President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), Dr. Kishore Shallow, has been selected as a candidate for the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) to contest the next general election in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Shallow, 40, will contest the North Leeward Constituency Division.
Shallow holds a doctorate in business administration, specializing in finance, an MBA from the University of Wales Institute, and a Bachelor of Science in applied business computing from the University of Sunderland, England.
“Let me say that just to express my gratitude to the people of North Leeward. I’m inspired by their confidence,” Shallow said and expressed confidence that he would wrest the seat from the ULP’s Carlos James, also the minister of Tourism.
“Well, it is the only reason why I put myself forward,” Shallow said.
Shallow’s selection comes one month after a poll showed he had performed almost as well as Dr. Godwin Friday regarding who can do a better job as prime minister than the 78-year-old incumbent Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.
Friday, 64, was the most preferred alternative to Gonsalves as prime minister, with 21 percent of the votes, followed by Shallow, at 19 percent.
Friday welcomed Shallow’s selection, saying he represents the future of politics in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and that the cricket administrator was the “overwhelming favorite” of the three candidates among the delegates in the selection process.
“There was a very open, transparent process of voting. And I’m delighted that the process went well and smoothly and that the delegates had a free choice up to who the candidates were, and they chose Dr Shallow.”
Shallow is one year and seven months into a two-year term as the CWI president after serving the regional cricket body as vice president from March 2019 to March 2023 and as a director from March 2017 to March 2023.
Additionally, he served as president of the Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control from May 2019 to March 2023 and president of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Cricket Association Inc. from May 2014 to December 2020.