Namilco hands over 1st-Division coloured uniforms to RHTY&SC

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club’s First Division last weekend received uniforms for the 2024-25 cricket season from its official sponsor, Namilco.
The presentation was done at the company’s head office, located at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EDB) by Managing Director Bert Sukhai to RHTY&SC Secretary Hilbert Foster in the presence of Finance Director Fitzroy McLeod.
Foster, noted that the company has been sponsoring the Rose Hall Town Namilco Thunderbolt Flour team since 2019 and the success of the team has been overwhelming. The team under the sponsorship have won over 10 championships and are the leading team at the First-Division level in the Ancient County. Foster, a former President of the Berbice Cricket Board, stated that the company had already provided uniforms for the team twice before – in 2019 and 2022 – and he expressed gratitude to Managing Director Sukhai for the continued sponsorship.
The team, under the leadership of Berbice senior inter-county and former Guyana player Clinton Pestano, are currently preparing for the finals of the Premier Cup 20/20 finals against arch-rivals Tucber Park CC, and Foster stated that the uniforms would be used by the players there.
Among the players currently in the team are Pestano, Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Slyus Tyndall, Kevin Sinclair, Jonathan Rampersaud, Jeremy Sandia, Romesh Bharrat, Matthew Pottaya, Jason Sinclair, Eon Hooper, Keon Sinclair, and Troy Mathieson.

The RHTY&SC Secretary informed the Namilco delegation that the club have a total of eight members with contracts with either the Guyana Cricket Board or Cricket West Indies. Three of them – Anderson, Sinclair and Tyndall – are currently with the Guyana fifty-over team in Trinidad while Kevin Sinclair was also selected in the team before he was replaced by Junior Sinclair.
The Rose Hall Town Namilco team have, so far in 2024, successfully completed over fifty personal development projects and are busy right now, preparing to host the 10th edition of the popular Rose Hall Town Christmas Village from December 21 to 24 in the compound of the Rose Hall Primary School. The team, along with their clubmates, would also be distributing 1000 food hampers, thousands of Christmas toys, 500 special Christmas packages consisting of apples, grapes, biscuits and confectionery, etc. The team would also be assisting youths with bicycles and school bags as part of the programme .
The Namilco team are also preparing to launch another edition of their highly successful Say No/Say Yes campaign. The campaign targets over 60,000 youths in Region Six, with the main objective of getting them to say no to drugs and crime and yes to education and religion. Namilco is sponsoring four educational outdoor PVC standup promotional signs that would be used at all RHTY&SC functions. The signs would feature the images of Jonathan Rampersaud, Kevin Sinclair, Junior Sinclair and Kevlon Anderson,. The signs would feature solid pieces of advice on different topics.
Namilco Managing Director Sukhai stated that his company was very pleased to be associated with the First-Division team and was very impressed with their achievements on and off the cricket field. As he handed over the uniforms , Sukhai urged the team to remain focused and to always strive for excellence. Noting that the club has always been associated with success , the Namilco boss pleaded for this to continue in the future. Apart from sponsorship of the team, the company also co-sponsors several of the club activities including award ceremonies, the cricket academy, summer camps, youth magazine, Tribute to Heroes and the Christmas Village.