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

July 11, 2005

Show Me Your Company or Birds of a Feather

Once or twice can be forgiven as a mistake. Past that, it becomes a habit. It has become a HABIT of members of our government to consort with persons of dubious reputation and character, much to the detriment of Grenada. In this regard, our Rt. Hon. Prime Minister heads the list – consorting with internationally renowned fraudsters like Eric Resteiner, Viktor Kozeny a.k.a. “the Pirate of Prague”, Van Brink of First International Bank of Grenada notoriety! So it comes as no surprise that his peons in the party and in Cabinet follow the example.

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