RHTYSC receives massive support for school holiday activities, Basil Butcher Trust Fund

Jul 29, 2023 Sports

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– Kings Jewelery World, Star Party Rental and P/P Insurance Brokers among those on board

Kaieteur Sports – The cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS during the current school holidays would be hosting several activities for youths in the ancient county of Berbice. The club which is widely considered Guyana most progressive youth and sports organisation on an annual basis hosts a record seven activities under a wide range of sub headings including sports, culture, coaching, charity, youth development, community development, publications, anti drugs, religious, anti suicide, anti alcohol and awards.

The club is currently hosting the fifteenth edition of the Republic Bank Holiday Camp and the thirty fourth edition of its annual cricket academy. The academy is sponsored by Bakewell and the Guyana Beverage Company.

Both events have attracted a large turnout of students and cricketers. The camp is being held at the Rose Hall Town Primary School and its main objective is to assist grade six students to make a successful transition from the primary school to the secondary level. The cricket academy, which has attracted close to eighty youths, has been the foundation of success over the last thirty years and has produced over one hundred players at all levels for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies.

On Wednesday last the club received major support from several of its major supporters for the two graduation ceremonies where the top students and cricketers would receive over eight hundred thousand dollars worth of prizes including a motorbike, gold medallion, cycles, food hampers, cosmetics packages, designers watches, cricket gears, clothing, household utensils, while each youth would receive a school bag along with educational materials.

Mr Bish Panday of P and P Insurance Brokers, Former cricketer Lennox Cush of Star Party Rental, Noreen Gaskin of Sentinel Security Ltd, former Berbice senior player Ishwar Singh, Allister Collins, Rion Peters and Safraz Sheriffudeen of VNet Communications all contributed financially.

Additionally, the cricket teams also received special gifts for the awardees from a wide range of supporters. Overseas based former Rose Hall Town resident Dr Lenny Kudrath has donated two hundred school bags in memory of his late cousin Farouk Kudrath a former RHTYSC Asst Secretary. CEO of Beacon Cafe, Ramdeo Kumar also donated a large amount of school bags. Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir also chipped in with a contribution of educational materials.

Other donors include Canadian Surplus, Namilco, HA Snacks co Ltd, The Gift Center, John Lewis Styles, Ministers Joseph Hamilton and Collin Croal, Ricks and Sari Agro Inc, DeSinco Trading, Roger Harper, Sheik Mohamed, Food for the Poor, PPDI, Skeldon Energy Inc, Dr Phillip DaSilva, Delmur Shipping Ltd, Ansa Mcal, Bank DIH Ltd.

Ryan Persaud of Kings Jewellery World has donated a West Indies Cricket medallion for the Cricketer of the Academy.

Several overseas friends of the RHTYSC also contributed with cycles and other prizes. They include Bruce Butcher, Zaeer Ali, Romel Ayasammy, Yogimdra Narine, Devindra Narine, Andy Lamphins, Papie Asfrali, Francoise Culley and Lavern Lawerence.

RHTYSC Secretary Hilbert Foster expressed thanks to the numerous donors for their support and expressed confidence that all the planned activities would be properly organised and successful. He noted that the cricket teams would also be organising tribute programmes for fire men in the town ship of Rose Hall and undertaking some restoration of the Area H Ground. The teams recently did some repairs to the internal fence in the venue and West Indies white ball allrounder Kevin Sinclair has committed to the restoration of the main pavilion.  Foster noted that the venue badly needs an upgrade to host matches and the club has committed to spearheading the effort. The RHTYSC currently has a membership of hundreds of youths that includes Kevin Sinclair, Junior Sinclair, Kelvon Anderson, Shemaine Campbelle, Shabika Gajnabi and Sheneeta Grimmond who would be playing soon in the upcoming Caribbean Premier League. Jonathan Rampersaud and Jeremy Sandia, Guyana leading under19 bowlers, are also members of the club. The cricket teams of the RHTYSC are Poonai Pharmacy under 11 and 13, Farfan and Mendes under 15, Bakewell under 17 and second division, Pepsi under 19 and intermediate, Metro females and NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour under 21 and first division.

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• activities, Basil Butcher Trust Fund, coaching, community, Development

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