May 2007 News Archive

WICB Under Scrutiny News Topic

Same hymn sheet please

Sun, May 13, '07
by DR RUDI WEBSTER

During the late seventies and the eighties, the people of the West Indies enjoyed a special sense of pride and achievement and a remarkable enrichment of their self-worth as the West Indies team conquered all before them and dominated world cricket for over fifteen years. That dominance started during World Series Cricket when Kerry Packer and his creative and pioneering team of administrators and technicians, and Clive Lloyd and his talented West Indians changed forever the way cricket was conceived, organized, played and presented to the public.
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Leeward Islands News Topic

Morton: I'm happy to contribute

Sat, May 12, '07
West Indies batsman Runako Morton said he was happy to have assisted his team in getting to 237 for 4 at the end of day one after starting badly against Somerset in their first and only warm up game before taking on England.

"The team really needed that one today and I am happy I was able to put my hand up today and contribute," Morton said after hitting an aggressive and unfinished 103.
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Sticky Wicket News Topic

'Things simply cannot continue like this'

Fri, May 11, '07

by TONY COZIER

(The following is an address by cricket writer/broadcaster Tony Cozier at the Sticky Wicket Hall of Fame induction ceremony held in Antigua last weekend).

The Governor General, Sir James Carlisle, Sir Allen Stanford, Lady Muriel Walcott, Hall of Fame inductee Rev.Wes Hall, Legends, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.

Let me say from the outset, how flattered and, at the same time, overawed I was to be invited to give the keynote address at such an occasion, before such an eminent audience - especially knowing that I would be sandwiched in between Rev.Wes Hall, one of the Caribbean’s most eloquent orators, and David Rudder and Sean Paul, two orators of a different, musical kind, both as internationally renowned as the one they used to call “Pace Like Fire”...

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Vaneisa Baksh News Topic

The missing investment

Fri, May 11, '07

commentary by VANEISA BAKSH

Caricom Governments invested upward of US$ 500 million to host the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 – stadia alone accounted for just over US$ 300 million – a figure said to be more than the entire cost of CWC 2003 to hosts, South Africa. Such an investment was based on projected returns that were highly optimistic, if not reckless, according to one Caribbean economist.

Responding to warnings from the International Monetary Fund that the net effect of the CWC could be negative, Jwala Rambarran, a former adviser to the IMF's executive director, criticized regional governments for accepting glowing projections from one CWC consultant without seeking second opinions.

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