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The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has been able to hire 20 coaches and conduct a number of programmes facilitated by funds from the Stanford initiative, said GCB Cricket Development Officer Colin Stuart.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday handed over 30 blazers to the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for use by the national football team known as the Golden Jaguars in the Digicel Caribbean Cup finals.

The Digicel Caribbean Cup football finals will kick off today with hosts Trinidad and Tobago taking on Barbados from 6pm at the Haseley Crawford Stadium.

Junior Vice-President of the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG), Ken Elexey was laid to rest yesterday amidst glowing tributes from the organisations he served until his death last Saturday morning.

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A coaching upgrade workshop is scheduled today from 9am to 3pm at the National Gymnasium for the coaches employed by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

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Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Cricket Development Officer Colin Stuart, said yesterday the funds from the Stanford initiative had been used for a variety of projects geared towards cricket development.

Organising Secretary of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major has said that Guyana’s Golden Jaguars were ‘unhappy’ with their 0-1 premature loss to Barbados in a warm-up match on Tuesday.

The Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) Stanford Twenty/20 cricket team stands a very good chance of wresting the National Sport Commis-sion’s (NSC) 2006 Sport Team-of-the-Year award from the 2005 winners, the Guyana Rugby Football Union’s (GRFU) Under-18 team, following its resounding success at the Inaugural Stanford Twenty/20 competition.

Founder of the Harpy Eagle Martial Arts Academy, Troy Bobb, copped three World Karate titles during a six-month campaign in the United States, recently.

Rose Hall Town Pepsi squeezed into the Carpen’s Plumbing/Spready’s Bakery under-19 final with a three-run victory over long time rivals, Tucber Park at the Area ‘H’ ground last weekend.

Guyana’s national football team preparing for the Digicel Cup finals which begins on Friday lost 0-1 to Barbados in a friendly encounter in Trinidad yesterday.

Junior vice-president of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Ken Elexey passed away Saturday morning at the St Joseph Mercy Hospita,l where he succumbed to colon cancer.

Guyana Cricket Board president (GCB) Chetram Singh said yesterday he has alerted the various competition committees about the opportunity provided by the recent good weather to get an early start to the domestic season.

With the new format of regional cricket, defending champions Guyana will begin their quest for a 10th regional one-day title against the 2005 semi-finalists, Wind-ward Islands, in Grenada today.

As a young boy in Guyana, not unlike others in the islands of the Caribbean, the game of cricket was merely one of life’s simple pleasures.

Herstelling and Prospect set up a semi-final showdown when both teams recorded victories in their quarter-final games as the East Bank Demerara Basketball tournament continued on Sunday.

When the panel of judges meets to select Guyana’s Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2006 on January 26, they would have a tough decision to make since among the top performers in this category last year are two 15-year-olds – table tennis player Trenace Lowe and track athlete Alika Morgan.

Azeemul Hannif marked his return to the regional first class scene with an unbeaten half-century while new Guyana skipper Narsingh Deonarine scored another as the four-day Carib Beer Series match against the Windward Islands ended in a no-result at the Tanteen Recreation Sports Club ground in Grenada yesterday.