By Lloyd Noel In our CARICOM Region now-a-days - although the CSM (E) is supposed to be a reality, at least in Six States - the issues raising their ugly heads all seem to be more locally involved, despite their wider significance to the regional integration movement, that the CSM is intended to ...Read More >>>

By Lloyd Noel It is now less than one year to the start of the biggest sporting event (CWC 2007) ever to be held in the Caribbean, under the umbrella management or regional control of CARICOM, (at least the grounds in the region) and also less than one year before the first match is to be playe...Read More >>>

By Wallace J.A LA FILLETTE, St.Andrew’s: Yesterday (April 22, 2006), the St.Andrew’s North West NNP Branch held their annual conference at the St.Mary’s RC School, located in La Fillette, St.Andrew’s. The conference commenced around 12:00 pm and ended around 5:30 pm. Despite the fact that Sat...Read More >>>

In these long-suffering Isles, that make up the State of Grenada as part of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) - we have had so many un-savoury happenings and bad publicity over the years, that it would have been reasonable to assume we had more than our fair share. But fo...Read More >>>

BY LLOYD NOEL In these Spice Isles - where everything is nice, and we never seem to have dull moments, and our people have very short memories - we are also expected to have more patience than most others, because we have had more upheavals than all the others. And even in our political happe...Read More >>>

BY LLOYD NOEL In today’s Global Market place or Village, that we once spoke about or referred to as the vast and wonderful World or planet Earth - nearly everything that takes place from hour to hour, or is planned even in the wildest jungle by men of evil deeds, all come out in the wash on our...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – Grenada’s Opposition Leader, Tillman Thomas, has accused the ruling New National Party (NNP) government of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell of attempting to provoke a constitutional crisis and undermine the democratic process in the country. Thomas has been reacting...Read More >>>

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent: Two Caribbean Prime Ministers, Dr Kenny Anthony of St Lucia and Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago, have been criticised by supporters of the New Democratic Party (NDP) who have accused the pair of "dabbling" in the domestic affairs of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – Grenada government and opposition officials held three hours of discussions last Friday to discuss possible initiatives involving the Chinese government. The meeting followed the recent visit to Beijing by a three-member Opposition delegation headed by Opposition Lea...Read More >>>

BEIJING, China: The Grenada opposition (NDC) delegation on an official visit to China has begun meetings in Beijing. The delegation headed by Opposition Leader Tillman Thomas met with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Cheng Siwei, just hours after arriving T...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Opposition Leader Tillman Thomas has been granted leave by the High Court in Grenada to apply for Judicial Review of the decision by the sole commissioner Dr. Richard Cheltenham in the commission of inquiry into allegations of wrongdoing by Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell. ...Read More >>>

By Linda Straker Special To HBN ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tues. Mar. 8, 2005: A leading newspaper columnist in Grenada has called for the supporters of the New National Party to get rid of Prime Minister Keith Mitchell as their leader. Leslie Pierre in his ‘Personally Speaking’ column in ‘The Gr...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: Friday, December 3 marks a significant milestone in the parliamentary career of Prime Minister, Dr Keith Mitchell. On that day, 20 years ago, Dr. Mitchell was elected Member of Parliament representing the Constituency of St. George’s North West for the New National Party (N...Read More >>>

A new survey claims that Caribbean immigrants in the United States are far less well-off in recent years than native born Americans. The survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center analysed data from 1996 to 2002 and showed that the 2001 recession and the subsequent jobless recov...Read More >>>

Florida's growing Caribbean-American community is being heavily courted by the political heavyweights in the run up to next week's Presidential election. Caribbean-American voters have traditionally supported the Democratic Party but their issues have been largely overshadowed by those of the Afr...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE’S, GRENADA: GRENADA’S PRIME MINISTER Dr Keith Mitchell is set to reject an opposition proposal for a national unity government in the wake of the island’s devastation by Hurricane Ivan. Government sources say Prime Minister Mitchell has already privately indicated that he will not acce...Read More >>>

Grenada's opposition leader Tillman Thomas has been making his case for a joint government to help rebuild the country after hurricane Ivan. Mr Thomas wants Prime Minister Keith Mitchell to extend his cabinet to include opposition members of parliament. The Mitchell government holds a slim 8 t...Read More >>>

NEW YORK, NY - Yvette Clarke, daughter of former Jamaican-born New York councilwoman Una Clarke, yesterday officially announced her candidacy for the 11th Congressional District. New leadership that understands the new challenges that the district faces was necessary to correct the stagnation tha...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell and fringe opposition leader Francis Alexis now find themselves united in their need for political survival. For over a decade, no two Grenadian politicians openly disliked each other as Mitchell and Alexis did. Just before th...Read More >>>

FOLLOWING MONTHS of speculation, New York City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke has finally declared her candidacy for the Congressional seat in Brooklyn's 40th District. Clarke, a second generation Jamaican, is the daughter of former City Council member Una Clarke, who is now economic adviser to Gover...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE‘S, Grenada: Initially stunned, without being sure how to react to the strongest allegations yet of corruption directed straight as its leader, Grenada’s ruling New National Party is looking to fight back. Green and white were in vogue again for the first time since last November’s gene...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The main opposition party in Grenada is reported to be writing to Commissioner of Police Fitzroy Bedeau with a view to commissioning a criminal investigation into allegations against Prime Minister Keith Mitchell. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says section 406 of th...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The parliamentary opposition in Grenada is crying foul as government fails to say what will be discussed during the sitting of parliament on Friday. The parliamentarians claim that the government is violating the procedure by failing to say what will be on the order paper ...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The main opposition party in Grenada is calling on the Prime Minister to immediately vacate office in order to conduct a full scale investigation into allegations that the he received US$500,000 from a German fraudster in 2000. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is also ...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: More questions than answers have popped up after Prime Minister Keith Mitchell addressed the nation in an effort to explain why he received money from former diplomat Eric Resteiner who is now in prison in Singapore. Dr. Mitchell told the nation that he embarked, along with...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: It is a weekend here filled with political activity being held against the background of the bribery allegations against Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell. The ruling New National Party on Sunday holds its General Council meeting, an activity scheduled before the scandal bro...Read More >>>

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The opposition National Democratic Congress party (NDC) has planned for Sunday what it says will be the largest rally in history of Grenada where the people will be informed of the latest scandals in which Grenada and some of its leaders are prominently featured. Grenada lat...Read More >>>

NEW YORK - The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it is optimistic about winning the legal battle it has started to unseat the ruling New National Party (NNP) in Grenada. Senior NDC officials told a public meeting here last weekend that the party would not abandon its efforts...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada: An Opposition Member of Parliament is calling on the Grenada government to clear the air on rumours circulating around the country that an Antiguan government official who was on a travel ban had landed here. Representative for the town of St. George and shadow Minister fo...Read More >>>

ST. GEORGE'S, GRENADA: - A PETITION by a Grenadian opposition parliamentarian, which if upheld could have even influenced a change in government, has been thrown out. But it is not the end of the matter. Lawyers for opposition National Democratic Congress candidate George Prime say they will a...Read More >>>