Anyone who is fascinated, as I am, perhaps even enthralled, by Caribbean history, would have to have noticed our disposition for disregarding what has gone before. A classic example is the 
current uproar, the latest in a string of such, over the various aggravations of our ruling cricket body, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It is going on decades now that the discontent with the WICB has been before us, and, in parallel, calls for some sort of unified regional response to solve the problem. While one can empathize with the need to fix matters, surely it should have sunk in by now that when we propose a unified regional response to a problem we are ignoring the fact that such a scenario is not part of our history as a region. Time and again, various efforts based on that premise have failed (the list is too long to enumerate here) but we continue to offer it.
