For many it was the best all-in­clu­sive lime for $300. Wednes­day's 20th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion and awards func­tion for the Trini­posse was held at the Queen's Park Oval dur­ing a rain break in the sec­ond Dig­i­cel crick­et Test be­tween Aus­tralia and the West In­dies. Part­ly spon­sored by Carib, 3Ze­ro Rum and the Tourism De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (TDC), the event al­so of­fered pre­mi­um tequi­la and whiskey, an as­sort­ment of snacks, dou­bles, sa­da and even tequi­la-soaked salt prunes. Then there were the Carib and Dig­i­cel girls at­tired in eye-catch­ing out­fits, ris­ing to cheer every bound­ary struck by a Windies bats­man and every Aussie wick­et to fall, as well as at the end of every over. Keep­ing the Trini­posse Stand live­ly as well, were Carib Wood­brook Play­boyz and co­me­di­an Tom­my Joseph. Per­pet­u­al­ly in char­ac­ter, dur­ing the rain stop­page of play, Tom­my even held an imag­i­nary crick­et game in the stand with mem­bers of the Aussie Posse, with just one sig­nif­i­cant catch-they played with no ball.

Then came the ac­tu­al awards and among those be­ing ho­n­oured and be­ing pre­sent­ed with tro­phies and plaques were Trini­posse mem­bers Pe­ter Math­ews and Col­in Bor­de; Bri­an Lara, Machel Mon­tano; Carib's Col­in Mur­ray; Dig­i­cel's Pix­ie Du Coudray; John­ny Soong; and, Guardian Me­dia Ltd's Pe­ter Ray Blood. Posthu­mous­ly ho­n­oured were de­part­ed Trini­posse mem­bers the late Richard de Souza and Joey Carew. Or­gan­i­sa­tions which have sup­port­ed the group were al­so re­mem­bered, among them the Trinidad Crick­et Board, the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion, the West In­dies Crick­et Board, Trans World Sports, Sky Sports and West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, Carib Brew­ery, Dig­i­cel, Blue Wa­ters, Had­co.

Be­fore the day's spe­cial guest-Propht Ben­jamin-per­formed, Machel ar­rived a tad bit late to col­lect his award with the oth­er awardees but when he did he spon­ta­neous­ly be­gan singing Mr Fete, fol­low­ing by Bot­tle of Rum. Machel tick­led the crowd when he ex­tem­pored dur­ing his lat­ter item, singing, "Don't quar­rel, drink 3Ze­ro rum and sor­rel." Machel al­so in­vit­ed Swap­pi to join him to sing Buck­et. With every­one lit­er­al­ly on a high and rain seem­ing to wash the en­tire post-tea play, Prophet Ben­jamin ex­tend­ed his ex­treme­ly pop­u­lar Throw Wine by adding four ex­tra vers­es. The ac­tu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny was opened with an ad­dress by TDC chair­man Ra­jiv Shandilya. Al­so of­fi­ci­at­ing was for­mer Min­is­ter of Sport Manohar Ram­sar­ran.