CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, maintains that the modernising and reforming of Cricket West Indies (formerly West Indies Cricket Board) remains a concern for the regional body.
LaRocque was at the time speaking at a press briefing on Monday in the lead-up to the 28th Intersessional Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Conference, which will be held today and tomorrow at the Secretariat.
“The position of the community is very clear on the need for modernising and reforming the administration of West Indies cricket, which remains a concern, notwithstanding the instances where performances may have improved from time to time. By and large there is a problem that we need to look at and we continue to peruse that,” the Secretary-General stated.
The current Cricket West Indies administration, led by Dave Cameron, has drawn a lot of criticism over the last two years.
Incidentally Cameron is posed for a third term, when the organisation stages its Annual General Meeting next month, but his popularity outside the board has dipped, ever since CARICOM cricket review panel in November 2015 termed the board’s governance structure as “antiquated,” “obsolete” and “anachronistic”, and has recommended the WICB be dissolved and all current members resign.
“The Heads of Government have established a mechanism for continuing to look at the issue and that will continue,” LaRocque disclosed.
The CARICOM panel was appointed by the Prime Ministerial Committee on the Governance of West Indies Cricket in the wake of the crisis that engulfed the board after the BCCI suspended bilateral ties and slapped $41.97M as damages following West Indies’ decision to pull out midway their India tour in 2014.