MAY 29TH, 2015 – JUNE 5TH, 2015
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TRAGIC WEEK IN PROVO
By Vivian Tyson
Senior Sun Editor
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his past week has been a deadly one for the Turks and Caicos with three people, including two females, losing their lives in horrific fashion. Murder accounted for one of the deaths, the second was as a result of an apparent suicide and the third a road fatality. In addition, a car, while parked in Grace Bay, was destroyed by, and there were two other incidents of motor vehicle accidents where occupants barely escaped with their lives after their rides were overturned. The dead are identified as Dieula Jean, Crisanto Ramos, a Philippines and Naomi Adrian, a 22 year-old nation of the Dominican Republic. Jean was stabbed to death on Monday, May 25, 2015, by a man with whom she had an altercation in the Dock Yard in the Kew Town area. Members of the Haitian Community identified him only as “Biad Alcibiad” of the community. Reports reaching The SUN are that Jean and Alcibiad shared a sexual relationship, which appeared to have gone bad. It unclear as to what caused the incident, but when police arrived, they saw the lifeless body of the woman lying in a pool of blood in a house. The man was missing. It is understood that persons in the area assist the accused to escape the scene. However, a police source said that it appeared that the man was in no mood to elude the authorities, as he was picked up by investigators at Sweet Ts - the popular fast food outlet downtown Providenciales, the same day. At press time he was not charged. Meantime, the SUN
PARKED CAR CATCHES FIRE: This flame-engulfed car drew dozens of curious onlookers on Friday, May 22nd, 2015, near the Ports of Call plaza in the tourist belt of Grace Bay. Its driver said he left the vehicle parked in a parking lot, only to learn that it later caught fire. It is unclear as to what triggered the blaze which was put out by members of the fire department, who arrived on the scene a short time after 911 reportedly receiving the report. The firefighters were, however, unable to save the vehicle. understands that Ramos, a bartender at Beaches Resort and Spa, was found hanging from the ceiling of his Grace Bay apartment sometime Tuesday, May 26, 2015. While the police suspected suicide, they are still carrying out investigations to see where it takes them. Naomi Adrian, a waitress at La Familia nightclub on Providenciales, was killed on Friday, May 22, 2015, after the car in which she was a
passenger and driven by her boyfriend along the Leeward Highway in the vicinity of Caicos Lodges, apparently got out of control, slammed into a wall before hitting a parked car. When first responders arrived on the scene, they spotted Ramos’ lifeless body outside the vehicle, fuelling speculation that she was ejected on impact. She was pronounced dead shortly after.
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Leading up the fatal incidents, on Friday, May 22, 2015, two cars were totaled in the Grace Bay area in separate incidents almost simultaneously. In one incident, a car was seen engulfed in flames in the vicinity of the Ports of Call plaza. The incident befuddled a number of onlookers, including the driver, who said he parked the vehicle at the spot, and was surprised to see it on fire. The fire department, which was called to the scene, extinguished the blaze. No one was hurt. At press time, the derelict vehicle, which has become an eyesore in the tourist belt, was still at the scene. While at the car-burning scene, reports reached first responders that a car had overturned just up the road near the golf course. When the police, the fire department and the Emergency
Management Services (EMS) reached the scene, they saw a badly mangled car in the bushes on its roof. The fire department was force apply the Jaws of Life to cut the lone male occupant from the vehicle in full view of dozens of onlookers. Though dazed, the driver refused to be carried away in the ambulance, but promised Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTS) that he would visit the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre that night for check. It is not clear if he actually went to hospital that night. The car was totaled. On Thursday, May 21, first responders were called to the Five Cays main road near of Club 2005, to an inexplicable accident scene. Eyewitnesses said that they saw a red SUV flipping along the road and landing on a dark green car.
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