by now one of the main talking points of the world cup will be is Hetmyer the best T20 batsman in the world. As a boy I saw Lennox Blackmoore beat Claude Noel convincingly twice. However it was Claude Noel that ended up a world boxing champion. I also saw Guyana match Trinidad kick for kick in a football game. I also saw a few years ago Jamal Shabaaz a Trini coach lead Guyana past Trinidad in a world cup qualifying match. Yet when we talk about Caribbean football no one will mention Guyana. Trinidadians are fearless promoters of their high level talent, Guyana is the direct opposite. For as many super talented batsmen Guyana had, Trinidad got more marketing mileage from Brian Lara than all of them combined.

I always knew that across the vast South American land that we call Guyana there is as much or even more sporting talent than Trinidad. Trinidad however, maybe because of their early discovery of oil and that they are a cosmopolitan country confidently advertise their talents to the world. Crawford, Iean Pierre, Noel ,Stewart, Lara, Bolden, Bovell, Walcott, Yorke and Latapie are not accidents. Trinidadians believe that their super talented sportsmen belong on top of the world. It is now part of the Trinidad DNA. David Rudder who wrote the West Indies anthem also wrote the song "Trini to the bone" and in that song he says "God is a Trini".

Well! who is there to do the promoting for the Guyanese athlete? There is no Guyanese on the world cup commentating team. In this world cup there is Badree and Bishop. In the last world cup add Ganga to that duo. Fazeer Mohammed is a long time commentator for West Indies. In track and field Atto Bolden is on NBC for major meets including the Olympics. They are all relentless promoters of Trinidad talent. Hetmyer, Rutherford, Sheperd, Motie and Joseph are as powerful a group that any country contributed to a West Indies world cup team. Yet, I wonder if there is even a Guyanese media team in India. In the last world cup the Trinidad commentators promoted Hosein to the tilt. In this world cup Motie might have already outdone what Hosein did in the last world cup but the only person calling him a magician is Badree.

Some think that going it alone is the answer to more visibility, the answer is players getting more promotional support from their countries. Franchises across the world and in various sports believe that Trinidadians can be instrumental in leading teams to championships. Narine, Pollard and Bravo helped paved the way for Pooran being the most expensive player in an IPL auction. Kevon Cooper never played for the West Indies but played several years in the IPL.

It was a lack of Guyanese diplomacy that cost them the highest run scoring record in West Indies test cricket. As a fan of Guyanese sporting talent I will like to see their diplomacy improve to match their country's talent.

bai...look them Trinis come for yuh now😀

Trinidad however, maybe because of their early discovery of oil and that they are a cosmopolitan country confidently advertise their talents to the world. Crawford, Iean [JEAN] Pierre, Noel , Stewart, Lara, Bolden [Boldon], Bovell, Walcott, Yorke and Latapie [LATAPY] are not accidents.

To clarify Yorke and Noel are not from Trinidad

@Prako

Noel spent most of his formative tears in Trinidad. Yorke was brought to Trinidad and lived in Jack Warner house and went to school in St Augustinr for a year. before his first contract. As part of Trinidad, Tobagonians benefited from Trinidad gains

@methodic

Tobagonians get annoyed when you refer to them as Trinidadian similar to when people say Guyana is part of the West Indian islands

@Prako

That is a mistake that was made when the country was named. It should just be Trinidad. Ah mean England don't add all the associated lands to their name.

@methodic

it is a weird historic fact but until the change in the legislation for local government in the last 30 or so years, Tobago was a ward of Trinidad. Trinidad was divided into counties and those counties into wards (Trinidad never had parishes like other English speaking islands). Tobago was therefore very much a part of Trinidad (and not even the largest ward, which was Siparia). And this was despite the fact that Tobago operated virtually as an independent country in the 1700s with its own Parliament etc, long before Trinidad had one. So there is an argument that Noel and Yorke, who were born in the days of Tobago being a ward, are really Trinidadians. Not that it makes a difference. A Trini, or a Tit, is someone born either in Trinidad or Tobago. All ah we is one family as Nelson (from Tobago) sang.

@methodic

by now one of the main talking points of the world cup will be is Hetmyer the best T20 batsman in the world

Why not wait until the next two games before making such a pronounced statement as above.

Let's see if he becomes : 15-ball Hetty against better opposition. 🤔

@sgtdjones

if you are truly a high level thinker you will know that such a statement is made to create an impact even before the act on the field plays itself out. Is like when England said that Wayne Rooney is the best 17 year old ever.

@methodic

Loud violins 🎶

@methodic

Well then you statt.

You cant really wex if ppl work hard and promote they own people.

Now with at least 5 Guyanese in the XI now should be a push for such. I know I see a lot of Guyanese praise for the guys on the team on my social media field. But perhaps juat perhaps you reach out to a few ppl yoy may know and get them to start to push the Guyanese agenda

@methodic

If Betty was a trini he’d have had another profession. He’d have never been able to get away with that inconsistency for so long. Either he’d have improved or he’d have been dropped I don’t know if you know that Rayad Emrit didn’t play in any of TT red force’s Champions League appearances between 2009 and 2012……..he could not make the team and when he was awarded a MoM in a domestic t20 fixture between TT and Guyana, he said that was one of his motivations in addition to the picong he got from bravo and pollard

@Jumpstart

the fact is Trinidad generally spots world class talent early and groom you to be such. Now there are occasions where we couldn't get the talent to fully transform into performance. Let me name a few for you. Adrian Barath, Clint Marcelle who is still the youngest player to play football for Trinidad and had world class talent, Daryl Brown athletics. There was another hurdler that was world class at 17 and then fell away. You can't deny Hetty being at the stage where he is now in terms of confidence and platform wouldn't be the center piece of Trinidad sports promotion.

@PalsofMine

And the ironic thing is Tobago was more aligned to Grenada and St Vincent, in the early 1800s under the authority of the Governor of Barbados and then later in the 1800s the British lumped Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia into 1 entity “The Windward Islands.”

Trinidad (La Trinidad = The Trinity) was colonized 1st by the Spanish but Columbus never went to Tobago. He saw it while sailing and called it “Belaforme.”

Belaforme was first colonized by the Dutch.

@Prako

there is Belle Garden Tobago which is French. Were they ever under the French?