{"id":13192,"date":"2023-10-09T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13192"},"modified":"2023-10-09T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:34:27","slug":"president-alis-vision-guyana-as-the-sports-and-entertainment-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-alis-vision-guyana-as-the-sports-and-entertainment-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali&#8217;s Vision: Guyana as the Sports and Entertainment Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali has set forth an ambitious goal for Guyana: to become the hub of entertainment and sports in the Caribbean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the need for the country&#8217;s tourism and sports experiences to be unparalleled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali highlighted the region&#8217;s renowned reputation in sports, particularly cricket, football, and athletics, as well as entertainment events like carnivals and concerts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that Guyana must maintain and strengthen its standing in these areas, pointing to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s significant strides in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To achieve this, the President urged for innovative and competitive approaches, emphasizing the necessity to think outside the conventional framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali also shared his vision for the music industry&#8217;s growth, envisioning significant progress by 2030 and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 Caribbean Premiere League, which recently concluded in Guyana, drew over 400,000 attendees in September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President aims to further bolster tourism, targeting one million visitors and positioning Guyana&#8217;s tourism experience at the forefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Irfaan Ali has set forth an ambitious goal for Guyana: to become the hub of entertainment and sports in the Caribbean. He emphasized the need for the country&#8217;s tourism&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13193,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions\/13193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}