(By J. K. Roberts, Sound Public Policies Advocate; Circulated on Wednesday, 5th August 2020). Amidst vehement outcries from a broad cross-section of the general public, including ‘unusually’ the legal fraternity and the youthful generation, the government of Prime Minister Keith Mitchell had been pressured to assemble in order to delay for “formal public consultation”, a […]
By Karl Duckworth, Principal Officer, U.S. Embassy Grenada This is my first Emancipation Day in Grenada. It is well worth celebrating that in 1833, across the British Caribbean, nearly a million people were freed from slavery. Although we don’t have a national holiday in the United States to mark the emancipation from slavery, many states […]
By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General A lethal combination of disease, extreme climate events and economic crises is threatening the smallest and most vulnerable nations of the world. To tackle it, we must overhaul how we understand and address economic vulnerability. The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered a massive global recession. Meanwhile, a record number of […]
UK – Committee for Human Rights in Grenada (CHRG), is calling on the US Government to show that black lives matter by revealing the location of the remains of Maurice Bishop and the others executed at Fort George on 19th October 1983, and if the remains were removed to the United States, to return them […]
Merger: The Route to Liberalization Merger of the Nutmeg and Cocoa Associations: Nutmeg and Cocoa Industry Bill, 2020: Over the last two weeks, stories pertaining to the Nutmeg and Cocoa Industry Bill, a government bill to MERGE the Grenada Co-operative Nutmeg Association and the Grenada Cocoa Association, have featured prominently in the media. Distraction: Discussion […]
15-year-old girl sold for US$300 to human trafficking network in Trinidad and Tobago During our eight-month human trafficking investigation in the Caribbean (July 2019 to February 2020), we discovered that there was a higher demand for sex and prostitution services in Trinidad and Tobago when compared with other English-speaking countries in Caricom. Our research took […]
