ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA  APRIL 4TH- A web of private companies, government lawyers, and insider land transactions surrounding Grenada’s flagship hospital project — Project Polaris — has raised questions about who ultimately benefits from one of the country’s largest capital investments in decades.

At the center of the controversy is a straightforward but troubling question: why does a private company, and not the Government of Grenada, own the 84 acres of Calivigney Estate land on which the proposed medical city is to be built?

Conveyance documents show that Grenada Asset Bank Company Limited — a company established in August 2023 — purchased the 83.9 acres from Grenada Real Estate Corporation for EC$36 million.

The EC$16 million down payment came from the public consolidated fund, while the remaining EC$20 million was secured using government bonds — meaning taxpayers carry that debt at 5% interest over seven years.

No document identifies the Government of Grenada as the landowner.

What makes the transaction more difficult to explain is the involvement of people close to the very top of government.

The original conveyance was prepared by the Attorney General’s office and perused by Mitchell & Co., the Prime Minister’s own law firm.

More striking still, a separate company — Partners for Development Inc. — lists Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell and Andrea St. Bernard, the appointed Project Sponsor for Project Polaris, as directors.

On August 5, 2025, that company purchased 3 acres of land in the same Calivigney Estate area for EC$1.5 million, with the conveyance prepared by St. Louis & St. Louis, the law firm of the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff.

The same day, Partners for Development Inc. mortgaged that land back to the same company that had sold it to them — borrowing EC$1.25 million from Grenada Real Estate Corporation to help finance the purchase.

Public funds are financing a major national project on land a private company owns, while the Prime Minister’s personal company quietly acquires adjoining property — with his law firm, his Chief of Staff’s law firm, and his government’s legal office all touching the paperwork.

No wrongdoing has been legally established.

The Prime Minister and Andrea St. Bernard have not publicly responded to these specific allegations.

Sections of the public, however, are demanding answers.