{"id":21859,"date":"2024-09-02T03:28:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T03:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21859"},"modified":"2024-09-02T03:29:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T03:29:04","slug":"university-of-guyanas-annual-cricket-tournament-kicks-off-with-four-teams-competing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/university-of-guyanas-annual-cricket-tournament-kicks-off-with-four-teams-competing\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Guyana&#8217;s Annual Cricket Tournament Kicks Off with Four Teams Competing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Tyriq Walters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Guyana Student Society (UGSS) has launched its highly anticipated annual cricket tournament at Queens\u2019 College ground, featuring four competing teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event, held in favorable weather conditions, began with preliminary matches that set the stage for the final day of play on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Francisco, Chair of the UGSS Games Committee, emphasized the importance of such extracurricular activities in enhancing student engagement and campus life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francisco highlighted the tournament as part of a broader effort to revive and promote various student activities at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the turnout was lower than hoped, Francisco remains optimistic and is committed to improving participation in future events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed out that the UGSS is working on policies to provide additional incentives for student involvement, including potential academic credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participating teams include Tain Campus, the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, the Faculty of Natural Science, and the Faculty of Education and Humanities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final match is scheduled for Saturday, promising an exciting conclusion to the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyriq Walters The University of Guyana Student Society (UGSS) has launched its highly anticipated annual cricket tournament at Queens\u2019 College ground, featuring four competing teams. The event, held in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21859","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\/21859","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=21859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}