Food for sex rampant in Grenada
by Leroy Noel
Monday, September 27, 2004
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: Relief supplies sent
to this hurricane stricken island are being used by some members of the
security forces in what is now a lucrative sex trade.
Reports from within the security forces are that food hampers are often
removed from the relief supply center based at the Special Services Unit (SSU)
in the south of the island and given to young women in exchange for sex.
Under the laws of Grenada prostitution is a criminal offence.
Scores of women are often seen in the south of St. George's accompanied by
both local and regional military personnel armed with short guns and M-16s, in
some cases along with food hampers at a time when the ordinary Grenadians are
tear-gassed and chased while sitting outside their houses in St. George's.
A Trinidad military officer in the presence of two locals said he is appalled
at the behaviour of the other officers who are supposed to be the guardians of
the relief supplies and the citizens. He also
spoke of some local officers who fill their private vehicles with relief
materials after officials from the National Emergency and Relief Organization
(NERO), now popularly known as ZERO due to their poor performance during the
hurricane, have left the compound. There are
several more horror stories surrounding the supplies sent to Grenada for those
seriously affected by Ivan the Terrible. Like some goods coming from Guyana
marked NNP, which is the ruling party on the island.
Several bottles of water on the compound of the Industrial Development
Corporation are marked NNP and is fast becoming the talk of the town.
There are complaints that a number of people are yet to receive tarpaulins to
cover their houses while others have received seven and eight.
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