– basketball and football matches same day Seven days of activities have been organized for the celebration of the Rose Hall Town 38th anniversary with a 30-mile cycle race tomorrow, riding off in two bunches, from Adventure to Rose Hall and simultaneously from New Amsterdam to Rose Hall.
Guyana will be sending an eight-member squad to take part in the 3rd Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India from October 12-18.
The Central Rupununi Heritage Sports Committee (CRHSC) will this week run off their 10KM race as part of the Amerindian Heritage Month celebrations.
– Pompey comes in for praise The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has commended the team that went to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and came back medal-less.
– US in transit visas to be secured President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Affeeze Khan yesterday announced the names of the four boxers who will represent Guyana at the Commonwealth Games in India this October.
The local karate fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the sudden death of Sensei Ian Fung.
The Guyana Motor Racing team led by speed aces, Andrew King, Kevin Jeffrey and Canadian-based Shawn King suffered mixed fortunes in the recently held second leg of the 2008 Caribbean Championships.
-Final round saw close contest In one of the most hotly contested dominoes competitions for the year, led by Most Valuable Player runner-up Paul Lewis, Specialist walked away with $200,000 as Club 75’s+ fifth annual competition ended Sunday night.
– WICB backed decision by other countries – Chetram Singh Director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Chetram Singh said that his board had backed the decision by the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) not to send a squad to the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan owing to fear for their safety.
– but no place for King, McGarrell and Christian The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) senior selection panel yesterday named a provisional thirty-two member squad to contest the El Dorado Inter-County 50-overs competition.
The New Guyana Pharm-aceutical Company (GPC) Inc. yesterday made a timely donation of twenty-five field markers, twenty-two practice T-shirts and three Spalding footballs, valued together over $65,000, to the Crane Football Club of West Demerara.
– after four years in wilderness President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh says that the Guyana senior women’s cricket team put in a creditable performance in St.
After doing battle over the last weekend, the Club 75 Fifth Memorial Competition has entered its final stage and according to coordinator Colin McEwan, come Sunday one of the five remaining teams will be crowned local dominoes kings.
The rain could not hold back the large contingent of riders who took to the road this morning to take part in the Ocean View International Hotel 60-mile cycle race.
The international motor racing meet set for Sunday, August 31 at Bushy Park in Barbados will see an invasion of Guyanese drivers and riders led by Group Four driving aces Andrew King and Kevin Jeffrey, Group Three stars Kamal Seebaran and Canadian Shawn King and Group 2B champion Gavin Gouveia.
A two-day trial match to be played next Tuesday and Wednesday will decide the composition of the Berbice Under-17 squad that will do battle with Demerara and Essequibo in the CLICO Under-17 Inter- County Championships slated to commence on September 6.
– GCB President President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and Vice-President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Chetram Singh was loud in praise for the West Indies Triangular Tournament in Canada and the ICC Cham-pionship Trophy 2008 in Pakistan, selectee Leon Johnson and Stanford Twenty/ 20 squad member Lennox Cush when he spoke exclusively to Stabroek Sport recently.
– Sport minister promises Aquatic Centre soon Competitors in the Guyana Amateur Swimming Associa-tion (GASA) Goodwill Swimming Championships at Castellani Pool, Home-stretch Avenue, were urged yesterday by Minister of Sport Dr.
– continued sponsorship promised Manager of Public Relations and Operations at Demerara Bank Limited Shawn Gurcharran yesterday handed over a $395,000 cheque to Secretary of the Berbice Cricket Board Angela Haniff as sponsorship for the 40-overs Second Division Cricket Competition in Berbice which should bowl off in another few days.
Manager of the recent unsuccessful Under-19 TCL team to Barbados, Alvin Johnson is not happy with the recent performance of his team.
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