Georgetown Dominoes Association eyes further support from Sport Ministry

THE Georgetown Dominoes Association (GDA), through former club president, Lyndon Boston, has expressed immense gratitude for the support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport throughout 2022.

According to Boston, two of their competitions in 2022 were “adequately sponsored by the Ministry”, which also gave them access to the National Gymnasium.

"It would be remiss of me, as the ex-president of the Georgetown Dominoes Association, to not say thank you to the Government of Guyana, for its input into dominoes in 2022, through the auspices of the energetic Charles Ramson Jr., Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport."

“Albeit, these sponsorships were in central Georgetown, I wish to take this opportunity to urge the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport to make an allocation from the $4.3 billion dollars allocation to sports in Budget 2023 to the resus-

Dominoes citation and structuring of dominoes as a calendared event in Guyana”, Boston added.

He added, “ Although unheralded as a major sport in Guyana, playing dominoes is the most widely played game in Guyana. This game is played by the entire strata of our popu - lation and perhaps, at one time or another, in every household in Guyana, even negating gender bias.”

“My team and I stand ready to assist in building the bridge between the resurging Guyana National Dominoes Federation and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport to make this aspiration - playing competitive dominoes, nationally, a reality.

The former club president further indicated that the World Council of Dominoes Competition is slated for Guyana in August 2023 and hopes there could be a ‘One Guyana’ competition prior to that event.

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We are taught to assist others to climb mountains when we have reached our summit. Today, I would like to pay it forward to some of my younger teammates by giving two of them a cricket bat each while I would like to

Those were the words of Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club all-rounder, Kevin Sinclair, as he joined his team-mates in making a positive difference of three club-mates.

Sinclair, who has been a member of the RHTYSC for over six years, donated a cricket bat each to two of the club's most promising players. Those benefitting were Romesh Bharrat and Tamehwar Deonandan of the club’s under-17 and under-13 teams respectively.

Bharrat, in 2023, will captain the under-17 and has already represented Berbice at the under-15, 17 and 19 levels. Deonandan is the captain of the RHTYSC Poonai Pharmacy under-13 team and has also represented Guyana and Berbice at the same level.

Sinclair, who has to date represented the West Indies in three One-Day international matches and six 20/20 matches, also joined his Namilco Thunderbolt teamates to assist a female member with several pieces of household and kitchen items.

The presentation assisted the female cricketer to move into a new home with her family. RHTYSC Organising Secretary, Robby Kissoonlall stated that the different cricket teams of the RHTYSC are mandated to assist youths.

Also benefitting from this were the elderly and less fortunate via a wide range of activities under the subheadings of culture, sports, charity, education, social, youth development, community development and anti-drugs, among others.

Members who have gone on to the highest levels are also encouraged to pay it forward by assisting upcoming promising members.