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Jul 22, 2015 Sports
With one more practice session remaining before the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) members wing out to the USA for the 2015 Palma Match, Team and Individual World Shooting Championships, Starr Computers of Brickdam is the latest entity to lend support.
The company handed over a cheque to the GNRA to assist in offsetting expenses for the eight Guyana team members on the West Indies Team for the championships that will take place at Camp Perry, Ohio, USA from August 3rd to 14th.
Guyana NRA Secretary Sampson on behalf of the entity has expressed thanks to Starr computers for their support and noted that the West Indies Team will hold its own against the best shooters in the world at next month’s world Championships.
Meanwhile, the GNRA has disclosed that they are still short of their budget of 4 million Guyana dollars. Sampson said that apart from Starr Computers, Banks DIH, Industrial Safety Supplies, Demerara Mutual Assurance Society and Scotiabank are the other entities that have contributed to date.
It was disclosed that letters were sent to the Government of Guyana and the Ministry of Education under which Sports now falls, the association is awaiting responses from these entities.
Reigning Caribbean Individual Champion Lennox Braithwaite, National Captain Mahendra Persaud, Ransford Goodluck, Dylan Fields, Leo Romalho, Ryan Sampson, Sigmund Douglas and John Fraser are the Guyanese on the West Indies team for the World Championships.
The other shooters are Norris Gomez, Michael Perez and Ezekiel Joseph of Trinidad and Tobago, Anderson Perry and Thomas Greenaway of Antigua and Barbuda, Marlon King and Shelly-Ann Hinds of Barbados and Dwayne Forde of Jamaica.
Jamaican John Nelson is the non-Shooting Captain while ACP Retired Paul Slowe will perform duties as the Main Wind Coach, Adjutant David Dumont of Bermuda and Dennis Lee of Jamaica, Assistant Wind Coach.
The Championships will be shot at 800, 900 and 1000 yards. The world’s leading shooters representing hosts United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya and Continental Europe will be competing.
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