THE Guyana government has turned its attention to sports and recreational facilities in a huge way and this year alone has spent upwards of $1.5 billion to fix almost every sporting facility in the country.

Delivering brief remarks at the inaugural Vice President three-day softball extravaganza, which climaxed at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary on Sunday, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo pointed to the fixing of sporting facilities throughout the length and breadth of Guyana, including Berbice, Georgetown, East Coast and several Amerindian communities.
With respect to the Amerindian communities, over 200 of them have been given allocations to fix their village facilities.
According to the Vice President, since the country is doing slightly better now financially, “we can start to reinvest in sporting facilities.”

Dr Jagdeo congratulated the Georgetown Softball Cricket League (GSCL) Inc for its effort in organising the tournament. “It took a lot of dedication and effort to make something like this happened and there are lots of people in the background and I want to also recognise them too…”
The Vice President also congratulated the winning teams while pointing out that within the spirit of the game, “we congratulate all the participants although they did not succeed in lifting the winning trophies.”

The three-day tournament, which was played in three categories – Legends Over-50, Masters Over-40 and Open All Class, saw Regal making ash of their opponents by sweeping all three, the Legends defeating Aash Décor, Masters winning from Ariel Masters and the Open whipping Hyde Park.
Among the several sponsors were Regal Stationery and Computer Centre, Trophy Stall, which provided the trophies through the continued generosity of its proprietor Ramesh Sunich, I & S Trading, ARD It’s Our Life Youtuber, Star Party Rentals, Tourism Guyana, Ofimak Office Supplies (Panama), Baifa Office Supplies (Panama), Quick Office Supplies (Panama), HL Latino Furniture (Panama), and FL Sports. Regal Stationery and Computer Centre are the sole distributors for the four Panamanian entities products in Guyana.