Archive for November 23rd, 2009
Call for unity in T&C against UK government
(Turks & Caicos Weekly News): Former Premier Galmo Williams hit out at Governor Gordon Wetherell this week accusing him of setting the country back 50 years. In a fiery press statement the PNP leader called again for a public uprising against the British-led government. He said that Mr Wetherell has yet to inform the country of his plans for moving the country forward or “how he intends to empower TC Islanders.” “I always believed and still do today, that the British Government does not have a plan for this country. “It appears that their main aim is to cripple this country’s economy by stifling development and marginalising Turks and Caicos Islanders.”
Questions in Lords about tropical idylls
(The Independent): Michael Ashcroft has asked a significant number of questions in the House of Lords about British policy in a region of the Caribbean where he has extensive business interests. Half the questions he has put to ministers since late March have concerned Belize or the Turks and Caicos Islands. In April and May, the billionaire deputy chairman of the Conservative Party submitted written questions to ministers about government and EU aid to Belize, in Central America, where he made a large part of his fortune. He also asked whether any officials from the British Treasury had visited the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos in the previous six months.