BCB hosts second social skills seminar

Nov 15, 2021 Sports

– Ten students benefits from Patron Educational Programme
Kaieteur News- The Berbice Cricket Board on Saturday last hosted the second of four social skills seminars for youths in the county. The seminar was hel

The participants of the seminar poses with BCB President Hilbert Foster, WBCA President David Black and their Facilitators.

d at the Fort Wellington Secondary School and attended by thirty five youths drawn from clubs in the West Berbice area. The event was organised under the board’s Patron Trust Fund and over the next two weeks would be held for a combined eighty youths in Upper and Lower Corentyne after the first one was held in New Amsterdam last weekend.
BCB President Hilbert Foster, who was present for the entire six hours of the seminar, urged the attentive youths to take full advantage of the opportunities been presented to them by his board as it was an investment into their future. Youths in West Berbice, he noted are given the same opportunities as their counterparts in the other sub associations and they must work hard to improve themselves. One of the basic problems in the county, Foster stated, was that the board had observed, was the lack of basic social skills among players who go on to play for the county or Guyana. These include basic manners, table etiquette, public speaking and how to behave at a public ceremony.
The idea for the seminars was the initiative of Foster and Patron Vickram Bharrat, Minister of Natural Resources, during one of their regular meetings on the development of Berbice Cricket. The seminar was conducted by four graduates of the Tain Campus of the University of Guyana – Seeta Dallo, Marissa Foster, Denica Henry and Junior Blair along with veteran sports administrator Levi Nedd.

Among the topics covered last Saturday were life skills, leadership, basic mannerism, conflict resolution, table etiquette, balancing of sports and education along with public speaking among others. Foster also spoke of the benefits of been a professional cricketer and the expectation of the BCB for the next set of the county cricketers. He cautioned them to not only focus on their cricket but also on their education as only a few of them would go on to play professionally and as such having an educational background is very important. He committed to BCB to always be a friend of youths and to continue to invest into their future.

The awardees of the Patron Educational Trust Fund with WBCA President David Black and Hilbert Foster.

West Berbice Cricket Board President David Black expressed thanks to Foster for his commitment to the overall development of cricket in West Berbice and urged the youths to go back to their clubs to share the new knowledge with their peers.
Each of the participants of the seminar was presented with a Certificate of Participation from the BCB. Ten of the youths also benefitted from an educational grant of ten thousand dollars each from the BCB under its Patron Educational Trust Fund. The funds would be used to purchase much needed educational materials from Metro Office Supplies.
Under the programme, a total of forty youths would benefit from grants during the month of November. The youths were also involved in a one day cricket academy yesterday at the Cotton Tree Ground under the watchful eyes of a battery of coaches including Leslie Solomon and Travis Hardcourt.

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