Yesterday at the historic GCC Bourda, the first day of the two-day Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira Commentators workshop got underway.
The three-part session, with breaks for Lunch and tea, was hosted by the 84-year-old Guyana born who resides in St Lucia and commenced with remarks from Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Kashif Muhammad.

With Paul Chan-a-Sue performing the duties of Master of Ceremonies, Ronald Williams, speaking on behalf of the President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Bissoondyal Singh, who was unavoidably absent, gave his thoughts about what Cricket Commentators need to do.
After ‘Reds’ who has done 152 Test matches, took questions from the enthusiastic gathering of senior, aspiring Commentators from the University of Guyana (UG) and former Guyana players Leon Johnson and Steven Jacobs,Tea/Coffee was taken.

Former West Indies fast bowler Reon King, the only former Cricketer in the West Indies to be appointed as an international Match Referee, fielded questions from the large gathering after explaining who are Match Referees and what are their duties.
King said Match Referees were first introduced in 1991 when the ICC’s code of conduct was first written.
After Lunch, which was provided by the Organisers, there was a discussion of several documents written by Barbadian pacer Richard Martin ‘Prof’ Edwards who played 35 First-Class and five Test Matches between 1961 and 1970.

Documents from Alex Jordon, Tony Mc Watt, Bruce Aanensen, Roland Butcher, Lockhart Sebastian, Micheal Findley and Tim Lane were discussed while the streaming of a local match was analysed by Reds, with input from the audience.
Tomorrow will be the second day of the workshop after a break today to facilitate Reds’ trip to Berbice. Red’s is one of the names on the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Wall of Fame at the UG campus in Tain Berbice.
The illustrious sports broadcaster will again travel to Berbice on Saturday where he will be conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by UG at its Tain Campus.