All regional cricket matches under the auspices of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will now be shown live on the ESPN Caribbean television channel for the next three years.
A source close to the WICB told the Nation today that a three-year deal with the cable sports giants, has been signed which would help to defray the cost of staging its regional competitions.
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mapoui
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ESPN have a caribbean channell?
why westindians did not set up we own caribbean channel? how come naraine not looking into dat?
bally too and all the rest ah dem? how come deh mind still at message board level and not up at regional radio and televison stations?
why we letting forriners come in and set up thing we shud be seting up.
Venezuela put up a communications satelite and willing to let all caribbean nations use it
the technology available now where are the regional entepreneurs capable of making westindian channels reality and not letting forriners take over like they take over BET in america?
are we not tiredd of white telling we wat to believe, eat, wear etc?
its is time we own all that is used to tell we anything at all!
why westindians did not set up we own caribbean channel? how come naraine not looking into dat?
bally too and all the rest ah dem? how come deh mind still at message board level and not up at regional radio and televison stations?
why we letting forriners come in and set up thing we shud be seting up.
Venezuela put up a communications satelite and willing to let all caribbean nations use it
the technology available now where are the regional entepreneurs capable of making westindian channels reality and not letting forriners take over like they take over BET in america?
are we not tiredd of white telling we wat to believe, eat, wear etc?
its is time we own all that is used to tell we anything at all!
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mapoui
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and why isnt the skunt wicb using their business to encourage westindian to set up broadcasting channels to profit from it and to employ westindians at high technological levels.
all kinds of things happening in the world and the westindies remains helpless.
in some westindian countries there isnt even a chamical laboratory to kerry out tests on simple medcai exams far less on the problems of the day that cna be caused by poor forrin made medications, poisoned food products thatr we import etc.
the westindies in a sate, dont have nutten but have all kinds of needs and make no effort to correct the shortages.
if deh like capitalism the governments, then they can use government and regional activities to spwan all kinds of business and economic expansion to get all the scientific and communicatrions media expansion the region needs
all kinds of things happening in the world and the westindies remains helpless.
in some westindian countries there isnt even a chamical laboratory to kerry out tests on simple medcai exams far less on the problems of the day that cna be caused by poor forrin made medications, poisoned food products thatr we import etc.
the westindies in a sate, dont have nutten but have all kinds of needs and make no effort to correct the shortages.
if deh like capitalism the governments, then they can use government and regional activities to spwan all kinds of business and economic expansion to get all the scientific and communicatrions media expansion the region needs
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mapoui
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HERE IS CLR JAMES TALKING ABOUT THE WESTINDIAN LEADERSHIP/ELITE/MIDDLE CLASSES MANY YEARS AGO! ANYTHING CHANGED FOR THE BETTER SINCE THEN?
james: the second point i want to make is a negative point. i hear people speaking about things in the caribbean and elsewhere and i repeatedly hear the initials, CIA. now it is not for me to say what the CIA has done or what it will do. what I want to say here tonight is that I do not see the slightest reason for detaching the full responsibility of what has taken place in the caribbean as a whole and passing it on to the United states. the persons responsible for this are the political rulers of the caribbean territories. and what I want to do this evening is to show that what has taken place has been anticipated
I have here this book Party Politics in the Westindies. ( this is not an advertsiment for I dont think they are still for sale )
I will read certain passages from it to show you the reasons why I left the caribbean. I knew what was going to happen and this was no surprise. it was not the erratic behaviour of some individual. it is characteristic of a whole trabe and race of people who are now misgoverning the westindies. now I will read this to you:
"politics is not an activity. not merely to support something or somebody. it is to discuss and plan and to carry out some program and perspective of our own and then to judge how far you have succeeded or failed, and you why. it does not limit a a government. the more of this the people do, the bolder and more comprehensive the plans of a government can be, the more it can defy its enemies. otherwise as sure as day you find you have to shoot them down"
in other words, this shooting down of the population is not an acident. it is not some method of goverment of the present rulers of the caribbeqan. here it is: otherwise if you dont govern properly, if you do not let a new people, formerly slaves, realize that independence must mean something to them, 'as sure as dayy ou find you have to shoot them down.
I am goin to read another passage:
"some readers may remember seeing the movie of the night of the independence of Ghana, and hearing Nkrumah choose that moment to talk about the African Personality. this was the aim of the Ghanian people with independence. is there a west indian personality? is there a west indian nation? what is it? what does it lack? what must it have? the westindian middle classes keep far from these questions. the job, the car the fridge, the trip abraod, preferrably uder governmentr auspices and at government expense, these seem to be the beginning and end of their preoccupations. what foreign forces, social classes, ideas do they feel themselves allied with or attached to? Nothing. what in their own history do they look back to as a beginning of which they are a continuation? I listen to them, read their speeches and their writings. "massa day done" seems to be the extreme of their imaginative concepts of west indian nationalism( massa day done and they have become massa) today nationalism is under fire and every people must consider to what extent its nationalism has to be mitigated by international considerations. of this and so much else the west Indian middle class is innocent. what happens after independence? for all you can hear from them independence is a dead end. apart from the extended opportunities of jobs with the government, inddependence is as great an abstraction as was federation. we achieve independence and they continue to govern"
but is it going to stop there - they continue to misgovern the countriy and already we see in Jamaica - and I am saying this is gointg to happen allover the caribbean - the violent confrontation between the backward reactionary goverment that is still living in the 17th century with a population that is part of the 20th century. that is the problem that is going to explode all over the caribbean. we must be ready for it.
before I sit down I want to bring one more point before you, and this is somethng that I was told by a man for whom I have the greatest personal respect and affection - George Lamming. he told me this story and he told it to me with a significant purpose in mind. George was in Barbados his home country, qnd (frank ) Walcott, head of the trade union movement, asked him to speak to trade unionists. so all the trade unionists heard that Mr lamming, a great writer, was going to speak. there were thousands of them and they had to put up loud speakers outside.
and George spoke. he spoke about the Conference in berlin. he was speaking about blac people and how in Berlin, Busmarck beat them back and European governments divided up Africa - "that is for me and that is for you, and you take that." and he Lamming drew the development from those days up to 1958 when there took place the first conference of the independent african states, George spoke about the development of the negro people, of the Barbadian people, of Afrian independence, etc. there was tremendous applause, a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm.
George never made any sort of reference to any Barbadian politicians. he did not say he wished to stay in Barbadios to make politics. but after that speech - the next day- the question from barbadian politicians and their friendss was " George, when are you leaving?" they did not want anybody to tell Barbadians they had an important history. the mere fact that George had spoken to them about the history of blac people and the strife that we had met during the previous seventy or eighty years was enough to get then frigntened and ask, "George, when are you leaving Barbados?"
james: the second point i want to make is a negative point. i hear people speaking about things in the caribbean and elsewhere and i repeatedly hear the initials, CIA. now it is not for me to say what the CIA has done or what it will do. what I want to say here tonight is that I do not see the slightest reason for detaching the full responsibility of what has taken place in the caribbean as a whole and passing it on to the United states. the persons responsible for this are the political rulers of the caribbean territories. and what I want to do this evening is to show that what has taken place has been anticipated
I have here this book Party Politics in the Westindies. ( this is not an advertsiment for I dont think they are still for sale )
I will read certain passages from it to show you the reasons why I left the caribbean. I knew what was going to happen and this was no surprise. it was not the erratic behaviour of some individual. it is characteristic of a whole trabe and race of people who are now misgoverning the westindies. now I will read this to you:
"politics is not an activity. not merely to support something or somebody. it is to discuss and plan and to carry out some program and perspective of our own and then to judge how far you have succeeded or failed, and you why. it does not limit a a government. the more of this the people do, the bolder and more comprehensive the plans of a government can be, the more it can defy its enemies. otherwise as sure as day you find you have to shoot them down"
in other words, this shooting down of the population is not an acident. it is not some method of goverment of the present rulers of the caribbeqan. here it is: otherwise if you dont govern properly, if you do not let a new people, formerly slaves, realize that independence must mean something to them, 'as sure as dayy ou find you have to shoot them down.
I am goin to read another passage:
"some readers may remember seeing the movie of the night of the independence of Ghana, and hearing Nkrumah choose that moment to talk about the African Personality. this was the aim of the Ghanian people with independence. is there a west indian personality? is there a west indian nation? what is it? what does it lack? what must it have? the westindian middle classes keep far from these questions. the job, the car the fridge, the trip abraod, preferrably uder governmentr auspices and at government expense, these seem to be the beginning and end of their preoccupations. what foreign forces, social classes, ideas do they feel themselves allied with or attached to? Nothing. what in their own history do they look back to as a beginning of which they are a continuation? I listen to them, read their speeches and their writings. "massa day done" seems to be the extreme of their imaginative concepts of west indian nationalism( massa day done and they have become massa) today nationalism is under fire and every people must consider to what extent its nationalism has to be mitigated by international considerations. of this and so much else the west Indian middle class is innocent. what happens after independence? for all you can hear from them independence is a dead end. apart from the extended opportunities of jobs with the government, inddependence is as great an abstraction as was federation. we achieve independence and they continue to govern"
but is it going to stop there - they continue to misgovern the countriy and already we see in Jamaica - and I am saying this is gointg to happen allover the caribbean - the violent confrontation between the backward reactionary goverment that is still living in the 17th century with a population that is part of the 20th century. that is the problem that is going to explode all over the caribbean. we must be ready for it.
before I sit down I want to bring one more point before you, and this is somethng that I was told by a man for whom I have the greatest personal respect and affection - George Lamming. he told me this story and he told it to me with a significant purpose in mind. George was in Barbados his home country, qnd (frank ) Walcott, head of the trade union movement, asked him to speak to trade unionists. so all the trade unionists heard that Mr lamming, a great writer, was going to speak. there were thousands of them and they had to put up loud speakers outside.
and George spoke. he spoke about the Conference in berlin. he was speaking about blac people and how in Berlin, Busmarck beat them back and European governments divided up Africa - "that is for me and that is for you, and you take that." and he Lamming drew the development from those days up to 1958 when there took place the first conference of the independent african states, George spoke about the development of the negro people, of the Barbadian people, of Afrian independence, etc. there was tremendous applause, a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm.
George never made any sort of reference to any Barbadian politicians. he did not say he wished to stay in Barbadios to make politics. but after that speech - the next day- the question from barbadian politicians and their friendss was " George, when are you leaving?" they did not want anybody to tell Barbadians they had an important history. the mere fact that George had spoken to them about the history of blac people and the strife that we had met during the previous seventy or eighty years was enough to get then frigntened and ask, "George, when are you leaving Barbados?"