By Lincoln Depradine Next month – November 7 to be exact – is the 126th anniversary of the birth of Theophilus Albert Marryshow. He’s the late Grenadian statesman, politician and regionalist that is also referred to as the “Father of West Indies Federation’’. It is in honour of Marryshow – […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Annual Council delegates review suggested changes to 28 Fundamental Beliefs
Annual Council delegates today approved the next step in a five-year process to better articulate the church’s core beliefs, using clearer—and frequently more inclusive—language. Adventist theologians led delegates through a reading of an edited draft of all 28 Fundamental Beliefs prepared by the church’s Fundamental Beliefs Review Committee. The group […]
Creation movie central to church identity is key to 2014 evangelism
Hundreds of church officials settled into the plush burgundy theater-style seats. Conversations faded into silence. As the overhead lights dimmed, all eyes were fixed upon the huge movie screen, assembled for the occasion. Suddenly, the hushed room was pierced by the shriek of a howling wind projected through the surrounding […]
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
Windies Women’s spin duo hail work of Saqlain
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Women’s spinners Anisa Mohammed and Shaquana Quintyne have identified the work they did with Pakistan spin bowling legend Saqlain Mushtaq a month ago, as the main reason for their recent bowling success. After the first week of action in the ongoing Women’s Twenty20 International Tri-Series […]
Lewis helps WI U19s draw level
ALBION, Guyana – West Indies Under-19s levelled their Youth One-day International series against Bangladesh, after half-century from Shimron Hetmyer and Fabian Allen set them up and steady bowling from their captain Ramaal Lewis formalised a 36-run victory on Saturday here. Lewis followed up a valuable 13 not out with 3-35 […]
NEVER AGAIN!
Another typical ‘Calypso Saturday morning’, coincides with the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the October 19th, 1983 atrocities that brought the Grenada revolution to a bloody and sordid end. Thirty years later, while some have found peace and stability through the provisions of the Laws of the State, the […]
Reaching a convergence of truths and facts on the 1983 “intervasion’’
By Lincoln Depradine Three decades have passed and much of the truth about exactly what happened in Grenada in 1983 – on October 19 and in the period leading up to October 25 – remains fuzzy and riddled in controversy and dispute. It could be reasonably argued that truth, under […]
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 […]
