NSC promises gala awards ceremony Wednesday night

Guyana’s top sportsmen and women will be rewarded for their valiant contribution to sports in 2015 at the National Sports Commission’s (NSC) annual awards ceremony on Wednesday night at the National Cultural Center.
Director of Sport Christopher Jones has revealed that all systems are in place for the gala event.
Speaking to Guyana Times Sport, Jones revealed that “plans are afoot, plans are on scheduled, they are on time, the trophies that I mentioned were specially brought in from the United States; they have arrived in the country.”
He further disclosed that “the Cultural Centre is confirmed and all of the nominees would have been in receipt of their letter informing them that they have been nominated.”
A distinct feature of the awards this year is that the winners will only revealed on the night of the awards. The selection of the winners underwent an extremely secretive process by an unknown panel to keep confidentiality.
As it regards to the actual panel, Jones explained that “they [the panel] will not be collectively identifying individuals, but they will be individually identifying the individual, and based on the amounts of votes for an individual or association, a different group will put those together and confer who is the individual that wins the sports award, so it is not one individual who knows who will be awardees until the day”, the Director explained at a previous meeting.
Guyana and West Indies left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul was named the Sportsman-of-the-Year for 2014, while track athlete Cassie George had won awards for Sportswoman-of-the-Year and Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year.
Circuit racer Kristian Jeffrey was runner-up among the men, while squash player Akeila Wiltshire was the women’s runner-up.  The runner-up Junior Sportsman award went to cricketer Shimron Hetmyer, while track athlete Jason Yaw collected the Junior Sportsman-of-the-Year award. The multi-talented athlete Alisha Fortune won the runner-up Sportswoman-of-the-Year award.
The Guyana Rugby Football Union won the awards for Most Improved Association, Sports Association of the Year and the Sports Team of the Year.  GRFU’s president Peter Green won the Male Sports Personality award and National Rugby coach Theodore Henry won the Sports Coach award.