WICB to create commercial entity

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) wants to create a commercial entity to increase the board’s revenue intake.

President of the WICB Dave Cameron said the regional board must find other ways to improve its financial status. However, he credits the improved relations between the WICB and the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) for the financial windfall.

“We believe that for West Indies cricket to go forward we need to find a way to separate the commercial from the socio-political issues and so while we’ll have West Indies Cricket Board, we’ll have a separate commercial entity that will clearly distinguish our commercial rights and sell them according to commercial guidelines,” he said while addressing the latest in a series of regional town-hall meetings in Jamaica.

Cameron, accompanied by Vice President Emmanuel Nanthan, said that despite the board’s effort to improve the game in the region, some territorial boards and franchises have not been professional in their operations and could be penalised for their tardiness.

“I’m particularly disturbed because the new season for 2015/16 started on August 1 and there are only two franchises that actually have programmes ready for the year,” he said.

“So while you put pressure on the WICB to account ensure that you’re putting pressure on the territorial boards and all the franchises to account because they are all being given a substantial amount of resources to ensure that our cricket goes forward.”

He said that the formation of the Professional Cricket League (PCL) is part of the plan to improve the game in the region. However, he warns that some franchises could miss out on the monthly allocations of US$45,000, part of which comes from the PCL Fund for Development.

“We are saying that the PCL is a new business and franchises need to run a quality professional set up. Some of them haven’t done that and the board has taken a decision that if franchises do not comply with the standard etc. then there could be penalties. And the only penalty that we could exact is the withholding of funds.”

The PCL, which now captures up to 120 players plus officials in a pool, is hailed as one of the new programmes to re-establish the sport over the next few years.

This is PCL, the President says, “increases the number of first class games to 10 in a season, while leaving the window open for the IPL and the CPL, offering players an additional opportunity to maximise earnings.”

Cameron also summarised a number of programmes the Board is currently involved in “aiming at being efficient and effective as we as a region seek to re-invest in the sport that we all love so much”.

Vice President, Nanthan pledged the Board’s continuous drive towards unity and the coordinated approach to re-engaging the general cricket community.

Nanthan referred to the work of the newly-formed West Indies Retired Players Foundation (WIRPF) and the impact that the town-hall meetings should have. Nanthan continued to raise the issue of stakeholder involvement and the role each Caribbean citizen has to play.

The meeting also discussed the absence of the senior team from the 2017 Champions trophy, the role of regional governments in ensuring that cricket is taught in schools, team bonding and building for on and off the field performance and how the WICB handle the overexposure of youngsters to the Twenty20 version of the game.

Other issues of governance, marketing and skills development were also discussed.

The next town-hall meeting is scheduled for Antigua at a date to be announced.

ha ha ha ha ahahaha!

well it looks like my time is done with west indies cricket.  the neo liberals are in full charge and their program is being effected.  at the end of the day the players will end up enslaved or the cricket dies.  this neo liberal model with destroy the game as we know it in the region.

commercial enterprises, like all other forms of existence have a natural purpose to their existence. the purpose of a business is to make money.  that purposes consumes everything in its path,  all becomes geared to that purpose.

a bureaucracy also has a purpose..and that purpose is to survive off revenue produced by others. 

when the planters ran west indies cricket they did not need to be paid.  they took no money and allowed of a simple secretariat to do the work.  they were paid and all expenses met in that way.  once you establish a bureau full of workers then the bureau takes on a life of its own and finds money to be paid where it can within the purview of their activity..cricket.

the wicb now fully established as a bureau has taken west indies cricket and bent it to its will..the will of the bureau for the bureaus purpose of huge payments to its staff, all of who now live better than the players off the money/revenue the players earn. player pay has been reduced to bare minimum but no one has a clue as to what the bureau pays itself.

now the wicb wants to expand into a commercial adjunct the question begs..what is its real purpose.  it must be for the benefit of the bureau at the expense of all others involved..and in the process all opposition must be eliminated.  that means the team must be homogenized so it never again becomes a problem to the wicb as in opposition to what they want to do with the cricket.

so selection to the west indies team from now one depends entirely on subservience to the board not on talent. shive is gone...Bravo, Bravo, Gayle, lil Simmons etc.  all gone.  no wonder Lil Bravo has been playing so indifferently, as if he no longer cares .  he does not indeed.  he has seen whats coming and he is not really happy about it.

so a slave team is coming..enslaved cricket of one size and shape..T20 like Jam and Whine music.  and crowds of young people weaned on party all they know is T20 and mindless jammin'

so W Cameron of Jamaica is a monster, a ruthless individual who is moving all in his path to create a neo liberal wicb/west indies cricket. its a business allyuh but what it really means is a feeding frenzy for the wicb under massive exploitation of the game and the players and the fans

allyuh jess watch and enjoy.  and in the process don't be sooprised if we loose sketchim to the wicb.  all the shillin he do here for ole Skam, the wicb no doubt they have a job waiting for him up in there at big dough.

oh bwoy! so this is what the new world will be like..people like Skameron running roughshod over ordinary west indians, with sketchim as henchman.....Tony Howards old role.

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is you who kicked the planters out

deh had to go of course..nothing can stay the same...not even this current rotten dispensation. but in  kicking them out this is not what I expected or wanted.

and now we find that we did not kick them out at all..dat it was all a game to get the changes needed to upgrade social control....a streamlining of the processes of social control so to speak.  we won no independence. we were given a form that removed the man from direct control and cost to him of that control, shifting the cost load onto us

in place of governor and colonial administration..which he paid for out of the cash he extracted from us..we now have national administrations and prime ministers and president etc.  that we now pay for directly..money ole Marse can safely put back into his pocket. no more governors and administrators, school teachers etc., to pay.  more profit for ole Marse..less cost and headache. 

if the people revolt they do so against their own leaders who now work for ole Marse although he takes the time to hide the obvious connections

the thing to do is not to be nostalgic over ole Marse. I wasn't..I am not...just pointing out the
absolute nastiness of the black class that took over and now work for ole Marse, plundering us in his interest for some of the loot that sticks to their fingers in the transfers between Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Georgetown..up the chain to Kingston

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we know now what and whom to beat then to get what we had in mind when we 'kick dem out' we still have that in mind I hope...a real west inndian democracy

Well that is all they are interested in! It is all about the money for them while the development of West Indies cricket takes the back bench. I hope When the West Indies has been relegated to Associate member in odi and test cricket then the board will really feel the financial pinch.

Quote:“I’m particularly disturbed because the new season for 2015/16 started on August 1 and there are only two franchises that actually have programmes ready for the year,” he said.

“So while you put pressure on the WICB to account ensure that you’re putting pressure on the territorial boards and all the franchises to account because they are all being given a substantial amount of resources to ensure that our cricket goes forward.”

Lemme go put some pressure on the local Boards

OR have poison pen Mapoui blast dem arse  !  ;D

he say there has been vast improvement between the board and the players. ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

oh mi god!  wat a terrible fellow!  he smash the wipa rendering it unable to defend itself.  and he call dat better relations.

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He pointing out the Abdullah TnT trade union activist bwoy Ramnarine is NO longer !

Din-ass Pelting chair pun board official is NOT considered good relations 

so when you taking up your wicb appointment sketchum ::confused::

what deh have plan fuh you..media officer..and an office right next to Skameron ::confused::

Not because I am pointing out your OBFUSCATION means i suppote de board 

U are an expert at obfuscating the truth by being evasive, unclear, or obscure in the telling of the facts.


Yuh damn well know he is referring to civil behavior instead of pelting chair !