The Grenada government says it is convinced "undesirables" are in possession of Grenadian passports and it is seeking to recover them as part of a campaign to have Canada lift visa restrictions imposed on nationals of the country. Prime Minister Tillman Thomas made the announcement upon his return from a recent trip to North America. A CMC report quoted Thomas as saying, “I believe that we are going to have to do some cleaning up ourselves with the passport, but basically the problem I believe is that there are certain persons with our passport who are questionable. But if we can really clean-up our act then the possibility exists that our status (with Canada) could be restored." Ottawa imposed the restrictions in 2001, amid concerns by United States and Canadian officials over the island's economic citizenship programme. More than 840 passports at an individual cost of EC$60,000 (US$22,900) were sold under the programme introduced in the late 1990s. Grenada and Dominica are the only two Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) countries slapped with travel restrictions to Canada, which cited their economic citizenship programmes as posing criminal, security and border integrity concerns. Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com