The news came to me via a WhatsApp from a Jamaican friend on Thursday February 28, 2019 at 8:57 a.m. Grenada time. “Mawnin. Heard that Tony Becca died,” she messaged. “Oh!” I replied in dismay, and immediately set about verifying the information, then sharing the unfortunate news with my family. Still in shock and disbelief, […]
Journalism
Remembering #BobWoolmer
BBC Radio had a programme on March 19, 2017 to mark the 10 year anniversary of the passing of former Pakistan cricket coach. Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in Kingston Jamaica, during Cricket World Cup 2007. Listen to part of the programme here and then my recollection of that period, while I was […]
Remembering Tony Cozier
I struck up the courage to request an interview with him and was chuffed when he agreed. I made sure to prepare my questions in advance, as I imagine he would have done, though his elephant-like memory meant that he perhaps did not need to. The interview was carried in two parts in April 2004, such was the extent of his opinions on West Indies cricket.
I had a dream about #WICB
With all that has been in the media about the need for the West Indies Cricket Board to change, it was only a matter of time before it entered my dreams. Dave Cameron was still the President. His Executive Assistant was the same as in real life and she handed me some papers prior to […]
Devon Smith On Verge Of Creating History In Grenada
The person who will be most proud though is Miss Ann, his mother. Back in 2003, I went to the Smith house in Hermitage St Patrick to interview Devon. He was not there so I chatted with his parents first. Sadly, his father passed away a few years ago. As you will hear in the audio clip, Devon loves his parents, and I definitely got that feeling.
After the interview….the transcription
I remember when I was finished with the Lawrence Rowe transcription, it ended up being 24 typed pages! So you know how many days that took to finish transcribing.
Limacol CPL T20 Post Match Press Conference: Videos – Guyana
Limacol CPL T20 Post Match Press Conference: Videos – Antigua
The Guyana Amazon Warriors survived a scare and narrowly beat the Antigua Hawksbill in the opening match of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20 competition at the Grenada National Stadium. After the post match ceremony which you see on television, the media who are interested dash to the post match press conference. Today, we were […]
Preparing for Interviews
Over the 11 years that I have been interviewing cricketers, I have used several approaches to prepare for one-on-one interviews. For persons like Lawrence Rowe, I spent MANY days preparing. This was because I knew nothing about him, other than what was said about him in the media for going to South Africa. When he […]