FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025
VOLUME 119, No.29
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Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has called on the Board of Directors of CWI to vacate their seats immediately.
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Dr. Kishore Shallow says Prime Minister Gonsalves does not have the moral authority to speak on sports in SVG far less the Caribbean.
THE HUMILIATION OF THE WEST INDIES at the hands of to “shut up” about sports “unless he’s willing to action when it came to developing sports the Australians in the recent third test played in invest in proper facilities for young athletes.” infrastructure in his country. Kingston, Jamaica, has not escaped the ‘tongue’ of He accused Dr. Gonsalves of being all talk and no Continue on page 3 Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, an avid cricket enthusiast. Following on the West Indies’ dismissal for a paltry 27 runs in their second innings which handed the Australians a clean sweep of the three-test series, PM Gonsalves called on the Cricket West Indies board, chaired by Vincentian PLANS BY THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM to host a major Dr. Kishore Shalliow, to resign en mass. He went further and castigated the CWI for the cricket event, dubbed the Inaugural Emancipation Cricket Festival from July 31 to August 04, 2025, at the US$$10,000 it awarded to members of the West Indies team that won the inaugural 1975 Cricket Arnos Vale Playing Filed, seem to have come upon a hurdle, that threatened to curtail the plans. World Cup, and accused it of treating the When it was thought that all that was needed as recognition of the World Cup squad as a sideshow far as clearance for hosting the event was concerned to the West Indies Cricket Awards ceremony. was approval by the Caribbean Premier League Dr. Shallow is also the opposition New (CPL), franchise holders of T20 cricket in the West Democratic Party candidate for the North Indies, it has surfaced that approval has to be sought Leeward constituency for the next general election initially from Cricket West Indies. here. And this procedure was made known by the CPL That obviously positioned the two men at even in a letter dated July 16 addressed to the CEO of the more telling, unlike poles and on more than one SVG Tourism Authority, this coming a day after the occasion since Dr. Shallow announced his CPL had given its endorsement in writing. candidacy, the two men have gone at each other’s However, on Thursday Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves told the local media that the Festival will jugular. go on as planned, and noted in the process of his confirmation what he perceived to be “a potential No authority to speak The refurbished Arnos Vale Playing Field that lt This occasion was no different, and Dr. Shallow, undermining tactic by the CWI. hosted 2024 Wo4rld Cup 2024 matches, will be the speaking on Boom 106.9 FM OMG morning venue for the Festival’s matches. Continue on page 3 programme last Monday, told the Prime Minister
Cricket festival will go on