Letter from Mr Ben Roberts to the Governor,
Turks and Caicos Islands
Dear Governor Tauwhare,
This email is to voice to you, the Overseer
of British matters, my alarm and concern about matters in Turks
in Caicos. It has been less than a year that the courthouse in
Grand Turk was burned in a fire. The result of this was that the
old courthouse/council chamber building was put back into service
as the venue for these operations. Two weeks ago that building,
not only an office building but in addition a veritable archive
of Turks & Caicos history, was found on fire. Now, less than
two days ago the Attorney General Chambers was found on fire.
This is quite unnatural. Turks & Caicos, and especially its
government buildings, has never had fires on such a scale as witnessed
on your watch in office. There is a lot of speculation in the
country that these fires are not by any stretch of the imagination
accidental, given our history of rarity of fires, along with the
pattern of sites that have caught fire. These locations house
important documents having to do with government transactions.
Why are they going up in flames? Our police have been unable to
solve any of these cases to date, along with numerous cases unrelated
to what is being described as this apparent Guy Fawkes spree.
I am hoping that you have contacted British
authorities in parliament and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
on this disturbing matter. If you have not I am imploring you
to do so. We need a high level investigation on the order of Scotland
Yard or Interpol, in this matter. If the British can offer them
to assist a foreign sovereign country like Pakistan, in unraveling
criminal activity in the loss of life of one of its prominent
leaders, then its resources can most definitely be used to clear
up these disturbing events in their own colony of T&C. Events
which are are not only threatening law and order, but are also
dispensing with hundreds of years of historical documents such
as birth certificates, land transactions, and citizenship documentation.
In the interim, while a British investigative
contingent arrives, I can only hope that efforts are being made
to shore up security to government buildings. What's next on the
list of important government buildings that document our lives
and interactions, past and present? More of this would be disastrous
and debilitating to my home, and the country you oversee. There
is a lot of speculation about these fires, but a proper and competent
investigation by one of the above mentioned agencies should put
all speculation to rest, and hopefully put an end to these fires
that are playing havoc with our documented history of yesterday
and yesteryear. That is of grave concern to me. Thank you.
4 March 2008
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