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Sports Policy must be supported by huge financial backing

Jun 08, 2010 Sports

The recent disclosure by Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony that the long-awaited National Sports Policy will be completed in one week’s time is a welcome development, but 18 years of delay must be placing severe pressure on all the various stakeholders to produce a broad-based document to seriously reflect Government’s resolve to truly develop sports.
With so much advancement taking place across the globe in sports, the Ministry of Sport, an entity branded for its lack of genuine support for the progression of sport, must construct a policy document that will create confidence among sporting bodies and athletes that could generate the impetus for us to once again dominate the region and compete with success globally.
After all, having to wait almost two decades for such an important document to be realised should now make it imperative for it to surface with the vital organs needed to breathe new life into the sports arena.
Guyana once among the top sporting nations in the Caribbean has made an abysmal decline in most disciplines except for a few and many feel that the tumble is due primarily to the deficiency within the Ministry and the absence of a National Sports Policy.
The presence of a Sports Policy will look at areas such as a sports accreditation body; the promotion of non-traditional sports; the collaboration between the government and sport organisations in bidding to host international sporting events; the establishment of a special fund to facilitate training for elite athletes and the implementation of a long-term athletic development programme; to promote the development of healthy lifestyles and to integrate sports into our national culture among others.
The Policy is anticipated to mirror that of Canada so therefore it is expected to address many areas for development, but only time will tell whether there is the determination to make it successful.
It also means that it must be supported by huge financial backing from the Government for it to make any sense and that includes the construction of facilities similar to the one built at Providence.
Anything less could see many of the intended objectives not being met.

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