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RHTYSC annual cricket Academy bowls off on Monday 8th of July Jul 05, 2024 Sports K. C. Singh hands over documents for the electronic bike to RHTYSC assistant secretary Jonathan Rampersaud. Kaieteur Sports – The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, Guyana’s leading Youth and Sports organization, from the 8th of July will be hosting its 34th annual cricket Academy at the area H ground in Rose Hall Town. The club has been hosting the Academy since its formation in 1990 and this year’s edition is expected to be the largest of its kind. Club secretary Hilbert Foster stated that the main objectives of the annual cricket Academy are to mold the players into all round cricketers capable of playing at the highest level, to instill in them the importance of discipline and education, to correct technical flaws in their game, educate youths on the history of the game and to get youths to understand the history and tradition of the game. The former president of the Berbice Cricket Board stated that, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club success over the years has been the result of getting a constant flow of high quality players in the club structure. The Academy would be headed by Level 3 coach Winston Smith with a battery of coaches including Floyd Benjamin and Eon Hooper.   Classes start at 9:00am daily and snacks will be provided for 120 students present at the Academy. This year edition is being sponsored by Bakewell and Guyana Beverage Company (Busta). Cricket manager Rabindranath Kissoonlall stated that, the club has put a lot of investment in this year’s Academy and it strives to maintain its repetition as a high producer of players for Berbice and Guyana. The club has invested heavily to obtain a mobile grass cutter to maintain the ground while it has also obtained several pieces of new equipment including a 32 inch by 8 inches matting for batting practice on the concrete pitch,100 feet practice net, a modern catching practice equipment and four new Kiddies cricket kits among others. Kissoonlall noted that the club strongly believes in preparing its youth for success future. Head coach Winston Smith disclosed that he comprehensive two week of intense training and coaching programme has been specially prepared for the Academy.  Additionally, lectures would be done on a wide range of topics including drug abuse, peer pressure, history of cricket, captaincy and leadership, tradition of the game, role of sports ambassador and laws of the game. Practice matches would also be played daily between different age groups: Under 11, Under 13, Under 15, Under 17 and Under 19. Smith is urging young females to join the Academy and learn how to play the game. The RHTYSC has the reputation of having Guyana’s only full-time female cricket team and the club is looking to attract more members for the Rose Hall Town Metro female team. Among the females produced by the club are Shamine Campbell, Erva Giddings, Sheneta Grimmond, Plaffiana Millington, Shabiki Gajnabi, Melanie Henry, Trisha Hardat, Mariam Samaroo, Diane Prahalad and Uma Matadin. The RHTYSC would reward the cricketer of the 2024 cricket Academy with over 300,000 dollars worth of prizes included an electric bike, one electronic tablet, a lazy boy, designer watch, Kings Jewelry world gold medallion, design clothing, cricket gears, household equipment and school materials. Awards would also be given to the best batsman, best bowler, most discipline, best attendance, most cooperative and most improved member of the Academy. Additionally a total of all about ten cycles and four electronic tablets would be shared out while every attendee at the Academy who successfully completes the attendance rate of 90% will receive a school bag and educational material. This year’s Academy is being sponsored by Bakewell, the Guyana Beverage Company and T&R construction company. A number of the clubs friends have supported with gifts and prizes including John Lewis Styles, The Gift Center, HA Snacks Corporate Limited, DeSinco Trading, Ricks and Sari, Agro Industries, Ansa McAl, King’s Jewelry World, Metro Office Supplies and Bounty Farm. The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club was founded in 1990 by three time Commonwealth Youth Service Awardee, the Saint Francis Xavier Youth Club and is the only Youth and Sports club in Guyana to have ever received a national award. It has won 121 cricket tournaments and produced 123 players for Berbice and Guyana combined.   For this year, ten of its members have so far gained national selection at different levels, while ten of its players have played at the international level. Related Similar Articles

Nigel Hughes and Exxon Jul 05, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Hard Truths by GHK Lall Kaieteur News – “Nigel Hughes says no law prevents him from representing Exxon while leading AFC” (KN, July 03).  I agree.  Without looking at a single line on a single page in any single chapter of the laws of Guyana, I wholeheartedly agree with my brother, C.A. Nigel Hughes.  But I disagree with him.  Not just in passing and superficially, but most strenuously.  I regret that I find myself in this position; I would have preferred that his own position on his representation of Exxon is different. GHK Lall First, I seek a little patience with a lesser preamble.  In view of the rancid and destructive post March 2020 national elections developments, I had washed my hands of ever voting again in another electoral contest in this country.  The announcement of Mr. Hughes’ return to do battle in the local political wars was welcomed, reduced my resistance to voting again.  Because I see and absorb how severely ruptured this society is, in the sum of its reciprocal animosities and antagonisms.  Because there is nothing that remotely resembles anything that possesses oneness about here.  It is as absolute as this, with respect to all other Guyanese, who think differently, and insist that things are different to how I conclude they are.  And because in Mr. Hughes, I believed there was that slightest of openings, the rarest of rare opportunities, to introduce change, even succeed in changing in small droplets the way things are.  The substance of all this is that I would have changed my stance and come out and vote for him.  It is not, never, easy for me to go back on a promise made to myself, and which I have registered publicly.  For emphasis, my vow would have been violated because I believe that Candidate Nigel Hughes represented what is different. With that said and out of the way, I move on. Term where Mr. Hughes stands relative to his Exxon relationship whatever pleases.  Cake and bake. Caviar and champagne.  Two sweetness out of one bone.  Each one fits.  But to Mr. Hughes this I say: surely, sir, the Exxon relationship cannot be this sacred, this treasured?  Surely, the Exxon linkage, no matter how much soaring, sprawling commercial opulence it represents, cannot compete, cannot supersede, the call of a country?  Of one’s country, where fellow citizens cry out from under the cruel exploitative boot of Exxon that grinds them into the muck and mud and pig manure of Guyana?  For the edification of all Guyanese, from Bharrat Jagdeo to Irfaan Ali to Aubrey Norton, what is next placed square on the table is not about the spiritual (though it is).  It is about the cerebral at its highest, the moral at its most incomparable.  It is the call of country (not votes, not position).  It is physical and it is visceral.  It is why Americans in the prime of their youth willingly leave Harvard and Wall Street, move from behind those grand bastions, and travel to the tropical battlegrounds of Khe Sanh and Da Nang and those dangerous artic mountains of Kandahar.  It is why American Jews leave everything behind-loved ones, practice, prosperity-and depart from Grand Army Plaza and lay it all on the line on the Bar-Lev line, or the one of 1967. In a word for all Guyana, and none more so than my brother Nigel Hughes: when the cause is righteous, then there is nothing more glorious than making the supreme sacrifice.  And what I ask of Mr. Hughes is not the supreme sacrifice.  He should know this.  What I ask of Mr. Hughes, I stand ready to give of myself, have been giving.  Of that let there never be any doubt.  Ask Bharrat Jagdeo and his gang of sponsored and coddled willing. Of course, there is no law on the books that holds Nigel Hughes to an obligation where he must relinquish his ties to Exxon.  But there are those unwritten laws that are inscribed on our hearts that compel us to find the wisdom, that propel ordinary men and women to discover the courage, and to be nonnegotiable on certain matters that are seen as so profound that they are sacrosanct.  And because they are so sacrosanct, they are inviolable.  There is no school that teaches things like these.  There is no library, however large it is, that contains one word to guide on issues of this extraordinary, this priceless, trust that is thrust into our unwilling hands, and of which we become the ready trustees.  Circumstances so dictate and this is where Guyana is today.  It is where 780,000 or 900,000 or 1,000,000 Guyanese are at this the most fateful of hours in their threadlike, barren, gritty existence.  The biggest prize imaginable in the universe is theirs.  But it isn’t.  For there are those brigades and regiments of Guyanese hungry and destitute of spirit and strength.  Of all things, in this time of all times, they are there in this paradise that is made so magnetic and magical by its prodigious oil bonanza.  There is the proof written in the tears from their pain that would not let go of the uninterrupted anguish, with which they exist, still somehow survive.  Is Nigel Hughes reading, listening, actually hearing? It is Candidate Nigel Hughes’ right, his choice, to retain the Exxon relationship, whether it is worth a penny, or a hundred million pounds sterling.  I go my way with these last few questions.  Then what would distinguish him, C.A. Nigel Hughes, from Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Dr. Anil Nandlall, Dr. Ashni Singh, Dr. Aubrey Norton?  Oh, and one more, Governor General and Viceroy Dr. Alistair Routledge?  What would be the distinction with a difference, no matter how small a morsel, that separates C.A. Nigel Hughes, Esq., from those illustrious doctors of funeral sciences, the dignified undertaker work that they do, which buries the rights and grim realities of multitudes upon multitudes of Guyanese?  Those who need the benefits of this great oil wealth more than most. In sharing this, the only brother I may have left is the one that stares right back at me from the mirror.  I am done. Related Similar Articles

The machine that keeps running, producing Jul 05, 2024 Editorial Kaieteur News – Guyana is righty presented to the world as the cow that gives and gives, with calf after calf and an endless supply of rich, sustaining milk.  This is what Guyana’s oil has been for ExxonMobil, the cow that can always be counted on to keep on delivering.  Guyana is an oil producing machine that just never stops running.  A senior man at ExxonMobil said so himself, and he has only been here two years.  It is enough time for his brand of superlative descriptions to be shared with the world.  Before Philip Reitema, ExxonMobil Guyana’s Vice President and Business Services Manager, there was “crown jewel” and “world class asset” and ‘one of a kind’ from top company people who were unable to contain their joy at their Guyana prize. Mr. Reitema joined the buglers going at full blast: “Once in a lifetime” and he was not talking about a newfound romance in his life promising eternal bliss.  He was speaking of the probably incomparable profit opportunities for ExxonMobil from this country’s incredible oil wealth.  Guyanese should be awash in the excitement of this ExxonMobil’s executive, but it cannot be when so many of them are hungry and unhappy.  They are deeply resentful of the huge imbalance, the corporate thuggery that is now such a conspicuous aspect of the Guyana-ExxonMobil royalty and profit formula and results. “We expect that the Guyana projects that we are doing in Stabroek will go down as one of the greatest deepwater projects in the industry’s history.”  All the numbers from earlier discoveries, and all the expert projections looking ahead confirm that there is nothing compared to ExxonMobil’s Guyana oil conquest.  What else can it be but conquest, what is more accurate, when senior company officials gleam with such fervor over Guyana’s oil?  Conquest is further emphasized when knowledgeable people in ExxonMobil speak with such confidence about “one of the greatest” oil acreage of all time, yet there is approximately half of the people in Guyana, at a minimum, that are scratching about daily, like chickens, in grass and brick and mud to get by.  This is more than a disconnect between ExxonMobil’s Christmas Season of unending good cheer and the gloom of Guyanese hard ‘guava season’ conditions. Disconnect adds to the insult of Guyanese, it is a disaster, one that is aided and abetted by a corrupt PPPC Government and leaders with neither national spark nor personal self-respect.  The people at ExxonMobil are on top of the world about Guyana, and the citizens who own the wealth that the company is boasting about find themselves pushed to the bottom of the barrel.  It is an economic barrel, the bottom of which grows more crowded and more threadbare, with each passing day, as a strangling cost of living grips more tightly.  While ExxonMobil’s executives are all smiles before the world, Guyanese grow more impatient and enraged at how the company profits at their expense, is mocking them. In more ways than one, these investor-pleasing quotes and headlines from senior company officials do more than mock Guyanese.  The true oil owners are reminded of the criminal contract, which yokes them for generations, and at which they flail with intensifying intolerance.  Guyanese are reminded also of the embarrassing impotence of those they put into office to represent them, but who have since sold out their interests.  The foreigners are floating on a cloud of joy; locals are crawling on their bellies.  Meanwhile, their leaders add to their disgust by standing alongside ExxonMobil and helping it to twist the knife deeper into the nation’s gut.  The first piece of evidence is how in a half and half partnership, ExxonMobil collects multiples of what this country gets as its share.  Another is the secrecy that surrounds the billions in expenses that ExxonMobil claims to have spent, but which are off-limits for Guyanese to see.  In any business partnership that is run in a clean and transparent manner, why would such concealment be even necessary?  And why would the government of the Guyanese people partner with ExxonMobil to hide that from locals? Undoubtedly, Guyana is a bonanza for ExxonMobil.  What should have been a great boon to Guyanese now depresses them. Related Similar Articles

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