Region Six Secondary Schools benefit

Sep 27, 2022 Sports

BCB/Lochan Samkarran Cricket Programme…

– Programme moves to Region Five shortly

Representatives of fourteen secondary schools turned up to the St Francis Community Centre Training Hall last week to receive close to two million dollars (G$2m) worth of uniforms and cricket gears as part of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/Lochan Samkarran School Cricket Programme.

Representatives of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) pose with teachers after the presentation.

The schools that are based in region six were mainly represented by their head teachers. Three schools were absent at the simple presentation ceremony and will receive their supply of items later this week when executives of the BCB pay them a visit.

Each school received a package that consisted of fifteen pairs of branded white cricket uniforms, two boxes of red balls and some cricket gears. Among the gears shared out were bats, batting gloves, seed guards and wicket keeping gloves.

The schools that benefitted were Line Path, Skeldon High, Black Bush Polder, Manchester, Winifred Gaskin, Corentyne Comprehensive, JC Chandisingh, Lower Corentyne, Port Mourant, Canje Secondary, Berbice High, Vryman Erven, BEI and Tutorial Academy. Absent were Tagore Memorial, Central Corentyne and New Amsterdam.

BCB Executive Edgert Edwards hands uniforms and gears to the Berbice High School.

BCB President Hilbert Foster urged the teachers to take care of the items as they were obtained at great cost to Samkarran, an overseas based businessman. Foster disclosed that with the donation of the items, the second phase of the historic programme will start shortly with coaches going into schools under the Namilco Thunderbolt Coaching Project.

The BCB executives that include Foster, Secretary – Angela Haniff, Competition Chairman – Leslie Soloman and Asst Secretary – Ameer Rahaman discussed the schedule for the coaching programme which would involve fifteen coaches in Region Six.

Foster also stated that at the end of the coaching programme, a squad of sixty players will be named by the coaches for a special two-week coaching camp. This will be followed by four different tournaments at the inter-zone level.

The zones – West Berbice, New Amsterdam/Canje, Lower Corentyne and Upper Corentyne will each provide a champion. The four teams then play in a special tournament to decide on an overall Berbice Secondary School Champions.

Meanwhile, six schools in region five will collect their uniforms and gears shortly and also be involved in the coaching programme.

Foster expressed thanks to Samkarran for his assistance and stated that his contribution was most welcomed. He assured the sponsor that the donated items will be used for the intended purposes and disclosed that the BCB was confident that a batch of over twenty national players will emerge from the programme over the next few months.

Several representatives of the school expressed thanks to the BCB and Samkarran for their assistance and pledged to take care of the items.