“Julian will deal with this”

It’s time for a quiz.  Who uttered these famous words?

“I am going to call Julian now. I will call Julian. I can’t take this stupidness!”

“I am calling Julian. Julian will deal with this!”

“I am going to see Julian right now. He will deal with you.”

Answer coming early morning with a big batch of e-mail leaks.

Details of Dr. Money Hilaire’s negotiations

We asked you to leak some confirmation of Dr. Money Hilaire‘s financial hypocrisy and you delivered.  Download if you want to save your own copy.  petersaffidavithilaire.pdf.

CONTRACTUAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH DR. ERNEST HILAIRE

Statement by the CEO of the West Indies Cricket Board, Dr. Donald Peters:

1.    Board documents will indicate that it was decided by the Executive Committee that negotiations would take place with Dr. Ernest Hilaire for the post of Tournament Director, Champions Trophy 2010.

2.    On or about April 3, 2008, I started negotiating a salary package with Dr. Hilaire.  I contacted former Managing Director (MD) of Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007, Chris Dehring and our CFO to review the salary package that was structured for Mr. Dehring.  Equipped with that information, I contacted Dr. Hilaire.

3.    The President was insistent that we move on this very quickly and in the interests of time, on April 8, 2008, I offered Dr. Hilaire a very generous package significantly higher than that of the CWC MD for a shorter and less complex tournament.

4.    The package offered is included in your document but essentially there were four basic components – Base salary, unaccountable entertainment, vehicle and performance bonus

5.    Dr. Hilaire was not happy with the offer.  He provided me with more information and additional arguments attempting to demonstrate he needed more money from us to offset the losses he would suffer were he to leave his job. Among what he said was that he needed to rent a house in St Lucia because he had rented out his own house.  I said that I would be prepared to offer a house allowance.  I offered to ship a vehicle to St Lucia for him but he preferred to lease one in St Lucia.  He told me he was not comfortable with a performance bonus because it was quite possible that I may not be around when the time came for his evaluation and he did not want to be in a position to have the Board decide whether he got a bonus or not. He indicated that he would prefer to have that amount guaranteed.

6.    Recognising this would be a challenge, I told him that in my knowledge the regional civil service employees who are not civil servants but are contracted to work with governments, normally receive a gratuity at the end of the service, and while the WICB does not use that concept, I would be willing to offer it to him instead of the Performance Bonus. He agreed and suggested that it be set at 30% of base salary.  I told him that 20% was the norm and that I would include it in the new offer.

7.    The new offer was sent to Dr. Hilaire on April 10, 2008. (A copy has already been submitted to the HR Committee).  In that offer, housing was inserted as a new component and the first and second column of Item 4, was changed from Performance Bonus to Gratuity and the value section was changed to 20% of annual salary.  It now appears that the final column, “description” of the gratuity, was mistakenly left in describing the performance bonus from the previous version. This obvious mistake is at the heart of Dr. Hilaire’s claim and it is clear that he is seeking to take advantage of it when there is no dispute about the conversation that the gratuity was instead of the performance bonus.  He wants to receive both the guaranteed gratuity and a performance bonus (which he initially rejected).  That package will put Dr. Hilaire’s total emoluments and allowances at US$244,000 per year.

These are the facts to the best of my recollection.

Tuesday, 03 June 2008

Donald C Peters
CEO
WICB

Imran wants to ban WICB directors from speaking

At the recent WICB A.G.M,  Facebook dirty trickster Mr. Imran Khan presented a document called “West Indies Cricket Board Communications and Public Relations Policy.”  Of course, someone leaked us a copy.  Item #7 of this so-called policy is very instructive and we hope the WICB directors are paying attention to the fact that Mr. Imran wants to ban them from speaking about WICB issues:

Pay attention WICB Directors.   Dr. Money Ernest Hilaire is becoming a total control freak and is using Mr. Imran to do the dirty work.

We also just received the minutes of a WICB board meeting that shows that Leewards Director Mr. Gregory Shillingford is chairman of a WICB committee on Ethics.  Go ahead and laugh.   Mr. Shillingford is currently in breach of the Board’s Code of Ethics by refusing to comply with a Court Order to pay EC$15,000 legal fees to the Board. Mr. Shillingford continues to defy both the Court Order and the order of the Board to pay and he is now in charge of the ethics committee.

Mr. Imran is setting rules on how directors can represent their territory and Mr. Shillingford is in charge of Ethics.  LOL.

Dr. Money Hilaire

At 1:53 of the video above, WICB C.E.O Mr. Dr. Ernest Hilaire says: “I listen to our players speak, and they speak about money.  That’s all that matters to them…”  Look how he screws up his face in disgust.

This is something we would normally ignore, except that it reeks of hypocrisy.  You see, Hilaire has his own history of deceptive money-grubbing.  He once used a clerical error on a contract offer to squeeze every last cent from West Indies cricket.

In the interest of even-handedness and full information the general public would like to know the following:

1. Is it true that Dr. Hilaire  was offered remuneration for the job of Tournament Director, T/20 2010 that was far more than that of the CWC Managing Director  for a shorter and less complex tournament. Did this remuneration include salary, discretionary entertainment, a motor- vehicle and a performance bonus ?
2. Is it true that Dr. Hilaire did not accept this offer and produced a series of arguments to a committee as to why he needed more money such as his giving up his job, that he would need to rent a house in St Lucia because he had rented out his own house and must have a housing allowance and a particular type of car and that he was not satisfied with the performance bonus because he did not want to be in a position to have the Board decide whether he got a bonus or not and that he wanted a  guaranteed pay out at the end of his contract?
3. Is it true that as a counter offer Dr Hilaire was offered a gratuity instead of the performance bonus to which he agreed but insisted it be set at 30% of base salary but the WICB ‘s highest offer on this was gratuity was 20%  which was the usual level?
4. Is it also true that in fact Dr Hilaire got both in the end which  totalled  US$244,000 per year in salary and allowances and as Chief Executive Officer of WICB his compensation package is in excess of US $ 300,000.00 not including per diems?

These are things the public would like to know.    If you have an official WICB document to share on the questions above, send to wicbexpose@gmail.com

Torchlight shine

It is nice to see that Mr. Imran Khan is scurrying away from the torchlight.

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Otis Blame Shame

Our first WICB document leak deals with W.I. Head Coach Mr. Otis Gibson.   He has been in the newspapers breathing hell and brimstone, cussing out senior players, issuing warnings about future team selection while ignoring Chris Gayle’s abdominal tear and his own mistakes around selecting the final XIs.  Mr. Gibson is earning $US261,000 a  year + car and house and perks.  What does he have to show for it?

Let’s look at his “goals” for the recent World Cup (we love leaked minutes of WICB board meetings hehe):

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At this juncture the President introduced the Selection Committee [Mr. C. Butts [Chairman]. Mr.
R. Haynes and Mr. C. Browne] along with Mr. Otis Gibson, the West Indies Coach. The President
advised that this opportunity had been taken to hear the views of the Committee and the Coach
as well as to allow Directors to ask questions of material value. The Chairman Mr. Butts outlined
the following goals which represented his Committee’s vision for the future:

• West Indies to reach the semi-finals of the World Twenty 20 in 2012
• West Indies to win the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 50 over Tournament in 2015
• West Indies to be rated in the top 5 teams in Test Cricket by 2013

In response to a question the Coach Mr. Otis Gibson answered that it was possible for
the team to reach the semi-finals of this year’s 50 over World Cup but it would have to
play very well to do so.

Following discussion it was emphasized that the imposition and
adherence to the rules on physical testing was of vital importance and the omission of
Ramnaresh Sarwan had made a salutary impression on the players. This regime would
be carried down to the Under 19 Tournament. It was also the considered view that
camps prior to tours should be held whenever possible and the attendance of selected
players would be mandatory. Territorial Boards would be kept abreast of all standards
set with regard to fitness and were asked to support these efforts. As this was a work in
progress the CEO, Director of Cricket and the Coach will deal with all administrative
details. At this point the CEO, with regret, raised the issue of public criticism of the
Selection Committee by Directors. He assured the Meeting of both the competence and
integrity of the Committee and requested the cessation of slurs against the bona fides of
its members. The Director of Cricket then outlined the programmes on fitness and
remedial work regarding players and asked for the support of the Executive Committee
in these matters.

The Vice- President then thanked the Selection Committee and the Coach for their
attendance and contribution to a very worthwhile discussion.

Mr. Gibson’s documented goal was reach the semi finals of the World Cup.  He failed!   We are also putting Mr. Imran Khan on notice for his Facebook dirty tricks.  We have information on you too!

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