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Blast from the past...2007 Cricket World Cup Run-down Jamaica fixes its windows, paints its doors, repairs its roads, lights its streets, as the big carnival down the way hits the Caribbean Amitabh Sharma Kingston, Jamaica Published: HardNews The road to Sabina Park meanders through communities living in narrow by-lanes, eking out a living selling fruits, drinks and newspapers from their wayside shacks and carts. There is a flurry of activity, the Jamaica Defence Force personnel have descended in the periphery of the venue armed with shovels, roadrollers and concrete mixing machines helping the community to repave the sidewalks, fill potholes and give a fresh coat of paint to the facades. A kilometre away, Jeff, chisel-figured and bare-chested, washes cars to earn his bread. "World Cup," he remarked, "I know there is a lot of excitement, but for me life will just go on." With the world’s largest cricketing tournament barely two weeks away, wor...