Patron of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, President David Granger would be the Guest Speaker when the leading youth and sports organisation hosts its 27th annual awards ceremony on Sunday April 23. The gala ceremony, the highlight of the Club’s calendar of activities would be held at the St. Francis Community Developers Centre, starting at 12:30h.
Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster along with Vice President Mark Papannah and Assistant Secretary Simon Naidu are spearheading plans for the event which would involve the honouring of 35 RHTY&SC Members.
The RHTY&SC, M.S since 1991 has hosted the award ceremony to honour outstanding members. Foster noted that the first award ceremony was a simple one with prizes like small water bottles and clocks being shared out to eight awardees.
The event has since grown into Guyana’s largest award ceremony with over $2M worth of trophies, medals, plaque and special prizes being shared out to members of the club and general public under a wide range of awards.
Among the prizes shared out over the last 26 years are television sets, cycles, gold jewellery, airline tickets to the Caribbean and North America, trips to local resorts, electrical appliances, educational scholarships, household equipment and designer clothing. In this year’s award ceremony a total of 35 awards would be shared out including the prestigious Cricketer of the Year, Runner up Cricketer of the Year, Female Cricketer of the Year, Most Disciplined Member of the Year for Male and Female, Most Promising Player, Most Committed Member, Most Improved Cricketer, Benefit Year Awardee, Worker of the Year while outstanding performers at the Under 15, Under 17, Under 19, Female, Second Division and First Division levels would also be honoured.
RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster
The Cricketer of the Year would take home at least $300,000.00 worth of prizes. Cricketers and the Awards Ceremony Committee has shortlisted four cricketers for the award – Clinton Pestano, Shemaine Campbelle, Kevlon Anderson and Eon Hooper.
Long serving Club Member Keon Sinclair would also be awarded a Benefit Year this year and among his prizes would be a $100,000.00 West Indies Cricket Medallion with a diamond.
The Club Secretary/CEO would deliver a comprehensive report for 2016 while apart from the feature address by President David Granger, other speakers would be Rose Hall Town Mayor Vijai Ramoo, Regional Chairman David Armogan, Official sponsors of the Club and Director of Sports Christopher Jones.
The Club during the ceremony would also be hosting the tribute to retired teachers, tribute to outstanding teachers, tribute to outstanding law enforcement officers programme, while fifteen Guyanese would be honoured with the Club’s Highest Award – The Dolphin Award of Excellence.
Four outstanding retired teachers with a combined of 148 years of service would be honoured under the Tribute to Retired Teachers Programme while teachers from the Rose Hall Town Nursery, Rose Hall Town Primary, Port Mourant Primary, Tain Primary, Belvedere Primary, J.C. Chandisingh Secondary, New Amsterdam Secondary and Lower Corentyne Secondary would be honoured as Teachers of the Year.
Four Law Enforcement Officers who played a major role in the reduction of crime would also be honoured while among the awardees for the Dolphin Award of Excellence are journalists Avenash Ramzan and Claude David, Minister Volda Lawerence, Business Executives Rajin Ganga, Anjulie Beharry-Strand, Onai-Vasconcellos, Troy Cadogan and Director of Sports Christopher Jones.
