GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) is poised to host the 2024 edition of the West Indies Fullbore Shooting Championship from October 28 to November 4 at the Timehri Rifle Ranges on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.
The championship was last hosted in Guyana in 2017 when the GNRA celebrated its 150th anniversary.
While participants from England and Scotland cannot attend this year’s championship, shooters from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the USA are expected to compete.
The US rifle team, led by captain Yvonne Roberts, will attend its first West Indies Championship.
Guyana, the defending champions in the Short and Long Range divisions, is expected to field a 10-man team.
The team comprises Mahendra Persaud, Dylan Fields, Leo Romalho, Lennox Braithwaite, Ryan Sampson, Peter Persaud, Roberto Tewari, Sherwin Felicien, and US-based Sigmond Douglas and John Fraser.
The lone female is Althea Alleyne.
“The GNRA planning committee has been working jointly with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), led by Brigadier Omar Khan, on preparations for hosting the championships,” the GNRA said in a press release.
“There has been intense work on the Timehri Ranges, preparing the shooting banks to golf-like playing surfaces, the safety backstop was increased in height, and the 24-target mechanism was serviced. Work continues on the target frames and faces and should be completed by next weekend.”
The GNRA further added that Vice-president Mahendra Persaud and Fullbore captain Dylan Fields have been spearheading the infrastructural work, while Lennox Braithwaite has been the GNRA projects liaison, ensuring all works are completed.
“The GDF is expected to complete the area for the flag poles and other works it has committed to,” it added in the release.
“The GNRA would like to take this opportunity to thank the Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill, for his donation of material to help repair the shooting range.”
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