St. George’s, Grenada, May 7th 2010: Leader of the Opposition, Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell has publicly announced that the continued actions by the NDC to victimize ordinary workers and to violate their human and constitutional rights have forced the Opposition to take the matter to the regional and international community.

Dr. Mitchell stated that his continuous call to the administration to desist from these practices, which started since the last general elections, has always been ignored by the NDC administration. He calls on Non Governmental Organisations including the Trade Unions and the Church to denounce some of the actions of the Tillman Thomas administration including the recent decision to send home workers from the ministry of Social Services because of their perceived political affiliation.

The former Prime Minister says the firing of these workers is the latest case of workers being victimized by the administration. He said that the workers, who come from various parishes in the country, were issued letters by the Prime Minister’s wife only the day before the termination of their services, and one day after the Prime Minister announced in a national address that the economic situation in the country is improving and more jobs are being created by his administration.

Dr. Mitchell says one must never forget that under the current NDC administration a worker from Carriacou was issued a letter saying that she was fired because she attended a political meeting while she was on vacation in the United States of America.
He says these kinds of actions must never be condoned and calls on every Grenadian to stand up and protect the democracy we have worked so hard to create over the years.


From Her Majesty's Opposition