Sir Paul Godwin Scoon GCMG GCVO OBE (4 July 1935 – 2 September 2013) was a Grenadian politician who served as governor-general of Grenada from 1978 to 1992.

[1] His tenure is notable for the hectic events related to the rise and fall of the People's Revolutionary Government, as well as his personal involvement in and support of the invasion of Grenada.

However, the following year, the New Jewel Movement — led by Maurice Bishop and Scoon's former pupils, Bernard Coard and Hudson Austin — overthrew Gairy in a popularly supported, nearly bloodless coup.

[3] The insurgents wanted to continue Grenada's status as a constitutional monarchy and retain the position of Governor-General to represent the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

In the course of a continuing power struggle, Bishop and three of his closest ministers were executed on 19 October by People's Revolutionary Army soldiers loyal to the Coard faction.

Scoon, acting through secret diplomatic channels, asked the United States and concerned Caribbean nations to intervene to restore peace and order to the island.

However, an independent expert examination later found a dubious constitutional basis for Scoon's call for foreign intervention and his assumption of executive and legislative power.

[6] After the invasion, however, Scoon was anxious for U.S. forces to leave as soon as possible, stating a fortnight after the intervention that he "cannot see people from abroad coming in to change our minds or souls and [the] whole heart of a society" and that "it is important that within the shortest possible time that we should live and work in a situation where security support takes the form of a police operation that will increasingly come under the command of a Grenadian or West Indian commissioner of police.