THE UNAVAILABILITY of funds has crushed the hopes of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) of sending a team to this year’s Latin American Mini-Cadet and Pre-Cadet Competition, scheduled to start tomorrow in the Dominican Republic.

GTTA secretary Linden Johnson reported that the Association came nowhere near the $2M needed to send the team of nine players and two officials.
The team included Pre-Cadets boys Khalil Ninvalle, Terrence Rausch, Amrit Mookram and Tariq Saunders, with the girls being Celina Jackman and Amika Phillips, while the selected Mini-Cadets were Kaysan Ninvalle, Niron Bisu and Joshua Khan.
Johnson said the association will now turn its attention to the Caribbean Mini- and Pre-Cadet tournament to be staged in Puerto Rico from December 16 to 20 of this year.