VOLUME 10 ISSUE 25

VOLUME 10 - No. 25

JULY 15TH – JULY 19TH, 2014

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KEITH BURANT GETS BAIL P

rominent banker and businessman Keith Burant was slapped with four charges arising from an alleged scuffle with the police during the Queen’s Birthday Parade held at the Meridian Rugby Field in Grace Bay on June 16, 2014.

Burant was charged with obstruction; assaulting a police officer while executing his duties; using abusive language and resisting arrest.

However, when he appeared in the Providenciales Magistrate’s Court Two at Graceway House on Friday July 11, 2014, he pleaded “Not Guilty” to all the charges.

The court was told that on June 16, during the staging of the Queen’s Birthday Parade, it was announced that a black Range Rover was blocking the pathway preventing dignitaries from entering the compound. The dignitaries in this regard were His Excellency Governor Peter Beckingham and Acting Premier Hon. Akierra Misick.

The court heard that police officer Donald Pierre, who was at the scene trying to find the driver, saw a Caucasian man – who later turned out to be Burant – with keys in hand approaching the vehicle.

When Officer Pierre asked Burant if he was the driver of the vehicle, the accused began hurling a string of expletives.

“F… you! Do you know who I am?”

Burant had asked, according to the court document. He continued to curse the officer after while he warned him of the event that was being held. The court was told that Burant pointed his finger at the officer and said again “F… you! I gave you permission to use the field!”

During his rant, the court was told Burant poked the officer in the chest with his finger. At that time other officers who were nearby came to Pierre’s aid and restrained Burant.

He was restrained and placed in a police vehicle.

He was then asked to produce his driver’s license, and after being warned of pending charges, he reportedly said: “I don’t care. Your boss will hear about this.”

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The owner of the store (second from left) and his attorney Chal Misick (third from left) watch as customers officers take steps to enter the building.

Customs and Police raid Grace Bay store

Two customs officers prepare a box to load items from the store.

PdM welcomes withdrawl of payroll tax – Page 7 Convicted rapist cop to be sentenced soon – Page 13

Personnel from the Turks and Caicos Islands Customs Department accompanied by members of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force raided Mayaa One Stop Shop along the Grace Bay Strip on Friday (July 11, 2014).

The officers spent more than three hours combing through the store’s inventory, often seen taking in boxes to ostensibly fill with the items for confiscation, which they believed were underpriced when arrived at the port.

The day before, customs officers and police were spotted removing boxes of items from the home of one of the owners of the gift shop. Customs officials promised media representatives that they would provide details of the operation later Friday, but at press time The SUN was yet to receive the statement.

In the meantime, customs official noted that the law gives the Customs Department whether to charge an offender or drag them before the courts.

Agreement signed for $100M hotel resort and marina – Page 10

Unlicensed vehicles top on police traffic operation – Page 14

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LOCAL NEWS

Traffic violations contribute $200,000 to annual revenue

by Vivian Tyson The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force channel approximately $200,000 to the recurrent budget each from traffic tickets and court measures from traffic violations, according to figures given by Commissioner of Police Colin Farquar this past week.

Commissioner Farquar, who The SUN caught up with, during a traffic operation along the Leeward Highway in Providenciales on Wednesday (July 9, 2014), explained that an average the police collect between $15,000 and $20,000 per month from motorists who violate the road code. He said last month the police issued tickets in the amount of $21,000, while in May, the amount of tickets issued was approximately $18,000.

“Last month it was around $21,000, I believe, and the month before, it was about $18,000. Generally it (amount of tickets issued) is about $15,000 to about $20,000 per month,” Commissioner Farquar said.

The commissioner explained that while the police’s job is to go on the road and ensure that motorists follow the rules, there is a great deal of noncompliance that warrants prosecution.

He said that the violation rate is so high and rampant to the extent that law enforcers are compelled to issue

volumes of tickets each month.

“As much as we want everybody to follow the rules, often they don’t, and there is a consequence for that, and the sanctions are usually cash.

So it is not to generate revenue but there is certain amount of revenue that is generated just through traffic enforcement,” the commissioner revealed.

He added: “The Traffic Enforcement Team often comes out and conducts random checks, looking for driver’s licenses, making sure everybody has their insurance. We also conduct speed checks, making sure that everybody is following the speed limits; just making sure that people are compliant and following the rules.”

No longer small Commissioner Farquar theorised that the traffic non-compliance on Providenciales escalated drastically as the island quickly grew from a small community to a large society.

He said that some of the persons who were non-compliant in the past when the society was much smaller, find it hard to adjust now that the island has grown and compliance has been enforced.

“I think everybody is aware of the non-compliance of the traffic rules here in Providenciales, especially, not

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OTHER INFORMATION APPLICABLE TO THE POSTS The duties for the posts may be carried out at either of the Commission’s offices in Grand Turk or Providenciales.

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so much in Grand Turk and some of the other family islands. Providenciales used to be a small community; nobody was too concerned about the traffic controls and the traffic enforcements.

“But this is no longer a small community, it is now a large community, and we need to make sure that everybody is compliant and follows the rules because what ends up happening is that people don’t know what to do at a stop sign or what to do at a roundabout because they have never been compliant before, and it causes a lot of confusion.

“It is about not only ensuring that everybody is following the rules and regulations but to remind people of what the rules and regulations are.

So often when they get pulled over to the side, it is not just a matter of issuing the ticket, it is also to explain to them the purpose of why they were stopped and the importance of being compliant,” Commissioner Farquar said.

Police Commissioner Colin Farquhar.

Keith Burant gets bail Continued from Page 1

In the meantime, Burant, at the advice of his attorney George Missick, chose to have his case heard in the Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Jolyan Hatman then set Tuesday, September 16, 2014 as the trial date.

Burant was release on $1,000 bail.

On the day of the incident, Commissioner of Police Colin Farquhar was out of the country.

And when The SUN caught up with

Keith Burant him earlier this past week, Farquhar said that he tried his best not to interfere in such matters, as it is up to the police to decide whether or not they want to prosecute someone who they believe has run afoul of the law.

Burant, an executive director of Meridian Trust, is the landlord for the police headquarters on Old Airport Road in Providenciales.

UK warship supports Turks and Caicos during hurricane season

Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll visited Grand Turk last weekend in a practical demonstration of the UK’s support to its six Caribbean Overseas Territories (UKOTs).

The main purpose of her visit is to strengthen relationships with Turks and Caicos disaster management and recovery officials (DDME), especially in relation to improving crisis communications.

The visit builds on previous meetings between the Royal Navy and Turks and Caicos Government, and disaster management representatives from the other UKOTs, ahead of the Atlantic Hurricane Season in Miami in May. During her visit Argyll’s 191 crew will meet a range of Turks and Caicos Government Officials and provide an aerial reconnaissance of the islands for the Deputy Governor, DDME officials and personnel from the ship, as part of their planning work.

The crew also hope to carry out a community project, helping with the ongoing refurbishment of the Crabtree Corner family park, and there are plans for them to take on local teams at basketball, football and golf when in Grand Turk.

HMS Argyll is in the Caribbean region as part of the Royal Navy’s Atlantic Patrol Task (North). This provides a UK a maritime presence in the region all year round. During Hurricane season the ships are on standby to provide humanitarian support to the six UKOTs in the region throughout the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane season: Anguilla, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

During her time in the Caribbean, Argyll will also work with other regional navies and coastguards to combat illegal activities on the high seas.

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LOCAL NEWS

PDM welcomes withdrawal of payroll tax

The opposition People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) has given government the thumbs up for shelving the controversial Payroll tax.

Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing and his Finance Minister Hon. Washing Misick announced last week that they would no longer pursue to the bill parliament because of its unpopularity in the House and realized that government did not have the votes to push it through.

A week after the government announced the pulling of the proposed tax, the opposition came out in support of the move. Opposition Leader Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson said that she is pleased with the move, tagging it as a move in the right direction.

“The PDM believes that the Government has made a step in the right direction by withdrawing the ill-fated Payroll bill. We believe the decision to bring this bill in the first place was a waste of time. We also believe this is another look into the mind of a Government who refuses to accept the social plight and difficult circumstances in which our people are living and seem prepared to throw up barriers to inward investment than to make it more conducive for investment,” a statement from Cartwright-Robinson said.

She said that while the opposition is happy that the tax has been withdrawn,

Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson it is disappointed that government has yet to unveiled its touted alternative.

“We are disappointed that the Minister of Finance announced that he had alternatives in the event that the Bill failed but we are left wondering what they are even weeks later. We see a rolling back of taxes as we have been calling for, a move which many countries have already proven to be a stimulating factor for their economies.

The PDM held this position since it was elected to Office and the

Government continue to introduce tax collect and the sum it could forgo.

“We are also pleased with the NHIP after tax. We are hoping that this is the first step of many steps to providing Amnesty and call on the Government relief to the people. We will continue to release the amount being abandoned to stand firm in our position that we in the interest of transparency and the cannot tax our way out of a recession amount due to be collected. We await and to push the importance of the NHIP Audit and will address our growing the economy through inward concerns during the Budget Session next week,” she said. investment,” she continued.

The opposition also touched on the She continued: “We are calling on the Government to stop playing BBB+ Standard and Poor rating that politics with the defeat of this Bill and the country was given recently.

“The triple B rating places these to stop insulting the right thinking people of this country. The amount of Islands solidly in the investment $5.6m projected could never fund the bracket and we are hoping to be able projects that the Government is now to only go higher in future ratings. claiming. It claims a loss in revenue The PDM was happy to meet with the but there is a lot of fluff in areas that representatives of S&P and to play our part in this important exercise. will be revealed next week.

We maintain that this Government However we must be clear that this is not serious about savings because rating is valid for unsecured debt. We if it were, it will deal with the white maintain that our Alternative Plan elephant in the room – the monster was best as secured debt will capture healthcare cost. When it pays more better rates.

“We know PDM’s plan is certainly than lip service to the budget killer – healthcare, then we will believe that it a step in the right direction and is truly interested in developing a solid, the Government’s venomous attack revealed their lack of maturity in the realistic fiscal strategy.”

And while castigating government governance of this country and their for what it says is their indecision to willingness to in good faith hear ideas tackle the economy, patted the Rufus from anyone other than their small Ewing administration on the back circle.

“We believe that the people of these for the proposed National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP) amnesty to Islands deserve something better. delinquent bosses. However, the During the Budget Session we will opposition is calling on government unveil the full PDM Alternative Plan,” release the sum that it intends to Cartwright-Robinson said.

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LOCAL NEWS

Turks and Caicos post cabinet meeting statement

His Excellency the Governor, Peter Beckingham, chaired the meeting of the Cabinet at the House of Assembly Building, Grand Turk on Wednesday, 9 July 2014.

All Ministers were present except Hon. Premier and Hon. Minister of Health.

At this meeting Cabinet: • Advised the Governor to agree and sign the Development Agreement with Circle Holdings (Third Turtle) which will see a new $100m hotel, casino and marina built on the Turks and Caicos Islands. The 17 acre vacant site includes 775 feet of sea frontage and 1300 feet of marina frontage on the famous Grace Bay. The Development is expected to create 300-400 new jobs and bring additional tax revenues of around $9m to TCIG;

• Reviewed a proposal from Adventure Resorts Ltd on the development of an eco-adventure resort for Five Cays, Providenciales.

The development proposes a low-rise, low density development designed to blend in with the environment and will include tourist accommodations, spa,

fitness areas and recreational areas.

Cabinet confirmed its support for the development subject to satisfactory completion of investment processes; • Advised the Governor to agree amendments to Regulations 3 (1) (g) and 3 (2) (f) of the National Parks Ordinance. The amendments will facilitate passenger transportation services by hovercraft to South Caicos, North Caicos and other areas that are currently difficult to access with traditional vessels including transportation of passengers through National Parks and Nature Reserves; • Approved establishment of an International Finance Marketing and Promotion Working Group. The working groups terms of reference will include development of new financial services products, new legislation and a strategy to market TCI as a well regulated International Financial Services Sector with superior products and services. Membership of the working group will include private and public sector financial services practitioners;

• Welcomed two proposals from shrimp farming developers and confirmed the Governments support for the development of shrimp farming and shrimp farming methods that have minimal negative impact on the TCI environment. The developments will be subject to full environmental impact assessment and planning regulations;

• Advised the Governor to agree amendments to the Fisheries Protection Ordinance that are in keeping with recent developments in TCIs fisheries and advancements in fisheries science in order to improve the management of finfish, pelagic species and other marine species; • Agreed that the Caribbean spiny lobster season 2014/15 shall open on 15th August 2014 and close on 15th March 2015; • Agreed that a Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) sponsored Green Economy initiative be undertaken in TCI July - October 2014.

The initiative will involve a review of existing environmental literature and

knowledge, including legal capacity, governmental capacity and capacity of non-governmental organisations to implement management protocols.

The review will be conducted by expert consultants , who are retained by JNCC. Their findings will be presented to a Project Oversight Group, which will include stakeholders from government and the public and private sector;

• Received a report from the Department of Environment and Marine Affairs on the development of appropriate measures for the sustainable management of queen conch (strombus gigas) and agreed that the matter be subject to public consultation including a public awareness campaign to alert key stakeholders to these important developments; • Approved the appointment of members to the following Boards and Committees; Immigration Board; Ms Dorothy Malcolm (member) and Ms Jennifer Glinton (member); Planning Board; Mr Marvin Simmons (member); Education Advisory Committee; Ms Alexandra Missick (Deputy Chairman.)

Premier Contracting Services is seeking suitably qualified applicants to fill the following positions: Electrical Maintenance Engineer

As the electrical maintenance engineer you will be responsible to provide proactive support to all plant and equipment required to ensure all systems run at optimum capacity. Complete planned and reactive maintenance to ensure safety and reliability of equipment 24/7. Provide detailed reports for all works completed and ongoing to operations manager. Excellent communication skills are a requirement. Those with vocational college electrician’s diploma will only be considered.

Experience in the following areas is required for this position; • Assemble, install, test, and maintain electrical or electronic wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures.

• Diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem.

• Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, or other components.

• Inspect all forms of electrical systems, equipment, and components to identify hazards, defects, and the need for adjustment or repair, and to ensure compliance with codes.

• Advise management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.

• Test electrical systems and continuity of circuits in electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures, using testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, and megger tester, to ensure compatibility, reliability, efficiency and safety of system.

• Working knowledge of complex refrigeration systems and electrical components, with ability to diagnose and resolve issues.

applicable building and safety code requirements; methods and practices followed in the maintenance of tools, machinery, and equipment.

Education: Graduation from high school supplemented by completion of a trade school apprenticeship program that includes theory and on-the-job work.

Experience: Five years journey-level experience working as a finish carpenter in a commercial, industrial, or facilities operations setting, including rough and finished carpentry. Cabinet making experience is required.

PREFERRED: Experience in metal fabrication (welding) and locksmithing .

Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Refrigeration Mechanic

Required Skill Level: Diploma or certificate in commercial refrigeration from a recognized trade school or university At least 7 years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualifications listed above. Minimum 5 years relevant experience is required with formal qualifications Registration or licensing may be required.

Tasks Include: • Establishing job requirements from drawings and specifications, and laying out installation reference points

• Repair and maintain multiple computer controlled gen set and switch gear equipment.

• Assemble, install, maintain and repair commercial and domestic air conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment.

• Experience with computerized Danfoss control systems for facility electrical and refrigeration controls

• Drilling holes, installing mounting brackets and cutting, bending and threading piping

Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications.

• Installing and repairing components such as compressors, motors, condensers, evaporators, switches and gauges, and copper lines for gas, refrigerant and oil.

Finish Carpenter/Cabinet Maker

• Bolting, soldering, riveting, welding and brazing pipes to connect equipment, and checking alignment and accuracy of fit

Successful applicant must have the ability to design, build, install, and repair finish and structural woodwork, flooring, ceilings and cabinetry; operate, maintain, and calibrate hand and power carpentry tools; read and comprehend plans and blueprints; recognize and select appropriate lumber types and grades; make rough sketches; estimate cost, time and materials of carpentry projects; perform heavy physical labor, train and direct the work of other classified staff in the area; follow and give oral and written instructions; maintain cooperative working relationship. Excellent communication skills are a must.

KNOWLEDGE OF: Thorough knowledge of methods, materials, tools, and equipment used in both rough and finished carpentry in both residential and commercial/industrial settings;

• Filling systems with gas or fluid to check for leaks • Test-operating refrigeration systems, checking mechanisms and making adjustments • Troubleshoot and repair complex electrical control circuits.

• Checking and overhauling refrigeration systems, diagnosing faults and repairing and replacing defective components • Adjusting Danfoss system controls and mechanisms • Recording causes of malfunctioning and action taken Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Deadline for submission of application is July 21st 2014 Please submit applications with references and relative experience to: Ms. Edith Cox Suite 200 ‘Graceway IGA Main Office Complex Leeward Highway or by emailing to hr@gracewayiga.com Please Note: Only short-listed applicants will be contacted to attend interviews

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LOCAL NEWS

Convicted rapist cop to be sentenced on July 25

by Vivian Tyson Sadique Ebanks, the police constable accused of sexually molesting a female police recruit in 2008, is to return to the Supreme Court in Grand Turk on July 26 for sentencing, after a jury found him guilty of two counts of rape on June 24, 2014.

The court heard that the woman was raped twice on the same night, first at the male police barracks and later at the female barracks.

Ebanks was granted bail with sureties

by Chief Justice Margaret Ramsey-Hale on condition that he surrendered his passports, which include and Turks and Caicos Islands and a Jamaican. The convicted rapist is reported to also be the owner of a Cayman Islands Passport, but it was reported that that travel document is in Jamaica.

The court also ordered that Ebanks, who currently gets half of his salary, to reside in Grand Turk and stay away from all ports – air and sea.

The court was told that the victim, who

is from Providenciales, went to Grand Turk for initial training after which she would have moved on to the Bahamas for further training. It was while in Grand Turk that the victim became familiar with Constable Ebanks.

Reports are that the incident took place on the night of a female recruit’s birthday party. The court was told that after the birthday party, everyone else left Ebanks and the female recruit at the location. Feeling uncomfortable, the female recruit walked to another location near the kitchen, where the court was told Ebanks followed her and then held onto her.

She resisted his advances resulting in an ensuing struggle. She managed to break free from Ebanks’ hold and ran to her roommates for assistance, but the court was told that they ignored her cries. She then went into one of the males’ bedrooms where two of her roommates were talking with their male counterparts.

Ebanks reportedly entered the room and ordered everyone out so that he could be alone with her, and after the

room was cleared, he had his way with her.

After that ordeal, the victim ran from the male barracks to the female barracks, which the court heard, was about five minutes away. There, she tried to enter her room, but discovered that the door was locked and her roommate, who had the key, was in another room with her boyfriend.

The victim reportedly beseeched her roommate to hand her the key but the court was told that she refused. The victim then ran back to her room and tried to break down the door but was unsuccessful. The court was told that while the woman was trying to enter her room, Ebanks turned up and sexually molested her a second time, this time in the female barracks.

The trial lasted one week – starting on June 17 and ending on June 24.

Ebanks was represented by attorneyat-law Pheona Ryan of F. Chambers Attorneys. Prosecutor Latisha Williams from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution represented the crown in the matter.

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Quality Supermarket

Is recruiting an experienced Freezer/Inventory Supervisor to supervise and operate the activities.

Suitably qualified belongers who possess the requirements listed are encouraged.

Salary is based on the experience and the qualification.

The Alexandra Resort is looking to fill the following line positions:

ROOM ATTENDANTS

To ensure the cleanliness and orderliness of the assigned guestroom, work areas and equipment. Must be able to push and pull carts weighing up to 150lbs and be able to climb flights of stairs several times daily.

LABOURERS

To assist in maintaining the buildings of the resort. Must be able to lift 50lbs, bend, stand for long periods of time and must be able to push and pull carts weighing up to 250lbs. Be able to lift 50lbs., bend and stand for long periods of time. Must be able to speak English and understand instructions. Must be in excellent health.

GARDENERS

To assist in, maintaining the grounds of the resort. Duties to include: removal of trash, weeding, mowing, planting, pruning, watering and application of chemicals.

Must be of good character. Be able to lift 50lbs., bend and stand for long periods of time. Must be able to speak English and understand instructions. Previous experience is a must. Must be in excellent health.

Freezer/Inventory Supervisor - Suitable candidate must have minimum of 6+ years of experience in the same field - Must have degree from a reputed university preferably a business management degree - Must have an extensive experience and knowledge of preparing or purchase orders - Must have extensive knowledge in foodservice business - Extensive knowledge working with QuickBooks Pro is must - Must be Fluent in English Closing Date: July 14th 2014 Suitably qualified candidates should apply in writing or send resume to Managing Director Quality Supermarket Limited Leeward Highway Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands Tel:941-7929

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Agreement signed for $100M hotel resort and marina at Third Turtle

A development agreement which will see a new $100m, luxury resort hotel and marina built in Turtle Cove was signed at the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Cabinet meeting onWednesday, 9 July 2014.

Circle Holdings Limited are developing what they call ‘ultra-luxury’ boutique experience on a 17 acre vacant site with 775 feet of beach frontage and 1,300 feet of marina frontage on the famous Grace Bay. The Development Agreement signed by the TCI Government and Circle Holdings is expected to create 300-400 jobs and bring additional tax revenues of around $9m a year to TCIG when open.

The project has Outline Development Permission and, subject to final planning approval, is scheduled to start construction in 2015 and open during the 2016/2017 tourist season.

“The travel industry feedback to our plans has been fantastic”, said Vasco N F Borges, Owner & CEO, Circle Holdings Ltd. “The project will add to the outstanding array of hospitality options in TCI, by offering the first European Plan luxury resort in Grace Bay, with an unmatched set of amenities and guest experiences. In the coming months, we will be announcing our hotel and marina operating

partners, as well as introducing our high-end boutique retail stores.”

The project includes 140 expansive suites, one of the lowest densities in the TCI, including seven signature penthouse suites with dedicated rooftop pools and gardens.

Guests and patrons will enjoy a boardwalk along the marina with luxury boutiques and several dining venues, complemented with a seafood restaurant by the beach. Other amenities will include two pools, a casino, a 7,000 sq ft high-tech multisport and event facility, a branded spa with lush gardens, a cigar and rum lounge.

“This is a tremendous investment boost to the TCI economy coming just one week after Standard & Poor’s gave this nation a BBB+ credit rating,” said TCI Governor Peter Beckingham. “It shows that the TCI is open for business, provides the stability and confidence that investors require. This announcement certainly bolsters the Islands’ position as one of the most vibrant economies in the region.”

Premier of the TCI, the Hon. Dr Rufus Ewing added, “Following hard on the heels of the Shore Club development, this second major project is providing multi-million dollar investment in the TCI and provides real opportunities our people and businesses.”

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NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BOARD

VACANCY FOR THE POSITION OF CLERICAL OFFICER – GRAND TURK SCOPE This is an administrative support position, which has office responsibility for meeting and greeting visitors and clients, receiving and directing telephone calls and carrying out assigned administrative duties. The Administrative Clerk is the foremost face of the organization and is expected to generate results that are deemed acceptable when: calls are answered promptly and politely; clients are greeted and queries are directed to the relevant individual; mail is promptly disseminated and the filing system is accurate and up to date.

Duties and Responsibilities: • Greet customers and assist them accordingly • Answer and screen incoming telephone calls directing callers to the appropriate staff • Registration of Beneficiaries • Collect contributions on a daily basis • Close-out end of day cash receipts and report to Office Administrator • Collect Clearance Certificates, Applications and verify contribution payments • Verify subscriber eligibility in PCM • Update Employer E-services • Make daily bank deposits • Log all forms collected • Maintain vehicle log for Grand Turk office • Liaise with Operations department to coordinate referral process • Maintain and distribute brochures for public information • Type office correspondence as required • Assist with preparations for meetings and conferences • Issue NHIB ID cards • Provide administrative support in order to ensure effective and efficient office operations • Ensure that all supporting documents are accessible and filed appropriately • Ensure the confidentiality and security of all registration files • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

• May perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor or any other person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

Person specification • This position requires a high school diploma • Minimum of 5 CXC/GCE • Must be able to use Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point etc.)

• Excellent team player with team building skills • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Ability to deliver to strict deadlines and work under pressure Salary will commensurate with qualifications and experience Deadline for Submission is July 25, 2014 All Applications should be addressed to: Human Resource Manager, National Health Insurance Board, Salt Mills Plaza, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies Email: recruitment@tcinhip.tc

FSC provides anti money laundering training to members of Bar Association As part of its awareness campaign on the fight against Money Laundering and financing of terror for Designated Non Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs), the Financial Services Commission (FSC) hosted a training seminar for members of the Turks and Caicos Bar Association on Saturday 21st June, 2014 in Providenciales.

The half-day session was attended by 50 members of the legal profession and saw presentations by the Attorney General Rhondalee Braithwaite; Head of the new Financial Services Commission Compliance Unit Mr Paul Coleman; Acting Head for TCI Financial Intelligence Unit Inspector Baker; and FSC Compliance Officer Melissa Thomas.

The agenda covered a number of aspects of the responsibilities of the legal profession for combatting money laundering and the financing of terror.

Paul Coleman, head of the new Compliance Unit within the FSC was encouraged by the large attendance and reaffirmed that training for all DNFBPs which include the legal profession will be ongoing in order to equip their management and staff of with sufficient knowledge to achieve full compliance.

He said: “Today was a successful session and the FSC will continue to engage with the legal profession as well as other Designated Non Financial Businesses and Professions to address current money laundering threats and trends.

The focus of those businesses should remain on identifying the threat, customer due diligence, record retention detection and reporting suspicious activity” Details of registration for DNFBPs can be found on the Commission website at : www.tcifsc.tc

Chief Operation Officer Permanent WIV/Caicos Television Holding Ltd. Leeward Highway, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands

Chief Operations Officer - Market Reporting to the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer of Digicel will be responsible for all facets of the business operations and must possess deep operational knowledge with broad strategic insight. They must be able to adapt constantly to a fast-changing corporate and external environment. They must possess a mastery of change, an ability to help translate strategic vision into action; and they must ultimately be able to help the business to innovate and to grow.

Responsibilities: • Provide Commercial plan design, implementation and monitoring support until arrival of Commercial Director at end of Month • Assume operational program management and oversight responsibility for monitoring, driving, problem solving, resourcing and reporting on day to day progress for all key Operational change projects - in particular Technical roll-out, Regional Fightback and Sales and Distribution activities.

• Tracks and reports on Board and SMT actions to ensure daily execution excellence and on-time implementation of critical activities across business units.

• Participates in the development and preparation of short-term and long-range strategic plans and budgets based upon broad organization goals and objectives.

• Directs the development and installation of internal procedures and controls, to promote communication and adequate information flow, and thereby solidify management control and direction of the enterprise.

• Discovers and supports innovation, technological improvement and growth opportunities for the business and gains approval for their implementation • Supports strategy development and communication across the organization to ensure that all individual objectives are aligned with the strategy DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: • Advanced degree in Business or related discipline • Minimum of 10 years of working experience with at least three years at senior level • Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills including the ability to articulate progress, issues and recommendations in a concise manner • Superb attention to detail, strong analytical skills and the ability to deliver results to tight deadlines in a fast paced and dynamic environment • Superior leadership skills and the ability to organize and motivate cross-functional teams • Ability to work in a team environment and on own initiative with the desire to learn new skills • Strong customer focus • Skilled user of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint Interested Applicants should forward their resumes to hrtci@digicelgroup.com

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More road signs needed – Commissioner Farquhar

by VIVIAN TysoN

Police Commissioner Colin Farquhar.

Police Commissioner Colin Farquhar is bemoaning the absence of critical roads signs especially at significant areas of the Leeward Highway in Providenciales.

The commissioner is however, not alone on that topic as motorists often complain that they have been stopped by the police for speed violation when there is no sign to indicate what speed limit within which they should be driving.

A number of motorists protested that they only learn of the speed limit, especially on the Leeward Highway, when they are pulled over by the police. The maximum speed limit along the Leeward Highway is 40 miles per hour. Maximum speed limit the United States highways varies between 60 and 85 miles an hour, depending on the state.

Many signs once deck the Leeward Highway, but a lot of them have been knocked down by motorists who lost control of their vehicles while travelling along the strip. The majority of the Leeward Highway is straight roadway.

“We need proper signage, for stop signs, for yields, roundabout and also for the speed limits, it is very important,” the commissioner said.

Commissioner Farquhar noted however, that whenever he made representations regarding the erecting of new road signs, he is told that the budget is not there for it. He noted though that some new signs should come on stream this year.

“The conversations have yielded that there is only so much money in the budget for the

TWo MAsoNs The above positions are available for a construction site based in South Caicos.

Applicants must have a minimum of five years work experience in the relevant area, must be able to work well with others and must be prepared to live full time in South Caicos.

Salary starts at $18.00 per hour or $990.00 weekly.

All positions are available immediately.

Qualified and capable individuals should send CV and cover letter via email at info@saunders.tc or fax to 649-941-4533 WATERLOO HOTEL MANAGEMENT LTD. is inviting applications for the following position:

Legal Financial Consultant Reporting to the Senior Vice President, the applicant must possess the following: • 5 years’ experience as an Attorney/Chartered Accountant • Extensive background in financial risk management • Extensive background in legal risk management • Bachelors of Laws (LLB) • Registered Chartered Accountant Salary for this position will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Please Submit Applications to: Please submit resumes to cgibbons@wihl.com A copy should also be submitted to the TCI Labour Department.

Submissions to be no later than July 18th, 2014

Belongers need only apply.

installation of signs. But it is my understanding that signs will be erected this year. There will be a concentrated effort to put up more signs.

And also for road markings, one of the things we don’t have is the proper markings of roadway, and especially crosswalks.

“It is very important that the cross walks are marked so that people are aware. In the downtown crosswalks the painting is almost all gone now. And so, it makes pedestrians pretty apprehensive about whether to cross the road or not, there are people who just ignore pedestrians, and part of their ignorance is, ‘well, there wasn’t proper signage or proper painting’.

“But I have always explained to people that they are aware of their surroundings or they should be aware of their surroundings. And they are aware that somebody wants to cross the roadway. Most people are aware that there was a crosswalk there before, so it is just about some common sense,” Commissioner Farquhar said.

The commissioner acknowledged that the crosswalks in Grace Bay are raised to slow motorists, while the ones downtown Providenciales are simply painted on the flat road surface, thus leaving drivers to exercise their own discretion, which most of them don’t.

He noted however, that he could not say whether or not plans are in the making to have the pedestrian crossings downtown raised.

“You have to talk to road safety about that.

I think the raised crosswalks are beneficial. I think that they are helpful. They certainly slow the vehicles down. So hopefully they will put some more up,” Commissioner Farquhar said.

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2. Taking food inventory at the end of each month 3. To make sure your cleaning staff keep your kitchen in good clean and healthy order 4. Responsible for a respectable food cost 5. Responsible for purchasing food and negotiating prices Salary: $10.00 per hour Description of suitable person: 1. Must be hardworking and efficient 2. Must have a positive attitude and able to work (6) six days a week, weekends and holidays if needed 3. Must have 5 years experience in this field

Contact: Mrs. Tate Forbes between the hours of 9:00am-3; 30pm 2946-4472 Email: gilleyscafe@tciway.tc

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PDM bigwigs retain position at convention

Leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Movement (PDM) Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson was returned as leader of the party during the staging of its 39th Convention held this year in South Caicos.

The majority of the executive was also returned, including Hon. Sean Astwood as Deputy Leader, Hon Clarence Selver as National Chairman and Cynclair Musgrove as Secretary General.

Held under the theme “Commitment Without Excuse”, the two-day convention saw members engaging in sessions that geared towards “crystalising” the vision of the late J.A.G.S. McCartney with the vision of today’s leaders.

“The sessions proved exciting, fulfilling and educational,” Musgrove said through a news release. “The social, economic and political scenes were compared to today. Attending delegates had the benefit of hearing from party stalwarts and relatives of the late J.A.G.S McCartney who recounted stories of his and their exploits.”

The convention also served as a rallying call for the PDM troops to ready themselves for any political eventuality.

Party faithful from across the country converged on South Caicos for what Musgrove said was the first such event on that island in more than 20 years.

“This was the first time in over two

decades that a convention was held in South Caicos. The annual event serves to review the platform of the Party, to set the agenda for the road ahead and then to hold Elections,” Musgrove said.

She said that the convention was a sentimental one since some of individuals who traveled with the country’s first chief minister on his last visit to Washington before he was killed in a crash, were on hand.

“Members were also present who journeyed with McCartney on his last visit to Washington before the fatal plane crash. The Convention deduced that many of the ills that are faced today have reverted to the 1970s condition.

“It was then important to recall the dream and the vision and plan the road ahead for the year 2014 and beyond.

Possible solutions were mapped which require members to be committed without excuse and committed to the vision,” she said.

She said that during the convention a committee was assembled to spearhead the planning of the 40th anniversary to be held on the capital Grand Turk – the birthplace of the party.

“The Grand Turk delegation is enthusiastic about their task. PDMs were encouraged to recommit themselves to the cause and the vision without excuse,” she said.

Check your house structure, DDME advises Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) property owners are being urged to check that their designer, architect and contractor have followed the new 2014 TCI Building Code and, if they are concerned about the strength of an existing property, to have it checked by a structural engineer.

This advice from the TCI Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies (DDME) follows the discovery of significant levels of substandard workmanship on the properties on the TCI capital Grand Turk that were damaged by Hurricane Ike. Engineers overseeing the repairs to

homes on Grand Turk are concerned by what they are finding.

“We know that the buildings worst hit by Hurricanes Hanna and Ike were residential – almost 90% of all the homes on Grand Turk, South Caicos and Salt Cay suffered damage, with many of those completely destroyed,” says Dr Virginia Clerveaux, Director of Disaster Management.

“What we have seen through the process of repairing homes for the EU Project is that it was the more recent block built homes that suffered the most structural damage. We now know that this was because of previous poor

building practices. It is vitally important that the public realise that following the TCI Building Code and using the correct materials will help them stay safe and protect their families and belongings in the event of any future hurricane”.

“It is easy to see why these homes suffered the damage that they did,” added Joe Jardine of engineering firm CSE Limited.

“When the homes were built, the builders used beach sand and limestone aggregate in the concrete mix, and sometimes they have used too little cement which makes the concrete light coloured and crumbly,” he said.

“Two things happen in this situation.

First the salt in the beach sand and limestone makes the steel in the wall rust away completely and this weakens the whole structure. Second, when too little cement is used, the concrete isn’t actually holding the wall together and the concrete crumbles away when it is exposed by time or weather.

“What is particularly worrying is that we have seen these practices continuing today in new homes too. Many homes have been built with the contractors trying to cut corners [and] the house has been so badly built that it can’t be repaired cost effectively.”

Caribbean Bottling Co.(TCI) Limited

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BOARD

DEPARTMENT: SALES TITLE: VENDING TECHNICIAN REPORTS TO: VENDING SUPERVISOR

VACANCY FOR THE POSITION OF SENIOR ACCOUNTANT – PROVIDENCIALES SCOPE This position requires the individual to ensure the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating and entering transactions.

Duties and Responsibilities: • Verify, allocate, post and reconcile transactions • Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results • Analyze and summarize financial information • Provide technical support and advice to management • Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures • Participate in financial standards setting and in forecast process • Provide input into department’s goal setting process • Prepare financial statements and support the budget process according to schedule • Direct external audits and support internal audits to ensure compliance • Plan, assign and review work performed by support staff • Execute month-end and year-end close process • Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer • Import E-Services billings into GP to record and report revenue • Manage and prepare payroll on a monthly basis in line with established timetables • Perform Bank Reconciliations on a monthly basis • Approving and processing debits and credits to revenue and expenses in line with expectations and maintaining the documentation supporting these • Any other related duties as approved by the Chief Financial Officer Person specification • 3 years of experience as a senior accountant • Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures and principles • Awareness of business trends • Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process • Excellent accounting software user and administration skills • Accuracy and attention to detail • Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills • BS degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Management Salary Salary will commensurate with qualifications and experience Deadline for Submission is July 25, 2014.

All Applications should be addressed to: Human Resource Manager National Health Insurance Board Salt Mills Plaza, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies Email: recruitment@tcinhip.tc

I. FUNCTION Perform refrigeration, electrical instillation, and air-condition functions to ensure efficient management of all market equipment.

II. TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Assist with maintaining fountain and vending equipment • Collect water samples every three months and carry out microbiological tests • Execute sanitation process of all syrup lines every three months • Perform calibration exercise every month • Execute weekly Preventative Maintenance checks • Place marketing equipment (fountain dispensing & Vending Machines) • Assist with maintenance of marketing equipment in the market place.

• Participate in special events involving Coca-Cola marketing equipment.

• Perform other duties as requested III. COMPETENCY Education/Experience • High School Diploma • A valid Driver’s License Skills • Analytical Skills Training • MULTIPLEX Training • Relevant KORE Requirements and Company Procedures • Awareness of Integrated Management System: o IMS Policy and Objectives o Training in applicable Work Procedures: Quality, Food Safety and GMPs Salary: commensurate with experience Submit applications and resume to by July 25, 2014 to: Caribbean Bottling Co Ltd., 10 Parade Avenue, Downtown Providenciales Tel: 649-946-4211

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Turks and Caicos working on introducing CVQ curriculum Over the next three years, the Turks and Caicos Islands high school education system is expected to adapt to a new regional format that will enable students to choose between academic or vocational subject areas from an early stage so that they can better excel in their chosen areas.

Hon. Akierra Misick, Minister for Education, Youth, Sport and Library Service made the announcement while addressing the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) Prize-giving Ceremony on Thursday (July 3) at the Gustarvus Lightbourne Sports Complex in Providenciales.

The new education format, of which the minister spoke of, is called the Caribbean Vocation Qualification (CVQ), which is a competency-based qualification.

Under the programme, students must demonstrate competence in reaching CARICOM Approved occupational standards developed by practitioners and employers, or industry experts.

These standards are organized in units. Students may earn unit awards towards

Education Minister Hon. Akierra Misick. achieving a complete QVC. The minister hinted to the students that the CVQ could come on stream by 2016.

“There are some exciting changes that are to come on stream during your tenure in high school. By the time

most of you arrive in the third form, the CVQ, which is the Caribbean Vocational Qualification exams will be on offer for you, which would allow you to pick one of two routes for your academic; which it is traditional courses like Maths,

Science, English; for those of you who really excel at the technical vocational areas – that option will be there for you,” she said.

“So I want you from September, to start realistically thinking about your career goals. You are never too young to make those sorts of decisions, to have that sort of information.

“Ask your parents, ask your teachers who you have good relationships with, ask your new teachers. Most of them will encourage you into teaching; that is one of the most noble profession I have had the pleasure of working with.”

Minister Misick also said that next year government should complete the proposed new high school on Providenciales that will take the overcrowding pressure off the Clement Howell High School.

“By June (2015) possibly, some of you be entering the new secondary school on Providenciales. Some of you will go to the West Indies Collegiate, Methodist, Maranatha.

The beautiful confines of your various primary schools will

no longer be yours to revel in.

But there is nothing to fear, I promise you. There is nothing to fear about going to high school,” she assured.

Using the opportunity to congratulate the GSAT achievers, the education minister insinuated that the performance by students has absolved policymakers, who took the decision to cram the tests in an abbreviated time.

“The brilliant thing about the Providenciales GSAT graduation is that, Provo, you rocked the GSAT. It means despite the amendment this year, which I know was daunting for you; and despite the fact that there was a lot of influences on the outside saying you are not prepared for these amendments, you proved them wrong,” she asserted.

In the meantime, the minister is imploring parents to allow their children to get involves in extra-curricular activities, since it would allow them to become more rounded, pointing to one of the GSAT top ten students, who she said achieved so much because her parents supported her in those activities.

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BOARD

VACANCY FOR THE POSITION OF LEGAL OFFICER- PROVIDENCIALES SCOPE This is a senior professional position, which has corporate wide responsibility for all legal matters arising in connection with the administration of the National Health Insurance Programme. The Legal Counsel is the legal advisor to the NHIB. He or she is required to manage a variety of legal matters impacting the administration of the National Health Insurance scheme, appear in all courts and tribunals on behalf of the NHIB to play a key role in the identification and management of legal risk issues risk issues across the organization. He/she is deemed to be performing satisfactorily when the outputs for this position are achieved.

Duties and Responsibilities: • Provide legal advice and opinions on all matters required by the Board, its divisions and departments • Review and draft contracts, leases, conveyances, bonds, securities, bill of sale, mortgages, deeds of variation, deeds of release and other legal documents.

• Recover contribution and all monies owing to the National Health Insurance Board.

• Attend the National Appeals Tribunal and conduct appeals on behalf of the Board.

• Liaise with external Attorneys with respect to the litigation portfolio including the preparation of briefs to external counsel.

• Assist with the provision of training in the understanding of the National Health Insurance Ordinance.

• Drafting in association with the office of the Attorney General, new or amending legislation, and regulations, reciprocal and other agreements, etc.

• Legal scrutiny of instructions, leaflets, etc.; in-so-far as they explain or interpret the provisions of National Health Insurance Plan.

• Advising on matters of genera law, which may arise in connection with

administration of oaths and affirmation; property transfer and terms of service of service.

• Submit Monthly Reports to Executive Management on all legal activities • Initiate Prosecutions and Prosecute Employer and Self-employed arrears.

• Interpret the National Health Insurance Board Ordinance and Regulations for all staff on a needs basis.

• Assess and advise on all eligibility of beneficiaries.

• Interpret other Ordinances as it relates to the registration and benefits of NHIB beneficiaries.

• Draft legal opinions for advancement to the Chief Executive Officer on all matters arising under the Legislation.

• Conduct ongoing training on the National Health Insurance Board Legislation.

Person specification • A Law Degree, a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and designation Attorney at Law. • At least five (5) years post qualification experience to acquire the necessary competencies to effectively respond to the challenges of the job.

• Solid competencies in legal drafting, Litigation, Opinion writing and legal research • Must be able to use Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Power Point etc.)

• Excellent team player with team building skills • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Ability to deliver to strict deadlines and to work under pressure Salary Salary will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Deadline for Submission is July 25, 2014.

All Applications should be addressed to: Human Resource Manager National Health Insurance Board Salt Mills Plaza, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies Email: recruitment@tcinhip.tc

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Unlicensed vehicles, no driver’s licenses dominate police traffic operation

Ebbon Caesar, Inspector of Police attached to the Providenciales Police Department, has revealed that driving without insurance and driver’s licenses were among the dominant offenses during road traffic operations conducted at different points on that island this past week.

Inspector Caesar disclosed that on the first day of the operation (Tuesday, July 8, 2014) almost 60 tickets for speeding and other violations were issued, adding that 39 motorists were served with warnings of pending prosecution, while more than 20 were given time to produce their insurance, motor vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses.

But the traffic cop is not banking on the majority of the offenders who are to produce documents doing so, since the police have proven in the past that most of the time they genuinely do not have the documents in the first place.

“Yesterday (Tuesday, July 8) we issued 59 tickets, with 39 persons warned of intended prosecution, 20-plus to produce their documents, which most of the time they will fail to produce because they don’t have it in the first place. So they are offenders in waiting. Most of the violations are unlicensed driving, using motor vehicles without insurance, driving unlicensed

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A police officer conducting traffic operations along the Leeward Highway this past week.

At right: Ebbon Caesar, Police Inspector attached to the Providenciales Police Department.

vehicles and speeding. It seems without a doubt those are the top offenses,” Caesar surmised.

The traffic inspector of police said that some of the violations are ticketable Other Peoples Affairs Is looking for

Domestic 2 Florist/store assistants Worker

Essential skills and duties are: - Greet customers - Provide information about flowers/gifts for special occasions - Must have good customer service skills, work well with others, must be quick and efficient, have an interest in flowers/merchandising and have some artistic flair to do very well in this job.

offenses while others warrant that the law-breakers face the courts.

“The penalty for unlicensed vehicle is $250 – it has been so for a while. Driving motor vehicle without insurance and

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Island Arrangements Ltd.

To make sales calls and promote tours and services arranged through the company.

Must be a Belonger, have own vehicle, police record. Available Mon-Sat, 9-5

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Salary $6.00 per hour.

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SALES CLERK/ ASSISTANT

A COOK

Salary $6.50 per hour

Contact # 3479069 No call after 5 PM please.

One Waitress One Bartender One Waitress One Cashier

Must work on holidays and weekends Salary $5.50 per hour

WINKEY’S CATERING SERVICE seeks

6 LABOURERS

Interested persons should send resumes to castwood1997@yahoo.com

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driving unlicensed vehicles – those are not ticketable offenses and are taken to the court.

“Offenders will be warned of intended prosecution and also summonsed. It is now for

the magistrate to decide what penalty he is going to give them. For unlicensed driving, the magistrate charges $250, and using motor vehicle without insurance is $350 most of the time,” the police inspector pointed out.

In the meantime, Inspector Caesar said that there has been an increasing trend of motorists using tinted material on their license plates, which he said is against the law.

“There has been an increased in improper use of registration plates. A lot of people have been covering their plates with plastic materials, which is darkening the colour, which should be red markings with white background. Now (with the tinting of the licenses plates) all you see is dark,” he revealed.

Inspector Caesar said many motorists, when stopped, declared ignorance in that regard, and so they were only warned. He noted however, that the police, going forward, would prosecute anyone with tinted license plates.

“That is an offense and it has been increasing a lot. It appears as though a lot of drivers didn’t know, so far the last month or so, we have been giving out warnings, but from this week, there will not be anymore warnings for that,” he asserted.

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Cosmetologist To work 6 days per week Salary $6.00 per hour Contact 941-8342 or email spanadiatc@hotmail.com

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IOSCO removes Turks and Caicos from watch list The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has notified TCIFSC (The Commission) that the dialogue between the Commission and IOSCO Committee 4 (C4) on how the TCIFSC is cooperating in international securities enforcement activity has satisfactorily been completed.

Committee 4, one of the seven Committees within IOSCO tasked with Enforcement and the Exchange of Information as well as the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Screening Group; has been working with the Commission since TCI was placed on the “watch list” in 2010 for non-compliance and non-cooperation with International Regulatory Agencies in the area of information sharing.

During the four-year period, IOSCO C4 monitored the Commission’s collaboration with other regulators and provided guidance on Principles for Cooperation in Regulation.

While indicating that the dialogue was part of IOSCO broader initiative to improve cross border cooperation, FSC Managing Director Kevin Higgins said: “It is the mandate of the Commission to act as a responsible regulatory agency, which adheres to international standards, and as such we were willing to partner with

Commissions (IOSCO) is an association of organizations that regulate the world’s securities and futures markets.

Members are typically the Securities Commission or the main financial regulator from each country.

Amongst its objectives IOSCO aims through its permanent structures to cooperate in developing, implementing and promoting adherence to internationally recognised and consistent standards of regulation, oversight and enforcement in order to protect investors, maintain fair, efficient and transparent markets, and seek to address systemic risks;

FSC Managing Director Kevin Higgins

IOSCO C4 to raise TCI standards as they relate to supervision and oversight of regulated entities.”

He noted that the Commission’s work on the jurisdiction’s legislative framework, Supervision and Regulation of its Financial Services Industry, as well as the assistance

provided by IOSCO C4 for improving the level of cooperation with international counterparts had greatly contributed in restoring TCI reputation.

Following the removal of TCI from the watch list, the Turks and Caicos Financial Service Commission was invited to apply for membership to IOSCO. 1.

The International Organization of Securities

Flight Support Ltd SEEKS:

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• Patrol assigned areas checking for suspicious occurrences.

• Respond to and investigate situations reported to the Chief Security Officer.

• Check employees entering and departing Ambergris Cay. • Maintain shift logs and records of occurrences and complete necessary paperwork.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND QUALIFICATIONS: • General knowledge of routine security rules and procedures.

• Ability to interact and communicate with people.

• Ability to write clear, concise reports.

• Ability to stand or walk for extended period of time.

• Two (8) years of general experience in security.

• High School Diploma or equivalent combination of experience and education.

• Basic Aerodrome Firefighter certificate • A certified Firefighter – Crew Commander • At least two (6) years’ experience as a Firefighter • Evidence of an unblemished disciplinary record • References from the CFO and DCFO of any previous Fire Service organization • A Civil Aviation Authority medical certificate • Current First Aid certificate REQUIREMENTS: 1. Crew Commander certification and Training 2. Excellent oral and written communication skills, and advanced computer skills required.

3. Must be physically fit.

4. Must be attentive to details.

5. Must be able to work under little or no supervision 6. Must possess a valid TCI driver’s license.

7. Must produce a clean Police Record 8. Must be reliable, hard working and enthusiastic 9. Required to WORK and LIVE on Big Ambergris Cay with rotated weekends off.

Salary: $23,000 - $25,000 per annum.

Applications must be submitted to: Closing Date for Applications is Friday August 9th, 2013. Applications must be in writing addressed to: Ambergris Cay Facilities Ltd, Unit 51, Salt Mills Plaza, Grace Bay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, E-mail: burkley.malcolm@ambergristci.com Tel: (649)-941-3777; Fax: (649)-941-3778

2.

IOSCO Principles for Cooperation in Regulation: • The Regulator should have authority to share both public and non-public information with domestic and foreign counterparts.

• Regulators should establish information sharing mechanisms that set out when and how they will share both public and non-public information with their domestic and foreign counterparts.

• The regulatory system should allow for assistance to be provided to foreign Regulators who need to make inquiries in the discharge of their functions and exercise of their powers.

TWO AIRLINE EXECUTIVE • 10-15 years related experience in Commercial flight operations.

• Must have a demonstrated knowledge of weight & balance, flight planning and ETOPS operations.

• Knowledge of the practices and procedures of all airside and landside activities and functions as outlined in Ground Flight Operations Manual and Regulations.

• Competency in PC Windows, Email, Databases and Microsoft Office tools is expected.

• Ability to develop and train workforce, build relationships, utilize skills in the workforce that is most appropriate.

• Ability to execute functional aspects relating to domestic travel transactions and maintain records and documentation.

• Ability to operate all equipment relating to the job.

• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, understanding manner, and listen attentively to others, understands material, and provides instruction to employees. Schedule the appropriate staff compliment to ensure the smooth and effective operation of shift.

• Coordinate with authorities in all International/Domestic Stations, Security measures affecting aircrafts, passengers, luggage and goods.

• Manage local and International carriers contracts.

THREE RAMP ATTENDANT • Over 5 years experience in Ramp Supervising.

• Over 5 years experience in maneuvering heavy duty equipment e.g. (pushing and towing aircraft).

• Experience in general handling of General Aviation. Narrow body and wide body aircraft.

• British Airways, JAR OPS, Supervisor Aircraft loading qualified.

• US Airways fleet service door opening trainer.

• Awareness Certification of acceptance/refusal of hazardous material as per IATA regulations.

• Comprehensive knowledge in the operation of all Ground Service Equipment (GSE).

TWO DISPATCHERS Must be familiar with the navigation facilities over airline routes and at airports as well as the take off. Must be competent in airline communication and meteorology. Experience with monitoring, analyzing and/or calculating various flight factors such as weather reports, runway performance and weight balance issues.

Salary commensurate with experience.

All positions require the following: • Excellent command of the English language – reading, writing and speaking.

• Good communication skills and team player • Detail oriented & organized individual • Ability to work shifts, early mornings, late nights, weekends and Holidays.

• Clean police record • Able to work under pressure

Belongers need only apply.

Interested person should apply to HR@intercaribbean.com or via fax to HR Department 649-946-4040.

No phone call please. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interview.

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Luxury Restoration Weekend international conference in TCI

International women’s conference, Restoration Weekend, is to be held in the Turks and Caicos Islands this year between September 25 and 28, at the Somerset Resort in Grace Bay. The luxury four-day/threenight globe-trotting event is an international getaway geared towards restoring women in, among other areas, relationships, health, finance, faith and beauty.

Michelle Hargrove, CEO and President of Restoration Inc. – the organization responsible for staging the event, spent the last few days in the Turks and Caicos Islands, accompanied by Hollywood actress Wendy Raquel Robinson of The Game fame, making preparatory plans for the fall event.

The plans also included an event at the Crackpot Kitchen Restaurant in Grace Bay. Hargrove said that the event is geared to offer serenity, reconnection, and personal revival for women who are always on the go.

Hargrove said that the Turks and Caicos Islands’ women will get the opportunity this year to join

Michelle Hargrove (right) with Wendy Raquel Robinson conducting interview with The SUN on Tuesday (July 8, 2014).

50 other women from around to world who will attend the event to be inspired, uplifted and empowered by industry leaders.

She said the event will include sessions that will focus on business, psychology, nutrition, spirituality, finances, and physical

maintenance.

She said they will also be given the opportunity to immerse themselves in the culture of the TCI and also give to a project here.

Guests speakers and activity personnel will include Tukwini Mandela, Granddaughter of late South

Africa President Nelson Mandela; relationship expert Tony Gaskins, who will host a he said/she said panel; TCI’s very own Chef Nik, who will invited the guest to join him to prepare dishes; Coach Felecia Scott, Certified empowerment coach; Sheri Gaskins – Fitness Ambassador; and Van Moody,

Megachurch pastor and bestselling author of The People Factor.

Hargrove explained that the conference is held only at luxury resorts that are members of world renowned Leading Hotels of the World travel agency. She said the reason for having the event staged at luxury venues is to allow women to be pampered just for a weekend as a means of taking time out from the hustle and bustle of work and other activities.

In the meantime, Robinson said that she decided to be part of this year’s event not only because of the connection with Hargrove but for what Restoration Weekend is out to achieve.

Restoration Weekend was founded in 2007 by Hargrove, after going through her own journey of restoration after giving birth to one-pound premature baby. Hargrove said that Restoration weekend provides a safe place for likeminded women, “to take off their mask, tear down the walls and rediscover their center.”

Registration for the conference is $350.

NOTICE OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION Scotiabank (Turks & Caicos) Ltd. of Cherokee Road, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands hereby gives notice of its intention to sell by Public Auction the following properties pursuant to its power of sale as registered Chargee under the Registered Land Ordinance of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

1. Parcel 10308/105 South West Suburbs, Grand Turk. Single storey residential house with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, family room, living/dining room on approx. 0.25 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Lester Robert Butterfield and Paula Ann Butterfield 2. Parcel 10303/33 Overback, Central Suburbs, Grand Turk. This property accommodates three buildings: one concrete building and two wooden comprises of a single storey residential house with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, family room, living/dining room on approx. 0.20 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Henry Raymond Jennings 3. Parcel 10204/67 Township, Central Suburbs, Grand Turk. This property comprises of a main house with two bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen, living/ dining room, laundry room and a detached wooden dwelling house comprising of one bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen, living/dining room and laundry room on approx. 0.19 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Kuthlyn Spencer 4. Parcel 60805/15/K8 The Bight and Thomas Stubbs, Providenciales. This property comprises of a two storey townhouse with three bedrooms, three bathroom, kitchen, living/dining room, family room and laundry room.

Registered Proprietor: Alejandro Rios 5. Parcel 60505/199 Blue Hills and Stamers Run, Providenciales. Apartment complex and Laundromat. The main building consists of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two kitchens, two living/dining rooms and an additional building with five bedrooms, three bathrooms, three kitchens, three living/dining rooms on approx. 0.20 acre.

Registered Proprietor: George Seymour 6. Parcel 10401/382 East Suburbs, Grand Turk. Single storey residential property with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living/dining room and laundry room on approx. 0.36 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Shirlene Smith The auction will be held at the offices of Scotiabank (Turks and Caicos) Limited, Grace Bay Branch, Providenciales at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday the 25th day of July 2014.

A reserve price will be fixed on all parcels. A deposit of 10% is due immediately upon all accepted bids.

Blue Haven Marina

is inviting suitable applications for the following position:

Mega Yacht Operations Manager Applicants must possess all of the following: • 5 or more years experience in mega yacht operations and a thorough understanding of the mega yacht industry.

• 5 or more years experience in the marina industry, specifically marina operations and management, including sales and marketing and management of marina events.

• Familiar with the budget process and have 5 or more years experience at managing budgets to meet or exceed financial goals.

• A well developed network within the mega yacht industry, specifically the Caribbean and Mediterranean markets.

• An understanding of the mega yacht charter industry and connections in the charter broker industry.

• Advanced skills in all Microsoft applications are essential and knowledge of IQ Ware is an advantage.

Salary for this position will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Belongers need only apply.

Please Submit Applications to: cgibbons@wihl.com A copy should also be submitted to the TCI Labour Department.

Submissions to be no later than July 25th, 2014

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CAICOS TRANSPORTATION & SHIPPING We are currently accepting applicants to fill the role of a Marine Mechanic, who will be responsible for repairing and maintaining in board and outboard motors on boats:Job requirements: - Must have atleast (5) years of hands on marine experience

- Must be equipped with the skills to repair all outboard and diesel engines.

- Must be able to use scuba gear to work on under water running gear.

- Must be capable of operating vessels.

- Must have the technical skills to be able inspect, adjust and evaluate most of the mechanical and electrical parts of the boat including; Inboard motors, outboard motors, electrical systems, hydraulic systems, fuel assemblies, propellers, power tiltis, bilge pumps.

- Must be knowledgeable to perform sea trials and diligent note taking to record procedures.

Compensated on a weekly basis

Interested person please call 649-243-6532 or email: mobilemarine@gmail.com

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Congratulations to TeAnn Thomas

Who recently graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax Canada with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with distinction TeAnn also received the award for academic excellence in the Department of Economics in April of 2013.

TeAnn is a past student of the Maranatha High School where she graduated as Valedictorian and she is also a past student of the TCIC College and also graduated as the top student in June 2010.

As a family, we wish to express our gratitude to the TCI Government in affording her the opportunity to pursue her studies.

We are indeed proud of TeAnn’s accomplishments and we wish her continued success and God’s richest blessings.

‘Study to show thyself approve unto God.’ – The Family

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Ladies given small taste of ‘Restoration’ The ladies of Turks and Caicos turned up last week Wednesday at the Crackpot Kitchen Restaurant Bar and Grill for a Taste of Restoration.

Hosted by the Restoration Foundation, CEO and founder Michelle Hargrove in association with Sister Sister of TCI, took the opportunity to engage the TCI ladies by telling them about the annual Restoration Weekend which will be held in Providenciales this year.

The main attraction for the guests was the opportunity to take photos with celebrity guest and actress Wendy Raquel Robinson, who is best known for her roles as high school principal Regina Grier on the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, and as sports agent Tasha Mack on the CW/BET comedy series The Game.

Here is a look at the highlights of the evening.

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Presents its 2014 Plenary Session and Strategic Meeting

Maximising Stakeholders’ Value - Focusing on Education

“Can we develop economically without developing our educational institutions and culture?”

“Education as an Agent of Economic Development in a Global Economy.”

Dr. Adrian Augier His Excellency Peter Beckingham Dr. Carlton Mills

“Aligning Education with Social and Economic Development in the TCI.” - A Perspective

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 Beaches Turks and caicos Resort & Spa 8 a.m. — 12 noon RSVP: tsimons@fortistci.com Or dkrzanowski@fortistci.com

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Kelly Rowland pats her bare belly as she hits the gym

One hot mama! Kelly Rowlands placed a proud hand upon her pregnant belly in a snap shared by her trainer Jeannette Jenkins on Monday.

She barely announced her pregnancy with husband Tim Witherspoon in June, and Kelly Rowland’s bump is clearly blossoming.

Even in the early stages of her pregnancy, the Work singer hasn’t let her growing belly stop her from yet again hitting the gym.

In a photo shared by trainer Jeannette Jenkins on Monday, the 33-year-old stunner planted a hand upon her pregnant midsection as she hit the gym for some pre-natal exercises.

Never one to shy away from showing off her incredible figure, Kelly bared her shoulders and her pregnant belly in a navy sports bra.

She teamed the top with a pair of

grey leggings with a stripped design, and kept it comfortable in a pair of charcoal trainers.

A simple chain necklace and studded earrings added a touch of glam to the athletic outfit.

With her hair swept back into a pony tail, Kelly looked ready to break a sweat.

Her trainer Jeanette captioned the Twitter photo: ‘Mommy @ KELLYROWLAND in the gym today working on her #prenatal fitness! #Healthyliving #PreNatalExercise’ According to the trainer’s website, Pink, Alicia Keys, and Kimora Lee Simmons are also among Jeanette’s clientele.

Rosie O’Donnell to return to TV talk show “The View”

Actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell is returning to ABC’s long-running morning talk show “The View” to co-host it with Whoopi Goldberg, the television network said on Thursday.

The outspoken talk show star and Emmy winner will rejoin “The View’ in the fall.

“ABC confirms Rosie O’Donnell returns as co-host of #TheView w/ moderator Whoopi Goldberg for Season 18,” the Walt Disney Co.-owned network said in a tweet.

O’Donnell, 52, was a co-host on the show in 20062007 but left after failing to negotiate a contract with the network and following clashes with property Ford Models’ Super Model of the World grand prize winner, Natalyia Gotsky, accepts her award from Ford Models co-founder Eileen Ford baron Donald Trump and former co-host Elisabeth in 2004 in New York City.

Hasselback.

O’Donnell’s daily talk show program “The Rosie Show,” which featured celebrity guests, interviews and news, was cancelled by Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network in 2012.

“The View” is going through an overhaul after journalist Barbara Walters, who created the show in 1997, retired in May and two other co-hosts, Sherri Shepherd and actress Jenny McCarthy, announced they would be leaving.

Goldberg is the only host who is returning.

O’Donnell, known for her brash humor, is an activist for gay adoption and other social causes. She has been nominated for five Emmys and won the award in 1999 for outstanding variety, music or comedy special for The 52nd Annual Tony Awards.

She has appeared in television series, on the stage and films such as the baseball comedy “A League of Their Own” in 1992 and the romantic comedy “Sleepless in Seattle” in 1993.

Eileen Ford, maverick of the modeling industry, dies at 92

Rosie O’Donnell

Eileen Ford, the founder of the Ford Models who promoted the fresh-faced look of American women and set the stage for the phenomenon of celebrity super models, has died at the age of 92, the agency said on Thursday.

Ford died on Wednesday from complications from meningioma and osteoporosis, the agency said.

Since starting the Manhattan agency with husband Jerry in 1946, Ford showed she had an eye for talent, discovering Candice Bergen in the 1960s and Lauren Hutton in the 1970s, and signing precocious beauty Brooke Shields as child.

“Eileen’s contributions to the modeling and fashion industries are unmatched,” Ford Models said in a statement announcing her death.

“She founded Ford Models 68 years ago and due to her unwavering passion, curiosity and drive, grew Ford into one of the

world’s most prestigious agencies.”

Born and raised in New York City, Ford herself was a model while studying at Barnard College, and also worked in photography, fashion and as a fashion reporter.

She and Jerry would often invite aspiring models to stay at their house when they got started.

The Fords were credited for helping to make modeling a lucrative profession by pushing for payment not for a day or hour, but rather for the usage of the model’s work, and for signing models to exclusive contracts for specific brands.

That economic foundation spawned the high-paid celebrity super model of the 1980s, when Ford Models was arguably the most important modeling agency. Ford represented a few of them herself, including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Elle Macpherson.

Ford was also fond of models who radiated a wholesome look, such as Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley, who embodied American beauty for years.

“American women mean a great deal to me,” Ford told People magazine in 1983. “They’re such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation.”

Jerry Ford died in 2008. The couple had four children, including daughter Katie Ford, who became chief executive of Ford Models in 1995. The agency was sold in 2007 to Stone Tower Equity Partners, which has since been renamed Altpoint Capital.

Katie Ford said in a statement that her mother loved New York touchstones such as restaurant Le Cirque, The New York Times and the TV sitcom “Seinfeld,” in addition to “beautiful models, photographers, fashion, Fred Astaire, and life in general.”

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George Clooney receives apology from Mail over marriage story

George Clooney has received an apology from the Mail Online “for any distress caused” by a story about his upcoming marriage to Amal Alamuddin.

It follows its publication of a report claiming Alamuddin’s mother objected to their marriage on religious grounds.

The story, published earlier this week, led Clooney to accuse the Mail of “irresponsibility”.

“We accept Mr Clooney’s assurance that the story is inaccurate,” said a statement from the Mail Online.

“We have removed the article from our website and will

be contacting Mr Clooney’s representatives to discuss giving him the opportunity to set the record straight.”

Earlier this week, the Mail claimed Alamuddin’s mother, Baria, wished her daughter to be married within the relatively small Druze sect.

The Druze are a religious sect with an estimated 700,000 members, mostly in Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Jordan, whose beliefs are based on Islam but also incorporate elements of other religions.

The report, published online on Monday and then in print on Tuesday, in an

amended form, said “close family friends” had told them that Baria Alamuddin had been “telling half of Beirut” that her daughter “could do better”.

‘Completely fabricated’ In a piece published by USA Today, Clooney denied his fiancee’s mother was a member of the Druze community and asserted that she was “in no way against the marriage”.

He went on to accuse the Mail of putting his family and

friends “in harm’s way” and potentially “inciting violence” with its “completely fabricated” story”.

“The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous,” the actor wrote.

Clooney’s engagement to Alamuddin, a London-based barrister who specialises in human rights cases, was confirmed by her chambers in April.

In its statement, the Mail Online insisted its story had

not been “a fabrication” but had been “supplied in good faith by a reputable and trusted freelance journalist”.

“She based her story on conversations with a longstanding contact who has strong connections with senior members of the Lebanese community in the UK and the Druze in Beirut.”

“We only became aware of Mr Clooney’s concerns this morning and have launched a full investigation.”

MailOnline is the world’s most-read English newspaper site and receives more than 11 million visits each day.

Queen Latifah, Beyonce and Jay Z heading to HBO

Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke’s new album outsold by a Blondie compilation in Australia

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13) 2. Tammy (R) Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon 3. 22 Jump Street (R) Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill 4. Deliver Us From Evil (R) Eric Bana 5. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) animated 6. Earth to Echo (PG) Teo Halm, Astro 7. Maleficent (PG) Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning 8. Jersey Boys (R) John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen 9. Think Like a Man Too (PG-13) Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union 10. Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13) Tom Cruise

week. Number 500 was a Blondie compilation record that sold 54 copies. So, that would mean Paula is somewhere below that, or tied with that. Maybe that means 54. Maybe it means 6. You’re free to believe whatever figure you would like, provided your guess is not 55 or higher.

So, what the hell happened? How could someone sell more than 750,000 worldwide copies of one album and then fail to chart in a major market during its first week the next year? Well, it’s likely a combination of bad personal life publicity and a serious lack of a single. The effort “Get Her Back” was deemed creepy by a lot of listeners, and it failed to really get a foothold in any major markets.

That, in conjunction, with all the rumors of him being not particularly likeable in real life may have created a perfect storm.

Expect album sales to continue to move in the wrong direction

1. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX “Fancy” 2. MAGIC! “Rude” 3. Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea No. 2 “Problem” 4. Nico & Vinz “Am I Wrong?”

5. Sam Smith “Stay With Me” 6. Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg “Wiggle” 7. John Legend “All of Me” 8. Calvin Harris “Summer” 9. DJ Snake & Lil John “Turn Down for What” 10. Pharrell Williams “Happy”

TOP 10 MUSIC ALBUMS

Remember when Robin Thicke was the toast of the town? His catchy, borderline offensive song “Blurred Lines” was everywhere, and his relationship with wife Paula Patton had all the makings of power couple status. Well, one year later, his relationship has imploded and his album sales are somehow even worse.

Hard figures for his new LP, Paula, are starting to trickle in, and while they’re not particularly good in the United States, they’re downright horrible in other countries.

The effort sold 24,000 copies in the United States during its first week, which was less than 25% of what Blurred Lines moved. In the United Kingdom, that figure plummeted to just 530, and according to an Australian news site, the figure Down Under was “less than 55”.

How is it possible for album sales to be that vague in this day and age? Well, Australia only reports sales for the top 500 albums each

TOP 10 MUSIC SINGLES

TOP 10 MOVIES

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Beyonce and Jay Z will co-star in an HBO concert special, and Queen Latifah will play legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in a movie for the network.

The music special will feature the married couple on their “On the Run Tour” performing in Paris. It will tape Sept. 12 and 13 at the Stade de France, featuring the superstars performing more than 40 songs, the network announced. It will air in September.

Starring Queen Latifah, “Bessie” is written and directed by filmmaker Dee Rees (“Pariah”). Currently in production in Atlanta, it co-stars Michael K. Williams, Khandi Alexander, Charles S. Dutton, Oliver Platt and Mo’Nique. It premieres in 2015.

HBO also said Mike Nichols will direct fellow Oscar winner Meryl Streep in “Master Class.” Drawing on the legendary master classes given by opera star Maria Callas, it is based on the Tony award-winning play of the same name

by Terrence McNally, who will adapt his work for the screen.

The announcements were made Thursday at the summer TV critics’ tour, as was good news from sister network Cinemax about its upcoming series “The Knick.” This drama of a circa-1900 New York hospital has been rewarded with a second season prior to its Aug. 8 premiere.

It stars Clive Owen, with both 10-episode seasons directed by Steven Soderbergh.

With HBO’s freshman drama “True Detective” landing best-actor Emmy nominations on Thursday for both leads,Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, this question was renewed: Who will star in the series’ second season, which is expected to feature an entirely new cast?

James Patterson’s ‘Maximum Ride’ to come to life on YouTube Best-selling author James Patterson has reached a deal to turn his young adult book franchise “Maximum Ride” into an Internet video series that will be released on YouTube.

Patterson sold exclusive online rights for “Maximum Ride” to Collective Digital Studio (CDS), a production company and operator of YouTube channels, according to a statement released on Wednesday.

The eight “Maximum Ride” books, which have sold more than 30 million copies, tell the story of children who are genetically modified with bird DNA and can fly. The franchise already has a following on YouTube, where fans have posted videos of themselves acting out scenes from the books.

CDS plans to start its online series with six to 10 episodes that are each about 10 minutes long, said Gary Binkow, partner and chief content officer for CDS. It hopes to release them next year, he said.

Patterson, whose adult thrillers include the Alex Cross series, will serve as an executive producer, CDS said.

1. Ed Sheeran “X” 2. Sam Smith “In the Lonely Hour” 3. G-Eazy new entry “These Things Happen” 4. Lana Del Ray “Ultraviolence” 5. Soundtrack “Frozen” 6. Mastodon “Once More ‘Round the Sun” 7. Phish “Fuego” 8. Miranda Lambert “Platinum” 9. Linkin Park “The Hunting Party” 10. Various Artists “Now 50”

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by Dave Whamond

Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II

Classic Doonesbury (1976) by Garry Trudeau

Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard The Duplex by Glenn McCoy The Flying McCoys

by Glenn and Gary McCoy

Thatababy by Paul Trap

Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart Reality Check

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Thatababy by Paul Trap

Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan

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Barbados voices concern over impact of climate change in the Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says Caribbean countries and other small island developing states (SIDS) are becoming increasingly susceptible to climate change and steps have to be taken to reduce this vulnerability.

Stuart noted that as a result of climate change, unprecedented flooding was taking place in several parts of the world, including the Caribbean, with

neighbouring territories experiencing unseasonal hurricane type behaviour.

“St. Vincent and the Grenadines, for example, around Christmas last year and St. Lucia and Dominica experienced systems that were unprecedented for that time of the year. Seventeen per cent of the gross domestic product of St. Vincent and the Grenadines was destroyed by that system last December.

“We were fortunately spared (that system but) about two or three years before, (Hurricane) Tomas passed by at a very awkward time for us as well and I am not aware that we have fully come out of the damage done by Tomas,” he said.

Prime Minister Stuart said that Barbados would be articulating its position on the effects of climate change on SIDS at the Third International

Conference on Small Island Developing States, which will be held in Samoa in September.

“We’ll be accentuating a lot of those issues that have to do with the threats posed to small island developing states by climate change and making sure that we can access a lot of the funding that is being put in place to effect adaptation and mitigation measures so that we can minimise our risks.

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Minister of the Environment and Housing Kenred Dorsett.

The Bahamas trying to prevent spread of chikungunya virus NASSAU, Bahamas – With the rapid spread of the chikungunya virus in some parts of the Caribbean, Minister of the Environment and Housing Kenred Dorsett said on Tuesday that public health officials in The Bahamas have been ordered to increase their efforts to diminish the threat of a local outbreak.

According to a statement from Dorsett, the Department of Environmental Health Services (DEHS) has engaged in a systematic monitoring program and has been instructed to ramp up its fogging program across the country, following the confirmation of the first case of the chikungunya virus.

“The Department of Environmental Health Services is aware of this threat to the health of the population,” Dorsett said.

“In January 2014, DEHS implemented a heightened monitoring program for the Aedes aegypti mosquito at all ports of entry in The Bahamas in response to the level of

chikungunya virus transmission in Latin America and the Caribbean. This activity will continue.”

The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is found throughout The Bahamas, spreads the chikungunya virus.

The mosquito is known to transmit other diseases such as dengue fever, which affected more than 1,500 residents in 2011.

Since December 2013, the chikungunya virus has spread throughout the Caribbean.

The progression of the illness in the region is occurring at a rate of one country every 7 to 14 days, according to Dorsett.

The Bahamas confirmed its first case on July 4.

In the Caribbean, there have been over 4,300 confirmed cases and over 250,000 suspected cases, according to the latest statistics from Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Symptoms include high fever and severe joint pains in

the hands and feet, which can persist for several weeks.

Other symptoms include muscle pain, joint swelling and rash.

Chikungunya rarely results in death; however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the symptoms can be severe and disabling.

At least 21 people have died as a result of the fever in the Caribbean, PAHO statistics show.

Dorsett said residents should ensure that their immediate environment is not a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

“The ministry of the environment and housing and the DEHS will continue to work with the ministry of health to contain the disease and to ensure adequate and optimum treatment of those who may be infected,” Dorsett added.

He said a public education campaign is already underway and will be stepped up immediately.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – A police officer committed suicide hours after a photo of his appeared on a television programme hosted by a senior police officer that he was a fugitive from the law.

Constable Christopher Madeira, who had been on suspension from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), died after he ingested a quantity of weedicide on Tuesday.

His picture had been posted on the television programme “Beyond the Tape” co hosted by Inspector Roger Alexander.

The post carried the words “The first member of the protective services to grace the ‘Wall of Shame” is Christopher Madeira. If you see Madeira, do not approach or confront him since he is considered armed and extremely dangerous…instead call ANY police station, 623-0362/ 4968 or send an e-mail to beyondthetape@tv6tnt.com if you have information that could help the police capture this fugitive from the law”.

Under his photograph, it stated he was wanted for two charges of misbehaving in public office, and failure to appear in court.

The charges alleged that he and another police officer, Corporal Lennox John, knowingly and wilfully handed over a loaded firearm and a bullet-proof vest belonging to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.

Madeira, who was last stationed at the Scarborough Police Station in Tobago, was also charged separately with handing over a loaded pistol and a bullet-proof vest.

He was released on TT$150,000 (One TT dollar = US$0.16 cents) bail, ordered to surrender his passport to the court and report to the Scarborough Police Station twice weekly.

Two Guyana police officers charged for severely burning boys hands

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Two police officers will return to court on August 18 in connection with an incident in which the hands of a teenage boy was set afire while in custody.

Constable, Earwin Forrester, who was charged with inflicting serious bodily harm, and Inspector Dexter Thornton, who is accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice, appeared before a magistrate Tuesday, were placed on GUY$125,000 and GUY$100,000 (One Guyana dollar =US$0.004 cents) bail.

The alleged incident occurred in May, when the teen said police on patrol accused him of wandering and took him to the police station where an officer poured methylated spirits on his hands, and with the assistance of others, set it alight.

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Trinidad and Tobago vulnerable to energy price decline – IMF

WASHINGTON D.C., United States, – may be necessary in the near future.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) The Washington-based financial Wednesday warned that Trinidad and institution said that the authorities in Tobago remains vulnerable to a decline Port of Spain should stand ready to start in energy prices, and called for structural tightening monetary policy in view of the reforms to diversify the economy and reduced labour market slack and high improve its growth potential. consumer credit growth, and to prepare The IMF said while it welcomed the for the spillovers from the normalization improved growth outlook, and noted of monetary policy in the United States. the strong external position and limited “Implementing this tightening, however, fiscal vulnerabilities, it agreed, however, could be complicated by banks’ excess that the reduction in economic slack liquidity and the weak monetary and the need for a durable consolidation transmission mechanism,” The IMF of the fiscal position suggest that a said, suggesting that tighter prudential tightening of macroeconomic policies regulations could be considered.

The IMF, which concluded Article IV consultation with Trinidad and Tobago last month, said that the economy is embarking on a sustainable growth path.

“Maintenance-related slowdowns in the energy sector are ending, while nonenergy growth is robust, with economic slack being used up. Headline inflation is trending down …while core inflation remains contained at about 2–3 per cent.”

The IMF said unemployment rate has fallen to only 3.75 per cent “although this masks sizable underemployment in government “make-work” programmes”.

It said the fiscal balance is likely to

Barbados public hospital gets a BDS$22 million lifeline BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados government Tuesday announced a BDS$22 million (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents) injection into the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) after doctors there warned that they would only be performing emergency medical procedures, owing to a shortage of supplies.

Health Minister John Boyce told Parliament that the QEH is not in a crisis and that the new funds were a short to medium term remedy to the shortage of basic and essential health supplies currently affecting the island’s main public medical facility. ”I am comfortable that the short term arrangements that have been put in place will see that immediate turn around and I’m comfortable with the fact, and Barbadians need to be assured that with the injection. . . of some $20 million, the medium term has also been comfortably taken care of,” Boyce said.

“I trust that some of the points which I have been able to put to Barbadians today have helped them to appreciate where our prioriies are, and the fact that recognising our priority, action has been taken to alleviate the situation and indeed to correct the situation,” he added.

Vice President of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), Dr Vikash Chatrani, said the decision to adopt the new working schedule was taken at an emergency meeting of BAMP members on Monday.

He said that representatives of

Barbados’ Health Minister John Boyce. the QEH’s administration were in attendance and confirmed that the hospital was experiencing critical shortages in basic and essential supplies.

“As a result of these critical shortages BAMP was informed that the QEH would only be performing urgent and emergency surgical procedures.”

Earlier this year, pharmaceutical providers to QEH had withdrawn their services, protesting overdue payment for goods delivered, and resumed supplies only after government paid BDS$20 million (One BDS$ = 50 US

cents) into the debt account.

“It cannot be business as usual. We believe that the short-term financial injections (or) supplements have failed to rectify the serious situation that exists at the QEH, and we urge the government to immediately restore adequate levels of funding in order to prevent harm to our patients,” Dr. Chatrani said.

Opposition Shadow Health Minister Dr Maria Agard had tabled the motion on a “matter of urgent public importance”.

Dr. Agard said the situation had reached crisis proportions and she called for the Minister of Health to be held accountable to the people of Barbados.

“The Minister of Health must stand transparent, accountable to the people of Barbados in addressing these issues to protect our people and return the operations of QEH to a state of normalcy.

“He cannot no longer continue in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary, (to say) that quality healthcare at the QEH has not been compromised, that it is business as usual and that he and his administration are doing all (they) can to ensure the delivery of quality healthcare.

“We have heard it from doctors, we’ve heard it from nurses, we’ve heard it from patients, we’ve heard it from visitors to the hospital; there is a problem and the problem needs to be fixed,” she said.

improve in fiscal year 2013/14, with the deficit falling to only 15 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) “but largely for ad hoc reasons rather than durable improvements in revenues or expenditures.”

The IMF made reference to the shortage of foreign exchange noting that “the foreign exchange allocation system, although it had generally worked well for several years, led to fairly widespread and persistent foreign exchange shortages, as supply and demand imbalances grew from late 2013”.

St Lucia’s water crisis continues CASTRIES, St Lucia – The Water and Sewage Company (WASCO) in Saint Lucia announced on Tuesday that the island’s drought is getting worse.

As a result, the water related emergency initially declared in March for the north of the island, has been expanded to the entire country.

“The flows in our rivers have not improved despite the recent rains and therefore the available raw water supply for extraction is at extremely low levels,” WASCO stated.

At the last assessment, the dam’s water level was 322 feet.

Normal overflow levels are 333 feet.

In light of this situation, the islandwide water rationing program remains in effect. Every community will experience periodic outages in order to allow other communities to receive a supply of water.

WASCO managing director Vincent Hippolyte said that, until the rains come in sufficient quantity and volume, WASCO will continue to take precaution and ration water.

“Despite the [intermittent] rains and the greenery, drought conditions exist because the rivers are not moving,” Hipployte said.

“They do not have the volume of water that will enable WASCO to extract sufficient water to meet demand. [We are] in the early stages in the drought situation. It is not as severe as the middle or [later stages], but we are still in drought conditions.”

Experts predict the drought will persist through August.

St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party marks 19th anniversary

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts,– Prime appealed to nationals to ensure that the Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas Tuesday SKNLP remains in power when then marked the 19th anniversary of his ruling next general election is called.

“Let us together face the future St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) in power, making reference to the socio- together committed to giving to our economic development of the twin-island best….in order to ensure that the country Federation and launching a broadside we love so much remains on its upward attack on the “minority politicians” trend,” he told the nation.

But he acknowledged that there were seeking to unseat his administration by some who were trying to destablise the parliamentary and other means.

In a half hour address to the twin- Federation and unseat his government island Federation, Dr. Douglas said that using both the parliamentary process since 1995, the country’s socio-economic and other means.

While he made no reference to the development has improved significantly despite local and global challenges and motion of no confidence filed against his

administration since last December and not yet debated in the Parliament, Dr. Douglas said these individuals “have knowingly misled, lied to and deceive the public in the process”.

The motion olf no confidence has the support of former Cabinet colleagues Sam Condor and Dr. Timothy Harris, who have since formed their own political party and have joined with the main opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) in taking court action to have the motion debated in Parliament.

Last week, the St. Lucia-based Eastern Caribbean Appeal Court stayed

the judgment of all proceedings in the motion of no confidence matter in favour of the Speaker of St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly, Curtis Martin.

A statement issued by his lawyers said that the Speaker had been found to have met the required threshold.

“The Honourable Speaker appealed the first instance judgment to the Court of Appeal on a variety of different grounds.

The stay was granted on the basis that the appeal filed by the Honourable Speaker of the National Assembly ‘has met the required threshold’ under the law.

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HIV/AIDS cases on the rise in Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica has AIDS is 25-49.

The Ministry of Health said there recorded an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases and health authorities were 15 new cases of HIV/AIDS on the are warning that most of the cases are island in 2013 and Frampton reported that almost every year more males have among the male population.

Coordinator of the National Re- tested positive for the virus.

“Last year we had fifteen new cases sponse Programme for HIV/AIDS, Julie Frampton, said that since the first HIV/ and ten of them were males. What is inAIDS case was reported here in 1987, teresting though, about our new cases there were 410 cumulative cases at the now, we see the older age group, out of the 15 of last year, 14 of them were over end of 2013.

“We have a male-dominated epidem- 30,” she said.

Addressing a stakeholder consulic with over 70 per cent of cases being male. So the 410, from 1987 up to end of tation meeting for Dominica’s Na2013, doesn’t mean that all those people tional Strategic plan for HIV/AIDS for are alive,” Frampton said, noting that 2015-2019, which ends on Wednesday, the age group most affected by HIV/ Frampton said participants should con-

sider whether the correct people are is a human developmental problem being targeted, “or should we shift our fueled by many factors”.

“In Dominica, we also have reasons to focus, or are the older age group like me saying we’re safe and what it is we need be concerned as we have over four hundred and ten infected persons at the end to do address that”.

The consultation seeks to sensitize of 2013,” she said, adding “the Ministry stakeholders on the HIV/AIDS strategic of Health realizes that for outstanding plan and mitigate the negative impacts success, a multi-stage process would be required and before implementing, all of HIV/AIDS in Dominica.

Permanent secretary in the Ministry stakeholders must be sensitized to the of Health, Helen Royer, said the exist- strategic plan, hence your presence toence of HIV/AIDS cannot be underesti- day”.

The Caribbean has the second highmated as it poses a “serious challenge to humankind as to date there is neither a est incident of HIV/AIDS in the Americas, and the size of the epidemic is vaccine, nor a cure for HIV/AIDS”.

“We cannot sit idle by thinking that second only to that of the sub Saharan it’s not our business because HIV/AIDS Africa.

UWI foreign exchange study dismissed by Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados government has dismissed as a public relations stunt, a study done by the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) indicating that the regional institution contributes more direct foreign exchange to the local economy than sugar and rum exports.

The UWI survey titled “The Impact of the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus on the Economy of Barbados”, noted that in 2013 the campus generated almost BDS$87 million in foreign exchange while sugar earned about BDS$16 million and rum approximately BDS$86 million.

“It makes no sense UWI going out there on a public relations campaign, to try to justify in the minds of University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

Barbadians, the need for the Government to give them high levels of subsidies and to pay for university education for all Barbadians,” said Industry and sector and therefore it was a mistake to compare the two.

Commerce Minister Donville Inniss. ”Whatever study UWI produces, the reality about Last August, Finance and Economic Affairs it, is that this government or any future government, Minister Chris Sinckler in his 2013-14 budget presentation, said that effective 2014, Barbadian whether it’s the DLP or BLP, cannot pay for the students pursuing studies at the university’s three university education in full for all Barbadians.

“That is a simple harsh reality we all have to face,” campuses will be required to pay their own tuition fees, while the government continues to fund economic he said, calling on the University to operate as a business and not as a school. costs.

Education Minister Ronald Jones also dismissed Sinckler said the tuition fees range from BDS$5,625 to BDS$65,000 (One Barbados dollar=US$0.50 cents) the study telling the BARBADOS TODAY publication and that the new policy would reduce the transfer to “I don’t know about comparing rum. I look strictly at the provision of education for Barbadians and Caribbean UWI by an estimated BDS$42 million a year.

Inniss said that the economists who work at the students. And how that is accessed; the ability of them UWI, “ought to be able to advise the principal that the to access it; how many students access it; what we method of financing university education, that existed have to do to more regionalise and internationalise from the 1960s, is no longer sustainable” suggesting the University of the West Indies so that in fact more also that Cave Hill needed “to put aside the charade foreign exchange comes into the economy as a result of the expansion to cater to international students. That and PR and deal with the substantive issues”.

The senior government minister also questioned has to be the basis.

“The debate can’t be about rum only brings in $30 how the report and its findings were compiled, or $40 million, the university brings in $35 or $80 contending that the Government’s investment in [million],” Jones said. education far exceeds its contribution to the rum

Vybz Kartel files lawsuit against outgoing Jamaica police commissioner KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Adidja Palmer, is taking the action The attorney for Dancehall artiste, following statements made on ybz Kartel, convicted of murdering the April 9 episode of the current a man in 2011, says his client will affairs programme, All Angles on file a defamation suit against TVJ hosted by Dionne Jacksonoutgoing Police Commissioner Miller.

He said that the singer, who is Owen Ellington and Television serving a life sentence for the 2011 Jamaica (TVJ).

Attorney Tom Tavares-Finson murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams, said his client, whose real name is has signed the legal documents

and that the necessary paper work would be filed with the High Court later on Tuesday.

The attorney said that the comments by Ellington were prejudicial to the appeal filed by Vybz Kartel against his conviction.

Tavares-Finson said the notes of evidence for the legal process have not yet been completed.

St Lucia priest withdrawn from ministry after relationship

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Roman Catholic Church Monday confirmed that a priest had been withdrawn from the ministry “with immediate effect’ after he had a relationship with a male parishioner.

“It was clear that the Priest crossed his boundaries and acted inappropriately,” said Archbishop Robert Rivas adding that the Church had considered the matter to be serious.

In a statement, in which the priest was not identified, Archbishop Rivas said the priest had also been sent on administrative leave during which time he will receive “spiritual and counselling support.

However, according to St Lucia News Online, the priest in question is Gros Islet Parish Priest Fr. Stephen Quinlan and the “relationship” was with an adult male.

“This is an ongoing process so whenever a situation develops, once it’s brought to the attention of the authorities the matter will be properly investigated and once it is proved that something is wrong, that there has been bad behavior or an injustice, we have to ensure that it is corrected,” Archbishop Robert Rivas said, recalling the position adopted by the Catholic Church in the wake of allegations against priests over the past two decades.

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Italian religious procession sparks mafia row

Merkel’s government has asked for the U.S. chief intelligence officer in Berlin to leave the country following the discovery of another agent spying on Germany.

Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin Germany and prosecutors’ investigations.

A U.S. government source said the official to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger from Chancellor Angela Merkel - whom neither side named - was Berlin station at the behaviour of a close ally after officials chief for the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency.

A German source said the man would face possible unearthed two suspected U.S. spies.

The scandal has chilled relations with forcible expulsion if he did not leave voluntarily.

Washington’s embassy and Merkel’s office sit Washington to levels not seen since Merkel’s predecessor opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in a few hundred meters apart. They lie east and 2003. It follows allegations that Merkel herself, west of what was the Berlin Wall, for the removal who grew up in Stasi-ridden East Germany, was of which many Germans still give great credit among thousands of Germans whose mobile to their U.S. ally - deepening today’s sense of betrayal. phones have been bugged by American agents.

On Wednesday, Berlin said it had discovered a “Spying on allies ... is a waste of energy,” the chancellor said in her most pointed public remarks suspected U.S. spy in the Defence Ministry. That yet on the issue. “We have so many problems, we came just days after a German foreign intelligence worker was arrested on suspicion of being a CIA should focus on the important things.”

Senior conservative supporters denounced U.S. informant and admitted passing documents to a “stupidity” and some Americans said spying on U.S. contact.

The scale of public outrage at these revelations their friends had backfired.

“In the Cold War maybe there was general has put pressure on Merkel to take action against mistrust. Today we are living in the 21st century. the United States, an ally whose defense of West Today there are completely new threats,” Merkel Germany in the Cold War long assured Americans said in Berlin, once a key CIA listening post a warmer welcome there than elsewhere in Europe.

However, there is a limit to what she can do behind the Iron Curtain during the superpower duel with Moscow and now the reunited capital of and both sides stressed the need to continue to work closely together. They have done increasingly Europe’s most powerful economy.

Her spokesman said the request for the top in recent years, on issues from Iran to Ukraine, U.S. intelligence official in the Berlin embassy to as Germany shakes off its postwar reticence in leave was made in response to questions raised foreign affairs and takes on a role more suited to in recent months on U.S. intelligence activity in its economic weight.

The Catholic bishop of a small diocese in southern Italy has suspended all church processions after a parade took a detour to salute a mafia boss who was under house arrest.

The mayor, police and priests had been among those following a statue of the Virgin Mary through the streets of Oppido Mamertina.

When the procession changed course, two policemen left and lodged a complaint.

It comes two weeks after Pope Francis condemned the mafia and its members.

The BBC’s Alan Johnston in Rome says the incident in Oppido Mamertina seemed to fly in the face of Francis’s powerful message.

Italy’s interior minister described the episode as “deplorable and repulsive”.

Oppido Mamertina is in Calabria which is the stronghold of the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.

The local archbishop said it was a pity the priests present did not have the courage to walk away from the procession - as the police officers had done - when it became clear what was going on.

Police said on Monday they were investigating possible collusion between the leaders of the procession and mob boss Giuseppe Mazzagatti, 82, who is serving a life sentence under house arrest for health reasons.

Prosecutors said they were looking at video footage taken during the event.

“Whoever made the Madonna bow has committed a double sin,” Nunzio Galantino, head of the Italian episcopal conference, told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

“It’s absurd. The Madonna can bow to poverty, to those in need, in front of a sincere conversion, but not in subjugation to a delinquent.”

In a Mass held in Calabria last month, Pope Francis described the ‘Ndrangheta as the “adoration of evil”.

Mexican train derails, stranding 1,300 migrants headed toward U.S.

A cargo train used

by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the U.S. border derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, stranding about 1,300 migrants, emergency services said.

Many of the migrants aboard were young people and nobody was injured when the train nicknamed “the Beast” came off the tracks, a spokesman for local emergency services said.

Since last October, more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors, most from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, have been caught illegally crossing the southwest border of the United States.

Children say that they are fleeing violence at home and hope that they will be able to stay in the United States.

Several days of heavy rain in southern Mexico may have caused the train to derail, authorities said.

U.S. lawmakers seek role in Iran nuclear talks More than three-quarters of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter sent to President Barack Obama Wednesday, insisting that lawmakers play a role in any decision to offer Iran long-term sanctions relief in connection with negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.

The letter noted that the U.S. Congress played a central role in enacting sanctions against Iran and insisted Congress be involved in any decision to ease sanctions.

Three hundred and forty-four of the chamber’s 435 members, both Republicans and Democrats, signed the letter, which was released Thursday by California Republican Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and New York Representative Eliot Engel, the panel’s top Democrat.

The letter was a strong indication of Congress’ interest in the Iran talks ahead of a July 20 deadline for international negotiators to extend

an interim agreement or reach a long-term pact. Many diplomats and analysts believe an extension may be needed in view of the wide gaps in negotiating positions.

Separately, a senior Western official said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers from the six powers negotiating with Iran on its nuclear program would travel to Vienna this weekend to help break a logjam in the talks.

U.S. lawmakers, particularly in

the Republican-controlled House, are generally skeptical of Iran’s goal in the talks and doubt the Islamic Republic will give up on plans to build nuclear weapons.

The House passed tougher sanctions legislation last summer.

But a similar measure stalled in the Senate, where Democrats control a majority of the seats, after the Obama administration said the measure may not give diplomacy a chance to succeed.

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Texas man charged with capital murder for shooting six dead A Texas man was charged with capital murder on Thursday after appearing at the house of his estranged wife’s relatives disguised as a FedEx driver and gunning down a married couple and four of their children, authorities said.

Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, was being held without bond since his arrest on Wednesday night after the shooting in the Houston suburb of Spring, they said.

“Mr. Haskell was married to a relative of the victims,” said Mark Herman, the assistant chief deputy for the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 office told Reuters. “Mr. Haskell and his spouse were divorced. I’m not sure what conclusion we can draw from the motive to attack family members,” Herman said.

The suspect was chased by police through the residential area of treelined streets about 25 miles (40 kms)

north of Houston before he was trapped on a dead end and surrendered after a four-hour standoff.

The children killed were two boys aged 4 and 14 and two girls ages 7 and 9, the sheriff’s office said. A 15-year-old girl was also shot and was hospitalized in critical condition.

The Harris County District Clerk identified the adult victims as Katie Stay and Stephen Stay.

Haskell was charged with capital

murder and multiple murders. Capital murder can carry the death penalty in Texas.

The constable’s office said Haskell arrived at the Stay home in the late afternoon dressed as a FedEx driver.

“He came to this residence, gathered up the children that were here, and awaited the arrival of the parents.

Sometime later the victims were shot at this residence,” Constable Ron Hickman said at a news conference.

Primary school teacher caught tickling and sniffing young boys’ feet

Voter registration has been low ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections.

Tunisia’s voter registration disrupted by hackers

Hackers have briefly disrupted moderate Islamist Ennahda party online voter registration for - which won the first poll - battling elections in Tunisia later this year, to assert its authority.

Tunisia is heavily polarised the election commission has said.

Registration on the internet between Islamists and secular and by SMS was temporarily liberals. Isie had for the first time suspended following a “pirate allowed registration to take place online and by SMS in order to attack”, it added.

The commission, known as Isie, boost registration.

However, only a little more did not say who was behind the than 100,000 people had been hacking.

The elections in October and added to the electoral list since the November will be the second in month-long registration process Tunisia since long-serving ruler opened on 22 June, AFP news Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was agency reports.

Journalist Naveena Kottoor ousted in 2011.

The country has been hit told the BBC that the Muslim holy by turmoil since then, with the month of Ramadan, when most

Tunisians fast between dawn and dusk, could be one factor in the sluggish pace of registration. It began on 29 June.

The internet has also been extremely slow in recent days, which she says could be an indication that a sophisticated hack attack is underway.

The Isie statement said that despite the constant attacks that it was facing and questions about its integrity it will press ahead with organising the election.

About four million Tunisians registered to vote in the first election after the popular uprising against Mr Ben Ali’s rule.

Conjoined Ohio twins, 62, mark a milestone The world’s oldest conjoined twins plan to celebrate surpassing the life span of the original “Siamese Twins” on Saturday with a celebration in Ohio.

Donnie and Ronnie Galyon turn 62 years, 8 months and 8 days old, thereby outliving Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins who lived from 1811 to 1874.

The Bunkers were born in Siam, now Thailand.

A party for the Galyons is planned in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio.

The Galyons are joined at

“They were on the road from the sternum and share organs, which became an issue four years (age) 4 to 40,” Jim Galyon said. ago when Ronnie was sick with “They did their time.”

They aim to break the a virus that affected Donnie’s Guinness Book of World Records health as well.

The twins live with their as the longest-lived conjoined younger brother Jim Galyon and twins when they turn 63 in October, their brother said. his wife Mary.

According to the Guinness Jim Galyon said his older brothers toured with their father, website, the longest-living twins, and at times seven other siblings, Giacomo and Giovanni Battista as a “human oddity” until the Tocci of Italy, were born in 1877 shows fell out of fashion in the and died at 63, he said.

“It has been lifelong goal to 1970s.

The later traveled in Mexico reach this age,” Jim Galyon said. and Latin America.

A primary school teacher is facing jail after playing games of ‘sniff and tickle’ with his pupils’ feet.

Martyne Airey, 51, told misbehaving children to stay behind after lessons and take off their shoes and socks before sitting them up at a table and smelling their toes or tickling their soles.

He was caught after several pupils - all boys - were confronted by other teachers for being late to their classes. They explained that they had been with Airey and said what had happened to them.

It emerged in court that Airey would get the pupils to pick a playing card from a deck. Depending on which card was picked he would then sniff or tickle their feet. He was suspended from his position before being charged in April this year.

The court heard that the pupils have not reported any trauma from the incidents, but ‘just thought he was weird’.

Prosecutors said Airey, of Blackburn, Lancashire, carried out the offences for ‘sexual gratification’.

He pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual activity with a child under 13 at Preston Crown Court and will be sentenced next month.

At an earlier hearing before magistrates, prosecutor Miss Catherine Allan said: ‘The defendant was working as a teacher at a school.

‘The prosecution case is that he would play a game with children which involved him smelling their feet for sexual gratification. There is abuse of position, of trust, the age of children, numerous children.’

Teenage wrestler died from caffeine overdose – coroner

A healthy 18-year-old Ohio high school wrestler died last month from an overdose of powdered caffeine, a county coroner said on Wednesday.

Logan J. Stiner, who was a senior at a high school in LaGrange, Ohio, and a state-qualified wrestler, was found dead by his brother in late May, authorities said.

Stiner had consumed at least a teaspoon of powdered caffeine before his death and tests for caffeine level were ordered after police found a bag of what turned out to be powdered caffeine at his home, Lorain County coroner Dr. Steven Evans said.

Evans said Stiner had a lethal level of caffeine in his system, the highest he had ever seen.

The coroner said he does not believe Stiner, a national honor society member who planned to attend Toledo University, had any idea he had consumed a toxic amount of the powder.

One teaspoon of the powder, which is used in homemade workout drinks, could have the caffeine equivalent of dozens of cans of soft drinks, he said.

The powder, which can be purchased online and in bulk, is not regulated.

Evans said he believed caffeine overdoses might be more common than people think and most coroners would not think to test for caffeine levels.

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Alleged escort charged in Google exec’s fatal heroin overdose

The woman accused of being a high-priced escort who administered a lethal dose of heroin to a former tech executive on his yacht in Santa Cruz will not be charged with murder in the case, but still faces manslaughter, prostitution and drug counts, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Alix Catherine Tichleman, 26, of Folsom was arrested Friday in connection with the overdose death of 51-year-old Forrest Hayes, who worked for Google, Sun Microsystems and Apple.

Tichleman had been booked

on suspicion of murder, but on Wednesday, Santa Cruz County prosecutors charged her with eight counts, including manslaughter, prostitution, destroying evidence and several related to administering and possessing heroin.

Tichleman’s arraignment was postponed until July 16, but she remained in custody in lieu of $1.5-million bail.

Prosecutors said the charges could still change as the investigation continues.

Police allege Hayes was a client of Tichleman, who met him one night in Novemberon

his yacht in a local harbor.

Security video from the yacht purportedly shows Tichleman preparing a dose of heroin and injecting Hayes with it. He is then seen having an adverse reaction to the dose, collapsing and becoming unconscious.

Rather than trying to help or calling 911, police say, Tichleman packed up the drugs and needles and at one point stepped over the body to finish a glass of wine before leaving.

“Finally, she leaves the boat and reaches back in to lower the blind and conceal the victim’s

body from outside view,” police said in a statement.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner said Hayes died on Nov. 23, but police said Tichleman was only recently arrested because she had indicated on her Facebook account that she planned to leave the state soon.

Police identified her as a suspect after learning that she and Hayes allegedly had a relationship that began with the help of Seeking Arrangements, a website that caters to affluent clients seeking “sugar babies.”

Afghanistan’s war takes heavy civilian toll, says United Nations report Afghanistan’s war is getting deadlier for its civilians with the toll from crossfire and ground battles rising sharply, the United Nations has said in a report.

The number killed or injured in the first six months of the year rose by a quarter from 2013 levels to nearly 5,000 people, the bloodiest total since the UN began keeping records in 2009. Women and children are particularly badly affected.

It was also the first time that ground fighting has proved more dangerous An Afghan girl in Helmand province: women and children have been particularly for civilians than the often badly affected by the fighting in Afghanistan. indiscriminate homemade bombs that have become a key “More efforts are needed Taliban weapon, a worrying keep their distance from sign that the conflict may only enemy fighters, but are very to protect civilians from get more bloody as Nato forces risky for civilians in the area, the harms of conflict and ensure accountability the bi-annual Report on the to head home.

The withdrawal of well- Protection of Civilians in for those deliberately and indiscriminately killing them.” equipped and heavily armed Armed Conflict says.

More than 1,000 of those “In 2014, the fight is foreign troops from most districts has made it easier for increasingly taking place in killed or injured were children, insurgent forces to infiltrate communities, public places about a third more than the towns and villages, so battles and near the homes of ordinary previous year, and the number more often take place among Afghans, with death and injury of women caught up in the houses, shops or government to women and children in a violence rose by a quarter to continued disturbing upward 440. buildings, the report says.

Most of the casualties were Both sides often use spiral,” said Georgette Gagnon, weapons like mortars and the UN’s director of human caused by the Taliban, even though the insurgent group rockets that allow them to rights in Afghanistan.

have officially ordered their fighters to avoid harming Afghans who are not fighting.

The UN called on the group to stop attacks from or in civilian areas including homes, restaurants and government buildings, and end the use of indiscriminate roadside bombs, the second biggest cause of death and injuries.

The government and its supporters have managed to nearly halve the civilian deaths they caused compared with 2009, to 158 people, mostly by being more careful when using air strikes, the report found.

The UN attributed threequarters of the deaths and injuries to insurgent fighters and said just one in 10 were caused by Afghan forces or their foreign backers. Around 12 per cent of victims were hit by unidentified attackers during battles between insurgents and government troops.

“The long-term trend shows that anti-government elements are responsible for an increasingly large share of civilian casualties in the conflict,” said UN envoy Jan Kubiš, using the UN term for insurgent fighters.

Alix Tichleman, 26, is accused of administering a fatal dose of heroin to a client.

Utah to appeal gay marriage ruling Utah will appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court over last month’s ruling by a regional appeals court that found in favour of gay marriage in the conservative state, the attorney general’s office said on Wednesday.

A challenge by Utah was widely expected after the June 25 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which said the state could not stop same-sex couples from marrying. That ruling was put on hold pending Utah’s appeal.

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes’ office said he would petition the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming week.

“Utah’s Constitutional Amendment ... (prohibiting gay marriage) is presumed to be constitutional unless the highest courts deem otherwise,” it said in a statement.

Last month’s decision by the 10th Circuit was the first time a regional appeals court has made such a ruling in the year since the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to extend benefits to legally married same-sex couples.

Hamas drifts into Gaza fight it doesn’t know how to finish

The latest mini-war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began with the Gaza-based militants eager to strike a blow, but the escalation that followed has left them physically and diplomatically exposed, with no ready way out.

Hamas has sent its rockets streaking into Israel after a month of army raids in the occupied West Bank - in search of three missing Israeli teenagers - that landed more than 900 Palestinians in jail, many of them Hamas members.

The self-styled Islamic Resistance Movement was further prompted to

action by widespread anger at the burning alive of a Palestinian youth by suspected Jewish extremists last week, an apparent revenge attack after the missing teens were found shot dead in the West Bank - murders Israel blames on Hamas.

Hamas said it hadn’t sought a war, but now hundreds of Israeli bombs continue to pound the coastal strip, killing scores of Gazans - almost all of them civilians, according to Palestinian medical officials.

It says the onus for ending the hostilities is on Israel, where the

rocket attacks have caused no fatalities and whose missile defense system has intercepted many of the Hamas projectiles.

“Yes, we want calm. We don’t like escalation, and we didn’t make an escalation. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu imposed this aggression upon us,” Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said in a speech broadcast on Wednesday.

“To end his aggression, first end his policy of occupation, settlement, Judaisation, detentions, killings and demolitions. End that first. Our people

deserve to live free,” he added.

Previous lopsided battles between Palestinian militants and Israel’s powerful military - most recently an eight-day conflict in 2012 and a monthlong tussle that began in late 2008 and included a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip - have left Hamas’s position mostly intact.

The group would claim victory, buoyed by some international sympathy, speedily replenish their cache of rockets through Gaza’s porous border with Egypt and maintain its broad presence in the West Bank.

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White House faces Senate opposition over $3.7bn for child migrant crisis

White House efforts to respond to a wave of child migrants from central America faced growing opposition in Congress on Thursday, as both Democrats and Republicans questioned aspects of the president’s plan to tackle the crisis.

An exasperated-sounding Barack Obama lambasted Republicans during a speech in Austin, Texas, in which he compared himself to Mark Wahlberg’s character in Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar-winning film The Departed. The president said: “I’m the guy doing his

job. You must be the other guy.”

Yet despite increasing partisan rancour over Obama’s request for $3.7bn in emergency funding to deal with the 57,000 unaccompanied children who have been trafficked over the Mexican border, the president faces criticism from within his own party.

Senate foreign affairs chairman Robert Menendez, who led efforts to pass wider immigration reform, said he would oppose administration requests to repeal parts of a 2008 anti-trafficking law which is blamed

for encouraging the recent influx of children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

The law stipulates that unaccompanied children arriving from countries that do not directly border the US must be allowed to remain while their asylum cases are processed.

Both the White House and Republicans have called for the law to be reviewed, in the light of growing evidence that it has encouraged child trafficking by encouraging parents to think their children will be allowed to

stay once they make it to US soil.

A growing number of Republicans are also critical of the administration’s plans to spend roughly half of the emergency funding on dealing with children already in the country, claiming a greater priority should be placed on immediate repatriation.

During a hearing of the Senate appropriation committee to consider the request, ranking member Richard Shelby said the president was doing little to secure the border or enforce existing immigration rules.

Storms leave 5 dead in US, 200K without power in East

A downed tree lays atop a crushed car Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Philadelphia.

Incident raises questions on how cops interact with public

Marlene Pinnock is a mother of two who once studied bookkeeping and accounting. But her life has not been simple.

She was known as a sweet, friendly presence by some who lived in a homeless encampment beneath an overpass where the 10 Freeway crosses La Brea Avenue. She had been arrested several times on suspicion of minor offenses in that same Mid-City neighborhood.

On July 1, she ventured onto the 10 Freeway, barefoot, carrying a purse and veering into lanes of traffic. A California Highway Patrol officer arrived on the scene and tried to get her off the freeway shoulder. A California Highway Patrol officer straddles a woman on the What happened next has generated investigations, shoulder of the 10 Freeway. The July 1 incident has raised outrage and unanswered questions. One of those questions about law enforcement’s training to handle some crisis motorists shot a cell phone video showing the officer situations. repeatedly punching the 51-year-old as her purse On the video, the officer can be seen attempting to rested on the ground beside her.

To some experts, the incident was tragically hold her arm. Pinnock appeared to try to twist away familiar. The incident, they say, speaks to the ever- from him. At that point, the officer took her to the evolving, uneven and imperfect encounters that take ground and began hitting her with his black-gloved place daily between law enforcement officers and fists, as she covered her head with her arms. After a matter of seconds, an off-duty officer helped subdue people in crisis.

“Law enforcement officers are now street corner Pinnock, but not before the first officer landed at psychologists,” said Carla Jacobs, a prominent least nine blows.

Ron Thomas, whose homeless son Kelly Thomas advocate for an effective mental health system.

“Some are trained well. Some are not. But the reality died after a violent altercation with Fullerton police in 2011, said Monday that he supported the officer’s is that they are cops. They are not psychologists.”

The video, which has been played on television initial actions.

“He must take her into custody for her own over the last few days, showed Pinnock walking near the La Brea exit. The CHP officer, who has not been protection. I was absolutely fine with that,” Thomas identified by the agency, followed Pinnock on the said. “But then why in the hell did he start beating shoulder — an attempt, the CHP said, to keep her her? ... It’s absolutely appalling.”

The beating of Pinnock did not approach the from walking into traffic and endangering herself deadly end of Kelly Thomas’ incident. Authorities and others.

The officer ordered Pinnock to stop, according said she was not seriously injured and she was to a CHP document. Repeatedly, she ignored those taken to a hospital for “further evaluation.” CHP Sgt. commands, and then began walking “against the flow Denise Joslin declined to discuss Pinnock’s mental of traffic and into the traffic lanes,” the document said. condition.

SMITHFIELD, N.Y. — Severe thunderstorms packing strong winds swept through a number of Eastern states, killing five people, destroying or damaging numerous houses and leaving nearly 200,000 without power Wednesday, officials said.

In central New York, four people died after the storms hit the rural town of Smithfield, between Syracuse and Utica, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said. At least four homes were completely destroyed and numerous others were damaged. Nearly 56,000 utility customers in central and northern New York were still without power early Wednesday.

Injuries and damage from Tuesday’s fast-moving storms were not limited to New York state. In Maryland, a child at a summer camp was killed by a falling tree.

Three small tornadoes touched down in Ohio and at least one other was sighted in Pennsylvania, where more than 300,000 lost power at the peak of the storms.

Madison County Sheriff Allen Riley did not identify the victims. He told The Post-Standard of Syracuse he was still notifying their families.

The storm destroyed four homes, ripping one from its foundation and tossing it onto another house, the newspaper reported. Three other houses nearby also were damaged. The National Weather Service said the winds were likely stronger than 60 mph.

Riley said in a television interview late Tuesday that search dogs were being used to go over the rubble at the Smithfield site and that neighbors were being interviewed.

“We’re just picking up parts of the house to see if anybody is underneath them,” he said.

National Weather Service meteorologist Joanne LaBounty said investigators will be in the area to determine if a tornado touched down.

Turkish high-speed train crashes on test drive

Turkey’s long-awaited high-speed rail link between Istanbul and Ankara suffered a setback on Thursday when a test train crashed only days before its official opening by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish State Railways said nobody was hurt when the test run ended with the new train smashing into the rear of a work vehicle on the tracks.

The line between Turkey’s two largest cities, its financial center Istanbul and capital Ankara, is one of a number of ambitious projects embarked upon by the government.

The 250 km/h trains are due to cover the 450-km (280 mile) distance in 3-1/2 hours.

Erdogan, who has relied heavily on infrastructure investment to drive the economy and win political support, is expected to cut the ribbon on July 11. The opening has been delayed by several months and he has blamed setbacks to the project on sabotage.

A previous attempt to link the two cities with a high speed rail-link turned sour when a train derailed in July 2004, killing 41 people.

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U.S. sues Amazon for kids’ charges without parental consent Amazon.com faces a lawsuit filed Thursday by the U.S. government over allowing children to rack up millions of dollars in charges related to mobile apps without getting permission from their parents, who are then stuck with the bills.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked the court in a lawsuit filed against the online retailer on Thursday to refund the money spent without

parental authorization and to end the said in its complaint.

The FTC said in its complaint that practice of allowing unlimited purchases without requiring a password or other Amazon responded to complaints about mechanism to give parents control over unauthorized charges by requiring passwords to be used for large purchases their accounts.

The unauthorized charges are starting in 2012. That was extended to generally associated with children’s all purchases in early 2013 but once a apps, such as games, which can be free to password has been punched into the download but allow players to buy “coins” device, a purchase window remained or other digital products with the credit open for up to an hour, meaning that card associated with the device, the FTC further charges can be made without the

parents’ knowledge, the complaint said.

The FTC settled a similar case with Apple Inc in January. Apple agreed to refund consumers at least $32.5 million in unauthorized charges made by children and agreed to change its billing practices to require consent from parents before charging for such in-app spending.

Amazon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Samsung supplier ‘used child labour’ to meet high demand

Women walk past the logo of Google in front of its former headquarters, in Beijing.

Access to Google within China returns

Users in China were able to access online services for Google Inc on Thursday, after more than a month of severe disruption that almost completely blocked people from using features such as its search, maps and e-mail functions.

The Google disruption began in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the government’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

China maintains tight control over the Internet, nipping in the bud any signs of dissent or challenges to the ruling Communist Party’s leadership.

Users told Reuters they could use Google Maps and access the Google. com search engine, which redirects to a Hong Kong version of the

website. Reuters journalists were able to replicate this.

Google declined to provide immediate comment.

China-based anti-censorship group GreatFire.org also reported that Google services appeared to be accessible within China.

“I’m not sure if it’s a temporary glitch or a change of policy,” said a member of the group who used a pseudonym. “If Google indeed is unblocked, it’s a big victory for free speech.”

The member added that it was only a positive development if Google continued to use HTTPS, a form of encryption for websites that ensures individual search phrases cannot be censored within China. Currently the search engine uses HTTPS.

“If Google were to back down and disable HTTPS-by-default for Chinese users it would be a victory for the censorship authorities,” the member said.

Other online services are also experiencing disruption in China, which began last week. These include South Korean Naver Corp’s Line and KakaoTalk, owned by South Korea’s Kakao Corp, both mobile messaging apps.

Disruptions have also been affecting Yahoo Inc’s photo-sharing site, Flickr, and Microsoft Corp’s OneDrive cloud storage platform.

Other overseas online services, such as social networks Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc, and Googleowned video site YouTube, have been blocked in China for years.

Samsung is facing a fresh accusation that one of its Chinese suppliers hired children to meet production targets during a period of high demand from the South Korean electronics giant.

Samsung Electronics said it is looking into the allegation by China Labor Watch that a supplier, Shinyang Electronics in Dongguan, Guangdong province, hired children and student workers under the legal working age.

The New York-based watchdog said children were hired during a busy production period and worked for 11 hours a day without overtime pay or social insurance. They usually left employment after three to six months without any severence pay, when demand from Samsung declined.

The accusation conflicts with Samsung’s recent report on conditions at suppliers. It said no child labour was found by an external audit last year of about 100 Chinese suppliers.

That audit found 59 suppliers that did not provide safety equipment to employees. It also said excessive working hours were common.

China Labor Watch said in 2012 that Samsung was turning a blind eye to child labour at its suppliers in China, where Apple and Samsung smartphones are assembled.

The 2012 report also said working conditions at Samsung suppliers were “inhumane”, citing workers labouring beyond legally permitted hours and other problems.

At the time, Samsung promised to eliminate illegal overtime and other violations. It began to detail its efforts to remove child workers, introducing a new hiring process with strict identity checks at its suppliers in China. Samsung said it would sever its relationship with companies that failed to abide by its code of conduct.

There are hundreds of Samsung suppliers in China.

Chinese hackers break into US employee database

Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks housing the personal information of all federal US government employees in March in an apparent attempt to target people who had applied for top-secret security clearances.

News of the breach, first reported

by The New York Times, came as US secretary of state John Kerry is visiting Beijing for an annual summit on Sino-American relations. Kerry’s visit was already happening at a time of tense relations between China and

the US over cyber security. Documents unusually harsh language, saying it obtained by National Security Agency “harmed our business and threatened (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden our nation’s competitiveness.”

Department of Homeland Security showed the US has targeted China’s political leaders, military and Huawei, officials confirmed that they were aware a major maker of computer network of an attempt to hack into the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which equipment.

Speaking at a news conference houses the personnel files of federal in Beijing Thursday, Kerry said of employees, including those applying for the breach, “At this point in time, it top-security clearance.

An official speaking on background does not appear to have compromised any sensitive material.” But he also said the attack was detected and condemned China’s cyber spying in blocked and that so far the government

has not identified “any loss of personally identifiable information.” The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, which is responsible for analysing and reducing cyber threats, continues to investigate the incident.

The attack appears to have targeted a system called e-QIP, in which federal employees applying for security clearances enter personal information, including previous jobs, foreign contacts and personal information like financial information and past drug use.

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U.S. Senate committee advances bill on cell phone unlocking

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved bringing before the full Senate legislation that would give mobile-phone users the right to “unlock” their devices and use them on competitors’ wireless networks, something that is now technically illegal.

The bill by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat of Vermont, is similar to legislation passed by the House of Representatives in February and is expected to have bipartisan support when it reaches the Senate floor for a vote.

The lawmaking follows a 2012 ruling – including Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, by the Library of Congress, the minder Sprint Corp and T-Mobile US -- struck of U.S. copyright law, that effectively a voluntary agreement with the Federal made phone unlocking illegal, even after Communications Commission to make the consumer completed the contract it easier for consumers to unlock their with its wireless carrier. phones after their contracts expire.

U.S. wireless carriers often tether, Under current law, someone who or “lock,” smartphones to their networks unlocks their phone without permission to encourage consumers to renew could face legal ramifications, including mobile contracts. Consumers, for their jail. part, can often buy new devices at a Leahy’s bill reinstates the exemption heavily subsidized price in return for given to mobile phones in the copyright committing to long-term contracts with law before the controversial 2012 ruling a single carrier. by the Library of Congress and calls on In December, major wireless carriers the officials there to reconsider the issue

during its next round of reviews in 2015, potentially expanding the exemption to tablets and other devices.

“We appreciate the Judiciary Committee’s effort to strike an appropriate balance by authorizing unlocking without imposing obligations on carriers,” Jot Carpenter, vice president of government affairs at the wireless industry group CTIA, said in a statement on Thursday.

In addition to allowing consumers to unlock devices themselves, Leahy’s bill would allow consumers to authorize someone else to do it for them.

Pope Francis names new leadership for Vatican Bank VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis continued his efforts to modernize and reorganize the Vatican finances on Wednesday, by appointing a new leadership for the scandal-tainted Vatican Bank, streamlining other operations and signaling future changes to the church’s global media operations.

“Our ambition is to become something of a model in financial management rather than a cause for occasional scandal,” Cardinal George Pell, the pope’s recently appointed prefect on economic affairs, said at a news conference on Wednesday.

The most prominent move, rumored for weeks, was the appointment of Jean-Baptiste de Franssu as the new president of the Vatican Bank, officially known as the Institute of Religious Works, or I.O.R. Mr. de Franssu, a Frenchman who was formerly head of European operations for the investment management company Invesco Ltd., had been serving on an economic advisory council that Francis created in March. He replaces Ernst von Freyberg, a German industrialist appointed last year.

Cleaning up the Vatican’s murky finances has been a top priority for Francis, especially after many of the cardinals who elected him as pope in March 2013 spoke openly about their displeasure with the Vatican’s financial operations.

In recent years, the Vatican Bank has been under growing pressure to comply with international practices to

Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, the new president of the Vatican Bank. fight money laundering and meet other global norms. In 2010, Italian prosecutors temporarily seized $30 million from two accounts at the bank as part of a financial investigation.

It was Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who appointed Mr. von Freyberg to begin cleaning up the bank.

Joined by outside consultants, his team was given the task of introducing greater transparency in bank practices while also examining about 18,000 accounts at the Vatican Bank for possible illegal activity.

His team published the bank’s first ever annual report and instituted

protocols to prevent money laundering.

And more than 3,000 accounts have been closed, most due to inactivity or small balances, though nearly 400 were closed after bank officials decided to narrow eligible customers to people with direct ties to the church.

“Today, I.O.R. is in good shape, also financially,” Mr. von Freyberg said at the news conference on Wednesday.

The bank’s legacy of past mismanagement was evident in an annual report released on Tuesday. It showed that profits had fallen sharply because of the declining price of gold as well as write-downs on bad loans issued before 2013. One priority has been to tighten internal bank controls to prevent powerful church officials from handing out loans with limited scrutiny.

In recent weeks, European news media have reported on an unconfirmed investigation into a bank loan of 15 million euros ($20.4 million) to a Catholic filmmaker that was approved in 2012 by the Vatican’s former second-in-command, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Such a write-down was listed in Tuesday’s financial reports, though without specific mention of Cardinal Bertone.

On Wednesday, Cardinal Pell praised Mr. von Freyberg’s role at the Vatican Bank, noting that he had overseen the first phase of reforms while working part-time, splitting his weeks between Germany and Rome.

He said the position now demanded a full-time occupant.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft Corp chief executive, attends the unveil event of the new Microsoft Surface Pro 3 in New York recently.

Microsoft CEO commits to develop Xbox platform Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) Chief Executive Satya Nadella committed to develop its Xbox gaming platform in a letter to company employees, quashing rumors that the unit might be spun off.

“Microsoft will continue to vigorously innovate and delight gamers with Xbox,” said Nadella in an email released by the company on its website.

Speculation has mounted for years over the fate of the Xbox business, which has been deemed a potential candidate for a spinoff by some analysts and Microsoft insiders.

Microsoft shares were little changed at $41.64 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

Wall St. drops on Portugal bank worry U.S. stocks pulled well off session largest shareholder in Portugal’s Banco .DJI fell 71.67 points or 0.42 percent, to lows but were still falling on Thursday Espirito Santo, suspended trading in 16,913.94. The S&P 500 .SPX lost 6.86 as concerns about the financial health its shares and bonds, citing “material points or 0.35 percent, to 1,965.97. The of Portugal’s top listed bank gave difficulties” at parent company ESI. Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 15.84 investors a reason to cash in recent The bank’s shares tumbled 17.2 points or 0.36 percent, to 4,403.20.

“In a world of global news, you can percent. The S&P 500 financial sector gains. always find something that is not doing With the Dow and the S&P 500 index .SPSY fell 0.8 percent.

Portugal’s benchmark stock index well, whether it is political events in near record highs, the slide in Europe triggered by financial shares quickly .PSI20 fell 4.2 percent and Italy’s FTSE Iraq or banking in Portugal,” said Rick translated into broad selling on Wall MIB .FTMIB slid 1.9 percent. An Meckler, president of investment firm Street. The S&P 500 briefly lost 1 index of European bank shares .SX7P LibertyView Capital Management in percent, a daily drop the benchmark dropped 1.7 percent after earlier falling Jersey City, New Jersey.

“The real test will be the earnings as much as 3.1 percent. has not seen since April 10.

The Dow Jones industrial average and that will either give confidence Espirito Santo Financial Group, the

to people to come back in or make them realize the prices they have been paying are just too high.”

Some investors in Lumber Liquidators thought they were paying too much. Shares plunged 21.7 percent to $55.17 after the hardwood flooring retailer cut its earnings outlook.

Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by 2,103 to 860, for a 2.45-to1 ratio on the downside. On the Nasdaq, 1,992 issues fell and 628 rose for a 3.17to-1 ratio favoring decliners.

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Honda expands recall to nearly 1M vehicles

Honda is expanding a recall related to faulty air bags manufactured by Takata to 500,000 to 1 million automobiles. The recall is part of a federal probe into parts manufactured by Takata for Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Chrysler and Toyota.

The airbags have affected eight automobile manufacturers so far, many of them Japanese models, but some American as well. The number of Honda vehicles impacted may hit 3 million.

The recall now includes many U.S. states and territories including California, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,according to sources. In April 2013, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reportedly stated that the inflator in the airbag compartment could rupture with metal fragments that could seriously injure occupants of the vehicles.

2003-’05 Honda Accords, Civics, CR-Vs, Elements, Pilots, Acura MDX and 2005 Acura RLs and 2003-’04 Honda Odysseys will need replacement airbags. The faulty airbags are linked to six injuries and two deaths in 2009 from Honda vehicles. The NHTSA believes the propellant used for the inflators was not stored properly and possibly exposed to moisture. This reportedly made the propellant too powerful.

Another related recall will replace the driver’s front air bag.

2001-’07 Accords with four-cylinder engines; 2001-’02 Accords with V-6 engines; 2001-’05 Civics; 2002-’06 CR-Vs; 2003-’11 Elements; 2002’04 Odysseys; 2003-’07 Pilots; 2006 Ridgelines; 2003-’06 Acura MDXs and 2002-’03 Acura TLs and CLs are all part of that recall.

Dogs see us move in slow motion

Animals come in all shapes and sizes and now scientists have demonstrated how their form affects their perception of moving objects.

By studying a variety of animals, researchers have discovered that a creature’s body mass and metabolic rate dictates how it perceives the speed of a moving object - or person.

They found that a dog and housefly see movements more slowly than a human, while a rat and a cat see movement more quickly.

The scientists, from the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, said that speed perception depends on how fast an animal’s nervous system processes information in order to react to its environment.

To investigate, they showed 34 types of

vertebrates, including fish, birds, lizards and mammals, a flashing light.

If the light flashes fast enough, both humans and animals see it as a constant beam, Scientific American reported.

By measuring an animal’s brain activity, they examined the highest frequency that it saw the light flashing.

To animals that can see the light flashing at higher speeds, it is as if movements and situations unfold more slowly, according to the study, published in the journal Animal Behaviour.

The team think that this is advantageous to animals that need to avoid obstacles or predators quickly.

For example, chipmunks and pigeons can see a light flash 100 times a second, while cats see it flash 55 times a second.

Animals that could see the light flash at high speeds were found to have faster

metabolisms, confirming the scientists’ hypothesis that the species that can see objects move at a higher frequency of flashes tend to be smaller.

A dog can take in visual information – and see a light flashing – 25 per cent faster than a human, and while this makes it seem that time moves more slowly for canines, it is not enough to mean that one dog year equates to seven human years, they added .

The study demonstrates that a mouse sees the world and experiences time in a very different way to an elephant, for example.

The connection between the perception of time and a creature’s body size and metabolism suggests that different nervous systems have evolved based upon a species’ environment and how they survive in the wild.

Scientist predicts humans will ingest information within 30 years

Slaving over textbooks and spending hours in a classroom conjugating verbs could be a thing of the past if one scientist’s predictions come true.

Nicholas Negroponte of MIT predicted the demise of the computer mouse back in the 1980s and now thinks that it could be just 30 years until we can ‘ingest’ languages.

The founder of MIT’s Media Lab and One Laptop per Child Association, said in a TED talk that we will be able to swallow pills to learn languages and works of literature in the future.

He said that humans are adept at consuming information through our eyes, but this method may be inefficient compared with other alternatives.

Addressing the TED audience in Vancouver, Canada, Negroponte said: ‘My prediction is that we’ll be able to ingest information.

Nicholas Negroponte (pictured) of MIT predicted the demise of the computer mouse back in the 1980s ‘You’re going to swallow a pill and and now thinks that it could be just 30 years until we can ‘ingest’ information by simply taking a pill. know English. You’re going to swallow a pill and know Shakespeare.’

‘And the way to do it is through the bloodstream. So once it’s [the information in the pill] in your bloodstream, it basically goes through and gets into the brain…and the different pieces get deposited in the right places.’

Negroponte said that he is not the only scientist to think such a feat of learning may be possible in the next 30 years.

Advocates for the blind are debating blind, has a hard time browsing jobs on add captions and other accessibility He claims that it is when people improvements to iTunes. Since then say he is ‘dead wrong’ that a prediction whether to use a carrot or a stick to professional networking site LinkedIn. “The app is insane. Buttons aren’t it has added more such features to might come true. persuade one of their oldest allies, Apple Inc, to close an emerging digital labeled. It’s difficult to navigate,” said its iPhone, iPod, iPad and Apple TV In the 1970s be adapted a truck Lyens. When it comes to social media products. divide in mobile technology. with cameras to create a map, a set-up Now, Apple and Google both have reminiscent of Google’s Street View.

As digital life increasingly moves to apps, new problems arise with every the world of smartphones and tablets, release, he said. “I get nervous every developer guidelines on how to make In his first TED talk in 1984, he features accessible, such as labeling predicted that we would stop using the some disabled people with visual, time I hit the update button.”

LinkedIn has hired an accessibility buttons that can be read by Apple’s mouse to control computers and instead hearing and other impairments are chief, Jennison Asuncion, who himself is VoiceOver software. feeling more left out than ever. use our fingers - essentially predicting But they don’t require accessibility, touch screens which are ubiquitous on As baby boomers retire and age, blind, and says it is working to improve in contrast to other strictly enforced today’s smartphones and tablets. the number of people needing help is the app. rules, such as a ban on apps that multiplying. Many disabled advocates He said: ‘We picked fingers because present crude or objectionable content. everybody thought it was ridiculous. believe federal law requires that apps Apple feeling the heat Nor do they offer an accessibility rating They were low-resolution, there was be accessible, but courts have not ruled on the issue. Few disabled want to risk Still, advocates of the disabled want system, which some disabled advocates concern that the hand would occlude alienating Apple, considered a friend, the problem solved by the company at say would be a big help. what you want to see and that the finger That is where the new debate starts: would get the screen dirty.’ by fighting it. the center of the app world – Apple.

Mobile apps that work well can Rival Google Inc, whose Android should the blind return to court for ‘One of the things about ageing is transform a blind person’s life, reading operating system drives more phones protection they believe is guaranteed that I can tell you with great confidence email on the go or speaking directions than Apple, is also under pressure, but by law, or nudge their old ally to that I’ve been to the future. to a new restaurant. Some young blind as the creator of the modern smartphone work harder? Should they pursue app ‘I’ve been there actually many times. people no longer feel the need to learn and a long-time champion for the blind, makers, as some lawyers have, or How many times in my life have I said, Apple and Google?

Braille to read with their fingers, when Apple is feeling the most heat.

“In 10 years this will happen” … and Attorney Daniel Goldstein, who then 10 years comes’ and the prediction Siri and other computer voices can do Apple hasn’t been a steady champion. the reading instead. Captions on videos In 2008, the National Federation of the brought the suit against Apple in 2008 comes true. and special hearing aids bring hearing Blind sent a demand letter to Apple as counsel for the National Federation In 1995, he said that we would buy impaired into the digital fold. even as the Massachusetts attorney of the Blind, said the 2008 action could books and newspapers online and read But when apps don’t work, life can general began an investigation into provide a model for a suit focused them on screens, so his latest prediction grind to a stop. Jonathan Lyens, a San the accessibility of iTunes. Apple on apps, but the Federation says no might not be as far fetched as it sounds Francisco city employee, who is legally eventually agreed to pay $250,000 and lawsuit is being considered. today.

Advocates for blind, deaf want more from Apple

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TCIFA’S WFL lauds players on graduating high school!

The Turks & Caicos Islands Women’s Football League (WFL) extends a hearty congratulations to the graduating class of 2014 and in particular - its players: Christma Jean Louis, Melissa Jean Guy, Brittney Bien-Aime, Willandra Elliott and Alyssa Laing.

Christma graduates as the Valedictorian of her Alma Mata the Clement Howell High School (CHHS), proving that sports and education share a special marriage through dedication, discipline and hard work. In addition to the many subject awards won, coupled with the Caicos Express Airways Most Outstanding Student and the 2014 ARB Foundation’s Resilience Award –

Christma is well on her way towards continued academic excellence. On the football pitch she is a level headed and consistent midfielder, and is a Turks & Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) assistant referee.

Miss Jean Guy, also a graduate of the CHHS, departs the institution as its Salutatorian. Melissa is also the recipient of numerous subject placement awards together with the Commitment to Excellence Award. An impressive defender, Melissa is also a TCIFA assistant referee.

Brittney Bien-Aime’s Alma Mata is the British West Indies Collegiate (BWIC), where she captured the Most Improved Student Award for 2014.

No stranger to the public, Brittney has consistently been sought after by several international modeling agencies, in particular Next Model Management and Wilhelmina Models.

On the football field, Bien-Aime holds the position as both a striker and a mid fielder. What is more, Brittney is also a committed youth coach with the TCIFA. Also graduating from BWIC is Alyssa Laing. There, Laing was a graduate of the IGCSE course of study and has received the notable award of 2014 Female Athlete of the Year. Alyssa’s athletic abilities extend beyond being a great defender on the pitch and ventures into another sport:

hockey. Laing is also a TCIFA youth coach.

Wilandra Elliott, whose name is synonymous with her Alma Mata the Wesley Methodist High School, has captured the 2014 Principals Cup Award, that along with Junior Minister of Tourism 2012/2013 and Best Speaker of the National Aids Debate 2013/2014. On the pitch, Wilandra is both a midfielder and a defender.

What is more, Miss Elliott is also an assistant referee with the TCIFA. The WFL encourages all of its players in their educational endeavors, as it believes in not only developing the player for the football field, but also developing the person for life.

U-20 boys soccer team travel to Haiti to compete in WC qualifiers

The Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) Under-20 Soccer Team are to travel to Haiti from July19th – 23rd to compete in the Boys U-20 World Cup Qualifiers, consisting of three games against Haiti, Saint Lucia and Suriname. All games will be held at the Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Until 2005, the FIFA U-20 World Cup was known as the FIFA World Youth Championship. The Cup is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 20 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association – FIFA. The Championship is held every two years since the first tournament was held in Tunisia in 1977.

“The main goal for us is that this group gets as much preparation and development, playing tournament football as possible. It’s the same for all of our Youth National Teams – down to the U-15’s, because as a development programme, our goal is to train and develop players within the concept that we at the TCIFA are trying to teach not only for our National Teams, but also the club teams,” said TCIFA’s Technical Director Craig Harrington.

He added that the average age of the group is 15.8, which is very encouraging for the future, as 15 of the players will be eligible to play again in the U-20 cycle in two years time.

Moreover, he noted that this group would not be judged on wins and losses; but can they play more attractive football, and for the players to have more confidence in a certain style that the TCIFA have started to implement.

“It is important that each player, in every position, is comfortable in playing that type of style: more possession, more build-up out of the back, more attacking. Making everybody more aware of the type of football that we want each player to learn and play within the style that the Association wants,” Harrington said.

The U-20 Boys squad, lead by Head Coach Dane Richie consists of 16 players. The players are as follows James Lee Louis, Mackenson Cadet, Adner Davilmar, Jepthe Francious, Jose Elcius, Fred Dorvil, Ras Diamond, Wilkins Sylvain, Gilbert Tellus, Jeff Beljour, Idlin Belony, Wilnardo Cenaria, Patrick Slattery, Steve Santana, Windy Joseph and Myron Pierrea.

The winning team: KB Home

Beaches succumbs to KB Home Despite a sparkling century by batsman Anthony McKnight, Beaches succumb to KB Home as the TCICA T20 competition continued on Saturday, May 24th, 2014 at the Downtown Ballpark.

KB Home won the toss and elected to bat first and scored a total of 203 runs for 7 wickets from 20 overs.

Top scorers were Blair Mason with quick 54 (4x4, 5x6) and Mark Butler added 32 runs (5x4). Bowling for Beaches, Sidhue Hunter took 3 wickets for 36 runs from 4 overs.

In reply, Beaches reached 180 runs for 8 wickets from 20 overs. Anthony McKnight was the top scorer with 101 runs (15x4, 4x6) and Darnel Lewis made 22 runs.

Bowling for KB Home, Mark Butler claimed 3 wickets for 20 runs from 3 overs and Blair Mason and Man of the Match: Blair Mason Ranald Schultz took 2 wickets a piece.

Kishco arrest Police during Sunday’s match

Man of the Match: Jitu Ganglani

Meanwhile on Sunday as the competition continued at the same venue, Kishco defeated the lawmen.

Batting first after winning the toss, police scored 160 runs for 7 wickets from 20 overs. Chabbie Charley was the top scorer with 39 runs (4x4, 2x6) and Garvin Bruno contributed 28 runs.

Bowling for Kishco, Sanjay Fatnani snatched 4 wickets for

40 runs from 4 overs and Pawan Kumar chipped in with 2 wickets.

When Kishco batted they reached 161 runs for the loss of 4 wickets from 16.4 overs.

Jitu Ganglani scored unbeaten 52 runs (7x4) and Vinod Panekar made 30 runs (3x4,1x6).

Bowling for Police Jerry Grant took 3 wickets for 21 runs from 3 overs.

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Trinidad to settle players 2006 FIFA World Cup pay dispute PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, – Trinidad and Tobago’s government says it will settle the outstanding US$1.3 million owed to 13 members of the 2006 World Cup squad, bringing an end to the long-running dispute between the players and the national football federation.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said that while government was under no obligation to settle the impasse, it was mindful of the “long and protracted legal battles waged by these football heroes of ours” and also aware of the fact the national federation was

not in a position to pay.

“On the eve of the FIFA World Cup 2014 I think it is appropriate that we honour these players and settle their long outstanding battle for the payments due them,” Persaud-Bissessar told a media conference.

“Let us move beyond the grievances and rekindle the spirit of togetherness and patriotism engendered by such a historic moment.

She continued: “As we gather to witness the excitement of the World Cup semi-finals and finals we can celebrate our own time knowing

there are only pleasant memories and acknowledged heroes.”

The members of the squad argued they were never paid all the monies owed them coming out of the historic 2006 campaign in Germany, and sued the national federation. They gained a judgment in their favour for US$3 million but were only paid US$1.7 million of the amount.

Former national player Brent Sancho, a member of that aggrieved World Cup squad, said he was “overwhelmed” by government’s decision to settle the outstanding amount.

Simpson, Powell await appeal decision from CAS

The wait has started for former Commonwealth Games sprint champions Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson after presenting their appeals against an 18-month ban before the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) held in New York on Monday and Tuesday.

Powell, also the former men’s 100m world record holder, and Simpson had appealed against the ban handed down by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (JADDP) in early April, saying it was excessive and that they are asking CAS to reduce it to three months.

Both tested positive for the banned stimulant Oxilofrine at last year’s JAAA National Senior Championships in June and had blamed Canadian trainer Chris Xureb — who had been hired by their agent Paul Doyle — for giving it to them in a tainted supplement.

A release from Powell’s publicist Tara PlayfairScott yesterday said the two had completed their appeal hearings and were “more than satisfied with the process and patiently await the CAS panel’s decision”.

The release also dismissed earlier reports that the athletes were freed of the doping charges.

“Any reports of the athletes’ previous sanction being overturned by CAS are premature and in fact unofficial,” the release added.

Meanwhile, a provisional lifting of the ban by CAS

Sherone Simpson and Asafa Powell anxiously await the outcome of the CAS appeal. on June 18 that allowed the athletes to compete is still in effect, the release stated, and Simpson, who used the opportunity to compete at the JAAA National Senior Championships ,will race in Belgium this Saturday in the 100m and 200m events.

Powell pulled out of the National Senior Championships and an IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris last weekend.

Honours shared at Bushy Park in Barbados

BUSHY PARK, Barbados – Host nation Barbados shared the honours with Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago at the opening round of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) 2014/15 at the weekend (July 5/6). Guyana’s Kristian Jeffrey claimed a clean sweep in the three CMRC Group 4 races and Jamaica’s Kyle Gregg won two Group 2 encounters, but it was Barbados leading the Country Championship standings at close of play.

A record 27 regional competitors participated in the Digicel Williams International Race Meet, the first staged at the redeveloped Bushy Park Circuit.

The largest contingent came from Guyana, the only country to field riders in the CMRC Superbike Championship, with Nikhil Seereeram and Stephen Vieira claiming a win apiece.

After testing on Thursday and Friday, teams got down to serious business on Saturday with qualifying for all classes on the 24-race programme.

Roger Mayers, CMRC Champion in 2011, claimed pole position for the home team in his Ford Focus, nine-tenths quicker than reigning champion Doug Gore of Jamaica (Audi TT-RS DTM); Guyana’s Mark Vieira (Mazda RX-8) and Kevin Jeffrey (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII) lined up on row two, with locals Barry Mayers (Suzuki SX4) and Stuart Williams (Lotus Elise) on row three.

Saturday’s race programme was cut short after a number of incidents caused delays, the scheduled CMRC races moved to Sunday morning. As the 14 Group 4 cars set off on their first formation lap, however, the engine of Jeffrey’s Evo blew, causing a small under-bonnet fire and a further delay; he played no further part in proceedings.

An incident at the Ws Hairpin at the start of the lap two resulted in early retirement for pole-man Mayers, with a broken wheel on the Focus, then Gore took time to re-start after a spin on the following tour; Vieira seized the initiative, leading until lap five, when he coasted to a halt on the exit of The Bullet, handing the lead to Kristian Jeffrey (Evo IX), who had started on the last row of the grid after issues in qualifying.

Jeffrey claimed a memorable victory in his first serious outing in the car, consolation for father Kevin, by now watching from the Automotive Art Pits Complex. Mark Maloney (RX-3), who also started at the back of the grid, was second, with Williams and Barry Mayers third and fourth. Jamaica’s Peter Rae (RX-7) finished fifth, with Guyana’s Vishok Persaud (Subaru Impreza STi) sixth and Gore seventh and last. Trinidad’s only CMRC Group 4 runner was Kristian Boodoosingh (Evo 6.5), who had qualified seventh, but retired mid-way through the first race, not to be seen again.

Kirani James leads 16-member Grenada team to Commonwealth Games

Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani James.

James has won titles in most of Kurt Felix and Lindon Victor in the ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani the major championships including Decathlon.

Kanika Beckles is the lone female James will lead a Grenada contingent CARIFTA Games, Pan American to the 2014 Commonwealth Games Junior Championships, World Youth, track athlete and she will compete in in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 to World Junior, Commonwealth Youth the 200 and 400 metres.

The team also included two boxers Games, World Championships and August 3.

– Imrod Bartholomew (middleweight) James is included in a 16-member Olympic Games.

His target in Glasgow will be Iwan and Jonathan Francois (welterweight) team which will participate in three sporting disciplines – Athletics, Thomas’ 1998 400m Games record of and four swimmers – Oreoluwa Cherebin, Andrew Hopkin, Corey Boxing and Swimming – announced 44.52.

James will be joined by fellow Ollivierre and Chris Regis. by the Grenada Olympic Committee.

Grenada’s lone Commonwealth The Grenadian quarter-miler quarter-milers Bralon Taplin, Rondell holds the Commonwealth Youth Bartholomew and Payton Hazzard; Games medal is silver won by Alleyne Games’ record of 46.66 set in Pune, Joel Redhead, Paul Williams and Francique in the men’s 400 at the Michael Wilson in the sprints and 2006 Games in Melbourne, Australia.

India in 2008.

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Germany beats Argentina 1-0 to win World Cup

RIO DE JANEIRO – It had more twists and turns – and almost as much blood – as a heavyweight title fight. But when the knockout blow finally came it was delivered by one of the smallest players on the field, with second-half substitute Mario Goetze scoring in the second overtime to give Germany its long-sought World Cup title with a 1-0 win over Argentina on Sunday.

The play started with another substitute, Andre Schuerrle, making a long run up the left side, pulling up and delivering a perfect cross to Goetze deep in the penalty area. Goetze, who had slipped between down defenders chested the ball down, then volleyed it out of the air with his left foot.

And with that goal, Germany’s misery came to an end: In each of the last four World Cups it had made the semifinal. But until Sunday it had gone 24 years without a title.

For Argentina and Lionel Messi, the nightmare goes on. Argentina’s drought is even longer than Germany, stretching back to 1986 while Messi, arguably the world’s best player, is also the best player without a world championship.

Anyone who thought this would be easy was mistaken. This World Cup final was proof that opposites attract.

Germany hadn’t been shutout in the tournament. Argentina had scored just once in regulation time since the group stage.

Floyd Mayweather will meet Argentina’s Marcos Maidana in a rematch at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in September.

Mayweather announces Maidana rematch in September

Floyd Mayweather has confirmed he will face Argentina’s Marcos Maidana in a rematch on 13 September at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Mayweather made the announcement via a mobile phone app before adding more details on Twitter. The fight is expected to be promoted by Golden Boy despite the recent resignation of former CEO Richard Schaefer.

Mayweather’s last nine fights have been at the MGM Grand. He won the first bout against Maidana on points in May and will be going for a 47th victory against the 30-year-old South American.

Lebron James

Germany celebrating their victory.

Germany had scored 17 goals in this World Cup, seven of them in its semifinal. Argentina hadn’t allowed a goal in 3 1/2 games before Sunday.

This game was much about determining who had the superior style as it was about determining who had the superior team. So both teams played cautiously most of the night, hoping to avoid mistakes rather than trying to force them.

Meanwhile Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli struggled to keep control of game that was growing increasingly chippy as it wore on.

But if the second half had been plodding, the overtime opened quickly

with Schuerrle – who has three goals in this World Cup despite limited playing time – surprising Argentine keeper Sergio Romero with a solid shot from about 15 yards. But Romero didn’t flinch, pushing the shot away.

Then it was Argentina’s turn with second-half substitute Rodrigo Palacio flipping a soft right-footed shot over onrushing German keeper Manuel Neuer, only to have it miss the net.

Messi got perhaps his best chance to be a hero seconds into the second half. But his wide-open shot from the left wing – which beat German keeper Manuel Neuer – missed the far post by a couple of feet.

Luis Suárez’s four-month biting ban upheld after Fifa rejects appeal Fifa has rejected an appeal by Luis Suárez and the Uruguay Football Federation against his four-month ban from all football activities for biting an opponent.

The appeal was lodged against the sanctions imposed on the Liverpool striker by Fifa’s disciplinary committee for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini. They included a nine-match international ban plus a 100,000 Swiss franc fine (£66,000).

Fifa’s head of media Delia Fischer told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro: “The Fifa appeal committee has decided to reject the appeals lodged by both the Uruguayan player Luis Suárez and the Uruguayan FA, and to confirm the decision rendered by the Fifa disciplinary committee on 25 June 2014 in its entirety.

“The terms of the decision taken by the Fifa appeal committee were communicated to the player and the Uruguayan FA today.”

Both the player and the AUF can make a further appeal to the court of

arbitration for sport.

Fischer added: “The relevant decision is not yet final and binding, ie. an appeal to the court of arbitration for sport is still possible by the player and/or the Uruguayan FA, subject to certain conditions.”

The disciplinary committee’s initial decision took into account there had been no remorse from Suárez, and the fact it was the third time he had been involved in biting an opponent.

After lodging his appeal, Suárez did then issue a formal apology to Chiellini and vowed never to bite anyone again. The player was sent home from the World Cup in disgrace and faces being out of club football until the end of October, during which time he will not be allowed to train with a club.

Fifa has confirmed that the ban will not stand in the way of any transfer to Barcelona, who are close to agreeing a deal with Liverpool, nor of Suárez having a medical at a prospective new club.

LeBron James only takes 2 year contract with Cavaliers With an eye toward maximizing the future of the salary cap, LeBron James finalized his contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday.

James signed a two-year, $42.1 million deal, sources familiar with the process told ESPN.com, with the goal of re-signing with the Cavs before the 2016-17 season when a new television deal is expected to create a large jump in value of the maximum contract.

As part of the deal, James will have an option to become a free agent next summer but is fully committed to the Cavs long term, sources said.

Cleveland officially announced Saturday that James had signed with the team, but did not provide any terms of the contract in a release, citing league policy.

“We could not be happier to welcome LeBron James home,” Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said in a statement Saturday. “Yesterday, LeBron, through his essay, told us he wasn’t going anywhere except Cleveland and that ‘Cleveland is where he always believed he would finish his career.’ These words and commitment put all of us, including LeBron, in the best position to build our franchise the right way and achieve the kind of goals we all know are possible. Expectations will be at the highest levels but no one should expect immediate and automatic success.

“We can’t wait to get started and look forward to his leadership, on and off the court, for many years to come.”

Depending on how the new television contracts are put together, the salary cap is projected to leap to as high as $80 million in 2016. There is also uncertainty with the current collective bargaining agreement starting in 2017, another reason James wanted to keep his long-term options open when it comes to the structure of his contract.

James’ off-court earnings, which top $40 million per year according to some estimates, allow for him to take some short-term risk to maximize long-term earnings.

James has earned $129 million over his 11-year career but has only earned the max salary three times during that span.

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Two female fans hide their tears.

David Luiz is consoled by a member of the backroom staff.

A tear falls down a woman’s cheek.

A young fan begins to cry.

Brazil fans watching the match unfold on a big screen on Copacabana beach.

Brazil deeply scarred after Germany defeat

Brazil’s sports minister, Aldo Rebelo, has acknowledged that his country’s 7-1 loss to Germany would leave a “deep scar” on the nation’s football psyche but said it could not be compared to the 1950Maracanazo.

Rebelo, who was a key driver behind a congressional inquiry into the Brazilian Football Confederation and the way the game is run in 2001, called for an overhaul of facilities and coaching to improve the development of young players.

Although the heavy defeat would leave a lasting mark on Brazilian football, he said it should act as the catalyst for a wide-ranging overhaul of domestic football so fewer players left for Europe at a young age.

Even in the under-15 side, many Brazilian players were already based abroad, he said.

“It will be a deep scar for our football. But the best attitude we should adopt is to analyse the root causes and long lasting causes of that disaster,” said Rebelo. “Learn the lessons, try to correct them and overcome these

Brazil’s coach Luiz Felipe Scolari and his team huddle together following defeat.

failings so this doesn’t happen again. So that Brazil can have a national squad with the status it should have in world football.”

Brazil’s domestic league has supplied the four most recent winners of the Copa Libertadores but has been scarred by hooliganism, falling attendances and the ongoing exodus of young players to Europe.

Last season, players conducted a series of protests under the banner of the Bom Senso FC (Common Sense) movement, calling for a reorganisation of the congested and confusing fixture calendar.

“We are discussing special legislation with the clubs to make their management more modern, taking on more responsibilities and commitment in terms of financial accountability and in terms of the calendar and the respect of the players,” said Rebelo. “We are already quite advanced in this. This effort should be done regardless of our defeat to Germany.”

He said that Brazil had to stop exporting its national

talent at such a young age, with players only tending to return from Europe at the end of their careers.

“We should also do the utmost to increase the quality of the management of our clubs. Many critics have mentioned that we have problems that have to be faced,” he said. “We export prime material and import finished products in terms of football. We export our star players, not only those playing but those being prepared.”

Rebelo said the new legislation and the new training grounds built for the World Cup would help Brazil retain more homegrown talent.

“Our legislation makes it easy to export players abroad.

We have the power in the hands of the entrepreneurs, the Europeans. They are experts in football services,” he said. “We export the raw material. It is easy to do because you package it and you send it. For football services you have to add management and infrastructure that we don’t have.”

An emotional Brazil fan appears to eat his shirt after seeing his side defeated.

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Police officers take action to keep order after violence kicks off after the match.

A woman holds her hand up to her face as she watches the game.

A young fan begins to cry.

Another supporter struggles to hold back tears.

Germany fans embrace and can’t help but smile.

Vandals set a bus on fire after the match.

Neymar advertising the fizzy drink 7UP also got full treatment.

Germany fans at the Brandenburg Gate reacts as their side scores.

Germany supporters in Fan Mile in Berlin celebrate.

Christ the Redeemer has been photoshopped to dreate some of the most entertaining virals.

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