Trophy Stall honours BCB President and administrator

BCB/Brian Ramphal 2nd Awards Ceremony…

The hard work and commitment of two Berbice Cricket Administrators has been recognised by the popular Trophy Stall and its management. President Hilbert Foster and administrator Angela Haniff were each presented with a plaque that saluted their remarkable achievements over the years.
Trophy Stall’s Managing Director, Ramesh Sunich, stated that the contributions of the duo played major roles in the current status of Berbice Cricket.
Foster founded the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club in 1990 at the age of twenty years. He served as Secretary/CEO for over twenty years, and has spearheaded the transformation of the Club into Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation.

Under his leadership, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club hosted over 700 activities per year and produced numerous cricketers. The Club is also the only Club in Guyana to have a Female Team, and also won the GCB Club of the Year Award in 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2016.
It is also the only Youth and Sports Club in Guyana’s history to have ever received a National Award.
Foster also spearheaded the restoration of the Lower Corentyne Secondary School in 1990-1992; the Area ‘H’ Ground in 1996 at a cost of $20 million; and the construction of the Hugh Desmond Hoyte Memorial Playfield in 2017. The BCB stalwart has also single-handedly raised over $35 million in cash and kind for the Berbice Cricket Board, firstly as Chairman of the Special Events Committee under the presidency of his elder brother, Keith, from 2008 to 2014; and as President of the BCB from February 2018 to present. He took over the cricket board with no funds, no tournament being played, and no programme in place, and has spearheaded a complete transformation of the game.
In 2011, he received the National Sports Personality Award from the National Sports Commission (NSC), and in 2019 the Medal of Service (MS) from the Government of Guyana.
Haniff currently serves as Administrator of the Berbice Cricket Board, and is one of the main advisors to its current President. In the early 1990s, Haniff joined the BCB under the presidency of the late Leslie Amsterdam. She became the first female in Guyana’s cricket history to hold an executive position when she was elected Assistant Secretary to the veteran Carl Moore.
Under the presidency of Keith Foster, she was elected as Secretary, and, over the years, has served on several BCB sub-committees, including financial, competitions and special events.
Haniff is regarded as the live wire in the administration of Berbice Cricket, and has been one of the leading advocates for Guyana’s Cricket to become democratic again.
Foster and Haniff have both expressed gratitude to Sunich and the Trophy Stall for the gesture of recognising their contributions.