…. Completes 180 programmes/activities

THE ROSE HALL Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) has described 2013 as highly successful but at the same time noted that the year presented the most problems and hurdles in the organization’s 23 years history.
Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation completed a record breaking 180 programmes/activities for the year while its cricketers continue to make the club proud on and off the cricket field.
Secretary/CEO of the Club Hilbert Foster in a comprehensive review of the year said the Club was able to have another successful year due to the outstanding work and dedication of every club executives and members including Honourary Patron Beverley Harper, President Keith Foster, Treasurer Dawn Hicks, Office staff Eon Hooper and Moonish Singh and Executive Member Allan Harry.
The 180 programmes/activities were completed under the sub-headings of sports, culture, youth development, coaching, awards, honour ceremony, religious, anti-drugs, community development, social, economic development and educational.
During 2013, the club on the cricket field won the Neal and Massy 50-Overs Intermediate Competition, Namilco/Bakewell T20 Cup and NBS 40-overs second division tournaments respectively, while it was also the runner-up in the Carib Beer T20 Cup and reached the semifinals of the Universal DVD T20 and Elizabeth Styles Under-19 50-overs tournaments.
To date, the club has reached the quarterfinals of the Berbice Cricket Board’s (BCB) Under-17 and the finals of the Tenelec Inc Under-15 tournaments which are to be played, while Daniel Lewis and Brandon Prashad represented Guyana at the Under-17 level and Shawn Pereira and Askay Homraj at the Under-19 level, with Pereira being named captain.
Homraj scored a brilliant 103 for his debut century versus the Windward Islands, Phaffiana Millington captains the National Under-19 team of which Shabita Gajnabi and Erica Lashley are a part of.
At the National Senior level Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon and Rajiv Ivan played while Phaffiana Millington, Shemaine Campbelle, Trishanie Cort, Erva Giddings and Melanie Henry played for the Female Senior National Team.
In addition to the national players, the following players also played at the Inter-county level either for Berbice or the President XI Team – Joshua Gobin, Veeramootoo Sanwasane, Jason Anderson, Arif Chan, Shailendra Shameer, Nikita Toney, Tessa Park, Eon Hooper, Clinton Pestano, Dominique Rikhi, Delbert Hicks and Jason Sinclair while Shailendra Shameer played for Guyana against Bangladesh Under-19.
During the year, Campbelle became the first Guyanese and only the second West Indian to score an International century, Assad Fudadin scored 140 for the West Indies “A” against India, to go along with Homraj’s debut ton for the National Under-19 team.
Off the cricket field, the Club hosted another successful cricket academy in July for 90 youths, held its 23rd Annual Awards Ceremony where over $2.5M worth of prizes were shared out and hosted twelve coaching clinics for cricketers.
Members of the club’s different cricket team completed a total of over 80 self developmental programmes with the main aim of making positive differences in the lives of youths, the elderly and less fortunate while also promoting the “Say No to Drugs and Yes to Education” message.
The Club also distributed over $10M worth of educational and hygiene kits, clothing, food items and footwear to less fortunate families in Berbice and in August donated close to $1M worth of school bags and exercise books to students in Berbice.
The Club also assisted 32 cricket clubs and youth/sports organisation in Berbice with over $2.5M worth of sports equipment and other needed materials and assisted two children with funding for overseas medical expenses and in December a massive Christmas programme was organised.
As it has done for the past six years, the Club played a major role in raising millions of dollars in cricket sponsorship for the BCB and also co-sponsored numerous programmes of the Board, including editing and producing the fifth cricket edition of the BCB Cricket Magazine.
The main highlight for the Club in 2013 was the fulfillment of a commitment made by His Excellency President Donald Ramoutar and Minister Dr. Frank Anthony to repair the Area “H” Ground old pavilion and with this in mind, the Club has projected a total of 200 programmes/activities for 2014.
The different cricket teams of the club would also undergo a radical restructuring with a view to get better results with the newly appointed cricket coach Winston Smith and Office Manager Moonish Singh being responsible for that.
The Club is very grateful to its numerous supporters, official sponsors and donors for their support during 2013 which enabled it to maintain its status as Guyana’s leading youth and Sports club.
While the list is too long to mention, the club would like to publicly acknowledge the contributions of His Excellency President Donald Ramoutar, GT&T, Bakewell, DDL, Gizmos and Gadgets, Farfan and Mendes, Food for the Poor, Metro Office Supplies, Sterling Products, GTM Group of Companies, Western Union, Banks D.I.H. Limited and Ansa McAl.

Hand-in-Hand, Bissan’s, A. Ally & Sons, Len’s Craft, TCL (Guy), Ricks & Sari Limited, Diamond Fire & General Insurance, Bermudez, C.K Associates, John Lewis Styles, P&P Insurance Brokers, Starr Computers, Apex Insurance, Alfred Mentore, A.H & L Kissoon, Basil Butcher, Cirkel, Dr. Ian Mc Donald, Mohamed Qualander and Vincent Alexander also contributed to the club’s success this year.
The Club would also like to express gratitude to the hundreds of others who donated financially or with clothing, educational materials, footwear etc, with special thanks being expressed to members of the national media especially DTV-8, LRTVS CH10, TVG, NCN, Guyana Chronicle, Stabroek News, Kaieteur News and Guyana Times for their support.