Skerritt, Shallow launch bid to unseat Cameron

Former Cabinet minister and West Indies team manager, Ricky Skerritt, has formally launched his bid to unseat Cricket West Indies president, Dave Cameron, at next month’s elections in Jamaica.

The 62-year-old will be partnered by vice-presidential candidate, Dr Kishore Shallow, who is the current president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc, and a CWI director.

Significantly, Skerritt and Shallow have had their nominations supported by the Leeward Islands Cricket Board and Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, setting the stage for an intriguing campaign in coming weeks in what is expected to be tense election.

Jamaican Cameron, a highly controversial figure in West Indies cricket, is running for a fourth consecutive term as CWI president after being first elected back in 2013 when he took over from St Lucian diplomat Julian Hunte.

He will be partnered again by vice-president Emmanuel Nanthan.

Skerritt, also a CWI director, said that one of their main aims once elected was to significantly reduce the sizeable budget allocated to the president’s office, and redirect those funds into grassroots development.

It will be tough to defeat Cameron