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Street people are saying that the Trade Union Movement in Grenada needs some new blood. In some trade unions, the persons in leadership positions are not representing the workers adequately. They are saying that it seems as though the government and the trade unions are working together to oppress the workers of this country and when it is convenient, Rachel Roberts, the leader of the Public Workers Union, which represents the largest number of public workers, instead of putting up a good resistance and meeting the workers to adequately represent the workers, just comes out in the media making a set of noise. According to some well-informed street persons, she knows that the union’s election of officers is coming up in March, so she is trying to ‘sing for her supper, but its too late now, since most of the public workers are looking for a new and vibrant
Grenada: A conduit for NDP material
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, said that he had information that Grenada was the ‘transit’ for election material for the Opposition New Democratic Party.
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has fingered Grenada as being the conduit through which election material was funneled for the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), in the November 5 general elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
This ‘charge’ was levelled by Dr. Gonsalves during an interview with Grenada’s THE NEW TODAY, as reported in that newspaper’s edition of December 19, 2020.
The newspaper further reported Dr. Gonsalves as saying that he had picked up the information for quite some time” that the election material was being stored in Grenada, and came quickly into St. Vincent via Bequia as soon as he announced the election date.