HEADLINE: CWI/CARIBBEAN CAGE PARTNERSHIP PROJECTED TO GENERATE ALMOST $100 MILLION

Cricket West Indies (CWI) and Caribbean CAGE have signed a historic long-term strategic alliance and contract to generate significant recurring revenue for cricket and cricket development in the Caribbean.

The long-term agreement, signed by the President of Cricket West Indies, Dr. Kishore Shallow, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of the CAGE Companies, Robert B. Washington, has been endorsed by eight CARICOM governments and will also ensure increased tax revenues for these participating governments.

“This partnership is the culmination of extensive dialogue and strategic planning to secure the future of West Indies Cricket. We have been deliberate in our approach, engaging stakeholders at various levels, including with the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Subcommittee on Cricket, to ensure the broadest consultation on such a pivotal agreement.”

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Was very excited until I learned the sponsorship is from a betting and gambling outfit. How can we be proud of this. It is a foreign entity as well.

Many unanswered questions including:

1. Will advertisements of all type and PR that glorify and thus encourage our youths to gamble now be mainstream during WI matches?
2. Will the players clothes now have gambling symbols and what if a player doesn't want to be associated with gambling?
3. How long is the agreement for?
4. Why did CWI pursue a sin industry to partner with a game that is so greatly loved and cherished by every greed, culture and religion in our region?

Did CWI solicit feedback from a wide cross section of society about this sin industry partner and consider the long term consequences of gambling to the health of our societies?

This answers all your questions:

$100 M

That would make them a high class prostitute ......

In reply to Emir

I see this in English football - many teams have Betting Company logos on their shirts but then players get banned when caught betting

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

I still waiting to know what is the financial status after the t20 world