{"id":10034,"date":"2011-07-06T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10034"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:47:51","slug":"caribbean-leaders-concerned-about-turks-and-caicos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/caribbean-leaders-concerned-about-turks-and-caicos-islands","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Leaders Concerned About Turks and Caicos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government, many of whom are bana republic leaders, have expressed  concern over the situation in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) where  Britain resumed direct administration of its overseas territory in  August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The communiqu\u00e9 issued at the end of the 32nd regular meeting of the  Conference of Caribbean Heads of Government in St Kitts on Monday noted  that \u201cthe constitutional reform process had been completed though not to  the full satisfaction of the Islanders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>London resumed direct administration of the affairs of the British  Overseas Territory, disbanded the locally elected government and  suspended the legislature after a Commission of Inquiry said it found  widespread corruption under the administration of former premier Michael  Misick, a good friend of Bahamian PLP MP Obie Wilchcombe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads of governments in the Caribbean, many of whom are corrupt themselves, resent England trying to clean up the Turks &#038; Caicos, where govermnent corruption rose to new heights under the uber-corrupt Michael Misik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,93],"class_list":["post-10034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}