Focus on communities for apprentice boxers

THE EDITOR: Now that the Minister of Sport has announced the Boxing Board, I would like to advise that the board should concentrate on the communities and not the schools for apprentice boxers. Boxing carries a stigma and no parent would want their school attending children to get involved in boxing. Perhaps the juvenile homes could be approached. It appears as though the board wishes to reinvent the wheel, based on what I have read. I do hope that one of the board members is man enough to tell the minister that he can make a better contribution as the national trainer/coach than to attend meetings and process applications for contests.

I cannot see how another member who has a legal leaning can honestly assist when he is involved in close to fifty committees and bodies in this country. (He definitely will not have the time to be effective.) Now, how can the youth be encouraged when the government does not have one single gym of its own? I feel the life of the board should be extended by two years, and at least ten million dollars provided and consultants far and wide be attached to the Board. In conclusion, I recommend that the chairman be sent on a management training course in boxing in the USA and that Claude Noel be appointed as a board member. Good luck to the board.

THOMAS  METCAFFE
Pt  Cumana