The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has accepted the resignation of chief executive Bruce Aanensen.
In a statement following a board meeting in Barbados today, the WICB said that after discussion and review, it was "satisfied that the President has acted in the best interests of West Indies cricket at this time."
This is the full text of a letter sent by WICB chief executive Bruce Aanensen to president Julian Hunte:
Hi Julian,
Please see the attached letter for your attention. I have always lived my life with high standards of honesty, integrity and respect for my fellow man. Sadly, some directors do not embrace these values.
I find it very difficult to relate to people who are disrespectful to others at every opportunity. I also find it difficult to enforce ethical standards with our staff when directors openly disregard these ethics with no consequences. Where moral values are concerned, I make no compromise. It is against this background that I felt that I had little choice but to make the decision I did.
Conflict-of-interest questions are swirling around outgoing WICB CEO Bruce Aanensen's close ties to a private marketing company hired by Digicel to run coaching clinics around the Caribbean.
Aanensen, who was part of a WICB management team that pushed for the renewal of the Digicel sponsorship -- against the wishes of the board's own Finance and Audit Committee -- is listed as a director and 25% shareholder of All Sport Promotions Limited, a private Trinidad & Tobago concern that has been handling promotional and marketing work for Digicel for more than a year.
Bruce Aanensen is on his way out the door as chief executive officer of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
The Trinidadian banker, who was handpicked by Ken Gordon to run the board's management unit in Antigua, has offered to resign as CEO in a disagreement with the new administration over World Cup payments to players.