Latest update April 16th, 2026 4:35 PM
CBC Youth Championships return to Guyana after 16 years
-Caribbean Confederation increases per diem
The Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Executive Committee approved an increase to the daily
Nigel Hinds
per diem (daily allowance) for all participating national teams for CBC Championships from US$30 per day to US$40 per day.
This is according to a press release from CBC yesterday. The release indicated that the increase is with the first deposit of US$1,000, which is due on Friday. The daily per diem increase was an initiative by the CBC Vice-President of Finance and Marketing, Guyanese, Patrick Haynes to attract National Federations to host the qualifying Youth Championships.
With 18 visiting national teams participating in this year’s Youth Championships, the daily per diem will offset the host National Federation’s budget by US$100,000 or 25 percent.
The CBC Youth Championships is returning to Guyana sixteen years after it was last held there in 1999. Twelve men and eight women’s national teams will battle for supremacy in the U-16 age category in the Caribbean where the top three teams in each category will qualify for the 2017 CentroBasket U-17 Championships.
“The Cooperative Republic of Guyana and the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) through its President, Nigel Hinds, has demonstrated a great know-how in organising high level tournaments by hosting the Inter-Guiana Games, the GABF National Championships and other International Games at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in the capital city of Georgetown,” the release from CBC observed.
Patrick Haynes
Members of the CBC Executive Evaluation Commission are scheduled to visit Guyana from April 27-May 2 for the first of two site visits leading up the Championships.
The Evaluation Commission will also meet with representatives from the Government of Guyana, Guyana Olympic Association and Corporate Guyana to customise long-term development programmes and strategies with the aim of implementing concrete development programmes in collaboration with the Federation.
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