| PDM refutes PNP statements | | Print | |
| Thursday, 25 March 2010 15:37 | |||
 People’s Democratic Movement party leaders are not seeing eye-to-eye with fellow politicians from the Progressive National Party, making bold statements to set themselves apart from their colleagues’ views. PDM leader Doug Parnell said of statements made by PNP leader and former Premier Galmo Williams on independence and characterizing this era as an Adolf Hitler era, “We find these comments alarming, and we reject these statements completely.” In a statement to the media, Williams compared the current climate in the Turks and Caicos Islands to that of World War II Germany. “While the PNP have been accused of creating a climate of fear like in RED CHINA, it is evident that now more than ever fear has risen within the Turks & Caicos to immeasurable conditions. On the note of transparency, never have we seen days where the media is not allowed at public meetings. This has to be an Adolf Hitler era,” he stated. PDM leaders were concerned about the position being perceived to be shared by their party since the two marched together in unity on Commonweath Day. “In no way did our march endorse any PNP plans, policies or persons. In no way did it endorse or promote the PNP lifestyle and the maladministration of the past seven years,” Parnell said. “We are concerned about our country,” Parnell said, “and first, we seek to return the rights and the constitution that we enjoyed up until suspension on Aug. 14, 2009, and to protect against the dilution of the franchise through the U.K. government’s stated desires to change the qualification for Belongership and the process by which it is handed out in this interim period.” The PDM also announced their plans to appoint their own Constitutional and Electoral Review Commission made up of Turks and Caicos Islanders and said they will continue to pursue talks with other Caribbean country leaders. Parnell called for all Turks and Caicos Islanders to exercise maturity in their actions. “This time requires all of us who care about our country to exercise a level of maturity that must come if we are to advance and move forward as a people,” Parnell said. “Every Turks and Caicos Islander must ask himself what is political gossip and mischief making versus what is serious country business and understand how to distinguish between the two.” Read Williams' statement
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