High level CARICOM boxing meeting for Guyana - Ninvalle

High level CARICOM boxing meeting for Guyana – Ninvalle

Aug 06, 2017 Sports

Boxing Administrators from CARICOM are scheduled to gather in
Guyana between September 9th and 10th to focus on the region’s way forward in relation to the recent troubles in world governing body AIBA. The upcoming meeting was called by AIBA Executive Committee member and president of the Guyana Boxing Association, Steve Ninvalle, following his return from an Executive Committee Meeting in Moscow.
Ninvalle said that next month’s discussions will focus on a united regional approach leading up to an Extra Ordinary Congress in Dubai in November. “Caribbean presidents and administrators will be meeting in Guyana to come up with a regional stance on how to approach the unrest that has gripped AIBA. We think that this is apposite and gives credence to our motto of One Voice, One Goal, One Caribbean,” Ninvalle said.
AIBA has been rocked recently by allegations of financial mismanagement and several Executive Committee members have signed a document calling for the president Dr. Ching Kwo Wu to step down. At the upcoming Extra Ordinary Congress in Dubai, national federations will vote on whether to have Wu removed from the helm.
Since the EC meeting in Moscow, an Interim Management Committee headed by Italian Franco Falcinelli has claimed to be running the affairs of AIBA but this has been refuted by Wu who has put in motion a legal challenge.
To date, Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, Suriname, St Lucia, St. Martin and Trinidad have confirmed being here for the meeting. “August 8th is the deadline for confirmation and it is my belief that we will have at least 15 territories being represented. We are a region with voting power and the intention it to use that for the betterment of boxing in the Caribbean,” Ninvalle explained.
Meanwhile, the GBA boss disclosed he is currently discussing with his Caribbean counterparts the possibility of having Dr. Wu and Falcinelli or their representatives here for the meeting. “The rationale behind that proposition is that we would get to hear both sides which would aid in our decision making.”

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