Lease agreement for FIFA Forward Programme land finally approved

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president Wayne Forde, second from right, receives the signed Memorandum of Understanding from Eccles/Ramsburg NDC chairman Mahamad Hafeez. (Photo courtesy of the GFF)

A lease agreement on land identified for Guyana’s Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Forward Programme has finally been approved paving the way for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) to finally acquire its own Training facility.

According to a statement from the GFF, the lease agreement for the land at Providence, East Bank Demerara, identified for the project had no “legal standing.”

In 2015, the Clinton Urling-led Normalisation Committee had brokered a 30-year lease agreement with the Eccles/Ramsburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) for the Providence Community Centre ground.

That lease agreement the GFF release