FLY Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Insurance (GTM) GUYOIL and King’s Jewellery have all joined the list of sponsors supporting the Guyana Boxing Board of Control’s (GBBC) Caribbean Collision five-bout card set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on February 21.

Yesterday, the above-mentioned agencies handed over cheques and airline tickets to representatives of the GBBC at president Peter Abdool’s office.
Speaking at the handing-over ceremony, Abdool thanked all the entities for coming on board to support the card which will feature Guyana’s Clive `The Punisher’ Atwell against Jamaica’s Sakima Mullings in a World Boxing Council CABOFE junior welterweight 12-round title fight.
Abdool was very heartened by the fact that GTM has come on board in support of the card.
He explained that this is the first time that the insurance company is supporting the sport and said that the company has done a great deal for the development of local cricket over the years and it is his hope that they will do the same for boxing.
GTM Assistant Manager for Brokerages, Oceola Van-Doimen in response said her company is very heartened to be on board and it is just one way of giving back to society.
Also representing GTM yesterday was Aniauradha Singh, the company’s Marketing Officer.
According to Abdool, Fly Jamaica has been supporting the GBBC since the airline first started operations in Guyana. Abdool said Fly Jamaica has been very supportive and he is very happy to have them on board.
Abdool noted that once there is a card which includes Jamaican fighters, Fly Jamaica assists with airline tickets.
Abdool, who announced that Fly Jamaica will be giving a return ticket to a lucky ticket holder, was more than surprised when he heard the company’s Senior Marketing Officer Wesley Tucker announce that the gate prize would not be just one return ticket to any destination the airline services, but two, so that the winner of the gate prize can travel with his/her companion to one of the destinations including New York and Canada.
Today is two years since Fly Jamaica started its operations in Guyana.
GUYOIL’s representatives were Darenand Mangal (Customer Sales Representative) and Castrol Brands Manager Nadia Sugrim who stated that her company is always pleased to support boxing in Guyana and is very happy to be on board once more.
Abdool stated that since the GBBC started the Guyana Fight Nights, GUYOIL has been on board.
Apart from the two airline tickets, compliments of Fly Jamaica, there will also be a gate prize of one cricket band, compliments of King’s Jewellery.
Meanwhile, the Atwell versus Mullings fight on the five-bout card has been brought forward and will now be the third fight on the night.
Abdool explained that Mullings and his entourage have to be at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport by midnight on Saturday to catch the return flight back to Jamaica, so the GBBC had to amend the card to facilitate this.
The opening fight of the night will be a four-round junior middleweight affair between debutants Travis Fraser and Charwin Estwick, while bout number two is a four-round lightweight contest between Keeve Allicock and Quincy Gomes.
This will be followed by the WBC CABOFE title fight.
Fight number four will see Edmond DeClou tackle Derick Richmond in an eight-round middleweight contest and the final fight pits together Mark Austin and Dexter Gonsalves in an eight-round junior welterweight bout.

By Michael DaSilva

(Adrian Narine photo)