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 30, 2008

Cap Bank:  To Be or Not to Be

“The New National Party administration, led by Dr. Keith Mitchell, was well aware that Capital Bank Int. was not duly licenced. All banks in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, of which Grenada is a part, are licensed on the recommendation of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. This procedure is provided for in the law which set up the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to be the sole, regulatory authority of all banks, foreign or indigenous, operating in the sub-region. Dr. Keith Mitchell therefore acted outside of the law when he re-issued a licence to the bank without the review and recommendation of the ECCB…”

Read More »