The Parliament of Grenada has approved legislation that would punish the sending of “offensive” electronic communications with up to one year in prison, Grenadian media reported. The Electronic Crimes Act had been withdrawn in early July after the International Press Institute (IPI) and other groups expressed concern about a potential chilling effect on free speech in […]

Sometimes making a little noise can make a big difference. That may have been the case yesterday in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, where members of the upper house of Parliament, the Senate, have reportedly returned a controversial electronic defamation bill back to the lower house (House of Representatives) for further deliberations. IPI warmly […]

A year after becoming the first Caribbean country to decriminalise libel, Grenada last week appeared to take a step in the opposite direction after its lower house of Parliament passed a sweeping cyber-crimes bill that includes a provision for online defamation, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. According to a copy of the Electronic […]

The Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI) congratulated Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas on his government’s partial decriminalisation of defamation in a letter sent last week. Writing on behalf of the other 27 board members, IPI Board Chair and Head of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism – Foundation 19/29 (Russia) Galina Sidorova said […]