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For the 44 Guyanese on board, the muddy brown water may have been a consoling memory of home. For the much larger cohort of Jamaicans, numbering more than 500 as the Empire Windrush arrived on June 22, 1948, the sight of Tilbury Docks was likely to be a startling realisation that a new life, markedly different to the old, awaited. The vibrant seascape of the Caribbean must have felt a long way away.
For the 44 Guyanese on board, the muddy brown water may have been a consoling memory of home. For the much larger cohort of Jamaicans, numbering more than 500 as the Empire Windrush arrived on June 22, 1948, the sight of Tilbury Docks was likely to be a startling realisation that a new life, markedly different to the old, awaited. The vibrant seascape of the Caribbean must have felt a long way away.
I suppose one of the dream jobs I was allocated during my time on the local newspaper was in July 1985.
Ball dominated bat on day two as 17 wickets fell but Australia’s seamers, led by Pat Cummins, ensured the home side retain the upper hand even as England fought back late
The sudden deaths that shook the cricket fraternity They say, ‘Death is inevitable!’ While the sudden death of the 59-year-old World Cup winning Aussie cricketer-turned-coach and commentator, Dean Jones, is still fresh in our minds who recently passed away after a heart attack in Mumbai, the unexpected demise of much loved Pakistan’s national cricket team’s foreign coach Bob Woolmer during the forgettable 2007 World Cup campaign in Jamaica was equally saddening and haunted the Pakistani dressing room for long. Both of these deaths came as an unanticipated horror. Sudden death of an ot...