Category: Sports

With the month of March just a matter of days away, organisers of the Cheddi Jagan three-stage memorial cycling event are busy laying the groundwork for the hosting of the annual activity. National cycling coach and chief organiser, Hassan Mohamed, on Tuesday informed the media that the West Demerara leg will be staged on Sunday, the Berbice leg on March 9 and the Essequibo road race on March 23. Sunday’s highly anticipated race will start in front of the Wales Police Station at 08:00 hours, proceed to Bushy Park, Parika,…

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Agricola Red Triangle made an exciting return to competitive football on the East Bank on Monday when they edged Grove Hi Tech 2-1 in the feature game of a double-header as play in the Stag Beer sponsored East Bank Football Association (EBFA) Division One League continued at the Grove Playfield. Grove, also fielding a team in the Guyana Football Federation’s Premier League with provision for only their Under-21 players to be exposed at the East Bank level, went into the rubber a confident unit with much more playing hours under…

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The inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has been hailed by organisers and players as a “massive success”. The players have used the platform to make their presence felt, not only at the regional level, but also at the international stage. However, at least one player has had his presence felt on the international platform. Guyana’s Amazon Warriors and Jamaican medium fast bowler Krishmar Santokie is the only first-timer on a list of eight West Indians to be part of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament. Santokie was selected…

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West Indies entered the quarter-finals of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014, beating Canada by 63 runs in a Group C fixture at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium Nursery 1 in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday (February 18). This was West Indies’s second win of the tournament, and it finished second behind South Africa in Group C. It was led by Tagenarine Chanderpaul, who followed his 84 not out in a 167-run win over Zimbabwe with a 127-ball 93 that laid the platform for an eventual total of 289 for 4…

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– Fortune believes she deserves South American spot By Treiston Joseph   A lot of controversy has arisen over the past few days, ranging from the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) questioning the competence of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) at the AAG’s award ceremony on February 15, to well known distance coach blasting the president of the AAG. The warning came about due to Alika Morgan’s withdrawal from the South American Games in Chile, set for March, citing short notification of her selection and unpreparedness, when in fact the…

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Beach football in Linden recently received a boost with the commissioning of a beach football facility at the Bayroc Sand Reserve’s Sports Club and Fitness Centre ground, Wismar. The venture was made possible after the Bayroc/Cool Runnings Beach football club was awarded a grant of Gy$1 million last year through the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s community grounds development programme. The facility had been under construction since last October. The project saw the construction of the 50ft concrete bleacher, a 30ft concrete wall for advertising and signage and the…

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Experienced International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) and now AIBA accredited referee/judge, Trinidad’s James Beckles, on Wednesday commenced a five-day referees/judges seminar for local boxing officials at the Guyana Olympic Association headquarters on High Street, Georgetown. The seminar, which has been made possible by the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) with the support from Director of Sport, Neil Kumar, will conclude on Sunday with a closing ceremony at Olympic House. Kumar, in declaring the seminar open, said the initiative by the GBA is of utmost importance to the development of the sport…

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With the aim of assisting in the growth of rifle shooting locally and improving the abilities of the country’s riflemen, the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) in partnership with the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), is presently conducting a two-week training stint for local marksmen. The training is being conducted by Great Britain’s rifle shooting coach, Ian Shaw, who on Monday said that he is pleased with the progress of the riflemen to date. The sessions, which will cover all areas including team building, are aimed at improving the overall game…

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He may not be dashing as Viv Richards, imposing as Chris Gayle, flambouyant as Brian Lara or classy as Rahul Dravid. Yet, Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s dogged presence at the crease has frustrated many a bowlers the world over. His stats are mind-boggling: 443 matches at the international level in a career nearing 20 years speak to his fortitude and desire to excel. A total of 20,340 runs at the highest level, inclusive of 40 centuries and 121 half-centuries, makes him a modern day giant and presently places him among the greats…

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– Hutson says Road to Rio still a work in progress President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson believes that 2014 will be a better year for athletics. “The essence of athletics is competition, we are going to have two national seniors this year to make up for 2013 but we are still working on the calendar, we are still to meet with the coaches to make sure they agree and approve of the calendar,” he said in a telephone interview with Guyana Times International Sport. “We…

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