Stabroek Weekend

The England team celebrate their astonishing victory, dousing Man-of-the-Match Alec Stewart with Tetley Bitter, their sponsor’s brew. Stewart, champagne in hand, is flanked by (left to right, front row) Chris Lewis, Skipper Mike Atherton, Robin Smith and Jack Russell. Tetley Bitter sponsored England’s cricket team from 1994 to 1998. (Photo from Caribbean Red Stripe Cricket Quarterly, Vol # 4, Issue # 3, July/September 1994)

The Fall of Kensington Fortress

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour looks at an historic Test match between England and the West Indies Prologue “Upon all the new settlements the Spaniards make, the first thing they do is build a church, the first thing the Dutch do upon a new colony is to build them a fort, but the first thing ye English do, be it in the most remote part of ye world, or amongst the most barbarous Indians, is to set up a tavern or drinking house,” attributed to English Sea Captain Thomas Walduck (who was possibly a privateer), in a letter to John Searle, his nephew in London, 1708, on the Historic London Town and Gardens website.

Life – long pleasure

A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in some magazine or at least before my eyes shut glance at some old favourite lines from Hopkins, Walcott, Yeats, Carter or a score of other supreme masters of the art and craft of making poems.

`I had a ball!’

The Barbados Crop Over festival came to an end last  month with many Guyanese joining the thousands of visitors to the island for a high-energy, events-packed week  and many are urging fellow citizens to go experience the diversity of the carnival-like celebrations for themselves.

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