Barbados: Marshall's Mission (24 Jul 1998)

24 July 1998

Marshall's Mission

The Barbados Nation

WITH A new board in place, president of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Tony Marshall is looking ahead to his next term in office and hoping to motivate the board in the best interests of cricket.

I am sure that everything is going to be well, he said on Voice Of Barbados yesterday, though he declined to be interviewed by WEEKENDSPORT.

The comments or criticisms made, I will not attempt to say that they were right or wrong. What I am going to do is look to the future but I am pretty sure given the new blood that we are going to be able to put our heads together and make sure that the BCA rides on top of the waves as it has always done.

Marshall was responding to comments that members of the board and BCA made about his leadership style but he is going to put all of that aside.

We are going to bury all of it. Much of it, I think, has been a bit harsh. I dont feel that we deserved as much as we have gotten but we are not going to look at that. We have a long road to travel.

Newly elected first vice-president Keith Simmons is hopeful that the fences can be mended and he is throwing his support behind Marshall.

I sincerely hope that the so-called fractures can be mended ..., and I shall support the president and the members of the board.

Whatever the president asks me to do I will try to do to the best of my ability, said the former Minister of Justice.

However, Jeff Broomes, who was narrowly defeated by Simmons, is not so sure that it will be a bed of roses. Responding to whether he thinks the style of the president will change, Broomes said: I dont think so.

I think the president has probably been this type of person all his working life. He is a very, very successful business person. I hope that the new board gets him to involve them bit more.

Broomes did not contest any other office after his defeat, stating that the membership had spoken.

In spite of the criticisms of Marshall, no one came forward to oppose him at the BCAs AGM at the Sherbourne Centre.

History was made when Patricia Greenidge was elected to succeed Vernon Williams as treasurer, the first woman to serve on the board of the BCA.

I know it is going to be a challenge, said Greenidge, assistant vice-president of investments at The Mutual. Throughout my life I have had a lot of challenges and I do like a challenge, actually, so I am kind of looking forward to it.

President: Tony Marshall

First vice-president: Keith Simmons (204) defeated Jeff Broomes (203)

Second vice-president: Charlie Griffith (unopposed)

Third vice-president: Joel Garner (214) def. Owen Estwick (121)

Secretary: Peter Symmonds (unopposed)

Treasurer: Patricia Greenidge (152) def. Rodney Wilkinson (128)

Board members: Bobby Goodman (222), Clavin Hope (215), Stephen Farmer (198), Owen Estwick (185), Conde Riley (183), Richard Edwards (178), Wendell Kellman (145), Oliver Brome (138). Not elected: Tony Howard (133), Anthony Reece (97), Basil Matthews (83), Carl Power (76), Rosemand Puckerin (48), Keith Turton (11).

Representatives to the West Indies Board: Tony Marshall and Joel Garner.

Source :: The Barbados Nation (https://www.nationnews.com/)