The genius of Nearlin Taitt
Taitt was a guitarist with the legendary band of the 1950s and 60s, the Dutchy Brothers, and also arranged for a number of leading steelbands in San Fernando including Guinness Cavaliers. He once tuned a pan, literally, with his shoe to be in tune with a piano.
I grew up hearing about [...]
Ganteaume still at the wicket
The Cinderella man of West Indies cricket is now approaching the nervous nineties. This iconic sportsman is still cheerful and chirpy and remembers his historic 1948 after-Carnival innings.
Andy Ganteaume, the oldest surviving West Indian Test cricketer, quietly celebrated his 89th birthday on January 22 at his home in the Santa Margarita hills, St Augustine, [...]
The QRC mystique
Old boy ROLAND SAMUEL ventures where QRC angels, wherever they are found, fear to tread.
What QRC stamp is discernible among V.S. Naipaul, Eric Williams, C.L.R. James, Rudrunath Capildeo or H.OB. Wooding? QRC has been anointed an institution, precluding that an alumnus would have been cloaked with the mantle of [...]