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Giftland Office Max announces winner of 2nd Sports Ambassador
Giftland Office Max yesterday announced the winner of its Football Sports Ambassador at its head office on Main Street. After 3,346 votes, Buxton United Football Club’s Kwadjo Garnett copped the second title of Giftland Sports Ambassador after GDF bodybuilder Devon Davis became the first in August when the programme was launched.
Like Davis, who has already exhausted the funds budgeted for him,
Giftland Football Ambassador Kwadjo Garnett (with Football and cheque) is flanked by the other nominees, GFA Vice-President Lavern Fraser-Thomas (2nd from left) and Giftland’s officials Compton Babb (3rd from left) and Delroy Dash (3rd from right).
Garnett, who attends the University of Guyana, will benefit from at least $300,000 in sports equipment and Academic material and yesterday signed the one-year contract in the presence of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Vice-President Lavern Fraser-Thomas and four of the other five nominees.
Stephen King and Nathanael King of the Georgetown Football Club along with Berbicians Denny Mitchell and Kevin Layne who were absent were the other nominees for the second leg of Giftland’s quest for five sporting Ambassadors for 2013.
Garnett secured more than half of the votes which were conducted on facebook, BBM and in-store voting, while Nathanael King received the second most votes. The two Kings, Mitchell and Layne were awarded $10,000 each for their nomination for the title.
Carlton Babb, Giftland’s Public Relations Officer explained his company lends a helping hand to Football and every other sport and promised Giftland’s continued support of the careers of talented young sportsmen and also intends to assist them to develop academically.
“Everyone here is a champion. We at Giftland are happy and proud to be associated with and want to build a strong and long-lasting relationship with our young sporting Ambassadors,” Babb revealed.
Delroy Dash of the Marketing Department told the gathering that sporting talent, a sound education, leadership ability and communication skills were among the criteria used by the various national sporting bodies that were approached by Giftland to arrive at the nominees.
According to Dash, Hockey will be the next leg with female players Aliyah Gordon and Janelle Monroe already being indentified by their Association.
“We will conduct votes for the Hockey Ambassador then move to Squash in the next two weeks and everyone chosen will have to sign a one-year contract with us,” Dash concluded. (Sean Devers)
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