Scotiabank continues support of Rose Hall Sports Club
The Bank of Nova Scotia for the ninth consecutive year has strengthen its highly successful relationship with Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S.
Scotiabank Marketing Executive Jennifer Cipriani hands over sponsorship to RHTY&SC Executive Member Mark Papannah while Club members Sohan Harry and Simon Naidu look on
The Bank recently handed a sponsorship cheque valued at $762,000. for several programmes to be organised by the Club and its eight cricket teams during 2017.
RHTY&SC has set itself a target of 450 for the year under the sub-headings of sports, coaching, charity, religious, awards, anti-suicide, anti-drugs, anti-crime, education, youth and community development, jobs for youths, social among others.
Long serving Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster hailed the relationship between the two entities as very productive and successful. The sponsorship includes trophies for the Club’s 27th annual award ceremony scheduled for April, co-sponsorship of the annual youth review magazine, Tribute to Outstanding Teachers programme, Essay Competition for youths under the Say No/Say Yes Campaign, purchasing cricket balls for Cricket development programme and the hosting of the annual Bank of Nova Scotia Say No to Suicide Children Mash Parade.
The success of the Rose Hall Town based Club over the years, Foster noted is because of the outstanding relationship it enjoys with numerous entities like the Bank of Nova Scotia and the described the Bank as a foundation of the Club over the years.
Foster made special mention of the Cricket Development programme which has been the cornerstone Club’s success on the cricket field. This programme would be expanded to include more under 15 players and females as the Club strives to maintain its status as Guyana Cricket Club of the Year Awardee, which it won for the 5th time in December 2016.
The Children Mash Parade would be held on February 23 and would involve over 600 students drawn from the Rose Hall Town Primary School, Belvedere Primary, Tain Primary, Port Mourant Primary, Rose Hall Town Nursery, Lower Corentyne Secondary, Corentyne Comprehensive Secondary, J.C. Chandisingh Secondary, Port Mourant Secondary and New Amsterdam Secondary School.
The main objectives would be to promote the Say No to Suicide message, to celebrate Guyana’s 47th anniversary as a Republic and to inform youths that the gift of life is precious, the Bank on an annual basis also invests in the Club’s Tribute to Mothers Programme, Christmas Village project, Charity project, annual cricket academy and in 2016 stood the cost of publishing a 40 pages booklet on the history of Rose Hall Town as part of the township’s 46th anniversary celebration.
Special thanks was expressed to the Bank’s Marketing Executive Jennifer Cipriani for her cooperation since 2009.
Cipriani, an awardee of the clubs’ highest award, the Dolphin Award of Excellence hailed the Club as a role model organisation which the Bank was proud to be associated. The Bank of Nova Scotia, she stated is fully aware of its corporate responsibilities and over the years has invested heavily in sports, education and cultural activities.
