Immerse, Music, People, Sports, Anguilla
By Nadja Thomas ● Issue 139 (May/June 2016)
Omari Banks: “All I wanted to do was play my guitar”
Move on, don’t look back on what you could have done. Just move on. Learn you’re a champion. With faith, the battle’s won. That’s a...
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 38 July/August 1999)
Sporting chance
Security around the West Indies cricket team’s dressing room was as tight as if the Pope himself were batting. The Barbados Cricket...
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 41 (January/February 2000)
Holding pattern — Jamaica’s Michael Holding
“So. When you’re in Jamaica you’re —” My brain, numbed from an early-morning wake-up and the five-hour flight between Port of...
Embark, People, Sports, Jamaica
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
Dustin Brown: Ride, Natty, Ride
The news came, as it often does these days, via Facebook. One after another, posts lit up my timeline, with a high proportion of Jamaican...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 134 (July/August 2015)
The T20 question for West Indies cricket
As the Caribbean hosts the third edition of a cricket tournament marketed as “the biggest party in sport,” some followers of the...
By BC Pires ● Issue 54 (March/April 2002)
Cricket 101: What on earth are they talking about?
In most team sports, the field positions sound like what they are. In soccer, you have defending, mid-field and attacking players called...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 49 (May/June 2001)
Trinidad & Tobago stages the Under 17 Football Championships
Come September, the eyes of the world’s football fans will be trained on Trinidad and Tobago. From 14–30 September, the country plays...
Culture, People, Sports, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 49 (May/June 2001)
Adonal Foyle: in the big league
By the standards of makeshift courts in the Caribbean, the basketball court at Ashton isn’t bad. It’s walled in, there are ample...