With the continued promise of sponsorship for the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Under-17 Inter-County competitions for 2008 and beyond, insurance giants CLICO (Guyana) Limited handed over jerseys to the Guyana/CLICO under -17 team at the GCB office on Tuesday afternoon.
Speaking at a simple handing over ceremony, Timothy Austin, who represented the chief executive officer of CLICO Ms Geeta Singh-Knight, expressed his company’s delight at being associated with the GCB on this venture.
“Taking a look at society today and seeing how our youths are being involved in various activities that do not augur well for their future, CLICO had no hesitation to provide sponsorship to the GCB Under-17 team that will be participating in the quadrangular tournament in Trinidad,” Austin said.
Austin said that his company would place greater emphasis on promoting outstanding and hardworking players in the CLICO Under-17 Inter county cricket competition next year.
“We want to highlight the captains and key players of the team, through a profile that will be published in the media. We need Guyanese to rally around the team and ensure their victory.”
Austin disclosed that CLICO will be sponsoring the under -17 inter county competition next year, with continued sponsorship in the years ahead even urging the small gathering that included PRO of the GCB Terry Holder, coach and manager of the Guyana senior team Albert Smith and Carl Moore, West Indies selector Clyde Butts and Territorial Development Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board in Guyana Colin Stuart, to gave a round of applause to Chetram Singh and his GCB executives for the exemplary work they are doing with Guyana’s cricket.
Singh, in reply, expressed gratitude to the sponsors on such a generous offer and charged the players to do their best not only for themselves, or the sponsors, but Guyana’s cricket on the whole.
Singh also thanked Austin on his declaration of CLICO’s continued sponsorship and looks forward earnestly to continue the partnership between CLICO and the GCB.
The U-17 team departed on Wednesday for Trinidad.
