The recent Results Management Training held on Sunday at the Princess Hotel Conference Hall, was deemed to be a resounding success with representatives from each of the Caribbean RADO (Regional Anti-Doping Organisation) countries participating.
The intense training was facilitated by Onye Ikwuakor, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)’s Legal Affairs Director while other distinguished presenters were Tom May, Deputy Director, NADO/RADO Relations at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), David Julien, Manager, NADO/RADO Relations at WADA and Tessa Chederton-Shaw, Executive Director of CRADO.
Currently there are 15 Member Countries which makes the CRADO the biggest RADO currently and participants from the 15 countries were exposed to training to familiarise them with the Administrative and Results Management Process.
“A thorough review of the significant differences between the 2009 Code and the 2015 Code led to three case studies and the practical implications being discussed. Attendees participated in the adjudication of Anti-doping rule violations,” a release from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport stated.
“Participants were involved interactively in the mock cases: hearing simulation and adjudication of anti-doping cases,” the release added.
As the host country Guyana was allowed to have more persons undergo this training which was attended by Attorneys-at-Law in private practice, Vidushi Persaud, Gino Persaud and Marcel Bobb, Legal Assistants attached to the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Renée King-Sandiford and Leah Isaacs, and Charles Corbin and Claude Blackmore from the Guyana Olympic Association.
Other attendees at the training included the distinguished CRADO Board Members being Dr. Adrian Lorde, Chairman, Maria Cutri, Director of Latin America Regional Office WADA and Guyana’s representative on the Board, Alfred King, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.
Participants were all presented with certificates at the end of the training.
King was thanked on behalf of CRADO for hosting the Board Meeting and the Results Management Training in Guyana and in reply, in his closing remarks, he responded by thanking the participants. He also shared his vision of establishing a National Anti-Doping Organisation here in Guyana within the next three to four years.
According to the release, King said that he was pleased that the overall objective of the training was accomplished which was to build capacity and expertise in each member country.
The newly certified Results Management Trainees are now familiar with the World’s Anti-Doping Code 2015 which will come into effect from January 01, 2015 and is the fundamental and universal document upon which the World Anti-Doping Programme in sport is based. The purpose of the Code is to advance the anti-doping effort through universal harmonisation of core anti-doping elements.
