The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has answered the call of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) ahead of the three-day National Senior Championships which runs off today at the National Track and Field Centre.
Yesterday, during a ceremony at the Main Street ministry, President of the body, Aubrey Hutson received a cheque from the subject Minister, Charles Ramson Jr. to help offset expenses of the meet which will reward the top finishers in each event.
Hutson who thanked the Ministry for its intervention, had this to say recently “There will be medals and prize money for the top three finishers in every event and I know for sure that most of our athletes from outside of Guyana are competing at our National Championships. This event is packed”.
The AAG head then disclosed that “Aliyah and Jasmine Abrams are here, Jeremy Bascombe is here, Arinze Chance is here and also a triple jumper from Suriname.”
Aliyah, a 400m runner has already qualified for her second Olympics and the rest of the athletes will be using the flagship event of the association to achieve qualifying standards at the event which is a qualifier for the Games this summer in Tokyo, Japan.
Hutson further mentioned that the meet will be divided into two sessions today and tomorrow with one session on Sunday afternoon to accommodate the Annual General Meeting and Election of Office bearers earlier in the day. The first sessions will be headlined by the heats of the blue riband 100m races.
“Friday afternoon we start at 5pm then we have two sessions on Saturday starting in the morning at 10 and the one in the afternoon starting at 1 o’ clock. Sunday we will start at 1pm, just one session in the afternoon because in the morning, we will be hosting our Annual General Meeting”, Hutson said.
