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

August 12, 2019

Loan Authorization Bill 2019

One the eve of Carnival – Friday, August 9th – the honorable House of Representatives met to “deliberate” on a suite of bills. Among them were the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Bill, 2019 and two money bills: – a Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2019 for an amount of $9,967,790 for the period August 1st to December 31st, 2019. ………; a Budget Loan Authorization Bill, 2019 to authorize the Minister to borrow an amount not exceeding EC$118.8 M, from various sources.

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