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But his struggles go way deeper than this.HUMBLE BEGINNINGS AND CRICKETING INVOLVEMENTAt just five months old, Randolph’s mother and father could not continue caring for him. Luckily, adoptive parents, Baby and Tommy Senwasane took him into their Williamsburg, Corentyne home and have nurtured him into the community-minded, cricket enthusiast he has grown into today. The stack of trophies and medals in his living room is testimony of his stalwart accomplishments.Latcha was not hesitant to speak about humble beginnings, nor did he hide the fact that he dropped out of Lower Corentyne Secondary School to pursue his dream in cricket. He skipped school frequently to watch the games being played at the Albion Cricket Ground. And it was one day at the tender age of 13 during which he absconded from school and where he impressed senior cricket officials at Albion during trying-out sessions. He later heard his name on the radio being announced as having made the Guyana Under-19 team.He recalled being spotted while playing a game at Hampshire on the Corentyne, “they saw me and decided to take me because I had the ability, so I went to the Port Mourant Cricket Club.”Latcha, in his school uniform, had ridden off to the Albion Cricket Ground (Albion Sports Complex today). “With no boots, a short pants and cricket gears, I took my father’s cycle and got away. I was 13-plus years, so I stand up and a guy named Leslie Amsterdam was there.” They were having the Berbice Trials session whereby they were selecting the talented players. Then a selector, (Leslie) Amsterdam,Wholesale Jerseys, a former Guyana player and former West Indies Manager, who was in charge of the trials, noticed the lad and asked him to bowl a spell “and then he gave me a bat.”Posing with his medals and trophy collection.Latcha bowled a spell of 45 minutes of medium pace. Amsterdam said,Wholesale Jerseys China, “Okay! But do you know to bat?” Latcha nodded. Amsterdam then said, “Pad up!” Of course, the young teen from a poor background had no gears. He then begged someone to borrow their pads, put them on and demonstrated his natural ability in that regard. Later that day, his father heard his name being announced on the radio. Latcha made the Under-19 team!In 1986, he played for Port Mourant during a tour to Trinidad. He also played at Bourda,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Albion and Hampton Court. He was in the Bristol Cup-winning team for three consecutive years.In 1988 Latcha was selected to tour Barbados with the National under-19, but hours before the team departed he was forced to pull out due to illness and his place was taken by fellow Berbician Devendra Deola.Latcha also played at the Albion Cricket Club for several years; and Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club from 1992.He represented Berbice at the Under-19 level for 5 years as well as the Senior Team from 1989-1998. He was Berbice senior inter county Captain in 1995.He received numerous awards and medals during his competitive playing years. He alluded to the fact that it was very difficult to get into the national team, “because there were big names around—Clayton Lambert, Sudesh Dhaniram, Roger Harper, Mark Harper, Andrew Jackman, Rabindranauth Seeram and Carl Hooper.”Receiving GuySuCo’s Sportsman of the Year Trophy in 1995 from Admin Manager of Blairmont Estate, John Bart.“It was very hard in the Guyana team—for example, cricket now, is very easy—you make 30, 40 runs and you make the Guyana team.” In 1996, he played the national trials and was included in the 24-man squad, to represent Guyana in the Red Stripe Bowl, but unfortunately, he did not make the team.ENCOURAGING YOUNG BERBICIANSLatcha has a strong interest in Berbice cricket. Today, he is a member of the Development Committee in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and he also served as a Junior Selector in Berbice. He encourages youngsters, especially his members in the committee, to get cricket further in the schools. “Come out,Wholesale Jerseys 2017, play the game and be disciplined,” he stated.He regularly travels back and forth between Albion and Rose Hall Town, “and I see a lot of talent in this Berbice area, but nobody is taking care (of them).”Working with young and promising cricketers is a challenge for him.“A former Test Player, Devendra Bishoo, never saw Alvin Kallicharran, and talking to him a few weeks ago, he said he would be glad to meet Kallicharran personally, so I think Berbice in general, should bring back former Test Players who people want to see.” This, he said, would motivate today’s cricketers and they can learn a thing or two from the experienced veterans.“With me being somebody in the cricket arena my son, Herman Steven Latcha, who I always wanted to play for Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies, made it in both Junior and Senior and he plays for Berbice Under- 15,-17,-19 and Guyana Under- 15,-19 and he made the Guyana Senior One-Day Team.”A proud moment! Lifting the Bakewell Trophy for the Rose Hall Team (Man-of-the-Match and highest scorer) in 2001 at Canje Welfare Ground.His son was also captain for the Guyana Under-16 team in England. He recently returned from Canada on a contract in Highlanders Cricket Club.“He had a very good season over there….I advise him a lot…every day, I would sit and talk to him—take him to the ground and train him and I think it is paying off, big time.” His son has received the support of the former UGBC Director Professor Daizal Samad as well during his [Steven’s] stay in Canada.“The Professor really came on board quickly. He helped in airfare; traveling to Georgetown called up overseas persons to make sure Steven gets good accommodation, so I admire Professor for doing that…he helped a lot in sports.”Latcha thanked Professor Samad with whom he [Latcha] worked side by side for the development of cricket of youngsters in Berbice.REACHING OUTIn 2011, they hosted 27 youths at a Cricket Academy at Port Mourant. They trained the youths with the support, too, of corporate entities and Vemen Walter, Mohin Persaud, David Armogan, and D. Samaroo. He is currently planning another such event to be held in the not too distant future.Our ‘Special Person’ is willing to work with youths across Berbice who wish to develop their skills in the game. “I always reach out to youngsters—I have a few who play for Guyana Under-19 and Berbice Under-15 and -19…like Shawn Pereira—I taught him a lot in captaincy—I give him homework, because I see he has potential in leading a team, but not only that…in skills—batting and bowling.”CRICKET TODAYLatcha believes that cricket in Guyana, today, can be developed more. He criticized the shorter Twenty/20 format of the game as, “not giving the youngsters a chance in elevating themselves to Test Players, because it is just three hours… and when you see the Guyana team going down, it is because of lack of application and batting skills.”He praised the Guyana team as the best in the Caribbean—Bishoo, Chanderpaul,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, Sarwan—”but they are not applying themselves.” “We have got to start back three-day cricket in Berbice and Guyana, where you have batsmen batting for hours,” he opined.Developing cricket in Guyana, he noted, can take place only if the sport is promoted in the schools themselves. “Every single school should have a qualified coach…and they develop the players.”Collecting the Man-of-the-Match cheque at the Bakewell 2nd Division Cricket Tournament in 2001.Apart from his cricketing pursuits today, Latcha also lends his skills and leadership qualities during community volleyball and football matches on the Corentyne, “I assist—if there is any fundraising activity, and I am called upon, I assist.”His advice to young cricketers in Guyana is “take their education seriously. When you are educated, you go into the sport and you would know how to behave.” “When you are not educated, you will get angry, walk away and curse. Cricket in this world brings a lot of money but you have to build it from schools and focus on the sport…The young players must avoid alcohol and drugs.”“I am here to assist any youngsters and cricketing club that need advice.”Latcha’s hero in cricket is Brian Charles Lara because “of his elegance, discipline and techniques.” Outside of cricket,Wholesale Jerseys, his role models are Professor Samad and Contractor, Peter Lewis, “a reliable and good man.”

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Amidst increasing criticism over delays in the implementation of key policies, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday insisted that the body remains crucial to regional development.CARICOM’s Secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, also admitted that a deadline for the CARICOM Single Market andCARICOM’s Secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocqueEconomy (CSME), which was launched in 2006, is not likely to be met by 2015.CARICOM, a 15-member regional body, had been hoping to have a fully functional single economy and a single currency by 2015.He blamed the delay in CARICOM setting itself too many ambitious targets.“That 2015 target will not be met. We made then, as we continue to make now, the same mistake we made in 1989 at Grand Anse. We set ourselves over-ambitious and unrealistic targets; targets, which by their very nature, doom us to apparent failure when they are not met.”The diplomat made the disclosures yesterday during a business luncheon hosted by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association Limited (GMSA) at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street.In addition to several business executives, there were diplomats from the major embassies also present.The Secretary-General was at the time updating the gathering on the state of affairs at CARICOM.LaRocque, who took over at the helm from Edwin Carrington, noted that CARICOM is at a crossroad in its integration arrangements.He insisted that the body remains a critical vehicle of intra-regional trade.“In 2010,China Jerseys, the last year for which complete trade data is available,NFL Jerseys From China, Guyana exported US$118.3M worth of goods to the rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). This ranked it third in the Community with respect to exports for that year to member states and was $6M more than in 2009.”The principal exports were rice, fish and sugar, in that order. These exports to the CARICOM market amounted to 13 per cent of Guyana’s total exports.“While three products dominate these exports, it nonetheless demonstrates that the CARICOM market is valuable to Guyana; and given Guyana’s vast economic and business potential, I suggest to you that with sustained focused attention, these exports can grow. The CARICOM market continues to be a business opportunity for the Guyana private sector.”It is the same for other states which are part of CARICOM.ExpansionLaRocque admitted that CARICOM’s work on its integration program has come under fire.“Stakeholders across the region all see the hope and promise of CARICOM but are troubled by the seeming inability to bring to fruition the plans, programmes and projects that have been enunciated and announced over the years,Cheap MLB Jerseys, and the decisions that wait to be implemented.”Business execs, diplomats and others during GMSA Luncheon yesterday.CSME, with a market of some six million, could begin to expand its horizons to enhance competitiveness to enter the global environment, the official said.“The market will grow to 15 million as soon as Haiti, a member of CARICOM, puts the necessary requirements in place to participate in the CSME.”According to the Ambassador, for CSME to be successful, CARICOM has to do business differently.Referring to a report by independent consultants on the Restructuring of the Secretariat, which had called CARICOM to take a different approach, LaRocque opined that the time may be right for change.“They also contend that we need to be more realistic about the constraints posed by geography, (spread as we are across the Caribbean Sea), lack of size physically and in respect of markets. Importantly, the report, which will be considered by Heads of Government at next week’s Inter-Sessional Meeting in Suriname,Wholesale Jerseys China, also indicates it is essential for the region to decide on what it can and cannot do.”The current mode of trying to get everything done at the same time is inefficient and contributes to gridlock, he said.In the initiatives to integrate the region, the CARICOM Secretariat has been at the centre of the process, “But the Secretariat must also acknowledge its part in the failure of the Community to achieve such measures as hassle free travel and free movement of skilled Community nationals. These are issues that tug at the heart of CARICOM’s people and, for many it is the measure of successful integration.”Customs harmonisationThe private sector must play a crucial role, in the CARICOM process, the diplomat insisted and stressed that issues like job creation are critical.“An important element is the ease with which you should be able to conduct your business throughout the Region. A study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) found that CARICOM intra-regional trade can double from its current 16 per cent of total trade if we address issues relating to trade facilitation and transportation.”The Secretary General noted that given the region’s high food import bill, agricultural production for export,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, an area in which Guyana, Suriname and Belize enjoy certain comparative advantages, it stands poised to capitalize on opportunities.But the time-consuming bureaucracy and the lack of harmonised procedures with Customs and Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary rules and regulations remain major bug-bears.“I have been told of containers of agricultural products being held up at ports of entry due to Phyto-sanitary Regulations. The absence of such transparent and harmonized procedures not only retards trade, creates distortions in the market and leads to uncertainty, but affects your competitiveness, your profit margins and the final price to the consumer.”CARICOM is now working on a harmonized Customs legislation but “that piece of work is taking much too long, but I am told that it is well advanced and will no doubt be a major boost to facilitating trade in the Community,” LaRocque said.Another persistent challenge lies in the transportation sector.“Further, continued inefficient and costly transportation services could serve to frustrate our efforts at sharing resources for joint production.”CARICOM is now working with regional small-vessel owners and operators and other industry representatives to improve the standard of vessels and the scheduling of their operations.“It is expected that the outcome of this collaboration will lead to some improvement in the Maritime Transportation sector. We must think outside the box. In speaking with some shipping agents, they have said that the problem is larger and a solution rests with all of us.”Costly telecommunications also contribute to high production costs and limit the prospects for business growth and expansion.“Those factors also impinge upon our ability to take full advantage of the on-going revolution in Information and Communications Technologies to improve our products and services and to create new profit centres. Both of these areas need more priority and focused attention.”El Dorado RumDespite the challenges, Ambassador LaRocque told the gathering that the region has been able to be globally competitive in some products and services.“The success of El Dorado Rum is just one such example of the quality that regional products have attained. Guyana furniture is seen in many hotels throughout the Caribbean, and I am told in the United States. I have also been to factories in St Kitts and Nevis which specialise in the production of top quality hi-tech goods for the international market. These factories are taking advantage of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), as well as exporting to the United States of America (USA), Latin America and Asia including China. Exports to the USA alone amounts to almost US$68M.”According to the official, the regional private sector has since gradually clawed its way back.Exports that had declined by 46 per cent in 2009 demonstrated a modest 15 per cent expansion in 2010 and again expanded in 2011.However, CARICOM’s exports are not likely to hit pre-2009 levels in the near future.This situation, he said,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, could be compounded by the prediction that after expanding over the last two years, global economic growth rates may decline again in 2012, fuelled by the unsustainable fiscal deficit in the USA and the fiscal challenges which have forced the implementation of austerity measures in the EU.“This suggests that the negative effects of the financial crisis will continue to linger for some time.”The GMSA luncheon is part of a series of educational forum organized by the body for the business community.On the last occasion,Brian Gionta Jersey, GMSA had invited Canadian exploration company, Reunion Manganese, to talk about that sector.

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