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Look to Jamaica By Clayton Goodwin Standing down in the face of shameless opportunismHas a noble history The sound sense of the major political parties – Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens – in not playing along with Nigel Farage’s coup de theatre in staging a by-election in Clacton, the constituency of which he was the […]

by Clayton Goodwin It was a good time to take the plunge for a date with history and with legend. That long hot summer of 1976 was made for cricket – and the West Indies cricketers were here in England. Not any West Indies team, mind you  – but THE West Indies with a generation

The dream was over but the reality remains By Clayton Goodwin We needed a super-hero Well I remember the Randolph Turpin v Sugar Ray Robinson fight for the middleweight championship of the world on 14th July 1951 at the Earl’s Court Arena in London – though I was only 8 years old and the country

When Hopelyn and myself started to plan the events of this summer, we found that we were working on three different celebrations that could clash. The most significant was Hopelyn’s 80th birthday, and so we decided to build this occasion around that landmark. To that we added recognition of the friends and neighbours on Holsmdale

By Clayton Goodwin Written during the county championship match between Kent and Leicestershire at Canterbury from 12-15 September 1987 I watched Gower bat at Canterbury. An autumn day. A life ago. There were no points – No point in play – For Leicestershire or Kent. And so I mused on former time On heroes old

By Clayton Goodwin One evening back in 1998, I was sitting in a foreign hotel waiting to return home in the morning and switched boredly between the channels offered by the television. It was at the time that President Clinton ordered the bombing of a Middle East location because – it was said – to

Caribcommx has continued to progress – in spite of the occasional ill-health of the editor/publisher – and is beginning to develop its own features rather than to merely repeat items of news and opinion that may be already in the public domain. Caribcommx, in short, will have its own character. What does that mean? Some

To honour some very good colleagues without whom our early success would not have been possible “I see you support the PNP (People’s National Party)” said our Jamaican neighbour. “You’d better not let our daughter-in-law see it, she’s from the Republic (of Ireland)” added my cousin. “Glad to see a fellow – Liberal Democrat” observed