PM receives report on West Indies cricket

WEST Indies legends Sir Clive Lloyd and Deryck Murray have completed a report on The Way Forward for West Indies Cricket, and it is now in the hands of the Prime Minister, who is  chairman of the Caricom Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket.

Dr Rowley led a meeting on October 9. Some stakeholders attended in person and others virtually.

The report was developed to improve West Indies cricket by focusing on areas like grassroots development, school cricket, governance and the Caribbean Premier League.

In April, Trinidad hosted the Caricom Regional Cricket Conference and Rowley commissioned the report.

The October 9 meeting advanced the work for the second Caricom Cricket Symposium, scheduled for next month in Guyana.

Among those at the meeting:
President of Guyana Dr Irfaan Ali
President of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Dr Kishore Shallow
Presidents of territorial boards including Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board president Azim Bassarath
Members of CWI management
Former West Indies captain Lloyd
Former wicket-keeper Murray
Former West Indies women's captain Merissa Aguilleira
Queen's Park Cricket Club board member Jeffrey Guillen
Sport Company of TT chairman Larry Romany.

Government ministers who attended were: Shamfa Cudjoe-Lewis (Sport and Community Development); Dr Amery Browne (Foreign and Caricom Affairs); Randall Mitchell (Tourism, Culture and the Arts).