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Amerindian Ministry willing to help Wilson

Jan 26, 2011 Sports

By Edison Jefford
The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs is interested in helping distance athlete, Doretta Wilson, and has sent for more information on the National Schools and 2010 Junior Cross Country Champion so that it can accurately administrate to the athlete’s situation.
Speaking briefly with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, Collin Croal, the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Permanent Secretary, said that he is not fully aware of the challenges of the athlete and has asked the Regional Office of Region Nine for more information.
Asked if a specific programme that focuses on the development of talented Amerindians such as Wilson exists within the ministry, Croal answered in the negative. He noted that to the best of his knowledge he is not aware of such programmes in the ministry.
“Let me be honest with you, we don’t have such a programme in the ministry, but we could look at other ways in which we can assist. We could look at the other aspects of her life like schooling and other aspects,” Croal said, adding that he was in brief communication on the subject with an official from the Ministry of Education yesterday morning.
Following receipt of the necessary information from the region, the Amerindian ministry should be in a position to say whether or not Wilson qualifies for its Hinterland Scholarship Programme, which is the only alternative for institutional help from the ministry for the athlete in the absence of a method that targets talented sportsmen and women.
Kaieteur Sport had reported earlier this week on the unimaginable journeys of the athlete from an Achawuib community in the Deep South of the Rupununi to Georgetown; Wilson travelled eight hours on a dirt-bike from Achawuib to Lethem then another one and half hour to Georgetown via air to compete at the National Cross Country Race two Sundays ago.
The issues raised serious concerns about the future of the promising athlete that engaged both the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) and Director of Sport, Neil Kumar. The AAG deliberated at length the issues facing the athlete at its AGM this past Sunday.
Besides the remote location of Wilson’s village, other impediments facing the budding talent was an obvious lack of essential training and competition apparel, including footwear and an unstable nutritional tradition suitable for an athlete that will soon represent Guyana.
Following her two outstanding performances last year when she defeated CARIFTA Games gold medallist, Jevina Straker, and her Junior Cross Country win, Wilson was selected among eight of Guyana’s elite distance athletes to represent the country at the North America, Central American and the Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Race in Trinidad next month.

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