Wikileaks: Mitchell reinforced view of 'fractured' Turks and Caicos politics

Thu, Dec 23rd 2010, 07:00 AM

Confidential dispatches released to the public through the Wikileaks diplomatic cables leak reveal that former foreign affairs minister Fred Mitchell told US Embassy officials in Nassau that the lack of a "serious" CARICOM effort to prevent direct UK rule over Turks and Caicos was a result of a "surprising ambivalence" among TCI government and opposition officials.

The cables emanating from the US Embassy in Nassau, marked "confidential and sensitive", also described comments made by Prime Minster Hubert Ingraham and Mr Mitchell on a possible Bahamas-TCI federation as "rhetoric".
In March of last year, a UK-initiated Commi ...

Confidential dispatches released to the public through the Wikileaks diplomatic cables leak reveal that former foreign affairs minister Fred Mitchell told US Embassy officials in Nassau that the lack of a "serious" CARICOM effort to prevent direct UK rule over Turks and Caicos was a result of a "surprising ambivalence" among TCI government and opposition officials.

The cables emanating from the US Embassy in Nassau, marked "confidential and sensitive", also described comments made by Prime Minster Hubert Ingraham and Mr Mitchell on a possible Bahamas-TCI federation as "rhetoric".
In March of last year, a UK-initiated Commi ...

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