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

March 24, 2005

Re Oxygen Availability at Hospital

On the To the Point programme of the Grenada Broadcasting Network on February 21st, a number of callers expressed their concern about the condition of what is supposed to be our “state of the art hospital”. The particular concern being addressed by callers on this programme was the unavailability of adequate quantities of oxygen. One caller spoke of having to be taken off her oxygen in order to make it available for some one who was in much more serious condition than herself.

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