The St. Lucia Olympic Committee (SLOC) Inc. disbursed $69,747.89 to six member associations at a brief handover ceremony at Olympic House, La Clery, on Saturday morning, April 5, 2025. It was the first disbursements made by SLOC Inc. to members this year.
At the ceremony, cheques were presented to the following associations:
• The St. Lucia Cycling Association (SLCA) received a reimbursement of $4,924.24. Mr. Cyril Mangal, President of the SLCA, received the disbursement on his Association’s behalf.
• The St. Lucia Athletics Association (SLAA) received $28,000.00 for assistance towards participation in the upcoming CARIFTA Games which will be held in Trinidad and To-bago in April 2025. Ms. Dora Henry, President of the SLAA, received the disbursement on her Association’s behalf.
• St. Lucia Basketball Federation (SLBF) received $5,000.00 towards their participation in a FIBA Congress. Mr. Glen Guiste, President of the SLBF, received the disbursement on his Association’s behalf.
• St. Lucia Tennis Association received $5,000.00 towards airfare for their participation in a regional meeting. Ms. Scyla Murray received the disbursement on her Association’s behalf.
• St. Lucia National Table Tennis Association received $6,823.65 towards airfares for their participation in the Caribbean U-15 and U-19 Table Tennis Tournament in Barba-dos. Mr. Chris Wells, Head Coach, received the disbursement on his Association’s be-half.
• St. Lucia Volleyball Association was slated to receive $20,000.00 towards their funding Coach Sabatini’s coaching stint on-island. However, no representative was present at the handover ceremony.
Speaking at the the handover ceremony, Alfred Emmanuel, President of SLOC Inc., reiterated his call to members that after financial assistance has been approved and disbursed, they must adhere to the stipulated time period to report to the SLOC in the required format.
“We find ourselves chasing after members for weeks and months to fulfil that obligation,” Em-manuel lamented. “In this quadrennium, we will not be chasing anyone to report and to report on time. If you don’t report on time, it simply means that your association has outstanding busi-ness with the St. Lucia Olympic Committee.
The penalty for having outstanding business with the St. Lucia Olympic Committee is no further assistance until that outstanding business has been closed. So I want members to take that on seriously so that at the end of the day, we will all be able to fulfil our mandates in a timely manner.”
Emmanuel assured that SLOC Inc. will continue to assist members based on its financial ability to do so, taking into consideration that SLOC Inc. is not a financially generating institution, but rather, relies on grant funding from its continental and international bodies.
“The grant funding has specific requirements for reporting,” he said. “That is why we’re ex-tremely hard on our members as it relates to the specific form of reporting so that we can satisfy our funding agencies.”
SOURCE: St. Lucia Olympic Committee (SLOC) Inc.