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 17, 2006

To Hon. Tillman Thomas re Allegations of Impropriety

We are aware that the political culture that pervades Grenada and the rest of the Caribbean is one in which the “old boys’ club” prevails, favours are to be repaid and a blind eye turned to certain wrong-doings. It is also a numbers game which promotes “win at any cost”. Changing the political culture and political environment that characterizes Grenada is an enormous challenge but one that must be confronted if Grenada is to rise from the gutter politics into which it has been dragged. Among other things, it requires that leadership, at all levels, leads by example.

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