Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands
PR and lobbying firms
- In 2008 the Turks and Caicos Islands Tourist Board hired its first UK PR agency Riva Publicity to promote tourism and attract investment to the islands following a competitive pitch. The Mayfair-based agency's brief was to target the travel, fashion, trade, financial and property press. [1]
The registered lobbyist in the US for the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2009 was J Watson and co.[2]Jeffrey Watson is a US lobbyist and former aide to President Bill Clinton.[3]
It was reported in February 2009 that Watson had hired a jet to the islands' premier, Michael Misick. Misick and his deputy, Floyd Hall, were alleged to have helped parcel out prime strips of land on the Islands to developers keen to turn the overseas territory, some 600 miles off Florida, into a luxury tourist destination. Both men deny any wrongdoing.[4]
Contacts
Turks and Caicos Islands Government Office 42 Westminster Palace Gardens, 1-7 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RR
Notes
- ↑ Caribbean sun, PR Week UK, 16 May 08, accessed 20 September 2011
- ↑ Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, registered 2007, accessed March 2009
- ↑ JWC website, accessed March 2009
- ↑ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/01/turks-and-caicos Islanders blame UK for 'stolen land'], Guardian, 1 February 2009
