Townsend objects to Digicel control

The CIDWIC were refused permission to protest by the Queen’s Park Cricket Club, the West Indies Cricket Board (wicb) and chief sponsors Digicel, during the second Digicel Test match between the West Indies and South Africa, which ended yesterday.

Stating that his group is "against the maladministration of West Indies cricket," Townsend noted that "it is quite obvious that Queen’s Park and the (Trinidad and Tobago) Cricket Board feel sufficiently emboldened by the apparent victory Digicel and the WICB, in the recent impasse, to now take the arrogant step of openly suppressing the rights and freedom of our sovereign people, thereby challenging the political will of the incumbent administration to take action in the defence of our acclaimed democracy."

Townsend added that "this ongoing attack upon the dignity and freedom of Caribbean people cannot, and will not, be tolerated by CIDWIC and all freedom-loving people of the region."

"The people of the Caribbean must be mobilised in preparation, not only to rescue our cricket, but to also defend our rights and freedoms from foreign and local mercenaries," he ended.