Dig­ni­taries, vi­sion­ar­ies and sport­ing he­roes min­gled at the Dig­i­cel-host­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­miere of the ac­claimed doc­u­men­tary, Fire in Baby­lon.The red-car­pet af­fair, held on the evening of June 2, at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain, saw guests greet­ed by the al­ways lu­mi­nous Dig­i­cel Brand Am­bas­sadors, be­fore en­joy­ing de­li­cious hors d'oeu­vres and cock­tails.Niall Dor­ri­an, CEO of Dig­i­cel, wel­comed every­one to the "mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion," promis­ing the au­di­ence that they would be moved by the film, which de­picts the "in­deli­ble place that crick­et has in the his­to­ry of the Caribbean".

High­light­ing Dig­i­cel's com­mit­ment to sport de­vel­op­ment, with a fo­cus on crick­et, Dor­ri­an de­clared the com­pa­ny's love for sport as well as its be­lief "in the pow­er of sport to up­lift and trans­form so­ci­ety."West In­dies crick­et leg­end, Deryck Mur­ray, ex­pressed his plea­sure at hav­ing "the op­por­tu­ni­ty to wit­ness, for the first time in T&T, a film show­ing the ex­ploits of West In­di­ans in that pe­ri­od."He cred­it­ed his pre­de­ces­sors with build­ing the foun­da­tion on which he and his col­leagues stood tall."They made it pos­si­ble for lat­er play­ers to make a mark. Hope­ful­ly, it will be an in­spi­ra­tion to fu­ture gen­er­a­tions," he said.

De­clar­ing that West In­dies crick­et, and T&T sport in gen­er­al, are in need of some­thing to cel­e­brate, Mur­ray ex­pressed his hope that this film would be that some­thing.While the au­di­ence def­i­nite­ly agreed that the stir­ring doc­u­men­tary was cel­e­bra­to­ry enough, two lucky guests went home with a some­thing ex­tra spe­cial to cel­e­brate: an au­to­graphed crick­et bat.It was an aus­pi­cious start to the pre­miere of a film which has been cred­it­ed as an out­stand­ing work which de­picts an ex­tra­or­di­nary era of West In­di­an sport­ing dom­i­nance and its roots in pol­i­tics, pride, an­ti-colo­nial fury and mu­sic.