GUYANA fielded ten officials among 178 boxing coaches who participated at a virtual seminar on Sunday.

The seminar was held to update regional officials on rules and regulations that govern refereeing and judging. The event was organised by Americas Boxing Confederation vice-president and chairman of the Caribbean Steering Committee for Boxing, Steve Ninvalle, and was conducted by Ray Silvas, chairman of the AIBA Referee/Judges Commission.

The American Silvas lectured on better understanding AIBA’s technical and competition rules and understanding the work of referees and judges among others.

Ninvalle, in declaring the seminar open, congratulated the participants drawn from 17 countries for understanding the importance of taking part. He told the group of 176 that it was encouraging to see so many persons registered for the programme.

“To have 176 persons on this is a regional record. While I applaud this I ask that whatever we learn here is not kept to ourselves. We must share it with the boxers and all others in the boxing community,” Ninvalle, also the president of Guyana Boxing Association, stated.

In his opening remarks Silvas confirmed that it was the largest number of participants he had lectured to at any one time. “This is larger than the 140 I did in China,” Silvas declared.

The Caribbean region was represented by coaches from:  Anguilla, Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and US Virgin Islands. Sunday’s virtual seminar was one of three in the last two months.

Ninvalle later disclosed that local coaches will soon benefit for another seminar to be conducted by International Technical Officer Elton Chase.