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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The opposition should stop playing politics with Grenadians' future

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Dear Sir:

I beg the opposition politicians to stop playing politics with Grenada and Grenadians' future for personal and political interest.

After the U.S. invaded Grenada, there was a sort of anti-communist/ socialist sentiment among the newly elected fly by night pro-U.S. sponsored political leaders whom Washington favoured to rule the nation.

Men like Herbert Blaize, Ben Jones, Nicholas Brathwaite, George Brizan, Francis Alexis, Keith Mitchell and Tillman Thomas were the core leaders of pro-U.S. foreign policy, without realising that Grenada was/is not a capitalist country, but a tiny underdeveloped country that has been exploited by Western capitalist countries for centuries. Unfortunately, these post-invasion fly by night politicians chose to hug on to renegade Taiwan rather than mainland China in order to please the U.S. Administration, to whom they were political tools.

But how foolish those post-invasion leaders were. They lost the ability to think for themselves. They hug on to renegade Taiwan and ignore mainland China, without looking at the future of Grenada and Grenadians in general. Now that Hurricane Ivan destroyed over seventy percent of Grenada economy and infrastructure, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell begins to smell the coffee and decide to switch diplomatic relationship from Taiwan to mainland China.

Such a move by the Grenadian Prime Minister has put more water into the political pot. The opportunistic MPs within the NDC/RMC coalition are pushing the political fire and creating more conflicts among the Grenadian people over the issue. Unfortunately, it is sad to see that those Opposition MPs are trying to send fools further on, with such an issue, while knowing quite clearly that the very said opposition leaders would have dumped renegade Taiwan for mainland China, if they had formed the government in the last general election in 2003. There is no need for Grenadian politicians to be drinking bush for Taiwan political fever. This Taiwan/China conflict is a internal issue. Grenada is a small island with majority African population.

Playing ping pong with Chinese domestic affairs is negative energy for Grenada. Any smart Grenadian politician should be able to see quite clearly that China is becoming the most powerful country in the world in terms of human resources and economic development.

Even though I support the ruling NNP regime as the lesser evil, rather than the NDC/RMC, I think that Prime Minister Mitchell waited too long to dump Taiwan and join the international community in support of diplomatic relationship with mainland China. Presently, the United States who hates Communism, have diplomatic relationship with Communist China. IBM has sold out part of its business asset to a Chinese computer company. Home Depot is getting ready to set up part of its business base on main land China, while Wal-Mart it already well established in the Chinese business culture.

Personally, as a former NJM/PRG supporter, I think it is very stupid and hypocritical for the NDC/RMC MPs to oppose Prime Minister Keith Mitchell's shift, in trying to make some kind of diplomatic connection with mainland China. There is no reason for the NDC/RMC to be playing politics with Grenada and Grenadian future in this crucial times of post-Ivan disaster. The best thing for the NDC leaders to do is, put up, shut up and let the government do the right thing for the country in the right time. I don't think that the NDC/RMC MPS will like to see Cariacou becoming a renegade island, seeking to be a separate entity from Grenada, as Taiwan is trying to do in its bid to be independent from mainland China.

Grenadians should ignore the NDC/RMC leaders comments on this issue because hypocrites will always lead their followers away from reality.

Hudson George

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