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FISH AND CONCH IN GREAT DANGER

Price Club workers demonstrate Several ex-employees of Price Club staged a protest outside Price Club on Leeward Highway, on Monday, August 8th. The workers complained of not getting severance pay and other benefits. (See Page 12. for more details).

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he Turks and Caicos Islands fishing and seafood industry which is a major source of local employment and a significant generator of income for the country, is a great danger because of over-fishing and exploitation.

That was the finding of a scientific study that was recently published in Frontier in Marine Science, the most comprehensive interdisciplinary open-access journal that publishes research which advances understanding of all aspects of the environment, biology, ecosystem functioning and human interactions with the oceans.

“Policy-driven, future increases in the TCI’s national population and its tourist numbers, with the increase

in local seafood consumption that will result, will be devastating to the health of TCI fisheries without legislation to curb catches and/or consumption,” the report warned.

“Considering marine resources contribute over 10% of the GDP as of 2015, and benefit residents by providing readily available and potentially long-term sources of local protein and employment, there is an urgent need to act on the results of this study.”

The study noted that Queen conch were found to contribute 87% to the total reconstructed catches for the TCI, emphasizing that this is an extremely important species, however, their “future looks bleak”.

The TCI’s queen conch population is seen as one of the more abundant and thus, healthier

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populations in the greater Caribbean, and their continued “health” is important to the sustainability of the species as a whole, the scientists observed.

“Although the TCI marine resource managers have tried to limit conch catch, the results of this study show that the unaccounted for local and tourist consumption essentially accounts for what managers see as a sustainable catch (the maximum sustainable catch calculated for the 2013–2014 season was assumed to be 372 tonnes processed catch, with 145 tonnes reserved as domestic quota, which nearly equates to the estimated local and tourist consumption). The whole export quota may resultantly be unsustainable catch. It should be no surprise that a snapshot assessment by means of a visual survey conducted

toward the end of that season signaled a declining conch population, even with official landings inside the quota,” the report added.

It was stated that the TCI government, advised by DEMA, has looked to act on some of the new data used in this reconstruction, and referencing the 2013 seafood consumption survey, as well as the underwater visual survey, they subsequently announced that the sustainable catch quota will be reduced to just 277 tonnes of processed conch for the following season.

Knowing that over 90% of this quota would have been taken up by domestic consumption, DEMA then recommended an export cessation of up to five years.

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FISH AND CONCH IN GREAT DANGER Continued from Page 1 “Reducing domestic consumption would be much more difficult as much of this fishery is unreported and therefore challenging to regulate. However, the TCI government has delayed in actually implementing the export cessation, which may further impair the conch stocks. The full reconstruction, as presented here, adds further weight to the need to act as soon as possible to reduce conch landings. With the TCI only permitted to export conch to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) signatories if it demonstrates a welldeveloped management plan, any lack of further action could see CITES effectively implement an export ban with the TCI,” the report continued.

However, it was noted that the TCI is not the only country where marine policy-makers need to take notice of fishery catch reconstructions.

Although the TCI is the only country where artisanal and subsistence catches decreased from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the increase in artisanal and subsistence catches over

time aligns with the results of other catch reconstructions.

Overall catches in the TCI have noticeably declined, which fits the regional profile for the Western Central Atlantic of catches peaking around 1985 and declining thereafter.

In the immediate neighboring region, the underreporting of fisheries catches has been a similar issue. Reconstructed catches for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica were found to be over 3, 4 and 5 times (respectively).

Findings in these studies also support calls for the more regular collection and estimation of local and tourist consumption, so that stock evaluations and catch quota estimation can be undertaken using the best available data.

In the TCI, only exports were being accurately assessed in the calculation of quotas. Local consumption, a necessary and substantial addition, was omitted or underestimated, as data were not always available or up-to-date. With this issue brought to light, it is hoped future catch quotas will be calculated

based on total removals by all sectors.

The lobster fishery is the most economically important fishery, becoming profitable in the late 1950s when snorkeling gear was introduced and the first processing plant was established.

According to the study, further value was added with the advent of freezing technology in 1966.

Profitability brought steep catch increases with the fishery growing until 1979, after which declines began due to overfishing. The average lobster taken by early trap fisheries was around 3 kg in weight, but this decreased to only 0.7 kg by the 1970s.

Lobsters are landed whole, and weighed as such, although only tails are exported.

Catch per unit effort (CPUE) reportedly declined, from approximately 65 kg•boat1•day1 in the early 1990s to around 20 kg•boat1•day1 by 2000.

Some suggest that the CPUE has actually remained stable at around 58 kg•boat1•day1, however this likely does not account for increases in engine power and depth fished; thus

masking a decline by not accounting for technological creep.

There is no quota on the amount of lobster caught, but a seasonal closure does exist. The majority of lobster is landed when the fishery opens from August 15-March 31, with over 1/3 landed immediately following the fishery opening during the “Big Grab”. The reported DEMA data only include lobster sent for processing, destined for export. Thus, reported data lack information on domestic and tourist consumption.

It was stated that in the late 1800s, the TCI’s largest conch export markets were Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Catches increased substantially from 1937– 1945 as local labor switched from salt production to fishing. The export industry rapidly developed again in the mid-1970s, when the USA began importing frozen conch to supply newly settled Caribbean immigrants accustomed to this traditional food.

Processing peaked in the late 1970s as processors reached capacity at 20,000 conch day.

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Cabinet denies funds for SIPT trial

Cabinet has denied a request made by the Judiciary for more money to pay lawyers representing defendants in the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT) corruption trial.

This was confirmed in an official report from the August 3rd, 2016 Cabinet meeting which was chaired by His Excellency Governor, Peter Beckingham, at the Hon. N J S Francis Building on Grand Turk.

The SUN submitted a request to Government’s press officer Zhavgo Jolly to ascertain how much money was requested and why the funds were refused, but up to Press time he did not provide the information.

The money that was requested is not for paying Special Prosecutor Helen Garlick, lead Prosecutor Andrew Mitchell, QC, and his team of lawyers. They have their own multi-million budget.

In August 2015, Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing has rejected a request from the Special Investigations and Prosecutions Team (SIPT) to be given $4.3million

of Government funds to provide security for Special Prosecutor Helen Garlick, her investigators and lawyers.

Back then, he said: “We the active members of Cabinet categorically refused and deny that expenditure because we did not have sufficient justification for the expenditure given or the concerns that are mentioned earlier and not having information as to where the expenditure was going towards.”

He added:“Even though we are doing much better financially over the last few years, we still have to be careful as to how we spend money and when we spend money we want to spend it on the right things.

And when we still have issues with really trying to get water supplies in Grand Turk and we have spent $300,000 to get the additional repairs on the water plant and we are having difficulties getting that, when we have more scholarships to give and we have more work to do in terms of job creation, we find it (the request for $4.3million) a very difficult and

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Chukka is always looking for new talent to add to our dynamic team.

a hard pill to swallow. And we will will be met, whilst TCI Government never swallow that pill to spend 4.3 servants, including police officers, million dollars on something that with whom we may be working, will is definitely no interest to us as a not. There is also a distinct possibility government because I cannot see the that other important government expenditure that has a real impact light at the end of that tunnel.”

A few years ago, Special on the well being of the Islanders will Prosecutor Helen Garlick told the be subordinated to the SIPT’s needs.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office “In my view this is wrong in principle. that it would be wrong in principle Furthermore, it is hardly likely to pay her huge sums of money while to help us to win and maintain forsaking the people of the Turks and essential public support. We now face a considerable and highly damaging Caicos islands.

In a letter to Chris Bryant delay before the investigation can MP, former Parliamentary Under- be started. In recent weeks, we have Secretary of State, Foreign and needed to react to some important Commonwealth Office and Michael and urgent developments. This is Foster MP, former Parliamentary very much in the nature of major Under-Secretary of State, Department criminal investigations but our for International Development, capacity to deal with them is severely Garlick said the budgeted costs of limited. However, I cannot begin the Special Investigations team will to interview and offer permanent amount to between 4.5% and 5% of posts to any new staff until I am the TCIG’s budget and could well certain that the facility is in place. increase, if charges are brought and You will understand that I also have a responsibility to assure staff that there are several trials.

She said: “There is a real they will have a proper measure of prospect there will be months when job security and also that they will be the SIPT’s expenses and salaries paid in full and on time.”

CARIBBEAN CRUISIN/TCI FERRY

OPERATIONS LOGISTICS OFFICER – Grand Turk Operations All successful applicants should satisfy the following criteria: o Must have a Degree in Hotel & Tourism Management. o Minimum of 5 years in a Management/Supervisory position in a Tourism. o Must have minimum of 2 years working within the Cruise Industry. o Must demonstrate a high level of integrity and professionalism. o Must have excellent oral and written communication skills. o Trustworthy & Reliable disposition with a Clean Criminal record. o Positive & disciplined work attitude in a customer service oriented business. o Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends, public holidays as necessary to meet the challenging needs of cruise ship schedules and/or reasonable needs of the business.

Job Specifics: o Coordinate the planning of department heads and team leads with regards to work schedules, timelines. o Working with Operations team to solve Excursion & Tour bottlenecks in the daily operations. o Coordinate the Tour logistics between the cruise lines and operations. o Coordination of the execution of activities via instructions to the team leads and managers. o Determination of operational support needs by working with Inventory control to ensure o peration needs are in stock or coordinating with the Purchasing department to place order. o Assist the Operations Manager to solve any chronic logistical challenges or problems that exist. o Working with the Cruise manager and Dispatch supervisor to ensure clear communication to the Cruise lines/ o Working directly with the Cruise Lines Shore Excursion Management to reduce or eliminate chronic bottlenecks in the sales process. o Responsible to evaluate all the collateral for the Cruise lines to include Brochures, Pictures & videos. o Implement all SOPS and continually tweak, change and re implement whilst working with the Operations Managers and Team leads. o Work with the Administration Team to reduce any cluster within the documentation and filing areas. o Working with the Administration team to ensure adequate focus for incoming invoices, payment of invoices and for the drawing up of periodical management data. o Assist HR department leader with any logistics or daily issues associated to include hiring, payroll or staff motivation. o Be responsible for the process management and implementation throughout the company. o Work closely with the General or Country Manager to create weekly and month reports to evaluate Operational performances in all areas.

Salary is negotiable depending on qualification and experience, in addition reasonable transportation allowance will be provided.

Written applications only and accompanying CVs/Resumes must be addressed to the Resident Manager at the following address: CHUKKA CARIBBEAN ADVENTURES (TCI) LTD. c/o EPIC Corporate& Consultancy Services Ltd. Cee’s Plaza, Suite No.1 Church Folly P.O. Box 86, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands Phone: 649-332-1339, Fax: 649-946-1570

NOTICE TO ALL VALUED CUSTOMERS/PASSENGERS PROVO TO NORTH 12:30 NORTH TO PROVO 1:30 NORTH CAICOS MID DAY BOAT WILL BE SUSPENDED STARTING SEPTEMBER 1ST TO OCTOBER 31ST 2016 REGULAR SAILING WILL RESUME NOVEMBER 1ST 2016.

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Skip criticises Government’s handling of Zika

Leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA) Oswald Skippings has strongly criticised Government’s handling of the Zika situation in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

In a press statement, Skippings said that Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing as Minister of Health and as head of Government “needs to be more proactive and transparent in dealing with the Zika Virus cases before there is a national outbreak”.

Skippings said: “The fact that there is so much secrecy shrouding the whereabouts of the cases discovered of this potentially dangerous virus in the Turks and Caicos, not only deprives the public of the opportunity of knowing where to exercise the uttermost caution, but it puts pregnant and potentially pregnant women at an unnecessary higher risk.”

He added: “The insensitive and unprofessional approach taken by the premier speaks to the lack of concern for the wellbeing of our people by him and his PNP administration. It is totally unfair and unacceptable and is an insult to our intelligence. Moreover, It is simply not enough to distribute more mosquito nets and utilize more insecticides, but as I have been stating for the past twelve months, among

the measures a PDA administration imported or part of local transmissions would take, include changing the According to the CDC, with a current policy of pumping out or Level 2 Alert, there are “increased risk treating settled water in public areas in defined settings or associated with only thereby avoiding private property, specific risk factors and certain highemploying and training more Turks and risk populations may wish to delay Caicos Islanders in the Environmental travel to these destinations”.

Health department to effectively cover After Level 2, there is a Level the entire country and putting in place 3 warning which advises travelers a structured vector control program “to avoid non essential travel to this nationwide.” destination”, because there is a high

In a move that could possibly risk to travelers. have an impact on this country’s Under the Level 1, which is the tourism, the US Centers for Disease lowest or “Watch Level”, persons are Controls (CD) has issued a set of strict advised to practise usual precautions, Zika warnings for persons travelling to as there are usual baseline risk the Turks and Caicos Islands. or slightly above baseline risk for

On Wednesday, August 3rd, destination and limited impact to the 2016, the CDC issued an Alert Level traveler.

2 Travel Notice, their second highest On its website, the CDC Leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance alert, for the Turks and Caicos Islands advised that “women who are pregnant (PDA) Oswald Skippings and Antigua. should not travel to the Turks and

Most of the visitors to the Caicos Islands”. about your plans to become pregnant Turks and Caicos Islands come from It also stated: “If you must and the risk of Zika virus infection. the United States of America. travel, talk to your doctor first See CDC guidance for how long you

Premier and Minister of and strictly follow steps to prevent should wait to get pregnant after Health Dr. Rufus Ewing announced mosquito bites during your trip. If travel to the Turks and Caicos Islands. on July 24th, 2016, that five confirmed you have a partner who lives in or You and your partner should strictly cases of Zika infections have now been has traveled to the Turks and Caicos follow steps to prevent mosquito reported in the Turks and Caicos Islands, either use condoms or do not bites. People who have traveled to the Islands. He said three of the cases have sex (vaginal, anal, or oral) during Turks and Caicos Islands and have a were “imported” and two are currently your pregnancy. Women who are trying pregnant partner should use condoms undergoing further investigations to become pregnant, before you or your or not have sex (vaginal, anal, or oral) to determine whether they are also partner travel, talk to your doctor during the pregnancy.”

Private Homes Manager

Great House Management Company Limited based in Providenciales wishes to employ a Private Homes Manager. The Private Homes Villa Manager manages the private villa homes and is the key contact for the home owners. The relationship begins when the buyer closes on their private villa construction contract. During construction, the Manager corresponds with the homeowner on status and answers questions, should they arise. Post construction, the Manager ensures that punch lists are completed in a timely manner. The Manager ensures villas are rented and managed in accordance with the Villa Management Agreements, if applicable. Homeowner satisfaction and maximum profitability will be your major objective.

Requires close coordination with the General Manager to allocate Great House Management Company employee time to the private villa homes including but not limited to housekeeping, landscaping, pool maintenance, etc. Minimum 3 years experience in Estates Management at a 5 star resort on a Private Islands. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Operations / Communication • Attending daily management briefings. • Keeping track of private villa rental bookings requiring communication with the reservations manager. • Track the status of guests’ arrival at all times via correspondence with the reservations manager and PLS airport greeter, ensuring guests are picked up at South Caicos airport for transport to their villa for check-in. Greeting guests upon arrival for check-in.

• Keeping track of Home Owners’ schedule of visit and liaise it with The Resort to ensure no conflicting reservations. • Ensuring daily operations at private villas are running smoothly to the satisfaction of the homeowners and guests. • Daily assignment for private villas housekeeping, landscaping, pool maintenance, maintenance work, etc. • Keeping account of all expenditure related to the upkeep of the home including staffing and services, working within a budget to combine benefit of the homeowner and the resort.

• Undertaking daily inspections of all private villas in the rental pool and completing daily, weekly and monthly checklists for each property. • Undertaking twice a week inspections of all private villas

– non rental pools and weekly report to the owner. • Managing total care maintenance of all building on the property associated with specific homes including, landscaping, refuse removal, pest control, pool & exterior services, interior and exterior furniture maintenance and cleanliness, etc.

• Preparing monthly billing statement and P&L for individual homes.

• Proposing projects for the homes based on necessity and available budget. • Working closely with contractors and other outside vendors prior to and during and after projects. • Supervising the Projects that requested by Home Owners and updating the Home Owners on the progress. • Maximizing relationship with Home Owners when they are both on and off island. Whilst on island, prioritize your time to ensure you are available for them at all times.

• Ensuring all the needs for homeowners/renters are taken care of prior and during their visit, this will include and not limited to spa appointment, excursion reservation, groceries, organizing special events on their behalf, etc, subject to the “Homeowner’s Service Fee Schedule” or pre-bookings with reservations manager. • Keeping and checking inventory of Home Owners’ personal properties and ensuring safekeeping while they are off-island. • Being prepared to handle all special request and specific needs of all Home Owners and their guests subject to the “Homeowner’s Service Fee Schedule”.

• Adopt a flexible approach and demonstrate a “can do” attitude to those that you work with. • Set an example that others can follow.

Finance & Planning • Assisting in producing a budget for your department with the Financial Controller and General Manager. • Implementing and suggesting systems that maximize the revenue from rentals and minimize costs in order to control and meet your budget. • Generating financial and achievement reports as required by management. • Implementation of daily, weekly and monthly projects to maintain equipment, cleanliness and standards. • Planning should include phased maintenance projects over the summer months when rentals are at their lowest levels.

Salary range $24K - $36K per annum Belonger Applicants welcomed Kindly forward resumes and qualifications to the below address copied to the Turks and Caicos Islands Labour Department and Immigration Board: Employment Department F Corporate & Management Services Limited Tel 649-339-6275 Fax 649-941-4777 Email oa@fcorporatemsl.com

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Statement from August 3rd Cabinet meeting

His Excellency the Governor, Peter Beckingham, chaired the 22nd meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday, 3 August 2016, at the Hon. N J S Francis Building on Grand Turk.

All Ministers were present except the Hon. George Lightborne, Minister of Home Affairs, Transportation and Communication AT THIS MEETING CABINET:

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to approve amending the Hotel and Tourism (Taxation) (Designated Restaurant) Order 2016 which lays out the criteria for an establishment to be considered as a designated restaurant for the purposes of the collection of tourism related taxes. The amendments would commence on September 1, 2016.

•Cabinet agreed to support in principle an application for a license to construct a rock breakwater seaward in the Juba Salina in Providenciales subject to conditions as set out by the Departments of Planning and Environment and Maritime Affairs.

•Cabinet agreed to support in principle an application for a license to construct and operate a beach restaurant and deck business in Grace Bay Providenciales subject to the conditions as set out by the Crown Land Unit and the Departments of Planning and Environment and Maritime Affairs.

•Cabinet agreed to support in principle an application for a long-term lease over two parcels of commercial land for the development of a car detailing service center in Grand Turk.

Cabinet further approved the issuance of a notice for tender for a long-term lease over the identified parcels in accordance with the Crown Land Ordinance.

•Cabinet agreed the Attorney General’s Chambers should commence the drafting of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Bill which will bring the fund into effect.

•Cabinet agreed the submission of the Statement of Net

Excess Expenditure to the House of Assembly for consideration as part of the charge to Public Funds for the Financial Year 2015/16 and in accordance with the Public Financial Management Ordinance.

•Cabinet agreed that the Attorney General’s Chambers commence the drafting of amendments to Reg 3 (2) (d) (iii) of the Business Licensing (Amendment) No. 2 Reg 2015 and the repeal of the Immigration (Exemption) Order 2015 (30 of 2015).

•Agreed that the Ministry of Finance, Investment and Trade to undertake a review of businesses operating in the reserved and restricted categories with the aim of formulating a policy to protect Turks and Caicos Islanders and Turks and Caicos Islanders interests in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to approve the grant of concession orders for four businesses under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Policy operated by Invest Turks and Caicos.

•Cabinet agreed in principle, subject to the standard legal, planning and environmental requirements, to a proposal by Grace Bay Resort for the development of a 48 cottage rental suites and 4 residential homes as an oceanfront development in Providenciales.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to approve the advancement of the amendments to the Tobacco Ordinance to the House of Assembly which will exempt specialty shops, whose sole business is tobacco, to advertise and display tobacco products.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to agree for the Attorney General’s Chambers to commence drafting the regulations to the Tobacco Ordinance.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to agree for the Attorney General’s Chambers to commence the drafting of amendments to the Public

and Environmental Health Ordinance to review the offences under sections 4, 5 and 7 to allow for a ticketing system and imposition of fines as penalties for noncompliance of upkeep of surroundings.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to conduct a consultation for a period of two weeks commencing Friday August 5 2016 among the political parties and those candidates who as of that date are widely known to be running independently, on recommended amendments to the voting ballot to change the current layout from a portrait to a landscape with candidates listed alphabetically and grouped by party affiliation, with the view of simplifying the voting process and presentation of candidates on the ballot for the voting populace.

•Cabinet agreed to the commencement of a consultation of industry stakeholders for the construction of a national fibre ring along the circumference of the chain of islands to reinforce the data and communications connectivity of all the islands and to improve the broadband service experienced in the family islands.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to approve the amendments to the Telecommunications (Fee) Structure Regulations for the adoption of a revised license fee structure for commencement September 1, 2016.

•Agreed for the body of the late Charles Glinton Snr. to lay in repose from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon on Saturday August 13, 2016 at the General Post Office in Grand Turk.

•Agreed to naming of the government building which currently houses the General Post Office as the Charles Glinton Snr. Building in honour of the late officer’s contribution to the work of the post office and the civil service.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to grant approval for the Ministry of Tourism, Environment, Culture and Heritage to enter a bid

for the hosting of the 2017 Caribbean Tourism Organization State of the Industry Conference in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

•Agreed for the Ministry of Finance to set up a working group for the transitional arrangement for the Carnival Cruise Center and Downtown Welcome Center whose ownership will transfer to the Government once Carnival has recovered their investment which it is expected to be in 2018.

•Noted and gave support for the appointment of the Minister of Border Control and Employment Services as the Turks and Caicos Islands Special Representative to the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors to represent the interests of the TCI in CARICOM led initiatives.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to approve the appointment of a Steering Committee for the CCTV Policing and Security Project which will expand the installation and monitoring of closed circuit television cameras in the islands of Providenciales and Grand Turk (initially) as a part of the National Security Council’s crime prevention and detection program.The committee will comprise of members of the Police Force, the Computer Unit and other stakeholder government departments or agencies, and chaired by the Director of the Office of the Premier.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to appoint Ms. Tracy Smith of North Caicos to the National Health Insurance Board to meet the number of prescribed appointments in accordance with the National Health Insurance Board Ordinance.

•Agreed to the approval of an additional five taxi licenses for Providenciales.

•Cabinet denied a request for supplementary appropriation made by the judiciary for additional funding in the SIPT trials towards legal aide.

Further information on these matters will be provided by Ministers in due course.

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Chukka is always looking for new talent to add to our dynamic team.

INVENTORY PARTS & COST CONTROLLER – Grand Turk Operations All successful applicants should satisfy the following criteria: oMinimum Diploma / Certificate in Supervisory Management. oMinimum of 2 years in Supervisory Position working in a Tourism environment oMinimum 5 years experience working with Parts & Inventory distribution & controls associated with for Trucks, recreational vehicles and or Marine Vessels. oMust demonstrate a high level of integrity and professionalism. oMust have excellent oral and written communication skills. oTrustworthy & Reliable disposition with a Clean Criminal record. oPositive & disciplined work attitude in a customer service oriented business. oMust be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends, public holidays as necessary to meet the challenging needs of cruise ship schedules and/or reasonable needs of the business.

Job Specifics: o Coordinate the planning of Company Stores and Inventory department. o Develop Inventory trackers and stores record keeping systems. o Produce weekly and monthly reports associated with inventory and storeroom operations. o Working with Operations team to determine needs of specific Motorized units to include Truck, ATVs, Dune Buggys, Boats and Large Catamarans. o Research and locate Suppliers associated with specific Parts needs. o Coordinate and work with purchasing team to get approvals for purchasing of Parts and supplies. o Coordination of shipment to include transportation and customs. o Stock control management to include, reorder levels and quantities. o Constantly be looking at different suppliers and parts to determine the best suited for the environment. o Assist the Operations Manager to do inspections to determine quality of parts and products being purchased. o Provide suppliers/vendors reports on Parts quality, accuracy with the aim of improving partnerships and getting better service. o Develop and implement all SOPS associated with Inventory and storerooms. o Work with the Administration and Accounting team to ensure all invoices are properly documented and processed for payments. o Work closely with the General or Country Manager to find ways to contain operational costs and expenditures.

Salary is negotiable depending on qualification and experience, in addition reasonable transportation allowance will be provided.

Written applications only and accompanying CVs/Resumes must be addressed to the Resident Manager at the following address: CHUKKA CARIBBEAN ADVENTURES (TCI) LTD. c/o EPIC Corporate& Consultancy Services Ltd. Cee’s Plaza, Suite No.1 Church Folly P.O. Box 86, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands Phone: 649-332-1339, Fax: 649-946-1570

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Governor Beckingham praises TCI tourism brand

Governor Peter Beckingham In a message to the forthcoming Invest TCI Enhancing National Competitiveness seminar on September 1st, Governor Peter Beckingham praised the tourism sector in Turks and Caicos for its great strides recently, making the country one of the top tourism brands in the Caribbean.

“I have had plenty of opportunities during my three years in TCI to meet the leaders and drivers of the economy here and overseas. At the moment these remain overwhelmingly in the tourism space, and everyone involved in that sector should take a bow for the enormous strides they have helped TCI to achieve. We are one of the top Caribbean brands, regarded as a high class resort destination offering quality beaches, sea, security and resorts. No-one needs me to remind them that it is essential that everyone in TCI works to keep that reputation.

The risks include degradation of our environment, which on occasions does look fragile, an unacceptable increase in crime, and political instability,” the Governor said.

But the Governor also cautioned that TCI was lagging behind others, including for food production and financial services.

“The competitiveness conference will also focus on developing new businesses. I’m sure there are opportunities,” the Governor said. “We are far too dependent on food imports, and our financial services sector is a shadow of our Overseas Territory partners and rivals in Bermuda, BVI and Cayman Islands. I will have a particular interest in hearing what the financial services group recommend TCI look to develop. With the international focus on Overseas Territories and other countries with perceived tax benefits for investors, we are going to have to peddle very fast to catch our rivals, or over-take them.”

The Governor also welcomed the focus by Invest TCI on co-operation between business and the public sector.

“I am pleased that the conference will also be looking at the contribution of the public sector to growing our economy,” he continued.

“Too often the public service is viewed as a drag on economic development rather than a provider, and again we need to work hard to gain and maintain the confidence of business and the public.

To this end I am particularly pleased that, over the last few months, I have been able to introduce the start of more

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Description  Responsible for coordinating payment on historical accounts or high risk accounts to ensure positive cash flow.  Oversee the escalation of the collections process from initial customer notification to Court proceedings.  Assist with the collections on Power Diversion cases.

Main Duties  Review all Historical and high risk accounts throughout the service territory for collection.  Contact current and past customers through direct phone calls, email and letters in an effort to collect outstanding balances.  Analyze active accounts with unsatisfactory payment history in order to identify high risk accounts which may require escalated Collections processes.  Review customer payment history and other data to prepare analytics on customer trends and behaviour patterns.  Negotiate with debtors in order to secure successful payment plans.  Prepare demand letters of notification to be delivered to customers.  Escalate the collections process to court proceedings as deemed necessary.

private sector buy-in to improve public service delivery and customer service.

Changes won’t happen overnight, but the participation of wider businesses, for example, in negotiations with Fortis about our new energy legislation, and the advice of businessmen like Ken Adams of Do It Center, and Gilly Williams of the Wine Cellar to infrastructure and immigration departments respectively, is a welcome first step. I hope that it will continue.”

Turks and Caicos Sun Suite#5, Airport Plaza Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands Tel: (649) 339-5879 Fax: (649) 941-3281 Email: sun@suntci.com Read us online at www.suntci.com Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Hayden Boyce

Finally the Governor noted that he Office Manager: would be leaving TCI in a little over a Dominique Rigby month’s time. “ I will, sadly, be leaving Turks Graphic designer and Caicos Islands this October” he Information Technology concluded “after three very happy and, I and Production Manager: believe, fruitful years. The Government has been successful in paring down Kelano Howell its debt to a negligible amount from a colossal $260 million, Standards and Todeline Defralien Poor have given us successive Triple B Reporter Plus ratings, and our reputation for top end tourism, including notably in villa The Turks and Caicos SUN development, is at an all time high. The is a subsidiary formation of Invest TCI is an important of The SUN Media Group Ltd. and necessary step in building on these achievements. I look forward to We are committed to excellence in hearing of their conclusions from this journalism, educating and informing Competitiveness seminar, continuing our readers, serving and satisfying to contribute from overseas to TCI’s our advertisers and assisting in the successes, and hearing about new overall development of the investments in the coming months. I’m Turks and Caicos Islands. sure TCI has a great future.”

 Prepare all case files and represent FortisTCI in small claims court.  Follow up on all judgements passed by the courts.  Liaise with the Revenue Protection Service Area to assist with the collection of lost revenue in power diversion cases.  Regularly recommend amounts for write off after thorough investigation is completed.  Prepare monthly and weekly status reports for submission to Management.  Keep abreast of activities occurring in the community that can impact customer collections.  Any other duties as may be assigned.

Academic/Technical/Management: Experience and Qualifications:  Bachelor’s Degree in business or related field  At least 4 years’ experience in Collections industry  Experience and successful record in small claims court Abilities; Skills; Experience; Aptitude and Judgment:  Strong negotiator  Self-Motivated  Excellent written and oral communication skills  Proficient in Microsoft Office for Windows  Excellent team player and team building skills  Ability to deliver to strict deadlines Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is August 24, 2016.

Claudia Munnings Director Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@ppcltd.tc OR cmunnings@fortistci.com

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Biometric enrolment for UK citizenship now available in TCI

The Governor’s Office in Grand Turk is pleased to announce that biometric enrolment services for those applying for British citizenship are now available in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Biometric enrolment, which consists of a facial photograph, fingerprint and electronic signature, is the final step for those seeking registration as a British Citizen.

Before now, local residents applying for registration as a British

Citizen had to travel to Barbados or Jamaica to fulfil the biometric enrolment requirement needed to complete their application.

The difficulty and expense of travelling off-island for biometric enrolment was challenging for most citizenship applicants, and, following appeals from the Governor’s Office in Turks and Caicos Islands, as well as by other Overseas Territories, the UK Home Office agreed to set up a biometric enrolment facility in the

Governor’s Office, Grand Turk.

Commenting on this development a spokesman for Governor’s Office said, “Our hope is that this new facility will make it easier and cheaper for residents of Turks and Caicos to secure registration as UK citizens, rather than having to arrange travel to Barbados or Jamaica. This brings TCI in line with the options available to potential British citizens in many other countries and is a welcome

development.”

Applicants will be contacted by the Governor’s Office once they have been informed by the UK Home Office that biometric enrolment is required and a date for enrolment agreed. Biometrics will be enrolled fortnightly at the Governor’s Office in Grand Turk, by appointment.

For more information, please contact Carmelita Rolle at the Governor’s Office at 946-2308/9

Donhue says running independent opens opportunities for others

All Island Candidate Hon. Donhue Gardiner said that his desire to run as an all island candidate opens up opportunities for others to run in this upcoming election.

Gardiner made this statement at the launch of the PNP Candidates for the 2016 elections on Saturday July 30th at the PNP Headquarters on Airport Road.

He said in his speech, “My desire to run as an all island candidate in no way takes away from my commitment to the people of Middle Caicos and North Caicos.

What it does instead, is that it opens up opportunities for others such

as Mr. Mark Fulford, a bright and brilliant and ambitious young man who has chosen to step forward. It is because of the renewing of the injection of fresh energy and new blood in the political life of this country that I am sure that with people like Mark, the future of this country is solid.”

Gardiner added “I am confident though that the progress that we have made whether it was in an increase in minimum wage, whether it was turning around the economy as we did, whether there were new investment and new schools and new infrastructures such

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as roads and airports, I believe that the work that we have started out doing in 2012 is yet to be completed.

That is why I am again putting my name forward as a candidate to represent not only North and Middle Caicos this time but to represent the entire Turks and Caicos Islands.”

Gardiner said that he looks forward to taking on the task of the next several months of running as an at large candidate and he looks forward to the opportunity to work again in the House of Assembly/ Cabinet for the betterment of all the people of the Turks and Caicos PNP All Island Candidate Hon. Ricardo Donhue Islands.

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Keno Forbes: "We need a government for the people'

By Todeline Defralien

Newly-selected People's Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate for South Caicos, Keno Forbes, is strongly advocating a government for the people.

Speaking during the PDM's recent candidates launch, Forbes, who is a manger at Scotiabank, said: “Over the last couple of years we’ve seen the Turks and Caicos Islands' dream crumble. We’ve had record people (not foreigners) our people losing their homes, our people unemployed, our people without representation, without access to medical care, without access to a proper pharmacy on South Caicos but yet we brag of progress in this country. Yet we brag about a surplus, but what about the people? What about the failing middle class? People are struggling in this

country; living from paycheck to dream.

"Your destiny sometimes is paycheck. It’s time that we roll out a Government that is for the people and bigger than your life, it’s bigger than those around you and it’s bigger than by the people.”

Forbes also said that persons what people want for you. My father who are putting forward themselves never graduated high school, my as political candidates should put mother never graduated high school, service to the people above "self- but they had a dream for us as their children. They pushed us, but many seeking agendas".

He stated: “It is time to put others like my parents had a dream service above self. It is time for the and a vision for their children. I call true Turks and Caicos Islanders and it the Turks and Caicos Dream. We the people that really love this country often hear about the American Dream to be at the forefront; the people that but we need to push and establish the would make decisions in the best Turks and Caicos Dream, a dream to interest of a country and not a select not only get ahead but a dream to stay few. It is time for change and it is ahead, a dream to maintain all that overdue.” we have worked hard for as a people.”

He added that it is time to Noting that his decision to enter elective politics is "sending shock "take our good name back" and show waves to many people", Forbes said people who Turks and Caicos Islanders that this country needs to push and really are; and that is a hard working establish the Turks and Caicos Islands God-fearing industrious people.

PDM candidate for South Caicos, Keno Forbes

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Royal Turks And Caicos Islands Police ForceVacancy Department: Location:

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Job Description: The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force invites applications for the position of SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE REMUNERATION PACKAGE: $71,378.00 to $77,618.00 per annum (dependent upon qualifications and experience) The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force is looking for an exceptional leader that inspire confidence and bring with them innovative thinking that will help shape the future of policing. A superintendent is generally a senior manager responsible for setting strategy, standards and day-to-day operational policy across a single department or a range of policing responsibilities. They are within the top 1% of officers in terms of rank and seniority. Working under the direction of, and assisting the Commissioner of Police, the post-holder will be responsible for the efficient day-to-day operations of the SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT. The post-holder is expected to assist in the training and development of staff and is supported by an Assistant Superintendent of Police.

Working for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force as a superintendent is a big responsibility and a big challenge. Amongst other responsibilities, a superintendent can be expected to: •have a minimum of five (7) years Senior Policing experience •Qualified occupational and operational (competent) Firearms Trainer.

This encompasses practitioner and command roles across the firearms training curriculum.

•Less Lethal Technology. Understanding of current available less lethal options and technology and how they could/would be deployed in an operational context within a legislative and cultural framework •Chief Firearms Trainer. Working with senior management team providing strategic advice and direction to the organization regarding applicable policy and standard operation procedures as set against the benchmark of the strategic firearms threat and risk assessment. Responsibility and accountability for identification and action to meet strengths/weaknesses within the subject area (including Maritime assets) •Chief Firearms Trainer. Complete and continually update Training Needs Analysis for organization set against senior management strategic decisions relating to Firearms training and operational deployment. This has to be managed against realistic human and fiscal resilience •Chief Firearms Trainer. Provide direct managerial control of all firearms training giving direction, support (delivery if appropriate) to firearms trainers.

Plan (or direct same) training events for all members of organization. Quality assure all training. Assess all applicable training to National Curriculum standards •Represent organization in regional matters at strategic/tactical level. Experience of leading cohorts at regional level •Experience of delivering training and planning training to other BOT’s.

•Experience of providing independent review of actions or incidents in other BOT’s.

•On-call Strategic/Tactical Firearms Commander (as decided by senior management or directed by events). Experience of management command and control of firearms deployments to an advanced standard in a wide variety of incidents (spontaneous or pre-planned) and evidence of working in a multiagency role both in and out of the law enforcement environment. Experience of working with assets from Maritime and Air Support.

•Management of specialist dog unit – including training acquisition/provision, operational deployment, welfare of handler/canine •Computer literacy and experience with electronic information systems is also required The post-holder will be a person in public life as set out in Schedule 1 of the Integrity Ordinance and will be required to make a declaration of financial affairs in accordance with said Ordinance.

For persons recruited outside of the Turks and Caicos Islands, there is a three (3) year contract extendable by mutual agreement. Other benefits in addition to the above include an end-of-contract gratuity of 10% of salary; return passage for family of up to two children under the age of eighteen (18) years as well as duty free concession on the shipment of personal effects imported within first six (6) months of appointment.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Resumes with current contact information must be accompanied by a Cover Letter and two letters of reference (one preferably from a former employer) as well as copies of educational certificates and a copy of the Passport photo page. Shortlisted candidates must submit a Police Certificate.

Please submit completed applications to: REX SWANN HUMAN RESOURCES OLD AIRPORT ROAD, POLICE HEADQUARTERS Grand Turk Turks and Caicos Islands Applications can be sent by email to Rex.Swann@tcipolice.tc with the subject line being: SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, THE ROYAL TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS POLICE FORCE Application. If sent by courier, envelopes should have the subject: SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, ROYAL TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS POLICE FORCE Application clearly marked on the front.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED FOR INTERVIEWS. Closing date: 29th August 2016

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Price Club workers severed without pay

By Todeline Defralien

After working at Price Club for as many as 18 years, several employees have been left empty-handed, without being paid severance or any benefits.

The workers staged a protest outside Price Club on Leeward Highway, on Monday, August 8th, before making their way to the Labour Department in Downtown Providenciales where they continued the demonstration.

Price Club, a wholesale grocery story which is owned and operated by Gus Karagianis and his local partner Wainwright Missick, decided to close its operations on Sunday, August 7th, and lease the property to another wholesaler.

In a letter dated July 17th, Price Club's management told staff that sales have been declining over the past year, and that the store has been losing money. The owners said that in this very competitive market it does not look like they will rebound.

The letter admitted to staff that the closure will create great hardship on them and their families.

During the protest, the disgruntled workers who are mainly of Haitian nationality carried several placards that highlighted their plight.

The SUN spoke with one of the workers who gave us his side of the story he said, “Some people you see here today, some working 18 years, 17 years, 16 years, 9 years and five years.

After he gave us a letter he said to us he will close but he has to give us the letter before two months he gave it to us before two weeks. Right now he’s closed and he didn’t pay anybody, we need our money because we cannot work like that, Gus took our power, everything he do for himself and don’t do anything for us. He doesn’t pay overtime, he don’t pay holiday, he don’t pay work permit, he dot pay anything when we ask him whats going on, he said that he has nothing to say to us he only gave us a letter and then he gave the determination letter to say that we can find anybody to sign work

Price Club’s ex Employees pictured holding placards along with Former Premier Michael Misick permit for us, we need help, we need serves in a suffice manner as to his our money that’s why we came here, release of employment and that it assist we need justice form the Government, Mr. Francois with a minimum amount not everybody can come here to do of down-time between employment.” anything and leave this county and go But the workers are not buying because Gus said to us that we don’t the story that the owners are selling to pay no work permit so any time he can them and the Government. leave this country go and he doesn’t A female employee, who worked in have to come here to collect his money.” Price Club's accounts department for The workers also showed The SUN a the past nine years, said she knows release of employment letter which that the company has been making Price Club wrote to the Labour money.

Department asking that consideration She made a passionate appeal be given to finding new employment to the owners to have a heart and pay for them. the workers what is due to them.

The letter wrote, “Please She added: “I’ve been accept this letter as an official notice collecting Mr. Gus pennies, nickels, of release of employment for Mr. dimes, quarters, dollars ($5, $10,$20, Mondesir Francois, a Butcher (As Work $50 & $100) bills, I’ve being doing so Permit shows) of JSMS LTD. dba Price for nine years, you’ve been telling Club Supermarket due to the fact that us it was wonderful of course it was the company has decided to close down wonderful to work for you so hard, now the business. Mr. Francois has been a it would be wonderful for you to come model employee with our organization and give us our pennies out of your and we respectfully request that you $50,000 that you would have to collect consider any new employment of his from Mr. Derek every month. Please choice with the highest regards and Mr. Gus we are waiting for you, we’ve with as little time delay as possible. Mr. been with you for one, two, three, nine, Francois may still continue to work at sixteen, eighteen and nineteen years Price Club Supermarket until August please we need our money. We need 07, 2016, which is the last day that the justice and we’ve been working for it, shop will open. Hoping this letter it is not a favour that you will do us

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we are poor people we have children to raise we believe in education and we have children to educate. Mr. Gus please we are waiting for you come and pay us.”

Former Premier Michael Misick, who is running as an independent candidate in the next elections, was on location to show his support for the displaced workers.

He said the new supermarket operators should not be allowed to open until the workers are paid.

“It is important that the owner of Price Club comply with the laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands, he has to pay severance pay and any other benefits that is due to these employees and where ever there is injustice, where every injustice raises its ugly head we have to be here to support those who are being taken advantage of. I call on the Government not to allow the new operators to open in that location until these workers/employees are paid.”

Misick said he remembers when Mr. Gus first came to the Turks and Caicos Islands selling sodas on a scooter and became very wealthy over the years.

Misick said what he did to the workers was unfair and wrong.

Misick added: “I remember him many years ago when he came from Canada riding his scooter and now he’s has enormous wealth. It a disadvantage to rob these people who need money to support their families, to support their children. An injunction should be put on all his properties here including any potential rent that he may have coming from that building until these workers are paid what they’re due.”

Meantime, a Government press release stated that the Commissioner of Labour was made aware of the situation and that meetings have been scheduled to resolve the matter.

The statement said each employee’s claim will be dealt with fairly, with the primary aim of securing any entitlements owed to them.

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Woman fined $1,500 for wasting police time

Sharonna Walkin of Blue Hills Providenciales who was arrested on Wednesday August 3rd 2016 for wasteful employment of police, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court.

The charge stem from a report that she made around 8am on Saturday 25th June 2016, stating that a man known to her, beat her

about the body, pointed a gun at her and made threats to shoot her. After arresting and charging the man, the woman told officers that the report she made was false. She was then charged and taken before the Magistrate.

After her guilty plea, she gave the Magistrate a lengthy reason why she made such false report on the man.

Her mitigation was taken into consideration before sentencing and was fined $1500 by the 10th September 2016 or 90 days imprisonment if she fails to pay the penalty.

According to sections 6 (2) of the Criminal Law Ordinance Chapter 3.01, “ Where a person causes any wasteful employment of any police officer, knowingly making to any

person a false report tending to show that an offence has been committed, or to give rise to the apprehension for the safety of any person or property, or tending to show that he has information material to any police inquiry, he or she shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for six (6) months or to a fine of $2,000 or both imprisonment and fine.

Evanson Walkin pleads guilty in the Supreme Court

After a two-day trial, Evanson Walkin, who was arrested and charged with two counts of carrying imitation firearm to cause fear and aggravated burglary, changed his not guilty plea to guilty on all counts.

According to police spokesman Kevin Clarke, it was around 12 a.m. on Saturday 26th September 2015, when a nine yearold male child and his 25-year-old sister were walking home from a

store in Five Cays Providenciales when Walkin began following them.

Upon reaching home, Walkin who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, started behaving aggressively by making use of indecent language, and forced himself into the home of the complainant. While inside, the complainant’s sister asked him to leave, but he refused to do so.

Instead, he grabbed her by the arm, dragged her to the floor and placed a

curtain over her head.

Clarke said that when the 9-year-old tried to assist his sister by asking Evanson to stop, he (Evanson) took what appeared to be an orange flare gun from his waist and placed it on the right eye of the child and threaten to push him outside and kill him.

The child got frightened and started screaming as he ran outside crying and shaking with fear. Walkin followed him and began beating him.

While doing so, a neighbor saw what was happening asked him to leave the little boy alone. He then pointed the flare gun at the neighbor and told her he would kill her as well.

He then fled the scene. As a result of this, around 12 PM the next day, the accused was seen at his home in Five Cays and was arrested and later Charged.

Walkin was remanded until sentencing on the 11th October 2016 at 9:30 am.

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Many persons in politics for the money, says Robert Been Jr.

By Todeline Defralien

Some people are entering politics just for the money instead of a genuine desire to offer serious representation to the people of Turks and Caicos Islands, says Robert "Bobbie" Been Jr. who is running At Large for PDM.

"I will continue to remind voters that you have a lot of people that are getting involved (in politics) just for a salary today because a lot of people are facing a lot of challenges in their life and a lot of people are seeing Government as the way out,” Been said in an interview with The SUN.

He added: “I’m not saying that their intentions are not good, and I’m

Robert "Bobbie" Been Jr not at all knocking down any of the candidates that are out there, but at the end of the day I think a lot of people want to get involved with politics for

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the wrong reasons. My intentions are really to represent the youth of Turks and Caicos Islands especially, and to bring change about the Turks and Caicos.”

Been encourages voters to do their homework and background checks before they elect some candidates.

“Everybody has a heart for the Turks and Caicos, everybody wants to get involved but the clear message in my opinion is that a lot of people are just upset with the way Turks and Caicos has been governed by the current Government and as well as the previous administrations that were in power for the past three terms as well as might have been upset with the PDM Government,” Been stressed.

He continued: “Before I got

involved with politics I made sure that I had accomplished a few things. I got a few of my businesses on the ground and at the end of the day I do have other sources of income to take care of myself outside of politics. So what I'm saying is that because of what's happening now, it's very important for the electorate to do their research on these candidates because you don’t want to elect somebody that’s only going into Government to collect a paycheck and don’t address some of the issues and problems that you guys are faced with.”

The young politician said that if elected, he is prepared to sacrifice the first three or six months of his salary in Government to give back to the youth or education.

•2 years Supervisor Experience in the Utility Industry, preferred •3 years Customer Relations Experience Skills and Experience Requirements •Ability to prioritize and organize work assignments to meet deadlines •Able to work in a fast paced environment.

•Strong organizational and decision making skills •Effective teamplayer •Accurate Keyboard/data processing experience •Working knowledge of Accounting procedures and good record keeping methods •Effective in dealing with difficult customers/people (angry/ hostile) •Strong analytical and interpersonal skills •Ability to handle confidential information tactfully in person and on the phone •Exercise mature judgment in all communications including stressful situations such as dealing with threatening and irate customers and a demanding workload •Excellent written and oral communication •Ability to engage in regular structured training in debt collection techniques •High degree of confidence and professionalism •Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and Windows based applications Deadline All applications (inclusive of cover letter, CV & copies of qualifications) must be submitted by 22nd August 2016 to: Customer Service Manager Provo Water Company Limited 197A Grace Bay Road Grace Bay, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands c.malcolm@provowater.tc Only applicants selected for an interview will be notified

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Ralph Higgs open letter responding to Stephen Walkin…

Dear Mr. Walkin,

I have read with dismay your attempts to slander my character in your open letter published in the TCI Sun. I find it absolutely incredible how some people would allow politics to blur their vision, conveniently bringing on amnesia and strain friendships unnecessarily. I guess silly season is officially upon us.

While I wouldn’t ordinarily engage in tick for tat, when my trust and honor is called into question unfairly, I am left with no choice. The truth is, your late dad and my late grand father were the best of friends and political colleagues; they stood up for fairness and opportunities for the people of the TCI, especially the people of Bottle Creek.

Whilst their contributions have gone largely unnoticed, these were great men. Our mothers were the best of friends. They shared everything and helped each other to raise their respective families. As little boys growing up in High Rock, we literally did everything together with love and mutual respect for our families’ name.

This mutual love and respect carried over into our adult lives and I was of the view that it still existed. That is why I find your public statement in

The Sun dated 6th, August 2016 so troubling.

The record will show that on several occasions, over the pass 3-4 years, I spoke to you and your brother Lewis about our plans to do a major project in the community including opening a road (Promenade) to expose that beauty of the Creek.

In fact, Lewis recalls it quite vividly, and mentioned our many conversations, on the subject during his remarks at the unveiling of the Silver Bay Hotel and Promenade project. I find it very strange that you do not recall these conversations. Be that as it may, you would recall no doubt, that a few weeks before the unveiling, on at least 4 occasions, when we ran into each other, I advised you that I wanted to share with you details of a project that we were working on for the community. On each occasion you promised that you would make time for us to meet but you never made time for us to do so.

Perhaps, you would recall that more than a week (18th July at about 8:30pm) before the unveiling, and before we sent out invitations, I got your phone number from your brother Lewis; I called you and shared with you our plans to build a 12 room hotel in our community. I told you that

VACANCYSECURITY GUARD

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified individuals for the position of Security Guard FortisTCI, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Description In accordance with proven Security industry standards:  Provide a professional safe and secure environment at any of FortisTCI facilities located throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands.  Oversee and protect FortisTCI employees, customers and visitors from physical harm while on the company’s premises.  Act as a deterrent in crime and the theft of company property from either internal or external sources.  Provide guidance and general information, in a helpful and courteous manner, to customers and visitors while on the company’s premises Main Duties  Monitor CCTV cameras, fire and burglar alarms, or any other monitoring devices installed by the company to protect its facilities and assets.  Maintain secure access and exit points to secure locations throughout the company’s buildings and facilities.  Maintain accurate logs of those that enter or exit secure areas of the company’s facilities.  Conduct physical patrols and inspections of the company’s facilities.  Document and report any security breaches, irregularities and safety related concerns that may

I wanted you to hear of our plans from me before anyone got invitations. While you did not say very much during our conversation, you did not express any concerns about our plans or about the process we were following to bring this project forward. I find it disingenuous of you to now publicly call me out on this project and to question my motive to help my community.

My family’s record and commitment to building in Bottle Creek are widely known and are hardly questioned even though we have not sought elected office in generations.

With such a record and commitment to help the communities of North and Middle Caicos, can you imagine how much more effective I could be with an elected mandate?

Stephen, I have spent my entire life making believers out of NaySayers; I know that you know this very well. I am committed to building the Silver Bay Hotel and Promenade to further help the people of North & Middle Caicos. I have given them my word. Rhetoric and trickery don’t build communities; hardworking, honest and committed people do.

By the way, please accept this as a formal notice that we have 3 other parcels of land in the same area, which we intend to develop for the betterment

Ralph L. Higgs of our communities as soon as it makes financial sense to do so. You cannot say I didn’t tell you ahead of time.

I hope you will join us in building North & Middle Caicos.

God Bless.

Ralph L. Higgs Chairman & CEO Core Resources Ltd.

arise while conducting patrols.  Actively participate in any criminal or safety investigation.  Inspect and report unsafe delivery or contractor vehicles entering FortisTCI facilities.  Other duties as assigned.

Academic/Technical/Management: Experience and Qualifications:  Associate’s Degree in a related field  Knowledge and exposure to the operation of Security Alarm equipment, Access Control, Fire Alarm and Protection Equipment, CCTV Cameras would be considered an asset.  Acceptable knowledge and skills relating to Microsoft Family of software products (Word, Excel, Outlook)  Possess a valid driver’s license  Must be bondable Abilities; Skills; Experience; Aptitude and Judgment:  Excellent team player and team building skills  Excellent written and oral communication skills in English  Must be able to make quick and logical decisions based on visual observations and facts.  Must have excellent customer relation skills.  Maintain strong ethical values.

Compensation qualifications

commensurate

with

experience

and

Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is August 24, 2016.

Claudia Munnings Director Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@ppcltd.tc OR cmunnings@fortistci.com

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TCI and Cayman Islands launch new Civil Service partnership

As a part of the Office of the Deputy Governor's vision to improve service delivery across government, Deputy Governor Anya Williams accompanied by the Director of her office Mr. Tito Lightbourne and Human Resources Director Mr. Mark Greenway visited the Cayman Islands during the week commencing August 8th, 2016 to launch a new partnership for training, professional development and performance management with the sister UK overseas territory.

During the course of the visit the Deputy Governor and her team had the opportunity to engage with Deputy Governor Franz Manderson and his team including Chief Operating Officer Gloria McField-Nixon on possible areas of mutual interest and how both territories could work to improve the services that their agencies provide to the general public.

Commenting on the visit Deputy Governor Manderson said; "It was a privilege and pleasure to welcome the Deputy Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands to the Cayman Islands.

We are working together to improve the performance of our respective civil services so that we can deliver high quality services to our customers and look forward to great successes."

Deputy Governor Williams was pleased to visit Cayman and to formally launch such a partnership.

She stated; "Deputy Governor Manderson and I were appointed during the same period as both our territories have been undergoing a series of reform programs throughout the years, we both have continuously led over the years in delivering presentations in the UK and elsewhere on the successes of our reform programs.

“Following on from the voluntary severance program in the Turks and Caicos we have spent a considerable amount of time during the past few years in focusing on rebuilding the civil service by ensuring that departments were properly staffed and equipped with the resources needed to carry out their jobs, including improvements in pay and infrastructure and whilst there is still some work to be done in this area, our new vision will focus on rebranding the civil service and on improving our customer service delivery.

"This will be done by continuing to focus on staff training and professional development and by ensuring that proper performance management systems are put in place.

The Cayman Islands has been of great assistance to us in the past in providing training for our social services and other staff and we look forward to a further enhanced partnership."

SENIOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT Description The Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for the preparation of annual financial statements including all relevant disclosures in accordance with US GAAP, maintenance and development of critical financial reports, system monitoring and implementation of budgetary controls and provision of required analyses to various departments.

The Senior Financial Accountant will lead accounting research, enhance internal processes on financial reporting and assist in the development and preparation of financial models and reports while maintaining the following responsibilities: Main Duties  Responsible for the accurate and timely completion of all financial reconciliations and monthly management reports.  Monitors performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances in all areas of revenues, expenses and capital.  Ensures that all corporate policy changes are incorporated in the accounting process according to relevant guidelines.  Responsible for the documentation of business processes and accounting policies.  Responsible for accounting research on emerging issues relating to the business.  Prepares relevant financial reports for distribution to stakeholders, including but not limited to, parent company, banks and creditors, regulatory and statutory bodies, credit rating agencies and other financial institutions.  Completes US GAAP compliant financial statements for submission to external auditors and Fortis Inc.  Responsible for the preparation of relevant regulatory reports and annual government questionnaires and economic surveys.  Provides reporting requirements of internal and external auditors and recommends resolution of any identified operational or accounting issues.  Assists in the development of departmental goals in support of the Company’s strategies.  Ensures that all asset acquisition, sale, retirement, and other disposals are accounted for, recorded and fully supported with appropriate documentation and authorization.  Actively participates in the annual budget process by ensuring that the provision of capital and depreciation information are updated, complete and based on reliable assumptions and data.  Reviews and analyze capital and operational projects and accounts for costreduction opportunities.

Deputy Governor Her Excellency Anya Williams and Cayman Islands Premier Alden McLaughlin

Members of the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands delegation  Leads the development of cost standards for material, labor, and overhead for line extension customers.  Conducts periodic depreciation study in line with industry standards for purposes of evaluating the assets’ group and composite depreciation rates.  Responsible for the coordination of financial information for the annual property insurance renewal.  Responsible for the coordination and management of capital project budgets and preparation of monthly capital variance reports.  Oversees maintenance and reconciliation of fixed asset systems in Microsoft AX and Excel.  Responsible for ensuring maintenance of the Inventory Sub Ledger and provide key participation in the Inventory Count process as well as other key modules.  Reviews and evaluates capital and operational projects and identifies areas of improvements on cost and efficiency.  Contributes to organizational projects as assigned.  Preparing and coordinating Ad-Hoc Reporting and Financial Analysis.  Other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Technical/Management: Experience and Qualifications  Bachelor of Science with a degree or major in Accountancy.  Must be a CPA or CA or ACCA or CMA.  Must have at least 3 years extensive assurance and advisory working experience from globally recognized auditing firms.  Must have thorough understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).  Must have extensive utility industry experience at least 1-2 years in the Financial Accountant Role.

Abilities, Skills, Experience Aptitude & Judgement  Must have strong analytical skills with a high level of competence and proficiency in financial analysis;  Must possess strong inter-personal, organizational, multi-tasking and written and oral communication skills.  Must possess high level of professional excellence characterized by sound judgment skills, and drive for results.  Must possess the ability to develop, monitor and maintain management information systems and procedures.  Must possess excellent working knowledge of MS Office software programs, including MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and various databases.  Must have working knowledge of Microsoft AX Dynamics and other ERP systems.  Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills.  Must possess basic supervisory skills to provide minimum instructions to other team members and conduct first level of review.  Must be a team player.

Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is August 23, 2016 to: Claudia Munnings Director Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@ppcltd.tc OR cmunnings@fortistci.com

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Governor Beckingham proud of Delano Williams ‘run of a lifetime’

Outgoing governor His Governor Beckingham said in a press Excellency Peter Beckingham is statement. delighted at Delano Williams’ selection

“It is difficult to imagine, for the Great Britain Olympic team in and harder still to describe, the atmosphere Delano will walk out to.

Rio.

“I’m sure everyone in the I was lucky enough to be involved Turks and Caicos Islands, or with a with the British participation in the connection to them, will be willing 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where I was Delano Williams on in the Olympic UK Consul-General. Because of my Games in Rio this month. Delano, work with the team Jill and I were born in Grand Turk with a population privileged to attend some events in of 5,000 people, will be running in Sydney’s main stadium. We saw the the 4 x 400 metres relay for Team GB Australian runner, Cathy Freeman, in front of some 100,000 bellowing storm through to win a Gold in the spectators and a global TV audience,” 400 metres. I’ll never forget the

atmosphere in the stadium that night,” the Rio occasion this month. It will be truly wonderful for Turks and Caicos he continued.

“Delano will experience if he returns with a medal, which will the same excitement, multiplied by also be a reward for the trust shown millions, as he prepares for the run of in him by his family, and friends and his life. It is hard to think of anyone colleagues like Rita Gardiner, the better able to handle the tension and former head of TCI’s Commonwealth the pressure. He is a well balanced Games group. But whatever the man, modest but rightly ambitious, outcome everyone in Turks and Caicos charming and great company. I can should take pride in his participation think of no better role model for the in the world’s greatest sporting event youth of Turks and Caicos Islands,” - an extraordinary achievement for someone from Grand Turk, which the Governor said.

He added: “Let’s all hope that everybody there and in TCI should Delano and his team mates rise to jointly celebrate.”

Deputy Premier Akierra Missick proud of Delano

Deputy Premier and Minister of Sports, Hon. Akierra Missick

Delano Williams continues to be a strong brand ambassador for Turks and Caicos Islands and has shown young people that with hard work and dedication, they can have the opportunity to perform on the highest sporting stage as well, says Deputy Premier and Minister of Sports, Hon. Akierra Missick.

“It is with great pride and honor that we are able to support our son of the soil and Golden Boy

Delano Williams as he participates in the 4 x 400m relay in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games,” Missick said in sharing her thoughts on Williams forming part of Team Great Britain for the 20016 Olympics, held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

“ This marks a pivotal moment within the TCI, one that will go down in history. It is a true representation of the tangible growth of, not only identifying local athletic talent, but dedicating the resources to developing their skills allowing them to achieve heights such as these. Delano was the recipient of a TCIG Scholarship for studies at UWI Mona Campus, Jamaica, which provided him an opportunity to not only obtain a Degree in Marketing from the prestigious University of the West Indies, but also provided him an opportunity to live in Jamaica and train with his Coach who is based there,” Missick added.

She said the experiences Delano will gain while participating in the 2016 Olympic Games is

invaluable, adding that the Ministry of Sports will be sending two delegates to Rio to cheer on Delano in person.

The team will consist of the Deputy Premier and Minister of Sport Hon Akierra M D Missick, and Director of Sport (Acting) Ms Judith Robinson.

In a press release, the Ministry extends its profound thanks to the Haitian Athletic Association who were able to provide the Minister and Director accreditation to attend the 2016 Rio Games and to watch as history is made by Delano competing in the Olympics.

“It is important for all Turks and Caicos’ Islanders to continue to support Delano in any way possible, keeping him in your prayers and routing for his success. The Minister of Sport urges all sporting bodies to host a watching party so that their athletes can witness this historic occasion of a Turks& Caicos Islander stepping on the greatest world sporting stage,” Hon. Missick added.

Director of TCI Red Cross receives 2016 UK Chevening Scholarship

The Governor’s Office is pleased to announce that Mrs Lormeka Williams, the Director of the TCI Red Cross, has been awarded a prestigious Chevening Scholarship for the 2016/17 academic year to study a Masters degree in Conservation Biology at the University of Kent in the UK starting in September. The award was presented to Mrs Williams by His Excellency the Governor, Peter Beckingham, at Waterloo on 10 August.

Chevening Scholarships to study in the UK are awarded globally each year to outstanding individuals with leadership potential who are committed to contribute to the future development of their home countries, in Mrs Williams case the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Mrs Williams previously worked closely with international organisations such as Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Darwin Project and the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Conservation Forum on various conservation projects and initiatives. During her tenure as Director of the TCI Red Cross she assisted in the implementation of the Disaster Risk Reduction Programme which reaches

out to vulnerable communities helping them to prepare and become more resilient and able to respond to disasters.

Commenting on the award, Mrs Williams said: “I am so happy to have been awarded the Chevening Scholarship and to have been given the opportunity to not only further my studies but to represent my country on an international level.

I am looking forward to meeting and learning from other Chevening Scholars and sharing my knowledge and experience with them.”

The Governor, Peter Beckingham, said, “It is to Lormeka’s great credit that she receives this prestigious scholarship. I’m sure that she will use her experience for the benefit of the Turks and Caicos Islands when she returns to the islands, and I hope that everyone in TCI will be proud of her achievement.”

The deadline for submitting applications for Chevening Scholarhips for 2017/18 is 8 November 2016. All eligible people are encouraged to apply. For more Information, Contact the Chevening Officer- Mr Neville Misick. Email: Neville.misick@fco.gov.uk or Telephone: +1649 -916-2308/9 Lormeka Williams receiving her certificate from Governor Peter Beckingham

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•Must have at least 5 years’ experience as a Marble Floor Crystallizing Specialist •Must have at least 5 years’ experience handling heavy scrubbing/ crystallizing machines •Wide knowledge of floor crystallizing chemicals.

•Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

Seven Stars Resort & Spa is seeking a suitably qualified candidate to fill the position outlined below. The ideal candidate must possess experience in a luxury resort environment, as well as a professional, outgoing and friendly demeanor with a strong command of the English Language (oral and written) and be fluent in at least one European language.

CHEF DE PARTIE As Chef De Partie you will be answering directly to the senior members of the team. You should be a proven Chef De Partie with good skills and knowledge of kitchen operations. Salary for this position $1,400.00 and is based on previous experience and qualifications.

•Minimum of 2 years’ experience in high end restaurant operation •Hospitality or Culinary Arts qualification is desirable.

•Food hygiene certificate required •Ability to work under pressure •Produces food of high quality according to standard recipes •Assists with the preparation, presentation, decoration and storage of the general dishes •Prepares Regional Dishes appropriate to the hotel location and guest mix.

•Communicates to his/her superior any difficulties, guest or internal customer comment and other relevant information •Prepares in advance food, beverage, material and equipment needed for the service •Responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of the assigned areas displaying best practice of Health & Safety •Provides direction to the Kitchen helpers, Interns and Stewards •In the absence of the CDC, Sous Chef, step in as to expedite food orders and facilitate fast and efficient flow of service.

•Ensure proper food labels, food storage flow, practice proper hygiene and sanitation and stock rotation as first in first out.

•Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

POOL & BEACH MANAGER The Pool and Beach Manager will direct and organize the activities of the Pool & Beach department to maintain the high standards of the Pool & Beach and Food and Beverage quality and to meet the daily needs of the operation. Salary range for this position $3,500.00 and is based on previous experience and qualifications.

Minimum Requirements: •Must be knowledgeable on Pool & Beach services.

•Must have a broad swimming knowledge as well as an excellent swimmer.

•Excellent Customer service skills.

•Clear concise written and verbal communication skills in English.

•Must be proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel.

•Must have excellent organizational, interpersonal and administrative skills and excellent attention to detail.

•Ability to meet deadlines, work under pressure and work independently.

•Plan and directs the functions of administration and planning of the Pool & Beach department.

•Adherence to establish policies, standards and procedures are required at all times in order to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, quality service, compliance with corporate policies and procedures.

•Maintain fast, accurate service, positive guest relations, and ensure products are consistent with company quality standards.

•Ensure company safety and security policy are met.

•Excellent time management skills required. Ability to handle multiple tasks without losing focus on priorities.

•Strong organizational, analytical, communication and leadership skills required.

•Impeccable service standards and attention to detail.

•Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.

•Must have strong and effective leadership skills.

•Candidate must be comfortable with all levels of employees and have the ability to drive positive program change.

•Ability to train and develop others required.

•Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

In addition, we are currently enlisting for the following positions which are currently held by work permit holders.

FLOOR CRYSTALLIZING SPECIALIST The ideal candidate must possess luxury resort experience, outgoing and friendly demeanor with a strong understanding of floor crystallizing. Salary $6.31 per hour

STOCK CONTROLLER The Stock controller performs any combination of the following tasks to compile records concerned with ordering, receiving, storing, issuing, and shipping materials, supplies, and equipment: Compiles data from sources, such as contracts, purchase orders, invoices, requisitions, and accounting reports and writes, types, or enters information into computer to maintain inventory, purchasing, shipping, or other records. Salary is $1,750 monthly and is based on experience and qualification.

Essential Duties: •Keeps back order file in established sequence and releases back orders for issue or shipment as stock becomes available.

•Compiles stock control records and information, such as consumption rate, characteristics of items in storage, and current market conditions, to determine stock supply and need for replenishment.

•Knowledge of Excel is essential.

•Ability to handle heavy lifting.

•Prepares requisitions, orders, or other documents for purchasing or requisitioning new or additional stock items.

•Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

LANDSCAPING MANAGER The Landscaping Manager plans and coordinates the work activates of the landscaping department, and oversees gardening and greenhouse operations, insect control, and ground repairs. Salary for this position $3,000.00 monthly and is based on experience and qualification.

Essential Duties: •Work with resort management to develop working sketches for the refurbishment, improvement or expansion of landscaped areas.

•Plan, schedule, assign and supervise all landscaping activities, including but not limited to seeding, weeding, cultivating and general care of resort grounds.

•Plan and supervise cultivation, pruning, spraying, and transplanting of a wide variety of shrubs and trees.

•Prepare requisitions and distribute materials and equipment for grounds maintenance work.

•Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER The Housekeeping manager will be responsible for planning, organizing, and developing of the overall operation of the housekeeping department in accordance with standards and guidelines along with assuring the highest degree of quality guest care is maintained at all times. In this role, the manager will also responsible for staffing, scheduling, training and developing staff.

Salary for this position range at $3,000.00 monthly and based on experience and qualification

Essential Duties: •Manage the daily activities of the Housekeeping department to include appropriate cleaning of all guest suites, offices, concourses, seating areas, washrooms, restaurants, concession stands and all public spaces.

•Planning, organizing and directing team members to ensure the highest degree of guest satisfaction.

•Daily supervision of the housekeeping staff, including the day, event and post-event.

•Daily supervision of the grounds keeping staff, including the day, event and post-event •Purchase, re-order and maintain housekeeping supplies and inventory.

•Conduct pre-event inspections of all rooms, concourses, clubs, seating areas and public areas prior gate opening for every event held at the hotel.

•Schedule and train all new housekeeping staff members.

•Maintain the housekeeping budget, providing billing summaries and expenses for all pre and post events.

•Uphold the highest standards of cleanliness, safety, and conduct.

•Knowledge of safety standards within Housekeeping department.

•Determines and maintains the department work schedule used to notify staff of upcoming events and ensure proper preparation and staffing for each event.

•Ensures the proper maintenance of all equipment; makes arrangements for repair and/or replacement of used and damaged equipment.

•Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

SECURITY GUARDS The areas of responsibility for this position include the protection and safety of property assets, employees, guests, accident and fire prevention and response.

The ideal candidate must exemplify excellent customer service and create a positive atmosphere for guests and employees. Salary $6.31 per hour. There are new positions available and some positions are held by work permit holders.

Candidates should apply to Seven Stars Resort & Spa, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales via e-mail at hr@sevenstarsgracebay.com for consideration or should leave CV’s at the security building for the attention of HR. Prospective applicants who are Islanders kindly send copies of your application to the board.

Application deadline: August 19, 2016.

•ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING ABOVE REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE CONTACTED.

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qualifications. The Assistant Front of House Manager role is an important function for the resort and it provides 24-hour coverage for our guests. The selected individual will assist with ensuring the smooth operation of the Front of House.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: •Minimum 8 years management experience with international 5 star properties •Working knowledge of English, French and Spanish •Control of staffing levels to reflect changes required for seasonal fluctuations •Experience in managing all Front Office functions.

•Must be effective in handling problems in the workplace, anticipating, identifying, preventing and solving problems as necessary.

Minimum Requirements: •Ex-Military with Officer Rank experience •Be proficient in unarmed combat techniques •Highly trained in security procedures •First Aid training is preferable •Ability to communicate effectively •Able to work flexible hours holidays, weekends, nights and 12 hour shifts •Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

DIRECTOR OF RESTAURANT & BAR The Director of Restaurant and Bar will ensure that service standards are met, and meeting or exceeding budgets as set. The candidate must have experience in a 5 star Hotel Food and Beverage Department and experience in managing a fine dining restaurant. Salary range is $4,000.00 and is based on experience and qualifications.

AIR-CONDITIONING ENGINEER Qualification and knowledge of electrical and air conditioning is essential for this position: Salary range is $2,000.00 monthly and is based on previous experience and qualifications.

•Minimum of 5 years’ experience with a full service hotel and a condo hotel resort property minimum of 100 rooms.

•Technical certificate in heating and air conditioning components •Ability to lift 50lbs •Self-starter with the ability to implement and carry out role with little or no supervision •Ability to install, repair and maintain air conditioning units •Ability to install, repair and maintain refrigeration components •Possess extensive experience in preventative maintenance techniques •Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned not listed in this job description.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: •To oversee the presentations and service of all Food and Beverage products to ensure highest standard of quality at all times.

•To work closely with the Food and Beverage Director and the Executive Chef.

•Ensure proper handling, cleaning and sanitation of equipment, meeting Resorts Health and Safety standards.

•Serves as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.

•Control labor and operating costs through effective scheduling, budgeting, purchasing decisions, and inventory control while focusing on creative revenue generation solutions to maximize profit.

•The ability to be visible in the operation, recognize and maintain relationships with regular guests.

•Communicate with employees and managers to ensure operational needs are met as well as attend regular operational meetings to ensure effective coordination and cooperation between departments.

•Maintains an up to date working knowledge of all resort amenities as well as any special events.

ASSISTANT FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER Salary range is $3,500.00 monthly and is based on experience and

Candidates should apply to Seven Stars Resort & Spa, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales via e-mail at hr@sevenstarsgracebay.com for consideration or should leave CV’s at the security building for the attention of HR. Prospective applicants who are Islanders kindly send copies of your application to the board.

Application deadline: August 19, 2016.

•ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING ABOVE REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE CONTACTED.

OASIS DIVERS

is seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates for the

following positions. The successful applicants must:

Assistant Manager

Ø Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in Tour Operations in a service oriented business.

Ø C.P.R. and First Aid Ø Minimum Dive master certification Ø Computer Literate Responsible for assisting the Manager in ensuring that the operational needs of all the tours, locations and employees are met. Assisting to ensures that all the necessary policies and procedures are executed and adhered to by all staff and relevant personnel; helps maximize the use of the available resources of the company, ensures that maintenance and repair schedules are established and adhered to; implements control measures to ensure efficient operations and safety standards, assists in ensuring regulatory compliance, works within prescribed budgets; helps minimizes costs; exercises effective crisis management strategies and performs all other related functions as required from time to time.

Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business

Administrative Assistant

• Two years’ experience in a related position • Computer literate and Basic accounting background • Certificate in Office Procedures.

• Ability to speak and write English well.

To provide administrative support to the Manager and Directors via the accurate organization, compiling, filing and recording of data electronically and manually, and assisting with all other basic office needs.

Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business

STEWARD/GUEST SERVICES

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Have at least 5 years’ experience in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Competent in Microsoft Computer software with accounting expertise and knowledge in Quickbooks and other accounting software.

- Possess the ability to remain calm in a high stress environment - Be well spoken with English as primary language and at least 25 years old - Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business Suitable candidates that do not meet the above requirements may, at the sole discretion of the Company’s management team, may be eligible to benefit if they demonstrate a clear willingness to embrace the Company’s in-house training initiatives and established standard operating policies and procedures. Preference will be given to documented Turks and Caicos Islanders. Preference will be given to documented Turks and Caicos Islanders

Written applications only and accompanying CVs/resumes must be addressed to the Manager at the following address: Cee’s Plaza, Suite No. 1 OASIS DIVING, LTD. Church Folly c/o EPIC Corporate & Consultancy Services Ltd. PO Box 86 Phone: 649-946-1128 Grand Turk Fax: 649-946-1128 Email: oasisdiv@tciway.tc Turks & Caicos Islands

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OPEN JOB POSITION DATE OPEN: July 4, 2016 START DATE: ASAP POSITION: Cook

Job Overview: A Line Cook’s major responsibility is to prepare food, help the kitchen workers in the preparation of food items and set up allocated stations for menu, as instructed by Chef and compliant with standards. They also arrange, prepare and break down the stations while maintaining the uppermost hygienic standards. Shifts vary. Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $9.50 - $10.80 per hour DATE OPEN: July 4, 2016 POSITION: Housekeeper

START DATE: ASAP

Job Overview: We are looking for a professional Housekeeper able of attending to our facilities with integrity and attention to detail. The goal is to create a clean and orderly environment for our guests that will become a critical factor in maintaining and strengthening our reputation.

Responsibilities: •Perform a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing •Ensure all rooms are cared for and inspected according to standards •Protect equipment and make sure there are no inadequacies •Notify superiors on any damages, deficits and disturbances •Deal with reasonable complaints/requests with professionalism and patience •Check stocking levels of all consumables and replace when appropriate •Adhere strictly to rules regarding health and safety and be aware of any company-related practices Qualified Islanders and Belongers need only to apply Salary Range: $6.25 per hour DATE OPEN: July 18, 2016 START DATE: ASAP POSITION: Executive Chef Job Overview: The executive chef will train and manage kitchen personnel and supervise/coordinate all related culinary activities; estimate food consumption and requisition or purchase food; select and develop recipes; standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality; establish presentation technique and quality standards; plan and price menus; ensure proper equipment operation/maintenance; and ensure proper safety and sanitation in kitchen. The executive chef may oversee special catering events and may also offer culinary instruction and/or demonstrate culinary techniques. The executive chef directly supervises kitchen personnel with responsibility for hiring, discipline, performance reviews and initiating pay increases. He/she will assist in the development of employees.

Additionally, will supervise all kitchen workers and give performance reviews, grant pay increases and take disciplinary action when necessary. Executive chefs prepare meals in the kitchen and delegate work to other chefs and cooks during the restaurant’s busy times. At the end of the work day, executive chef will insure the proper cleanliness and closing of the kitchen.

SEEKS TO IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS:

STILT WALKER • MASCOT STORE CLERK • STORE KEEPER • STORE PORTER DINING ROOM & RESTAURANT CAPTAIN BARTENDER • BARBACK KITCHEN HELPER • COOKS • ASSISTANT COOKS RETAIL MANAGER • ACCOUNTING CLERK SERVERS EXECUTIVE CHEF • SOUS CHEF ACCOUNTS SUPERVISOR HOST/ HOSTESS HOUSEKEEPERS (BUSSERS) & RUNNERS GENERAL MANAGER/RESIDENT MANAGER PERSON MUST BE ABLE TO WORK LONG HOURS HOLIDAYS AND WEEKENDS AND BE WILLING TO WORK AS PART OF A TEAM.

Attendance at meetings as required Qualifications: •Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent •International experience preferred.

•Candidate should have at least 5 years’ experience in an Executive Chef Kitchen management capacity and excellent knowledge of current culinary trends.

•Must have experience in high volume hotel business.

•Must be competent in culinary creativity as demonstrated by cooking test.

•With strong knowledge of food cost and inventories.

•Must possess the ability to handle stressful and busy hotel.

•Candidate must have good knowledge of computers (i.e: Excel & Word).

•Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills.

•Candidate must be comfortable to speak to guests and conduct meeting.

•Must have a good understanding of cost control.

•Candidate must be a leader and a mentor.

Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $60,000 - $86,400 per annum plus 10% maximum bonus at discretion of the Board of Directors Interested persons can contact our Human Resources Department no later than August 30th, 2016 @ (649) 946-5050 Ext. 1030 Email: sheba.wilson@gracebayclub.com Fax: (649) 946-5758 P.O. Box 128 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies

SUBMIT APPLICATIONS ACCOMPANIED BY A RESUME TO THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT AT MSPENCE@MARGARITAVILLECARIBBEAN.COM OR BY FAXING TO 649-946-1514 APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON 19TH AUGUST 2016 WHILE WE THANK EVERY APPLICANT FOR THEIR INTEREST IN MARGARITAVILLE GRAND TURK ONLY SHORT-LISTED PERSONS WILL BE CONTACTED. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN PREFERENCE

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Alexandria Missick:

Claudia Munnings:

Denaz Williams:

Letivia Parker:

Director of Legal Services

Director of HR

Technical Services Officer

Office Assistant

Lorenzo Smith:

Hortnel Johnston:

Julien Samaroo:

Marcus Francis:

Junior Plant Operator

Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Plant Electrician

Senior EHS Officer

Monet Collymore:

George Glinton:

Lovell Ingham:

Business Services Coordinator

Storekeeper 1

ERP Technical Support Specialist

Welcome Team Members to our newest

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HEALTHY

LIFESTYLE

Doctors should offer women birth control right after babies arrive

Women should have the postpartum care site may not offer chance to get long-acting birth control LARC placement or may require prelike intrauterine devices (IUDs) before approval or more than one visit for they leave the hospital with a new baby, placement.” a leading group of U.S. obstetricians In the U.S., almost half of recommends. pregnancies are unplanned.

The American College of While many women plan to Obstetricians and Gynecologists resume or start birth control after (ACOG) has long advocated that women having a baby, up to 40 percent don’t have access to IUDs and contraceptive go to the follow-up appointment that’s implants along with other birth control needed to get a prescription for pills or options. an implant or IUD, according to ACOG.

But this is the first time ACOG One of the biggest barriers to women has explicitly recommended that receiving IUDs or implants right women having babies in the hospital after delivery is financial. Insurance get the opportunity to receive IUDs typically pays a lump sum for labor and implants before they go home. The and delivery, without giving doctors advantage of this approach is that it or hospitals money to cover the cost may help avoid pregnancies spaced of providing long-acting contraception too close together that carry a risk of during the hospital stay, said Dr. serious complications for both mothers Michelle Moniz of the University of and babies.

Michigan in Ann Arbor.

“Immediate postpartum long- If doctors instead give women acting reversible contraception (LARC) IUDs or implants at a follow-up has been shown to be a convenient and appointment in an outpatient setting effective option for women desiring several weeks later, then they do get postpartum birth control,” said Dr. paid by the insurance companies, Ann Borders of the University of Moniz, who wasn’t involved in the Chicago, who helped draft the ACOG ACOG recommendations, said by email. recommendations.

“It’s not offered by most maternity care “Providing effective contraception settings because it’s not reimbursed by before a women goes home from the most payers,” Moniz said. hospital eliminates significant barriers” This is gradually changing, many women face after they’ve had a Moniz said. Medicaid, the government baby, Borders added by email. health insurance program for the poor,

For example, she said, “Women pays for roughly half of U.S. births and may lose insurance post-delivery, miss covers IUDs and implants right after their postpartum follow up visit, their delivery in at least 20 states.

Contraceptive implants are flexible plastic rods about the size of a matchstick that are inserted under the skin in the upper arm. They can be used to prevent pregnancy for several years.

IUDs are T-shaped devices about the size of a quarter that are inserted into the uterus. The devices can be used for several years; they

prevent pregnancy by stopping sperm from reaching the egg.

While placing an IUD immediately after birth carries a slightly increased risk that it may loosen and fall out, the risks of other complications, such as infections, are small and similar to the odds of side effects from an IUD placed later in the doctor’s office.

Risk of diabetes and heart disease may spike before menopause

Women may be at greater risk for developing diabetes, heart disease and stroke in the years before menopause, rather than afterward, a U.S. study suggests.

“This may mean that the higher cardiovascular risk seen among post-menopausal women could be related to changes in that time before menopause and less so to the changes after menopause has occurred,” said lead study author Dr. Mark DeBoer, a researcher at University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.

While the reasons for this are unclear, the findings suggest that women may need to pay especially close attention to cardiovascular risk factors in the

years leading up to menopause and consider lifestyle changes like improved diet and exercise habits that can make problems like diabetes and heart disease less likely, DeBoer added by email.

Menopause typically happens between ages 45 and 55. As the ovaries curb production of estrogen and progesterone, menstruation stops, and women can experience symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness.

Certain treatments for menopause symptoms that contain man-made versions of the hormones estrogen and progestin have also been linked to an increase risk of heart

attack and stroke.

Previous research has also linked menopause to an increased risk of what’s known as metabolic syndrome, a constellation of conditions that increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Obesity, inactivity and a history of smoking appear to make these problems more likely.

For the current study, researchers examined data on 1,470 white and African-American women participating in a national study of the causes and health effects of hardening of the arteries.

All of the women went through menopause during the ten-year study period.

Researchers focused on five things that contribute to metabolic syndrome: expanding waist circumference, elevated fats in the flood, declines in so-called “good” HDL cholesterol, spikes in blood pressure and increased levels of sugar in the blood.

After taking into account whether women used hormone-replacement therapy, researchers still found bigger changes in triglycerides (fats in the blood), cholesterol and glucose (blood sugar) before menopause than afterwards.

For white women, waist size spiked more after menopause, however.

African-American women experienced

larger increases in blood pressure after menopause than before, the researchers report in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

One limitation of the study is that researchers defined the timing of menopause based on whether women said they had a menstrual period in the previous two years, the authors note.

Menopause is commonly diagnosed after women cease menstruation for one year, which means the study may have categorized some women as going through this transition who had already completed it.

Researchers also lacked data on hormone levels for individual women, even though these can fluctuate and influence the risk for metabolic problems, said Dr. Robert Eckel, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

Not all types of hormone-replacement therapy carry the same risks, and the study also didn’t account for the way hormones were administered, Eckel, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.

“Cardiovascular disease screening remains important for all adults including men and women,” Eckel said. “Perhaps the frequency of evaluation should be more emphasized in this important peri-menopausal interval (between ages 45-55) in women - more science needed here.”

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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION The Financial Services Commission hereby advertises the under-mentioned Posts. Responses may be emailed to administration@tcifsc.tc or delivered to Administration, Financial Services Commission, Unit D7/D8 (Executive Office), Caribbean Place, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.

Deadline for submission is August 31, 2016. Applicants should also forward copies of their resume to the Labour Commissioner.

Job Title: Assistant Manager, Domestic Insurance Unit Location: Providenciales Salary: Grade 3 Qualification: MBA Finance, Regulation or a professional accounting certification such as ACCA, CPA and at least seven (7) years in a supervisory position in the field of Insurance Regulation.

Job Summary Manage the day to day operations of the Domestic Insurance Unit, providing overall guidance in areas requiring compliance with the Insurance Core Principles, risk assessment methodology for the insurance supervisory framework and identification of gaps in the supervisory process as against international and best practice trends.

Job Title: Supervisor, Banks and Trusts Department Location: Providenciales Salary: Grade 4 Qualification: BSc Degree in Accounting or Economics or professional accounting certification such as ACCA, CPA and at least seven (7) years in banking supervision, with at least three (3) being a supervisor.

Job Summary Co-ordinate and supervise the work of the Senior Bank and Trust Officers and through them the work of the other employees of the Department. Train and develop staff of the Department in relation to the banking and related laws, Banking Supervision Core Principles and risk assessment and best practice supervisory methodologies. The incumbent will design and plan an effective programme of offsite and onsite monitoring of licensed entities.

Job Title: Senior Insurance Analyst Location: Providenciales Salary: Grade 5 Qualification: BSc Degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or equivalent professional qualifications such as the ACII and Six (6) years related experience, of which at least three (3) must be in a senior position.

Job Summary Reporting to the Assistant Manager, the Senior Insurance analyst is responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing all activities in the Insurance Administration section of the International Insurance Unit and participating in on off-site and on-site inspections of insurance entities.

Job Title: Bank and Trust Officer II (Two positions) Location: Providenciales Salary: Grade 5 Qualification: BSc. Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics or an equivalent certification and three (3) years related experience in the field of banking regulation.

Job Summary To contribute to the work of the Bank and Trust Department in the conduct of offsite reviews and on-site examination reviews of assigned licensed deposit-taking institutions from the pre-planning stages to postexamination follow up as well as to help develop and implement a framework for risk-based assessment of licensees.

Dated August 3, 2016

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procedures.

•Plan and coordinate housekeeping staff job duties, responsibilities, and activities including that of housekeeping managers and supervisors.

•Coordinate and complete inspections of assigned areas for quality checks and cleanliness controls in accordance to standards.

•Coordinate, administer and complete administrative tasks as required.

REQUIREMENTS Education: A secondary school diploma is an asset.

Experience: Minimum of three to five years as an Executive Housekeeper is required.

The Sands is now accepting applications/résumé for the following positions.

Only highly self-driven & motivated, personable and professional individuals, whom have the desire to serve others, need apply: ENGINEERING AND FACILITIES MANAGER Responsibilities: To achieve hotel revenue, profit and customer satisfaction goals by directing the on-going Maintenance, upkeep and renovations of the hotel and resort, Pool and Beach areas, Grounds and Security Services. To achieve hotel revenue, profit and owner/customer satisfaction goals by directing and overseeing on-going preventative maintenance, repairs, upkeep, projects and renovations of the Hotel/Resort, Maintenance, Pool & Beach areas, Grounds/Landscaping and Security Services. Highly involved with owner and guest relations, project management, inventories and reporting systems.

•Troubleshoot and repair malfunctions in electrical/mechanical/ plumbing systems (e.g. HVAC, boilers, treatment plant system, pumps, fire systems, refrigeration systems, lighting, appliances & other hotel equipment).

•Conducting ongoing room preventative maintenance program.

•Resolving maintenance problems, complaints, work orders to prioritize, schedule work and cost out work orders.

•HVAC, machinery, mechanics, carpentry and painting skills, as well as drywall, carpet/tile repair work, or other maintenance related trade, certification/s is a plus. Inspecting property, units/rooms, and hotel departments to identify potential and current needs.

•Ensuring department expenditures meet budget requirements.

Assisting with the capital budget process.

•Soliciting bids/quotes from contractors and evaluating their proposals with hotel management.

•Coordinating with local health, safety, fire, and building inspectors to ensure compliance with applicable codes and regulations.

•Ensure pools and hot tub is properly maintained to include cleanliness and chemical content.

•Maintaining the building exterior including services by outside contractor/s (e.g. lawn care, painting, etc.). Supervising and scheduling of Maintenance Technicians, Pool and Beach, Grounds/ Landscaping, and Security Services staff.

Payroll Control and Scheduling… Determine appropriate staffing levels based on forecasted rooms nights/occupancy and anticipated business and create staffing schedules which optimize the balance between desired profitability, owner/customer demands and employee needs.

Performance Management, Supervisory… Demonstrate ability to relate to, effectively communicate with guests, staff, owners, executives and HOD’s. Motivate employees to sustain high performance, quality services and product/s.

Requirements: The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he/she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities.

•Must possess highly effective skills to speak, read, write and understand the primary English language(s) used in the workplace.

•Must possess highly effective Hospitality skills to facilitate difficult/ challenging guest/staff relation situations.

•Must possess highly effective skills to read and write to facilitate the communication process.

•Must possess high organizational and follow-up skills.

•Must possess excellent mathematical skills.

•Must possess excellent computational skills with specific and direct working knowledge of Microsoft Office Software; Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook.

•Must be able to build Excel reports, and read and build formulabased spread sheets.

•Must be able to operate and drive large equipment and machines as required.

•Must be able to operate pumps, equipment, motors and company vehicles as required.

•Must possess excellent motor vehicle driving skills with valid Driver’s License.

EXECUTIVE HOUSEKEEPER RESPONSIBILITIES •Uphold and update established Housekeeping and Laundry operating procedures and standards.

•Develop, implement and coordinate new Housekeeping and Laundry

The individual must possess Housekeeping and Laundry Department management work experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. Must be able to explain, demonstrate and perform all related job duties, functions, and responsibilities of Housekeeping and Laundry department operations.

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS Education High school or equivalent education required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Experience Minimum of 5 years of experience in a managerial position in the Housekeeping & Laundry Department.

Licenses or Certificates Executive Housekeeper Certification or time on the job equivalent as stated above required.

Essential Functions 1.Plans, organizes, directs and controls all housekeeping and laundry activities, maintains the established standards of cleanliness, the orderly and attractive conditions on guest floors, public/common and employee areas. Implement working rules and proper execution to meet those standards.

2.Monitors and maintains a healthy and safe environment for owners, guests and employees.

3.Conducts and keep records of goods received, housekeeping and laundry staff, inventories, cleaning projects and room inspections for guest rooms and public areas.

4.Familiarizes him /herself and carries out policies and procedures established by the Sands at Grace Bay. 5.Initiates and aides in effective communication within the department and other departments.

6.Carries out the following routine assignments as required.

(This list is not exhaustive) HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR Responsibilities: •Ensures maximum efficiency in the performance of Housekeeping staff in guest rooms and surrounding areas.

•Familiarizes him / herself with and carries out the policies and procedures of The Sands.

•Offers all possible assistance to guests, initiates corrective action on complaints regarding guest cleanliness and servicing of guest rooms.

•Evaluates and updates the Executive Housekeeper on the performance of Housekeeping staff. Recommends appropriate action such as commendation and/or discipline.

Requirements: •High school diploma or equivalent.

•Must have supervised a minimum of 10-15 employees.

•Most work tasks are performed indoors and outdoors. Temperature is moderate and controlled by hotel environmental systems.

•Must be able to stand and exert well-paced mobility for up to 3 hours in length.

•Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs. on a regular and continual basis.

•Must be able to push and/or pull carts and equipment weighing up to 200 lbs. on a regular and continual basis.

•Must be able to exert well-paced ability in limited space.

•Must be able to bend, stoop, squat and stretch to fulfill cleaning tasks.

•Must have minimum of 3 years supervisory experience in the Hotel/ Resort and/or Hospitality Industry.

•Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace.

•Must be able to read and write the primary language(s) to facilitate the communication process.

•Requires excellent communication skills, both verbal, written.

•Must possess basic computational ability and technological use of hotel PMS system, and Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.

•Must work weekends and holidays.

•Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work.

•Must work PM shifts as business demands according to the operations policy.

POOL & BEACH SUPERVISOR Responsibilities: •Greet all guests and assist with towels, umbrellas, questions, and/or water sports equipment.

•Complete setting up and breaking down of all guest lounge areas as designated by management and to ensure that all pool chairs and tables are in a clean and orderly fashion.

•Constant walk-through of pool area and beach area to make certain it is clean (no trash on the grounds) and tidy. Inspect entire pool area replacing any missing items and/or repairing (when possible) any items

Turks Island citizen’s only need to apply in person to Kitchandra McDonald, Assistant Human Resources Manager at The Sands Resort located on Grace Bay Road, Providenciales, the Turks and Caicos Labour Department, or e-mail: humanresource@thesandstc.com Resumes/CV’s must be in by August 22nd, 2016.

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needing attention. (I.E. Umbrellas, Hobie Cat, Chairs, etc.)

•Pool & Hot Tub Cleaning (I.E. vacuuming, filtering, scrubbing, sifting, chemical testing, checking skimmers, etc.)

Requirements: •High school or equivalent education preferred. Life-safety training and certification CPR, AED, First Aid, Water Safety required •Must have worked in hotels or other institution in a similar capacity.

Must have prior pool/beach supervisory experience •Must be able to work long hours in all weather conditions •Must be able to be CPR certified, First Aid certified, and AED certified •Must be a good swimmer and perform rescue when needed •Must be able to operate rescue boat •Must be experienced in sailing, kayaking, and wind-surfing and operator all equipment •Must be able to clean and chlorinate pool •Must handle pool chemicals and equipment maintenance and functions •Life Guard experience a plus •Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) (English) used in the workplace.

•Must work weekends and holidays RESERVATIONS / SALES AGENT Responsibilities: •Handle incoming reservations, utilize up selling and value-added techniques •Process advance deposits •Process all electronic and faxed requests •Perform job functions with attention to detail, speed and accuracy •Be able to prioritize and organize incoming and outgoing work flow •Be a clear thinker, remaining calm and resolving problems using good judgment •Follow directions thoroughly •Understand guest service and request needs •Work cohesively with co-workers as part of a team •Work with minimal supervision •Maintain confidentiality of guest information and pertinent hotel data Requirements: •High school diploma •Must have experience in the Hotel/Resort and/or Hospitality Industry •Visual One/Opera experience is highly preferred •Must be able to type more than 40 words per minute •Strong Grammar, Reading and Writing Skills •Must have great Customer Service Skills and telephone etiquette •Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace.

•Must possess basic computational ability (basic mathematics, word, excel, outlook) CONCIERGE AGENT

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Responsibilities: •Consistent and professional operation of the switchboard •Provide prompt, efficient, professional check in and check out •Accurately complete guest reservations as required •Accurately answer all guest inquiries •To be aware of all packages and special rates offered by the property •Have a good understanding of sister properties •Have a strong understanding of area and activities and services •Perform other tasks as assigned •Work cohesively with co-workers as part of a team •Maintain confidentiality of guest information and pertinent hotel data Requirements: •High school diploma •Must have experience in the Hotel/Resort and/or Hospitality Industry a minimum of 1 to 3 years combined experience preferred •Two to Three years of hotel front office experience required.

•One to Two years of hotel concierge experience preferred but not mandatory.

•Visual One experience is highly preferred •Strong Grammar, Reading and Writing Skills •Must have exceptional Customer Service Skills and hospitality Telephone Etiquette •Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace •Must possess basic computational ability (basic mathematics, word, excel, outlook) •Excellent interpersonal and communication skills •Highly organized and motivated •Work well under pressure MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Responsibilities •To skillfully and professionally perform all scheduled maintenance related jobs.

•Account for time spent on individual works and actively seek further tasks when assigned tasks are completed.

•To advise the Engineering Administrator when parts or supplies need to be reordered.

•Perform weekly and monthly physical counts of all inventory stock and tooling and requirements.

•Other duties as deemed necessary by the Engineering Administrator Requirements •Must meet minimum professional qualification/certification in Plumbing/Electrical/ Mechanical and A/C related trades •Must have minimum of two years hands-on experience working on minor electrical, painting, plumbing and A/C •Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language (English) used in the workplace.

•Must work weekends and holidays LINE POSITIONS HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT HOUSEMAN LABOURER GROUNDSMEN FRONT DESK AGENT POOL & BEACH ATTENDANT For the above line staff positions, Caribbean resort experience is an asset but not a requirement. Applicants must have a willing, positive and personable attitude, must be willing to work holidays and weekends as standard in the hospitality industry. Salary will commensurate with experience.

Turks Island citizen’s only need to apply in person to Kitchandra McDonald, Assistant Human Resources Manager at The Sands Resort located on Grace Bay Road, Providenciales, the Turks and Caicos Labour Department, or e-mail: humanresource@thesandstc.com Resumes/CV’s must be in by August 22nd, 2016.

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For All you advertising needs contact TCISUN at 339-5879 Or email – sun@suntci.com JEAN LOUIS SEEKS

1 Labourer To work 6 days a week Mon-Sat Salary: $7.00 an hour Contact: 245-2005

Premium Variety Store

Is seeking one Store Clerk To work 6 days a week Salary $200.00 every two weeks Contact: 347-9482

WILLIAMS DRAFTING Is looking for the following: Structural Engineer •5-8 years experience •Salary negotiable AUTOCAD TECHICIAN •At least 5 years experience •Salary negotiable Contact 344-8644 or email: browill649@gmail.com

CAICOS PRIDE PRODUCTS SEEKS Plant Worker Fisherman Bookkeeper Salary $6.50 per hour Contact 946-3570

STAGE BAR

David Rivera is

Is looking for the following: 4 Barmaids & Janitor •Must have an experience at least 3-4 years.

•Salary is negotiable Contact 344-8644 or email:

3 Sales Clerks 3 Technicians To work 6 days a week Salary Negotiable Contact: (649) 242-0288

browill649@gmail.com

seeking

CARIBBEAN AVIATION

Maintenance Services have the following vacancies: License aircraft mechanic with EMB120 training and experience.

Upholsters Only belongers or PRC holders need to apply to HR @ interCaribbean .com

PASTOR EVAN WILLIAMS

Of Middle Caicos SEEKS Church Musician Salary $6.00 per hour Contact 245-5266

WANTED

1 LABOURER Salary $6.25 per hour 343-4362 – 331-0221

ROBERT LUKER SEEKS

1 Housekeeper To work in North Caicos Salary $800 per month Contact 231-0262

For All you advertising needs contact TCISUN at 339-5879 Or email

– sun@suntci.com Caicos Sea Food is seeking

1 Diver To work 6 days a week Salary: negotiable Contact: 231-4554

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NEWS NEWS

Speaker on The Bahamas Parliament slams High Court judge ruling

Speaker of the House of Assembly Dr. Kendal Major yesterday berated a recent ruling of Supreme Court Justice Indra Charles as an “apparent violation” of the “principle of the separation of powers”, saying he is unaware of any jurisdiction in the Commonwealth where the court attempts to “curtail the actions of Parliament”.

Charles ruled on Tuesday morning that Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald breached the constitutional right to privacy of members of the environmental group Save The Bays (STB) when he disclosed their private emails and financial details in Parliament.

The judge ordered Fitzgerald to pay $150,000 in damages.

She granted a permanent injunction prohibiting the MP from disclosing or publishing any private information belonging to STB.

Major admitted he had not read the ruling, but said he was briefed on its findings which he found “astonishing”.

“To say I am astounded by this ruling would indeed be an understatement,” Major said at the start of the House sitting.

“It would appear to violate the principle of the separation of powers, which has underpinned our democracy and the centuries accepted belief of Parliament’s right to protect its privileges.

“I find the apparent violation astonishing.”

Noting that the Office of

the Attorney General has appealed jurisdiction by legislation. the decision, Major said he strongly “In addition, it is for the court believes Parliament and its members and not Parliament to decide on the will be vindicated. scope and application of parliamentary

He said members of the House privilege,” Charles said. have a constitutional privilege to STB sought a permanent speak freely, a privilege that has been injunction against Fitzgerald and unquestioned for centuries.

Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell, who were

But Major insisted Parliament respondents in the matter. will continue unfettered.

However, Charles said in her

“As chair, I am not unaware of ruling that Mitchell was not in breach. any jurisdiction in the Commonwealth where the court attempts to curtail the PINS AND NEEDLES actions of Parliament on any member,” he said.

Both MPs addressed the

“I have said and will continue matter in the House yesterday. to say that once the rules of this Mitchell said the decision is House are observed by members of a “serious blow to the Parliament and Parliament and once the members do its work” and it must not be allowed to not use their privilege to abuse the stand. public’s trust, I will, as long as I am He said it is incumbent that speaker of this House, continue to the matter be prosecuted through to defend their right to speak openly and the Privy Council. freely in this House.

“No one in their wildest

“This is an uncompromising imagination would have thought that principle. a judge of the Supreme Court would

“This is a principle which grant an order to restrain MPs from should not divide members.” speaking in Parliament to defend the

In her ruling, Charles said nation,” Mitchell said. there is a wealth of judicial authority “It is simply remarkable. which emphasizes that breaches of the “The Bahamian people should constitution by the government and its be outraged at the ruling because it Cabinet ministers when in Parliament would suggest that their parliamentary is clearly a matter for the court and representatives must now be sitting not for Parliament to decide. on pins and needles, seeking to divine

She said the Supreme Court what they can and cannot say when has the “original jurisdiction” to decide the law up to now has been clear over breaches of the constitution, that free speech was possible in this which is the supreme law of the land, Parliament.” and Parliament cannot change the Mitchell, the foreign affairs scope or divest the court of this original minister, said the allegations made

Immigration To End Marriages Of Convenience

Chief Immigration Officer Annette Mark

Chief Immigration Officer Annette Mark has acknowledged that her department is aware that some visitors to the island are using marriages of convenience to bypass the nation’s immigration laws.

This was among several concerns on immigration policies which were raised, Tuesday, by attorney-at-law Leon Chaku Symister.

“One of the popular things in Antigua that people don’t know about is arranged marriages. It happens here regularly. I know of at least two persons that live with their husbands for part of the time and their boyfriends until the immigration

papers come through,” Symister charged.

Mark said her department has seen cases of this type of arrangement and will be looking to put policies in place to prevent it.

“It has been brought to the attention of the minister also. We have seen a few cases, from the beginning of the year, and we are very concerned about this development because we suspect that we are going to see more,” Mark said.

The practice of marriages of convenience to secure immigration status is common in many parts of the world.

against STB were brought forward by representatives of the people, not the government.

In March, Fitzgerald read from private and confidential emails and other documents belonging to STB as he tried to make a case that the group was part of a plot to destabilize the government.

Fitzgerald moved a motion to send the matter before the House’s Committee on Privilege.

He also recommended that the judge and the applicants be called to answer questions before the committee.

But in May, Major said the move would be a “gross violation” of the separation of powers doctrine.

Yesterday, Mitchell said the work of the committee must continue.

Fitzgerald agreed.

He said, “I want to put on record and be very clear that I expect those persons who accused me of being involved in criminal activity in this matter, appear before the committee and if they are unable to show that I did obtain the information I tabled through illegal means, I have every intention to pursue every legal remedy at my disposal against those who have made those wild, unfounded and damaging statements against me.”

Fitzgerald said only the speaker can stop him from his constitutional right to speak freely in the House.

“This House always has remedies at its disposal for anyone who chooses to interfere with the freedoms we enjoy in this place,” Fitzgerald said.

Antigua rattled by earthquake

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Aug 8, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 rocked Antigua on Monday but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred

at 6.15 am (local time) and had a depth of 31 kilometers (km).

It said that the earthquake was located at latitude: 17.42N and Longitude: 61.93W and was 35 km north-north west of the capital.

The quake was also felt 90 km east of Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis and 137 km north-northwest of Point-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.

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Nine Trinidad nationals to Fourth case of zika confirmed in the be deported from Turkey Cayman Islands after trying to join ISIS

Nine Trinidad and Tobago unable to say when the Trinidad nationals were expected to be and Tobago nationals would be deported from Turkey late Monday deported as there was no direct for allegedly trying to travel to flight to Piarco Airport in Trinidad.

Syria to join the terror group, It said the men would have to go Islamic State, also known as ISIS. through London or Amsterdam but Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi neither of these cities was willing said that the men, like any other to accommodate the deportation. deportees, will be kept under The Turkish authorities strict surveillance. He added that were liaising with national evidence was currently being security officials in Trinidad in an gathered to determine what effort to resolve the matter. Some possible charges they may face. of the Trinidadians reportedly left

He said these could range Trinidad, flew to Caracas, then from facing a jail term, heavy landed in Amsterdam where they sanctions and forfeiture of assets, met their contact person. the Trinidad Guardian reported.

Al-Rawi said on Monday

“At the end of the day that ISIS was listed in the local anybody in an alleged circumstance courts as an internationally of terrorism has to face the courts. recognised terror group. Hence, There is due process and it must if citizens were found outside of be done fairly but at the same time Trinidad and Tobago attempting you have to take an intelligence- to engage with the group, the local based approach to this,” Al-Rawi law automatically would take said in an interview on Monday. effect.

According to the Daily And amid growing Sabah, the men were detained by concerns from members of the Turkish officials in Adana, while public that more and more travelling in a truck on July 27.

Trinidadians who were bent on

The truck was stopped taking up ISIS’s cause were being by police acting on a tip-off that shipped back to the country, Al“foreigners” were said to be en route Rawi said intelligence agencies to join the terrorist organisation were keeping a close watch on active in Syria and Iraq. them.

Adana is among the He said various cities near the Syrian border international agencies have been where foreign fighters attempt to “watching T&T” and monitoring illegally cross to join ISIS. its effectiveness by requesting

A report from another proof that this country’s laws were Syrian newspaper on Monday actually being used. said immigrations officials were On concerns that the

deportees may form their own gangs, the attorney general said the National Security Council met on Sunday and efforts were being made to “tighten up” the response to such issues.

He said upon landing at Piarco Airport, all deportees were met by law enforcement agencies following which an entire debriefing process took place.

“If there is anything untoward, the steps are taken right then and there by the agencies tasked with the responsibilities including the police and I can assure that the persons who are deported are kept under suitable surveillance as the case may dictate,” Al-Rawi added.

Dr Nasser Mustapha, executive member and former president of the Trinidad Muslim League (TML), said he was concerned that Trinidad and Tobago nationals were still joining ISIS.

He said he thought by now they would have had enough sense to refrain from doing so.

“They should be aware by now that what ISIS is doing is not in keeping with the teachings of Islam. All forms of violence and extremism are against the teachings of Islam. “When we see the things they are doing and loss of innocent lives and the instability they are causing I am surprised that people still want to go there,” Mustapha said.

US congratulates Jamaica in anniversary of independence

WASHINGTON,– The United States has extended congratulations to Jamaica on its 54th anniversary of political independence erom Great Britain, saying that it considers Jamaica a “close friend and partner.”

“On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Jamaica as you celebrate the 54th anniversary of your nation’s independence,” said US Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement on Saturday.

“The United States considers Jamaica a close friend and strong partner. Your vibrant democratic institutions, independent judiciary and robust parliamentary system set a positive example throughout our hemisphere.”

Kerry said the United States is “proud of the work our countries are doing to fight crime and promote John Kerry stability and prosperity in the region, particularly through to create a more affordable, the Caribbean Basin Security sustainable, and clean energy Initiative. future,” he said. “And we continue

“Together, we are also to support the principles of social building on the success of last inclusion, diversity and tolerance spring’s US-Caribbean-Central through programs such as ‘FiWi American Energy Summit Jamaica.’

“On this joyous day, I send warm wishes for peace and happiness in the year ahead,” the US Secretary of State said.

The theme for this year’s celebration in Jamaica is “Let’s get together and Feel Alright”.

Public health officials in the Cayman Islands have confirmed a fourth case of imported zika virus contracted by a returning resident.

Acting medical officer of health Dr Samuel Williams-Rodriguez said the female patient travelled from 4 to 8 July to a country where there is an outbreak of zika. She reported onset of symptoms beginning 14 July when she visited the Health Services Authority on 16 July.

Williams-Rodriguez added that there is no evidence of local transmission of zika in the Cayman Islands to date.

“There has been a slight increase in the number of countries globally that have reported evidence of mosquito-borne zika virus transmission,” he said.

As of 27 July, 67 countries and territories had reported evidence of mosquito- borne zika virus transmission since 2007 (64 of these countries and territories reported evidence of the mosquito borne zika virus transmission since 2015).

This figure includes the following countries and territories in the Americas, which have newly reported local transmission: Antigua and Barbuda, Turks and Caicos, and in Florida, USA, where 15 non travel-related zika infections are currently being investigated according to media reports.

Investigations also continue into a possible case of transmission following close contact with a confirmed case with a very high viral load in Utah, USA.

“We are aware of this fourth case of zika and are taking all the necessary precautions to stop the local transmission of the virus,” said MRCU director Dr Bill Petrie. “This includes traditional insecticide spraying and now we also have the additional public health programme in West Bay using genetically modified mosquitoes to bring down the population of Aedes aegypti, which is the mosquito that transmits zika, dengue and chikungunya.”

Petrie also reminded the public to help eliminate Aedes aegypti breeding sites such as buckets, old tyres and other objects which can hold water.

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Police seize cocaine in fish due to be exported to United States G E O R G E T O W N , Guyana – Police have detained one person and searching for another after seizing more than 175 pounds of cocaine in a large container of fish and shrimp at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

The Police Narcotics Branch Tuesday evening carried out the raid at the airport just as the drugs were being processed through a local

air cargo service for shipment to the United States.

The Guyana based New Source on line publication said that several long pellet like shaped packets of the cocaine were discovered in a number of the frozen fish. It said the packets were tightly wrapped in white tape and plastic and placed just above the backbone of the fish.

Police have not released the name of the man

detained. He was arrested at the airport as he overlooked the preparation of the drug cargo for shipment.

Two months ago, law enforcement authorities arrested three people after seizing a shipment of cocaine frozen fish at the airport.

The three are now before the courts on charges related to the 40 pounds of cocaine that had been seized.

PM’s health leads to widespread speculation

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley

PORT OF SPAIN, newspaper.

Trinidad –Prime Minister Dr. He said that while he is Keith Rowley is due to undergo “very heartened by the outpourings medical tests at a health clinic of empathy and prayers which in the United States on Monday have been voluntarily directed amid widespread speculation that towards me and my family he is seriously ill and calls by from a wide cross section of the opposition legislators for him to population…I am with family who disclose the status of his health. are in the medical field here in

Prime Minister Rowley, California and I check into a clinic 66, who is on a two week vacation, on Monday for the examinations has acknowledged that for the as mentioned. past 35 years he has managed “The various procedures his health issues through diligent and processes should take about a and disciplined guidance from his week and I expect to return home chosen doctors at home and in as soon as it is completed and I am California. able to travel,” he said, noting that

“I have been regularly, ”for me and my family, my health even annually, reviewed by them and choices on matters remain over the years. This occasion personal even when one is a public is hardly different except that figure. as a result of the intensity of “I trust that all decent my activities during the last 36 right thinking citizens will months or so I have not kept continue to see it that way. my annual appointments until Thanks,” wrote Rowley, who recently. became Prime Minister in

“I did my examinations September last year after leading locally and the results were the People’;s National Movement transmitted to my doctors abroad. (PNM) into office There have appeared to be some Former prime minister changes which both sets of doctors Basdeo Panday, who underwent conclude should be investigated surgery in the United Kingdom further. That is what I am here for soon after coming to office, also and that is what I have referred agreed that the health and medical to when I spoke to the public records of a prime minister are about travel and health as well as private and should not be shared vacation,” Rowley said in a text with the public. message to the Trinidad Express

“He (Rowley) has gone

for medical tests, he can. I can’t see why this has become an issue,” Panday said, adding that it should be left to Rowley or his office to inform the public of any matters relating to his health but it should not be mandatory for him to do so.

But the main opposition United National Congress (UNC) and the Congress of the People (COP) have called on Rowley to disclose the nature of his illness.

COP leader Dr. Anirudh Mahabir said that as prime minister, Rowley’s health holds implications for the nation’s future

“It is our view that the Prime Minister’s health is the business of Trinidad and Tobago, and in his position as Prime Minister, he cannot say it is private and confidential.

“We wondered since it is reported that he will be hospitalised in North America for a few days to do his test, and also the fact that the local doctors referred him abroad to have further tests, how serious is his medical condition? And is it going to affect the ability to perform his duties in the near future?

“If he cannot perform his normal duties, what will happen to the leadership of the PNM, what will happen to our government, who is likely to be the Prime Minister if he cannot manage that function?” he added.

Former minister of gender, youth and child development Verna St Rose Greaves said there is speculation that Rowley is suffering from “throat cancer” and took to her Facebook page to recall the speculation about her health after she had cut off her hair.

“… as far as some people here and beyond are concerned; he too is a ‘victim’ of the dreaded disease. Diagnosis by gossip pinpoints throat cancer, and as evidence they cite the hoarseness of his voice. As I plead for his good health, I reject the notion for many reasons including my own experience,” she wrote.

Former head of the public service and diplomat Reginald Dumas said that Rowley’s health shoul;d not be a private affair.

“Dr Rowley is the Prime Minister and the health of the Prime Minister, who that happens to be, has to be a matter of concern to the population,” he added.

JetBlue: airport quality matters

Jet-Blue Planes

As Bermuda weighs the pros and cons of advancing plans for a new airport terminal, one of the airlines that flies to and from the island is in no doubt that improved facilities make a difference for travellers.

JetBlue, which serves the island from New York and Boston, has upgraded its home terminal at JFK International Airport with a variety of technologies, including self-service check-in terminals, weigh scale tables where customers can quickly repack their luggage, and self-drop bag facilities.

The new-look lobby area at JetBlue’s T5 terminal was officially opened last month.

In a statement, the company said: “Our view is that the airport experience is just as important as the on-board experience.”

The Bermuda Government is in the process of securing a deal to build a new terminal at LF Wade International Airport.

When asked if new airport construction and refurbished facilities tend to boost visitor numbers, a spokesperson for JetBlue, which is not involved in the Bermuda project, said: “Airports that offer an excellent experience and amenities can help give a destination great word of mouth and complement the experience the destination has to offer.

“The travelling public expects a top-notch experience during their check-in and during the wait for their flights — it should be a stress-free process to get their seats or check a bag, and there should be comfortable seating at the gates and great restaurants and shops to visit.

“A great experience benefits the traveller, but it also benefits the airport with higher revenues.”

JetBlue was formed in 2000 and now has 925 daily flights across the US, Caribbean, Central America and South America. Its inaugural flight between New York and Bermuda was in May 2006. For the past ten years the company has flown regular services between the island and New York and Boston.

Robin Hayes, JetBlue’s chief executive officer, speaking at the Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s state of the industry conference in Curaçao last October, highlighted the impact that high airport taxes and charges can have in dissuading passengers and airlines from flying to certain destinations.

“Regulation factors into our route planning decisions, and so does the tax burden our customers face when buying aeroplane tickets,” said Mr Hayes.

“There is a wide range of passenger tax regimes across the region. I would encourage those of you who have influence in this sphere to carefully consider how taxes are levied and to use this option sparingly. At JetBlue we are very much thinking about the relative tax burden on our customers as we allocate capacity.

He added: “Between US and foreign taxes and fees, travellers can easily be hit with an extra $150 on top of their airfare — that could be an entire extra hotel night.

“Contrast that to the average JetBlue airfare for the first six months of this year which was just $171. We would rather customers have more money in their pocket to spend when they arrive in your communities.”

His comments to tourism leaders were pertinent for Bermuda, where airport departure tax was increased in March 2015 from $35 to $50, followed last August by a further hike that took the maximum total departure tax to $78.

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Man who scaled Trump Tower in New York facing criminal charges

The man who scaled Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday in a failed effort to meet the building’s famous namesake will instead have a different sort of appointment: an arraignment in criminal court.

Stephen Rogata, 19, was formally charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass, New York City police said on Thursday, a day after he used suction cups to ascend the 68-story glass building in midtown Manhattan.

The campaign headquarters for Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, are inside the tower, along with the penthouse condominium he calls home.

Wearing a backpack, shorts and climbing equipment, Rogata spent two hours steadily moving up the glass facade as the New York Police Department’s special operations division made repeated attempts to coax him into the building.

The stunt drew hundreds of onlookers onto the sidewalks below and countless more to computer screens, where they watched as officers finally grabbed him and pulled him through a 21st-story window after removing the glass panel.

In a video uploaded to YouTube a day earlier, Rogata, who lives in Great Falls, Virginia, addressed Trump, saying he was an “independent researcher” who needed a private audience with the billionaire to discuss an unspecified important matter.

New York police officers struggle as they pull a man through a window as he scaled the east side of Trump Tower using suction cups

“The reason I climbed your tower was to get your attention,” he said, before encouraging people to vote for Trump.

Rogata was taken to a hospital for evaluation, police said. It was not clear when he would be arraigned.

It was not known whether Rogata had a defense lawyer.

“Great job today by the NYPD in protecting the people and saving the climber,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday night.

The man reached the 21st story of the 58-story tower on Fifth

Avenue which is headquarters for the election campaign of Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican presidential nominee.

As the climber from Virginia who wore a backpack scaled the tower’s glass exterior, police removed large window panels above him and several officers, some wearing helmets, stood at the windows. The climber shifted his route several times in what appeared to be an attempt to get around the police.

At a news conference later the New York Police Department said

the unidentified man did not express a desire to harm anyone and said his mission was to get a meeting with Trump.

The man was undergoing psychiatric evaluation and would be arrested, police said.

Police had earlier closed several streets near the building in one of the city’s busiest areas and put an inflatable landing pad on East 56th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

The New York City Police Department said on Twitter that its special operations division and emergency crews had been sent to the building.

Reports of the climber first surfaced on Twitter and social media around 4 p.m. (2000 GMT). The police then tried to coax him inside, first by throwing a rope in his direction and then by opening a large grate directly above him.

In a video that was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, the man discussed climbing the tower in a message addressed to Trump. He wore a black hooded sweatshirt and long hair was over his eyes. He referred to himself as an “independent researcher” seeking a private audience with Trump to discuss an unspecified important matter.

“The reason I climbed your tower was to get your attention,” he said in the video and then encouraged people to vote for Trump.

Delta on long road back to normal after massive flight cancellations

Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) faces a “time-consuming process” to restore normal operations and get stranded passengers to their destinations after a power outage caused more than 1,600 flight cancellations over two days, a top executive said on Tuesday.

The events underscore how it can take days for airlines to reboot operations after a brief outage or storm.

“When Delta doesn’t fly aircraft, not only do customers not get to their destination, but flight crews don’t get to where they are scheduled to be,” Delta’s chief operating officer, Gil West, said on Tuesday in an online posting.

Rebuilding disrupted pilot and crew schedules while remaining in compliance with federal safety rules takes time, he said. There was also continued slowness in the system Delta uses to check in customers, board passengers and dispatch planes, West said.

He did not say when Delta, the

Florida police officer kills woman during role-play exercise

No. 2 U.S. airline by passenger traffic, expected to return to normal operations following the power outage in Atlanta, where Delta is headquartered.

Delta has yet to detail the financial impact of the disruption.

Analyst Jim Corridore of S&P Global Market Intelligence estimated that passenger refunds, overtime hours for workers and other costs will likely reduce Delta’s operating income by $10 million to $20 million for the third quarter.

In the 2015 third quarter, Delta had net income of $1.3 billion and operating income of $2.2 billion.

The cancellations this week upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of flyers.

Delta could not re-book passengers onto one of its top rivals and the world’s largest carrier, American Airlines Group Inc (AAL.O), because the two companies ended a ticketing and baggage agreement last year.

Delta said on its website

A Florida police officer shot and killed a 73-year-old woman in a “tragic accident” during an exercise with local residents that was meant to involve simulated lethal force, authorities said on Wednesday.

Mary Knowlton was hit by a live round fired by an officer on Tuesday night at a two-hour event hosted by the Punta Gorda Police Department at its academy for about 35 members of the community.

“I am devastated for everyone

Passengers check in at a counter of Delta Air Lines in Mexico City, Mexico, August 8, 2016 that as of 5:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday it Delta’s problems arose after had canceled about 680 flights, while a switchgear, which helps control about 2,400 had departed. That’s on and switch power flows like a circuit top of about 1,000 flights it canceled breaker in a home, malfunctioned for on Monday, stranding passengers at reasons that were not immediately clear, according to Georgia Power, a airports around the globe.

The company said it would Southern Co (SO.N) unit that provides extend through Tuesday a waiver of electricity to most counties in Georgia. fees normally charged when travelers West added in the posting that after a change flights and would provide surge and a loss of power, some critical $200 in travel vouchers to heavily systems did not switch over to backup inconvenienced customers. supplies as intended.

involved in this unimaginable event,” will be on administrative leave during an Police Chief Tom Lewis said in a statement. investigation by the Florida Department of “Everyone involved in this accident is in a Law Enforcement. state of overwhelming shock and grief.”

Punta Gorda is a city of about

Knowlton, who according to local 18,000 people located on Florida’s west media was 73, had been selected for a role- coast, about 30 miles north of Fort Myers. playing exercise involving decisions about “The Punta Gorda Police when to use lethal force, the statement said. Department realizes the community has She was pronounced dead after being taken many questions about this incident,” the to a local hospital. agency’s statement said. “We also must

The police department said the take great care to not jeopardize the officer involved, who has not been named, investigation.”

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Brazil’s Senate indicts Rousseff, opens impeachment trial

Senator Antonio Anastasia (C) celebrates with others after the Senate voted to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment process, in Brasilia August 10, 2016

Brazil’s Senate voted early Party, and confirm that interim on Wednesday to indict President President Michel Temer will serve out Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking the rest of her term through 2018.

Rousseff ’s opponents needed budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment process that has stalled only a simple majority in the 81Brazilian politics since January. seat Senate to put her on trial for

With the eyes of the world on manipulating government accounts the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and spending without congressional senators in the capital Brasilia voted approval, which they say helped her 59-21 against the suspended leftist win re-election in 2014.

A verdict is expected at the end leader in a raucous, 20-hour session presided over by Chief Justice Ricardo of the month and will need the votes Lewandowski. of two-thirds of the Senate to convict

A conviction would definitively Rousseff, five votes less than her remove Rousseff from office, ending 13 opponents mustered on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s vote showed the years of leftist rule by her Workers

Minnesota judge denies claims of 29 would-be heirs to Prince estate

A Minnesota judge has excluded nearly 30 would-be heirs from the estate of the late pop star Prince, bolstering the inheritance claims of the performer’s sister and surviving half-siblings, probate court records released on Friday showed.

The court order, issued on Thursday, came in response to a flood of individuals seeking a piece of an estate some have valued at more than $500 million, left by Prince when he died unexpectedly in April at the age of 57, apparently without a will.

Claims have poured into the probate court since Prince’s younger sister, Tyka Nelson, filed a petition seeking appointment of a special administrator for the estate and naming herself and five half-siblings as the only known heirs.

In his 19-page order, Carver County Judge Kevin Eide appeared to accept those six claims, stating, “The court is not aware of any objection or dispute with the statement that these persons are the siblings or halfsiblings” of Prince.

Under the ruling, Tyka Nelson and three half-siblings by Prince’s father will undergo genetic testing - John, Norrine and Sharon Nelson - along with two more individuals claiming to be Prince’s niece and grandniece.

No provision for genetic testing was made for two other halfbrothers - Alfred Jackson and Omar Baker - who shared a common mother with the singer.

The judge dismissed claims

of heirship from a total of 29 other people purported to have some degree of kinship with Prince, including a professed secret wife who said the CIA had classified their marriage records as top secret.

Among other would-be heirs he denied were five people who came forward claiming Prince was their biological or adoptive father, and several others claiming their dad was also Prince’s genetic parent by way of an extramarital affair with his mother.

Also dismissed were a batch of claims by several people who described themselves as descendants of a sister of Prince’s greatgrandfather.

The musician, born as Prince Rogers Nelson, has long been identified in public records as the only surviving son from the marriage between Mattie Della Shaw and John L. Nelson, both of whom are now dead. And Judge Eide ruled there was no “credible, documented claim” of a surviving Prince spouse.

If Prince also left no will and no surviving offspring of his own, as appears to be the case, his estate under Minnesota law would be apportioned in equal shares to his siblings and the nearest surviving descendants of any siblings now dead.

Siblings and half-siblings are treated the same.

The special administrator of the estate, Bremer Trust, has said it was in the process of determining the fair-market value of Prince’s estate.

movement to oust Rousseff has gained strength in the Senate, which had voted 55-22 in May to take up the impeachment proceedings initiated in the lower house in December. It also looked like game over for Rousseff who lost crucial ground instead of winning over more senators.

This will strengthen Temer’s hand as he strives to establish his legitimacy and stabilize Brazil politically.

The uncertainty has hampered his efforts to plug a fiscal crisis inherited from Rousseff, who is blamed for driving the economy into what could be its worst recession since the 1930s.

Temer, Rousseff ’s conservative former vice president who took office in May, has urged senators to wrap up the trial quickly so he can move ahead with a plan to cap public spending, reform an overly generous pension system and restore confidence in government finances.

Investor expectations that Rousseff will be replaced by the more businessfriendly Temer have strengthened Brazil’s currency and driven up shares on the Sao Paulo stock market by more than 30 percent since January, placing them among the world’s best performing assets.

Rousseff has denied any wrongdoing and denounced her

impeachment as a right-wing conspiracy that has used an accounting technicality as a pretext to illegally remove a government that improved the lot of Brazil’s poorer classes.

“The cards are marked in this game. There is no trial, just a sentence that has already been written,” Workers Party Senator Jorge Viana said in a speech to the chamber. The impeachment, he said, was driven by the elite which oppose social welfare gains.

Rousseff ’s critics say her interventionist economic policies and inability to govern led to the debacle in Latin America’s largest country. Some argue that, whatever the legal reasons for impeaching her, she should not be allowed to return to office for the good of the nation.

Her supporters argue that she is being ousted by politicians who are in many cases being investigated for receiving kickbacks in the graft scandal at state-led oil company Petrobras.

Corruption allegations forced the resignation of three of Temer’s cabinet members after and he could also be implicated. In plea bargaining testimony published by local media over the weekend, jailed construction magnate Marcelo Odebrecht reportedly claimed Temer had received illegal campaign funding.

Stop press: Last two journalists leave London’s Fleet Street

Three decades after media mogul Rupert Murdoch instigated its demise as the centuries-old home of Britain’s newspaper industry, London’s Fleet Street bade farewell on Friday to its last two journalists.

Known as the “Street of Shame”, Fleet Street once housed thousands of reporters, editors and printers working for the country’s biggest national papers as well as international and provincial publications.

While the British press is still collectively known as “Fleet Street”, from Friday there will no longer be any working journalists there after the Scottish-based Sunday Journalists Darryl Smith (L) and Gavin Sherriff Post newspaper closed its London pose for a photograph in The Sunday Post building in Fleet Street in London, Britain operation.

August 5, 2016

“It’s a far sadder day for journalism than it is for me personally,” heart of its decline when in 1986 he said Darryl Smith, 43, one of the moved his newspaper stable, which street’s last two “hacks”. “Journalism by then also included the Times and is no more in Fleet Street.”

Sunday Times broadsheets and the

The thoroughfare became Sun tabloid, to a new purpose-built synonymous with publishing from operation in east London, where new 1500 when Wynkyn de Worde technology replaced the hot metal established a printing press. The first printing presses. daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, Within three years, all launched in 1702. other national newspapers had

In the shadow of St Paul’s followed anxious to cut costs in Cathedral, the street was ideally an industry now decimated by the located for journalists, being in growth of the internet. Journalists walking distance of the city’s financial have long departed the old Reuters district, the Royal Courts of Justice headquarters at number 85, now the and politicians in Westminster. site of a smart restaurant.

“Anyone interested in Nowadays the street that journalism and mass newspapers once echoed to the sounds of clattering realizes that Fleet Street is the heart typewriters is the haunt of bankers of it all,” said Murdoch when he and accountants; the Art Deco bought the News of the World tabloid building that once housed the Daily in 1969.

Express is now home to Goldman

However, he was at the Sachs.

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Burial of Philippine dictator Marcos after 27 years triggers debate

Former first lady Imelda Marcos kisses the glass coffin of her husband, late president Ferdinand Marcos, who remains unburied since his death in 1989, during her 85th birthday celebration in Ferdinand Marcos’ hometown of Batac, Ilocos Norte province, in northern Philippines

The Philippines has Marcos was a soldier and presidency in May. begun preparations for the burial guerrilla leader during World War She said Duterte’s of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Two when the former U.S. colony decision would not bring unity at a cemetery for national heroes, was occupied by Japanese forces. but would “deepen the unhealed a decision that drew criticism As a dictator in the 1970s wounds” of Marcos’ victims. from the vice president and could and ‘80s, Marcos, his family and Some Roman Catholic polarize the country. cronies amassed an estimated bishops and left-wing activists President Rodrigo $10 billion in ill-gotten wealth also opposed Marcos’ burial.

Duterte said he was fulfilling a and thousands of suspected “It is a great insult,” said campaign promise to have Marcos, communist rebels and political one prominent bishop, Arturo who ruled with an iron fist for two foes were killed. His wife, Imelda, Bastes. decades, interred at the heroes’ denies amassing wealth illegally.

Duterte brushed off the cemetery as a former president Vice President Leni criticism. and soldier.

Robredo said she opposed “I see nothing wrong

On Sunday, Defence Duterte’s decision to transfer in having Marcos buried at the Secretary Delfin Lorenzana the strongman’s remains from Libingan ng mga Bayani,” the assigned armed forces chief of his home town of Batac in the president said in a speech to staff General Ricardo Visaya, to northern Philippines to the soldiers on Sunday, referring to handle arrangements for the cemetery. the cemetery. burial next month, in line with “Mr Marcos is no hero,” Marcos was elected “the verbal order of the president to she said in a statement. “How can president in 1965 and re-elected implement his campaign promise”. we allow a hero’s burial for a man four years later but imposed “I am just implementing a who has plundered our country martial law a year before his presidential directive, whatever I and was responsible for the second term ended. think is immaterial,” Lorenzana death and disappearance of many In 1986, he was ousted in told reporters on Monday.

Filipinos?” a “people power” revolt and fled to

“He deserved to be buried Robredo, a human rights Hawaii where he died three years at the heroes’ cemetery based advocate, defeated the dictator’s later. His remains were returned on the criteria from the military son and namesake, Ferdinand in the early 1990s and have been regulations.”

Marcos, in a vote for the vice kept in a family mausoleum.

German foreign minister says Trump dangerous for the world

A series of controversial remarks by U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump show that the world should be concerned if he is elected president, a spokeswoman for German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.

Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about women, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others.

Steinmeier, unlike Chancellor Angela Merkel who has said she will not comment on the U.S. election, is not neutral on the issue because he believes it is important to draw attention to

the dangers posed by Trump, said spokeswoman Sawsan Chebli.

“He is indeed not neutral on this question because he thinks that if you follow what Trump is saying then you need to be really anxious about what could become of this world ... if (he) does in fact become president,” Chebli told a regular government news conference.

Steinmeier is from the centre-left Social Democrats, the junior partner in Merkel’s conservative-led ruling coalition.

A spokeswoman for Merkel said the chancellor did not wish to interfere in the U.S. election campaign.

On Monday 50 prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier attends a news conference after a meeting on the Syria crisis at the Quai d’Orsay ministry in Paris, France, March 4, 2016 director, described Trump as unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history”.

Trump is currently in the firing line after suggesting on Tuesday that gun rights activists could act to stop Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Cuba blames U.S. open door for migrant surge

Cuban migrants clean inside Houchen Activities Center which is use as shelter to wait for help from relatives or friends, after arriving by plane from Panama to Mexico, as they make their way to the U.S in El Paso, Texas

Havana on Sunday blamed Washington for a surge of Cubans trying to reach the United States by land and sea, accusing the Obama administration of encouraging illegal and unsafe immigration.

Tens of thousands of Cubans over the last two years have flocked to the U.S.-Mexican border and taken to the sea in hopes of reaching Florida, fearing a growing detente between the Cold War foes will lead to a change in U.S. policy.

Under a 1960s law, the Cuban Adjustment Act, the Communist-run country’s citizens are treated as legal immigrants if they set foot on U.S. soil, while migrants from any other land are considered illegal.

A government statement carried by local media and announcing the arrival of 14 Cubans deported by Colombia, said they were the “victims of the politicization of the migration issue by the U.S. government which stimulates illegal and unsafe immigration.”

The government said its citizens “receive differential treatment ... they are immediately and automatically admitted ... including if they arrived by illegal means.”

The statement said the policy contradicted normalization efforts.

Colombia last week announced that more than 1,000 Cubans stuck in the country, and who were trying to reach the United States, would be deported.

Colombia is just the latest government to crack down on Cubans who legally visit the region and then illegally, often with the help of human smugglers, pass through their territory on the way to the Mexican border.

A Pew Research Center report released on Sunday said that during the first 10 months of fiscal 2016 more than 46,500 Cubans had arrived and been admitted to the United States without visas, compared with more than 43,000 in 2015 and just over 24,000 in 2014.

As the long trek through the region becomes more difficult and costly, more Cubans may take to the sea.

“Both my children say they are going to leave by boat as soon as they can,” a distraught mother in westernmost Pinar del Rio province said, requesting anonymity.

“I keep telling them it is too dangerous.

But they won’t listen, they are determined to go now,” she said.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday reported that since Oct. 1, at least 5,786 Cubans have tried to migrate to the southeastern United States by sea and been intercepted, compared with 4,473 in federal fiscal year 2015.

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Out of sight, out of mind? Europe’s migrant crisis still simmers

A year after hundreds of thousands of refugees snaked their way across southeastern Europe and onto global television screens, the roads through the Balkans are now clear, depriving an arguably worsening tragedy of poignant visibility.

Europe’s migrant crisis is at the very least numerically worse than it was last year. More people are arriving and more are dying. But the twist is that, compared with last year, a lot of it is out of sight.

Take the border between Greece and Macedonia. Summer crops have replaced the city of tents at the border outpost of Idomeni, even if some locals are convinced there is an unseen population hiding in the surrounding forests, waiting for smugglers to assist them on their onward journey.

The tiny Greek village was a focal point of the migrant flow north toward Germany and other wealthy countries, with thousands of refugees squatting for months waiting for sealed borders with Macedonia to open

Elsewhere in the Balkans, a Reuters photographer, revisiting the people-packed locations where he and his colleagues captured last year’s diaspora, found empty roads, unencumbered railway tracks and bucolic countryside.

The comparison is stark.

More than one million people fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan made their way to Europe last year, with the majority of them crossing the precarious sea corridor separating Greece and Turkey, the temporary home for more than 2 million refugees displaced from Syria.ó

They came carrying their

worldly belongings in plastic bags and hauling babies on weary shoulders, a visual exodus of the kind not seen in Europe since the end of World War Two.

Many have since reached their destination in northern Europe, but with the borders closed and the European Union now attempting to contain the numbers, thousands are stuck at holding centers in Greece and Italy.

They are not so nearly visible there - nor are the ones still coming.

VISIBILITY DOWN, ARRIVALS UP According to data from the International Organisation for A woman sits and looks on outside a building covered up with sheets to protect the dwellers from the Migration (IOM), arrivals are up 17 strong summer sun outside of the disused Hellenikon airport, where stranded refugees and migrants percent on last year, stoked mainly by are temporarily accommodated in Athens, Greece, August 10, 2016 a spike at the start of the year through up by Italy. because we don’t see it, and we an’t Greece.

This follows a resurgence of smell it and we can’t hear it,” said

Deaths among those trying to migrant flows from northern Africa. Gauri van Gulik, deputy Europe get to Europe, mainly due to drowning, More than 140,000 asylum seekers director at Amnesty International. are up more than 15 percent. are now housed in Italian shelters, a “The crisis is as big as ever,

“This is not a blip,” said seven-fold increase on 2013, with the and as yet unsolved by governments,” David Miliband, a former British migrant crisis in its third year. she told Reuters. foreign minister who now heads the In Greece, where arrivals IOM data says that 258,186 International Rescue Committee, an plunged in the wake of an accord people arrived in Europe by the end aid group set up by Albert Einstein - between Turkey and the EU to stem of July, compared with 219,854 over himself a refugee - to rescue Europeans the flow in March, an estimated the same period in 2015. There were before the outbreak of World War Two. 57,000 migrants were still stuck in the 3,176 fatalities by Aug. 7, outpacing

“The forces that are driving country by Aug.8. the 2,754 who died in the first eight more and more people from their Campaigners say the accord months of last year, a slightly longer homes - weak states, big tumults has lulled policymakers into a false period. within the Islamic world, a divided sense of accomplishment by allowing “Its absolutely incredible international system .. None of these them to believe that Europe’s because if you think about the things are likely to abate soon.” migration problem has been solved. panic this caused last year and the

Some of the mantle of “By outsourcing the incentive there was to really get some accepting huge migrant flows that was responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, policy changes in place, nothing has carried by Greece last year and the European governments are basically happened,” Van Gulik said. beginning of this one has been taken saying ‘we have solved the crisis

Trump’s love affair with presidency is over

There is only one reasonable explanation for Donald Trump’s erratic behavior in recent weeks.

His infatuation with the presidency apparently has ended.

Like a schoolboy falling for a girl the very first time, Trump was bewitched by the grandeur of the title “Mr. President.” The power and prestige that go along with being the leader of the free world would far exceed the notoriety of the high-rise hotels and steaks that bear his name.

So for months, Trump flirted with the idea of being president.

He pursued his new passion with a vengeance, trampling over 16 other suitors who got in his way. He teased potential supporters with merciless vigor, bringing them to the point of complete surrender, convinced America could not survive without him at the helm.

They fell in love with his brash demeanor, his uncensored voice and his irreverent behavior. But for Trump, the feelings never ran as deep. For him, it was merely a crush.

Days after the engagement party in Cleveland, where he secured his party’s nomination, the thrill of winning had all but subsided. The pursuit, perhaps, was more exciting than the prize.

Since the Republican National Convention, he has made blunder after blunder. He seems to be doing everything possible to show that he wants out.

Republican Party leaders are getting

the message. They’re in a panic, we’re told, and have begun looking into options for replacing Trump if he were to make the unprecedented decision to drop out.

We’ve never seen this sort of thing in the history of presidential politics. Then again, we’ve never seen a candidate quite like Trump.

And the GOP has good reason to be wary that their nominee’s heart is no longer in the right place.

Let’s take, for example, the rally last week in Virginia. Trump committed the cardinal sin of presidential campaigning. Even the most inexperienced politicians know that babies are an essential prop in conveying a candidate’s tenderheartedness and humanity.

But instead of kissing a baby, Trump told an antsy mother to get her bawling child out of there.

That alone might not have been enough to draw a conclusion, but couple it with his fierce attack on a Gold Star family who lost their son in a heroic act of valor in Iraq. No one who really wants to be commander in chief would disparage the parents of a fallen soldier, no matter how many times they pulled their worn copy of the Constitution from their pocket and challenged you to read it.

And when they accused you of having sacrificed nothing, savvy politicians would have maintained a dignified silence in public while working underhandedly to deflect it onto their opponent. No one would

come back at a grieving family with the ridiculous defense that you have sacrificed by employing “thousands and thousands of people.”

Clearly, being in a position to hire people is not a sacrifice. If someone is working for you, then you are reaping the benefits. And if you aren’t getting anything out of it, you must be a lousy manager.

And what about that Purple Heart? A wounded veteran certainly has the right to give his medal to anyone he chooses, but someone who really wants to be president wouldn’t accept it and thank him with an insult. After the decorated veteran expressed his confidence in Trump and handed over his Purple Heart at a rally in Virginia, Trump quipped the unthinkable: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.”

There aren’t many things that would be more disrespectful to our troops who have been wounded or killed while protecting their country.

The political blunders have been constant. He practically committed treason by suggesting that Russia hack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails and release them publicly. Then he took his time giving GOP House Majority Leader Paul Ryan and Arizona Sen. John McCain lukewarm endorsements in their re-election bids, though they had held their noses and thrown their support behind his nomination for the party’s sake.

British priest wanted on child sex charges should not be extradited-Kosovo court

A former priest wanted on child sex abuse charges from the 1970s and 1980s should not be extradited to Britain because the crimes were committed too long ago, a court in Kosovo ruled on Monday.

Lawrence Soper was detained in the western town of Peja, where he had lived for 4-5 years under the name Andrew Charles Kingston, in May on an international arrest warrant. He is accused of sex offences while he was a teacher in Britain.

British media said the former abbot from Ealing, west London, now in his 70s, had jumped bail in 2011 and a European arrest warrant was issued.

“British citizen Andrew Charles Kingston Soper should not be extradited because offences he has been charged with exceeded the statute of limitations,” a spokeswoman at the Basic Court, the first instance court in Peja, said.

Soper will remain in custody and the prosecutor has three days to appeal the ruling, she said.

This is the second time authorities in Kosovo have rejected the extradition request. In June, a court in Pristina rejected the request, seeking more documents from British authorities.

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Macy’s to shut 100 stores, invest in online

Macy’s Inc (M.N) said it would close about 100 stores and boost investment in its online operations as it seeks to turn around its business after six quarters of falling sales.

Shares of the company, which also reported a smallerthan-expected drop in quarterly sales at established stores, were up 11 percent at $37.79 in premarket trading on Thursday.

Total sales fell nearly 4 percent to $5.87 billion in the second quarter after falling 7.4 percent in the first quarter. `Department stores have been struggling with stiff competition from online and off-price retailers. They are also under pressure due to a shift in spending patterns, with shoppers increasingly preferring to spend on big-ticket items such as electronics and cars than on clothes.

Macy’s said the annual net sales volume of the locations it plans to close was expected to be about $1 billion.

The company also said it was in talks to sell its Men’s Store on Union Square in San Francisco for redevelopment.

Macy’s, under pressure from activist investor Starboard Value LP, is working on partnerships to monetize its huge real estate portfolio, which

A sign that marks the Macy’s store is seen at the Herald Square location in New York, U.S., May 9, 2016. includes landmark properties such as its Herald Square and Union Square stores in New York.

Sales in stores open at least a year, including sales in departments licensed to third parties, fell 2 percent in the latest quarter. Analysts polled by research firm Consensus Metrix had expected a 4.6 percent drop.

Net income attributable to the company’s shareholders fell to $11 million, or 3 cents per share, in the second quarter ended July 30, from $217 million, or 64 cents

per share, a year earlier.

The latest quarter included charges of $255 million, or 51 cents per share, mainly related to the upcoming store closures.

Excluding the charges, the company earned 54 cents per share.

Analysts’ on average had expected earnings of 45 cents per share and revenue of $5.75 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Geeks win millions for teaching computers to battle each other

A software program dubbed “Mayhem” was poised to win the final round of a three-year contest to teach computers to launch and defend against cyber attacks, earning a $2 million prize for the team that wrote the winning code.

The event, known as the Cyber Grand Challenge, concluded Thursday evening in a Las Vegas convention center ballroom after a digital battle among software programs running on seven supercomputers on a stage in a Las Vegas ballroom.

Thousands watched as announcers presented a play-by-play account of the competition.

It took place ahead of Friday’s start of Def Con, a hacking convention expected to draw more than 20,000 people to two sprawling Las Vegas convention centers.

The contest was sponsored by DARPA, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military laboratory credited with creating the Internet.

DARPA spent $55 million on the effort, which it dubbed the first “capture the flag” hacking contest played solely by computers.

Agency officials said it succeeded in its goal of stimulating development of technologies for automating the process of protecting computer networks against cyber attacks.

DARPA program director Mike Walker said the seven machines succeeded in identifying a total of 650 code vulnerabilities and rewriting 421 programs to fix them.

“A spark was lit today,” he said. “We have proven that autonomy is possible.”

Previous DARPA contests include one for self-driving vehicles that is widely credited with kick-starting the now robust autonomous-vehicle industry.

Obama prepares to boost U.S. military’s cyber role: sources

U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. August 4, 2016

The Obama administration is preparing to elevate the stature of the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, signaling more emphasis on developing cyber weapons to deter attacks, punish intruders into U.S. networks and tackle adversaries such as Islamic State, current and former officials told Reuters.

Under the plan being considered at the White House, the officials said, U.S. Cyber Command would become what the military calls a “unified command” equal to combat branches of the military such as the Central and Pacific Commands.

Cyber Command would be separated from the National Security Agency, a spy agency responsible for

electronic eavesdropping, the officials said. That would give Cyber Command leaders a larger voice in arguing for the use of both offensive and defensive cyber tools in future conflicts.

Both organizations are based at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 30 miles north of Washington, and led by the same officer, Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers.

A former senior intelligence official with knowledge of the plan said it reflects the growing role that cyber operations play in modern warfare, and the different missions of the Cyber Command and the NSA. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.

A Cyber Command spokesman declined comment on the plan, and the

NSA did not respond to requests for comment.

Established in 2010, Cyber Command is now subordinate to the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees military space operations, nuclear weapons and missile defense.

U.S. officials cautioned that details of the plan, including some aspects of Cyber Command’s new status, are still being debated.

It was unclear when the matter will be presented to President Barack Obama for final approval, but the former senior intelligence official said it was unlikely anyone would stand in the way.

A senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the administration was “constantly reviewing if we have the appropriate organizational structures in place to counter evolving threats, in cyber space or elsewhere.”

“While we have no changes to this structure to announce, the relationship between NSA and Cyber Command is critical to safeguarding our nation’s security,” the official said.

The Pentagon acknowledged earlier this year that it has conducted cyber attacks against Islamic State, although the details are highly classified.

“We are dropping cyberbombs.

We have never done that before,”

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said in April.

The Washington Post reported last month that Pentagon leaders had been frustrated with the slow pace of Cyber Command’s electronic offensive against Islamic State, militants who control parts of Iraq and Syria and have sympathizers and supporters worldwide.

In response, Rogers created Joint Task Force Ares to develop new digital weapons against Islamic State and coordinate with the Central Command, which is responsible for combat operations in the Middle East and South Asia.

The new task force has “the specific mission to accomplish cyberspace objectives in support of counter-ISIL operations,” a Cyber Command statement said. Task Force Ares, it said, “comprises operations and intelligence professionals from each of the military services.”

James Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the plan that will be presented to Obama highlights how Cyber Command, reliant on the NSA in its early years, is developing its own work force and digital tools.

“It reflects the maturing of Cyber Command and its own capabilities,” Lewis said.

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Wendy’s comparable sales miss as fewer diners eat out

Burger chain Wendy’s Co (WEN.O) reported lower-thanexpected quarterly comparable sales on Wednesday as a fall in grocery prices encouraged more diners to eat at home, sending the company’s shares down as much as 8 percent.

Food prices have been on the decline in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Poultry prices dropped 3.4 percent in June from a year earlier, while beef and veal prices fell 6.7 percent, helped by lower transportation costs due to a fall in oil prices and the strength of the dollar, which has made imports cheaper.

Egg prices, which peaked during the avian flu outbreak last year, were 26.9 percent cheaper.

Restaurants, however, have not to been able to pass on the full benefits as their labor costs have risen substantially due to increases in minimum wages.

Against this background, fast-

A Wendy’s Co restaurant is pictured in Monrovia, California November 4, 2015 food chains including McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N), Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc (DNKN.O) and Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O), as well Wendy’s, posted disappointing same-restaurant sales for the quarter.

“The most notable driver behind the sales slowdown appears to be the continued gap between cost of eating at home and cost of dining

out, which is now at its widest point since the recession,” Wendy’s Chief Executive Todd Penegor said on a conference call with analysts.

COMP SALES MISS

Sales at Wendy’s restaurants open for at least 15 months rose 0.4 percent in North America, missing the

1.9 percent rise expected by analysts polled by research firm Consensus Metrix.

Total sales fell 22 percent to $382.7 million as the company franchised more outlets, but beat the average analysts’ estimate of $367.6 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Net income fell to $26.5 million, or 10 cents per share, in the second quarter ended July 3 from $40.2 million, or 11 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding items, Wendy’s earned 10 cents per share, narrowly beating the average estimate of 9 cents.

Wendy’s raised the lower end of its full-year profit forecast by 1 cent to 39 cents per share and maintained the upper end of 40 cents. Analysts on average were expecting earnings of 39 cents per share for the year.

Wendy’s shares were down 2.4 percent at $9.94 at midday on the Nasdaq.

Boeing will not raise 787 production unless market demands it

Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Wednesday it will not increase 787 output and could further cut 777 output unless sales of both jets improve, its clearest indication yet that its production of large jetliners may have peaked for now.

“If the market’s not going to demand it, we’re not going to go,” Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said on the sidelines of an investor conference in New York by global investment bank Jefferies, confirming remarks made during the formal program.

“It’s not the end of the world” if Boeing keeps 787 production at 12 a month instead of lifting it to 14 as planned, Smith said during the event. “We can still be profitable in the program as I see it today at 12.”

Analysts said Smith’s statement confirmed that Boeing will not overproduce widebody planes and, most importantly, does not foresee an accounting charge for the 787 if output stays at 12.

Boeing took about $1.7 billion in after-tax charges in its latest result for the 787 and 747 programs to

Workers at South Carolina Boeing work on a 787 Dreamliner for Air India at the plant’s final assembly building in North Charleston, South Carolina December 19, 2013 account for excess 787 inventory and slow 747 sales.

Smith said the company would decide in the next two months whether to cut 777 output further. If it fails to sell enough 777s to bridge the

gap to new 777X production, “then we will make an adjustment accordingly,” he said.

His comments went beyond what he and Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg told

analysts after the company released quarterly results last month.

Muilenburg said Boeing would “keep supply and demand in balance” but did not discuss keeping 787 production at 12 a month or cutting 777 further.

Low oil prices and a series of boom years have slowed orders for new widebody jetliners, raising concerns that Boeing will notch down cash and profit targets.

Smith said on Wednesday that Boeing still has about two years to decide whether to raise 787 output, given lead times for components, and could still generate rising cash flow and profit if production rates “moderate” on the 787 and 777.

The list price for the mid-sized 787 is $264.6 million, but airlines typically receive steep discounts.

Boeing has won eight net 777 orders this year and 19 net 787 orders. It already plans to reduce 777 production by 15 percent next year as it switches to the 777X.

Boeing shares rose 0.6 percent to close at $132.28 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Apple offers big cash rewards for help finding security bugs

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that already offer payments for help uncovering flaws in their products.

The maker of iPhones and iPads provided Reuters with details of the plan, which includes some of the biggest bounties offered to date, ahead of unveiling it on Thursday afternoon at the Black Hat cyber security conference in Las Vegas.

The program will initially be limited to about two dozen researchers who Apple will invite to help identify hard-to-uncover

Those companies said security bugs in five specific categories. that if they were to do it again,

Those researchers they would start by inviting have been chosen from the a small list of researchers to group of experts who have join, then gradually open it up previously helped Apple over time, according to Apple. identify bugs, but have not Security analyst Rich been compensated for that Mogull said that limiting work, the company said. participation would save

The most lucrative Apple from dealing with a category, which offers rewards deluge of “low-value” bug of up to $200,000, is for reports. bugs in Apple’s “secure boot” “Fully open programs firmware for preventing can definitely take a lot of unauthorized programs from resources to manage,” he said. launching when an iOS device Apple declined to say which is powered up. firms provided advice.

Apple said it decided Such rewards are to limit the scope of the currently offered by dozens program at the advice of of firms, including AT&T Inc other companies that have (T.N), Facebook Inc (FB.O), previously launched bounty Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft programs.

Corp (MSFT.O), Tesla Motors

A store employee uses an iPad during a preview event at the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016 Inc (TSLA.O) and Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O).

Microsoft, which has handed out $1.5 million in rewards to security researchers since it launched its program three years

ago, also offers rewards for identifying very specific types of bugs. Its two biggest payouts have been for $100,000 each.

Not all bounty programs are as focused as the ones from Apple and Microsoft.

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Usain Bolt: I'll win all three gold medals at Rio 2016

Usain Bolt, the most definitely want to. I said I wanted to of Olympic titles at the 2008 Games decorated sprinter of all time, is go under 19 seconds and I don't know in Beijing so there was little chance oozing with confidence as he edges if that will be possible but nothing the 1.95m tall sprinter would make a closer to realizing his "Triple-Triple" tried, nothing done, so I will go out quiet entrance in Rio.

In a vibrant samba-inspired gold medal dream at the Olympic there and push myself.

"The moment you start media conference on Monday, the Games in Rio. Speaking exclusively to CNN's thinking about [not winning] then global superstar again confirmed that Amanda Davies, the world's fastest you start going the wrong way so for 2016 will be his final Olympic Games. man, who turns 30 on August 21 me I always think positive. I always "Yes, this is the last Olympics for sure, I have done everything, and have -- the final day of the Olympics -- is think of winning, always," he added. proven myself," he said, adding, "a lot certain he'll finish in top spot in the Accomplishment

It will be an intense week of people aren't happy".

100 meters, 200m, and 4x100m.

In July, Bolt powered through

"I'm going to win the 100m," for Bolt who could run as many as says Bolt, who is aiming to become eight races over just seven days and to win the 200m at the London the first athlete to win all three titles the Jamaican admits there's a sense Anniversary Games in 19.89 seconds at three consecutive Games. "I never of relief that his lifelong Olympic in his first race since being forced to withdraw from Jamaica's team trials try to predict times, I avoid that mission is almost complete.

"You set goals for yourself with a hamstring injury scare. because you never know. I'll win all three gold [medals], there's never and when I win all my three gold And the sprinter allayed any fears anything else for me when it comes to medals I'll be fully accomplished about an injury hindering his success a championship." and I'll be happy. Then it will be like, at Rio 2016, assuring supporters

But he's not only intent on 'finally,' you know what I mean? I am he's fit and ready to seal his Olympic legacy. definitely feeling that way." winning gold at Rio 2016.

"I'm never worried. I think Bolt has been the ultimate

"I think I can definitely break the 200m world record and I showman since winning his first trio it was the fact that I didn't get to

compete on my trial and I was just coming off the back of an injury, I was a bit rusty," said Bolt. " I needed a few runs, I needed some pace work and after that run [at the Anniversary Games] I got a lot of training in, and my coach is happy," he added, referring to Glen Mills.

As long as my coach is happy then I know I will be fine."Sprint rival O n e man who will be looking to spoil Bolt's samba party in Rio this summer is US sprinter Justin Gatlin.

"I don't think about him really [Gatlin]," reveals the Jamaican. "I always try to run the race in my head and try to execute. I definitely try not to sit around and think about people.

I am trying to focus on working hard, executing and figuring out what I need to do to get it right."

Bolt will grace the track at the Olympic Stadium in Rio for the first time on Saturday in the men's 100m preliminary heats.

Bolt bids to smash 200m world record in his last Olympic Games

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 8 (efe_epa),- Jamaican Usain Bolt aims to claim a new 100-200-4x100 triple win in Rio 2016, his last Olympic Games, and will try to smash the 200-meter world record.

Bolt, who appeared before the press at the Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, insisted that he will put the finishing touches to his Olympic career in the Brazilian city.

"This is my last Olympics, for sure. I have done everything, and have proven myself," he said, admitting that "a lot of people aren't happy."

In a bid for a golden farewell to the Games, the 'Lightning Bolt' will seek a third consecutive win in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100 relay, although his new challenge is to beat the 200-meter world record that he himself set at 19.19 seconds.

Bolt explained that the 100 meter sprint is not stressful but he feels nervous in the 200-meter race.

"I really, really, really want that one," said the Jamaican, referring to breaking the 200-meter world record, which he aims to destroy in less than 19 seconds.

There's only one Bolt, with his swaggering sense of self-confidence burnished by an international record unequaled in his sport’s history.

These Games, his last, hand Bolt the opportunity to cement a legacy already written into Olympic lore — a fact acknowledged nearly universally save the USA, which hasn't completely embraced the 29-year-old Jamaican at the same level as the rest of the world.

“He’s just wants to compete,” said teammate Asafa Powell. “He wants to get it over with and go home and enjoy himself. I think he’s prepared. He realizes that he’s getting old, so he

Bolt received a Carnival-themed welcome at the Cidade das Artes in Barra da Tijuca knows what to expect.” relay — there is something to be said

So begins the final victory lap for perfection. Bolt has raced in four of an Olympic career that began in 2004, Olympic individual finals; he’s won when a 17-year-old Bolt, hampered by four individual gold medals. a hamstring injury, failed to advance And unlike Phelps, whose out of the first round of the men’s 200 reputation was damaged by arrests on meters.

DUI charges in both 2004 and 2014, Bolt

There has been nothing but has become nearly as internationally unmatched success since. adored for his personality beyond the

He’s claimed 11 world track — or for his much-imitated, postchampionships. Six Olympic gold event celebratory poses — as for his medals, highlighted by back-to-back professional success. wins in the 100 and 200 meters. The “I like to entertain,” he said. “Definitely only other sprinter to notch successive a sprinter first, but I like to entertain. golds in the 100 was Carl Lewis, who That’s what people come out to see. achieved the feat under somewhat That’s what I do. I try to entertain and dubious standards: He took the gold in make it different. That’s why people 1984, which featured a USSR boycott, love me so much.” and again in 1988, after Canadian Ben And he is loved by fans Johnson was disqualified for a doping and sponsors alike: In terms of his offense. endorsements, which have made Bolt While that medal haul pales in $30 million in 2016, according to Forbes, comparison to Michael Phelps’ he is closer to megawatt stars such collection — now at 19 golds, 23 overall as LeBron James and Lionel Messi after Sunday’s 4x100 freestyle than any track and field peer. Bolt is

ranked 91st in the world this year in total earnings among celebrities, per Forbes, sandwiched between the Dave Matthews Band and NBA star Dwyane Wade.

This despite what he admits “hasn’t been a perfect season.” He coasted to victory in the 100 at the Jamaica Racer’s Grand Prix in June, his first competitive race in more than nine months, but then withdrew from his country’s qualifying trials with a hamstring injury. Jamaica’s regulations nonetheless allowed him to race in Rio.

“I was really unhappy about not competing at my trials because I needed those races,” he said, adding, “But everything is going smooth.”

Smooth enough, he said, that his sights are set on a record: Bolt hopes to run the 200 in under 19 seconds — a feat never achieved in track and field history, and one that would break his own world record (19.19).

“I really want it,” he said. “I really, really, really want that one. I always wanted to run sub-19 (seconds).

But you never know.”

A record time in the 200 might be the only fitting conclusion to an incomparable career. As his Olympic history comes to a close — and as he stands poised to capitalize even more on his international reputation — there is that one last chapter: Bolt has races left to run and gold medals still to win before turning his full attention to life off the track.

“As a young kid, you grow up looking forward to the big games,” Bolt said. “I just think over the years I’ve really gotten into it. Championships are what matter. So I always come out here and give 150 percent. This is what I do. I enjoy it.”

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Serena Williams beaten in stunning Olympic upset

Serena Williams

The world’s most accomplished tennis player crashed out of the Olympics on Tuesday night for an improbable reason.

She experienced a rare crisis of confidence at the worst possible time.

Already down a set in her third-round singles match against 15th-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, Williams suddenly lost all ability to control her serve. Three times Williams

squandered chances to take a 4-3 second-set lead with double faults. She then resorted to serving at two-thirds speed, yet not even that helped as she double-faulted a fourth and fifth time in the same game to hand a service break to Svitolina.

That gift was all Svitolina needed to close out the biggest upset in an Olympics rife with tennis surprises so far. Svitolina’s 6-4, 6-3 victory earned

her a quarterfinal matchup with the Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova later this week.

“I didn’t really think I could win until it was 40-30 and I finally won the match,” Svitolina said. “It was just an unreal feeling. It was such a relief for me because I didn’t expect until that moment that I could win. I think that helped me a lot to not expect a mistake from her and just stay focused.”

Svitolina’s victory was stunning because the Ukrainian hadn’t recently shown any signs she was capable of ousting a 22-time grand slam winner and reigning Olympic champ.

Though Svitolina is ranked 20th in the world, she has only advanced beyond the round of 16 in two of the 14 tournaments she’s played so far this year. Svitolina was 0-4 against Williams in her career, including a 6-1, 6-1 demolition at the French Open this past May.

Why did Williams suddenly lose all feel for her serve late in the second set? What caused her to spray typically routine groundstrokes for unforced errors throughout the match?

Those questions are tough to answer because she chose not to speak with

Michael Phelps' purple blotches spotlight 'cupping' trend

It wasn't just Michael Phelps' big win on Sunday that had people talking about the U.S. swimming star. It was also the dark purple circles on his shoulders.

Phelps, who won the 19th Olympic gold medal of his career on Sunday and helped the U.S. men's team to victory in the 4x100 meters freestyle relay, is one of a number of Olympic athletes practicing "cupping," an ancient Chinese healing practice.

During the therapy cups are placed on the section of the body in need of repair to create suction. The method is said to draw out any toxins, mobilize blood flow, soothe sore muscles and even help cure insomnia.

"I have done it for awhile but I haven’t had bad ones (marks) like this awhile though," Phelps, who in 2015 posted an Instagram photo of himself receiving the therapy, told reporters on Monday.

"That’s where I hurt the most," he said of the marks on his shoulder. "I have done it before Michael Phelps (USA) of USA is seen with red cupping marks pretty much every meet I go to. I just asked for a on his shoulder as he competes little cupping yesterday because I was sore."

The 31-year-old, raising a roar from the crowd skeptical Western medical societies. on his first competitive appearance at his fifth "There is no scientific rationale for expecting Games after sitting out the heats, now has an any health benefit from cupping," the American unprecedented 23 medals with two silvers and Cancer Society said in a statement on Monday. two bronzes filling out his tally.

However, Jessica MacLean, acting

On Monday, there were nearly 300 director of the International Cupping Therapy posts per minute mentioning Phelps on Twitter, Association, said she has seen a 20 percent increase according to social media analytics firm Zoomph. in purchases of cupping therapy equipment and

U.S. gymnast Alex Naddour, 25, and a 50 percent increase of healthcare practitioners Belarusian swimmer Pavel Sankovich are also seeking out their cupping certificates over the last fans of the procedure. Naddour posted a selfie three days. with a big cupping mark on his shoulder last week, MacLean, who receives cupping therapy daily while Sankovich, 26, posted a photo on Instagram and has been performing the procedure on people in June saying, "This kinda Saturday morning. for 24 years, said she saw a similar trend after Cupping is a great recovery tool." the “The Karate Kid” movie was released in 2010,

Actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer which featured the therapy briefly.

Aniston and pop star Justin Bieber have also been “Every time we see something like this photographed with the distinctive large circles on happen in the media, it piques people’s attention,” their backs and chest. said MacLean. "When people get the treatment

However, while the therapy dates back to and they recover really fast, they don’t care about ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern the scientific evidence - they just care that it cultures, it has been less popular among more works."

reporters after her loss. Williams instead released a brief post-match statement via the United States Olympic Committee.

“Obviously I’m disappointed,” Williams said. “She played really well and the better player today won. But I can’t wait for next time. I look forward to it.”

It’s highly likely there won’t be a next time for Williams at the Olympics. The three-time doubles gold medalist and 2012 Olympic singles champion will turn 35 in September.

Returning to the 2020 Olympics is a long shot even for a champion who has accomplished things no female tennis player in her 30s ever has.

All Williams’ achievements made Svitolina cautious to count her out, even as the American was sailing backhands past the baseline, dumping forehands into the net and serving erratically at two-thirds her usual speed. Only after Williams’ final unforced error on match point did Svitolina allow herself to celebrate.

“It happens sometimes with her serve, but she can also do four aces in a row,” Svitolina said. “You need to expect the unexpected against her.”

Games bus hit by gunfire, no one seriously hurt: witnesses

A bus carrying journalists at the Rio Games was hit by gunfire on a highway between Olympic venues on Tuesday, witnesses said. No one was seriously injured in the incident.

The bus was making its way from the Games basketball venue to the main Olympic park when, according to passengers, two shots were heard hitting the vehicle.

Windows shattered and flying glass left two people with minor lacerations.

"We were shot at. I mean we could hear the report of the gun," said Sherryl "Lee" Michaelson, a retired U.S. air force captain who is working for a basketball publication in Rio.

A spokesman for the Rio organizing committee, Mario Andrada, said forensic investigators were trying to determine if the projectile was a bullet or a rock.

"We haven't yet been able to confirm what kind of projectile hit the bus," he said, adding that the incident occurred in the Curicaca neighborhood, just a few kilometers (miles) north of the Olympic Park. "We don't want to speculate."

A Reuters photograph taken in the first moments of the incident showed a small hole, about the width of a finger, in one of the windows.

Violent street crime in Rio has left its mark on South America's first Olympic Games. On Saturday, a bullet hit the equestrian center, missing journalists there by just a few feet. That bullet was suspected to have been fired by a gang member trying to shoot down a police blimp or drone, officials said.

Broken windows on an official media bus after they shattered when driving accredited journalists to the Main Transport Mall from the Deodoro venue of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, August 9, 2016

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Pacquiao comeback fight vs Vargas is on Nov. 5 in Las Vegas

New York Yankees to release Alex Rodriguez, last game on Friday

The New York Yankees statement on Sunday. will release Alex Rodriguez, one Neither the team of the greatest players of his nor Rodriguez disclosed any generation and one of baseball's financial considerations related most polarizing figures, with his to the move. His contract for final game with the club set for this season and next put the Friday.

American League's three-times

Rodriguez has numbers most valuable player and that rank among the best 14-times all-star at $21 million in history, but has also seen annually. his reputation tarnished by This season, Rodriguez Filipino boxer and now Senator Manny Pacquiao delivers his "privileged speech" during the session of the performance-enhancing drugs. has largely been relegated to the Philippine Senate Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. Pacquiao urged He missed the entire 2014 season bench on a Yankees team looking Congress to pass a law to restore capital punishment in the wake of the "War on Drugs" campaign by Philippine due to a doping suspension, the to rebuild with younger players.

President Rodrigo Duterte second doping offence in his On Friday, first baseman Mark "Boxing is my passion. I miss what 22-year Major League Baseball Teixeira, 36, announced he

Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao confirmed Wednesday that he will come out I'd been career. would retire at the end of the of retirement to fight WBO welterweight doing inside the gym and atop the ring," he The Yankees signed season primarily due to injuries. champion Jessie Vargas on Nov. 5 in Las added.

Rodriguez, known as A-Rod, to When asked by a reporter what

Pacquiao, who rose from an a 10-year, $275 million contract made him decide to step down Vegas.

The boxer and Philippines senator impoverished childhood, said boxing is his that runs through 2017. At the nearly two months before the issued a statement confirming the bout, main source of income. He said he could not time, it was the sport's largest end of the season, Rodriguez saying he would conduct his entire training rely just on his salary as a public official. ever deal. Now 41, he has said: "That was the Yankees' Pacquiao met for two hours with been mired in one of the worst decision and I am at peace with camp in his home country so he can also attend to his legislative work, as he promised Bob Arum, the head of Top Rank Boxing, on seasons of his career, hitting just it."

"It has been very painful Tuesday night in Manila and they will meet nine home runs with a batting and embarrassing to sit on the during the election campaign.

His adviser, Michael Koncz, said again soon for the contract signing, Koncz average of .204. bench," he added. there will be a promotional tour from Sept. said.

He has 696 home runs Rodriguez brought a 8-10 in Los Angeles, after which Pacquiao Pacquiao's Senate victory is the in his MLB career, which began combination of speed, power and his team will go home so he can attend latest chapter in his stunning rags-to- with the Seattle Mariners in and defensive mastery to the riches story. He had worked odd jobs before 1994. He ranks only behind shortstop position when be broke to his Senate duties.

The 37-year-old Pacquiao said he lacing up the gloves at the age of 12. He Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and into baseball with the Mariners, was excited to return to the ring and said he rose steadily and became a champion in Babe Ruth on the league's all- who selected him as the first eight boxing divisions, making him one of time home run list. His 3,114 overall pick of the 1993 draft. has to fight again to earn a living.

Before his last fight in April, he said the world's most celebrated and wealthiest career hits rank 20th.

He switched to third that he would retire. During the campaign athletes.

"This is a tough day. I base after signing with the He had represented southern love this game and I love this Yankees, who already had their for the May 9 election, he assured Filipino voters that he would focus on legislative Sarangani province in the House of team," an emotional Rodriguez now-retired captain Derek Jeter Representatives since May 2010, though he told a Yankee Stadium news at shortstop. Rodriguez was work if elected to the Senate.

"Yes, the fight is on. I have agreed to a had been criticized for seldom showing up for conference on Sunday. "Saying limited to playing designated Nov. 5 fight with reigning WBO welterweight legislative duties due to his preoccupation goodbye may be the hardest part hitter during his last two seasons. with boxing. champion Jessie Vargas," Pacquiao said. of the job."

He signed what was then He will be the richest contract in baseball unconditionally released by the when he joined the Texas club from his player contract in Rangers in 2001 and was traded order to sign a contract to serve as to the Yankees, joining the team a special adviser and instructor in 2004 and playing on its 2009 with the Yankees through Dec. World Series Championship 31, 2017, the Yankees said in a team.

Police to investigate teen Taylor 'poisoning' at Wimbledon

Police are in intensive care after investigating an allegation becoming unwell during that teenage British her girls' quarter-final tennis player Gabriella match. mother, Taylor was poisoned at Her Wimbledon last month, Milena, told the Daily with her mother telling Telegraph that her local media the 18-year-old daughter had been staying had been "close to death". "in a completely healthy and it Taylor spent four days environment"

Gabriella Taylor

was "impossible" for her to have become ill.

A police spokesman said the allegation was made on Aug. 5 "concerning a possible offense at an address in Wimbledon between July 1-10", according to British media

New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez (13) walks off the field after striking out during the first inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards

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Biles lights up Rio, Instagram and the Kardashians

She has ratcheted up a million Instagram followers, exchanged tweets with reality star Kim Kardashian and been splashed on the cover of major American magazines.

Teenage gymnastics phenomenon Simone Biles has vaulted herself to stardom with her bubbly personality and savvy use of social media - in parallel to propelling the American women's team to Olympic gold in Rio.

No stranger to the limelight before the Games, the 19-year old

appears to have harnessed the Olympic spotlight to become a global sporting sensation, one cute Instagram post at a time.

"'Boa noite,' or 'Good night' in Portuguese,'' she chirped recently from Rio, posting a mirror selfie with fellow all-around women's finalist Aly Raisman in USA t-shirts, Biles donning a purple head wrap and Raisman buried under a face mask.

Already touted as the greatest gymnast of all-time, firecracker Biles soars during her moves - with one, a

double layout with half-twist at the end, named after her - and has smitten judges, crowds and even her rivals during jaw-dropping performances in Rio.

That awe has spilled over to social media, with the Texas-raised teenager tweeting on Wednesday that she had surpassed one million followers on photo-sharing app Instagram and thanking her fans with an ''I LOVE YALL''.

Biles has also been raking in online praise from celebrities including pop star Taylor Swift and former teen idol Zac Efron, whom the giggle-prone gymnast has said she has a crush on.

"North is watching @Simone_Biles in awe!," U.S. celebrity Kim Kardashian also tweeted recently, in reference to her three-year-old daughter with rapper Kanye West. "She's rolling around on the bed pretending to copy her lol."

Without skipping a beat, Biles tweeted back that North merely needed a Simone Biles leotard from company GK Elite to be "my mini me!"

BALANCING ACT AHEAD

Of course, once the lights go off at the Rio Games, there is no guarantee Biles will keep her spot in people's hearts.

Gymnasts burst into the public eye every four years but, as they rarely make a splash at two successive Olympics, their stardom sometimes

Phelps wins back the one that got away

By his own admission, Michael Phelps could not have scripted it better as he won back the title closest to his heart on an evening of pure gold for the most medaled Olympic athlete of all time.

The 200 meters butterfly was the first race he swam at an Olympics, at Sydney in 2000, and the gold that got away -- the one he wanted back after being beaten by a fingertip at the 2012 London Games by South African Chad Le Clos.

It hurt so much that Phelps made it his mission to exact revenge in Rio and win it one last time.

"Mission accomplished," he said after claiming the 20th Olympic gold of his career, a number that became 21 after he helped the U.S. team win the 4x200 freestyle relay in the evening's finale.

Japan's Masato Sakai ran him close to collect the silver in the butterfly, while Hungary's Tamas Kenderesi won bronze.

Le Clos, whose run-up to the Games was overshadowed by the devastating news that both of his parents had been diagnosed with cancer, finished fourth.

Phelps, who would have had four successive wins in the 200 butterfly but for that London race, has now amassed a record-extending 25 Olympic medals.

Some, however, carry far more significance than others.

"I really wanted that one back," said Phelps, who retired after 2012 but came back because he felt he needed to go out on his own terms.

"That event was kind of my bread and butter. That was the last time I'll ever swim it. " Kind of having that come to an end, its crazy to think about ... I didn't say anything to anyone else, but there wasn't a shot in hell I was losing it."

Phelps said he had been prepared to leave "every ounce" in the pool, and strain every sinew, and did not know how close it had been until he was on the podium.

By then none of that mattered.

"Just being able to see the number one next to my name again, one more time in the 200 fly, I couldn't have scripted it any better," he said.

TENSE ATMOSPHERE Phelps had touched the

wall in one minute, 53.36 seconds, slower than his 2012 silver medal performance, with Sakai finishing in 1:53.40. Le Clos, who clocked 1:52.96 for gold in 2012, could only manage a 1:54.06.

With all eyes on the two big men on the blocks, both avoided eye contact as they waited to step up, standing almost back to back.

The tense atmosphere was cut by shouts from the crowd just as the swimmers were trying to compose themselves, the start aborted before they had taken racing positions and spectators urged to stay silent.

Le Clos, who won a 200 freestyle silver on Monday, reacted faster than Phelps at the start but it was Hungary's Laszlo Cseh who led at the turn with Phelps second and Le Clos third.The American then used his mighty 'wingspan' to forge ahead into clear water. Cseh began to fade, with Le Clos moving into second at the 150 metrer-mark but the South African could not match Phelps in the final lap, with the American punching the air in delight after stepping out.

He laughed out loud on the podium, amused by friends in the crowd shouting out the familiar 'O' for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team while the U.S. basketball team looked on, and kissed the medal.

And then he went around the pool to embrace his partner and baby son Boomer. Mission accomplished.

Michael Phelps (USA) of USA poses with his gold medal

fades quickly.

The experience of U.S. team mate Gabby Douglas, who won the allaround women's gymnastics event at the 2012 London Games, suggests it is tricky to balance the surge in attention with intensive training.

After London, Douglas took a two-year break, starred in a reality TV show and switched coaches several times. She was shaky at U.S. trials in July and there was concern she wouldn't pull through in Rio although she has so far performed strongly.

Biles' supreme talent and work ethic may make her road ahead smoother.

In any case her compelling life story has already turned her into a media darling.

At the age of three, Biles was adopted by her grandfather and his wife because her biological mother battled alcohol and drug addiction and was unable to look after her.

The stability that her adoptive parents Nellie and Ron offered included enrolling Simone into a tumbling program in Texas after a daycare field trip to a gym -- a decision that eventually turned her into a 10time world champion.

When an NBC announcer recently tweeted that Nellie and Ron were not Biles' parents, her growing fan base leapt to defend her, and Al Trautwig swiftly apologized.

Second bullet found in equestrian center

A second bullet inside the Olympic equestrian center was found close to the stable area on Wednesday, the second time a stray shot has been picked up at the venue over the past week, police said.

No one was injured and the first day of the dressage competition finished as normal.

On Saturday, a stray bullet tore through the roof of the equestrian press center, passing over the head of the New Zealand press attache and landing at the feet of a photographer.

The defense minister said it may have been fired by a gang member trying to shoot down a police blimp.

The police blimp, which carries cameras to monitor the surrounding area, was flying on Tuesday during the final day of the eventing competition.

Police arrested on Wednesday a man accused of firing the shot on Saturday in a community about two kilometers away from the venue, General Luis Ramos told reporters. During the arrest more shots were fired, possibly explaining the second bullet.

A representative for the German equestrian team said they took the incident quite seriously but had been assured security forces would do whatever possible to protect horses and humans.

The Deodoro equestrian area is next to a military complex and riders and fans have heard gun shots periodically since competition began on Aug. 6.

Ramos confirmed the army had been conducting training exercises but promised to stop them so as not to spook the horses. He said 5,500 soldiers more were made available to provide additional security for the area in western Rio.

The city had already pledged 85,000 police and military troops for the Games, more than double the figure employed in London in 2012.

In recent days, three Swedish tourists were briefly abducted when they visited a slum, Portugal's visiting education minister was robbed at knifepoint, soldiers came under fire near the international airport and a Games bus was attacked with stones.

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