EDITORIAL
GRENADA TODAY calls on Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Tillman Thomas to re-open as a matter of priority the scandal involving insider trading within the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) that took the taxpayers of this country for a ride.
We invite our readers to pay particular attention to our Page 3 story that dealt with this massive corruption that took place within the belly of RGPF. What is worrying about this kind of activity is the fact that the police are ready and willing to exonerate their own but charge ordinary and poor folks caught with a little joint of marijuana.
It appears that the police force under the previous regime was a bed of corruption and officers were allowed to get away with all kinds of wrong doing.
The Prime Minister will be doing the country a great disservice if he allowed questionable characters in the force to slip through the crack and end up in high position.
The Stationery scandal is further testimony to the kind of police force that was run by the former Chief Cop, Fitzroy Bedeau. He was in charge at the time and owes the nation a full explanation for what transpired on that particular issue.
This newspaper does not wish to comment on the issue any further in light of what we expect to see happening - a re-opening of the files in that particular corrupt activity involving the abuse of taxpayers funds. What we would really like to focus on is the scandalous remarks made by former Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell that the new government was interfering in RGPF affairs similar to what took place during the 1979-83 Grenada Revolution.
This newspaper out of some form of respect would refrain at this point in time from calling for some kind of mental examination of the cry baby from Happy Hill. Is Dr. Mitchell really talking about his own administration? He is the one who interfered in the force in the most vulgar manner ever seen.
There is no need for us to comment on the helpless Fitzroy Bedeau who liked to consider himself as the 16th member of the Cabinet of Ministers during the NNP era.
In a most vulgar display, Dr. Mitchell as Prime Minister announced the candidacy of Police Sergeant Carl Caton for the St. Patrick East seat while that individual was still a member of the force.
It was the NNP of Keith Claudius Mitchell through its surrogate Fitzroy Bedeau who planted Superintendent Anthony De Gale as Head of Special Branch to spy on all his opponents.
Former Commissioner Winston James admitted publicly that he knew nothing about the activities of De Gale's Special Branch when it spied on the private meeting of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on February 26 at its head office on Lucas Street.
Keith Mitchell even allowed De Gale to act outside of the law when the said police officer formed a human shield around"his boss" to prevent a court official from issuing a sermon to the then Prime Minister in connection with a court matter filed against him in the United States.
Do we need to remind this individual about the vulgar manner in which he attempted to impose himself on cases brought by the police against two of his sworn enemies, the editor of this newspaper and former Opposition Leader, Michael Baptiste?
We challenge Dr. Mitchell to come forward and speak the truth once and for all about the events surrounding his summoning of Chief Magistrate Patricia Mark down to the Botanical Gardens to try and evict her from the bench.
Additionally, Dr. Mitchell is in no position to make comments on the operations of the Police Force during the 1979-83 Grenada Revolution. Where was he at the height of the revolution? Could Keith Mitchell enter Grenada when the late Maurice Bishop was Commander-in-Chief?
Although Bishop is not alive today, Major Einstein Louison is still around and could testify to the kind of treatment that was waiting for Mitchell at the hands of the Revolutionary Armed forces if he was brave enough to set foot on Grenadian soil during that particular period.
Dr. Mitchell was branded as a CIA Agent and ran the risk of either being shot on sight or arrested and interrogated on entering Grenada. The relevant authorities in Grenada would be engaged in a squalid betrayal of the aspirations of a vast majority of our people to not set in motion the kind of criminal investigation that is badly needed to ensure that this individual is brought before a proper court of justice to determine once and for all whether he did not misbehave in public office.
