By J. K. Roberts ( Sound Public Policies Advocate) What is the main issue of contention? Grenada’s Ruling Administration of the 23 June 2022 National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by Attorney Dickon Mitchell, must have caused many disappointments and suspicions concerning its lack of ‘open and serious’ considerations for tackling the 07 February 1974 constitutional […]
By J. K. Roberts ( Sound Public Policies Advocate ) This two-part Article behooves the youthful population to be ‘attentive and protective’ concerning the gains and enjoyments experienced over the first fifty years of Grenada being attributed the status of Nationhood and Self-determination; and equally, to be ‘conscious and appreciative’ of the struggles and sacrifices […]
Delegates from Africa and other countries that met at a conference in Senegal, from December 4-8, were updated on the Caribbean’s struggle for reparations from Europe. Reparations are a call for “repair for the damage caused by indigenous holocaust and indigenous genocide’’ and the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, said lawyer Arley Gill, who is […]
By J. K. Roberts – Sound Public Policies Advocate The National Organising Committee (NOC) for Grenada’s Golden Jubilee joined the Prime Minister’s Post-Cabinet Press Conference on 19 September 2023 to inform the public about its existence, and in vague terms about its composition, role, agenda and mantra for the celebrations. The mantra focuses on the […]
You are invited to the Grenada Bar Association, Premier annual event, the 19th Sir Archibald Nedd Memorial Lecture [SANML]. This year the topic is: Reparations, Republicanism and the Rule of Law: What next after 50 years of Independence. Feature Speaker: The Rt. Hon. Dickon Mitchell Prime Minister of Grenada. Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Place and […]
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana: Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General, CARICOM, shared that reparations from Europe for the crimes against humanity of native genocide, the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement in the Region is a priority for CARICOM Heads of Government. The Secretary-General spoke via a video message at the ACCRA Reparations Conference, […]
St. George’s, February 14, 2023: A Caribbean struggle, which began in the 1830s seeking restitution for the enslavement of people of African descent, will move a step forward and be the focus of a forum on Monday, February 27, in Grenada. The forum, at the Trade Centre in Morne Rouge, is being organized by the Grenada National […]
By Arley N. Salimbi Gill St. George’s, August 23, 2022: As we commemorate another International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition—we must never forget the cruelty and harm meted out to our ancestors during the brutal and inhumane slave trade. And, despite slavery being abolished in 1838 throughout the British Empire, […]
St George’s, April 21, 2022: It’s been more than a week since the Grenada National Reparations Committee (GNRC) wrote a letter to Governor General Dame Cecile La Grenade, “seeking an audience with the Earl and Countess of Wessex’’, who were scheduled to visit Grenada next Tuesday, April 26. The visit, however, is reported to have […]
