In July 2012, Oswald Skippings was elected as the leader of the PDM, while Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson defeated Sean Astwood to become the party's first-ever female deputy leader. The party fielded 15 candidates in the 2012 election. On November 9, 2012 the PDM was defeated by the PNP and Oswald Skippings stepped down as leader.
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The main reporters were Ned Boulting, Gabriel Clarke and Dave Beckett. There were also many occasional reporters such as Richard Henwood, Tom Skippings, Mike Hall, Andy Kerr, Mick Conway and Gary Bloom.
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Following the elections, PDM leader Oswald Skippings became Chief Minister. Malcolm Daniel, leader of the Progressive National Party (PNP) and Ariel Misick, leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) both lost their seats.
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Oswald O'Neil Skippings (born 1953) is a politician from the Turks and Caicos Islands. He served as the island territory's Chief Minister from 19 June 1980 to November 1980 and again from 3 March 1988 to April 1991. Skippings became the youngest member of a Caribbean government ever when he was first elected to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) legislature in 1976 at the age of 22. He later became the youngest leader of a Caribbean government ever when he became Chief Minister in 1980 at the age of 26.
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Football League coverage on Channel 5 has numerous reporters at each game. Tom Skippings is the main reporter for most programmes. Two other notable reporters are Nick Halling and Sue Thearle - both taken from the BBC. Jack Woodward, Dan Mason, Dave Beckett and John Anderson all also feature semi-regularly.
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Football League Extra is a Football League highlights show supplied by ITV Sport. It usually aired late on Monday nights. The programme first aired in 1994, and ended after the 2003–2004 season, when it was to be replaced on Sunday mornings with The Championship. The show was first presented by Gabriel Clarke – other presenters later included Dave Beckett, Matt Smith and Tom Skippings.
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Other commentators include Paul Farrar, Dan O'Hagan, Martin Fisher and John Roder. Channel 5 also use Sky Sports commentators for their match highlight coverage such as Bill Leslie and Daniel Mann. Match reporters include Dave Beckett, Sue Thearle, Adam Lockwood, Tom Skippings and Matt Williams. The show has a mixture of former players and managers as pundits; Adam Virgo is the most frequent pundit having appeared on both Cup and League highlights shows.
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She was removed from that position in May 2012 after Governor Ric Todd indicated that people planning to run in the November election should not continue to sit on the Advisory Council or the Consultative Forum. In July 2012, Cartwright-Robinson was named Deputy Leader of the PDM, under Leader Oswald Skippings. In the 2012 election, she ran as one of the eleven candidates for the five at-large seats in the All Island District, where she obtained the highest number of votes. Due to provisions in the new 2011 Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands, running for election required her to renounce her birth-right citizenship in the Bahamas.
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With the advent of Ministerial Government in the Turks and Caicos Islands came the demand for permanent secretaries to each of the Ministries that were allowed for in the 1976 constitution. In August 1979 Clement Howell was appointed as Permanent Secretary to the Minister responsible for Education, Health and Welfare. In May 1980, after the death of the country's first Chief Minister, Mr. Howell was transferred to the post of Permanent Secretary to the country's second Chief Minister, Oswald O. Skippings. In November 1980, the People's Democratic Movement (PDM) lost their bid for reelection to the Progressive National Party (PNP) and Mr. C. Howell was re-appointed as Headteacher of the Blue Hills Primary School by the PNP administration.
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