Pepsi Under-19 Cricket Team assist Angoy’s Avenue and Bush Lot Cricket Clubs

The young cricketers of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S Pepsi Under 19 Team on Wednesday last assisted their counterparts of the Angoy Avenue Cricket Club of New Amsterdam and the Bush Lot Cricket Club of West Coast Berbice.
The team donated a pair of batting pad, wicket keeping pad, wicket keeping gloves and a basketball to the Angoy Avenue Cricket Club while the West Berbice Club received four trophies for the presentation ceremony of their annual cricket academy.
Secretary/CEO of the RHTYSC, Hilbert Foster at the presentation ceremony stated that the RHTYSC on an annual basis makes it a priority to assist other sports clubs in Berbice to fulfil their mandates. He proudly stated that Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation is the only one who assists competitors to improve themselves as it was important to assist every youth to fulfil their potentials.

To date the RHTYSC has assisted a total of 39 sports Clubs, NGO’s, Churches and Schools in 2016 with over $1.2M worth of trophies and educational materials. The Pepsi Under 19 team which consists of national junior cricketers Brandon Prashad, Kevin Sinclair, Kevlon Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Slyus Tyndall and Plaffina Millington, Foster stated that the team was proud to assist the two Clubs and urged the members of the Bush Lot and Angoy Avenue teams to always strive for excellence and to use the donation for its intended purpose.
Foster expressed profound disappointment at the state of Berbice Cricket which is currently in turmoil due to a Court injunction and he issued an appeal for everyone to work together to return the county to its former glory. Foster recalled that when he resigned as Chairman of the BCB Special Events Committee in 2014 after completing over 1500 programmes/activities over a seven years period, Berbice Cricket was at its strongest level but in a short two years span has fallen apart due to matters unrelated to cricket.
The experienced sports administrator who in 2011 became the First Club Official to win the prestigious National Sports Personality Award, stated that unless something is done by those in charge of Berbice Cricket, it would die a painful and swift death. The RHTYSC, M.S he stated would continue to play its part and issued an emotional appeal to other major cricket Clubs in Berbice to assist less fortunate cricket clubs so that Berbice Cricket can improve.
Representatives of both Clubs expressed gratitude to the RHTYSC, M.S and its Pepsi Under 19 team for the assistance. President of the Bush Lot Club Mr. Robbie Saywack stated that the RHTYSC, M.S has been the inspiration between his Club’s mission to assist youths that the Bush Lot Cricket Club was using the National Awardee as a role model to emulate.