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Sixty years after Kingston hosted the VIII British Commonwealth Games, the UWI Faculty of Sport has launched “A Summer To Remember”—a year-long commemoration of the Caribbean’s finest sporting hour. Trinidad and Tobago finished fifth overall; Jamaica sixteenth; and a small nation proved the doubters wrong. This column revisits the 1966 Games, the West Indies Federation’s rise and collapse, and why Caribbean sporting history must finally be chronicled.
