The recent incident involving a Cuban Male Nurse at the St. George's General Hospital and a young mother of two over alleged sexual molestation has seen the Keith Mitchell-led government sending out a somewhat strange but rather clear message to nationals.

Government is telling our person that if someone from a country wrongs them that is providing assistance to Grenada then they should be careful in how they handle the matter.

In its unmistakable attempt to get at the GRENADA TODAY newspaper for breaking the story about the Cuban medical personnel at the hospital, the government was rather insensitive about the plight of the victim.It is true that the lady involved is an ordinary woman from a poor village in St. David's.

However, that does not make her a nobody. She has rights just like any other person in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique - whether the Prime Minister or Governor-General.

The message from both Health Minister Ann David-Antoine and Prime Minister Mitchell himself was in essence that if a national from Mainland China or Venezuela was to do something wrong to our people then we should think about the contributions made to our economic development by these countries before doing anything.

What double standards!!! The Prime Minister has often acted in self-interest when he himself is personally affected. How can we forget how Dr. Mitchell treated the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan in the aftermath of the destruction caused to the island by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004?

He decided to break relations with Taipei and move in the direction of Beijing because of the manner in which the Taiwanese allegedly snubbed him on a trip to their country.

What he was saying to us is that despite whatever help Taiwan gave to Grenada over the past 20 years, he was breaking relations with them because of the treatment he personally received by their government officials.

So it is right for the Prime Minister to act in his own interest but wrong for other Grenadians to do the same because a particular country might be offering economic aid to the Spice Island. If that is the kind of thinking that is taking place among the ranks of the powers-that-be then the Almighty needs to step in to help and save this country.

The current lot in government is really taking Grenadians for a ride because they have mistakenly believed that the people are fools. If anyone wants further proof then it comes from the so-called Legal Advisor to Cabinet, Hugh Wildman at a press conference in St. George's on Tuesday in the judgment at the Privy Council in the matter Government of Grenada vs. Dipcon Engineering.

Wildman was boasting about his exploits and "victory" in getting the OECS Court of Appeal to remove the name of Public Utilities Minister, Gregory Bowen from the suit and also liability to pay over EC$20 million in compensation to Dipcon.

What the highly-paid Jamaican lawyer should have been telling us that he got the court to free up the entire country and taxpayers from paying millions to DIPCON because of the high-handed manner in which Bowen himself was responsible for putting the country into further massive debt due to his handling of the DIPCON matter.

But instead Wildman was grinning and laughing all over in the face because Bowen does not have to pay any money to DIPCON. It is the taxpayers who are saddled with the debt and not Bowen and NNP. Is it strange that the powers-that-be is sending out such a strange signal to our people on the Cuban issue?

If only Health Minister, Ann David-Antoine knows how much she has really incensed the family of that young lady who went to the hospital for surgery and was forced to go to the police and make a complaint against the Cuban Male Nurse.

Like the lady's male companion said to us: "My lady might be poor, she might not have the status (in society) like the Prime Minister, but she is a somebody and must be treated like a somebody in this country".

This newspaper will not waste much time in responding to several of the misleading statements made by Barry Collymore, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, on a local tv programme Monday night on the issue. While Mr. Collymore is expected to sing for his supper, he must be careful in trying to hoodwink Grenadians into believing that no wrong-doing was committed by the Prime Minister in the Switzerland Briefcase issue.

This newspaper urges the Press Secretary to get a copy of Dr. Mitchell's own address to the nation when he admitted that he received "approximately $US15, 000.00" from Eric Resteiner in Switzerland in direct contravention of the financial and audit rules of the country.

That is a crime in itself. The Prime Minister told the nation that other Prime Ministers in the pst have done the same thing that he did. We challenge him to give the name of anyone Prime Minister to do what he did in Switzrland.

In addition, Mr. Collymore, the figure given by the Prime Minister to the nation of what he received, differs fundamentally from the earlier figure, which he (Dr. Mitchell) himself quoted to David Marchant, and yet still the substantive allegation that he actually received a bribe of US$500,000.00 from the same Resteiner in exchange for a diplomatic post with the Grenada government.

Which of the three monetary figures are correct Mr. Collymore? Maybe we need to remind this Bajan Press Secretary that no Grenadian will be allowed by Barbadians to enter in their country and meddle in their domestic politics in the way in which he is clearly singing for his supper to please Mitchell and Company.