Yes. Sending marketing emails from Grenada is legal, and no licence or registration is needed to run a newsletter. What makes a campaign lawful or unlawful is how you build your list, how honestly you identify yourself, and where your recipients live. This page gives the short version for Grenadian businesses.
This page is general information, not legal advice. For decisions about your own campaigns, speak to a lawyer in Grenada.
No dedicated anti-spam statute
Grenada has no law devoted to commercial email, unlike Canada’s CASL or the US CAN-SPAM Act. There is no Grenadian rule that sets a specific consent format or a fixed deadline for handling unsubscribes. That is not a licence to send anything to anyone. Three other factors decide whether a campaign is acceptable.
1. Deceptive email is a crime
The Electronic Crimes Act, 2013 includes a “spoof and spam” section. It makes it an offence to send messages from a counterfeit source, to send multiple emails intended to mislead recipients or service providers about their origin, or to falsify header information. An honest campaign sent under your own name, from your own authenticated domain, does none of these things. A campaign using a fake sender name or a borrowed domain could.
2. Privacy law is on its way
The Data Protection Act, 2023 was passed and published in May 2023, but it only comes into force on a date the Prime Minister appoints by Order in the Gazette. We could not confirm that this has happened at the time of writing, so check the current position. Once it applies, processing personal data, including an email address on a marketing list, will generally need the person’s consent or another lawful basis in the Act. An Information Commission will be able to investigate complaints. Building a consent-based list now means you will not need to rebuild it later.
3. Your recipients’ laws travel with them
Grenadian lists are unusually international. Hotel guests, St. George’s University students and faculty, yacht crews and the diaspora may all be on the same list. Their home laws apply to what you send them:
| Recipient in | Main rule | What it expects |
|---|---|---|
| United States | CAN-SPAM Act | Truthful headers and subject, postal address, working opt-out |
| Canada | CASL | Prior consent, sender identification, unsubscribe mechanism |
| EU | GDPR and national e-privacy laws | Opt-in consent for marketing to individuals, data rights |
| United Kingdom | UK GDPR and UK e-privacy rules | Opt-in consent for marketing to individuals, data rights |
Read more on CAN-SPAM, CASL and the GDPR.
What about SMS?
Text messages to +1 473 numbers are carried by operators licensed under the NTRC and the ECTEL framework. Grenada has no separate SMS marketing code, but the same principles apply: get permission, say who you are and offer a way to stop. Texts to US and Canadian numbers fall under the TCPA and CASL. Our SMS laws FAQ covers other countries.
Five habits that keep your campaigns legal
- Use opt-in forms, ideally with double opt-in for guests and overseas contacts.
- Send from your own domain, authenticated with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
- Put your business name and address in every footer.
- Honour unsubscribes immediately and never re-add those contacts.
- Never buy or rent lists.
For the wider picture, see our overview of email marketing law in Grenada, including how Mailpro’s Swiss hosting fits with the GDPR.