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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Cameron sends lawyer letter to CWI

by

Vinode Mamchan - Senior Sports Reporter
1870 days ago
20200519
Former Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron

Former Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron

For­mer pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dave Cameron has sent a le­gal let­ter to the board seek­ing a copy of the PKF re­port that was done on be­half of the board, last year. 

Af­ter Cameron demit­ted of­fice, the new board un­der Ricky Sker­ritt com­mis­sioned PKF to look at the board's fi­nances and rec­om­mend what can be done to bring the re­gion­al body in­to a bet­ter fi­nan­cial po­si­tion. PKF came back with 28 rec­om­men­da­tions on which the board is in the process of im­ple­ment­ing.

The re­port then made its way to the ES­P­N­cricin­fo web­site and it called out the for­mer pres­i­dent on sev­er­al items. Cameron's at­tor­neys have since sent a le­gal let­ter to CWI ask­ing for a copy of the re­port.

Cameron said, "I am be­ing asked to re­spond to a re­port with­out ac­cess to the ac­tu­al re­port. I saw on (ES­PN) Cricin­fo and what I have to say to them is as fol­lows - on the as­sump­tion your piece ac­cu­rate­ly re­flects the re­port, I ques­tion the cred­i­bil­i­ty of the re­port and its find­ings, and that of the au­thor. I am al­so deeply trou­bled by the fact that you have been giv­en a copy be­fore me, the ob­vi­ous tar­get.

"I, there­fore, must con­clude this is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the smear cam­paign against me. De­spite my ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty, I was nev­er asked any ques­tions by CWI or the per­son who con­duct­ed the re­port whether oral­ly or in writ­ing."

The ES­P­N­cricin­fo piece stat­ed that at a di­rec­tors' meet­ing dat­ed March 10, 2018, a res­o­lu­tion was passed au­tho­ris­ing an hon­o­rar­i­um of $50,000 for the then pres­i­dent for hav­ing "worked be­yond the call of du­ty" to get the ICC to al­lo­cate the $128m to CWI. This hon­o­rar­i­um was paid in two pay­ments of $25,000 on June 5, 2018, and Ju­ly 31, 2019.

To this, Cameron said: "Every sin­gle pay­ment whether to me or oth­er­wise was ap­proved the Board of Di­rec­tors and/or the Sub Com­mit­tees cre­at­ed specif­i­cal­ly to en­sure in­de­pen­dence and trans­paren­cy. This is es­pe­cial­ly the case with the hon­o­rar­i­um paid to me, which was ap­proved in ac­cor­dance with Ar­ti­cle or By-Law 50.7 of CWI, which pro­vides for such pay­ments to be made.

"Dur­ing my tenure as pres­i­dent, there were no ob­jec­tions to the mat­ters now be­ing com­plained of whether by di­rec­tors, mem­bers of the com­mit­tees or man­age­ment. This in­cludes the cur­rent pres­i­dent and vice pres­i­dent of the CWI.

"I flat­ly de­ny every al­le­ga­tion made whether ex­press­ly or im­plic­it­ly against me as com­plete­ly false and mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the facts, and there­fore I re­serve all le­gal rights."

Cameron's at­tor­neys have giv­en the board 48 hours to pro­duce the re­port and if they fail to do that, he will seek as­sis­tance from the High Court in get­ting it. They al­so in­di­cat­ed that once he gets the re­port he will be will­ing to re­spond to all ar­ti­cles in 21 days.

CWI's chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer John­ny Grave con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia Sports that the let­ter came in on Mon­day and it will be dealt with.


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