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NO COUNTRY EXEMPT
By Oswald Skippings
#TurksandCaicos, September 15, 2023 – The universal futuristic economic outlook is about to change radically, and no country will be exempted from the global reset that will occasion this and other such transitions.
For example, we are aware of BRICS that involves superpowers such as Russia and China that are developing commercial and financial systems outside of the US dollar sphere. But let us not be blindfolded and oblivious to the extent of their powers by attributing military prowess alone to these countries’ superpower status, but let us realize that natural resources, manufacturing, and global trade are also some of their key attributes.
Anyone should realize the extent to which China supplies the world with electronics, food, cyber high-tech equipment, and the inexhaustible list goes on.
However, how all this global reset hits home to us in the Turks and Caicos and what all of this means, is that we can no longer put our destiny in the hands of people who are insensitive and oblivious to the new global evolving
Solutions that would not just keep us in step industrially, economically, and even socially, but solutions that may catapult us ahead in some instances.
Yes! International challenges that may affect our currency and its value, our industrial makeup, our immigration, social and religious activity, our overall economic viability and the likes.
It should be noted that the IMF predicts that a third of the global economy is set to contract beginning this year. This is the sort of inevitable and in some cases unpredictable challenges that lie ahead in this great global reset.
Consequently, it drives the point home to any and all well thinking, sensible and honest Turks and Caicos Islanders, that the traditional impractical approach to voting that was built around family ties, friendship, election handouts, government stimulus, sweet talking, social popularity, bling binging, age, and the likes, can no longer be the determining factors as to how and where we cast our powerful vote.
Too much is at stake, and we are already suffering from elected and colonial governants’ lallygagging that is not just contributing to the escalating disempowerment of our people, but the destabilization of the country on a whole.
We look in disgust and disappointment as our assets and our institutions are being constantly dismantled, bartered, and handed out to foreign and private interests thereby diluting and totally eroding both government control and its stake holding, as well as that of Turks and Caicos Islanders.
Therefore, my people, we need to be honest with ourselves for our own well-being and that of our country and future generations and henceforth cast our votes for conscious, patriotic, and brave visionaries in all upcoming elections, especially this upcoming one, regardless of color, class or age of the candidates.