How the game of squash came to Guyana

By Godfrey Chin On In Daily Features |
Guyana junior team 1st Caribbean Junior Championships, 1981: Back row – Madhu Wellingkar (manager), Bruce Lee, Jojo Mekdeci, Bruce Roberts; front row – Diane Lee, Richard Chin. (Absent, Mike Gomes)
Guyana junior team 1st Caribbean Junior Championships, 1981: Back row – Madhu Wellingkar (manager), Bruce Lee, Jojo Mekdeci, Bruce Roberts; front row – Diane Lee, Richard Chin. (Absent, Mike Gomes)

Introduction

Bouquets to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, for providing two public squash courts at Non Pareil Park, Thomas Lands, scheduled to open early this year. Our squash successes in the Caribbean and international field have placed Guyana on the world sports map.

As Dr Ian MacDonald urged in his keynote speech in 2005, at the Sportsman of the Year Award, every sports association ought