By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe
October 30, 2024

Speaking to hundreds of people at Progress Park, Grenada, on October 19, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell announced plans “to build a shrine at Fort George to honour deceased Revolutionary leader Prime Minster Maurice Bishop and others who lost their lives on October 19, 1983, as a result of internal conflicts between different factions of the Revolutionary Government”.

Although I welcome this gesture, I immediately became suspicions. A “shrine” sounded too much as the canonisation of the brother.
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