The Bomb - Bishop Gone Power Crazy, 30 March 1979 - unsigned"The BOMB" was a weekly newspaper from Port of Spain, Trinidad. Primarily, its owners/reporter-writers were Ian Gooding, the late Keith [Sheppy] Shepherd and the late Patrick Chookolingo [Choko]. Publishing of the BOMB is confirmed from 1970 through 11 June 1982; but the paper was published beyond that date range. Copies of this newspaper are rare. A collection being processed into microfilm may eventually be available online. The BOMB's style tended towards the provocative, a "National Enquirer" tell-all tabloid written on a base of common sense. A drift towards the sensational became more pronounced as the years passed. It was in this newspaper that stories of "Red [Communist] Bishop" and the Cubans originated. Although people claimed outrageousness from the BOMB, this newspaper was one of the few in outright derision of the rise of the Grenada Revolution and most who called themselves 'revolutionaries'. Consider the article below published in No. 453 of Friday's BOMB of 30 March 1979: ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY BOMBS were seized by the new Communist regime of Maurice Bishop in Grenada last weekend [03/30/79]. |