Dear Editor,
My attention was drawn last week to a letter appearing in two of the daily newspapers’ letter columns calling for the establishment of an IMC for cricket in Guyana (‘The Minister should install an interim board at the GCB’ SN, April 9). The letter written by Mr Leon Suseran also suggested that the Foster brothers from the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club should be in charge of the IMC.
I would like to thank Mr Suseran for the confidence he has in me and my elder brother, but to inform him that we have no ambition to be part of any such arrangement. Our work and commitment at the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and the Berbice Cricket Board with a combined 190 projects and programmes per year is already taxing our bodies and minds. Guyana’s cricket needs executives who can be available at all times to pull it out of the deep hole we find ourselves in. We strongly believe that our work via the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and the Berbice Cricket Board is already playing the role in that regard and would like to continue doing so.
I am at present working with thirteen young executives at the club who are being trained to take over very soon the day-to-day control of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club as I strongly believe that every sports official should know when to leave when they have served long enough.
There is nothing more exciting than new vision, vigour and passion, and we at the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club are currently benefiting from it via our young executives like Loyydel Lewis, Moonish Singh, Nermala Sewdat, Shawn Pereira, Shemaine Campbell and Dominic Rikhi. Their youthfulness has brought a renewal of commitment to the club and our future is more than assured.
In closing I would like to urge everyone in Guyana’s cricket to work together, forget personal ambitions and to work for the redevelopment of our national game.
It does not matter whether it is done at the club, county or national level, or whether we get praise or not.
What matter is that this profound madness happening now stops, never happens again and that our young cricketers and the game benefit from our humble service.
Our legacy must be progress not destruction. Cricket must always be placed first and everyone should remember that no one has ever been honoured for what he has received but for what he gave.
Yours faithfully,
Hilbert Foster,
Secretary/CEO,
Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club