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| Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:50 | |||
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Last week, PDM leaders called for a countrywide unity march, asking all Turks and Caicos Islanders to come together to march with them in support of what they call “an urgent need to rebuild the country.” For only the second time since the inception of the two parties in the country, it appears the march will see both parties coming together for one cause. This week, PNP leader Galmo Williams publicly accepted the PDM and its party leader Doug Parnell’s open invitation to join and participate in the March. “Our prayer is that God would bless our Country as we unite and put aside our differences for the betterment of all of our people,” Williams said. PDM leader Doug Parnell said the march is intended to demonstrate the country can move in one direction and with one voice. “Unity is our strength,” Parnell said. “Let us march for the common good, the common well being, common voice, the common strength and the common wealth of all Turks and Caicos Islanders.” PNP leaders saw this as an invitation for them to put aside their differences and join in the cause, which they now have accepted. “Although not named specifically, Parnell called on us to join with him in the unity march, so we thought it was befitting to accept this as a challenge for our people to attend and participate in the march,” said PNP Party Chairman Don Hue Gardiner. Gardiner said his party is prepared to work together with the PDM for the common good, “which as far as we are concerned, is a speedy recovery to preserving rights for Belongers as much as possible, as we would have had before the suspension.” While the parties do have fundamental differences, at the current time they appear to have many of the same principle complaints against proposed reforms by the British government. Such items include resistance to the questions of expanding the franchise, insistence on a high level of Belongers being involved in any constitutional reform and the end to the suspension of the constitution as quickly as possible. These are issues of grave national importance, Gardiner said. “Since we have been calling for that in the past, and have asked the PDM to join with us in those efforts, it would be hypocritical of us not to participate in any joint efforts.” Both parties believe the march will demonstrate to the interim administration and other “powers that be” in England how important these issues are to the people of the country. “We believe the only way we are going to be able to achieve the advances we are seeking is by showing a united front,” Gardiner said. “We are marching for one unity in our country and the common well being of this country,” Parnell explained. The march is to begin at the Gustavus Lightbourne Sports Complex downtown and proceed up Leeward Highway toward the government National Insurance Building, where speeches are expected to be made. More information is expected when Parnell and Gardiner are scheduled to appear together on PTV on Monday, March 1, at 7 p.m.
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