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May 20, 2016 Sports
The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS continued its unmatched reputation of assisting other Clubs and Cricket Associations to fulfill their mandate by making a donation of scorebooks worth $75,000 to the upper
Corentyne Cricket Association. Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster and Executive member Mark Papannah visited the upper Corentyne area to make the presentation to VCCA President Dennis De’ Andrade and Vice President Sydney Jackman.
Foster in brief remarks stated that the RHTYSC, MS over the last twenty years has shared out over $15M worth of sport gears to schools, Non-Governmental Agencies, churches, youth and sports organisations across Berbice. He stated that the RHTYSC was pleased to assist the VCCA as the body was without doubt one of the most active cricket association in Guyana with the hosting of cricket at all levels and cricket development programmes to lift cricket to an all-time heights. He urged the VCCA executives to uphold its high tradition of hard work and expressed confidence that the scorebooks would assist Clubs in the Upper Corentyne.
The RHTYSC, MS Secretary/CEO blasted some cricket administrators in Guyana who seems only to be interested on holding on to power or seeking to gain power without devoting any energy or effort to make a positive difference to the game of cricket. He lambasted some cricket administrators at the Club level who seems only interested in blasting others on Facebook and noted that progress like those at the RHTYSC, MS is only achieved through hard work, vision and a strong desire to assist others to develop.
The long standing Secretary/CEO also disclosed that the RHTYSC was Currently working on several proposals to assist numerous young cricketers and Clubs with equipment and other items during the rest of 2016. The Club would also be targeting cricketers along Berbice in a massive Say No to Drugs campaign which would be unveiled shortly and the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association was invited to submit the names of ten Clubs for an upcoming Say No to Drugs Cricket tournament. Foster also pledged that teams in the Upper Corentyne area would be invited in the proposed twelve cricket tournament that the Club would be hosting later in 2016 including the RHTYSC/Ministry of Health Say No to Suicide Under-17 inter Club tournament which would start shortly.
VCCA President Dennis De’Andrade praised the RHTYSC, MS for its continued assistance to cricket in the Upper Corentyne Area, noting that the Club has assisted several times in the past. The donation of the scorebooks was important, he stated as several Clubs were observed scoring in exercise books and reassured the RHTYSC executives that the scorebooks would be used for their intended purpose. The VCCA President also committed his executives to working harder to promote cricket in the sub-association in an effort to return Berbice to its rightful place in Guyana’s cricket.
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