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Last summer, on July 18, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. And the political corruption recounted here explains why: ‘While the city’s finances foundered, Kilpatrick was shaking down contractors, ensuring that a pal got millions in city work and turning a nonprofit fund to help struggling Detroiters into a personal slush fund,… Read more.
But first, a little context seems in order. Last week, the premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Michael Misick, launched an extraordinary attack against me in Parliament. He was reacting to what I wrote in my weekly column, which Caribbean Net News (CNN) publishes. He deemed I had committed the cardinal sin of criticizing him for bankrupting our country. Mind you, this… Read more.
A woman has accused Premier Hon. Dr. Michael Misick of rape. And her accusation is spreading like wildfire. Everyone in the Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) is shocked. But no one is surprised. Michael Misick accused of rape Rumors are that his premiership is going down in flames. Even supporters of his ruling Progressive National Party (PNP)… Read more.
Force Misick to resign like Nixon Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has become as hopelessly compromised a national leader as President Richard Nixon was in 1974 Of course, in the fall of 1973, Nixon had every right to feel invincible. He was still reveling in a landslide re-election victory, had rendered his political opponents… Read more.
No man is above the law. People in democratic countries generally take comfort in that axiom. But Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is disabusing us of this comfort. No public interest in prosecuting TCI Premier Michael Misick Kurt de Freitas is the attorney general of the TCI. He has decided… Read more.
[NOTE: Last week Thursday the Premier of my mother country, the Turks and Caicos Islands, got into a street fight with members of the opposition party. And it has incited still-simmering and very partisan passions. Therefore, I wrote the following article hoping that it will shed more light than heat and lead to a constructive… Read more.
Talk about independence in TCI Dr. Michael Misick is the chief minister of my mother country, the Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI). He claims he invited members of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization to the islands last week to participate in the public education process to inform citizens of their rights and of the options… Read more.
