The National Sports Commission (NSC) has collaborated with one of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S to host a community day of sports for the ancient county of Berbice.
The event will be held at the Area ‘H’ Ground in Rose Hall Town on Sunday, March 5. It forms part of the RHTY&SC, M.S programme to celebrate Guyana’s
Director of Sports Christopher Jones hands over sponsorship to RHTY&SC’s Hilbert Foster in presence of Sohan Harry (extreme right) and Mark Papannah
47th Republican anniversary and to promote the Club’s Say No/Say Yes message to youths in Berbice.
NSC would be hosting 10 such events in each of the regions across Guyana with the RHTY&SC, M.S event being the first. Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that the community day of sports would include cricket athletics, volleyball, basketball and football. The 5/5 Cricket tournament would include eight teams including Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘A’, Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘B’, Rose Hall Canje, Young & Restless, No 19 Kennard Memorial, Courtland, Tamarind Root (Hampshire) and Fyrish. The volleyball tournament would include four female teams, six male teams and it would be organised by national coach Levi Nedd.
The basketball tournament would see four teams vying for Championship honours while six teams would battle each other for the top prize in the football tournament. Promising athletes would also be given the opportunity to participate in several events like 100M, 200M, 400M, 4 x 100M Relay and 800M for both male and females.
The long serving secretary/CEO disclosed that the RHTY&SC, M.S has established a working committee headed by him and including Mark Papannah and Sohan Harry to organise the event. The club would also use the opportunity to promote its highly successful Say No to Drugs, Alcohol, Suicide, Crime and Yes to Life, Education and Sports campaign. The National Sports Commission would be contributing $400,000.00 while the RHTY&SC, M.S would be investing some of its own funds to make sure that the event is successful.
Assistant Director of Sports Smith stated that the NSC would be hosting the event on an annual basis in every region of Guyana in an effort to promote sports at the Grass root level. Smith disclosed that staff members of the NSC would be actively involved in assisting the RHTY&SC to ensure the event is a success.
He expressed confidence that the day of sports would not only be well organised but would achieve all of its objectives.
Meanwhile, the Management of the Mahaica Mahicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA – ADA) on Monday last became the latest entity to come on board to support the RHTY&SC, M.S ambition to complete 500 programmes/activities in 2017. The Authority donated a carton of 24 trophies that would be used as prizes in numerous educational and sporting tournaments in the next three months.
