The Media Workers Association of Grenada (MWAG) has expressed deepest sympathies and condolences to the victims and their families for the heinous attacks that occurred in Guyana on August 8 in which four press room operators were executed.
"MWAG joins with the Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers (ACM) and other regional media bodies in expressing solidarity to our colleagues in Guyana", said a statement issued by the local body.
It addedd that MWAG condemns in the strongest terms this brutal murder on the employees of the printing department of the Kaieteur News Newspaper.
Four staff members attached to the facility were forced to lie face down and were subsequently shot in their heads, after gunmen demanded that they come out from cupboards in which they were hiding.
A fifth person was killed in Baggotstown, a district near the newspaper's facility.
Police and hospital officials had originally reported a total of six deaths.
Among those killed are Shazim Mohamed, Eon Wegman, Chitram Persaud, Richard Stewart, Mark Maikoo and Julian De Grace.
Additionally, several innocent by-standers were wounded and are currently patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Kaieteur News is the largest circulated daily newspaper in Guyana. It has been in existence for the past 12 years.
The executions took place as Guyana is preparing for general elections on August 28.
Glen Lall, the publisher of Kaieteur News, referred to the attackers as "a bunch of cowards" and said he was uncertain as to the reason for attacking the plant and killing the innocent printers.
"This is a message. We are an easy target. I heard all the shots as I was sitting just across the road from the plant. They are a bunch of cowards. I know that they are cowards," said an emotional Lall.
As police in the South American nation continued to search for a motive in the shocking carnage that left four dead at a newspaper plant last Tuesday night, the country's assistant police commissioner is brushing aside speculations that the killings may be election related.
Assistant Commissioner, Henry Greene, at a press conference at Police Headquarters located at Eve Leary, held off on linking the attack to the upcoming general elections, saying that none of the attackers muttered "anything relating to elections" while they were shooting and creating mayhem.
He added that no evidence has been unearthed which points to an overt plan by armed gangs to derail the electoral process, adding that, "none of the information received so far from eyewitnesses at the crime scenes indicates that there was any allusion by the gunmen to the upcoming elections."
Like the country's two main political parties, Greene said it was "clearly intended to cause terror and to disquiet citizens." "There is no doubt about that," he added.
Still the acting top cop admitted that officers were not "ruling out anything." And insisted that despite these developments, the Force is fully prepared for any violence during the elections.
In response to questions about the Force's capabilities in terms of numbers to effectively guarantee safety for the upcoming Elections, the Acting Commissioner said, "We will have stand-by units and patrol teams, in addition to Rural Constables, who will all be working together to ensure that peace and safety is maintained."
Asked what could have been the motive for the mayhem, Greene said sleuths were still working on arriving at a motive for the senseless attack but he said the gunmen sprayed bullets in all directions from assault rifles, including even at a used car mart in Eccles, where the printing press is located, injuring several people in the process.
"We are trying to determine the motive. We are sure it was to execute these persons. The reason behind this we don't know," he said, but suggested that gangs might have retaliated because of the recent arrests of some of their colleagues for separate gun crimes.