Dear Editor,
We read with interest the letter in SN, March 19, ‘Berbicians must not allow their cricket to be hijacked.’ Who was attempting to hijack whom is not known; just innuendos of some people, “light weight”, showing up with a press corps and wine. And the best of all, the writer decided secrecy was the better part of valour – name and address withheld.
Why are names, dates, times and circumstances excluded from such serious, if not slanderous claims? Where are the minutes of the BCB’s AGM to tell us what happened?
I don’t know but is this matter not under judicial consideration and therefore outside the purview of public comment?
Third, should we not know our adversaries? The first principle of due process, as I understand it, is that in any charge of either legal or moral misdeed/impropriety I must be presented, openly and publicly, with my accuser. Who is this person? What relationship does this person have with the Berbice Cricket Board or any of its excecutives? Are we left to fight straw men and ghosts?
On the other hand this may very well be the signature MO of the Berbice Cricket Board. How many dead, non-existent clubs were allowed to participate/vote in the last AGM as members of the Board? How many dubious associations without formal credentials?
How many privileged members are there on the Board with lifetime membership? And who said the House of Lords was the only association with lifetime membership in the Commonwealth without the need to vote or apply? And we haven’t gotten to the poltergeist and backoo – yet.
This spounds like the perfect backdrop to Mittelholzer’s novel My Bones and my Flute, a ghost story down the Berbice River – Welcome home boys!
Some of us are disappointed that Stabroek News would carry such an outrageous letter and then turn around and say, “Name and address provided.”
Isn’t this what we are trying to get away from – outrage and slander without responsibility? Tsk Tsk …
Yours faithfully,
Rishee Thakur
