LOOK TO HOME

In meetings at the UN this week, Prime Minister Thomas is calling for “a stronger regulatory framework to ensure what happened several months ago does not happen again.”

To fully appreciate the context of the Prime Minister’s comment, full consideration must be given to Grenada’s track record of scandalous financial regulatory governance.

Still unaccounted for is the Government of Grenada’s illegal issuing of a license to a home-grown bank that enabled the illegal entity to operate unregulated for 11 years while fraudulently taking EC$43.8 million in savings from Grenadian citizens.

Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has not yet taken any action to investigate and thus bring to account this government wrongdoing to ensure that egregious law breaking by government Ministers “does not happen again.”

The UN participants may well remember the FIBG and Offshore Banking scandal caused by Grenadian government corruption in licensing and regulation (as indicated in sworn US Court testimony).  The government wrongdoing in those scandals still waits to be brought to account before the people of Grenada.

Prime Minister Thomas plans to call on the UN for “equity.”

For many in the UN audience, the call for equity will bring to mind the clean hands law which states, “Those seeking equity must do equity.”

UN members of Welsh origin may be moved to say, “Look to home, Prime Minister Thomas, look to home.”

Yes Prime Minister Thomas, back home in Grenada, the people who voted for you and your promise of accountability are waiting for the wrongdoing and lawbreaking of government ministers to be brought to account by you and your administration.  In accordance with the Westminster Convention of Ministerial Responsibility, you are responsible to bring the wrongdoing and lawbreaking of your predecessor to account before the public of Grenada.

Corrective action is overdue.  By inaction, the Thomas administration is promoting impunity.

The youth of Grenada have seen and heard the message being sent that government leaders break the law and are not held to account.  Youth are the barometers of dysfunction in the home, the community and the nation.  Youth mimic their leaders for good or bad.

God bless Grenada, lift the scourge of wrongdoing from her beautiful shores and bring all wrongdoers to justice.  Bless the children of Grenada that they may grow strong in doing right and in knowing their full rights as citizens. 

Kathleen Dunn