Ladies, check your breasts for cancer.. Raynauth Jeffrey wins Digicel’s Cancer Awareness Cycle Race

Last Updated on Sunday, 25 October 2015, 21:07 by GxMedia

Check your breasts! That was the message Sunday from the Cancer Institute of Guyana moments before receiving a GUY$500,000 donation from Digicel (Guyana) at the conclusion of the annual Cancer Awareness Road Race.

“As you know breast cancer is on the increase. So many of our women are dying today of breast cancer so I urge you today to encourage your wives, your girlfriends, your mothers, your sisters that you can ask them to come down to the Cancer Institute and get screened for breast cancer,” said General Manager of the Institute, Fiona Legall.

The Cancer Institute offers free breast mammogram and breast ultra-sound, partly due to the cycling racers contribution. “You are riding for a cause. You are raising awareness so I want to applaud you today for what you have done,” she said.

Legall also thanked Digicel (Guyana) for the donation.

Chief Executive Officer of Digicel (Guyana), Kevin Kelly promised that the cancer awareness cycling race would continue. “Digicel is committed to continuing doing this cycling event. We’ll continue with it in future years,” he said.

The mobile phone provider’s boss thanked Gillette Evolution and the Cycling Federation for organising the cycle race as well as the cyclists including a team from Barbados’ Team Coco.

The prizes were:

A.       The oldest cyclist- Montgomery Parris

B.       The youngest rider- Whitney Boyer

C.       The veterans:
2^nd place – Ralph Williams
1^st  place – Junior Niles

D.       Ladies:
2^nd place- Marcia Dick
1^st place- Azeema Nelson

E.       Juniors:
3^rd place- Christopher Griffith
2^nd place- Raphael Young
1^st place- Jamal John

F.     Sprint Riders:
Seniors:
1^st  Jaime Romeirs
2^nd Geron Williams

Juniors:
1^st Jamal John

G.      Open Category:
Seniors:
6^th place- Andrew Simon (3:16:49 )
5^th place- Marlo Rodman (3:16:48)
4^th place- Orville Hinds (3:16:32)
3^rd place- Marlon Williams (3:16:23)
2^nd place- Jaime Romeirs (3:16:01)
1^st place- Raynauth Jeffrey (3:15:32)