CARICOM acquiring legal advice as WICB fight intensifies

By Michelle Nurse On Mar 15, 2016

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CARICOM is actively pursuing legal advice in its ongoing battle with the West Indies Cricket Board, as it ups the ante in its quest to have the controversial recommendations of its Governance Review report implemented.

A CARICOM-commissioned investigative panel, headed by UWI Cave Hill Principal Professor Eudine Barriteau, last November recommended the “immediate dissolution” of the WICB – a proposal which has since been rejected by the embattled board as an “unnecessary and intrusive demand.”

Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said today, however, even though the WICB had taken a hard line stance against CARICOM, the regional prime-ministerial grouping did not intend to back down, and was pursuing other avenues.’