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	Grenada 17 Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bernard Coard, a Grenadian, his Jamaican wife Phyllis and 15 other former government ministers and members of the military have been in prison in Grenada since the United States invasion of the island in 1983.
		Bernard, Phyllis and 15 others (who have become known internationally as the "Grenada 17") were tried in 1986 for their alleged part in Bishop’s death, and found guilty of murder.
		Bernard and his fellow prisoners have issued an apology for the misjudgement of their government, which led to the tragedy of October 1983.
	www.grenada17.cwc.net /Background.htm (668 words)

	Red Biography: Daniel De Leon
		Coard's thirst for power had succeeded, but his success was short-lived.
		As for Coard, he is occupying a jail cell in Grenada for a life sentence.
		While Bishop's government and life were cut short tragically by extremists from both ends of the political spectrum, he remains a light of hope for socialists who see his participatory and egalitarian regime as a perfect example of how a workers' and peasants' government can be arranged.
	reds.linefeed.org /bios/bishop.html (633 words)

	A Letter From Bernard Coard February 2001
		Coard was even sent to trial, [far less convicted], given the extraordinarily flimsy nature of the evidence presented against her at the Preliminary Inquiry.
		Coard is presently ‘in a hotel in Australia’, Mrs.
		Coard is still under medical care in Jamaica, and hoping to proceed to Australia in the near future.
	www.geocities.com /elethinker/RG/coardpr.html (850 words)

	Invasion of Grenada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Invasion of Grenada, known to U.S. forces as Operation Urgent Fury, was an invasion of the island nation of Grenada by the military forces of the United States and several Caribbean nations.
		On October 25, 1983, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was executed by Bernard Coard's Stalinist sect, the United States armed forces landed troops on the beaches of Grenada.
		In 1979, a bloodless coup d'état, led by New Jewel Movement leader Maurice Bishop, toppled the government of Eric Gairy to establish a Marxist-Leninist government that quickly aligned itself with the Soviet Union and Cuba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada (1043 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Opportunity locked
		In 1970, Bernard Coard, a Grenadian academic and teacher living in the UK, came upon the first study of immigrant children in London ESN schools, conducted by the now defunct Inner London Education Authority.
		Coard took power briefly before Ronald Reagan's administration invaded the island and toppled his government.
		Coard describes a multitude of factors that combine to depress achievement among fl boys.
	education.guardian.co.uk /racism/story/0,10795,1402532,00.html (1420 words)

	Grenada Coup Inmates Stay, Ride Out Ivan - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		Coard and the others alternated sitting and standing as the storm struck, some later saying they told jokes to mask their fear.
		Coard said some inmates balanced on a wooden beam to reach the broken wall after the storm passed.
		Originally 17 people were sentenced for their role in the 1983 coup, but Coard's wife, Phyllis, was freed in 2000 to undergo cancer treatment and now lives in Kingston, Jamaica, where Ivan was nearing on Friday with ferocious winds.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5963874 (789 words)

	Maurice Bishop
		As a young man Bishop developed an interest in politics and in 1962 joined with Bernard Coard to form the Grenada Assembly of Youth After Truth.
		Bernard Coard, the Minister of Finance, disagreed with this policy.
		Bernard Coard and 13 others were sentenced to death but these sentences were commuted to life-imprisonment in 1991.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDbishop.htm (1459 words)

	Caribbean Net News
		People were angry with Coard and his gang during that period but as years gone bye, a new generation of Grenadians are not too aware of the old political era.
		The alliance between the right wing fraction of the NDC and some of Bernard Coard comrades is also a plus for the Coard himself.
		While all these political games are going on, Bernard Coard and his gang of urban Marxists are in prison analysing the political situation.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /cgi-bin/GPrint2002.pl?file=2005/02/21/letter1.shtml (723 words)

	Statement by the Ministry of Legal Affairs
		Re: The recent judgement by the Court of Appeal in the matter of the Constitution of Grenada and in the matter of an application by Bernard Coard and others for redress pursuant to Section 16 of the Constitution of Grenada for contraventions of Sections 3,5 and 8 in relation to them.
		Between the Attorney General versus Bernard Coard, Callistus Bernard, Lester Redhead, Christopher Stroude, Hudson Austin, Liam James, Leon Cornwall, John Anthony Ventour, Dave Bartholomew, Ewart Layne, Colville McBarnette, Selwyn Strachan and Cecil Prime.
		We believe that the ruling and sentiment of the Court of Appeal mirror and reflect the sentiments of an overwhelming majority of the Grenadian population.
	www.nnpnews.com /News-2005/Feb05/statement-by-the-ministry-of-legal-affairs.htm (239 words)

	Invasion of Grenada - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Soon after, a faction led by the strongly pro-Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard seized power; Coard's forces subsequently executed Bishop during mass protests in Bishop's favor.
		The US also claimed that the airstrip was built to accommodate Soviet and Cuban transport craft to carry arms to aid Central American insurgents; Bishop's government claimed that it was built to accommodate commercial aircraft carrying tourists.
		Bernard Gewertzman disputed the US government's reasons in an article in the October 29 issue of the New York Times: "The wording of the formal request, however, was drafted in Washington and conveyed to the Caribbean leaders by special American emissaries.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Grenada (603 words)

	The Tragedies of October
		As is customary many of its pseudo politicians have come out of their hibernation to attack their favorite opponents, Bernard Coard and his imprisoned colleagues.
		That is, the case of Bernard Coard and others who today languish in Her Majesty's Prison at Richmond Hill.
		Bernard Coard and his fellow sixteen political prisoners have been imprisoned for fifteen years, following what many see as a scandalously unfair trial and appeal for the murder of Prime Minister Bishop and ten other persons.
	www.grenada17.cwc.net /Ian1.htm (1270 words)

	Biography: Bernard Coard - The Education Forum
		Bernard Coard was born in Grenada on 10th August 1944.
		As a young man Coard developed an interest in politics and in 1962 joined with Bishop to form the Grenada Assembly of Youth After Truth.
		This sentence was commuted to life-imprisonment in 1991.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=3133 (557 words)

	The Education Forum > Biography: Bernard Coard
		Feb 6 2005, 05:38 PM Bernard Coard was born in Grenada on 10th August 1944.
		Coard studied at the Grenada Boys Secondary School where he met Maurice Bishop.
		Bernard Coard, along with Phyllis Coard, Selwyn Strachan, John Ventour, Liam James and Keith Roberts, were arrested on 31st October 1983.
	educationforum.ipbhost.com /lofiversion/index.php/lofiversion/t3133.html (536 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Keeping Bernard Coard in prison will make him a Grenadian hero
		Not too long ago, The Grenada High Court set Coard and his gang free and the Government appealed the verdict and won this time around, through the Caribbean Court of Appeal.
		Even though Coard and his gang might be disappointed with this present verdict, they still can breathe easier than fifteen years ago, when they were almost hanged for the ruthless method of getting rid of their political rivals in a power struggle.
		The amazing thing about the whole situation is that Bernard Coard's ambition for power caused him to be where he is in jail.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/02/21/letter1.shtml (804 words)

	RootsWomen.com - Weblog
		The following interview with Bernard Coard, former deputy Prime Minister of Grenada’s People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) was conducted by Grenadian Journalist Leroy Noel for The Camera.
		Coard is one of the 17 persons convicted for the death of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his cabinet colleagues that led to the US invasion of the island in 1983.
		The trial of Coard and 16 of his colleagues -- known as the Grenada 17 -- raised eyebrows across the world, and even Amnesty International slammed it as a travesty.
	www.rootswomen.com /weblog/archives/archive-022005.html (1755 words)

	Re: Bernard Coard Tells A Mouthful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		My sense was that Coard was being very contrite about his role in the October 1983 events.
		That should not be clouded by his refusal to accept the manner in which his and his co-defendants' trial was conducted.
		If, as Coard contended, those safeguards were deliberately thwarted, he has a right to say so.
	www.spiceislandertalkshop.com /talkshop/messages/326523.html (608 words)

	Re: Bernard Coard Interview
		In Response To: Bernard Coard Interview LINK (ankhkara)
		Coard has more integrity than the combined leadership of the vast majority of Caribbean leaders who permitted themselves to be prostituted with respect to allegations of Caribbean Unity in support of the invasion of Grenada.
		If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
	www.trinidadandtobagonews.com /forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/2751 (157 words)

	Bernard Coard
		Coard moved to the United States to study economics and sociology at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
		In 1967 he moved to England and studied political economy at Sussex University in Brighton.
		In 1976 Coard returned to Grenada and soon became active in politics and joined the New Jewel Movement (NJM), an organization created by his boyhood friend,
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDcoard.htm (654 words)

	Grenada Update
		They easily overthrew Castro allies Bernard Coard and Gen. Hudson Austin who only a few weeks earlier had overthrown (with some violence) the Castro-leaning regime of personally popular Maurice Bishop.
		The least popular were Fidel Castro (18 percent pro and 74 percent con) and Bernard Coard (8 percent pro and 86 percent con) who had joined Austin in deposing Maurice Bishop.
		For many, the only villains are still Austin (Bishop's general), Coard (Bishop's deputy), and the Cubans (Bishop's friends).
	www.gwu.edu /~pad/202/readings/grenada.html (1664 words)

	Cherokee Nation v. United States, Case 11.071, Report No. 6/97, Inter-Am.C.H.R.,OEA/Ser.L/V/II.95 Doc. 7 rev. at 610 ...
		The petition on behalf of the seventeen claimants was filed before the Commission on July 25, 1991, and processed in accordance with its Regulations.
		It presented a declaration, signed by the now-retired officer, setting forth his recollection that petitioners Austin and Coard were taken prisoner in the early days of the operation.
		To declare that in the case of Bernard Coard and sixteen other petitioners, the United States has failed to uphold the standards set forth in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man insofar as the arrest and incommunicado detention of the petitioners are concerned.
	www.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/1999/us109-99.html (11328 words)

	Interview with Bernard Coard 2005
		Bernard Coard is one of the 17 persons convicted for the death of Maurice Bishop and several of his cabinet colleagues.
		The trial of the 17 also raised eyebrows across the world and was denounced by several international organisations.
		Were I to remain in Grenada, each time electricity goes when Dr. Mitchell is addressing his supporters, or children play with firecrackers near his car, “Bernard Coard” would be held responsible.
	www.pipeline.com /~rougeforum/interviewcoard.html (2495 words)

	Cascon Case GRE: Grenada 1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bernard Coard formed a radical student group, OREL, which he later used to control NJM and its developing clandestine military wing.
		In the 1976 elections Bishop led the opposition in alliance with moderate social democrats, some of whom left as Coard's strength increased.
		The 1979 oil shock and brutal Mongoose Gang police further destabilized Gairy's government.
	web.mit.edu /cascon/cases/case_gre.html (314 words)

	Re: Bernard Coard Tells A Mouthful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		If we take Bishop at his word, however, most of his career he was a Marxist/Leninist, that is one of the reasons for his close, personal realtionship with Coard.
		The Coard faction of the party apparently never waivered from their Leninist views.
		Re: Bernard Coard Tells A Mouthful talkshop exile 22-Jan-2005 22:34:01 (
	www.spiceislandertalkshop.com /talkshop/messages/327289.html (153 words)

	Bernard Coard and the New Jewel Movement
		What will people in the future need to know that might be learned from the NJM?
		I spent a lot of time with Coard.
		I do not think he is an egomaniac.
	www.marxmail.org /archives/january99/newjewel.htm (929 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Why I wrote the 'ESN book'
		Thirty years ago a book by a Grenadian writer about the number of fl British children being sent to schools for the educationally subnormal caused outrage in the community.
		Here author Bernard Coard describes how the 'ESN book' came to be written and its relevance to today's fl children
		01.02.2005: Opportunity locked: Polly Curtis on Bernard Coard's book
	education.guardian.co.uk /racism/story/0,10795,1406216,00.html (3593 words)

	Bad Subjects: Evildoer Caught! No Secrets Revealed! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		International interest will not idly let this big fish, Saddam Hussein, languish incommunicado in Guantanamo.
		Hopefully the dictator will not disappear forgotten in American brigs, like Bernard Coard of Grenada or Noriega of Panama, both removed from power by American occupation forces in the 1980s.
		Some clues to how Saddam will be treated in captivity might be gleaned from interviews with the U.S. President and cabinet.
	bad.eserver.org /editors/2003/2003-12-21.html (1279 words)

	Grenada -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Daniel Williams
		In March 2000 Phyllis Coard—who along with her husband, Bernard Coard, and 15 others serving life sentences for the 1983 murder of former Grenadan prime minister Maurice Bishop and many of his close supporters—was temporarily released from prison on compassionate grounds and allowed to seek treatment in her native Jamaica for colon cancer.
		A constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth, Grenada (with its dependency, the Southern Grenadines) is situated in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9344102 (598 words)

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