IPA Finance Controller, Reginald Persaud (second right) presents the gift to Yamaha Caribs, Captain Claudius Butts in the presence of female captain, Sabola Gray and Treasurer, Troy Yhip (partly hidden).
IPA Group of Companies presented Yamaha Caribs Rugby Club with a quantity of medical and pharmaceutical supplies during a simple ceremony, held at the entity’s Main Office on Camp Street yesterday.
Making the presentation to Captain of Caribs, Claudius Butts was Finance Controller Reginald Persaud, who in brief remarks spoke of the Company’s support for sports over the past years.
Persaud said that they’ve done similar presentations to disciplines such as bodybuilding, adding that they see the patronage as part of its corporate and social responsibilities, which is to give back to sports due to the support they receive from athletes.
Speaking on behalf of the club, Treasurer Troy Yhip in his address disclosed that the relationship with IPA is not a new one, but is more or less a renewal on the club’s part, pointing to the partnership’s existence which was formed over three years ago.
“We’re just renewing a relationship that started some three years ago,” Yhip said.
The gift included a kit of first aid essentials, bandages, gauzes, examination gloves, pain killers, vitamins etc.
Also in attendance was female captain Sabola Gray.