Rawle Toney

– Akeem Kanhai stars in inaugural Guyana Basketball Magazine Eighteen year-old basketball `wiz’ Akeem Kanhai has landed himself on the cover of a basketball magazine which is due out on January 1 in the United States of America.

The Amelia’s Ward Jets ended their basketball year on a winning note by defeating the Kashif and Shanghai Kings on Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard-court to capture the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) second division crown.

The local Lady Jaguars last evening scored a 2-1 win over archrivals Suriname at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden to finish second in the Guyana Football Federation (GFFF) International Women’s Goodwill tournament.

The travelling extravaganza known as the 20th Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament will head to the ancient county of Berbice today with two hometown teams on show at the Blairmont Community Center Ground.

The overseas-based Lady Jaguars football team last evening played entertaining football to defeat Suriname 2-0 in their final game of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) International Goodwill tournament last evening at the Enmore Community Center ground.

The overseas-based Guyanese team was way too much for the locals to handle as they sank them five goals to nil when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Women’s International Goodwill tournament kicked off yesterday.

After months of preparation, the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Women’s International Goodwill tournament will kick off today at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence.

– King Pele on Brazil winning the right to stage the 2016 Olympic Games over the USA and other countries On October 2 this year in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world was stunned when President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) IOC Jacques Rogge announced that the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil had won the bid to host the 31st Olympiad in 2016.

– Grove Hi-Tech stun Milerock When Pele and international striker Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson told Stabroek Sport last week that he was going to put on a show at the National Stadium, this writer and I suppose  many ardent readers of the sports pages were wondering just what he was going to do.

Technical Director of the Women’s football programme for the Guyana Football Federation (GFF)  Mark Rodrigues, along with coach of the local female team Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover and overseas coaches Edwin De Rosario and Rohan Narine are all expressing their optimism for a successful Women’s Friendly International  Tournament.The

-Dr Frank AnthonyYesterday was a red-letter day in Guyana’s rich sporting history.

Known to world as ‘King Pele’ Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento will receive a red carpet welcome to Guyana today when he arrives at 13:30 hours at the Dr.

-Says Minister Anthony Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, says the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) did not adhere to protocol by informing his ministry of the success of the national men and women’s rugby Sevens sides at the recent North American and Caribbean Rugby Association tournament in Mexico but left it up to news reports for his ministry to be informed.

Talk about female football in Guyana and the conversation invariably drifts to the game in the Lethem, Rupununi area  but conditions  are not so bright and beautiful for the hinterland ladies as it relates to them playing the game which they call ‘their everything’.

– facility to include two squash courts Three contracting companies were yesterday awarded separate contracts for building a Racquet Centre on Woodford Avenue, Georgetown which is expected to cost the Government of Guyana some $28.75m.

– TV Globo producer Special events producer of Globo Communicacao e Participacoes S.A

– says Colin Klass President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass (CK) recently sat down and spoke exclusively with Stabroek Sports’ Rawle Toney (RT) about his satisfactions and certain misconceptions relating to football in Guyana.

On February 27 this year, Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson became the first Guyana footballer to play in the US Major League Soccer competition (MLS) when he signed a US$75,000 contract with the Colorado Rapids.

The presidents of the country’s two most active basketball associations Trevor Rose and Abdullah ‘Zico’ Hamid yesterday told Stabroek Sport that it was time that the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) holds elections.

– Suing trio for in excess of $1,000,000 Former president of Riddim Squad Football Club, Eton Cordis has slapped the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Fruta Conquerors Football Club and the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) with a lawsuit in excess of $1,000, 000.