By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General Trade wars, protectionism, and nationalist rhetoric are combining to weave the possibility of a nightmare debt crisis that could be worse than any previously experienced. Global borrowing is now at the highest levels since the 1950s – and history suggests we should take this as a warning that a debt […]
Sitting of House of Representatives, Aug. 9th, 2019: On the eve of Carnival – Friday, August 9th – the honourable House of Representatives met to “deliberate” on a suite of bills. Among them were the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Bill, 2019 and two money bills: A Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2019 for an amount of $9,967,790 […]
By J. K. Roberts (Sound Public Policies Advocate); Circulated on Tuesday 30th July 2019 The working people of Grenada, especially the lower-class, should vigorously challenge, reject and protest the outrageous and unconscionable intent of the Government to increase, as of September 2019, the contribution-payment to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). The increase is from nine […]
Courtesy of Mr. Kem Jones, host of the Eagle’s Eye talk show, we the people became aware that the Government of Grenada, and by extension, we the people, have been paying the Digicel mobile phone bills for former NNP senator Sheldon Scott and a number of persons who are no longer public officers. Based on […]
July 15, 2019 Dear Media House: Please permit me a voice on your platform to join the many established and new soca and groovy artistes in Grenada in disagreeing with the announced move to reduce the number of finalists in the Spicemas 2019 Power and Groovy Soca Monarch competitions to only 10 participants (including the […]
By J. K. Roberts (Sound Public Policies Advocate); Circulated on Tuesday 19 February 2019 Public officers appointed in the public service of Grenada after 3 April 1983, have been disenfranchised from their constitutional entitlement to receive pensions from the State. This happened with the gazetting of the Pensions (Disqualification) Act, labeled as People’s Law No. […]
