For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under Heaven. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. – Ecclesiastes 3: 1-5
NOT SO LONG ago it was reported that the organisers of the Under-13 cricket tournament had announced that team members must hand over their cellphones to management before entering the dressing rooms.
The reason given was that players, while the game is in progress, could be seen playing with their cellphones and even sometimes on the field, rather than focusing on the game.
I believe the action taken by the organisers is a very good one. It is my understanding that in some Test-playing countries, the players have to hand over their phones before boarding the tour bus.
Cricket is about more than bat and ball. It is also a mental game, and players need to be focused at all times. Mobile phones, as we see daily, can be a very big distraction.
Technology is good but it can also be bad. I believe that too much of anything is worse that none at all. Too many people are using the technology for the wrong purpose. That is why the Caribbean Examinations Council does not allow cellphones in examination rooms, because they can be used in cheating.
I think it is sad that priests have to tell people attending church functions, especially funerals, to turn off their phones. I think it is a disease as many of us just cannot do without them.
Training session
The Barbados Diocesan Altar Servers Association training session has been postponed from tomorrow and will now be held next Saturday at St Leonard’s Anglican Church, Westbury Road, St Michael, at 9 a.m.
The postponement is due to a funeral.
Moravian harvest
Fulnec Moravian Church, Watts Village, St George, will hold its harvest on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Mothers’ Union walk
The Barbados Mothers’ Union will hold a fundraising sponsored walk under the theme For Love Of A Child on Saturday, February 11, at 6 a.m. from Fairchild Street to Good Shepherd Church, Fitts Village, St James.
