A first of its kind cricket festival held on the Easter weekend in Guadeloupe was said to be a huge success, according to organizers.
The event, organized by the Dominica Guadeloupe Association, the Starfield Sports Association and the Sports Division, accommodated a delegation of 40 persons from Dominica which included former elite cricket umpire, Billy Doctrove, sports officer Trever Shillingford, Mervin Thomas, Clyde Pierre Louis and Shirley Lewis of the Dominica Cricket Association and members of the Cavaliers cricket team.
The main purpose of the program was to introduce cricket to the Guadeloupian public and to promote the sport among children through a Kiddy Cricket program.
Reginald Austrie and Rayburn Blackmoore represented the government of Dominica and they promised support for the continuity of the program.
Mervin Thomas and Clyde Pierre Louis from Dominica saw promise after the program with about 30 kids but said there must be proper support from the senior players and the parents of the children involved. Thomas also encouraged the Guadeloupe Dominica Association to put measures in place to ensure the continuity of the program.
Prior to the weekend encounter, Thomas, and Pierre Louis met with Marcel Cigiscar, a deputy Mayor of the city of Pointe a Pitre and a representative of the Guadeloupe Regional Council and Madame Marie Claude Guillaume, the manager of the largest Sporting complex in Pointe a Pitre, to discuss on the possibilities of having a closer relationship between Dominica and Guadeloupe through sports with the assistance of the Dominica Guadeloupe Association.
They promised to make the complex available to the Association to facilitate the Kiddy Cricket program which could also be introduced to French children.
The visiting Dominicans were also given a tour of the newly renovated Hall De Sport, a multi-purpose indoor sporting complex in the city of Pointe a Pitre.
As part of the Cricket festival, two twenty/20 matches mere played between the Cavalliers cricket team and the Starfield cricket team of Guadeloupe.
In the first match, played on Saturday, Cavalliers batted first and scored 124 all out and starfield scored 126 for 6.
In the match played on Sunday, Starfield batted first and scored 199 all out, while Cavalliers scored 187 for 7.
Starfield of Guadeloupe won both games.
The Ministers are not the problem, it is the people who live in Dominica are the problem. How many of you are interesting in participating in cricket or sensitizing your children about cricket? The general populace are too lazy to wait on Government to do everything.
What should be in Windsor Park, is a multipupose sporting complex.
I was present at the Sunday match, which was not of a big turnout, attended by only or mostly Dominicans living in Guadeloupe, if any Guadeloupeans attended at all, which i doubt. It didn’t look like any thing official as there were no Guadeloupe officials present making a presentation. This was just an entertainment trip used to campaign and encourage support for the labour party. The only people i saw Austrie going around talking to were some Dominican women, who are easy targets.Where are the photo evidence of the Guadeloupeans officials met and the site visit? Pointe-A-Pitre has a good indoor facility for basketball and the likes.W
Words of a song: Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you.
Whoever won, all is fair in sports. Pleased to hear that the cricket festival was a success. Keep it up. Then you can have an inter-island cricket match in the future.
Nice trip by all Wolf in Sheep clothing, EH! that explanation Hurts and is very blatant in your face Big CO-CO, makat. We went to teach them cricket, but they Won both matches played. So who is teaching Who??????????????SMH!
They seem to be more experienced than was thought. They must have been secretly practicing all along. All the same it is encouraging for them and for others in Guadeloupe.
waste of time,our counrty has been sold to the devil.
Which devil and where? Be positive. Do not bring them down. Neighbors should try to get to know each other and to get along. This is a way of living in peace and tranquility.
Reginald Austrie and Rayburn Blackmoore represented the government of Dominica and they promised support for the continuity of the program.
What a BIG Easter lie! Don’t be deceived Dominicans. Blackmoore and Austrie did not go to Guada to represent the government. They used that event to go and organize FREE TICKETS to voters for next elections at the expense of tax payers. I have been FOOLED so many times before by these fellers for me to allow them to fool me again
Can you read their hearts and what is imbedded in them? This is judging them which is unfair.
So where is Ms. Charles who is the minister of sports? You see these square pegs in round hole government. A few weeks ago they were invited to a local debate organized by the college and they were all too busy to attend so they had to send an ambassador that could only say “I like that…I like this…I really like that” but somehow they could send two ministers to Guadeloupe on the backs of tax payers to do their political biddings. You see that Dominica boy? But I like that…I really like this
I guess these failed government ministers will take a trip to Antigua next time and will promise to help them with agriculture since they were successful in killing it in Dominica. I suspect is what they killed in Dominica during their 14 yrs of hard labor, they trying to develop in other islands that don’t have a history in what they trying to sell.
Reginald Austrie and Rayburn Blackmoore represented the government of Dominica and they promised support for the continuity of the program.
What is the state of cricket in Dominica? Why are Dominicans so political bias instead of being realistic? Mr Reginald Austrie, and Blackmore are both cabinet ministers. So you mean to tell me that the same sport they killed in Dominica they promising to support it in Guadeloupe? Boy Dominicans are just plane dummies no matter what part of the world they live in.
What another shame in the face of Dominica! Guadeloupe is a French country that has no interest in cricket could host a successful cricket festival thanks to Dominicans leaving in Guadaloupe; Yet Dominica which is a cricket nation and has produced several international cricketers, with one player on the current Windies team, one international cricket umpire, Jeff Charles…one of the best commentators on BBC, and currently a vice president of WICB who is a friend of the government and who inherited a very strong North/Eastern league and yet the majority of our local grounds have been abandoned and during a cricket season the only sign of cricket seen on our grounds are played by cows, goats and sheep mowing grass on our grounds. What a shame! Like any other sports, Skerrit and his team have killed cricket in Dominica.
Probably too much rain so they cannot play?
Austrie and Blackmoore went to continue the campaign not cricket, who is the clown there….stupes
So why is Reginald austrie and blackmoore where is the justina charles
Maybe she could not go. maybe she ask them to go for her