Latest update June 1st, 2026 12:37 AM
GTTA mourns loss of its President
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) is mourning the death of its President, former Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, who died yesterday morning at Harlem in a vehicular accident on West Coast of Demerara. Below is their full statement:
“The Executives and General Council of the Guyana Table Tennis Association wish to express heartfelt condolences to the family and relatives of serving President of the GTTA. Being an ardent fan and a former player, his zeal and passion for the sport was truly amazing; he had a consistent presence at tournaments from the commencement to finish.
Upon his ascension to the helm of the sport, he brought an unprecedented level of enthusiasm vigor and vibrancy to the sport and truly lifted its profile and propelled the sport to new heights.
He truly embraced the strategic vision of the sport and worked assiduously to point the association in developing the institutional structures, which would lay the foundation for the progression of the sport in the future.
He was passionate about development of human resource, players and structures that resulted in high level training for our elite athletes, which saw Nigel Bryan, Trenace Lowe, Joel Alleyne, Priscilla Greaves and Edinho Lewis benefiting from training at the Lily Yip Table Tennis Training Centre in the USA last month.
He was a firm advocate in incentives and rewards for athlete’s efforts and a believer that this was a key driver/motivator for the sport
One of his legacies would surely be the drive for the decentralisation of the sport, which saw several committees being setup across Guyana that led to many more players participating in tournaments and being able to access the game.
He was a firm advocate for capacity building with his advocacy for Guyana’s hosting of two International Table Tennis Federation Level 1 Courses, which saw over 40 coaches being trained and certified in addition to three Level 2 coaches being accredited and Guyana hosting an international referees’ and umpires course for over 24 umpires.
He was instrumental in Guyana hosting the 53rd Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships in 2011, which saw him being recognized by the Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation for his excellent organising skills and the organising of the tournament. This paved the way for Guyana to be given the status to host a Latin American Championships or World Junior Circuit event in 2014-2015.
He was a key driver in the association revenue generation planning for which committee he chaired as President; he always felt that revenue was key to the realization of the association plans and programmes and work very hard with members of this committee.
Last Thursday at the GTTA’s council meeting, he was working until 10pm with members to finalise plans for National Table Tennis Championships, The National Schools Table Tennis Championships, The Ministry’s Corporation and Business Entity Championships and for other key international engagements for our cadets, and commencement of initial planning and formulation of committees for Guyana’s hosting of the 2013 Caribbean Pre-Cadet Championships in July 2013.
He was very methodical in his leadership and would always implore upon his Executives and council members to go the extra mile. Undoubtedly the sport made great leaps and bounds under his stewardship and he would have surely left a void to be filled. He would be dearly be missed by members of the table tennis fraternity”
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