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The following is an excerpt from “Hurricane Harvey: Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not a Bone Should Sink,” August, 28, 2017, which I wrote just two weeks ago as it was devastating Texas. __________________ I grew up in the Caribbean. And, even though Harvey spared us, our islands have served as a buffer zone for many… Read more.
Premier-elect Sharlene Cartwright Robinson’s Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) has returned to power after 13 years with at least ten out of the 15 elected seats in the House of Assembly, with one constituency still undeclared after several recounts… Outgoing premier, Dr Rufus Ewing, failed to win a seat. (Caribbean News Now, December 16, 2016) Despite… Read more.
Rumors of the sun setting on the British Empire have been slightly exaggerated. The dominion Britain still exercises over the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), my mother country, attests to this. As it happened, I was in the vanguard of TCIslanders who called on the British Government in 2008 to assert its dominion by suspending… Read more.
For a number of reasons I have been loath in recent years to comment on political developments in my mother country of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). I am doing so today only in response to an inordinate number of urgent entreaties for me comment on the fight between our local leaders and British… Read more.
[Dear Readers: No doubt many of you recall the aggressive way I challenged the British in a series of commentaries (between 2007 and 2009) to intervene in the UK Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (aka my mother country) to get rid of the corrupt and incompetent local politicians who were treating our… Read more.
[Author’s Note: I am acutely mindful that the vast majority of readers of this weblog couldn’t care any less about the political goings on in my tiny home country of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). But new developments there are such that I feel obliged to do so today for the first time in over… Read more.
I received a surprising number of e-mails over the weekend from people accusing me, among other things, of being a “British stooge [for] giving Governor Tauwhare and other British officials a pass while calling for our Premier and his government ministers to be prosecuted.” Evidently they derived fodder for their accusations from two commentaries that… Read more.
Like most TCIslanders, I am profoundly disappointed by the latest extension in the deadline (from 30 April to 31 May 2009) for the submission of Sir Robin’s final report on the Commission of Inquiry into corruption in the TCI. I believe I can assert without fear of contradiction, however, that our disappointment stems entirely from… Read more.
[Author’s note: I am mindful that the unfolding political drama in my home country has been the subject of many of my commentaries lately. But we are experiencing a constitutional crisis there that is the equivalent of the impeachments of Nixon and Clinton combined. So please bear with me as I do whatever I can… Read more.
There’s no denying that the vast majority of people in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) cheered with national relief when the British intervened this week to oust our hopelessly dysfunctional and terminally corrupt government. Not surprisingly, our ousted premier jeered with selfish grief: The British still think that there are none among us who… Read more.
