Budget of 4M for Guyanese on WI Team to World LR Shooting C/ships in USA...

Budget of 4M for Guyanese on WI Team to World LR Shooting C/ships in USA…

Jul 01, 2015 Sports

Demerara Mutual Assurance Society and Scotiabank on board

By Franklin Wilson
Corporate support for Guyana’s members on the West Indies Team that will contest this year’s 2015 Palma Match, Team and Individual World Championships which is set for Camp Perry, Ohio, USA from August 3rd to 14th is way off the 4 million mark that has been budgeted.
A few corporate entities have already come on board while a few have said that they cannot support. Assistance would have already been received from Demerara Mutual Assurance Society located at Robb and Avenue of the Republic as well as Scotiabank.
The Executive of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) is expressing gratitude to both Demerara Mutual Assurance Society and Scotiabank for their support noting that the Guyana members will be going all out to ensure that the West Indies Team hold its own in the USA against the likes of Canada, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, Continental Europe and Kenya.
The Guyana members on the West Indies team are Mahendra Persaud (Vice Captain), Lennox Braithwaite, Ransford Goodluck, Dylan Fields, Leo Romalho, Ryan Sampson, Sigmund Douglas (USA based) and John Fraser (USA based).
Other members of the West Indies team are from Trinidad and Tobago – Norris Gomez, Michael Perez, and Ezekiel Joseph; Antigua/Barbuda – Anderson Perry and Thomas Greenaway; Barbados – Marlon King and Shelly-Ann Hinds and Jamaica’s Dwayne Forde.
Jamaican John Nelson is the non-Shooting Captain; ACP Retired Paul Slowe is the Main Wind Coach; Adjutant David Dumont of Bermuda and Dennis Lee of Jamaica, Assistant Wind Coach.
Competition at the World Championships being held under the auspices of the International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA) would be held at the 800, 900 and 100 yards ranges.
The Guyana NRA is appealing to the corporate community to support their quest to bring further glory to Guyana and the West Indies by extension. Guyana are the reigning Short and Long Range champions in the Caribbean having won in Jamaica last year.
The Executive of the West Indies Full Bore Shooting Council of which Guyanese Ryan Sampson is Secretary, had taken a decision last year that there would be no Caribbean championships this year since there is the World Championships.