We the People - Grenada

Keeping an eye on the people's business

“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
Lotte Scharfman
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
Louis Brandeis
“I wish I could shut up. But I can’t and I won’t.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
Benjamin Franklyn
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward Murrow
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
“When a government loses integrity, times are dangerous. When the populace accepts the loss, times are desperate.”
Pam Brown
“Every country gets the government it deserves.”
Joseph de Maistr
“Free and fair elections can give us a government of the people; but only an active, informed and vigilant citizen can give us a government by the people for the people.”
H. Kwasi Prempeh

April 20, 2004

Letter to Hon. Boatswain re Blue Lagoon Development

I have recently come across a reference to the Blue Lagoon Real Estate corp. (referring to what was formerly the Grenada Yacht Services) in a document entitled The Contribution of Yachting to the Development of the Eastern Caribbean: Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique (Draft). This document noted, “This property has recently changed hands, the intention being the construction of a multimillion dollar marina facility.”

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