ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC—The Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) recently donated US$25,000 to help repair the roof of the police station on Carriacou, which Hurricane Beryl damaged on July 1.
Pastor Terrence Griffith, the head of the most prominent African/American Church in Pennsylvania in the United States, handed over the cheque. Griffith traveled to Carriacou last week to see first-hand the damage done to the Police Station and many of the villages on the sister island.
The top brass of the Police Force, including Commissioner of Police Don McKenzie, Deputy Commissioner of Police Jessmon Prince, and Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Vannie Curwen, attended the handing-over ceremony at Sister Isle.
In accepting the cheque, Mc Kenzie said this “generous donation” could not have come at a better time, given the significant damage done to the Police Station at Hillsborough by the high winds of Beryl.
He said RGPF hopes to use the funds to enhance the station’s structural integrity and better serve the Carriacou community.
The island’s chief cop hoped the roof would be restored to withstand “any future challenge.”
In remarks at the ceremony, Rev. Griffith, who was a Grenada Senator in the 1980s under the Congress government then led by former Prime Minister George Brizan, said he was distraught to see the damage done by Beryl in Carriacou and gave assurances that his Church is committed to sending Engineers, Carpenters, and construction workers to help in the rebuilding process.