The President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Steve Ninvalle will on Saturday, host the International Boxing Association (AIBA) meeting of the Caribbean, at the Resource Centre in Georgetown from 10:00h.
Ninvalle, an Executive Committee Member of the sport’s governing body, was recently elected to the AIBA Executive Committee Bureau and stated that the meeting on Saturday will address several critical areas of development for the Caribbean.
GBA President Steve Ninvalle
Initially, a meeting was scheduled for September 10, but due to Hurricane Irma, that meeting was later postponed. William Louis-Marie, AIBA’s Executive Director, is expected to be in Guyana for the important meeting, as well as a representative from the America Boxing Confederation (AMBC) with Ninvalle pointing out that their presences represents the Caribbean’s desire to ensure equal exposure for its fighters.
Ninvalle commented that the meeting comes on the heels of the Court of Arbitration ruling in the impasse between long-serving AIBA president Wu Ching-Kuo and an Interim Managing Committee (IMC).
AIBA Executive Director William Louis-Marie
Wu is set to remain in power for the immediate future after the Swiss Court of Lausanne dismissed attempts from a rival organisation to seize control of the sport’s world governing body.
The IMC, which was established in July following a vote of no confidence in Wu has been seeking to remove the Taiwanese official from power amid allegations of financial mismanagement under his administration.
However, the Lausanne court rejected all of the IMC’s claims in full, upholding the position of Wu and executive director William Louis-Marie, who the IMC has also been seeking to oust.
