By Chester Morgan
Dear Minister of Sports:
Series 1: On upgrading our National Sports Policy:
Objective 1: Increased participation in sports and physical activities.
Action plans:
1. Make it mandatory that physical education become a subject for all students of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
2. Use all the facilities we presently have and place some simple exercising tools, such as pull up bars and a kids’ section, where slides and swings are present.
3. Seek a national day of recreation, where activities are done within the communities on the street. For example, let traffic flow over Plan area in Layou and use the main road to a biking competition, running, netball, etc.
4. Work with early childhood care and education services and organisations to ensure that pre-school practitioners, providers, and parents/guardians are supported in improving the physical activity habits of very young children in their care; including the development of improved physical literacy outcomes.
5. Highlight to teachers and parents/guardians messages around the positive relationships between sports participation and exam performance in our efforts to attenuate the drop off that occurs in participation levels around exam years.
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Good points Mr. Mogan. Things can happen if people with proper motive work together. How about each constituency have sport day or weekend. Most have about 4 villages or more each village bring a teem to compete in different events. With a properly plan event sponsors will come. A local business in the community might sponsor a team. It can also serve as a economic stimulus for the community as food and drinks will be on sale.