EDISON Chouest Offshore, along with its local subsidiary G-Boats Guyana, yesterday presented $1.8M to Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) to aid in the entity’s restart of its nation-wide schools’ basketball programme.
Held at the Sonic Business Services headquarters, Alberttown, YBG co-Director Christopher Bowman, hinted at the return of the sport which is mostly played amongst secondary schools, both male and females at various levels some time in July or August.
“This is not a tournament being launched. This is just a restart strategy,” Bowman told reporters, adding that “this year when we do launch a tournament it will be a downsized tournament in the first instance and initially, we are going to be working with schools that have facilities or access to facilities so the tournament becomes more local in this new pandemic era.”

Edison Chouest Offshore and G-Boats Guyana representative, Daniel LaFont, while boasting of the company’s happiness to support YBG, noted that they “saw that basketball was sort of the lower tier sport; you got cricket, soccer and I have been to field hockey as well and we were like where is the basketball?”
“This is what we are looking for, something that helps the youth of Guyana, something that helps them develop, something that keeps them focussed, something that teaches them more than basketball but teaches them how to be men and women,” LaFont said.
Founded as Edison Chouest Boat Rental in Galliano, Louisiana, in 1960, the Edison Chouest Offshore companies (ECO) are recognised today as the most diverse and dynamic marine transportation solution providers in the world.
ECO operates a growing fleet of well over 200 vessels, ranging from 87 to over 525 feet in length, serving an expanding global customer base.