THE National Sports Policy is one of this current administration’s main focal points upon assuming office in 2015, and has been the topic of discussion ever since.
However, according to Minister responsible for that sector, Dr. George Norton, the long-awaited National Sports Policy is still at the consultation process.

Dr. Norton made the disclosure recently in an interview with Chronicle Sport, saying that the widest form of consultation is part of the government’s plan in order to complete the much-needed document.

“We are working on it, I can tell you that our chairperson and members of the National Sports Commission were given a copy of the draft of the National Sport Policy, as well as the different sporting organisations,” Dr. Norton said.

He added “We are still at the point of consultation because we want the widest consultation as possible, but we already have a white paper out. Soon we begin the process to move into a green paper and we might be able to take it to the national assemble in a very short space of time”.

To this end, the first in a series of consultations with Sports Federation and Associations was conducted last July.
Consultations are scheduled for hosting in the various administrative regions over time.
The National Sports Policy is imperative to attaining the goal of promulgating Guyanese sporting potential.

Once the policy is completed, it would essentially monitor the course of sports for the next 15 years.

Just recently President David Granger had said that the National Sports Policy remains government’s top priority since it aims at utilizing sport to harness the personal, social and economic development of our peoples and to become a guidebook for cooperation among regions and improving relations with external states.