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

January 14, 2012

To Minister of Finance re Shared Sacrifice

Hon. Minister, the business of government requires revenue and government has the constitutional authority to raise revenue through taxes. Individuals and businesses have an obligation to pay taxes. But when a government gives up its right to collect taxes or to impose taxes in the future, as is the case of the agreement signed with the SGU, then it is no wonder that the government does not have revenue to conduct its business and meet its social obligations. How then can it call on individuals and local struggling businesses to make sacrifices?

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Levera Project Agreement re Levera Resort Development

The Levera Project Agreement made provisions for the recommencement of the project
by a start date of September 1st, 2007, failing which the Agreement would cease to have
effect and the Levera Crown Lands conveyed to the Company would be re-conveyed
back to the Government. The lands would be repurchased by the Government at the
original purchase price for which it was conveyed.

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