The Sentinel – THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE of our BUILT HERITAGE
There is an old saying that if one wants to destroy a country – you first get rid of its culture and everything else would come tumbling down in the fullness of time. Over the years successive governments have displayed this tendency in their…
The LOSS of GRENADA’S post-independence OPPORTUNITY
As a lad growing up on the Lance in Gouyave, when Grenada was still a colony in the 1930’s, 40’s and up to 1952 when I left Grenada for Curacao, I can recall living in a country, although poor – but could be regarded as…
HAS OUR DEMOCRACY BEEN HIJACKED?
A brief and succinct definition of democracy is “government by the people”, which finds expression in the inalienable right to vote in periodic free and fair elections to elect a government of their choice in the democratic governance of their country. In this regard our…
“INVESTING IN THE FUTURE TODAY”
I happen to have tuned in just about the right time recently on GBN, during the budget debate – which of course is a misnomer, as there can be no debate without an opposing analysis, to weakness the Grand Standing of the Prime Minister when…
WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY
The above caption is meant to be a continuation of my September 3rd 2021 article – captioned “The Grenada Movement (TGM)” – and this is so, in a deliberate attempt to extend and explore the making of a coalition – a coming together of all…
UGLIFICATION of our CAPITAL CITY – Our Diminishing Grenadian Identity
Several times in the past the Willie Redhead Foundation through the SENTINEL, which is its official mouthpiece, has brought to the public attention the deplorable state of our Capital City with special reference to the ongoing disfigurement of the Market Square together with the decaying…
PLAN 2030 AS PROCESS
The GBN’s “Beyond the Headline” programme aired on the evening of Monday September 21, 2015, with a panel of four, headed by Mr. Timothy Antoine, gave in my view, a good account of itself by providing a progress report and to indicate the way forward…
Press Announcement
tWRF PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT The Willie Redhead Foundation (tWRF) welcomes the announcement by the Vatican’s representative who visited Grenada recently, which stated that a large sum of grant funding has been allocated for various projects in Grenada. Included, among many educational institutions and homes for senior…
Vernacular Tourism and the National Development Plan.
There are two international columnists who make regular contributions to our weekly newspapers namely: Sir Ronald Saunders and Mr. David Jessop whose articles are considered by the Sentinel as essential reading. While Sir Ronald focuses on Caribbean (CARICOM) affairs, Mr. Jessop provides a view of…