Storm clouds beginning to lift

Tony Cozier

EVEN as the official forecast that the storm clouds hanging over West Indies cricket are beginning to lift, the rumblings in the background persist.

A joint statement from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) and representatives of the West Indies team optimistically described their emergency meeting at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on Sunday to discuss the devastating abandonment of the tour of India 12 days ago as “cordial, positive and fruitful”.

It promised further discussions “in an effort to find a way forward”.

Don Wehby, head of the Jamaican conglomerate Grace Kennedy,