WICB to meet on CARICOM report

WICB to meet on CARICOM report

Vinode Mamchan

Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The CARICOM Cricket Committee report on the governance of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will be released at a press conference at 2 pm today in Grenada.

Guardian Media understands that the report comes across very strong and it has already been sent to the WICB. President of the WICB Dave Cameron said yesterday that he had received a copy of the report and it would be discussed at the WICB’s next board meeting in St Lucia on December 12.

“Yes, we have received a copy of the governance report from the Caricom sub-committee and we will definitely look at it moving forward,” Cameron said.

“We meet for our regular board meeting on December 12 in St Lucia and at this meeting we will discuss the report in detail. For anything to be adopted from the report, it first has to be in line with what the territorial boards want.”

Caricom decided to step in and set up a sub-committee to deal with the governance of the WICB, after the West Indies team’s aborted tour of India last year.

The West Indies team aborted their tour of India due to a payment structure dispute with the WICB and it has left the WICB with a bill to the tune of US$41.97M in damages.

After all the problems that arose from this tour, a Caricom Prime Ministerial Committee headed by Dr Keith Mitchell met with the WICB and after their meeting a committee was set up to look at the governance of the WICB.

Last month, the Review Panel, which was put in place after a meeting in Grenada in April, between the CARICOM Cricket Governance Subcommittee of heads and the WICB, submitted their report to the Prime Ministers on the CARICOM Sub-Committee.

The Sub-Committee, namely Prime Minister Mitchell, Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, have since met and decided that Dr Mitchell and Dr Bariteau should report on the work of the Review Panel, with an aim to moving speedily to enact the recommendations of the panel.

The independent Review Panel comprises Dr Bariteau, as Chair, D Warren Smith, President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Sir Denis Byron, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Deryck Murray, former West Indies Cricket great, and Dwayne Gill, President of the Grenada Cricket Association.

So de report not getting discussed until December 12.

And what do the territorial boards want??

You are right WIBC is running the best players away and are spoiling potential good players. Case in point Carlos Brathwaite a potentially good player burdened with the captaincy even before he has learnt to play the international game. Why? Because of his heroics in the 2016 world t20. Now he can’t make the team on form.
Look at the two world cups we won. All of the senior players were there. Now we can’t even beat Pakistan.
Ibeg ti ask the question “how can we get rid of the WIBC?” It is mind boggling how Dave Cameroon was re elected. Any ideas? Anyone.

Asked and Answered ! 

no one wants it.....