CARICOM independent panel recommends the disbanding of the WICB

The Independent Review Panel of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) sub-committee on Cricket Governance has recommended that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) be disbanded and an interim committee installed to run the affairs of cricket in the region.

The review panel submitted the report to CARICOM last week after 3 months of consultations, during which it also conducted interviews and held deliberations. It was chaired by principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, Violet Eudine-Barriteau, and included president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Denis Byron; former Trinidad & Tobago and West Indies cricketer Deryck Murray; president of the Caribbean Development Bank Warren Smith, and president of the Grenada Cricket Association Dwain Gill. It worked through the Guyana-based Caribbean Community Secretariat.

The committee was set up last April following an agreement at a meeting between the WICB and the CARICOM Cricket Governance Sub-committee, the latter comprising prime ministers Gaston Browne of Antigua & Barbuda; Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada’s Keith Mitchell.

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