2007 News Archive

Trinidad & Tobago News Topic

Mindless monuments

Last week, Trinidad and Tobago's outgoing Sports Minister Roger Boynes revealed that the stalled Tarouba Sport Complex was to be expanded to accommodate a reconfigured Brian Lara Cricket Academy.

The project had been estimated at TT$ 850 million. Academy costs have now risen from TT$ 275 million to TT$ 558 million – an estimate, the Minister cautioned. Total cost is now a billion dollars – an estimate as: "we're not at that particular level yet."
WICB Under Scrutiny News Topic

Same hymn sheet please

by DR RUDI WEBSTER

During the late seventies and the eighties, the people of the West Indies enjoyed a special sense of pride and achievement and a remarkable enrichment of their self-worth as the West Indies team conquered all before them and dominated world cricket for over fifteen years. That dominance started during World Series Cricket when Kerry Packer and his creative and pioneering team of administrators and technicians, and Clive Lloyd and his talented West Indians changed forever the way cricket was conceived, organized, played and presented to the public.
Leeward Islands News Topic

Morton: I'm happy to contribute

West Indies batsman Runako Morton said he was happy to have assisted his team in getting to 237 for 4 at the end of day one after starting badly against Somerset in their first and only warm up game before taking on England.

"The team really needed that one today and I am happy I was able to put my hand up today and contribute," Morton said after hitting an aggressive and unfinished 103.
Sticky Wicket News Topic

'Things simply cannot continue like this'

by TONY COZIER

(The following is an address by cricket writer/broadcaster Tony Cozier at the Sticky Wicket Hall of Fame induction ceremony held in Antigua last weekend).

The Governor General, Sir James Carlisle, Sir Allen Stanford, Lady Muriel Walcott, Hall of Fame inductee Rev.Wes Hall, Legends, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.

Let me say from the outset, how flattered and, at the same time, overawed I was to be invited to give the keynote address at such an occasion, before such an eminent audience - especially knowing that I would be sandwiched in between Rev.Wes Hall, one of the Caribbean’s most eloquent orators, and David Rudder and Sean Paul, two orators of a different, musical kind, both as internationally renowned as the one they used to call “Pace Like Fire”...

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