Windsor Park Stadium to benefit from charity cricket match

The Stadium before and after Maria

The Windsor Park Stadium, which was damaged by Hurricane Maria, will benefit from a charity cricket match between the West Indies and Rest of the World XI at Lord’s.

The lone Twenty20 match is expected to take place on May 31 and proceeds will go towards the stadium and the James Ronald Webster Park in Anguilla, which was damaged by Hurricane Irma.

The match was granted international status by International Cricket Council and England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) president Giles Clarke, an ICC board member, is helping co-ordinate it.

A joint statement was made by Dave Cameron, the president of Cricket West Indies (CWI) and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the owners of Lord’s on Tuesday.

“Hurricanes Irma and Maria have devastated parts of the Eastern Caribbean and we have been considering how CWI can best show support for our region in the most impactful way,” the statement said. “I would like personally to thank MCC for agreeing to host the match at Lord’s, and ECB, especially their president Giles Clarke, for their kind and generous support of this initiative. I am sure the match will be highly entertaining and competitive, as well as a great platform for us to raise much-needed funds.”

Last December, Sports Minister, Justina Charles said $6-million will be needed to repair the Windsor Park Stadium.

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19 Comments

  1. February 17, 2018

    give us the original windies team to represent. if we espect to get satisfaction.or maximum crowd and donation participation.

  2. Dominican
    February 16, 2018

    I’m sorry, but I find it highly embarrassing that we are clamouring for the repair of an underused cricket stadium while so many homes are still uncovered or have tarpaulins for roofs and we have no adequate hurricane shelters. There appears to be a distinct lack of empathy by those in authority for the plight of the common people. I do not believe, certainly in this case, that we have our priorities in order.

  3. Toto
    February 16, 2018

    Sorry but I cannot eat cricket and have other more urgent matters on my mind right now.

  4. Dominican to bone
    February 15, 2018

    Give them Wat y’all fools have its ur country to stop belching sour bubbles and catching flies like y’all always do .

  5. U full, we empty
    February 15, 2018

    Skerrit and wailers are filled but the people and country are empty. When will this come to an end Dominica? When will you guys rise up and stop that foolishness? Dominica has become bankrupt while our leaders have become multi millionaires.

    • RandyX
      February 16, 2018

      That’s Dominica for you. In other parts of the world citizens dispose of the corrupt politicians (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Israel etc.). In Dominica they worship them as some comments on here clearly shows. They are content with a drop of cheap sewo ever so often, a couple of blocks and some galvanise and then they LOVE THEY PM… What can you say, it’s just beyond believe what happened to these once proud and hard working people???

  6. February 15, 2018

    Inform yourself and stop been a political idiot. Since Maria the government has not defaulted on lts loans, government workers are been paid on time, food and supplies had to be purchased. You don’t get aid to service your debt, so where is the money coming from to make these payments if government did not have adequate reserves? You truly don’t understand the magnitude of the damage caused by this hurricane not only to the physical infrastructure but also to the psych of the citizens who experienced the event. Dominica still needs all the help it can get so you can start by removing your head from your political hole and start helping from whatever part of the globe you are.

    • February 15, 2018

      @my bad………..

    • February 15, 2018

      In response to My bad…

    • Me
      February 15, 2018

      Yes Point, where is that money coming from?

    • Paul Rossnof
      February 16, 2018

      Point, do you actually believe what you are saying?? If so, you are either one of them or you just had to much of that red coolaid. Perhaps you care to comment on the following: US$100 million unaccounted for from Petro Caribe Dominica, income and expenditure of selling passports unaccounted for to name just two. Let’s hear it my friend why does your PM refuse to show us audited accounts? If he had nothing to hide it would be easy to present these accounts. And please I don’t want to hear from some of these red ants – wait for the budget. Skerrits budgets are nothing but fictional figures which again have never been audited by independent accountants or the political opposition. It’s so easy for the dictator, no parliament no more, the police force firmly in his pocket, the courts firmly in line and the citizens as docile and ignorant as ever!

  7. Toto
    February 15, 2018

    Pity the Chinese don’t play cricket. Just waiting now for Skerrit and Mano to be guests of honour at Lords and Mano to carry the bag of money home with his diplomatic passport.

  8. Ibo France
    February 14, 2018

    Dominica presently needs as much help as she can get. Let’s welcome the charitable donations and put them to good use in order to restore some form of normalcy to the country as quickly as possible. I fully concur that Skerrit and his worm-like (spineless) ministers have done immense harm to the economy of the country and to the psyche of the people. Hourly wages have been stagnated for years, in fact, wages seem to be permanently frozen. Meanwhile, the prices of foodstuff, gasoline, land, houses, education and other basic necessities of life keep rising. More and more Dominicans join the ranks of the working poor. Those who were already living below the poverty line seem to be permanently stuck there. At the same time, Skerrit and a selected few have their snouts in the government trough. They have elevated themselves from rags to opulence. The country is badly in need of a paradigm change where the mass majority of citizens would be upward bound.

  9. Is me again
    February 14, 2018

    The world continues to carry us on their back while our prime minister continues to focus on a snap election and how to bribe voters, to stay in power. We have no money to rebuild but Skerrit finds money to buy votes

    • February 15, 2018

      Just more stupid politics, snap election my foot. Snap election when the island is roofless, start doing some work instead of talking stipidness.

      • February 16, 2018

        The only one that talks stupidness on here on an ongoing basis is you and a few more of your political friends. Think about this: the real crime is to turn a blind eye! When the day comes and it will come sooner than you think, we will come after you guys. Make no mistake about it!!

  10. Dowad
    February 14, 2018

    My Bad,you are right on point, I agree with you one hundred percent.
    What a waste. These thugs have not yet proven to anyone that they are worthy of being in office .
    Everything we have to depend or expect help from foreign governments or institutions. What have they been doing for almost twenty years. Lord!

  11. My bad
    February 14, 2018

    So you mean to tell me after 18years in power and all the passports Skerrit and his boys selling, Dominica had nothing on a side for natural disaster? Not food, not water we boast of having abundance of, no bananas, no ground provision, no hospital in Marigot because hurricane Skerrit destroyed it, no money and as a result of poor governance, coupled with corruption, we have to be depending on Charity contributions for everything, while Skerrit and his friends jumped from poor local boys to super millionaires? Truly Skerrit changed our known name of the “nature island of the Caribbean” to the charity dependent island of the Caribbean. Maria hit and no doubt we needed help; but to be depending on the world for everything speaks badly of our government and future of Dominica

    • KID ON THE BLOCK
      February 16, 2018

      Foolish you Foolish! or Lazy or Lazy? Go get work to do!

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