Wired868 columnist Earl Best and journalist Roneil Walcott evoke the ghosts of November past in five tableaux: (Tableau One) “Dem eh really understand, yuh know,” he said to me, his voice thick with emotion, “deh eh understand hommuch dat hurt.” I expected him to wipe away a tear but he …
Read More »Wham Rasta?! Best gets brutally frank about frankly brutal viral bar video
“Ay, rasta, wham?” What laudable restraint! What admirable self-control! Having waited, according to the Trinidad Express’ Alexander Bruzual, all day to see Ricardo Jerome, the 36-year-old man accused of assaulting Ruth Marchan (not the former LifeSport director) in a bar, a woman grabbed him—presumably not by the scruff of the …
Read More »Is the Lotto part of Scam-lamafia? Best looks at $30m jackpot
The Lotto, an economics teacher friend of mine has long insisted to me, is nothing but “a regressive tax on black people.” That’s probably also true of Play Whe, Pick Two, Pick Four and Scratch and, indeed, the National Lotteries Control Board’s whole range of online games. And not being …
Read More »Jason Holder’s West Indies plan; Best comments on new regional captain
Earl Best comments on the dumping of the relatively recently appointed captain Denesh Ramdin and the very recent selection of his young successor: If there were an election to determine the position of West Indies cricket captain, we might all have been getting e-mails and text messages from the newly …
Read More »Is T&T 400m sprinter Machel Cedenio too young to soca at the Rio Olympics?
Columnist Earl Best shares a suggestion which, he feels, might bring the T&T men’s 4x400m relay team closer to gold in Rio next year: I run my mouth often and I sometimes jump to conclusions. And although, under a PP government, that might well be deemed qualification enough for a …
Read More »Can WI’s T20I form affect Ramdin’s Test captaincy?
On the evidence we have from the just completed three-Test series, new West Indies skipper Denesh Ramdin is going to need a miracle to deliver the turnaround we’re all now looking to him for. So, as a true-true, maroon-blooded WI supporter, I am hoping that, after beating Ramdin’s side 2-1 …
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