MEDIA

By Clayton Goodwin Lord’s – Thursday 21 June 1961 It was my first Test match day as a Hayter’s press messenger. England v Australia with the Ashes at stake. The morning was sunny and hot. Freddie Garside, the office manager, met me outside the Grace Gates and escorted me to the press-box at the top […]

By Clayton Goodwin In November 1983, I stopped over in Puerto Rico on my way from Jamaica to the Eastern Caribbean in reporting, on the commission of Gleaner newspapers, the American-led military intervention in Grenada, and recorded the following experience. “In the evening I watched American television news programmes, and immediately wished I hadn’t. My

Submitted by Clayton Goodwin – Letter From London I once spent a whole evening drinking with Neil Kinnock in the Strangers’ Bar in the House of Commons. It came about like this. Having just been selected as Liberal PPC for Gravesend, I requested to pay a courtesy call on the sitting member, John Ovenden, who

Letter From London – by Clayton Goodwin Well, The country wanted change – though, until it really happened, few people thought it would be so sweeping. The remnants of the Conservative administration which had shamed the electorate for so long were sent packing – into an inglorious history. Rishi Sunak was the fall guy for

by Clayton Goodwin It comes to something when the two principal parties in the forthcoming General Election blame each other for not being conservative enough. The appeal to cruelty which became manifest in British politics from the Brexit referendum eight years ago appears to have become ingrained in Westminster thinking. This time the politicians may

Written by Clayton Goodwin After several months of procedures, hospital treatment, and repeated visits to medical establishments, the Consultant closed the file and discharged me back to my local GP. It was a moment of considerable relief and exhilaration …. Or, at least, it should have been. At that moment my mobile-phone rang with a

Recalled by Clayton Goodwin The Weekly Gleaner is often omitted from histories of the Caribbean press in the United Kingdom. That is because it is seen as being primarily a subsidiary and off-shoot of the main Gleaner Group in Jamaica, and, indeed, for the first quarter-of-a-century after its founding in 1951 it was administered and

….. for information, education and co-operation By Clayton Goodwin The UK West Indian press which I encountered shortly after first coming to London in October 1960, was still in its infancy. There had been publications in this sector before, but they were usually aimed at an academically literate readership and did not survive for very