East End 2014 XMas B’ball League cancelled
The basketball league should have started yesterday December 14, 2014 and about 12 teams should have been participating, according to information reaching our news room.
Speaking with this news site on December 12, 2014, President of the East End Basketball League Committee Messena S. Vanterpool would not disclose much, save to say that the cancellation was due to circumstances beyond the control of the Committee.
Vanterpool said, "It (the League) was cancelled due to circumstances beyond the control of the Committee. I'm not sure of the details."
However a source close to the committee said the recreational facilities in Greenland, East End are not in a condition to allow basketball games to be played there.
"They did that facility immediately after the last election and it did not even last for two years," said the source close to one of the teams that should have been competing.
The source made an appeal for someone in the BVI Recreation Trust to do what is necessary to look after the facilities as they are in a dire state. The source cannot understand that a facility built just under three years ago could deteriorate to such a sorry state.
"We are hearing that the Committee can't find any alternative venue in the 7th or the 8th District to hold the tournament," stated our source.
Efforts to reach 7th District Representative Dr the Hon Kedrick D. Pickering and 8th District Representative Hon Marlon A. Penn for comment on the state of the facilities proved futile.
In June 2012 Government signed a contract with Mr. Cliff Williams in the amount of $34,605.96 to supply and install an all-weather outdoor basketball court at the Greenland facilities.
Also according to other residents in the districts associated with the League, funding of the League could have been an issue that contributed to the cancellation.
The league is usually paid for by Representatives of the 7th and 8th Districts.
The Hon Julian Fraser (R3) and Chairman of Virgin Islands Party (VIP) just completed a successful league that ended last month. The League was sponsored by corporate BVI and co-hosted by Hon Fraser and Bishop John I. Cline from the Save the Seed Energy Centre.
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