Editorial
There is a truism in politics that no one should be considered as a permanent friend or enemy.
The Elvin Nimrod/Keith Mitchell relationship bears testimony to this thinking in the context of the man from the mainland and the other one from the sister isle of Carriacou.
The elected Member of Parliament for Carriacou and Petite Martinique has demonstrated in recent years that he is prepared to serve as a true "house slave" to Keith Claudius Mitchell, the current occupant in the Office of the Prime Minister.
That is the only way that this character can best be described given his recent national broadcast on the spying incident against the members of the main opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Nimrod sees nothing wrong in the police engaging in illegal acts of espionage against a legitimate political group in the country that is headed by Her Majesty's loyal servant in the opposition, Tillman Thomas.
But he can quickly conclude in his own warp mind that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is not an independent creature of the Constitution and is legally entitled to make decisions without influence or input from the Cabinet of Ministers or even Parliament.
But then again, this is nothing strange from Nimrod, the Attorney-General of Grenada who is only doing the bidding of his paymaster.
This MP for the sister isle decided not to co-operate with the Commission of Inquiry into the Briefcase issue in which Prime Minister Mitchell is accused of accepting a large bribe of US$500, 000.00 from international fraudster, Eric Resteiner in exchange for a diplomatic position.
Commission Richard Cheltenham admitted that Elvin Nimrod refused to use his good offices to write to the Justice Department in Washington to secure a copy of the video-tape allegedly showing the transaction between PM Mitchell and Resteiner.
And under the Mutual assistance treaty between Grenada and the united States, it is only the Attorney-General who can activate the agreement, not even the Prime Minister.
Former Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Raymond Anthony was showing signs of co-operating with the Inquiry much to the fears of the high-ups in NNP and the decision was eventually taken that he could not be trusted and had to be removed from that very important post.
The AG job ended up in the hands of Elvin Nimrod who demonstrated his true loyalty to his master by bowing and genuflecting to him at the recent annual convention of the party before the lens of photographers and camera crew assembled at the Trade Centre at Grand Anse.
This is the same Nimrod who was a top activist for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in New York and in the forefront for the election of Sir Nicholas Brathwaite for the Prime Ministership in the 1990 general elections.
Is this really the same Elvin Nimrod who came down from New York as the heir apparent to Sir Nicholas when he decided not to seek re-election in the 1995 general elections?
The people of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique must know that this character occupying the office of Attorney-General approached Sir Nicholas to coronate him as the NDC Candidate for the poll.
It was only after Prime Minister Brathwaite informed him that there was a process to be followed and that it had to be done through the NDC Constituency Branch that Nimrod became sour and decided to run as an Independent Candidate in '95.
The power hungry Nimrod wanted to do a James Mitchell on the electorate in Grenada.
He was hoping that there would be a 7-7 tie on the mainland and that if he won the seat in Carriacou then he would become King Nimrod in the negotiation that would follow for the seat of government in St. George's.
When Nimrod decided to run as an independent, the same Dr. Mitchell sent several emissaries including his then trusted deputy, Grace Duncan to Carriacou to meet with this individual to try and get him to run on an NNP ticket.
Elvin Nimrod refused and did not want to have anything to do with Keith Claudius Mitchell at the time. But within months of the NNP getting into office, Nimrod like a snake in the grass was crawling into the "house" to accept a senatorial position to become a Minister in place of the unfortunate Tobias Clement.
This was the same Elvin Nimrod who refused to buy a ticket in New York in the 1990's from Michael Baptiste to help raise funds for Keith Claudius Mitchell to launch his bid to win the seat of power in St. George's.
This newspaper hoped that Baptiste when he was on good terms with Dr. Mitchell might have informed him of how Nimrod felt about him in connection with those allegations in the 90's about the fire at the Financial Complex on the Carenage.
Nimrod is nothing but a joker and should not be taken seriously by anybody who is interested in democracy, good government and accountability in office.
His commitment is only to Elvin Nimrod and no one else. Do not be surprised if he is silently praying for Dr. Mitchell to lose power in order to make his own grab at the post of Political Leader of NNP at the end of the next general election.
As Baptiste told this newspaper a few years ago, it is the same Elvin Nimrod who whispered to him at a tea break during a sitting of Parliament that it was time for Keith Mitchell and Gregory Bowen "to open up the thing and give someone else a piece of the pie".
Indeed, politics can at times make strange bedfellows!!!
