Caricom Chairman and Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves believes that some of the security mechanisms adopted by Caricom states for Cricket World Cup should be looked at for permanent implementation. However he doubts that the Single Domestic Space would survive after the event.
Gonsalves is in Guyana on a three-day visit to the Caricom Secretariat and yesterday declared opened a timely mini-exhibition there under the theme, ‘Celebrating West Indies Cricket’.
That exhibition consists of memorabilia of West Indies cricket: pictures of former teams, balls, boots and literature compiled about the team all displayed in the lobby of the headquarters building.
Staff also performed a skit imitating the opening and what takes places during a regular match being played by the West Indies.
Later Gonsalves met the media and was questioned about the likelihood of his government permanently adopting some of the measures which the region was forced to implement to enable the successful hosting of the CWC games in accordance with the International Cricket Council standards.
He was pessimistic as regards the survival of the Single Domestic Space. “I am doubtful whether this will survive CWC, because that involves among other things the suspension of visa abolition agreements and it is problematic for the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to suspend, on an ongoing basis, its visa abolition agreements
