Third issue of Caribbean Games 2009 NOC Bulletin

Swine flu concerns forces decision

Port of Spain -19 June 2009

With twenty-two days to go before the 12 July opening ceremony.

“It is a heartbreaking moment,” says Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Larry Romany.

Romany was commenting on the decision taken by the T&T Government that due to the Influenza A H1N1 (Swine Flu) virus the twin-island Republic was withdrawing as host nation for the inaugural Caribbean Games.

The University of the West Indies Games currently underway at the UWI Campus in St Augustine is proving to be an ideal training ground for officials and volunteers of the Caribbean Games 2009.

Though on a much smaller scale, the UWI Games mirrors many of the processes and procedures of the larger Caribbean Games and the Local Organising
Committee, with the full co-operation of university officials, are using the UWI Games as a dry run to test some of their systems and procedures as well as staff capabilities.

U.S.V.I. athlete Laverne Jones clocked the fastest time in the world, this season, in the 200m at the recently held Grande** Premio Brasil Caixa de