PART TWO – [By J. K. Roberts (Sound Public Policies Advocate); circulated on Monday, 02 November 2020]. The sanctioned qualifications for a citizen of the Commonwealth to be registered as a voter for the purposes of elections of members of the House of Representatives of Grenada are outlined under section 32 of the national constitution, […]
PART TWO [ By J. K. Roberts (Sound Public Policies Advocate); Circulated on Tuesday, 06 October 2020 ]. Despite the flaws of the standard pattern and practice adopted in Grenada, the integral role that rewarding general elections play in ensuring a thriving democracy, political stability and national prosperity must not be underestimated. General elections provide […]
PART ONE [ By J. K. Roberts (Sound Public Policies Advocate); Circulated on Tuesday, 06 October 2020 ]. Would Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell with his New National Party (NNP) lose any more general elections in Grenada; at least in the near future? Many individuals of almost every persuasion (academic, social, religious, business and political) […]
[By J. K. Roberts (Sound Public Policies Advocate); Circulated on Monday, 21st September 2020]. The office of the Supervisor of Elections is actually the Parliamentary Elections Office (PEO), in which the Supervisor of Elections (SOE) is assigned with the primary role of exercising general supervision over the registration of voters in elections of the members […]
(By JK. Roberts, Sound Public Policies Advocate; Circulated on Sunday, 06 September 2020). A general election is next due in Grenada in the year 2023 unless earlier, if decided at the pleasure of the Prime Minister or if called at the deliberate judgment of the Governor-General; according to section 52 of the constitution. This section […]
(By JK. Roberts, Sound Public Policies Advocate; Circulated on Thursday, 27th August 2020). The government of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell, who is also responsible for national security, alludes to loopholes and limitations in the pertinent legislations, including its enforcing mechanisms, that prevented the authority from taking immediate actions against the ‘open rebellion’ of the […]
(By J. K. Roberts, Sound Public Policies Advocate; Circulated on Wednesday, 5th August 2020). Amidst vehement outcries from a broad cross-section of the general public, including ‘unusually’ the legal fraternity and the youthful generation, the government of Prime Minister Keith Mitchell had been pressured to assemble in order to delay for “formal public consultation”, a […]
By Karl Duckworth, Principal Officer, U.S. Embassy Grenada This is my first Emancipation Day in Grenada. It is well worth celebrating that in 1833, across the British Caribbean, nearly a million people were freed from slavery. Although we don’t have a national holiday in the United States to mark the emancipation from slavery, many states […]
By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General A lethal combination of disease, extreme climate events and economic crises is threatening the smallest and most vulnerable nations of the world. To tackle it, we must overhaul how we understand and address economic vulnerability. The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered a massive global recession. Meanwhile, a record number of […]
