The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will host a fundraiser themed ‘Latin Night’ at their Lance Gibbs Queenstown, location on Friday.
The event is aimed at raising funds for the continued rehabilitation of the club to create improved facilities for members.
A ticket for the event costs 00 which caters for dinner and a Latin rum punch. Dinner will be served from 19:00h. 
DCC was established in 1912 by Portuguese businessmen of British Guiana (including M. Gonsalves, E.C. Buck and Joseph Gonsalves), who were not allowed to be members of the British-dominated Georgetown Cricket Club in its early years. DCC too restricted its membership in its early years – to Portuguese only.
Membership was open to anyone after the First World War, allowing the club to produce some its most famous players, such as West Indies greats Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs and others.
Other past club members who played at the highest level are: Cyril Christiani, Robert Christiani, Travis Dowlin, Maurice Fernandes and Roger Harper, while current club members Christopher Barnwell and Derwin Christian have also played at the highest level.
Philbert Blair, Ernest Christiani, Harry Christiani, Trevon Griffith, Mark Harper and Colin Wiltshire are some of the club members who developed at DCC and later represented Guyana at the senior level.
The Demerara Cricket Club was (and still is) the only cricket club in Georgetown to be located in an entirely residential neighborhood. As fate would have it, that neighborhood was a middle-class one, in which residents understood and appreciated the social value of such a facility in their midst. The fact that DCC has survived, and even prospered at times, for over a hundred years, is testimony to its integration into its social settings.
