Julian Hunte To Visit To Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simp

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In a reported bid to diffuse tensions between the Jamaican Government and the West Indies Cricket Board, (WICB) board president Julian Hunte is to pay a visit to Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to 'make amends' following heated exchanges between the board and the prime minister over the last week, sources tell The Gleaner

The verbal confrontation surrounds the continued exclusion of opening batsman Chris Gayle from the West Indies team and the fact that Jamaica was not considered as a venue for any of the matches for the upcoming tour by Australia.

The decision to pay a visit to the Prime Minister was arrived at during a meeting of the board in St. Lucia on the weekend however sources said nothing has yet been arranged. Over the past week tension between the WICB and the Jamaican government developed after Mrs. Simpson-Miller, speaking at the Jamaica Cricket Association Awards just over a week ago, called upon the WICB to re-instate Chris Gayle to the West Indies team. Saying that justice delayed is justice denied, the prime minister said said that Gayle was being treated unjustly and deserved to be recalled to the regional team. "Cricket is too important to the people of Jamaica and the West Indies for this to be left down the wicket," the prime minister said.

In response the WICB issued a statement that was to trigger a firestorm. In the statement the board said they regretted the Prime Minister's comments and suggested that she had not been properly briefed on the matter. "Had the Honourable Prime Minister been briefed she would have been informed that Mr Chris Gayle has been written to by the WICB, clearly outlining the full details of what is required of him. The WICB is awaiting a response from Mr Gayle. The WICB implores the prime minister to use her good office to urge Mr Gayle to respond favourably in an effort to put this issue in the past."

The prime minister described the WICB response as 'rude' and said she would be taking the matter to CARICOM in the coming days. The JCA, too, came to the prime minister's defense. President Lyndel Wright characterized the WICB statements as 'out of order' and 'disrespectful'.

[Mosiah]

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[Gamma]

well from your height ... everybody look intimidating.

i want portia drape him up by di SAME neck 'tring!!!

[Skeng DX]

lol

Portia ah duppy CONQUEROR

[Mosiah]

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yrc!

[Jangle]

well from your height ... everybody look intimidating.

i want portia drape him up by di SAME neck 'tring!!!

I thought I was the only one with the privelege to make jokes about Mo's height.....or lack thereof.....

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Hunte to apologise to PM over offensive remarks

President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Julian Hunte plans to visit Kingston shortly to apologise to Jamaican Prime Minister Protia Simpson Miller for “inappropriate” remarks made last week by the WICB secretariat, a reliable cricket source has said.

However, a check with the office of the prime minister early Monday said Simpson Miller was yet to be contacted by the WICB regarding any such visit by Hunte.

The source who spoke to the Observer on condition of anonymity said the decision was taken at a two-day meeting of WICB directors in St Lucia on the weekend.

The Jamaica Cricket Association and Simpson Miller responded furiously to comments from the WICB secretariat which substantially said the Jamaican Prime Minister had spoken from a position of ignorance when she addressed issues involving regional cricket at a Jamaica Cricket Association Awards Dinner last weekend.

Simpson Miller had weighed in on the controversial non-inclusion of former West Indies captain, Jamaican Chris Gayle in the West Indies team since early 2011 as well as the non-inclusion of Jamaica as a venue for the upcoming Australia tour of the Caribbean.

Regarding Chris Gayle issue, Simpson Miller is reported to have said:
“I am very disturbed by how long this matter has gone on without a resolution. There has been no trial and no hearing; and as we know from the popular maxim – justice delayed is justice denied. It is not just to have one of the world’s leading cricketers being excluded from test cricket. This matter demands an amicable resolution as quickly as possible…”
However, the WICB said the Jamaican prime minister had not been properly “briefed” by its member association the JCA.

In specific reference to Gayle, of whom the WICB secretariat is demanding an apology for comments made about West Indies coach Otis Gibson and the WICB last year, the regional cricket authority drew the ire of the JCA and Simpson Miller by likening the situation to an imagined crisis involving a prime minister and Cabinet.

“The WICB does not believe that the Prime Minister is suggesting that Mr Gayle be returned to the West Indies team without withdrawing his comments. This would be tantamount to a member of the Jamaican cabinet lambasting and deriding the leader of the cabinet and fellow cabinet colleagues and being returned to that august body without any accountability for his or her actions,” the statement from the WICB said in part.

The JCA which has previously being accused of not doing enough to resolve the issue involving Gayle promptly voiced its “complete rejection and condemnation” of the eight-paragraph statement from the WICB. The JCA called on Hunte to “retract the unfounded and unwarranted attack against the Honourable Prime Minister of Jamaica and to move immediately to resolve the Chris Gayle impasse, as we believe he has been more than reasonably punished”.

At a press conference last week Simpson Miller accused the WICB of being “rude” and “crude” and promised to raise the issue at the level of CARICOM.


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[Mosiah]

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[Jangle]

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[Gamma]

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[Exile]

Who me?

[Mosiah]

Ok. So I guess I am a short, bald, freckle-faced fella!

Well, I think I'm sexy, and I know it!
(I work out!)

[Gamma]

LMFAO!!!!

[Willi]

Run di rothklat fly from wi food!

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Simpson Miller to meet Julian Hunte Wednesday

The Jamaican government is confirming that president of the West Indies Cricket Board Julian Hunte has requested a meeting with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on Wednesday (tomorrow) in a bid to diffuse tension over the exclusion of former captain West Indies captain Chris Gayle from the West Indies team as well as other issues in regional cricket.

“No time has been set but a request has been made for the president of the WICB to meet with the prime minister on Wednesday,” Senator Sandrea Falconer, Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for information, told the Observer early Tuesday.
Falconer rejected as unfounded reports circulating in some circles that Hunte had set pre-conditions for the meeting.

“Nobody has set any conditions for a meeting with the prime minister of Jamaica … that has not been communicated to the Office of the Prime Minister and the prime minister of Jamaica would not agree to that,” Falconer said.

News broke on Monday that Hunte had decided at a meeting of WICB directors in St Lucia on the weekend to personally apologise to Simpson Miller for comments deemed “inappropriate” in a statement issued by the WICB secretariat last week.

Gayle has not played for the West Indies since the ICC World Cup in Asia last year following a quarrel with the cricket authorities. The WICB secretariat continues to demand that Gayle should apologise for remarks he made last year about Windies coach Otis Gibson and the WICB.

But Gayle supporters contend that he was not given a hearing by an established disciplinary committee, and that in any case, he has already been punished enough.

The JCA and Simpson Miller responded furiously to comments from the WICB secretariat which substantially said the Jamaican prime minister had spoken from a position of ignorance when she addressed issues involving regional cricket at a JCA Awards Dinner just over a week ago.

Simpson Miller had weighed in on the Gayle issue as well as the non-inclusion of Jamaica as a venue for the upcoming Australia tour of the Caribbean.


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