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 […]
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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 […]
Temporary Chapel Bridge nears Completion
ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA,Wednesday, October 16, 2013 – GIS: The metal framed bridge being built in the Prospect/Duquesne area is nearing completion. This temporary bridge replaces the 1958 built Chapel Bridge which collapsed over a month ago. Contractor Richardson Cenac spoke to GIS at the site on Tuesday and gave […]
2 Tourist treated at PR Hospital after being ATTACKED ON UNION ISLAND
The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Carriacou was the medical facility that came to the rescue of a couple who had to hastily flee their comfort zone, following a vicious attack while anchored on their yacht in the neighboring St Vincent Grenadine island of Union Island last Thursday Night. Christina […]
Hundreds of Grenadians attends 30th Annual Conference of Grenada SDA In Brooklyn
October 13, 2013 – Brooklyn, NY: Hundreds of Grenadians of the Seventh-Day Adventist faith attended the 30th annual convention of the Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique Adventist Organization at the Wingate High School Auditorium in Brooklyn, New York yesterday. The GNYAO was founded 30 years ago with a small group of Adventist migrating […]
Verbal political spat between Grenada trade unionists
St George’s, October 13, 2013 – Trade union senator Ray Roberts has lambasted labour leader Chester Humphrey for his apparent pro-government stance. Humphrey has fired right back, making no apology in an e-mail exchange with Roberts. “While you see (Prime Minister) Keith Mitchell as the eternal evil, I see someone […]
