The recently concluded symposium on West Indies cricket was well confined within limits. Today, I urge Caricom to extend beyond the established boundaries as used in that event. There are more than those privileged to be able to contribute as was done there and then.

While there would have been limits-advisably, for ‘security reasons’-the larger community may want to also complement what would have been discussed.

Additional comments can be appended as ‘outside symposium’ as suggestions to form our opinion, and to be duly noted, assessed and evaluated for their worth.

Should we have to go by merely the media reports thus far, we would have very little to be optimistic about. The main questions and queries centred on lack of accountability and, in a term, ‘administrative shortcomings’, despite the existence of CWI of today, morphed from WICBC of yesteryear.

The lament of such shortcomings showing ineptitude will have been discussed, and we hope positive and meaningful recommendations are made.

As Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados prepares her report, I urge Caricom to allow, via the available technology of today, the entire Caribbean community, inclusive of the diaspora, to be given a voice here.

Lennox Sirjuesingh
Chaguanas