The National Democratic Congress has noted with abhorrence and disgust the repeated action of the current government that has continued to drag Grenada's name to the dust, undermining the respect we have around the world as a proud people.

he latest expose, from court documents in the United States, which shows a direct link between the biggest banking scam in the Caribbean and the New National Party regime is an embarrassment to every Grenadian.

The sordid stories of hard working people from North America who were scammed of their life-savings to support the lifestyles of the likes of Van Brink, and to financially prop up the Keith Mitchell regime, are sickening.

Court documents show there is a trail from the bank's fraud schemes into the coffers of the 1999 re-election campaign of the NNP. Indeed that road leads to the leader himself. Is this "damn money" his too?

Sisters and brothers, we have to do all in our power to end this long dark night of national shame.

A government built on such corruption and under-hand dealings should not stand; must not stand!

We call on the police to launch a formal criminal investigation into the operation of First International Bank to decide whether local regulators and politicians broke any laws.

Additionally, the people of Grenada must decide if this is the quality of governance they want.

We demand that the Mitchell regime call general elections as soon as it is practicable, but long before the end of this year Ð so that the people can decide if they are satisfied with what is being done in our name.

Every proud Grenadian must stand up and say enough is enough!

We call on all the other political parties, civic minded organisations, churches and trade unions to register their collective disgust with this latest development.

We humbly suggest that they should use their own platforms, as we are now starting using ours, to demand early general elections.

Let democracy work for Grenada. Let's hold all ourselves to standards of which we can be proud.