Anthony said that he expects the new Committee to be set-up by September and the Championships will be held on October 11.

 

The event will feature athletics, football, football, swimming and table tennis and will be held at the Carifesta Sports Complex.

 

Anthony has set-up a steering committee, guided by Carl Brandon and Milton Spencer, to oversee the formation of the new NPC but has admitted that it is unlikely Guyana has enough time to develop any athletes in time to compete at the London 2012 Paralympics.

 

The steering Committee is due to hold a series of meetings with interested parties, starting on August 17.

 

Guyana, previously known as British Guiana, is a state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean, and has a population of approximately 775,000.

 

The country made its debut in the Olympics at London in 1948 and have appeared in every Summer Games since with the exception of Montreal 1976, which they boycotted in protest of the New Zealand rugby tour to South Africa.

 

The country's only medal came at Moscow in 1980 when boxer Michael Anthony won a bronze in the bantamweight division.

 

But probably the country's best known sportsman was cricketer Clive Lloyd, born in the country's capital Georgetown and who captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 during a period when they were the world's top-ranked Test nation.

 

If the country is accepted as a member of the International Paralympic Committee it will become the 163rd member and the 26th in the Americas region.