Poonai Pharmacy renews sponsorship for RHTY&SC U11, U13 teams

Poonai Pharmacy is very pleased to be associated with the hard work, dedication, and success of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club. The young cricketers of this club have represented the Poonai Pharmacy brand with passion and pride, and have not only produced national players and won championships, but have undertaken numerous programmes with the aim of making a positive difference in the lives of youths and the less fortunate.
Those were the words of Poonai Bhigroog, CEO of Poonai Pharmacy, as the company on Tuesday renewed sponsorship of the RHTY&SC under-11 and under-13 cricket teams for the 4th consecutive year.
The popular pharmacy has been sponsoring the under-13 team since 2021, and came on board with the under-11 team in 2023. Club secretary Hilbert Foster has said the under-13 team won two Berbice championships and reached the finals all four times that the BCB has hosted under-13 tournament.
In the last BCB Romario Shepherd Under-13 tournament, this U13 team defeated the Rose Hall Canje team by 5 wickets at the Canje ground.

Foster has said that Poonai Pharmacy serves as the nursery for club cricket structure, as it provides players for the Rose Hall Town Farfan and Mendes under- 15, Bakewell under-17, Pepsi under-19 and Metro female teams.
Cricket manager and organizing secretary Robby Kissoonlal has expressed gratitude to the management and staff of Poonai Pharmacy for their continued support over the years, and committed the teams to upholding their high standards over the next 12 months.
The team would be led by national player Leon Reddy, who was last week named the Berbice under-13 captain.
Kissoonlal disclosed that the three members selected in the Berbice team are Reedy, Jayden Ganpat and Dinesh Singh.
The team has also produced numerous Berbice and Guyana players, including Reedy, Rafael McKenzie, Tameshwar Deonandan, Dev Seepersaud, Balraj Narain. West Indies Under-19 female player Trisha Hardat is also a product of the under-13 team. Kissoonlal also noted that the cricket teams, during the last 12 months, had successfully completed a total of 54 personal development programmes under a wide range of subheadings, including coaching, education, charity, say no/say yes, award and committee development. Other programmes undertaken by the team are cricket Academy, Grade 6 summer camp, tribute to firemen, tribute to law enforcement officers, occasional summer camp, Mother’s Day food hampers, tribute to fathers, clean-up campaign, youth information booklet, tribute to postal workers, and feeding the poor.
Kissoonlal, who has been the cricket manager for over 30 years, also hailed the contribution of his deputies Keith Hicks and Tyrone Pattaya, along with cricket coaches Winston Smith Ryan, Tremaine Smart, and Ryan Algu for their hard work in moulding the team into a powerful elite squad.
Poonai, a former president of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce, urged the players to upkeep their high standards and to remain focused, disciplined and dedicated, even as he committed his business to continue supporting the team on and off the cricket field.
The RHTY&SC, since its formation in September 1990, has won 124 different cricket tournaments at all levels, and has produced 125 players for Berbice or Guyana. 16 of the players have gone on to play for either the West Indies or the United States of America. They include Assad Fudadin, Kevin Sinclair, Royston Crandon, Esan Crandon, Dominic Ricky, Ashkay Homraj, Erva Giddings, Shemaine Campbell, Sheneta Grimmond Trisha Hardat, Danellie Manns, Shabika Gajnabi and Kevlon Anderson.
The club has also won the Guyana Cricket Board’s Club of the Year award five times, and remains the only youth sports club to have received a national award.