THE Rose Hall Town Metro Female Cricket team, Guyana’s only female cricket team, was established in 2008 with the main objective of nurturing the talent of female players in Berbice and Guyana.

The club produced Shemaine Campbelle and Erva Giddings for the West Indies and in September 2019, Sheneta Grimmond along with Shabika Gajnabi made their club proud by becoming the 3rd and 4th members of the team to play international cricket.

Metro Office and Computer Supplies has been the official sponsor of the team since its formation and has pumped more than $1.5M over the years to develop female cricketing talents.

Grimmond and Gajnabi both joined the RHTYSC, MS over eight years ago and have developed their skills under the watchful eyes of Campbelle, Giddings and the club’s cricket management group headed by veteran administrator Robby Kissoonlall.

They both have represented Berbice and Guyana at the Under-19 and Senior levels. Gajnabi also successfully led Guyana to Under-19 Championship in Trinidad.
The West Indies players expressed their gratitude to the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club last Thursday by donating a laptop computer.

The $110 000 computer was handed over to RHTYSC Asst Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu by Gajnabi at the Club’s Area ‘H’ Ground office.

The promising all-rounder stated that she and Grimmond would forever be grateful for the vision of the RHTYSC in establishing a female team, which allow females to fulfil their personal dreams.

She noted that she is now a West Indies player because of the RHTYSC’s and Metro’s visionary planning and financial investment respectively.

Naidu, who received the donation on behalf of the RHTYSC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster expressed gratitude to the players.

He stated that the laptop computer would assist him in his duties to keep record of club assets, players’ performance, updating the RHTYSC Facebook Account and the issuing of media releases.

Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that it is always pleasing to Management when players remember where they came from. He told both players that the club was very proud of them and wished them success in the future.

Meanwhile, members of the Club’s NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour First Division team treated over 200 old age pensioners to breakfast as they waited to uplift their October pension.
The players, led by Organising Secretary Robby Kissoonlall and Asst Secretary/CEO Simon Naidu, provided the pensioners with a cup of hot tea, cold drinks, sandwiches, a variety of fruits, biscuits and a cup of NAMILCO’S Wheat Up porridge.

The programme is the first of several personal development projects that the team would host under the Thunderbolt Flour brand.

Other programmes would include a medical outreach programme, hampers for senior citizens, youth inspiration forum, anti-drugs posters, feeding the poor and distributing school bags to less fortunate students.