NAMILCO on board with RHTY&SC Cricket Academy and annual magazine

– support pours in for cricket development programme

The National Milling Company of Guyana Limited (NAMILCO), long-time sponsor of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club MS, on Friday came on board to support the club to host its annual cricket academy and also to publish its first full-coloured magazine.
At a simple presentation ceremony held at the company’s head office in Agricola, East Bank Demerara, NAMILCO Managing Director Bert Sukhai handed over a cheque for sponsorship of the foregoing activities to RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster.

During the month of August, the RHTY&SC would be publishing a forty-page, full-colour magazine to highlight its major achievements over the last five years, and also to promote its list of promising players, which includes Kevlon Anderson, Kevin Sinclair, Jonathan Rampersaud, Jermey Sandia, Sheneta Grimmond, Shakabi Gajnabi, Junior Sinclair, Matthew Pottaya, Romesh Bharrat and Christopher Deroop.
The magazine, to be edited by Foster and the club’s Public Relations Committee headed by Jonathan Rampersaud, would be distributed free of cost across Guyana, the Caribbean, and North America as part of a massive outreach programme.
The magazine would also feature the club’s main achievements over the years since its formation in 1990 by three-times Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee the St Francis Youth Club, while several major developmental programmes would also be unveiled.
The RHTY&SC, over the years, has won a total of 101 cricket tournaments at all levels, and has produced 111 players for either Berbice and/or Guyana and/or the West Indies. The club currently has four players in the national under-19 team playing in Trinidad, and has the only fully activated female team in the country.
NAMILCO which sponsors the club’s strong under-21 and first-division teams, also announced that it would be assisting the club’s annual cricket academy with 110 school bags as part of the team’s “Say Yes to Education” programme. The bags, along with educational materials, would be handed out to every youth attending the two-week cricket academy, which bowls off on July 18.
The academy would be conducted by a battery of cricket coaches, while several senior players of the club would make special appearances. Foster and senior executives of the club are also slated to conduct a series of classroom lectures to the students.
Foster has expressed gratitude to NAMILCO for its continued confidence in the club, and has hailed NAMILCO as one of the RHTY&SC’s success stories. NAMILCO Managing Director Bert Sukhai has said NAMILCO is pleased to be associated with the RHTY&SC, and has announced that sponsorship for the two teams would shortly be renewed for the next year, while new uniforms for the first division teams would be handed over as well.
Meanwhile the club continues to attract support from the general public as it steams ahead with plans for the cricket academy and Grade Six Summer Camp. Friends of the club, including Housing & Water Minister Collin Croal, Donna Todd, Sheik Mohamed, Canadian Surplus, Food for the Poor, Flavio Rose, Arlington Hazel, Joel Pike, Dirk Figueira, Indira Jafferally, Kevin Sinclair, Kevin Darlington, Roy Hanoman, Keith Hicks and Andy Lampkin, are among dozens who have assisted the club’s organising committee.
Outstanding members of the two programmes to be held by the RHTY&SC would carry home several prizes, including bicycles, tablets, food hampers, educational grants, household items and kitchen utensils.