T Becca: Changes afoot at WICB board meeting (28 May 1998)

28 May 1998

Changes afoot at board meeting

Tony Becca

The West Indies Cricket Board's two-day annual general meeting opens at the Coyaba Hotel in Grenada today with the election of president and vice president as the main items on the agenda.

After two years in office, Jamaican Pat Rousseau is expected to return unopposed as president for another two years. There could however, be a new vice president.

Acording to information reaching The Gleaner, St. Lucia's Julian Hunte will be opposed by Antigua's Clarvis Joseph.

Hunte, who was nominated to contest the presidency in 1988 but withdrew at the last minute following strong support for Clyde Walcott, served for many years as president of the Windward Islands Cricket Association; for the past two years as chairman of the youth development committee and was elected vice president of the WICB in 1996.

Joseph, a long-standing board member who served as chairman of the grounds committee for the past two years, was nominated to contest the vice presidency by the Leeward Islands Cricket Association.

The six affiliates - Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward Islands and the Windwards - have two votes each and the popular Joseph, who is expected to get the full support of the Leeward Islands and Guyana and to at least split the votes from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, is favourite to win the contest.

Also on the agenda for the AGM, will be the appointment of the senior and junior selection committees.

Barbadian Wes Hall, who chaired the last senior committee, recently announced that he will not be available, and apart from Trinidad and Tobago's Joey Carew and St. Vincent's Michael Findlay who are available for another term, it is understood that those on the short list are Andy Roberts of Antigua, Joel Garner of Barbados, Jeffrey Dujon of Jamaica and Clyde Butts of Guyana.

Source :: The Jamaica Gleaner (https://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/)