Bermuda’s Cricket Board’s belt tightening has claimed its first human victim and will also see the governing body move offices at the end of the month.Long-serving BCB staff member Samantha Dill has been made redundant as the impact of the reduction in Government funding begins to bite, while the Board’s offices will be re-located out of Hamilton to Charities House as chief executive Neil Speight looks to cut costs.The Board had been paying some $6,000 to $7,000 a month in rent for their Gorham Road offices and that figure will be substantially reduced when they move into space formely occupied by the Bermuda Council for Drugs Free Sport.Dill had been with the Board for 20 years working behind the scenes in an administrative role and during her time with the BCB was part of a set-up that won numerous ICC awards for cricket development.Her departure, which has caused some anger in cricketing circles, signals the beginning of a period of uncertainty for the Board, who have no guarrantees that their financial position will improve next year and may have to choose between keeping two of their key employees.With a wage bill of some $500,000 and a grant of just $200,000 the futures of top-earners Speight and head coach David Moore are far from certain.Several of the Board’s programmes have already fallen by the wayside as a result of the loss of funding, with youth development being particularly hard hit. For the first time in several years the Island did not send teams to tournaments in the West Indies this summer, while the Board have still not replaced Arnold Manders, their former Director of Cricket Devlopment.Moore, meanwhile, had wanted to take the senior players away this winter to prepare them for the World Twenty20 Global Qualifier in Dubai next March. However, that has also been scrapped due to a lack of funds and the Australian is believed to be getting increasingly frustrated with the restrictions being placed upon him.While Speight has spent the past several months travelling to ICC meetings in his role as an Associate Nations representative his position in Bermuda has increasingly come under threat following the steep decline of the Island’s national team during his years in charge, the continued loss of sponsorship and an MCC tour last month that was far from being a triumph.Outspoken comments from MCC ambassador Geoffrey Boycott further upped the pressure on Speight when the former England and Yorkshire legend said the Board needed ‘someone dynamic’ in charge.The decision to move offices and reduce staffing levels is something that the Board have been talking about since April, although they denied that it was even being considered when The Royal Gazette first broke the story at the start of the summer.In an angry response to an article in the Gazette, BCB debate pair’s future, (Wednesday, April 27, 2011) the Board dismissed the story as speculation that was ‘complete rubbish’ and ‘patently untrue’.However, a Board member confirmed to the Gazette at the time that these discussions were taking place amid talks over a financial position that was becoming increasingly precarious.“We have a little windfall, we’re straight for about a year,” said the BCB source. “With the next Budget if we don’t (get more) some very hard decisions will have to be made.”