How does a revolution implode? Martine Powers traces the rise and fall of Maurice Bishop, and the origin of the mystery left behind. How does a revolution implode? Martine Powers traces the rise and ...

A development in the mystery of Maurice Bishop’s missing remains offers some new answers — and even more new questions. A development in the mystery of Maurice Bishop’s missing remains offers some new ...

In October of 1983, Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was assassinated in a coup, along with seven of his cabinet members and supporters. Six days later, the United States invaded the island ...

Tales of murder, torture and betrayal are recounted daily in a hilltop courtroom as this island nation reviews the events that led to an invasion by U.S. troops nearly three years ago. The 22-week-old ...

THE GOVERNMENT of Grenada has announced October 19 will be declared a public holiday to commemorate former prime minister Maurice Bishop. The public holiday will also acknowledge the execution of the ...

March 13, 1979 has gone down in world history in general and the Caribbean in particular. It was on that date that a thirty-odd member detachment of the armed wing of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) led ...

Ventour held the important position of general secretary of the Trade Union Council, the umbrella body of the country’s working-class movement. Colonel Layne immediately seconded Ventour’s proposed ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Aug 24 – Alimenta Bishop, the mother of Grenada’s first left wing prime minister Maurice Bishop, died Saturday. She was 97. She died without ever getting to know where the ...

The pattern for the first two days of the meeting was hours of long, repetitive rants about how badly the party was performing and the imminent demise of the ‘revo’. Leninist jargon hung in the air, ...