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 31, 2017

SAP and the Grenada Co-operative Nutmeg Assn.

In its Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies annexed to the Letter of Intent of June 12th, 2014 through which Grenada entered into an agreement with the IMF, Grenada committed “to liberalize certain sectors to boost private sector participation and expand capacity.” Among those sectors identified for liberalization were the nutmeg and cocoa sectors: – “the Government will support the liberalization of the nutmeg and cocoa sectors, so as to encourage increased efficiency, and boost farmers’ incomes. This was categorized as a measure intended to “boost growth and social protection”

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