It was announced on January 24 in London that Caribbean poet Derek Walcott had won the TS Eliot Poetry Prize 2010 for his latest collection White Egrets.  This was yet another triumph for the writer who has already won the Nobel Prize (1992) and brings him under international public gaze once again, basking in praises, garlanded by superlatives and the subject of old controversies and intimations of notoriety.  While this latest crowning prompted the British media to dig up and return to past issues, it yet again causes the Caribbean to reflect …..