GRENADA-POLITICS-Minority parties upset over non-use of original symbols

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Less than a week before Grenadians go to the polls to elect a new government, four minority political parties have been told they would not be able to have their advertised symbols placed on the ballot paper. The parties – The Movement for Independent Candidates (MIC), National United Front (NUF), the People United Labour Party (PULP) and the Grenada United Patriotic Movement (GUPM) – say they have been told that this is due to the fact that the symbols had not been officially gazetted. MIC leader Alban Abdurraheem Jones said he had received communication from the Parliamentary Elections Office on the issue despite having received an approval letter for the symbol since March 2012.