Latest update April 14th, 2026 12:38 AM
Guyana’s first male Caribbean Table Tennis Champ Errol Caetano visits his homeland
Kaieteur Sports – Statistician Charwayne Walker has informed that Senior Sports Journalist Allan LaRose has highlighted that Guyana’s first male Caribbean Table Tennis champion, Canada based, Errol Caetano, has returned to the land of the Majestic Kaieteur falls for a brief stay. Caetano’s grand daughter is representing Guyana at the Concacaf Under17 Football Championship.
Errol Caetano (centre) meets Leslie ‘Peassy’ Gill, Charwayne Walker, Sharmar Britton and Colin France at the GCC, Bourda.
Errol won Guyana’s first male Caribbean championship in Trinidad in 1972, defeating Barbados’ Robert Earl in the final.
Walker further informed that the other Guyanese male Table Tennis players to lift that crown were Bruce Edwards in 1974 in Barbados, the late George ‘The Chief’ Brathwaite in 1979 in Aruba and Sydney Christophe in 1992 in Guyana.
Errol Caetano (centre), daughter Nicole and grand daughter Caraleena. (Allan LaRose photo)
Errol Caetano and cousin Jeanette Comacho after winning the singles titles.
Kaieteur Sport joins Charwayne Walker in welcoming Errol Caetano back home and extending best wishes to his grand daughter in her sojourn with the National Under17 football team.
Walker informed that Errol’s father, Eddy Caetano, represented British Guiana at football and hockey.
Caetano got the opportunity to interact with several Guyanese personalities including present National Table Tennis Champion Sharmar Britton, former National Champion Colin France, former national youth player Leslie ‘Peassy’ Gill and Statistician Charwayne Walker at the GCC, Bourda.
Caetano took the opportunity to have a workout with Sharmar Britton, sharing his expertise and experience, which included a bronze medal for Canada at the Commonwealth Games.
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