in The Bahamas The 59th annual congress of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) ended yesterday here at the Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island, Nassau with FIFA president Sepp Blatter declaring himself a “very happy president” despite failing to push through with the 6+5 ruling.
From Donald Duff in Nassau, The BahamasThe opening ceremony of the Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) 59th annual congress held at the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis Hotel on Paradise Island came close to matching the name of the island itself.
‘We will teach you how to fish’ – Warner By Donald Duff in Nassau, Bahamas They might be presidents of different organisations in the administration of football worldwide but when it comes to the development of the sport in the Caribbean, FIFA president Sepp Blatter and president of CONCACAF and CFU Jack Warner are on the same page.
-President Brazilian Football Confederation President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) Ricardo Terra Teixeira said yesterday that hosting the World Cup competition in 2014 will be a tall order and that his country would have to pass several tests along the way.
The National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue will come alive this weekend when the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) stages its National Intermediate Championships and Caribbean Games Box-Off.
Christopher Franklyn, Colin France and Hewley Griffith will represent Guyana at a four-country Invitational table tennis tournament in French Guiana this week.
-S&S promotions plan three boxing cards which will culminate with a middleweight fight against William Joppy Lennox Allen is all set to clash with Howard Eastman for the national middleweight title of Guyana with the winner guaranteed a fight against former World Boxing association middleweight champion William Joppy.
Chetram Singh’s innings as president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) continued yesterday for its 18 consecutive year when he defeated challenger Bishwa Panday at the annual general meeting of the GCB at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s pavilion.
The news that incumbent president of the Athletic Association of Guyana would not be seeking re-election when that body stages its annual general meeting today came as a complete surprise.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, former national sprinter Colin Boyce will be the new president of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) when elections are held tomorrow.
Wayne Dover has resigned as head coach of the Alpha United Football Club and has his sights set on other pastures.
-Juman-Yassin says Guyana will definitely be there Take Beijing Olympic 100m gold medallists Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser.
It’s the battle of the also rans, the lowly-rated, the cellar dwellers and there might be a host of other similar phrases that can aptly describe today’s game between Guyana and the Windward Islands.
Guyana’s Colin France toppled a star-studded field of table tennis racquet-wielders, which included two former Caribbean champions, to capture the prestigious Reality and Maintenance Services Limited Supersingles men’s crown in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend.
Guyana’s Gary Jansen, popularly known around domino circles as `Tie Tongue,’ was crowned Domino `King’ at the World Council of Domino Federations (WCDF) championships last month in Antigua.
He will be remembered in myriad ways. As the man who was in the forefront of the drive to restore press freedom to Guyana; as a newspaper publisher who constantly urged his reporters to strive for the highest ideals of journalism; as tireless crusader against those who sought to oppress press freedom; as an intellectual whose vision was way ahead of his time; as a man who believed in a free market economy and as a man who fought for a better future for Guyana through the medium of the press.
Errol Tiwari, Roy Sharma at loggerheads over outcome of match Controversy erupted during the fourth round of the national Chess Open qualifiers at the Tower Hotel on Main Street yesterday which resulted in one of the players Roy Sharma refusing to continue in the tournament.According
‘Golden girls’ Lowe, John keep Golden Arrowhead fluttering proudly The Golden Arrowhead fluttered proudly in Pune, India yesterday as the first day of competition of the third Junior Commonwealth Games got underway.
Alexander Duncan continued the tradition set by his family of playing strong chess to defeat favourite Learie Webster as the National Open Chess qualifiers got underway at the Hotel Tower yesterday morning.
President of the Guyana Cricket Board Chetram Singh left Guyana yesterday for St Lucia to attend a meeting of the West Indies Cricket Board today.
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