Grenada opposition party plans people’s parliament on the streets
by Leroy Noel
Friday, May 14, 2004
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The opposition
National Democratic Congress party (NDC) has planned for Sunday what it says
will be the largest rally in history of Grenada where the people will be
informed of the latest scandals in which Grenada and some of its leaders are
prominently featured. Grenada lately has
being experiencing a very unstable political environment where allegations of
corruption have taken center stage. In every
corner, shop or bar the talk is "what is happening and why our leaders are so
silent". NDC officials say Prime Minister Dr
Keith Mitchell is yet to make a public address on the many scandalous
allegations that could only harm Grenada as a nation and create doubts in the
minds of potential investors. The latest
allegation to surface is that of a report published by a Miami based
international finance newsletter Offshore Alert where the Prime Minister was
accused of having received a pay off of half a million dollars from a former
German diplomat Eric Resteiner. The Grenadian
leader through his press secretary has since denied the allegation.
Now the opposition is contending that Dr. Mitchell has only denied the
quantity of money received but admitted that he visited the home of Mr
Resteiner. Opposition leader Tillman Thomas
has since filed various questions in parliament about this issue. One of the
questions filed is whether or not it is customary for the Prime Minister or
government Ministers to travel to private homes and collect money in
briefcases. It is expected that the
corruption allegation issue will heat up in the upcoming week since there are
already talk about a march against corruption in Grenada's capital.
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