Crossfire on Tradewinds Brief

Trinidad finish Guyana off by 141 runs in West Indies 4-Day final, Leroy and Cheryl settle in

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LEROY (Trinidad, lounging): Eh-eh. Tell mih one ting. One. After all dem years a Guyana actin like dey is de natural home of regional cricket — wuh just happen on dat field?

CHERYL (Barbados, dry): Trinidad’s pacers happened. Hundred-forty-one runs. Second innings collapse. Read the scorecard, Leroy. The cricket spoke.

LEROY: Cheryl, doh be modest! Dis was a demolition. Red Force come in, Red Force lift de cup, Red Force gone. Yardman, where you is? You was supposed to be here for de noise.

Crossfire: ID travel deal — Bajan pride vs Guyanese practicality

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cousin Leroy (Jamaica, refereeing): Settle down, settle down. The question on the floor: Barbados and Guyana just agreed citizens can travel between the two countries on national ID cards instead of passports. Auntie Cheryl from Bridgetown is going first.

Auntie Cheryl (Barbados): About time. About time, Leroy. We’ve been talking CARICOM Single Market and Economy since before the children in this room were born. Twenty-something years. And now we finally have two governments actually doing the small bilateral thing that builds the larger arrangement. National ID. Easy. Family in Georgetown can come down for Crop Over without renewing a passport that’s sitting in a drawer half-expired. That is the integration. That is the dream that Errol Barrow and them put on paper.

Crossfire: Can the Reggae Girlz win a major before Shaw's contract ends in 2030?

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Yardman (Jamaica): Bunny just signed through 2030, four years, Manchester City. That’s a window. Real one. You don’t get a generational striker locked in at a top WSL side and then waste the cycle. The Reggae Girlz have an honest shot at a CONCACAF W Championship or a deep Gold Cup run if the federation gets serious about the program around her. Talent is there. Pipeline is improving. We have time.

Crossfire: Is Caribbean Airlines' contraction a failure of regional ambition, or the discipline the region's only flag carrier should have had years ago?

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

CHERYL (Bridgetown)

Look, I going to be honest with you. Eighteen point eight four million dollars they lose on this expansion. EIGHTEEN POINT EIGHT FOUR MILLION. And the Minister come to Parliament and say it like is normal business. That is not normal business. That is regional carrier flying routes that nobody business expert would have approved if they was looking at the numbers honest from the start.

Caribbean Airlines is the only flag carrier the region has left after BWIA gone, after LIAT collapse, after every attempt at a serious regional aviation strategy run into the same wall — politicians in different islands wanting service to their constituents, accountants in Port of Spain trying to make the math work, and a fleet that was always too small to do both at the same time.

Crossfire: Is the US persons-of-interest list help or pressure?

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LEROY (Port of Spain)

Let me tell you something. When America come knocking with a list of names, you take the list. You take the list because Trinidad been bleeding from the gun violence for fifteen years and our police service alone cannot solve this. The drugs is American demand. The guns is American manufacture. American intelligence agencies know who the players is because they been watching the trafficking routes for decades.