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Kendall’s Union Cricket Club benefits from cricket balls through Project “Cricket Gear for young and promising cricketers in Guyana” Sep 25, 2024 Sports From left to right: Anil Beharry, Galina Hitnarine and Surindradat Beharry at the presentation. Kaieteur Sports – Kendall’s Union Cricket Club of No.19 Village, Corentyne, Berbice is the latest to benefit from this joint initiative between Kishan Das of the USA and Anil Beharry of Guyana. They were the recipient of two boxes of red cricket balls, one of which was handed over recently and the other to follow. At a simple ceremony held recently, Galina Hitnarine, club representative, was thankful for the support. This project is also pleased to be part of its development and the balls are to be used for the junior cricket programme only. Beharry, a former member of the club and a former resident of the community, is impressed with the effort of club president Albert Budhoo and his team and the project will continue to provide support when possible. Total cricket related items received/purchased so far: $460,000 in cash, thirteen colored cricket uniforms, one set of stumps and bails, two trophies, twenty seven pairs of cricket shoes, thirty three pairs of batting pads, thirty five cricket bats, one floppy hat, thirty two pairs of batting gloves, twenty five thigh pads, three pairs of wicket keeping pads, six arm guards, two chest pads, two boxes, twelve cricket bags, six bat rubbers, six helmets, one fiber glass bat, thirteen boxes of white cricket balls, three boxes of red balls and twenty eight footballs. In addition to the above, gear worth more than $600,000 was donated by Sheik Mohamed, former National wicket keeper/batsman. All cash collected is being used to purchase cricket gear requested and not available at the time. To date, eighty six young players, male and female, from all three counties of Guyana have benefited directly from cash, seven gear bags, two trophies, four arm guards, thirty three bats, three boxes, six helmets, thirty one pairs of cricket shoes, twenty pairs of batting pads, twenty four thigh pads, one bat grip, thirty four pairs of batting gloves, one pair of wicketkeeping pads and three pairs of wicketkeeping gloves. Many others benefited indirectly. In addition, two clubs in the Pomeroon area benefited from two used bats. Pomeroon, Leguan and Wakenam Cricket Committees and Cotton Tree Die Hard also received one box of red cricket balls each, Cold Fusion Cricket Club thirteen color uniforms while RHCCCC received six boxes of balls, fifteen white cricket shirts, one pair of junior batting pads, one pair of wicket keeping gloves, two sets of stumps and bails. Other beneficiaries are The Essequibo Cricket Board, the Town of Lethem, youth coach Travis Persaud (one box of red cricket balls), male and female teams playing the traditional hardball and softball in the Upper Corentyne area, No.65 Young Titans with 30 T-Shirts, youths of Just Try Cricket Club, Wakenaam Cricket Academy (one box of white balls), Shamar Joseph, Nehemiah Hohenkirk, Shamar Apple, Leguan Cricket Committee, Tucber Park Cricket Club, Malteenoes Sports Club (nine cricket balls each) and Kendall’s Union Cricket Club with two boxes of red balls. Cricket related items, used or new, are distributed free of cost to young and promising cricketers in Guyana. Anyone interested to contribute can contact Anil Beharry on 623-6875 or Kishan Das on 1-718-664-0896. Related Similar Articles

Shakquain James carts off with Best Boxer accolade Sep 25, 2024 Sports Part of the action as Eron Cornelius and Romario Stellingburg went all-guns-blazing in the opening bout of the Inaugural West Dem leg of the GBA U16 championship. – VBG secures Best Gym award at Inaugural West Demerara U-16 Boxing C/ship Kaieteur Sports – The Vergenoegen Boxing Gym (VBG) claimed the prestigious “Best Gym” accolade at the inaugural West Demerara leg of the Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) U-16 Championship on Saturday. VBG’s success was complemented by their trainer, Clifton Moore, being named Best Coach, while Shakquain James of the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) took home the Best Boxer award. Hosted at the Rice Mill tarmac, the West Demerara team dominated with three victories and one defeat to claim the overall team title. In the 39-41kg schoolboys division, Ezekiel Withwright secured a decision win against Teaka Narine of the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym (PRBG). Jason Fileen added another victory for VBG, defeating Trendy Forde (PRBG) in the 45-47kg category. Meanwhile, in the junior division, Keyon Britton of VBG emerged victorious over Isaiah Nurse from the Rose Hall Jammers (RHJ) in their 48-50kg bout. The lone setback for VBG came in the 34-36kg schoolboys division, where Rayon France was outpointed by RHJ’s Roopesh Balgobin. Meanwhile, Forgotten Youth Foundation’s Shakquain James delivered a standout performance in the youth division, defeating Terron Wintz of the New Amsterdam Boxing Association (NABA) in the 63.5-67kg category. His win earned him the Best Boxer award, solidifying his reputation as a rising star. This event marked a significant milestone in the GBA’s efforts to decentralise boxing across Guyana, made possible by the acquisition of a new boxing ring through the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sport. The new ring will be utilised for future events as the GBA continues to expand its reach, using older equipment in other regions. Next stop, Linden is set to host the next leg of the U-16 Championship, with Berbice to follow after its conclusion. Related Similar Articles

ExxonMobil’s billboards Sep 25, 2024 Editorial Kaieteur News – ExxonMobil is strutting its stuff in the face of Guyanese.  According to Guyana’s leading oilman, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, the company is well within its rights to put up its billboards.  The PPP/C Government has been loath to go anywhere near them.  Thus, the company’s billboards hang over Guyanese heads, while the drive is on to brainwash the minds of citizens.  During the first Cold War, the US was concerned about communist infiltration and the damage done to its people and institutions through brainwashing.  In that fevered atmosphere a motion picture about the consequences of brainwashing like the Manchurian Candidate took off, gained many fearful believers.  The irony of today is that America’s ExxonMobil is the one doing the brainwashing of locals with its half story, half truthful, billboards, and no Guyanese, other than this paper, has had the guts to offer a word of protest.  Even Guyana’s all-powerful Vice President Jagdeo has walked on eggshells around those billboards. The first ones were about how much Guyana is benefiting from the ExxonMobil-Guyana oil partnership.  Percentages and statistics were the tools of choice employed by ExxonMobil.  They were soon exposed and became so embarrassing to Jagdeo that his hand was forced.  They should either correct or take down those billboards, as they are not accurate.  He conveniently forgot that his flunkeys were busy selling those same billboards as representing the full and accurate story of how much Guyana was getting as its share from the oil wealth.  With the wind at its back, ExxonMobil next went on the attack with more billboards.  So many Guyanese trained, so many hours invested, and so many billions spent.  In the world in which ExxonMobil operates, nothing is ever as it seems, or so straight as to be trusted.  What the company left out from its latest billboards was that the 2016 Production Sharing Agreement allowed ExxonMobil to recover what it spent on training.  It is not helpful to ExxonMobil’s public relations efforts to be constrained by such inconveniences, to being a stickler in sharing the whole truth and nothing but. ExxonMobil engages in these kinds of misleading exercises, because its senior executives know that they have the entire crop of local politicians where they should be.  Timid and toothless, and not possessing anything resembling a genuine bark.  Hence, there is no reason to be careful, to fear such defanged, trapped political poodles.  So, ExxonMobil does as it pleases, because the road in front of it could not be clearer.  For their part, most Guyanese are content to hide behind a shield of PPP/C Government political correctness.  The result of this is that there only a tiny handful of Guyanese standing up and saying out aloud that what ExxonMobil is doing is wrong, and that it should not be given such free rein to cross these lines, at will.  The government is saying little about the new billboards, the opposition picks its steps (and words) with the greatest delicacy, and Guyanese who should be outraged seek shelter in silence. This is the level of unhealthy fear that is present in Guyana. A foreign entity comes into the local space and insults the intelligence of Guyanese, and there is not even the whimper of an outcry.  But let there be some issue of dispute involving ethnicity or elections or corruption, and Guyanese find their voice and an unbelievable degree of vibrancy.  This is the kind of self-destructive existence that finds favour with Guyanese imprisoned by the past, and liking where they are.  The great wealth that is theirs, and which is being used against their interest by ExxonMobil (the deceptions in the billboards speak their confirming language), is of little inspiring value to them.  The misleading billboards of this crafty American company have another side that, though subtle, is potent.  Those deceptive billboards are a manifestation of ExxonMobil’s power in Guyana and over Guyanese.  We make the argument that those billboards always seem to leave something out that is to the disadvantage of Guyanese.  To some extent, those ExxonMobil billboards are nothing but calculated emblems of the ExxonMobil machine running rampant in Guyana, its great reach here and the nuanced control exercised over most local minds. Related Similar Articles

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