Horse racing has been on the rise again locally and although there has been a number of improvements in racing facilities countrywide there still has been evidence of bad management and poor track administration at most meets.
Central American and Caribbean Games’ ladies gold medallist and local squash `Queen’ Nicolette Fernandes and Kenya-based track athlete Cleveland `The Little Kenyan’ Forde are prime candidates for the 2006 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year awards respectively.
Guyana, under new skipper Narsingh Deonarine, will look to start the new year on a winning note when they take on the Windward Islands in their opening match of the 2007 Carib Beer Series at the Tanteen Recreation Ground today.
Tucber Park ‘A’ defeated the Mibicuri Strikers in the quarter final match of the Republic Bank sponsored Under-15 Limited Overs Cricket Competition for Berbice teams.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) hopes to select office bearers as early as next month at its annual general meeting (AGM).
Former West Indies opener Ryan Ramdass says he anticipates a strenuous therapeutic work load after his cast is removed and to be back in form in time for the regional competition.
The Pepsi Sonics stopped one breath short of calling the Georgetown Amateur Basket-ball Association (GABA) a one-man show Tuesday when they released details of an appeal they filed with the association.
Kashif and Shanghai co-director Kashif Mohammed said yesterday that including Trinidad’s club football team Joe Public, winners of the 2006 Kashif and Shanghai football tournament, had raised the tournament to a higher standard than in previous years.
Twelve members of the Guyana national cricket team left for Grenada yesterday to prepare to battle the Windward Islands from tomorrow in the Carib Beer and KFC regional cricket competitions.
Avery Grant – student: ‘I plan on writing five subjects at the CXC examination in May/June of this year and I am hoping that I will do well.
An exhilarating experience and much glory is what the eternal optimist hopes the dawning of a new year will bring to Guyana in 2007.
The blighted Georgetown city council will enter 2007 still deep in debt amounting to millions of dollars and owing a part of its work force for outstanding wages and benefits due last year.
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