President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), Dr. Kishore Shallow, has set the record straight about undertaking governance reform of regional cricket.
Recently, the directors from the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) decided not to attend a board meeting where the regional cricket body was due to continue discussing and implementing recommendations from the Wehby Report on the governance of West Indies cricket.
Gregory Nichols, the BCA secretary, said on a radio program discussing the reform proposals, “None of these things speak to the fundamental assumption in the Wehby Report.”
He then asked the president: “What are the four assumptions in the Wehby Report? Do we know?”
Whilst Nichols was fiery, Dr. Shallow kept his composure, responding: “Let me say again that we are going to implement this Wehby Report and the recommendations incrementally.
“So, I have already implemented a few resolutions.
“Gregory was part of that meeting where we approved some of those recommendations. Now, this is a second phase where we approve a further four resolutions and then plan to introduce more.”
CWI could not meet a quorum for their Dec. 6 meeting on governance reform.
A CWI statement said the GCB and BCA “failed to attend, having opted not to appoint two representatives as required by the company’s articles of association.”
The meeting was called to vote on implementing governance reforms proposed by the Wehby Report, which aims to modernize CWI’s governance framework.
