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The Malteenoes Sports Club was founded in the year 1902. Its first President, Mr. Ferdinand Christopher Archer a master tailor, a Barbadian who came to the then British Guiana during his infant years. At age eighteen (18) he recognised the need foe an alternative organization to provide the badly needed recreational and social requirements of the underprivileged working class, who could not access membership at the more reserved GCC and BGCC Clubs. The club was initially located at Camp Street, eve Leary where the Police Commissioner’s Residence now stands. With the militarisation of Eve Leary during the Second World War, The Ground was absorbed into the military zone and Malteenoes relocated to its present location, with freehold ownership of its land. |
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In 1992, Mr. Michael Welch who was at that time the General Manager of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, negotiated and secured a grant from Northern Telecom and this enabled the Club to construct the accommodation on the ground floor of the building for housing the proposed Academy. |
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