Guyana\u2019s national women\u2019s basketball team has received a pledge of support from Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo,\u00a0 ahead of their upcoming Georgetown Women\u2019s Classic against Suriname.<\/p>\n
The two-match series will be played on August 10 and 11 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Jagdeo met with the team at Freedom House and expressed his commitment to encouraging more female participation in sport.<\/p>\n
Among those he met were the Ramlall sisters\u2014Ashna, Arshia, and Amisha\u2014who are making their national team debut on home soil.<\/p>\n
Jagdeo, a former track and field athlete and cricketer, noted his personal connection to the family, having grown up and played sports with their father, Sunil Ramlall.<\/p>\n
Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) President Michael Singh welcomed the support, stating, \u201cIt\u2019s always encouraging to see strong support for women\u2019s basketball. It sends a message to the players and to the country that the sport matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Europe-based professional Joy Adams will captain the Guyanese squad.<\/p>\n
While Adams has represented Guyana in the FIBA 3\u00d73 format, this tournament will mark her first appearance in the traditional five-on-five game for the national team.<\/p>\n
Guyana Women\u2019s National Team Roster:<\/strong><\/em> Joy Adams (Captain), Amisha Ramlall, Ashna Ramlall, Arshia Ramlall, Jamaicy Ogle, Junelly Paddy, Keisha Copperfield, Kassidy Woolford, Malia Samuels, Akeelah Campbell, Breann Ritchie and Keane Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guyana\u2019s national women\u2019s basketball team has received a pledge of support from Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo,\u00a0 ahead of their upcoming Georgetown Women\u2019s Classic against Suriname. The two-match series will be played on August 10 and 11 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. Jagdeo met with the team at Freedom House and expressed his commitment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[166,175,178,176,182,179,159,158,167,172,180,160,163],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women","tag-akeelah-campbell","tag-amisha-ramlall","tag-arshia-ramlall","tag-ashna-ramlall","tag-bharrat-jagdeo","tag-breann-ritchie","tag-jamaicy-ogle","tag-joy-adams","tag-junelly-paddy","tag-kassidy-woolford","tag-keane-andrews","tag-keisha-copperfield","tag-malia-samuels","article-list-item","animate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BJA3RL.jpg?fit=1920%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyanabasketball.com\/gy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}