One of the country’s top female junior chess players Nellisha Johnson said yesterday she was grateful to Minister Valerie Garrido Lowe for her intervention which resulted in her being included on the Guyana junior chess team to compete in the CARIFTA Chess tournament in Suriname.
Johnson was initially omitted from the team which is set to leave Guyana this morning to compete in the tournament.
“I felt hurt when I saw a post on Facebook of the team yesterday [Tuesday] and I began to cry since I was confused because I was not selected,” Johnson who visited Stabroek News yesterday along with her coach Roy Sharma recounted.
