Country’s young Simon Pures on show today

FLASHBACK! Some of the participants at July’s Mike Parris U16 championships. (Photo courtesy Guyana Chronicle)

The country’s top U16 box16 boxers will be on show today as the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) continues its focus on its developmental youth programme with the resumption of the monthly Pepsi Mike Parris School Boys and Girls Junior Championships at the Andrew “Six Head” Lewis gym, Albouystown today from 1pm.

The recommencement of this monthly apparatus comes in the wake of the recent Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys/Juniors Championship, which was hosted from August 18th – 20th at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, and featured the overseas participation of Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.