I was on one of my hikes to visit my friend Mary Ross in Grand Anse Valley! While I was sitting there talking about her hard times and that of "Rogers Barefoot Beach Bar" her boyfriend (man friend, actually) my friend Tony Jeramiah, National Forestry sees me and stops by for some of Mary's good cooking! Damn it, he had to go because they were meeting with the Japanese about the IWC. They, the Japanese, are giving favors, bribing and buying votes within the IWC to acquire whaling rights here in Grenada and all over the Caribbean, in fact.

This is not new news...but we have to get involved...The Japanese say it's their national policy to help developing countries! BS...they will eat anything they can get from the sea and it will be void of everything that swims if they continue to have control of the IWC.

Let's vote to keep the ban in place...let the whales reproduce and eat something else for a while! The Grenadians are teaching at the school level to refrain from hunting during mating season....are they so desperate for monetary help they have to sell the whaling rights?

Bec