Shimron Odilon Hetmyer warmed the West Indies bench throughout the recent T20 World Cup staged in the West Indies and the USA, unable to land a place in a team that clearly was not playing its best cricket. Yet, mere months later, in the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League …

There was a time not so long ago when Quinton de Kock’s first love was indisputably cricket. The now 31-year-old confessed to loving: “Test cricket and I love representing my country and all that comes with it. I’ve enjoyed the ups and the downs, the celebrations and even the disappointments…” …

Glorious uncertainties my foot! Andre Fletcher’s hapless Saint Kitts and Nevis Patriots have deservedly been put out to pasture, completely unable to raise a finger to save themselves. Their nearest neighbours, Chris Green’s Antigua and Barbuda Falcons showed that they had something but it simply was not enough; they too …

The Saint Lucia Kings put the smiles back on the face of captain Faf du Plessis on Thursday at the Beausejour Stadium in Saint Lucia where the Kings won their third match of the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Playing in front of a small but very enthusiastic …

A brilliant knock of 87 not out off 45 balls by South African wicketkeeper/batsman Quinton de Kock helped Barbados Royals make light work of Antigua Barbuda Falcons’ total of 145 for 9 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Sunday morning. Thanks to de Kock’s heroics, the Royals …

I had seen glimpses of the latest West Indies hero and Test cricket’s newest star while catching highlights of last season’s regional four-day competition. I could not remember his first name but I did remember “Joseph”. But most of all, from the highlights, I remember he hit people’s off stump …

As if West Indies cricket does not already have enough problems, what with our failure to qualify for the last two white ball World Cups (20 and 50 overs), we now have the spectre of insularity rearing its ugly head once more. It takes me back to the late 1960s …

After listening to Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s 2023 budget presentation last September, I felt a certain disquiet that I have not been able to deal with satisfactorily. Something did not feel right about what he was telling the country but precisely what it was kept eluding me. Contemplating the performance …

The budget presented by the Honourable Colm Imbert, minister of finance in the current PNM administration, is his seventh such offering. Not for the first time, he has offered the country a deficit budget, to the tune of $TT9.096 billion, resulting from expenditure in the sum of $TT52.429b and revenue …

Let me say from the outset, like Michael Holding, I think the only thing missing from a T20 match is (in our case) a case or two of Carib and a pot of pelau, some bottle and spoon and a DJ, plus some ‘winer gyul’ (the IPL & the CPL …

The debate is over. In an official communiqué in mid-June, G7 leaders reiterated: ‘our support for the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 in a safe and secure manner as a symbol of global unity in overcoming Covid-19’. Already, IOC vice-president John Coates, responding to a question …

Here we go again!  In the Business Guardian of Thursday 8 April 2021, Joel Julien reports on the virtual Demas/Rampersad Seminar Series under the aegis of The UWI St Augustine Department of Economics. ‘Foreign Exchange Challenges in Trinidad and Tobago: What are the real implications?’ the title asks. Let us …