Ambassador Tross to Lead OAS Election Observation Mission in Grenada

Washington, D.C. – In a formal announcement released Thursday, October 29, 2026, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) confirmed it has selected seasoned Caribbean diplomat Ambassador Sherry Tross to head the international body’s official Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) deployed to Grenada in the lead-up to the country’s November 5 general elections. A widely respected figure in regional diplomatic circles, Ambassador Tross brings decades of relevant public service experience to the role, having previously served as Saint Kitts and Nevis’ High Commissioner to Canada, as well as the dual posting as her nation’s ambassador to both Mexico and Panama. Over the pre-election period in the final days before Grenadians head to the polls, the 2026 OAS EOM will conduct a series of structured, inclusive consultations with a full spectrum of electoral stakeholders: senior government representatives, independent electoral commission leadership, officials from all registered political parties, parliamentary and local candidates, grassroots civil society organizations, and independent electoral transparency advocates, to collect firsthand, unfiltered data on the administration, accessibility and fairness of the full electoral framework. On election day itself, trained OAS observers will fan out across all of Grenada’s constituencies to conduct unannounced, independent spot checks at polling stations, monitoring every stage of voting operations from the official opening of polling sites, voter verification and ballot casting protocols, through to the final closing of stations, manual vote counting, and centralized tabulation of results. In the immediate aftermath of the vote, the mission will publish a public preliminary report compiling its on-the-ground findings, paired with targeted, actionable policy recommendations designed to reinforce the integrity of Grenada’s electoral systems and shore up the long-term resilience of the country’s democratic institutions. This deployment marks the ninth official OAS Electoral Observation Mission to Grenada, continuing a longstanding institutional partnership that stretches back to the OAS’s first monitoring mission to the island nation in 1984. The 2026 observation initiative is being made possible through targeted financial backing from three OAS member states: Canada, Paraguay, and the United States.