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Appeals Court acquits four of RBC robbery
By Vivian Tyson The Turks and Caicos Islands Court of Appeal overturned the sentences of Bernard Coalbrooke, Daniel Been, Odessa Williams and Darrison Nash, who were convicted for the January 13, 2012, Royal Bank of Canada gun robbery and attempted murder on one of their clients. The Appellate Court, comprising President Edward Zacca, QC, Elliot Mottley, QC and Ian Forte, QC, made the ruling on Monday (January 12, 2015). Coalbrooke was sentenced to eight years for robbery and seven years for attempted murder with the sentences to run concurrently; Been, Nash and Williams were each sentenced to seven years for attempted murder and six years for robbery. They, too, had their sentences running concurrently. A seven member mixed jury, comprising four men and three women, on February 20, 2013 found them guilty. Investigators charged them for robbing Dwain Fulford of $75,000 in cash, which belonged to C.A.M Money Transfer. The hold-up men shot and injured Fulford in the process. Police charged on a joint enterprise basis, meaning that while all may not have been part of the physical hold-up, could have played what they described as a passive role. Lara Maroof of F Chambers acted for two of the Appellants, Darrison Nash and Bernard Colebrooke, while Keith
James of Stanfield Greene was acting to her during the trial. The judges said for the other two, Danny Been Junior there was no evidence that any of the and Odessa Williams. four men had actually participated in The case against all the men was the robbery or were even present at the based on the testimony of one witness, time the robbery took place. They said Danrick Smith. After he was arrested that although the circumstances were for the robbery, he told the police that ‘suspicious’ they fell far short of being he had dropped these four men at the sufficient for a safe conviction. side of RBC bank on the day of the The four men had spent a total of robbery. He said they were wearing all almost 3 years in prison, one year prior black and had back-pacs. He claimed to the trial on remand and almost two he knew no more than that. A robbery years awaiting this appeal. subsequently took place later that The prosecution at the time said afternoon in the foyer of the RBC bank that a motorist, who later became a where two males who were wearing witness, confessed to dropping four men masks, robbed the security guy who near the bank. However, throughout was delivering $75,000 cash. the trial the men maintained their There was CCTV of the men in the innocence, labeling their arrest and foyer. However, when Danrick Smith charge as victimization, since they watched the CCTV he said that these were nowhere near the scene. two men did not look like any of the They also complained that four he had dropped off. Danrick Smith investigators holed them up at Her was not charged but was treated as a Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk for one Prosecution witness. There was no year before charging them on February other supporting evidence. All four 1, 2013. of the Appellants were convicted after Attorney-at-Law Keith James of trial before a jury and Justice Joan StanfieldGreene law firm, who argued Joyner in March 2013. on Been and Williams’ behalf, told The appeal was finally heard almost The SUN that presiding judge Justice two years later (due to the backlog of Joan Joyner should not have sent the appeals and problems with obtaining matter to the jury in the first place, but transcripts). After hearing submissions instead dismissed it altogether, since it from all parties, the Judges ruled that was a weak case to begin with. all the convictions should be quashed James explained that no one and not guilty verdicts entered. identified his clients as the robbers, They stated that there was simply no gunpowder residue was lifted from insufficient evidence for these four their hands after police swabbing, and men to be convicted and therefore none of the fingerprints that police the Judge should have allowed the forensics gathered from the crime submissions of no case to answer made scene matched any of them.
He said that the prosecution at the time hinged their case on the account of the motorist who said he dropped the men near the bank sometime before the robbery occurred. “My argument was simple – onethat there was no nexus between where the witness said he dropped them off and them at the scene at the bank. Nobody ever put them at the scene at the bank. Secondly, the CCTV camera captured only two guys, and the main witness said that they were none of the guys that he dropped off. “He didn’t recognize them, they didn’t fit the description and there was no other evidence from the police linking them to the crime scene at all. No forensic, no fingerprint, no money was found, no incriminating evidence at all linking them to the crime. The only thing the Crown had was circumstantial evidence that the witness was saying that he dropped off four guys in the vicinity of the bank, and that was all the evidence. And approximately about hour after he dropped them off the bank was robbed. Nobody identified them at all. The only circumstantial evidence was that they were in the area just before the bank was robbed,” James noted. The attorney added: “My Submission was that there was not enough evidence for the judge to send the case to the jury. The decision of the jury to find them guilty was irrational because they hadn’t enough evidence before them to decide.”
Premiers eyes TCI as number one destination for private jets
The opening of Blue Heron Aviation FBO at the Providenciales International Airport and the impending relocation of the Provo Air Centre to a more futuristic home is most likely to reinforce Turks and Caicos Islands’ already mega jet center appeal amongst its regional counterparts, according to Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing. The premier who brought remarks at the opening of the Blue Heron Aviation FBO on Monday (January 12, 2014) told audience members that at current the Turks and Caicos Islands is ranked third in the Caribbean for private jet charters only to Nassau, Bahamas and St. Maarten. He said that the ranking released before the opening of Blue Heron Aviation, the overhauling of the Providenciales International Airport and certainly before the relocation of the Provo Air Centre, since that has not happened yet. The Providenciales International Airport, which completed its second extension phase, officially opened in late December 2014. “The Turks and Caicos is third for private flight charters in the Caribbean Region, number three only to Nassau and St.
Luxury private jets line off at local FBO Maarten, and this is before the reaching number one, and Islands.” opening of this facility, for the it will go well with our highGeneral Manager for Blue extension of the new Airport end luxury tourism market. Heron, Louis Jennings, said and also the opening of the And hopefully, with all of that the company’s employees other new refurbished FBO,” this combined, our tourism would be among the main he pointed. numbers, which has recently drawing card for the facility. He said that with the soared in the region of 25 He assured the premier that establishment of Blue Heron percent, will exceed 30 percent Blue Heron would work to and the reopening of the Provo increase in tourism arrivals make TCI the number one jet Air Center. in the next year and going on center in the region. “So I would hope and think from that.” “I can tell you that on my that with the establishment of “The facility is definitely part and the part of our staff, his facility, the opening of the one that is world-class, and Mr. Premier, we are going to airport and the new FBO that I congratulating you on do everything that we can, is coming on stream here in developing such a world-class to take this from number Turks and Caicos Islands will facility. And I would like to three to number one. This is see an even greater increase see it grow from strength to a service-based industry in in the number of arrivals from strength and I wish you all one of the world’s premier both private jets as well as the best. So on behalf of the luxury destinations. I think other commercial flights in government and the people of this building and our staff will the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, continue to invoke the sense of and that we will move to congratulations. I am looking luxury in the Turks and Caicos number one in the region in forward to the tourists that has become known for. terms of private charters and will visit these shores in this “I can tell you that it is not my jets coming into the Turks and particular facility, as well as face that our clients and the Caicos Islands,” he said. enjoying what we have to offer tourists see when they come He added: “I am sure that to enrich their experience in here, it is our staff. They are that is not beyond our reach, the Turks and Caicos here working tirelessly every
day, reaching out to that growing body of tourists and folks that are coming to Turks and Caicos; they are bringing money here, contributing to the economy,” he said. In the meantime, Michel Neutelings, one of the main forces behind the setting up of the facility, said that Blue Heron, which is a member of Signature Flight Support – the world’s largest fixed-base operation and distribution network for business aviation services – indicated that the opening of the jet center marks a new era in Fixed Based Operation in both the TCI and the region. “Signature Flight support’s Blue Heron Aviation FBO (phase one) was completed on time and to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, the current design allows for extensive future expansion of its facilities to enable it to continue to cater to the private aviation market, with opening of this facility and the recently completed Providenciales, International Airport expansion this means that the Turks and Caicos Islands now have the aviation infrastructure in place to ensure future investment and growth in the TCI,” he said.
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Planning Department approves Dolphin Cove Construction By Vivian Tyson The Physical Planning Board has approved the Dolphin Cove’s approximately $3million construction of a dolphin attraction on the Island of Grand Turk but requested that a number of stipulations be in place before sanctioning actual construction. Neil Burrowes, developer of the dolphin park, made the revelation during an interview with The SUN earlier this past week. “Planning gave us a document outlining all the steps we need to do to seek approval to build. There are about 15 points that Planning gave us that we have to work through before we get the building permit. We have our architect working through what needs to be done, so that we can get permission to build,” Burrowes said. Burrowes explained that local architect Oliver Stubbs is charged with the responsibility to develop the project. He noted that Stubbs is working closely with the Physical Planning Department to ensure that Dolphin Cove develops the project to its environmental and other specifications. He said that once Dolphin Cove proved that it has complied with all the steps, and if the Physical Planning Department gives its stamp of approval, the issuing of a permit to construct would follow. He said that after the construction of the facility the Physical Planning Department would do another inspection, and if approved, would then issue with an occupancy permit, thereby giving the green light for the facility to become operational. Burrowes explained that it should take maximum three months for the architect to address the Planning Department’s requested
building steps. “We have given him (Stubbs) a request to do as fast as he can. God’s willing, maybe two months, maybe three months,” Burrowes added. Stubbs, who confirmed that the Physical Planning Department has approved the construction of the aquatic attraction in principle, explained that he has been waiting on that bureaucratic entity to furnish him with the details on the steps so he could get his technical people cracking on the project. “They gave me the detailed development permission in principle, which means that we have approved the project. But I am still waiting for them to give me a terms of reference so that I can get my marine biologist and these other people to do a full EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) of the area. Burrowes, in the meantime, revealed that he has been itching for the Turks and Caicos Islands Dolphin Cove Project to commence since several jurisdictions in the region, which are moving to bolster their tourism product, have been luring a Dolphin Cove attraction, and is eager to complete this project before moving on. He also said he was pleased with the turnout of Grand Turk residents during a town hall meeting to pitch the project sometime ago. “I am excited. We are also pursuing other opportunities. We have the money, we have the dolphins, we have the people and we have other locations. There was such a big turnout of people looking for opportunity; so many cab drivers and taxi guys who could double and triple their income, but it is really unfortunate that it has taken so long,” Burrowes said. Dolphin Cove Developer Neil Burrowes
Clara Gardiner awarded an OBE in New Year’s Honours list
Mrs. Clara Gardiner, the Permanent Secretary of Border Control and Labour, received an OBE in Her Majesty The Queen’s New Year Honours this month. According to the Governor’s office, the Award was for Mrs Gardiner’s services to immigration issues in the Overseas Territories, and Turks and Caicos in particular. Speaking about the Award HE The Governor Peter Beckingham said: “ I was delighted to read in the New Year’s Awards that Clara Gardiner was honoured
with an OBE. I have seen a good deal of Clara’s work, not least when there have been the threats of illegal immigration from chartered sloops arriving in TCI. She is evidently a dedicated and resourceful member of the Public Service. Her Award is a tremendous recognition of the work that she, and many members of the Immigration service, do for Turks and Caicos.” The Minister of Border Control and Labour, The Hon Don Hue Gardiner, joined the Governor in welcoming this Award. The Minister
said: “I am thrilled that my Permanent Secretary has received this distinction . It is a great honour to her, the Department and TCI, and a mark of her hard work and perseverance in a challenging environment.” Mrs Gardiner will be invited later this year to Buckingham Palace to receive the Award from Her Majesty or another member of the Royal Family. The Governor and Jill Beckingham received a private Audience with Her Majesty The Queen last Clara Gardiner, PS Border Control and Labour December.
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Still no breakthrough in Kenley Walters’ murder By Vivian Tyson Investigators, at press time, were still not able to apprehend anyone in connection with the December 27, 2014 killing of Kenley Walters, who unknown assailants stabbed to death while partying at Club 2005 along the Five Cays road in Providenciales. A source close to the investigations said that the police have been relentless in their investigation, already interviewed a number of persons in the hope of getting a strong lead. But so far they have not been given strong enough leads to create a path to catch the murderers. The police are baffled that no one has decided to come forward to give information, considering that Walters, who was knifed to death by his attackers in a crowded nightclub, may have been murdered in front of dozens of partygoers. On Monday (January 5, 2015) the police, along with the dead man’s family, comprising his father Kenneth, older brother Kenrick and stepmother Lida, held a news conference at the police headquarters on Old Airport, Providenciales, to essentially call for witnesses to come forward. During the news conference, Clifford Ashton, Superintendent of Police in charge of the Criminal
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Kenley Walters Investigations Department (CID) help prevent crime, many of them urged the public not to allow Walter’s told the officers that they are no murder to go unpunished, and called ‘snitch’, which is word made famous on the scores of patrons at the club to by gangsters and drug dealers in the tell the police what they know. United States. We have made that The police source said that word and the practice popular in the investigators still believe that there Turks and Caicos Islands,” the police are witnesses to the murder but said source said. that the developing culture of silence, Kenley Walters’ older brother – largely adapted from North American Kenrick – described him during the gangsters and drug leaders, is news conference as “a good kid”, who he hampering their investigation. said did not deserve to die the way he “When police go to schools to did. The former TCIPS Comprehensive inform students about their duty to High School student was described
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Ministry of Health urged to ask tourists for assistance By Vivian Tyson An America citizen is urging the movers and shakers in the Ministry of Health to tap into the overly medically influential cadre of tourists who come here frequently and are willing to assist local causes if asked. The advice came from Lori MorrisHughes, who was addressing the graduation of 22 Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) at the St. Monica’s Anglican Church in Providenciales on Thursday, January 8, 2015. She told the room that there are a great deal of persons out there willing to donate if they are aware of Turks and Caicos Islands’ needs, but said those persons would have to be approached. Her plea is not an original call. Last year, Michael Goldberg and his wife Nancy, a Canadian couple who own a unit at the West Bay Club Resort in Providenciales, made similar suggestions after they rescued the Turks and Caicos Island National Primary School Spelling Bee competition, after Dr. Carlton Mills, former Minister of Education and Head of the Grace Bay Resorts Foundation approached them. It turned out that they are avid fans of the Annual Scripps Spelling Bee competition, which they ensured watching every year. Morris-Hughes, who has been living in the TCI for the past four years, provided a number of equipment pieces
Lori Morris-Hughes that the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) used to conduct its training course for the EMT graduates. She said that Delwin Ferguson, Director of the EMS, informed her of the priority needs and the wishes of that department. Straight away, MorrisHughes said that, due to her wide networking back home in the United States, was able to come up with most of the supplies needed for the local EMS department. “Ask and you shall receive, because we are going to bring in what you need. I am a resident on island. I have been here for four years now. You asked me to bring things; you can use some of the visitors and guests. You have a community out there of medical people who would donate, if they knew what your needs were. So tap into us, we can bring things in,” she beseeched. She said that individuals in the United States, when approached, were very willing to assist. “It was easy to go back home to the States and ask people to donate; what could they give me to bring to the islands. And I would have a list, I would meet with Mr. Ferguson, say, what equipment do you need, and he
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would give me a list of things that he needed emergently and what he wished for. “Back at home the internet would churn and I would ask people, this is what we need, can we get it?’ My friends and my family made good; they came forward with the equipment of whatever was asked for,” she said. Morris-Hughes said that the prearrangement with the local customs department made it much easier for the gifts to arrive in the TCI. “The easiest part was working with the customs to help it in easily. US Customs opened every single box we brought, itemize it all, searched it and then didn’t wrap it up the same way we had brought it. They took everything apart. “But TCI Customs knew ahead of time that we were coming, it was a letter of clearance, and it was so easy to get it into the islands. So thank you for the corporation that allowed that to happen. We will continue to supply the equipment as needed, as long as we are asked to fulfill the needs,” she pledged. In the meantime, outgoing minister of health Hon. Porsha StubbsSmith, said that the ministry will begin to make full use of the willing medical professionals that come here as tourists, to assist in whatever way possible. Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing, who will have the Health Ministry move into his office, also attended the event.
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Chief Justice Ramsay-Hale explains why she doesn’t live in Grand Turk
Chief Justice Margaret RamsayHale says it’s more practical for her to reside in Providenciales instead of the island capital of Grand Turk. Addressing the recent opening of the Supreme Court, the country’s first female Chief Justice admitted that questions have been raised as to why, as Chief Justice, she does not reside in Grand Turk as former Chief Justices have done. She explained: “I am the civil and commercial Judge and because most of the civil work is generated in Providenciales, I preside here. This is, as I have discovered from Sir Richard Ground’s Review, in keeping with a long-standing tradition that the Chief justice would sit in Providenciales to hear civil causes for the same reason that much of the civil work is generated in Providenciales.” She added: “The demands of the civil and commercial Bar have grown exponentially since 2001 when there were 131 civil cases filed including divorce matters in contrast to the now 272 cases generating, as I have said over 400 hearings, in 2014. Given the demands of the work, I made
Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Margaret Ramsay-Hale the decision after consulting with the former Chief Justice and the Governor that I would reside here on Providenciales.” Chief Justice Ramsay-Hale said she wanted to “assure the traditionalists” that she will continue to split her time between the two islands as she has done since taking office. She said it is intended that the Judges of the Supreme Court
will also preside over criminal trials in Grand Turk as and when required. “We are of the view that in order to save costs and rationalise the system, Providenciales cases should be tried in Providenciales and Grand Turk cases, in Grand Turk,” RamsayHale added. “Before I took office, Providenciales cases were tried in Grand Turk incurring extra expense
for all parties for no other reason than that was where the Chief Justice sat. Of course, a peculiar difficulty arises where the witnesses are all in Providenciales and the Defendant is in Prison in Grand Turk. Currently, we are transporting prisoners on public aircraft back and forth daily, as there is no provision for those persons to remain in Providenciales until their trial is concluded.” The Chief Justice said a case that comes readily to mind is a 2 defendant murder trial which lasted some 4 weeks, noting that travelling on public aircraft is an obvious security risk and additionally it is an enormous financial burden to the State, therefore a solution must be found. “I have had an informal discussion with the responsible Minister Hon. DonHue Gardiner who has informed me that the matter is under consideration and we look forward to an early resolution of the question of housing prisoners here on Providenciales for the duration of their trials,” the Chief Justice added.
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JW Marriot brand still on the cards for TCI
Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing Marriot was still interested on the already indicated to Government said Government bureaucratic are projected Grace Bay development officials that it intend to switch still in talks with the JW Marriot or another location. from the JW Marriott brand to brand, even after reports have He said that talks on the new Ritz-Carlton, in a move that will surfaced that Desarrollos Hotelco development – Cooper Jack Hills – delay construction of what has been Turks and Caicos, the developer of is very positive, declaring that more regarded as the most significant the a multi-story resort in Grace will be revealed on the venture as and expensive hotel development Bay, Providenciales had dumped soon as more progress between in the history of the Turks and JW Marriot for another luxury government and the investors is Caicos Islands. brand Ritz Carlton. made. Parool K. Shah, Ritz-Carlton’s Premier Ewing made the “We even have new Director of Public Relations for the revelation while addressing a news developments coming on stream Americas, confirmed last summer conference last Thursday (January such as the Cooper Jack Hills that the brand was due to operate 8, 2015) at the Premier’s Office Development, which is a new a resort to be constructed on Grace located at the Hilly Ewing Building development that I don’t think we Bay. in Providenciales, to announce his have discussed before, but they are “I am delighted to confirm cabinet shuffle. also moving on stream,” the premier that The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Not only did the premier point said, adding that the Caonabo Company will indeed open a resort out that the Investment Unit is in Resort in Grand Turk, which is to in beautiful Turks and Caicos’ talks with the JW Marriot Brand, begin development early this year, Grace Bay as part of the global but he also announced a new is still on target. development pipeline, sometime development for the Cooper Jack Last year May, A source close after 2016,” she said. area of Providenciales. to the JW Marriot negotiations, In addition to 380 guest “We are still very much on track told The SUN that Ritz Carlton, rooms and suites, the original plan with that (Desarrollos Hotelco world-class luxury hotel brand, for the JW Marriott was to feature Turks and Caicos). The Investment was in advanced negotiations to a gourmet specialty restaurant; Unit is meeting with investments operate the high-rise hotel and a three-meal-a-day restaurant; a such as the JW Marriot Brand,” condominium project in Grace Bay, lobby bar and lounge; and a pool he said. “Third Turtle is still on replacing the much highlighted bar & grill; 1,300 square meters stream, I met with them as early JW Marriott hotel and casino of meeting space, including a as the weekend past,” the premier development. ballroom. Also included was a 962 noted. This newspaper was informed square meter spa and fitness center, The Premier did not go into at the time that the Desarrollos a kids/teen club, three swimming details as to whether or not JW Hotelco Turks and Caicos had pools and a 901 square meter casino. Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing Career Opportunities:
Grace Bay Club is looking for candidates that have the requirements listed along with an outgoing professional manner. They love to work with different types of people, meet challenges with a positive attitude and live the standards of our organization. Their management style is one that balances a commitment to people and their development with business/financial accountability and delivers an exceptional guest experience
Director of Guest Experience
Job Overview: A member the management team responsible for the overall performance of the Personal Concierge (Butlers) staff and the operation of the concierge department; to include, but not limited to staffing, training, scheduling, ensuring high guest satisfaction. Reports to: Executive Assistant Manager – Rooms.
Minimum Qualifications:
•Certification by a recognized Butler School •6 – 10 years experience in Butler Service •5 years experience in the hospitality industry, preferably as a Butler Manager International hospitality experience •Read, write and speak English (2 or more additional languages desired)
Essential Job Functions:
•Ensuring the complete satisfaction of all guests. •Ensuring that the staff of the Personal Concierge Department provides world class and personal service to all guests •Daily training through the Line-up process plus weekly/monthly training sessions with Personal Concierge and other staff members. Maintaining records of all training •Upholding the Grace Bay Resort’s Credo and culture •Coordinate and ensure smooth operations of all Guest Service areas •Build rapport with in-house guests •Utilize leadership skills, motivation techniques and experience in order to maximize employee productivity •Interact with all guests to ensure their satisfaction, to gather personal preferences •Conduct him/herself in manner reflecting the position as a department head and a senior leader of the Veranda management team •Update and maintain all Guest History Files
Belongers need only apply. Salary Range: Commensurate based on qualification and experience
Laundry Attendant Job Requirements:
•Folds and places item in appropriate storage area. •Sorts torn and stained articles. Sorts dried articles according to type. •Loads articles into washer and adds specified amount of detergent, soap or other cleaning. •Operates laundry machinery such as washers, driers and ironers. •Lifts clean, wet articles from washer and places them successively into driers for measures time cycles. •Soaks contaminated articles and processes in de-staining cycle. •Iron and fold dried clothes and deploy to the designated rooms or areas. Belongers need only apply. Salary Range: Commensurate based on qualification and experience Interested persons can contact our Human Resources Department no later than January 28th 2015 @ (649) 946-5050 Ext. 1050 Email: humanresources@gracebayclub.com Fax: (649) 946-5758 P.O. Box 128 Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, British West Indies
THE BEACH HOUSE is inviting
applications for the following position:
Cook
Reporting to the Executive Sous Chef, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following: •Must be knowledgeable of food preparation and presentation methods, •Ability to understand sanitary food handling techniques •Knowledgeable of the safe operation of kitchen equipment •Ability to increase staff awareness of proper personal and food hygiene poli cies and procedures as well as the safe operation of all kitchen equipment •Direct hands on preparation •Daily recording and monitoring of the kitchen’s inventory •Strong team leadership Good writing, reading, listening and computation skills are necessary •Exceptional communication, interpersonal and training skills are a must
Requirements: •Must possess a 3-4 star background •Minimum of 5 years’ experience in same or similar position •Diploma from a formal culinary institution is required •Knowledgeable in health and sanitation standards •Basic First Aid •Must be able to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends and holidays.
Salary for this position will commensurate with qualifications and experience. Please Submit Applications to:
cgibbons@wihl.com A copy should also be submitted to the TCI Labour Department. Submissions to be no later than January 9th 2015 Belongers need only apply.
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Apollonia Lavia, Hugh Green and D’Angelo Francis were successful in the Advance Emergency Medical Technician course. Minister for Health and Human Services, Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith and Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing share in the moment
Emergency Medical Services graduates local EMTs The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) graduated 22 Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) on Thursday (January 8, 2014). The graduation ceremony took place at the St. Monica’s Anglican Church in Providenciales. Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing and Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith, Minister for Health and Human Services attended the event, to show support to the graduates. It was said at the event that all of the graduates are locals. The following are photo highlights of the event.
Desiree Lewis (left), Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Human Services, presents an appreciation plaque to Blaine Lettice, one of the instructors for the EMS training progamme
Latricia Ingham, who was voted one of the top students, collects her award from Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing, while sharing in the moment Lori Morris-Hughes, a staunch support of the local health programme (left)
Lori Smith (left), a dedicated supporter of the local Emergency Medical Services programme, presents a trophy to top achieving student, Tammika Lall-Perry. Sharing in the occasion is Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing
David Smith (centre), the most improved student of the programme, shows off his award, shortly after collecting it from Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing. Sharing in the moment is Lori Morris Hughes (left)
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Renalde Charles (left) accepts her Medical Emergency Technician certificate from Minister for Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith
Ceapqez Vasquez accepts her certificate of achievement from Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith, Minister for Health and Human Services
Demario Brown is all smiles as he accepts his Emergency Medical Technician certificate from Minister of Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith. Sharing in the moment at left is Director of Health Services Nadia Astwood
Minister of Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha StubbsSmith (right) presents Eucal Delancy with his Emergency Medical Technician Certificate, while Dr. Nadia Astwood, Director of Medical Services, shares in the moment
Minister for Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha StubbsSmith presents the Emergency Medical Technician certificate to Ashley Hall, while sharing in the moment at right is Director for Medical Services Nadia Astwood
Franklyn Saintelmon collects his Emergency Medical Technician certificate from Minister of Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith (right). Looking on is Dr. Nadia Astwood, Director for Medical Services
Stevenson Mayham collects his EMT certificate of achievement from Minister for Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha StubbsSmith during the Emergency Medical Technicians graduation exercise. Also sharing in the moment are Dr. Nadia Astwood (left), Director of Health Services and Delwin Ferguson (at the lectern), Director for the Emergency Management Services (EMS)
Kyle Brooks (centre) accepts his EMT certificate of achievement from Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith, Minister of Health and Human Services, while Director for Medical Services, Dr. Nadia Astwood share in the moment
Christian Forbes (centre) accepts his EMT certificate from Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith, Minister for Health and Human Services during the graduation ceremony, while looking on at left is Director for Health Services Dr. Nadia Astwood
Ajahmek Fintz-Henley, one of the instructors of the EMS Training Programme, collects a plaque from Desiree Lewis, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Human Services
Michelle Stubbs is all smiles as she collects her EMT certificate of achievement from Minister of Health and Human Services Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith. Looking on at left is Director for Health Services Dr. Nadia Astwood (left)
EMT graduate Jean Tadeus accepts his certificate of achievement from Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith, Minister for Health and Human Services, while Dr. Nadia Astwood (left), Director of Health Services and Delwin Ferguson (at the lectern), Director for EMS, share in the moment
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New Fish Fry venue construction in budget
DIAMONDS INTERNATIONAL STORES GRAND TURK ARE RECRUITING SALES CLERKS/ASSOCIATES  Minimum 2 years sales experience Experience in jewelry sales Impeccable references and police clearance Impeccable English, other languages –advantage High level of customer service and customer attending skills Sales references-advantage JEWELER NEEDED WITH THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS Minimum 5 years experience in setting and sizing gold, silver and gems Tel: 649-946-1083 Fax: 649-946-1988 E-mail: kwatts@shopdi.com
PROCUREMENT CLERK WANTED Facilitation of purchase of vehicles and parts overseas (namely Japan). Process of purchasing and export documentation in a foreign country. Ability to source Vendors, price negotiation. Maintain manual and electronic documentation. Maintain an open communication between field personnel and suppliers regarding backorders, delivery dates and/or substitute product. Coordinating delivery and expedition of goods, ensuring goods are ordered and delivered in a timely and cost effective manner. Extensive knowledge of various Japanese vehicles and parts. Minimum of five years’ experience within automotive procurement department. Exposure to the mechanical, industrial and automotive industry an asset. Ability to work under pressure in order to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks within a fast-paced work environment. Strong negotiation, mathematical and analytical skills. Ability to communicate effectively, both written and oral. Solid research skills and commitment to continually learn about new products. Proficiency using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint). Must read, write and speak Japanese, possess valid passport with necessary travel visas (travelling to Japan). Part-time employment with Commission based salary.
Government will be looking to secure a budget for the construction of a new venue for the ultra-popular Thursday Fish Fry, which has attracted scores of tourists and local alike each week. The Thursday Fish Fry is currently housed at the at the Bight Park on Providenciales, which was the subject of controversy last year, when the Department of Environment and Maritime Affairs (DEMA) – the custodian of the venue – had served a letter of eviction to the Tourist Board, operators of the event. DEMA claimed the eviction notice was due to the Tourist Board conflicting with the original agreement such as the cleaning up of the location each night after an event is held; making sure that the amplified music does not affect residents in the area; and updated payment for usage of the venue. DEMA said in a letter to the Tourist Board that the Tourist Board was not holding up its end of the bargain, hence its decision to evict the event. After the Tourist Board/ DEMA faceoff, which precipitated
Green Flash Ltd.
Qualified applicants should forward cover letter and resume to: Paradise Auto Sales & Rentals, P.O. Box 908, 82 Cherokee Road, Providenciales. Resumes will be reviewed in the order they are received.
CLUB 2005
Casa Bendijo seeks
2 Kitchen Helper - $5.00 per hour 2 Cooks $6.00 per hour 2 Cleaners $5.00 per hour 2 Bartenders $6.00 per hour
Contact Willard Williams @241-5635
DOMESTIC WORKER & CAREGIVER
$5.50
6 days per week
Contact 244-3572
Dog Sitter/Domestic Worker
Needed
WITH 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE
One Office Cleaner Salary commensurate with experience Please submit resumes to P. O. Box 666, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
LAS BRASIS RESORT
Salary
per hour
Natures visions Ltd 232-2272 Landscape and Hardscape Supervisor
CPA
Is looking for
To work in a night club Must be able to work late night. Must have a clean police record.
Investment firm registered in the TCI seeks qualified
the intervention of the premier, who declared that the event would remain at the Bight Park, the Tourist Board began searching for a more suitable long-term venue. The premier, at the time, had responsibility for the Tourist Board. It eventually identified and settled on a piece of land located in the area of the Cultural Village, just outside the Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort Spa Key West Village and South of the former Smokey’s Restaurant. However, the Tourist had to go through a few legal hoops to acquire the land, since it needed to be transferred. It appeared though that construction would not take place until after the April Budget is passed, since the funds to construct it will be included in the package. “The venue for the Fish Fry is still there, and we will go ahead and put in, as part of our capital budget this year, for its development at the same location and develop it,” the premier announced. He said that the funds included in the budget for the creation of the Fish Fry venue, is to be used to develop the venue to host not only the popular event but also other happenings. “We will also be looking at major investment infrastructure for the Fish Fry plus for the various equipment that will be used to host things like the Fish Fry and other major events,” the premier said. Food and trinket vendors, as well as taxi operators benefit greatly from the Thursday Fish Fry, frequented by dozens of tourists each week. On many occasions, food vendors report inventory sold out. In addition to local music, the ever-popular Junkanoo band entertains patrons. The Fish Fry is also a place from which a number of Turks and Caicos Islands residents collect their Thursday dinner.
Post secondary degree or equivalent experience Must work in a luxury resort for a minimum of five years Work all shifts including weekends and holidays Starting salary $6.00 per hour Interested person should drop off resume to the Human Resource Office: attention Chef
With specialties in mergers and acquisitions together with an expertise in capital markets. To fill the capacity of CFO and financial advisor. The applicant must be expert in structuring and maintaining composite she balance sheets, must have graduate level writing skills and proficiency in Spanish and the temperament, interest and skill to provide instructive training. Qualified and interested applicants should apply with CVs by email to juricatus@gmail.com Attention: Gilbert Morris
IVAN FASHION & CLOTHING NEED A PURCHASING AGENT CASHIER
Contact # 649-231-6153
Must be able to work weekends and holidaysProvide their own vehicle for transportation to and from jobs Experienced supervisory skills a must Speak English and have knowledge of excel/Word and QuickBooks Ability to work with chemicals and fertilizer Job requires on site supervision of workers daily and use of machinery. Salary $3000.00 per month Send written resume to bnaturesvisions@gmail.com
DISHWASHER
Must be willing to work weekends & public holidays. Job includes washing pots as well as general cleaning duties. Pay is $6 per hour. Please send applications to: PO Box 782, Providenciales or email to magnoliaprovo@live.com BELONGERS ONLY NEED APPLY
To To work work 6 6 days days per per week week Salary Salary $6.00 $6.00 per per hour hour Must Must be be available available to to work work holidays holidays and and some some evenings. evenings. Must Must also also be be able able to to care care for for 2 2 dogs dogs including including walking walking them. them. Contact Contact 244-3572 244-3572
F CHAMBERS ATTORNEYS AT LAW IS SEEKING
A Senior Associate Attorney. Must have at least 10 years experience Salary commensurate with experience. Please submit resumes to P. O. Box 666, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
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Mike Misick’s new Lawyer complains of unfair and unequal treament The new lawyer for former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Michael Misick, has complained that the court system here is giving his client unfair and unequal treatment. On Monday January 12th, local attorney Beryn Duncanson, who has replaced British Queen’s Counsel Courtenay Griffiths who withdrew as Misick’s lead lawyer because of lack of funding, told the Court of Appeal (Edward Zacca, QC, Elliott Mottley, QC, and Ian Forte, QC), that outgoing Supreme Court Registrar David Chetwynd said he would only release funds for Misick’s lawyers after the corruption trial has concluded. The trial against Misick, some of his former colleagues and a few local lawyers, has not yet started because of various legal challenges and appeals. In a letter to Mr. Chetwynd dated January 9th, 2015, Duncanson wrote: “As you know, I am trying to organise legal representation for Mr. Misick on very short notice and the woefully and completely inadequate terms of legal aid. I note that earlier today again you repeated to me the same position as in our prior telephone discussion about these matters....You refuse to pay any brief fee upfront for any counsel to appear for Mr. Misick (until the end of trial, you say). I have been simply unable to find any proper senior counsel (juniors, let alone QC!) willing to accept instructions in this case
Former Premier Michael Misick without a significant brief fee payable upfront.” Duncanson added: “The level, and terms, of Legal Aid approved for the other nine co-defendants in the subject case were bad enough, but your decision to treat Mr. Misick’s Legal Aid differently in terms than those terms accorded at least to the other codefendants is manifestly unreasonable and prejudicial.” Duncanson noted that Legal Aid for
Misick was approved by Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale on December 3rd, 2014, but due to the “continued obstinate and unreasonable refusal” by Chetwynd to allow for proper upfront brief fees and fees commensurate with the Crown’s lawyers (such as Helen Garlick and Andrew Mitchell, QC,) it is impossible for him to brief senior counsel to attend. Several British and local defence lawyers who appeared in the case have been complaining about the tremendous difficulty they have had in dealing with Chetwynd regarding payment. If fact, one of the UK lawyers James Shepherd told the court last year that Chetwynd simply refused to communicate with the overseas lawyers. The Court of Appeal said the matter should be brought to the attention of Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale. Lawyers in the corruption case, which has cost the Turks and Caicos Islands, approximately US$11million a year over the past four years, have already complained to British and local authorities about the fees. In a document date May 24th, 2014, which was obtained by The SUN, 11 UK-based lawyers stated: “It is accordingly submitted that the quantum of remuneration of the legally aided defence teams is now wholly inadequate and requires an
urgent upward review. It should not be forgotten that UK lawyers have to pay income tax, significant chambers expenses and professional indemnity insurance. The brief fee is no longer proportionate given the more than doubling of the size of the Prosecution case. The expenses are wholly inadequate. They fail to provide any reasonable sum to compensate for the cost of accommodation, subsistence and car hire for the trial period.” The document was endorsed by Howard Godfrey, QC and Louise Oakley; Michael Turner, QC, and Roy Ledgister; Ann Cotcher, QC; Malcolm Bishop, QC ; Icah Peart QC and Stephen Akinsanye; Richard Bendall and Cairns Nelson, QC, and James Shepherd. Copied to Governor Peter Beckingham and Registrar of the Supreme Court David Chetwynd, it added: “It is feared that in the absence of an appropriate review of remuneration, some, at least, of the defendants will be left unrepresented. Leading and junior counsel from the UK cannot be expected to undertake lengthy pre - trial preparation and a long trial in the TCI without reasonable funding. The changed circumstances outlined above together with the level of accommodation and subsistence costs render the current level of remuneration uneconomic for defence attorneys.”
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 60900/287 Leeward Going Through, Providenciales. Property consists of a main house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room, living/dining room and a one bedroom, one bathroom guest house with kitchen, living/dining room on 0.36 acre. Registered Proprietor: Mark Andrew Knighton and Julie Margaret Knighton 2.Parcel 60002/139 Northwest and North Central, Providenciales. Single storey Priton home in Phase two with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, living/ dining room, kitchen and laundry room on approx.. 0.40 acre . Registered Proprietor: Lavardo Garland 3.Parcel 60804/45 The Bight and Thomas Stubbs, Providenciales. Single storey with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living/dining area, kitchen and laundry room on approx.. 0.40 acre. Registered Proprietor: Janet Smith 4.Parcel 60715/191 Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill, Providenciales. Single storey situated on Butterfly Close with two bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen, living/dining area, laundry on approx.. 0.56 acre. Registered Proprietor: Vienna Thomas
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 30th day of January 2015.
A reserve price will be fixed on all parcels. A deposit of 10% is due immediately upon all accepted bids.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants to fill the following position
Frozen / Dairy Stocker The essential duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following: •Open cartons and price items accurately and legibly; keep store management informed of pricing problems discrepancies •Stocks merchandise on shelf or storage areas following standard company procedures •Assist in receiving and unloading of merchandise as required to maintain sufficient levels of inventory •Checks and verifies merchandise receiving, count, quality and conditions are in compliance to standard company intake of stock procedures •Ensure that all merchandise are consistently rotated in accordance with store policy and product code dates to guarantee quality control •Must return all overstocked merchandise to the warehouse in an organized manner •Detail oriented •Ability to read and understand the English language •Basic math skills •Ability to work in an environment that maintain a 27 degrees Fahrenheit or lower temperature •Effective interpersonal skills •Ability to repetitively lift 50 + lbs •Will be required to work nights, long hours, weekends, and holidays
Salary rate is $7.00 per hr. Deadline for submission of applicants is January 18TH 2015 Submit to: Graceway IGA Supermarket main office complex or email: hr@gracewayiga.com Please Note: Only short-listed applicants will be contacted to attend interviews.
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Joseph Vixaille’s Auto Tech Auto-Body Repair and Service Center Officially Open
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Professional Certification for Government Human Resources Staff Four members of the TCI Government Human Resource Management Directorate (HRMD) are set to benefit from a professional development course funded by the Governor’s Office, Jubilee Fund. The four members of HRMD have had their membership of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) paid for by the Jubilee Fund. They will now complete online coursework and examinations in the Dominican Republic to achieve certified HR professional status. The four officers working towards their HR certified status are: Keisha Taylor, Karresa Gardiner, Catherine Ann Forbes and Cherice Boyce. The Governor’s Office in TCI manage the funds allocated to it by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For 2014/15, the Jubilee Fund budget allocation was £40,000 (around $60,000). The funds are being used to support a total of eight Government projects, of which HR enterprise is the first to be announced. The Fund aims to support the development of the highest professionals standards
Lilg Ministry, which owns Rhema Records, was in the Turks and Caicos Islands performing at a number of events, including a Youth Crusade in Providenciales on Friday (December 12, 2014) and interviewed by a number of media houses. The members - Vanrico Lilg Hanna, CEO for Rhema Records, and two of his protégés, Young Tuck and Young Heart, were also here to promote their respective albums. Hanna’s new album – Still I Rise – was released on January 1, 2015. Young Heart and Young Tuck already had their albums released are said to getting a great deal of rotation, especially in the Bahamas. Hanna said that ‘Still I Rise’, is an encapsulation of his life’s journey from
Government Human Resources Staff across the TCI Government to improve its efficiency and capacity. “Our staff are at the heart of everything in Government,” said Mark Greenway, Director of HRMD. “In addition to hiring and managing staff they are involved in payroll, monthly reports and
other matters to ensure the smooth running of Government. There will be real benefits to these individuals and to our organization in their working towards, and achieving, these internationally recognized professional qualifications.” Deputy Governor, and head of the civil service, Anya Williams, added, “This is a very important year for the civil service as it works to implement the organizational changes announced last week by the Premier in his Cabinet reshuffle, as well as other activities such as the long awaited pay and grading review. “Training and professional development remain a key objective for my office in 2015, so it is very good news that our human resources professionals, receive the highest quality support and development opportunities which this SHRM certification provides. I must thank the Governor’s Office and the Jubilee Fund for this practical support and look forward to seeing the other successful bids being announced in due course.”
Lilg Ministry climbs to higher level childhood to the current. “It is literally a project where I tell it all. I tell about my victories, I tell about my defeats, I tell about my weakness, I tell about my struggles, through the music,” he said. In addition to music, Hanna also penned a book on his life and also compiled an eight-video DVD to go along with the album. He said that the 20-track album has several collaborations with Stellar Award winners, as well as behind-the-scene professionals, who assisted on the project. Among those who worked on the project are Jimmy Thomas from Tempo and producer Paul Katalys of Jamaica. He said some of the tracks on the album had been released before,
but he chose to remix and rerelease them on the album. The official launch took place at the Galleria Cinema in Freeport, Bahamas, which took the form of a red carpet event, and which required attendees to wear red, black and white, Lilg’s Ministry’s colour form. Hanna said that since the album is so profound and well done, he expects great things from it. He said that the name of the album was inspired by late poet Maya Angelou. Gospel promoter, Cutella Talbot, who brought in Lilg Ministry to perform at a youth crusade in Providenciales, told The SUN that after upon inspired by God to host the event, she successfully got the Department of
Youth Affairs to buy into it.. She said that Lilg Ministry was perfect for the event, since not only does its members have a good rapport with young people, but are themselves young people also, plus they are versatile performers. Talbot, too, had a story that she is willing to tell anyone that would give a listen. She said that God stopped her in tracks when she was living for the devil, and with the assistance of a spiritual mentor, was able to really turn her life around, and now she is living for Christ. She said that her role now is to bring Christ to all and sundry, especially young people, who she said are most vulnerable to the works of the directive of the devil.
T&C Refreshments Ltd. Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Is.
Is seeking candidates for the position of
Merchandiser
FUNCTION To ensure that all Coca-Cola Brands are properly displayed and merchandised in the market place. TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • To execute scheduled visits to all listed accounts, ensuring that the account is properly merchandised and point of sales material is in place. •
Monitoring & Servicing all branded coolers, racks and displays, ensuring that products are stocked and priced correctly.
•
Organizing and setting up of all product sampling in the market.
•
Assisting with market surveys, documentation of findings and reporting of the same.
•
Preparing banners for display.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE • High School Diploma • A valid Driver’s License SKILLS • Good communication skills • Time management. If you are interested in a challenging career, that will bring out the best in you, in an environment that is ever changing and evolving, then, send your Resume, on or before January 30th, 2015 by email to HRAdmin@cbcbahamas.com
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Sandals Foundation releases video with Dwayne Wade
Miami Heat basketball superstar Dwayne Wade interacting with youngsters while he was in the Turks and Caicos Islands The Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), and Wade’s World Foundation, NBA Champion Dwyane Wade’s charitable organization, continue to raise awareness for their integrated sports program Game Changer, with the release of a spirited, cinematic public service announcement featuring 11 year old Enid Capron Student Michael Robinson along with several familiar local faces. Created to visually bring consciousness to benefit youth in underserved communities through sport, the PSA was produced by famed commercial and music video director, Gil Green and was shot entirely on location in Turks & Caicos, one of the seven Caribbean islands which the Sandals
Foundation supports with educational, community and environmental initiatives. With planned distribution via a variety of social media platforms as well as through both Foundations’ websites, the PSA also sheds light on the importance of improving both physical wellness and social conditions of the destinations that will be impacted by the goodwill of the ‘Game Changer’ program. Monies raised through the three-year iconic relationship between the two non-profits will provide underprivileged youth with access to planned sports, recreation, healthy lifestyle and family engagement. It will also provide for the upgrading and refurbishing of 11 multi-purpose sports courts in the Caribbean and South Florida. The PSA for the Game Changer
Program can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qmWDSTqykS0 “It was a natural fit to have Miami-bred, awardwinning music video, commercial and film director, Gil Green, produce our Foundation’s first ever PSA,” said Adam Stewart, President of the Sandals Foundation and CEO of Sandals Resorts International. “Gil’s uniquely creative, authentic and organic film style gave us just the edge we were looking for. Our intent was to capture the local feel of The Islands while also appealing to the heart-strings of viewers to drive them to get engaged and (hopefully) make a donation to this important cause” concluded Stewart. The Sandals Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International (SRI), the Caribbean’s leading family-owned resort company. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization was created to continue and to expand upon the charitable work that Sandals Resorts International has undertaken since its founding in 1981 to play a meaningful role in the lives of the communities where SRI operates throughout the Caribbean. The Sandals Foundation funds projects in three core areas: education, community and the environment. One hundred percent of the monies contributed by the general public to the Sandals Foundation go directly to programs benefiting the Caribbean community. About Wade’s World Foundation The mission of Wade’s World Foundation is to help inspire and provide support to communitybased organizations that promote education, health and social skills for kids in at-risk situations so they have the necessary tools they need to leave a positive footprint within their community and succeed in their life experiences. Since the foundation launched in 2003, Wade and his family have been committed to giving back in Chicago, South Florida and throughout the country.
PROVO WATER COMPANY LTD. Provo Water Company Ltd is seeking four (4) suitable applicants to fill the following positions.
POSITION: PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE ENGINEER
QUALIFICATION:
1.Must be a graduate of Civil or Mechanical Engineering with at least 5 years of continuous professional work experience under the same capacity. 2.Must have at least 2 year minimum experience in water line maintenance under a water utility company setting. 3.Knowledgeable on the principles of hydraulic engineering related to water supply and water distribution. 4.Well verse on engineering mathematics and economics. 5.Familiar with Construction methods, materials and equipment. 6.Knows how to apply the principles and methods of statistical analysis. 7.Must be computer literate.
JOB DESCRIPTION: The Preventive Maintenance Engineer plays a vital role in keeping the integrity and efficiency of PWC’s water distribution system. Application of scientific and methodological process in dealing with the existing line problem is the main concentration while subduing the new ones in occurrence before becoming PWC’s major concern. The responsibilities and tasks of the Preventive Maintenance Engineer may vary from role to role depending on the call of the situation. Under the technical setting, one must be flexible and must engage in multi-tasking to ensure immediate application of required corrective actions. Following is the PM Engineer’s job description which includes: •Applying knowledge of civil engineering under the preventive maintenance setting of a water distribution system which includes pipeline positioning, hydraulic analysis, structural design and control systems. •Development of preventive maintenance database, including data input, monitors, audits and maintains the accuracy of the PM data base system at all times. •Designing preventive maintenance strategies, procedures and application methods; •Planning and scheduling planned and unplanned maintenance work; •Carrying out quality inspections on the main distribution system and formulate technical recommendation for system’s enhancement; •Diagnosing breakdown problems in the distribution line and provide technical assistance for the application of corrective action; •Anticipating technical problems and developing solutions for recommendation at an early stage; •Arranging procurement requisition of needed fixtures, fittings or components for a specialized problem in the water main; •Communicates with preventive maintenance program vendor’s technical support staff regarding software upgrades, needed program modifications, and technical issues; •Maintaining infrastructure master plan and mapping database of all accomplished preventive maintenance task; •Oversees data input in CMMS and Asset Management software; •Provides technical and administrative support to engineering works and field operations as required; •Assists in the integration of maintenance software with GIS, GPS, CMMS, AutoCAD, Hydraulic Modeling Software, financial inventory and utility billing/customer databases; •Develops, produces and assists in generating regular and special preventive maintenance system reports; •Researches, gathers data, analyzes and documents PWC’s needs to automate current processes in addressing problem areas and improve existing workflow within preventive maintenance system; •Provides technical assistance in the operation, configuration, diagnostics, and troubleshooting of preventive maintenance program; •Develops and maintains Standard Operating Procedures for preventive maintenance task; •Directs implementation and procedural modifications in the preventive maintenance function; •Formulates and coordinates the implementation of Provo Water’s asset management plan; •Prepares monthly Preventive Maintenance report and maintains records and documents in accordance with PWC policy. Salary Range:
US$ 36, 000 – 48, 000 per annum
All applications (inclusive of cover letter, CV & copies of qualifications) must be submitted by 30th January 2015 to: Managing Director Provo Water Company Limited Grace Bay Road, PO Box 39 Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands provowater@tciway.tc Only applicants selected for an interview will be notified.
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PDM statement on the passing of Dr. Rosita Butterfield
Mrs. Rosita Butterfield Some folks live a life of quiet ceremonial dress. Though she walked existence while others blaze trails with “Kings and Queens” and was along the way. Anonymous widely traveled, if one would ask her or A Life Well Lived – A True Celebration just chat with her for a brief moment, Marking the Passing of Dr Rosita she reflected with a childlike excitement Butterfield on her nursing career as the noblest The Official Opposition and the thing she ever did, next to serving and Peoples Democratic Movement together caring for her family. This was indeed with the people of these islands mourn her pride and joy and no matter how the passing of a giant of a lady, the Late lofty a height she attained, she thought Dr Rosita Butterfield and we extend the greatest contribution she made was our sincerest condolences to Dr Albray perhaps what too many might consider Butterfield, her children and the rest of as the lowliest of the lot - nursing. This her family. exemplified the type of lady she was. Though we mourn her passing, She never forgot her humble birth and we celebrate a life well spent and well beginnings in Kew, North Caicos nor lived. how she began her life of public service The Late Dr Butterfield was an – through a humble nursing career. icon, an institution, a pioneer. She As a female, her life is an wore many hats in the years that God inspiration to me and I will continue to had loan her to these islands and her cherish each of our exchanges and her family. A former teacher, nurse, a long words of encouragement which spanned standing member of parliament as an from my first days on Providenciales as elected member, appointed member a banker to my current role as Leader and speaker, a businesswoman, a of the Opposition. preacher, a philanthropist sponsoring Indeed the life of the late Dr Rosita and supporting many national events Butterfield is a life well spent and among them the National Inter High history, if recorded truely, will record School Spelling Bee and her very own her as one of the most outstanding Foundation in recent years, the ARB Turks and Caicos Islanders ever, Foundation formed to help those in need. having left an indelible mark on all the She served on many national boards of paths she trod. She undeniably left this influence including being a founding world better than she met it and she member of the TCI Community College. will certainly continue to be held in the There were many things that highest esteem by many who knew and distinguished her in her different walks loved her. She ought to be celebrated of life but she will forever be celebrated and honored by the people of this as the first female ever elected to country whose lives she has touched in parliament and then later as the many ways. second female Speaker of Parliament May she rest in peace after a but was the first to wear the Speaker’s lifetime labour of love.
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UNICEF Sponsored Early Childhood Education Workshop
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Turks and Caicos Islands Ministry of Education, Youth Sports and Library Services hosted an Intervention seminar for early childhood practitioners throughout the Islands, from January 12 -14th at the Regent Palms, Providenciales. The workshop was facilitated by both regional and local educators and expertise within the field of Early Childhood Development (ECD). The main goal of this workshop is to expose participants to the key features of designing an effective screening and early intervention system for children at risk. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Ø Understand the importance of the Early Childhood period and its impact on later development Ø Describe normal physical, cognitive, language, sensory and socioemotional development in the early years Ø Describe deviations in normal development in the early years ØUnderstand the importance of screening and early identification of children with developmental and behavioural disabilities and disorders Ø Understand the difference between
screening and diagnostic tests Additionally, the early childhood sector is one such area that the Ministry of Education has committed to strengthening both from a human capital development standpoint and infrastructure wise. The Education Sector Plan, 2013-2017, Strategic Imperative 6, clearly outlined key pointers that the ministry has adopted. The central tenet would be to: Ø review guidelines to allow all children an opportunity to enroll at ages 2 and 3 year. Ø register and supervise a sufficient number of schools to allow all children the opportunity to enroll Ø review the curriculum guidelines to ensure that they are appropriate for use in the Turks and Caicos Ø Provide both pre-service and professional teacher development opportunities for early childhood teachers Ø provide professional and technical assistance to the early Childhood Centres. In closing, the Ministry wants to thank UNICEF, the local educators, and participants who have, and continue to contribute to the high education standards established here in the TCI.
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More than 300 take part in Move-a-thon
More than 300 persons turned out to participate in the 2015 Move-athon that took place between the Bight Park and the Grace Bay area. The event attracted athletes and bicyclists, starting from the very young. Tameka Handfield, who heads the event, said that this year’s staging was one of the biggest. The following are photo highlights of the event. With the finish line in sight, this competitor raised his hands in triumph.
At some point along the route the event became competitive even among friends
Fortis’ Talisha Simons obviously enjoying her run
Just completed her run Dan Redmond sprints towards to finish line TCIHTA Chief Stacy Cox (left) and friend Mary-Claude obviously enjoying their participating in the event
A group of competing cyclists leisurely pedal along the course
This group of participants could hide their delight from the camera There was also time for a photo op stop
Scenes like this was not uncommon at the event
Victory is at hand
Melanie Smith (left) and Alisa Folkes were among the participants
Happy faces were all around, a telltale sign of the enjoyment of the event by the participants
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Polls show Obama support bouncing back
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and congressional Republicans still bout a month ago, when for the White House: congressional Republicans were President Obama took a drubbing wouldn’t consider working with him. But the polls are important for considering a government-shutdown in the November elections and is the scheme, Rush Limbaugh said GOP subject of constant attacks by the reasons that go beyond just Obama. For example, Americans are lawmakers were worried without new Republican majority in Congress, cause. which has taken issue with his recent increasingly optimistic about their “The Democrats have been executive action on immigration. personal financial circumstances, and shellacked in two recent elections, and But Americans appear to be gaining similarly, the public’s optimism about the Republicans are running around confidence in the president as he the national economy has improved like a fool saying the American people enters his seventh year on the job. […] to levels unseen since the start of the The jump coincided with a drop of Great Recession. are not going to like them if they Shifts like these were hard to shut down the government is absurd,” four percentage points, to 40 percent, Limbaugh said. “Barack Obama’s among those saying they approved of predict. The economy is not the top priority approval is in the 30s.” congressional Republicans’ “policies Last week, Christopher Caldwell, and plans for the future.” for Americans heading into 2015, in an unfortunate piece on President This comes on the heels of similar the Pew Research Center reported Obama’s legacy, said the president’s positive Obama polling from CNN and Thursday, the first time that another support has reached “Nixonian lows.” Gallup. All told, Obama’s support is issue has been at the top of the public It’s time for these assumptions about similar to where Reagan’s was at this mind under President Barack Obama. the president’s political standing to be point in his second term. Terrorism has eclipsed At a certain level, the practical the economy as the biggest issue reevaluated. A CBS News poll released this effects of the president’s improved for Americans, the group’s annual week showed Obama’s approval rating standing are quite limited. Even if survey of the public’s policy priorities at 46%, up seven points since the last they continue to improve – a big “if” found, being named by 76 percent of CBS poll in October. The latest Pew – Obama will never be on the ballot Americans as a top priority for Obama survey pointed to similar results: again and the midterms are already and Congress. The economy was pegged by 75 Obama’s approval is up five points to over. What’s more, the president’s 47%. The broader context looks good approval rating could soar to 90% percent – which is still a big number,
but it represented a 11-point drop from 2013. Likewise, the job situation was picked by 67 percent, the third priority behind the economy and terrorism, but it has also fallen by 12 points in the last two years. What’s more, it’s worth appreciating the fact that Republicans assumed that Obama’s support would deteriorate if he ignored the election results and advanced his progressive agenda. The opposite has happened – the more the president has gotten stuff done since early November, the more his approval rating has climbed. And while Obama’s name will never appear on another ballot, the stronger the president’s standing, the harder it is for Republicans to run on a platform touting dramatic change in 2016. Of course, all of this may be temporary – the president’s standing has fluctuated a bit over the years, and there’s no guarantee is improved numbers will last – but at least for now, the “approval is in the 30s” chatter should probably end.
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David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown
David Cameron talking on the telephone to US president, Barack Obama, from No 10 Downing Street, London David Cameron is to urge Barack Obama to pressure internet firms such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to cooperate with Britain’s intelligence agencies as they seek to track the online activities of Islamist extremists. As he becomes the first European leader to meet the president after the multiple shootings in Paris last
week, the prime minister will seek to is due to address data security in his win Obama’s support for his plans to penultimate state of the union address secure a new legal framework to deny next week. terrorists a “safe space”. The sought-after summit The prime minister arrives after he meeting is Cameron’s last bilateral proposed earlier this week that British visit overseas before the general intelligence agencies have the power to election. The prime minister arrives break the encrypted communications on Thursday, and is due to first meet of suspected terrorists and insisting the president for dinner at the White that the likes of Twitter and Facebook House. do more to cooperate with Britain’s The two-day visit, designed GCHQ eavesdropping centre. originally by Downing Street to provide Cameron will demand that US helpful general election pictures to internet companies store – and then burnish Cameron’s status a world be prepared to hand over – data and statesman, will take on a more sober content needed by the intelligence note than planned in the aftermath of agencies “to keep us safe” when he the attacks in Paris. The White House meets the president for talks in the believes it erred in failing to send a Oval Office on Friday morning. high-level representative to the Unity A government source said: “The rally in Paris on Sunday attended by prime minister’s objective here is to get Cameron and other EU leaders. the US companies to cooperate with us In a sign that Obama is prepared more, to make sure that our intelligence to go out of his way to help the prime agencies get the information they minister on the eve of the general need to keep us safe. That will be election, the two men have penned a his approach in the discussion with joint article in which the two leaders President Obama – how can we work declare that transatlantic freedoms are together to get them to cooperate more, “rooted in economic strength”. what is the best approach to encourage Echoing one of the Tories’ central them to do more.” themes of the general election – that Obama, who recently accused progressive goals, such as defending North Korea of orchestrating the cyber the NHS, cannot be achieved without a attack on the film studio Sony Pictures, sound economy – Cameron and Obama
Florida police caught using mug shots of black men for target practice
A South Florida family is outraged at North Miami Beach Police after mug shots were being used at a shooting range for police training. A South Florida family is outraged minorities used as targets by at North Miami Beach Police after North Miami Beach police, all of mug shots of African American them riddled by bullets. men were used as targets at a “I was like ‘why is my brother shooting range for police training. being used for target practice?’” It was an ordinary Saturday Deant asked. morning last month when Sgt. Deant’s fellow guardsmen were Valerie Deant arrived at the angry too, but they tried to console shooting range in Medley, or so Deant, who was devastated. she thought. “There were like gunshots Deant, who plays clarinet there,” Deant said. “And I cried a with the Florida Army National couple of times.” Guard’s 13th Army Band, and She immediately called her her fellow soldiers were at the brother, Woody Deant, who was shooting range for their annual 18 years old when the picture was weapons qualifications training. taken. What the soldiers discovered “The picture actually has like when they entered the range made bullet holes,” Woody Deant said. them angry: mug shots of African “One in my forehead and one in my American men apparently used eye. …I was speechless,” he added. as targets by North Miami Beach The City of Medley owns Police snipers, who had used the the Medley Firearms Training range before the Guardsmen. Center and it leases the facilities Even more startling for Deant, to law enforcement agencies in one of the images was her brother. the area. The shooting range staff It was Woody Deant’s mug shot doesn’t select the targets use by that taken 15 years ago, after he law enforcement and the military. was arrested in connection to a North Miami Beach Police drag race in 2000 that left Chief J. Scott Dennis admitted two people dead. His mug shot that his officers could have used was among the pictures of five better judgment, but denies any
racial profiling. He noted that the sniper team includes minority officers. Dennis defended the department’s use of actual photographs and says the technique is widely used and the pictures are vital for facial recognition drills. But the Deant family questions why officers were firing targets with images of real people, in this case AfricanAmericans, especially at a time when relations between minority communities and law enforcement are so tense. “Our policies were not violated,” Dennis said. “There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this.” NBC 6 Investigators spoke with sources at federal and state law enforcement agencies and five local police departments that have SWAT and sniper teams in an attempt to find out if this is a common practice. All law enforcement agencies said they only use commercially produced targets, not photos of human beings for target practice. “The use of those targets doesn’t seem correct,” Alex Vasquez, a retired FBI agent, said. “The police have different options for targets. I think the police have to be extra careful and sensitive to some issues that might be raised.” Dennis said the police department uses an array of pictures including that of whites, and Hispanic males. What concerns his police department, he said, is that the picture was from someone that happened to be arrested by his agency. “That individual would be someone that was on the streets of North Miami Beach,” Dennis said.
write in the Times on Thursday: “As we meet today at the White House, we reaffirm our belief that our ability to defend our freedoms is rooted in our economic strength, and the values that we cherish – freedom of expression, the rule of law, and strong democratic institutions.” The intervention by Obama, who also endorses Cameron’s plans to expand the number of apprenticeships and to increase the minimum wage, will come as a blow to Ed Miliband, the leader of the Democrats’ sister party in the UK. But the Labour leader, who met Obama in the White House last summer in a more low key setting, has been told that the president was unamused by his decision not to support Cameron in the House of Commons vote on military action in Syria in August 2013. Obama has faced intense pressure from the internet giants over the intrusive surveillance of the US National Security Agency exposed by the files leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, wrote on his Facebook page last year that he was “confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behaviour of the US government”.
Dozens held across Europe in Islamist suspect sweeps
Belgian police investigators arrive outside an apartment in central Verviers, a town between Liege and the German border, in the east of Belgium January 16, 2015. Belgian, French and German police interrogated dozens of Islamist suspects on Friday as much of Europe remained on heightened security alert after last week’s killings in Paris and raids in Belgium in which two gunmen were killed. In Paris there was a fresh scare when a gunman took several people hostage at a post office in a northwestern suburb. A siege ended when he gave himself up to police. No one was hurt. Authorities said they could not confirm whether the incident was related to terrorism. Belgian police questioned 13 suspects and France held two people on Belgium’s request, a day after two gunmen were killed during raids against an Islamist group that authorities said were planning to attack police. French police said they had arrested 12 people suspected of helping the Islamist gunmen behind attacks last week on a satirical magazine and kosher supermarket in Paris. Officials said there was no clear link between the suspected Belgian plot and the Paris attacks a week earlier, but described them as part of a common threat. “There is a terrorist offensive,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters. “We face the same threat.” In Germany, police arrested two people following a raid on 12 homes and a mosque. A police spokesman said the suspects were probably part of an extremist cell that recruited fighters for Syria. In Belgium, police uniforms, explosives and guns including four AK-47 assault rifles were found in the apartment where the two gunmen were killed on Thursday in the raid in the eastern town of Verviers. Their identities have not been released. “This group was on the point of carrying out terrorist attacks aiming to kill police officers in the streets and in police stations,” prosecutors’ spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said.
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US eases travel and trade rules on Cuba
Cars that are more than 50 years old are still used in Cuba today
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, following through on its declaration of warming ties with Cuba, has eased travel restrictions and opened a wide range of new export opportunities with the communist island. The series of executive branch moves, taken together, have had the effect of punching a large hole in America’s half-century-old embargo, although only Congress has the authority to fully end the 54-year embargo. President Barack Obama announced last month that he would soften the restrictions, and a new set of government regulations took effect Friday. Obama argued at the time that “these 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked.” The new spirit of cooperation emerged after 18 months of secret talks that culminated in the exchange of imprisoned spies and the release of Alan Gross, a U.S. government contractor who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years.
Less than a month after the Cold War foes agreed to end their enmity, the U.S. Commerce and Treasury departments unveiled new rules Thursday permitting U.S. citizens to visit Cuba without special permits. Most U.S. travelers still will be required to go on supervised group trips, but now virtually any U.S. company or organization can offer such trips without the paperwork and inspections that discouraged past expansion of travel to Cuba. Some tour operators, already seeing unprecedented interest in legal travel to Cuba, expect some tourists to simply ignore the restrictions. American companies also now will be permitted to export telephones, computers and Internet technology, and to send supplies to private Cuban firms. However, Cuban authorities have said nothing about the restrictions they might impose on U.S. products entering a country that has long frustrated foreign investors with bureaucratic obstacles and tapped-out infrastructure.
The changes are the latest step need to start fresh. The U.S. airlines in Obama’s plan to rebuild relations with 1950s permission to fly to Cuba with Cuba after a history marred by will not suddenly regain that right and suspicion, espionage and conflict. The are not favored in the government’s new regulations come three days after new deliberations. U.S. officials confirmed the release United Airlines, Delta Air of 53 political prisoners Cuba had Lines and JetBlue Airways have all promised to free. expressed an interest in flying to the The U.S. is now “one step closer to island nation. replacing out-of-date policies,” Treasury Hotels in Havana and elsewhere Secretary Jacob Lew said Thursday. generally fall short of international White House spokesman Josh Earnest standards, and those with better said the new rules “immediately food and service are almost always enable the American people to provide fully booked during the winter high more resources to empower the Cuban season. So the tourism surge could be population to become less dependent challenging. upon the state-driven economy.” “American tourists are really They also allow U.S. citizens to start demanding,” said Maikel Gonzalez, bringing home small amounts of Cuban a 34-year-old hotel receptionist in cigars, long adored by aficionados but Havana. “How do I explain to one that banned under U.S. law. The limit is the taxi didn’t come because it doesn’t $100 for alcohol and tobacco products have tires or that there’s no water in and $400 in total goods. the rooms?” The few U.S. companies Cubans also can legally rent out facilitating travel to Cuba say inquiries their homes or apartments, which could have exploded since December and mean money outside of state control American visits are expected to surge going to private citizens — something this year from about 90,000 annually. American officials say they want. “We’re hiring more people. We’ve Most of the other possible secured more hotel rooms and assets in changes now depend on Cuban Cuba to provide additional travel,” said President Raul Castro’s government. Tom Popper, president of New YorkU.S. officials say American based insightCuba. companies will have to weigh for Commercial flights between the themselves the risks of their exports two nations are still some time away. colliding with Cuban bans. Before airlines offer routine service Casting a shadow on potential from one country to another, the two deals is the possibility of litigation governments must agree on the terms by Cuban-Americans and U.S. firms in a treaty. whose property was confiscated in Such an agreement did exist Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. Some between the U.S. and Cuba in the may sue companies entering into 1950s. However, Thursday afternoon business with the Cuban government. the U.S. Transportation Department In Washington, Congress may also seek posted a notice saying the two nations to erect barriers to new investment.
Pope strongly defends church teaching against contraception
MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis issued his strongest defense yet of church teaching opposing artificial contraception on Friday, using a rally in Asia’s largest Catholic nation to urge families to be “sanctuaries of respect for life.” Francis also denounced the corruption that has plagued the Philippines for decades and urged officials to instead work to end its “scandalous” poverty and social inequalities during his first full day in Manila, where he received a rock star’s welcome at every turn. Security was tighter than it has ever been for this pope, who relishes plunging into crowds. Cellphone service around the city was intentionally jammed for a second day on orders of the National Telecommunications Commission and roadblocks along Francis’ motorcade route snarled traffic for miles (kilometers). Police vans followed his motorcade while officers formed human chains in front of barricades to hold back the tens of thousands of wildly cheering Filipinos who packed boulevards for hours just for a glimpse of his four-door Volkswagen passing by. Police said another 86,000 gathered outside one of Manila’s biggest sports arenas, capacity 20,000, where Francis held his first encounter with the Filipino masses: a meeting with families. There, he firmly upheld church teaching opposing artificial contraception and endeared himself to the crowd with off-the-cuff jokes and even a well-intentioned attempt at sign language. Francis has largely shied away from
Oscars don’t have a diversity problem
A skullcap is placed on the head of Pope Francis during a mass for the clergy and religious at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Manila, Philippines on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. emphasizing church teaching on hot-button issues, saying the previous two popes made the teaching well-known and that he wants to focus on making the church a place of welcome, not rules. But his comments were clearly a nod to the local church, which recently lost a significant fight when President Benigno Aquino III pushed through a reproductive health law that allows the government to provide artificial birth control to the poor. “Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to
The first African- exclusion of actors of American president color from this year’s of the Academy of nominees. Many black Motion Picture Arts movie fans found it and Sciences doesn’t ironic that Cheryl think the Oscars have Boone Isaacs, who took diversity problem, over leadership of the despite widespread Academy in 2013, read backlash to the the nominations on
natural death,” Francis exhorted the crowd. “What a gift this would be to society if every Christian family lived fully its noble vocation.” He then deviated from his prepared remarks to praise Pope Paul VI for having “courageously” resisted calls for an opening in church teaching on sexuality in the 1960s. Paul penned the 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” which enshrined the church’s opposition to artificial birth control. Francis noted that Paul was aware that some families would find it difficult to uphold the teaching and “he asked confessors to be particularly compassionate and understandable for particular cases.” But he nevertheless said Paul was prescient in resisting the trends of the times. “He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children,” Francis said. “Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.” Francis also urged families to be on guard against what he called “ideological colonization,” an apparent reference to gay marriage, which isn’t legal in the Philippines. The church opposes gay marriage, holding that marriage is only between man and wife. On Saturday he travels to the central Philippines to comfort survivors of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, which left more than 7,300 dead and missing and leveled entire villages.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday Thursday which largely excluded the critically acclaimed MLK biopic “Selma” from several major categories. In fact, 2015 marked just the second time in nearly
twenty years that there were no black nominees for acting or directing. Still, when asked by New York magazine’s Vulture blog if the Oscars have a diversity problem, Isaacs balked.
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The rate for the position listed above is $6.00 to $7.00 an hour.
Rooms Division Department Requires: ü Butler Director (Manager) ü Butler Manager Requirements include but are not limited to: o Experience managing a team of Butlers o Member of the Association of English Butlers o Ability to go above and beyond for guest
The Rooms Division Department requires: ü Receptionist/ Front Office Agent ü Concierge Agent Requirements include but are not limited to: o Background in customer service o Ability to go above and beyond for guest ü ü
The salary for the positions listed above ranges from $30,000 to $50,000 per annum Human Resources Department Requires: ü Assistant Training Manager Requirements include but are not limited to: o o o
A first Degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management or Training and Development or any other related discipline Minimum two years’ work experience in a leadership position Experience in Adult learning theories and instructional methodologies
Store room controller Mini-Bar Stocker Requirements include but are not limited to: o Experience with inventory and maintaining stock levels o Physically Fit o Outgoing and friendly attitude
The rate for the positions listed above is $5.30 to $7.00 an hour. The Gift Shop Departments requires: ü Cleaner Requirements include but are not limited to: o Physically fit o Ability to carry out labour intensive task
The salary for the position listed above ranges from $30,000.00 to $40,000.00 The Loyalty and Travel Department requires: ü Consultant ü Concierge Requirements include but are not limited to: o Ability to meet deadlines o Ability to sell and make quotas o Confidential
The rate for the position listed above is $5.00 to $6.50 an hour. The Offsite Properties requires: ü Labour/ Care taker Requirements include but are not limited to: o Physically Fit o Ability to carry out labour intensive task o Basic maintenance skills
The rate for the positions listed above is $7.50 to $10.50 an hour.
The rate for the positions listed above is $6.00 to $9.00 an hour
The Accounts Department requires: ü Assistant Store Keeper Requirements include but are not limited to: o Ability to meet deadlines o Knowledge of Accounting procedures o Computer literate o Physically Fit
The Photoshop Department requires: ü Assistant Photoshop Manager Requirements include but are not limited to: o Experience managing multiple photo retail outlets o Experience meeting sales targets o Ability to cross and up sell o Three (3) years relevant experience
The rate for the positions listed above is $6.50 to $8.50 an hour.
The salary for the position listed above ranges from $30,000 to $35,000 per annum
The Engineering Department requires: ü Room Technician ü Shift Leader ü Ken Fix It Requirements include but are not limited to: o Knowledgeable of in related fields both in theory and practical
The Food and Beverage Department requires: ü Restaurant Manager/ Room Manager Requirements include but are not limited to: o Five years’ Experience in managing/ supervising a Restaurant with seating of over 200 The salary for the position listed above ranges from $20,000 to $35,000 per annum
The rate for the positions listed above is $5.50 to $11.00 an hour.
The Spa Department Requires: ü
The Watersports Department requires: ü Senior Supervisor Requirements include but are not limited to: o PADI Certified (supervisor) o Physically Fit o Certified in first aid o Experience supervising a dive team and watersports operation
Successful candidate will direct all efforts toward guest satisfaction, achievement of Spa standards and profit maximization. The ideal candidate must satisfy the following criteria: o o
The rate for the position listed above is $7.00 to $9.50 an hour. ü
Spa Attendant
Lifeguard Requirements include but are not limited to: o Physically Fit o Certified in first aid
Certification in one or more of the following areas: Massage, Esthetics, Body treatments, Hair services, Tattoos and Nail services. Must be flexible with work schedule supporting the needs of the Spa covering evenings, weekends and Public Holidays.
Remuneration: Bi-weekly base pay plus commission
The rate for the position listed above is $5.00 to $6.50 an hour.
Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to: mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com or Fax to: 941-4870 Attn: M McClean-Vaughn The Labour Commissioner Labour Department Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands
and
The Human Resources Department Beaches Turks and Caicos P.O. Box 186 Lower Bight Road
and should reach not later than January 10th 2015
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Landscape laborer required A professional landscape company on Providenciales is seeking to recruit a landscape laborer to join our team. The successful candidate must have the following experience and skill set; •Min 3 years experience in landscape maintenance •Responsible for weeding, pruning, trimming all plants on property •Must have good knowledge of gardening techniques and ability to apply pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers properly •Responsible for the upkeep and general maintenance of properties •Ability to maintain and repair irrigation systems •Willingness to perform laborious tasks •Self motivated and industrious applicants need only apply •Ability to follow directions and accomplish everyday jobs promptly $7.00 per hour
Please forward all applications via email to maintenancedept@khcapital.com
•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 meager 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. •Repair and maintain multiple computer controlled gen set and switch gear equipment. •Experience with computerized Danfoss control systems for facility electrical and refrigeration controls
Salary will commensurate with experience and qualifications. Finish Carpenter/Cabinet Maker
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; Electric Lift Truck Mechanic/cleaning machine repairs Job Opening: applicable building and safety code requirements; methods and practices followed in the Premier Contracting Services is seeking a qualified Lift Truck Mechanic. Candidate must maintenance of tools, machinery, and equipment. have experience performing preventive maintenance including all types of repairs on Crown and Yale A/C 36 volt lift trucks and motorized pallet Jacks. Light welding and fabrication Education: experience is a must. Responsibilities will also include the diagnosis and calibration of computerized lift controls. Candidate will also be responsible for maintaining all cleaning Graduation from high school supplemented by completion of a trade school apprenticeship machines in the facility. The candidate will also be responsible for developing a preventative program that includes theory and on-the-job work. maintenance schedule along with being responsible for all parts procurement and inventory management for the facility. The successful candidate must have a strong command of the Experience: English language along with a good working knowledge of excel and word perfect programs. 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 Required Skills for Forklift Mechanic Job: experience is required. •Preventative maintenance experience •Experience working on Crown and Yale narrow isle lift trucks or similar •Excellent working knowledge of computer controlled electric systems and diagnostics •Light welding experience •Diagnostics and calibration experience •5 years experience in fork lift repairs •Hydraulic, mechanical and welding experience •Appropriate certificates from a recognized technical institute •Word perfect and excel
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
Professional Maintenance Company seeking the following skilled technician university At least 7 years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualifications
HVAC Technician
Must be Proficient in the following areas with the ability to complete the following tasks;
•Inspect, repair, modify and install HVAC equipment including refrigeration, A/C, compressors, receivers, expansion valves, condensers and evaporators •Conduct preventative maintenance and inspection of refrigeration units and Airconditioning systems, make necessary adjustments or repairs •Repair or replace defective electrical or mechanical controls •Operate a variety of tools including welding torches, pressure gauges, electrical testing equipment, and vacuum pumps. •Repair and rebuild semi hermetic reciprocating compressors. •Perform skilled electrical or maintenance work, installation and alteration of HVAC equipment, components, timers, wiring systems, diagnostic and troubleshooting •Maintain records concerning time, labor and materials, maintain log of tasks performed •Lift heavy objects •Communicate in English effectively both orally and writing
Education and Experience
•Certificate and 5 years documentable HVAC journeyman level operation, maintenance and repair experience in the HVAC refrigeration trade •Valid driver’s license
Please submit applications via email at maintenance@khcapital.com by Feb 1st 2015
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;
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 •Assemble, install, maintain and repair commercial and domestic air conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment. •Drilling holes, installing mounting brackets and cutting, bending and threading piping •Installing and repairing components such as compressors, motors, condensers, evaporators, switches and gauges, and copper lines for gas, refrigerant and oil. •Bolting, soldering, riveting, welding and brazing pipes to connect equipment, and checking alignment and accuracy of fit •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 Feb 1st 2015 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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Times Square had 1 million revelers, zero tickets
NEW YORK - Of all the statistics from the recent New Year’s Eve in Times Square - 1 million revelers, 2,000 pounds of confetti, thousands of police officers, dozens of surveillance cameras there is one number that stands out: zero, as in zero tickets for low-level crimes. No tickets for having an open container of alcohol, no tickets for public urination, no tickets for double parking, no tickets for furry, costumed characters hassling tourists to take their picture. Add in low-level arrests, and there was just one, for a subwayrelated offense. And that wasn’t just on New Year’s Eve. That was for the entire week containing the holiday. During the Christmas week, when the neonlit streets were every bit as jammed, the total for such infractions was 23 - compared to more than 650 summonses
per week the previous year, according to police statistics. Times Square is perhaps the most jarring example of a slowdown in low-level enforcement across New York City amid tension between rank-and-file police and Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom they accuse of encouraging violence against cops by siding with protesters after the chokehold death of Eric Garner. They were particularly incensed by comments in which the mayor warned his biracial son to be wary in dealing with officers. In the two weeks after two NYPD officers were shot to death in their patrol car Dec. 20 by a fugitive who had ranted online about avenging police killings, low-level arrests citywide dropped 61 percent. Summonses were down more than 90 percent. Arraignment courts have been so slow they have sometimes closed early, and Rikers
Sea level rise accelerating more than once thought WASHINGTON - The world’s oceans are now rising far faster than they did in the past, a new study says. The study found that for much of the 20th century - until about 1990 - sea level was about 30 percent less than earlier research had figured. But that’s not good news, scientists say, because about 25 years ago the seas started rising faster and the acceleration in 1990 turns out to be more dramatic than previously calculated. The current sea level rise rate - which started in 1990 - is 2.5 times faster than it was from 1900 to 1990, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Scientists say that faster pace of sea level rise is from melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and shrinking glaciers, triggered by man-made global warming. “We’re seeing a significant acceleration in the past few decades,” said study lead author Carling Hay, a geophysical researcher at Harvard University. “It’s concerning for cities along the U.S. East Coast” where water levels are rising even faster than the world average. “It’s definitely something that can’t be ignored,” Hay said. Previous research said that between 1900 and 1990, the seas rose about two-thirds of an inch a decade. The new study recalculates the 1900-1990 rate to less than half an inch a decade. Old and new research both say that since 1990 seas are rising at about 1.2 inches a decade. While hundreds of tide gauges around the world have been measuring sea levels since 1900, they have mostly been in Europe and North America with few in the polar regions or the middle of the oceans, Hay said. So past estimates of 20th century sea level rise gave an incomplete picture of the global effect, said study co-author Jerry Mitrovica, a geophysics professor at Harvard. The new method uses statistical analysis and computer models to better simulate the areas in the gap, Mitrovica said. Outside scientists praised the new study, but were still cautious about adopting the estimates until more studies could be done.
Time square New York Island’s jails have about being disciplined, with 2,000 fewer inmates. Bratton noting “the “They haven’t been extraordinarily stressful on top of us like they situations” in a month used to,” Luis Martinez filled with protests, said on a recent night police funerals and in Times Square, where discord. The latest he roams the streets in a figures will be available Cookie Monster costume Monday. posing for photos in Police unions say hopes of tips. “They’re there was no sanctioned minding their own work slowdown, and business now.” they are quick to point Police Commissioner out that officers are still William Bratton said rising to the call of duty. he’d concluded that some Just this past week, two officers had purposefully police officers were shot cut down on small-time and wounded responding arrests and tickets - and to a report of a robbery that enough was enough. moments before their “We’ll work to bring shifts ended. things back to normal,” “Our members are he said, adding that the doing their job,” said numbers were already Patrick Lynch, head rising. No officers are of the Patrolmen’s
Ohio man planned to bomb US Capitol, kill officials
CINCINNATI - A 20-year-old Ohio man’s Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials. Christopher Lee Cornell, also known as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, told an FBI informant they should “wage jihad,” and showed his plans for bombing the Capitol and shooting people, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Ohio Wednesday. The FBI said Cornell expressed his support for the Islamic State. Cornell’s arrest came only days after a grand jury indictment charged another Cincinnati-area resident with threatening to murder House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in a statement Wednesday: “Once again, the entire Congress owes a debt of gratitude to the FBI and all those who keep us safe.” The complaint against Cornell charges him with attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States. Cornell was arrested Wednesday after buying two semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition, authorities said. The public was never in danger, said John Barrios, acting special agent in charge of the FBI’s Cincinnati division. Messages were left Thursday for attorney Karen Savir, a federal public defender listed in court records as Cornell’s attorney. A working phone number could not be found for Cornell’s family. His father, John Cornell, told The Cincinnati Enquirer in a story for Thursday’s editions that his son was a “momma’s boy who never left the house.” He said his son endured frequent incidents of abuse as a practicing Muslim. “Everything you’re hearing in the media right now, they’ve already painted him as some kind of terrorist,” John Cornell told the newspaper. ... “They’ve painted him as some kind of jihadist. ... (Christopher) is one of the most peace-loving people I know.”
Benevolent Association, which represents 24,000 officers. The 14-block precinct in the heart of Times Square was among at least seven across the city where not a single summons was issued for parking, moving or criminal violations during New Year’s week - a statistic that makes some people nervous. “It’s dangerous for the public to know that the police are doing less,” said Madeline Sorel, 57, who teaches knitting at a senior center in Brooklyn’s Coney Island, one of the zero-summons precincts. “It might make criminals more eager to do crime.” The slowdown has overshadowed an overall, years-long decrease in every measurable crime statistic: complaints of crime, arrests and summonses. Crime of all kinds decreased 4 percent to all-time low in 2014, when there were 332 homicides, down
from 335 the previous year. The slowdown in enforcement hasn’t translated to a rise in crime. In the past two weeks, reports of serious crimes were down to 3,704 from 4,130 in the same period a year earlier. That has critics questioning Bratton’ signature crime-fighting tactic: the “broken windows” theory that targeting low-level infractions discourages more serious crime. Some police reform advocates say the slowdown proves that the city can do without a tactic they see as heavyhanded. But Bratton says the arrests are no less necessary, despite the let-up. “The whole thesis of ‘broken windows’ is: If over time you don’t address an issue, over time it will create a larger issue,” he said.
Astronauts flee US side of space station but no sign of leak CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In a rare scare, astronauts fled the American side of the International Space Station on Wednesday after an alarm indicated a possible toxic leak. NASA later said there was no leak of ammonia coolant and a computer problem likely set off the false alarm. By Wednesday afternoon, the astronauts were back in the U.S. part of the orbiting outpost. Earlier, the six crew members had huddled safely on the Russian side - once when the alarm sounded and again following an initial all-clear. “Hey everybody, thanks for your concern,” Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti said via Twitter. “We’re all safe & doing well in the Russian segment.” The “unscheduled excitement,” as NASA called it, occurred around 4 a.m. EST, well into the station crew’s workday. As alarms blared, the astronauts followed emergency procedures in slapping on oxygen masks, taking cover in the Russian quarters, then sealing the hatches between the U.S. and Russian sides. At the same time, flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston turned off non-essential equipment. Within minutes, Mission Control gave an allclear, but sent the astronauts scurrying back over to the Russian side again when there was more evidence of a possible leak of the coolant. The highly toxic liquid ammonia, flowing outside the space station, is used to cool electronics. Flight controllers originally feared it had gotten into the water system running inside. Now, it’s believed that a failed card in a computer-relay box was the culprit. The crew - three Russians, two Americans and the Italian Cristoforetti - stayed in the three, relatively small Russian compartments while Mission Control analyzed data. Engineers wanted to understand the computer failure and confirm “that the system is tight like we believe it to be,” space station program manager Mike Suffredini said on NASA TV.
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Death in Paradise Parents of millionaire hotelier found ‘executed’ in his burned out Range Rover fear corrupt St Lucia police were in on mystery murder The parents of a British hotelier shot dead on a Caribbean island in a mystery murder fear police corruption is hindering their quest for justice. Theo and Helen Gobat, from Esher, Surrey, insist there is a ‘probability’ that corrupt police officers on the island of St Lucia could be involved in the brutal murder of their son Oliver or part of a cover up to prevent his killers being caught. Oliver was found dead on April 25, 2014 in the passenger seat of his Range Rover Evoque burned beyond all recognition on a remote track on the island’s exclusive Cap Estate - less than two miles from the luxury hotel he ran. He had been shot in the head and the vehicle set on fire in what is believed to have been an attempt to destroy forensic evidence. Speaking for the first time about possible collusion between the killers and police, his parents claimed vital forensic evidence was destroyed in the hours after his death nine months ago. They have also speculated that 38-year-old Oliver was ambushed after being forced to stop his car by a police barricade. ‘There is a probability corrupt police officers were involved,’ said Helen Gobat. ‘Of course we do not have the proof, it is just our opinion but we feel that very strongly that this is the case. When we talked with the Commissioner of Police he said it was ineptitude on the police that meant forensic evidence was lost. ‘We feel it was corruption. It is well known that corruption is rife within the police force.’ Her husband Theo, 75, added: ‘The Prime Minister has admitted to us that corruption is a problem. We do not know who we can trust.’ Prime Minister Kenny Anthony publicly admitted there were problems within the force in an interview in November 2014. The US Government has also expressed its own concern about corruption and in 2013 suspended all aid to the local police. The Gobats point to their son’s body and burnt out car being removed from the crime scene within hours with no real attempt to preserve the site for forensic analysis. Instead of being taken away for detailed forensic examination the Range Rover car was taken to a police a yard where it was left out in the open. They also speculate that Oliver could have been stopped by police as part of a carefully planned ambush by his killers.
Oliver ran this hotel, the Cap Maison, on the picturesque island. His parents were successful developers before him and have lived there at various times over the last 42 years ‘Something made Ollie stop a frequent visitor. his car on the night he died,’ said TV star Carole Voderman was Helen, 67. ‘The doors on his car among those left devastated by lock automatically as soon as he the charismatic hotelier’s death. drives off. He would only have She had been friends with stopped for someone he knows or the Gobat family for seven years if the police had a barricade up. and bought one of the luxury We don’t know what happened, homes at The Landings in St but he was bundled out of Lucia where Oliver was sales the driver’s seat and into the director. passenger seat. Vorderman told Best ‘We have since found out magazine: ‘Ollie was one of life’s that he was worried about his special people. He was a friend safety. If that was the case if he of mine and my family for more suspected something was wrong than seven years. He would light he would have driven away.’ up a room. In that time I met his A close friend of the murdered family and cannot imagine the hotelier, who asked to remain scale of the grief they are going anonymous, told MailOnline through.’ that they are convinced police Ollie, a keen Chelsea fan, had corruption played a part. cheated death twice before his He said: ‘Corruption within family revealed. the St Lucian police force may When he was 13 he underwent in fact be the bigger problem. a year long course of treatment My confidential sources, who at for cancer and three years this point demand anonymity, ago he sustained serious head suggest that police involvement injuries after being run over by cannot be ruled out. a speedboat while swimming in ‘Problems with a certain the sea in St Lucia. degree of police corruption have On both occasions his parents previously been acknowledged said they had feared the worst by government officials in St only to see their son pull through. Lucia, but complicity in the The violent nature of his death homicide of a prominent British has left his parents reeling and citizen begs the assistance struggling to comprehend why that only the British police can anyone would want to kill their provide.’ ‘beautiful son.’ Oliver ran the luxury Cap Like many on the holiday Maison hotel with his brothers island they believe his murder Adam and Rufus and was a was a contract killing, possibly popular figure on the holiday by a hired assassin who flew to island where he was born. St Lucia to carry out the killing He grew up in Surrey, where on the orders of others. he played cricket for his county Police on the island have junior team, and also lived refused to divulge any details in Adelaide, Australia, before of the case or progress in the settling back in St Lucia - an investigation. independent state of the All that is known is that Commonwealth - to concentrate Oliver was on his way home from on the family business. playing golf on the evening of Many celebrities, including the April 25 when he was suddenly late singer Amy Winehouse and stopped in his Range Rover. model Kelly Brook, frequented Not a single witness has come the boutique hotel in the north forward to say they saw him of the island. being abducted and taken to a The five star hotel was founded remote spot in the Cap Estates by former travel executive Theo where he was killed. who with his wife Helen has The Gobats have no proof that been associated with St Lucia local police were involved, but for over 40 years. corruption within the Royal Oliver’s death stunned his St Lucia Police Force has been close circle of friends on the acknowledged by the country’s island and the UK where he was leader as a problem.
Efforts to get British police involved in St Lucia murder investigation
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has been urged to help British police investigate the murder of former Surrey junior cricketer, Oliver Gobat, in St Lucia. The 38-year-old’s charred body was found in a burnt out car on the Cap Estate, an exclusive resort on the Caribbean island, in April last year just hours after his family reported him missing. Reports suggested he had been shot twice in the head before his body was doused in petrol and set alight. Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab - on behalf of Mr Gobat’s parents Theo and Helen, who are his constituents - has pushed for Mr Hammond to phone the St Lucian prime minister so British police can join the investigation. Concerns have been raised about the use of the death penalty in St Lucia and these have so far prevented UK officers from getting involved. “The foreign secretary knows my constituent Ollie Gobat was brutally murdered in St Lucia in an apparent assassination and I’m very grateful officials are discussing assurances on the death penalty to allow UK police to support the investigation at St Lucian request,” said Mr Raab in the House of Commons.
Bahamian minister of Finance resigns to take up banking job
Ryan Pinder NASSAU, Bahamas – Minister of Finance Services Ryan Pinder recently resigned to take up a senior position with the Deltec International banking group here. Prime Minister Perry Christie has accepted the resignation saying that Pinder had proven himself to be “a public servant of extraordinary ability, energy and dedication. “An outstanding minister in every way, as well as a dear colleague and valued friend, Ryan has accomplished much for the financial services industry in a comparatively short period of time and for that I commend him wholeheartedly.” Prime Minister Christie said while he was sorry to be losing Pinder as a cabinet colleague, he fully understood that his former Cabinet minister had been presented with a “magnificent opportunity to put his technical skills as a specialist lawyer and industry professional to excellent use, and in a way that would be in the best interests of his family and himself at this particular juncture of his life and career. “Ryan had apprised me some time back of his decision to return to the private sector and we had been in close contact ever since as to the timing for such a transition. We both agreed that with the year drawing to a close now would be as good a time as any to make the announcement”. The Prime Minister said he was gratified that Pinder would continue to serve the people of the Elizabeth Constituency as their Member of Parliament and that he would remain a fullycommitted member of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP).
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InterCaribbean Airways has an opening for the position as FINANCE ACCOUNTING MANAGER. With 15 years or more experience in aviation and business sectors, holding an ACA and BA in accounting from a well established and recognized institution.
Duties shall include: • Management of all company assets • Annual budget preparation with monthly variance analysis • Analysis of profitability for entire group of companies, their products and product line • Ability to initiate and deliver methods and systems for cost savings • Preparation and Reporting of all financial information to CEO/ banks • Preparation for and overseeing annual audit • Ability and Experience in initiating new systems to assist with expansion of business • Management Supervision and Mentoring entire staff of Finance department.
Salary shall be commensurate with educational qualification and experience. Please no phone call for more details send resume to hr@interCaribbean.com. Only suitably qualified applications will be interviewed.
NOTICE OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION LAURENCE CAROE, having been appointed by Order of the Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands as Receiver over the following property by way of equitable execution in Action CL 79/2014, hereby gives notice of his intention to sell by Public Auction the following property pursuant to power to sell such property contained in the said Order: Fifty (50) Ordinary Shares in the capital of Rio Developments Ltd., a Turks and Caicos Islands Ordinary Company, held in trust by East Harbour Nominees Ltd. for Joe Srebrovic. There are One Hundred (100) Ordinary Shares in the capital of Rio Developments Ltd. issued and outstanding and, accordingly, the Ordinary Shares offered for sale represent a fifty per cent (50%) interest in Rio Developments Ltd. The other Fifty (50) Ordinary Shares are held in trust by East Harbour Nominees Ltd. for a single beneficial owner. Rio Developments Ltd. is the one hundred per cent (100%) owner of SEG Enterprises Ltd., a Turks and Caicos Islands Ordinary Company. SEG Enterprises Ltd. is the registered proprietor of a ten (10) acre undeveloped beachfront property situated near the Northwest Point Resort, being Parcel 60101/39, North West & North Central, Providenciales. There are no encumbrances registered against title to the said Parcel. No Planning Permission has been granted or sought in respect of the said Parcel. Rio Developments Ltd. is also the registered proprietor of a 1.48 acre vacant parcel of land situated on Turtle Cove Drive, being Parcel 60713/231, Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales. There are no encumbrances registered against title to the said Parcel. No Planning Permission has been granted or sought in respect of the said Parcel. Rio Developments Ltd. has no other assets nor any liabilities. The Auction will be held at the offices of Saunders & Co., Second Floor, Town Centre Mall, 23 Parade Avenue at 10 o’clock in the morning on Thursday, January 22, 2015. A reserve price will be fixed on the said Fifty (50) Ordinary Shares being offered. A deposit of 10% of the amount of any accepted bid is due within twenty-four (24) hours of the acceptance of a bid. For further information, contact the said Receiver by telephone at (649) 941-4500 or by e-mail at lc@saunders.tc.
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Job Title: Head of Corporate Sales Reports to: General Manager PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF JOB: The Role of the Head of Business Sales and Services is to manage the ICT and Corporate development project in the Turks & Caicos delivering an effective & functioning ICT, Mobile Advertising and Corporate postpaid sales operations structure in the market. The successful candidate must, be able to meet tight reporting deadlines and have a strong work ethic and will be involved in: •Delivering an effective & functioning postpaid sales operations structure in each market •Identify & exploit local opportunities to drive corporate postpaid sales •To manage the rollout of new sales skill processes, reward structures, performance management/sales reporting structures and admin processes into Digicel markets •To adapt the above processes to fit into each markets culture •Refine the processes and document all improvements to allow best practice to be shared throughout all markets •Stay in the market after implementation to support the local team and ensure the new processes being used effectively at all levels •Measure the success of each initiative and report findings to Digicel Group •Evaluate, share and report on best practice from the markets In order to be a successful in this position, you must have a minimum of 10 years proven and demonstrable direct sales experience within an ICT and corporate postpaid telecommunications environment. Key experience required: multi site management, project management, training, and coaching & feedback experience. You must have a proven ability to negotiate at all levels within the organization. Naturally you are required to have an excellent understanding of Cisco, Ruckus, and corporate telecoms sales techniques & operational processes. You must be a team player with strong business and commercial awareness. Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are a must and you will be an organized self-starter with drive and initiative; analytical and creative skills and proven track record of achievement in Sales
Salary Based on Experience Interested applicants should forward their resume to hrtci@digicelgroup.com .
BUTTERFIELD GOLD GROUP OF COMPANIESPOSITIONS AVAILABLE Butterfield Gold
One (1) Labourer Applicant must be physical, able-bodied individuals capable of lifting heavy loads. Wages: from $6.00 per hour
One (1) Gardener Looking for an experienced gardener to plant and maintain the owner’s grounds. Salary: $250.00 per week
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At least seven dead as vehicle plunges into St Vincent sea
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — At least seven people, mainly students, died after a minibus plunged into the sea in Rockguter, an area between Owia and Fancy on the northeastern tip of St. Vincent early Monday. Police and government officials say that five bodies have so far been recovered from the sea, and one person died in hospital. Another person died on the way to the medical institution. Police are still trying to verify how many persons were in the minibus when it plunged into the sea sometime between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m (local time). Initial reports said that as many as 20 people, including 14 students from the North Union and Georgetown Secondary Schools respectively. One police source has said that officials were told that the minibus, which is licensed to carry 18 passengers, was “full” when it left Fancy, the northernmost community in St. Vincent. Residents say that minibus was
packed with students from the two communities further south in this North Windward constituency. They said that the conductor was standing, suggesting that the minibus was carrying more people than it was licensed to carry, a common practice in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A large crowd has gathered at the scene where two Coast Guard patrol boats have been searching for bodies or survivors. The efforts are being affected by especially large waves characteristic of the Atlantic side of St. Vincent, where the terrain is an alternation of steep inclines and deep gorges and winding roads. Among the bodies recovered from the water is that of a female student. Health authorities said the body showed signed of trauma, presumable inflicted as it knocked against the large rocks that line the shore. It is not yet clear what
caused the incident, but police say that villagers were notified by persons who jumped out of the vehicle before impact. A grief stricken Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, speaking on national radio, said the “entire nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines…has been touched by this tragedy of national proportion. “We all grieve and ask God for guidance and strength as well as we lean on one another,” he said, noting that the recovery of bodies from the sea is ongoing. “Some of the questions you have are not fully answered, that will come in due time, right now it is the task of making sure that everyone is accounted for. We cannot yet give up hope because there are hope we can find additional survivors as inhospitable as the conditions are, we have to hope…and we have to put the pieces back together and to see what we can do to try to ensure that this…tragedy does not happen again,” Gonsalves said. “It was a terrible accident and I think everyone’s heart is really heavy because of what has taken place,” he added. In the wake of the tragedy, Prime Minister Gonsalves has announced a postponement of his budget speech that was scheduled to have been delivered to Parliament on Monday. “As a consequence of this terrible tragedy, I have consulted with the Leader of the Opposition, the Speaker of the House of Assembly and His Excellency the Governor General and we have all agreed that the Parliament session this afternoon…be postponed until tomorrow the same time,” he added.
US judge dismisses lawsuit against United Nations NEW YORK – A United States judge has ruled that the United Nations is immune from a law suit seeking compensation for victims of the deadly cholera outbreak that left more than 8,000 people dead in Haiti. The lawsuit had been filed by human rights groups and others, contending that the UN hadn’t screened the peacekeepers from Nepal for the disease that also sickened more than 700,000 since the first case was detected in October 2010. In addition, the groups had argued that
the UN was responsible for poor sanitation and waste disposal practices that spread the cholera in the French speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. But US District Judge J. Paul Oetken ruled Friday that UN’s charter provides broad legal immunity and that the international body hasn’t waived it. “Where such an express waiver is absent, the UN and (its operation in Haiti) are immune from suit,” the judge ruled. The groups were seeking unspecified damages from the Un
and attorney Beatrice Lindstrom said they plan to appeal the ruling. “The court’s decision implies that the UN can operate with impunity. We don’t think that is the law,” Lindstrom said in a statement. Washington had argued against the suit at a hearing last year claiming that the UN needed immunity to complete its global mission, and letting the case continue would subject the international body to many more lawsuits from around the world. The United States
wasn’t named in the suit, but federal prosecutors said they got involved because the US is the U N’s host nation. The U.N. has repeatedly declined to comment on the lawsuit but has said it is working with the government in Haiti to eradicate cholera. In December 2012, the UN announced a US$2.27 billion initiative to help eradicate cholera in the country that was hit by an earthquake in 2010 that also killed an estimated 300,000 people.
Caribbean warned to be prepared for massive earthquake
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is warning the region to “move expeditiously” towards building resilience amid predictions of the Caribbean being hit with an earthquake with a magnitude of eight or larger. “We must develop, legislate and enforce Building Codes using up-to-date seismic hazard maps based on the latest available science. Preparedness measures at the individual levels are insufficient and greater efforts are needed to facilitate self-resilience,” the SRC said in a statement as it marked the fifth anniversary of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ricked Haiti in 2010, killing an estimated 300,000 people. The SRC said that the earthquake in Haiti “should have been the wakeup call for a fundamental shift in regional mechanisms for coping with seismic hazards”. It said major earthquake disasters around the world have stimulated similar shifts and resulted in greater resilience to seismic hazards in these regions. “This has not happened in the Caribbean and the region continues to be extremely vulnerable to seismic events,” the SRC said, adding “research suggests that the region is capable of generating an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 or larger every 3-5 years. “Of more concerns, we are long overdue for a magnitude 8.0 earthquake, which has 32 times more energy than the Haiti event. In light of these sobering facts, it is imperative for the region to move expeditiously towards building resilience to such events,” it added. The SRC said that while there have been advances in many areas, “the effectiveness of the implemented strategy from country to country still needs to be measured. “The need for broad based impact assessments for seismic hazards and risks is now greater than ever with clearly established short term and long term objectives. Every year that passes without the necessary measures being in place is a year closer to a repeat of the Haiti disaster. Now is the time to be ready,” the SRC added.
Man arrested for smuggling heroin in table from Dominican Republic SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says field operations officers have seized 10.1 pounds of heroin concealed inside a decorative table found within a cargo van, driven by a male US citizen, arriving from the Dominican Republic. CBP said the estimated value of the seized contraband is US$250,000. Ezequiel Tineo Alcala, 45, was arrested and was expected to appear before US District Court for charges related to the smuggling and distribution of narcotics, CBP said. It said field operations officers conducting vehicle inspections arriving on board the ferry M/V Caribbean Fantasy, selected Alcala’s Ford cargo van for a more intrusive inspection. CBP said one of its canines alerted to a decorative table inside the van. The table was drilled revealing a residue which tested positive for heroin, CBP said. The vehicle’s Puerto Rico registration appeared on behalf of the driver, Ezequiel Alcala. “Criminal organizations seek to use the supply chain as a means to conceal and move narcotics,” said Marcelino Borges, director of field operations for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. “Our officers remain vigilant to detect and prevent any attempts to circumvent the security measures that are in place.” CBP said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents assumed custody of the seized contraband and Alcala for further investigation.
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Haiti’s new prime minister Eastern Caribbean faces instability, protests to market as single
Haitian Prime Minister Evans Paul Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved, opposition activists promising intensified street protests and its president ruling by decree because of a bitter standoff with lawmakers. Prime Minister Evans Paul was selected last month but a political deadlock meant the Senate and Chamber of Deputies could not debate his nomination before their terms expired Monday. Since President Michel Martelly can now rule by decree under the constitution, Paul automatically took office this week and began overseeing day-to-day government operations as the hemisphere’s poorest country faces social unrest that could undermine its fragile stability. The former Port-au-Prince mayor said he deplored the fact that he was taking office without a vote and with no sitting parliament and blamed a group of opposition lawmakers for the deadlock. He said a new electoral council would be in place “in less than two weeks” to start organizing long-delayed legislative and municipal elections. “It’s difficult to be approved by a parliament that is dysfunctional. And I’m not responsible for the dysfunction of the last parliament,” Paul, who was in the moderate opposition to Martelly before becoming prime minister, told The Associated Press. The latest bout of political turmoil in Haiti has been brewing since shortly after Martelly took office in 2011 as a newcomer to politics with little support in parliament, which is critical in a country where
the constitution deliberately curbs executive power. Martelly was supposed to call elections in 2011 for a majority of Senate seats, the entire Chamber of Deputies and local offices. But six opposition senators used parliamentary procedure to prevent a vote while accusing the president of abusing his authority to appoint supporters to the electoral council and other posts. Haiti’s parliament was unable to pass a law to organize the elections and extend lawmakers’ terms before it dissolved, on the same day the country marked the fifth anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake. On Wednesday, the Organization of American States said it supported the efforts of Haitian authorities to “hold free, fair, and inclusive elections as soon as possible.” Earlier this week, a group of ambassadors and the U.N. special representative in Haiti said Martelly has their support through the period of political flux. During an AP interview at the prime minister’s official residence, Paul was sharply critical of violent anti-government street protests that have become increasingly common in downtown Port-au-Prince. Protesters calling for Martelly’s resignation have burned tires and thrown rocks at riot police, who responded with tear gas and water cannons. “People have a right to peaceful protest, a right protected by our constitution. But there’s also people taking advantage of the situation and who want to create chaos,” said Paul, who replaced Laurent Lamothe after he was forced to resign as prime minister. Earlier in the day, a group of anti-Martelly activists promised a fresh wave of street protests, insisting the president is a “dictator” who longs to rule by decree. Haitian historian Georges Michel, who blamed both the government and the opposition for the impasse, dismissed that idea. “You look at these protests calling Martelly a dictator who has to go and you see a thousand or a few thousand people on the streets. Is that really a big popular movement to remove a president? Of course not. Like him or not, he’s operating within the framework of democracy and I believe a majority of Haitians support him,” he said. Others see the protests as a more troubling sign. Mark Schneider, who has followed Haiti for the Washington-based International Crisis Group, said political leaders have failed the country’s citizens and set it on a very dangerous path. “They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion,” he said via email.
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Marigot Bay, Saint Lucia CASTRIES, St Lucia – Member states within the regional grouping – the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have embarked on a joint approach to marketing the region as a single yachting destination. This will be done when the OECS participates in the 57th Toronto International Boat Show scheduled to be held in Canada from January 10th to 18th. A statement from the Castries based OECS Commission says member States will present themselves as a collective in one yachting space within the ambiance of an “Eastern Caribbean Village” manned by over 20 people from the region’s public and private yachting sector. “This Eastern Caribbean Village effect will bring to the fore the uniqueness of respective destinations, the services and attractions relevant to the yachting sector in the region, and, through the inclusion of Sail Clear, information related to ease of travel,” says OECS Tourism Officer Dr Lorraine Nicholas. The OECS Member States that will be represented at the Toronto Boat Show are: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. According to Nicholas, the OECS opted to participate in the Toronto International Boat Show as a grouping, to help grow the region’s yachting sector. The event is marketed as North America’s largest indoor boat show, the preeminent selling venue for Canada’s recreational boating industry, and the premiere showcase for new 2015 products. She noted that the event is known to influence marked increases in sales among yacht manufacturers. “The anticipated ripple effect would be tremendous for the region, with the potential increase in sailing into the tranquil OECS Ports. Major European manufacturers, including Beneteau, Dehler, Dufour and Jeanneau, have already confirmed their attendance for the 2015 show.” The joint presence of the OECS at the Toronto International Boat Show is supported by funding under the 10th European Development Fund project.
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the back nine features “We are very stunning views of the proud to once again Atlantic Ocean. It offers be recognized by an amazing, one-of-a Golfweek as one of the kind golf experience for best golf courses in the players of all levels.” Caribbean,” said Mike Marriott’s St. Cole, Director of Golf, Kitts Resort is located Royal St. Kitts Golf Club in the West Indies and at the St. Kitts Marriott set against the beautiful Resort. backdrop of blue “The Royal St. Kitts Caribbean waters. This Golf Club is one of the beautiful and relaxing most scenic and well- beach location offers conditioned courses in amenities such as a the Caribbean. The front 15,000 square foot spa, a nine offers a glimpse of 35,000 square foot casino, the Caribbean Sea on and 10 restaurants and holes 3 and 4, as well lounges to provide a as views of sister island perfect vacation getaway. Nevis and colorful island For more information, homes which are set into visit www.marriott.com/ the mountainside, while st.kitts. Marriott Golf Course region.
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Signature’s newest FBO (Fixed base operator) in the Caribbean, Blue Heron Aviation Ltd, had its official opening on Monday January 12th, 2015. Operations at the facility started in November 2014. The Developers of Blue Heron Aviation Ltd would like to thank the following Govt. departments and companies that were involved with the development of the FBO facility. •The Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands •The Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands •Turks and Caicos Islands Government, and all of the TCIG departments that made it possible to complete and operate the facility. •The Attorney General’s Chambers. •The Turks and Caicos Islands Airport Authority. •The Civil Aviation Authority •Olympic Construction - Edwin Dickenson and Dave Doherty General Contractor. •Provo Electric. Electrical and Plumbing contractor. •CBMS •Dove Security •Ewart Chattel, and the locally owned Heavy equipment and haulage companies used extensively. •Herzog Caribbean Ltd •E&V Equipment •Air and Sea Agency •Business Solutions •ICT Solutions •Cargo Express Ltd and Tropical Shipping. •Conservative Architects, Anthony Walkin •Misick and Stanbrook •J&R Landscaping / EY contractors •Sunshine Nursery •EDS - Structural Engineer. •Building Services Design - MEP Engineer. •CSE, Civil and Structural Engineering •Benchmark Survey •BCQS, Quantity Surveying •Rubis Caribbean Ltd •Savour Catering. •Blue Heron Aviation investors •M-Aviation Ltd, Project team and Architect, Lloyd Inwards, Michel Neutelings, Will Shoreman, Sandra Coalbrooke, Janice Kerr. •Signature Flight Support. Signature Flight support’s Blue Heron Aviation FBO (phase one) was completed on time and to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, the current design allows for extensive future expansion of its facilities to enable it to continue to cater to the private aviation market, with opening of this facility and the recently completed Providenciales, International Airport expansion this means that the Turks and Caicos Islands now have the aviation infrastructure in place to ensure future investment and growth in the TCI. Signature Flight Support, a BBA Aviation plc company, is the world’s largest fixed-base operation (FBO) and distribution network for business aviation services. Signature services include fueling, hangar and office rentals, ground handling, maintenance and a wide range of crew and passenger amenities at strategic domestic and international locations. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Signature currently operates at more than 100 locations in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. For more information, please visit: www.signatureflight.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/signatureflightsupport. Follow Signature Flight Support on Twitter: SignatureFBO. www.blueheronfbo.com
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Samsung talks to BlackBerry about $7.5 billion buyout
Samsung Electronics recently offered to buy BlackBerry Ltd for as much as $7.5 billion, seeking its valuable patents as it battles Apple in the corporate market, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents seen by Reuters. South Korea’s Samsung proposed an initial price range of $13.35 to $15.49 per share, representing a premium of 38 percent to 60 percent over BlackBerry’s current trading price, the source said on Wednesday. Representatives from the two companies, which are working with advisers, met last week to discuss a potential transaction, the source said, asking not to be identified because the Samsung looks to buyout Black Berry conversations are private. The Waterloo, Ontario-based current acquisition offers. company said in a statement that it The board believes offering “has not engaged in discussions with prices, some in excess of $7 billion, fall Samsung with respect to any possible well below BlackBerry’s potential asset offer to purchase BlackBerry. Shares value in the next few years, according of BlackBerry, which soared nearly 30 to the Globe and Mail report. percent following the Reuters report, BlackBerry, a one-time investor fell back about 15 percent in after- darling that pioneered smartphones, hours electronic trading following the has regained some of its lost swagger statement. under Chief Executive John Chen, who Samsung also told Reuters in is leading a bid to regain market share Seoul that it has no plans to acquire it has lost to Apple Inc, Google Inc Blackberry. “Media reports of the (GOOGL.O) and Samsung. acquisition are groundless,” a company spokeswoman said. CORPORATE MARKET Separately on Wednesday, Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail “BlackBerry is in such transition reported BlackBerry has shunned a today, so any investment has been a bet handful of takeover overtures in recent on the future, so at this point Samsung months as its board and largest investor is cutting in before that full future think its restructuring strategy will becomes a reality,” said Morningstar deliver greater shareholder value than analyst Brian Colello.
Samsung’s strength as the No. 1 global smart phone marker has been built on making devices for the consumer market, which has become crowded in recent years. With a takeover of BlackBerry, Samsung could make greater inroads into the corporate market, where it has trailed rivals. BlackBerry still holds considerable sway among enterprise clients for its strong security features - with U.S. President Barack Obama still using one of the company’s devices after taking office. “How many Samsung phones do you see in offices? This would be Samsung’s chance to get into the enterprise,” said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis. Any tie-up with Samsung would require the blessing of Prem Watsa,
Target exits Canada and takes $5.4 billion loss
Target Corp will exit the Canadian market after less than two years in a surprise retreat that will throw more than 17,000 employees out of work and trigger a $5.4 billion quarterly loss. Shares of the U.S. discount retailer, which was granted creditor protection for its moneylosing Canadian subsidiary, at one point rose more than 4 percent on the move. The stock was up 2.2 percent at $75.94 in afternoon trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The company announced it is shutting all of its 133 Canadian stores and said it expects to report about $5.4 billion in pretax losses for its fourth quarter,
which finishes at the end of January. Losses are mostly due to the writedown of the Canadian investment, along with exit costs and operating losses. Minneapolis-based Target, the No. 2 discount chain in the United States, has struggled in Canada since its March 2013 launch. It faced huge supply chain problems due to a myriad of problems at its warehouses, poor communication with headquarters and the use of inexperienced staff. That left stores poorly stocked and selection limited, disappointing shoppers who had eagerly anticipated its arrival in a market where the discount space was long dominated by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Target had said in November it would review the future of the Canadian business after the holiday season. Stores checked by Reuters in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa around Christmas showed only moderate traffic and Chief Executive Brian Cornell said he didn’t see the “step-change” in performance required to justify staying the course. No matter how Target crunched the numbers it could not envision making profits until 2021, Cornell said. He told a conference call the company was “facing a decision to devote billions of dollars of additional resources for the Canadian segment without the realistic prospect of an appropriate return.” The move surprised some analysts who had expected Target to close its weakest stores and try to fix the rest. Before Thursday’s decision Target had sunk roughly $6 billion into the market, including around $2.5 billion in capital expenditure and $1.7 billion of losses to-date, Fitch Ratings said.
whose Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH.TO) is a major Blackberry shareholder. Fairfax helped bankroll a debt recapitalization that led to Chen’s arrival in November 2013 as CEO. Paul Rivett, president of Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings, declined to comment. BlackBerry’s secure networks manage the email traffic of thousands of large corporate customers, along with government and military agencies across the globe. In 2013, the Canadian government had strongly hinted to BlackBerry that any sale to China’s Lenovo Group would be rejected due to security concerns, sources told Reuters at the time. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office would not comment on the report on Wednesday but sources familiar with the Canadian government’s thinking said a Samsung buyout was unlikely to raise such concerns. Ross Healy, a portfolio manager at MacNicol & Associates, which owns a small stake in BlackBerry, said Samsung’s reported offer undervalues the company. “To get a hold of the BlackBerry network and all its secure features, that would be a real coup for Samsung, looking to differentiate themselves from Apple and from others,” he said. BlackBerry’s patent portfolio is composed of roughly 44,000 patents, worth more than $1.43 billion in net book value as of August last year, although many analysts think they could be worth much more.
Mexican billionaire becomes largest NY Times shareholder
Carlos Slim NEW YORK - The New York Times Co. says Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is now the largest holder of its publicly traded shares. The business magnate, who built his fortune by amassing a range of retail, industrial and telecom companies, is ranked by Forbes as the world’s second-richest person with an estimated net worth of $72 billion. Slim lent the newspaper company $250 million at the height of the recession, as print advertising sales dropped across the industry and the company slashed staff and sold off most of its midtown Manhattan
headquarters to raise cash. New York Times later refinanced the highinterest loan and paid it off three years early. The company said Wednesday that Slim and entities he controls recently spent nearly $101.1 million to exercise warrants he received for that investment, acquiring 15.9 million shares for about $6.36 each, roughly half the stock’s current price. The purchase brings his stake to about 27.8 million Class A shares, or 16.8 percent. The ownership doesn’t change control of the company. The Sulzberger family controls The New York Times Co. through a trust that owns 90 percent of its Class B stock, which isn’t publicly traded, and 3.8 percent of Class A shares. Holders of Class B stock can elect 70 percent of the company’s board.
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Apple, Google settle Global economic US poaching lawsuit outlook is glum despite for $415 million cheaper oil: IMF
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde A sharp drop in oil prices and a stronger U.S. economy probably won’t be enough to brighten the outlook for global growth this year, the head of the International
Monetary Fund warned on America’s relative strength is Thursday. also translating into some pain IMF Managing Director abroad. Christine Lagarde said that While softer U.S. data from while cheaper oil would help the December has pushed investors world’s consumers, the United to bet the Federal Reserve will States would likely be the only wait longer, perhaps until October, major economy to buck a trend to raise interest rates, Lagarde of weakness in investment and said the expected monetary consumption. policy tightening could lead to In a speech that previewed more volatile swings in financial IMF global growth forecasts due markets, particularly in poorer next week, Lagarde wondered countries where banks and firms aloud if plunging oil prices and have borrowed more in dollars in U.S. growth should make the IMF recent years. more upbeat. Falling prices for oil and other “The answer is most likely commodities are already putting ‘No’,” she said before rattling “huge currency pressures” on off a laundry list of the world’s Nigeria, Russia, and Venezuela, economic sore spots. she said. The euro zone and Japan “A shot in the arm (from lower risk suffering a long period of oil prices) is good, but if the global weak growth and dangerously economy is weak on its knees, it’s low inflation, with the specter of not going to help,” Lagarde said. a nightmarish deflationary spiral Beyond being a boon for of falling prices and wages already consumers, she said low oil prices looming over Europe, she said. are more a “golden opportunity” At the same time, the IMF also for countries to reduce energy sees growth slowing in emerging subsidies and focus government markets, led by a slowdown in spending more on alleviating China. poverty.
Southwest Airlines fined $1.6 million for stranding passengers
SAN FRANCISCO - Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple Inc and Google Inc agreed to pay $415 million to resolve an antitrust class action lawsuit by tech workers who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other’s employees, according to a court filing on Thursday. Plaintiffs accused Apple, Google, Intel Corp and Adobe Systems Inc in the 2011 lawsuit of limiting job mobility and, as a result, keeping a lid on salaries. The settlement is $90.5 million more than a previous deal which a U.S. judge rejected last year as too low. The case has been closely watched because of the possibility of big damages being awarded and for the opportunity to peek into the world of some of America’s elite tech firms. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, last year rejected a $324.5 million settlement of the lawsuit as too low after one of the named plaintiffs objected. That worker will support the new agreement, his attorney Daniel Girard said, which could be a joint payment of $415 million, the New York Times reported citing a person close to the negotiations. The case was based largely on emails in which Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt and some of their rivals detailed plans to avoid poaching each other’s prized engineers. In rejecting the $324.5 million deal, Koh repeatedly referred to a related 2013 settlement involving Disney and Intuit. Apple and Google workers got proportionally less than Disney workers, Koh wrote, even though plaintiff lawyers had “much more leverage” against Apple and Google. To match the earlier settlement, the deal with Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe “would need to total at least $380 million,” Koh wrote. In the short court filing on Tuesday, the companies said plaintiffs would file a detailed explanation of the new deal “imminently.” Koh will then likely decide whether to accept or reject it.
Brazil’s Petrobras scandal could exceed $28billion
SouthWest Airlines Southwest Airlines has agreed to pay a $1.6-million fine, the largest penalty so far for stranding passengers on a delayed flight for more than three hours. The fine was imposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation over the storm-related delays of 16 Southwest flights on Jan. 1 and 2, 2014, at Chicago Midway International Airport. A law that took effect in 2009 prohibits U.S. airlines from stranding passengers on a delayed flight for more than three hours without giving them the option of getting off
A Brazilian police officer investigating a kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras said the total amount of money involved could exceed $28 billion, making it the country’s biggest-ever money laundering probe. “If you consider the value being investigated, the value of the Petrobras projects, certainly the potential of the investigation is to surpass that value by a lot,” Federal police agent Erika Marena said in a rare telephone interview. Marena, speaking from the southern city of Curitiba where the probe is based, said police are investigating the possible involvement of more foreign companies and 750 infrastructure projects in addition to contracts involving Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the firm is called formally. Though she could not yet say exactly how much money may have been laundered in the kickback scandal, she said the case is likely bigger than the nearly $30 billion found to have been illicitly transferred abroad in a separate case between 2003 and 2007. She was also involved in that case, known as Banestado, Brazil’s biggest money laundering incident to date. The investigation has become the biggest crisis During the heavy Chicago storm, Southwest had yet for President Dilma Rousseff. It has threatened 16 flights that were delayed as long as four hours on to halt much-needed construction projects due to the the airport tarmac, according to federal records. According to a consent agreement signed by the alleged involvement of top engineering contractors airline, delays caused by the storm were aggravated and has reduced the market capitalization of by the malfunction of a crew-scheduling system, Petrobras by nearly half in two months. Marena spoke to Reuters late on Tuesday, before leading to a shortage of staff. police arrested Petrobras’ former international Before the penalty against Southwest, the director Nestor Cervero. Prosecutors accused largest civil penalties assessed by the Department of him of continued involvement in corruption and Transportation for violating the tarmac delay rules were $1.1 million against United Airlines in 2012 money laundering, although his lawyer said he had committed no crime. and $900,000 against American Eagle in 2011.
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Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified individuals for the position of Senior Electrical Engineer, FortisTCI, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Provide Professional Transmission & Distribution (T & D) Engineering services to the company primarily in the areas of system engineering studies and operations including: Design and management of overhead and underground line construction and T&D maintenance. System Protection System Expansion Planning Technical consultation and support to the production/generation group as required. SCADA system design and management Manage the T&D Material and Equipment Specifications, and maintain a Materials Master File for T&D materials and equipment. Provide engineering and operational support to Substation Operations and Maintenance to ensure optimal reliability and efficiency
Main Duties
Responsible for the engineering and coordination studies completed primarily using the appropriate engineering software. Set up and manage the T&D material specifications and coordinate and approve the T&D material purchased and stocked in stores. Responsible for providing technical support when required on the use and development of the FortisTCI SCADA system to ensure in house capacity to perform maintenance, trouble shooting and programming. Responsible for the T&D equipment specifications. Responsible for the timely update of the system single line and the lock out procedures used by T&D. Responsible for providing technical leadership to planning, construction crews and contractors with respect to line designs and system problem solving. Responsible for the design and layout of underground and overhead transmission and distribution lines to established standards to meet the present future needs of the electrical system. Responsible for completing cost benefit analysis for proposed Capital Budget transmission and distribution rebuilds and completing projects on time and on budget. Responsible for interacting with customers, consultants and regulatory bodies to provide high quality service to residential and commercial customers. Responsible for ensuring that line construction is completed to establish standards. Responsible for maintaining system reliability and ensuring that customer expectations are met in the most cost-efficient manner possible. Responsible for assisting line crews and other technical staff in troubleshooting the electrical system for power restoration and improved reliability. Responsible for providing input in the preparation of distribution Standards, Safety Practices and Work methods. Providing technical and administrative supervision of the substation technicians in the execution of operation and maintenance activities. Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time including support to the Generation department on electrical engineering related issues.
Monthly Duties
Creation of pre-defined and as needed reports on the T&D material and equipment specifications along with an analysis of how well the T&D materials meet these specifications. Update the materials master files for T&D equipment and ensure materials management is following the specifications. Complete timesheets accurately reflecting projected being worked on as required. Monitor and control all expenditures, especially Overtime.
Minimum Requirements:
A Degree in Electrical Engineering from an approved university At least ten (10) years’ experience in the field of Electrical Engineering At least five (5) years’ experience as a Senior Electrical Engineer Ability to apply technical knowledge, experience and problem solving to complex engineering and
maintenance issues.
Goal-oriented and self-motivated to apply needed initiative, attention to detail and appropriate sense of urgency to achieve desired results. Staying current with electric utility industry standards and changes and demonstrates that knowledge by implementing appropriate changes. Ability to deliver to strict deadlines and to work under pressure. Excellent planning, organizing and team building skills. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Excellent computing skills Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is January 28th 2015 to: Dr. Kellie-Ann Evans-Hall Manager, Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@ppcltd.tc or khall@fortistci.com
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified individuals for the position of Electrical Engineer, FortisTCI, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Description
Provide high quality of Transmission & Distribution (T & D) Engineering services to the company primarily in the areas of system engineering studies focusing on coordination and protection. Manage the T&D Material and Equipment Specifications, and maintain a Materials Master File for T&D materials and equipment. Provide high quality of T&D Engineering services to the company primarily in the areas of designing and managing overhead and underground line construction and T&D maintenance. Creation and maintenance of a system single line diagram ensuring an accurate representation of the T&D system. Create and manage a lock out procedure for T&D. Provide engineering support to Substation Operations and Maintenance to ensure optimal reliability and efficiency.
Main Duties
Responsible for the engineering and coordination studies completed primarily using the appropriate engineering software. Set up, manage the T&D material specification, coordinate and approve the T&D material purchased and stocked in stores. Responsible for the T&D equipment specifications. Responsible for the creation and updating of the system single line and the lock out procedures used by T&D. Responsible for providing technical leadership to planning, construction crews and contractors with respect to line designs and system problem solving. Responsible for the design and layout of underground and overhead transmission and distribution lines to established standards to meet the present future needs of the electrical system. Responsible for completing cost benefit analysis for proposed Capital Budget transmission and distribution rebuilds and completing projects on time and on budget. Responsible for interacting with customers, consultants and regulatory bodies to provide high quality service to residential and commercial customers. Responsible for ensuring that line construction is completed to establish standards. Responsible for maintaining system reliability and ensuring that customer expectations are met in the most cost-efficient manner possible. Responsible for assisting line crews and other technical staff in troubleshooting the electrical system for power restoration and improved reliability. Responsible for providing input in the preparation of distribution Standards, Safety Practices and Work methods. Supporting the substation group in development and implementation of a substation maintenance program according to industry best practice Providing technical and administrative assistance to the substation technicians in the execution of operation and maintenance activities. Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Monthly Duties
Create and submit a monthly report on the T&D material and equipment specifications along with an analysis of how well the T&D materials meet these specifications. Update the materials master files for T&D equipment and ensure materials management is following the specifications. Complete daily or weekly timesheets accurately reflecting projected being worked on. Monitor and control all expenditures, especially Overtime.
Minimum Requirements:
A Degree in Electrical Engineering from an approved university Ability to apply technical knowledge, experience, and problem solving to complex engineering and maintenance issues Goal-oriented and self-motivated to apply needed initiative, attention to detail and appropriate sense of urgency to achieve desired results. Staying current with electric utility industry standards and changes and demonstrate that knowledge by implementing appropriate changes. Ability to deliver to strict deadlines and to work under pressure Excellent planning, organising, and team building skills Excellent written and oral communication skills Proficient in the use of computers Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications
Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is January 28th 2015 to:
Dr. Kellie-Ann Evans-Hall Manager, Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@fortistci.com or khall@fortistci.com
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SENIOR REVENUE PROTECTION OFFICER
SENIOR PLANT ELECTRICIAN Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified individuals for the position of Snr. Plant Electrician, FortisTCI, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
DESCRIPTION Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified individuals for the position of Senior Revenue Protection Officer, FortisTCI, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
DESCRIPTION Responsible for investigating and reporting cases involving power diversion and billing fraud. Regularly examine meters for evidence of tampering. Examine wiring connecting meter to outside power lines and building circuits. Receive, report and respond to information and intelligence regarding fraud and suspected power diversion
Responsible for carrying out effective preventive and corrective repairs to plant control and electrical equipment and other company assets in a manner consistent with equipment manufacturer’s specification and standard electrical practices and as directed by the Plant Production Manager
Main Duties
Maintain, install and trouble shoot all rotating and stationary electrical equipment with particular emphasis on control systems. All such work will be performed with safety, efficiency and functionality of the FortisTCI system as the guiding factors. Participate in the layout, construction, installation, modification, maintenance and repairs to FortisTCI facilities by assisting in the preparation and MAIN DUTIES interpretation of blueprints, plans specifications, catalogue data and written and verbal instructions. Prepare power theft reports and analysis as requested. Maintain, install and trouble shoot all breakers (high and low voltage) and Work closely with the Transmission & DistributionTeam to ensure that associated equipment at the Power Plant. confirmed cases of power diversion is disconnected from the service line. Supervise and mentor apprentices. Work closely with the Administrative staff to investigate accounts with Plan and conduct work in a manner consistent with the company’s suspicious decreases in consumption. commitment to the environment and ensure that subordinate employees are Work closely with the Royal TCI Police Force during the investigation and likewise in compliance. prosecution of power diversion. Be familiar with and adhere to the safety and operating procedures of the Assist with conducting meter audits throughout all service territories. company. Recommend service connection upgrades where the service is susceptible to Be calm and competent in response to plant emergencies. power diversion or inaccurate billing. Knowledge and experience with starting, synchronizing, and loading multiple Recommend and participate in efforts to reduce non-technical losses. generators unto a power system busbar. Seek various means of gathering evidence in order to build case files. Collect and preserve evidence including statements, photos and test results Knowledge of substation operations and maintenance. Operate Company vehicles as required and in adherence to company policy which may be used in court. and the driving regulations of TCI authorities. Effectively represent the Company in Court in power theft related cases and Be professional in dress and demeanor as befits an employee and ensure provide technical evidence. that a good public image of FortisTCI is maintained at all times. Assist with informational presentations for both internal and external Perform other duties as may be assigned and/or required by system customers on power diversion. contingencies from time to time. Any other duties as may be assigned.
Academic/Technical/Management: Experience and Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology. Working knowledge of metering systems. At least 6 years’ experience in utility services or related field. A minimum of 3 years investigative experience.
Core Competency Skills: High level of direct customer contact requiring excellent written and oral communication skills. Must possess high ethical standards. Police Record should be in good standing. Knowledge of country laws and company policies and procedures applicable to illegal use of electricity. Knowledge of safety practices and procedures. Familiar with GPS and Mapping systems. Goal-oriented and self-motivated to apply needed initiative. Ability to work under pressure and in environments that may be adverse. Ability to speak multiple languages would be an asset. Valid Driver’s License is required. Proficient in Microsoft Word & Excel.
Minimum Requirements At a minimum, must possess an electrical technologist, or electrical technician advanced diploma (or equivalent), with particular emphasis on controls systems and protection technology. A minimum of 10 years’ experience in high voltage application preferably in the diesel power generation and substation environment. Experience working on Caterpillar and Wartsila diesel generators will be an asset. Familiarity with and competency in the use of computers PLCs and standard computing software programs. Excellence in interpretation of engineering drawings and manuals.  Professional competency in written and oral communication skills in English. Experience in high voltage installation, maintenance, and repairs. Ability to function effectively under emergency situations and thinks clearly and effectively and able to deliver within deadlines and to work under pressure.
Compensation
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications. Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is January 28th, 2015:
Dr. Kellie-Ann Evans-Hall Manager, Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@fortistci.com or khall@fortistci.com
Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is January 28th 2015 to: Dr. Kellie-Ann Evans-Hall Manager, Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@fortistci.com or khall@fortistci.com
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FUN & GAMES LOCAL NEWS BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY WORLD SPORTS •Supervising and training of Purchasing and Warehouse employees. Starting salary $40,000 not including service charge.
Houseman Requirements: •Ability to work with heavy cleaning machinery. •Must be able and willing to work all days and shifts
IMMEDIATE OPENING General Manager Requirements: •Functions as the Strategic Business Leader of the resort. Position oversees the development and implementation of departmental strategies and ensures implementation of the brand service strategy and brand initiatives. Focuses on target customer needs, employee satisfaction, growing revenues and maximizing financial performance of the resort. •A keen understanding of marketing / public relations / advertising strategies, and the ability to create sales and marketing plans. •At least 12 years experience in managerial role at high-end hotel/resort with in-depth knowledge of luxury marketing, sales. Brand experience a must. •Sound knowledge of all aspects of resort operation and finance. •Exceptional verbal, written and strategic planning skills. •Strong organization skills. •Ability to effectively direct labor productivity. •Financial management skills e.g., ability to analyze P&L statements, develop operating budgets, forecasting and capital expenditure planning. •Ability to use standard software applications and hotel systems – Opera (Fidelio), Micros. •Strategic planning skills. •Ability to evaluate business trends, determine applicability to customer profile and modify business strategies accordingly. •Ability to take constructive action without relying on directions from others. •Ability to network and build relationships to grow the business. •Strong problem-solving skills; encourages new innovative solutions when appropriate.
Must be willing and available to work all days and shifts.
Duties include: •Ensuring that standards of cleanliness and organization are met at all times in assigned areas. •Responsibility for care and maintenance of all equipment and machinery •Restock linens and amenities on carts •Run needed items to guest floors •Assist housekeepers as required Starting salary $5.25 not including service charge.
Pool and Beach Attendant Requirements: •Must be able to work in all outdoor element, rain, sun, etc. as required •Must be able to work long hours on feet •Must be able to lift 30lbs or more •Must be trained and certified in CPR, First Aid. •Life guard experience is a plus •Must be able and willing to work all days and shifts Duties Include: •Creating a luxury guest experience through delivery of high level service for all pool and beach services Starting salary $5.50 per hour not including service charge.
Technician The chosen candidate must be a licensed/certified refrigeration technician with knowledge of different types of refrigerant including R22, 134A and 404A. Must have experience maintaining and repairing low temperature refrigeration, walk-in freezers and coolers, ice machines and direct expansion air conditioning systems. Duties Include: •Perform scheduled preventative maintenance and corrective repair on all refrigeration equipment. •Upgrading equipment as required. •Maintaining inventory of parts needed for designated equipment to avoid down time. Starting salary $7.00- $9.00 per hour plus service charge.
Duties include: •Responsible for strategic planning and long-term vision and projects •Oversee day to day management of entire resort including development and implementation of process and management guidelines. •Occasional travel abroad representing the resort in marketing and public relations tradeshows. •Review financial data and prepare executive reports for owners and international management company. •Oversee managerial and other staff to ensure high guest satisfaction and employee retention.
Kitchen/Laundry Mechanic
Duties include: •Forecast procurement needs based on historical data and analysis. •Maintain procurement management database. •Upgrade regularly Marine Exchange Procurement software. •Liaise with brokers and support customs clearances. •Liaise with Accounts Payable Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices •Monitor inventory control and spending in order to make recommendations and identify areas for possible savings. •Conduct physical inventories of the storerooms and prepare requisitions for all departments to bring items up to par stock levels.
Interested applicants should apply to Regent Palms, Human Resources Department, Monday through Friday, and bring along an updated resume, or by emailing your resume to marjorie.dorsett@ regenthotels.com, no later than end of day Friday, January 30th, 2015.
Requirements: •Minimum 3 years experience of experience. •Post secondary degree or equivalent qualification by experience. •Knowledge and experience in repair and maintenance including preventative maintenance of property systems and equipment. •To be an independent kitchen laundry mechanic, able to analyze International Procurement Manager problems, to read technical data sheets and diagrams for mechanical and electrical equipment and to formulate plans to get work done quickly, Requirements: including procurement of materials, parts, etc., and necessary scheduling •5+ years experience in international purchasing in a luxury hospitality arrangements with a high degree of quality. environment; while negotiating domestic and international contracts, •Ability to speak effectively with customers and associates read and write increasing total quality of the goods, and fully organizing proper container and interpret documents and technical wiring diagram information sheets shipments. as well as safety rules (lockout tagout), safety awareness information •Post secondary degree or equivalent qualification by experience. (MSDS) operating and maintenance and instructions manuals. •Must be Computer literate, Microsoft Office, MXP, etc. •Must have advanced knowledge of Food & Beverage quality standards, Duties include: health compliances and specifications. •Maintain proper preventative maintenance to laundry equipment and •Must have product knowledge of food, beverage and hotel consumable/ boilers. durable items. •Maintain proper amount of chemical injection on boiler feed tank and •Knowledge of Marine Exchange Procurement is an advantage. proper conductivity at boilers. •Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English, with •Preventative maintenance to steam traps and steam lines additional other language is an advantage. Starting salary $7.00 per hour not including service charge. •Flexible, ability to work independently and under pressure. •Must be able and willing to work all days and shifts.
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Management Trainee Programme Come and join our award winning team!!! Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort Villages and Spa, the only 6 Diamond all inclusive property in the Caribbean is looking to recruit a Trainee Manager. We are inviting applications from suitably qualified Turks and Caicos Islanders. Applicants must have a clean police record and a good command of the English language both written and spoken. In addition candidates must be able to work nights, public holidays and week-ends. The Trainee Manager Programme is designed to develop persons entering into a managerial position via an extensive training program; the individual will learn certain faucets of the Resort’s operation. While working directly with each department, the programme builds cross-functional expertise and allows time for skill development and adjustment to the company culture. Individuals learn directly from our Leaders through on-the-job experience. The Trainee Manager will enter each department with a view of learning the skills appropriate to that area, as well as make suggestions while having a meaningful impact on the department. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field or a minimum of five (5) years supervisory experience. Applicants are welcome from both the Hospitality Industry and from other types of institutional experience. Candidates must submit along with the application a copy of certifications held and one reference letter. Please ensure the cover letter specifies the Trainee Manager Programme. Please forward your resumes by Friday January 26th 2015 to secure an interview date and time. Feel free to drop your resumes in our secure resume drop-box at the Service Gate, or email it to mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com, or fax to 649 946 4870.
There are also vacant positions available in the following departments and we are inviting Belonger applicants: � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �
Accounts Bars Concierge Cost Control Dining Room Engineering Environmental Health and Safety Entertainment Front Office Gift Shop Grounds Housekeeping Kids Kamp Kitchen Laundry Photoshop Public Relations Projects Security Spa Stewarding Training Travel and Loyalty Department Watersports Applicants will be contacted via text only to confirm your interview Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to: mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com or Fax to: 941-4870 Attn: M McClean-Vaughn or dropped off in the “Resume Box” at the Service Gate. and should reach not later than January 26th 2015 .
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INTERCARIBBEAN AIRWAYS IS SEEKING: Grounds Operations Manager: Must have 10 years or more experience in airline industry, and have the following aviation certifications: •Auditor training •Dangerous goods training •Security training Suitable candidate should also be: Highly organized and efficient in multitasking in dynamic environments Experienced in planning, organizing and managing people and job functions Skilled communicator with the ability to interact with people at all levels of the organization Responsibilities: •All ground handling services. •Internal quality audits •Operational and documentation process •Liaison with Government/airport authority •Must be able to communicate well in English language.
Please send resume to HR@InterCaribbean.com
We are looking for a responsible and confident individual to join their marketing team as a Journalist.
Responsibilities: •Generate ideas for stories and long-form features regularly. •Cover sports/news events as assigned. •Produce stories for websites, other platforms and press releases •Update website with local and global sports news and information. •Represent the company as media delegate to cover overseas sports events. •Assist on-air sports coverage on ad-hoc basis. •Proofread, edit and revise materials from contracted publishers/agencies whenever necessary.
Requirements: •At least 10 years working experience in journalism, preferably in any editorial content •Excellent command of English language (written and spoken). •Independent and self-driven team player. •Able to work on weekends and public holidays •Photoshop, Indesign & Illustrator an assest
Please send resume to HR@InterCaribbean.com
JOB TITLE: Direct Sales Representative. TCI
DEPARTMENT:
Direct Sales
REPORTS TO (TITLE): Direct Sales Team Leader. Primary objective of the job: Selling products and services to new customers and up-selling and cross-selling to existing customers. Number of persons managed/supervised and their positions: None Main Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Make visits to households in assigned territory to promote and sell all Digicel Play Services. 2. Identify and execute strategic sales activities geared at increasing subscriber base within our multifaceted market segments. 3. Full accountability for cash collection and follow up reporting. 4. Accurately record prospect information and maintain up to date sales pipeline. 5. Accurately record customer orders and application forms. 6. Achieve aggressive sales targets while facilitating the highest level of customer satisfaction. 7. Provide accurate and relevant responses to customers concerns, service requests and enquiries.
Academic qualifications and experience required for job: � � � � �
Minimum 5 CXC/GCE O ‘levels (including Mathematics and English Language) Basic computer skills including use of Excel, Word and Outlook are mandatory Demonstrated Knowledge of Internet and Cable TV Services Previous sales experience, with demonstrated success is an asset Previous experience in a customer service environment
Functional Skills:
� Excellent interpersonal skills � Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task � Excellent communication skills (verbal/ written) � Flexible, quick-thinking and energetic � Must be customer oriented � Ability to rapidly learn sales methodologies and undertake training path as prescribed by the business � Ability to speak Creole or Spanish as a second language will be a distinct advantage Internal/External contacts: �
Customers/Subscribers and Direct Sales Management Team and other senior personnel at Digicel Play TCI.
Working Condition:
� Communication with customers of diverse personalities and social backgrounds � Required to work on weekends and public holidays � Required to work long hours in order to meet the business objectives � Travel to all communities / areas of TCI (Island Of Providenciales) � Mostly outdoors � Heat / Dust Key Performance Indicators: � Achievement of weekly prospect targets � Achievement of monthly assigned sales targets � Adherence to reporting and administrative functions which include full compliance with CRM data entry
Interested applicants should forward their resume to hrtci@digicelgroup.com Deadline for submission -‐ 22 nd January, 2015 Limited Space Available
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There is no axe to grind, says CLive Lloyd
Clive Lloyd, the former West Indies captain and current chairman of selectors, has said that the absence of “exceptional performances” from the pair of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard, coupled with the selection panel’s vision to move forward and look for young talent, were the chief reasons for omitting the two senior allrounders for the ODIs against South Africa and the World Cup. Lloyd said the decision had been a difficult one and was debated heavily. He insisted that it was not the end of the road for the discarded pair and it was up to the players to regain their spots on the back of performances. “It was a very difficult decision. I can tell you it went on for two days. We suspended it to give a chance to think about things and so on. There were a lot of discussions,” Lloyd told ESPNcricinfo in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. “But then you get to a point where you say, right, this is where we want to go. It is very difficult for people to understand or to accept. But we want to move on. “I don’t think they have had any exceptional performances. Nobody (of the pair) has got exceptional performances as far as (playing for) West Indies is concerned. They have been there and thereabouts. We really and truly want to pick people on what they have done for our cricket and not for anyone else.” Despite being part of the 30 probables for the World Cup, Bravo and Pollard had already been left out of the five-match ODI series against South Africa. Considering their popularity in domestic global Twenty20 competitions, the news created furore not just in the Caribbean, but also outside. Former West Indies fast bowler and Lloyd’s
Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd former team-mate Michael Holding raised the question of why Bravo had been dropped when he was part of the ICC ODI Team of the Year for 2014. Pollard and Bravo are fourth and fifth on the list of highest run-scorers for West Indies since the 2011 World Cup. Lloyd said there were already too many allrounders in the squad and that the selectors had to take a call. He also hinted that the performances of Bravo and Pollard that have registered in the fans’ minds had mostly come in the domestic T20 leagues like the IPL. Lloyd revealed that he had spoken with both players in person last week in Cape Town: “Yes, I spoke to them in Cape Town. They understand what the situation is. Don’t forget, these guys have been playing for West Indies for a while. And they will be disappointed. But they have a chance of redeeming themselves and getting back into our cricket in the
Powell tries new regime to win elusive gold
Asafa Powell KINGSTON - Jamaica’s Asafa Powell, who has struggled to produce form his best at major championships, believes a change in coach and a new approach to training will improve his fortunes. The sprinter who held the 100m world record between 2005 and 2008 before compatriot Usain Bolt lowered it to 9.58 seconds believes he can rediscover his form and improve his personal best of 9.72. “Anything is possible. Justin Gatlin surprised me last year… he ran his personal best times of (9.77 & 19.68) at age 32,” said Powell, who ended 2014 as the fastest Jamaican with 9.87 seconds after serving a six-month drug suspension for using the banned stimulant Oxilofrine. “I think I’m capable of doing a lot more than most of the sprinters out there… My best is yet to come, so it’s just to be patient,” said Powell who is eyeing gold at this year’s world championships in Beijing.
“I feel a lot stronger, I’m a lot more focused and I think I’m smarter now, so I know what it takes to do it. It’s just to put myself out there and do what I’m supposed to do,” added the man who has run a world-record 84 times under 10 seconds. Powell’s brother Donovan, a 100m quarter-finalist at the 1997 world championships, is backing his 32-yearold sibling to add gold to his two bronze medals from 2007 and 2009. “Nothing is impossible, 32 is the year you really get to put everything together,” he told Reuters. “We are doing different things… He’s really working hard to achieve the 9.72 he ran a few years ago and I personally think if he keeps focused and remains healthy, he can do it,” he said. The fifth fastest man in history is set to run three 60m indoors before bidding for the elusive 100m world title. “The main focus is the trials first because that is like a world championships by itself and then the world championships in China,” said Powell, in reference to the glut of Jamaican sprinters with sub-10 credentials. They include Bolt, Yohan Blake, Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade. “I’m just trying to stay healthy, put in all the hard work and make sure that I stay focused and just win the gold (in Beijing),” Powell added.
future. One is 31 (Bravo) and the other is 27 or 28 (Pollard).” Lloyd also said he did not need to respond to Chris Gayle who called the selectors’ move “ridiculous”. Gayle had said that he was stunned to hear from Bravo that one reason for the pair being dropped was that the selectors wanted to rebuild the team. “He (Gayle) might think so, but the point is that he is not a selector. He is a player,” Lloyd said. “I have the greatest respect for him. But he will have to read what we are trying to do. He is part of that team that is going forward. Once he has been told what the situation is he will understand what we are doing.” Immediately after Bravo and Pollard were dropped from the South Africa ODI series but included for the T20 leg, the players’ lawyer Ralph Thorne said that “a gentle form of ruthlessness” by the WICB led to their exclusion from the World Cup squad. Thorne accused the WICB of victimisation and not honouring the word of the board president Dave Cameron who had said that the players who abandoned the tour of India last October would be treated fairly. Lloyd said he had explained the reasons, in writing, to all concerned parties, including the WICB, the West Indies Players Association, as well as the players’ lawyers. He insisted there was no discrimination by the selection panel. “No, no. That is not the way I live. I don’t believe in things in that nature at all. There is no axe to grind with these guys. There are other people that could have…You know we could have said, “What about X, what about Y?
Gayle slams selectors over Bravo, Pollard omissions
After hammering a matchwinning 90 that helped West Indies win the Twenty20 series against South Africa, Chris Gayle launched a scathing attack on the West Indies Cricket Board and the Clive Lloyd-led selection panel for dropping the senior pair of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard from the ODI series and the World Cup. Repeatedly labelling the move as “ridiculous”, Gayle felt it was a case of “victimisation” against the two Trinidadian allrounders. “How can those two guys not be in the team?” Gayle, who is the first current player to raise his voice against the omissions, said during the post-match media conference at Wanderers. “To me it got to be like victimisation when you look at it towards those two guys. Come on, guys. It is just ridiculous. Come on. Ridiculous. Really hurt. Ridiculous. Honestly, it throw me off. We can only talk. We can express our feelings, which I’m doing at this point in time. The squad already is announced. It is just sad. “It is a big batting line-up when you look at our team. But it’s just disappointing when you look at the 50-over format - we won’t be at our strongest,” Gayle said. “We don’t have our strongest team without Pollard, nor Bravo. So that is actually sad for us. It is a really big blow for us to actually lose two key players, two key allrounders as well, very good in the outfield. I don’t know what’s the history behind it, but it is a ridiculous
Chris Gayle selection from my point of view.” On Saturday, the WICB announced the 15-man World Cup squad to be led by Jason Holder with Marlon Samuels as vice-captain. There was no mention about Bravo and Pollard, who had been earlier been ignored for the ODI series against South Africa. Gayle, whose blazing starts were instrumental to West Indies chasing big totals in successive matches, including the highest successful Twenty20 chase on Sunday, said he was glad he could dedicate the series victory to Bravo and Pollard. “I don’t know where our cricket is actually going to …where we are heading with this sort of situation. But it is really sad. Actually we won the [Twenty20] series with our best team and now there will be changes, with two of our biggest players in ODI cricket not involved in the 50-over format and the World Cup. It really hurts but I’m really, really glad that we won the series for Pollard and Bravo.”
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Pacquiao agrees to terms for Mayweather fight
(Left) Floyd Mayweather (Right) Manny Pacquiao LAS VEGAS - Manny Pacquiao flew to Los Angeles on Wednesday, preparing for a meeting with contestants of the Miss Universe pageant. Whether he has an even bigger date on May 2 seems entirely up to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Promoter Bob Arum said Pacquiao has agreed to all terms for what would be boxing’s richest fight ever, a bout with Mayweather that fans have been demanding for five years. The question now is whether the long-reluctant Mayweather will finally sign on the dotted line for what could be an astonishing $120 million payday for the fighter who flaunts his money better than anyone. “Your guess is as good as mine,” Arum told The Associated Press. “I don’t want to be antagonistic and say he’s not on board and not going to sign. The representation is that he is on board with this.”
Arum said negotiations with Mayweather’s representatives over the past few weeks resulted in agreements on everything from the date and site of the fight (MGM Grand in Las Vegas) to purse split (reportedly 60-40 in Mayweather’s favor) to the type of gloves the boxers will wear. But Mayweather has yet to personally agree to the fight, and the possibility remained that Arum was publicly discussing Pacquiao agreeing to terms to try to up the pressure on the unbeaten boxer to sign. “We’re waiting for Mayweather to sign a document saying, ‘Yeah,’” Arum said. Just what Mayweather is thinking remains unclear. Though he declared on Showtime last month that he wanted the fight, he rarely speaks to the media between fights and his manager, Al Haymon, almost never speaks publicly.
Mayweather put out pictures of himself in front of a private jet and his new cars this week along with a picture of his Las Vegas mansion, but said nothing about the Pacquiao fight on social media. Arum said the negotiations have been at the highest levels, and Pacquiao agreed to all the demands by the Mayweather team. “We took our stands on certain issues, but essentially we acquiesced on most things,” Arum said. Arum said he planned to meet with Pacquiao on Thursday in Los Angeles to formally get his fighter’s signature on the terms of the bout. Pacquiao flew from the Philippines on his way to judge the Miss Universe pageant on Jan. 25 in Florida. Arum said the fight would be held at the MGM, where Mayweather has fought exclusively for years. The 15,000-seat arena would be scaled for a $40 million live gate. He said with pay-per-view revenues, the bout could generate $200 million. With a 60-40 split, that would mean a potential $120 million payday for Mayweather and his team and $80 million for Pacquiao and his promoter. Both would be record purses for fighters. Mayweather has resisted a Pacquiao fight for five years, first claiming Pacquiao would not agree to drug testing and later saying he wasn’t worth facing him in the ring. But Arum said Pacquiao has long since agreed to the testing, and the pressure has built on Mayweather to come to terms on the bout. Oddsmakers quickly put out lines Wednesday in this gambling city favoring Mayweather in the bout. Both the Westgate LV Superbook and William Hill made him about a 2 1/2-to-1 favorite in man-toman betting.
FIFA VP Prince Ali launches presidential bid against Blatter
GENEVA - Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein has a daunting task ahead of him as he bids to end Sepp Blatter’s 17year grip on power at FIFA. The 39-year-old prince from Jordan announced he will be a candidate for the FIFA presidency even though five of the six continental confederations have already declared their support for Blatter. The rebellious region - European governing body UEFA - holds only 53 of the 209 votes and includes traditionally loyal Blatter supporters among former Soviet republics. Prince Ali also cannot be sure of widespread support within his home Asian Football Confederation, where he faces an awkward election in May before FIFA’s decision day. Still, the prince represents a genuine choice for FIFA voters who truly want to freshen the culture of an organization rocked by scandals on Blatter’s watch.
Elected by Asian members as their FIFA vice president in January 2011, Prince Ali is untouched by the allegations of bribery and favor-seeking that tainted many of his colleagues on the much-discredited, Blatter-chaired executive committee, which he formally joined later that year. “This was not an easy decision,” the prince said in a single-page statement in which he pledged to run a positive campaign and did not specifically mention Blatter. “It came after careful consideration and many discussions with respected FIFA colleagues over the last few months. “The message I heard, over and over, was that it is time for a change.” Prince Ali has been encouraged to run by UEFA President Michel Platini, who opted last year to avoid an expected challenge to his onetime mentor Blatter. “I know Prince Ali well. He has all the credibility required to hold
Trophy winner Marcus Heisman Mariota,Heisman whose bold moves and leadership on the field brought the Ducks to the brink winner of a national championship before falling short, is leaving Oregon early for the NFL. Mariota his long-awaited Marcus decision toannounced forgo his senior season on website. The team said he filed Mariota says Oregon’s paperwork on Wednesday, a day before the he’s going to NFL“Ideadline. will miss being with my teammates,” he said in a statement. “Being a part of the NFL this team was something special that I will always treasure.”
high office,” the France great said in a statement. “We now await his proposals and his program for the future of football.” FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blatter’s office. Prince Ali is considered the main challenger to Blatter. Jerome Champagne of France, a former FIFA staffer and longtime ally of Blatter, has also announced his intention to run. During Blatter’s 17-year reign, he has avoided personal scandal amid bribery allegations in presidential and World Cup hosting elections, kickbacks paid to senior officials, and World Cup ticket scams. Blatter has also mastered the politics of an often secretive organization he joined in 1975, a few months before Prince Ali was born. The veteran Swiss official has said his mission to lead world football is unfinished.
Mariota has been the humble leader of Oregon’s high-flying offense for three seasons. This season, the Ducks (13-2) defeated Florida State at the Rose Bowl in college football’s first playoffs, but fell 42-20 to Ohio State in Monday night’s national championship game. The 6-foot-4 dual threat from Hawaii won every major award he qualified for, starting with the Heisman, as well as AP Player of the Year, the Maxwell and Walter Camp awards and Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year. He set a conference record for most touchdowns in a single season
That mission is fuelled by a runway popular and commercial success of FIFA’s cash cow, the World Cup. The world’s most-watched sports event has given FIFA $1.5 billion in cash reserves with plenty more to give members and confederations every four years ahead of election day. Educated at schools in England and the United States, Prince Ali attended the elite Sandhurst military academy in England before joining his country’s armed forces. His sister, Princess Haya, stepped down last month as an International Olympic Committee member after eight years as president of equestrian’s governing body, and their half-brother Prince Faisal remains an IOC member. Prince Ali was a vocal supporter of FIFA ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia, who resigned last month with a parting shot at Blatter’s leadership style and the organization’s seeming unwillingness to reform.
with 58; 42 via pass, 15 on the run and a touchdown catch. His passing touchdowns set a Pac-12 single-season record. He also set the conference’s career mark for career touchdowns with 136. He threw at least one touchdown pass in all 41 college games he played in at Oregon, starting in every one of his appearances. And he’s one of just four quarterbacks in FBS history to pass for more than 10,000 yards and run for more than 2,000 in his career.
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Cristiano Ronaldo wins Duo first to 3rd FIFA Player of the free-climb Year award Yosemite ‘Wall’
Cristiano Ronaldo ZURICH - Cristiano out by French great Thierry Henry, Ronaldo hopes his third FIFA the 29-year-old Ronaldo closed his Player of the Year award brought eyes, dipped his head and smiled him closer to being remembered before walking to the stage. “It has been an unforgettable as one of soccer’s all-time greats. The Portuguese forward, year,” Ronaldo said after taking a who led Real Madrid to its record deep breath. 10th European title, received Messi won the award four 37.66 percent of votes of national straight times from 2009-12. team coaches and captains and While Messi’s Argentina lost in selected media to add to the FIFA the World Cup final, Ronaldo’s awards he won in 2008 and 2013. Portugal was eliminated in the first round. Ronaldo’s Real Madrid He matched Zinedine Zidane and “I want to become one of also won Spain’s Copa del Rey. “It’s a fantastic moment in the greatest players of all time,” Ronaldo said through a translator my career,” Ronaldo said after the during Monday night’s acceptance FIFA ceremony. “I want to carry speech. “Of course, this requires a on with more titles in my career, lot of effort and I hope to get there.” collective and individual.” Messi, the Argentine star U.S. captain Clint Dempsey forward on Barcelona, was second voted Ronaldo first, followed by in voting with 15.76 percent, just Messi and German midfielder ahead of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer Thomas Mueller. American coach (15.72), who helped Germany to Jurgen Klinsmann - a former star and coach for Germany - had the World Cup title. Ronaldo scored 61 goals last Neuer first, followed by Messi and year for club and country, and set a Dutch forward Arjen Robben. Paul Champions League season record Kennedy of Soccer America, the with 17. On hearing his name read U.S. media representative, voted
Ronaldo first, followed by Messi and German defender-midfielder Philipp Lahm. The FIFA men’s award merged in 2010 with France Football’s Golden Ball, given to the European player of the year. German midfielder Nadine Kessler won the Women’s Player of the Year for the first time, They used ropes and safety harnesses to catch themselves in getting 17.52 percent to beat out case of a fall but relied entirely on their own strength Brazilian forward Marta (14.16) and American forward Abby YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- It was Wambach (13.33). Marta was a a magical moment years in the making: American five-time winner from 2006-10 rock climber Tommy Caldwell pulled himself atop and Wambach won in 2012. the 3,000-foot wall of El Capitan in Yosemite U.S. coach Jill Ellis voted National Park, joined minutes later on a narrow Kessler first and Wambach second, ledge by his climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson. whole American captain Christine Knowing they had free-climbed the world’s Rampone had Wambach first and biggest granite monolith, the two longtime friends didn’t include Kessler among her embraced, and then Jorgeson pumped his arm in top three. The U.S. did not have a the air and clapped his hands above his head. media vote. Year after year of practice, failed attempts and Joachim Loew was the past 19 grueling days scaling by their fingertips voted men’s Coach of the Year and feet rewarded them at last with success. after leading Germany to the “That’s a deep, abiding, lifelong friendship, World Cup title, and Wolfsburg’s built over suffering on the wall together over six Ralf Kellermann was picked as years,” said Caldwell’s mother, Terry, among some women’s Coach of the Year. 200 people who broke into cheers from the Yosemite Valley floor thousands of feet below. The mother said her son could have reached the top several days ago, but he waited for his friend to ensure they made it together. head coaching vacancy. The pair on Wednesday completed what had “He is a hard-working and long been considered the world’s most difficult rock dedicated leader who has garnered the respect of players and coaches,” climb, captivating the nation and world through social media and livestreamed video coverage Johnson said. “I am confident that while documentary filmmakers dangled from ropes Todd and Mike Maccagnan are capturing each move. the right combination to lead this Caldwell, 36, and Jorgeson, 30, became the first to team.” free-climb the rock formation’s Dawn Wall, a feat Bowles becomes the fifth that many had considered impossible. black head coach currently in the They used ropes and safety harnesses to catch NFL, joining Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, Cincinnati’s Marvin Lewis, themselves in case of a fall but relied entirely on their own strength and dexterity to ascend by Tampa Bay’s Lovie Smith and grasping cracks as thin as razor blades and as small Detroit’s Jim Caldwell. He also is the Jets’ sixth straight defensive- as dimes. The two dealt with constant falls and injuries. But focused head coach and fifth since Johnson took over the Jets in 2000, their success completes a yearslong dream that bordered on obsession for the men. joining Ryan, Eric Mangini, Herm At the top, another crowd was waiting for them, Edwards, Groh and Bill Parcells. including Caldwell’s wife and Jorgeson’s girlfriend, With the Jets, Bowles will who welcomed them with hugs and kisses. The inherit a solid defensive front pair then were to hike two to three hours down the seven with rising star defensive mountain to hold a news conference Thursday near linemen in Muhammad Wilkerson where their climb had started. and Sheldon Richardson. The President Barack Obama sent his congratulations secondary, however, needs a major from the White House Twitter account. overhaul.
Jets hire Cardinals Todd Bowles as coach NEW YORK - Todd Bowles is coming home and taking over as the New York Jets’ head coach. The Jets hired the Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator Wednesday to replace Rex Ryan, who was fired, along with general manager John Idzik, on Dec. 29 after six seasons. Bowles, 51, was highly sought after leading Arizona’s aggressive-style defense the last two seasons. This will be his first full-time head coaching job at any level after serving as Miami’s interim coach for the final three games in 2011. “It’s an honor and privilege to coach the Jets,” Bowles said in a statement. “I can’t help but be humbled by the chance to coach this team. I am going to do everything I can to build a consistent winner.” It is a homecoming of sorts for Bowles, who is a native of
Elizabeth, New Jersey. He also served as the Jets’ defensive backs coach under Al Groh during the 2000 season. Bowles beat out five other candidates, including Seattle defensive coordinator Dan Quinn and former Buffalo coach Doug Marrone, who interviewed with owner Woody Johnson and consultants Charley Casserly and Ron Wolf, both of whom Bowles has ties to. Bowles had a second interview Tuesday with Johnson, Casserly and Wolf - along with newly hired general manager Mike Maccagnan - and impressed the Jets enough to move forward. New York canceled a scheduled interview with Carolina defensive coordinator Sean McDermott that was set for Wednesday. Bowles also called off a second meeting that was scheduled for Wednesday with the Atlanta Falcons for their
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