Guyana Chronicle
May 30, 2001

ANOTHER recognition: President of the Guyana Olympic Association affixes the gold pin to honour World Boxing Association welterweight champion, Andrew `Sixhead' Lewis, in the presence of other executives. GUYANA'S first world champion, Andrew `Sixhead' Lewis, was honoured by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) at a special dinner hosted at the residence of GOA president, K. Juman-Yassin, Monday night.

The world champion was decorated with a gold tie-pin with the logo of the GOA crest by the GOA president after tributes were paid to the boxing celebrity.

As an amateur boxer, Lewis represented Guyana in the 1990 Central American & Caribbean (CAC) Games staged in Mexico where he won a silver medal, meeting the same Cuban who had denied him gold in a previous encounter.

During the special function, Senior Counsel Donald Robinson who had been Chef-de-Mission in the GOA team which won nine medals at that CAC Games, made brief comments.

Robinson, a former vice-president of the GOA, reminded the world champ that fame did not last forever and when his star begins to wane - and may that be a long, long time from now - some of the very people who are now glorifying him will be the first to call for his head - all six of them.

"I wish to remind you that success is often a passing thing and that it is in adversity that you will know who your true friends are. Be prudent, be prepared stay focused and never, never forget your country or your roots. We are all very proud of you," Robinson said.

The sports administrator wished the champion continued fame and success, on his behalf and the cycling fraternity.

"May you, by your furthered efforts and endeavours, continue to climb the ladder of success and thereby in your own inimitable way help to guide and lead this nation where it deserves to be led," Robinson declared.