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Rose Hall Town 46th anniversary celebrations to kicks off on Wednesday
Workers busy constructing the benab at the playfield.
Work starts on H.D. Hoyte Memorial Family Park
The 46th Anniversary celebrations of Guyana’s smallest township, Rose Hall Town, would kick off on Wednesday 14th of September with a massive Parade and Opening Ceremony.
Organised by Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS, the Town Anniversary celebration promises to be the most colourful and best organised in the history of Guyana.
President David Granger is expected to deliver the Feature Address and take the salute at the March Past from members of the RHTY&SC, Police Officers, GDF, Firemen, Prison Officers, Students from seven schools, Churches and members of at least three constabularies drawn from across the Country. President David Granger would also unveil the refurnished Rose Hall Town Monument and lay a wreath to honour the fifty seven former slaves who bought the village of Rose Hall in 1842 from British Planter, John Henry Baird.
Secretary/CEO of the RHTY&SC Hilbert Foster stated that all plans are in place for a successful Opening Ceremony and issued an invitation to the Berbice public to attend, what he described as a historic event for the township.
Several residents of Rose Hall Town would be honoured by the RHTY&SC, MS and its eight cricket teams during the Ceremony.
The top Grade 6 and CSEC student for 2016 would receive a trip to the Arrow Point Resort compliments of Roraima Airways, while a resident of Rose Hall Town who topped the University of Guyana at Computer Science in 2015 would receive an airline ticket to the USA compliments of Travel Span.
The Club would also be handing over financial assistance to a National Junior Cyclist and a less fortunate mother of seven children. The oldest resident of Rose Hall would also receive a Television Set and a year supply of Cable Television. A Television Documentary on the history of Rose Hall Town would also be unveiled after the ceremony along with a Tourist Poster of the town.
Meanwhile, the cricket teams of the Club have started construction of the H.D. Hoyte Memorial Recreational Family Park.
The Park is scheduled to be opened on Friday 23rd of September and would consist if a large benab, swings, slides, seesaws, flower garden among others.
The main objectives of the Family Recreational Park are to promote social cohesion among residents, to provide clean and safe entertainment for children, to allow families to share time together and to promote the Club’s Say No and Yes programme.
The Playfield is a joint effort of the RHTY&SC, and the ‘B’ Division of the Guyana Police Force under their highly successful Say No to Crime, Suicide and Drugs Campaign.
The Park would bear the name of the Club’s first Patron, the late Hugh Desmond Hoyte, former Executive President of Guyana who inspired the RHTY&SC to transformed itself from a mere cricket Club to an NGO, dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of others. Today, the Club is widely considered Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation and undertakes a record 300 activities/ programmes.
The sponsors of the playfield are the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Protection, Commissioner of Police (ag) David Ramnarine, Nand Persaud Co. ltd, Kris Jagdeo Construction Firm, JR. Engineering Solutions, Amerally Sawmills, the Regional Democratic Council of Region 6 and the Toronto West/East Group of Canada.
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