Reifer has played six Tests and eight One Day Internationals for the West Indies cricket team, spread over a home tour against Sri Lanka in 1997 and the 2009 edition of the ICC Champions trophy.

The first XI had made themselves unavailable due to a pay dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board.

Reifer was appointed head coach of the newly formed cricket team called Combined Campuses & Colleges in 2009.

In April 2019, he was appointed as a head coach of West Indies national cricket team.

Reifer is active in Barbadian politics, and contested the 2020 St George North by-election as the candidate of the opposition Democratic Labour Party.