Author, sports administrator, Godfrey Wray, dies in the US

FLASHBACK! Godfrey Wray, left, with the IOC award for his longstanding contribution to sports in Guyana.

Godfrey Wray a distinguished author, journalist and sports administrator has died in the United States of America.

He was 78.

Wray worked at the Daily Chronicle, the Guyana Graphic and the Guyana Chronicle where he was the Sports Editor in the 1970s and 80s.

Wray first became the Sports Editor in the 1970s under the late Carl Blackman and he eventually was appointed Sunday Editor.

He was also Editor of the Citizen Newspaper, an afternoon newspaper which was the stable mate of the Guyana Chronicle, his friend and former colleague Bert Wilkinson recalls.