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1705 |
The French began the construction of Fort George on Grenada. It was completed by the British. Links: Britain, France, Grenada 
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1895 |
On Grenada the 340-foot Sendall Tunnel was built through Fort George Point for horse carriages. Links: Grenada
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1967 1981 |
The group of territorial islands in the West Indies in association with the United Kingdom. The original members included Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and adjacent islands. All the member islands became independent except Anguilla. Links: Dominica, West Indies, Antigua, Grenada, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts & Nevis
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1974 Feb 7 |
The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain. This included the northern islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique. Links: Britain, Grenada
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1979 |
In Grenada the New Jewel Movement of Maurice Bishop overthrew a corrupt government led by Eric Gairy and allied itself with Cuba. Cuba then gave Grenada millions of dollars for the construction of the Point Saline International Airport. US strategists feared the airport would project Cuban air power into South America. Links: Cuba, Grenada
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1983 Oct 19 |
In Grenada an extremist Marxist faction executed PM Maurice Bishop and 4 Cabinet ministers. 17 men were later convicted of the killings during the coup that prompted a US invasion. Their death sentences were later commuted to life in prison. In 2005 they were allowed to appeal to the London-based Privy Council. In 2009 Bernard Coard and the six others — Dave Bartholomew, Callistus Bernard, Leon Cornwall, Liam James, Ewart Layne and Selwyn Strachan — were released. Ten others convicted in the killings, including Coard's wife, were previously released. The bodies of Bishop and 10 men killed with him had not been found. Links: USA, Grenada
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1983 Oct 21 |
US Pres. Ronald Reagan sent a ten-ship task force to Grenada. Links: USA, Grenada, ReaganR
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1983 Oct 25 |
Dominica PM Dame Eugenia Charles stood next to US Pres. Ronald Reagan at the White House as he announced the US invasion of Grenada. Links: Dominica, USA, Grenada, ReaganR
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1983 Oct 25 |
Some 1,800 US Marines and Rangers, assisted by 300 soldiers from six Caribbean nations, invaded Grenada at the order of President Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect US citizens there. Protection for the American students at St. George’s Medical School was a pretext for the invasion. 45 Grenadians were killed along with 29 Cubans and 19 Americans. This day later became celebrated as Grenada’s Thanksgiving Day. Links: USA, Cuba, Grenada, ReaganR
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1983 Oct 28 |
US forces led by Vice Adm. Joseph Metcalf III took control of Grenada 3 days after invading the island. Deputy PM Bernard Coard, leader of the rebellion, was captured. The fighting left 19 Americans dead along with 45 Grenadans. Links: USA, Grenada
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1984 |
In Grenada after a gradual withdrawal of peacekeeping forces, a centrist coalition led by Herbert A. Blaize won a parliamentary majority. Links: Grenada
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1995 |
In Grenada the New National Party (NNP), led by Keith C. Mitchell, won a majority in the parliamentary elections. He won reelection again in 1999 and 2003. Links: Grenada
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1997 Jun 18 |
It was reported that Japan was paying 5 Caribbean nations extensive aid and investment in order to gain support to block protections for endangered species. Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Dominica were all reported to have been bribed. Links: Dominica, Japan, West Indies, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts & Nevis, Leeward Islands
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1998 Aug 2 |
Fidel Castro visited Grenada following an invitation from Prime Minister Keith Mitchell. Links: Cuba, Grenada
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1999 Jan 18 |
In Grenada Keith Mitchell's New National party won all 15 parliamentary seats. His government had collapsed 7 weeks previous under allegations of corruption. Links: Grenada
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1999 May 28 |
In Grenada the 13-year ban on whaling was extended during the annual meeting of the 40-member Int'l. Whaling Commission. Pro-whaling nations threatened to ignore the restrictions. Links: Grenada, Whales
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2003 Nov 27 |
In Grenada a record 64 candidates from six parties, including 2 independents, competed for the chamber's 15 seats. PM Keith Mitchell's governing New National Party won parliamentary balloting by a slim margin. Links: Grenada
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2004 Sep 8 |
Hurricane Ivan made a direct hit on Grenada, killing at least three people. The most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in 10 years also damaged homes in Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Vincent, just days after Hurricane Frances rampaged through. Links: Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Hurricane
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2004 Sep 9 |
Hurricane Ivan grew into the deadliest of storms overnight, packing winds of 160 mph as it made a beeline for Jamaica after pummeling Grenada, Barbados and other islands, causing at least 20 deaths. Police in Grenada battled looters. Links: Barbados, Grenada, Hurricane
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2004 Sep 12 |
Hurricane Ivan skirted Grand Cayman with winds near 155 mph as it churned toward Cuba. The storm has been blamed for 56 deaths across the Caribbean so far, including 34 in Grenada and 11 in Jamaica. Links: Jamaica, Grenada, Cayman Islands, Hurricane
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2004 Oct 15 |
Former President Jimmy Carter urged the US and other international lenders to forgive part of Grenada's debt, saying the Caribbean country needs the money to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Ivan. Links: USA, Grenada
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2005 Jan 27 |
Taiwan formally severed ties with Grenada after accusing the tiny Caribbean island of trying to exploit the rivalry between China and Taiwan to get more financial aid. Links: China, Taiwan, Grenada
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2005 Feb 28 |
In Grenada Alister Hughes (86), respected journalists known for his coverage of Grenada's political woes and the US invasion in 1983, died of a stroke. Links: Grenada
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2005 Jul 15 |
Hurricane Emily blew over Grenada and gathered force in the eastern Caribbean with winds of 135 mph. At least one person was killed. Links: Grenada
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2005 Jul 18 |
In a program to be screened on ABC TV, the fisheries chief of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific says Japan poured money into the country in exchange for its support over whaling and cheap access to tuna. Similar charges were made by former officials from the tiny Caribbean nations of Dominica and Grenada. Links: Dominica, Japan, Grenada, Solomon Islands
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2005 Sep 6 |
Nine countries: Antigua, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, St. Kitts, St. Vincent and the Dominican Republic, signed oil deals with Venezuela in Jamaica. Cuba and Jamaica had previously signed. Chavez urged Caribbean governments to consider Cuba-style socialism as an alternative to capitalism. Links: Dominica, Belize, Venezuela, Cuba, Suriname, Antigua, Grenada, St. Vincent, Guyana, St. Kitts & Nevis, Dominican Rep.
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2006 Nov |
Thousands of tiny parasitic wasps were released in the Cayman Islands to combat an island-hopping insect that has destroyed crops throughout the Caribbean. Mealybugs have destroyed millions of dollars in crops and ornamental plants across the Caribbean since they were first reported in the Western Hemisphere, in Grenada in 1994. They reached the US Virgin Islands in 1997, and Puerto Rico a year later. Links: Grenada, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, Agriculture
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2008 Jul 8 |
Tillman Thomas, former political detainee, returned his party to power in Grenada after 13 years in opposition. The apparent win by the National Democratic Congress was a stunning setback for PM Keith Mitchell's conservative New National Party, which was seeking an unprecedented 4th consecutive term in legislative elections. Links: Grenada
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2008 Jul 9 |
In Grenada Tillman Thomas, former political detainee, was sworn in as the new prime minister. Links: Grenada
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2009 Sep 9 |
Grenada’s PM Tillman Thomas said Grenada has sold some 100 Venezuelan-built houses at a deep discount to people left homeless by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Venezuela financed the construction of 120 homes. They were finished three years ago, but electrical inspections delayed their sale. Valued at $92,000 each, the structures were sold for only $2,000, to help cover the cost of the land title transfer. The government selected mostly single mothers who were renting or living with relatives. The unsold structures were planned to be used as shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Links: Venezuela, Grenada
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2010 May 3 |
In Grenada Steve Gorrie (36) walked into a precinct station with two severed human heads in a bucket and presented his haul to horrified police. Police later found two hacked-up, headless bodies in a rural field, including the owner of a local tavern. Links: Mayhem, Grenada
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2010 Aug 25 |
In Grenada businessman Michael Raeburn-Delfish was reported missing. His severed head and limbs were found in three shallow pits on Sep 5, 2010. Suspect Ronald Michael Phillip (55), had been deported in 2000 from the United States to Granada the day after leaving a state prison in Uncasville, Connecticut, where he had spent more than six years. Phillip had been arrested in December 1993 on assault and drug charges. Links: USA, Murder, Grenada
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2011 May 25 |
Grenada's director of public prosecution said a 41-year-old man was charged with having sex with an unidentified 17-year-old man. The Caribbean island had a law against homosexual acts on the books but was rarely enforced. A 2010 United Nations report said the penalty on most Caribbean islands, including Grenada, is up to 10 years in prison, although Barbados and Guyana have life imprisonment. Links: Gays, Grenada
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2011 Dec 26 |
In Grenada Oscar Bartholomew (39) of Toronto, was beaten into a coma after he mistook a plainclothes female police officer for a friend and lifted her for a hug in front of a police station. Bartholomew was visiting family on the island and died the next day. Officers Kenton Hazzard and Wendell Sylvester were detained on Dec 29. On Jan 1, 2012, police officers Edward Gibson, Shaun Ganness and Ruddy Felix were also arrested and charged in the beating death. Links: Grenada, Mad Police
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2013 Mar |
The government of Grenada defaulted on its dollar bonds. Links: Grenada
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2013 Jun 28 |
Legislators in Grenada approved a bill that makes it a crime to offend people through websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Links: Internet, Grenada
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2013 |
The population of Grenada was about 100,000. Links: Grenada
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2015 Jan 5 |
Grenada's PM Keith Mitchell said the eastern Caribbean island will only have to pay half of a $22 million debt it owes Taiwan with a payment plan for loans it awarded over a 10-year period.. Links: Taiwan, Grenada
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2016 Jan 24 |
In Grenada Georgia tourist Jessica Colker (39) was killed a machete attack as she and her husband, Brian Melito, walked along a beach on the southeast of the island. The next day suspect Dave Martin Benjamin (27) turned himself over to police. Links: Murder, Grenada
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2017 Dec 5 |
The European Union put 17 non-EU countries on a blacklist of those it deems guilty of unfairly offering tax avoidance schemes. They Included: American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam, South Korea, Macau, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, St. Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates. Over 40 more were put on a "grey list" to be monitored until they are fully committed to reforms. Links: Bahrain, Panama, UAE, EU, Mongolia, South Korea, Marshall Islands, Trinidad&Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Guam, Samoa, Tunisia, Namibia, Palau, Macau, Amer. Samoa
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2018 Jan 23 |
European Union finance ministers agreed to remove eight jurisdictions from the bloc's blacklist of tax havens, one month after the list was set up. Barbados, Grenada, South Korea, Macao, Mongolia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates joined Panama as jurisdictions delisted following commitments made at a high political level to remedy EU concerns. Links: Panama, UAE, EU, Mongolia, South Korea, Barbados, Grenada, Tunisia, Macau
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2021 Apr 8 |
Digital cash called DCash, created by Barbados-based fintech company Bitt, became available in St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada and St. Kitts and Nevis. Links: Money, Barbados, Antigua, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis
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