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7/1/2008 || GRENADIAN AFY FLETCHER SHINES FOR WEST INDIES WOME... 1 GRENADA:- Twenty-one year old Afy Fletcher of La Fillette, St. Andrew’s, a member of the West Indies Women cricket team currently on a tour of Ireland, has played a pivotal role in assisting the Windies team to pull off a sensational six-wicket victory over Ireland in their third One Day Internati...Read More >>>   6/30/2008 || LAW AND POLITICS - THE HEAT IS GETTING HOTTER!! 3 In man’s quest for truth, questions will be constantly asked, some deep, some superficial, many just plain silly. But no matter who is asking the questions, nor how intelligent and well-informed the person or group answering maybe – it is also very true that no one has all the answers, ...Read More >>>   6/29/2008 || NNP TO SIGN THE IAGDO'S CODE OF CONDUCT 12 St George’s: With reassurances that all steps will be taken to ensure impartiality of enforcing the IAGDO's Code of Conduct by the Grenada Conference of Churches, Prime Minister Dr. The Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell has said that The New National Party (NNP) will be signing the IAGDO Code of Conduct a...Read More >>>   6/28/2008 || TOURISM, CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD TO TOP CARICOM ME... 0 Options for enhancing regional tourism in the context of current international trends, climate change, rising energy prices and achieving food security are among agenda items to be addressed CARICOM leaders when they meet in Antigua next Tuesday. All leaders, with the exception of Grenada's Prime...Read More >>>   6/28/2008 || NDC LOSES TWO STRATEGIC CANDIDATES 9 Electoral officials in Grenada on Friday confirmed that two opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members were seeking to have their names removed from the list of candidates to contest the July 8 general election. Supervisor of Elections, Nadica McIntyre, said that Kent Joseph and David ...Read More >>>   6/27/2008 || NNP MANIFESTO PROMISES COST-OF-LIVING RELIEF 8 Grenada's governing New National Party (NNP) on Wednesday evening unveiled a series of new measures to reduce cost of living, which it says will be implemented if it retains the government in the July 8 general election. The measures are contained in the NNP's 52-page manifesto, released during a...Read More >>>   6/27/2008 || WINDIES AIMING TO LEVEL SERIES AGAINST AUSTRALIA I... 0 ENCOURAGED BY the availability of their entire injury-hit squad, the West Indies are aiming to level the Digicel one-day series against Australia when the second match bowls off at the Queen's Park Stadium today. After a spate of injuries since the end of the Test series, the West Indies, despite...Read More >>>   6/26/2008 || VOTER'S LIST BEING FINALIZED 0 Grenada's Electoral Office said the voters list for the upcoming general election has fewer voters than the 82,000 registered voters list used in the last election. More than 70,000 Grenadians are eligible to vote. They will be choosing from forty candidates representing three political partie...Read More >>>   6/25/2008 || AIR JAMAICA ADJUSTS BAG CHARGES 1 After seeing most of its competitors change their fees in the face of runaway fuel costs, Air Jamaica will implement its new baggage charges come July 1. The carrier announced yesterday that it will continue to allow passengers to check up to two bags in economy class at no extra charge, but the ...Read More >>>   6/24/2008 || NDC LAUNCHES MANIFESTO 16 In the run up to the July 8 general election in Grenada, the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced that it will remove a 3% reconstruction levy, imposed on workers after Hurricane Ivan four years ago, if it is elected to government. NDC Leader Tillman Thomas made the an...Read More >>>   6/22/2008 || LABOUR PLATFORM READY TO CONTEST THE JULY 08 GENER... 1 The Peoples Labour Movement (PLM) of Dr. Francis Alexis and the Grenada United Labour Party (GULP) of Mr. Reynold Benjamin, have merged together to form a Labour Platform to contest the General Elections in Grenada scheduled to take place on July 08, 2008. The Executive of the Labour Platform c...Read More >>>   6/21/2008 || GRENADA’S JULY 08 GENERAL ELECTION HEATS UP 6 Grenadians are preparing to go to the polls on July 08 to participate in what many have dubbed the ‘Mother of all Elections.’ As the time draws closer and the mercury inside the political thermometer rises, the controversies, personal attacks, random acts of disturbances and mud slinging seems to st...Read More >>>   6/20/2008 || PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR NATIONAL HEALING CAMPAIGN 8 Grenada has been a peaceful, sovereign democracy for decades now: A privilege that was not easily earned by us, and must by all measure be maintained, preserved and cherished as the gift that it is to us all, and the generation of Grenadians to come. A sovereign nation is a nation that is wholl...Read More >>>   6/19/2008 || A GUIDE ON BECOMING A SMART VOTER 9 History shows that much too many of our citizens fail to participate in the voting process. They generally take things for granted. They look upon their voting privilege as a petty, political exercise to be participated in if and when it’s personally gratifying or convenient. The mindset is: “the ...Read More >>>   6/19/2008 || MURDER IN GOUYAVE 8 GRENADA:- Members of the Criminal Investigation Department are conducting investigations into the death of Dominic James of Grand Roy in St, John’s. James, aged 25 and a lobourer by profession, received stab wounds to back and hand, on Wednesday 18th June 08, at around 9.00 p.m. The incident...Read More >>>   6/19/2008 || OPINION POLL GIVES NNP SLIGHT EDGE 10 A new opinion poll predicts that the results of the July 8 general elections in Grenada are likely to be the same as in 2003, when the ruling New National Party (NNP) won a slender one-seat majority in the 15-member Parliament. “If an election were held now, the NNP would have won overall with ei...Read More >>>   6/19/2008 || CONTROVERSIAL GRENADA OPPOSITION CANDIDATE SIGNS N... 2 Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary Peter David on Wednesday signed documents to contest the July 8 general elections in Grenada, but his party has also put in place a contingency plan in the event of further legal maneuverings by the government to stop him from contestin...Read More >>>   6/18/2008 || NOMINATION DAY IN GRENADA 2 Candidates for next month's general election in Grenada were filing their nomination papers on Wednesday. The two main political parties, the governing New National Party of prime minister Keith Mitchell and the National Democratic Congress, are each expected to contest all 15 seats. Dr Mitche...Read More >>>   6/17/2008 || NNP READY FOR POLITICAL DEBATE 10 Grenadian Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell said he is willing to square off against the main opposition leader in a series of national debates ahead of the July 8 general elections. Prime Minister Manning has previously ignored calls to engage the opposition in debates. Dr. Mitchell said the ...Read More >>>   6/16/2008 || MITCHELL MAY SIGN CODE 2 The prime minister of Grenada says his party is willing to conditionally sign a voluntary election campaign code of conduct. He wants the code policed by an impartial organisation such as the local conference of churches. The governing New National Party has previously declined to initial the ...Read More >>>   6/16/2008 || COSTA RICA FIGHT BACK TO DRAW WITH GRENADA 1 Costa Rica fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 away to tiny Grenada on Saturday in a nervy start to their bid to reach a third straight World Cup. An embarrassing result in the first leg of a CONCACAF second preliminary round tie extended the Ticos' current winless run to 14 games. Pat...Read More >>>   6/15/2008 || IT IS THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS: A TIME BEFORE THE ... 2 Fellow Grenadian: Brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. 2 Co.1: 2 & 3. Now learn a parable of the fig tree...Read More >>>   6/13/2008 || ANOTHER KILLING RECORDED IN GRENADA 8 Two persons are assisting members of the Criminal Investigation Department with investigations into the death of Kevin Hillaire of Mardi Gras in St. Paul’s, St. George’s Hillaire, aged 25, received a stab wound to the chest, on Thursday 12th June 08, at around 11.55 p.m. Hillaire was a mecha...Read More >>>   6/13/2008 || CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST CEO OF CAPITAL BANK INTERN... 3 ST. GEORGE’S:-In an interesting twist of events in the Capital Bank International saga, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Grenada, Mr. Christopher Nelson, has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against the bank’s CEO, Mr. Finton DeBourg. Mr. Nelson claims that after an exam...Read More >>>   6/13/2008 || LAW & ORDER - THE BELL GONE – THE RACE IS ON!! 7 Now that the Long expected waiting time is over – with last Sunday’s announcement of the General Election date as the 8th July, 2008 – the 1995 to 2008 question begs itself, for an anxiously awaited answer. Will it be (L.T.P.C.) “Let The Progress Continue”, or (L.D.I.H.) “Liberati...Read More >>>   6/13/2008 || LEGALIZING MARIJUANA SPARKS FURORE IN GRENADA AHEA... 6 Ahead of Grenada's July 8 poll, politicians in the Spice Island are quarrelling over allegations that one party would legalise marijuana. The ruling New National Party (NNP) claims that its main rival, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) would legalise ganja. However, the NDC has...Read More >>>   6/12/2008 || GRENADA STUN REGGAE BOYZ 0 Jamaica's Reggae Boyz hit a snag in their preparation for the start of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers which kicks off against the Bahamas in four days time, when they went down 1-2 to 143rd ranked Grenada at the National Stadium in St George's, Grenada Tuesday. Generally expected to come away with...Read More >>>   6/12/2008 || OPPOSITION LEADER ASKS OAS FOR REPLACEMENT TO MONI... 0 The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Tillman Thomas has called on the Organisation of American States to replace the man who was supposed to head the OAS mission to monitor Grenada's general election on July 8. Thomas said on Wednesday that the NDC is no longer comfortable wit...Read More >>>   6/12/2008 || PROBE INTO VOTER FRAUD CONCERNS AHEAD OF ELECTION 1 Grenada is investigating complaints about inaccurate voter registration rolls and pre-election violence. Elections commission supervisor Nordica McIntyre says she has received complaints that names were removed from the rolls and that voters were allowed to register after the June 2 deadline. ...Read More >>>     6/10/2008 || ANOTHER TRAFFIC FATALITY RECORDED 0 ST. GEORGE'S:- Officers of the Traffic and the Criminal Investigation Departments are conducting an investigation into a vehicular accident that led to the death of Peter Baker of Belmont in St. George’s. The accident occurred around 10.45 pm on Monday 9th June 2007, along the Calivigny Publi...Read More >>>