"We are hurting" Citizen of Turks and Caicos Explains Conditions Under UK Occupation

Everybody talking about the new British constitution we all reject. We talk about the corruption investigation that has kept us locked up in British occupation for two years [no arrests have been made after 2 years]. We talk about referendum is needed to pass British constitution and all we get are town hall meetings. We talk about our loss of democracy and intimidation against anyone who speak against the British.

I want to talk about a different problem. What about our financial hurting? We are locked in our country and forced the pay the high price of living that we are all familiar with because it is a tourist destination. No lie, a gallon of milk costs $10.00. How much does it cost in the US about $4.00? Everything is like that our gas, our food, housing. It is out of control. The high cost of living is hurting us. I know people in my own family who had to have utilities cut off to pay for food.

The British are doing nothing to help us. If we were UK citizens so many of us would have welfare by now, food stamps or any assistance. But the British ignoring us in our own country that they took from us. Where are we going to go? Nowhere. We are stuck.

Why they need to give us our country back because when we were running our own affairs we had a great economy. Our local business was doing good. The UK is now laying off our civil service, closing out business and it's hurting our economy. My family run a store and nobody has money to buy. This has been hurting us. Who can afford to spend when everyone job is on notice and they want to buy things that help them survive.

The British have locked is in our country without any aid, took our government and programmes, force us to buy the items we need at three times the inflated costs and top of it giving us the ax at our jobs. They are raising taxes and fees, health costs. Then we see that they bringing in their own people from the United Kingdom to take our jobs.

They will be some big political blow up coming soon. We are disrespected by the British treated so much lesser than there real citizens in the UK. We are hurting here and they killing us. Why do we have no help after they ransacked our country?

(lightly edited for fluency)