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F.I.F.A and the moral compass
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJune 13, 2015From its very small beginnings around the year 1930, F.I.F.A, the governing body for world football, has grown into the global giant it has become of 209 member nations. Much ...
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Avoiding pitfalls as a test batsman
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 30, 2015It is now 46 years since Grayson Shillingford became the first Dominican cricketer to play for the West Indies in Test Cricket. Thirty-eight years have gone by since Irving Shillingford, ...
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Only as strong as the weakest link
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 20, 2015Phil Simmons, newly installed coach of the West Indies cricket team underlined something which has been well known for a long time when he told reporters several days ago that ...
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Not an impossible dream
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 13, 2015Nelson Mandela has been associated with the profound saying that some things seem entirely impossible – until they are achieved. That must have been the feeling in the West Indies ...
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Faltering fortitude
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 10, 2015Two rather early portents arrived nearer the beginning of the second Test match against England and may have served to provide a clearer look at the West Indies hope of ...
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A profession of great faith
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 29, 2015Jason Holder's undefeated century in the second innings of the First Test at Antigua comes clothed as the fruit yielded by a profession of great faith. A maiden Test century ...
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An icon passes from the scene
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 21, 2015Sir Frnnk Worrel must have seemed to many a throwback of the older days – a languid looking university professor, the type who didn't fail to be distinguished, dressed with ...
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Clive Atwell- a sporting anomaly in Dominica
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 17, 2015Soft spoken, gentle with a touch of urbanity, Clive Atwell is perhaps a truly misplaced representative of his sport. You would not easily detect him as a boxer. He does ...
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Should we repeat mistakes of the past?
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 8, 2015Passive response to the two football matches between Dominica and the British Virgin Islands at Windsor Park revealed a number of things – some of them expected or even inevitable, ...
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When does this era of our cricket end?
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 2, 2015Every new dynasty of Caribbean cricket leadership avows to alter our downward spiral of performance in international circles but the trend of failure has persisted over the last twenty or ...
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Friction all around
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 24, 2015As it turned out, West Indies scraped through to the quarter-finals of the World Cup Tournament on the strength of a few decimal places favourable in the run rate computations. ...
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Insipidity of the good loser syndrome
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMarch 18, 2015More than ever each World Cup has its many stories – a large number staying in the background and never really coming to light. England, the country which gave the ...
