PR – D Movement, which is about to have its formal launch under the leadership of MP Peter David, says it believes in consensus, and bringing people together, to tackle healthcare needs and other issues that are “enemies’’ hampering Grenada’s development.
“Let us try to make Grenada a better place. A place we know it can be if we come together and just stop all the bickering,’’ David said in an interview on the Sunday show, The Bubb Report.
David, a four-time Member of Parliament for the Town of St George, has served in the cabinets of governments led by the New National Party (NNP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He said D Movement eschews the “deeply tribalized’’ nature of Grenada’s politics, where too many supporters of the NNP and NDC treat one another as “enemies’’.
“Consensus across the table’’ is important in planning the development of the country, said David, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism.
“We need to come together. We need to, first of all, identify who is the enemy. The enemy is not your NDC or your NNP neighbour,’’ he emphasized.
“The enemy is high cost of living; the enemy is lack of healthcare; the enemy is lack of proper education; the enemy is lack of resources for persons to establish businesses; these are our enemies,’’ David explained.
“The enemy we are confronting is the enemy of underdevelopment that has plagued us. I believe, and we believe, that in order to fight that, we have to cease and desist from this tribal war, where we just fight one another.’’
D Movement, after months of planning and dozens of meetings nation-wide, will hold its formal launch on Sunday, November 16, at the Grenada Trade Centre in Morne Rouge.
The launch is open to Grenadians of all political persuasions and political colours, David said.
“I hope that when people come to the launch, they come in their green jersey, they come in their yellow jersey, they come in their blue jersey, they come in their pink jersey. Come with whatever regalia you want to wear, but come listen to us,’’ David urged.
“We have something we believe we can offer that can help advance Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.’’
David, citing figures showing that some 26,000 eligible voters did not cast ballots in the 2022 national polls, expressed confidence in the political viability of D Movement, which will be contesting Grenada’s upcoming general election.
“I believe that the objective circumstances out there now have caused people to want to look in another direction,’’ said David. “I believe that, at this time, there are sufficient people dissatisfied with what has taken place over the last 30 or 40 years among the major parties, and they are looking in another direction.’’
D Movement is about “a new type of politics that draws our people together’’ and “focuses on the issues that touch and concern people’s lives’’, said David.
“What we trying to do is to make politics simply about service,’’ he said.
