BBC NEWS: Mutiny in the Caribbean - SB-Innovation

SealLion · 11.11.09, 00:45

gOVERnment corruption even in paradise, eh??

check it out:

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.....all seems well on the beautiful Turks and Caicos islands.

But storm clouds have been gathering ever since the British government dissolved the local parliament and restored direct rule in August, following claims of high level corruption and misrule.

here's an idea why:

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The British government took matters into its own hands following a Foreign Office report which found "clear signs of political amorality and immaturity and of a general administrative incompetence" within the island nation's parliament.

I LOL'd at that bit...immaturity.

but after reading the article, it makes sense to use that word. Other than selfishness.

He spent some tax dollar coin on a bullet proof car, summer parties ( with nice girls???:wink:

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apparantly, the islands have a small population too.

was there a small admission of guilt??

Looks like it:

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"We could have been more prudent," admits former prime minister Galmore Williams, who served as a minister in Michael Misick's government.

most of the people on the islands were happy to have the English come to the island to take over governance, but now it's a bit of a different story:

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says Douglas Parnell, the new leader of the Peoples Democratic Movement party........We currently have petitions going on about concerns of new taxes that are coming on stream. I think we'll see a greater agitation on part of the people,"

and that's not all. Apparantly, the Governor of the Islands is by some, considered to be a dictator:

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"The Gordon Wetherall (The island's Governor) administration is the only other administration besides from Castro's Cuba that has the type of power that exists in the Turks and Caicos. One man can decide the fate of an entire country."

read all about it:

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BBC - Today - Mutiny in the Caribbean

slikrapid · 11.11.09, 02:20

frankly, imo all the (former) colonial states should leave their occupied territories to the indigenous people or at least just form trading alliances

idk what the real situation on the Caribbean is, but this looks like a trick, in order to prove to the Carribean people that they need british governance (since their own is supposedly corrupt, but wasn't that exactly the same government the british appointed in the first place?), which imo is a load of bull

Caribbean

All islands at some point were, and a few still are, colonies of European nations; a few are overseas or dependent territories:

* British West Indies/Anglophone Caribbean – Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bay Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Croix (briefly), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago (from 1797) and the Turks and Caicos Islands
* Danish West Indies – present-day United States Virgin Islands
* Dutch West Indies – present-day Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, Virgin Islands, Saint Croix (briefly), Tobago and Bay Islands (briefly)
* French West Indies – Anguilla (briefly), Antigua and Barbuda (briefly), Dominica, Dominican Republic (briefly), Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat (briefly), Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius (briefly), St Kitts (briefly), Tobago (briefly), Saint Croix, the current French overseas départements of Martinique and Guadeloupe (including Marie-Galante, La Désirade and Les Saintes), and the current French overseas collectivities of Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin/Saint Maarten.
* Portuguese West Indies – present-day Barbados, known as Os Barbados in the 1500s when the Portuguese claimed the island en route to Brazil. The Portuguese left Barbados abandoned in 1533, nearly a century prior to the British arrival to the island.
* Spanish West Indies – Cuba, Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic, and until 1609, Haiti), Puerto Rico, Jamaica (until 1655), the Cayman Islands, Trinidad (until 1797) and Bay Islands (until 1643)
* Swedish West Indies – present-day French Saint-Barthélemy and Guadeloupe (briefly).
* Courlander West Indies – Tobago (until 1691)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean

all that colonialism makes me sick

SealLion · 11.11.09, 02:52

one of the primary reasons why colonies still exist for the French, the British, the Portuguese, and others is primarily for monetary reasons.
For example, take the tourist portion of an island's economy. The island makes money off, of visitors. Some of that money goes to the central government or the regional government of an island archipelago.
From there, I am assuming that it would further go to the Colonial government.

cha-ching

Not only that, it's also a heritage issue for that particular Colonizing power. The colonizing power feels that they inherited via either the market and trading days from a few hundred years ago or the slave trading days and so want to maintain keeping that colony.