We the People - Grenada

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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

Capital Bank International

Judgment, CLAIM NO. GDAHCV2009/0229

“Grenada:  In the Supreme Court of Grenada and the West Indies Associated States High Court of Justice (Civil)between the Attorney-General (Claimant) and Seaview Corporation Limited (Defendant) and Phoenix Company Limited (Added Defendant)..”

……The Defendant being an Alien under the Laws of Grenada applied for and was

granted an Alien Land Holders Licence on 1st February 1966 by the Government

of Grenada to hold the said lot of land. The Defendant represented to the

Government and proposed to carry out a development on the property.

…….It was a condition of the licence that the Defendant would grant the offshore island

L’Islette to the Government of Grenada and begin its proposed project within two

years of the grand of the licence, that is, before 1968.

…….The island L’Islette was never conveyed to the Government of Grenada and the

proposed project was never commenced by the Defendant within the stated time

frame of two years.

……The property was conveyed to Phoenix Limited sometime during the course of

1989. However, the original deed was misplaced and apparently never registered

at the Deeds and Land Registry, but copies of the said document do exist and

have been annexed to the various applications before this Court.

…….Phoenix Limited also applied for and received concessions approved by Cabinet.

These concessions were communicated to Phoenix by way of letter from the

Grenada Industrial Development Corporation dated 18th December 1987 and

addressed to Phoenix’s local agent, Mr. George de Bourg…….

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Cap Bank:  To Be or Not to Be

“The New National Party administration, led by Dr. Keith Mitchell, was well aware that Capital Bank Int. was not duly licenced. All banks in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, of which Grenada is a part, are licensed on the recommendation of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. This procedure is provided for in the law which set up the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to be the sole, regulatory authority of all banks, foreign or indigenous, operating in the sub-region. Dr. Keith Mitchell therefore acted outside of the law when he re-issued a licence to the bank without the review and recommendation of the ECCB…”

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Cap Bank Writes to Prime Minister Mitchell

“I respectfully remind you of your letter to Sir K. Dwight Venner in which you expressed the urgency  to have the Capital Bank matter resolved “because of the fundamental importance to our economy and the potential negative impact on the entire  Grenadian population if the issues are not resolved expeditiously”.  At this time you may need to reiterate the contents once again to the special attention of your colleagues of the Monetary Council of the ECCB…”

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Response to Chief Operating Officer, Cap Bank

“Until and unless otherwise stated, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and its Governor, Sir Dwight Venner, remain the credible authority on banking in the OECS sub-region. That authority is conferred by the treaty which established the ECCB on 5th July, 1983 and was incorporated into domestic law of Grenada by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Law 1983, People’s Law No. 23 of 1983…”

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The Damsel Rescues the Knight

“(At the risk of denigrating, and thus offending drunks) I must say that you argue like a drunk – a blindfolded and confused one at that – with meaningless babblings about my identity and diction, taking over of people’s property, a clumsy attempt to drag other people into the equation, and a litany of non-issues….”

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SANDRA RUSH IN, WHERE THE KNIGHT FEARED TO TREAD

“Over the past 8 years of CapBank’s massive growth, a handful of disgruntled discounts here in Grenada, have interchangeably been exhumed to rehash, and peddle the same old, tired allegations which Dwight Venner ladled out and quickly abandoned when he was brought to court by Capital Bank….”

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Response to Michael Stephen Bartholomew, Cap Bank

“Whether YOU like it or not, Mike, Sir Dwight IS the Governor of the Central Bank, to whose clearing facility Cap Bank is seeking admittance. You can rant and rave all you want – that does not change the price of salt fish!!  In keeping with your role as a high-flying executive in the corporate world of banking (?), it would be more tactful and intelligent to demonstrate a little respect…”

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Invitation to Invest in Native Hut Limited

“On behalf of the Capital Bank International Group, we extend an invitation to your organization to invest in the share equity of Native Hut Limited. Capital Bank has been given a mandate to raise the desired capital for expansion.  Native Hut Limited is the developer/operator of the South City Plaza showcasing Grenada’s newest hotel and duty free shopping mall…..”

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