BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – For­mer pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dave Cameron is baf­fled as to why a meet­ing on gov­er­nance re­form was sched­uled by the cur­rent CWI ad­min­is­tra­tion in light of op­po­si­tion from both the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) and the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB).

The meet­ing was to be held last Fri­day, but a quo­rum was not met af­ter the BCA and GCB failed to send rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

All oth­er Full Mem­ber share­hold­ers; the Ja­maica Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (JCA), Lee­ward Is­lands Crick­et Board (LICB), Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB), and Wind­ward Is­lands Crick­et Board (WICB) were present and pre­pared to pro­ceed.

The meet­ing was con­vened to vote on im­ple­ment­ing gov­er­nance re­forms pro­posed by the We­h­by Re­port, which aims to mod­ern­ize CWI’s gov­er­nance frame­work and was al­so ex­pect­ed to ad­dress sig­nif­i­cant pro­pos­als, in­clud­ing ad­just­ments to in­tro­duce term lim­its, the term du­ra­tions for the pres­i­dent and vice-pres­i­dent, and oth­er mea­sures de­signed to strength­en CWI’s gov­er­nance struc­ture.

The BCA and GCB sub­se­quent­ly re­leased a state­ment ex­plain­ing their ab­sence from the meet­ing, where they claimed that CWI had ig­nored sev­er­al of their con­cerns sur­round­ing the We­h­by Re­port, among oth­er sug­ges­tions.

Speak­ing on the Ma­son and Guest ra­dio show on 92.9 FM on Tues­day, Cameron, who served as CWI pres­i­dent from 2013 to 2019, ques­tioned why CWI would at­tempt to hold the meet­ing know­ing the frus­tra­tions of the BCA and GCB.

He sug­gest­ed that the CWI should have held dis­cus­sions with both as­so­ci­a­tions in an at­tempt to find a so­lu­tion.

“If you re­alised you had such op­po­si­tion, why would you make this a pub­lic sit­u­a­tion?

“Con­tin­ue to ne­go­ti­ate and dis­cuss it but don’t make it a pub­lic de­bate and call an AGM ex­tra­or­di­nary meet­ing to get this done when you knew that share­hold­ers were un­com­fort­able with the po­si­tion,” Cameron said.

“It’s a very, very un­for­tu­nate sit­u­a­tion but a very dif­fi­cult one to ad­dress.”

CM