Category: Sports

Kingston, Jamaica – Following is a statement from the West Indies Cricket Board on the meeting with Chris Gayle: On Tuesday, June 14, Chief Executive Officer of the WICB, Dr Ernest Hilaire; Director of Cricket, Anthony Howard; Head Coach Ottis Gibson, and Team Manager Richie Richardson met with Chris Gayle in Kingston. Gayle was accompanied at the meeting by West Indies Players Association President and CEO Mr. Dinanath Ramnarine, and WIPA Vice President Wavell Hinds. The WICB team outlined to Gayle that the board has had issues historically in communicating…

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The Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) Olympic Day Under- 15 Badminton Championship will be staged on June 25 at the Queen’s College Badminton Courts, commencing at 10:30h. Entries close on June 24 and can be submitted to any member of the Guyana Badminton Association. The categories to be contested are Boys’ and Girls’ Singles, Boys’ and Girls’ Doubles, and Mixed Doubles. Among the favourites to win their respective categories are Narayan Ramdhani and Greer Jackson. Meanwhile, the GBA 15-member Junior team will be attending the XX Pan American Junior Badminton Championships,…

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By Avenash Ramzan One hundred and twenty five (125) schools from the ten administrative regions and Georgetown are vying for supremacy as the inaugural nationwide Digicel Schools’ Football Championship opened yesterday afternoon at the world famous GCC ground, Bourda. The competition, which is being hosted under the theme ‘Unite, Develop, Excel’, is sponsored exclusively by cell phone company Digicel, in collaboration with the Sport and Education Ministries. Quite appropriately, Sport Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony, and his colleague at the Education Minister, Shaikh Baksh, made the ceremonial kick off to get…

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St John’s, Antigua – West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell has declared that, when he eventually retires from the game, he wants to be known as a legend and nothing less. Russell played a superb back-to-the- wall innings for West Indies, but they fell to defeat at the hands of India in the Third Digicel Pearls One Day International at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground on June11. “When I retire from international cricket, I want to be called a legend. I want to stay here and contribute as much as…

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Guyanese national 5,000m and 1,500m record holder Cleveland Forde defeated Richard Jones to win the 23rd Granny Luces 15-kilometre race, which ended at the La Joya in Joseph last weekend, according to the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Guardian. Jones, who has reportedly won the event four times, was no match for the former national long distance champion Forde, who did not compete at the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) National Senior Championships last weekend in Guyana. Forde clocked 47 minutes 43 seconds, while Jones finished three seconds behind (47:46). According…

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Brooklyn-based Guyanese track star Kadecia Baird has been selected to represent Guyana at the 2011 International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Youth Championships, which will be held in Lille, France from July 6-10. The decision came at the Athletics Association of Guyana’s (AAG) statutory council meeting, held last Wednesday night, June 08th, at Olympic House. The 16- year-old high school track star migrated three years ago and is now one of the fastest female sprinters in her age group in New York. Baird attends Medger Evers College Preparatory High…

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– Tiger fully fit and ready to return to international cricket By Avenash Ramzan At a time when the West Indies’ batting is struggling to build winning totals, the Caribbean’s most experienced batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, is churning out runs at will for Sarasota International Cricket Club (SICC) in the United States. The veteran left- hander followed up his match-winning hundred for SICC against Everest last week with a robust 105 on Sunday against Titans — his third hundred in four innings since arriving in Florida. His prolific form has come…

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Guyanese team instructor Ganesh Babulall has praised his young students for their impressive victorious display of competitive karate at the Tiger Claw International Sport Karate Championships, held at Central Regional Indoor Sport Arena, Saith Park, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago last weekend. The visiting Guyanese team competed in various categories and copped 12 trophies and several medals after the two-day tournament against top competitors from Trinidad and Tobago. Babulall was pleased that his young students made their international competitive debut in Trinidad. He mentioned that this competition has made his karatekas…

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By Kiev Chesney As a child growing up in school, you were taught about all of the national awards and the people who received them; but I never once thought that one day I would get one. It’s a very special honour to me”. Guyana’s world-ranked squash player Nicolette Fernandes has received quite a few national awards during her illustrious sports career, but she is overwhelmed to be one of the persons named to receive one of the country’s highest national awards. Nicolette was among 66 persons who were recently…

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– duo has boyhood dream to play for Windies together Bridgetown, Barbados – Veerasammy Permaul is a big fan of Devendra Bishoo. Permaul has watched his lifelong friend’s elevation to the West Indies team, and is thrilled to see the leg-spinner’s excellent performances on the international stage. Now, the soft-spoken Permaul is working overtime to join the amiable Bishoo in the Windies lineup. Permaul, the small leftarm spinner, is a member of the Sagicor High Performance Centre, and he recently started his second three-month stint at the base at the…

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