Honouring our heroes

By Selwyn Cudjoe
October 30, 2024

Dr. Selwyn R. CudjoeSpeaking to hundreds of people at Progress Park, Grenada, on October 19, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell announced plans “to build a shrine at Fort George to honour deceased Revolutionary leader Prime Minster Maurice Bishop and others who lost their lives on October 19, 1983, as a result of internal conflicts between different factions of the Revolutionary Government”.

Although I welcome this gesture, I immediately became suspicions. A “shrine” sounded too much as the canonisation of the brother.
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Generation Y

By Raffique Shah
October 30, 2024

Raffique ShahI felt like Marlon Brando must have done in the opening scene, I believe it was, of The Godfather as he stuttered in his trademark nasal tone, issuing instructions from the Godfather to generations that would run the mafia after he was gone. No, I was not about to die or anything as dramatic as that.

Rosina had favoured us with that last farewell a few months ago, teaching us what the finality of death means: no more giggles, no more hugs, no more warmth—nothing as dramatic as that. It was a gathering of Generation Y of the Shahs, that my youngest brother, Feroze, thought we should assemble at my bedside for the youngest offspring to enjoy each other’s company, but most of all to give me an opportunity to see, hear, even feel these young ones, who have already staked their claims for leadership of the clan when I and my siblings and in-laws will have moved on.
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