Antigua’ Spencer Talks Cricket With New President of WICB

By: - May 15th, 2013

Above: Antigua (CJ Photo)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Dr Baldwin Spencer recently held talks with Dave Cameron, the newly-elected president of the West Indies Cricket Board.

Spencer, Cameron and WICB vice president Emmanuel Nanthan discussed “a number of cricketing matters” the Prime Minister said were “of concern to him and his CARICOM colleagues.”

Laster this year, members of the WICB will meet with the CARICOM Heads of Government on the “way forward” for regional cricket.

Cameron also met with local WICB staff in St John’s during the trip.

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