Guayagua­yare Unit­ed Sports and Cul­tur­al Club has launched its first-ever sports olympiad, with the pri­ma­ry ob­jec­tive of open­ing pos­i­tive av­enues for the de­vel­op­ment of the youth in the com­mu­ni­ty. The or­gan­i­sa­tion re­ceived a ma­jor boost of $350,000 from cor­po­rate spon­sor, Hy­dro Tech Ltd, to mount the mas­sive project.

The open­ing cer­e­mo­ny took place at the La Sa­vanne recre­ation ground, New­lands, Guayagua­yare, where the teams that will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in var­i­ous events over a three-month pe­ri­od, pa­rad­ed be­fore a colour­ful crowd. The day al­so fea­tured ex­hi­bi­tion crick­et, foot­ball and net­ball match­es, as well as fun events for the kids. Ac­cord­ing to co­or­di­na­tor of the olympiad, Nico­la Cabr­era, the com­mu­ni­ty of Guayagua­yare had suf­fered over the past decade in the spheres of cul­ture and sports, and this had im­pact­ed neg­a­tive­ly on the youths. She not­ed that the club was formed in 1999 with the goal of "re­cov­er­ing the lost tra­di­tions" of sport­ing and cul­tur­al ex­cel­lence. Cabr­era praised Hy­dro Tech for its wis­dom and gen­eros­i­ty in part­ner­ing with the club to cre­ate a pos­i­tive win­dow of op­por­tu­ni­ty for the youths.

The com­pa­ny's Hu­man Re­sources/Pub­lic Re­la­tions Man­ag­er, Giselle Noel, ar­tic­u­lat­ed the com­mit­ment of own­er and Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Hy­dro Tech Lt5d, Trevor Lynch. She said the com­pa­ny was pleased to be as­so­ci­at­ed with the ob­jec­tives of the club in pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for the young peo­ple to ex­cel at var­i­ous sport­ing events, and for cre­at­ing a bond of to­geth­er­ness among the res­i­dents of the wider Ma­yaro com­mu­ni­ty. Sport­ing events that will be fea­tured dur­ing the olympiad in­clude net­ball, bas­ket­ball, crick­et, foot­ball and ath­let­ics. Win­ners in each dis­ci­pline will be award­ed $5,000 and a tro­phy.