Leader of the Peoples Democratic Movement, Doug Parnell has come out in objection of the new appointment for the post of NIB Director to National Insurance, in a release sent to RTC news.
Last night we learned that the Governor intends to appoint a non Turks and Caicos Islander to the position of Director of the National Insurance Board.
We do not accept this as appropriate or within the Governor’s remit to appoint a director who is a non Turks and Caicos Islander for some 3 years particularly when a General Election is due soon.
In the history of the board this would be a first. National Insurance Board is a Turks and Caicos Islands institution imagined, created and enshrined in law by both PDM and PNP Governments. However, it was under the watchful eye of the Wetherell Interim Government that brought us the collapse of TCIBank and the investment of the final 5.5M of NIB capital that is still at risk. Although we are under direct rule the Governor is not a Minister of Finance and should not confuse himself as such. We request that he gets his thinking in line with what would be more acceptable and appropriate action on behalf of the people at NIB.
The issue of whether or not the NIB director is also a Turks and Caicos Islander is not up for debate.
Any new director who does not fit this mandatory prerequisite will not be well received by the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands. We welcome persons to our country, however, not at the expense of directing, without interference, our own affairs or our dignity and express again our willingness to work with others towards improving our political, social and economic condition but this proposed action is outrageous and contemptible. We will fiercely resist any attempt to treat Turks and Caicos Islanders with disdain, while marginalizing us from the institutions that Political Governments have successfully built that administrative Government now seeks to alter without mandate.
That was a release sent to RTC News by the leader of the PDM, Doug Parnell.
