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Ansa McAl are corporate sports giants
Tuesday October 21, 2014
Five-discipline IGG team gearing up to invade Suriname Guyana will not compete in football
We’re the best! Ansa McAl’s Managing Director, Beverly Harper (centre) and Marketing Director, Troy Cadogan (right) joins the company’s celebrations after winning the Corporate Games on Sunday. Distributors, Ansa McAl Trading Limited, with Headquarters at Beterverwagting, on the East Coast of Demerara, are corporate sport giants after winning the Corporate Games’ overall title on Sunday at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground. Ansa McAl accumulated a total of 40 points from six disciplines against six companies to come away with an overall victory. The company basically wrapped up the title when it routed
Qualfon 3-1 in the football final that brought the curtains down on the 2014 event. Ansa McAl’s Managing Director, Beverly Harper told Kaieteur Sport that the victory was natural since the company often functions as a family. According to Harper, teamwork is one of the most important hallmarks of Ansa McAl. “Ansa McAl is a family; we do things together all the time. In addition we do parties for our staff as well as Christmas parties. When it
comes to things like these when we have to come together, it is no problem for Ansa McAl,” Harper indicated. She said that the victory is a good morale booster against the many challenges the company has faced this y e a r. S p e a k i n g metaphorically, Harper informed that even at the Corporate Games the company was “tripped” and “stamped” but they overcame to win overall. “We are a family and (Continued on page 25)
Close to 50 athletes coming from the disciplines of cycling, volleyball (male & female), chess, Table Tennis and Badminton will leave Guyana on Thursday overland for neighboring Suriname where they will battle their counterparts from the host nation and French Guiana in the aforementioned disciplines in the second leg of this year’s Inter Guiana Games (IGG).Guyana will not be competing in male and female football according to the National Sports Commission (NSC).The confident Guyana contingent will be aiming to maintain their overall dominance having blown away the opposition following Track & Field, Basketball and Swimming to be in pole position after those disciplines were contested here. The Guyanese won at athletics against old rivals Suriname, came second in male and female basketball and third in swimming. Suriname is trailing the Guyanese overall with French Guiana third; the latter did not take part in athletics. Following is the official list of athletes selected.
BCCI unlikely to claim damages from WICB ESPNcricinfo - The BCCI is unlikely to claim damages from the WICB right away, for West Indies having pulled out of the tour to India mid-way, but it could hit them with a series e m b a r go. The BCCI’s working committee, which will discuss the consequences of the pullout
in Hyderabad on Tuesday, is also unlikely to suspend West Indies players from the IPL. The BCCI’s financial losses due to the cancellation of a major portion of the scheduled series could touch Rs 400 crore (US$65 million approx), but instead of
claiming damages at this point, the working committee could decide to issue the WICB a legal notice, asking it why it shouldn’t be penalised right away for the breach of bilateral agreements signed between the two boards. Given that the WICB has
been struggling financially, the BCCI is unlikely to claim huge damages right now. However, the BCCI hierarchy is of the opinion that the WICB’s breach is severe enough to sever ties with the board and amend the draft FTP accordingly. At the moment, (Continued on page 31)