Team Guyana arrives aiming to retain Short and Long-Range titles

– aims for individual glory 


The Guyana National Rifle Association (GuyanaNRA) Team to the 2025 edition of the West Indies Fullbore Shooting Championships have arrived safe in the Land of the Flying Fish, Barbados.

The team which arrived on Sunday have settled down and are in high spirits having completed satisfactory training over the last few weeks at the Timehri Rifle Ranges. Team Captain Dylan Fields shared that he is confident that his team is prepared and only now must deal with the conditions on the day, which includes lots of rain in Barbados now.

The twelve-member team is made up of for the first time in 20-years, two female shooters, Kay-Ann Ghanie and Althea Alleyne. The other members of the team are Captain Dylan Fields, Vice-Captain Leo Romalho, Manager/Coach Mahendra Persaud, Lennox Braithwaite, Ryan Sampson, Peter Persaud, Sherwin Felicien, Roberto Tewari and the two USA based riflemen, Sigmond Douglas and John Fraser.

The GuyanaNRA team’s journey has been made possible through the largesse of several donors namely: H.E. President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Army Chief Brigadier Omar Khan, Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken, Hon. Charles Ramson Jr. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, President of the Guyana Olympic Association Godfrey, Munroe, Mr. Ramsay Ali, CEO of Sterling Products, Queensway Security Ltd, Crown Mining, Industrial Safety Supplies Inc., Guyana Police Force, Guyana Revenue Authority and Caribbean Airlines.

Participating countries this year are Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Jamaica, US Rifle Team, Canada, UK and the host nation. The Individual competition which will run for three days shot off on Tuesday morning, following the official opening ceremony.