As E-day approaches, there are a number of questions of which we the people wish to remind the retiring Executive whose tenure ends with the commencement of special voting on June 20th for members of law enforcement, followed on June 23rd, when the general electorate will make a definitive decision.
Grenada is counting down to E-day, June 23rd. The excitement is palpable! Everybody seems to be a prophet. Various predictions are being made. As we all know, it is never over till it is over. And the outcome of election day not only depends on what happens on election day but what preceded election day, in particular, the Voter Registration process, the pillar of free and fair elections, through which the will of the people will be realized.
It is NOT rocket science, Hon, Minister, that if people are simply told to go home and quarantine/isolate without any other instructions/prescriptions for alleviating their symptoms, then there will be escalation and need to go into hospital – something to be avoided at all costs. Therefore, what are the instructions and protocols that those doing the testing must follow when a person tests positive?
While this phenomenon had become an annual challenge, apparently this year it was worse than usual, going on for well over two months, to the detriment of persons in surrounding communities in particular, Brizan and communities/residents on the parish boundary.
Dr. Jean Holder (R.I.P.) was the Chairman of LIAT. Given my interest in/support for LIAT, from time to time, I wrote to him on concerns and issues pertaining to LIAT.
I trust, Sirs, that a significant and crucial part of the new LIAT are plans to REPAIR and RESTORE the faith of the people of the region in LIAT. I trust that this is a COMMITMENT of all concerned – shareholders, board of directors, management and staff at all levels and that there is a collective effort in this regard. I am therefore at a loss to understand the recent industrial action taken by pilots and most recently by flight attendants. I do not doubt that there are legitimate grievances. I would hope that ALL issues were taken on board during the negotiation stage and a commitment given as to HOW and WHEN they would be resolved. Didn’t this transaction just SAVE a number of JOBS?
Hon. Minister, your reference to people having respect for institutions and positions of authority reminded me of your wish for 2007, made publicly on Sundays with George Grant programme sometime in December 2006 – your wish that we in Grenada would have respect for institutions. In your intervention on the GBN programme, you took the Grenada Bar Association and its President to task for what you considered to be the lack of respect for institutions and for persons of Authority, i.e. the Ministry of Health and its Chief Medical Officer. Hon. Minister, as my mother would comment, “Is the President and the Bar Association yuh have strength on!”
