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

GOVERNANCE

When the Law Is an Ass or Was It

The “law is an ass” kept reverberating in my head when I heard about the verdict and fine handed down in the case of an adult male who induced a 5-year old boy left in his care, to perform sexual acts on him – a $2,100 fine, $1,500 to be paid to the government coffers and $600 to be paid for counselling services to the child. What a travesty! What insult! What indignity to the personhood of the child and his family!! Less we forget, it is INJUSTICES like these which cause those who have been violated to take the law into their own hands with TRAGIC consequences for all!!

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Citizens Standing UP and Speaking Out

The issue at hand is that Mt. Pure was denied a vendors licence to sell its products at official Carnival events since a competitor, Glenelg already had an agreement/arrangement with SMC to be an official sponsor of SMC events and therefore its products enjoy exclusive rights at all official Carnival events.

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Letter to Steering Committee re CCJ Bill 2018

I take this opportunity to write to you in my individual capacity, as a citizen and member of the electorate – unschooled in law and legal interpretation – to offer (an) observation(s) and request clarification in respect of the Agreement to Establish the CCJ that will replace the Appeals to Privy Council Order via the proposed Constitution of Grenada (Caribbean Court of Justice and Renaming of the Supreme Court) (Amendment) Bill , 2018.

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