The uncertain future of our social infrastructure
“Infrastructure” is not a term conventionally used to describe the underpinnings of social life. But this is a consequential oversight, because the built environment influences...
Norris Mitchell
A golden future in the making
On a late Spring evening on Saturday, May 14, 2022, the bell was rung, signaling the date for the next general election carded for June...
Dr. of deception and his faceless mamaguy
The NNP government of Grenada has continuously reminded us and boasted how well the Citizen By Investment (CBI) programme/project is doing. It is evident that...
Can spring be far behind?
It was the English poet – Byssha Shelley in his “Ode to the West Wind” who opined – “If winter comes can Spring be far...
Grand standing – NNP style
Towards the end of February, I was wondering what the caption of my March 2022 article would be – when an announcement on public TV...
The loss of Grenada’s post-independence opportunity
As a lad growing up on the Lance in Gouyave, when Grenada was still a colony in the 1930’s, 40’s and up to 1952 when...
Has our democracy been hijacked?
A brief and succinct definition of democracy is “government by the people”, which finds expression in the inalienable right to vote in periodic free and...
“Investing in the future today”
I happen to have tuned in just about the right time recently on GBN, during the budget debate – which of course is a misnomer,...
Uglification of our Capital City – Our diminishing Grenadian identity
Several times in the past the Willie Redhead Foundation through the SENTINEL, which is its official mouthpiece, has brought to the public attention the deplorable...
Where there’s a will there’s a way
The above caption is meant to be a continuation of my September 3rd 2021 article – captioned “The Grenada Movement (TGM)” – and this is...
A breadth of fresh air
It was not by chance that the launch of The Grenada Movement (TGM) from a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) to a political party was held on...
Imminent servitude- the black man’s burden
In order to expand and to provide substance to the caption above, one must perforce examine and analyse the records from the beginning of our...
Another avoidable tragedy
Dr. Mitchell’s concept of development is to build a 5 star hotel wherever he can in little Grenada, to provide low paying jobs in a...
The noise in the market is not the sale
Most if not all of our news media including J.K. Roberts’ policy paper of May 26, 2021 are currently informing the Grenadian public of an...
A stitch in time saves nine
Now that the dust has settled, and the NDC destabilisers are comfortably resting within the house, and are enjoying the benefits of a partisan NNP...
Hijacking the electoral process
It cannot be denied that the United States of America (USA) with all its institutional racism, bigotry, conspiracy theory, police brutality, especially against black people...
Personal perspective of the 2021 pandemic budget
Since “independence” in 1974, Grenadians have become all too familiar with the old colonial vestige of the throne speech, written by the government – which...
Poverty – An NNP strategy for retaining political power
The above caption could apply to any of our post independent Caribbean island nations, but as the writer has spent most of his long life...
A silver lining
Readers would readily recognise that the caption above is part of the well-known phase: “Behind every dark cloud there is a SILVER LINING”. This is...
Coming events cast their ugly shadows
Our departed brother, Prime Minister George Brizan – may his soul rest in peace, left us a legacy in his book – “GRENADA island of...