OECS Sports Desk Releases Five-Year Sports Plan

Contact: John Emmanuel

Defining the way forward for sports within the OECS region, that’s what the OECS Sports Desk says is the rationale behind its presentation of a five-year sports work plan. The plan, presented to sports authorities, was the main agenda item at a meeting held late last month for Directors of Sports and Permanent Secretaries in sports ministries across the region.

OECS Sports Coordinator David Peterkin, says priority areas for the work plan include accessing scholarships for the region’s promising athletes. Peterkin has described the plan as critical to the future role of the OECS Sports Desk and the overall development of sport in the sub-region.

 “It is absolute necessary that we have goals to set and we have to figure out how we’re going to achieve these goals. Each and every member state and those that have not already implemented them are working towards their own sports policy that in the long run would help out tremendously with the way forward. Unless we have a plan then we don’t know where we are going. As far as I’m concerned, this five-year work plan is absolutely essential,” Peterkin told reporters.

Sports Directors and Permanent Secretaries take the work plan back to their respective member states for ratification, after which the OECS Sports Desk is expected to extract a series of one-year programmes for implementation.

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