From Dr. Francis Alexis The closure of George Worme’s “Grenada Today” newspaper yesterday will definitely go down as a sad chapter in the history of Grenada. So says Dr. Francis Alexis. Dr. Alexis comments that the High Court did what it could to afford “Grenada Today” leeway to honour its obligations resulting from its libel of Dr. Keith Mitchell, when Dr. Mitchell was Prime Minister of Grenada. But the closure of a media house as a consequence of its libelling a public figure is a tragic reminder that the constitutional guarantee to freedom of expression is not absolute. This, of course, is indeed so with all human rights, they have their limitations, observes Alexis. A deep regret in the closure of “Grenada Today”, says Alexis, is that Dr. Mitchell did not see his way to accept from “Grenada Today” less than the full pound of flesh to which he was entitled regarding the libel. After all, Alexis points out, libel victims are known sometimes to settle and compromise with those who commit the libel. That Dr. Mitchell and George Worme’s “Grenada Today” could not reach a compromise is all the more remarkable because, Alexis notes, Worme and “Grenada Today” did all they could, successfully too, to get Dr. Mitchell elected as Prime Minister in 1995 in preference to George Brizan’s NDC. Bitter disappointing parting of the ways between Mitchell and Worme has now resulted in the closure of Worme’s “Grenada Today” and the writing of a story replete with tragedy in the annals of freedom of expression.