THE University of the West Indies (UWI) will take action if the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) fails to reconsider its decision to restrict the campus’ first team players to a maximum of five years in the LIME Elite Division.
In issuing the warning on the eve of the start of the 2013 season yesterday, the president of the Guild of Students at the Cave Hill Campus, Damani Parris, said the BCA had succeeded in defeating the four-time defending champions in the board room in a “most unsportsmanlike manner”.
“I was elected to this campus on the promise of ensuring that students’ rights and responsibilities will be defended from all and sundry who seek to cause us harm,” Parris told reporters.
“We see this as a threat to our ability to conduct business at this university and to be fruitful, flourish and become brilliant and excellent – something that we seek to do on our path to prosperity – the theme for our 50th anniversary.
“It is a direct threat to us and if the BCA decides to stand firm, to ensure that we remain on our path to prosperity, serious moves will have to be taken. Though I will not go into detail as to what those moves will be now, the BCA can be assured that this is not an empty promise – and I only make promises, not threats.”
