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GTTA Endorses newly elected Steering Committee in Bartica Region 7

Apr 27, 2017 Sports

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has endorsed the newly formulated Bartica Table Tennis Steering Committee (BTTC) as an affiliate member. The GTTA Executive Committee has been actively engaging, supporting and providing direction to the plans, work, activities and members of this committee as part of its plans for the decentralisation, development, advancement, promotion, marketing and administering of the sport a release from the GTTA stated.
The GTTA President, Godfrey Munroe recently visited Bartica to meet with the newly formulated committee to listen to their plans and ideas and to outline the plans, projects and mandates of the association.
The duly elected members as endorsed by the GTTA are:
Timothy Cornelius; President
Jermaine Joseph Vice President
Stefan Dass Treasurer’
Arita Embleton General Secretary:
Stacy M. Cubbin Asst. Secretary Treasurer
Committee members:
Collen Carrington
Leon Stuart
Dax Holder
Clinton Bobb
Ryker Pollard
Nikith LaRose
Carol Livan
The Committee’s mandate, which falls under the supervision of the GTTA, will be to promote, develop and coordinate the game in Bartica.
The Committee has set out some key initiatives as part of its plans/mandate to develop the sport in Bartica. These include the hosting of a Bartica vs Linden encounter, Novices Schools Teams and individual Table Tennis championships which will be used as a recruiting programme to have players who will attend after school and weekend training programmes.
The central aim and objective of hosting the event is to stimulate students/players interest and commence a system to actively engage players in the Bartica region, introducing them to the sport of table tennis in view of increasing participation.
The establishment of Steering committees are catered for in the constitution of the Guyana Table Tennis Association, and is very critical to the advancement of the sport in Guyana.
As part of the long term projection, the committee has identified the Bartica Community centre as a central area that can facilitate six tables for hosting of competitions training after school and on weekends. The committee also outlined that they will use the three mile school auditorium to host training programmes on the weekend and after school as a central hub.
The GTTA will lend support to the committee for the hosting of tournament/competitions and the capacity to do same, development of capacity within the region with the provision of training in key areas, provide resources to help the committee to develop, manage, coordinate and organise the sport in the region.
The establishment of committee in Bartica region 7, has become even more critical given the implementation of the National Athlete Development Table Tennis for Schools Programme which seeks to implement table tennis in a structured manner in schools, targeting children between the ages of 6-15 years old in 106 schools across Guyana and the 11 Guyana Teachers Union districts.
Timothy Corneiluis thanked the GTTA president for coming to Bartica and endorsing and working with the committee, he outlined that his mandate is to provide access and the opportunity for the many youths in the region with a concentration in schools with central aim of making table tennis a mainstream sport in the region.

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