Basseterre, St. Kitts. August 19, 2024 – Over 30 regional representatives from Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, St. Eustatius, Saba and host country St.
Kitts and Nevis, are to benefit from the FIVB Beach Volleyball Coaches Course, from August 26-31. The coaching seminar will be paired with an U21 Athlete Training Camp, ahead of the Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association (ECVA) U21 Beach Championships.
This initiative, which is sponsored by Olympic Solidarity through its local affiliate the St. Kitts and Nevis Olympic Committee (SKNOC), will be conducted at the Marriott Beach, North Frigate Bay. It is designed to advance the skills of coaches and athletes throughout the Eastern Caribbean region and beyond.
It also highlights the FIVB’s Knowledge Transfer Program and its pivotal role in the sport’s development. The course and athlete training camp are being facilitated by Professor Rick Bevis of Canada, an FIVB Instructor and expert in the Pedagogy of Coaching and Educational Sport Psychology from Vancouver Island University.
Professor Bevis brings a wealth of experience, having coached both court and beach volleyball at all levels,
have already been identified in Sweden. WHO/Europe said it was actively engaging with Sweden’s health authorities on “how best to manage the first confirmed case of mpox Clade 1b”. It urged other countries to act quickly and transparently like Sweden, as there were likely to be further “imported cases of Clade 1 in the European region over the coming days and weeks”.
The Swedish public health agency said the more dangerous outbreak was likely to be linked to “a higher rise of a more severe course of disease and higher mortality”. Dr Jonas Albarnaz, who specialises in pox viruses at the Pirbright Institute, said the first case outside of Africa was concerning as it meant the spread “might be larger than we knew yesterday” Dr Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge agreed it was “clearly a concerning development” but unsurprising given the severity and spread of the outbreak in Africa.
The WHO hopes its latest declaration, that mpox is a public health emergency of international concern, will trigger greater support to the areas most affected. Vaccines are available, for those at greatest risk or who have been in close contact with an infected person, but many experts worry there are not enough jabs or funding to get them to the people who need them most. – CLASSFIED ADS –
