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
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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…….

Judgment, CLAIM NO. GDAHCV2009/0229

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