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AGENDA

14:00   OPENING SESSION

• Fermin Vazquez

Senior Director of Administration at Miami Dade College, North Campus

•  Alejandro Servalli

Senior Aide to Mayor Francis Suarez

• Linda Alexionok

President, Voices for Florida

• Paulo Speller

Secretary General, Organisation of Ibero-American States

• Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros

CEO, SIGA

14:30   SPORT HAS THE POWER – A Testimony

• Hristo Stoychkov

Soccer legend, winner of the 1994 Ballon d’Or, former FC Barcelona soccer player

14:45   CHANGING THE GAME: COUNTERING ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN SPORT

• Massimiliano Montanari

Executive Director, Save the Dream

• Andrew Smola

Workforce Analytics Lead, Panasonic

• Rebecca González – Ramos

Assistant Special Agent, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

• Shellie Pfohl

President & CEO, United States Center for SafeSport

• Brian Lewis

President, Trinidad & Tobago Olympic Committee / President, Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees

Moderator: Angela Adams Suggs, President, Florida Sports Foundation

15:45   PROTECTING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SPORT: COUNTERING SMUGGLING & TRAFFICKING

• Carmen Pinto

Assistant Special Agent, United States Department of Homeland Security

• Ricardo de Buen Rodriguez,

Founder & President, Sport Integrity Mexico

•  Heather Fischer

Manager, Human Trafficking Program, McCain Institute

• Selena Respass

S.O.J Faculty, Miami Dade College

•  Timothy Patrick Gill Sr

Vice President, Specter Security Group

Moderator: Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney

16:45  COFFEE BREAK

17:00  RECRUITMENT, TRAINING, EDUCATION AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE PATHWAY TO ELITE/ PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: SETTING UNIVERSAL STANDARDS FOR A TRUSTED INDUSTRY

• Ângela Melo

Director – Policies and Programmes, UNESCO

• João Paulo Almeida

Director General, National Olympic Committee of Portugal

• Katie Simmonds

Director, Sports Governance and Financial Integrity, ICSS INSIGHT / Acting General Council, SIGA

• Laila Mintas

Deputy President, Sportradar US

• Lisa Delpy Neirotti

Director Sport Management Programs & MTA, George Washington University

• David Luna

President & CEO, Luna Global Networks / SIGA Council Member/ former Chairrnan OECD’s Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade and Senior Director, US Department of State

Moderator: James Cottrell, former Partner, Deloitte US / Member, Consultative Committee, World Economic Forum/PACI

18:00   THE WAY FORWARD

• Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros

CEO, SIGA

THERE is nothing like the power of sport to lift our sagging spirits and remind us of the endless possibilities that can be attained through hard work and commitment.

The Office of the Prime Minister has given over $1 million to Bishops High School, Mt Marie to help fund a $4 million state-of-the-art sports field, which is expected to be completed by September.

MEN’S CHAMPION Richer Perez of Cuba will return to defend his Tobago International Sea to Sea Marathon title on May 20. Other elite runners expected include Mexican-based George Towett, a four-time UWI SPEC champion, and his wife Caroline Kiptoo, a two-time UWI SPEC champion.

Over 50 local athletes, coaches and administrators are now better equipped to tackle some of the challenges of modern sport after the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) Athlete Branding and Sponsorship Workshop on March 9^th  2018.

Brian Lewis, president of the T&T Olympic Committee has welcomed government’s National Sports Policy (NSP) which was laid in Parliament on Friday and outlined the government’s intention to improve sport locally, from development to rewarding the country’s achievers.

T&T sportsmen and women will no longer be competing just for glory of victory after government yesterday gave approval for monetary rewards through the adoption of the National Policy on Sport (NPS) 2017-2027.

The policy was laid in Parliament by Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs Darryl Smith due to the fact that T&T has been without a national sport policy since the expiration of the 2002 National Sport Policy in 2012.

Emanating from the policy is the institution of a formal documented Incentives and Rewards Framework for national athletes who medal at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Cup and/or World Championships in identified sporting disciplines and thereby bring international recognition to T&T.

This Framework, which also received Cabinet’s favourable consideration, will see athletes medalling at the Olympic Games being awarded TT$1,000,000 for gold medal,TT$500,000 for silver medal and TT$250,000 for bronze medal achievements.

Athletes medalling at World Cup/World Championships will be awarded $500,000 for gold medal achievements, $250,000 for silver medal achievements and $125,000 for bronze medal achievements.

This means that national athletes will no longer have to wonder what they will receive for their successes in sport on the international stage.

The new policy 2017-2027 was systematically developed through document reviews, public consultations, stakeholder interviews and a combination of electronic and other survey methods. The Policy embraces two overarching themes, namely, ‘Development of Sport’ and ‘Sport for Development’, which in turn are underpinned by 13 broad objective areas, focused on achieving the policy vision of the establishment of clear pathways towards holistic sport development and sporting achievement.

SPORTS Minister Darryl Smith says the new National Sports Policy will assist in a number of areas, including funding for elite athletes.

President of the T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) Brian Lewis paid tribute to the work of the the Rotary Club of Port-of-Spain (POS) for their outstanding contribution to Sport, Education and building the social fabric of T&T.