“Jamaica will be the hub of Caribbean Parasports development,” said Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), during a recent official visit to Jamaica, in support of the Jamaica Paralympic Association’s (JPA) efforts.
The world president’s remarks are a part of a five-year, grassroots, historic project that will be implemented in Jamaica, with the establishment of a Paralympic academy being one of its goals. When a group from the Americas Paralympic Committee (AmPC), the highest authority for national paralympic committees (NPCs) in the Americas and Caribbean, and the Latin American and Caribbean Development Bank comes on the island next month, work is scheduled to begin in earnest.
