“Diplomats vs Parliament” football game for Parliament’s 70th anniversary celebrations

The guys in suits will have a change of attire, come February 21, 2023, when the Parliament of Guyana commemorates its 70th anniversary with a football game.
This highly anticipated football game will see staff of the Parliament coming up against members of Guyana’s Diplomatic Corps in friendly rivalry at the Everest Cricket Club Ground.
The official launch of the event was hosted at the Parliament’s Georgetown location on Thursday afternoon, where Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Lenox Shuman, explained how a game of football was decided on.
“Last year there was a cricket match, the Diplomatic Community versus Guyana, and when I got to the field, there were a lot of diplomats in the stands, just sitting around and watching, and I enquired as to why they are not participating. Many of them said, ‘Well, we don’t know about cricket, we know about baseball, we know about football, we know about rugby’,” Shuman reflected.
“So I said, ‘Okay, why don’t I engage the Speaker and see if we can find a way to deal with something of a more international flavour, more international touch’, which would be football.”
European Union (EU) Ambassador to Guyana Rene van Ness shared on the lineup of diplomats that are getting ready for the game. van Ness revealed, “I’m standing here not only as the Ambassador of the European Union, but to represent all the diplomatic missions that are playing in the teams. That includes Caricom, the United Nations, the IDB, of course the European Union, France, Mexico, the United States, Canada and Brazil.
“That is quite a nice line-up; it is almost the United Nations that (are) making themselves ready for a great event,” the EU Ambassador added.
The festivities at the Everest Cricket Club Ground are scheduled to get underway at 6pm, and Premier Insurance has jumped on board as a sponsor of next Tuesday’s event.