The critical way forward

Cosmo Hamilton

By Cosmo Hamilton

Dear President Cameron.

In his book – A History of West Indies Cricket, published in 1988 and chronicling West Indies cricket from 1906 through 1987, the late Jamaica Prime Minister Michael Manley wrote – “At a political level, the University of the West Indies apart, cricket is the most completely regional activity undertaken by the people of the member states of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM. It is also the most successful co-operative endeavor and, as such, is a constant reminder of a people of otherwise wayward insularity of the value of collaboration.”

Mr. Manley who was an astute cricket historian, a great thinker and one of the more prolific writers of his time,