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“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

CITIZENS IN DEFENCE OF GRENADA’S LANDS AND HERITAGE

CDGLH May Day March Statement

May 1, 2008

That is why we taken a stand today.  We are sending a clear message to all – the government, the developers, our regulators, our elected officials, those in office and those who will offer themselves for office – no cottages on the lagoon!   We will not stand idly by and permit ourselves to become second class citizens in our island while we witness the new breed of pirates and buccaneers wax fat with the full support of our government.

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CDGLH Press Release:  A Call to Action

April 28, 2008

We, the people of Grenada, need to send a clear message to the developers, our representatives, our decision – makers and regulatory authorities.  We will not continue to stand idly by and look at reclamation and the destruction of the Lagoon Park.

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Statement by Citizens in Defence of Grenada’s Lands & Heritage

April 28, 2008

We witness with the gravest concern the secret and wanton disposal of our prized lands, sea fronts. Lagoons, national parks and forested areas. We witness the scant regard that is being paid to ecological considerations and environmental regulations by our administrators and developers of these properties.

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Re Squatter Funds

November 6, 2007

Broadcaster, George Grant, one of the media persons who visited Beausejour site on Friday, November 2nd, 2007.  Beausejour is one of the sites to which residents of the Islander Gap – Mt. Panday, had been removed.  On Sunday, November 4th, 2007, via Grenada Broadcast, George hosted a Sundays with George Grant programme on the visit.  Sen. Brenda Hood was one of his guests.

Following the programme, Rick Hallam, Director of Operations (DeSavary Group) sent  e-mail to Sen. Hood advising as follows:-   Port Louis have contributed an initial $425,000.00 USD. Government contributed $400,000.00 USD from funds paid to them by Port Louis as a part of the H.O.A.   Port Louis has subsequently contributed a further $500,000.00 USD, to date, in various installed payments to total of $1,325,000.00 USD.

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Letter to Ministers re Displacement/Relocation of Islander Hill- Mt. Pandy Residents

October 29, 2007

I write to you in my private, individual capacity, as a conscientious and concerned citizen. I feel compelled to write to you, Honourable Ministers, to ask you to intervene to ameliorate the appalling even dehumanizing conditions into which persons from the Mt. Pandy/Islander Gap area have been relocated to make way for the Port Louis development of billionaire/millionaire, Peter de Savary. I must express my disgust at the insensitive and uncaring manner in which these persons are being treated.

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