CIC alum Justice Prakash Moosai will deliver the feature address on 18 November when the members of a Queen’s Royal College team, who call themselves the Royal 72 Champions, remember a famous Intercol victory. The event, originally scheduled to come off from 7pm in the QRC Gymnasium, has now been …
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“Everybody was the way people should be all the time,” she continued. “Not mean and afraid but good to each other.” “She” is Marlene Dietrich; the person to whom she is speaking is Ernest Hemingway. It is 1950. No, I was not there; Lillian Ross was. I am reading the …
Read More »Media Monitor: T&T reacts to Rowley’s offer; a soulless nation or asshole people?
If you are a TV6 regular and you’re like me, you may have noticed two striking things on the number one television channel this week. The second, occurring on Thursday night, had to do with the results of the daily poll and told me something about me and the country …
Read More »CPL 17 TKR Review: ‘Dey does only run until the Knights ketch dem’
The time to be in front, every successful sportsman knows, is at the end. Ask Sir Alex Ferguson (but not Arsene Wenger!), Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt (but not Justin Gatlin!) and Dwayne Bravo (but not Jason Holder!) That’s illustrious company for the Trinbago Knights Riders captain, …
Read More »Mind games: Why Holder’s Windies need men to lead them—on and off the field
If I didn’t so hate the taste of hair, I would recklessly have cocked a snook at Joel Garner and damblayed my much lamented, disastrous, so-far-off-the-mark post-First Test wager. At Lord’s, I was certain, Jason Holder’s West Indies were going once more to be blown out of the water. In …
Read More »CPL 17: No easy ride for Knight Riders; buoyant Patriots bid for revenge in Tuesday playoff
They’re back at home and up against it! After a stellar run of qualifying matches, including eights wins, ended in defeat on Saturday, Dwayne Bravo’s Trinbago Knight Riders must get back to winning ways. But it won’t be easy. And they may be quaking in their boots. Tomorrow, they take …
Read More »CPL 17: McCullum hurt as Trinbago Knight Riders go under to Pollard’s Tridents
For the first ten overs of their innings in their penultimate qualifying round game against Dwayne Bravo’s Trinbago Knight Riders at Kensington Oval in Barbados last night, Kieron Pollard’s Barbados Tridents looked dead and almost buried. But a fighting record eighth wicket partnership of 47 between Wayne Parnell (44, 35 …
Read More »Heigh-ho, De Silva, away! Best sees NCC boss chairmanning still, despite quit promise
Five months, four weeks, three days, two hours, one minute, one second, two ticks and one tock. As I begin to write, that’s how long it has been since the last note sounded on Carnival 2017. And at the NCC, Kenny De Silva is still chairmanning. Now let me say …
Read More »Windies won, yes, we won! Best changes tune after 5-wkt win and a Brylcreem sandwich
Spflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflfllflflflflllllllllllll! Oh, I beg your pardon; that was my last mouthful. Even with a liberal coating of Brylcreem, hair doesn’t taste too good—although, given a choice, I’d take it any day over KFC. And cold turkey. And boy, am I ever glad I got rid of my maroon Richie Richardson …
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Glorious uncertainties notwithstanding, If Jason Holder’s West Indians save the Second Test against England currently in progress at Headingley, Leeds, I shall eat my hat and shave off all my hair. If WI win it, I shall eat all the hair as well. After the major cutarse the home side …
Read More »CPL 17: Tallawahs stumble at Sabina; Bravo’s Knight Riders march on
A boundary-filled half-century by Brendon McCullum saw the Trinbago Knight Riders to a comfortable 36-run win over the Jamaica Tallawahs at Sabina Park last night. It was the Knight Riders’ eighth victory in nine matches this season and it both avenged the first round defeat last night’s visitors suffered in …
Read More »Media Monitor: Whoa, whoa, woe! West Indians wince as WI walloped
“The loudest sound in current West Indies cricket is the sigh people emit when they talk about the old days.” That’s a quote from Jarrod Kimber, whose 2,300-word story about the dark day/night test that the Cricket West Indies XI failed abjectly contains a kind word or two—although you might …
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