Metro renews partnership with RHTY&SC Female Cricket Team

In an era when sponsorship for sporting events is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, the outstanding work of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS, continues to attract the support of corporate Guyana.
Last Thursday, Metro Office Supplies handed over a cheque to Patron of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, President David Granger. The cheque is worth two hundred thousand dollars (0,000), and by it the company has renewed its sponsorship of the Rose Hall Town Metro Female Cricket Team for the 10th successive year.

Club Secretary/CEO, Hilbert Foster, speaking to a mammoth crowd at the Area ‘H’ Ground during a special Rose Hall Town 175th Anniversary ceremony, hailed Metro Office Supplies as a long- standing friend of Guyana’s leading youth and sports club.
Metro has been sponsoring the team since its formation in 2007, and the Rose Hall Town Metro Team remains the only female cricket team in Guyana. The team, in 2009, won the only ever National Female Championship, and has, over the years, produced a total of two West Indies players, ten national senior players, fifteen national junior players; while a total of 29 has played for Berbice.
Shemaine Campbelle, Plaffiana Millington and Shabika Gajnabi have captained Guyana at different levels, while among the other players produced by the sponsorship are Erva Giddings, Melanie Henry, Nikita Toney, Miriam Samaroo, Dian Prahalad, Uma Matadin, Aleema Arokium, Shaneeta Grimmond, Trishanie Cort, Deborah Vanderstoop, Roshella Lynch and Jacklyn Singh, all of whom have represented Guyana.
The team’s present captain is West Indies player Shemaine Campbelle, while her deputy is her West Indies counterpart Erva Giddings. Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club Executive member Elizabeth Brusch serves as club manager, while the coach is former national cricketer Delbert Hicks.
Foster expressed total frustration that no other cricket club in Guyana has found the time to establish a cricket team for females, and he deemed it a sad reflection of the lack of commitment and vision.
The long-serving Secretary/CEO of the RHTYSC proudly declared that both male and female cricketers of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club work together and enjoy a remarkable relationship. With no cricket being played in Berbice because of a lack of leadership from an ailing Berbice Cricket Board, the Management of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club arranges matches for its teams every weekend at the Area ‘H’ Ground, and this allows the female cricketers to develop quickly, as they have to play with their male counterparts.
Foster expressed gratitude to the management and staff of Metro Office Supplies, especially Chief Executive Officer Avia Lindie and Manager of the New Amsterdam Branch, Danny Ramnarine, for their co-operation.
Captain of the Metro Female Team, Shemaine Campbelle, in an invited comment, expressed pleasure at the renewal of the sponsorship, and pledged to make Metro proud on and off the cricket field. Metro’s support, Campbelle stated, has been responsible for the rapid development of each of the female cricketers. The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, the West Indies all-rounder stated, has invested heavily into the careers of its female members, and she issued an appeal to all major cricket clubs to do likewise for Guyana’s female cricket to become a major force in the Caribbean.
Manager of Metro’s New Amsterdam Branch, Danny Ramnarine, hailed the company’s investment as a productive one, as the Rose Hall Town Metro Female Team has represented the brand very well. The female cricketers have been outstanding ambassadors for the company, he stated, while urging the team to uphold its high standard.