The Guyana Olympic Association kindly invited me to speak at their recent Annual Awards ceremony. This is the main part of what I had to say.
I am impressed with the advances Guyana has been making. I see success in many areas – squash, rugby, our Twenty/20 cricket side in 2010 though they did not repeat in 2011, body-building and power-lifting, football, athletics, rifle-shooting, tennis, table tennis, taekwondo, swimming, cycling – and in other sports which I am sure I have missed mentioning. And it is noteworthy that often it is the women who are doing their sport and Guyana proud. There has been a significant increase in activity and success when you add it all up.
And it is not only on the fields of contest that progress is being made. At a very basic and essential level – the provision of infrastructure and facilities – there is also progress: a new Olympic style swimming pool, a new athletics track, a new racquets centre, good use of the new stadium. If these and
