Back from Beijing!
Local long distance star Alika Morgan returned last Tuesday with many memorable moments to share with her peers, having witnessed the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China. Morgan, along with top junior cyclist Geron Williams, was selected by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) to attend the Olympic Youth Camp (OYC) from August 6th-17th. The camp attracted [...]
Guyana’s squash quest for team gold gets underway
Although the male and female individual titles have already been won by Shawn Simpson of Barbados and Guyanese Nicolette Fernandes, the team component of the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Squash Championships was officially opened yesterday. According to President of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) Ronald Burch-Smith, some of the players who were registered for [...]
Guyana’s Olympic dream ends, says Adonis
-Harris knocked out of 200m in first round Adam Harris failed to advance in the men’s 200m yesterday when he clocked 21.36s and placed sixth in the first round to end Guyana’s quest for an Olympic medal at the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China. Harris, a second generation Guyanese and senior at the University of [...]
Jessica Stephenson eyeing 2012 London Olympics
After capturing Guyana’s first ever gold medal at the Junior Carifta Swimming Champio-nships this year Jessica Stephenson has her sights set on competing at the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games. Stephenson, who resides in Trinidad and Tobago, returned to Guyana last weekend for the Goodwill Championships. Since the Goodwill meet is a developmental one, Stephenson, [...]
2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Squash Championships
-Jeffrey, only Guyanese to advance to male quarter-finals Reigning national and St. Lucia open male champion Kristian Jeffrey won two matches on opening day of the 2008 Cellink Plus South-ern Caribbean Squash Cham-pionships, becoming the only Guyanese to survive the earlier rounds of the tournament. Jeffrey raced past Barbadian Kevin Bailey in the first round [...]
2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Squash Championships
-It’s all up to Nicolette for Guyana After the morning session of day two of the individual round of the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Championships, all of the Guyanese competitors have been eliminated except one, Nicolette Fernandes. Fernandes who had peaked at 27th on the Women’s International Squash Players Association (WISPA) rankings last year, [...]
Nicolette through to finals, again
Guyana’s most successful squash player in recent years Nicolette Fernandes qualified for the women’s final of the 2008 Cellink Plus Southern Caribbean Squash Championships with an easy semi-final win over Cherie-Ann Parris last night at the Georgetown Club squash courts. She will face Karen Meakins tonight in a rematch of the St Lucia Open final [...]
Guyana places third at Goodwill 2008 Championships
-Wickham and Smith capture consulation gold medals Team Guyana did not pack enough punch to seriously contend for the overall title in the 2008 Goodwill Swimming Championships but a third place finish overall and two gold medals on the final day from Noelle Smith and Linden Wickham seemed to satisfy the home team yesterday at [...]
Suriname sets up Guyana showdown
-eliminate Dominica from tournament with 3-1 win Suriname overcame an early 0-1 deficit to score three unanswered goals and secure a 3-1 victory against Dominica last night at the National Stadium at Providennce in the second Group `B’ match of the Digicel Caribbean Championships football tournament. The win eliminated Dominica who had lost to Guyana [...]
‘Early energy pushed them aside’ – Shabazz
Three first half goals propelled the Golden Jaguars to their first win at the National Stadium at Providence when the scored a resounding 3-0 win over Dominca under floodlights last night in the first Group `B’ match of the Digicel Caribbean Championships (DCC). A double from Nigel ‘Powers’ Codrington and an individual goal from Glenorvan [...]
‘I’m backing this team’
-says Shabazz No one what knows yet what will be the composition of the Golden Jaguars football team which will compete in Group `B’ matches of the Digicel Caribbean Cup football tournament starting tomorrow at the National Stadium at Providence. What is known is that the team will be missing a number of key players [...]