Grenada, CMC - As he gets ready to face an electorate in a general election on February 19, Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas is patting himself on the back as it relates to repealing legislation regarding criminal libel in his tiny Caribbean island.

“We are the only country in the Caribbean that has spoken about repealing the legislation and actually doing so,” he told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), citing the need for the media to “be able to carry out its function without much hindrance”.

But while Grenada would have repealed criminal libel laws in July 2012, references to seditious libel remain in the Criminal Code, even though Prime Minister Thomas in an address to media workers in December said that these laws would be removed soon.