Category: Sports

Elegant right-handed opening batsman Avinash Singh expressed delight with his top-batting performance after the completion of the 2017 Ontario Softball Cricket League (OSCL) tournament. Singh, who hails from Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, demonstrated his consistency with an aggregate of 270 runs from 14 matches representing Better Hope Sports Club in the A Division. “I [am] extremely happy with my performance this season especially topping the batting; the hard work certainly paid off and I will remember it for a very long time,” Singh commented. His highest score of 84…

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…Speedboat power away from Regal All-Stars The curtains came down on the inaugural Prime Minister’s T20 Softball Cup with two exciting and highly competitive finals at the Everest Cricket Club ground on Sunday. A colourful crowd, including Honourable Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and his wife Sita Nagamootoo, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan and Minister of Social Cohesion with responsibility for Sport Dr. George Norton, witnessed the thrilling encounters that saw Regal Masters and Speedboat All-Stars winning their respective championships. In the first final of the day, Regal Masters defeated…

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The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) is currently preparing for an invitational Inter-Guiana Under-20 Junior tournament for both male and females which is expected to run from November 3 to 5 in French Guiana. Guyana along with Suriname and hosts French Guiana, will do battle in the three-day event which is hosted by the French Guiana Volleyball Federation (FGVF). According to coach Levi Nedd who will be accompanying the teams when they wing out on November 2, said training preparations have been productive. The Volleyballers underwent a training session on Sunday…

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The re-establishment of the men’s national football team, the Golden Jaguars is on top of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) agenda. This was disclosed by the federation’s President Wayne Forde; with two international matches lined up for the Jaguars against Trinidad and Tobago and Indonesia in November, Forde maintained that the GFF is looking to examine the national players ahead of next year’s Caribbean championships. He pointed out that for the past two years the federation has been putting things in place for Guyana to have a solid youth foundation…

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Guyana & Caribbean Ladies Badminton Champion Priyanna Ramdhani has been selected by the Pan American Badminton Federation Development Director to participate in the Young Talents Camp 2017 set for November 9 to 15, 2017 in Paramaribo Suriname. The selection was made after her incredible performance at just 15 years of age to reach the quarter finals of the recently concluded South American Youth Games in Chile where she was also ranked at number four in the South American ranking. Priyanna also won two gold medals and one silver at the…

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The National Rugby Team, commonly called Green Machine, will meet the force of their counterparts from Barbados and Cayman Islands when their Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens campaign gets cracking in Mexico City from November 25-26. Guyana who are in pool A, are the current Caribbean Champions despite their loss in the final to Canada 5-52 in Trinidad and Tobago last year November. Pool B pits together Jamaica, Bermuda and Dominican Republic while Pool C contains the host along with Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao and British Virgin Islands. The men’s…

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By Michelangelo Jacobus A commanding performance from Guyana’s captain Robert France who had an attacker’s dream of a game ensured Guyana blew away Mexico 12-0. While they looked disjointed and out of sorts on Tuesday, the Guyanese rebounded spectacularly to make light work of the Central American visitors as action in the Pan American Indoor Hockey Tournament entered day three in Georgetown. On Diwali day in Guyana, France lit up the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when he provoked the Mexican defence with a double helmet-trick. The Guyanese captain opened proceedings…

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The highly exciting grass track series will have its next instalment on October 29 at the Bath Settlement Community Centre Ground, West Berbice. After rounds at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground and at the aforementioned ground, the trilling action returns under the flagship of Banks DIH under their Banks Beer brand. Organiser Sheik Yassen told this newspaper on Wednesday, that preparations are well on course for another crowd pleaser. Yassen contended that the sport continues to grow and given the enormous crowd which came to witness the action when…

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Guyana’s lone FIFA female referee, Maurees Skeete, is currently in Costa Rica attending the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association (CONCACAF) 2017 Women’s Elite Referee/Assistant Referee Course from October 19 to 22. Skeete is the only participating referee from Guyana in this four-day course, which is taking place at the Barcelo San Jose Hotel in Costa Rica. Manager of Refereeing, Mark Cahen, and Refereeing Administrator, Michelle Savani, will oversee the entire initiative. In brief remarks, Head of Refereeing Department, Stanley Lancaster expressed: “Based on Skeete’s continued high performance…

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