By Neals Chitan The rise in crime and violence among teens in our 21st Century societies has reached epidemic proportions, seriously challenging; parents, school administrations, law enforcers and governments regionally and internationally.
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Caribupdate Weekly February 6, 2013 By Lincoln Depradine This 39th year of independence is as good a time as any to reexamine Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, the “Father of Independence’’ and our first prime minister in 1974. Let’s relook Gairy not to debate his politics, economic and social programs, or his ideology. But let’s put [...]
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As old President Ronald Reagan will say: “There you go again…” In this case, it is Grenada’s Minister of Finance Nazim Burke. Below is what he said September 12, 2012 in an exchange with Lew Smith, blaming everybody and everything except his stewardship for Grenada’s economic mess.
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By Hamlet Mark CARIBUPDATE NEWS: WHAT tragic irony, that our leader who has championed himself as a true democrat, is this weekend sitting with unelected advisors, trying to figure out a way to stay away from parliament as long as possible.
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By Neals J. Chitan It was the worst of times, it was the best of times! A statement which most fittingly describes the civic, social and political climate of Grenada, the beautiful Spice Island Paradise of the lower Caribbean within the last year. Grenada made its recent tainted debut into mainstream international media last summer [...]
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By Hamlet Mark Wednesday, July 4, 2012: Don’t know if it’s me – but I have found the entire debate in Grenada this week about the scheduling clash over the July 8th elections victory “celebrations’’ extremely repulsive.
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Follow India A vs West Indies A here GDP is Not an Indicator of Ability to pay Debt I intended to write this week to prove indisputably that the majority of you who go around saying thatGrenadais in too much debt and that the debt has crippled the country are in more debt (privately) thanGrenada. [...]
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By Hamlet Mark There are a few questions I’d love answered, since for more than a year, the Grenada Prime Minister has not made himself available to be seriously questioned by any members of the media except for the Government Information Service and the extra-friendly MTV News.
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I was fortunate to be trained by an old Englishman whose way of resolving any conflict regarding the meaning of a word was to whip out the Dictionary.
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By Hamlet Mark I spent the last week in Grenada, observing first hand some of the political developments – and been too busy going all over the place to put pen to paper until now.
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By CARIBUPDATE NEWS SERVICE ST GEORGE’S, GRENADA: The opposition here has claimed that a top minister in the Tillman Thomas administration has received the equivalent of almost half a million EC dollars through a bank transfer.
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By Hamlet Mark April 11, 2012 – After a week on the road in Bermuda, I was about to write a blog about how clean and organized that society is, and how much we can learn from them.
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By Hamlet Mark Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – OVERNIGHT I got the opportunity to see the “controversial” report in question that got the ire of the Prime Minister’s Office; and earlier this morning I also got to see Richard Simon’s TV interview on the issue.
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There are strong grounds for suspecting that the privately-owned Grenada Advocate weekly’s dismissal of reporter Rawle Titus on 23 March was the result of direct political pressure by Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and his press secretary.
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By Hamlet Mark IN THE INTEREST of full disclosure – Rawle Titus is not just a journalist, but a friend of mine. So, too, is Richard Simon, the press secretary to Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas.
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