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Jun 18, 2009 Sports
Guyana’s, Alika Morgan, reigning female champion of the CARICOM Annual 10K Road Race will compete, when the fifth staging of the race gets underway next Sunday, just days before the 30th Conference of CARICOM Heads here in Guyana.
The Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government will also take place in Guyana.
A fifth victory in her own backyard would not only brand Morgan as the invincible queen of the road, but would be a fitting tribute to her country and President, Bharrat Jagdeo, the incoming Chairman of CARICOM.
In keeping with the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration which outlined a 15-point action plan to fight Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), the Annual 10K run continues to be a platform for the promotion of healthier lifestyles.
As a result, this year’s theme is simply health, unity and prosperity, with the resonances of the 2001 Nassau Declaration, which emphasised that, the Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region.
The Race will attract both amateurs and professionals from CARICOM Member States, visiting tourists, and students from the host country.
For the second year, the main organizers – the CARICOM Secretariat in tandem with the Local Organising Committee, led by Guyana’s Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport- have introduced a special feature which is a 5k run for children Under-16 and differently-able persons.
The starter’s gun will go off at exactly 7:00 am to begin the grueling trek from the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen and continue East along Railway Embankment Road to North along Ogle Airstrip Road, turning West along East Coast Highway, passing through Kitty Public Road and CARIFESTA Avenue, South into Camp Road and West into Barrack Street heading North towards the finishing line at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.
The fourth renewal of the CARICOM 10K was hosted by Antigua and Barbuda last year and saw a representation of more than 14 countries including non-CARICOM countries and over eighty runners, among them the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
This year, Guyana is hoping to top that feat, both in Member State representation and in the number of Guyanese participating. As a result, Guyana’s Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport is working assiduously with the Athletic Association of Guyana to mobilize athletes to participate.
Sources close to the AAG indicated that Guyana might even have an ace up its sleeves – a dark horse just waiting to wrest victory from reigning male champion, St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Pamenos Ballentyne, who, like Morgan has held tenaciously to the top position since the first staging of the 10K in Saint Lucia four years ago.
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