![]() He then urged the various sponsors to continue their valuable work, and reminded them that "by investing in the Jamaican youth, you are investing in our country and making life in the long run better for everyone, yourselves included." "When sponsors provide the financial assistance needed to foster the growth of sports, they assist the young people who are our future and who help to make our nation great," he said. Private sponsors, he said, had over the years played a substantial role in the development of sports and the athletes who engage in various sporting activities. Senator Newby confided that with the best intentions in the world, the Government of Jamaica could not on its own do all that was needed to sponsor sporting events islandwide. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. Middleweight champion Rikardo Smith will fight Anthony Osbourne in the third professional fight on the card and there will also be some amateur contests as curtain-raisers. The semi-final will see Jamaica's Sakima Mullings meeting Guyana's Winston Pompey for the vacant Commonwealth Zonal middleweight title. It was announced then, that Jamaica's Nicholas Walters, the reigning World Boxing Association (WBA) Fedelatin featherweight champion, will defend his title against Argel Salinas of Mexico, in an 11-round fight at the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium, Jamaica College, on Thursday, June 16. Senator Warren Newby, parliamentary secretary in the ministry of youth, sport and culture, lauded the stellar contribution being made to sport in Jamaica by private-sector sponsors, on Wednesday, as he gave the keynote address at the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control's launching ceremony for the 2011 Hands Of Gold Boxing Series, at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston. ![]()
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