It is obvious to everyone except The Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands that he has all but given up. His approach of blaming the Leader of the Opposition Honourable Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson for every short fall of his government demonstrates that what is required to lead our country is over and beyond his political and diplomatic capabilities.
The unassuming listener of the show on Tropical Vibes hosted by Shaun Malcolm may have been perplexed when Hon. Ewing suggested that Hon. Cartwright-Robinson’s presence on the Consultative Forum during the period of interim administration was the PDM in corroboration with TCIG’s budgetary cuts.
Yet at the same time, he dissolves himself of reckless behavior as Civil Service president when he led them for purely political purposes causing the blocking of the airport road, acts of vandalism causing electricity outages, the cancellation of flights and the turning away of arriving passengers to the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2011 when the country could hardly afford it due to the global financial crisis and the suspension of the constitution. But, now that his time is running out after he has had political power and could have offered more help to those dedicated civil servants on whose backs he rose to the Premiership his explanation to the service is that now he has a duty to the entire country and he is wearing a different hat. He abandoned them after his bid for elected office!
Dr. Rufus Ewing did well to camouflage his way through the institutions of the Turks and Caicos Islands Government appearing as though he cared when all along the goal was a political end, these institutions are meant to protect the people and he has gotten away scot-free from his heavy-handed influence during the Misick-PNP and the British-interim government.
Go figure why his government has not been able to attract any meaningful investment to the Islands? Still he blames the British and the PDM government for his ineptitude when it is really his inability to properly set government policy that attracts investment.
He speaks the talk of a warrior standing up to the British, albeit unconvincingly. The tough talk about the many hurdles he claims only his government could overcome in the history of the Turks and Caicos Islands is undone and seems weak when he blames the Leader of the Opposition for not helping him negotiate better terms for his party’s headquarters.
His government’s financial accomplishments were at the expense of the hardworking Turks and Caicos Islander families who have had to suffer the burden of paying for his tough talk but his pockets are full from high salaries, higher than Michael Misick’s with his desire to even make it higher God forbids if he were to be re-elected. As far as the Premier’s claim about the Leader of the Opposition’s position on the CFO we remind him that he and his Minister of Finance have taken credit for all the financial decisions up to this point!
His interview highlights how poorly he has represented the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands and revealed his Machiavellian mind trip, his duplicity and double-dealing nature, which will live in the hearts and the minds of the people until election day.
And for the record the PDM will not be used by the PNP in their election campaign of blame, gimmickry and misguidance in an attempt to pollute the airwaves with half-truths. The Premier’s attempt at tough talk came across as tacky and desperate.
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