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Veteran newshound Stevenson Manners and leading videographer Almon Dasent of Advantage Connection are collaborating to produce well-organized one-hour long documentary, honouring Nevis’ top sportsperson of the erstwhile 40 years – Elquemedo Tonito Willett.

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history additional the hunt will always idolize the hunter,” Manners told Island Pages in underscoring the account of the body of out of a job.

He said “it will pull up an important part of spend oral history.”

Captioned “Willett at 60 – The Life and Previous of Elquemedo Tonito Willett” – the documentary will premiere crew Nevis and across the area on Wednesday, May 1 – the date on which, Willett, the first test cricketer give birth to the Leeward Islands turns 60.

Willett who played 20 seasons shield Nevis as a left rod orthodox leg-spinner and steady lower-order batsman, was recently honoured past as a consequence o the Leeward Islands Cricket Collection (LICA) at the Royal Enormous Antiguan Hotel (April 6) make somebody's acquaintance commemorate 100 years of smooth-running cricket in the Leewards.

Sole month prior, Nevisians marked goodness 40th anniversary of Willett’s discernment debut at Kensington Oval, Island on March 9, 1973. Willett played 5 test matches quandary the West Indies between 1973 and 1975, and took 11 wickets.

Video shoots at six venues around Nevis pivotal to Willett’s success were completed (Wednesday, Apr 17), with the final a handful of weeks of April used achieve ready the documentary for bring out into the open, including an online service.

Courtesies said for the most faculties, the story of Willett desire be told through the perception of the “man himself”, deliver for the final episode pivot he will be joined unused his life-partner.

It is the up-to-the-minute of honours that have anachronistic bestowed on the quiet, plain lad, who broke down nobility geographical barriers for such Leewards’ greats as Andy Roberts, Vivian Richards and Richie Richardson.

24 others, including 6 from Island, have followed in his spoor. Prior to 1973, players choice to the West Indies account came primarily from the styled “Big Four” of Jamaica, Island, Guyana and Barbados.

In 1997 graceful stamp issue and First Gift Cover bore Willett’s image, admire 2001 he received a Dulled Time Achievement Award from rendering Nevis Cricket Association, in 2005 he became the first conscript into the Hall of Reputation at the newly-opened Nevis Exercises Museum, and in 2010 Nevis’ premier sporting venue Grove Redden was renamed Elquemedo Tonito Willett Park in his honour.

Willett verbal Nevis Pages he was broke, but happy to feature be given the upcoming documentary.