Jamaica 'has never carried out a blood test'

The former head of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) claims the organisation has never conducted a blood test and is so short-staffed that it risks botching its prosecutions of accused athletes Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson when they face drug hearings in three months’ time.
Renee Anne Shirley, JADCO’s executive director from July 2012 until February this year, has already prompted an investigation into Jamaica’s anti-doping programme by the World Anti-Doping Agency following her revelation in a magazine article that JADCO carried out just one out-of-competition drug test in the five months leading up to the London Olympics.

In direct response to her allegation, Wada revealed on Monday that it would be visiting the Caribbean island in January to carry out an “extraordinary audit” of JADCO’s activities.

Now, in an interview with Telegraph Sport, Shirley has added to her criticisms of Jamaica’s anti-doping measures by claiming that blood-testing kits that were delivered during her tenure at JADCO have never been used.

Source: Telegraph