JCA president Lyndel Wright - file

Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) president, Lyndel Wright, says he hopes there will be an amicable solution to the ongoing stand-off between Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at a board meeting arranged for today and tomorrow in St Lucia.

Both parties have been at loggerheads since Monday after the WICB issued a media statement criticising Simpson Miller's remarks regarding the impasse between the board and Chris Gayle.

"I hope that things will be resolved in an amicable way," said Wright, who along with vice-president and alternate WICB member Major Radcliffe Daley departed the country for meeting.

"I hope that they will give a response in terms of our press release, in which we called for a retraction of their disrespectful statements.

"We cannot sit by and allow the WICB, of which we are shareholders, to embarrass the prime minister of Jamaica

"The prime minister was within her right to comment the way she did," he said.

The WICB, in their media release, had expressed disappointment at Simpson Miller's statements, which were made a JCA press conference last Saturday.

During her presentation, Simpson Miller said "justice delayed is justice denied," and "we demand that a resolution be found as quickly as possible".

"The WICB regrets the comments made by prime minister of Jamaica, the Honourable Portia Simpson Miller ... ," said the WICB.

"The WICB is further disappointed that the relevant officials in Jamaica did not, or did not properly, brief the newly elected prime minister.

"Had the honourable prime minister been briefed, she would have been informed that Mr Chris Gayle has been written to by the WICB, clearly outlining the full details of what is required of him. The WICB is awaiting a response from Mr Gayle."

"The WICB implores the prime minister to use her good office to urge Mr Gayle to respond favourably in an effort to put this issue in the past."