RHTY&SC Cricket Teams host Scotia Bank Say No/Say Yes Children’s Mash Parade

Mar 01, 2018 Sports

The ten Cricket Teams and Over-35 Group of Guyana’s leading Youth and Sports Club on Friday last hosted what has been described as the largest ever Children’s Mash Parade in the Ancient County of Berbice. The Parade attracted over a thousand participants from ten schools, NGOs, the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and Children Orphanage who paraded from Hampshire to the end of Rose Hall Town before returning to the Compound of the Rose Hall Town Primary School for a Cultural Presentation.
Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster described the Parade as an unbelievable, overwhelming success and remarkable reward for weeks of hard work and planning by the Members of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club. The main objectives of the Scotia Bank Mash Parade was to educate youths to Say No to Suicide, Drugs, Crime, Alcohol, Tobacco and Yes to Education, Life, Sports, Culture, Religion.
Participants were drawn from the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Camal Children Home, Children Home in Port Mourant, Rose Hall Town Seventh Day Adventist, Public Security Youth Programme, Rose Hall Town Police Youth Club, Amerindian Hostel, Shining Star Day Care Centre, Tain Primary School, Port Mourant Primary, Rose Hall Town Primary, Belvedere Primary, Cropper Primary, Rose Hall Town Nursery, Corentyne Comprehensive Secondary, J.C. Chandisingh Secondary, Port Mourant Secondary and Lower Corentyne Secondary School.
The different schools throughout the Parade displayed placards that encouraged the massive group of onlookers who lined the entire route to Say No to Social Ills and Yes to Education.
Foster disclosed that the Mash Parade, which was led by Mayor of Rose Hall Town Vijai Ramoo, was hosted by the Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17 and Second Division, Pepsi Under-19 and Intermediate, Metro Females, Poonai’s Pharmacy Under-13, King Solomon Logistics Under-12, Gizmos & Gadgets Under-21 and First Division Cricket Teams.
Foster at the end of the massive Parade urged residents to work together as a team to make sure that Guyana’s smallest Township fulfills its true potential to benefit everyone. He also urged the attentive crowd to make sure that they reject Satan and his evil world of drugs, crime and suicide. Mayor Ramoo in an invited comment stated that he was very proud to be a part of the large and colourful Parade which was a fitting way to honour Guyana’s 48^th Republic Anniversary.
The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, the Mayor stated, was making Rose Hall Town proud and pledged his continued support in the future. Rose Hall Town Primary School won the top prize in a specially arranged Dancing Competition for Primary Schools after the Parade, while J.C. Chandisingh Secondary was declared the winners of the Secondary level.
The Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club and the ten cricket teams would like to express gratitude to Ms. Jennifer Cipriani and the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Guyana Police Force ‘B’ Division, Ministry of Education, Berbice Department, Mayor and Town Council of Rose Hall Town, Ministry of Social Protection Berbice Office, Sunil Madramootoo, Bello Welding Shop, Poonai Pharmacy, Balram Shane General Store, Guyana Beverage Company and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) for their co-operation in making the 2018 Scotia Bank Mash Parade a smashing success.

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