Comments on: Regiment To Fly To Turks & Caicos Tomorrow

By: Cotty

Cotty — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:23:10 +0000

No scaremongering…….any thought of independence in down right irresponsible, period!

By: Cotty

Cotty — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:16:10 +0000

Rubbish………They evacuated Barbuda because it was in uninhabitable.
Like no one on the islands……hello?

By: PBanks

PBanks — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:38:15 +0000

Hurricane response readiness is not the factor that you should use when discussing independence.

Both Bahamas and Antigua and Barbuda did well for themselves in prep for and after Irma.

Want to talk about stability for IB, avoiding the need for a larger defense department, avoiding having to set up overseas embassies, not needing a Central Bank and the like? Certainly those are good reasons to stay with status quo. But when it comes to hurricane readiness, the independent CARICOM nations have done ok. Certainly no worse than their British OT equivalents.

Leave the Jamaica scaremongering out of it.

By: PBanks

PBanks — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:31:42 +0000

Antigua sorted out Barbuda far quicker than the UK did for Anguilla, TCI and BVI, so this particular issue isn’t showing the UK’s capability for restoration in a good light if you’re arguing to ‘stay with the crown’.

By: Teva

Teva — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:30:01 +0000

I know. I was there last month and islanders like taxi drivers say we need independence. Oh please …without .uk backing you up , the country would be broke and turn into crime infested place. Hypocrites

By: Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:57:49 +0000

Yep, to cut the aprom strings would doom us all.

By: Oh really

Oh really — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:01:52 +0000

Remember those for independence claim we do not need any outside help. We can take of ourselves. Can you imagine the state of this island if we go independent. We will definitely be Jamaicas sister island then.

By: cpm

cpm — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:16:48 +0000

Does a certain person own property in T and C?
Just asking

By: george

george — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:35:20 +0000

For those that are pro independence note the following from the British foreign secretary. none of this happens if we are independent, no aid, no reconstruction crews, no realistic backstop to control law and order, out on our own.

“And I think anybody with an ounce of compassion would want to see spending by our government on getting those people back up on their feet and indeed on getting those British – and I stress – British overseas territories helped in the long term.”