WORKING TO DEFEAT KEY GOVERNMENT MINISTER
 Joseph Gilbert With Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell hinting last weekend that he is ready to call general elections sometime after April 20, an opposition candidate says he is confident of defeating one of the Prime Minister's key cabinet ministers.
Joseph Gilbert, who will be running for the National Democratic
Congress in St. Patrick West, wants to unseat Anthony Boatswain,
Minister of Economic Development.
Gilbert, an engineer, said his campaign team has been working consistently hard.
"We have been doing our work, canvassing. Our infrastructure is second
to none and I'm satisfied that it would be a victory for us in St.
Patrick West,'' said Gilbert. "We have a good team in place, a sincere
team, a hardworking team and we have been working consistently over the
last 3 to 4 years.''
Gilbert said that with cost of living constantly on the rise, party
leader Tillman Thomas and the NDC are re-committing to easing the
burden on the poor, especially those living in the northern part of
Grenada.
One of the NDC's initiatives would be to offer services to people right
in their communities in the north, explained Gilbert. The NDC proposes
the establishment of a government services' department, as well as
setting up a branch of T.A. Marryshow Community College (TAMCC) in
northern Grenada.
"As far as possible,'' said Gilbert, "we will attempt to provide all
the services that are now rendered in St. George's. Brother Tillman
has been mentioning time and again the issue of TAMCC, saying that we
need to establish a branch of TAMCC in the north of the island. That
will be a tremendous benefit to all the parents who now have to find
money to send their children all the way to St., George's to seek
higher education.''
The overall objective of an NDC government will be to find "ways and
means to make it easier for the people of St. Patrick and, in general,
the north of the island, to get services that are now being given only
in St. George's,'' Gilbert said.
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