Petra Organization saddened at tragic loss of Joshua Denny

The Petra Organization has expressed its deep sadness at the untimely and vicious death of young footballer Joshua Denny, who had his life snuffed out by two bandits in Festival City, North Ruimveldt on Thursday 30th September 2021 at approximately 06:00 hrs.

Denny, a 19-year-old electrician, was on his way to work when tragedy struck.
The Perta Organization has said that Denny’s long relationship with that body started in 2012, when he represented the Redeemer Primary and North Georgetown Primary Schools as a Pee Wee football player in the Courts U-11 Pee Wee Football Tournament.
Denny then went on, a few years after, to represent the Lodge Secondary School, participating in the Milo U-18 Football tournament and the Guyoil Tradewind Tankers Football league, wherein his team emerged as the 2019 league champions.
Also, and most notably, Denny was a key and critical member of the Lodge Secondary School team that beat tournament favourites Shiva Boys in the KFC Goodwill International Secondary School Football Tournament, ensuring that title remain in Guyana.
Denny, had even represented the Camptown Football Club with distinction at the senior level in the Turbo KO Tournament, and in the Limacol Football Tournament, to the delight of both his parents and the Petra Organisation.
Denny’s parents, particularly his mom Afeah Denny, and his sisters had been present at most, if not all the games he participated in to see him play.
The Petra Organization has said it was pleased to see Denny’s transition from Pee Wee (primary) to secondary schools’ football, and then to the senior level as a disciplined football player. Denny remained a very focused, disciplined and hardworking youngster. He took his game seriously, and his academic pursuits also, by becoming a gainfully employed electrician.
“This young man, to our mind, exemplified what a young person can do to make progress in a society where there are challenges”, the Petra Organization has said.
The Organization says it therefore cannot begin to imagine how devastating this loss has been to Denny’s family, and the pain and suffering they are being made to endure at the hands of his assailants.
“We (Petra Organization) would nevertheless, and for a long time to come, mourn the loss of Joshie with his family, his friends, our Organization, the football fraternity and civil society. Heartfelt condolences are being expressed to his family, relatives, his school friends and colleague, and to those who knew him”, the Petra Organization has said.