da aviator aposta： If the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) finally decides to proceedwith the introduction of the country’s third lottery, local clubswould benefit from the estimated $3.5 million the BCA stands to gainannually from the lottery
Haydn Gill26-May-2001If the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) finally decides to proceedwith the introduction of the country’s third lottery, local clubswould benefit from the estimated $3.5 million the BCA stands to gainannually from the lottery.That’s the word from Robert B. Washington, chairman and chiefexecutive officer of the Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Company(LILHC), the company which the BCA board of management two years agovoted to enter into a contract to operate a lottery on behalf ofcricket.Our single objective is to work with the cricket community on asustainable revenue source for cricket, Washington told reportersyesterday at the Desmond Haynes Sports Complex in Holder’s Hill, St.James.We will be announcing on Sunday a special programme to ensure that theclubs also have an independent sustainable revenue source as well.We have a proposal that we would like to give to them to ensure thatthere are two independent, distinguishable revenue sources one for theBCA and the other for the local clubs.It was the intention to get the lottery off the ground two years ago,but it was delayed after the BCA membership opted not to proceed withthe lottery at an extraordinary general meeting on June 3, 1999.On Monday, the BCA will hold an extraordinary general meeting at theLester Vaughan School, St Thomas, at which members will receive areport from the board of management pertaining to the operation of thelottery.The meeting will seek to confirm, annul, vary or discharge theresolution surrounding the operation of a lottery passed at theextraordinary general meeting of June 3, 1999.Over two years have passed since that initial vote and agreement tooperate a lottery, and more importantly since then, the BCA has beenfrustrated by a lack of financial resources and the declining glory ofcricket, Washington said yesterday at a venue that was chosen becauseof the history of an area which has produced so many outstandingcricketers.We feel that loyal, passionate BCA members want to restore theprogrammes that will lead cricket back to its glory days, he said.Washington, a Harvard Law School trained Washington-based seniorcounsel who up until recently was a senior partner in a leading firmin Washington, believes that the BCA leaders who approached the LILHCtwo years ago had a proactive and viable idea to increase theassociation’s financial resources.Continuing to delay this plan for generating revenue for theorganisation only further hastens the decline of cricket, added theLILHC chief executive.That is why we are calling on all members of the BCA to support andapprove the immediate implementation of the Barbados Cricket Lotteryand confirm the agreement that enables the BCA/LILHC partnership tocontribute to the glory of cricket in Barbados.