Dover says farewell to Alpha
Wayne Dover has resigned as head coach of the Alpha United Football Club and has his sights set on other pastures. “I’ll be pursuing bigger things. I’ve been offered a job at Caledonia AIA as well as Trinity College in Trinidad,” he disclosed. Dover, who tended his resignation to the club on January 12, said:” [...]
Beijing stars for Caribbean games
-Juman-Yassin says Guyana will definitely be there Take Beijing Olympic 100m gold medallists Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser. Throw in 200m gold medal winner Veronica Campbell-Brown and men’s 100m silver medallist Richard Thompson. Add some of the region’s best sprinters, middle and long distance athletes. Sprinkle with lawn tennis players, netballers and last but by [...]
Guyana, Windwards in… ‘Non Title’ Fight
It’s the battle of the also rans, the lowly-rated, the cellar dwellers and there might be a host of other similar phrases that can aptly describe today’s game between Guyana and the Windward Islands. The match is billed to take place at Queen’s Park in Grenada and Guyana will be looking to end their decade-old [...]
France cops Supersingles crown in T/dad
Guyana’s Colin France toppled a star-studded field of table tennis racquet-wielders, which included two former Caribbean champions, to capture the prestigious Reality and Maintenance Services Limited Supersingles men’s crown in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend. In a pulsating six-man round robin final, held at the Central Regional Indoor Sports Arena in Chaguanas, France defeated [...]
Gary ‘Tie Tongue’ Jansen crowned domino King at WCDF c/ships
Guyana’s Gary Jansen, popularly known around domino circles as `Tie Tongue,’ was crowned Domino `King’ at the World Council of Domino Federations (WCDF) championships last month in Antigua. Competing in the individual male King Domino competition, Jansen, who is widely regarded as being among the better dominoes players locally, was first to reach 12 games [...]
A statesman-like sportsman
He will be remembered in myriad ways. As the man who was in the forefront of the drive to restore press freedom to Guyana; as a newspaper publisher who constantly urged his reporters to strive for the highest ideals of journalism; as tireless crusader against those who sought to oppress press freedom; as an intellectual [...]
Controversy erupts at chess qualifiers
Errol Tiwari, Roy Sharma at loggerheads over outcome of match Controversy erupted during the fourth round of the national Chess Open qualifiers at the Tower Hotel on Main Street yesterday which resulted in one of the players Roy Sharma refusing to continue in the tournament.According to Sharma, the incident happened during his first game yesterday [...]
Junior Commonwealth Games…
‘Golden girls’ Lowe, John keep Golden Arrowhead fluttering proudly The Golden Arrowhead fluttered proudly in Pune, India yesterday as the first day of competition of the third Junior Commonwealth Games got underway. According to Chef-de-Mission of the Guyana team Dr. Karen Pilgrim yesterday was a day of “mixed fortunes.” “Day One was one of mixed [...]
Duncan upsets Webster as Chess qualifiers get underway
Alexander Duncan continued the tradition set by his family of playing strong chess to defeat favourite Learie Webster as the National Open Chess qualifiers got underway at the Hotel Tower yesterday morning. In the first round of the seniors Open category Duncan, whose brothers Aggrey and Trevor are former national players, converted a pawn advantage [...]
WICB meet today to discuss Stanford 20/20 ruling
President of the Guyana Cricket Board Chetram Singh left Guyana yesterday for St Lucia to attend a meeting of the West Indies Cricket Board today. Singh told Stabroek Sports yesterday that the meeting will deal mainly with the outcome of the decision by the London Court of International Arbitration (LICA) which ruled in favour of [...]
Roberts thinks Lewis/Eastman evenly-matched
- Calls for more government, business sector support for amateur boxing Former three-time national amateur boxing champion Jeff Roberts thinks that the upcoming middleweight title fight between Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis and Howard `Battersea Bomber’ Eastman is a battle between two evenly-matched boxers. “I think it is a very good match-up because both `Sixhead’ Lewis and [...]
Carving her own niche
- Chantelle Fernandes is Nicolette Fernandes’ kid sister who is hoping to emulate, if not surpass her sister’s squash accomplishments in the sport of field hockey Ever wondered how it feels to have a famous sportsman or woman in your family. In case you are one of those people who do not have an athletic [...]
Shabazz refuses to get involved in GFF/GFA dispute
- offers himself as part of the solution Head Coach of the Golden Jaguars football team Trinidadian Jamaal Shabazz has refused to be drawn into the dispute between the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and the Guyana Football Federation’s president Colin Klass. President of the GFA Troy Mendonca had written Shabazz requesting that Shabazz states his [...]
False Start
-Today’s scheduled start of Group `B’ matches of the Digicel Caribbean Cup football tournament has been postponed to Friday because of the non-arrival of team Dominica The staging of the Group `B’ matches of the Digicel Caribbean Cup among hosts Guyana, Suriname and Dominica, already affected by a lack of planning by the Guyana Football [...]
Mendonca joins the fray
-rushes to defence of his general secretary President of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Troy Mendonca rushed to the defence of his general secretary Marlon Cole yesterday amidst insinuations that the outspoken Cole could be expelled from the general council of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for requesting that embattled GFF president Colin Klass resign [...]