BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Former Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Dave Cameron is baffled about why a meeting on governance reform was scheduled by the current CWI administration in light of opposition from both the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

The meeting was to be held last Friday, but a quorum was not met after the BCA and GCB failed to send representatives.

All other full member shareholders — the Jamaica Cricket Association, Leeward Islands Cricket Board, Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, and Windward Islands Cricket Board were present and prepared to proceed.

The meeting was convened to vote on implementing governance reforms proposed by the Wehby Report, which aims to modernise CWI’s governance framework and was also expected to address significant proposals, including adjustments to introduce term limits, the term durations for the president and vice-president, and other measures designed to strengthen CWI’s governance structure.

The BCA and GCB subsequently released a statement explaining their absence from the meeting, where they claimed that CWI had ignored several of their concerns surrounding the Wehby Report, among other suggestions.

Speaking on the Mason and Guest radio show on 92.9 FM on Tuesday, Cameron, who served as CWI president from 2013 to 2019, questioned why CWI would attempt to hold the meeting knowing the frustrations of the BCA and GCB.

He suggested that the CWI should have held discussions with both associations in an attempt to find a solution.

“If you realised you had such opposition, why would you make this a public situation?” Cameron asked. “Continue to negotiate and discuss it, but don’t make it a public debate and call an AGM extraordinary meeting to get this done when you knew that shareholders were uncomfortable with the position. It’s a very, very unfortunate situation but a very difficult one to address.”