#Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands – Friday April 6, 2018 – There appears to be a big party going on at the Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk and it is on display for the entire world to see after some inmates posted video of them laughing, carousing, rapping, dancing, cussing, interacting and having near phone sex and all of it was live on Facebook.
The group, led by accused double homicide suspect Christopher Forbes, is sending shout-outs, posing and posturing, encouraging women to ‘twerk’ and to expose their bodies during a live from jail broadcast on Facebook around 6pm on Thursday; telling their audience across the US mainly, that the ‘Jail House Crew’ was in the Caribbean.
The link to the video, which was live on the ‘Donald Trump Clown University’ timeline on Facebook was shared last night with Magnetic Media, and it is a disturbing bit of insight of what we understand is the Green wing of Her Majesty’s Prison, where the more serious offenders or dangerous on remand suspects are housed.
While the men are clearly not going anywhere, they appear to have free movement in the small space, dressed and behaving ‘wild beach party style’; a far cry from what many would expect jail time to look like.
The Home Affairs Minister today reacted to the outrageous video which goes on for 40-minutes, and which has been shared nearly 1,500 times and has been viewed by over 85,000 people.
Minister Delroy Williams said, this, “As the Minister of Government with responsibilities for Her Majesty’s Prisons ,I am deeply concerned about a video that is circulating on social media and which has clearly been made by, and contains footage of, inmates of Her majesty’s prison. This is a very serious and disturbing situation and is undoubtedly a national security issue which has very serious implications. I can assure you that this matter is not being taken lightly and that I have order an immediate and full investigation into the matter tough and urgent measures will be enforced to address this matter immediately.”
And there is an urgent demand for intervention at the corrections facility located on the capital island of Grand Turk. It was mere weeks ago that prison superintendent, Steve Barrett declined renewal of his contract with TCIG. Barrett was blasted, some believe unfairly, on social media by Islanders for his characterization of the situation at the Prison which seems to be an escalating one. From fires being set, to female prison guards being molested, escapes, beatings of other inmates and harsh resistance to British support following the September 2017 Hurricanes; HMP is undoubtedly in trouble.
The inmates threaten prison officers in that trending video as well. The 40-minutes features women from across America, who were watching and eventually expose their faces and body parts to the randy prisoners who demanded to see from tattoos, to breasts to vaginas – and the language was anything but scientific or polite.
At least one woman, claiming to be from ‘Cali’ did show the men her breasts before the ‘lock down’.
‘Big Daddy Forbes’, who is awaiting trial for the brutal killing of two women from the Dominican Republic, brazenly promised the viewers that they would be live again “tomorrow”.
The Minister concluded his statement with: “Without delving into details, because of the very sensitive nature of this incident, I wish to assure residents of Turks and Caicos Islands that no effort will be spared in acquiring whatever resources are necessary to control this matter and to ensure that there is no recurrence.”
It is unclear if the Turks and Caicos Islands Government has requested that Facebook take the illegal video recording down.