Sat, Sep 17, '05
(Our correspondents read the newspapers so you don?t have
to...)
The biggest news of the day is the responses of both the West
Indies Cricket Board and former president Teddy Griffith
to the report presented by the Sponsorship Negotiations Review
Committee. Summaries can be found in most of the major regional
newspapers and links to the actual documents
have been published on CaribbeanCricket.com.
West Indies Players Association (WIPA) president Dinanath
Ramnarine has issued a press release in which he says he and
WICB President Ken Gordon have agreed on the action required
to bring closure to the ongoing contract dispute.
Fri, Sep 16, '05
FULL TEXT OF WICB PRESS RELEASE:
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has issued the report of
the Sponsorship Negotiation Review Committee (SNRC) and this is now
available to the public (Click here to download report - PDF File).
The Board would like to express its appreciation for the work
of the SNRC led by its chairman, Mr Justice Anthony Lucky and
including Mr Gregory Georges and Mr Avondale Thomas. The Committee,
established by the WICB on 1 June 2004 handed its report over to
WICB President Mr Ken Gordon on 15 August.
Fri, Sep 16, '05
(EDITOR'S NOTE: In this new feature, CaribbeanCricket.com
correspondents will comb the regional media for news and commentary
on West Indies cricket. We'll read the newspaper so you won't have
to).
Fazeer Mohammed, writing in the Trinidad Express, appears
resigned to the tail-chasing antics of an inept West Indies Cricket
Board WICB by declaring that the identity crisis of fictional
character Doris is of greater interest to him than events which
will most probably transpire on the cricket front in the coming
weeks.
Fri, Sep 16, '05
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has released the
itineraries for the next year's home series against Zimbabwe and
India and announced that St Lucia will host the first ever
day/night ODI in the West Indies.
The touring Zimbabwe squad will arrive in the region on April 12
for a month-long tour. They are scheduled to play two Tests and
ODIs. The visitons will also play a University of the West Indies
Vice Chancellor?s XI in a three day game at the Three W?s Oval in
Barbados, prior to the first Test in Guyana.
Wed, Sep 14, '05 by MICHELLE MCDONALD
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He became a household name to sporting enthusiasts quite by
accident, and we have one of his form masters at Wolmers' -? the
late J.D. Woods -? to thank in a sort of roundabout way. Tony Becca
initially ignored Mr Woods' advice for him to become a sports
journalist and instead went into sales. A sporting enthusiast
himself, Becca started freelance writing for a monthly magazine
called Sportslife in his native Jamaica.
Then the late noted journalist J C Proute invited him to lunch
one day. His mission was to offer Tony Becca ? and get him to agree
to ? the job of Sports Editor at a new daily newspaper. The rest,
as they say, is history, and Becca shares some of those moments
spanning over 30 years with CaribbeanCricket.com.