 The cream of young regional boxing talent will be on display at the VT Malipropa Sports Complex here at the weekend as the St. Lucia Boxing Association hosts two nights of an extravaganza intended to be part of a development program for young boxers. So we call on St. Lucia to come out and support these young boxers because these boxers could be doing something different but they choose to be in the sport of boxing which is changing lives and making, creating champions and better citizens. This is our slogan. We creating champions and better citizens by working in the school program with the ministry. The tagline for the tournament is hands in gloves not on guns. We want to make sure you are staying in that gloves and don't hold the guns. Keep your hands, your thumbs and your fingers in the gloves and take it off the guns. Nuff cough, champion of champions, nuff punches and bunches. This is what you are going to get this weekend. Minister responsible for youth development and sports, the Honourable Kenson Kazumir, whose ministry is a partner in the staging of the event, has called on St. Lucia to play their part in supporting the development of young sports personalities and sports in general to enable a country to maintain consistency in its sporting achievements of late. Make your contribution to sport. When they go out there and they win, we say St. Lucia wins. We feel proud. So we need to always ask ourselves what can we do? What small can we do? And so I asked people of St. Lucia to come out, pay $5, pay $15, contribute to these young people. Let's do it for them because we know when they go astray what we say. And so I want to welcome our visitors. I want you all to enjoy St. Lucia. Take some time, go to the south for spring. There's something called Grosally Friday night you'll may not be able to enjoy. I always encourage people perhaps you should pass there. Enjoy the sun and sea but enjoy being whooped by our athletes as well. Director of sports, Jim Xavier also spoke at the press conference Thursday ahead of this weekend's boxing and added his voice in encouraging the St. Lucia populace to support the young boxers. It must be noted that St. Lucia has been on a wave of sporting success over the last few weeks and we trust that this boxing extravaganza will ensure that this trend continues. I want to say that the sport of boxing has been one which has helped in the rehabilitation of our young persons and so it has played a tremendous role and if with all what is happening with the young persons we want to encourage parents and persons in difficult communities to embrace the sport of boxing as like I said it has then wandered in terms of rehabilitation of our young men and so I want to use this platform to encourage St. Lucia to come forward and to support the event this weekend. The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports is 100% behind the Armature Boxing Association in staging this event. Apart from boxers from Host Nation St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guadalupe and Guyana will also be entering competitors for the two nights of boxing. From the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, I'm Ryan O'Brien.