Councilman [Charles Barron] was the keynote speaker and he commended the foundation for honoring the activists and carrying on Marksman's considerable legacy. "It's easy to talk about Samori because he was a committed revolutionary and totally opposed to imperialism and colonialism," Barron said of Marksman, who was 51 when he died on March 23, 1999. Barron praised him for his unstinting efforts to promote the progressive government of Grenada before it was torn asunder after the U.S. invasion in 1983. Father Lawrence Lucas spoke of his love for Marksman, and how during his appearance on WBAI where Marksman had a show and subsequently was program director, "I had to control my remarks because I didn't want to get him fired," he said. "I'm also glad to be a part of this dinner and I beli...
Grenada's commissioner to the International Whaling Commission IWC from 1997 to 1999, [Michael Baptiste] had been charged with pocketing more than US$75,000 sent by the Government of Japan as contributions to the Government of Grenada for its support of Japan at -the International Whaling Commission.
The Black Liberation Movement worldwide is deeply saddened by the death of Grenada's Prime Minister, [Maurice Bishop]. Mr. Bishop, along with other Grenadian Further, as I explained in this column, "This area of the world is predominately African and the people in it have been struggling against white domination in an effort to achieve independence and sovereignty. Grenada under the leadership of Maurice Bishop was a shining example of an African government and nation seeking independence and sovereignty. In the case of Grenada, an African man who Maurice Bishop had practiced law with and became the Deputy Prime Minister, was the chief architect of Maurice Bishop's and the New Jewel Movement's overthrow that provided the open door for the United States' invasion of the island.
GRENADA, Miss. - The new owners of the Grenada rail line have filed papers with the federal government to abandon the track and sell it for scrap. The abandonment would permanently stall plans to reopen a local rail line.
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, (CMC): Labour Minister Claris Charles has intervened in an industrial dispute between telecommunications provider Cable & Wireless and the bargaining agent for its workers, the Technical and Allied Workers' Union (TAWU). The Indian diplomat said India is also willing to help Guyana develop its Information Technology (IT) sector and that a success area of her country's 'economic miracle' has been the tremendous advancement it has made in IT, which is part of the knowledge revolution "sweeping the world. ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC: The Grenada government says Trinidad and Tobago could provide an alternative source of energy to the island in the event the Venezuela oil agreement with several Caribbean states falls through.
The rebels held the island for a few hours before a contingent of heavily armed policemen from the main island backed by 48 Barbadian soldiers sent by Prime Minister Tom Adams, invaded the island and took control. In all, 46 people, including 11 women, were captured and detained; their locks were shaved off. Bumber and three followers fled to nearby Carriacou, a Grenadine island, politically part of Grenada. They were later extradited to St. Vincent by the People's Revolutionary Government of Maurice Bishop (who had come to power in Grenada a few months earlier by a similar method) to stand trial. Later that month (December 1979), Barbados revoked the work permit of Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Vincentian lecturer on the UWI Cave Hill campus; today he is Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the...
[Jose Manuel Inclan], at the time the accredited Cuban envoy to the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom), was lobbying Caribbean nationals to take advantage of a special free eye-care program initiated by Cuban President Fidel Castro and his controversial Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in the last two years. Using its vast oil wealth to bankroll the scheme, the Venezuelan government pays for the fuel of Cuban government planes that have touched down in Guyana, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and other Caribbean countries, bringing doctors to screen patients and take out those identified for further work at Cuban institutions. Havana has never forgotten the move by Caricom and has lavished the region with free scholarships. Currently, more than 1,200 Caribbean students are at Cuban uni...
WASHINGTON, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- His Excellency Ambassador Albert Ramdin of Suriname has received the unanimous endorsement of the Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for the post of Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States. The endorsement by the 14 Sovereign Member States was formally announced this past July 7 during the Heads of Government Meeting in St. Georges, Grenada.
Grenada's former Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard (right), is escorted by a prison guard upon nls arrival to Granada Supreme Court for a resentencing hearing in St George's in 2006. Coard Is one of th«13 prisoners who had previously been sentenced to death for killing the southern Caribbean Island's premier, Maurice Bishop, four Cabinet members and six supporters In a 1 983 coup that triggered a US Invasion. Coard was freed on Saturday, September 5. BERNABD COARD, the former deputy prime minister of the shortlived People's Revolutionary Government (PRO) in Grenada who was imprisoned for 26 years for the murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in 1983, intends to join his wife in Jamaica. Both Coard and his wife were part of the 'Grenada 1?' who were convicted of murdering Bishop and...
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