Castle Bruce youth embrace football

Atherlie George, President of th East Central Football Club (left), Johnson Drigo, Castle Bruce Parl Rep (center) and Cuthbert Joseph, president of the Dominica Heritage Society of New England during the ceremony

Over 90 young men from the Community of Castle Bruce are now passionate about the sport of football. Over the past few months young men from the village of Castle Bruce and surrounding communities have been actively engaged in the sport through the establishment of the East Central Football club.

Atherlie George, an avid football player led the young footballers throughout a successful football season which ended in March this year. George spoke to the Media about the league’s achievements at a press conference on Friday.

“We commenced the football league in January where we had six teams from the entire constituency, four from the village of Castle Bruce and two from the outside villages. We ran the league until the 03rd of March where we had these teams participating in games every weekend. Two teams made it to the final, one from Bayside and the other from Good Hope. The Bayside team was the overall winner. We had over ninety young men participating in these activities”.

George said the success of the league is largely attributed to the support from the community at large.

Parliamentary Representative for the Castle Bruce Constituency Hon. Johnson Drigo is proud of the young men’s achievements in the football league thus far. He views the boy’s involvement in the sport of football as an ideal medium to engage them in positive activities.

“I must say that the Castle Bruce community is on a drive to re-direct the energy of our young people and we believe very strongly that sports are the medium in which we can maximize keeping our young people occupied.  During the period of the football league we have not seen the anti-social behavior which used to disturb our community. Most of the young men were very much occupied in the sport and there was that unity among them”.

Cuthbert Joseph, a native of Castle Bruce and president of the Dominica Heritage Society of New England in the United States made a donation of a trophy and football boots to the East Central football club of Castle Bruce.

The heritage society group made up of Dominicans living in the Diaspora, started three years ago with a mission to promote Dominica and facilitate development on the island.

Joseph said he is happy to make such a donation to the Castle Bruce football club.

“I said anything that is positive I want to be part of it. I am part of the Dominica Heritage Society of New England, and as a matter of fact when I spoke to the vice President of our group Mr. Vivian Rene about this football league he was more than willing to help and so he provided some trophies for the group. He also presented a few football boots. When I hear that members have to exchange the boots I realized that there is a need.

In addition to the donations to the football club, Joseph made a personal financial contribution of one thousand E.C dollars towards the Castle Constituency Development Fund. That fund was set up specifically to allow people in the Diaspora who wish to make a contribution to the community to make a contribution.

The Parliamentary Representative thanked Joseph for his donation and expressed sincere appreciation to the numbers in the diaspora who have supported the needs of the Castle Bruce Constituency since the staging of the Castle Bruce Reunion last year.

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26 Comments

  1. Athalie George
    May 2, 2012

    we have 9.4 acrs of land set aside by the government in the castle bruce area to be developed for sports. we need financial assistance to develope the area to seperate the football field from the cricketplaying area.

  2. Athalie George
    May 2, 2012

    it is never too late to make a contribution in some way or an other to you country thanks to everyone CJ God bless you. hey philbert much love bro. big up all the ballers

  3. Cuthbert Joseph
    May 1, 2012

    Congratulations again to Atherlie and all those who helped to make the football season the success it has been. I am committed to helping in any way that I can and hopefully this will also inspire others in the Diaspora to reach back and to make what little (or big) contribution that they can. Together we can make a difference. I also want to say thank you to the honorable Johnson Drigo for all the suuport he gave to the league and for facilitating the news conference. You can count on me!

  4. Boyie
    April 30, 2012

    Congrats to these young men

    Follow me on twtter—-@Boyie_Ent

  5. ??????????????
    April 30, 2012

    Congrats Ahie. I always know you as a positive young man. Keep up the good work and always ensure that the Father is involved as the words says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

  6. Arab
    April 28, 2012

    happy to hear that all was a success.

  7. Anonymous
    April 28, 2012

    [email protected] this is my email or facebook me athalie george

    • Phil X
      April 30, 2012

      Affy well done bro, I’m sitting at work, big smile on my face for you!

  8. Anonymous
    April 28, 2012

    thanks to all the encouraging comments God bless

  9. Anonymous
    April 28, 2012

    firstly i would love to thank God for being there for me. my only guilt is that i had a young man Called Kirvin Nicholls a.k.a speck i forgot to mention he is the only official referee in the village and he when i moved back to the village 5 yrs ago i met him going his best with some of the guys and i gave my inputs. he is my right arm without him alot of the stuff that went would not have happened.

  10. Don H. Esprit, MD
    April 27, 2012

    Great news! Congratulations to all.

    • Anonymous
      April 28, 2012

      People like you stay in CB and all you never contributed nothing to help the people.

      Now you go oversea you coming here and saying ‘great news’ with MD. Garcon stay where you are with your MD and leave us alone.

    • DISGUSTING
      April 28, 2012

      People like you stay in CB and never did anything for the people, now you coming here talking about ‘great news’ with MD.

      Garcon stay where you are with your MD and leave us alone.

      We CB people have our community and will work with those that are willing to help us rise.

  11. Zealous
    April 27, 2012

    Great job Athie. Keep up the great work with the youth. Bless up!

  12. Dominicans one love
    April 27, 2012

    Am so happy when i get bless news about the good things thats going on in dominica and the people that the things ill love to get into when i get back to d/a ill love to get some of the kids off the street and into things like that it just time and ill do my thing in d/a soon

  13. Es State
    April 27, 2012

    Yes i afie, good work brethren..its good to see you promoting the sport of football as this will only enhance the young men of the community to be more positive…i alway knew you as a strong willed boy and you have grown to produce leadership….(from bath estate with Blessings brethren cause thats where you really embrace the sport of football and you were determine to be good at it)Solid

  14. Cricket Lover
    April 27, 2012

    Too much focus ob football and not enough on cricket. No wonder we get difficlty in winning a cricket match. We need cricket academies in every island in the West Indies.

    • Cricket Lover
      April 27, 2012

      Sorry On and not ob

    • Anonymous
      April 28, 2012

      we love cricket too but we mr. Joseph had to go back today so we had to do it but we all had our ticket for the game we had to rush the confrence because of the cricket.

  15. Why ya yaiiiy
    April 27, 2012

    DNO you afraid of FIFA man .You could at least impose a picture of Patrick John in the back ground smiling Qui- Allah.

  16. Hilroy Alfred J.r
    April 27, 2012

    i would to commend athey for his tremendous efforts in sports in castle bruce . he took an initiative most senior persons in the community would avoid; and have failed at including our politicians, hats off to athey. unlike movements in castle bruce in the past where things have started and never reached completion thru his perseverance and patience it came thru.i know it wasn’t easy and had it’s hurdles and wish that this would continue and the community will continue to show support as we all seek to develop our community. to the ppl of Castle bruce this is just a fraction of the number of things we can achieve together as a community let it not stop there.

    • Anonymous
      April 27, 2012

      Hilroy if you know Atherlie,can you ask him to get in touch with me @yahoo.com

      Thank you.

    • CHING CHONG
      April 27, 2012

      Wow…good for you Athey…I’m proud…know you from Bath Estate not Castle Bruce though…

  17. En Ba La
    April 27, 2012

    Way to go Atherlie. Nice seeing you are involved in positive things in your community. This is wonderful.

  18. April 27, 2012

    i AM VERY HAPPY TO HEAR SOMETHING POSITIVE HAPPENING IN cASTLE bRUCE.
    THANK YOU aTHIE FOR YOUR EFFORTS.

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    April 27, 2012

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