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British Turned SIPT Corruption Trials in Turks and Caicos into a Costly Farce

Friday, July 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
SIPT trials TCI with Gordon Wetherell and Michael Misick

The British promised to hold Michael Misick and his cronies to account. Instead, they gave us a decade of delays, suspended sentences… and stuck us with the bill. iPINIONS exposes how the SIPT prosecutions became the ultimate neo-colonial farce. Read it on my Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-british-turned-sipt-corruption Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: British colonialism, Government Corruption, Justice Delayed, Michael Misick, SIPT Trials, TCI Politics, urks and Caicos

Nigeria to Smithsonian: ‘Give Our Benin Bronzes Back!’

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 1:14 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Display of Benin Bronzes with ceremonies in Germany and Washington marking their return to Nigeria inset

Give our Benin Bronzes back The Smithsonian marked Indigenous People’s Day last week by holding a ceremony to give 29 Benin Bronzes back to their rightful owners. It wanted the ceremony to be symbolic and substantive in equal measure. The Smithsonian is the latest institution heeding Nigeria’s demand to return artifacts British forces plundered. Most notably, Germany agreed last… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Benin Bronzes, British colonialism, British Museum, Elgin Marbles, Nigeria, Smithsonian

Britain Has a Legal (or “Superior”) Responsibility to Fix the TCI

Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com Published 19 June 2008   Why have government officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands seemed so indifferent to corruption, and so immune from prosecution? That’s the question I’ve fielded from UK and American colleagues for years, especially as clear and convincing evidence of mismanagement and self-dealing piled up,… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: British colonialism, Constitutional Responsibility, Good Governance, Governance, TCI Politics, Turks and Caicos, UK Overseas Territories

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