ESSAY COMPETITION on the proposed Grenada Constitution Reform
Although the objective of the Willie Redhead Foundation is stated in its motto “For the preservation and renewal of the national heritage of Grenada”, which pertains to our natural and cultural heritage, it has become evident to us however, that over the 42 years of…
Gouyave R.C Church STEEPLE – Our disappearing Heritage
The former St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church at the corner of St. Francis and St. Dominique’s streets in Gouyave was built around 1810, on the site of an older church, and its Tower or Steeple as it is called by Gouyavarians, has been a local…
MELROSE HOUSE – Our disappearing patrimony
Melrose House in the town of Gouyave, is situated on the sea-side immediately south of the Gouyave Police Station. Like the Police Station/ Revenue Office cum Court House, this historic building was, and perhaps still is, one of the most ornate residence on Lower Depradine…
HERITAGE MONTH – April 2016
Celebration of APRIL as heritage month, to the best of our knowledge, was first proclaimed by the Ministry of Culture in 2015. A year later in April 2016 the Minister of Culture is endeavoring to inject some life into the proclamation by drawing the public’s…
tWRF at New York Town Hall meeting re CAMERHOGNE PARK
The Sentinel would like to state at the outset that tWRF President Mr. Samuel “Tim” Byam was invited, and attended a New York Town Hall meeting convened by the New York NDC Chapter on March 13, 2016 as a representative of the Willie Redhead Foundation….
HAS GRENADA LOST IT’S WAY?
It was in a different era centuries ago, when the English poet Sir Walter Scott admonished his fellow countrymen by asking: “Breathes there a man with soul so dead/ who never to himself hath said/ this is my own, my native land?” Fast forward into…
OECS Capital Cities IN CRISIS (Echoes of Camerhogne Park) by Norris Mitchell.
The invention of the printing press by China in the 14th century, and its introduction into Europe a century later, ushered in the democratization of information, thereby shattering the monastic confines of knowledge and therefore of education. New centres of learning – worldwide, emerged, which revealed…
tWRF responds to Mr. Winston Strachan of the U.K
The Willie Redhead Foundation (tWRF) sends New Year Greetings to Mr. Strachan and to say how delighted it was to read your article in the New Today of Jan. 15, 2016, captioned “How approachable is the Willie Redhead Foundation?”The short answer to your query is:…
URBANISATION – A MAJOR ECONOMIC COMPONENT.
(Derelict buildings in our Capital City – A Cause for national concern) In the latter part of 2015, November 16th to be exact, there was a BEYOND THE HEADLINES television programme on GBN which dealt with the public safety of derelict buildings in our Capital City,…