PNP Spokesman Wavell Hinds leads Jamaica’s tribute to the man who taught him to bat — and taught a region to believe in itself

KINGSTON, Jamaica |  Friday, July 17, 2026—By Calvin G. Brown  |  The greatest innings in the history of cricket has come to an end. The Right Excellent Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, NH, AO, OCC — National Hero of Barbados, king of the all-rounders, and for two generations the living proof that Caribbean genius could stand astride the world — died peacefully at his home in Barbados on Friday. He was 89, eleven days short of his 90th birthday.