Vin­ode Mam­chan

The Pow­er Gen­er­a­tion Com­pa­ny of T&T has down­sized but they have de­cid­ed to keep their com­mit­ment with the Sec­ondary Schools crick­et league and this year marks the 20th an­niver­sary of their in­volve­ment with the sport.

One of the key men in start­ing the part­ner­ship be­tween the SS­CL and Pow­er­Gen was for­mer com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er at Pow­er­Gen, Omar Khan. The for­mer West In­dies man­ag­er was present at the open­ing of the 2016 sea­son and spoke of the won­der­ful re­la­tion­ship be­tween the stake­hold­ers.

"In for the first year of the spon­sor­ship we part­nered with the leg­endary Bri­an Lara and in 1996 the League was known as the Bun­ty Lara Pow­er­Gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League.

Af­ter this from 1997 to present the League is now a house­hold name in Trinidad and To­ba­go and is known as the Pow­er­Gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League. Pow­er­Gen as the ma­jor sup­pli­er of Elec­tric­i­ty to Trinidad and To­ba­go must be com­mend­ed for sus­tain­ing this spon­sor­ship and the mem­bers of the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League from the first pres­i­dent, Roy Ja­groops­ingh, to the cur­rent pres­i­dent Su­ru­j­dath Ma­habir, must al­so be cred­it­ed for strate­gi­cal­ly part­ner­ing with Pow­er­Gen by ful­fill­ing all the re­quire­ments of the Spon­sor to en­sure the 20 years of suc­cess for the Pow­er­Gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League.

"Any spon­sor­ship that re­dounds to the ben­e­fit of the na­tion must be rat­ed as spe­cial and I know, hav­ing ini­ti­at­ed this spon­sor­ship that in ad­di­tion to the fo­cus be­ing on crick­et I had al­so im­pressed to the League that oth­er com­po­nents of the spon­sor­ship must be per­son­al and char­ac­ter de­vel­op­ment of the young men and women who are in­volved in the League.

"I am proud to say that over the years we have seen many grad­u­ates of the Pow­er­Gen Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League who have made suc­cess­ful ca­reers for them­selves, name­ly Dar­ren Gan­ga, Dwayne Bra­vo, Kieron Pol­lard, De­nesh Ramdin, Ravi Ram­paul, Lendl Sim­mons, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Samuel Badree just to name a few.

"I say to Pow­er­Gen and the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League, we need this kind of suc­cess­ful part­ner­ship to con­tin­ue so as to har­ness the tremen­dous tal­ent and po­ten­tial of the young peo­ple of our na­tion so that they can be­come ex­cel­lent role mod­els for the peo­ple of our coun­try."