Berbice cricket clubs to benefit from $600,000 in scorebooks, catching cribs
– under joint RHTY&SC/BCB project
The development programme of the Berbice Cricket Board continues to gather stream with the coming on board of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC), MS, to distribute scorebooks to more than 80 active clubs. These scorebooks have been donated by Odyssey Sight Seeing Tours Company.
Representatives of four West Berbice clubs pose with their catching cribs and scorebooks
Additionally, with support from the RHTY&SC and several ‘friends of Berbice Cricket’, the BCB would be sharing out over a dozen catching cribs to cricket clubs across the county.
BCB President Hilbert Foster has said that since his election to office in 2018, clubs and more than 300 youth cricketers has benefited from more than $12M worth of items from the BCB. Items donated include cricket gears, scorebooks, stumps, cricket balls, uniforms, grounds men’s rain coats, school bags, bicycles, educational materials and food hampers, among other things.
RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster receiving the scorebooks from Odyssey Tours representatives
The BCB has also awarded educational scholarships, while dozens of clubs have received trophies, medals, certificate frames and special gifts to assist them to host awards ceremonies, cricket academies, and fund-raising events.
The catching cribs, worth $24,000, are being donated to clubs with junior sections, and would benefit the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (2), Port Mourant, Albion, RHTY&SC, RH Canje, Tucber Park, Edinburgh, Blairmont, Achievers, Cotton Tree and Paradise.
The UCCA’s two catching cribs would be used by the #73 Young Warriors CC, #69 Youth Club, #73 Radha Krishna Foundation, and the Scottsburg United teams.
Foster has urged the clubs to take care of the catching cribs, as great effort went into obtaining them. Funds for the cribs were obtained from former national players Jerry Angus and Ray Joseph, RHTY&SC, Bissan Trading, and another overseas-based Guyanese.
The main objective of the project is to improve the fielding standard of Berbice youth players. Foster is expending further efforts at distribution by the end of April/early May.
Meanwhile, Odyssey Sight Seeing Tours (Guyana) Inc has donated $300,000 worth of scorebooks to the RHTY&SC, MS Cricket Development Programme, as it has done for close to a decade. The books would be donated to every active club in Berbice.
Clubs in the Upper Corentyne and West Berbice have already received a combined 40 books. Scorebooks are currently being distributed in the Lower Corentyne New Amsterdam/Canje area, and some would be sent to communities along the Berbice River area.
In accepting the scorebooks, Foster expressed gratitude to the Management of the company for their continued cooperation.
