Minister of Sport Charles Ramson Jr., Director of Sport Steve Ninvalle and other stakeholders during one of the meetings
“The Minister made the support conditional on the athletes continuing their education and athletics training programme with the aim of qualifying for the World Junior Championship standards and advancing to university.”
Fourteen athletes represented Guyana at the Games held over the Easter weekend.
Guyana finished with seven medals with Attoya Harvey leading the charge with gold (U-17 1500m), silver (U-20 3000m), and bronze (U-17 800m).
Also medalling at the three-day event were Anisha Gibbons, who won gold in the Under-20 Javelin, adding to her gold at the U-17 level two years ago; Narissa McPherson took silver in the Under-17 400m, Javon Roberts also claimed a silver in the Under-17 1500m and Adriel Austin a bronze in the Under-20 800m.
