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Kaieteur News
Tuesday November 12, 2013
Prime Minister Hinds supports Four athletes to depart Chico K&S Schools tourney on US Scholarships
PM Samuel Hinds (centre) hands over the huge trophy to Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major (left) and Kashif Muhammad at his office yesterday.
Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds presented the championship trophy to organizers of the Chico Kashif and Shanghai Secondary schools football tournament yesterday at his office and also pledged to purchase 500 tickets for school children for the December 27th matches in Linden at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground. PM Hinds handed over the huge trophy to Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major and Kashif Muhammad. He has in the past supported their previous tournament for seniors. Meanwhile, tomorrow
Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th November, the K&S organization will be coordinating a coaching seminar for the coaches from the schools that are apart if the tournament. Chief Education Officer of the Ministry of Education,
Olato Sam, has asked for some additional teachers to be part of the training and this has been agreed to by Mr. Muhammad. The session starts at 9:00hrs and the venue is the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.
Four of Guyana’s mosttalented junior track and field prospects, Jevina Straker, Chavez Ageday, Alita Moore and Stephon James are expected to depart Guyana this week for the United States of America on Athletics Scholarships at ASA College, New York. Kaieteur Sport understands that the four athletes were accepted into the College and received the requisite visa from the US Embassy here in Guyana to attend the institution where they will most likely train, compete and study as part of their scholarship. Straker is a triple CARIFTA Games 1500m gold medallist. The CARIFTA Games is the region’s benchmark for junior athletics. Ageday is a notable junior talent while Moore has been the fastest Guyanese woman for the last year and a half with sub 12 times. James is a consistent Caribbean and South American performer, who is capable of running under 46 seconds in the 400m. The four athletes have been at the top of the chart in their events for the last two years; they represent the future of
Jevina Straker
Alita Moore
Stephon James
Chavez Ageday
Guyana’s athletics. According to their website, ASA College has two centrally-located campuses in
Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn with more than 3000 students and 20 programmes. (Edison Jefford)
Demerara Trial matches rescheduled for November 13 and 14 The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) 2-Day Trial match which was set for November 12 and 13 has been rescheduled for November 13 and 14 at the Everest Cricket Club ground due to the
inclement weather. The match will be used to select the county team for the upcoming Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) senior inter county tournament. Teams; Leon Johnson (Captain), Tagenarine
Chanderpaul, Shemroy Barrington, Balbinder Shivpersaud, Zaheer Mohamed, Vishal Singh, Amir Khan, Joseph Perry, Randy Knights, Shaquille Williams, Andre Stoll, Paul Wintz,
Totaram Bishun, Raj Nanan and Trevon Griffith. Christopher Barnwell (Captain), Rajendra Chandrika , Chandrapaul Hemraj, Yetesh Dhanpaul, Steven Jacobs, Arvin
Seepersaud, Kemol Savory, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Pattadin, Carl Rambarose, Trevor Benn, Kelon Carmichael, Anntonell Atwell, Robin Bacchus and Jeetendra Sookdeo.
Suknanan wins 2013 MACORP Invitational Golf tournament Canadian based golfer Jaipaul Suknanan was precise with his drives, he chipped with purpose and putted with confidence; the end results were 14 pars, a birdie and the top prize in this year’s edition of the MACORP Invitational Golf Tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course. The 2007 Guyana Open winner shot two over par last Saturday to finish with a net score of 65 (playing with a handicap of seven); he won on a count-back against Dave Mohamad (with a handicap of 25) who had also finished with a net score of 65. Archbishop Dr Philbert London (28 handicap) placed third, as his last nine holes proved better than two other performers (Mattie Wesslin and R. Persaud) with similar scores of net 67. In the ladies department it was all Christine Sukhram as
she walked away with both the net score and gross score trophies. Sukhram, who is the country’s most dominant female player for almost a decade, ended with net 73 playing with a handicap of 10. The MACORP tournament, one highly regarded on the golf calendar, was also played by brothers: Avinda Kishore and Avinash Persaud. The former, who won the prestigious Guyana Open title the week prior, could not replicate his winning feat. The five-handicapper made consecutive birdies early in the back-nine, but faltered towards the end to finish with a gross score of 76. His older brother Persaud, who has won the Guyana Open four times, made two under in his back nine to win on a count-back against Suknanan in the gross
MACORP Invitational Golf tournament winner Jaipaul Suknanan (fifth from right) poses with the other winners and MACORP representatives. scoring department. Both had finished with a 72. The closest to the pin award was won by Robert
Hanuman, while the longest drive prize went to Roger Rajkumar. Managing Director of MACORP, Jorge Medina,
a player himself, spoke about the importance of golf and tourism at the presentation ceremony. Along with the
trophies the players were treated to several prizes from a free raffle along with food and drinks.