The meeting was also attended by H.E. Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the Hon. Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica, and the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Senator the Hon. Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, and the Secretary General of CARICOM Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
The Meeting held a critical and in-depth discussion on the current state of cricket in the Region and in particular the status of the relations between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA).
In examining the issues related to governance of West Indies cricket, the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee reiterated that West Indies cricket belongs to the people of the Region, to whom the stewardship of the game must be accountable.
The Sub-Committee put forward the following proposals for returning the game of cricket in the Region to its glorious past:
Read full article...- Carry out an assessment of the prevailing arrangements for governance of West Indies Cricket to determine whether the best interests of cricket in the Region and of its people are being served;
- Revisit the recommendations of the Final Report of the Committee on Governance of West Indies Cricket of 2007 (“the Patterson Report”) to determine the extent to which their implementation would impact positively on West Indies Cricket, including its future development;
- Engage WICB, WIPA and other stakeholders in dialogue to ascertain their respective positions regarding the charting of a collective course forward, which would not only improve the arrangements for governance of West Indies Cricket but also the performance of our players.