Jamaica to host Americas conference on Saturday

Minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for sport, Natalie Neita-Headley, will be the guest speaker at the opening of the annual executive committee meeting of the American Boxing Confederation (AMBC), which takes place at the Iberostar Rose Hall Beach hotel in Montego Bay on Saturday.

The AMBC is the continental commission of the International Boxing Association that regulates amateur boxing in the Americas. The Americas grouping comprises territories in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, and 16 delegates will be attending the meeting.

Setting 2012 agenda

High on the meeting's agenda is the planning of activities in the Americas for 2012 and approval of critical amendments to the AMBC Constitution which are to be put in place immediately after the meeting.

The calendar of events taking place in the region this year will also be finalised, after which there will be a selection of the venues. The outstanding boxers (male and female) in the region will also be selected.

The delegates attending will be from the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the United States of America and Venezuela. There will also be two delegates from Canada, who will be making a presentation on behalf of the organising committee of the proposed women's elite Continental Boxing Championships.

Domingo Solano, president of the AMBC, said that the reason that Jamaica was selected as the venue for this year's meeting was to show the high esteem in which the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control (JBBC) is held in the Americas' boxing fraternity.

Leroy Brown, general secretary of the JBBC, is one of the two Caribbean representatives on the executive committee. The other is John Charles from Dominica.

High on the meeting's agenda is the planning of activities in the Americas for 2012.