WICB, CARICOM agree on way forward for cricket
- CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of The Bahamas, the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie (centre), Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves to his left; Dr. Hon. Keith Mitchell, the host Prime Minister and CARICOM sub-committee chairman for Cricket (right), the Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (mmediately behind Prime Minister Christie) and CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque is 2nd right. They took time out for a photo opportunity at the opening ceremony of a one-day, high level meeting in Grenada to discuss the future of West Indies Cricket. Also in attendance were a number of West Indies cricket greats including Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards. (Photo via Bahamas Information Service)
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Caricom committee on cricket governance say they have ended a “productive” meeting where an agreement has been reached on “the way forward” for West Indies cricket.[su_pullquote align=”right”]“I believe we have reached a positive conclusion which will chart the way forward. We will be working together with the board and all concerned to move West Indies cricket forward.” – Grenada Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell [/su_pullquote]
However both parties have declined to comment on the specifics of the agreement following their meeting which ran for nearly five hours at the upscale Spice Island Beach resort in Grenada’s southern tourist belt late Monday.
WICB president Dave Cameron and Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell said details of the agreement will be contained in a joint press release to be issued on Tuesday.
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