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Why no statues of Crawford, Yorke?

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Friday, June 1, 2012

 

I am pleased that a monument to remind us in perpetuity of the achievements of “the world’s best batsman,” Brian Lara, has been erected. I am also pleased that a museum to store his memorabilia has been established. I trust that adequate space has been allocated for a museum at the yet to be completed Brian Lara Stadium to which the memorabilia, now securely housed at the Queen’s Park Oval, may be transferred. But what about our other two sporting heroes, Hasely Crawford and Dwight Yorke? Why the delay in erecting appropriate bronze statues outside the stadiums named in their honour?
 
Thirty-six years and nine Olympic Games later and no statue has been erected to commemorate that great achievement in our sporting history by Hasely at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. It will please me that, in this year of our 50th anniversary of independence and also an Olympics year, that an announcement is made of a decision to erect an appropriate monument of Hasely in his characteristic winning posture. I wrote to former Sports Ministers Boynes and Hart and to the incumbent Anil Roberts drawing to their attention this “oversight” but I was not favoured with even an acknowledgement of the receipt of my letter.
 
Ian Lambie
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