Following is the full text of a statement issued by the WICB regarding their meeting with WIPA yesterday in Trinidad and Tobago.
The West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Negotiating Team met today (yesterday) with the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) at the Courtyard Marriott, Port-of-Spain. WICB impressed upon WIPA that it was not prepared, consistent with good industrial relations practices, to negotiate under duress, and insisted that before any good faith negotiations commenced, the players’ strike would first have to end.
WIPA refused and the meeting – which had begun at 9.37 a.m. – concluded at 10 a.m.
Representing WICB were Dave Cameron, Gerard Pinard and Derek Ali while Dinanath. Ramnarine and Ousman Ali represented WIPA.
As an act of good faith, WICB has determined that, in the best interest of West Indies cricket, it will pay to its former players the sums it had offered to pay during its previous negotiations with WIPA.