The Scandal of Citizenship by Investment

 

Life after “Citizenship by Investment”

What are we going to do with all the half-built hotels when the CBI money stops? And it’s stopping very soon.

CBI schemes offer purchasers a second nationality that gives them easy access to countries their native passports would not. Buy a passport from Grenada or one of the other four Eastern Caribbean states offering them and you will get visa-free access to 140-odd countries including the UK and the EU and you are eligible to apply for a visa to the US. The money you pay can finance the building of speculative hotels approved for this purpose and/or be paid into government funds.… Read on ...

Return the Remains of the Grenada’s Revolutionary Leaders

Maurice Bishop

Return the Remains

Press release from Committee
for Human Rights in Grenada (UK)

There is now conclusive documentary evidence that the remains of former Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop were removed by the Unites States forces during their invasion in 1983 and that the Grenadian Government has been aware of this for some years.

As previously reported, in a document entitled Library of Congress (extracts of an interview with Charles Anthony Gillespie, who served as the interim Charge d’ Affaires and Chief of Mission during the United States invasion of Grenada in 1983), Mr Gillespie makes reference to a visit to Grenada by a Congressional delegation on 4th November 1983 –  ten days after the invasion on October 25th 1983.… Read on ...

GRENADA – 19 October 1983

Challenging the US Narrative About Grenada – October 19th 1983

INTERVIEWS WITH EYEWITNESSES

Everyone thought that they knew the story. The facts have now been heard, following a series of interviews with former members of the Revolutionary armed forces of Grenada.

A recording of the event is available at https://bit.ly/3q2C6G8.

 

On Saturday 27th November 2021 a Zoom meeting took place, which may, in retrospect, come to be considered as historic. This meeting challenged the US narrative about the events in Grenada of October 19th 1983.  That was the day when Maurice Bishop, the much loved Prime Minister of Revolutionary Grenada was killed by members of the Peoples Revolutionary Army on Fort Rupert, St Georges, Grenada.… Read on ...

A Journey with Bernard Coard

What the last 50 years have taught us since the publication of How the West Indian Child is made educationally sub-normal in the British School System  
The video recording of the conversation between Bernard Coard and Dave Neita is now available

 

On 4 November 2021, Bernard Coard was in conversation with Dave Neita, a lawyer, published poet, lecturer and international public speaker.  This was a follow-up session to the launch of the 50th-anniversary edition of How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System.

That groundbreaking study, first published in 1971, provided an understanding to Caribbean and working-class parents of the obstacles they faced in the limited educational opportunities open to their children.… Read on ...

Statement on the Maurice Bishop International Airport

Statement

“He should haul his ar?*.  He mus’ think we all chuppidy”, was the retort from a Grenadian in the UK to the news that Naguib Sawiris, the largest hotel property owner in Grenada, is lobbying the Keith Mitchell government to privatise its lone international airport, the Maurice Bishop International Airport, to him.  Such was the furore at this statement made in late April that all sides of Grenadian society, both at home and abroad, expressed their opposition to this prospect.

Grenada – Forward Ever has supplied a background to this incident and a statement deploring such a move.

Background

On the 21 April this year Mr Naguib Sawiri, a billionaire with commercial interests in Grenada, delivered a presentation to a panel of Grenadian business executives and others at the ground-breaking of his second hotel development.  … Read on ...

African Liberation Day – Grenada 2021

Under the theme “Forward Ever to World-Wide Pan-African Unity!”

Grenada celebrated African Liberation Day (ALD) for the first time since the US invasion in 1983.   This joyous occasion was held on Tuesday, 25 May.

African Liberation Day is celebrated annually on May 25th and commemorates the founding of the Organization of African Unity, now African Union, on this day in 1963.  It is a public holiday in many countries but not Grenada. Holiday or not, ALD is a worldwide observation on May 25 and was marked in Grenada.  Progressive people throughout the world celebrate ALD as a means of assessing progress towards global African liberation, of continental Africans as well as those in its vast diaspora of North & Latin America, the UK, the Caribbean and elsewhere.… Read on ...

March 13 – Celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the Grenada Revolution

March 13, 1979

Grenadians rose up and grabbed their freedom

Celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the Grenada Revolution

Forty-two years ago, on March 13, 1979, the people of Grenada rose up from under the brutal Gairy dictatorship and seized power.  In the four and a half short years of the Revo’ Grenadians brought about maternity rights laws, free education, free health care, economic reform, an increase in democratic control, a huge increase in free university education, infrastructure development including the building of an international airport, expanded social housing, a significant increase in employment, a teacher education programme, a huge literacy programme and much more.… Read on ...

Launch of “How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal…”

The 50th-anniversary Internet launch of “How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal …“, was held on the 31 March 2021, with a panel comprising with Bernard Coard,  Jeremy Corbyn MP and other invited guests.

In How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System: The Scandal of the Black Child in Schools, first published in 1971 by New Beacon Books, Bernard Coard examined the enforced educational inequality and institutional racism in the UK.  Fifty years on Coard reviewed his work.

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A Travesty of Justice

Over thirty years ago the United States invaded Grenada, following the killing of the leader of the Revolution, Maurice Bishop and others.  Their stated aim was to protect American students who were attending a private medical school in the country.

Their real objective was to ensure that the Revolution was quashed, following its collapse caused by the death of Bishop. To ensure that it did not return they placed the remaining leaders of the Revolution on trial for the murder of Bishop in a specially constituted court, with hired judges, a foreign prosecution team and existing judicial officials replaced by foreign hirelings.… Read on ...