Guyana to develop five-year plan for paralypmics

Georgetown (Guyana), Sep 1 (IANS/CMC) The National Paralympic Committee of Guyana (NPCG) is on a mission to develop a five-year strategic plan to ensure a proper structure to guide the organisation.

The NPCG has sought the services of Kenneth McKell, the president of the Trinidad and Tobago National Paralympic Committee, to conduct a three-day workshop, which began Thursday, and to formalise the process of the strategic plan, reports CMC.

"We hope that by when the workshop ends we would be in a much better to formulate that strategic plan that will lead us on the way forward," said Wilton Spencer, the president of NPCG.

"McKell is very experienced when it comes to the Paralympic movement and we will be using the next three days to brainstorm ideas with him and come up with the best possible plan," Spencer explained.

Spencer said that with the next Paralympic Games to be hosted in Brazil, the possibility of Guyana participating in that event is highly likely as there are at least two athletes who could qualify for those Games.

He made reference to table tennis player Safraz Gibran Hussain and cyclist Walter Grant Stuart, both of whom have lost a limb, as prime candidates to represent Guyana in the Paralympic Summer Games in Rio in 2016.

--IANS/CMC

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