Despite all of the precautions at Kensington, a Kiwi blogger was able to sample some some Barbadian Gold or rumbullion as it used to be called… Here’s her tale of disgruntlement – “At one stage I was the only person going in the gates at the 3Ws Oval on Tuesday.

“Five security guards swarmed around me. Everything was taken out of my three bags, all my recording equipment was opened and tested for bombs. My pen was unscrewed then tested on my notebook.

“I was scanned and rescanned.

“I applied my sunscreen, my nail varnish, my lip gloss, my leave-in hair conditioner and my moisturiser. I took a sip from my water bottle and my ginger ale bottle and two sips of the small bottle of top quality Barbadian rum that somehow had got into my handbag.”

After she got jiggy on our version of Jesus-Juice, they apparently took pity on her and decided that USA or not, she was no real threat…