The Tribune

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS 

Tribune Staff Reporter 

lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

TREVOR Davis, the interim chairman of a faction within the Valley Boys community that wants to change the organisation’s leadership, said his team intends to take legal action against the Junkanoo Corporation of New Providence.

He spoke after JCNP chairman Dion Miller said Mr Davis’ group cannot compete in the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day parades. He said Brian Adderley’s team can compete as the Valley Boys because it registered first.

Insisting that his team has the support of most people who traditionally rush with the Valley Boys, Mr Davis said he owns the legal right to the Valley Boys name because he registered it as a non-profit organisation.

 He said: “If it is that the members owned the name the Valley Boys, from the government standpoint why would you then allow someone else to register as the Valley Boys? This is what we find to be very complicit and this is what we are fighting against, the evil that lays between the JCNP Dion Miller and ex-leader Brian Adderley.”

 “So obviously we are looking for some clarification on that and if we don’t get clarification, definitely we will take it to the next level because there is no way in the world that the JCNP registration supersedes the law of the land registration.” 

 On Wednesday, Mr Miller said Mr Adderley registered the group for the big parades in February before the Valley Boys split into two factions.

 Mr Adderley’s group held a press conference on Tuesday, during which he accused his counterparts of engaging in character assassination and said his team has about 350 members.

 Herbert Bain, a trustee in Mr Davis’ faction, said: “They rather the group go down, split in half, go to dog status, ridiculed in the public rather than letting the group members have a voice. Brain Adderley cannot be the Valley Boys.

“He is grasping for straws. They don’t have any members. We have already registered at least 600 to 700 Valley Boys and the numbers swell every day. He doesn’t have anybody registered. He cannot tell you how he came up with that figure,” he said. 

 “The group rejected you so what are you trying to do now? You are trying to fool the public into thinking that you have all this support, which he does not. As a matter of fact, they trying to buy groups now out of Freeport and other places and get people to come rush with them just to make it look like they have this big grouping and following,” he claimed. 

 Mr Bain urged fans of the group to support his team.

 “I would like to encourage the Valley Boys fans to come out and support your Valley Boys,” he said. “There is only one Valley Boys. Eventually, this problem is going to be resolved one way or the other, be it legal or otherwise, but the key is that Valley Boys don’t lose heart.”