The Everest Cricket Club ground, located at the confluence of Camp Road and Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, will again be the venue for the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs’ Heritage Sports Month celebrations.
St Cuthbert’s, the two-time female cricket champions
This event has quickly become a yearly tradition for all those who have ever witnessed the Heritage Games, and this year’s sporting activities and family fun day will be held under the theme, “Maintaining our Traditional Practices while promoting a Green Economy”.
Activities are scheduled to commence at 10:00 hrs daily, and all of the Games’ events will be held at this Everest ground, except the swimming events, which will be hosted at the National Aquatic Centre at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.
Activities will run from Friday, September 20, to Sunday, September 22, 2018.
The Heritage Games will begin with a grand opening ceremony commencing at 10:00 hrs on Friday, after which the events would promptly begin.
There will be three days of power-packed activities which would showcase preliminary matches in cricket, football, volleyball, archery and swimming on Friday and Saturday, paving the way for the finals to be staged on Sunday.
The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs is expecting that more than 600 sportsmen and women hailing from Indigenous villages across Guyana’s ten regions will be competing in the Games, and several cash prizes and trophies will be up for the taking.
In addition to the headline sports, the weekend’s activities would offer a number of novelty sports, such as: piwari-drinking, hot tuma pot-eating, firewood bursting competition, lime-and-spoon race, and other traditional novelty games.
Gold Rush in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) are currently the reigning male football champions, while Pariuma Village in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) are the female champions.
In cricket, Laluni will look to defend their title in the male category, while St. Cuthbert’s Mission in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) will defend their female version title.
Region One holds the volleyball titles, with Maburuma being the male champs and Moruca the female champs.
