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Sunday, February 7, 2010 Toronto, Canada: Grenada will be celebrating 36 years as an independent nation, on February 7th, 2010. The Theme for this year’s celebration is “Celebrating Our Nation’s Birth with Love and Togetherness”. 

Saturday 6th February : The Novotel London West Hammersmith International Centre came alive with the colours, parishes, towns and villages of Grenada, when close to five hundred nationals and friends gathered for a Grand Banquet and Dance to commemorate Grenada’s 36th Anniversary of Independence.

NEW YORK, Feb 5, 2010 – Grenadian artistes in New York will come together in a benefit concert to raise money to assist the people of Haiti following last month’s devastating earthquake.

St. George’s, Grenada, February 5, 2010 (GIS) – Representatives of the Grenada Steelbands’ Association and the Department of Culture have agreed to continue dialoguing with the aim of resolving outstanding grievances of the Association.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb 5, 2010 – Activities marking Grenada’s 36th anniversary of Independence continue in various capitals around the world with nationals participating in a ceremony at the Simon Bolivar Plaza in Caracas, Venezuela on Thursday.

NEW YORK, February 4, 2010 – For the second consecutive year the Grenada Independence Committee in New York held a tea party for senior citizens in the community on Thursday evening.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Air Jamaica announced a significant realignment in its network – including the suspension of service on several routes – driven by the departure of three aircraft from its fleet. By April, Air Jamaica will operate six aircraft; one A319, four A320’s and one A321.

  NEW YORK, February 1, 2010 – A United States-based Grenadian medical doctor has been awarded for his service to the Grenadian community in New York.

  PHOTO CAPTION: Ameena Caesar (centre) with Consul General Derrick James (L) and Master of Ceremony Michael Roberts (R) NEW YORK, February 1, 2010 – Seventeen-year old Ameena Caesar won Grenada’s Independence Calypso Competition at the Nazareth High School in Brooklyn on Sunday night.

Toronto, Canada, February 1, 2010 – A former Grenada diplomat has commended Foreign Affairs Minister Peter David for proposing the establishment of a Bipartisan Committee on Foreign Affairs, which will comprise government MPs and representatives from the parliamentary opposition.

St. George’s, Grenada, Feb. 1, 10 – Trade unionist, Senator Chester Humphrey, has castigated the former New National Party government for its involvement in a long list of failed projects and the wastage of taxpayers’ money.

St. George’s, Grenada, January 28, 2010: The National Democratic Congress (NDC) wishes to express its profound sadness at the passing of Dr. David Lambert.

Longtime US-based film critic Michael Oliver-Goodwin has named Calypso Dreams, the award-winning documentary chronicling Caribbean calypso that recently played on Grenada Channel 12, as one of the Top Films of the Decade in a list released to international media and cineastes this past week.

St. George’s, January 28, 2009 (GIS) – Agriculture Minister Hon. Denis has said that government has embarked on a plan to build “critical capacities’’ in the agricultural sector in Grenada.

Members of the Grenada Government say they are delighted with a program of dental care currently being undertaken nationwide by a group of professionals from the United States.