Opposition party makes demands on Grenada’s PM
by Leroy Noel
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The main opposition
party in Grenada is calling on the Prime Minister to immediately vacate office
in order to conduct a full scale investigation into allegations that the he
received US$500,000 from a German fraudster in 2000.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is also demanding that some other
member of his government takes over the mantle as Prime Minister but says the
deputy Prime Minister Gregory Bowen is unacceptable to hold that post since
there is a history of corruption in that administration where some are more
tainted than others. The investigation the
NDC says must be conducted by an eminent Caribbean jurist or a panel of judges
to which it agrees. The Public Relations Officer of NDC Nazim Burke indicated
that in the past situations where people take money on the side and generating
the kind of report that they want. Mr. Burke
says his party is also demanding that when the panel comes to investigate it
must have the right to call witnesses under oath so that the two policemen who
were with Dr. Mitchell in Switzerland can be called to give evidence.
Meanwhile a protest march that the opposition calls a march against corruption
is planned for this Friday.
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