THE Georgetown Dominoes Association (GDA), through former club president, Lyndon Boston, has expressed immense gratitude for the support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport throughout 2022.

According to Boston, two of their competitions in 2022 were “adequately sponsored by the Ministry”, which also gave them access to the National Gymnasium.

“It would be remiss of me, as the ex-president of the Georgetown Dominoes Association, to not say thank you to the Government of Guyana, for its input into dominoes in 2022, through the auspices of the energetic Charles Ramson Jr., Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport.”

“Albeit, these sponsorships were in central Georgetown, I wish to take this opportunity to urge the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport to make an allocation from the $4.3 billion dollars allocation to sports in Budget 2023 to the resuscitation and structuring of dominoes as a calendared event in Guyana”, Boston added.

He added, “ Although unheralded as a major sport in Guyana, playing dominoes is the most widely played game in Guyana. This game is played by the entire strata of our population and perhaps, at one time or another, in every household in Guyana, even negating gender bias.”

“My team and I stand ready to assist in building the bridge between the resurging Guyana National Dominoes Federation and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport to make this aspiration – playing competitive dominoes, nationally, a reality.

The former club president further indicated that the World Council of Dominoes Competition is slated for Guyana in August 2023 and hopes there could be a ‘One Guyana’ competition prior to that event.