TCI TAGGED TURTLE HEADS TO BVI
Turks & Caicos Informers
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TCI TAGGED TURTLE HEADS TO BVI
GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands; Friday, September 18, 2009 -
Suzie the female green turtle, and first turtle to be fitted with a
satellite tag in the Turks and Caicos Islands, yesterday arrived in
the coastal waters of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), after just
over two weeks of migrating across open ocean from East Caicos.
The latest data from Suzie’s tag suggests she is now resting between
the islands of Jost van Dyke and Tortola in the BVI, also a UK
Overseas Territory. Suzie was satellite tagged and released of East
Caicos in late June by the Turks and Caicos Islands Turtle Project a
collaborative initiative between the Department of Environment and
Coastal Resources (DECR) and the School for Field Studies (SFS) in
TCI, and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and the University of
Exeter in the UK. From her release in late June to the end of August
she stayed close to the northern shore of East Caicos, where she may
have been nesting, but on the 1st September she started migrating
eastwards away from the TCI.
“This is the first time we have tracked an adult green turtle
migration from the Turks and Caicos Islands and it is amazing to see
that Suzie headed straight to our friends in the BVI,” said Wesley
Clerveaux, Director of the Department of Environment and Coastal
Resources, “We have been in touch with our colleagues in the
Conservation and Fisheries Department there and they will be keeping
an eye out for her.”
As in the TCI, BVI laws allow the capture and consumption of marine
turtles, but enforce a turtle fishery closed season from April to
November inclusive, when capture of turtles is prohibited in order to
protect adult turtles during the breeding and nesting season. The
Turks and Caicos Islands Turtle Project is still trying to determine
if Suzie nested on East Caicos, in which case she would be heading
back to her feeding grounds in BVI, where she will be protected by law
until the 1st December.
Suzie's tag could last for up to a year. When she surfaces to breathe,
the tag transmits signals to satellites orbiting in space, and these
signals reveal her location. The project team hopes to tag a total of
six turtles in TCI and will track their migrations remotely via the
internet using SEATURTLE.ORG's ground-breaking programme known as
STAT. STAT communicates with the satellite system to plot online maps
of the turtles movements each day. The maps, pictures of the turtles
and more information can be viewed online at www.mcsuk.org
This exciting and pioneering project will reveal new information about
the Turks and Caicos Islands' marine turtle populations. The DECR
encourages TCI Islanders to follow Suzie’s progress online, and
respectfully urges anyone who sees any signs of turtle nesting in TCI
to report their sightings to DECR at 649 243 4895.
The satellite tags used by the Turks and Caicos Islands Turtle Project
were funded by the British Chelonia Group and the People’s Trust for
Endangered Species.
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Henry Jolson
Dear Sir ARE THEY GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION? I do not believe that we can agree on the points that you made and I must respectfully differ with you on these points. I do respect your right to make these remarks. First you attribute remarks made by writers of the tcijournal to Mr Shaun Malcolm and this is not true. Diana Da Gara and others have coined that phrase, unearned privilege. This is quite obviously someone who chose to express her views in that way and cannot be attributed to Mr Malcolm and anyone else who happens to contribute to the tcijournal. If your premise were true that the contributors to the tcijournal are somehow guilty of the writings of other writers to the journal, then all persons who write to the tcweeklynews news, the Suntci, the freepress, are all guilty of what the editors and the writers to the various publications publish and that cannot be correct. It would be guilt by association, being a common effort to write to publication. To accuse the writers and contributors of the tcijournal as anarchists is unfair and untrue. They have, on the other hand, been fighting the real anarchists in the TCI. a. Ashtrom Construction who refuse to hire Belongers, who pay low work permit fees for supervisors and those who refuse to follow the rules of the country as passed by the TCI Parliament. b. The journal has been fighting the Star island project, which is a development that was carried out without planning permission that would have destroyed the TCI environment, the entire coastline and sands off Grace Bay Beach. The results would have destroyed the economy of the TCI forever. c. Dellis Cay and its developers which paid Ministers of the Corrupt PNP Government to undervalue the lands on Joe Grant’s Cay, bribed Ministers of the PNP to sell the lands to the developers at an undervalue, these are the real anarchists because they are funding the theft and removal of the lands of the peoples of the TCI to a select group of developers without following the laws of the TCI d. Salt Cay is another development where the Developers were caught bribing Ministers, paying for the credit cards of the former and disgraces Premier, Michael Misick, making him and his brother partners in his project as bribes to get away with breaking the laws of the islands.
A GANG? THE PNP IS A MAFIA RUN GANG.
The PNP is not only a gang; it is a criminal organization, controlled by Criminals, developer’s monies and an excessive greed. This is where we must disagree. They are the ones who broke all of the laws in these islands and they are the ones who remain a political party, with all of this evidence of criminal corruption but people like Mike Misick, Piper Hanchell, Gilley Williams, Jeffrey hall, Floyd hall, still sit in the hierarchy of the PNP, fully supported as if nothing was done. Is this not a corrupt, criminal organization? I dare you Sir, that if a PDM leader, Chairman, Supporter, Branch member, Branch Chairperson were guilty of any of these crimes against the country and the people, that the PDM would asking for that persons’ head. This means that despite the shots fired across the rhetorical and political bow that the PDM cannot be called a criminal organization as the PNP is. In the TCI persons tend to overlook the corruption of others because of friendships, associations and family ties. This is symptomatic of the PNP and the criminal tendencies perpetrated on the TCI for the life of the political system of the TCI from 1976 to now. During the last 6 years they made sure Belongers could not get jobs in the TCI. One cannot call that legal but criminal. They made sure that lands, work permits, PRCS, Belongerships and other rights of the TCI people were sold off en masse. They destroyed the Constitutional and made it imperative for the TCI to come to a halt by the suspension of the Constitution because in reality there was no law, rule of law and Constitutional law under the PNP.
The journal and its writers can all be defended to fight crime and anarchy perpetrated on the people of the TCI by the PNP Government and its developer friends.. They are not and cannot be called anarchists. This is an unfair notion. The remarks made in respect of unearned privilege, as stated earlier, cannot be attributed to all writers of the journal. You must remember that the tcijournal emerged at a time when the criminally corrupt PNP Government shut down all media in the TCI to the PDM Opposition. As a reaction the PDM Opposition used the tcijournal to get its view points out. There are taped televised interviews on the tcijournal by the leader, The Deputy leader and others. Does this mean that they as guests or contributors to the journal at that time when the opposition could not get on national media are guilty of the remarks made by other members of the journal? I would think not.
The PNP, I must conclude is criminal and it is committed to money and the destruction of the TCI. They do not follow laws and no law was too big for any PNP Minister to break
The irony of the tcijournal and its writers such as the editors and Shaun Malcolm is that they have been fighting anarchy in these islands and the corruption of the PNP. The points advanced by other writers cannot be placed at the feet of other writers otherwise we would all be guilty by association.
The party system will survive and cannot fall owing to criticisms and what we may term as attacks. The only thing that can happen from criticisms and challenges to one's position is survival, betterment and rising to the challenge to change one's bad ways. This is the problem that the PNP currently face. They cannot change and will go down in history as an utterly corrupt criminal organisation because its leaders are free to break laws, commit crimes, take bribes and get away with it.
Henry Jolson
You have obviously not read me correctly Mr. Williams, or Mr. Williamson, whichever one you are; I do not know neither do I care actually, if the TCI Journal and Shaun Malcolm are doing the four things stated in your first paragraph. And I know for certain that I have never said that these positions have a political agenda and are insulting people. Perhaps you will be so kind as to point out to me where I have said this, if you are so convinced.
I have seen enough in the Journal to conclude that they have no love for, and seemingly want to see the demise of the PNP and PDM Parties; for one thing, disparagingly calling them on more than one occasion “gangs”. I am not willing to assume that the folks at the Journal are anarchists and want to see the total breakdown of government and of law and order here. I would much rather believe that if they want to see the end of the two political parties, they must have something in mind to replace them with.
If I have said that Malcolm and the Journal are doing something wrong, it is not because of your four points, but rather because the Journal has time and again insulted the Turks & Caicos people, allowing their contributors to accuse us all of having “unearned privilege” and Commissioner of Human Rights, Ms. Doreen Quelch-Misick, as “a prominent TC Unearned Privilege Baby”, and the “Non-Commissioner of Human Rights”; and calling the indigenous women of the Turks and Caicos “minority”; and Turks & Caicos workers “completely overpaid and dishonest TCI citizen bidness-man”
And no Mr. Williams, the PNP is not a “well run gang”. It is instead, a legitimate organization, committed to serving the Turks & Caicos people. Both the PNP and the PDM comprise many individuals that are honest and upright citizens of the Turks & Caicos Islands, and I am certain that they feel very insulted being called members of a gang, and of their party being called a gang. Not only has one of their contributors repeatedly referred to our political parties as gangs, the editors themselves on September 18 accused both parties of being “the two rival gangs masquerading as political parties”.
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Brittany Fulford
From: Henry Jolson <henry...@yahoo.com>
To: turks-and-cai...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:09:25 AM
Subject: ARE THEY GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION?
Henry Jolson
Morning Miss Fulford: I trust that when you say “others” that you are or are not referring to the PNP because the PNP is a gang and a common enemy of the people of the TCI. It functions much like a criminal organization and persons who attach the label “gang” to them are correct in doing so. Like many other writers to the tcijournal, no one can control what an editor opts to publish. Please contact any newspaper, TV station, Radio Station and they will guard their editorial control jealously. It will be much like an anti-PDM person seeking to be published on the PDM’s website but because of the need for that party to continue to maintain its high standards of commitment to the people of the TCI that party cannot allow any and everybody to have the right to publish their material on it. This may apply to any party or private organization not supported by government monies and public funds. The same does not apply to publicly controlled media such the Radio Turks & Caicos RTC where the PDM opposition was routinely and consistently denied access between 2003-2009 and at the same time the PNP leader at the time, Mike Misick was free to broadcast hate, personal attacks on the leadership of the PDM. While he was doing this members of the public were obliged to speak out, attack this clamping on down on freedom of speech because all members of the public were free to say what they liked on RTC and on New Media Network. We were all obliged to demand that Mike Misick retract anti PDM statements, lies on Derek Taylor, lies on Oswald Skippings, Lies on the Hon Floyd Seymour, Lies on Mr Shaun Malcolm, lies on the Hon Doug Parnell, Lies on the Hon Arthur Robinson. When the Premier at the time, Mike Misick took the camera from the PDM Chairman and attacked the Hon Arthur Robinson, we were obliged to speak out and demand retractions, apologies and the police under Governor Tauwhare covered up this incident. Nothing came out of the attack and this assault on officials of the PDM. The premier was behaving like a gangster and at the same time restricting access to public airways so that the PDM could represent itself and its people. In fact you can say that people like the leader of the PDM, the Deputy Leader of the PDM, the Chairman of the PDM, the Finbar Grant Show, The Doug Parnell show were almost all alone in getting attention to the clamping down of these public spirited persons to get their message to the people. We needed the public to speak out when the Premier prevented the Hon Derek Taylor access to RTC, we needed people to speak out when Hon Oswald Skippings was prevented from broadcasting his Christian program by McAllister Hanchell, and the same is true when Shaun Malcolm, Doug Parnell and Finbar Grant all had their cancelled on WIV for no reason. I suggest that you take action in the court and ask the court to demand an apology and retraction for “inflammatory remarks. But I will support the right of the journal to call the PNP a criminal organization as it is a party without rules, run by gangsters, its constitution is of no effect, their constitution was suspended as soon as Mike Misick became leader in 2002 and that mean that 6 years later the TCI Constitution would have to be suspended because of his anti-democratic behavior. Please note also that web logs in the US and in the world do not have to be licensed. Please show also where the editors have debased all TCI’s. This is not the case. Again, the writers to the journal may take a particular tone but that cannot be placed at the feet of the editors and other writers to the journal. It is voluntary and if a day comes again in the future of the TCI where the Government clamps down on press freedoms, like under the PNP, then unlicensed web-logs like the journal should be made available to the party system which Mike Misick did his best to undermine by clamping down on press freedoms, preventing the official opposition from doing its job in the house of assembly, having his goons attack the chief auditor and the list is long. So if you wish to make the journal different from licensed media that is a proper differentiation. It cannot affect the fact that media like the journal have served a useful purpose in attacking PNP corruption. The result is seen where the developers are now suing the journal exposing their land deals, corruption and bribery of ministers. Henry Jolson. |
Brittany Fulford
Subject: Re: ARE THEY GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION?