THE Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) launched Air Badminton at the University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen Campus last Friday, to continue the spreading of badminton in Guyana.
The Ramdhani siblings, Narayan and Priyanna, conducted the programme as they introduced the game to staff and students of the university.

Gokarn Ramdhani, president of the Guyana Badminton Association (GBA), made a presentation of shuttlecocks, racquets and nets to the Vice-Chancellor of UG, Professor Paloma Mohamed-Martin. The programme to have Air Badminton played on campus was happily received.

The GBA release said in a drive to have badminton played around Guyana, it is doing a number of projects which started last year when Air Badminton was launched at the National Park and St Rose’s High School, and will be followed by Shuttle Time programmes this month at New Amsterdam Multilateral, Berbice High, Mackenzie High and the Christianburg/Wismar Secondary.

Air Badminton is described as an ambitious new development project in partnership with HSBC, Badminton World Federation’s Global Development Partner, designed to create opportunities for people of all ages and ability to play badminton on hard, grass and sand surfaces in parks, gardens, streets, playgrounds and beaches around the world.

The project has been five years in the making, starting with a vision to develop a new outdoor shuttlecock with increased durability, stability and wind resistance and to allow people to have a more positive experience of badminton outdoors.

Strategically, Air Badminton will allow CBA to fulfil its overall objective of putting a badminton racquet in the hand of as many persons as possible.