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Two significant events unfolded yesterday, Tuesday November 22, 2011.
The Special Investigation and Prosecution Team, SIPT, issued a press release announcing four additional arrests in the last 48 hours. (The short press release is posted today on the Journal). Though not named in the press release, reports are that the four included three former ministers of the previous Michael Misick government.
A civil service strike was called by Rufus Ewing, President, and Jamal Robinson, Vice-President, of the Civil Service Association. Reports are that about 75 to 100 persons responded to the strike call in Providenciales and about 100 to 150 persons in Grand Turk. The civil service currently numbers around 2300 persons.
We also learned from a press release (posted yesterday on the Journal) that approximately 500 members of the civil service have accepted the offer of a voluntary severance package.
The average citizen and resident of the Turks and Caicos continues to feel tremendous frustration at both the glacial and haphazard way that reforms have been introduced in the TCI by the British, as well as tremendous frustration that members of the previous Michael Misick government, such as Rufus Ewing, who now claim to be looking out for the little person were among the key architects and beneficiaries of the greatest theft and abuse of public funds and assets in TCI history. Monies and land valued at Billions of dollars.
The British have yet to address the reform of the statutory bodies that represent approximately 50% of public expenditures in the TCI, have ignored for two years real and documented evidence of fraud within the healthcare program, and have not adequately focused in a balanced way on the full economic needs of the population (having mainly been preoccupied with their own concerns about their own financial “contingent liability”).
Rufus Ewing meanwhile was one of the few people publicly named by the Commission of Inquiry for having allegedly flipped government land in Salt Cay for personal benefit and was one of the key participants in the Southern Health Network $40 million scam also pointed to by Commissioner Sir Robin Auld, and one of the “honouries” involved in approving the catastrophic 30 bed - $124 million dollar, 12% for 25 years, Hospitals Construction scam.
What is a person to do?
The only thing we can do is educate ourselves on the issues, learn to think for ourselves, and not be “hoodwinked” by either side.
The one advise we can offer the average citizen and resident is to continue to speak truth to power with respect to the Interim Government, and communicate the complexity of what has unfolded in recent years to the people we meet in our daily lives.
There are no simple answers to getting us out of the mess we are in. It will take effort from all well meaning citizens and residents.
Respectfully,
Editors@TCIJournal.com,
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/co...caicos-islands
The Special Investigation and Prosecution Team, SIPT, issued a press release announcing four additional arrests in the last 48 hours. (The short press release is posted today on the Journal). Though not named in the press release, reports are that the four included three former ministers of the previous Michael Misick government.
A civil service strike was called by Rufus Ewing, President, and Jamal Robinson, Vice-President, of the Civil Service Association. Reports are that about 75 to 100 persons responded to the strike call in Providenciales and about 100 to 150 persons in Grand Turk. The civil service currently numbers around 2300 persons.
We also learned from a press release (posted yesterday on the Journal) that approximately 500 members of the civil service have accepted the offer of a voluntary severance package.
The average citizen and resident of the Turks and Caicos continues to feel tremendous frustration at both the glacial and haphazard way that reforms have been introduced in the TCI by the British, as well as tremendous frustration that members of the previous Michael Misick government, such as Rufus Ewing, who now claim to be looking out for the little person were among the key architects and beneficiaries of the greatest theft and abuse of public funds and assets in TCI history. Monies and land valued at Billions of dollars.
The British have yet to address the reform of the statutory bodies that represent approximately 50% of public expenditures in the TCI, have ignored for two years real and documented evidence of fraud within the healthcare program, and have not adequately focused in a balanced way on the full economic needs of the population (having mainly been preoccupied with their own concerns about their own financial “contingent liability”).
Rufus Ewing meanwhile was one of the few people publicly named by the Commission of Inquiry for having allegedly flipped government land in Salt Cay for personal benefit and was one of the key participants in the Southern Health Network $40 million scam also pointed to by Commissioner Sir Robin Auld, and one of the “honouries” involved in approving the catastrophic 30 bed - $124 million dollar, 12% for 25 years, Hospitals Construction scam.
What is a person to do?
The only thing we can do is educate ourselves on the issues, learn to think for ourselves, and not be “hoodwinked” by either side.
The one advise we can offer the average citizen and resident is to continue to speak truth to power with respect to the Interim Government, and communicate the complexity of what has unfolded in recent years to the people we meet in our daily lives.
There are no simple answers to getting us out of the mess we are in. It will take effort from all well meaning citizens and residents.
Respectfully,
Editors@TCIJournal.com,
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/co...caicos-islands