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DIGICEL WORK PERMITS REVOKED

by Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

The Turks and Caicos Islands Government, through the Immigration Board, has revoked the work permits of six expatriate workers at Digicel, after the telecommunications company made a number of Belongers redundant in a move that has sparked national outrage.

On Thursday, October 13th, Mrs. Sheba Wilson, chairperson of the Immigration Board, visited Digicel’s office on Leeward Highway, Providenciales, and formally served notice that the permits, including those of some senior Digicel managers, will be revoked.

“The Board has a right to do so,” Wilson said. “We’re doing it in the interest of the public. We feel that in this instance, the process was unfair to Turks and Caicos Islanders. We believe that the skill sets are here and that our people should have remained on the job and the work permit holders, more so, should have been the ones to be made redundant.”

She added that Digicel has 30 days in which to respond to the notice in writing and the Board has to take into consideration the representation which the company makes.

“Then a decision will be made with regard to those permits.

We have to act with the confines of the law, but at the end of the day the (Immigration) Board’s mandate is to ensure that we protect Belongers. So far there’ve been six (revocations) but I understand that they’re not done with their redundancy exercise, so there maybe more. We will deal with them as they come,” Wilson said.

According to insiders, staff morale at Digicel has slumped to an all-time low under new management.

The working environment at Digicel has been classified by staff as “a plantation”, and there have been reports of racism and victimisation on the part of certain managers.

A recent staff survey gave Digicel’s operations in the Turks and Caicos Islands an extremely bad report; one of the lowest in the

Another successful year for the ‘In The Pink’ event The Palms Turks and Caicos and the organizing committee of In The Pink hosted its 8th annual “In the Pink” event on Saturday October 8th to raise money for TCI’s Cancer Society. The event was greatly supported by many in the TCI community. Committee member of the event since its inception Karen Whitt described this year’s event as another smashing success. (See page 24, 25, 26 & 27 for highlights from this year’s event). company’s Caribbean operations.

Such low ratings and complaints by staff in a previous report, were among the reasons which forced the sudden departure of Erick Staaf in September 2015, after the company’s owner and CEO Denis O’Brien made a surprise to the Turks and Caicos Islands and was reportedly shocked and appalled by what he found and what was reported to him.

Staaf was replaced by Sinead O’Marcaigh, whose management style and attitude, according to staffers, has contributed to the declining morale, the deterioration of the company’s corporate image and a souring and breakdown in its once excellent relations with key stakeholders throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands.

After the news of the redundancies broke, there were

widespread criticisms country-wide there’re Belongers who were let go about Digicel’s handling of the exercise. who possess the necessary skills to

When asked by The SUN has do the work that Digicel has, so we’re there been a freeze on permits for standing our grounds on this.”

Digicel TCI, she added: “We will not Wilson said that the be looking at any new applications Immigration Board will be scrutinizing for Digicel given what has happened work permit applications from other here. Like I said, at the end of the companies to ensure that they are not day a company has a right to make marginalizing Belongers. decisions in its best interest, but we “Definitely when applications would also have a right to make decisions come in to us we will be looking for in the best interest of our people and any loopholes that may exist,” she our country and if you’re going to do a added. “We’re going to act in the best redundancy exercise under the laws of interest of Turks and Caicos Islanders.

Turks and Caicos, the Belonger should I encourage Turks and Caicos Islanders be the first to be given the opportunity who may have seen those ads and made to remain, not persons who have been application to inform us, because we invited here on work permit. A work need to know that you’ve applied. We permit is a privilege and so we can’t need to have your resume to backup allow persons to come here on work our decisions, so you have a part to play permit and remain here when there’s also in that process.” a redundancy exercise and clearly Continued on Page 2

Clyde Robinson wins stamp duty case against AG - Page 7

$10,000 reward for information in Gary Mead murder - Page 5

Angry reaction to suspended sentence for robbers - Page 16

Governor Peter Beckingham departs TCI - Page 8

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LOCAL NEWS

DIGICEL WORK PERMITS REVOKED

Continued from Page 1

Meantime, in a press release, Digicel sought to downplay the seriousness, timing and implications of the redundancy exercise, by stating, among other things, that it recently promoted two locals, Louis Caser (Propositions Director), and Denise Saunders (as sales director), the sister of Jay Saunders, the company’s first and most successful CEO, who parted with the company under what was widely regarded as unfair circumstances.

The press release, which was issued by Takara Bain, the company’s public relations manager, stated “the restructuring process has naturally resulted in a small number of roles being made redundant”.

It stated: “That said, over the past six months, there have been

a number of promotions and this trend continues with a number of significant announcements of promotions to our Senior Leadership and Management levels; whilst we continue to enhance our training programs to build the capabilities of our entire organization.”

In the release, Sinead O Marcaigh, CEO of Digicel said, “The restructuring exercise has been advised to the Labor Commission and that those employees whose positions are being made redundant are being really well treated. All statutory obligations are being exceeded and significant ex gratia payments are being made to recognize the service, tenure and dedication of those staff members involved.”

She added: “While

restructuring in an organization, it allows new jobs to be created and opportunities for promotion from within. This also brings difficult decisions when roles change and become redundant. Over the past 6 months there have been six promotions and this trend continues with a number of significant announcements of promotions to our Senior Leadership and Management levels; whilst we continue to with our training programs to build the capabilities of our entire organization.”

In a press statement regarding the redundancies, former Chief Minister and leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance, Oswald Skippings, said: “The oppressive plight of our people is already unbearable and is worsening

by the day. The ongoing saga whereby Digicel is laying off Turks and Caicos Islanders and still have expatriate staff is unacceptable and should not be allowed to happen. Government should take every possible step to ensure that the company does not succeed with this travesty of justness. Turks and Caicos Islanders are continually being bastardized in their country and this oppression is resulting in the systematic alienation and disempowerment of our people, especially our youth.”

He added: “This cannot be allowed to continue and government needs to use its powers to represent its people and ensure that justice and fairplay prevail and our people are protected on their jobs and elsewhere.”

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LOCAL NEWS

$10,000 reward for information in Gary Mead murder

By Todeline Defralien

The Police are renewing their appeal regarding the murder of Garry Mead, who was shot and tragically killed, on Friday 30th September 2016, whilst collecting cash from his business “Slots-O-Fun’ on Airport Road.

A local Businessman is now offering a $10,000 cash reward to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and charge of those responsible.

During a Press conference at the Police Headquarters on Friday October 7th, Superintendent Clifford Ashton of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force appealed to the public and the media for assistance in getting information in relation to the murder.

Two male suspects were seen running away from the scene; one slim built, about 5ft tall and of light complexion and the other is of medium built is about 5ft 5 inches tall.

“We also know that the two suspects approached from the direction

of Sammy Been Plaza,” Ashton said.

“I believe that they were at the plaza until Gary arrived.”

Ashton added: “I do believe that there are people who know who is responsible for the murder of Gary Mead. I will appeal to those persons to come forward. You might have that vital piece of information that will help us bring the offenders to justice.

If you were in the area of Airport Road between Sammy Been Plaza and Max Minimart between 8:00am and 9:00am in the morning as a pedestrian or driving along airport road I urge you to come forward. You may have information that you don’t know is significant to the inquiry.”

Ashton said if for any reason the individuals don’t feel that they can come to the police directly, they can contact crime stoppers at1-800-8477 or email it to www.crimestoppers.tc.

“Any crime that is perpetrated in the TCI is a concern for the Police and we are doing our best to do everything possible to catch the perpetrators and to combat crime, but the public and the media have to play

Superintendent Clifford Ashton

Gary Mead

their part as well in terms of getting information out there and getting the public to come forward with information to assist the Police investigations. Fighting crime is the whole countries responsibility and not just the Police,” he stressed.

Sgt. Andy Harry is the investigating officer for the Garry Meads case.

Earlier Friday Morning September 30th 2016, at approximately 8:30 a.m, a report was made to 911 of shots being heard and a man down in the parking lot of Slots-O-Fun Casino

located on the Airport, Providenciales.

Officers arrived on the scene and observed Mead lying on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds. He was later pronounced dead by a doctor and was transported to the morgue.

Preliminary investigations revealed that around the time, the 55-year-old victim was leaving his business establishment with property in his possession when he was approached by two dark males who shot him and took his property before making good their escape on foot.

Senior valuation officer on work assignment to the Cayman Islands

The Lands Division, under the Attorney General’s Chambers strives to provide quality and professional services to the public and to TCIG. To achieve this end, the AG’s Chambers Lands Division, is keen on providing opportunities for the continued professional growth of its staff.

Mr. Delroy V Wilson, the Senior Valuation Officer, with the Valuation Department, one of the four departments of the AG’s Chambers Land Division, is currently in the Cayman Islands on a six weeks attachment programme with the Valuation Branch of the Cayman

Islands government. The programme to gain a wider field experience in a is designed for Mr. Wilson to gain a variety of valuation assignments. The wider practical knowledge of property success of the attachment will result appraisal, as he prepares to sit in his being elected a professional for his Assessment of Professional member of the RICS which will Competency (APC) of the Royal greatly complement our department Institution of Chartered Surveyors as we strive for professionalism at the (RICS). highest level.”

Valuation is a technical Deputy Governor Her profession and it is felt that the Excellency Anya Williams said; Cayman experience will greatly help “Earlier this year my office announced Mr. Wilson with his APC. The Chief a new partnership with the Cayman Valuation Officer, Mr. Hoza, shared Islands civil service aimed at his enthusiasm; “I am most grateful to providing training, mentorship the Cayman Islands Government for and other benefits to our staff. I affording Mr. Wilson this opportunity am happy that Mr. Wilson through

the Professional Development Fund is able to participate in such a program which is expected to yield great benefits not only to his own professional development, but also to that of the department. We are grateful to the Government of Cayman on this partnership and look forward to continued collaboration in other areas of importance.”

The Valuation Department is also very grateful to the Office of the Deputy Governor for making available support from the Professional Development Funds to make this work attachment possible.

Seventh murder recorded in TCI for 2016

By Todeline Defralien

With an increase in crime in the Turks and Caicos Islands, last week Friday the TCI recorded its seventh murder for the year so far with a total of eight murders registered last year.

Police confirm that the 27 year old Dominican National killed in down town Providenciales last week Friday October 7th, 2016 was Juan Carlos Morla.

Around 3:31 PM a report was made to the 911 Centre reporting that gunshots were heard in the area of Times Square located on Aviation Drive.

As a result, police responded to the area of Time Square where they were directed to a car wash located behind the Library. They were informed that a number of gunshots were fired and a male received gunshot wounds. The victim was 27-year-old Juan Carlos Morla of the Dominican Republic.

Morla was rushed to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre by friends where he tragically succumbed to his injuries.

Police said that this is an active investigation and early indications

suggestion that the motive for on Wednesday 13th July 2016. The the shooting is robbery; further man accused of murdering the two information would be given once Dominican waitresses in the space received. of three months, appeared in court

Police are seeking the on Monday September 5th and was assistance of persons who may have remanded to Grand Turk Prison until information or seen what took place to November 4th. Thirty-three-yearplease call Crime Stoppers on 1-800- old Bahamian national, Christopher 8477 or use the Crime Stoppers online Forbes, was not required to plea when reporting page: www.crimestoppers. he appeared before Chief Magistrate tc, Chalk Sound Police Station 338- Mrs. Tanya Lobban-Jackson, in Court 5901/941-8067. The information you Number One, on Old Airport Road, in provide will be treated in the strictest Providenciales. of confidence.

The body of the male who

Meantime in At approximately was found dead in the Kew Town 9:50 am on Tuesday 16th February area on Saturday June 18th has was 2016 Police Officers and medical unit identified as Haitian national 29-yearwere call on Walter Cox Drive, Kew old Jeanisland Michael Monhomme of Town after the deceased 24 year old Kew Town, Providenciales. Around 5: Brachard Antonio Walkin of Five Cays, 48am mobile officers were patrolling Providenciales was discovered in a the Kew Town area when upon vacant area with what appear to be a reaching the public Park they were gunshot wound to the head. Brachard alerted to the lifeless body of a male Walkin was last seen in the vicinity of on the ground. He was dressed in Morris Plaza driving a White Crown White T-shirt, black track pants with Vic car registration number 26113. white strip and white sneakers.

26 year-old Yuneiry Veras 56-year-old Dominican man was found deceased in the Pirate’s Feliciano Antonio Garcia Quin was Cove area on Saturday 23rd April shot dead during a home invasion on 2016 and 26-year-old Sorineido the night of Sunday, September 11th.

Moreno Arias was also found deceased Feliciano Antonio Garcia Quin was on Crystal Bay Road Providenciales near a house on Walter Cox Drive in

Juan Carlos Morla Kew Town, with another man and a woman around 8:06 p.m., when they were approached by an unknown man dressed in dark clothing with a mask over his face and gloves on. The man pointed a gun and forced them inside the house and demanded cash. Whilst inside the house, there was a scuffle and Quin received a single gun-shot wound. The suspect then fled the scene and Quin was later pronounced dead by Dr. Adolphus.

On Friday 30th September 2016 Gary Mead, an American, who has been living and working in the Turks and Caicos Islands for many years, was killed just before 9 a.m. on Friday, September 30th, 2016, while leaving Slots of Fun Gaming Parlor, which is located inside the Airport Hotel.

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National Security Council advisory group reviews internal and external policing issues

Former Governor Peter Beckingham and Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing held a meeting of the National Security Council Advisory Group on Monday, 3 October.

Members who attended also included the Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, the Minister of Border Control, the Deputy Governor, the Police Commissioner and Bishop Bryan Cox.

The Commissioner gave a brief account of domestic crime. There had been an unwelcome increase in home invasions, but the arrest of a number of people charged with murder, including of the two Dominican Republic women, had been a welcome development.

A recent study of the Police’s IT infrastructure should help to enhance road safety, customs and immigration measures. The CCTV project for Providenciales was continuing, and involved an invitation to tender.

The Commissioner also noted that the Force was acquiring a number of police dogs to help pursue a variety of offenders. Twenty new officer recruits would qualify in October, and the Commissioner clarified that tourist police officers would, where appropriate, be accompanied by more experienced staff. The Force had acquired a drone, but would be in urgent need shortly of replacement

commissioner of Police James Smith

Former Governor Peter Beckingham

Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing

vehicles. The Commissioner described changes in security for the SIPT trial and participants.

On external security the Governor noted that there were no specific terrorist threats to TCI, but he warned that there could be supporters of ISIS in the region. The Commissioner noted that two new police patrol vessels had been identified. The

US authorities had highlighted an increase in drug smuggling through the DR and Haiti. The Commissioner welcomed the participation of TCI in the US-led regional airport security operation (APIS).

The Group welcomed the Premier’s proposal to commission an independent Review of the Police Force. Its parameters should include

strategy, succession planning and in particular opportunities for local staff at senior level, community policing and internal communications. The Government would need to allocate funding for the Review.

The Group noted with concern the increase in illegal communities in Providenciales, and reports of police revealing private briefings.

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Clyde Robinson wins stamp duty case against Attorney General in Court of Appeal

by Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal which Attorney General Rhondalee Brathwaite-Knowles brought against former Director of Planning, Clyde Robinson, over the payment of stamp duty on land which he transferred to his former wife “in consideration of love and affection”.

hief Justice Margaret RamsayHale had previously ruled in Robinson’s favour, but the Attorney General appealed that decision and hired two British lawyers, David Philips, QC and Patrick Patterson, to argue the case on her behalf.

Local Queen’s Counsel, Ariel Misick, was Robinson’s lawyer.

The Court of Appeal, comprising Mr. Justice Elliott Mottley , QC (the president), Mr. Justice Ian Forte and Mr. Justice Adderley, sided with Misick after hearing legal arguments from both sides on May 11th and September 20th, 2016.

In the in a 19-page judgment which was written by Mr. Justice Mottley, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Chief Justice “was correct in concluding that on the analysis of the case brought before her, the proceedings were not instituted at the behest of the Collector nor was the claim for stamp duty made to Mr. Robinson for and on behalf of the Collector as is the requirement for recovery under the Stamp Duty Ordinance (SDO).”

They added: “In the circumstances, the judge was right to accept Mr. Misick’s submission that the Attorney General had no standing to commence the action.”

According to the judgment, the Legislature has expressly provided a mechanism for the involvement of the Attorney General in disputes relating to stamp duty liability.

It stated: “Mr. Misick argued that procedure does not involve the institution of proceedings by the Attorney General. In my view, section 4(3) SDO provides that any person who uses an instrument that is not duly stamped is liable civilly to the Collector.

Section 14(1) (b) SDO envisages that any civil proceeding are to be brought by the Collector. I accept that it is the Collector who is to determine whether or not civil proceedings are initiated. The power is given to the Collector and the procedure is set out for him to assess whether duty had been properly paid on an instrument either at his own will, or at the request of another person. I accept Mr. Misick’s submission that it is incomprehensible that the Collector could simply launch civil proceedings without indicating to the persons affected that a question has arisen as to the amount of stamp duty payable and without giving them an opportunity to respond to the question before legal proceedings are instituted.

Mr. Misick also suggested that it is even more incomprehensible that civil proceedings could be launched by the Attorney General without consulting the Collector or the persons affected. That, he suggested, could not have been the intention of the Legislature. I find that there is merit in that Submission.”

The judgment continued: “ The Crown Proceedings Ordinance (“CPO”) by sections 13 and 19 provided that the A.G. has the right to bring civil proceedings on behalf of the Crown or any Government department. In my view, such capacity is not capable of being exercised unilaterally by the

A.G. in the circumstances where the Legislature through the SDO codifies a law which confers that capacity on another officer, the Collector. In my opinion, any civil proceedings commenced by the Attorney General for the collection of stamp duty must be brought specifically at the behest and in the name of the Collector. Mr. Misick contended that there is no evidence that the Collector was ever consulted with respect to this claim. He suggested that it was absurd to suggest that the Attorney General could bring proceedings on the behalf of the Collector when the Collector was not consulted nor was the Collector’s approval sought or obtained to pursue such proceedings. I agree with Mr. Misick’s contention that the fact that the money recovered is payable to the Government is immaterial.”

The background to the case is that, on or about February 5th, 2007, Mr. Robinson and Ms. Bishop made an agreement to divide their marital assets, lot 40 and 25% of the land to Mr. Robinson, 75% of the land to Ms. Bishop to whom the legal title would be conveyed.

On or about the 14th of June 2007, pursuant to this Agreement, Mr. Robinson executed an instrument of transfer by which he transferred the land to Ms. Bishop in consideration of love and affection. The transfer was certified by the then Permanent Secretary for Finance, Hartley Coalbrooke as having been made for no valuable consideration, and as such no stamp duty was payable or paid by Robinson or Bishop.

On the 5th of September 2007, Ms Bishop sold the land to a company called Wawa for $1.5million and paid to Mr. Robinson 25% of the sale price as set out in their agreement.

The Chief Justice found that on about 14 June 2007, pursuant to an agreement dated 5 February 2007 made between Mr. Robinson and his wife, Mr. Robinson executed an instrument of transfer by which he transferred the land for his wife.

Queen’s Counsel David Phillips, on behalf of the Attorney General submitted that two separate issues arose, namely:

(i) Whether the transfer was liable for stamp duty;

(ii) Whether the Crown’s claim fails on procedural grounds.

At first instance, his primary contention was that the transaction is taxable as a conveyance on sale. In respect to whether the transaction is taxable as a voluntary disposition under section 23 of the Stamp Duty Ordinance (SDO) CAP 157, counsel conceded that he did not argue this issue at the first instance but the issue was raised by the judge in her judgment.

Phillips argued that the judge was wrong in ruling that a conveyance on sale required “a price in money paid or promised’” He further argued that this erroneous ruling led to the conclusion by the judge that “there was no conveyance on sale.”

He also submitted that, in order to fall within the scheme of the Ordinance, all that was required was that the value of consideration is capable of calculation in monetary terms. He stated that whether in the form of silver, or some other precious metal, or in the form of land, the consideration will be taxable provided that the value was capable of being calculated in terms of money.

He suggested that the court should stand back and look at the commercial reality of the transaction, adding that Robinson and Bishop exchanged land; the value of the land received by Miss Bishop was greater than that received

by Mr. Robinson. He argued that the value if the consideration given by Miss Bishop, for stamp duty purposes, was the amount by which what she received exceeded what she gave. That, he said, was the value that was taxable for stamp duty.

Mottley noted that having rejected Mr. Phillips’ submissions, the judge ruled that the transaction between the Robinsons was not a conveyance on sale because there was no price in monetary terms paid or promised. In so doing, he said, the Chief Justice followed the decision of the House of Lords in a case called Littlewoods v Inland Revenue [1963] AC 13.

ISSUE IS WHETHER TRANSFER WAS A CONVEYANCE

According to the judgment, Mr. Misick, Q.C. suggested that the issue in the appeal was not whether stamp duty was payable on a transfer of land where the consideration for the transfer was by way of exchange of land of unequal value.

On the contrary, he stated that the issue before the Court below was whether the transfer was a conveyance on sale within the meaning of section 2 of the Stamp Duty ordinance. He submitted, that in considering whether the transfer was a conveyance on sale, the Court has to look at the transfer itself and the surrounding circumstances to see what was the legal nature of the transaction carried out by the transfer. He continued that having identified the legal nature of the transaction, the Court must then relate that transaction to the language of the SDO in order to determine if the transfer was chargeable to ad valorem stamp duty. He said that the court was being asked by the Appellant (a) to treat the transaction as an exchange of land of unequal value between Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson; and (b) to find that the alleged exchange was a conveyances on sale chargeable to stamp duty under Head 4 of the Schedule 1 to the SDO.

The judgment added: “The Court was reminded of the nature of the transaction in question. It was made orally in December 2006 and was then reduced into writing in February 2007.

The exchange of the land took place on 14 June 2007. At the time of the oral agreement and the reduction of that agreement into writing, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were married. The legal ownership of parcel 40 was in the name of Mr. Robinson and he was the lessee of parcel 286. Mr. Robinson alone was legally entitled to be the transferor of Parcel 286. While the transaction required Mr. Robinson to transfer parcel 286 to Mrs. Robinson, the question that arises was whether it was a sale of that parcel to Mrs. Robinson or whether it was an ‘exchange’ of that parcel for parcel 40. Mr. Misick stated that Mrs. Robinson never owned parcel 40 and so parcel 40 could not be exchanged for parcel 286. He contended that the nature and the purpose of the agreement was simply an agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Robinson to divide equally between them the two properties which were acquired by them in the course of their marriage and this occurred in the face of what appeared to be a breakdown in the

marriage.”

Mottley said he agreed that the nature of the transaction was accurately stated as a division of the property between Mr. and Mrs. Robinson and he further accept that it is not for the court to re-characterize the transaction as an exchange of land instead of an agreement between Mr. and Mrs. Robinson to distribute their property equally between them.

“In my opinion, the transfer was made pursuant to the agreement to divide and distribute matrimonial assets. The question to be determined was whether the transfer is captured by the definition of a conveyance on sale in the SDO,” Mottley said.

He added: “In my view, the transaction was not a sale because there was neither a vendor nor a purchaser involved. The Respondent was not selling parcel 286 and his wife was not purchasing it. Mr. Robinson was transferring that parcel to Mrs. Robinson in return for Mrs. Robinson relinquishing any claim to parcel 40 as part of an agreement to divide their matrimonial assets.

Mrs. Robinson claimed to have had an interest in both parcels and that claim predated the transaction. The division and distrbution of property was not a sale in any ordinary sense of the word “sale”. I accept that to characterize Mr. Robinson as a vendor and Mrs. Robinson as a buyer would be to re-characterize the transaction as something other than what it was.”

COURT REJECTS AG’S SUBMISSION

According to Mottley, Mr. Phillips submitted that, if this was a transfer by way of voluntary disposition as distinct from a conveyance on sale it is chargeable to stamp duty.

“He (Phillips) said that the Respondent was liable for the unpaid duty and for the statutory penalty. In the circumstance, the judge’s decision should be reversed and the matter should be remitted to the Supreme Court so that the amount of stamp duty and penalty may be assessed. I reject this submission. I accept the submission of Mr. Misick that adjudication was necessary in the case of a transfer operating as a voluntary disposition inter vivos. Without such adjudication, the Collector cannot determine the value of the property which was substituted for the amount of the consideration, nor would the Collector be able to determine whether the transferee receives a substantial benefit in consequence of the inadequacy of the consideration. In my view, this is put beyond doubt by section 23(3). The judge correctly found that Mrs. Robinson gave valuable consideration, namely, the release of her claim to parcel 40 and her obligation to pay 25% of any sale proceeds to Mr. Robinson if and when the land was resold. There is no appeal against that finding. There has been no assessment by the Collector under section 12(2)(b) or section 12(9) as was the case in Lap Shun. I agree with the judge that the opinion of the Collector that Mrs. Robinson obtained a substantial benefit was an essential element in the liability to pay under section 23.

In the absence of that opinion, the judge was right to conclude that she could not have held that the transfer was caught under section 23.”

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LOCAL NEWS

Premier’s statement on the departure of His Excellency The Governor, Peter Beckingham and Mrs. Beckingham

The arrival of Mr. Beckingham head on; with greater freedom over the in 2013 began a new era for Turks and direction of our country.

Caicos and another step in the evolution It is our position that the of our relationship with the United people of Turks and Caicos regardless of Kingdom. And while we have enjoyed an political ideology or affiliation, guided amicable and productive relationship, by the wisdom of God, have the intellect, there is much more to Peter Beckingham ability and strength to take a larger role than the title and role of Governor of in the governing of our own affairs. these Turks and Caicos Islands. He is a As a government, we have man, who had the interest of the people demonstrated the ability to manage our of these islands at heart and along island’s finances, eliminating the near with his wife involved themselves in crippling debt we inherited, faster than many charitable activities including the anyone imagined possible; creating a signature “Footsteps for Good” event. budget surplus that will now be used to

Mr. Beckingham entered reinvest in our people, grow our country a situation and a role fraught with and the opportunities available in this peril and facing a social and political land for all TC Islanders. minefield that required an open mind, As a government, we have a cooperative spirit and a willingness restored investor confidence, begun to to understand and respond to the repair the crumbling infrastructure we advice and needs of the duly elected inherited and over the past few years government of the day. He have worked have planted the seeds of future success with us, laughed with us, shared in that have blossomed into a harvest our hardships and have, through his ready to be collected by the people of actions, temperament and demeanor, Turks and Caicos; ALL the people. encouraged a relationship that may We believe that the people of have had its disagreements, it has not Turks and Caicos are ready to take the been disagreeable. On behalf of my “training wheels” off which should have government and the people of Turks not been there, step out and ride into and Caicos, we thank His Excellency the future with greater freedom, greater and your lovely wife, for their time here responsibility and greater autonomy in our beautiful home. over the affairs of the land we call home.

Today represents the ending of We seek this greater freedom, greater an era and the beginning of a new day responsibility and greater autonomy for Turks and Caicos. Yet as Peter Block not for the PNP, not for the PDM or for once wrote, “What worked yesterday, is any other political entity formed in this the gilded cage of tomorrow.” land; but for the people who call TCI

The people of Turks and Caicos home. have clearly and repeatedly stated their As President Woodrow Wilson belief that at this time, the relationship once wrote, “We can have no sympathy between the TCI and the U.K., is one that with those who seek the power of is beneficial and should be maintained. government to advance their own Yet we believe that it is time for this personal interests or ambitions.” relationship to take the next, natural This is about something much step and evolve into something greater, bigger than that. where TC Islanders can face the future This is about the ability for and its challenges and opportunities the Government of the day to form a

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Islanders and all who love the islands

Yet as today marks the of Turks and Caicos we wish you well, beginning of a new era, one we hope that a safe journey and that the loving will see the evolution of our relationship and protective hand of God continue with the U.K., it also marks an ending. to preserve the happiness, health, Your Excellency and Mrs. Beckingham safety and prosperity of you and your we thank you for your service. We family. honour the time you have spent with us

Deputy Governor Hon. Anya Williams, Mr. Peter Beckingham, Mrs. Beckingham and Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing

Mr. Peter Beckingham, and wife Mrs. Beckingham waves at Commissioner of Police James Smith at their departure

Mr. Peter Beckingham, Mrs. Beckingham, Deputy Governor Hon. Anya Williams and Premier Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing

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Waterloo Investment Holdings Ltd. & Footsteps 4 Good The Footsteps 4 Good walk

An annual event that raises funds for charitable organizations in Turks and Caicos - concluded on Providenciales on Saturday, October 1st 2016 at the Blue Haven Resort.

The event saw over 100 residents participate to support the

charities of their choice. Some 45 Waterloo Investment Holdings Ltd. Employees volunteered their time to participate in the actual run and organize the finale event at Blue Haven. Once participants ended the walk at Blue Haven Resort, they

had the opportunity to meet with representatives from 13 charities that had exhibits set up at Salt Bar & Grill. Footsteps for Good raised approximately $40K for charities throughout the Turks & Caicos Islands.

This was the last year the

event was hosted by its founder, Jill Beckingham, wife of His Excellency, Peter Beckingham. Mrs. Beckingham noted in closing remarks that she was elated the event will carry on for years to come in Turks and Caicos.

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Statement by Former Premier Michael Misick on Digicel Redundancies

The recent decision by Digicel to terminate the employment of a number of Turks and Caicos Islanders, while retaining the majority of their expat workers, is an insult to Turks and Caicos Islands and its people.

This is indeed a dark day as the efforts of TCI governments to ensure that we have one of the most educated populations per capita has been frowned on by a CEO who is ironically on work permit.

Digicel has reaped the fruits of this market. The company has indeed been given every reasonable privilege and opportunity that a company of its nature can receive in an island nation.

The Turks and Caicos Islands’ Government has even transferred a century-old contract that was formerly held by Cable and Wireless/LIME to Digicel and pays to the tune of millions of dollars annually. The people of the Turks and Caicos, by and large, are loyal to the communications company, but today it appears that that loyalty is not reciprocal.

During my time in office, I was proud to be a part of the establishment of a scholarship program that ensured that higher learning was afforded to all Turks and Caicos Islanders. My vision and my dream was always to see our people hold on to good and well remunerated jobs in all the major corporations in the TCI.

It was a proud moment when we shattered the glass ceiling and in my lifetime we saw the two leading telecommunications companies managed from the top down by local homegrown Belongers.

The day that I learned of the change of leadership in Digicel and in their competitor LIME, I braced myself for a descending action of termination.

Fortunately LIME was wise enough to do the right thing and their efforts were not in vain. Today Digicel is showing their true colors and in my view setting a corporate precedent of revolving door employment strategy.

This is one strategy that must not be allowed to take root in the TCI

Former Premier Michael Misick and if it does no job in any organisation will ever be secure again and our people will be thrown to the sides at the whims and wills of corporate tycoons.

It is not too late to remedy

this situation, the Turks and Caicos is a forgiving nation. Therefore, I call on Digicel to reconsider their decision immediately and reinstate the persons who were made redundant and if it is indeed necessary to make cuts, reduce the number of expatriate staff members. If this decision cannot be made, I call on the Premier and his Government to withdraw work permits issued to Digicel and to cancel the Government contract.

It is important that corporate entities such as Digicel understand that Turks and Caicos Islanders must have first preference in this our country and actions such as the one demonstrated this week on their part will not be tolerated.

I hope and trust that the Government will act to protect the interest of our people and send a stern message to any other entities who may be considering similar actions.

May God Bless you all and may God Bless the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Region of The Americas become first to eliminate measles

The Region of the Americas has successfully eliminated Measles, Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome.

The announcement was made, September 27th, 2016 at the World Health Organization for the Americas’ 55th annual Directing Council in Washington DC. It is the first region to have eradicated small pox, the first region to have eliminated poliomyelitis and now it is the first region to have eliminated Measles, Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS).

The process began within the Americas in 2007 where countries were urged and agreed to work towards the elimination of Measles, Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS).

Measles and Rubella are highly infectious diseases which affect the respiratory system; CRS can be contracted by infants born to mothers who have not received the rubella vaccine.

The last reported case of Rubella within the Americas was in 2009, this allowed the

International Expert Committee (IEC) to validate the region as having eliminated Rubella and CRS in 2015. Measles was scheduled to be a part of this validation, but because of the outbreaks in Canada, the United States, Brazil and Ecuador during the period in which the region was to be validated, the verification was withheld.

Elimination means that a region would have had to interrupt endemic transmission of Measles over a period of time. Simply put, all the countries in the Americas would have needed to have zero cases of Measles, Rubella and CRS contracted within any of the countries for a period of time. The last outbreak of Measles in the region was in 2015 in Brazil as a result of an imported case from another region.

“Today we say bye-bye to indigenous transmission of Measles. We celebrate this historic day in which the scourge has been eliminated,” said Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization

(PAHO).

Premier Dr. The Hon. Rufus Ewing stated; “The Turks and Caicos Islands is elated to be a part of this great success.

The country has always boasted of its high coverage in Measles and Rubella vaccination over the years, due to the hard work and dedication of our public health staff and public health policies over the years. We will continue to work to maintain a high coverage in all vaccines and to go even higher.”

Elimination does not mean eradication and so the work must continue to ensure that we keep the TCI Measles, Rubella and CRS free.

In attendance at the 55th Directing Council and also the conference on Medical Health Tourism is the Hon. Premier and Minister of Health Dr. Rufus Ewing, Permanent Secretary Mr. Wesley Clerveaux along with other members of staff from the Ministry of Health, Agriculture and Human Services and the office of the Region Of The Americas Become First To Eliminate Measles.

Premier.

Three males sentenced to prison for robbery

On Friday 7th October 2016, three of the four (4) males of Grand Turk who plead guilty in the Supreme Court to charges of Robbery in connection with a report that was made on Tuesday 14th June 2016 were sentenced to prison.

It was reported on that date shortly after 12 AM, a 14-year-old (name withheld), 17year-olds Jerry Dossou and Tushawn Higgs, and 18year-

old Brian Blenman dressed in dark clothing with masked entered the Ocean View Bar located on West Road Grand Turk with a baseball bat and demanded money from the barmaids. One of the men hit the barmaid with the baseball bat causing injuries to her forehead and arms before getting away with a cash register containing an undisclosed amount of money and a lady’s

handbag.

On Saturday 18th June 2016, police arrested and charged all males with robbery.

They all plead guilty to the charges on Friday 26th August 2016. Jerry Dossou and Tushawn Higgs was sentenced to 15 months, while Brian Blenman was sentenced to two and half years imprisonment.

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PDA concerned about rising crime

by Oswald Skipping

Leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance

The recent spate of violent crimes that includes two shooting deaths in two weeks that were carried out in broad daylight, is reprehensible, intolerable and totally unacceptable.

We cannot as a nation, sit helplessly and allow these unconscionable criminals and executioners to destroy what we have worked so hard to build and what we have cherished over the years.

We must as a government and populace exhibit a zero tolerance to these criminals and their atrocities. The police need an increase in manpower, they need to be better trained, they need to be better equipped and there needs to be more community policing which is now virtually nonexistent.

Both government and businesses need to expeditiously deploy the CCTV. Among other necessary steps that government needs to take include: • Revamping legislation to provide stiffer penalties for these crimes.

• Becoming more effective in its border control efforts • Implementing a more efficient system of vetting persons being allowed to live and work in the Turks and Caicos.

• Instituting a comprehensive program to sort out the many hopeless, undocumented, long term residents, some of whom were born here.

• Providing suitable jobs for masses of able bodied, unemployed Turks and Caicos Islanders.

• Providing positive social outlets and activities for our youth

The public on the other hand has to play a pivotal role in solving and preventing crime by being more forthcoming and cooperative with law enforcement and crime stoppers in reporting information.

We must not lose sight of the fact that tourism is the bedrock of our economy and one of the critical selling points of our tourist industry is safety.

This is quickly and ruthlessly being eroded and consequently our entire economy is being threatened which could plummet us into nationwide poverty, a situation that is a breeding ground for even more crime.

Oswald Skippings - Leader of the Progressive Democratic Alliance

It is already obvious that nobody is safe any longer in our Beautiful By Nature Turks and Caicos and the truth of the matter is that statistically, one is safer in the USA. I appeal to the incumbent government to rise to the occasion and save our country from being destroyed by crime.

Evanson Walkin sentenced to 8 years imprisonment

On Tuesday 11th October 2016 in the Providenciales Supreme Court, 20-year-old Evanson Walkin of Five Cays Providenciales, was sentenced to prison after he had plead guilty earlier to two counts of Carrying Imitation Firearm to cause fear in connection with a report that was made on Saturday 26th September 2015.

According to police spokesman Kevin Clarke, around 12 a.m. on that date, a nine (9) year-old

male child and his 25-year-old sister was walking home from a store in Five Cays Providenciales when Mr. Evanson Walkin began following them.

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

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Instead, he grabbed her by the arm, dragged her to the floor and place 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 shaken with fear.

Mr. Walkin followed him and began beating him about the body.

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 and fled the scene.

Walkin was immediately arrested and charged with the offences and was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. The sentence will run concurrently.

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Turks and Caicos on track to economic prosperity

Dunn Pierre Barnett and Associates, one of two consulting firms conducting the Turks and Caicos National Skills Audit, said in a press release on Friday that the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) economy is on a clear path toward economic prosperity that should be fully realised over the next two to four years, providing that current growth patterns remain in place.

According to Dr Brian Francis, the economic advisor to the project, who serves as the director of economic affairs and regional integration for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States(OECS) and is a former senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, “The data coming from the preliminary analysis and from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) reveal that, despite a huge reduction in the economic activity in the TCI in 2009, when real GDP fell by a whopping 19.6 percent, the country was able to rebound amazingly within six short years.”

“The economy,” he went on to say, “Rebounded in a most impressive manner, recording real growth of about 4.1% in 2015.”

The economic performance in the TCI has outstripped many Caribbean countries in recent years.

With the strong support provided by the government of the United Kingdom through the guarantee of the TCI bond, the country has seen improved public finances and, coupled with the critical economic reforms that were instituted, there has been further enhancement of the islands’ key drivers of economic growth of tourism, finance and construction.

Francis went on to say that, with such comparatively strong growth performance, it was not surprising that unemployment has been on the decline, falling to approximately 11 percent in

2015, down from over 25 percent in 2008.

“If the country does not veer from the current economic path, the TCI would be one of the few countries in the Western Hemisphere to have full employment for its citizens in under ten years,” he noted.

Not surprisingly, the strong economic performance has translated into improved government’s finances.

On the fiscal side, government has been able to generate a surplus for four years in a row. For example, during the financial year 2015/2016, that surplus reached about $22.172 million (2.6 percent of GDP).

In addition, the strength of the growing activity in the construction industry is also experiencing a steady rise, a trend that will continue well into the foreseeable future. The recent decision to allow hotels to build up to 12 floors will support the infrastructure of the hotel industry, creating additional rooms to further boost the economic sector.

The country has a youthful, growing population to absorb the expanding jobs that are likely to result from the positive outlook.

Preliminary results of the National Skills Audit currently underway give credence to the observations by C. Justine Pierre one of the lead consultants on the project, that the TCI has one of the fastest growing populations in the Caribbean.

His observations are echoed in a recent article published in July of this year by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC Port-of-Spain office, Trinidad), which stated that the population of the Turks and Caicos is expected to reach as high of 55,498 people by the year 2027 compared with 32,199 in 2012.

“From the preliminary estimates, the population has already increased by 4.9 percent to 33,026

TCI’s First Annual Lionfish Festival to be great fun!

The Turks & Caicos Although the Derby will kick off Islands will be hosting its first at sunrise, festivities will begin annual Lionfish Festival. The at 2pm on each day. So be sure to Festival, hosted by the Ministry of bring your family and friends along Tourism, Environment, Heritage to have fun and to support reef and Culture’s along with the conservation in the Turks & Caicos Department of Environment & Islands!

Coastal Resources (DECR) and The lionfish derbies will be the Department of Culture, in a single day competition to collect conjunction with the Turks & and remove as many lionfish as Caicos Reef Fund, on Providenciales possible. Teams will collect lionfish and Grand Turk respectively and by spearing while free diving or will include a REEF-sanctioned snorkelling. Teams will begin Lionfish Derby. competing at sunrise and will be

“This is not only an event required to bring their catch to the for fishermen, but for families too! scoring station by 3:00pm (South At each event we have a jam-packed Caicos residents can participate afternoon planned, where you can in the Grand Turk Derby and watch the Derby’s catch be weighed, the School for Field Studies will sample this delicious fish, have conduct scoring on South Caicos your face painted or watch a live and report it to the organizers on dissection; all to some local music!” Grand Turk). Each fish will then said DECR Outreach Coordinator, be measured, and cash prizes are Amy Avenant. awarded for teams catching the

Provo’s Lionfish Festival most, biggest, and smallest lionfish. is slated for October 29th at Turtle Register at http://www.

Cove Marina and Grand Turk’s tcreef.org/lionfishderby.html or the following week on November pick up a registration form at your 5th 2016, at the Public Library. nearest DECR office.

in just over four years,” Pierre noted, the TCI while the second phase will revealing that the TCI has one the be conducted among 880 workers all highest youth populations in the over the TCI. These surveys will help English-speaking Caribbean. the country to accurately determine

He went on to say that the the current employment status of both increase in population, the expanding local as well as foreign workers. The tourist and construction sectors, results of the survey will help to reform combined with the positive economic and better coordinate the private and outlook are compelling reasons why public sector needs with the matching the skills audit is so important for the skills coming from targeted training country at this stage of its economic institutions. development, as it will determine the With regard to skills component, nature and scope of existing skills in Dr Jorgen Billotoft, one of the other the country. lead consultants on the team from PEM

When questioned how the Consulting of Denmark, stated that National Skills Audit was going, Pierre preliminary recommendations point to went on to say that conducting the “an urgent need for a national training audit was challenging, with many agency in addition to expanding access unforeseen obstacles encountered to training in the TCI.” during the early phase of the project.

This was necessary, he said, to He noted, for example, that the scope of correct the huge skills gap. Adults who the project had to be extended because can work but are not formally trained of rapid population increase and and certified to international standards challenges finding reliable data. should be given an opportunity to be

“The major objective this trained through a national training project is to conduct a comprehensive agency. The availability of skills National Skills Audit Survey training institutions was significantly throughout the country,” Pierre noted. missing at present but closing the skills

He went on to say that the gap through education training would survey would be conducted in two support the thrust towards sustained phases; the first phase looks at economic growth and development of surveying as many as 364 firms in the TCI.

WATERLOO HOTEL MANAGEMENT LTD Alexandra Resort, Blue Haven Resort & Marina and the Beach House We are seeking to employ, suitably qualified and experienced hospitality professionals in the positions listed below.

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Reporting to the General Manager of the property. Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

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The chairman of The People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) has announced his party’s plans to focus on people-centered development that will take place throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands under a PDM government.

“From my experience as president of the Providenciales Chamber of Commerce, I recognized and reported then that the fundamental attributes of the Turks and Caicos Islands, which it had enjoyed for decades, and which make it an ideal place for growth, investment and economic prosperity are the “Four Nos”… No Income Tax, No Capital Gains Tax, No Property Tax, and No Exchange Controls. Additionally, permitting foreign ownership of land supports this economic environment as well as our labour and businesslicensing regime, which is one of the most liberal in the region.

However, what has really caused the Turks and Caicos to flourish is the friendly and tolerant attitude and nature of our people coupled with the skills and abilities of our people and residents alike to run a soon to be billion dollar a year economy. Yes we are small but we have massive promise.

These intrinsic qualities when put into the hands of the right government can bring us back on track to wealth and prosperity for years and decades to come.

“First and foremost, the safety and security of our people, residents and visitors will be at the top of the agenda in the upcoming general election campaign. We understand the fears, hunger, thirst and the deep longing that exists in the minds, hearts, bellies and souls of our people, which can only be calmed, satisfied, quenched, and fulfilled through political change. We know that our constituents are tired of politicians who make lofty promises during a campaign that remain unfulfilled. We also know that an outgoing government can sometimes try to preempt the ideas, plans and policies for change that are contemplated by their political opponents.

“However, despite these tactics we thought it necessary to release our 12-Point Crime Plan early in the campaign. In Parliament, we fought for people who have lost their homes, businesses and property through an unholy arrangement with the Interim Government and TOLCO. The PDM, in opposition, has been working, demanding real change in Crown land, in labour rights, in environmental protection, economic relief, the rights of stateless children, expanded access to educational opportunities, civil servant benefits, infrastructural development and maintenance, health care reform, development opportunities, and immigration control.

But none of

Kyle Smith is new president of Chamber of Commerce

Kyle Smith

The Provo Chamber of Commerce announced that it has officially elected its new executive.

Kyle Smith has been elected President, while Michael Hutchinson was elected as 1st Vice President and Trevor Musgrove was elected as 2nd Vice President. Mannish Uttamchandani is the new Treasurer and E. J. Saunders remains on as Past President. Other Directors include: Chloe Zimmerman, Ron Shaw, Jordon Bolton, Sean Basset, and Edith Cox. The Chamber Secretary is Colin Heartwell.

Kyle Smith noted that the Chamber of Commerce has been relatively quiet in recent months, but with the election of a new executive things are changing.

“Our Board has a goal to be the Voice of all Business in the Turks and Caicos Islands and our new executive is committed to making this happen," he said. "We have a very diverse, enthusiastic and committed Board and I am looking forward to working with the team to re-energize the Chamber and actively work to support the business community in the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

Smith added: "The Chamber is also working closely with the new Center for Entrepreneurial Development, the Young Corporate Alliance, and Invest TC on initiatives intended to encourage entrepreneurism, support sustainable development and foster domestic investment.

The Chamber wants to ensure there are strong support systems for business and the interests of the members are being met by Government.

Business needs one voice in these Islands to move Government forward and we are encouraging all businesses to join us.”

Smith indicated that the Chamber of Commerce is planning to hold their first event in early November where they want to give members the opportunity to outline to the executive what business priorities that any new Government should address to support and encourage the business community in these islands, especially micro, small and medium enterprises.

All businesses are encouraged to become members of the Chamber and help to make the Chamber the force for business in the Islands and to help to foster sustainable development in the islands. For more information, please contact the Chamber provochambertci@ gmail.com

these things have been perfected thus far from our efforts because the numbers in Parliament to enact laws remain with the government which is precisely why a campaign that details specific credible plans and policies is on the horizon to improve our numbers in parliament with buy-in and the support of the people.

“For the constituencies in Providenciales, to provide a safer and more secure environment is our prime objective. In addition to our 12-Point Crime Plan, we will implement corresponding initiatives that will bring about a vibrant and affluent Douglas Parnell business climate, while providing better income earning opportunities for islands up to the prominence they so workers, all while paying keen focus justly deserves. to improve our physical environment “In the upcoming months, our and infrastructure. Detailed plans leader, Hon. Sharlene Cartwrightfor each constituency will be unveiled Robinson will champion these and to address the specific needs of each other initiatives in a campaign that will community. bring political change in our country

“In North, Middle and South for the betterment of all persons.”

Caicos our primary objective will be The PDM has unveiled to develop a sustainable economy so its five at large candidates: Hon that our people can have opportunities Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, Hon. at home. Our islands will be united Hugh-Derek Taylor, Hon. Josephine through a link from Providenciales to Connelly, Karen Malcolm and Robert South Caicos by building bridges “Bobby” Been Jr. Its ten constituency across our beautiful waters. This will candidates are Hon. Edwin Astwood, ultimately light the path to future Hon. Goldray Ewing, Hon. Sean prosperity. For the nation’s capital, Astwood, Hon. Delroy Williams, Derek Grand Turk, and the historic island of Rolle, Keno Forbes, Ralph Higgs, Ezra Salt Cay, the vision for the future has Taylor, George Pratt and Douglas already been written that will lift these Parnell.

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Heritage Day celebration on Provo highlights

The pride and joy displayed by those who attended Turks and Caicos Islands third Heritage Day celebration on Monday October 10, 2016 was priceless.

Heritage Day celebration, formerly Columbus Day, was celebrated on several of the islands. The event on Providenciales attracted scores of Turks and Caicos Islanders, who took to the streets in motorcade fashion from Grace Bay down to Blue Hills Jetty, where they congregated to celebrate the event. Heritage Day was

supported by a number of local politicians as well as tourist. The day showcased TCI’s native sailboat races, domino tournament involving teams from every island, rip saw competition, local bands performances by V6 Band Boys, Lassy Doe Boys, Q. Band Links, Harbor Heights, Youth Vision, Island Boys and a variety of local dishes.

The Following are photo highlights of the Providenciales event

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Angry reaction to suspended sentence for robbers

There has been public outrage to the suspended sentence being given to two robbers.

People took to social media to express their disappointment and concern about the sentence.

On Tuesday 11th October 2016 in the Magistrate’s Court, 19-year-old Benjamin Cox and 18-year-old Devante Brisco were given a two-year suspended sentenced after they plead guilty to two charges in connection with two separate reports made on Tuesday 13th and 15th September 2016.

The first charged stemmed from a report made on Tuesday 13th September around 5:42 PM; a complainant made a report to police that he secured his apartment in Turtle Tail around 7:15 a.m on that day and when he returned at 5:40 p.m, he discovered his kitchen window shattered and home ransacked. Stolen were an Apple TV box, two watches, a pair of boots, blankets and sheets, a quantity of clothing and shoes, two cameras including one lens

and a Drone. The scene was process and items stolen from the home of the Kay Anna Smith, commented: investigation commenced. burglary that occurred on Tuesday 13th "You know what grind my gear it's

The second charged was in September by a complainant in Turtle that the police did they job right by connection with a report made two days Tail. catching the two boys who broke into later on Thursday 15th September when They were both jointly charged my apartment. Got all the evidence another complainant contacted station with attempted Burglary and Handling on them prints and all. The matter stating that two males were caught stolen goods. went to court and the judge let them attempting to enter an apartment They are both on a two-year out saying because of their age (18) located on the Leeward Highway. suspended sentence and probation with they're too young.. they needed a

Upon arrival at the scene, the specific conditions instructed by the welfare report. Why 18 year olds need two men were pointed to the police to be Magistrate. a welfare report??????REALLY!!!!!!!!

Mr. Cox and Brisco. The complainant Lynda Francis stated: "Feel they ain't too young to break the law explained to the police that while he very sad for the Police. They do their and invading my privacy. If someone was watering plants, he saw the duo job and the Court system lets everyone pleads guilty then they should be in making efforts to gain entry through down." jail instead of on the road free to do the a window on the eastern side of the Another person David Ce, said:" crime again to someone else or worst building. Officers observed where the The police is not the problem. The return to the scene of the crime. Two two had already gained access into the courts are." years suspended sentence is not enough apartment from that same window. The Curtis Odell Handfield, wrote: for me. The system here is messed up apartment owner was contacted and "Now this is the most bull ever. How can and they wonder why so much burglary informed of the incident. Nothing was u give suspended sentence to these guys going on. They barely knowing who reported stolen. . That's the reason why crime is so high doing the crime and when they do find

The two was arrested for here. They are caught with stolen goods the person/persons the judge letting attempted Burglary, and during the and attend to break in again . What them off free to do whatever. They won't investigation, it was ascertained about the victims of the house they stop until someone make an example that they were in possession of some break into . No justice in this country." out of them."

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Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Programme recipients receive benefits

Invest Turks and Caicos and the Ministry of Finance, Investment and Trade is pleased to announce that four small businesses will receive financial and technical support as part of the Government’s Mirco Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) programme.

April 2016 saw the commencement of the Government’s Mirco Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) programme which is managed

by Invest Turks and Caicos with support from the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) and Ministry of Finance. Governed by the MSME Development Ordinance 2015, the programme makes provision for the Government to provide Concession Orders to qualifying locally-owned businesses operating in any of the identified priority business sectors. The Concession Orders permit the company or start-up to specific benefits, namely: Cash Grant, Customs Duty Reduction and/or Technical Assistance depending on the size of the business.

Invest Turks and Caicos is pleased to announce that subsequent to Cabinet’s approval, the following small businesses will benefit from cash grants of up to $10,000, customs duty concessions and technical assistance:

The George Williams Museum, a new Heritage Museum on Providenciales is one of the first small businesses to benefit from cash grants of up to $10,000, customs duty concessions and technical assistance 1.Caicos Tea Company, a herbal tea manufacturing business in North Caicos; 2.The George Williams Museum, a new Heritage Museum on Providenciales; 3.Idyllic Creations, a hand-made seashell jewellery business on South Caicos; 4.Discovery VRBO, a vacation rental on Providenciales.

Vice President of Small Medium Enterprise Development, Alexa Cooper-Grant stated that Invest Turks and Caicos and partners were pleased to grant its first recipients with these various forms of assistance.

Mrs. Cooper-Grant said the MSME programme is progressing successfully after a slow beginning and the Agency is now seeing various types of businesses

and start-ups applying, which is an indication that local entrepreneurs are serious about owning their own businesses and in turn fostering economic development.

Mrs. Cooper-Grant noted however that there have been a number of challenges with regards to incomplete application forms and business plans which will lengthen the approval process. Mrs. Cooper-Grant explained that one of her main functions is to assist individuals with preparing the MSME application. The CED is also available to support applicants and refine their draft business plan before an application is lodged. She encourages interested individuals to make an appointment with herself or the CED to have one on one sessions for full guidance and support. “If you are interested in applying, do not procrastinate. We are here to support you through the entire process. Call our office at 338 4779, or the CED at 9417233 to make an appointment”, stated Mrs. Cooper-Grant.

Invest Turks and Caicos look forward to announcing its next group of recipients in the coming weeks and encourages interested persons to make an appointment as soon as they have a sustainable business idea.

HS LTD. HS Limited is seeking suitably qualified individuals to fill the following opening. Only candidates who meet the minimum requirements will be considered.

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Job Description

•Responsible for maintaining the general condition of the company’s properties with regards to all aspects of basic electrical, plumbing and mechanical.

•Complete daily tasks as outlined by Supervisor.

•Complete maintenance request work orders on a timely basis.

•Performs all weekly, monthly and other scheduled preventative maintenance programs.

•Actively pursue new tasks or jobs when assigned work is completed.

•Maintain CCTV Security System.

•Maintain and service pumps and control systems.

•Maintain irrigation filtration system.

•Schedule material purchase order request.

Requirements

Milano Diamond Gallery is interested in hiring persons to fill the position of Sales Person and Store Manager.

Candidates should have as a minimum qualification For Sales Manager: • At least ten years in the fine Jewelry Industry with at least 5yrs experience in a similar position • Diploma and or Certificates in Gemology related field • Excellent communication and administrative skill and a strong sense of responsibility • Willingness to work weekends or additional hours when required Based on experience salary will start at $2500 a month plus commission Candidates for Sales Person requirements: • Good Communication Skills • sales experience would be an asset • All candidates must be willing to work with an irregular cruise ship schedule.

Based on experience Salary starts at $6.25 an hour

Applications can be submitted to Milano Diamond Gallery, Grand Turk Cruise Center 946-2276.

•Should have eight years experience as a Maintenance Technician or experience working in a similar position.

•Must have strong skills in troubleshooting and repair of electrical, plumbing and general maintenance.

•Work with minimal supervision.

•On standby for 24 hours call out emergencies.

•Should have great oral and written communication skills.

•Must be proficient in Microsoft Office and Excel.

Please submit applications to: Veronica Rigby, HS Ltd, P.O. Box 124, Regent House, The Regent Village, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tel: (649) 946-5126; Fax (649) 946-5191; Email: ronnie@ habgroup.com.

Interested Belongers must also submit copies of their application to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2. Position currently held by a work permit holder. Closing date for application is October 31, 2016.

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Local Aulden Smith launches ‘Caycus Gear’ clothing brand

Ambitious and creative local designer Aulden Smith has recently launched his clothing line ‘Caycus Gear’ with the hopes of making a statement in the fashion arena.

Aulden Smith, better known as ‘Al’, was born and raised in Turks and Caicos is the founder and owner of the local family owned and operated name brand ‘Caycus Gear’.

Caycus Gear provides Mens/ Women’s T-shirts (various styles) and also Women’s Bodycon dresses. There will be Polo’s coming soon, also dad caps. There will be a lot more coming, such as bathing suits, slip on slippers, swim trunks, short pants, socks etc.

Smith said the inspiration behind the design Caycus Gear came from wanting to have something that represents home (Turks and Caicos) and wanting it to be represented by something of the Turks and Caicos.

It is also inspired by the Turks and Caicos National bird, the Pelican.

He said, “I chose the Pelican because I wanted the design to be kind of flashy but still classy at the same time. I wanted it to be stylish for the community’s eyes but discreet enough and still be noticeable. I thought about using the cactus but at the time the brand Baby Cactus had just released so that was out of the question, and of course I couldn’t use the conch because of the brand Konk that been here for a while now. Then I thought about using the lobster but it was quite difficult trying to make a lobster stylish and discreet. I did a

few sketches of flamingos but it still didn’t catch my eye of me picturing it on people and getting that WOW effect, then I started doing pelican sketches.

Iit came to this special one that I couldn’t finish because I had to digitize on my computer for it to be perfect, I got home digitized it and I was amazed by it myself because I felt like “this is it.”

Smith added, “I like how every individual has their own style and with Caycus Gear I try to match every ones unique style, so it isn’t just one simple thing (well it is right now because I’m just starting out) but as things grow there will be allot more different styles to chose from, many different clothing styles, attire and hopefully it’ll catch the eye of each individuals style.”

He said that after coming up with the idea, he shared it with his brother who suggested that it should be one solid brand and not just designs on a shirt.

Smith said he’s been getting al lot of great feedback from the community which is uplifting and he really appreciates everyone that shows love and support.

“Some people love the logo style, some really love the dresses that we have. I’ve got good compliments about the fabric and how soft it is, the way they fit and just al lot of really good support from everyone.”

“I do have plans on doing a lot more than just shirt designs and doing a lot more for the country on a whole.

I won’t disclose any of those ideas because they are still in the works

EXECUTIVE HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER: Amanyara Resort Turks & Caicos is seeking a suitable qualified individual to fill the position of an Executive Housekeeping Manager. The successful candidate must display unquestionable integrity, good organizational skills and attention to details.

The Executive Housekeeping Manager is responsible for managing the daily operations of the Housekeeping and Laundry departments.

Must be able to oversee the hotel and laundry valet operation, tailor/seamstress, employee’s uniform and adjustments etc. Ensure mechanical equipment is kept in good repair condition and report any problems promptly to Technical Services Manager.

This includes recruitment, training, and supervision of all employees, preparation and regular updating of procedures manuals, on-going training to ensure that standards are maintained and constantly improved upon, inventorying and ordering of all housekeeping operating supplies and equipment, ensuring laundry equipment is properly operated and maintained and assisting with Villa housekeeping operations as required. Must have a sound knowledge of all laundry equipment, use of Ecolab chemicals, detergents, fabric care and stain removal. Due to the layout of the property, must be in good health and able to do extensive walking and stand for long periods of time.

College Degree in Hotel Management, Multi-lingual and Cultural experienced minimum of (5) year’s previous experience in a similar position at a 5-star resort. Must be a hands-on leader with strong administration/computer skills. Salary for this position commensurate with qualifications and experience and rangers from $31- 36,000 per annum.

This position was currently held by a work permit holder. Interest candidates may submit your CV with qualification via email to mstubbs@aman.com Please also submit a copy to TCI Labour Department.

but it will be a big contribution to the whole Turks and Caicos,” Smith added.

Caycus Gear shirts will be available in Urban Empire, Airport road, Sammy Been Plaza as of next week. Anyone

who wants to purchase or for custom made orders can contact by email at auldensmith@hotmail.com or caycusgear@gmail.com.

Alexandra Resort is inviting applications for the following positions: Operations Executive to the General Manager Reports to: General Manager Summary: Organization and administration of all operating departments in order to provide a smooth and successful operation of the entire resort. Core Job Responsibilities & Duties Responsibilities Performs administrative and executive activities for the General Manager and in his/her absence to the Director of Operations; as well as coordinates the onboarding and training of new hires and existing staff. This position requires having sensitivity to confidential matters.

Duties: •Contact vendors, receive visitors for the General Manager and directs visitors to the appropriate dept. head.

•Schedule appointments for the General Manager, and all dept. heads.

•Maintains General Managers’ agenda and responses to email inquiries.

•Presents queries from owners to General Manager for review.

•Researches products needed for entire resort; reviews quotes; creates PO’s for signature and follows up with the purchasing process.

•In conjunction with the Accounting dept., responsible for receiving all goods and allocating to the appropriate departments.

•Assists with end of month inventories for Operating Departments, Creates spreadsheets and presentations, and filing.

•Responsible for submitting all necessary paperwork to the Accounting department for proper coding and classification.

•Schedule interviews for departments for potential hires and Coordinate planning of new employee property orientations.

•Compile materials and maintain employee database records.

•Create Training Manuals and update SOP’s for all departments, Presents and trains on new SOP’s as they are created.

•Liaise with the Corporate HR department for internal and external posting of open positions.

•Assist in evaluating candidates to ensure they meet company hiring standards.

•Ensure that the offer letters are prepared and the hiring process completed for all new hires.

•May also assist with other HR department projects and Operational requirements Personality •Strong sense of need for achievement of goals and success, Strong Interpersonal skills.

•Sound ability and knowledge to develop standards of operations and strategic processes.

•Ability to multi-task and work well with different supervisors •Good analytical and numeric skills.

•Ability to work under own initiative in a fast paced environment.

•Able to develop relationships with the hotel teams.

•Capacity to read situation, understand environments and respond accordingly •High level of motivation, determination and commitment.

Requirements: •Knowledge of Opera (preferred but not required) •Extensive computer skills, Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) •Strong communication skills are required and control of the English language, written and spoken •Ability to transcribe meeting minutes, Strong organizational skills •Strong Record keeping ability •Advanced knowledge of HR practices •Advanced knowledge of Hotel Operations (i.e Housekeeping, Maintenance, Front Office, F&B).

Salary for this position will commensurate with qualifications and experience. Entry point is at $32,000.00 per annum including the benefit of service charge.

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

Submissions to be no later than November 18th, 2016.

Belongers need only apply.

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TCI community to host Haiti relief fundraiser

By Todeline Defralien

The Turks and Caicos Islands is doing its part to help Haiti’s victims who were affected by Hurricane Matthew by hosting a Haiti relief fundraiser this weekend.

The relief group will host a fundraiser on Saturday October 15th, 2016 at Sarah's Kitchen on Airport Road.

The Turks and Caicos Island Hotel and Tourism Association, InterCaribbean Airways, Graceway Supermarkets alongside residents coordinating the Haiti relief fundraiser is calling on the public to support the upcoming fundraiser and other relief efforts in Turks and Caicos In the wake of the storms devastation in Haiti.

Kevin Clarke who is spearheading the group called for donations of clothing, emergency kits, non-perishable goods, canned food, shoes, baby items and hygienic products.

Haitian Consulate for the Turks and Caicos Dr. Wenceslass Lambert said hundreds died following heavy rain and flooding in the Southern region. One week later, Lambert said most residents are cut off, living without electricity, water, and essential medication.

"This is a humanitarian disaster. Haiti is still reeling from

the effects of Hurricane Jeane in 2004, still recovering from the 2010 earthquake and numerous tropical storms that have impacted the country, compounded by the increasing fears of Cholera."

The groups have galvanized efforts in hopes of reaching persons throughout the community.

Graceway Supermarkets IGA, Smart and Gourmet are asking residents to donate $1 or more to go towards disaster relief in Haiti. The store has pledged to match up to $10,000.

Tamell Seymour Store Manager at Smart said, "We understand the situation they are in because we have been there before with Hurricane Ike and Haitians in this community. They are our people.

We hurt when they hurt. We cry when they cry. We always want to step in when we can."

Trevor SadlerCEO InterCaribbean Airways added: “We’ve reached out to our partner in the UK by way of British Airways who agreed to donate freight space to bring things here so we can move onward there. British Airways cargo has stepped up and will help bring items out of the UK. We at InterCaribbean have undertaken to move logistically whether it’s into Cap Haitian or into Port-au-Prince we will get supplies that are gathered on island into Haiti

Trevor Lewis, Graceway Gourmet Store manager, Trevor Sadler- CEO InterCaribbean Airways, Ken Burns -Managing Director, Graceway Supermarkets, Stacy Cox-Executive Director, TCHTA, Tamell Seymour-Store Manager, Smart, Dr. Wencesclass Lambert-Consulate, Haitian Consulate in Turks and Caicos Islands, Kevin Clarke, Co-organizer, Rose Guirand, Co-organizer, Clara Lightbourne, CoOrganizer and Huddle Amy in support of the relief efforts.”

Meanwhile TCHTA's Stacy Cox said the group is encouraging persons to donate through IGA supermarkets. She said TCHTA is spreading the word through other travel agents.

The Haitian government has also set up a bank account for Hurricane Matthew relief efforts; persons can contact the Haitian Consulate in Turks and Caicos for account information.

•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

OPEN JOB POSITION DATE OPEN: October 11, 2016 START DATE: ASAP POSITION: Kitchen Steward

Job Overview: Transport and clean cooking utensils and service ware in order to provide cooks, bus persons and food and food servers with appropriate equipment for guests’ dining experience, also clean physical surroundings while caring enough to do it well by adhering to the hotel standards, A few of their duties would entail promptly and carefully sorting soiled ware so that it can be put through the dish or pot machine properly; quickly washing ware and replacing them in storage areas as designated and ensuring the dish machine is properly cleaned and filled with water per hotel standards. Shifts varies. 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: $6.50 - $7.00 per hour DATE OPEN: October 3, 2016 POSITION: Houseman

START DATE: ASAP

Job Overview: We are looking for a professional Houseman 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

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: $6.25 per hour DATE OPEN: October 3, 2016 START DATE: ASAP POSITION: Fine Dining Restaurant Manager Requirements: •Certification in Food & Beverage Management •A minimum of 4 years’ experience operating a luxury a la carte restaurant •Experience in quality and efficiency initiatives •Must be able to work with different types of people, meet challenges with a positive attitude and live the standards of our organization.

•Responsible for ordering and receiving food and beverage shipments.

•Maintain food and equipment inventories, and keep inventory records.

•Responsible for hiring and training restaurant staff •Evaluate employees and conduct shift line ups and restaurant cost controls •Micros Administrative Knowledge Required.

•Certified Departmental Trainer •Extensive knowledge of wines from around the world (Sommelier educational training would be an added advantage) •Expertise in fine wines and knowledge of Wine Spectator’s Award Process.

•Ability to conduct Wine Training / tasting and pairing with food.

Qualified Belongers need only apply.

Salary Range: $48,000 -$54,000 per annum Interested persons can contact our Human Resources Department no later than November 30, 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

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‘Thumbs up Doc’

By Finbar A. A. Grant

I listened with amazement to the comments of the Premier, The

Honourable Rufus Ewing in regards to the office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) during his address at the conference of UKOT AGs. What he said should have been said a year ago!

The position of now trying to enact legislation to facilitate his removal should have been done a year ago. You are way late Sir, but at least you are finally there.

Perhaps the season we are in has motivated you to finally act.

Our progress demands the Bill being put forward or more appositely and proposal to amend the constitution.

We know any legislation to remove the CFO will not receive support from the Governor the Crown Representative, but perhaps they can be embarrassed into doing the right thing. This is one Bill the Opposition should support and even volunteer to join in its drafting, even if they consider that it may be unsuccessful . As an Opposition you just can't oppose something because it is not brought by yourself—this is one Bill that is necessary for our progress.

Let me explain my support.

ABRAHAM & GALLIS GRAND TURK LTD. and its affiliated chain of signature brand stores trading as Ron Jon Surf Shop, Pirana Joe, Del Sol, Silver Sun and Splash Down, at the Grand Turk Cruise Center, South Beach Grand Turk, is accepting applications along with CVs/Resumes from interested and suitably qualified persons for the following positions: SALES SUPERVISORS and SALES PERSONS Requirements: •A sound educational background •A minimum of five years (Supervisors) and two years (Sales Clerks) general merchandising experience in a highly trusted or related field of employment or business •Proven and unblemished track record of employment •Positive and disciplined attitude and aptitude toward work in a customer service oriented business •Excellent communication, inter-personal and customer service skills •Trustworthy and reliable disposition •Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and public holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of cruise ship schedule and/ or reasonable needs of the business.

•Clean criminal record •All candidates must be proficient in the English written and spoken word.

Command of a second language will be a definite asset STOREKEEPER/LABOURER Requirements: •Handyman to assist with cleaning and maintenance •Ability to give general assistance to Sales Clerks on receiving and storage of merchandise •Proven and unblemished track record of employment •Positive and disciplined attitude and aptitude toward work in a customer service oriented business •Excellent communication, inter-personal and customer service skills •Trustworthy and reliable disposition •Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and public holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of cruise ship schedule and/ or reasonable needs of the business.

•Clean criminal record •All candidates must be proficient in the English written and spoken word.

Command of a second language will be a definite asset Suitable candidates that do not meet the above requirements may, at the sole discretion of the Company’s management team, be eligible for consideration in circumstances where 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.

Written applications only and accompanying CVs/Resumes must be addressed to the Regional Manager at the following address: Via mail or delivery: Abraham & Gallis Grand Turk Ltd.

Ron Jon Surf Shop

Grand Turk Cruise Center Grand Turk

Turks & Caicos Is. Via email to:

johanna@loscincoles.com

It is a matter of control, a matter of autonomy; that of being the decision makers in our country, thus controlling its direction and dictating as far as possible, its progress.

For those who may not understand, the CFO handles the money. Before your elected Government can do anything of a monetary nature, they have to get approval from the CFO. More money for Civil Servants salary increase can't happen unless he says yes; Capital projects the Government wants to engage in can't happen unless the CFO say yes; a Minister may want to buy light bulbs for his community centre or patch some potholes in the road in his district, it can't happen unless the CFO says yes!

By the CFO, the British control the purse strings and as they have so clearly proven over and over again their interest may be opposed to our development. What we know is in the best interest of our people, may very well not be what is in their interest, and we know whose interest they will push. The CFO can effectively daft the growth of our country. He

directs Government monies, not your Elected Representative. It is a matter of control. Who is running and directing your country.

I read the comment that what the Premier said was tacky. It has always been my position that you can't make omelettes without breaking the eggs. Why should we thread lightly not hoping to upset our Colonial Masters when with sheer draconian brutality they choose to deal with us. We are far too passive, making them far too comfortable.

Yes, I will be a candidate in the next general election and yes it seems that I am supporting someone who will be contesting my position for votes, but this is bigger than me. Our country’s progress and its development is greater than any individual personal political ambitions, and if you don't see that as a person seeking political position, I suggest you get out the race and evaluate your motives. For the CFO to be removed, is in my opinion, and any right thinking Islander, the best move for these Islands.

In that regard, ‘Thumbs up Doc’.

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MINISTRY OF BORDER CONTROL & EMPLOYMENT GRAND TURK, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS, BRITISH WEST INDIES TELEPHONE: (649) 338-2976 / FAX 946-2885

Turks and Caicos First National Skills Audit Survey.

The Turks and Caicos Islands Government and the Ministry of Border Control and Employment Services Is currently carrying out a National Skills Audit Survey. The aim of the survey is to inform national strategic plans and provide policymakers with the necessary information and data to increase employability and to assess the working and living conditions of residents in the islands. We are eager to have the assistance and commitment of the entire population throughout this critical and most important exercise.

Over the next three to four weeks, enumerators will be visiting your workplaces and homes to speak to key individuals in order to gather this information.

We are asking you, the public, for your full cooperation and support by providing accurate information to our friendly enumerators All enumerators will be issued proper identification from Government.

For further information about the survey please email inquiries to:tcinationalskillsaudit@gmail.com

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Before the storm.

During the storm.

After the storm.

We are here.

www.fortistci.com | 649-946-4313 | 1030 Leeward HWY, Providenciales, TCI

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HEALTHY

LIFESTYLE

Tax sugary drinks to fight obesity, WHO urges governments

Governments should tax sugary drinks to fight the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, recommendations industry swiftly branded "discriminatory" and "unproven".

A 20 percent price increase could reduce consumption of sweet drinks by the same proportion, the WHO said in "Fiscal Policies for Diet and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases", a report issued on World A competitor prepares to go in front of judges at a casting call for the second season of the reality television programme ''Dance Your Ass Off'', during which overweight or obese contestants hope Obesity Day.

Drinking fewer calorific to lose weight by dancing in New York. sweet drinks is the best way to curb than 500 million people, the report GLOBAL TREND excessive weight and prevent chronic said. diseases such as diabetes, although "Smart policies can help to turn The U.S.-based soft drinks fat and salt in processed foods are the tides on this deadly epidemic, industry's lobbying arm - whose also at fault, WHO officials said. especially those aimed at reducing members include Coca-Cola Co,

"We are now in a place where consumption of sugary drinks, Pepsico Inc and Red Bull - strongly we can say there is enough evidence which is fuelling obesity rates," disagreed with what it called to move on this and we encourage former New York mayor Michael "discriminatory taxation". countries to implement effective tax on Bloomberg, a WHO ambassador for "It is an unproven idea that sugar-sweetened beverages to prevent noncommunicable diseases, said in a has not been shown to improve public obesity," Temo Waqanivalu, of WHO's statement. health based on global experiences department of Noncommunicable The global soft drink market to date," the Washington-based Diseases and Health Promotion , told is worth nearly $870 billion in annual International Council of Beverages a briefing. sales . 2016 could be the year of the Associations said in a statement. A

Obesity more than doubled sugar tax, as several large nations comprehensive approach based on the worldwide between 1980 and 2014, consider levies on sweetened food and whole diet was needed for a lasting with 11 percent of men and 15 percent drinks to battle obesity and fatten solution to obesity, it said. of women classified as obese - more government coffers.

The non-alcoholic beverage

Physical strain, emotional upset can trigger heart

attack

Intense physical exertion or extreme emotional upset can each trigger a heart attack, and the risk may be highest if the two are combined, according to a new study.

“Our study is the largest study exploring this issue, and unlike previous studies we included people from many different countries and ethnicities,” said lead author Andrew Smyth of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The association between the

triggers and the onset of heart attack was similar across all locations, he added.

The researchers used data from more than 12,000 cases of first heart attack in 52 countries, recorded in the INTERHEART study. After the heart attack, study staff asked patients if they had been engaged in heavy physical exertion or were angry or emotionally upset in the hour leading up to the heart attack and in the same hour on the previous day.

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industry was making available more options with fewer calories and reformulating existing drinks to reduce calories significantly, the group said.

An estimated 42 million children under the age of five were overweight or obese in 2015, said Francesco Branca, director of WHO's nutrition and health department, an increase of about 11 million over 15 years.

The United States has the most obesity per capita, but China has similar absolute numbers, Branca said, voicing fears that the epidemic could spread to sub-Saharan Africa.

The WHO said there was increasing evidence that taxes and subsidies influence purchasing behavior and could be used to curb consumption of sweet drinks.

"This is tax on sugary drinks which is really by definition all types of beverages containing free sugars and this includes soft drinks, fruit drinks, sachet mixes, cordials, energy and sports drinks, flavored milks, breakfast drinks, even 100 percent fruit juices," Waqanivalu said.

In Mexico, a tax rise in 2014 led to a 10 percent price hike and a 6 percent drop in purchases by yearend, the report said.

percent said they were angry blood pressure, he said. or emotionally upset in the

“It’s useful to know hour leading up to the heart that either getting angry to attack. ing angry or physically an extreme or exercising to strained roughly doubled an extreme could potentially the heart attack risk. If the be harmful especially for two factors were combined, middle aged people with heart attack was about three cardiac risk factors,” said times as likely, as reported in psychologist Barry Jacobs, Circulation. The researchers director of behavioral sciences didn’t explicitly define “upset” at the Crozer-Keystone Family or “exertion” for patients, who Medicine Residency Program decided this for themselves, in Springfield, Pennsylvania, Smyth told Reuters Health and spokesperson for the by email.In terms of heart American Heart Association, attack triggers, there was no who was not part of the new difference between those with study. and without diabetes or high

Some blood pressure drugs tied to risk of mood disorder hospital stays

Common blood pressure medications may increase the risk for severe mood disorder episodes, a new study suggests.

People taking drugs known as betablockers and calcium antagonists for more than 90 days were twice as likely to be hospitalized for a mood disorder such as major depression or bipolar disease, compared to people treating their high blood pressure with so-called angiotensin antagonists, researchers report.

Commonly prescribed beta-blockers include propranolol, metoprolol, and atenolol, for example.

Calcium channels blockers include amlodipine, nifedipine, verapamil, and diltiazem, while losartan, valsartan, telmisartan, and candesartan are all angiotensin blockers.

Still, people on these medications shouldn't change their prescription or do anything differently, said senior author Dr. Sandosh Padmanabhan, of the Institute of

Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow in the U.K.

"People need to take their drugs because these drugs are effective at preventing heart attack and stroke," he told Reuters Health.

He and his colleagues write in the journal Hypertension that depression and heart disease are both common health problems, and the links between them may go in both directions.

For example, bipolar disorder is tied to about a two-fold increased risk of high blood pressure and death related to heart problems, they write.

Additionally, major depressive disorder is tied to an increased risk of high blood pressure.

There is also evidence to suggest that beta-blockers are tied to mood problems, like depression, said Padmanabhan. Some recent genetic evidence suggest calcium antagonists may also be tied to mood disorders.

To examine the link between blood Angiotensin antagonists, in contrast, pressure drugs and mood disorders, seem to protect against severe mood the researchers analyzed hospital disorder, Padmanabhan noted. People data on 144,066 patients ages 40 to using these drugs were less likely to 80 who had been taking medicines for be admitted to the hospital for mood at least 90 days to control their high disorder problems than people not blood pressure - either angiotensin taking medications at all. antagonists, beta-blockers, calcium . Maan Fares, a cardiologist at the antagonists or thiazide diuretics (water Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, agreed pills). Anyone who had previously that patients shouldn't change their been admitted to a hospital for a mood medication based on this study. disorder was excluded from the study.

"It’s based on a retrospective analysis The blood pressure patients were and the evidence isn’t sufficient to compared to 111,936 people not taking make any changes in our treatment blood pressure medications. patterns today," said Fares, who wasn't Over roughly five years, 299 of the involved in the new study.

T h e patients were admitted to a hospital study does, however, confirm the need for mood disorders. for better designed trials, he said.

Those using beta-blockers and Padmanabhan also cautioned calcium antagonists were about twice that the study's findings are limited. as likely to be hospitalized for a mood He and his colleagues are currently disorder as people taking angiotensin looking at previous clinical trials antagonists after accounting for a of blood pressure drugs to see if number of factors that might influence those researchers captured data on the results, like age, sex and overall depression, which would make it easier health. to confirm the findings.

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A REWARDING CAREER WITH COMO HOTELS & RESORTS STARTS TODAY!!

At COMO, we create experiences worth re-living, experiences that inspire guests to travel and live differently.

COMO Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands Job Title:

Job Title:

Pool and Beach Manager

Main Objective

The role of the Pool and Beach Manager is to direct and organize the activities of the Pool and Beach staff within the Food & Beverage department to maintain the high standards of food and beverage quality, service and marketing to maximize profits through outstanding customer service. Plans and directs the functions of administration and planning of the Pool and Beach department to meet the daily needs of the operation.

Implements effective controls of food, beverage and labor costs. Ensures compliance with health, safety, sanitation and alcohol awareness standards. Helps ensure high standards of food and beverage quality, service and marketing to maximize profits and ensure outstanding customer service.

Duties and Responsibilities                 

The role of the Private Estate Manager is to manage the entire Private Estate Department. The Private Estates Manager is required to ensure proper maintenance of the Private Homes and manage all project works.

Homeowner satisfaction and maximum profitability will be your major objective.

Duties and Responsibilities  

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Responsible to assist with planning and coordination of holiday programs i.e. Christmas, New Year & Easter.

Lead the brainstorming process to develop event themes (as & when required).

Interface with operations staff to coordinate logistic and performance needs for events.

Qualification/Experience/Requirements         

Managing All Private Homes.

Managing Private Estate own team of housekeeping, landscaping, pool maintenance and maintenance.

Operations / Communication

Ensure that quality experience, policies, mission, vision and objectives are followed through.

Motivate all recreation colleagues to ensure guest satisfaction in order to increase sales by promoting repeat business.

To monitor expenditures and give maximum care to the maintenance of physical assets of the Recreation Department and to keep the department assets in the best possible functional state.

Ensure effective manning at all times to maximize productivity and business demands.

Perform all aspects of personnel and training functions, including hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, coaching, disciplinary action, monitor performance, etc.

Ensure and maintain a very high standard of personal hygiene, behavior and grooming standards of all colleagues.

Handle and respond to guest complaints and comments relating to the department tactfully.

Maintain an active presence on the beach & poolside during peak hours.

Ensure effective communication via daily briefings, weekly updates and monthly brainstorming sessions within the department.

Well-versed with COMO Hotels & Resorts goals and information.

To be responsible for the daily operation of the entire recreation department, which includes water sports, powerboats maintenance and cleanliness of all water sports excursion boats.

To manage a team of recreation staff, plan and work closely with the Guest Services department in coordination with daily activities such as windsurfing, catamaran sailing.

Responsible for gymnasium and maintenance of all equipments Must be a strong swimmer and physically fit.

Plan and/or lead tours through our remote swamp and exotic mangroves.

Proven ability aimed at continuing to help conserving the environment.

Organizing environmental and wildlife conservation and awareness events i.e. tree planting, wildlife

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Event Planning & Special Service 

Private Estates Manager

Qualified swimmer & certified in First Aid & CPR. Qualified trainer/operator for non-motorize water sport i.e. hobie cat, surfing, kayaking, paddle boarding Working knowledge computers and Microsoft office suite with proficiency in excel and word.

Well organized with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Outgoing personality with excellent interpersonal skills, comfortable speaking and enjoy working with people.

Creative and imaginative and able to translate ideas into action and programs.

Able to multi-task several projects at once and establish priorities amongst competing interests.

Proactive problem solver.

Perform any other reasonable duties as required by the Hotel Manager.

Salary commensurate with experience in the range: USD24K to USD36K

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Ensuring daily operation at the Private Estates is running smoothly.

Involvement in the sales rental & marketing of Villas in the rental pool.

Working closely with The Resort and Homeowners or their representatives and property managers in order to combine work on the houses with maximum rental sales.

Liaising closely with Estate Executive Housekeeper/Project Manager to ensure all work is completed as efficiently as possible.

Undertaking daily inspections of all Private Estate in the Parrot Cay rental pool and completing daily, weekly and monthly checklists for each property.

Undertaking twice a week inspections of all Private Estate property on Parrot Cay – 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, pest control, pool & exterior services, interior and exterior furniture maintenance and cleanliness.

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.

Ensuring all the needs for Homeowners are taken care of prior and during their visit, this will include and not limited to spa appointment, excursion reservation, groceries, pet import license, organizing special events on their behalf, etc.

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

Assisting in producing a budget for your department with the Financial Controller and General Manager.

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.

Perform any other reasonable duties as required by the General Manager.

Qualifications / Experience/Requirements        

College degree in Hotel / Business Management or equivalent training/ work experience.

Bilingual in Italian, French and Spanish is a plus.

Minimum of three years Management experience working in a luxury, 5 star properties.

Must be proficient in hospitality revenue management, guest services and team development.

Experience in sales and marketing.

Must have strong knowledge of Residential management and/or Front Office management related experience.

Must be willing to live and work on Remote Island.

Must be able to work up to 72hrs a week if needed by Management

Salary range: USD49K to USD68K This position is currently held by work permit holder OTHER POSITIONS: Private Estate Attendant Yoga/Pilates Instructor Housekeeping Supervisor Commis Chef Food & beverage Server Pastry Chef Pool and Beach manager A/C Technician Recreation Attendant Spa Attendant Private Estates Attendant Bartender Guest Service Agent Bellman Kitchen Steward K-9 Dog Security/Handle Boat Mechanic Turndown Attendant VIP Coordinator – Middle East and Latin America

Boat Mechanic Spa Receptionist Hostess Chef de Cuisine Spa Therapist Commis de Cuisine Duty Manager Housekeeper Ayurvedic Doctor

Salary for these positions will be paid base on qualification and experience.

Please note that all application must be submitted with a valid Police Record, two reference letters from previous employers or a notary public and current educational certificates. Must be willing to relocate.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Forward your resume to the Human Resources Department at the following address: Parrot Cay Resort and COMO Shambhala P.O. Box 164 Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Ph: (649) 946 7788, Fax: (649) 946 7749 Email: careers.parrotcay@comohotels.com

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Cayman Islands legalizes medicinal cannabis oil, supply becomes the issue

A legislative vote last Monday has cleared the way for cannabis oil to be prescribed in the Cayman Islands for cancer patients and other medical issues if the government can find a legal supplier.

According to the Cayman Compass, lawmakers approved a key second reading of a bill that will amend the Misuse of Drugs Law to allow the substance, derived from the marijuana plant, to be prescribed by local doctors and carried by Cayman pharmacies.

However, Premier Alden McLaughlin said the legislation may require some committeestage amendments before final passage to address concerns raised by some lawmakers – including the premier himself – about supply and importation.

No one in the Cayman Islands currently manufactures the oil, and importing the drug from the U.S. could prove difficult, if not impossible, due to federal prohibitions on the international transport of such substances.

“I support what the government is endeavoring to do, I’m just not sure it is going to be possible,” North Side MLA

Ezzard Miller said.

Caymanian Dennie Warren Jr. first brought the issue to the Progressives-led government political caucus last year after finding out chemotherapy and radiation treatments for his wife, who has stage 4 lung cancer, would not be effective in treating the disease.

Mr. Warren said Monday night, after passage of the bill, that he was not certain where cannabis oil might legally be imported from currently. However, he said several countries, including Jamaica and Canada, have given indications that they were considering legalization for medical purposes.

“It’s better to have [the local] law in place, so we’re ready for it when it happens,” Mr. Warren said.

All present lawmakers supported the passage of the amendment bill to allow for the legalization in Cayman, despite the difficulties with supply that could arise.

“I would like to thank all of the members for their support of the bill,” Mr. Warren said. “It is my view that the members of the House do not yet fully

3 children, 2 adults murdered by gunmen in Jamaica

Jamaica – THREE children and two of their mothers were killed in March Pen, St Catherine, early yesterday morning, after gunmen swooped down on their houses, sprayed the homes with bullets, and set comprehend the significance the structures ablaze.

Family members identified the victims as and the importance of today’s Salesha Evans, 24, and her nine-year-old son Revaughn decision to move this legislation Evans; Venisha Bartley, 22, and her two-year-old forward.

“Science, I believe, will daughter Koyandra Wynter; and 14-year-old Marvin one day give cannabis the credit Campbell Jr. The police have named a relative of one of the it deserves in a number of areas. victims as a person of interest in the incident.

It feels good to know that the

Police say that he is also wanted for incest and Legislative Assembly of the in connection with a recent triple murder in the area.

Cayman Islands had the courage He is being asked to make himself available to to be in the forefront of this very detectives at the Spanish Town CIB by midday today. important development.”

The five were reportedly killed after a group of

Some concerns have heavily armed men, estimated about 15, including some been expressed about whether dressed in police uniforms and masks, went to a section passage of the legislation may of the community called Africa Settlement about 1:40 be the first step toward the am, kicked in the doors of four houses and opened fire, legalization of ganja in Cayman, hitting seven occupants, before setting the houses on but both major political fire. parties indicated that was not something their members would Two of the houses were completely destroyed.

A 25-year-old man and 14-year-old girl who support. were injured in the attack are currently undergoing

“I think for now, we’re treatment at Spanish Town Hospital. going as far as perhaps we can Police said a team of officers on patrol responded go,” Opposition Leader McKeeva to heavy gunfire in the area, and on arrival a number of Bush said.

Premier McLaughlin heavily armed men were seen at the location. The men noted earlier this year in the engaged the police in a shoot-out but managed to escape Legislative Assembly that the in the area.

A curfew imposed in the area last evening will government would support a run until tomorrow. proposal to legalize cannabis oil, Yesterday when the Jamaica Observer visited stating that he would rather the government erred “on the side of the community, most of the residents appeared to be in shock as men and women stood or sat on the ground hope” in this particular issue. looking bewildered. Some men were even observed lying

“[Mr. Warren] felt this on the ground with their eyes closed as if hiding their option would give his wife some pain. hope,” Mr. McLaughlin said.

Barbados minister wants Caribbean to adopt new attitude to trade

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados has told Caribbean countries that the region needs to focus on making a difference in driving forward the process for better facilitation of business within the Caribbean.

Addressing the regional consultation on the “CARICOM Strategy for Regional Implementation of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade Facilitation,” Industry Minister Donville Inniss said that far too often he has heard the cries of legitimate business persons who were frustrated with the tardiness of agencies responsible for the smooth movement of goods.

“This region really needs to adopt an attitude that no one owes us a favour and that we have to get up and earn our way in life in a sustainable manner. Hence, inordinate delays at the airports and sea ports not only frustrate buyers and sellers, but certainly add to the cost of living in this region,” he told delegates to the conference that ends on Tuesday.

Inniss said that when goods are not released from the Bridgetown Port in an adequate time, someone had to pay the price for such delays.

“When importers have to pay high fees to have containers inspected outside of “normal” business hours, someone has to pay that additional cost.

“I look forward to the day in

Donville Inniss this region when normal work hours means that critical businesses operate on a 24/7 basis with reduced overtimes at exorbitant rates and a true shift system. I am afraid that most of our ports in this region are controlled by an antiquated labour group and a style that continues to inject fear sometimes without being reasonable,” he said.

Inniss said that “we frustrate, not facilitate, trade” when exporters have to pay workers to stand up with folded arms and watch others load

vessels.

“When officers take their cool time to inspect items as a means of protesting new work arrangements, I say we frustrate, not facilitate, trade.

When importers follow all known rules and regulations and yet weeks or months later cannot get an explanation as to why goods are being held up, we frustrate, not facilitate, trade.

“When we spend valuable time arguing for greater protectionist measures such as more licences, higher rates of duties and quotas, as opposed to focusing on greater efficiencies, higher standards and areas of comparative advantage, we really are not doing our economies any favours – we are really just legitimising our inefficiencies and incompetence,” Inniss said.

He said that Barbados could sign on to all of the WTO agreements, get World Bank funding and technical support and create new laws and entities. However, he pointed out that if the country did not adopt a more positive and welcoming attitude in respect of the trade of goods and services in this region, then it would have wasted valuable resources.

The Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat said that the meeting, being funded by the World Bank Group (WBG) is intended for CARICOM state officials with responsibility for WTO Trade Facilitation.

“The consultation will

facilitate the presentation and discussion of a draft regional strategy and proposed regional approaches to implementing the TFA, which were prepared with the assistance of the WBG. “Subsequent to the completion of its review at the Consultation, the draft strategy and regional approaches will be submitted to the CARICOM Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) for approval,” according to a statement by the CARICOM Secretariat.

It said it is anticipated that the draft strategy, amongst other things, will identify regional priorities and cross cutting technical assistance and capacity building needs which merit the adoption of a harmonized regional approach to implementing the TFA.

“As was agreed by the COTED, the adoption of a coordinated regional approach to implementing the TFA to the extent possible is considered important to minimizing costs that will likely be incurred by the CARICOM member states during implementation of their substantive obligations under the TFA.’ CARICOM said that notwithstanding the costs of implementation, the WTO TFA is regarded as highly beneficial and important to the sustainable development of CARICOM member states.

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Tufton wants to barter with countries recruiting Jamaica’s nurses

MONTEGO BAY, St James — practical approach.”

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton He explained that there is wants a partnership to be brokered need for expansion of training for between some of the developed especially specialist nurses, of whom countries luring the nation’s health the country has a “chronic shortage”. care professionals to greener pastures, “We have a chronic to assist in the provision of practical shortage because we lose a lot to training for some of Jamaica’s trainee the international marketplace,” he nurses. explained.

“My position is some of these “We have a problem because countries that are demanding our skill we lose as many as we train each year sets, maybe we need them to help us and the traditional approach is talk with some of the training. So if we can about it, try to discourage it, complain work out a way to do the theoretical about it, and when we can’t help the training here, and send some of our situation we go and do some recruiting specialist trainees to be trained in elsewhere.“ those jurisdictions, [we would] ensure He was speaking on Friday at there is certification at the end of the the Nurses’ Association of Jamaica’s day,” he said.

70th Annual General Meeting and

He added: “Frankly speaking, 46th Island Conference at the Iberostar it is something we are going to have Rose Hall Resort in St James where to consider. Because we just don’t have he voiced the cause for an immediate the critical care beds to provide the reform of the health care system to practical training. So suppose I can respond to the ageing population, send 50 practical nurses to England to among other challenges. train for example for a year? I might “The point I am making, ladies lose some of them, but I will get back and gentlemen, is that we need health some too. And I am saying it is a care reform in Jamaica and we need it

Dr. Tufton addressing PAHO conference now,” Dr Tufton said.

“We need to assess what we do and how we do it and we need to think out of the box as we seek to find solutions. The fact that it worked well for the last 10 years doesn’t necessarily mean it is the right way to do it for the next 10 years. I am committed to critically evaluate all that is in place now, reconcile the effectiveness of the delivery of the service using what is in place now and where there is a need for change, we are going to have to make the change.”

The health minister bemoaned that despite the growth of the population, not a single public hospital has been constructed for the past quarter century.

“We haven’t built a hospital in Jamaica, probably for the last 25 years.

We have done a little expansion here and there, added a few clinics here and there, but when it comes to substantial overhaul of infrastructure, the truth is that we are a quarter century behind in terms of that infrastructure with all that is happening.”

Trinidad on brink of economic danger PM: These are not hopeless times

Even as he declared that T&T is on the brink of the danger zone economically, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday sought to assure the nation that “these are not hopeless times.”

He then proceeded to list out a series of construction projects, mainly in west Trinidad, due to come on stream shortly which are aimed at kick starting the economy. They include construction of a state-of-theart police station in Carenage, part of a revamping of the Marine Interdiction Branch to combat the narco trade. as well as a first class hospital in Sangre Grande.

Rowley said the proposed initiatives would help pull T&T out of its grim economic state, resulting in much needed job opportunities. He said it was the construction industry which had been proven worldwide to stimulate economic growth

In his address at the PNM’s 45th constituency conference at St Anthony’s College in west Trinidad yesterday, Rowley recalled when police officers walked out of the Carenage Police Station some years ago. He said since that time, the officers had been occupying rented premises at School Street.

“I can tell you that Cabinet is about to receive a document where a site has been settled upon by the police and the Ministry of Planning and Development and very soon work

will begin on a new police station in Centre, which Rowley said had been Carenage,” he said. “abandoned in a similar fashion.”

“It will not be an ordinary Construction is taking place police station because representation on the Four Roads Community Centre, has been made to the ministry which is expected to be completed responsible, through the police, that soon. The Diego Martin Health Centre, the time has come given what we which serves the entire Diego Martin are fighting with respect to this valley, is also carded for completion by intractable crime problem for the next year.

Government to expand policing to our Prime Minister Rowley also inner shores and we intend to bring announced plans for a spanking new back the Marine Police Unit.”

Carenage Fishing Complex. He said

Rowley said because the unit the facility had also been neglected by will be based at the new Carenage the former Kamla Persad-Bissessar Police Station there will also be the government. construction of a water front access.

“A contractor has been put

“That police station would on site to keep the site clean and to probably be the only one with a remove a number of vagrants who marine base on its compound,” he said. occupy the site as their home,” he said

On the issue healthcare, he “Those persons have been removed criticised the previous administration and the contractor is finalising his for building a Children’s Hospital terms with Udecottand very soon you in Couva when there was already a will see construction restarting.” hospital some 20 minutes away at Head offices for the the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Diego Martin and Penal Regional Complex, in Mt Hope.

Corporation are also to be built and

“In the budget are completed by next year as the green continuation of the abandoned light has been given by Cabinet to programmes of Diego Martin and its approve tenders. environs,” he said, adding that work Roqwley said while the had resumed on the Diego Martin previous government had taken steps Sports Complex which had been to award a contract to build the Penal abandoned for five years.

Regional Corporation, the process had

“The contractor is now back to be scrapped as it carried a $130 on site and very soon you would see million price tag which je deemed the structure rising into the air,” the ridiculous.

PM said. Work is also expected to “We are going back now to resume on the Bagatelle Community tender for both headquarters. I am

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley absolutely sure that those buildings can be built for less that the $130 million,” he said.

Incomplete housing projects

Dr Rowley said T&T’s debt increased by $40 billion over the last six years, while revenues pointed downward. The external public debt now stands at $23 billion which must be paid back in US currency, he added

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Haiti needs ‘massive response’ after hurricane

A “massive response” is needed to help Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew and the United Nations is mobilizing on all fronts to help get the recovery under way, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

“Some towns and villages have been almost wiped off the map,” Ban told reporters. “Tensions are already mounting as people await help. A massive response is required. U.N. teams are working with local officials to assess needs.”

The United Nations appealed for $119 million on Monday to bring life-saving assistance to 750,000 people in southwestern Haiti, which is reeling from a direct hit by Hurricane Matthew.

The money will go to provide food, drinking water and shelter to the most vulnerable among 1.4 million people in need, after large areas of crops were destroyed and infrastructure was damaged, the U.N. said in the threemonth appeal to donors.

“Tensions are already mounting as people await help. A massive response is required. U.N. teams are working with local officials to assess needs,” Ban said.

The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti last Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (233 kph) winds and torrential rains. A

Reuters tally of numbers from local officials showed about 1,000 people were killed.

Cholera has also killed at least a dozen people following the storm.

Cholera causes severe diarrhea and can kill within hours if untreated. It is spread through contaminated water and has a short incubation period, which leads to rapid outbreaks.

Cholera was accidentally introduced to Haiti by U.N. peacekeepers, who dumped sewage into a river after the 2010 earthquake. The outbreak has since infected hundreds of thousands of people and killed more than 9,000.

A woman tries to get food at a shelter in the school Liliane Mars Dumarsais Estime in Les Cayes, Haiti

The U.N. has not legally accepted responsibility for the outbreak, but Ban has said he regrets it and that the world body has a “moral responsibility” to help. He is due to present a new response to cholera in Haiti this month.

“I am developing a new approach to the cholera situation and this will encompass support for people affected by the disease and for efforts to build sound water, sanitation and health systems in order to help eliminate cholera in Haiti,” he said.

“This disaster makes it even more vital to significantly step up our support - and to do so right now,” Ban said.

A woman walks on debris in an area devastated by Hurricane Matthew in Port-a-Piment, Haiti

Two women take care of two children receiving treatment for cholera after Hurricane Matthew in the Hospital of Port-a-Piment, Haiti

Houses destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Coteaux, Haiti

Haitians rebuild lives as food, water, supplies arrive

LES CAYES, Haiti — Food, Meanwhile, more than a dozen water and building supplies began people gathered inside a neighbor’s to reach remote corners of Haiti on general store in the western coastal Wednesday as tens of thousands of town of Anse-d’Hainault that was people slowly rebuilt their lives after a serving as a makeshift shelter. The devastating Category 4 storm hit last store had a small generator that week. provided a little light and power to

In the southern seaside charge phones. community of Les Cayes, a U.N. truck “We’re looking out for each delivered water to the Sous Roche other,” said Walna Gevere, who neighborhood while residents including traveled to her hometown from the 49-year-old fisherman Justin Cambry capital of Port-au-Prince to be with her stood in line. The delivery marked family. the first time the neighborhood had Those who survived the storm received any help since Hurricane have faced great challenges, including Matthew hit on Oct. 4. going days without food. The prices of

“Life is completely destroyed bottled water, bleach and other vital here,” Cambry said. “It will take 20 items have jumped by as much as 25 years to get it all back.” percent amid worsening shortages.

Haitians helped each other Elancie Moise, an agronomist regain some semblance of their pre- and director for the Department of hurricane lives as they awaited the Agriculture in southern Haiti, said arrival of more aid. between 80 and 100 percent of crops

A community group that have been lost across the southern formed in the southern coastal village peninsula. of Les Anglais cleared tree limbs from “Crisis is not the word to streets and placed them into piles describe it,” he said. “You need a while others gathered scraps of wood tstronger word. It is much worse. There to start rebuilding homes. is no food for people to eat.”

In addition, there have been reports of assaults on women gathered in shelters, said Yolette Etienne, director for the U.K.-based group ActionAid in Haiti.

She traveled to the department of Grand-Anse in Haiti’s southwest peninsula to assess the damage when she was told about the assaults.

“Fortunately, the women organized themselves to capture the men and call the police,” she said, adding that shelters are taking more preventive measures.

The United Nations has called for $120 million in aid, noting that about 750,000 people in southwest Haiti alone will need “life-saving assistance and protection” in the next three months. Overall, at least 1.4 million people need assistance, the U.N. said.

Meanwhile, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says the storm’s impact has put on hold a new policy of deporting Haitians in the United States without permission, but the government intends to resume it in the future. He said U.S. officials will

have to “be sympathetic to the plight of the people of Haiti as a result.” But after conditions change, “we intend to resume the policy.”

The National Civil Protection headquarters in Port-au-Prince raised the official nationwide death toll to 473, which included at least 244 deaths in Grand-Anse. But local officials have said the toll in Grand-Anse alone tops 500.

Young men whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew peer out of a tent as they awake for the day in the courtyard of a school where they have sought shelter, in Port Salut, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Nearly a week after the storm smashed into southwestern Haiti, some communities along the southern coast have yet to receive any assistance, leaving residents who have lost their homes and virtually all of their belongings struggling to find shelter and potable water.

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Michelle Obama attacks Trump over sexual assault comments MANCHESTER, N.H. — Michelle Obama said Thursday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s boast on a 2005 tape about his fame allowing him to “do anything to women” shook her to the core.

Speaking at a campaign rally in New Hampshire for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Obama called the comments “shocking and demeaning.” She also dismissed Trump’s claim that the remarks were simply “locker room talk,” saying they were an affront to every woman, parent and citizen in United States.

“I can’t stop thinking about this. It has shaken to me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted,” the first lady said. “So while I would love nothing more than pretend that this isn’t happening and come out here

and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous to just move onto the next thing like this was all a bad dream. This is not something we can ignore.”

Mrs. Obama said the comments made by Trump are part of a long history of demeaning women.

“We have a candidate for president of the United States who over the course of his lifetime, over the course of this campaign, has said things about women that are shocking, so demeaning,” she said. “I simply will not repeat anything here today. Last week, we actually saw this candidate bragging about sexually assaulting women. I can’t believe I’m saying that, a candidate for president of the United States bragged about sexually assaulting women.”

Mrs. Obama went on to say the comments were

forcing women to recollect painful memories of when they were harassed in their offices or sexually assaulted.

“The truth is it hurts.

It hurts,” she said.

“It’s like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you are walking down the street, minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body or when you see that guy at work that stands a little too close, stares a little too long and makes you feel uncomfortable in your own skin,” she said, as the crowd went silent.

While she didn’t mention her husband, President Barack Obama, she said Trump’s comments did not reflect how the men in her family discuss women.

“I can tell you the men in my life do not talk about women like this. I know my

New computer glitch delays United Airlines flights

A United Airlines Boeing 787 taxis as a United Airlines Boeing 767 lands at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, February 7, 2015

Thousands of passengers It is the third computer were delayed worldwide after a glitch to hit United’s owner United computer glitch temporarily halted Continental Holdings in recent departures at United Airlines, the months and the latest in a series latest in a series of outages to affect of problems that have tested the rival companies in the industry. reliance on technology of some of

“Earlier tonight we the world’s largest carriers. experienced an issue with our On June 2, software needed weight reporting system, which to dispatch United’s flight plan caused system wide flight delays,” briefly lost functionality. the airline said in a statement on In July, the same airline’s its Twitter feed late on Thursday in flights were disrupted after a the United States. computer problem blocked access to

“We have resolved the issue reservations records. and are working to get customers The following month, Delta to their destinations as soon as Air Lines canceled hundreds of possible. We apologize for the flights and delayed many others inconvenience.” after a power outage hit its computer

Passengers said they had systems. been forced to wait onboard planes And in September, a or inside terminals as flights were system-wide computer problem at delayed for several hours.

British Airways caused significant

“On the plane for more delays. than an hour, away from the gate After the two previous and no communication. What’s incidents, United Continental happening?,” one passenger tweeted. Holdings said in July it had invested

In Paris, passengers in backup plans. complained as check-in lines grew But multiple recent outages for a flight to New York, a Reuters have prompted some experts and reporter said on Friday morning. passenger groups to question

The airline said the whether the airline industry has problem had been resolved as of 3 invested enough in technological a.m. eastern time (0700 GMT) on infrastructure, given new profits Friday. from baggage and cancellation fees.

First Lady Michelle Obama family is not unusual,” she longer plans to vote for him. said adding, “they are loving Trump has played down the fathers who are sickened by comments, insisting they were the thought of their daughters “locker room talk” and he never being exposed to this kind did anything of the things he of vicious language about bragged about on the tape. women.”

Since then, The New York Mrs. Obama’s Times and the Palm Beach comments are some of the most Post reported stories about forceful of a week in which three women who alleged scores of Republican leaders Trump had inappropriately abandoned Trump after a 2005 touched them. Separately, a video became public in which People Magazine reporter the GOP nominee is heard wrote a detailed first-person bragging about how his fame account of being attacked by allowed him to “do anything” Trump while interviewing to women. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the businessman and his wife, R-N.H., who is in a tight re- Melania Trump. election campaign, said over Trump denies the the weekend that she no allegations.

Thai King Bhumibol, world’s longest-reigning monarch, dies: palace

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longestreigning monarch who was seen as head of an institution central to Thai identity and as a father-figure to the nation, died in hospital on Thursday, the palace announced.

He was 88.

King Bhumibol reigned for seven decades after ascending the throne in 1946. His loss will be deeply mourned in Thailand, where he was regarded as a pillar of stability during decades of political upheaval and rapid development.

The palace did not give a cause of death but he has been sick in hospital with various ailments for much of the past year.

“His Majesty has passed away at Siriraj Hospital peacefully,” the palace said, adding he died at 15:52 (4.52 a.m. ET).

His son, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, is expected to become Thailand’s new king.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha addressed the nation shortly after the announcement of the king’s death to say an heir to the throne had been designated since 1972 and that the government would inform parliament of the choice.Prayuth did not identify the heir but King Bhumibol designated Prince Vajiralongkorn, 64, the heir apparent when he invested him as the crown prince in 1972.

The assembly was due to hold a special session later on Thursday.

Prayuth, wearing a black suit and tie, urged Thais to love one another and protect “the father’s land.”

More than 1,000 people gathered at the hospital where the king had been staying. Many of them started to cry as the news of his death broke.

Most Thais have known no other monarch and his picture is hung in almost every house, school and office across the kingdom. Until his later years, he was featured on television almost every day, shown visiting poor areas and working on development projects.

“LIKE OUR DAD”

Parichart Kaewsin, 35, who works in a bank, stood at the edge of the hospital garden, gazing up at the top floor of the building where the king was treated.

“I knew he was sick but I still can’t believe this day has come,” she said, choking back tears.

“That’s why I came here to hear for myself.” She said it was like a member of her family has died, she said. “He was like our dad.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped Thailand would honor the king’s legacy of commitment to universal values and respect for human rights, his spokesman said in a statement.

U.S. President Barack Obama offered condolences to the Thai people and the king’s family.

“His Majesty was a tireless champion of his country’s development and demonstrated unflagging devotion to improving the standard of living of the Thai people,” Obama said in a White House statement.

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UK lawsuit challenges British PM Theresa May on Brexit

Gina Miller poses for a portrait near the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller’s landmark lawsuit begins with a simple question: can Theresa May’s government invoke Article 50 and trigger the exit from the European Union without an act of Parliament

LONDON — The case is considered the most important constitutional matter in a generation: can Prime Minister Theresa May start negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union without an act of Parliament?

Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller’s lawsuit against the government seeks to answer this as well as much bigger questions about where power lies in this nation’s democracy and whether rights can be revoked without a vote of lawmakers.

May says the June 23 referendum on EU membership gave her a mandate to take Britain out of the 28-nation bloc and that discussing the details of her strategy with Parliament would weaken the government’s negotiating position. May has announced plans to invoke Article

50 of the EU treaty, starting talks on re-join it through the back door, and lawmakers could support the Britain’s future relationship with the no second referendum,” he said in a opposition Labour Party’s motion single market, by the end of March. statement. “We do not believe this case on Wednesday. But she insisted on

The lawsuit, hearings on which has legal merit. The result should be amendments stating that the result of begin Thursday at the High Court in respected and the government intends the EU referendum must be respected London, could derail those plans. But to do just that.” and that the government’s negotiating Miller, who supported the campaign At issue is May’s attempt to position should not be undermined. to stay in the EU, says the case isn’t use Royal Prerogative, historic powers Further complicating matters about blocking Brexit — a British exit officially held by the queen, to trigger for lawyers on both sides of the issue from the EU — or keeping Britain in Article 50. The powers, which have in is the fact that the U.K. constitution the bloc. reality passed to politicians, enable is not a single document as in other

“It’s about democracy,” she decisions to be made without a vote of countries, such as the United States. said. “To my mind, the most dangerous Parliament and cover matters as grave Instead, it is a collection of laws and precedent we’d be setting is that a as declaring war or as basic as issuing precedents established over centuries, government can overrule Parliament passports. leaving gray areas that need to be and not consult it when we are making Historically, Royal Prerogative decided by the courts. decisions about people’s rights. And has also applied to foreign affairs and Regardless of how the High that to me is a very, very dangerous the negotiation of treaties.

Court rules, the Supreme Court has place.”

Miller argues that Parliament cleared a place on its calendar in

Andrew Blick, an expert on the should decide whether to invoke Article December to hear an appeal.

Magna Carta at King’s College London, 50 — after a full debate and vote David Allen Green, a senior said the case involves an argument — because the rights of individuals consultant at the law firm of Preiskel that dates back almost 400 years to the in Britain are being revoked in the & Co., said the litigation may be “the English Civil War as to whether power process. The freedom of movement, the most important constitutional case of ultimately rests in the executive or freedom of trade and the freedom to a generation,” due to the magnitude Parliament. vote in European elections are among of the EU debate and because talented

“It’s a long, long running the rights that will change when constitutional lawyers are involved on dispute,” he said. “It goes back to Britain leaves the EU. both sides. the clash between the king and the “You’re taking away individual “But its main importance is representatives of the subjects. This is rights as a matter of national law,” said because it deals squarely with many just another installment of it.”

Miller, 51, who runs SCM Direct, an legally unexplored areas at the very

Underscoring the importance online investment manager, and is also heart of constitutional law,” said Green, of the case, May put Attorney General a lawyer. who isn’t involved in the lawsuit.

Jeremy Wright in charge of the Politically, though, there’s He said those areas include legal team fighting the suit. That growing cross-party pressure to give “the exact scope of executive power announcement was made with a Parliament a say on Britain’s Brexit in regard to treaties, the impact of flourish at the recent Conservative strategy before Article 50 is invoked. referendums, the proper roles of Party conference as May underscored A motion debated Wednesday in the Parliament and the courts in such she would “make a success” of taking House of Commons demands that matters, the protection or removal of the country out of the EU. lawmakers have a chance to “properly rights of UK and EU citizens, and the

Wright argues the suit is an scrutinize” the Brexit strategy before relationship of all of these with the attempt to put a legal obstacle in the the formal exit process begins. devolved governments in Northern way of enacting the referendum result.

May faced a rebellion from Ireland and Scotland.”

“There must be no attempts to members of her own party and was “It could be mind-blowing remain inside the EU, no attempts to forced to concede that Conservative stuff,” he said.

Trump as president would pose global danger: U.N. rights chief

The world will be in danger if Republican nominee Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the top United Nations human rights official said on Wednesday.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein cited Trump’s views on vulnerable communities including minorities and his talk of authorizing torture in interrogations, banned under international law, as “deeply unsettling and disturbing”.

“If Donald Trump is elected on the basis of what he has said already U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid - and unless that changes - I think it Ra’ad al Hussein is without any doubt that he would be a Democrat, signed an executive order dangerous from an international point after taking office in January 2009 of view,” Zeid told a news briefing in that banned waterboarding and other Geneva. “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

Trump lashed out at U.S. Such executive orders can be rescinded House Speaker Paul Ryan and other by a successor. “disloyal” Republicans on Tuesday Zeid said that he would rather and vowed to campaign in whatever not interfere in political campaigns. style he wants now that the party But when a candidate’s comments establishment has largely abandoned pointed to a potential use of torture, him. This occurred after a 2005 prohibited under the Convention video surfaced last week showing against Torture, a pact ratified by him bragging crudely about groping Washington, or to vulnerable groups women and making unwanted sexual possibly losing their basic rights, he advances. had to speak out.

Trump has said he would In a speech in The Hague immediately re-authorize the last month, Zeid accused Trump of waterboarding of suspected militants spreading “humiliating racial and if elected on Nov. 8, contending that religious prejudice” and warned of a “torture works”. rise of populist politics that could turn

U.S. President Barack Obama, violent.

Turkish army says Islamic State putting up ‘stiff resistance’ in Syria

A Turkish Army military vehicle, with the Syrian town of Kobani in the background, patrols on the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 26, 2015.

Islamic State militants in territory, the military said. northern Syria are putting up “stiff A Syrian rebel commander resistance” to attacks by Turkish- told Reuters the rebels were about 4 backed rebel fighters, Turkey’s military km (2.5 miles) from Dabiq. He said said on Wednesday, almost two months capturing Dabiq and the nearby town after it launched an incursion to drive of Suran would spell the end of Islamic them away from its border.

State’s presence in the northern Aleppo

Supported by Turkish tanks countryside. and air strikes, the rebels have been A planned major offensive on pushing toward the Islamic State the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab, stronghold of Dabiq. Clashes and air southeast of Dabiq and an important strikes over the past 24 hours have strategic target, depended on how killed 47 jihadists, the military said in quickly rebels could take control of the a statement. roughly 35 km (22 miles) in between

“Due to stiff resistance of the two cities, he said. the Daesh (Islamic State) terror Al-Bab is also a strategic group, progress could not be achieved target for the Kurdish YPG militia, in an attack launched to take four which, like the rebels, is battling settlements,” it said, naming the areas Islamic State in northern Syria but is east of the town of Azaz as Kafrah, viewed as a hostile force by Turkey.

Suran, Ihtimalat and Duvaybik.

In a daily round-up on

However, the operation to Euphrates Shield’s 50th day, the drive the jihadists away from the Turkish army said 19 Islamic State Turkish border, dubbed “Euphrates fighters had been “neutralized” in Shield”, has allowed Turkish-backed clashes and eight rebels were killed. rebels to take control of about 1,100 Twenty-two rebels were wounded and square km (425 square miles) of Turkish forces suffered no losses.

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Support for marijuana legalization rises among U.S. adults

Support for legalization of marijuana has risen to nearly 60 percent among U.S. adults, according to a study published on Wednesday, marking a near reversal of attitudes held only a decade ago.

More relaxed views about marijuana have led around two dozen states to allow legal access of some type of the drug and more U.S. states are set to vote on marijuana related measures on Nov. 8.

The Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of adults in the United States said the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37 percent said it should be illegal.

Ten years ago, just 32 percent of adults favored legalization, while 60 percent were opposed to it.

Opinions on marijuana are divided starkly along political party lines, the poll from the Washington-based center found, with Democrats supporting legalizing marijuana over having it be illegal by more than two-to-one.

Sixty-six percent of Democrats favor legalizing marijuana while 30 percent believe it should be illegal.

Among Republicans, 41 percent favor legalization and 55 percent are opposed to it, according to the poll, which drew responses from 1,201 U.S. adults.

Five U.S. states - Massachusetts, Maine, California, Arizona and Nevada - will vote on Nov. 8 on whether to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Four other states are voting on access to medical marijuana.

Two human rights groups on Wednesday called on U.S. states and the federal government to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, citing the damage done by more than 574,000 arrests for marijuana possession each year.

Among U.S. voters, Liberal Democrats were most in favor of marijuana legalization, with 78 percent supporting it, according to the Pew study. Millennial adults between the ages of 18 and 35 are the age group most in favor of legalization with 71 percent in support.

Within the Republican party, there is a sharp contrast between moderate and liberal Republicans and their more conservative counterparts, according to the poll.

Sixty-three percent of moderate and liberal Republicans are in favor of legalization.

Just 33 percent of conservative Republicans share this view, with 62 percent saying marijuana should be illegal.

Some 24 states and Washington D.C. currently allow some type of medical marijuana use, and a handful of states allow its recreational use.

U.S. military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on U.S. Navy ship

The USS Nitze, a Guided Missile Destroyer is pictured in New York Harbor.

The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said.

The strikes, authorized

by President Barack Obama, represent Washington’s first direct military action against suspected Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen’s conflict.

Still, the Pentagon appeared to stress the limited nature of the strikes, aimed at radar that enabled the launch of at least three missiles against the U.S. Navy ship USS Mason on Sunday and Wednesday.

“These limited selfdefense strikes were conducted to protect our personnel, our ships and our freedom of navigation,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.

U.S. officials, speaking

on condition of anonymity, said U.S. Navy destroyer USS Nitze launched the Tomahawk cruise missiles around 4 a.m. (0100 GMT).

“These radars were active during previous attacks and attempted attacks on ships in the Red Sea,” including the USS Mason, one of the officials said, adding the targeted radar sites were in remote areas where the risk of civilian casualties was low.

The official identified the areas in Yemen where the radar were located as near Ras Isa, north of Mukha and near Khoka.

Shipping sources told Reuters sites were hit in the Dhubab district of Taiz province, a remote area overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Straight known for fishing and smuggling.

SAFE PASSAGE

The failed missile attacks on the USS Mason appeared to be part of the reaction to a suspected

Saudi-led strike on mourners gathered in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa.

The Houthis, who are battling the internationallyrecognized government of Yemen President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi, denied any involvement in Sunday’s attempt to strike the USS Mason.

On Thursday, the Houthis reiterated a denial that they carried out the strikes and said they did not come from areas under their control, a news agency controlled by the group reported a military source as saying.

The allegations were false pretexts to “escalate aggression and cover up crimes committed against the Yemeni people”, the source said.

The missile incidents, along with an Oct. 1 strike on a vessel from the United Arab Emirates, add to questions about safety of passage for military ships around the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.

The Houthis, who are allied to Hadi’s predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh, have the support of many army units and control most of the north, including the capital Sanaa.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a leading member of a Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting to end Houthi control, denounced the attacks on the Mason as an attempt to target the freedom of navigation and to inflame the regional situation.

US, Cuba stepping up efforts to save Hemingway artifacts

BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway was a pack rat who saved everything. Fortunately for fans of the literary icon, U.S. and Cuban officials and scholars have been working together to preserve artifacts at his former estate in Cuba — items they say will help illuminate his colorful legacy.

At a forum Wednesday at Secretary of State John Kerry tours Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), the former home of late the John F. Kennedy Presidential U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway, now a museum, in Cuba. A forum at the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum in Boston, Presidential Library & Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016, in Boston, will be held to Hemingway experts from both discuss joint efforts in a U.S.-Cuba collaboration to preserve artifacts at Hemingway’s countries underscored their former Cuban estate determination to save the books, Wrynn, former curator of the JFK which opened in 1979, is a letters, fishing rods, mounted Library’s Ernest Hemingway repository for the world’s animal trophies and more that Collection. largest collection of documents, the acclaimed author left behind Hemingway threw little photographs and personal in Havana. away, effectively leaving behind mementos belonging to the Their collaboration a rich archive that includes his celebrated author of “A Farewell underscores how a new era of passport and Christmas cards, to Arms,” ‘’The Old Man and the U.S.-Cuban normalization is Wrynn said.

Sea,” ‘’For Whom the Bell Tolls” taking root.

Much of the material has been and other classics.

The forum included TV housed at Finca Vigia, which fell Hemingway and Kennedy host Bob Vila, a son of Cuban into disrepair over a half-century never met, but the late president emigrants who’s been restoring of Cold War between the U.S. and was an admirer. Kennedy wrote the Hemingway home known as Cuba.

Hemingway for permission to Finca Vigia, or “Lookout Farm.”

“We have an enormous use his oft-quoted phrase “grace Joining Vila were U.S. Rep. Jim responsibility because we have under pressure” in the opening McGovern of Massachusetts; Ada more than 23,000 pieces,” Alfonso to Kennedy’s own “Profiles in Rosa Alfonso, director of Cuba’s said.

Courage.”

Museo Hemingway; and Susan

The Kennedy library, Hemingway died in 1961.

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Trump touched us inappropriately, two women tell New York Times

Two women accused Donald Trump of inappropriate touching in a story published on Wednesday by the New York Times, claims his spokesman called “fiction” but which may further damage the Republican presidential nominee’s chances of winning the White House just four weeks before the Nov. 8 election.

The report was followed by a stream of similar allegations from other women, putting more pressure on the Trump campaign as it lags in national opinion polls and struggles to contain a crisis caused by the candidate’s comments about groping women without their consent which surfaced on Friday.

One of the women, Jessica Leeds, appeared on camera on the New York Times’ website to recount how Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight to New York in or around 1980.

The second woman, Rachel Crooks, described how Trump “kissed me directly on the mouth” in 2005 outside the elevator in Trump Tower in Manhattan, where she was a receptionist at a real estate firm.

Trump’s campaign denied there was any truth to the New York Times accounts. It made public a letter to the newspaper from Marc Kasowitz, a lawyer representing Trump, demanding it retract the story, calling it “libelous,” and threatening legal action if it did not comply.

“This entire article is fiction, and for the New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is

dangerous,” the Trump campaign’s senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement.

Reuters could not independently verify the incidents.

Leeds and Crooks did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.

“We stand by the story, which falls clearly into the realm of public service journalism,” a New York Times spokeswoman said.

The report comes just two days after a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed one in five Republicans thought Trump’s comments about groping women disqualified him from the presidency, and put him 8 points behind Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton among likely voters.

Within hours, several other media outlets published similar reports. People magazine published a detailed first-person account from one of its reporters, Natasha Stoynoff.

Stoynoff said Trump pinned her against a wall at his Florida estate in 2005 and kissed her as she struggled to get away.

“I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat,” Stoynoff said.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the People story late on Wednesday. The article included a denial from a Trump spokeswoman who called the story a “politically motivated fictional pile-on.”

Around the same time, the Palm Beach Post reported a claim by Mindy McGillivray, 36, a woman

Republican U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump holds up a sign. in South Florida, that Trump had grabbed her bottom 13 years ago while she was working at his Mar a Lago estate as a photographer’s assistant.

“There is no truth to this whatsoever,” Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Post. McGillivray could not be reached for comment.

CHASTISED BY SOME REPUBLICANS

The reports come on the heels of a 2005 video that surfaced on Friday that showed Trump bragging about groping women, kissing them without permission, and trying to seduce a married woman.

“I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump is heard saying on the tape.

Trump said during the second

Obama tells students at town hall about how failures have shaped him

President Barack Obama won two straight elections for the White House, but on Tuesday during a talk with students at a town hall on race and sports he discussed a few times when he did not always come out on top.

Obama recounted the fallout from his first presidential debate in his ultimately successful 2012 election race against Republican Mitt Romney.

“I had that first debate, which was roundly panned.

Everybody said you were terrible,” Obama said at the town hall hosted by ESPN’s The Undefeated at North Carolina A&T State University. “What is true is that I’ve always kind of hated these debate formats, so it wasn’t my best performance.”

He said what really inspired him to “dig deep” for the second debate was seeing young volunteers around the country.

While they put on a brave face, Obama said he could tell they were worried about the race.

“I just thought to myself these kids are pouring their hearts and souls into making calls and knocking on doors, I’m not going

U.S. President Barack Obama to disappoint them,” he said.

Obama also described his experience losing his first campaign for a U.S. congressional seat in 2000 and how it humbled him. Without that defeat, Obama said he did not believe he would have went on to win his Senate race in 2004.

“What is true about politics that is similar to sports, though, is when you lose, you lose publicly,” he said. “It’s a hard feeling. One of the benefits of defeat is to take some of the vanity out of what it is you’re trying to achieve.”

The issue of race and sports has been in the spotlight recently after NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers started a controversial movement when he chose to stay seated, and then later opted to kneel, for the national anthem this season to protest racial injustice.

Asked about sports and activism, Obama cited two of his childhood sports heroes: boxer Muhammad Ali and tennis player Arthur Ashe. Both had totally different styles, with Obama saying Ali was more outspoken and Ashe more buttoned down.

But he said they both brought about change.

“How you do it is less important than your commitment to use whatever platforms you have to speak to the issues that matter,” he said.

presidential debate on Sunday that he had not actually done the things he had boasted about, and apologized for his remarks, which he called private “locker room talk.”

The bombshell video has jeopardized Trump’s chances of winning on Election Day, and put Republican control of the U.S. Congress in danger.

He was chastised by Republican leaders, and some called on him to drop out of the presidential race.

On Wednesday, Trump escalated his attacks on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan after Ryan said he was no longer going to campaign for or defend Trump.

Trump complained to thousands of supporters jammed into a livestock arena in Ocala, Florida, that Ryan and others had not congratulated him on his debate performance on Sunday, and the crowd booed in sympathy.

“There is a whole deal going on and we’re going to figure it out. I always figure things out. But there’s a whole sinister deal going on,” Trump said.

Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner said in an interview on Fox News Channel that he would vote for Trump in spite of being “disgusted” by his comments, because he wanted to see conservative justices named to the Supreme Court.

The interview was taped before the New York Times story was published, but Boehner said he thought it was likely that more negative stories would emerge in the last month of the campaign.

Dutch may allow assisted suicide for those who feel life is over

The Dutch government intends to draft a law that would legalize assisted suicide for people who feel they have “completed life,” but are not necessarily terminally ill, it said on Wednesday.

The Netherlands was the first country to legalize euthanasia, in 2002, but only for patients who were considered to be suffering unbearable pain with no hope of a cure.

In a letter to parliament, the health and justice ministers said details remain to be worked out but that people who “have a well-considered opinion that their life is complete, must, under strict and careful criteria, be allowed to finish that life in a manner dignified for them.”

The proposal is likely to provoke critics who say Dutch euthanasia practice has already expanded beyond the borders originally envisioned for it, with “unbearable suffering” not only applying to people with terminal diseases, but also to some with mental illnesses and dementia.

The euthanasia policy has widespread backing in Dutch society, and cases have risen by double digits every year for more than a decade as more patients request it and more doctors are willing to carry it out. Euthanasia accounted for 5,516 deaths in the Netherlands in 2015, or 3.9 percent of all deaths nationwide.

Health Minister Edith Schippers wrote in the letter that “because the wish for a self-chosen end of life primarily occurs in the elderly, the new system will be limited to” them.

She did not define a threshold age.

The new law will require “careful guidance and vetting ahead of time with a ‘death assistance provider’ with a medical background, who has also been given additional training.”

Other aspects of the law as she envisions it will include safety mechanisms including thirdparty checks, reviews and supervision.

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62-year-old Spanish woman gives birth to her third child

A 62-year-old Spanish woman just gave to birth to her third child – a healthy baby girl.

A doctor in the northwestern town of Lugo, Lina Alvarez, is a mom again at an age when more people are thinking of retirement rather than diapers.

She gave birth to a daughter – also named Lina – via C-section after her blood pressure shot up.

“I’m the happiest person on the planet. Everything went perfectly,” Alvarez said, according to the Sun.

Her daughter was born at Lucas Augusti Hospital two weeks early and weighing 5 lbs., 3 oz.

“I’m looking forward to resting for at least a couple of days now, so I can enjoy time with my daughter and recover,” Alvarez said. “My emotions have got the better of me, and I’ve been crying a lot out of happiness.”

Alvarez has two other children – 28-year-old Exiquio and 10-year-old Samuel – and, when she announced publicly that she was eight months pregnant, she received a great deal of criticism amid calls for a law limiting the age at which women can obtain fertility treatment.

62-year-old Spanish woman baby girl

Her son Samuel was conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) when Alvarez was 52 – 10 years after she went through menopause. When trying to get pregnant for the third time, she had to travel to Madrid to see a gynecologist because many clinics in Lugo refused to take her case.

“I always wanted to be a mother again, but most medical experts said ‘no.’” she told the Sun. “Then some years ago, I met a gynecologist who agreed to help me if the tests were OK. They were positive, and so he helped me implant an embryo.”

“They said there was only a 6 percent chance of success, but

I got pregnant with a baby girl.

I feel like I’m having a second chance, and the pregnancy has made me younger and stronger.”

She also brushed off criticism that she was too old to take care of a newborn.

“When she is 30, I’ll be 90. She’ll be grown up, and life expectancy for women is growing all the time,” she said, according to the Independent.

Alvarez is far from the oldest woman ever to have a child.

That record is held by Daljinder Kaur from India, who gave birth last year at the age of 70 after two years of IVF treatment.

Australian parliament rejects bill for same-sex marriage vote

Same-sex marriage will likely be delayed for at least three years in Australia after the opposition Labor party said on Tuesday it would not support a national vote, dealing another potential blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Australia’s center-right coalition government introduced legislation to parliament last month to hold a public vote in February 2017 on whether to legalize same-sex unions.

The bill required the support of some opposition lawmakers because Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal-National coalition has only a one-vote majority in the lower house of parliament and does not have a majority in the upper house.

The rejection is a blow to Turnbull, who has seen his popularity wane amid frustration that he has failed to live up to his progressive reputation.

Same-sex marriage is supported by 61 percent of Australians, a Gallop poll in August found, and Turnbull’s inability to deliver the legislation could further damage his support.

Several independent MPs had already ruled out supporting the national plebiscite on same-sex marriage. The rejection by the centerleft Labor party, which wants same-sex marriages legalized by parliament, ended any hope the plebiscite bill could pass.

“Why should gay Australians be subjected to a different law-making process than any other Australians?” said Labor leader Bill Shorten.

“Why should a couple in a committed relationship have to knock on the doors of 15 million of their fellow Australians and see if they agree with it? The easiest way is the way which this parliament has done for a hundred years legislate.”

Pope names new group of cardinals, adding to potential successors

Pope Francis on Sunday promoted 17 Roman Catholic prelates from around the world to the high rank of cardinal, including 13 who are under 80 years old and thus eligible to succeed him one day.

Cardinals, who wear red hats and are known as “princes of the Church,” are the most senior members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy after the pope and serve as his principal advisers around the world and in the Vatican.

Naming new cardinals is one of the most significant powers of the papacy, allowing a pontiff to put his stamp on the future of the 1.2-billionmember global Church.

Cardinals under 80, known as cardinal-electors, can enter a secret conclave to choose a new pope from their own ranks after Francis dies or resigns. Francis, the former cardinal-archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected in a conclave on March 13, 2013.

The new cardinal-electors come from Italy, the Central African Republic, Spain, the United States, Brazil, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Belgium, Mauritius, Mexico and Papua New Guinea.

Significantly, Francis said the current Vatican ambassador in Syria, Italian Archbishop Mario Zenari, would be elevated but remain in his post to show the Church’s concern for “beloved and martyred Syria” - an allusion to the devastating civil war

Pope Francis there.

It was believed to be the first time in recent history a Vatican ambassador, known as a nuncio, would have the rank of cardinal.

The pope has made numerous appeals for an end to Syria’s war and last month he urged forces to stop bombing civilians in Aleppo, warning them they would face God’s judgment one day.

ALBANIAN EX-PRISONER

The four new cardinals over 80, who get the position as a symbolic

the total of 120 allowed by Church law.

It will be his third consistory since his election in 2013 as the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years and he has used each occasion to show support for the Church in far flung places or where Catholics are suffering.

The Central African Republic, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Lesotho will have a cardinal for the first time, underscoring Francis’ conviction that the Church is a global institution that should become increasingly less Eurocentric.

Last year the pope visited Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Amid some of the tightest security ever seen on his trips, he preached reconciliation in the nation racked by bloodshed between Muslims and Christians.

Only one of the 13 cardinalhonor to thank them for long service electors will take on a Vatican job. The to the Church, include Father Ernest others would remain in their posts Simoni, 88, an Albanian priest around the world. who spent many years in jail and Three are from the United forced labor during the communist States: Archbishop Blase Cupich of dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, who died Chicago, Archbishop Joseph William in 1985.

Tobin of Indianapolis and Bishop

Francis, making the surprise Kevin Farrell of Dallas, who was announcement during his weekly recently appointed to head a new Sunday address, said the ceremony Vatican department on family and life to elevate the prelates, known as a issues. consistory, would be held on Nov. 19.

In addition to Simoni, the

With the current batch, Albanian priest, the other three Francis has named 44 cardinal- cardinals over 80 come from Malaysia, electors, slightly more than a third of Italy and Lesotho.

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Note 7 fiasco could burn a $17 billion hole in Samsung accounts

Samsung Electronics’ worstever recall could cost the company as much as $17 billion after it halted sales of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 for a second time, spelling an almost certain end for the ill-fated premium model.

Samsung announced the recall of 2.5 million Note 7s in early September following numerous reports of the phones catching fire and on Tuesday the crisis deepened: The company told mobile carriers to stop sales or exchange of the $882 device and asked users to shut off their phones while it investigated new reports of fires in replacement Note 7s.

As the world’s top-selling smartphone company awaits results of probe by U.S. safety regulators, some investors and analysts predict Samsung may scrap the Note 7 and move on to successor models to limit the financial and reputational damage.

“In the worst case scenario, the U.S. could conclude the product is fundamentally flawed and ban sales of the device,” said Song Myung-sub, an analyst at HI Investment Securities.

If Samsung stops selling the Note 7s, that will translate into lost sales of up to 19 million phones, or nearly $17 billion, that the firm was expected to generate during the Note 7’s product cycle, according to analysts

A customer tries out a Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note 7 including those at Credit Suisse.

That’s a big increase from $5 billion in missed sales and recall costs analysts initially expected Samsung to incur under the assumption that the firm would resume global Note 7 sales in the fourth quarter.

Chances of that now look slim.

South Korea’s Hankyoreh newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said on Tuesday Samsung will likely stop Note 7 sales permanently. Samsung did not comment on the report.

“This has probably killed the Note 7 brand name,” said Edward Snyder, the managing director of Charter Equity Research.

“By the time they fix the problem they have to go through recertification and requalification and by the time that happens, they’re

going up against the (Galaxy) S8 launch.”

WIDER PROBLEM

Samsung has already temporarily halted Note 7 production, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. That could lead to a write-down in inventory in the event Samsung has to end sales entirely.

Broker Nomura estimates Samsung may have to incur up to 1.6 trillion won of disposal costs in the fourth quarter, assuming around 4 million Note 7s have been made.

For Samsung, with a market value of $235 billion and $69 billion in cash and equivalents at the end of June, the loss of sales of one model could be absorbed.

The bigger problem will be long-term impact on its reputation and brand, analysts and experts say.

“We think the Note 7 incident may hurt demand for Samsung’s other smartphone models as well,” Nomura analysts said in a note, adding it may have to slash Samsung’s fourth-quarter mobile division profit estimates by as much as 85 percent.

Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), the largest U.S. wireless carrier, is already considering shifting marketing away from the troubled Note 7s, a company spokesman said on Monday.

That will likely boost rival products such as the new Google (GOOGL.O) Pixel and Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) new iPhone taking market share from Samsung, as most vendors launch new products ahead of the critical year-end holiday sales season.

“The (Note 7) unit is forever going to be tarnished and the danger is that the brand becomes irretrievably damaged as well,” said Stephen Robb, a partner at UK law firm Weightmans.

“They need to be writing to every customer with an apology and some form of ‘compensation’... It will clearly be costly for the company but the alternative is to end up going the way of Nokia and Blackberry.”

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf quits, replaced by Tim Sloan

Wells Fargo & Co’s veteran chairman and chief executive officer, John Stumpf, abruptly departed on Wednesday bowing to pressure over its sales tactics that has damaged the bank’s reputation and put Wall Street under renewed scrutiny.

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo said Stumpf, 63, was retiring and would be replaced as chief executive by President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Sloan, 56.

The bank is splitting the role of chairman and CEO with Stephen Sanger, its lead director, becoming chairman.

Stumpf ’s exit leaves Sloan with a steep challenge in rebuilding its reputation and overhauling its hardcharging sales culture without gutting profits. The new CEO will also contend with ongoing regulatory investigations and private litigation.

The departure is a stunning reversal of fortune for Stumpf, who successfully navigated Wells through

Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service

the financial crisis and built it into the world’s most valuable bank with a focus on Main Street-style lending that was the envy of Wall Street.

“I have decided it is best for the company that I step aside,” he said in a statement.

The bank’s shares, which have slumped in the wake of the scandal, rose 2 percent in after-hours trading after the bank announced Stumpf ’s exit.

Sloan said his immediate priority was to restore trust in the bank.

Long considered Stumpf ’s successor, Sloan has spent most of his career at Wells working with corporations and institutional investors not the retail division, where the fraudulent accounts were opened.

But as the former CFO, and president and COO of the company since November, he has been responsible for the entire company, including the retail bank at the heart

NEW YORK — Amazon is launching a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field.

Amazon Music Unlimited is being positioned to compete against existing services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

It will cost $8 per month, or $80 a year, for members of Amazon’s $99-a-year Prime loyalty program. Non-Prime members will pay $10 a month, the same monthly fee charged by Spotify and Apple Music.

Owners of Amazon’s Echo smart speaker, meanwhile, will be able to get the unlimited music service on one device for $4 per month.

The steaming service is one more

of the scandal.

Carrie Tolstedt, the woman who ran the retail division when the misconduct occurred, reported to Sloan from November of last year. She left the bank last month.

“They had three goals in replacing Stumpf: speed, integrity, and competence. If you want to move very fast and find someone intimately familiar with the business, you’ve got to hire an insider,” said Peter Conti-Brown, a business ethics and law professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

“If you want to hire someone with unimpeachable integrity, that’s going to take time to find,” ContiBrown said.

Sloan will preside over the bank’s third-quarter earnings on Friday.

FALL FROM GRACE

Stumpf ’s fall from started with a $185 million

perk — like two-day free shipping and Amazon Video — that the Seattle-based company hopes will attract people to its Prime program and thus encourage them to spend more on its flagship site. Amazon already offers Amazon Prime Music for free to Prime members, but that includes about two million songs, while the new service boasts a catalog of “tens of millions” of songs.

“Think of this as two different levels: Prime is now the introductory service and Unlimited is the full service,” said Steve Boom, Amazon’s vice president of digital music.

The service’s launch comes as the way people listen to music is changing.

grace

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. September 29, 2016 regulatory settlement between the bank, regulatory authorities and a Los Angeles prosecutor over its staff opening as many as 2 million accounts without customers’ knowledge.

The misconduct, carried out by low-level branch staff to meet internal sales targets, shattered the bank’s folksy image and a raft of federal and state investigations followed.

According to Nielsen , during the first half of 2016, digital purchasing of single tracks was down 24 percent and digital albums were down 18 percent, while streaming was up 59 percent, compared with the same period a year ago.

“The recorded music industry has been fumbling for a digital business model that really works, and I think streaming has come into its own,” said eMarketer analyst Paul Verna.

In fact, streaming of audio has eclipsed video streaming, according to Nielsen. Audio’s share of streaming is 54 percent as of June 30, compared with 44 percent a year earlier.

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Samsung woes show how dependent we’ve become on smartphones

A woman walks by an advertisement of the Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphone at the company’s showroom in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: “power down and stop using the device.” This is all but unthinkable in an age where smartphones have become an extra limb, the last thing we look at before falling asleep and the first thing we grab in the morning, not to mention throughout the day.

NEW YORK — Tethered as Skyping your grandkids across the we are to our smartphones, Samsung country, getting directions, confirming asking users of its fire-prone Galaxy your travel itinerary, reading the news, Note 7 to “power down and stop using searching for a dinner recipe, hailing a the device” is not just an inconvenience. ride and so on.

It’s crazy.

For those traveling with

Smartphones have become children, a long flight without a extensions of ourselves, the last smartphone to serve as distraction is thing we look at before falling asleep akin to torture. and the first thing we grab in the Power down and stop using morning. Abandoning them is all but the device? You might as well go live unthinkable, even at the dinner table, in a cave in a distant mountain (if you even on the toilet. can get there, since you no longer have

Risking a battery fire might GPS). According to the Pew Research seem like a small price to pay for Center, 43 percent of the world’s obsessively checking your latest population uses a smartphone. Rates Instagram “likes,” catching up on email, are highest in places such as South

Korea (88 percent), Australia (77 percent) and Israel (74 percent).

And use it they do. We check Facebook so often that the company no longer just measures its users on a monthly basis. A more important number is how many people check in on a daily basis. In June, more than 1 billion people checked Facebook on a mobile device at least once a day.

In a report on global mobile device usage, the consulting firm Deloitte found the obvious, namely that “device obsession is deepening” and that people are using their phones for “everything from watching TV to simply crossing the road.” Some of us even use the phones while crossing the road, which is not the safest thing in the world.

A small 2015 study by Nottingham Trent University that tracked 18- to 33-year-olds found that they checked their phones an average of 85 times a day — often without realizing.

Entire industries have sprung up to try to pry us away from our gadgets, such as phone-free summer camps for adults, anti-texting-anddriving apps and apps that track how much time you spend on your phone.

As such, it’s not surprising that smartphone owners suddenly deprived of this extra limb are finding ways around the inconvenience.

“I am currently using my tablet

that has AT&T number sync. I have a Bluetooth headset connected that allows me to make and receive calls.

It also can receive texts, but it works marginal at best,” said Leo Langelier III, who lives in North Berwick, Maine.

His Note 7 — the replacement model — started to emit smoke in the car while he was traveling with is family. While his family is fine, he has not been able to get a replacement and said he will be reactivating an older phone he has at home until he can get everything cleared up.

Adam Siemaszko, who returned his Note 7 to a Best Buy in Manhattan, said a co-worker was kind enough to lend him an old iPhone 5S until I can get a new one. He decided to get the new Pixel phone from Google, as he’s lost his trust in Samsung. But there’s a five- to six-week wait.

“Being phoneless is awful,” he said. “What I don’t think a lot of people think about is just how reliant we have been with the modern flagships.”

Siemaszko said he got used to taking notes on the Note 7 using its special S pen and running two apps side by side at once. The iPhone 5S came out in 2013 and even the latest iPhone, the 7, lacks these options.

“I feel incredibly limited on this 5S,” he said. “They took my tool away, and the only way to get something else is to jump through hoops.”

Facebook rolls out business software, Yahoo says working to bring back launches pricing war auto forwarding feature

Facebook Inc (FB.O) launched a workplace version of its mobile app and website on Monday, marking the social networking company’s first foray into the hotly competitive and crowded enterprise software arena.

The product, called Workplace

by Facebook, has been in testing for more than a year and is now available to all businesses. It is designed for workplace communication and collaboration, putting Facebook in direct competition with the fastgrowing startup Slack.

Workplace is a subscription product - a departure for advertisingdriven Facebook - with businesses paying $1 to $3 per user. Slack’s least expensive business plan charges about $7 per user.

Slack did not respond to a request for comment.

Workplace is the latest move

by Facebook to take on competitors in all areas of social networking and mobile communications. Over the past several months it also has rolled out products to challenge the fastgrowing ephemeral photo-sharing app Snapchat.

Still, the company will have to overcome the fact that Facebook is not really a work tool and is often viewed as a distraction in offices. To combat that, Workplace does not require people to sign in with their personal accounts and limits News Feed - Facebook’s main feature where users can see regular updates from friends and others that they follow - to company announcements, memos and communications.

Facebook is building a direct sales force for Workplace and also

A picture shows the Facebook logo at the Facebook office in Berlin, Germany, August 29, 2016 working with professional services firms to get businesses signed up.

“We want to replace a lot of old technologies like internal emails, mailing lists, newsletters,” said Julien Codorniou, Facebook’s global head of Workplace. “These are things that people want to get rid of.”

Facebook’s power in mobile arena - its Messenger app has more than 1 billion users worldwide could give the company an edge at a moment when businesses are increasingly looking for mobilefriendly communications tools.

Although its biggest markets for Workplace include the United States and the United Kingdom, Facebook is aggressively targeting businesses in emerging markets, including Africa and Asia, where some employees primarily rely on mobile phones.

It also is going after businesses with non-traditional desk workers - such as baristas, ship workers and factory workers - where employees spend the majority or all of their time outside of offices.

A man walks past a Yahoo logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 24, 2016

Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) said it is working to bring back its automatic email forwarding feature after a planned, temporary disablement.

Users will soon receive an update to the functionality of automatic email forwards, a company spokesperson said.

The report about the disablement of the feature was first reported by the Associated Press on Monday.

The AP also said that while those who have set up forwarding in the past are unaffected, users who would want to leave following recent hacking and surveillance revelations are struggling to shift to rival services.

Yahoo has been under scrutiny from investors after disclosing last month that at least 500 million user accounts were stolen from its network in 2014.

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Pollard, Ramdin dropped from ODI squad

West Indies have dropped in the 12 overs he bowled across the Kieron Pollard and Denesh Ramdin three matches. from their ODI squad for next month's Ramdin, who was recalled to tri-series in Zimbabwe, which also the ODI squad, compiled 79 runs at features Sri Lanka. Courtney Browne, 26.33 in the three ODIs and did not the head of West Indies' selection feature in the T20s. Browne's selection committee, informed Pollard and panel had dropped Ramdin from the Ramdin about their axing via email. squad for the four-Test series at home

The emails, accessed by against India earlier this year. Ramdin ESPNcricinfo, were sent by Browne made the news public on Twitter earlier this week. Browne's message before the squad was announced, and to both players was straightforward, was subsequently sanctioned by the saying they had been dropped and WICB. telling them they were free to seek Ramdin has endured difficult times in clarification from him or the selection the past 18 months. Despite helping panel if they wanted. Considering the West Indies level the Test series 1-all squad has not been officially announced at home against England, Ramdin was yet, ESPNcricinfo sought a comment stripped of Test captaincy immediately from the WICB on Wednesday, but the after the 2-0 home Test series loss to board did not respond.

Australia.

Both Pollard and Ramdin had Pollard, meanwhile, has had poor returns in the recently concluded mixed returns since returning from limited-overs series against Pakistan knee surgery last November. Pollard in the UAE. Pollard managed 43 runs was picked for the tri-series at home in in the three T20s, and bowled two June, involving Australia and South overs, going wicketless. In the three- Africa, and was instrumental in West match ODI series, which West Indies Indies finishing as runners-up, scoring lost 3-0, Pollard scored 42 runs at an 205 runs at 41.00 including two halfaverage of 14.00. He took one wicket centuries.

WI, Pakistan players excited for pink-ball challenge

Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali says his side is excited about the opportunity to take part in a day-night Test for the first time, a sentiment echoed by West Indies batsman Darren Bravo in Dubai less than 48 hours before the first Test in the threematch series kicks off under the lights at Dubai Sports City.

"Obviously it's different. It's a first game for us with a pink ball and it's a day-night game," Azhar said at a press conference in Dubai on Tuesday. "We played one or two games, players have had experience with the pink ball in the domestic circuit but internationally it's the first game.

It's a different challenge but we're all excited about it and I think it will be very exciting for the crowd as well to come and watch this game.

"I think the game is important but we had enough time in the middle.

We had five to six sessions with the pink ball. The players also played in the first-class final and a few other games.

They do have a little experience of that as well. We have been practising really hard and have had quite long sessions, so I think we have enough idea of this ball." Though reviews from players have mostly been positive regarding the overall visibility of the ball during night-time training sessions, Azhar said one issue that had popped up was the ability to recognise the seam of the ball, in part because it is black on the pink ball whereas the seam is white on a red ball. Azhar felt it may pose a slight advantage for spin bowlers.

"The seam is different," Azhar said.

"It's hard to see the seam, especially with the spinners. You can't really spot the seam. It's a different challenge and we will get to know it better as we play more."

Bravo also said players from the West Indies had similar experiences with picking the seam,

Azhar Ali both in some first-class matches played in the West Indies last season as well as during the three-day warmup match that concluded on Sunday.

"I think most of the guys have complained about the fact that they're not really able to pick up the seam that well," Bravo said. "I don't know for whatever reason but we can't do anything about it. It is what it is and we need to accept the challenge as quickly as possible and just go out there and give it our best shot."

The West Indies batsman also stated that, despite some reservations about playing at night with a pink ball, he maintained a positive outlook for the concept, especially if it can help revitalise crowd numbers in places where attendances have been on the decline.

"We played a couple first-class [day-night] games back home," Bravo said. "It had a few crowds. Most of the guys had their take on it. It had some positive feedback, it had some negative feedback to be honest but whatever is put in place to encourage a crowd is definitely beneficial to Test cricket."

Kieron Pollard has had mixed returns since returning from knee surgery last November

Browne, who replaced former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd as chairman of selectors in June, has taken some bold decisions during his short tenure, including dropping Darren Sammy after he had led West Indies to their second World T20 title.

Sammy did not hide his frustration when he called the symposium organised by the WICB and the West Indies Players' Association in July, to clear the differences between the board and the players, a "publicity stunt" on his Twitter account.

FIFA joins Jamaica in mourning the passing of top college footballer

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has joined Jamaica’s football fraternity in mourning the tragic passing of a top college footballer who collapsed during a match last month.

Infantino’s message to Jamaican Football Federation president Captain Horace Burrell was read during the funeral of St George’s College schoolboy Dominic James on Saturday.

“Dear President Burrell, please accept my deepest condolences on hearing that Dominic James, a student and captain, has passed away at just 18. Dominic left us too soon and we here at FIFA are truly sorry to hear of his passing,” said the message from Infantino, read at the funeral by The Jamaica

Football Federation’s South Central Confederation Chairman Michael Ricketts, in the absence of Burrell.

“On behalf of members of the international football community, I should be grateful if you could extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. We hope that in some way our words of support may help bring a little bit of peace in this time of sadness.”

James died after he was rushed to hospital when he collapsed during a Manning Cup match against Excelsior High on September 20.

An MVP award is to be named in his honour after he led his team to successive Super Cup titles.

St George’s College schoolboy Dominic James collapsed and died during a match in September 2016

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SPORTS Golf: Woods may never make successful comeback: say ex-players

Tiger Woods' decision to his chipping decay. postpone his tournament golf comeback "Once you’ve been visited has raised more questions about his upon by the yips, when you’re chipping future with some former players it just never goes away. wondering if he will ever successfully "There’s nothing more exciting return to regular competition. in golf, maybe in sports, than watching

Former PGA Tour winner Tiger Woods, but there are too many Brandel Chamblee greeted Monday's hurdles to overcome. news of Woods' withdrawal from this "I just don’t see (Woods) overcoming the week's Safeway Open by comparing yips." the player's plight with the late-career SEVE PARALLELS struggles of Spanish five-times major Chamblee also explained his winner Seve Ballesteros. comparison of Woods to the late Twice major champion Johnny Miller Ballesteros, who was a pale shadow said Woods was "not ever going to of his former self once his confidence be the old Tiger," a l t h o u g h ebbed. stopping short of writing off the "On many levels, there are 40-year-old completely. parallels to Seve. Seve Ballesteros was

Chamblee described a a genius, an artist. "perfect storm" of issues that have "That's what golf is, it's more simultaneously beset 14-times major of an abstract game, and Seve tried champion Woods. to make it later in his career a linear "What has happened to Tiger Woods is game, and every single person that I’ve really the perfect storm of destruction seen in professional golf who tried to for an athlete," Chamblee said on Golf make it a linear game, either becomes Channel. so frustrated they no longer can play or

"We’ve seen Tiger Woods' golf sooner or later they quit." swing decay, his body decay and then Woods was scheduled to play at the

PGA Tour event in Napa, California, starting on Thursday, returning from a 14-month break after back surgeries.

But his decision to pull out, three days after confirming his participation, was puzzling.

Woods, who announced his withdrawal on his website (www. tigerwoods.com), has not revealed what happened over the weekend that prompted a change of mind.

Safeway Open tournament host Miller was crestfallen at the news, and acknowledged that Woods' glory days were probably long behind him.

"I know there’s a lot of pressure on Tiger after being away from professional golf for 14 months," said Miller.

"Everyone expects him to come back and play like the year 2000, Team USA vice-captain Tiger Woods talk at the 13th green during the practice round for the but that’s just not going to happen.

"He’s not ever going to be the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club in old Tiger (but) I still think he can win, Chaska, Minnesota, if he has the desire. I just hope he can Airlines Open event but plans to turn find a bit of joy in the game again." out at his foundation's Hero World

Woods will not play at next Challenge in Albany, Bahamas in month's European Tour Turkish December.

Cavs wanted Wade but couldn't afford him

It would have been hard to MLE to retain Richard Jefferson. imgine back when the Miami Heat were "Who wouldn't be interested in coming off consecutive championships a Hall of Famer?" Cavs coach Tyronn a few seasons ago that LeBron James Lue said, referring to Wade's likely and Dwyane Wade would both leave spot in the Hall. "That don't even the franchise as free agents in short make sense. Yeah, we wanted him." order.

James, who has maintained

Yet sure enough, James went his friendship with Wade since leaving back to his hometown Cleveland Miami, unsurprisingly backed Wade's Cavaliers in 2014 and Wade joined his decision to join the Bulls after playing hometown Chicago Bulls this summer, the first 13 years of his career with the shifting the balance of power in the Heat. "I support my guys -- you guys Eastern Conference. know that," James said. "That was

With the Bulls and Cavaliers a decision that he wanted to make, set to play a preseason game Friday, and I support him."

Just as James confirmed that he hoped Wade James' community outreach in Akron, would have ended up in Cleveland Ohio, comprises such a big element ESPYS stage with Wade this summer with him. in his life since returning to the Cavs, to encourage athletes to raise their

"We couldn't afford him," Wade has said that being in Chicago social awareness, said he has spoken James said. "It's that simple." can help him effect positive change in to Wade about continuing that cause.

Wade signed a two-year deal his city.

"We've had a lot of conversations," with Chicago in the offseason worth "My purpose for being back James said. "I don't really about $47 million. The Cavs, well in the city is bigger than basketball," like to talk about what we talk about, above the salary cap with a star- Wade said last month. "Basketball is but he's done some things in the studded core of James, Kyrie Irving, a big part of it, of course. It's what I community already since he's been Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson do for a living. But I think my purpose back to Chicago, and obviously he has all signed to long-term deals, could at the end of the day is hopefully to a lot of ties there, being from there. So have offered Wade only the taxpayer come to Chicago and be a part and be I think it's been good for not only him midlevel exception, worth about $3.5 the voice that can help bring people but for the city, more importantly." million. together."

While the Big Three era in Miami will

Cleveland ended up using the James, who shared the be remembered for two titles, four

FIFA appoints first ever Chief Women's Football Officer

Global soccer governing body FIFA has appointed Sarai Bareman as its first ever Chief Women's Football Officer, the association announced on Tuesday.

The New Zealand native will lead the newly created Women's Football Division as part of FIFA's management board, Zurich-based FIFA said.

"As the only female member of FIFA's 2016

Reform Committee, Sarai was a strong advocate for change within the organization, in particular calling for concrete requirements on women in leadership positions at FIFA," FIFA said in a statement.

Bareman, a former player on the Samoan women's national soccer team and deputy secretary general of the Oceania Football Confederation, will assume the role on Nov. 14.

trips to the Finals, a 27-game win streak and creating the free-agent frenzy for superstars that exists today, James said he isn't shocked that it didn't last longer. "

In professional sports, things can change from one year to another like that, so I've always had that perspective ever since I came into the NBA," James said. "I've always known it's a business and you could be with one team this year -- have teammates this year, the next year you might not have them. That's part of the business.

So I'll always have that perspective."

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Cricket: Inquest into death of batsman Hughes opens in Sydney

An order of service for the funeral of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes is pictured prior to being distributed to mourners in his home town of Macksville, December 3, 2014

A coroner's inquest into the Cricket Australia has already death of Phillip Hughes opened on implemented the recommendations Monday, almost two years after the made in a 62-page independent report Australian cricketer died when he was the body commissioned from a senior struck by a ball during a match at the lawyer, David Curtain, which was Sydney Cricket Ground. released in May.

Hughes was hit on the back The Curtain Report of the neck by a rising delivery when recommended that players be forced batting for South Australia in a to wear helmets when facing fast domestic match on Nov. 25, 2014. and medium-paced bowling even if it He died two days later in a Sydney concluded that such protection would hospital. not have prevented the batsman's

Over the next week, the New death.

South Wales Coroner's Court will Cricket Australia chief review the circumstances surrounding executive James Sutherland joined the incident to determine whether the with the player's former manager 25-year-old's death could have been James Henderson in requesting that avoided. the privacy of Hughes's family be

The court will consider respected during the hearing. evidence on "the nature of the play" "We never want to see a during the match, the medical and tragedy like this happen on the cricket emergency response to Hughes's field, and to that end we have the injury as well as on whether protective utmost respect for the coronial inquest equipment might have prevented the process that we will need to go through blow being fatal. this week," Sutherland told reporters

Evidence from Sean Abbott, outside the court. the New South Wales cricketer who "We won't be providing a bowled the fateful delivery, as well as running commentary dealing with former and current test players Brad specific issues through the week, but Haddin, Doug Bollinger and David we do hope something good comes from Warner will be heard. this process."

Fury vacates world titles, has license suspended

British heavyweight Tyson Fury has had his boxing license suspended, hours after he announced he was relinquishing his two world titles to focus on his mental health.

Robert Smith, general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) that oversees professional boxing in Britain, told Reuters the decision was made pending investigation of anti-doping and medical issues.

Fury revealed the turmoil in his private life last week when he told Rolling Stone magazine that he had been taking cocaine and bingeing on alcohol as a consequence of depression.

The 28-year-old WBO and WBA champion has not fought since beating Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko to win the titles in November 2015, and he announced on Wednesday that his 11-month reign was over.

"I won the titles in the ring and I believe that they should be lost in the ring, but I'm unable to defend at this time and I have taken the hard and emotional decision to now officially vacate my treasured world titles," Fury said in statement released by his promoter Mick Hennessy.

"(I) wish the next in-line contenders all the very best as I now enter another big challenge in my life which I know, like against Klitschko, I will conquer."

Tyson's points victory over Klitschko in Duesseldorf, Germany, was one of the biggest upsets in the long history of heavyweight boxing.

It was a first defeat for

Klitschko in 11 years and the now 40-year-old Ukrainian, who has accused Fury of "dragging boxing through the mud", immediately demanded a re-match.

Fury called off a fight against Klitschko in July because of an ankle injury and again last month for an unspecified medical condition.

ESPN reported at the start of October that Fury had tested positive for cocaine, citing a leaked letter sent by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) which Reuters has been unable to verify.

A couple of days later, Fury announced his retirement in an expletive-laden tweet, only to abruptly reverse the decision.

He told Rolling Stone that he had never taken banned substances before he fought and his cocaine use started only after he beat Klitschko.

Fury has also been charged with a rule violation by UK AntiDoping after a urine sample from February 2015 showed traces of the banned stimulant nandrolone. He denies any wrongdoing.

Peter Fury, the boxer's uncle and trainer, told the BBC that his nephew would be back.

"Once he produces all of his records of what he's been through then I don't think the boxing board will have any option but to give him his license back," he said.

"This is a guy that's needed medical treatment, so once the powers that be say he's fit to box then there's no reason why he can't be reinstated.

He's at the pinnacle of his career."

British heavyweight Tyson Fury

Italy's Olympic Committee officially withdraws Rome bid to stage 2024 Games

Italy's Olympic Committee has officially which includes an array of small town councils, had withdrawn its bid to stage the 2024 Games in Rome indicated it was ready to put its name to the project in after the city council voted to oppose the candidacy, an attempt to bypass the 5-Star veto. committee chief Giovanni Malago said on Tuesday.

But Malago, who met Olympic chiefs last week,

Clearly upset by having to pull the plug on made clear he was not going to forge ahead without the his ambitious project, Malago said Italy had not only full backing of the main city council. been made to look stupid by backing out at this late "We cannot do any more than we have done. As stage, but had also missed out on a golden opportunity of today, the bid committee is officially liquidated," he to attract badly needed foreign investment. said. His announcement means only Paris, Los

"Today I wrote a letter to the International Angeles and Budapest are left in the running to stage Olympic Committee in which we have broken off our the 2024 Games. The IOC is due to make a decision candidature for the Olympic Games in 2024," Malago next September. told a news conference.

A spokesperson for the IOC said the "Do you realize what fools we have made of ourselves at organization had taken note of Rome's decision, adding: an international level?"

"All the circumstances and the information we have

Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi announced last received in the past days clearly demonstrate that this month that she would not back Malago's drive to put is about Italian politics." on the sporting extravaganza, saying that staging the Rome's withdrawal, following Boston and Games would bury the Italian capital under piles of Hamburg also abandoning their 2024 bids, represents a debt and tonnes of cement. blow to the IOC as it is struggling to convince potential

Raggi's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, host cities that it is worth all the disruption and cost to which took control of Rome in June following a landslide put on the sporting event. victory in local elections, had repeatedly flagged its Rome also applied to host the 2020 Olympics, opposition to hosting the Games, arguing that the city but pulled out of that race in 2012 because the then had more pressing concerns. prime minister, Mario Monti, was worried heavily Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government had indebted Italy could not afford it. supported the bid and the broader Rome municipality, Those games were eventually awarded to

Tokyo.With the new prime minister backing the project this time around, Malago had been confident of success.

On Tuesday, he said putting on the Games would have created 177,000 jobs. Looking to salvage ties with the IOC, Malago said he had offered to host the organization's main meeting in 2019 in the northern Italian city of Milan.

"This is the first step towards rehabilitating Italy after this unacceptable interruption," he said.

Italy's Olympic Committee chief Giovanni Malago wipes his tears at the end of his speech during a news conference in Rome, Italy, October 11, 2016.

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