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Four-year Caribbean Developmental Programme to be submitted to IBA Aug 28, 2024 Sports (From left) GBA President Steve Ninvalle poses alongside his Caribbean counterparts Vincent Straun of the Bahamas, Neil Roberts of Grenada, Shawn Blair of St. Maarten, Vice President Joseph Joefield of Trinidad, Edwin Bass of Curacao, and David Christopher of St. Lucia after the conclusion of the America Boxing Confederation (AMBC) Forum. Kaieteur Sports – President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Steve Ninvalle recently disclosed that a four-year Caribbean Developmental Programme will be submitted to the International Boxing Association (IBA). This was done at the America Boxing Confederation (AMBC) Forum on Monday in Havana, Cuba. Ninvalle, who presented the pilot initiative on behalf of the region, confirmed that the proposed programme has importantly received the support of IBA President Umar Kremlev, who lauded the project and confirmed that the entity will provide the necessary resources for its implementation. Ninvalle said, “The importance of the forum and resulting developments cannot be easily quantified and/or understated. What the region and specifically the Caribbean territories strive to accomplish as a collective, despite having their individual ambitions and objectives, is to create a competitive and professional ecosystem to develop the discipline, which in turn will reduce the skill gap that exists between this region and the traditional areas of power. In the simplest of terms, this programme is essential to the holistic advancement of the region.” The GBA President added, “This initiative will also serve in the evolution of our technical officers, who were discussed in detail in an effort to improve their ability and performance. Naturally better judges, referees, and coaches can only serve to the benefit of the sport. If we want to improve our sport and its overall quality and product, the advancement of technical officers are required. That is the universal truth rooted in empirical evidence.” The upgrading of technical officers, specifically referees, judges, and coaches, was also discussed. Meanwhile, it was further revealed that the region, led by Trinidad and Tobago, will be undertaking a Caribbean Professional Series. Related Similar Articles

Republic Bank CPL Finals tickets on sale at Box Office from August 29 Aug 28, 2024 Sports Kaieteur Sports – Tickets for the playoff stages of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will be on sale at the Guyana Amazon Warriors Box Office, 223-224 Camp Street, Georgetown from 9am on Thursday 29 August. Demand is expected to be very high as the Amazon Warriors look to defend the title they won in 2023.Purchases will be limited for each customer as follows: Eliminator – Maximum of 10 tickets per person, Qualifier 2 – Maximum of 6 tickets per person for the stands, 8 tickets per person for the mound, Qualifier 1 – Maximum of 10 tickets per person and Final – Maximum of 4 tickets per person.Tickets prices are as follows: Eliminator, Qualifier 1 and Qualifier 2; Mound – GY$3500, Orange – GY$6000, Red – GY$6500 and Green – GY$7000. Final: Grass Mound – GY$4000, Orange – GY$7500, Red – GY$8000 and Green – GY$8500. The dates for the playoff matches are as follows:  Tues 1 October: Eliminator – 3rd place vs 4th place Wed 2 October: Qualifier 1 – 1st place vs 2nd place Fri 4 October: Qualifier 2 – Winner of Eliminator vs Loser Qualifier 1 Sun 6 October: Final – Winner Qualifier 1 vs Winner Qualifier 2 Related Similar Articles

Royals stay undefeated in WCPL 2024 Aug 28, 2024 Sports Hayley Matthews (R) of Barbados Royals celebrates the dismissal of Shemaine Campbelle (L) of Guyana Amazon Warriors Kaieteur Sports – Defending champions Barbados Royals booked their place in the final of the 2024 Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) with a 17 run victory over Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, Trinidad. Ball dominated bat on a testing wicket under lights. The Royals were inserted after Warriors captain Lauren Winfield-Hill won the toss and Hayley Matthews’s side struggled to break the infield or find the boundary in the early stages. Matthews fell for just two runs off 13 deliveries and the normally fluent Chamari Athapanthu used up 27 deliveries for her 15 runs before being pinned lbw by Chloe Tryon. It was hard going throughout for the Royals in the face of tight bowling with just 25 runs added in the PowerPlay and 33 on the board after the first ten overs. Erin Burns starred for the Warriors once again, this time with the ball in hand as she returned figures of 3/31 off her four overs as the Royals reached a total of 101/8 off their twenty overs. Qiana Joseph top scored for the 2023 champions with 19 runs, the slow left-armer later pocketed 3/16 with the ball to cap a Player of the Match performance. The Warriors found conditions equally as tough in their response. The Royals put the squeeze on and showed their class and composure in defending a small target. Once Erin Burns – the tournament’s top run maker – was dismissed by Athanpanthu to leave the warriors 44/5 in the twelfth over the game drifted out of sight for Winfield-Hill’s side. The Royals chalked up another win and look increasingly strong in this year’s competition, now it is a case of who they will meet in Thursday’s final with Trinbago Knight Riders and Guyana Amazon Warriors both tied on two points apiece. Deandra Dottin’s Knight Riders have the chance to secure their place in the final but will need to find a way of beating the undefeated and dominant Royals tomorrow night in order to do so. Related Similar Articles

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Democracy and the PPP Aug 28, 2024 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Kaieteur News – Damn!  I/we keep making the same mistake, a fatal one, again and again.  Democracy and the PPP: in, from, by the PPP.  Reality check: democracy and the PPP do not belong in the same sentence.  Whether PPP as political party, or PPP as a government (of anything), democracy is a stranger, an interloper, a feared specter, in that space.  How so?  Why say so?  Where and when is this so apparent?  That democracy and the PPP are incompatible.  I urge every thinking Guyanese-partisans and the liberated, tribalists and the emancipated, bigots and the newly reoriented – to think of this in a particular context, and the substance of what I tender should register beyond argument, any further verbal fisticuffs. GHK Lall Think of a married couple with chronic compatibility issues before a learned but weary judge who has heard it all.  The judgment is inevitable: irreconcilable differences.  I call that the essence of commonsense.  Why maintain the public façade when the internals are a storm-tossed sea?  Why continue with the intolerable tortures, when the domestics are so out of whack, struggle to stay together by an expenditure of exhausting energy?  Not worth it anymore!  Not worth the pretense that neighbors and well-wishers, friends and in-laws, all know has been a long, dreary exercise in futility.  It is better to cut the chord and free each other to carry on towards new adventures.  Now that is living and not pretending, and it should not be alien to the PPP.  Maybe Jagdeo, but not Mohabir.  That is going after life with a zest and not getting bogged down in a political life that is a zoo without cages and gates, one that presses in with demands from all sides at the same time.  Jagdeo knows that for sure; on the other hand, Nandlall’s mind doesn’t work that way.  I spare the president today because this is, shall I say, above the sum of his allowances.  I single out Jagdeo and Anil because these two champions of democracy love to wax profusely about it yetare so naked from the neck down where real democracy is concerned.  As they go, so does the PPP go. Where democracy and the PPP is concerned, one fancies himself as the theorist, while the other is happy to perform in the role as contortionist.  Considering these two inspiring political characters, the keen eyed should have picked up that the roles are interchangeable.  It is what I like about the PPP (party or national government) -it is versatile, can hop from foot to foot.  Or change heads.  I make this simple as simple can be. Let’s not get trapped in that sophisticated construct about agreeing to disagree.  Where democracy and the PPP is concerned, disagreeing is fine, but only if the result is agreeing with whatever new gimmick is being pitched by Jagdeo.  The best environment is when there is no disagreement, absolutely none.  Not one.  Not from any one source.  Not from one damn citizen.  This is the book of Jagdeo, the sacred text of Nandlall, from which he cites, with the occasional platitude about democracy’s ideals dribbling out from the corner of his mouth to keep things honest.  See! I told everyone that these guys don’t mess around. In this season and context, Ali doesn’t count, which is the small matter and reality of being a convenient placeholder.  Improper pursuant to a strict following of the Constitution, but it is how democracy works, for there is the freedom to do just so.  Here is something else for Guyanese to chew on: given the tirades that Dr. Ali has shared in his four years, he has the potential to be worse than the two others together.  Frightening for sure, but there is a man who sees himself as God, king, constitution, and country all rolled into one.  Forget about divine right of kings.  In Dr. Ali’s head, he is the divine personified, his idea of democracy exalted.  Somebody, do me a favor and get me out of here. Disagreeing with these guys is dangerous. For proof check with me.  To disagree with them is to damage the PPP franchise.  To disagree with them is to degrade the PPP brand.  To agree blindly is the PPP version of democracy.  To agree totally is fairness, justice, truth, and the Guyanese Way.  Just ask Dr. Anil “No free-for-all” Nandlall. To agree is fidelity to the PPP, certificate of ‘reliable’ citizenship, the self-preservation afforded by certain kinds of erudition.  The kinds that Jagdeo and Nandlall advocate and call democracy.  Therefore, it is healthy to observe skullduggery and call it PPP spirituality.  It is wise to appreciate bigotry at work but label it the blessing of group therapy.  But, most of all, it is the height of democracy to absorb leadership malevolence and virulence but shrug those off as things of innocence, with no lasting offense. Both Jagdeo and Nandlall are so much in love with themselves that instead of patiently working through differences, they prefer driving a jackass cart over them. Where there is no readiness towards learning and understanding, then there is only baleful contentment with stunting any opening for growing. When the media is seen as an obstacle then blow it away or undermine it by going around it.  That’s PPP democracy.  When public officers are honest, then get rid of them.  Safeguards against unpleasant shocks later.  That’s PPP-style democracy.  When public institutions or procedures are too cumbersome (get in the way), then rearrange them.  That’s the PPP and its springs of democracy. When whomever and whatever can be manipulated for the PPP’s interests, but against those of the people, then that is as good as democracy gets. As in war, where people serve as cannon fodder, so in peace (and PPP democracy) people are what is fed into the shredder.  In a thumbnail, democracy and the PPP do not belong together. Not in the same sentence.  Not on in any known universe. (The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.) Related Similar Articles

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