Deyal

Tony Deyal’s work as an international professional has been in Health communications (PAHO), Climate Change (World Bank/CARICOM) and as Corporate Secretary to the West Indies Cricket Board. He was also in charge of Communications at Caroni Ltd and Petrotrin. Tony worked in all the English-speaking Caribbean countries for about 25 years and his weekly newspaper column, which started in 1993, still runs in the Barbados Nation, Jamaica Gleaner and others. Tony was the first Caribbean recipient of a First Class Honours Degree in Journalism from Carleton University, Ottawa, in 1974 and was a Hubert Humprey Fellow in Planning and Resource Management at Boston University. He also did Message Design at Stanford University. Five years ago, Tony started ＂My Trinidad: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow＂, the only online literary magazine in the Caribbean. A collection of his articles, ＂Tony Deyal Was Last Seen＂ was published last year and this year he will publish his Cricket columns as ＂Blades of Grass and Glory.＂