Former secretary of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club’s Moses Ramchandren was bestowed with the club’s highest award, the Dolphin Award of Excellence recently while the club also made a donation to the Rose Hall Town Council recently.
Ramchandren, who served as secretary from 1990 to 1995, was also awarded with the Zenith Award of Excellence.
The Dolphin Award is specially reserved for a total of 100 outstanding Guyanese while the Zenith Award is the highest Award that a RHTYSC member can receive for outstanding service.
According to the club’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Hilbert Foster who spoke at the simple ceremony at the St. Francis Commuity Developers Center in Rose Hall Town., “The success that the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, MS has enjoyed over the last 30 years would not have been possible if you and the other 16 founders did not have the vision and courage to lay the foundation for the current leaders to build on.”
Foster added, “You served as our first secretary for over five years and you were a mentor and role model to all of us and that is why we are very proud to honor you today with our highest award,” while thanking him for his outstanding contribution to the club.
Ramchandren, who migrated to the United States of America in 1997, also served as the vice-captain of the second-division club and was a successful wicket keeper/opening batsman.
Foster noted that Ramchandren had every right to be proud as the club he had assisted to form has gone on to become a household name in Guyana and is the only youth and sports club in Guyana to receive a national award.
The RHTYSC has won over 100 cricket tournaments at different levels and has produced 108 players for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies. It has also won five Guyana Cricket Board Club-of-the-Year awards (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2016). Among the players that have represented the club are Shawn Grant, Neil Williams, Assad Fudadin, Royston Crandon, Esaun Crandon, Delbert Hicks, Khemraj Mahadeo, Kevin Sinclair, Kevelon Anderson, Konathan Rampersaud, Askhay Homraj, Dominic Rikhi, Shemaine Campbelle, Erva Giddings, Sheeneta Grimmond and Shabaki Gajnabi.
A humble Ramchandren expressed gratitude to the management of the club for honoring him and stated that he was very impressed with the achievements since he migrated. He committed himself to assisting the club to fulfill its mandate of serving youths and the less fortunate.
Meanwhile last Wednesday, the club also handed over a donation of items under its Basil Butcher Trust Fund to the Mayor and Town Council of Rose Hall Town to assist the council to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the township.
The donation included two cycles, educational materials, trophies, medals, certificate frames, national flags and gifts.
Foster, stated that the club was pleased to be associated with Guyana’s smallest township and was committed to assisting the Town Council to make a positive difference for its residents.
The teams making the presentations were Poonai Pharmacy under-12 and 13, Farfan and Mendes under-15, Bakewell under-17 and Second division, Metro females, Pepsi under 19 and intermediate, Vitality under-23 and Namilco Thunderbolt under-21 and First Division.
