ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, Thursday, October 31, 2013 – GIS: On behalf of the Government and People of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinque, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell extends to the family of Former Sports Minister, Mr. Roy St. John, the most profound sympathy. Mr. St. John was an outstanding son […]
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Income tax ceiling to be lowered
ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, Thursday, October 31, 2013 – GIS: The Income tax threshold is being lowered in Grenada as the country prepares to usher in a home grown structural adjustment programme, part of broader plans to revamp the economy. Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has announced that persons earning in […]
Former Grenada Minister of Sports dies
Spiceislander.com has learnt of the passing of Grenada former Minister of Sports and Senator Mr. Roy St. John who passed away earlier today. Mr. St. John served as a Senator and Minister of Sports up to the 1979 revolution that toppled the GULP government of Sir Eric Matthew Gairy. He is the third […]
After serving 2 out of 12 years in Prison for murder CHASE IS FREE
One time Island scholar and Black belt martial artist Tisagh Chase sentenced to twelve years in January 2012 for the murder of Pearls Resident Kevin Hillaire in June of 2008 in an apartment building in Grand Anse in St George’s has been set free. Chase walked out of the doors […]
FIFA World Cup Trophy In Grenada
It was a carnival-like atmosphere at the Maurice Bishop International Airport last Monday as specially invited guests gathered to greet the US$10M Gold Trophy. Coca Cola Pan Wizards was playing their hearts out as the moko-jumbies danced away, while drummers and folk dancers prepared to brighten the morning. At the […]
PM Mitchell Reports to the Nation Wednesday Night
ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, Monday, October 28, 2013 – GIS: Prime Minister Dr.the Right Honourable Keith Mitchell takes to national radio and television this Wednesday night from 8.00 p.m. to deliver an all important address to the nation. Following his recent high level meeting in Washington with the IMF and World Bank officials, […]
US Invasion of Grenada: A 30-Year Retrospective
By Stephen Zunes It has been exactly 30 years since US forces invaded Grenada, ending that Caribbean island nation’s four-year socialist experiment. The island nation no bigger than Martha’s Vineyard, with a population that could barely fill the Rose Bowl, was defeated with relatively few American casualties. President Ronald Reagan’s […]
Remembering October 25: The Thirtieth Anniversary of the U.S. Intervention in Grenada
Today, Friday, October 25, marks the 30th anniversary of the U.S. intervention in Grenada. While this American military deployment is but a brief footnote in U.S. military history during the Cold War (and the premise of a 1986 Clint Eastwood film, Heartbreak Ridge), the operation, codenamed Urgent Fury, is a […]
Unwillingness to use ill-equipped Caribbean troops in Grenada in 1983
St George’s, October 23, 2013 – Grenadian lawyer Reynold Benjamin, who says he strongly supported the US invasion of Grenada in 1983, claims there was reluctance on using Caribbean troops in the operations. Internal disagreement in the People’s Revolution Government and the ruling New Jewel Movement party in 1983 resulted […]
La Hee, Bruno-Victor attend meeting as Grenada prepares for Pan Am Games
By Lincoln Depradine Toronto, Canada: The last time a city in eastern Canada hosted a major track and field event over the July/August period, Kirani James – Grenada’s 400-meter Olympic champion – was not even born as yet. In 1976 – a full 16 years before the birth of Kirani […]
World Standards Day – Grenada Distillers Limited
ST GEORGE:- In our beautiful Isle of Spice, Grenada Distillers Limited is the larger and better known distillery in operation.Our products have achieved international acclaim by way of numerous World Spirits and International Wine & Spirits Awards and nods fromTheFiftyBest.com and Caribbean Rum & Beer Festival to name a few. […]
Remembering Maurice Bishop
Remembering Maurice Bishop – 29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983. Click here to listen
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 […]
St. Mark embarks on the Bonair River, Flood Mitigation Project
Friday October 18th – St. George’s, Grenada: Something big is about to happen in the quiet little town of St. Mark and residents are in high spirits. The talk on the street, is the “Bonair River Project” and the Chinese people that are renting two houses in town and increasing […]
Sekou and Badejo’s new book tribute on 30th anniversary of Maurice Bishop’s assassination and US invasion of Grenada
GREAT BAY, St. Martin (October 17, 2013)—“On October 19, 1983, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, leader of the Grenadian Revolution, and his closest advisers were assassinated by the country’s army, and six days later, the USA executed its long-planned invasion of the Spice Isle.” That’s how the preface by Lasana Sekou opens […]
