Decolonisation in Reverse – British take new powers in Turks & Caicos ‘constitution’
Turks and Caicos is an OT.
Turks and Caicos Islands Sun – New constitution transfers powers from Turks and Caicos Islanders to the Brits, says PNP leader Clayton Greene.
Leader of the Progressive National Party (PNP) Clayton Green says the new Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands, “makes the Government of the People subservient to the dictates of those in a far away land and rapes us of our worth as a people”.
In a press release issued late Thursday, Greene said: “The reality is that the constitution that has been published today is by and large what those of us who met with the Minister in London expected to receive. That is however not the issue. The issue is that it is not a constitution that has the buy – in of the people of the Turks and Caicos Islanders because it is not a negotiated document. That is a significant indictment.”
Greene, who is the managing partner of the law firm Stanfield Greene, said the new Constitution remains a document that is “designed to transfer governance from Turks and Caicos Islanders and place it exclusively in the hands of the British Government in the person of their appointed Governor”.
He added: “There is nothing in it that is worthy of celebration because nothing in it speaks to the hopes dreams and aspirations of the Turks and Caicos Islanders. The reality is that we have come too far and accomplished too much for ourselves that we will never be satisfied with a constitution that that does not recognize our worth as a people. We aspire to be more that a “territory”.”
According to Greene, who was a former Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Turks and Caicos Islands:
“This constitution does not recognize that. It makes the Government of the People subservient to the dictates of those in a far away land and rapes us of our worth as a people. I will never be satisfied and will therefore do everything that I can to hasten the day when we can negotiate the constitution of our choosing.”
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Never give in to the Colonialist and their secrect intentions. They took Gadafhi’s money now they are dropping bombs on him, they let Rupert Murdoch run their country now they want him up in front of a firing squad, they had their own misappropriation of government funds who took over their county? don’t trust those limmy Brits their is a reason they no longer have an empire.
uh, am i wrong, or is this not the result of unbridled corruption within that territory ?
if you have proved you cannot run your own affairs, why are you crying now ?
where was the effort to behave when you had the chance ?
Now you must re-earn the right to self govern.
Well responded! I am sure that London would much rather not have the nightmare of such corruption to deal with.
Bigger Picture I so agree and I see the Virgin Islands heading in that direction too.
Earn the right to self governance hmmmm!!!!!!! troubling, howerver they have decided and have accepted apart of a governing process that puts power in some one elses hang. You knew the rules and you broke them, rules are rules especailly if they weren’t force on you(slavery)
Tola time soon come.
I hear they here already in Ministry of Finance on the DL
Who are you to decide how anyone should behave? People of the Caribbean have been free for over 150 years and forging our own destinies ever since. Even with centuries of neglect and imperialism by the UK still these islands rise their are new colonialist and imperialist always trying to gain influence in our societies trying to decide how people should behave because countries have received foreign aid from their former red empire masters.
THIS COULD NEVER EVER HAPPEN IN THE BVI UNDER A VIP GOVERNMENT..MAYBE IF THE NDP GETS IN THE UK WILL TAKE OVER