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Euwonka Selver, the current secretary general of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) has taken to Facebook to report that officers of the Royal Turks and Caicos Police Force have stopped her five times recently.

Euwonka Selver

The latest incident reportedly occurred when she drove away from the Lisa Raye Cinema on Leeward Highway in Provo. Selver claimes that not only was her vehicle searched but that she was patted down standing on the highway.

The pat down included her private areas by a woman officer, Selver reported.

Selver is an outspoken opponent of the interim government and the British takeover. In her Facebook comments she expressed her belief that she is being targeted by the governor for being outspoken but that this will not deter her from continuing her verbal protests.

Selver insisted she does not carry or use illegal drugs and she was apparently released after each incident.

Selver, whose Facebook page indicates she was previously employed by the law firm of Misick and Stanbrook, is also serving as the Provo chairman for the PDM. However, a Provo branch meeting is scheduled to take place soon, which sources say will include the election of officers. It is unknown if Selver will stand for re-election.

In 2001, Selver won the Miss Turks and Caicos title.

She was reported to be a key participant in a confrontation with constitutional consultant Kate Sullivan and then Governor Gordon Wetherell when they attempted to board their plane to return to Grand Turk at the Provo airport.

She also was reported to have taken part in the protest organized by the Progressive National Party (PNP) in March last year that shut down the Provo Airport during the height of the tourist season.

During an open meeting at the PDM headquarters in Provo with Andrew Rosindell, British MP and chairman of the TCI All Party Group in London, she repeatedly rose to speak out against the constitutional reform, which is now complete and will replace the 2006 Constitution.

Selver is the daughter of former minister of education in the Derek Taylor administration, Clarence Selver, and is believed to be a supporter of Taylor’s recent election as PDM leader. Taylor himself selected Selver as the party’s secretary general, a post that PDM sources say she openly sought.

She is also the niece of the last deputy premier, Royal Robinson, who has contributed numerous articles to local newspapers expressing his negative views of the interim government’s performance, which coincide with Selver’s own comments.

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