Andrew Sage

The revolution was bad, but bishop was good crowd.

You get all sorts of interpretations of these kinds of traumatic historical events.

And the outcome to this day is, you know, fair.

Unhealed open wounds.

The youth, the passionate radical youth of yesteryear, keeping their heads down and out of politics today.

Unfortunately, very little has been done in Grenada to deal with the traumas of the invasion besides an attempted Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which failed miserably.

Due to a couple different obstacles, an unwillingness to reconcile among some, the continued incarceration of certain individuals, unrecovered remains,

anger towards entire sectors the population at the execution of bishop and others yeah and so in the years that have followed there's been a subdued political consciousness among much of the population

They have risen to the challenge of the US inviting themselves to set up shop in Maurice Bishop International Airport.

There were many actions taking place in Grenada to speak up and to stand against that intervention.

But for the most part, the populace has been disengaged from the sort of radical passion that you saw in that time period.

And it didn't help, of course, that pretty much right after the revolution, you had a series of natural disasters.

In September of 2004, after being hurricane-free for 49 years, the island was hit by Hurricane Ivan, a Category 3 hurricane that resulted in 39 deaths and the damage or destruction to 90% of the island's homes.

In 2005, which is the following year, Hurricane Emily, a Caterbury 1 hurricane, struck the island and killed a person.

In 2024, Hurricane Beryl struck the island of Carriacou.

And so we're already dealing with the environmental instability of being a Caribbean island.

But now you also have to deal with the political and social instability of such a traumatic incident.

Before we close, I do want to get into some of the critiques that I had of this project.

You know, I'm not the type of person to look at these historical moments, no matter my allegiance to the exposed politics of the people in them, and want to paint them in a narrow or simplistic brush.

You know, I think I see that tendency across all groups.