Larry Josiah and Sharmaine Clarke of Headquarters Division, were named Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year respectively when the Guyana Police Force held its annual awards ceremony last Wednesday at the Tactical Unit Square.
Chris Gayle and Clive Lloyd keep referring to the West Indies team under their charge in South Africa as young.
Any triumph, even against an amalgamation of familiar opponents, past and present, recalled retirees and promising youngsters, would be a welcome tonic for the West Indies in their present state.
The dynamic Kashif and Shangai organization continues to receive support for their upcoming annual football tournament with Bakewell Bakery and Francine’s Fish Shop both making sterling contributions to the organization yesterday.
Two of the country’s most lethal, offensive threats will go head-to-head tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when the Courts Pacesetters and the Disciples of Plaisance meet in one of the most anticipated division three finals that Georgetown has seen in a while.
Barbadian Dudley Harris was returned to the helm of the World Council of Domino Federations (WCDF) for another three years when that body held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections at City Hall here in Georgetown last weekend.
Guyana’s Nicholas Narine turned in a creditable performance last week-end in Barbados where he competed in the Rotherly Junior Squash Open tournament.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul won the Cricketer-of-the-Year award when the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) held its annual award ceremony for 2007 on Wednesday night at the Georgetown Cricket Club pavilion.
Bert Sukhai, Chief Executive Officer of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) said that his company was pleased with the organisation of the just concluded NAMILCO knockout football Festival.
By almost every conceivable indicator, the West Indies third major tour of South Africa, starting in East London today with a 25-overs-an-innings thrash that is part of Makhaya Ntini’s benefit year, is destined to follow the same ill-fated course of the previous two.
The national cricket selectors yesterday shortlisted 36 players in two separate squads for next year’s Carib Beer and Stanford Twenty20 tournaments raising quite a few eyebrows in the process with their choices.
Ravens’ forward Ryan `Corn Meal’ Gullen gave an explosive 27-point performance giving his team a much-needed offensive boost in the process which enabled them to a 77-66 victory over the Nets on Wednesday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the first game of the best of three Guyana Amateur Basketball Association/Next level Entertainment division one finals.
Cricket aficionados and general sports enthusiasts will be heartened by the news that the West Indies tour of South Africa will be televised live by the National Communica-tions Network (NCN).
It’s the season of giving and Andrew Budhan, a US-based Guyanese and proprietor of Universal Sports store located in Fifth Street, Alberttown, yesterday made his generous offer to three young and talented sports personalities here.
The top performers in the just concluded Namilco knockout football Festival will be honoured at a presentation ceremony at National Milling Company (Namilco), head office at Agricola, today.
The Kennard Memorial Turf Club has once again come to the fore front of local horse racing with an organized Boxing Day meet at the club’s track, Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice.
“Preparations are going great despite the weather situation.” Those were the words of Clyde Butts, former West Indies off spinner and now manager of the West Indies Under-19 team who are encamped in Guyana as part of their preparations for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia next year.
The Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) annual awards ceremony will tonight be without its featured speaker.
The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has joined with the United Nations Children Educational Fund (UNICEF) in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and it is the third local sporting body to do so.
The situation bore the unmistakeable stamp of customary West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) bungling.
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