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MCYS/National Sports Management Workshop…Minister Anthony urges participants to continue the job started
Minister of Culture Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony brought the curtains down on the inaugural National Sports Management Workshop which was deemed a resounding success by all.
Facilitators and participants share a Kodak moment with Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (seated 3rd right), Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony (seated 3rd left) and Olympic silver medalist, Grace Jackson (right) following the conclusion of the workshop.
The workshop which was facilitated by Jamaican Olympic silver medalist, Grace Jackson and held at the National Sports Resource Center, Woolford Avenue, Georgetown attracted a total of 42 participants including representatives from the various sports associations and federations.
Anthony encouraged those who benefitted from this inaugural event to not just let it be another activity that they attend and allow the knowledge gained to fall by the wayside but seek to make a difference in the entity or organization they are from.
“We want you to take this passion back to your organization so that you can change things. We all want Guyanese sports to do better and I think we would have been given better tools to work following such a powerful workshop, we are very pleased with the outcome.”
The participants were divided into four groups and were required to work on plans in the following areas: Group #1 – Participation in Sports Post High school; Group #2 – Building a Sports Culture in Guyana; Group #3 – One Day Single Sport Event; Group #4 – Multi-Sport Event.
They all presented their plans to the other participants and facilitators including a panel of judges. Group #2 was adjudged to have made the best presentation and was duly rewarded with gifts compliments of Digicel. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Minister Anthony presented the gifts to the members of Group#2.
Anthony urged the groups to continue working and to make the plans that they presented a reality, positing that in one year from now more activities can be added to the sports calendar. He told them that the Resource Centre is always available to be utilized by them as well as the various associations to further advance sports in Guyana.
Minister Anthony also urged that more time be allotted in schools for physical activity, noting that the current time allocated is way too limited.
“We now need to make sure that we have a change of policies that have been barriers so far. I know there are lots of resistance to policy changes but we all have to work together to make sure this happens.”
The Minister informed that they will continue to work with Ms. Jackson in the future with regards following up and doing more programmes recognizing that Guyana has a lot of catching up to do.
“You’ll be seeing a lot more programmes like this; we’ll certainly invite Grace and her team to come back.”
The Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO) Minister Anthony informed will be hold their meeting in Guyana in September this year and his Ministry would be conducting a number of seminars to coincide with this event.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds also addressed the participants and encouraged them to be the agents of change in their respective entities. He also commended Minister Anthony, Director of Sport Neil Kumar and their staff for bringing off an event of such importance to Guyana.
Ms. Jackson in brief summary remarks said that the group of persons she worked with over the three-days during the workshop was really heartening and she believed that they {participants} got the message based on their high level of active involvement.
Among the facilitators at this historic workshop were Trinidad & Tobago’s former athletics superstar, Ato Boldon, Olympian Cathy Rattray Samuels and a number of local persons.
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