Says Cosmo Hamilton
Just as the leadership of the APNU+AFC coalition with some measure of prescience presented the electorate with a poignant if simple mantra “It Is Time” -that would appropriately signal the end of the 23 year reign of the PPP/C in government, the very same theme, though for a very different reason is applicable to bring closure to the stellar 21 year career of the illustrious son of the soil West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul. It is time. Bad things must be brought to an end and it is a truism that ‘all good things will come to an end’. So is the span of the PPP/C and Shivnarine Chanderpaul polar opposites covering almost identical years; one was great for Guyana and the Caribbean.
Unfortunately for purely sentimental reasons a contentious debate rages on about the end of Chanderpaul’s Test career as one of the most prolific batsmen ever to play for the West Indies. It is a debate that ought not to have taken place and perhaps would not have, had the slender south
