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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.

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.

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.

By Hamlet Mark   In Grenada, an under-performing government is under siege; a leadership has grown increasingly out of touch and quietly more arrogant, and instead of listening to the concerns of its friends, it has instead turned on its own.

Submitted by the NNP St. George’s – February 28th, 2012 – Members of Her Majesty’s Oppositions say the Tillman Thomas administration has again proven that the words accountability, transparency and good governance are mere words used conveniently by its members to deceive the voting population. Commenting on the allegations that […]

By Neals J. Chitan Over the past 30 years, I have always been involved in either planning or speaking at Black History events in Canada, the USA and England.

By Hamlet Mark For this past week, I have been quietly following reports from Grenada that some members of the “triumvirate”, in cahoots with others, are on a specific trajectory to politically destroy some of their own.

Click here for tourism news from Grenada By Hamlet Mark WHILE many in Grenada continue to debate the recent firing of Joseph Gilbert, it is important not to over-react, but to put everything in its proper context.

St. George’s, January 18, 2012 – Confusion prevails in Grenada over the fate of MP Joseph Gilbert following an emergency cabinet meeting and a subsequent statement issued by Richard Simon, Press Secretary to Prime Minister Tillman Thomas.

For the past two decades I have been lamenting the unacceptable treatment of our returning nationals by their fellow Grenadians.  Returning nationals in this context includes those who come to Grenada on vacation as well as those who are re-establishing residence.  It behooves me to stress here that we all […]

Today February 7th 2011 marks the 37th anniversary of our Political Independence – a vision of the late ex-Prime Minister Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, who ruled this country for 27 years and is now described and accepted as the Father of Our Independence.