Last week the PDM Party had a series of Rallies throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands and we are pleased to report that the people are excited and are uniting around the very clear message that they themselves crafted…”Enough is Enough and It Is Time For A Change”.
On Monday night hundreds of supporters congregated here in Providenciales at our Party’s Headquarters and the Islands were set ablaze with the clarion call for change and we stood united with all nationalities on our grounds demonstrating that we are and will unite for change.
On Wednesday evening the people of North Caicos showed that they remain excited by the PDM’s Standard Bearer, Hon Ralph Higgs and PDM saw one of the biggest ever Rallies in recent times on the Island of North Caicos.
On Friday, we reaffirmed our respect and love for the birth place of our Great Party and the love was returned as residents stood for hours and hours basking in the hope of change for an Island sorely neglected by the Government of the day.
Whilst the atmosphere was charged with a catalogue of new songs written largely by supporters who are just excited, it was filled with expectation of a message that will give hope and present the change that they not only want but deserve.
Last week we introduced the following plans to our people:
We believe that the economy nor the development of these Islands are working for the people of these Islands. Our response must be people centered decisions and people centered development. We will not continue to grow this country and allow our people to be left behind. Governments are elected to improve the lives of its citizens and the building of roads, schools and basic infrastructure is a duty. We will fulfill our basic duties but will also present cutting edge plans that are realistic, innovative and represents the change that our people need and deserve.
Last week we introduced our people to a few of our plans with more to come. We need to ensure that:
1. We will use our position on the National Security Council Advisory Group where the Premier sits with the Governor, the Commissioner of Police, the PS Finance and make real strong representations for our people. We will provide the resources and support needed to reverse this rise in crime in our Islands. Our 12 point plan was again presented in 4 points: People/Police relations; Resources and Training for our Police; Incentives to attract and retain our Police and Rehabilitation and Reentry for would be reoffenders.
2. There must be Jobs and Job Placement, Promotion and Protection. This will be immediately addressed by a stimulus package that will inject monies in the Islands with depress economies and high unemployment. There is an immediate need to clean up these Islands and to begin to repair crumbling infrastructure and we will begin these works through this stimulus package.
3. That there is access to real capital for those who want to own businesses
4. That there is a real effort to determine the number of unemployed in these Islands and the creation of a jobs policy
5. Single mothers will receive strong support from a PDM Government especially after school support for their children.
6. The elderly will receive hospice care in Providenciales.
7. Taxi drivers and industry workers will get their fair share of the pie.
8. The Youth have been crying out for attention and we will ensure that youth are central to our plans. The building of a High Performance Center and Creative Arts Centers is a must for the PDM with a return of the Sports Commission to ensure the proper development of Sports.
9. We will ensure that there is a Second Chance Program for those who may have been offenders of the Law so that they are able to reenter society successfully. We will address the use of Police Records as a stumbling block for jobs in the public and private sector.
10. We will continue the push for a full investigation of the Healthcare System and will properly resource all of our Clinics ensuring through programs that we have a strong primary health care system. We assured the Staff of NHIP that we will fix the issues that affect them and we assured our people that we will review the referral system that has presented serious challenges to our people.
11. Education is key and central to our plans. We will transform education and will concentrate on children as well as adults learning. We must repair our Schools through an aggressive program, we will build a purpose built college and university campus, the introduction of vocational as well as a Hospitality Training School. We will modernize the tools we use to teach our children and will create satellite campuses for Islands outside of Campus states so that persons in the other Islands can access education without leaving home.
12. We will govern on a strong labour platform and ensure that labour is reviewed and that resources are adequately placed and provided for it to carry out its mandate for the placement of jobs for our people, and to ensure promotion and protection on their jobs. We will have a labour presence in North Caicos as well as South Caicos.
13. We assured the fishermen that we will review the recently passed Regulations that sought to make criminals of them and will together with them position a fishing industry that can once again become a strong pillar in our economy
14. What seem to have excited even the youth of this country is the PDM’s Plan to construct a Spine Link Highway that will in its first phase connect North Caicos to Providenciales and we will deliver.
15. We have created a Plan to support those who want to own homes and will immediately address the challenges of the Crown Land Ordinance to ensure that our people are able to obtain crown land in a fair and dignified manner.
16. The elderly, the special needs, and physically challenged will not be ignored and special plans will be introduced to them with a properly resourced and supported Social Services Department.
17. Civil Servants can expect real change under a PDM Government and in a few weeks we will remind them of the challenges that remain after four years of a Rufus Ewing led Government.
We assured our people that we will develop a National Plan that we can all unite around.
Our people are central to our plan and we will govern close to them and will empower them through elected local government to manage a bit of their affairs directly. We will extend local government to Grand Turk as well.
During our constituency Rallies and following the release of the Party’s Manifesto/Blue Print, we will continue to roll out plans that are realistic, achievable, people centered and above all plans that unite, give hope and inspire our people to want more and to do more. We must immediately seek to reverse the brain drain that is happening by ensuring through our Partnership Program (which will see a cooperation between public and private sector) that will ensure that our people are priorItised for job placements especially our returning students. We will also use this Body to address underemployment which speaks to the fact that our people are in jobs that they had to take because of the fact that opportunities were not available to them in the areas in which they trained.
We will put our people center and I am pleased to announced that on Friday, we will be nominating a full slate of candidates. This Superior Team has excited our people and equally our superior plans have already begun to. But this is not the end of the road as there is more to come.
We are pleased to partnered with so many people across the divide of color, creed and race to present real plans for real issues that will be accomplished by real leadership.
Over the next few weeks we will be on the road in all constituencies and we are pleased to say that we will be bringing the PDM to you in the following constituencies on the following dates:
November 22nd-Tuesday LEEWARD CONSTITUENCY RALLY
November 23rd-Wednesday NORTH CAICOS – BOTTLE CREEK CONSTITUENCY RALLY
November 24th-Thursday SOUTH CAICOS PUBLIC MEETING
November 27th-Sunday OUR SPECIAL SALT CAY APPEARANCE
November 28th-Monday GRAND TURK NORTH CONSTITUENCY RALLY
November 30th-Wednesday THE BIGHT CONSTITUENCY RALLY
December 2nd-Friday MIDDLE CAICOS PUBLIC MEETING
December 3rd-Saturday CHESHIRE HALL CONSTITUENCY RALLY
December 5th-Monday SOUTH CAICOS CONSTITUENCY RALLY
December 6th-Tuesday BLUE HILLS RALLY
December 9th-Friday WHEELAND RALLY
December 10th-Saturday FIVE CAYS RALLY
December 11th-Sunday LEADER’S LUNCHEON
December 14th-Wednesday MASSIVE PUBLIC RALLY AT PROVIDENCIALES HEADQUARTERS.
MASSIVE PUBLIC RALLY IN GRAND TURK SOUTH
We will be participating in all the constituency debates that have been organized by a private citizen and in a Leader’s Debate agreed now between all Parties for December 7th, 2016 at the Palms.
And on DECEMBER 15TH, 2016, there will be Grand PDM ELECTION DAY CELEBRATIONS over all of Turks and Caicos.
On DECEMBER 16TH there will be the SWEARING IN OF CABINET at 10.00AM at the GOVERNOR’S OFFICE in Grand Turk followed on DECEMBER 29TH with the SWEARING IN OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IN GRAND TURK.
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