{"id":348323,"date":"2025-12-16T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348323\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:17:07","slug":"guyana-gains-world-boxing-recognition-clearing-path-forward-for-gba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348323\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana gains World Boxing recognition, clearing path forward for GBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/images\/2025\/01\/steve-ninvalle4.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t <\/a>GBA president Steve Ninvalle<\/p>\n<p>Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) president Steve Ninvalle says the organisation can now move forward with clarity after Guyana was officially granted provisional recognition by World Boxing, ending months of uncertainty that left the local programme in administrative limbo.<\/p>\n<p>In an invited comment to Stabroek Sport, Ninvalle welcomed the decision but did not hide his frustration over the lengthy delay in the approval process. \u201cWe\u2019re happy that we got that recognition but we\u2019re concerned that it took so long. Just recently we would have been denied a chance of sending a team to the Islamic Solidarity Games because we did not have this recognition from World Boxing. It actually left us in a state of ambivalence, we did not know how, what, where or why,\u201d Ninvalle said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2025\/12\/16\/sports\/gff-enforces-match-manipulation-policy-to-safeguard-integrity-of-local-football\/\" rel=\"prev nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlock 1 week of unlimited access for just $5, or pick our top plan for only 30\u00a2 a day! Enjoy fewer ads, full ePaper access, and our iOS &amp; Android apps as a subscriber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GBA president Steve Ninvalle Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) president Steve Ninvalle says the organisation can now move forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}