By Lincoln Depradine Next month – November 7 to be exact – is the 126th anniversary of the birth of Theophilus Albert Marryshow. He’s the late Grenadian statesman, politician and regionalist that is also referred to as the “Father of West Indies Federation’’. It is in honour of Marryshow – […]
Commentaries
NEVER AGAIN!
Another typical ‘Calypso Saturday morning’, coincides with the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the October 19th, 1983 atrocities that brought the Grenada revolution to a bloody and sordid end. Thirty years later, while some have found peace and stability through the provisions of the Laws of the State, the […]
Reaching a convergence of truths and facts on the 1983 “intervasion’’
By Lincoln Depradine Three decades have passed and much of the truth about exactly what happened in Grenada in 1983 – on October 19 and in the period leading up to October 25 – remains fuzzy and riddled in controversy and dispute. It could be reasonably argued that truth, under […]
GRENADA, 30 YEARS LATER
By Guy W. Farmer (From the “Nevada Appeal”) Today, I want to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Operation Urgent Fury, the 1983 Grenada “rescue mission,” because it was a textbook example of a U.S. military operation that accomplished its objectives and left the idyllic “Spice Island” better off than it […]
I am Hooked on Red Hook!
By Neals Chitan My introduction to Red Hook Public Housing Community on the west side of Brooklyn New York six weeks ago was not one of fear and intimidation as friends who live outside of this “Projects” and really don’t know anything about it, had suggested to me. Upon driving […]
Grenada Healthcare in Crisis
During my visit recent trip to Grenada, I visited a friend who later died at the General Hospital in St. George’s. From the few visits I made to the hospital I can tell that our healthcare system is in a deplorable state. The hospital lacks basic items like gloves, napkins, […]
ONE SCAPEGOAT DOES NOT FIX LIAT OR CARIBBEAN AIRLINES by Robert MacLellan
Some might believe that, for the second time in only three years, Captain Ian Brunton has been made a scapegoat by the board of directors of a Caribbean airline company – fired as CEO of Caribbean Airlines Limited in late 2010 and, this week, he resigned as CEO of LIAT. […]
Whining: genuine Caribbean dance form or vulgarity
By Arley Gill Vulgar! It means rude, impolite, bad mannered. Vulgarity often times is used to describe certain aspects of Caribbean culture, not least is the “whine’’. Whine is defined by a Caribbean dance expert as the thrusting or rotating of the pelvic girdle in a rhythmic pattern. This […]
IS THERE HOPE FOR CRIMINALS?
By Neals Chitan 2008 was a year of crime in the Spice Island of Grenada. According to Researcher Dave Alexander- Drug Control Officer, in his 2012 research “An Analysis of Homicides in Grenada 2008-2012”, he recorded nineteen homicides with seventeen male victims and two females. As unbelievably high as this […]
Obama missed out on Cuba
President Barack Obama is confirming that all the promises he made in the campaign before he was first elected were not serious. The President has extended the U.S. Trade Embargo on Cuba for one more year. Obama has no logical reason to extend the embargo; Cuba has posed no threat […]
TIPS TO OVERCOME FINANCIAL DESPAIR
by Bevan Springer NEW YORK (September 16, 2013) – “The Power to Be Better in Good Times and Bad” is a principle message conveyed by economist Zhivargo Laing who urges people lashed by the recession to “not feel bad because these have been momentous times with shifting fortunes leaving legions […]
WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!
By Neals Chitan Growing up as young boys in Grenada, our juvenile lives were guided by a litany of colourful and poignant figurative warnings frequently given to us by our parents and the older folks of our neighbourhood. Still lodged in my mind today and frequently repeated is “When your […]
A king, master lyricist, versatile musician
By Arley Gill “Kingman’’, that is how we call him. That is Grenadianism at its best. We call each other as we see fit, in spite of how one may want us to refer to them.
30 YEARS OF ROAD MARCH WINNERS and 19 YEARS OF SOCA MONARCH WINNERS
Although the awarding of road march winners pre-dates 1981, this piece will focus on the winners of what is considered the most popular and important carnival title, since carnival was moved to August in 1981. During that period another extremely popular competition, with the advent of a national soca monarch […]
Franka Bernadine for Prime Minister?
Caribupdate Weekly St George’s, August 4, 2013 – THE BATTLE APPEARS to have begun in earnest for the leadership of the National Democratic Congress as the party seeks to look pass the defeated leadership of Tillman Thomas.
