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Keeth Arthurton partners with Development Bank to give Nevis its fair share of cricket training

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August 5, 2020
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Charlestown, Nevis, August 5

2020 (DBSKN) — Cricket-playing youths on the island of St. Kitts have been

benefitting from training offered by retired Senior West Indies Cricket Team

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player, Mr Keeth Arthurton, originally from the island of Nevis but who on

retiring from competitive cricket settled in St. Kitts where he opened a

cricket academy.




On Tuesday August 4 at the top (the Hill) of the Elquemedo T. Willett Park in

Charlestown, Mr Keeth Arthurton in partnership with the Development Bank of St.

Kitts and Nevis saw the commissioning of what is being described as a new

chapter that will give the island of Nevis its fair share of cricket training offered

by the Nevisian.




“Working with Mr Keeth Arthurton and the St. Kitts Cricket Association, the Development

Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis has supported many training openings on the island

of St. Kitts where we have seen a number of players graduate to play at the

regional level,” said Manager of the Nevis Branch of the Development Bank of

St. Kitts and Nevis, Ms Hyacinth Pemberton.




The Development Bank official was delivering brief remarks at the official opening

and naming ceremony of the Cricket Practice Facility, at the Elquemedo T.

Willett Park, in honour of a former cricketing great from Nevis, Mr Livingstone

Sargeant. The ceremony was organised by the Ministry of Sports in the Nevis

Island Administration.




“Here on Nevis we have worked with the Nevis Cricket Association to ensure that Nevis

gets its fair share of the training offered to our youth,” said Ms Pemberton. “With

the opening of this cricket practice facility today, Nevis will be getting its

rightful share of the Keeth Arthurton special training which has hitherto been

enjoyed by budding cricketers on St. Kitts.”




Present at the ceremony, which was chaired by the Director of the Department of Sports

in the Nevis Island Administration Mr Jamir Claxton, included the Premier of

Nevis the Hon Mark Brantley, the Minister Social Development in the Nevis

Island Administration, the Hon Eric Evelyn who gave feature remarks,

Nevis-based Director of the Development Bank, Mr Stephen Jones, and Development

Bank’s Marketing Officer Ms Vernitha Evelyn.




Others present included Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Development Mr

Keith Glasgow, President of the Nevis Cricket Association Mr Carlisle Powell,

the wife and son of Mr Livingstone Sargeant, Mrs Mildred Sargeant and Mr Tavo

Sargeant, and representatives from organisations that would have contributed towards

the setting up of the Cricket Practice Facility.





“At the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis we believe in our youth and the

reason why the bank, which is wholly owned by the government of St. Kitts and

Nevis, is the leader in student loans because opening the doors for the future

prosperity of our youth is our articulated mandate,” observed Ms Pemberton.




She added: “The Board and Management of the Development Bank are satisfied that

Nevis is getting its fair share, and we hope that it is only a matter of time

before the island pushes on another player to wear the West Indies colours

because we are confident that our boys and girls are up to the standard that is

required to wear the colours. If Nevis’ cricket is going to be back where it

used to be, there is not a better person than Mr Keeth Arthurton to do the job.

He knows what it takes to be a great cricketer because he is one. Having

offered to transfer skills to the youth in Nevis, he should be applauded and

given all the support he needs.”




Mr Keeth Arthurton, who was the third of the seven Nevisians who played on the

Senior West Indies Cricket Team, had in 2018 approached the Development Bank of

St. Kitts and Nevis for sponsorship to set up a cricket training facility at

the Elquemedo T. Willett Park in Charlestown and his request was met with

favour.




“The Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis, and its Chief Executive Officer Mr

Lenworth Harris in particular have always been willing to contribute to the

development of cricket,” said Mr Arthurton at the opening and naming ceremony

on Tuesday August 4. “I remember going to him and he asked me about what needs

to get done. He is one of those people in positions who are very passionate

towards sports in particular cricket. He is like that – he loves cricket. He

always wants to bat for these youngsters.”




According to Mr Arthurton, the CEO of the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis Mr

Lenworth Harris who played cricket for St. Kitts had told him that developing

cricket in St. Kitts, and not in Nevis, will defeat the purpose because Nevis

has players who are very good and even better. The youth in Nevis, he noted, needed

young players they can look up to like a role model.

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