Guyana Chronicle
June 6, 2001

WORLD champion, Andrew `Sixhead' Lewis, caused a mild alarm yesterday morning when he could not be found to fly to New York.

Lewis was due to return to the USA on a North American Airways flight scheduled for an 08:15 hrs departure.

Transport was arranged by the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport to depart the Main Street office at 05:30 hrs, but the officers could not locate the champion.

Lewis' mother, Yvonne Eversley, was at the airport waiting for her son who was to be on the same flight as his aunt.

Eversley related to Chronicle Sport that she was at the hotel but got no answer from the room. He was not answering his cell phone. He was not seen since late Monday night by the hotel staff.

The mother said she wanted to spend the night by him but was too tired to go there.

Eversley went to the hotel on returning from the airport and was allowed to go into the room which appeared that the champion was not there for the night.

"But I didn't get a feeling anything happened to him," Eversley said later in the afternoon after the champion was located.

Faisal Alli who looks after the affairs of the champion in Guyana, called the mother about midday and told her not to worry because he was having lunch with him.

Chronicle Sport later contacted Permanent Secretary in Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport, Keith Booker, who said the champion did not travel because he wanted to tie up arrangements with King Solomon who has a car as a gift for him.

"He was at a place we did not realise he was," Booker said.

Booker disclosed that Lewis will now travel tomorrow for the USA. (Isaiah Chappelle).