The Grenada authorities on Tuesday introduced plans to look at the fortieth anniversary of the homicide of Maurice Bishop, the nation’s first left-wing prime minister, who was killed throughout a palace coup orchestrated by his deputy, Bernard Coard, on October 19, 1983.
Head of the fiftieth Independence Anniversary Committee, Dr Wendy Crawford, informed a information convention that the exercise will kind a part of the island’s fiftieth anniversary of political independence that will likely be launched on October 19 this yr.
“Since independence is such an historic occasion for us, a interval once we are given a time to inform our historical past, what higher time might we ask for, when the nation will likely be attentive to not solely the celebration of our independence…and October nineteenth is a narrative that everyone has informed, has written about, spoken about, established the narrative; and all of that got here externally.
“So within the essence of independence and self-determination, we expect it is a excellent alternative to inform our tales ourselves, and so there isn’t a higher becoming than…when your complete nation is attentive to that interval, October 19-25, that it ought to signify for us that stage of independence and self-determination (so) right here is our story,” she mentioned, including, “we’re able to embrace it, it might not be the prettiest or kindest of tales, however we’ve got to sooner or later, and I feel that is the time once we ought to do it”.
Final October, the federal government mentioned it was shifting forward with plans to have October 19 declared a public vacation to commemorate the 1983 killings of Bishop and a number of other members of his Cupboard that led to the collapse of the leftwing Folks’s Revolutionary Authorities.
Along with Bishop and his Cupboard colleagues who have been killed within the palace coup orchestrated by his deputy, Bernard Coard, a number of civilians died at Fort Rupert now renamed Fort George.
