Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell says the government will be working along with a Cuban foundation for a sculptured bust of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and other people who were killed on October 19, 1983.
Mitchell, who has returned from an official visit to Cuba, said the plans for the busts to be installed as part of activities to commemorate National Heroes Day on October 19.
Grenada observed National Heroes Day for the first-time last October 19, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Bishop, the island’s first left wing prime minister, who along with several of his cabinet ministers were killed during a palace coup.
The coup led to the demise of the People Revolutionary Government (PRG) and Bishop’s body has never been officially identified and as result there is no known final resting place of the revolutionary leader. Read More
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