When torchlight shine, cockroach run
May 10, 2011
More and more important people are noticing our little project:
With the mischievous – but apparently well-informed – http://www.wicbexpose.com wreaking havoc at every available opportunity, the West Indian set-up looks more amateurish by the week.
May 4, 2011
We have seen official WICB documentation showing that the West Indies selectors want to nicely ask Darren Sammy to step aside for the upcoming series against India. Clyde Butts and Robert Haynes told the CEO to approach the board of directors and discuss a new captain but, strangely, that information has not been passed to the WICB directors. Joel Garner for one has not heard about this. Is Dr Hilaire trying to avoid the inevitable? Watch this space 😉
By the way, congratulations to Shiv Chanderpaul for his recall to the Test team to face Pakistan.
April 19, 2011
It’s very interesting to read old minutes from WICB meetings and seeing how directors scheme and hatch their plans. In this case, it’s Darren Sammy and the captaincy. From as far back as 2009, directors were pushing to make Sammy the vice captain even before the team was picked and before he was even considered a certainty on the team. Read the very last line of this section of the WICB minutes.
April 18, 2011
Today’s document release provides a good look at how the WICB hands out jobs to the favoured boys. First, the job is advertised. Then, candidates are interviewed. Then the candidates are all made to look like idiots (examples below). Then, they handpick one of the boys, in this case Richie Richardson.
Rodney McPherson:
According to Mr. McPherson’s resume, he has held a number of managerial positions particularly in the area of Finance but has had prior experience with managing teams for the Jamaica Football Federation. Based on the assessment however, Mr. McPherson seemed to lack professional vision and a clear understanding of the role of Team Manager. He required significant prompting with respect to the questions and his responses were vague and the examples/evidence of his role in projects or on the job currently and in the past were unconvincing.
Mr. McPherson was unable to demonstrate to the panel that he possessed the basic competencies to effectively function as Team Manager and seemed to lack the core behaviors necessary for the incumbent to successfully cope with the challenges inherent in the role.
Anthony Del Jackman:
Mr. Jackman is a trained psychologist. Generally, Mr. Jackman’s responses to the questions relating to the organisation’s core values and behaviours were clear and concise, if somewhat clinical.
He seemed most enthusiastic and comfortable within his area of expertise and there was some doubt concerning his ability to effectively manage the administrative aspect of the role. Further he appeared to lack the sincere dynamism for the role of Team Manager. It was however felt that his expertise in psychology could be used elsewhere in the organization.
Marlon Tucker
Mr. Tucker previously worked with the Jamaica Cricket Association. However, based on the interview it was ascertained that his role was mostly confined to junior level administrative functions. The seniority of the role of Team Manager proved too much of a stretch from his current level of experience and expertise. At this point in time he is too inexperienced to successfully execute all of the requirements of the role of Team Manager.
Download and save your own copy richierichardsonmanager.pdf
April 6, 2011
We just saw minutes of a WICB board meeting that showed the Windward and Leeward Islands receive $20,000 USD more than every other territory in development funds from the board. It must be nice to have the President, CEO and Mr. Gregory Shillingford running things.
April 5, 2011
Mr. Gregory Shillingford is a former WICB CEO who was fired by the WICB Board of Directors for non-performance.
“The Board’s decision to terminate the services of the CEO followed consideration of a report on his performance conducted by its Review and Assessment Committee, a review of the evaluation process, and comments from each board member. The decision was unanimous.”
After accepting an ex-gratia payment (big U.S. dollars) under the condition that he not file a lawsuit, Mr. Shillingford turned around and took the WICB to court for wrongful dismissal. As expected, he lost the case and was ordered by the court to pay the sum of 15,000.00 USD in costs.
That money still remains unpaid. Mr. Shillingford is trying to get the WICB to say that he gave up certain travel expenses in exchange for paying the court costs but there is no WICB minutes or record to prove this.
April 5, 2011
The WICB got less than US$250,000 for the sponsorship of the team for the Champions Trophy 2006 when the West Indies were the returning champions
The WICB got only US$300,000 for the sponsorship of the 2007 World Cup Team even though the games were being staged in the Caribbean.
That these two contracts were negotiated by Roger Brathwaite and he got 15% of both sponsorships.
April 1, 2011
As promised, today we will take a close look at the negotiations between then WICB C.E.O Mr. Donald Peters and Dr. Money Hilaire. Keep in mind that Hilaire was already passed over the job as C.E.O of the WICB which was given to Peters. These emails also provide the answer the yesterday’s quiz. Read more of this post
March 31, 2011
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.
WICB Exposé 