West Indies Cricket Board president, Dr. Julian Hunte has warned that coach John Dyson, the West Indies team and his own presidency will be subjected to stern performance-based criteria.

Hunte, who was speaking at a reception hosted by the Jamaica Cricket Association for their senior and Under-19 teams who won the regional KFC Cup regional one-day tournament and TCL Under-19 one-day crowns recently, said a new era had dawned in regional cricket.

“When it comes to the coaching, a new era has dawned. If you are not coaching properly, go (back) where you come from, it’s a new day … performance based,” he told the audience.

“If you do not perform, at whatever level including the presidency, you cannot continue.

“Nobody must feel comfortable that this is just another job, it’s performance. You go out there and perform, when you perform, you are guaranteed of your place,” warned Hunte, who took over as WICB president in July.

A former politician in St Lucia, Hunte said this move was geared towards moving regional cricket back to the top of the ladder and reclaiming its place on the world stage.

“We are going to take our place in international cricket, we are going to fight our way back to the top,” said Hunte.

“We cannot achieve it by talking about it or by wishful thinking, we have to work and work hard in order to achieve it, and if we can do that I feel certain that West Indies cricket will be back to where it belongs.

“The WICB is very, very serious about the responsibility it has on its shoulders to ensure that West Indies cricket becomes the entity that is the envy of the world.”

Trinidadian Stephen Ames has jumped 19 places in the PGA Tour Official World Golf Rankings, following his win at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic last Sunday.

In the rankings released Monday, the 44-year old Ames was listed at 30th after starting last week at 49th.

It follows his one-stroke win at the Magnolia Golf Club where he held off the fast-finishing South African Tim Clark, after entering the final round tied for the lead with American Scott Verplank.

The win was a welcome one for Ames who has moved steadily down the world rankings this year after a somewhat lacklustre season on the greens.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Coroner Patrick Murphy has asked that further tests be carried out on Bob Woolmer’s body, the latest twist in the inquest into the death of the late Pakistan cricket coach.

According to Deputy Commissioner of police, Mark Shields, the move to retest the samples had been requested in light of the discrepancies in the toxicology report as outlined by officials from the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.

Shields said further samples will be retrieved from the United Kingdom and the local forensic laboratory. Murphy also ordered that the retesting be completed by November 12.

Captain Horace Burrell officially returned to the helm of the Jamaica Football Federation Sunday, promising to re-position Jamaica as a force on the world stage. But in order to achieve is objectives Burrell and the Federation will have to overcome some financial obstacles.

Burrell, who led the JFF between 1994 and 2003, was elected unopposed as president at the Special General Meeting held in Negril, in the western parish of Westmoreland.

“The JFF shall facilitate a program of sustainable development, characterized by professional administration, a very high level of technical competence, international infrastructural standards, innovation, creativity and responsiveness to our corporate partners, government stakeholders and by extension the Jamaican people,” Captain Burrell was quoted as saying .

But on Tuesday in a press conference newly elected secretary Gary Sinclair outlined that the JFF owed salaries totaling US $335,000 to technical director Bora Milutinovic, US $316,000 to the English FA for tickets sold for a match in England last November that were not paid over, statutory deductions totaling US $230,000, and US $185,000 which includes debts to parish associations, premier league clubs, and other sundries.

“I'm so baffled at this time,” Burrell said. “It's incredible that this can be so having heard these revelations of profitability all this time on the radio, television, and in the newspapers. The situation that the JFF is in now is simply frightening.”

The new treasurer noted that the JFF could only expect US $389,000 in revenue in the short-term and would have to develop ways of clearing the debt.

But Burrell, who presided over Jamaica’s trip to the FIFA World Cup in 1999, said a new day was dawning in domestic football, stressing that “better days are ahead for our football”.