One of Grenada’s leading government ministers is being criticised for comments made at a political meeting here on Sunday.

Minister of Economic Development and Planning Anthony Boatswain, during the endorsement of the New National Party candidate for St John’s, Fitzroy Bedeau, said the so-called wind of change in the region has led to what he calls undesirables getting into office.

Boatswain was at the time making reference to the high cost of living and the shift in the global economies.

Caribbean Net News understands that the minister’s comments were directed at the recent changes in governments in the Caribbean region.

The countries fitting into the wind of change category are Jamaica, whose government changed from a Portia Simpsom Miller-led People’s National Party (PNP) to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party under the leadership of Bruce Golding; St Lucia, which switched from Dr Kenny Anthony’s St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) to the late Sir John Compton's United Workers Party (UWP) now being led by Stephenson King; Barbados, where David Thompson took over from Owen Arthur; and Belize, where Said Musa lost the reins of power to Dean Barrow.

Addressing supporters at the political meeting, the minister referred to the wind of change as hostile and unfortunate.

He said the countries that have recently changed governments have not seen any benefits or improvement in the lives of the people in the region.

“Brothers and sisters what has been happening, we’ve been having an unfortunate and hostile wind blowing through the Caribbean,” he said.

“A hostile wind resulting in higher prizes; a hostile wind resulting in even some undesirables getting into government. But I can tell you what we want in Grenada and the Caribbean is not a wind of change, but a change in the wind that has been blowing in the region.”

Boatswain said a change in the economic and global environment is needed bring better life for Caribbean people.

Reprinted from Caribbean Net News
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