Book Reviews


 "NO BISHOP, NO REVO" or "THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK"

Gordon K. Lewis.
Grenada: The Jewel Despoiled.
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1987.


 Gairy squander all the money,
 and the Mongoose treat people like beast.
 Then Bishop take over the country,
 through party traitors he's deceased.

 Bajan come, John Compton, Eugenia and Seaga,
 had to import Yankee soldiers
 to stop the Grenada massacre,
 Cuba, que pasa?
 (The Mighty Sparrow's calypso "Grenada")

 . .the story of a retarded island community
 hijacked by people with slightly more education
 into the forms of a grandiose revolution. The
 revolution blew away and what was left in Grenada
 was a murder story.
 (V. S. Naipaul in Harper's Magazine)

 I find the blindness of dogmatism which transforms
 reality in the name of the "scientific approach."
 I find the intolerance which eliminates common-
 sense in the name of so-called "ideological
 level." I find, under a new disguise, the same
 old contempt of the people, their knowledge and
 emotions, their talents and their profound
 aspirations.
 (Jean Girard in Caribbean Contact)

 Grenada wouldn't have happened if other little
 island states hadn't been frightened into over-
 reacting. . .it takes only twelve men and a
 boat to put some of these governments out of
 business.
 (Sir Shridath Ramphal. secretary-general of the
 Commonwealth, quoted in the Trinidad Express)