Grenada is to have a new Governor-General within a matter of weeks.
Informed sources told GRENADA TODAY that former Education Minister, Carlyle Glean is tipped to take over from Sir Daniel Williams as the new Governor-General.
According to a well-placed source, Sir Daniel is due to demit office in September or October for the latest.
The new Governor-General designate served as Education Minister during the 1990-95 rule of the first National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of Sir Nicholas Brathwaite.
An educator by profession, Glean was offered a ministerial post and position in the Senate after he failed to win the St. John seat for Congress in the 1990 poll. He bowed out from frontline politics after the party's defeat in the 1995 general elections.
The outgoing Governor-General was a former Deputy Political Leader of the New National Party (NNP) which was voted out of office in the July 8 general elections.
Relations are rather lukewarm between Sir Daniel and the current leaders in the new Grenada government. There are unconfirmed reports of a rift between the Head of State and the new rulers on the Ceremonial Opening of Parliament held on Tuesday.
A government source confided in this newspaper that Sir Daniel was reluctant to take part in the proceedings and that a former Governor General might have intervened to resolve the issue.
NDC insiders did not take too kindly to an apparent slip of the tongue by the Governor-General at a public ceremony at Queen's Park in which he introduced the new Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and his wife as that of the previous holder of the office.
Congress members were also unhappy with the manner in which Sir Daniel appointed a one-man Commission of Inquiry to look into allegations that ex Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell collected a bribe of US$500, 000 from imprisoned German-American, Eric Resteiner in exchange for a diplomatic posting.
