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Media Monitor: Where have all the scholars gone? Should the Fourth Estate know the answer?
Two things happened this week to set me off on the path on which I am about to embark.
The first, not in chronological order, was the passing of the Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (Caiso) head Colin Robinson, which occurred in the US on Thursday morning.
Photo: Colin Robinson, the late head of CAISO
Colin was half of the brother and sister team that copped the two languages scholarships in the 1978 Cambridge ‘A’-Level Examinations. He from CIC and his sister, Charmaine, from Bishop Anstey.
Open letter to Kieron Pollard: Ask not what WI can do for you…
Dear Kieron,
Wherever you happen to be in the world, you would not have failed to watch the First Test action between Kraigg Brathwaite’s side and Bangladesh in Chattogram; my instincts tell me that. And that, along with so many of us, you steupsed loudly after Day Three when West Indies went from 253 for five to 259 all out in the space of just 22 balls.
So we are left with a Day Five Everest to climb and not a Sherpa in sight.
Photo: Bangladesh cricketers celebrate the wicket of West Indies batsman Jermaine Blackwood on Day 3 of the 1st Test in Bangladesh.
Media Monitor: Kalicharan launches attack on WI elite, Skerritt called to defend innocents
In all my years of observing and commenting on West Indies cricket, I have tended to agree rather than disagree with public positions espoused by Dr Noel Kalicharan. Or Ricky Skerritt. But I guess there’s a first time for everything. That’s progress!
Progress comes in various forms. For more than a year since he first came to the world’s attention in August 2019, i95.5fm’s Don Lee wrongly pronounced the name of the man who became the first-ever concussion substitute in Test cricket.
The now 26-year-old man’s name? Marnus Labuschagne, (pronounced LA-BOO-SHANE).