A tiring day that started a little after 5 a.m. for Bermuda's Red Stripe Bowl squad ended with a punishing fielding workout some 12 hours later at Kingston's Melbourne Cricket Club under the Blue Mountains which overlook former West Indies Test great Michael Holding's old club.

Coach Allan Douglas made no apologies for putting his charges, weary after a long flight to the western Caribbean, through an arduous late afternoon when most of them were probably hoping to put their feet up.

After a series of tough fielding drills in the fading light, on a humid and overcast day, he told them: "This is the only time I've got you when you haven't got other things on your mind like work or your children. I want you to concentrate hard because I want to make the most of this time. I want you to only be thinking about playing for your country.'' There will be little time to relax this morning either as a 7 a.m. breakfast put on by one of the sponsors will be followed by another gruelling session at Melbourne.

Afterwards the players will return to their hotel in Kingston's business district for lunch and then undergo the 90-minute journey to Mandeville, 100 miles west of the capital.

A third dose of training at the Alpart ground where Jamaica provide Bermuda with their first opposition tomorrow is planned before Douglas, skipper Charlie Marshall and one other senior player, probably Albert Steede, will decide on the final eleven to take on Courtney Walsh et al.

However, Douglas and Marshall said the team would not be announced to the players until the morning of the match.

Earlier yesterday Bermuda caused quite a stir on their arrival in Jamaica.

Dignitaries were on hand to greet the team when they stepped off their flight and onto the tarmac, while Douglas and Marshall were called upon to do a quick round of TV interviews.

Their transfer to the airport by minibus through some of Kingston's less affluent suburbs brought a variety of responses, from schoolboys and girls cheering and waving to men who just stared in bemusement.

Meanwhile, Guyana's team also took up residence at the Hotel Four Seasons, which is protected by 24-hour security guards and 12-foot high walls, topped with barbed wire in this crime-ravaged city.

The Windward Islands were expected in later today.