CACSO follows NORCECA steps in favor of inclusion

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, December 18, 2014 – NORCECA Confederation is pleased to announce that the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organization (CACSO) has approved changes in its constitution in order to allow the participation of several territories in the quadrennial CAC Games and other activities organized by the institution.

In doing so, CACSO follows the steps taken by NORCECA Volleyball Confederation who in its 2005 Congress admitted the nine territories under its influence zone as full members with rights to participated in the regional and eventually in the continental competitions.

“We are very pleased with this changes that favor inclusion in sports following the Olympic principles,” NORCECA President Cristobal Marte Hoffiz said. “I want to congratulate CACSO and the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees for this major victory.”

Keith Joseph, General Secretary of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees circulated the news informing that on November 13, one day before of the start of the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico, the general assembly of CACSO voted unanimously in favor of the amendments of the constitution.

The changes now facilitate the inclusion as Associate Members of those members who do not have yet a National Olympic Committee and are not members of the International Olympic Committee.

Those changes open the way for Martinique, Guadeloupe, Curacao, Dutch St Maarten, French St Martin, Turks and Caicos Islands, Saba, Bonaire and St Eustatius to become Associate Members of CACSO upon application and would then be eligible to participate in the next edition of the CAC Games in Barranquilla, Colombia in 2018.