stakeholder in Berbice, and one who follows the game, I am extremely disgusted at the way cricket in Berbice is managed.
Sincerely,
Berbice Cricket
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