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

June 25, 2007

Letter to Hon. Yolande Bain-Horsford re Conduct and Grenada 13 Resentencing

Hon. Minister, as a member of the Executive, your responsibility goes beyond your personal loss and grief. As a member of Government and of the political leadership of this country, it requires that, in spite of your own personal grief and loss, your responsibility should be to promote healing and reconciliation of the nation. Therefore, Hon. Minister, I consider some of your public utterances, particularly your comments on the Judge’s ruling, inappropriate and unfortunate (to say the least)…….

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