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Nov 04, 2021 Sports
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will this Saturday host the first of four Social Skills Seminars for a combined 160 youths across the Ancient County. The first seminar would be held at the New Amsterdam Secondary School and would be declared open by BCB Patron, Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat and President Hilbert Foster.
A total of 42youths, drawn from the New Amsterdam/Canje areas will attend the seminar which would be conducted by graduate students of the University of Guyana, Tain Campus Social Work Programme and other qualified personnel.
Foster informed that the seminars were the brainchild of Patron Vickram Bharrat who shared that he wants the County to produce players of the highest level on and off the cricket field. Among the topics to be discussed are public speaking, table manners, basic mannerism and etiquette, balancing sports and education, problem management/conflict resolution, leadership, team building and mental health.
Participants would be drawn from the following clubs, Edinburgh, East Bank Blazers, Mt Sinai, Tucber Park, Guymine, Rose Hall Canje and Kendall Union. Foster further disclosed that similar seminars would also be held for youths in three other areas, namely, West Berbice on Nov. 13 at the Fort Wellington Secondary School; Upper Corentyne on Nov. 20 at the Skeldon Community Center and Nov. 27 at the Albion Ground for the Lower Corentyne.
The seminars would be followed by a one-day Mini Cricket Academies in each of the Sub-Associations the next day at the Rose Hall Canje , Cotton Tree, Skeldon and Albion Grounds, respectively.
The academies would be conducted by a battery of cricket coaches which include Winston Smith, Leslie Soloman, Julian Moore, Balram Samaroo and Travis Hardcourt. Meanwhile, the BCB during the seminars would also be handing over educational grants to five students in each Sub-Association under the BCB Patron Fund.
The BCB has over the last four years placed huge emphasis on the promotion of education among its players with hundreds of youths benefitting over the period from grants and donation of educational materials, school bags and cycles.
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