ROLE OF THE DEPARTMENT
The fundamental values are team work, integrity & respect, leadership and accountability, excellence and professionalism, good citizenship. These values are the guiding principles that will be utilized by the commission when making decisions that impact upon sports development in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
By defining, sharing, and embracing theses core values the commission will be committed to developing a culture that supports its employees and continuously strive to provide a sporting environment that is conducive to the Government and People of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
FUNCTIONS & ACTIVITIES
- to advise the Minister in relation to the development of sport;
- to co-ordinate activities in the Islands for the development of sport;
- to develop and implement programs that promote equality of access to, and participation in sport by all residents of the Turks and Caicos Islanders;
- to develop and implement programs for the recognition and development of—
- persons who excel, or who have the potential to excel, in sport; and
- persons who have achieved, or who have the potential to achieve, standards of excellence as sports coaches, umpires, referees or officials essential to the conduct of sport;
- to acquire, manage, maintain and develop property for sporting or physical recreational purposes or to assist schools or other bodies or persons to acquire, manage, maintain and develop property for such purposes;
- to consider and determine applications for registration by national sport governing bodies;
- to determine, grant and supervise national sports awards to outstanding sports persons and sports administrators;
- to approve sports tours, and domestic and international sport events conducted on the Islands, on the recommendation of the national sport governing body or, in the absence of a national sport governing body, on its own recommendation;
- to co-operate with national and international sporting organisations in aiming to foster a sporting environment that is free from the unsanctioned use of performance enhancing drugs and doping methods.
