Guyana’s top senior and junior badminton players are set to contest the 2019 Caribbean International Badminton Championships (CAREBACO) to be staged at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex in Barbados from Thursday until August 25.
The South Americans at the 2018 championships in Suriname, won 13-medals -5-Gold, 2-Silver and 6 Bronze and are keen to flex their muscles this year.
They have been training intensely twice daily in the past weeks.
Headlining the squad are the Ramdhani siblings – Priyanna – the 2018 NSC Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year and last year’s CAREBACO’s U-19 champion, along with Tyrese Jeffrey, Akili Haynes, Narayan Ramdhani and Jonathan Mangra.
Gokarn Ramdhani will act in the dual role of manager/coach in the 17-country event. Meanwhile, the Guyana Badminton Association, in a press release expressed gratitude to a number of stakeholders who supported the association for this championships.
They are as follow NSC & Mr. Christopher Jones, Demerara Bank & Dr. Yesu Persaud, Mr. Nevell Osman, SOL & Ms. Ayanna Watson, Gaico & Mr. Komal Singh, DaSilvs’s Optical & Phillip DaSilva and the GOA and Mr. Kalam Juman-Yassin.
