Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GBA) President Steve Ninvalle is Guyana’s new Director of Sport, after almost a year of the position being vacant.
It was reported that the recently-appointed National Sports Commission (NSC) Board had its first meeting, in which the six-member body unanimously agreed, following consultation with Culture, Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr, that Ninvalle was the best man for the job.
Ninvalle has long been one of the front-runners for the position, owing to his vast experience in sport administration.
Steve Ninvalle is Guyana’s new Director of Sport
Aside from his elected post at the helm of the GBA, Ninvalle has been a part of the Caribbean Boxing Steering Committee, of which he was Chairman, before resigning from the post in October 2020. He was elected to that post in 2019.
On the international stage, Ninvalle was the first Caribbean Executive Committee Member of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), elected in 2014. In 2017, he elevated to the Executive Bureau of that same entity, before ascending to the position of Chairman of AIBA’s Youth Commission in February 2019. During the same period of time, Ninvalle was elected as the Vice President of the Americas Boxing Confederation (AMBC).
On the local front, Ninvalle garnered his Government knowledge as a former Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary for the Culture, Youth and Sport Ministry. In addition, he was further employed as a Sport Journalist and later Sport Editor. He was re-elected as the President of the GBA in 2016.
“I would like to thank the Honourable Minister Charles Ramson Jr and the commissioners of the National Sports Commission for appointing me to this post and for having the confidence in me,” Ninvalle candidly stated during an invited comment with Guyana Times Sport.
“And I understand that to further develop sport in Guyana, it will need a team effort so this will be a team effort to take sport to the next level,” the new Director of Sport said, as he shared his intentions for his time in office.
