ARE HERITAGE and CULTURE components of National Development? Echoes of the 2017 Budget.
“A country which has no interest in protecting and preserving its natural and culturalheritage is not deserving of nationhood” (Words to that effect)Hon. Keith Rowley Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago Due to circumstances beyond his control the Editor of the Sentinel was unable to…
DERELICT and ABANDONED BUILDINGS IN THE TOWN OF ST. GEORGE AS THEY AFFECT PUBLIC SAFETY and Environmental Wellbeing.
In order to assist in identifying some of the buildings, tWRF submits hereunder a list – as a prologue to the repairs and restoration initiative recently announced by the government. Definition: The safety of the public can be described as endangered when the physical (natural),…
PROPOSED ZIPLINE OVER OUR CAPITAL CITY.
The current news that is about to hit the headlines/wave lines, is that the cabinet of Grenada has given approval (in principle) to a foreign developer, who wants to “string” a ZIPLINE over and across the historic Grenada capital of St. George stretching from Mt….
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…
