Local basketball referees begin FIBA certification course in US today
Former national basketball captain and two-time Caribbean all star point guard Lugard Mohan and local referee Aubrey Young would be looking to add their names to the list of FIBA-certified officials when they embark on a certification today in Colorado, USA. The duo departed Guyana earlier in the week for their stint which will conclude [...]
‘The Final Execution’
Leon Moore: ‘I really want to give Marques the whipping of his life’ Guyana’s world-rated and WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and NABA bantamweight champion Leon ‘Hurry-up’ Moore will be facing national bantamweight champion Dexter Marques for his title next weekend and he told Stabroek Sport yesterday that his aim is to give his opponent [...]
$1.4M hurdle tumbles team out of CAC age group championships
A financial shortfall by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has caused four local athletes to miss this year’s Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) age group championships which is scheduled to commence in the Bahamas tomorrow. The four athletes, Laneice Dennis, Michael Williams, Roslyn Rawlins and Joel Walcott, and team manager Faye Naughton were [...]
‘I’ll be fully fit for Caribbean Games’
-says Marian Burnett Guyana’s two-time Olympian Marian Burnett says that she is currently battling with an injury which she suffered while in training but made it clear that she would be fully fit in time for the July 12-22 Caribbean Games which will be held in Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking with Stabroek Sports from her [...]
All-Stars overpower North Ruimveldt
The Giftland Office Max All-Stars eased past the GT&T IM2GO North Ruimveldt team by 15 points (70-55) as the Georgetown Inter-Ward tournament officially came to an end on Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. After North Ruimveldt had successfully swept Wortmanvile/Werk-en-Rust in their best of three finals last week to retain their title [...]
Female footballers wing out today for Turks and Caicos invitational U-20 football tournament
Four young ladies will head to the Turks and Caicos Islands to join an overseas group of players to represent Guyana at an invitational Under-20 four-nation tournament from tomorrow. Three of the selected players, Leonie Robinson, Tesira Stanislaus and Roxanne Stephens, are from the Rupununi while the other Odessa Romeo, hails from Georgetown. The girls [...]
Caribbean Games…
Munroe puzzled, saddened by non-selection One of Guyana’s top female sprinters believes that she should have been named on the Guyana athletics team to the inaugural Caribbean Games scheduled for next month in Trinidad and Tobago. Twenty-two-year Old Dianne Munroe, who is at present competing at the College level in the United States of America [...]
Door open for former Golden Jaguars to play
-GFF President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass and national coach Paul James believe that disgruntled former members of the Golden Jaguars still stand a chance of coming back and representing their country. According to the two officials, once any of the players are available and willing to play the opening is always [...]
‘The settlement of all confrontations’….North Ruimveldt and All-Stars to Clash
The match-up between the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) sponsored North Ruimveldt and the Giftland Office Max All-Star team is certainly the talk of the town and tonight, the two teams will put those words to the test when they clash in an All-Star game dubbed ‘The settlement of all confrontations.’ After North Ruimveldt made [...]
Wind Jammers Int’l Hotel supports referees for overseas certification course
Wind Jammers International Hotel has come on board to support former national point guard Lugard Mohan and Aubrey Young on their venture to the Colorado Springs, USA where they will be taking part in a FIBA referees certification course from June 19-22. It will cost Mohan and Young approximately US$3000 collectively to participate in [...]
LABA/Pioneer Construction basketball tourney…Royals and Pistons in winners row
The Victory Royals and Wismar Pistons are the latest teams to record victories when second round action in the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) first-division tournament continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt. In the opening game of a double-header, the Royals handed the Glands Trucking Service Bulls their ninth loss of [...]
GFF not thinking about development
- Kayode Mc Kinnon Former national midfield player Kayode McKinnon says he is disillusioned with the Golden Jaguars’ recent outing in Suriname where they competed in the 2009 Parbo Bier Cup tournament. Guyana failed to win a game in the tournament, but McKinnon says that while there should be a feeling of dissatisfaction from the [...]
GOA names 28-member team for inaugural Caribbean Games
The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) yesterday announced a 28-member contingent for the 2009 Caribbean Games and, according to GOA president, K. Juman Yassin, Guyana will only be represented in three of the five disciplines. The games are set for Trinidad and Tobago from July 13-19 and, at a press conference held at the Ministry of [...]
Teams could play for $1M first prize in inter-ward basketball tournament next year
Organizers of the recently-concluded Georgetown Inter-Ward Basketball Tournament say that next year they are looking to make the tournament bigger by inviting some wards out of Linden and Berbice and also increasing the tournament’s first prize to $1M. Co-organizer Simeon Francis of Hits and Jams Television (HJTV) yesterday said that they were overwhelmed by the [...]
Coach pleased with Jaguars despite losing all three matches at Parbo Bier Cup
Newly-appointed coach of Guyana’s senior national football team Paul James told Stabroek Sport yesterday that although his side failed to come up with a win at the recently-concluded Parbo Bier Cup in Suriname, he was generally satisfied with their performance. The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) after a disappointing run last year was looking for an [...]