Are Caymanas halcyon days yet to come?
published: Friday | December 20, 2002 Howard Hamilton I HAVE encountered more and more people recently who lose themselves in nostalgic reflection on the days before independence. After 40 years, when two full generations have been born and grown up knowing no other state of existence, it is a peculiar phenomenon. However, I recognise that it has its roots in a creeping disillusionment that has overtaken many of us, who can recall days when things were better in certain areas of our national life. This being a sports column, I will disregard areas like agriculture, crime, discipline, social order and the like and look at the horseracing industry as a case in point. This sport is not a recent infatuation of the Jamaican people. In fact, Jamaica’s involvement with horse racing and breeding is a centuries-old love affair, the earliest traced record of which dates back to 1777 when, according to the English Stud Book of that year, a horse named Temperance is recorded as having raced well i
