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Guyana now compliant with WADA Code
By Edison Jefford
Guyana is now compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code of Conduct after the agency accepted the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) – drafted national anti-doping rules in August, bringing into focus local athletes being tested for performance enhancing drugs that is now normal in professional sports.
The GOA team, including President, K.A Juman Yassin, (2nd left) address member associations and the media yesterday during an Extra Ordinary General Meeting.
This disclosure was made yesterday when GOA convened an Extra Ordinary General Meeting to discuss and formally adopt the rules. “We will be asking associations to provide their top athletes for testing,” GOA President, K. A. Juman Yassin said yesterday.
The move is aimed at ensuring Guyana take internal measures to ensure athletes and associations are compliant with global anti-doping standards.
“It’s now fundamental that the Guyana Olympic Association formally adopts these rules in order to ensure that they can come into force on 1 January, 2015. We would be grateful if you could provide us with confirmation of the formal adoption and an electronic copy of the version of the rules which will come into force,” WADA said in an August 15 letter.
As such GOA also convened the meeting yesterday to also ensure that member sport associations were in agreement with the rules. Of the 33 National Sport Associations (it is not clear if all were present yesterday), 19 voted in favour of the adoption of the rules.
Additionally, member associations were asked to approve the delegation of some responsibilities to the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO) with GOA maintaining its role as the National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO).
This means that the Caribbean RADO will be held accountable for its responsibilities, while the GOA holds responsibility for four areas. For example, the issue of disciplinary action for athletes who are found in contravention of the WADA Code has been delegated to the Caribbean RADO.
Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Alfred King, is Guyana’s representative on the Caribbean RADO and has agreed with the tenets of the recommendations it set forth to RADO and the responsibilities assigned.
The Caribbean RADO is an affiliate of WADA and has a responsibility to “provide education on the use of drugs and doping methods in sport”. It also has a mandate to promote, and coordinate, the fight against doping in sport among Caribbean countries.
The Caribbean RADO is made up of fifteen member countries, with a board member from each country. Charles Corbin, Dr. Karen Pilgrim, Dr. Clive Bowman and more recently, Dr. Navin Rambarran are Doping Control Officers. It is the duty of the Doping Control Officers to conduct tests locally.
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