The Queen’s Park Bombing – June 19th 1980

On Thursday 19 June 1980 in mid-afternoon a rally in Queen’s Park Stadium, north of St. George’s, marking Butler-Strachan Heroes Day a bomb was placed under the podium.  Seated on the raised platform were Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, Minister of Labour, Works and Communication Selwyn Strachan, Minister of Agriculture Unison Whiteman, Minister of Education George Louison, Minister of Health and Housing Norris Bain, Commander of the People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) Hudson Austin, Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon, the Cuban Ambassador Julián Rizo, and foreign guests.

Thousands of people attended the rally which was to pay tribute to Tubal Uriah Butler and Alister Strachan. … Read on ...

 

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 ...

GRENADA – 19 October 1983

Challenging the US Narrative About Grenada – October 19^th 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 27^th 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 19^th 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

“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.

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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 ...

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

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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 25^th 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 ...

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