As Grenadians focus on celebrating the country’s 47th Independence anniversary, we here in the studios of Wee FM bring you snippets of voices of the man who led the charge towards that auspicious moment.
It’s a time in our history that will always call for reflection, a time in 1974 when there was political strife and peril; the yea’s and the nay’s…arguments among those for and against…still, today, Grenada lives on.
The voice there of the Father of the Nation, Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, speaking in Parliament at York House on the 7th of February, 1974, when Grenadians woke up to the news that it was Independence Day.
The country’s Red, Green and Gold-coloured flag was hoisted at a ceremony on Fort George at the lowering of the British Colonial Union Jack…
It was a ceremony held with the light of the culturally traditional masanto, because Grenada was under power outage brought on by the general workers strike against Independence, organized by what was named the Committee of 22.
Sir Eric was not daunted.
It was at this juncture, Sir Eric spoke of having recognized how the strikes affected the country’s economy and chided the organizers.
However, Sir Eric called on the Nation, all people, his political adversaries, everyone, to rally together for the good of Grenada.
He threw out this appeal.
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, the Father of the Nation, in Wee FM’s flashback of 47 years ago.
