RHTY&SC cricket teams to host GBTI Inter-School tournament

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC), one of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisations, would be hosting another cricket youth tournament as part of its cricket development programme.
On an annual basis prior to the COVID pandemic, this club had hosted a series of cricket tournaments, including the popular Busta Champion of Champions First Division 40 overs tournament, and the launching of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s Say Yes/Say NO tournament is the restart of this programme, the aim of which is to assist the Berbice Cricket Board in the development of youth talent in the county.
RHTY&SC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster has said this tournament would be contested by four secondary schools in the Lower Corentyne area -Lower Corentyne Secondary, JC Chandisingh Secondary, Port Mourant Secondary, and Corentyne Comprehensive High School, at the Area H Ground on Thursday June 7.
The tournament would be played with two semifinals been played at twelve overs per side, while the finals would be an event involving fifteen overs per side.
Also President of the proactive Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Foster has said that the tournament’s main objective is to get youths to say no to drugs, suicide, racism and crime, and yes to education, life, religion and national unity.
The winning team would take home a total of fifty thousand dollars’ worth of educational materials, while the runner-up team would get thirty thousand dollars’ worth of items. The two losing semifinalists would each get fifteen thousand dollars’ worth. The Man of the Finals would get five thousand dollars, while several attractive financial prizes would be awarded during the presentation ceremony.
Foster disclosed that the tournament has been organised by the following teams: Rose Hall Town NAMILCO First Division, Farfan and Mendes Under-15, Bakewell Under-17, Metro Females, Poonai Pharmacy, and Pepsi Under-19 teams. This year, the RHTY&SC would host at least four tournaments, including a first division 20/20 tournament involving the eleven teams from the Ancient County.
Foster has hailed the support of GBTI, describing that banking institution as a true friend of cricket in Berbice and to the RHTY&SC. He has reassured management of the bank that the tournament would be well organized, and would achieve all of its objectives.
Manager of the GBTI Port Mourant Branch, Andre Yhap, has expressed confidence in the organising skills of the RHTY&SC, and has said the bank is delighted to be on board as sponsor of the tournament. This sponsorship has been described as part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility to the general public, and part of guiding youths on the correct path of life.
The launching was also attended by RHTY&SC Executives Keith Hicks and Tyrone Pottaya, and by GBTI Officers Radha Ramdihal and Aveeta Guyapersaud.