Greene wants more national TT players from schools
The first inter schools table tennis competition under the new Henry Greene administration served off yesterday at the National Gymnasium with Greene promising “more tournaments to come.” “We’re promoting table tennis in schools out of schools…. we want to provide an opportunity for table tennis to be played so as to keep young people away [...]
GTU down tools for National Schools C/ships
- In protest over MoE handling of Queen’s College investigation into Neesa Gopaul’s death The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is at odds with the Ministry of Education (MoE) over its handling of an investigation relating to the death of former Queen’s College (QC) student Neesa Gopaul and has decided to pull its expertise from the [...]
Golden Jaguars face tricky assignment against Haiti
On face value Guyana’s Golden Jaguars should be favoured to win today’s opening encounter of Group `F’ of the Digicel Caribbean Cup against Haiti at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium this afternoon. Haiti’s football is still recovering from the earthquake in January of this year which devastated the country and left the country’s football and its [...]
Reward Pompey, plan ahead
Says Donald Duff It is difficult to form an assessment of the Guyana team’s performance at the recent XIX Commonwealth Games. The results will show that Guyana ended joint 29th out of 71 countries along with Papua New Guinea and Seychelles. Australia with 177 medals all total, inclusive of 74 gold, 55 silver and 48 [...]
James’ quest
Ever since LeBron James signed with the Miami Heat back in July the air of expectancy towards this season’s NBA championships has been nothing short of electric. The regular season commences today with the Miami Heat opposing the Boston Celtics in what should be a dress rehearsal of the Eastern Conference Finals that is unless [...]
‘Twenty20 team raring to go’
-to get nice send off today which includes Police escort Director of Sport Neil Kumar said yesterday that the Guyana Twenty20 team which departs this morning for the Airtel Champions League tournament in South Africa will get a “really nice send off.” The Guyana team won the right to represent the Caribbean in the lucrative [...]
Harper input for national Twenty20 team
Cricket Development Officer of the Guyana Cricket Board Reon King yesterday told Stabroek Sport that the Guyana Twenty20 management team was seeking to have former West Indies cricket coach Roger Harper assist with the training of the national Twenty20 squad. King told Stabroek Sport that a meeting with the former West Indies off-spinner was scheduled [...]
Young Guyanese creates football history
- passes FIFA football agent exam Young Guyanese football enthusiast Faizal Khan earlier this year created history by becoming the first person from the Caribbean to secure a pass in the Federation International de Football Association (FIFA) football agents’ examination. Speaking to Stabroek Sports an elated Khan told this newspaper that he was especially proud [...]
‘We need to restructure’
- says national TT player Christopher Franklyn National table tennis player Christopher Franklyn said yesterday that the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) needs to restructure its programmes if its players were to compete and win medals at events such as the Central American and Caribbean Games. Franklyn was a member of the Guyana team to [...]
Local racquet wielders wing out today for CAC Games
Local racquet wielders Idi Lewis, Christopher Franklyn and Natalie Cummings departed Guyana early this morning for Trinidad and Tobago en route to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico to participate in the Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC). They will team up in Puerto Rico with overseas-based Paul David, Michelle John and Trenace Lowe. Lowe, who did most [...]
Top Cop in line for GTTA presidency
- race for post heats up Commissioner of Police Henry Greene will be challenging for the post of president of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) when that body stages its annual general meeting sometime later this year. The current president of the GTTA is Attorney-At-Law Anil Nandalall who was elected for a two-year term [...]
Way cleared for GTTA to uplift Stag equipment
By this week-end players participating in the annual National Sports Commission Independence anniversary table tennis tournament should be playing with the spanking-new Stag tables. According to the general secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Godfrey Munroe, the way has been cleared for the GTTA to pick up the first batch of equipment from [...]
Best in Guyana, best in the Caribbean
- 2009 was a dream year for rifle shooter Mahendra Persaud as he snatched the national championships from Ransford Goodluck and was the Caribbean’s best shooter at Bisley If rifle shooter Mahendra Persaud had his way he would have wished that the year 2009 did not have to come to an end. For last year [...]
Colin Wiltshire plays his last innings
“He was everything you would want in a person.” That’s how one of his friends remember the late Colin Wiltshire, 74, who passed away at a hospital in Trinidad Friday night of pneumonia. Not surprisingly, the news of the death of the former British Guiana opening batsman sent shock waves through the sporting fraternity of [...]
Daisy Hill Foundation launch set for Saturday
- Former national table tennis player Collette Medas-Forbes to give back to Guyana’s youths In the 1980’s Collette Medas-Forbes was a young table tennis player aspiring to reach the pinnacle of the sport. But just as she was about to reach there, the former national player migrated to the United States of America (USA). There [...]