PRESIDENT of the Suriname Boxing Association (SBA) Remie Burke will arrive in Guyana today for talks with members of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA)Burke is expected here this morning and will meet with a delegation from the GBA this evening.
He is scheduled to spend two days in Guyana which would facilitate discussion on a wide range of matters pertaining to boxing and cooperation between the two South American countries. In the last year Suriname has been pushing for closer ties with Guyana
In one instance, the secretary of the SBA wrote seeking a team of boxers and referee/judges to participate in a tournament in the Dutch-speaking country in August.
However, Burke later contacted GBA president Steve Ninvalle explaining that there had been a split in his executive and he was unaware the tournament.
This forced the GBA to dispatch a letter to world governing body AIBA seeking clarification on the way forward. AIBA has since ruled that Guyana desist from participating in any programme with Suriname which did not have the blessings of Burke.
The SBA president will this evening meet with Ninvalle, national coach Wincell Thomas and GBA technical and tournament director Terrence Poole.