Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell fired a powerful salvo last week at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in the course of his Frank Worrell Lecture at the UWI Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. Referring to the Board as “antiquated”, and urging it to “reform itself” he stated: “This is not a personality issue. The one thing that has remained constant over the years is the board’s rigid and antiquated structure. By now the board should have learned that reshuffling its leadership, without changing its thinking and structure, is just a futile attempt at adjusting its structure without reforming its leadership. It can’t work. The two things must be done together.”
Mitchell focused on modern business practices. “Today’s complex, competitive and rapidly changing world requires a fundamental shift in our thinking. Organisations everywhere are being forced to change their self-image, their thinking and the way they conduct business,” he contended. Without mentioning them