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

September 29, 2007

Re NNP Perspective – Is this the repercussion of an err in judgement

The Perspective comments on the outcome of the case against Fazel Sayed, a 35-year old Indian national charged with the murder of his wife, Gillian Celestine. Sayed had fled to England where he was arrested in July 2002 and spent more than three (3) years awaiting extradition to Grenada. He was convicted in April 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Following hearing in the Court of Appeal, his sentence was reduced to 22 years to run from the day of his arrest in July 2002.

Read More »

Letter to Hon. Ministers re NNP Perspective

May I remind you that years of work were rolled back when your administration came into office in 1995. One of the first acts of your administration was to dismantle the Family court which had come into being under the watch of Dr. Francis Alexis as Attorney-General in the administration of the National Democratic Congress. It was a narrow, partisan act which was unconcerned with the impact that this action (of dismantling the court) would have on the welfare of women and children that the Court was primarily intended to protect and serve.

Read More »