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Demerara Bank sponsors Educational Programme for RHTY&SC Cricket Teams – Clubs’ 625th activity for 2018
Branch Supervisor Shondelle Stuart hands over donation to RHTYSC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster in the presence of Staff of the Bank.
The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS and its ten cricket teams for the fifth successive year has received complete sponsorship from Demerara Bank for the hosting of a Spelling Bee Competition for students of the Rose Hall Primary School. The Bank on Wednesday last handed over its 2018 sponsorship to Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster during a simple ceremony at its Public Road, Rose Hall Town branch.
Foster hailed Demerara Bank as a friend of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation hailed the cooperation the Bank has extended over the years. The long serving Secretary/CEO who in 2011 became the only Club Official in Guyana’s history to ever receive the prestigious Sport Personality of the Year, stated that the Say Yes to Education is one of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports club most important programme along with its successful cricket structure. The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club since its formation in 1990 has hosted a Say Yes/Say No Campaign which promotes the Saying of Yes to Education, Culture, Sports, Religion, Life and No to Drugs, Suicide, Alcohol, Tobacco and Crime.
The ten Cricket Teams under the Say Yes/Say No Campaign has successfully completed over 250 activities for 2018, while the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club has to date completed 624 out of the 700 it has set itself for 2018. The 2018 Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club/Demerara Bank Spelling Bee Competition would be for fifth Graders of the Rose Hall Town Primary School. It would be coordinated by the Cricket Teams and conducted by the Staff of the School. The top three winners would receive trophies, medals and special prizes from the organizers.
The Cricket Teams of the Club have been dominating cricket in the Ancient county and has to date won four major titles. The Teams have also produced fifteen players for Guyana at the different levels – Mahendra Gopilall, Jeremy Sandia, Jonathan Rampersaud, Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Kevin Sinclair, Clinton Pestano, Uma Matadin, Rushanna Lynch, Plaffiana Millington, Shabika Gajnabi, Shaneeta Grimmond, Melanie Henry, Shemaine Campbelle and Erva Giddings. Assad Fudadin also played for Jamaica during 2018. Ten of its Senior Players also recently participated in the just concluded Guyana Cricket Board One Day Franchise Tournament.
Demerara Bank Branch Manager Mandrekar Khemraj stated that the Bank was pleased to sponsor the Spelling Bee Competition as it supports the Say Yes to Education Message. The Bank, he stated, fully understands its corporate responsibilities and as such makes investment in sports, culture and educational projects. He expressed confidence that the Spelling Bee Competition would be a success.
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