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

July 15, 2010

C & N Port Louis Marina 2009, Let the Progress Continue

So, in the name of progress and development (“let the progress continue”?) the “powers that be” permitted Camper and Nicholsons to occupy part of the Lagoon Park and to fill in an area adjacent to that part of the park without the requisite Environmental Impact Assessment and, as far as could have been observed without compliance to  the required mitigating measures, silt traps and rock abutments.   It also seemed that people’s issues were no longer of any consequence.

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Camper & Nicholas Port Louis Marina 2009

So, in the name of progress and development (“let the progress continue”?) the “powers that be” permitted Camper and Nicholsons to occupy part of the Lagoon Park and to fill in an area adjacent to that part of the park without the requisite Environmental Impact Assessment and, as far as could have been observed without compliance to the required mitigating measures, silt traps and rock abutments. It also seemed that people’s issues were no longer of any consequence.

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