Mr. Ariel Alvarado
President
Panama Football Federation
Panama.
Dear sir:
We the majority of clubs comprising the Grenada Football Association hereby disassociate ourselves with the poor courtesies extended you and your National Football Team during your recent visit to Grenada.
Please note that our Executive Committee were advised about the unacceptable conditions of the Football ground chosen for the International friendly with you; however in spite of our admonishment the Executive Committee proceeded to act against our advice resulting in your correctly opting not to play the game.
We were further horrified to learn about the removal of the simple courtesy of transportation and presence of a GFA Courier on your departure from our airport – a norm which has been practiced particularly with members of the CONCACAF football fraternity.
It is important to note that the majority of GFA General Council have already established with CFU, CONCACAF and FIFA that we have lost confidence in our present Executive Committee.
This has impacted indelibly on our national psyche and GFA Clubs have already summoned a General Council to take place within the next eleven days, at which we intend to appropriately deal with what has now become a national catastrophe.
We, the majority of clubs in GFA and no doubt the sporting public in Grenada hereby proffer you our sincerest apology and express our heartfelt embarrassment at your experience in Grenada.
Yours in Football development,
GFA General Council Members.
He who lives by the sword shall die also by the sword……..this my friends, is the
Holy Scripture……it applies to Bishop too.
Now I have no problems with naming the International airport after Maurice Bishop but we Grenadians must be less pretenscious bias corrupt and as Bishop himself used to say, malicious, in that we must call a dog a dog, or a pig a pig.
Maurice Bishop over saw the most brutal and inhumane government in the history of our small country. Hundreds of Grenadians were jailed without trial, scores were beaten and tortured. many were killed even while they were locked up under “heavy manners” in Richmond Hill prison.
Our dear Prime Minister himself, was locked up by Maurice Bishop for more than four years with no charges or trial.
Is there not a man in Africa with absolute power, a dictator, a man who has no independent newspaper, no opposition party or leader, a man who over rides the Court makes his own Laws and expels fellow citizens at will?
Yes Robert Mugabe is doing the same things Bishop did. Who do we praise Bishop but condemn Mugabe?
I would say this much, Maurice Bishop did not only initiate the building of the Airport, he also built a maximum security prison, with the help of Castro where for years people like Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and hundreds of innocent Detainees rot away, without trial, in a hell hole at Richmond Hill
Let us also call the prison he built “Maurice Bishop’s Gulag,” he deserves it.
I wouldn’t acknowledge Maurice Bishop because he bring many pain to me and my family and I know for lots of Grenada people.
I have to leave Grenada to Trinidad because what Maurice Bishop did to our family they come into our home and arrested my mother she was in Richmond hill prison for years and it brake up our family since them most of the siblings is not talking to each other because we was on our own a young kids my mother always vote for Gairy and Bishop knew this. I live in the US for years now become a Nurse .
I don’t know what to do at time within my body and soul I still having the nightmare of what happened to us in 1979 most time since then I always have dream about it all I can does is pray and ask God to help me .
Many people wouldn’t understand what had happened to many family back them it was a secret but God know what happened to many and I speck for my self it’s a deep scare I have within my soul .
What Prime Minister Tillman Thomas did named the airport after Maurice Bishop bring back many more memories of sadness and coming to visit family and friend in Grenada and landing in the airport with Bishop name there it will be sad to me for the rest of my life.