The National Sports Commission (NSC) has joined with the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) to stage a community `Day of Sports’ in Berbice.
The event will be held at the Area ‘H’ Ground, Rose Hall Town, March 5 and according to a press release, will form part of the RHTY&SC’s programme to celebrate Guyana’s 47th Republic anniversary and to promote the club’s `Say No/Say Yes’ message to youths in Berbice.
The NSC will host 10 such events in each of the regions across Guyana with the RHTY&SC event being the first.
Secretary of the RHTY&SC Hilbert Foster said that the `Day of Sports’ will involve activities such as cricket, athletics, volleyball, basketball and football.
Some eight team will compete in the cricket tournament including Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘A’, Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘B’, Rose Hall Canje, Young and Restless, No 19 Kennard Memorial, Courtland, Tamarind Root (Hampshire) and Fyrish.
The volleyball tournament, to be organized by national coach Levi Nedd, will see four female teams and six male teams in action while four teams will compete in the basketball tournament.
Some six teams will battle for the top prize in the football tournament.
Additionally, promising athletes will be allowed to participate in several events like the 100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m relay and 800m for both male and females.
Foster said a committee, which he heads, has been established to organise the event. The other members are Mark Papanah and…
The club, the release stated, will use the event to promote its `Say No to Drugs, Alcohol, Suicide, and Crime and Yes to Life, Education and Sports’ campaign.
The NSC’s contribution to the event is $400,000.00.
Assistant Director of Sports, Brian Smith, stated that the NSC will be hosting community `Day of Sports’ on an annual basis in every region of Guyana in an effort to promote sports at the grassroots level. Smith added that NSC staff members will be actively involved in assisting the RHTY&SC in making sure that the event is successful. He expressed confidence that the `Day of Sports’ will 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) is the latest entity to support the RHTY&SC aim of completing 500 programmes/activities in 2017. The authority donated 24 trophies to be used as prizes in numerous educational and sporting tournaments over the next three months, the release stated.
