In a two-day session which ended on Sunday 350 more local volunteers were trained to provide service assistance for Cricket World Cup in March.
According to the Government Information Agency (GINA) the Guyana Local Organising Committee (LOC) which is executing the training programme, said volunteers will be demonstrating their potential as information assistants and in the areas of hospitality, lost and found, traffic and parking, first aid and emergency services. They were trained in areas such as event management, service excellence, safety procedures and organisation at the Queen’s College auditorium. Volunteers for CWC will be known in Guyana and throughout the other nine host venues as Cricket World Cup Volunteers who are Intelligent, Bold, Bright and Enthusiastic and Sensational (CWC VIBES). They are expected to be suitably dressed and display positive attitudes or face termination.
The LOC invited applicants to the programme through public advertisement campaigns and through the distribution of forms to organisations and supermarkets. More than 1500 persons showed interest.
GINA quoted Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony, who is also Chairman of the LOC, during a brief address at the opening of the training session, as saying that the volunteers are also stakeholders in the organisation of the CWC. Anthony also said he was pleased at the number of persons who showed interest in participating and is confident of a successful hosting of the games as the LOC plans to embark on a Guyana Volunteer Programme that will target about 1000 persons.
