Region Gets More Doping Officers
Caribbean RADO with its by-line âPLAY TRUEâ hosted a five-day workshop and conference February 20th to 24th 2006 in association with the World Anti Doping Agency âWADAâ to train Doping Control Officers (DCOâs) {{more}}
The workshop and regional meetings in St Georgeâs, Grenada were hosted by The Grenadian Ministry of Co-operatives Youth & Sports and the Grenadian National Olympic Committee.
Participating countries : St Lucia, Bermuda Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana, Turks & Caicos, Grenada, Suriname, St Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, and St Vincent & the Grenadines each had two representatives trained to WADA standards as DCOâs.
The two representatives from St Vincent & the Grenadines who were successfully trained as DCOâ s were Thelma Foster and Rudi Daniel.
The Caribbean RADO board also held its regional meeting, with Dr Perry De Freitas as representative for St Vincent & the Grenadines. At this meeting, the draft regional structure and guidelines were agreed upon and a chairman, Dr Adrian Lorde of Barbados, was elected to serve for two years.
The Caribbean RADOâs headquarters will be based in Barbados and will be operational as of April 1st, 2006 . The Administrator Mr Neil Merrell is currently at the Winter Olympics in Italy as a WADA observer.
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