On Saturday, Rousseau and vice-president Clarvis Joseph resigned following a mutiny of the Board members. The mutiny followed the dismissal of Ricky Skerritt as manager of the West Indies team. Skerritt, manager of the team while it won two series and then lost three, was dismissed when Rousseau, Joseph and chief executive officer Gregory Shillingford, after looking at the manager's report of the series against South Africa, after a meeting with the manager, decided that he was not doing a good job. All things considered, once the Board voted to reinstate Skerritt, Rousseau and Joseph had to step aside. It would have been difficult for them to have continued as president and vice-president with Skerritt as the manager.
Presidents go and presidents come, and so do vice-presidents.
No one is indispensable. According to word coming out of the meeting, the consensus was that Skerritt deserved to have been removed. The problem, however, is how it was done. The bone of contention was that regardless of their positions, Rousseau and Joseph had no right, no authority, to make that decision, not so much without informing the Board, but without the consent of the other executive members. The criticism, it is said, is that Rousseau and Joseph have a history of behaving in an autocratic manner, and the other members of the executive along with the other members of the Board had become fed up with their approach.