WICB committee to review sponsorship contracts

The committee is empowered to review and examine all correspondence, transactions, communications, minutes, contracts, records, arrangements and any other relevant information concerning negotiations for renewal of the sponsorship arrangement with C&W and the negotiations and conclusion of the sponsorship arrangement with Digicel.

The committee has been established to determine whether the WICB and all its organs acted appropriately in these matters and in particular to determine a number of allegations that have been persistently made as to whether:

• the WICB treated Cable and Wireless fairly in the negotiations;

• an improper relationship exists between WICB and Digicel;

• the new sponsorship arrangement was in the best interests of the WICB and continued cricket development in the West Indies; and

• payments were improperly accepted by members of the WICB as an inducement — these members include Board members, members of the marketing committee and executive staff.

Justice Lucky is chairman of the committee with Avondale Thomas, FCCA and Gregory Georges, CA are the other members.

Justice Lucky Chairman of the WICB’s Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Committee, which is totally independent of Board membership.

This Committee monitors and implements the Board’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and also functions as the Disciplinary Committee for players, officials, referees and umpires. Justice Lucky is also on the panel of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Code of Conduct Commission.

A former Appeal Court judge in his native Trinidad and Tobago, Justice Lucky has been a judge on the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea since September 2003. He was called to the bar in 1961 and practised in the private and public sector. Prior to being appointed judge in 1987, Justice Lucky served as a magistrate before entering the private sector where he became Corporate Secretary and in-house legal counsel to the Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and other affiliated financial institutions. Holder of a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of the West Indies, Justice Lucky has been an associate tutor at the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

The committee is expected to deliver an interim report to the President of the WICB on or before July 8, 2005.