During my last vacation to Grenada in the months of July and August 2006, it was part of my hobby looking at our pet house cat trying to catch a humming bird on fruit trees in the yard. The humming birds usually come in the evenings to enjoy the nectar from the flower blossom on the those trees and the cat tries to catch them. So I have factual evidence to prove that the humming birds are not extinct in Grenada.

In addition, Mr Strachan jumps to the conclusion that Grenada authorities should import humming birds from Trinidad to replace the extinct humming birds. He exposes his ignorance of not knowing anything about the different species of humming birds. Although Trinidad is known as the Land of the Humming Bird, it is not proven that the species of humming birds in Grenada and Trinidad are the same. There are many different types of humming birds in the Caribbean islands, and Central and South America.

Knowing how some of my Grenadian people have a cultural habit of enjoying negative stories about Grenada, I am very much concerned whether or not Winston Starchan might belong to that group, who perceive everything in Grenada as negative.

Minister of Education, the Honourable Claris Charles, said during the recently completed budget debate in parliament that Grenadians like to bad-talk their country and I totally agree with her. Of all CARICOM countries' people I associated with in North America, Grenadians are the ones who say the most negative things about their country, people and government. If most Grenadians back home could only know the negative things those who reside abroad usually say about them, they wouldn't allow them to enter their houses, when they return home for a vacation.

The Mt Hartman Project opens the door for negative thinking Grenadians with negative comments, to spit out their anti government propaganda. They are using the issue of Grenada's eco-system as a great concern in Mt Hartman, so that the government will get a bad name for the new development project that will provide jobs for young people.

Winston Strachan claims that he left Grenada 57 years ago and made Britain his new home. Therefore, he should expect to see some different social and environmental changes in Grenada. Mr Strachan is supposed to accept most of the changes that is taking place in Grenada, as he did within the British society for 57 years without any complaint.

All the hypocritical comments about the safety of the Grenada dove, is just political propaganda.

Grenadians without any political connection have been writing articles to our local newspapers about dangerous pesticides being used in the agricultural industry, for more than twenty years. Unfortunately, nobody listened to those writers' concern for our snakes, lizards, earthworms and butterflies that are being affected by pesticides. Presently, the population of snakes has declined rapidly. A small species of opossum is almost extinct because of the usage of dangerous pesticides. The human population is affected too. Some farmers are dying of cancer at a young age.

I hope that Winston Strachan is concerned about those issues, rather than the Mt Hartman Project and the Grenada dove, that has become a political issue, rather than a genuine case.

Hudson George
Toronto, Canada