Spotlight

 
Alumni Ewart Small made good on his promise to assist in acquiring much needed sports equipment for the Mackenzie High School when he donated a pair of hoops, 4 basketballs, nets, whistles and pump to the MHSAA. "Smallie" as he is popularly known, represented MHS with distinction during the second half of the seventies when he was national open high jump champion, as well as being a key member of a strong Upper Demerara 4 by 200 as well as 4 by 400 meters relay team. Ewart was also a standout basketball player who went on to represent Guyana at the junior and senior level.
Mackenzie High School’s own Akeem Kanhai asserted his superiority and position as Guyana’s number one junior basketball player with outstanding performances in the just concluded Inter Guiana’s Games that were held in Suriname.The sixth form student who was also entrusted with the captaincy of the team, led from the front with twenty eight points, eleven rebounds and four steals in Guyana’s victory against French Guiana in game one. He followed up with seventeen points, eleven rebounds and four steals in the decider which his team lost to Suriname by two points in the dying stages of the game. Unfortunately Akeem spent most of the important fourth quarter of this game on the bench with foul trouble. It was no secret that Guyana’s performance in the tournament depended heavily on the leadership of the eighteen year old, six feet three inches forward.

When Marian Joan Burnett was little, her elder siblings would send her out to scurry around the block, again and again; many times, too, to run a few errands, pretending to time her efforts just to burn off her overabundance of ardor. In 1991, it was the school sports system that ignited the former Silvertown resident’s meteoric rise to stardom.  While still a junior, Marian won the Open 3000m race at the Schools Nationals in an amazing record (9.53:41) that still stands today.  That and more exceptional feats gained her a scholarship to attend the Mackenzie High School (MHS). There the 5ft 1inch athlete habitually won championships after championships at the school, zone, district and national levels, including superb performances at the Inter-Guiana Games, and unmatched showings as a Guyana Police Force-sponsored student-athlete. ...