Beckles Should Resign, Says WIPA

[Gamma]

the fact that they could have been so widely misunderstood should make him question the wisdom of his statements

[Willi]

Dyam right!

[Willi]

He knew what he was doing. Speech "rape".

Dem Bajan deh outtah order. Nuff ah dem a pass dem place.

[Willi]

England/Austria/US and even Switzerland have recently had cannibals convicted. Should we be screening tourists based on this???

[Peter R]

as far as i am concerned he did... listen to the track between minutes 1:00 and 1:20; that was enough for me.... " Gayle is the don, he epitomises the donmanship the WICB is trying to get rid of in the same way the Jamaican people are trying to get rid of Dudus, the comparisons (his word) are interesting indeed..." The comparisons being Gayle's comportment and Dudus'. It is VERY clear. While I have not quoted him verbatim except for the bolded words.. if that is not a direct comparison to Dudus which Beckles himself states, bettah mi guh back a firs form...

[Exile]

Tell dem....how do we change the profiling?

[Peter R]

Let's see if Samuels gets a run in test two ... better yet let's see how the team v India looks.

[Muadib]

Provide the quote where he is comparing Gayle to Dudus...

Mek mi tess yuh fuss form skills:

Statement: "Removing Gayle and donmanship from WI is similar to removing Dudus from Jamaica"

Question: Is Gayle = Dudus ?

*clock ticking*

[Peter R]

I already pointed out on the recording where you should listen; you can start at 0:50 or thereabouts or listen from the beginning to 1:20. It was your original post. Beckles himself uses the words "interesting comparisons" to characterise what he is suggesting. Mek mi hear whe yu a come wid now!

[Muadib]

There is a comparison... just not what you are claiming..

[Peter R]

which is? I happen to think the comparison is unwarranted and frankly out of order, obviously you don't, so I think we can leave it there.

[Skeng DX]

There is a comparison... just not what you are claiming..

I could not help noticing the letter by Norman Thompson who proceeded to enlighten us on the various meanings of the word 'don' and to suggest that the uproar over Professor Beckles' recent comments about Chris Gayle were but a storm in a teacup.

But the uproar was not caused simply because Professor Beckles referred to Gayle as a don. What people were reacting to was the fact that Beckles drew a parallel between Gayle and Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, suggesting that in the same way that Jamaica was trying to uproot Dudus from the Jamaican society, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) was also trying to uproot donmanship from West Indies cricket.

Now one does not try to uproot something unless it is undesirable, like a bad tooth.

what is Gayle guilty of?

It should also be noted that Gayle had previously expressed the view that the board was trying to get rid of him, a view which was denied by the WICB, and now we have a director basically confirming the view expressed by Gayle. Beckles also stated that the current crop of cricketers at the High Performance Centre were not interested in emulating the likes of either Chris Gayle or Marlon Samuels, thus bringing another Jamaican player into disrepute.

Finally, what really is Gayle guilty of besides seeking to ensure that he earns remuneration commensurate with what he thinks he is worth, an act which was also demonstrated by no less a person than Frank Worrell when he refused to tour in 1948 because he wanted to be paid as a professional.

The speech, however, failed to mention the Clive Lloyd-led revolt to join the Kerry Packer World Series Cricket, an act of donmanship far surpassing anything Chris Gayle has yet accomplished.

It is within this context, Mr Thompson, that there has been an uproar. One thing that we do not need in public discourse is simplistic analysis and attempts to trivialise serious issues that should be left to our Facebook page, not a national newspaper

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