Dear Editor,
The only sensible response to the utterly backward decision of the West Indies Cricket Board to initially eject the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) cricket team from the regional first-class cricket competition is reason to call for the immediate resignation of the president of the WICB, Whycliffe "Dave" Cameron.
But this response becomes doubly appropriate and necessary when one discovers that Mr Cameron's perverse assessment of the CCC's suitability to remain in the competition seems based on small-island insularity and anti-Barbadian sentiment.
Over the past week, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation of Barbados and the regionally televised Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) news report featured Cameron making his defence of the WICB's decision to jettison the CCC. His defence can be reduced to the following propositions:
1) The only persons who are complaining about the decision are Barbadians.
2) For a team that was supposedly established as a vehicle for campuses and colleges across the region, the CCC comprises an inordinately high number of Barbadians.
3) If the CCC restructures its team, by reducing the percentage of Barbadian players, the WICB will consider allowing it back in the competition.
4) The CCC had submitted a restructuring plan to the WICB, but the WICB considered this to be a preliminary plan that needed to be further developed.
The WICB president is therefore justifying the derailment of the University of the West Indies' flagship cricket development project on narrow ground. A project that arguably constitutes the single most progressive initiative taken in the Caribbean over the past decade to assist in the redevelopment of West Indies cricket, and that has been a vehicle for the development of a number of our beckoning Test team prospects, is to being gratuitously destroyed on the altar of anti-Barbadianism.
As far as our organisation is concerned, Cameron has, by his own words, disqualified himself from occupying the exalted post of president. He has demonstrated that his thinking is captive to small island prejudices and petty nationalism, and that cannot augur well for the administration of West Indies cricket.
On behalf of the officers and members of the Clement Payne Movement of Barbados I hereby call upon Whycliffe Cameron to do the right thing and tender his resignation immediately.
We also cry shame on the other members of the WICB who supported the decision to eject the CCC cricket team.
David A Comissiong
President, Clement Payne Movement
Crumpton Street
Bridgetown, Barbados
WICB president should resign
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The only sensible response to the utterly backward decision of the West Indies Cricket Board to initially eject the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) cricket team from the regional first-class cricket competition is reason to call for the immediate resignation of the president of the WICB, Whycliffe "Dave" Cameron.
But this response becomes doubly appropriate and necessary when one discovers that Mr Cameron's perverse assessment of the CCC's suitability to remain in the competition seems based on small-island insularity and anti-Barbadian sentiment.
Over the past week, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation of Barbados and the regionally televised Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) news report featured Cameron making his defence of the WICB's decision to jettison the CCC. His defence can be reduced to the following propositions:
1) The only persons who are complaining about the decision are Barbadians.
2) For a team that was supposedly established as a vehicle for campuses and colleges across the region, the CCC comprises an inordinately high number of Barbadians.
3) If the CCC restructures its team, by reducing the percentage of Barbadian players, the WICB will consider allowing it back in the competition.
4) The CCC had submitted a restructuring plan to the WICB, but the WICB considered this to be a preliminary plan that needed to be further developed.
The WICB president is therefore justifying the derailment of the University of the West Indies' flagship cricket development project on narrow ground. A project that arguably constitutes the single most progressive initiative taken in the Caribbean over the past decade to assist in the redevelopment of West Indies cricket, and that has been a vehicle for the development of a number of our beckoning Test team prospects, is to being gratuitously destroyed on the altar of anti-Barbadianism.
As far as our organisation is concerned, Cameron has, by his own words, disqualified himself from occupying the exalted post of president. He has demonstrated that his thinking is captive to small island prejudices and petty nationalism, and that cannot augur well for the administration of West Indies cricket.
On behalf of the officers and members of the Clement Payne Movement of Barbados I hereby call upon Whycliffe Cameron to do the right thing and tender his resignation immediately.
We also cry shame on the other members of the WICB who supported the decision to eject the CCC cricket team.
David A Comissiong
President, Clement Payne Movement
Crumpton Street
Bridgetown, Barbados
WICB president should resign
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