BRIDGETOWN - The newly-structured board of directors of "Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007" will meet in Port-of-Spain tomorrow with an update on latest arrangements for hosting the historic event among matters to be reviewed. The meeting comes against the background of concerns expressed in writing to new chairman Ken Gordon, who is also president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), questioning the necessity for the re-appointment of directors who never formally resigned, or indeed had to do so. At that meeting on September 3 in St Kitts, then CWC chairman Rawle Brancker resigned amid sharp disagreements with the functioning of chief executive officer Chris Dehring over management accountability, among other issues. Directors present verbally offered their resignations when it became clear there could be no cooperation between Brancker and Dehring. Among those who verbally "offered" their resignations was chairman of the CWC's sub-committee on governance Julian Hunte, St Lucia's ambassador to the United Nations. The absentee directors for that meeting included lawyer Claude Denbow, a nominee of the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board, and Professor Hilary Beckles, representing the University of the West Indies (UWI). A letter of October 6 circulated to directors of the CWC in the name of Denbow said he was personally "at a loss to understand the basis upon which the vast majority of non-executive directors of the CWC orally resigned, as there is nothing in corporate law and practice or the conduct of the directors which mandated such an unusual course of action..." Denbow said the CWC Board has already been in place for two years and "its life effectively comes to an end in the next 18 months with the hosting of the World Cup". He therefore saw "no compelling need to restructure the Board, adding: "It certainly could not be in the best interests of CWC and by extension, West Indies cricket, that there should be a major upheaval in the governance of the (2007) event at such late stage..." Since he was a nominee of the T&TCB and that territorial Board of the WICB did not support "such a resignation", he, therefore, did not propose to resign as a director at this time. But, according to an official press release on October 11 from the WICB, of which the CWC 2007 is a subsidiary, Denbow was among the "reappointed" non-executive directors of the CWC. In the case of Rawle Brancker, he had followed up his announcement of resignation with a letter confirming his irrevocable decision to part company with the CWC. He has since called for a due diligence and forensic audit exercise into the management functions of the CWC. Both Gordon and Dehring recently said they would welcome the "called for" forensic audit. Reprinted from jamaicaobserver.com