Category: Sports

Liberty Sports Club captures maiden EACA A Division Championship

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Liberty Sports Club dethroned two-time defending champions, Big Apple Cricket Club, to capture it’s maiden Eastern American Cricket Association 40-Overs title on Sunday, September 13th at the Baisley Cricket Cage. Andre Kirton turned in a magnificent batting performance, blasting 87 off 36 balls, which was supported by an all round bowling and fielding display, led by Terrence Madramootoo’s 4 wickets for 18 runs, to route BACC by 139 runs to claim the A Division championship. Overnight rain delayed the match by 30 minutes from the scheduled 11:00 AM start. BACC…

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Badminton on the rise, says Ramdhani

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– Narayan Ramdhani to attend the Young Talents Camp in Colombia By Rajiv Bisnauth President of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA), Gokarn Ramdhani, feels that the sport continues to move in an upward direction, both locally and internationally. Ramdhani comments came after Guyana’s top player Narayan Ramdhani was selected by the Pan American Badminton Federation Development Committee to attend a 10-day Young Talents Camp in Medellin, Colombia. “For a player to be selected from Guyana is definitely good news for the sport,” Ramdhani, who is also the Secretary General of…

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WICB hosts charity match for Dominica

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…Yohan Blake, Brian Lara among celebrities to take part KINGSTON, Jamaica – The West Indies Cricket Board says it will donate all proceeds of a Twenty20 charity match to be played on Saturday, September 26, in Barbados to the Dominica Emergency Relief Fund. Admission is US$10 for adults and US$5 for children under the age of 12, with all money going directly to the Dominica Government to assist with recovery efforts in the island which suffered severe damage to property and loss of life from the passage of Tropical Storm…

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Elite League breathes life back into Slingerz FC

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With no competitive senior football being played since the 25th Kashif and Shanghai tournament in April, and a hefty monthly bill to ensure its existence, the West Demerara-based Slingerz Football Club was on the verge of being scrapped, according to General Manager, Colin Aaron. “We were deciding, based on how the football was going at this time- nothing was happening- that we have achieved everything and there is nothing more to go after. Running on a budget of over Gy$5 million a month for gaining nothing, he [owner Javed Ali]…

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Chanderpaul among four honoured by Caribbean Diaspora in New York

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By Avenash Ramzan The Indo-Caribbean Alliance (ICA) on Sunday hosted its third annual gala under the nautical inspired theme “Unanchored” with several prominent individuals in different spheres of society being honoured for their contribution to their respective fields. The New York-based group catered for over 350 guests in the five-hour event, which was held at the World’s Fair Marina. Veteran Guyana and West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul was among four persons, who were honoured at the ceremony. Chanderpaul, the Region’s most capped Test cricketer, copped the Icon Award, while television…

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Giftland Mall unveils Next Generation Boxing

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By Avenash Ramzan The usual daily buzz at the freshly minted Giftland Mall will reach fever pitch on September 26 when the management of the sprawling department store in partnership with the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) stages the first-ever Next Generation Boxing- Giftland Showcase ProAm boxing card. An evening of fistic fury is set to transform the Liliendaal facility into a virtual battle ground, as 16 of the country’s emerging boxing talents will compete in four professional and a similar number of amateur fights. The format of this…

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Drayton wins Burnham memorial chess tourney

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The Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham memorial chess tournament concluded last weekend with Guyana’s FIDE Candidate Master, Anthony Drayton, emerging as champion at the National Resource Centre on Woolford Avenue. On the final day of the competition, Drayton, who was in third position coming into the final two rounds, defeated Davion Mars and Alexander Duncan to increase his tally by two points to finish with a grand total of 5.5 points. Former national junior and senior champion, Taffin Khan, also scored 5.5 points, after earning a bye from Frankie Farley and…

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GFF meets UDFA on constitutional reform

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By Avenash Ramzan Officials of the Normalisation Committee of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Wednesday evening travelled to the Mining Town of Linden to meet with members of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) on the issue of constitutional reform. The meeting was held at the Linden Enterprise Network building on Republic Avenue, and was attended by Chairman of the Normalisation Committee Clinton Urling, GFF’s General Secretary Richard Groden and Assistant General Secretary Diedre Davis, and GFF’s Director of Marketing and Communications Rawle Toney. According to Toney, the meeting…

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WICB clears the air over decision to sack Ramdin as captain

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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is seeking to clear the air over the circumstances surrounding the decision to remove Denesh Ramdin as captain of the regional side. A WICB statement issued on Wednesday was released in response to media reports suggesting sinister motives may be behind the decision to sack the Trinidad and Tobago wicketkeeper batsman. The decision has drawn fire in some quarters including from the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board president, Azim Bassarath and former West Indies manager Omar Khan. Bassarath says he…

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Ruthless Amazon Warriors melt Red Steel by 7 wickets

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– to face either Red Steel or Tallawahs in playoffs 2 on Saturday By Rajiv Bisnauth   GEORGETOWN, GUYANA: The Guyana Amazon Warriors produced a clinical display to ease past Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel with a commanding seven-wicket victory in the final preliminary game of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on Tuesday evening at the National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara. With the win the Amazon Warriors moved into second position on 11 points, and will play the second play-off against either the Red Steel or Jamaica Tallawahs…

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