The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMRSC) counted four local and international meetings at the South Dakota Circuit among its successes in 2008 despite dashed hopes of capturing the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday said that there was no budgetary allotment in the Ministry’s 2009 subvention for a cycling velodrome.
Brown has slim hold on golden bootsThe race for who would be crowned golden boots winner is now set to be decided in the finals of the 19th Kashif and Shanghai tournament slated for the Providence National Stadium on January 1, 2009.
– Johnson, Panday named as candidates Mum’s the word from Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) president Chetram Singh regarding any plans he may have to contest the presidency of the GCB which is due in the latter part of January.
Fitzgerald departs for England Sudesh Fitzgerald yesterday left for England to participate in the Ladbrokes.com
-records most test half centuries by a West Indian Guyana and West Indies middle-order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is likely to have fond memories of Dunedin, New Zealand.
47 players, 13 schools and one competition Action got underway yesterday at the Queen’s College auditorium when the 2008 National School Chess Championship moved off.
A Guyana team comprising members of the Hornets and the Yamaha Caribs Rugby Football Club recently copped the Caribbean International Rugby 7’s Overall Women’s 2008 Championship title.
The first pawn will be moved at 10:00 hours tomorrow morning when the nine round Swiss System National Schools Championship gets underway at the Queen’s College Auditorium.
Guyanese Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan are close to achieving career landmarks in the first test against New Zealand which got underway yesterday (last night Caribbean time).
The recent downpour in Georgetown has caused the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Ministry of Education (MoE) Inter Secondary Schools Under-15 limited overs competition to be postponed until next year.
All roads will lead to the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club, Bel Air Number Six Village, West Coast, Berbice on December 14 when the crème de le crème of the horse racing fraternity meets.
With his win in the men’s Open singles at the 2008 Carib Beer Caribbean and South American Masters championships firmly under his belt 23-year-old Sudesh Fitzgerald next assignment is to participate at the lucrative landrokes.com
Barbados became the first team to officially occupy one of four semi-final spots on offer as the penultimate round of the Regional One Day Tournament (the President’s Cup) ended last evening.
– USA’s Wright named Man of the Match Half centuries from opener Adrian Barath and Daren Ganga led Trinidad and Tobago to a six wicket victory over the United States of America (USA) team in a match of the West Indies Cricket Board President’s Cup competition at the Enmore Community Development Centre ground yesterday.
Persistent rainfall in Georgetown yesterday forced match officials of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President’s Cup match between Trinidad and Tobago and Canada to call off the match.
A composed batting display by Barbados saw them beating the United States of America (USA) by 111 runs in a rain–interrupted game of the West Indies Cricket Board, President’s Cup limited overs competition at the Providence National Stadium yesterday.
In sweltering heat at the Everest Cricket Club the Canadians surrendered meekly to a better-prepared Leeward Islands team in their opening President’s Cup limited overs encounter.
– Madhoo looking to win tournament after success in 2003Newly crowned 2008 Darts Champion Sudesh Fitzgerald and former champion Norman Madhoo yesterday departed for Barbados to participate in the Bryden’s Invitational Darts tournament and the Caribbean/South American Masters.
Three teams have arrived for the commencement of the 2008 regional one-day President’s Cup tournament some 24 hours before its scheduled start two with the stated intention of winning the tournament and the other team here for the experience.
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