Category: Sports

By Utamu Belle Assistant Director of Sport Melissa Dow-Richardson has announced that instead of a four or six lane synthetic track proposed for Linden, the community is on the cards to receive an eight lane synthetic track, complete with security fencing. She made the disclosure on Tuesday, as she, along with a team comprising officials of the Public Infrastructure Special Projects team and the Buildings team within the Ministry of Education made their third site visit to discuss the synthetic track in the presence of Linden Mayor Carwyn Holland. Evaluation…

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– over US$14M injected in 2017 The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced the tournament’s economic impact for Guyana. The 2017 event, which took place between 4 August and 9 September last year, created a total economic impact of US$ 14,183,035 in the country. This figure has been arrived at by using organiser spend, visitor spend and media value and was calculated for Hero CPL by world-renowned researchers, SMG Insight. In addition to that economic impact figure the Hero CPL created 492 jobs in Guyana. The tournament also filled…

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– GCB aiming for female franchise league By Akeem Greene Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie is hopeful that Guyana can secure the rights to be one of the hosts for this year’s International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in November. His quest for the hosting rights stems from him having optimism it will positively influence the development of female cricket in the country. “We are looking to promote women issues in the Caribbean and Guyana and most importantly develop our young ladies for the…

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By Michelangelo Jacobus If 2017 was the year of athletics in Guyana, then 17-year-old Daniel Williams is the personification of that success. Born in the mining town of Linden, Williams has already tasted success in a major international competition; his success came in his specialist event, the 400 metres dash. At the World Under-18 Championships in July, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya, Williams ran a personal best time of 46.72s to win a silver medal and stun the world. Daniel started taking part in athletics at the Primary school level where…

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The battle lines have been drawn as the highly anticipated clash now officially dubbed, “Sangre Malo” hosted by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) in collaboration with Next Generation Global Marketing, is expected to set alight the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on January 20. The Spanish term, “Sangre Malo” meaning bad blood in English, seems the ideal name for the mouthwatering bouts among three of Guyana’s top boxers and three of Venezuela’s best pugilists. Some seven bouts have been billed for fight night which is seen as a patriotic…

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Director of Sport Christopher Jones recently confirmed that Guyana was one step closer to becoming one of the hosts for this year’s Women’s Twenty20 Cricket World Cup set for November. With the Caribbean territories scrambling to fulfill requirements in order to be possible hosts, Jones during an interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI) said Guyana has already submitted a bid to have the event held at the National Stadium and is currently awaiting a response as to whether the bid was successful. Jones further noted that he is…

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Bhaskar Yadram, Raymond Perez, Ashmead Nedd, Ronaldo Alimohamed and Joshua Persaud departed Guyana on Wednesday morning for Barbados where they will join the rest of the Windies under-19s for the journey to New Zealand where they play the 2018 ICC Youth 50-over World Cup. They are expected to leave Barbados today (Thursday) to have a camp in the host country as they beef up preparations for their title defence. Yadram and Persaud both would have been on tour with the squad since they began their preparations earlier this year. The…

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By John Ramsingh From the tender age of 10 years old, Joaan Deo began golfing at the country’s only golf course at Lusignan and the sporting discipline has enabled her to complete a Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Surgery in 2017 making her one of the most successful sportswomen in Guyana. One may say that Joaan was born to play golf since she was born into a golfing family. Her father, Chatterpaul, who is the current captain of the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) patiently taught her the finer details of the…

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The return of the Boxing Day fist fight action to the National Gymnasium proved to be wholesome entertainment for all that attended the sizzling collaboration between the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) and Briso Promotions themed ‘Sons of Champions’. The talk of the town prior to the event was can Clairmont ‘Vibesman’ Gibson stop the ‘Lightening’ Keevin Allicock but the latter once again proved to be unstoppable for the Guyana Defence Force fighter in the bantamweight bout. The pocket rocket Alliock, a Commonwealth Youth Games silver medallist ensured there is no…

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Newly elected President of the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC), Aleem Hussain promised an aggressive start to 2018 while confirming that plans are in place to turn the facility into a full-fledged Country Club. During last Saturday’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), in an uncontested election, Hussain and his new executive body were appointed to oversee the Club’s future for the next one-year term. Hussain’s new team features; Paton George (Vice-President), Chatterpaul Deo (Captain), Pandit Ravi Persaud (Secretary), Aasrodeen Shaw (Treasurer), Parmanand “Max” Persaud (Asst. Secretary/Treasurer), Anasha Ally (Public Relations Officer) and…

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