For­mer Ja­maica High Com­mis­sion­er to Lon­don as well as Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al of CARI­COM’s Of­fice of Trade Ne­go­ti­a­tions, Gail Math­urin, is among two new non-mem­ber di­rec­tors on the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) board. The oth­er is Hal­lam Nichols, an ex­pe­ri­enced and suc­cess­ful busi­ness­man based in Bar­ba­dos.

The pe­ri­od of their ap­point­ment is for one year.

Math­urin be­ing named as a di­rec­tor it now means that CWI will for the first time in its his­to­ry have two women on its Board of Di­rec­tors. The oth­er non-mem­ber di­rec­tors are: De­bra Cory­at-Pat­ton, a Trinidad and To­ba­go at­tor­ney; and Man­ni­ram Prashad, a past Min­is­ter of Tourism, In­dus­try and Com­merce for Guyana who were both re-ap­point­ed for a one-year pe­ri­od.

CWI pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low said, “Ap­point­ing two women out of the four po­si­tions for in­de­pen­dent di­rec­tors is con­sis­tent with the aim to bring more di­ver­si­ty to the board­room of Crick­et West In­dies. Both Ms. Math­urin and Mrs. Cory­at-Pat­ton are first-rate ex­perts in their re­spec­tive fields, and with en­thu­si­asm, I look for­ward to their mean­ing­ful con­tri­bu­tions to the Board.”