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

October 22, 2007

Re Respect for Institutions, TB in Prison et al

Hon. Minister, your reference to people having respect for institutions and positions of authority reminded me of your wish for 2007, made publicly on Sundays with George Grant programme sometime in December 2006 – your wish that we in Grenada would have respect for institutions. In your intervention on the GBN programme, you took the Grenada Bar Association and its President to task for what you considered to be the lack of respect for institutions and for persons of Authority, i.e. the Ministry of Health and its Chief Medical Officer. Hon. Minister, as my mother would comment, “Is the President and the Bar Association yuh have strength on!”

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