May I remind you that years of work were rolled back when your administration came into office in 1995. One of the first acts of your administration was to dismantle the Family court which had come into being under the watch of Dr. Francis Alexis as Attorney-General in the administration of the National Democratic Congress. It was a narrow, partisan act which was unconcerned with the impact that this action (of dismantling the court) would have on the welfare of women and children that the Court was primarily intended to protect and serve.

Your response, Dr. Marryshow, is neither surprising nor unexpected. It would seem that our sentiments co-incided. I had read a number of your columns pertaining to the re-sentencing of the Grenada 13 and I too had thought of letting sleeping dogs lie but the column, The Big Set Up was “an affront to my own consciousness”. It was cheap, dirty politics coming from one who had already offered himself to be one the people’s representatives in the Parliament….

I write to you in your capacity as Political Leader of the People’s Labour Movement and also as someone who is considered a legal luminary – a distinguished and acknowledged expert on the issue of Constitutional Law, both in Grenada and regionally…

Hon. Minister, as a member of the Executive, your responsibility goes beyond your personal loss and grief. As a member of Government and of the political leadership of this country, it requires that, in spite of your own personal grief and loss, your responsibility should be to promote healing and reconciliation of the nation. Therefore, Hon. Minister, I consider some of your public utterances, particularly your comments on the Judge’s ruling, inappropriate and unfortunate (to say the least)…….

Following your disclosure on Community Focus, it is now my position, Sir, that you too must bear a part of the burden of collective responsibility for how events unfolded in Grenada, during the period 1979-1983, to result in the tragedy of October 19th. 1983. You were the Governor-General. It might have been an anomaly, a ludicrous position to be in. In that case, one should not be paid by state funds and be part of a charade. I deem it accountability. As you yourself indicated, people depend on the Governor-General and indeed during that period a number of people looked to you. Did you fail them?

I listened with keen interest to your address to the NNP’s General Council, which was carried live on Wee FM Radio, on Sunday, February.27th. I noted that the subject of your address was the politics of hate, the subject of a letter I had written to you in October 2003, prior to the November general elections. At least you seemed to have read my letter!!

The debacle of October 19th was the culmination of events for which leadership of the country and party at the time – whether Bishopite, Coardite or RMC – must take Collective Responsibility. Therefore Senator Louison, as a leader and key figure of the party at that time, you too are equally culpable and accountable to the Grenadian people.