The recent history of this country is still to be written.

And it is a burning shame that those who participated in the recent developments of this country have not seen it fit and proper to document the events for posterity.

GRENADA TODAY would like to see the participants of the 1979-83 Grenada Revolution give a truthful account to our people of the overthrow of the duly elected government of Eric Matthew Gairy on March 13, 1979 in the first coup d'etat in the English-speaking Caribbean.

It is time to lay to rest once and for all those allegations of foreign involvement/assistance in the making of that revolutionary process.

All the players have not died and some of them are still around playing active roles in the country whether as political activists once again inside both the New National Party and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) or in the trade union movement.

The so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission, if it was properly instituted, had the potential to get valuable insights into the role played by some people in the country in the past 30 years.

The country missed an opportunity to hear testimony from those inside the Richmond Hill prison itself, as well as those on the outside including our own Prime Minister who was accused by the Revolutionary Leaders of being a CIA agent.

Dr. Mitchell, the late Dr. Stanley Cyrus and others within the Grenada Democratic Movement (GDM) were very active from their bases in the Caribbean and North America in the fight against Maurice Bishop's People's Revolutionary Government (PRG)

And the history of Grenada is still unfolding as some of the combatants of the 1979-83 era are still playing a significant role in every day life in our country.

Both the NDC and NNP and to a lesser extent the People's Labour Movement (PLM) have in their midst persons with strong ties to the PRG and People's Revolutionary Army (PRA).

This newspaper has no doubt that some of these people are genuinely interested in nation building while some have agendas including that of freeing "the men on the hill".

As a people we have to be very vigilant since there are those in our midst who are coming out and making open and bold statements about their love of country while their true role is to infiltrate political organisations and parties in furthering the cause of Bernard Coard and Company.

It is easy to point fingers at Peter David and Nazim Burke as Coardites who have infiltrated the NDC in order to gain State power with the objective of freeing "the men".

But a close look at the NNP would see that that party has elements that are more than committed to the Bernard Coard cause.

GRENADA TODAY would like to ask the newly elected Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the NNP to examine some of the horns on board the ruling party and to answer in the national interest a few very important questions to clear up the doubts in the minds of some people.

The nation need to know the truth as regards the home in the Mt. Parnassus area where Bernard Coard was caught in hiding from the U.S and Caribbean troops that came into the country to restore law and order after the blood bath at Fort Rupert in October 1983.

The country want to know from the NNP PRO what he knows about meetings involving some of the leading Coardites in this country and members of the NNP to free Coard and Company prior to the 1995 and 1999 general elections.

This newspaper has reported in the past that the NNP received monies from certain foreign elements for the '95 elections on conditions that the party would free "the men on the hills" if elected into office.

It is also our understanding that one of Bernard Coard's brothers who is more than rich gave large sums of money to the NNP to help propel the party into government with the objective of ensuring the release of his brother.

The directive which came from the NNP leadership was for the Coardites to join with certain other persons in the society "to go out and do the ground work" in order to clear the road for the release of the so-called Political Prisoners".

It was no accident that certain persons were able to get interviews with some members of the Bernard Coard Gang and have them played on the Grenada Broadcasting Network (GBN) to soften up "the masses" as part of the plot.

The former Commissioner of Prisons, Winston Courtney did not lie when he told the nation that he had received instructions from the current political directorate of the NNP on the release of some of the men on the hill.

And may be the new NNP Pro can enlighten the nation on the status of Phyllis Coard who was released from prison for a specific period of time to receive medical treatment for "colon cancer".

The Governor-General, Sir Daniel Williams had given Phyllis Coard a prescribed period of time outside the Richmond Hill prison for her treatment.

The nation is still waiting to hear from the G.G or the new PRO of the ruling party of government's position on the Phyllis Coard matter.

The people of Grenada are not fools and are watching the actions of those now at the helm.