Roberts says disappointed at Government’s efforts in cycling

-3 Berbice cyclists to represent Region 6 at National Cycling Championships

Ralph Seenarine, Jeremiah Joseph and Mario Washington are the three cyclists from the Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) in East Berbice who will represent Region Six at this weekend’s National Cycling Championships.
This event is intended to prepare Guyana’s best cyclists to participate in the Caribbean Junior Cycling Championships which will be hosted in Guyana’s Region Seven township of Bartica over the weekend of August 10th and 11th 2019. Nationals from approximately 26 countries will visit Guyana to participate in those Junior Championships.
Guyana won the bid to host these championships in 2020, but the 2019 host country has pulled out, hence Guyana hosting this cycling event this year.
This is the first time ever that three cyclists from the same club would represent a region at the National Cycling Championships; and this number is also the most persons in any contingent ever sent by a club from anywhere in Guyana to participate in these championships.
This weekend’s action will pedal off with time trials’ activities on Saturday, followed by the actual race along the Soesdyke/Linden highway on Sunday.
The most recent cycling activity held in Berbice, the Father’s Day race around the town of New Amsterdam, had been organised by the Flying Ace Cycling Club’s coach and race organiser Randolph Roberts to prepare these three riders to represent Berbice at the National Cycling Championships being held this weekend.
In a recent interview with the FACC’s Randolph Roberts, he lamented that the present Government has not been making great effort to promote cycling in the country.
“I would like to thank the business people who continue to support cycling in the country, because this Government has not been doing (anything) for cycling. I want to make it known!” Roberts revealed.
He further disclosed: “There is a three-stage and a five-stage race yearly. Since this Government has taken over, it (those races are) dead! And it (Govt) is killing sport!”