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sufficient? £2 million devoted to the Turks and Caicos has

not created prosperity, real comfort: it is alleviation not

a solution. It is 1978: We have the full panoply of a Governor with reserved powers which we have exercised recently to veto actions of the locally elected ministers etc.

Do we

envisage this state of things to be perpetual? If not what should happen? What are the solutions? Surely at least one is entitled to put this challenge to the British public, to the Turks and Caicos without the scream of "Pontius Pilate"

or cries of cynicsm We need to see the future in regional

terms.

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The issue of Belize is engraved on my heart - therefore let me

take it as a second example.

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PS/Mr Rowlands

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