WEST Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron’s fondness for the use of social media has repeatedly revealed his arrogant belief in his own invincibility.
At the height of the team’s premature exit from the tour of India in October, for which the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) pointedly blamed him and his board, he defiantly tweeted: “They’ve criticised you. They’ve doubted you. They’ve lied on you. They’ve done all they can do, but one thing they can’t do is stop you.”
As the players finally carried out their forewarning that they would abandon the tour, he used Facebook to state that “it felt like an act of terrorism”.
These were publicly expressed opinions unbecoming of a leader of the region’s most cherished institution.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Just from only reading the excerpts here it coincides with mt views on Cameron: arrogant, immature and inappropriate

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

news for you?

a nice word in for big bird too eh

In reply to doosra

Time to raise your game man. In my world everything is not binary nor flag waving. I suspect like dropsy you are attempting to be funny but it's old and tired and wearing thin.

Word to the wise

In reply to doosra

it's more like he is choosing the better of the two...

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

Man, why you so serious today? Doosie is good peeps Dropsey ...oh well

In reply to sudden

fuzzy a mih gramps. we cool

In reply to hotarobin

bannaz, that Cam/a/run is a character worthy of a new genre

The anti Cameron campaign continues

It's a good tweet to get Gayle out of his slumber. Reverse psychology!

When will some Caribbean peeps get over themselves.

Moreover, Gayle is no holy cow in the Jamaica set up!

Didn't Dottie leader also slander Gayle?

The issue is petty and to continue reel out column width over it is myopic at best.

In reply to XDFIX

I agree that Gayle is no holy cow and the fan is probably right. But the president of the board had no right publishing the tweet. Downright immature and asinine

If any player had done what Cameron did, he would have been referred to the Disciplinary Committee, yet some are willing to make excuses for Cameron's unprofessional and loutish conduct.

The same thing happened when Board member Hilary Beckles publicly maligned Gayle and Samuels then made his half-hearted and insincere "apology".

To whom does the Board answer, and who is able to sanction these administrators? There seem to be one prescribed standard of decorum for the players and another for the Board members.

In reply to jacksprat

Leff dem bro -just wait fi 70/30 to kick in.

Point must be surprised to find regional journalists expressing an independent view.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Cozier must be the reincarnation of

RIP VAN WINKLE , HE HAS JUST DISCOVERED

THAT CAMERON IS ARROGANT . IN THIS REGION

ALL THOSE IN THE GOVERNANCE OF CRICKET

IN THE REGION HAVE BEEN ARROGANT FOR

YEARS . APPARENTLY COZIER IS HALF ASLEEP.

I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT IF HE WAS

FULLY AWAKE HE WOULD HAVE STATED THAT

THOSE IN THE GOVERNANCE OF CRICKET IN THE

REGION ARE ARROGANT.


The fact is that Cameron did not & could
not make the decision to cancel the Tour
to India by himself alone . For many years , those in the governance of Cricket in the Region have been arrogant . Cameron is only behaving like them , regarding Arrogance .

The Regional Governments asked the WICB to implement the changes suggested by the
Patterson Report . In their Colossal Arrogance they not only refused this request ; they then commissioned another Report ; the Wilkin Report which they also
swiftly discarded .

I did not hear or read Cozier et al saying or writing anything about this collective
Arrogance by those in the governance of Cricket in the Region .

I recall that when the WICB decided to host
the 2007 World Cup , it asked the Regional Governments for assistance ; The Regional
Governments did all that was required of them and more . New Stadia were built ;
existing Stadia were enlarged & refurbished .
Despite all this , the WICB bluntly refused
to implement the changes recommended by
the Patterson Report .

THAT IN MY OPINION IS PURE UNADULTERATED

ARROGANCE . I DON'T RECALL COZIER & OTHER

SPORTS JOURNALISTS IN THE REGION SAYING OR

WRITING ANYTHING ABOUT THE PATTERSON REPORT

OR THE WILKIN REPORTS .THEIR COLLECTIVE

SILENCE , HAS BEEN THE CATALYST THAT

MADE THOSE IN THE GOVERNANCE OF CRICKET

IN THE REGION ARROGANT .




The reason why those in the governance of Cricket in the Region are Arrogant ;is due to the fact that they are accountable to no One in the World , not even the International Cricket Cabal , aka the ICC .


WHILE ALL THIS WAS HAPPENING ALL THE

SPORTS JOURNALISTS IN THE REGION STATED &

AND WROTE NOTHING . THE POINT IS THAT

THOSE IN THE REGION WITTINGLY OR

UNWITTINGLY WERE & ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR

ARROGANCE BEING CULTIVATED IN THE WICB .


They don't however to admit to this fact .
It is their indifference to the excesses of those in the governance of Cricket in this Region that has emboldened the WICB to be
Arrogant . Essentially they have created the Monsters in the WICB , but they are now setting their sites on one Monster ;

They can all call for Cameron's resignation ,but Cameron aint going anywhere ; The fiasco regarding the cancellation of the Tour to India have the fingerprints of others besides Cameron .

In reply to POINT

CAPS Comrade, CAPS

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

I am not condoning wat Cameron did, but to see so much energy and time devoted to it tells me there is a hidden agenda some where.
Bosses in the Caribbean tell workers about dem claat all the time.
The same thing happens overseas, though more discreet.
Gayle also lacks disciple as a player and suffer from the same foot in mouth disease.

In reply to XDFIX

You may have a point.

When Hilaire was losing reams of WICB money to WIPA & berating cricketers and public officials left right and centre many of these same people remained silent

In reply to jacksprat

Yuh figet about 'di office'

In reply to Chrissy

So do you agree with tge retweet?

In reply to Chrissy

Yes, I did forget, plus the alleged renting of porn on the WICB credit card!

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

Huh? I condemned it very early.
It is beyond bad taste but'bhutu baroque' appears to be in vogue.
Men appear to have forgotten Rex's famous phrase.

In reply to Chrissy

Trust you to repeat a discredited story.

This is why your cry wolf approach ends up hurting you.

In reply to Commie

Trust you to deny di tweet - dat was a winner.

In reply to Chrissy

Actually I pointed out the tweet pretty early long before it was reported.

Seemed pretty extraordinary that it would be Retweeted by the President and I actually didn't believe it was authentic but politics again.

Given that Cameron was Gayle biggest advocate in the WICB and now both Portia and Dave have come under attack from the same guy both of them went to bat for, I would file this under familial affairs.

In reply to XDFIX

XDFIX...gosh guy you missing the issue.

Its not about Gayle..or any player...its about LEADERSHIP.

LEADERS dont do shyte like this guy is doing.

He is out of his league and should go and do something else that he is fit for and leave WI cricket alone.

In reply to Tagwa1

Very well stated . In their collective arrogance ,to be spiteful to the Players ; they threw caution to wind & without
a moment to reflect and think about the repercussions that would occur they decided
to cancel the Tour . That is why I have stated they have no Business Acumen .

Now for their Stupidity , they are in debt to the tune of 42 million dollars . The matter that went to the Privy Council regarding the WICB Digicel ; & Stanford
buttresses my essential point , which is their Individual & Collective Arrogance .

Sadly because WE dont have any Sports
Journalists in the Region with the Testicular Fortitude to state emphatically
that those in the governance of Cricket in the Region are not only ARROGANT , they have for decades frittered away money that
could have been used to raise the standard of Cricket in the Region , and make our Players fully competitive .

This is why I take umbrage of remarks made by Sports Journalists in the Region making
us believe that Cameron alone is Arrogant.
For decades these Journalists have done a huge disservice to People of the Region .

In reply to POINT

different arrangement same shoite

In reply to sudden

I knew that sooner or later you would show up to refute nothing that I have stated . This obviously confirms the fact that you are a Balatron .


ALL you and others of your ilk , need to do is to credibly refute what I state . If
you cannot do that ; then YOU NEED TO SHUT THE HELL UP.

The sad thing about you , is that you delight in demonstrating the fact that your vocabulary is exceedingly limited ; apart
from failing to refute what I state your use of your word shoite , is getting not only very stale , but aptly demonstrates
and buttresses the fact that your vocabulary is also juvenile .

BTW , as always any uncouth language you may chose to use , despite your limited vocabulary is mutual .

In reply to Chrissy

I assume that the WICB are getting 70% and the BCCI 30%.

I had expected a 50/50 split.

Of course a 30% split, takes longer to pay-off.

In reply to XDFIX
Decency and right need no agenda. Cameron is petty, arrogant, stupid, small minded and as we all know corrupt.

In reply to Commie

LBW and you came out early and said he did not retweet it. You had no information to post dat rap and both of you were exposed as establishment lap dawgs.

But there's nothing new there.

In reply to Chrissy

As I said, it was hard to imagine that the President of the organisation would be so short sighted.

After all it was the same person who backed this same player vs his OWN organisation. You seem to forget that part, because you were on the same side, Portia, and the whole crew.

In reply to Commie

HUH???

Geezer are you for real??

In reply to Cleg


Catch up...and come again.

In reply to Cleg

Must have been in another lifetime!!

We all remember how wishy-washy Cameron was on the Gayle issue. They invited him SportsMax Zone to discuss the Gayle issue and he spend the entire interview skirting teh issue and wanted instead to discuss Kensington Cricket Club, which Simon Crosskill evidently was not interested in discussing at the time

In reply to jacksprat

What did you expect him to do ?

He was the VP of the organisation in a long running dispute with a player. You wanted him to come on TV and essentially rubbish his own org ?

Who do you think pushed Portia to get involved ? Why do you think the JCA disavowed itself on the furore between Hunte and the JA PM, and indeed said that its reps on the Board, were not informed that Jamaica were not to get a test match.

ANd again, lastly why do you think Portia endorsed Cameron last election ?

Rub your eyes harder.

In reply to Commie

Deafening Silence

In reply to jacksprat... him saying one thing, and the quotes another, yet is the same to him. Rastafari.

In reply to natty_forever

You all think real life politics is like a message board?

No Cameron, no Portia, no Gayle back in WI Cricket.

And then no endorsing of Cameron by Portia.

In the end Portia helping Gayle didn't stop him turning on her govt and claiming they weren't treating him fairly and neither did it stop him from turning on Cameron, as the perception goes.

All in the family.

After all it didn't stop many of you from supporting Cameron. Many a denial now exists.

In reply to Commie

I am on record from the outset as never supporting Cameron, so I am not sure what you are on about.

"Portia "endorsing" Cameron" is as relevant as me endorsing Cameron or Garner, and carries the same amount of weight-none!

Which vote did you think she turned that would not otherwise have gone to Cameron?

Plus, Cameron was running against someone who had been involved with the WICB for the better part of 40 years. Moreover, Hunte had promised not to seek re-election then reneged on that promise at the last minute.

I would think the member associations who would have worked with both Hunte and Cameron would have voted how they did without any "endorsement" from a public official without a vote and therefore without any much influence in internal WICB politics.

In reply to jacksprat

Is that why it was an official release from her office and carried around the media ?

I dont know whose vote it would sway, but when the integrity of someone is under attack, would you say that the PM of his country seal of approval might have some weight ?

Endorse

Hunte went back in the race because people internal to the WICB asked him to run again. The fact that he didnt squeal the beans doesnt change that.

Its interesting that you remember how long Hunte has been there. Through his membership in the Windwards Board he has seen the Combined Islands come and go, WI win the WC twice, and dominate for almost 20 years, to the lowest ebb. He left to go to the UN as the President of the UN council, came back and jumped back in and presided over a tumultuous time.

YET...other WICB members asked him to run vs Cameron and when even Dinas was throwing around suggestions to mediate this 42m matter, the best person he could come up with to head the mission to meet the BCCI, was....drumroll, Julian Hunte.

But back to the Portia endorsement. The issue isnt how much weight it carried, but WHY she felt compelled to do it. Work that part out and then maybe you will understand the point.

In reply to Commie
Are you Hunte's campaign manager?

Again, I ask you, what practical effect did this have on the election? Which of the electors voted for Cameron who would not otherwise have done so without Portia's "endorsement"?

I hold no brief for any of them-Hunte, Cameron or Garner.

My position has not changed: It matters little who is at the helm until the WICB is fundamentally restructured!

But I know all some of you care only about "one-a- we" being in 'power" then everything is fine with the WICB.


This is pure hogwash!

Are you suggesting that the member associations disregarded the incumbent's 10 years as President-and 4-decades long association with the WICB-and voted for VP Cameron just on the say-so of the Jamaican PM?

In reply to jacksprat

Not at all. Never met the man. Dont wish to either. Never met Hilaire either.

Note that Hunte was outvoted when he introduced the WIlkin report to the Board and tried to implement it. The issue was quite simple. The Board had to vote itself to a leaner size and it refused to. Any reform of the Board that needs the Board to gut itself will fail. The only people who can change the Board is the ICC and why would they do that ?

My viewing is that Hunte was a good diplomat figurehead and that the power of the Board has to be vested in a strong dynamic business minded CEO. That he is not. He is however up to date with the protocols of dealing with the rest of the ICC world, if that has a value.

WHat part of that is difficult to understand.

Portia asked for Sabina Park to get a match for the NZ series in PUBLIC. Voila....that was delivered. The same series Gayle came back.
Portia mediated the conflict with Gayle and that ended up with him back in the team.
Portia then endorsed Cameron for his 2013 election bid.

Connect the patties.

You are concentrating on the sway, I am talking about the political chain of events.

In reply to Commie

You made my point!

Cameron is part of what is wrong with the WICB, as are all the directors!

I repeat: The identity-or passport!-of the President is irrelevant as long as the status quo remains undisturbed.


Silly me, I guess I was misinformed.

All this time, I was under the impression that it was Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, who mediated the impasse between Gayle and the WICB!!!

I have to stop trusting the media!!!

In reply to jacksprat

Again...The only people who can change the Board is the ICC and why would they do that ?

If the ICC wont mess with the SLCB or the PCB and not even try to clean up the BCCI, why would they worry about the WICB.

What happened in India was about the worse thing that could happen because it threatened its most important members revenue. Yet, the ICC issued a statement threatening the player and making it clear where it stood. If you have noticed there has not been one note of reprimand from the ICC to the WICB.

In reply to Commie

Maybe you are on to something!

With so much clout, maybe Portia should endorse Cameron in the current imbroglio with BCC(ICC) so that the WICB could be spared the wrath of the almighty India!!

In reply to jacksprat

The WICB elections are a political event. So are the BCCI elections which are also happening in the same time scale.

You all beating yourself up about accountability etc etc when the governing body doesnt give a shit about that.

In reply to Commie

Who is Portia endorsing this time in the BCC(ICC) elections?

I assume she will be again endorsing her countryman Cameron in the WICB race!

And as always...a word from our sponsor.

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I know natty always looks forward to these.

In reply to Commie



My first laugh of the day LMAO