VOLUME 14 ISSUE 19

MAY 12TH, 2018 – MAY 19TH, 2018

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PDM AND PNP SLAM THE BRITS

by Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

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he ruling People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) and the opposition Progressive National Party(PNP) have strongly criticised the British Government for imposing a new piece of legislation that will adversely affect the financial services industry in Turks and Caicos Islands.

The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill is designed to introduce public ownership registers in Britain’s overseas territories in an attempt to prevent them from being used to hide “dirty money” and enable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures to be kept up to date.

Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Island, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda, have introduced private central registers of ownership, which are accessible to UK law enforcement and tax authorities, but the new law calls on them to make those publicly available by December 2020, or have UK ministers impose that requirement upon them via orders in council.

Premier Hon. Sharlene Robinson, who wrote British Prime Minister Theresa May to express her concerns, says UK’s “unilateral move is destructive, constitutionally regressive and offensive and disappointing”.

In a media statement, she said: “We were disappointed to listen to and hear the Debate and eventual outcome of the House of Commons’ vote on the Anti-Money Laundering Bill which took place on Tuesday of this week endorsing the imposition of Public Registers in the Overseas Territories. The Turks and Caicos Islands has a democratically elected Government who is charged with making decisions in its people’s best interest and as such we see this as a flagrant disregard for our Constitution and its people.”

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Prince’s mansion in Turks and Caicos Islands to be auctioned

by Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Prince’s five-acre mansion in Turtle Tail, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, with an estimated value of $45million, is being sold in a worldwide auction in July 2018.

This was confirmed by Todd Wohl, whose firm Premiere Estates auction company, purchased local advertisements exclusively in the Turks and Caicos SUN to announce the auction.

Comerica Bank & Trust, in the USA, is representing Prince’s estate, with assistance from local real estate agent Bernadette Hunt and top local lawfirm Misick & Stanbrook.

This stunning 5.7 acre compound boasts 10,000 square feet, including 6 bedrooms, 6 full and 1 half bathrooms, panoramic ocean views, a tennis court, two private beaches and

a 200-foot personal dock. Prince also put his characteristic unique touch on the property by creating a purple driveway welcoming guests to the estate.

In a press statement to The SUN, Wohl is founder of Premiere Estates Auction Company, an International global accelerated marketing company known for luxury estates across the world, said: “How do you value a masterpiece like the Mona Lisa,’’ Wohl said. “The value is ultimately determined by the market— with a unique property like Prince’s Turks and Caicos estate, we anticipate significant interest and multiple bidders.”

He said Prince’s estate is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a music lover to own a piece of music history, a real estate investor, or someone seeking a one of a kind tranquil piece of Caribbean paradise.

Bernadette Hunt, one of the leading real estate agents in Turks and Caicos Islands, told The SUN the property is”one of a kind”, given that it is elevated oceanfront with two private beaches and a 200 dock space in a private marina.

She said: “Prince, as I am sure you are aware, when he visited the islands stayed at Amanyara because of the privacy the resort provided him. He purchased this villa in 2011 and later purchased the two adjacent sites having over $13m into the property. Some of the changes to the property were the painting of the driveway purple and the cladding of the theater in purple velvet. The design of the home and pool area offers owners maximum privacy from the ocean and the adjoining property.”

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PDM AND PNP SLAM THE BRITS

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Leader of the Opposition PNP, Hon. Washington Misick, said all stakeholders including the government, opposition and the private sector must as a matter of urgency convene a meeting to examine the options available to the TCI in a rational and dispassionate way.

“Given the TCI low profile in this sector there may well be an upside that may be used to our advantage. A win for the Turks and Caicos Islands regardless to who is the architect is a win for all of us, but the discovery of that win requires vision and collaboration,” he said.

Premier Robinson said that given TCI’s commitment to the international community regulated by the OECD/Global Forum on Tax Transparency, the FATF Standards and the BEPS Inclusive Framework, she is of the view TCI has made significant milestone commitments in the area of transparency and openness for carrying on business with minimum avoidance measures likely to disrupt our international business model.

She said the TCI noted with “great reservations” the inconsistency in which many members of Parliament had made promises not to go the route of Order in Council to impose governance mechanisms on the territories that will create economic hardship and prevent development opportunities from realizing.

“Such actions have serious constitutional and democratic implications on the growth potential of a small island state such as the TCI,” Premier Robinson added.

“TCI has a long standing mutual relationship with the UK on good governance principles and had reasons to believe that we were strengthening these relationships with the recent signing of the EoN’s and the Implementation of a central register. The recent decision of the HOC gives us reasons to seriously review the credibility of that relationship,” she added.

Premier Hon. Sharlene carthrightPNP Leader Hon. Washington Misick Robinson

She noted that FATF 5th subjugated in a political compromise Anti-Money laundering is calling for between the minority government public registers and TCI will be happy of Theresa May and the diverse to work with the regulators on this parliamentary groups to secure the initiative when a universal standard passage of the new Sanctions and Antihas been agreed.

Money Laundering Bill passed by the

“Whilst we know that this will UK Parliament on May 1 in exchange negatively impact our fragile economy for mandatory establishment of public which is heavily based on tourism registries of beneficial interest by and is recovering from 2 Tropical 2020. cyclones only 8 months ago, we will He said: “The will of colonial however consult with the industry to peoples have always been political assess the full economic impact such fodder In the UK geopolitical interest a decision by the HOC on a public as reflected in the famous oration by accessible register. This is sure to Viscount Lord Palmerston 1784-1865, cause additional burden and hardship Foreign Secretary and two-time Prime and we cannot in good conscience or Minister under Queen Victoria that guardians of our people’s well being “Britain had no eternal allies and no be relaxed on this issue,” the Premier perpetual enemies, only interest that added. were eternal and perpetual.”

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“We regret this stance so, history has once again repeated taken by the UK and the unilateral itself and the interest of the Overseas approach which is sure to severely Territories has been sacrificed on the impact our economy and which makes altar of political expediency to achieve the worse public statement following legislative consensus in bringing commitments to build a strong sanctions to bear against Russia.” partnership with its OTs. We have Hon. Misick continued: “The joined with our sister OTs in calling on decision by the UK Parliament on the UK for an early and urgent Meeting the one hand affirmed the principle of and for the UK to demonstrate its consensus democracy as it relates to the commitment to a valued relationship UK special interest; while on the other with us by renewing the fight hand admittedly “disenfranchises against this injustice and destructive the elected representatives of the unilateral move.”

Overseas Territories who do not have Meantime, the PNP’s a voice in the UK Parliament.” This Washington Misick, a former Chief is especially egregious given that it Minister, said it should be no surprise reflects a traditional bias in favour to observers of history that the of Crown Dependencies tilting the Overseas Territories constitutional playing field in their favour. The relationship with the UK has been alarming Ignorance of reality in the

Overseas Territories by members of UK Parliament has been costly, and this most recent decision in the words of Alan Duncan himself will potentially create hardship for them.”

He said the decision is clearly not evidence based and indeed the evidence provided by the UK itself as reflected by Alan Duncan statement asserts that the Overseas Territories now generally have “central registers or similarly effective systems …… that enable UK law enforcement authorities to establish the ultimate owner of companies registered in the Overseas Territories……The commitments they have made in the exchanges of notes with the UK exceed current Financial Action Task Force standards and put them ahead of most jurisdictions, including many of our G20 partners and some states in the United States.”

This, Misick said, contradicts the notion of UK parliamentarians that the Overseas Territories are tax havens for robber barons, tax evaders, fraudsters, drug runners and funders of terror.

“Indeed, there is more evidence that the UK itself is a haven for ill-gotten wealth. While the Turks and Caicos Islands offshore financial sector is not as significant a part of our economy compared with that of the Cayman Islands or the BVI we have recently passed a new Companies Ordinance which establishes a central registry albeit not public; and plans are ongoing to continue the modernisation of legislation to make the jurisdiction more competitive. In addition, a review of the industry by KPMG is expected to be completed during the month of May together with recommendations for the expansion of the offshore financial services sector,” Misick added.

He said TCIG should move “post haste” to publicly identify itself with the sentiments of those recently expressed by the Cayman Islands, BVI and Gibraltar in a show of solidarity.

Prince’s mansion in Turks and Caicos Islands to be auctioned continued from page 1

Hunt said both Premier Estates and Turks and Caicos Property have received a significant number of enquiries from qualified purchasers and they are scheduling viewings of the property prior to the auction date which is scheduled for July 12th 2018.

Hunt added: “The Trustees together with the beneficiaries visited the property with me on a number of occasions over the last year and it was agreed that given the uniqueness of the property and the fact that it was Prince’s retreat the best way of attaining the true market value of the property would be by auction selling to the highest bidder. If investors or second home vacation purchasers are looking for an exclusive villa or are looking for an amazing vacation rental villa this is one property not to miss out on viewing.”

Persons interested in viewing the property can contact Hunt for a registration form at Bernadette@ turksandcaicosproperty.com and once they are ready to submit an offer which will be by sealed bid

they will be required to deliver a good faith deposit of $100,000 to the sellers Attorneys firm Misick and Stanbrook. Should they not be the successful bidder their $100,000 deposit will be refunded.

For more information or to tour the property, persons can also contact Todd Wohl with Premiere Estates at: 310.698 3625 or twohl@ premiereestates.com

The property had been built by as a retreat by an English family in the early 2000s. Prince bought it for an estimated $10.5 million, and then bought two adjacent lots for an additional $2.5 million to ensure his privacy.

The musician Prince rose to international fame and acclaim with numerous hits including ‘1999’ and ‘Purple Rain.’ While he famously loved his hometown of Minneapolis, he sought refuge in the Caribbean.

Prince created a private oasis on the island by acquiring the large estate and several surrounding parcels, totaling over 5 acres of pristine privacy on Providenciales in Turks and Caicos.

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Report from May 9th Cabinet meeting His Excellency the Governor, Dr John Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility, Crown Land Parcel 61112/281 on Freeman, chaired the 10th meeting of Segregated Portfolio Company Providenciales for the establishment of Cabinet on Wednesday, 9 May 2018, (CCRIF SPC); a beach park facility for kiteboarding at the N J S Francis Building on and windsurfing on Long Bay Beach; Grand Turk.

•Advised His Excellency the Governor to approve the draft Turks and Caicos • Received a report from the Hon. All Ministers were present.

Islander (Amendment) Bill 2018 for Minister of Tourism, Environment, forwarding to the House of Assembly Heritage and Gaming on feedback At this meeting Cabinet: for approval; from a public consultation on a draft Gaming Bill. Cabinet approved • Approved the write-off of unrecovered • Advised His Excellency the Governor amendments to the draft Bill following staff advance account balances of to approve the draft Road Traffic the public consultation subject to the former TCIG staff from the TCIG (Amendment) Bill 2018, subject to Ministry identifying and confirming Statement of Financial Position budgetary provision being made to to Cabinet that there is budgetary (Balance Sheet) for forwarding to implement the proposed changes provision to give effect to the Bill; the House of Assembly for approval to the Road Traffic Ordinance and in accordance with Section 51 of Regulations being amended, for • Approved the appointments of the Public Finance Management forwarding to the House of Assembly members to the Prison Visiting Ordinance 2012; for approval; Committee in accordance with Section 44 (1) of the Prisons Ordinance; • Noted the decision by the TCI Civil •Approved the appointments of Aviation Authority to acquire a new members to the TCI Community • The Hon. Premier presented a report Aviation Audit Data Management College Board of Governors and on steps that TCIG is taking to remedy Tool subject to budgetary provision the Education Advisory Board/ ongoing problems at the National being made; Scholarship Committee which fall Health Insurance Board (NHIB); under the Ministry of Education; • Approved draft policy guidelines on • Agreed a final extension to the interim the waiver of customs storage fees on • Advised His Excellency the Governor appointment of Dr Hamlet Nation to materials imported by individuals to to approve the draft Electricity act as CEO of the NHIB with effect replace items destroyed or damaged (Validation) Bill 2018 for forwarding from 17 May 2018; in the September hurricanes; to the House of Assembly for approval; •At the request of His Excellency the • Approved the renewal of TCIG’s policy • Advised His Excellency the Governor Governor, received an up-date from for tropical storm/hurricane insurance to approve the grant of a 25-year the Hon. Premier on progress to cover for 2018/19 with the Caribbean lease, with an option to renew, over appoint a new Board for Invest TCI;

Blee Halligan Architects TCI Ltd. Junior Architect/Draftsman – FULL TIME 1. Bachelors Degree In Architecture and Interior Design 2. Must have 5 years experience in practice.

3. Design qualification must cover: • Structural Detailing • MEP Detailing • Landscape Detailing • Furniture Design & Detailing Must have advanced expertise in the following design software: • Auto-cad • Vector Works • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Lightroom • Adobe Illustrator & Design • Adobe InDesign • Google Sketch-up • SU Podium • V-Ray • Competent in Microsoft and OS Software All above-mentioned skills are relevant in the use of photo realistic visualization of Infrastructure design.

Must be able to work independently and in team environments under pressure of continuous deadlines.

Must be able to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.

Must have significant construction site experience with the ability to rapidly provide technical design solutions during the building process.

Salary commensurate with experience.

Resumes to be submitted to: Management, Blee Halligan Architects TCI, Unit A107, Graceway Plaza, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. Contact Number: 241-3118

• At the request of the Hon. Minister of Tourism, Environment, Heritage and Gaming, received an up-date from the Hon. Attorney General on the provision of ATM banking services on North Caicos; • In response to a request by the Hon. Minister of Tourism, Environment, Heritage and Gaming, His Excellency the Governor undertook to seek an update on the status of TCIG’s Overseas Offices; • Discussed departmental budget allocations and priorities; • Her Excellency the Deputy Governor briefed Cabinet on a meeting that she had with the TCI School Teacher’s Association on 8 May; • Confirmed Cabinet approval of policy guidelines on the waiver of customs duties on materials imported by individuals to replace items destroyed or damaged in the September hurricanes; and approval of the draft National Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Strategy 2018-2019 (“the National Strategy”) and AML/CFT National Action Plan 2018-2019 (“the National Action Plan”).

AMBERGRIS CAY FACILITIES LTD POSITION AVAILABLE Ambergris Cay Facilities Ltd is seeking a suitable applicant to fill an available post on Ambergris Cay ON A MONTH TO MONTH BASIS.

KITCHEN STEWARD

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND QUALIFICATIONS: •High School Diploma or equivalent required.

•Minimum of 1 years’ experience in working in Commercial Kitchen environments •Excellent verbal communication skills.

•Must be attentive to details, reliable, hardworking and enthusiastic •Must be able to work under little or no supervision •Must be willing to work variable shifts •Must produce a clean Police Record and TCI Driver’s License •Will be required to work and live on Big Ambergris Cay with rotated weekends off •Must be able to live and work in a isolated island environment with only 20 or so other persons •Willing to work on a Month to Month contractual basis Salary scale: $16,000 to $19,000 per annum Closing Date for Applications is 25th May 2018 Applications must be addressed to: Ambergris Cay Services Ltd. Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands E-mail: burkley.malcolm@ambergristci.com; hr@wihl.com

Tel: (649)-9468054

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LOCAL NEWS

Crime Stoppers a major challenge for TCI Police Force

By Todeline Defralien

Crime Stoppers hotline for many years has been a challenge for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, with persons not calling in to give tips, according to Commissioner of Police James Smith.

During a press conference held at the Police Headquarters on Tuesday May 1st, 2018, the Commissioner said there soon will be a reward scheme to encourage members of the public to give vital information.

When asked by media if there are any plans to improve or increase the relationship with the public so that they are comfortable to bring over information, he said, “I think that this is still a major challenge for

us in terms of it’s a small community.

People are concerned if they are identified as giving information to the police, then maybe some repercussion will follow. It would be difficult for me to give you some real details about us getting better, but I have a gut feeling that it is better but that is not really sustainable and what we would like to see is that we we’re looking into developing different ways to encourage the public to help us.”

He added: “I mentioned that there was a slight rise in firearms offences and we do continue to struggle to take firearms of the streets and from the hands of criminals. I don’t want to go into details, but another scheme, it will be a reward scheme to encourage members of the public to give us vital

information of the whereabouts of firearms and those that have them.”

Smith stressed that everybody in the TCI community has to play an active part to help combat crime in these Islands.

“Everybody has to play a part here and people can’t just say crime is going out of control or too many guns are on the street. People actually need to play an active part and I am not convinced that we’ve seen a lot of that yet but there might be many reason for that. Some of which needs legislative change, they need more witnesses to remain anonymous in court,” he explained.

The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force continue to appeal to the general public who may have

Commissioner of Police James Smith any information that can assist in the detection of any crime to come forward, or contact the Chalk Sound Police Station at 338-5901, 941-8082, 911 or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-8477.

Annual JAGS McCartney relays in Grand Turk postponed

By Todeline Defralien

The most anticipated games, the JAGS McCartney Relays, which are annually held at the Parade Grounds in Grand Turk have been postponed due to very bad conditions at the grounds after the passage of Hurricanes Irma and Maria last year.

This is according to Rita Gardiner, President of TCI’s Commonwealth Games Association who confirmed to

The SUN that the relays will be postponed until later this year due to the Parade Grounds not being repaired from the hurricanes last year.

The community and athletes are furious after hearing the news and some are also calling on the Government to step in and fix the issue.

Gardiner added: “The JAGS McCartney Relays will be postponed until later this year due to the Parade Grounds

not being repaired from the hurricanes last year. This is a great disappointment to the youths and people of Grand Turk.

The Relays aren’t the only reason for the repairs of the Parade but Athletes need to train for various sports if we are going to keep them interested in extracurricular activities.”

The JAGS annual relay is an opportunity for most of the country’s top high school athletes to compete in various categories.

WATERLOO HOTEL MANAGEMENT LTD Waterloo Hotel Management Ltd is looking to fill the following position.

Spa Therapist Job Requirements/ responsibilities:•Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a luxury resort and spa.

•Graduate from an accredited school of massage and esthetics with a massage certification and esthetic certification.

•The ideal candidate needs to be qualified in Deep tissue massage, Swedish massage, Hot Stone Massage, Prenatal massage and Reflexology. Esthetic treatments such as facials, body scrubs and wraps.

•Must possess excellent communication skills.

•Must be a team player.

•Must have a keen desire to serve the public.

•Training and experience in recognized professional product modalities welcomed.

•You will be required to work weekends and public holidays.

•Candidate will be required to perform mobile services on board yachts, location and in room treatments.

•Professional training for product lines will be provided.

•Reception and treatment booking experience required.

•Serve as a catalyst to promote spa services to hotel guests.

•The position is commission based.

Salary range for the line positions listed above begin at $9.00 per hour and will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Houseman Provide support services for housekeeping associates and maintain cleanliness throughout the hotel. Respond to guest request. Must be able to, work flexible shifts, holidays and weekends. Must be able to push and pull carts weighing up to 250lbs, must be able to lift 50lbs.

Funpal To be involved in designing, adapting, improving and producing fun activities and events. Entertainment staff must engage our guests in challenging, safe and exciting day and evening programs. These programs must be done with enthusiasm which fulfills the aims and objectives of high quality Recreation.

Salary range for the positions listed above begin at $7.00 per hour and will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Interested persons may contact our Corporate HR department by submitting your resume with qualifications and experience to: hr@wihl.com Please also submit a copy of your completed application to our local labor department. Closing date May 25th 2018

The current state of the Parade Grounds in Grand Turk

Leeward Home Owner Association Gardener To qualify for this position, you should be able to push/pull carts weighing up to 150 lbs. You must be able to ensure the cleanliness of all areas assigned, which may include, walls, floors, gardens and grounds. You must be able to stand for long periods of time and also have the ability to climb ladder several times each day.

Salary range for the positions listed above $6.50 to $8.00 per hour will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Interested persons may contact our HR department Mon. – Fri. from 9am-3pm via telephone number 946-8054 or you may submit your resume with qualifications and experience to: hr@wihl.com Please also submit a copy of your completed application to our local labor department. Closing date ---- May 25th, 2018

Lelieth’s Ltd

Aesthetician/Cosmetologist Minimumsix years experience working as an Aesthetician /Cosmetologist.

Applicant must have pleasant personality and excellent customer service skills.

Be able to work independently.

Be willing to work flexible hours Salary: $1,600.00 per month This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Submit applications to by May 18, 2018 to: The Manager Lelieth’s Ltd Town Center Mall 23 Parade Ave Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands Telephone (649) 231-1729 Labour Commissioner Labour Department, Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

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Five Cays MP responds to illegal dumping after resident speaks out

By Todeline Defralien

Five Cays and Chalk Sound MP, Hon. Sean Astwood has responded to remarks made by Paula Arthur-Rigby, host of the Average Joe TV show who voiced her disappointment about the filth in Five Cays.

Arthur-Rigby accused Astwood, the Deputy Premier, of neglect and called on him to resign.

She said: “I don’t care who feels crushed or hurt or upset. I believed in Sean (Astwood) with all my heart. I put my X on the line only to be disappointed.

Tell him I said stand down.”

During a PTV newscast ArthurRigby said she believes too many people are being allowed to take advantage of the systems and also stated that the elected leaders are not ensuring the laws are followed.

Five Cays was one of the worst hit communities after the passage of Hurricane Irma and has long been over crowded with shacks, which will now be subject to new building codes and regulations.

Arthur-Rigby said, “A few weeks ago I made a statement that Five Cays is dirty. I was bashed and every day we have new houses and buildings popping up and nobody is saying anything. It is over populated, it’s over crowded and it’s nasty, filthy and it’s ridiculous. Here I am in the middle of all of this and there is no law for Five Cays. I do not understand it, and while it’s going on all over the Turks and Caicos and all over Providenciales, I have a problem when I elect a Minister and I could understand the excuses before their party was in (power) but now there’s absolutely no excuse two years later.”

She added: “You cannot tell

me that Five Cays isn’t being neglected.

I don’t have a problem with people working hard because I do the same thing but I am talking about when you just viciously and maliciously come in and take advantage of the system; I have a problem with that. When our elected Government and Ministers allow people to come in and take advantage of the system without saying anything or doing anything about it then I have a problem with this.”

Arthur-Rigby noted that Five Cays needs structure, Five Cays needs someone to set laws and police the laws and Five Cays needs to be cleaned up.

In response to Rigby’s comments, Hon. Astwood said in a release issue to media, “For over a decade, I have been organizing and participating in cleanup campaigns in my constituency of Five Cays. During these years residents consistently contact me reporting areas where persons continue to dump garbage. I have forwarded these reports to Environmental health who have always responded positive. No longer than yesterday, concerned residents sent me a picture of garbage dumped in the middle of the road, in an area of Five Cays. I reported it to Environmental health and they had the garbage removed the same day.”

He noted that Five Cays just like other areas throughout the Islands have persons who do not care about their surroundings and will continue to dump garbage.

“Therefore, cleaning up of the constituency is an ongoing process. The constant dumping by persons with no concern for their surroundings makes it difficult to get volunteers to participate in cleanup campaigns. Following the Storms and as recent as last week

Paula Arthur-Rigby contracts to clean Five Cays were issued under Public Works and Environmental Health.”

He continued: “Earlier this year I did an interview with one of the local newspapers saying Five Cays will not be neglected. Since that interview, the garbage trucks have been collecting garbage more frequently.

I have personally paid for derelict vehicles to be towed out of Five Cays.

My Government recently passed a Bill that gave the Planning Department more powers to deal with squatters and other illegal developments where in many respects is home to large illegal dumping sites. They have also been given increased staff to deal with inspections and compliance. Both the Environmental Health Department and the Public Works Department has been given additional budgetary allotments to deal with these long standing issues.”

Astwood stressed that everyone as residents, not only in Five Cays but throughout the Islands need to take personal responsibility for their immediate surroundings and to report illegal dumping and illegal housing to the relevant Authorities.

“I continue to do so and expect

Deputy Premier Hon. Sean Astwood major work soon in these areas. I must say I have never seen the resident in the News clipping at any of the cleanup campaigns that I have organized or participated in over the past 7 years.

This same resident is in a WhatsApp group that I am apart of and recently two issues were reported to me by others in the group, I addressed those issues and gave the Group an update the same day, and as recently as yesterday. So there was always an avenue for her to report her concerns to me or Environmental health. I find her motives highly questionable but my focus will remain on my Constituency of Five Cays and not on persons with political agendas. I repeat for the benefit of this resident and the people of Five Cays, Five Cays will not be neglected on my Watch. There is much to be done and we must each do our part in order to see the quicker results that we all desire,” Astwood Explained in the release.

The Minster stated that he looks forward to continue working with the residents of Five Cays who consistently notify him and/or Environmental Health when they see garbage being dumped or unattended so it can be immediately and effectively addressed.

Rosie’s Delight Restaurant New Position

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON MAY7TH, 2018.

This is a public service announcement from Provo Water Company: Bills for the 3rd May, 2018 are now available. Please pay this bill

by Thursday May 17th, 2018 to avoid disruption to your service.

Paying Your Bill Bills can be paid directly at Provo Water Company Office in Grace Bay 8:30am to 2:00pm Monday to Friday(until further notice) while we are still preparing for the final migration to our new system.

•Bills paid by online banking must be paid not later than 3 days before the due date. You can now pay via RBC as a new addition to our online payment options.

•Bills paid at Grace-way Supermarkets must be paid not later than 24 hours before the due date.

In the unfortunate event you are disconnected for delinquency: •The full amount plus the required reconnection fee must be settled before the service resumes.

•Service will resume the same day for accounts paid up before 12 Noon •Service will resume the following morning for accounts paid up after 12 Noon. Reconnections will not take place after hours.

Contact Customer Service Department on 946-5202 or 649-3399282.

PROVO WATER COMPANY LTD. 197A Grace Bay Road PO Box 39 Grace Bay, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands Tel: (649) 946-5202 Fax: (649) 946-5204 Email: provowater@tciway.tc

One (1) Chief Requirements are either certification plus a minimum three (3) years’ experience or ten (10) years’ experience as Cook/Chief Required to prepare Caribbean /International dishes The general preparation of food with an emphasis on the preparation of platters and cold counter dishes; Responsible for the daily operations of the restaurant Managing staff Managing staff Responsible for ensuring that adequate stock of inventory is maintained.

The general presentation of cold and hot counters in accordance with food safety handling procedures.

Salary: $3,000.00 per month Location: Unit#1-1, 23 Parade Ave, Providenciales Application forms available from Butterfield Gold Human Resource Department.

Only applicants selected for interview will be notified.

Submit applications to: Butterfield Gold Ltd., Human Resource Department 23 Parade Ave Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands Tel: 649-946-4211 Labour Commissioner, Labour Department Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

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LOCAL NEWS

Report from TCI National Security Council Meeting

His Excellency the Governor, Dr. John Freeman, and Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, cochaired a meeting of the TCI National Security Council (NSC) on Tuesday, 24 April 2018, at the Hon. Hilly Ewing Building in Providenciales.

In attendance as members of the NSC were the Deputy Premier, Hon. Sean Astwood the Commissioner of Police, James Smith, Her Excellency the Deputy Governor Anya Williams and Attorney-General, Hon. Rhondalee Knowles.

At this meeting:

The Commissioner of Police briefed the NSC on the 2017/18 National Policing Plan and gave an assessment of performance against the plan reporting that significant progress had been made during the year against the objectives in the plan.

Looking ahead, the Commissioner set out priorities for the RTCIPF including enhanced engagement with the Ministry of Border Control on “Operation Guardian” as well as focusing on road safety, school and community engagement and child safeguarding. The Commissioner updated the NSC on crime statistics for

2017/18. The headline figure showed a 14% reduction in crime over the previous year and a 28% reduction over the past two years. There had been significant reductions in most areas of serious crime over the past year.

The Hon. Deputy Premier briefed the NSC on progress to tackle illegal migration since the last meeting of the NSC including on the surge in sloop arrivals in March and measures taken to address the problem. The Hon. Deputy Premier reported on the continued success of “Operation Guardian” and on the increase in the number of repatriations of illegal migrants and highlighted the excellent co-operation between the Immigration Task Force and the RTCIPF. He stressed that all government departments had a crucial role to play in “Operation Guardian” for it to be even more effective. The Hon. Deputy Premier set out new measures being introduced to tackle illegal migration into TCI including increased manpower, stricter oversight of visa applications and improved documentation.

The Hon. Premier up-dated the NSC on the work of the Planning Department and others to help improve road safety and called for the need to address the problem of illegal jitneys

including through new legislation.

The Hon. Deputy Premier, as Acting Minister of Home Affairs, updated the NSC on the situation at HM Prison including inmate numbers, staffing and on the arrival of a new Prison Superintendent on 17 May. The Hon. Premier reported that the Ministry had produced a report on the proposed redevelopment of the prison.

The NSC reviewed the recommendations in the UK-funded Security Needs Assessment (SNA) Report completed in 2017 and received up-dates on progress against the recommendations and measures being taken to address outstanding issues.

The Commissioner of Police presented an outline of a proposed National Security Strategy setting out areas which the strategy might focus on against agreed objectives, outputs and timelines. The Hon. Premier underlined that a National Security Strategy had to encompass a multi-agency approach with all departments and elements of society being involved as well as co-operation with international partners. It was agreed that work on the strategy would be taken forward by the Deputy Commissioner of Police working together with the Deputy Premier.

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Premier Robinson remembers country’s first Chief Minister and only named National Hero on his death anniversary

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Today 38 years ago, this country experienced one of its greatest losses when the news arrived to our Shores that our Beloved Chief Minister, The Right Excellent Hon JAGS McCartney had died in a plane crash while away on official business.

Having only ushered in Ministerial Government just approximately four short years before, and having voted in its first Chief Minister, it was a devastating blow to our country when this sad news was received.

The then youngest elected Leader in the Caribbean had already championed causes on behalf of his people amidst the challenges of being the first elected to Office under a new Constitution.

He will forever be remembered for the humble man that he was and for his efforts to ensure that TC Islanders enjoyed unfettered access to positions (of authority) and places.

He would always be remembered for his ability to dialogue with men and women of high offices and of lowly estate and for his love and care for all men. Amidst the criticism from those who did not capture his vision and the challenges presented by those who understood it but did not wish to see it realised, he in his short life time and in his short period as Leader of this country managed to make a difference and to leave his corner of the world better than he met it.

We continue to mourn his loss and honor his legacy who was taken away from us at the tender age of 35 years. Today 38 years later he continues to speak from the grave and we continue to call for the realisation of his dream which was for a united Turks and Caicos.

May his soul continue to rest in peace and may his legacy continue to be celebrated.

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The Tuscany & The Venetian hands over furniture to Oseta Jolly Primary

By Todeline Defralien

The Tuscany & The Venetian Group officially turned over $60,000 worth of furniture to the Oseta Jolly Primary School.

The handing over ceremony took place on Thursday May 10th, at the Gustavus Lightbourne Sports Complex, in Downtown, where the school is temporarily relocated.

On Friday January 12th, 2018, a cheque for $60,000 was presented to the school to go towards purchasing much needed furniture for the school such as new desk and new chairs. Now delivered to the school the students, principal and teachers at the Oseta Jolly Primary School are more that grateful for the generous donation from The Tuscany & The Venetian group.

Present during the turnover ceremony were Minister of Education Hon. Karen Malcolm, Jai Tolani, representative from The Venetian, Chairman of Venetian and Tuscany and other Government and Private sector representative.

Jai Tolani, a representative from The Venetian said, “We are very glad that we can be part of this whole venture of assisting the children.

When we came here in November we presented a cheque and after six (6) months of back and forth, the furniture is finally here and we are very glad to see that happen. I would like to thank the Chairman of Venetian

Minister of Education Hon. Karen Malcolm, Jai Tolani of The Tuscany & The Venetian, Principle Rachel Handfield, Director for the Ministry of Education, Mr. Edgar Howell and other officials and Tuscany who actually flew down here after insisting so many times he needed to come down and show his face.”

Tolani also expressed heartfelt thanks to everyone, including the Government and private sector who worked very hard behind the scenes and put in all their time and effort to make it easier for the furniture to get on island safely and in a reasonable time.

Minister of Education, Hon. Karen Malcolm who also attended the ceremony added, “I want to say how happy I am to be here this afternoon and just celebrate this turning over of the desks and chairs from our dear partners. On behalf of the Ministry of Education, I would like to express our

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profound gratitude to the Venetian and The Tuscany for such a generous donation to the Oseta Jolly Primary School. We know that the storms have not been good to Oseta Jolly and you’re not in your original space but we give God thanks and we are all here today to celebrate as you receive your new desks and chairs.

Malcolm encouraged the students to enjoy but take very good care of the gift that has been given to them.

“It would have been the icing on the cake if our new school was ready but unfortunately it is not ready for us to put our new desks and chairs in but I can promise you as I had already that as soon as the budget is passed that the invitation to tender will go out and

once we receive a bid and the contract is signed, the works will begin for your new state of the art Primary School in Blue Hills,” she said.

Principal Rachel Handfield, added: “I don’t know anyone else who is celebrating more than the students of the Oseta Jolly primary School to see the big trucks stacked with furniture and to see that furniture coming into this space here is certainly encouraging and it is heart lifting. We say thank The Venetian and Tuscany group, we say thank you to our Ministry of Education, we say thank you to Air & Sea and we want to say thanks to everyone who has made it possible or have done something to the arrival of the furniture here today.”

Handfield noted that her and her staff was so overwhelmed by the visit because they all knew that as a result of hurricane Irma and Maria they had lost all of their furniture for all of their grade six (6) classes.

“The situation compounded our already difficult situation. We were short of furniture before the hurricanes and we needed them before that and the lost of all that furniture in grade six made it even worst. Priority will go to the grade six classes because all of their furniture was damaged in the hurricane, so we’re going to automatically immediately replace all grade six (6) furniture and then we’re going through the classes and we’re going to meet the needs class by class.”

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Founders of Lipsticks & Things donate $1,000 to Provo SNAP Center

By Todeline Defralien

The founders of Everyday Romance recently made a $1,000 donation to the SNAP Centre from funds raised at the 4th Annual Lipstick & Things event on Saturday April, 28th, 2018 at the Grace Bay Sports Center in Providenciales.

In an interview with The SUN Mrs. Jasmine Hall said, “Every year for Lipstick & Things we donate to a foundation and this year we decided to donate to the SNAP Center $1,000 towards the needs of the school.

The brother of one of my vendors attends this school and I was talking to her in the midst of planning and I wasn’t sure who to sponsor, and she said what about the SNAP Center. I was not aware that there was a special needs school on the island and she shed light on everything that they do, and it really caught my attention, so we decided to sponsor the SNAP Center.”

She added: “I am still overwhelmed by the support and mostly I am overwhelmed by the vendors and how they prepared for

Jasmine Hall and her husband Johnnie, founders of Lipstick & Things, Teachers at the SNAP Center Special Needs Teacher Keisha-Ann Shaw, Ms. Patterson and students from the SNAP Center the event. They went all out and we do yearly.” they really gave the crowd something Commenting on the cheque to see when they got there. It was a made to the SNAP Center, special wonderful function and we hope that needs teacher Keisha-Ann Shaw said, it continues to grow and the island “We are very happy and we’re grateful continues to support, so that we will for this donation and certainly it be able to contribute to foundations as will go towards programs we have

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Shaw said she is really happy that this family member was able to shed light on what is happening at SNAP and encouraged Mrs. Hall to support it.

The purpose of the Lipstick & Things event is to highlight the different entrepreneurs in the TCI and coming together to promote their products/brands, learning and supporting each other. The event highlights both male and female young entrepreneurs in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Father seeks urgent financial help with lung transplant for five-year-old daughter

By Todeline Defralien

Ira Stubbs of The Bight is seeking major financial help from the community and Government to help assist his five-year-old daughter Zharyia Stubbs who is in urgent need of a lung transplant.

Zharyia, who was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease and is not capable of breathing on her own, has been hooked up to an oxygen machine in a hospital for nearly one year and had exhausted all avenues Five-year-old Zharyia Stubbs medically. to rush her out. So from there we went

Her father Ira Stubbs to the hospital. They admitted her said US$320,000 is needed for the and they were getting all the process transplant. ready to get her to go to The Bahamas.

He gave The SUN an We waited five days and the whole emotional, detailed account of his time she was there waiting, she was daughter’s health issues which constantly day in and day out in pain. started when she was about two years She was in so much pain that she old, they were taking her back and could barely cry, because everything forth to the Cheshire Hall Medical was just hurting her. We finally got Centre with complaints of breathing the Nassau on that Friday and the complications. heart specialist said what took you’ll

“Every time we could take her so long because we were expecting there they would do a test and some her from Monday. So I explained to days it was a challenge because she him that it is not our fault. We had didn’t have an NHIP card, but we some obstacles. I guess they say were still getting some way around that urgency wasn’t urgent enough because sometime they would not see because she didn’t have certain papers her but after I had to push and made in place. She he ended up rushing her Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith (MP for in and gave her some treatments for The Bight) aware of then refusing her, her heart,” Stubbs explained. she made a call and had them see her.”

Stubbs stated that shortly

A tearful Stubbs said that after the heart situation got sorted sometimes his daughter would out, Dr. Slattery than detected that complain about how she feels. Some he sees that she has an infection in days she could bear it, but sometimes her right lung. when it gets unbearable then she cry He continued: “I asked him out and say she is in pain. what can we do and that is when he

He added: “When she coughs said that they don’t do lungs here. We it would hurts. When she sneezes it were in Doctors Hospital in Nassau would hurt and all of a sudden when and the doctor then said that we have she cries, she would cry out more. We to see a lung specialist. Now we had to keep taking her to the hospital and send her back home and NHIP knew they would do checkups and say that about it so they said that they will try they don’t see anything wrong with and get a lung specialist so that they her and then they would write her will be able to deal with her and we a prescription to get some pills and set home and waited months and the that’s it. It has been going on and on whole time we waited she was in more and when she got about four years old pain.” she got sick to the point where she “When they finally got back to wouldn’t play, she wouldn’t stand, she us and told us that we’re going to the wouldn’t eat and she went a whole Dominican Republic, the Dominican year and didn’t eat anything. She Republic didn’t really have much went a whole year and couldn’t stand medical report to go by, so they had to up to hold her own body weight. One go and do a whole investigation from day we took her to the hospital and scratch. They did a second biopsy they checked her and they said that on her. They did one in Nassau and they will do some blood work. Time they did the second one in Dominican went by and nothing happened, so one Republic and then she was there day I got a call from work that saying for about a month. They started that she has a high fever and she working on her and ended up having hasn’t budged from time she got up. to put her on life-support because her So I rushed home from work and as I respiratory level went to critical low open the door and I saw her, I almost and they don’t know what is going didn’t recognize her. Her features and on with her, so they kept doing more everything changed. I started praying tests and then hurricane, came so he and she said to me, ‘Daddy I am sick. ended up having to come home just Help me’.” before the hurricane.”

In addition Stubbs stated Heartbroken Stubbs said that after visiting the hospital on that during the hurricanes the little numerous occasions and still getting medications that they gave received the same result, he decided to take were destroyed and through all of that, her to Dr. Slattery to know what is she started to get completely worst. going on.

“We took her to the hospital

“We went to Slattery and they because then at that point she was did some tests on her and that’s when motionless. The only thing that she the doctor said that she is very sick would do is open up her eyes. She and her heart does not look normal. wouldn’t talk. We took her to the When they detected the heart, they pediatrician who looked at her and told us that we need to go off with her said that your child is going to die and ASAP because her heart is failing on they need to fly us out right away. They her. They told me to go to the hospital, sent us back to Dominican Republic they will admit her and they’re going (DR) and they started working on her to make the calls and arrangements again and they didn’t

come with no results, so while being there I ended up having to come home to get funds because we didn’t have any more funds. So when I came back home that’s when they called me with the result and they said that we rather you come here so that we can tell you the result. I told them to just please tell me the results and that’s when they said that she has cancer.

They then said that it is not normal and they said to me that your child is very sick. I asked how sick and he said that she is so sick that we don’t want her in our country. You have to come and get your daughter. I then asked what stage is the cancer and he said that it is progressing to a stage four. I didn’t understand but my mom and I went online and researched it and when we did, I saw how bad it is, I went to NHIP and asked what is their next move and what they’re going to do and they said that they are still going try to get them to go to the (United Kingdom) . The doctors and everyone else were saying that she cannot survive that flight to go all the way to the UK because of her respiratory status and they said that the best that they can do is try to work on the UK because that’s the only thing that they can do and it might take months or maybe a year. I explained to Dr. (Hamlet) Nation that my child is fighting time right now and he said that their hands are tied and all that they can do is wait.”

Stubbs noted that he felt bad at that point and he left and went to Premier Hon. Sharlene CartwrightRobinson for assistance and she said that they will send his daughter to Canada and stated to give her an hour she will make a few calls and get back to him.

“I thought to myself that I am not getting nowhere because promise from politicians is never done. A few minutes later she called back and she said that she confirmed it and that she (My daughter) is going to Canada and then she asked where the child is and she asked if she’s here I said no she is in the Dominican Republic. So now at that point it was like we had zero dollars and zero cents. She asked if I wanted to go with my child I said yes I would like to go and then she said that she can try to get both of us to go and they ended up helping to get a ticket to go to the Dominican Republic.

When we got there they said that they are going to send her to Canada. When they got the med-evac team from Canada at midnight they noticed that something was wrong and she had an adult chest tube inside of her lung and then they were trying to correct it and while they were trying to do it her respiratory status went downs some more. We ended up leaving the Dominican Republic at 5:00am and when we got to Canada

Ira Stubbs and we got to the hospital her status decreased even more until they had to rush her and do an aggressive treatment on her because all of the medicine and treatment she was on wasn’t working and they had to step it up a notch to the point that they said nothing is going to work. There was last treatment that they had and they said that it was experimental and she went back in forth in intensive care, they had to put her on life support and then she ended up catching pneumonia in her lungs and then her lungs collapsed and it was one nightmare after the other. When it got to the final report they came and let us know that they dealt with the cancer and they can safely say that they can rule the cancer out, that’s the good news but the bad news is that she has something that is way more dangerous than cancer.”

He said the doctors noted that the damage that the disease did along with the treatment her lungs are no good, they can only looking at two things which is a miracle or a lung transplant.

“They said that the best that they can do is that they can minimize that and try to not let her suffer, but we will give her some medication that will last about a month because it is a steroid treatment and when he explained to me what the treatment was, the size affects and what it does he said it is best for her to be home or around her siblings. But to be honest, to find a donor for her transplant is very slim and very low and it’s like a two percent (2%) chance and the best thing is for her to go to the UK and when she make some progress that is the best time to move.”

Stubbs stressed that when doctors made him aware of all this he prolong to them to keep her there because he didn’t want her to come back home because there are no specialists on the island.

“At that point she could not breathe on her own she had to be on constant oxygen. Stubbs than noted that shortly after his mother got sick and he had to leave his daughter and come back home and attend to his other children. Shortly after I want getting ready to go back Canada and that’s when her mother said that they are coming home, because Canada said that it is ok for her to go back home and I thought o myself that it’s not rite to say she can come back home because she is still sick and she doesn’t have the help she needs here.”

Stubbs who describes his daughter as an innocent loving and caring is calling on the Government of this country to help in his situation and also seeking helping from the general public to assist with funds to help them get the help that they need for his daughter.

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TCHTA announces Culinary team for Taste of the Caribbean competition in Florida

By Todeline Defralien

The Turks & Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association (TCHTA) recently revealed the names of the persons who will compete in this year’s Taste of the Caribbean Competition in Florida.

The Taste of the Caribbean, organized by the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association will take place from 22nd June to the 26th June 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, United States Of America.

The conference will cover areas like opportunity to network, polish professional skills and cheer on colleagues in competition, before a large audience of industry peers and food & beverage veterans, build food and beverage business.

The Culinary Team set to compete in Florida and 2018 Taste of Tapas is Edwin Gallardo, Kristin Greene, Inga Stubbs, Kevin Missick, Aristotle Florida, Derrick Carter, Charles Joseph, Wilkiens Martin, Lauren Callighen and Vadivel Raju.

Stacy Cox CEO of TCHTA told media, “This is another exciting year, it’s been three years now that we have been competing at Taste of the Caribbean in Florida and this year you may have noticed the change in the team, because what we are doing now is gradually phasing individuals in and phasing some to another level of the team. Eventually we would love to have the opportunity where

there is a huge competition where in Turks and Caicos where people are now competing for their space and hopefully we’ll be able to do that next year.”

Cox noted that Edwin Gallardo is the team manager this year and they are looking forward to receiving gold.

She added: “Always for me the experience for the team is generally the networking, the education and the ability to see and own in their existing talents, while seeing the other Caribbean islands and seeing what they’re doing and learning new skills as well. It’s always exciting and that entire week is just an opportunity for learning. With Edwin as the chaperone and coach this year we’re expecting amazing things.”

When asked how TCHTA makes all this possible, Cox said: “We make it all possible through various corporate sponsors and there are still opportunities for individuals to come on board and be a corporate sponsor for the team and noting that everything that you give to the team is a part of getting them to Florida.

In addition to that we have a huge fundraiser that is coming up May 18th at the Shore Club; it’s like tasting all these amazing restaurants.”

Commenting on his experience in the past years, Wilkiens Martin added: “This year I moved up to the senior level where the real competition is at and I am going to be

Pictured here is Stacy Cox CEO of TCHTA, Edwin Gallardo, Kristin Greene, Inga Stubbs, Kevin Missick, Aristotle Florida, Derrick Carter, Charles Joseph, Wilkiens Martin, Lauren Callighen and Vadivel Raju. competing in the seafood competition and I am praying that I can bring back gold to Turks and Caicos. The experience for me is a lot because when I first got there I was surprised to see that cooking and food isn’t just with our minds, sometimes we think that that is the way we have to cook food and that’s the way we have to plate food but it’s so much more. I am very grateful to be a part of this team and to learn so much from going up to Miami at Taste of the Caribbean.”

The categories include Chef of the year, the seafood competition, the beef competition, pastry competition and we have the team competition.

Individuals on the team will have an opportunity to participate in those categories.”

TCHTA would like for the general public to come out in numbers and support their Taste of Tapas fundraiser on May 18th, 6pm at the Shore Club.

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Human Rights Commission disappointed with the Ministry of Education

Since the passage of they are exemplars of the strength of hurricanes Irma and Maria the Oseta spirit of which the people of the Turks Jolly Primary School (OJPS) now and Caicos Islands can be proud. But sits like a shanty in the Gustavus these teachers and children should LightbourneSports Centre in not be required to display such downtown Providenciales. fortitude, they should receive the

Some eight months later the ‘special safeguards and care’ that children of the OJPS are still housed is due all children in the Turks and in a cobbled together environment Caicos Islands and around the world. with cables laying across a tarped The UN CRC carries a special floor in little booth like classrooms emphasis on education for good reason that are crammed into the hall. that education is a pivotal aspect of

As you walk into the Sports a child’s development. Education Centre you can smell the damp in is broadly accepted as the solution the air suggesting that there may to poverty, and the best protection be mould hidden away from sight. against exploitation, whether that be There are no ceiling fans and the sexual or economic. Both individuals windows don’t open, you can hear and society benefit from the right the air conditioning, but it is not to education. It is a fundamental makinga difference to the heat. You requirement for human, social and are immediately hit by the cacophony economic development and a key of the poorly shielded classes making element to achieving lasting peace it difficult to think. There are no in areas of conflict and sustainable facilities available for teachers to development across the world. It is show presentations or videos to a powerful tool in developing the the students, hampering both the full potential of everyone, ensuring learning and teaching experience. human dignity and promoting How can these children receive the individual and collective wellbeing. education that is their right in this By providing our children environment? with a decent education we make The Human Rights them better able to cope with adult Commission spoke with several life, able to think critically, able to children and teachers and they are problem solve and this makes them all trying to make the most of their more attractive to employers and circumstances, but how can it be more successful entrepreneurs. When that in the Turks and Caicos Islands we fail to provide a decent standard of after eight months there is still a education to our children we fail our government school that is not fit entire society. to house our children? The official In the words of Nelson Mandela: OJPS building is closed off behind ‘Education is the most locked gates but from the road it is powerful weapon which you can easy to see the substantive damage use to change the world.’ to the buildings caused by the storms.

But it is not only Education It’s also easy to see that there is no that we have a responsibility to work being carried out at the site, no provide for our children.

The sign of contractors or construction, no Universal Declaration of Human equipment or building materials.

Rights states in its first Article: The United Nations ‘All human beings are Convention on the Rights of the born free and equal in dignity Child (UNCRC) was adopted by and rights.’

Governments worldwide in 1989 and Where is the dignity in has been ratified by all members of this environment? Are we teaching the United Nations (UN) with the only these children that neither their exception being the United States of community, society nor government America. These rights detail what cares about their wellbeing? every child needs to grow and develop Although everyone has to their full potential. These rights human rights simply because they apply to all children, regardless of are human, human rights work often race, religion and nationality. These concentrates on those in society who political, economic, civil, social and are the most vulnerable such as the cultural rights cover all aspects of children, the sick, the elderly and children’s lives and describe how prisoners. On the Human Rights adults and governments must work Commission’s visit to the OJPS the together to ensure that children’s following issues were noted: rights are protected.

One of the central themes •Smell of dampness that runs through the UN CRC is •Cables running across makeshift the concept best described in the hallways preamble to the Convention.

•Holes in walls

‘Bearing in mind that, as •Lack of ventilation indicated in the Declaration of •Tarpaulin on the floors creating the Rights of the Child, “the child, trip hazards by reason of his physical and •Barriers between makeshift class mental immaturity, needs special rooms safeguards and care…”

The environment that the The Human Rights children of OJPS are being taught in Commission contacted the Ministry is not only non-conducive to providing of Education outlining the conditions them with an education it is also an andconcerns pertaining to the welfare unhealthy environment in terms of of both students and staff of the OJPS both physical and mental health. and the minister responded by saying:

Both the teachers and the “After many weeks of children of OJPS are to be credited searching we had no alternative with how well they are dealing with but to convert the Gustavus the situation they find themselves Lightbourne Sports Complex in. They are broadly positive, they into a makeshift school to offer no recriminations or bitterness, accommodate the students from

Director of the Human Rights Commission, Sabrina Green the Oseta Jolly Primary School, thereby resuming full school operations for all schools in less than six weeks following the passage of the storms. While the location may not be ideal, and admittedly I dreadfully wanted a more suitable teaching environment. However, I took comfort in my thoughts as I am reminded of the situation in regional countries such as Dominica which only resume schools on the 16th of January 2018 due to the lack of any facility to house the students.”

The Minister further stated that,

“The current facility at the Gustavus Lightbourne Complex are being regularly serviced to provide a more comfortable

environment while we await the reconstruction of the Oseta Jolly Primary School is contingent on the passage of the 2018-2019 budget, which is slated to be tabled in June 2018.”

Whilst the commission recognizes the emphasis made for budgetary measures, we do not appreciate that there is no other viable option as it pertains to obtaining a more suitable facility for learning.

The Human Rights Commission is imploring upon the government to pursue the OJPS as an area of great priority. We will continue to monitor, in our capacity, the existing conditions and the environment that the school is housed under.

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Staving off Shingles

If you watch television, you are sure to see ads promoting the shingles vaccine. Shingles is a viral infection which mainly affects the skin.

It can be seen in any age group but is most often seen in older individuals.

With an ageing population, there has been an increase in the incidence of the condition.

but less itching than chickenpox, and the rash is in a localized area on one side of the body. Shingles causes clear vesicles or blisters that are grouped together, usually on a red and tender base. The blisters crust over and heal, but if untreated can last 2 to 3 weeks.

Once the blisters clear, the pain tends to subside but it can linger weeks and even months after all visible signs of the condition have gone.

WHO GETS SHINGLES?

HOW IS SHINGLES TREATED?

By Dr. Marsha Barnett

If you had chickenpox in the past, you can get shingles because the virus that causes chicken pox also causes shingles.

After chickenpox clears, the virus stays inside the body and travels to the nerves where it sleeps. At a time of weakened immunity, the virus awakens or reactivates and presents as shingles.

You have a higher risk of developing shingles if you: •Are 50 years of age or older •Have an illness or injury •Are under great stress •Have a weakened immune system, such as persons on chemotherapy or long-term corticosteroids.

WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS? Many persons feel pain, tingling and burning in the area for a few days before the rash comes out. With shingles you tend to feel more pain,

immune system may be weakened.

WHAT’S THE LONG-TERM OUTCOME? Most persons with shingles have no complications and the signs and symptoms resolve in a few weeks. It can however recur, especially during future times of illness or stress.

Shingles may also be associated with long term ill effect.

•Bacterial infection Without treatment, the rash clears in a few weeks. Dermatologists, The skin can become however, strongly recommend prompt secondarily infected by bacteria as treatment, preferably within the first the blisters become eroded. If this 3 days of the appearance of the rash happens, the rash may appear more to help clear the lesions faster, reduce inflamed or red and tender than the length of time one is contagious previously and pustules might be seen and also reduce the likelihood of in the area with a worsening of pain prolonged pain in the area. and even a fever. If this happens, your The mainstay of treatment is anti- doctor will add oral antibiotics to your viral medications which help clear treatments. Whilst shingles does not the active infection and hence shorten usually scar, a bacterial infection on the length of the illness. Your doctor the skin can lead to scars especially if may opt to add prescription strength not treated quickly. painkillers, especially those geared at treating nerve pain. Sometimes •Eye problems creams may also be added to help soothe the area.

Shingles that involves the Whilst you have the active vesicles eye can be very dangerous. Without you should stay home. Shingles prompt treatment, permanent eye is contagious though less so than damage can result. After a bout with chickenpox. If someone who has never shingles, a person can have blurred had chickenpox before, nor the vaccine, vision, light sensitivity and discomfort. comes in contact with you, then can Glaucoma, scarring, and even develop chicken pox. This is especially blindness is possible. problematic in babies, the elderly, pregnant women and persons whose •Post-herpetic neuralgia

SAILROCK CONTRACTING LIMITED [SAILROCK] is seeking qualified candidates for the position below:

General Labor – 2 positions available •This person will perform general labor work for Sailrock Construction Responsibilities •Performing various tasks related to the construction of private villas and high-end hotel product •Assist multiple trades with delivery and handling of materials •Assist with trade labor work and construction site clean up •Obtain parts and equipment for supervising tradesman •Assist plumber in cutting and threading pipe •Assist electricians in threading wires and installing electrical apparatus •Assist engineer in the cleaning and packing of valves •Perform routine maintenance and repair to equipment, fixtures and machinery •Assist carpenter in routine repairs and construction •Assist painter in general painting duties Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have 1 or more years’ experience on construction project site •Ability to read and communicate •Ability to follow instruction from site manager •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$14,000 - $16,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource Department: •Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Email: humanresources@southcaicos.com Interested Turks and Caicos Islands must also submit copies of their application to the TCI Labour Board.

Dr. Marsha barnett

This is the most common complication of shingles. It can cause pain, numbness, itching, and tingling that can last for months and even years! People over age 60 and persons who started treatment with antiviral medications and painkillers more than 3 days after the eruption of the rash are most likely to have this complication. It can be life altering and is treated with long term painkillers and sometimes medications that are more commonly used to treat depression.

WHAT ABOUT THE VACCINE?

A shingles vaccine is available for persons age 50 years and older.

The vaccine lowers the risk of getting shingles by 50 percent. Though that may not be as impressive as the effectiveness of other vaccines, it is shown to greatly reduce the severity of the infection if you do get shingles and also diminishes the risk of developing debilitating post-herpetic neuralgia.

SAILROCK CONTRACTING LIMITED [SAILROCK] is seeking qualified candidates for the position below: Inventory Specialist – 1positions available •This person will be responsible to track and manage all inventory for Sailrock Construction Responsibilities •Effectively organize all construction materials •Track materials as they arrive and leave •Keep accurate records of all materials •Consolidate materials to prepare them for delivery to project sites •Note issues with materials and prevent shortages •Implement periodic inventory count process Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have 3+ years’ experience in inventory management/ control •Ability to follow instruction •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$40,000 - $42,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource Department: •Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Email: humanresources@southcaicos.com

Interested Turks and Caicos Islands must also submit copies of their application to the TCI Labour Board.

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SAILROCK CONTRACTING LIMITED [SAILROCK] is seeking qualified candidates for the position below: Carpenter – 2 positions available •This person will perform general carpentry work for all Sailrock construction Responsibilities •Performing various tasks related to the construction of private villas and high-end hotel product •Installation of wood framing and stud walls •Installation of cabinets, counters, trellis and miscellaneous carpentry •Other related carpentry projects as required •Installation of timber structures and enclosures, roofing, siding and shingles •Utilize chisels, planes, saws, drills and sanders to repair and erect structures •Join materials with nails, screws, staples, or adhesives •Erect scaffolding •Install partitions, doors and windows Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have at least 3 or more years’ experience in carpentry •Excellent carpentry and wood working skills •Ability to read and interpret construction drawings •Ability to follow layout lines, organize materials and installation sequence •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$15,000 - $17,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource Department: •Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Email: humanresources@southcaicos.com Interested Turks and Caicos Islands must also submit copies of their application to the TCI Labour Board.

SAILROCK CONTRACTING LIMITED [SAILROCK] is seeking qualified candidates for the position below:

Junior Mechanic – 1position available •This person will work with the Lead Mechanic to ensure all vehicles and equipment are in good working order at all times Responsibilities •Assist Head Mechanic with preventative maintenance program for all equipment.

•Assist with repairs as directed by project leadership members to all equipment and machinery.

•Perform repairs to mobile and stationary equipment.

•Perform minor welding as necessary.

•Change tires on all types of vehicles and equipment.

•Maintain an equipment maintenance report detailing equipment condition and repairs performed.

•Update maintenance records as required.

•Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical equipment as directed.

•Support projects by evaluating equipment needs.

Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have mechanical aptitude and previous experience as a mechanic •Must have experience working with construction type equipment and vehicles •Ability to follow instruction •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$24,000 - $26,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource Department: •Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Email: humanresources@southcaicos.com Interested Turks and Caicos Islands must also submit copies of their application to the TCI Labour Board.

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SAILROCK CONTRACTING LIMITED [SAILROCK] is seeking qualified candidates for the position below: Drywall Installer/Painter – 3positions available •This person will install and finish all drywall for private villas and hotel product Responsibilities •Installing gypsum board to wood framing and mud •Apply drywall to walls or ceilings •Fasten drywall to inside framework of building •Prepare panels for painting by taping or finishing joints •Smoothing out imperfections •Working with ceiling tile installers to build walls •Paint interior walls and smooth out as needed Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have 3+ years experience in drywall •Ability to paint neatly and cleanly •Ability to follow instruction •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$18,000 - $20,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource Department:

•Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Email: humanresources@southcaicos.com

Interested Turks and Caicos Islands must also submit copies of their application to the TCI Labour Board.

SAILROCK CONTRACTING LIMITED [SAILROCK] is seeking qualified candidates for the position below:

Site Superintendent – 1position available •This person will organize, coordinate and instruct skilled trades to construct private villas and hotel product Responsibilities •Deliver consistent and high-quality work utilizing industry standard methods and materials •Coordinate with Project Manager and Construction Manager on all sub-contractor scheduling and material ordering •Monitor and supervise on-site labor •Ensure build site has tools and materials needed for days tasks •Take delivery of materials and supplies •Review and offer suggestions to project manager’s schedule •Adhere to safety policy and practices Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have 5 or more years’ experience on construction project site •Ability to lead and direct other team members •Ability to follow instruction from site manager •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$28,000 - $30,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource Department: •Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Email: humanresources@southcaicos.com Interested Turks and Caicos Islands must also submit copies of their application to the TCI LabourBoard.

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There are over 91 nationalities in TCI. Can we assimilate and make TCI the best place? – Part 3

By Drexwell Seymour

If there is one thing in life I do not fathom, it is racism.

There are some folks in TCI who claimed that they are not racists but their actions speak louder than words. If you are not racist, then treat everyone the same by giving individuals the same opportunity and pay as everyone else.

Our government needs to implement an equal pay opportunity legislation that my friend Floyd Seymour has been advocating for years.

There is simply no difference between us as all human beings have the same characteristics.

I know that some of us simply cannot control the way we behave because of our ignorance which was based on stereotypes of races. The best way to address this situation is that we just have to get to know one another on a personal level and I am confident that some of us will act differently.

So how does one get to know one another? Come to church and fellowship with each other. Invite some of your co workers to lunch and get to know them. Do a birthday club etc. Encourage your children to mingle with other children of different nationalities and from what I observed, the children are getting along really well. Get involve (locals and expats) in community projects and have a diverse group of people on the projects.

Let me pause to thank those individuals who are involved already in a number of community projects already such as Swimming Association, Basketball Association, Football association.

Of course, there is a lot more that needs to be done and we can do these projects together as a community.

For example, crime is a big issue for

us, so let us form a Crime Prevention Project and have the best people on the project to develop some workable solutions and then present them to government. There are residents in TCI who have some of the answers.

Don’t exclude them. We also need to address our youths. The Youth Center is functioning well. Let us promote this and increase the number of volunteers.

We need a facility like a YMCA. Let us form a committee to get this going.

We need to address the median along Leeward Highway.

For National Heritage Day and National Heroes Day, everyone that resides here should support this event by participating in these events by showing up and having TCI flags on their vehicles.

In fact, I challenge each of you that resides in TCI, if you are going to display your country flag on your vehicles, why don’t you also display TCI flag right next to it especially those persons who have been residents in TCI for many years.

I am conscious that many of you will always have a bond to your birth place and so perhaps we need to have an annual International Day Parade (not a holiday) and showcase all the nationalities in TCI. This will be a great opportunity to not only learn about each other but also to interact with each other. It should not be a competition but more or less for information purposes.

I know generally people are comfortable with their own ethnic group and consequently a network of relationship develops and so people hang out with their own. Interact and get to know people of different backgrounds. I am sure you will discover you have more in common than you think.

In terms of discrimination, a

Drexwell Seymour person’s income, profession or their country of origin should not be a factor in how one gets respect. Everyone deserves respect as every job is important. Someone has to do the job that some of us consider menial.

In fact, it is the so menial jobs that keep our growing country as they are the ones keeping the rooms in spectacular condition. They are the ones preparing and serving the meals to our residents and guests. As a result, tourists keep returning.

On another note, we have seen a number of our athletes who are not the so call “indigenous” performing well and of course representing TCI well. If these individuals were not athletes, how would you treat them?

I think work permits should be rejected if a local is qualified to do the job. In fact, it should not even reach the Board because a labour department would have done its due diligence before issuing a clearance. I am aware

that some job advertisements are very misleading so as to hire certain individuals and in so doing avoid hiring certain individuals. The Labour Department needs to recruit additional expertise staff that can decipher the requirements of a job as this practice must discontinue.

In terms of housing, TCIG needs to review the building code and not tolerate any illegals shacks.

Demolish them.

In the meantime, TCIG needs to partner with local contractors and individuals to promote the construction of apartments by offering incentives to the locals to build. If hotels can get concession for condos and so should the locals for apartments. These individuals should show proof of housing before arriving here.

I believe at all times that qualified locals should be given first preference for a job or contract. On the other hand, I do not approve granting a job to an unqualified local just because he or she is a local as some of us have a sense of entitlement without meaningful justification.

This is a setup for failure, so do not buy into the concept, “Fake it till you make it.” The truth always come out so don’t embarrass yourself or our country by being in a role you do not know even if the pay is well. When you fail, then all of us fail. If you are not qualified, efforts should be made to gain the necessary experience and qualifications. Once you have achieved this then you should be entitled to first preference.

In conclusion, I believe the TCI can be a model country of living in harmony with 91 nationalities. I thank God for allowing me to have individuals in my life of different races who I consider as friends, brothers and sisters for life.

Mikette Been appointed Chief of Clinical Services at TCI Hospital

Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital wishes to announce the appointment of former Nurse Manager, Mikette Been as Chief of Clinical Services, effective immediately.

In this role, Been becomes a member of TCI Hospital’s Senior Management Team and is charged with responsibility of Surgical Programs/Biomedical services, Emergency Department, Outpatient Department, Oncology, Nutrition Services and Inpatient Services, which include the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Maternity Unit, High Dependency Unit and General Ward.

The announcement is perfectly aligned with International Nurses Week observed on May 6th-12th 2018 to celebrate the profession. Been has consistently climbed the promotional ladder within her field of expertise.

She began her pursuit of Nursing at the then West Indies College in Mandeville, Jamaica in 1989. Upon graduating, she returned to the Turks and Caicos Islands and served as a Staff Nurse within the Ministry of Health & Human Services at the then Grand Turk Hospital and Myrtle Rigby Health Complex Mikette Been in Providenciales.

Been became a Specialist Midwife in 1999 after completing further training at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

She was later promoted to Nurse Supervisor until her transition to the Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital

in April 2010. Since opportunity to serve the community the commencement in such a capacity. I will endeavor of her tenure to perform my duties faithfully and with InterHealth to the best of my ability with God’s Canada (TCI) Ltd, guidance.”

Chief Executive Officer of the private health care management InterHealth Canada TCI, Gaston company, Been was Levac also extended congratulatory promoted to Nurse remarks and best wishes. Levac said: Manager of Inpatient “InterHealth Canada has been working Services, and later along with Mikette in recent years and Deputy Chief of months to prepare her for this very Clinical Services important role. It is equally gratifying in 2016. She has that Mikette is a Turks and Caicos been mentored and Islander and is very knowledgeable trained to assume of the culture and community. She her latest role, which is the highest has a strong desire to help further clinical position in the executive strengthen the level of clinical services.

We wish to welcome Mikette to the branch of the organization.

Commenting on the new senior ranks of the organization, and appointment, Mikette Been said: “I look forward to working with her.” am humbled to have been given this

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Stand up TCI

By Rose Higgs

I write this post with a heart filled of frustration, as countless stories of illegal vessels infiltrating our beautiful by nature TCI islands, reel in daily.

There is an atmosphere of impatience growing among our people as we are left with a growing fear of invasion of boat people to our shores without hearing of an immediate solution to address the same from our elected officials (Government and or Opposition) which leads to a lot of finger pointing from the public.

Firs, many have said or made statements that we’ve had more boats coming in due to what they class as our ‘economic success’. Not true.

We’ve had more boats coming in as word has continued to spread regarding the ease of entering the TCI illegally.

The people boarding ships already know that (1) there is a very low chance of their boat being intercepted and them been caught upon arrival and (2) they know that once in the TCI, they will be harboured by friends/families.

Prior to coming here, they are also filled with false promises

of employment and business opportunities. These people are only exploiting what already exists in the TCI, which is a ridiculous lack of national border security and an even more ludicrous lack in implementing legislation to enhance national security and border control.

Many have also pointed the finger towards the Haitian Consulate, for potentially ‘playing a lackadaisical role’ in the issue of illegal Haitian migration.

While we all know that there are more nationalities which either enter the TCI or overstay their time illegally, we must admit that there are a significantly higher number of Haitian nationals coming in day by day. And although it may be easy to scapegoat the Consulate, I want you to remember this; the consulate is an organization which operates under the TURKS AND CAICOS ISLAND’s GOVERNMENT.

They are not at liberty to follow or establish their own laws, nor promote illegal migration. They can only do as they are allowed to under our government’s power. If you are to say that they play a major role in the issue of illegal immigration, then you must be prepared to say that our

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government is playing an even bigger role by seemingly being quiet and not doing anything to fix the situation.

The time is long overdue for TCI Government to let the Haitian Government and the Haitian people know that the Turks and Caicos Islands is not the land of liberation which they seek. The Haitian Government must be told that they must play a major role in launching a national campaign in Haiti to educate its people against illegal migration to the Turks and Caicos Islands.

TCI Government must also establish new systems to protect our borders from illegal poaching, human trafficking and illegal migrant invasion.

Cautioning hefty fines to persons caught harbouring illegal immigrants is a sad joke. It will do nothing to stop the Haitians from coming to our shores illegally and will do nothing to prevent persons from harbouring illegal immigrants.

This Government must create, pass and put some new laws and policies on the books to protect our land from this ever-present massive invasion of illegal immigrants that is creating havoc to national security and causing our country hundreds

Rose Higgs and thousands of dollars.

Hopefully the Honourable Minister of Immigration and Border Control (Hon. Sean Astwood) in collaboration with his Excellency the Governor (Dr. John Freeman) will soon be announcing new systems and programs for eliminating this massive, massive migration of illegal migrants to our shore

Until then let us all remain vigilant and report any sign of illegal boat activities and people to the Turks and Caicos Royal Police Force and or Immigration Department.

Report them don’t shelter them.

Report them don’t ignore them.

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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: $8.00 - $10.00 per hour

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POSITION: Pool and Beach Manager Job Requirements: • Manage and oversee pool and beach supervisors and attendants: Plan and organize workloads and staff assignments • Meet regularly with staff for briefing and training • Monitor time sheets and prepare payroll reports • Ensure that all equipment and tools are available and to give the guests the best vacation possible

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POSITION: Domestic Worker Job Overview: To undertake a wide range of domestic tasks for the guests and the hotel ensuring that the rooms and common areas are kept in a clean and hygienic condition according to the standards of the hotel.

Responsibilities: • Maintain basic records such as time sheets, room log sheets and task sheets • To undertake training as required.

• Maintain cleanliness standards in the rooms and common areas • To undertake any other related tasks requested by management.

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: $2,500 - $3,000 per month

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 - $7.00 per hour

DATE OPEN: May 2, 2018

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POSITION: Pool and Beach Supervisor

POSITION: Housekeeping/Room Attendant

Job Overview: Assists guest with beach and pool recreational activities supervising, swimming and ensuring that the guests are catered to while they are relaxing on the beach or by the pool.

Job Requirements:  Ensure the cleanliness of all hotel areas  Assist in all Housekeeping responsibilities, cleaning of all guest rooms, stocking amenities and linens  Physical stamina and mobility including ability to reach, kneel and bend  Ability to lift, push and pull required load (usually about 30lbs)  Ensure inventory is used properly and in supply at all times  Possess knowledge of proper cleaning supplies and chemical handling

Responsibilities: • Provide support to Pool and Beach Manager and supervise line staff.

• Assists swimmers from water when in danger utilizing rescue boat •Provide excellent service consistent with the hotel’s standard operating procedures and brand attributes.

• Greet all guests upon arrival, distribute towels, offer assistance with seating, and delivering consistent guest service, exceeding guest expectations, and providing all other supporting services.

• Knowledgeable of pool facility such as length and depth of all pools etc.

• Pool side bar hours of operation, location of facilities, and emergency procedure for rescue.

• Knowledgeable of hotel facilities and services to answer guest

Qualified Islanders and Belongers need only to apply Wage: $6.25 per hour Interested persons can contact our Human Resources Department @ (649) 946-8550 Ext. 7500 Email: nikiesha@thewestbayclub.com Fax: (649) 941-8695 P.O. Box 128 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies

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Group Financial Controller Reporting to the CFO, the Group Financial Controller will require extensive experience in all-inclusive hospitality Finance, in both branded and non-branded properties and in diverse locations.

•Must have 5 or more years’ experience managing the finance functions in hospitality operations, for different target groups with a strong background in the all-inclusive offerings; •Extensive accounting experience with a thorough knowledge of preparing month end journals, the closing process, preparation of budgets, forecasts and cash flows; •Maintenance of financial ledgers and accounting processes, preparation of monthly P&L and balance sheet, ensuring that appropriate systems and internal controls are implemented and maintained; •Master’s Degree; •and the must have the ability to work in USA. Salary begins at $65,000 per annum however entry point will commensurate with education and experience.

Spa Therapist Job Requirements/ responsibilities:•Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a luxury resort and spa.

•Graduate from an accredited school of massage and esthetics with a massage certification and esthetic certification.

•The ideal candidate needs to be qualified in Deep tissue massage, Swedish massage, Hot Stone Massage, Prenatal massage and Reflexology. Esthetic treatments such as facials, body scrubs and wraps.

•Must possess excellent communication skills.

•Must be a team player.

•Must have a keen desire to serve the public.

•Training and experience in recognized professional product

modalities welcomed.

•You will be required to work weekends and public holidays.

•Candidate will be required to perform mobile services on board yachts, location and in room treatments.

•Professional training for product lines will be provided.

•Reception and treatment booking experience required.

•Serve as a catalyst to promote spa services to hotel guests.

•The position is commission based.

Salary range for the line positions listed above begin at $9.00 per hour and will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Houseman Provide support services for housekeeping associates and maintain cleanliness throughout the hotel. Respond to guest request. Must be able to, work flexible shifts, holidays and weekends. Must be able to push and pull carts weighing up to 250lbs, must be able to lift 50lbs.

Funpal To be involved in designing, adapting, improving and producing fun activities and events. Entertainment staff must engage our guests in challenging, safe and exciting day and evening programs. These programs must be done with enthusiasm which fulfills the aims and objectives of high quality Recreation.

Salary range for the positions listed above begin at $7.00 per hour and will commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Interested persons may contact our Corporate HR department by submitting your resume with qualifications and experience to:hr@wihl.com Please also submit a copy of your completed application to our local labor department.

Closing date May 25th 2018

MAY 12TH, 2018 – MAY 19TH, 2018

C.B.M.S. Ltd. 131 South Dock Road Providenciales Is seeking to employ a Project Analyst: Requirements and Responsibilities: • 10 years experience.

• Maintain communication with subcontractors and vendors.

• Prepare subcontractor pricing •Review bid requirements •Prepare construction budget • Maintain cost keys and price masters.

• Resolve cost discrepancies.

• Solve complex problems arising during ongoing projects.

•Developing technical specifications and diagrams.

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Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone SEEKING TO FILL THE POSITION OF HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC: •Hourly rate $15 •6 days per week •10 years experience in this field •Responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of heavy duty equipment.

Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone SEEKING TO FILL THE POSITION OF MECHANIC ASSISTANT: •Hourly rate $9 •6 days per week •Assists in the repair and upkeep of

Professional Maintenance Company seeking the following qualified technician

ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR Maintain the day-to-day operations and to assume responsibility for maintaining the physical assets of the properties under the direction of Premier Contracting Services Ltd. Duties and Skill set required •Provides supervision to the Electrical Technicians and all relevant electrical equipment •Assumes all general responsibilities of an Electrical Technician training within the department •Ensures that adequate materials and tools to execute work are on site. Enforce that all jobs reported as well as completed are logged •Regularly reviews Electrical Technicians general assignments.

•Check work done by Contractors to ensure Safety standard and Regulation •Ensure power and lighting system is to 100% on site •Inspect and report loss of power from Utility lines such as primary/ secondary cause by fallen switch, open/blown fuse and defective transformer to relevant Utility company/Contractor •Knowledge of Procurement Management and Project Management •Implementation of Energy (e.g. Renewable, Efficiency, Conservation and Management) and Plan Preventive Maintenance Systems •Maintain Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs), Generators/ Alternators, Diesel Engines, Power Transmission, Power Distribution, Renewable Power (e.g. Solar/Wind), Electrical and Electronic Circuits (e.g. Starting Gate) •Installation of Domestic, Commercial and Industrial Wiring Systems •Installation of Control Systems such as Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) Please submit applications to suite 301 Graceway Plaza, Providenciales

by Sept 15th 2017. Salary based on experience and qualifications.

Staff housing is available

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Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone SEEKING TO FILL THE POSITION OF A MECHANIC: •Hourly rate $16 •6 days per week •10 years experience in this field.

Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone SEEKING TO FILL THE POSITION OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR: •Hourly rate $15 •6 days per week •10 years experience in this field.

•Certified in using construction Vehicles

such as bulldozers, all-terrain forklifts, Mobile cranes and backhoes.

Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone SEEKING TO FILL THE POSITION OF MARINE DRIVER SUPERVISORS: •Hourly rate $15 •6 days per week •10 years experience in this field.

Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone SEEKING A LABOURER • Hourly rate $8 •6 days per week Contact:331-0221 or 941-3400 This position is currently not held by anyone

Hilltop Ltd. whose address is 100 Ocean Dr., Turtle Tail, Providenciales is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified person to the role of Property Manager. Fundamental to this role is an acute understanding and knowledge of operating high-end properties and deep knowledge in security/emergency first response. The well being of the guests is of vital importance to this position.

Responsibilities Include: •Management of three high end properties •Ensuring and provide flawless upscale professional high class guest service •Abilities to work weekends and holidays •Outstanding communication skills Requirements: •A minimum of 5 years proven work experience in the hospitality industry with significant luxury and international experience.

•A minimum of 3 years experience as the General Manager of a high-end resort or hotel.

•Qualified as an emergency first response Instructor.

•Security training to ensure guests safety (with a minimum of 5 years of military experience).

•Must live on site 100% of the time.

Salary for this position is $4,500.00 per month.

Interested persons should send their CV/Resume no later than April 05, 2018 to: Marsha Blanche Email: marsha@misickstanbrook.tc Fax: (649) 946-4734 Tel. (649) 946-4732

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LOCAL NEWS

Highlights of the 4th annual Lipstick & Things event E

veryday Romance presented their 4th Annual Lipstick & Things event last week Saturday April, 28th, 2018 at Grace Bay Sports Center in Providenciales where it saw the biggest crowd thus far from the TCI community.

The purpose of this event was to highlight the different entrepreneurs tin the TCI and coming together to promote their products/brands, learning and supporting each other. The event highlighted both male and female young entrepreneurs in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

This year there were 34 vendors which ranged from hairstylist/salon owners, sales persons, makeup artists, local clothing lines and much more.

15% of all proceeds that were raised from this year’s event were donated to the SNAP Center in Providenciales in the sum of $1,000.

CEO/Organizer of the event Jasmine Hall told The SUN, she is more than overwhelmed and happy with the support from the community. “I am still overwhelmed by the support and

mostly I am overwhelmed by the vendors and how they prepared for the event, they went all out and they really gave the crowd something to see when they got there on Saturday. It was a wonderful function and we hope that it continues to grow and the island continues to support so that we will be able to contribute to foundations as we do yearly.”

These photos captured the event.

Photo Credit: Renau Destine

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At FortisTCI we invest our time and energy to support a wide range of educational programs that encourage and inspire young people.

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With ongoing activities such as school tours, Career Day participation and an annual summer employment and internship program, we are investing in education to help prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s workforce.

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‘TACC’ 2018 opening ceremony in Providenciales N

ow in its 14th year, Tuesday May 8th, 2018 saw the first day of Turks and Caicos Conference (TACC). The opening cocktail reception was held at Key West Village, Beaches in Providenciales.

Turks and Caicos Conference (TACC) is a travel conference held in Turks and Caicos every May for the top travel wholesalers, airlines and

online travel agents (Expedia).

The three-day event allows these top travel professionals to see first-hand the islands, hotels, resorts and facilities that they offer to their clients. It’s also an opportunity to meet face-to-face with all the top hoteliers, discuss marketing strategies and organise promotions for 2018 and beyond.

By all accounts the

feedback from these travel experts is that Turks and Caicos Islands is a “hot” destination that is performing well above average for the Caribbean as a whole.

The SUN captured these photographs at the opening ceremony.

Photo Credit: Earlson Robinson & Todeline Defralien.

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HEALTHY

LIFESTYLE

Mom’s depression tied to kids’ emotional, intellectual development

A mother’s depression is linked with her children’s development from infancy through adolescence, according to a new study.

Researchers studied 875 middle- or lower-class mothers in Chile and their healthy children over a 16-year period, evaluating participants roughly every four years.

At any point during the study, about half of the mothers had symptoms of depression, and one-third were severely depressed, according to Patricia East of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and her colleagues.

At age five, children with severely depressed mothers had an average verbal IQ score of 7.3 (on a scale of 1 to 19), compared to a higher score of 7.8 in children without depressed mothers.

The discrepancy “might not seem like a big difference, but it is truly significant and important and highly meaningful for children’s learning skills,” East told Reuters Health by phone.

These children will have a smaller vocabulary and poorer comprehension skills, East said.

The study team also found that depressed moms didn’t interact as well with their children, East noted.

Researchers had observed the mothers’ emotional and verbal

A mother holds her daughter’s hand while they stand barefoot on a beach as rain clouds are seen over them in Colombo May 4 ,2014 communication with their children during spontaneous interactions in the home. They observed how often mothers praised their children, read to them, conveyed positive feelings and hugged their child, among other things.

Highly depressed moms were less responsive, affectionate, loving and warm. They didn’t invest emotionally or provide learning materials to their child as much as mothers who were not depressed, the authors write in the journal Child Development.

They found that a mother’s level of emotional, verbal and educational support was more strongly linked with her depression level as children got older.

Health by phone.

“I’m not comfortable concluding from their analysis, however carefully it was done, that we know the exact pathways that this happens. But this doesn’t detract from the big picture that maternal depression is something we need to treat,” said Schoenbaum, who was not involved in the study.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends screening new mothers for depression during the months after childbirth.

“Pediatricians are not only there to monitor children’s health, they’re interested in how well a family is adjusting to a new baby,” said Nerissa Bauer of Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, who serves on the AAP’s section of developmental behavioral pediatrics.

Michael Schoenbaum, senior advisor for mental health services, epidemiology, and economics at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, told Reuters Health, “I was persuaded before this study that maternal depression has various adverse effects on children “We want to make sure we can identify over the course of a child’s life in a parent who is not feeling good and many different ways. This research has depression as soon as possible to reinforces that.” get them the help they need and to

However, he cautioned, the support them,” said Bauer. She was study can’t prove that mothers’ not involved in the research. depression was the cause of the Among the study’s limitations, children’s problems. the authors note, is that it is based on

“It’s bad for a child to have Chilean women whose parenting style a mother with depression and it’s may be different than that of women probably surely bad for a mother to elsewhere. Also, it did not examine the have a child who isn’t developing effect of fathers and extended family optimally,” Schoenbaum told Reuters on children of depressed mothers.

Heavy drinking linked to worse PMS

Women who are heavy drinkers are at increased risk of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), new research shows.

“Together with other researchers, we believe that alcohol increases PMS risk by altering the level of hormones, such as gonadotropin, during the menstrual cycle,” Dr. Bahi Takkouche, the study’s senior author, told Reuters Health in by email.

Up to 40 percent of women in the U.S. have at least moderate PMS, while rates in global studies have ranged from 10 percent to 98 percent, Takkouche and colleagues noted in BMJ Open. Symptoms of PMS include mood swings, breast tenderness, fatigue, irritability and depression.

PMS occurs during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, which begins after ovulation and lasts about 14 days, ending with menstruation if an egg has not been fertilized.

In 2014, the World Health Organization warned that women may be more vulnerable than men to alcohol’s ill effects. Some studies have found that women who drink alcohol have worse PMS than those who abstain, the authors note, while others have not found a link.

Takkouche. a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and colleagues analyzed 19 studies of alcohol and PMS. They found PMS risk was 45 percent higher in women who reported drinking compared to non-drinkers, which they called a “moderate increase.” Women who were heavy drinkers - meaning those who drank more than the currently recommended one drink a day for women (men are allowed two) -were 79 percent more likely to have PMS than abstainers.

Globally, the authors note, 29

percent of women drink, while nearly 6 percent are heavy drinkers. In Europe, 60 percent of women drink and about 13 percent are heavy drinkers. The authors say that if heavy drinking does turn out to contribute to PMS, wiping out excessive drinking could prevent one in every 12 cases of PMS in Europe.

In addition to causing burdensome symptoms, PMS may be associated with other health problems, Takkouche and colleagues write. “I know of at least one U.S. study, very well designed, that found an increase in the risk of hypertension among women who had suffered PMS, especially among those who had suffered from hypertension before 40 years of age,” Takkouche told Reuters Health.

“Although we do not pretend to make recommendations on the basis of one study only, even if it is

a ‘study of studies’ as ours (a metaanalysis), we think it would be better to avoid heavy drinking for women who are prone to PMS,” he added.

Takkouche’s team is now investigating the role of tobacco smoking and psychological factors, including stress, in PMS.

“I think that this disorder should be taken as seriously as any other disease, both by women who suffer from it and by the community of health professionals, part of which disregards this syndrome and considers it as a social construct only,” he said.

Most of the studies the authors analyzed could not show which came first - drinking alcohol or PMS, said Dr. Elizabeth BertoneJohnson, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who studies PMS.

Being called ‘fat’ in early teens tied to later eating disorders for girls

For teen girls, being called “fat” by friends or family may contribute to later developing eating disorders, and the harsh word from family members seems to carry the most weight, a recent U.S. study suggests.

Weight stigma - the negative stereotypes, social devaluation and pervasive mistreatment of heavier individuals - is strongly implicated in disordered eating, the research team

writes in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Previous studies have found that being teased about weight is associated with binge eating and unhealthy weight control behaviors in boys and increased dieting in girls.

The current study is one of the first to look at the long-term consequences of being labeled as “too fat,” the authors note.

“How we talk about weight -

especially with young girls - can have really negative effects on mental and physical health,” said lead author Jeffrey Hunger, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Labeling young girls as ‘too fat’ will never spur positive health behaviors; it is simply going to result in poor body image, unhealthy weight control practices, and disordered eating,” he told Reuters Health in an email.

There is a lot of research showing that weight stigma is related to disordered eating, but not much of it follows people across time, Hunger said.

“With this study, I was hoping to contribute to our understanding of these longitudinal consequences by leveraging data from the NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) Growth and Health Study.”

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MAY 12TH, 2018 – MAY 19TH, 2018

GOVERNMENT VACANCIES – (APPLICATION DEADLINE: 25thMAY2018)

JOB TITLE: MINISTRY: LOCATION: SALARY:

Job Title: DEPARTMENT LOCATION: SALARY:

JOB SUMMARY: This is an administrative position, which has responsibility for the smooth operation of administrative functions in the office and for dealing with information that is sensitive and/or confidential.

Please Note: Applications that are not accompanied by all required supporting documents will not be processed.

Assistant Land Registration Officer – CBB1-01 Land Registry Grand Turk Grade 4 - $21,935.00 per annum plus allowances

Administrative Officer - LWB01-07 National Audit Office Grand Turk Grade 5 - $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY This is an administrative support position for the Lands Division. The job holder will undertake clerical and administrative tasks to support the day-today operations of the assigned unit.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

JOB SUMMARY: This is a specialist position which has unit level responsibility for the teaching of one or more of the school’s curriculum subjects to students.

Director of Crown Land Unit– CBB1-02 Crown Land Unit Grand Turk Grade 9- $59,552.50 plus allowances per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The Director of Crown Lands is responsible for the management of all Crown Lands in the Turks and Caicos Islands, other than protected areas, in accordance with the applicable laws and policies. The Director has overall responsibility for organizational management of the Crown Land Unit, coordinate and regulate the use, issuance and disposition of Crown land and fulfilling the duties, responsibilities and functions of Director in accordance with the Crown Land Ordinance 2012.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Chief Valuation Officer –CBB1-03 Valuation Department Grand Turk Grade 9- $59,552.50 plus allowances per annum

JOB SUMMARY: This is a senior managerial position with national responsibility for shaping the land development, acquisition, disposal, and valuation policy of the TCI. Job holder is responsible to improve quality and to ensure timely delivery of professional services related to property valuation. It supports the stamp duty regime by providing timely and objective assessment of the market transactions of all relevant real estate in the Turks and Caicos.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Deputy Auditor General – LWB1-04 National Audit Office Grand Turk $79,950.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: The role of Deputy Auditor General (DAG) is a significant leadership appointment with wide-ranging responsibility. As a member of the National Audit Office (NAO) management’s team, the Deputy Auditor General is responsible and accountable to the Auditor General for providing leadership and managing several financial, performance and compliance audits across Government, Statutory and other Public Bodies.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Senior Financial Audit Manager – LWB1-05 National Audit Office Providenciales Grade 10 - $73,185.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: The Senior Financial Audit Manager has responsibility for the annual auditing cycle as directed by the Auditor General. The incumbent in this position will be accountable for the execution of audits within time and budget.

This position is constrained by timeliness and accuracy in reporting and must ensure conformity and consistency of its actions with prevailing International Standards on Auditing (ISA’s), the International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI) or other relevant standards.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Internal Audit Manager- LWB1-06 Office of the Chief Internal Auditor Grand Turk Grade 9 - $59,522.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: The successful candidate will assist the Chief Internal Auditor in conductingassurance and consultancy assignments within the Ministries, Department and Statutory Bodies across the Turks and Caicos Island Government (TCIG). The IAM will have the responsibility for managing and developing the strategy for financial and operational audits as part of the approved annual internal audit plan. The job holder will be required to undertake specific audit assignments and fraud or investigative reviews, dependent upon qualifications and experience.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Graduate Secondary Teacher –LWB1-08 Education Department South Caicos 35,926.25 per annum plus allowances

Graduate Upper Primary School Teacher – LWB1-09 Education Department Various 35,926.25 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: This is a professional position which has responsibility for the instruction and supervision of students in primary schools.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Guidance Counsellor - LWB1-10 Education Department South Caicos 35,926.25 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: This is a professional position which has unit level responsibility to help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Client Care Assistant - KHB1-11 Special Needs Unit /Wellness Center South Caicos Grade 4 $21,935.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: This is a practical nursing position with basic level responsibility for patient health care in the wellness center.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Contract Performance Manager – KHB1-12 Contract Management Unit Providenciales Grade 10 $73,185.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: The job holder in this position is required to monitor and coordinate the implementation of all obligations under the hospital project/contract agreement.

This job holder will function as the Secretariat for the Contract Management Team (CMT), provide impartial, accurate and timely advice to the Permanent Secretary on the status of the hospital contract; developing a methodology for the preparation and delivery of the Value / Market testing exercise and representing the Ministry at meetings, conferences and seminars.

JOB TITLE: Clinical Nurse - KHB1-13 DEPARTMENT: Special Needs Unit/Wellness Center LOCATION: South Caicos SALARY: Grade 5 - $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: This a professional nursing position with basic level responsibility for patient/ client health care in the Wellness Center/Special Needs Unit on Grand Turk and South Caicos.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Emergency Medical Technician - KHB1-14 Emergency Medical Services Various Grade 5 - $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The incumbent in this position will respond to emergencies in a safe manner and assist in the extrication, stabilization, care and transportation of the ill and injured as Required.

For more details regarding this position, kindly refer to the attached documents or visit www.gov.tc.

Please Note: Applications that are not accompanied by all required supporting documents will not be processed.

MAY 12TH, 2018 – MAY 19TH, 2018

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

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Vector Control Officer – KHB1-16 Environmental Health Department Middle Caicos Grade 4 - $21,935.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The incumbentin this position will be responsible for control of diseasecarrying mosquitoes and other vectors that pose a threat to public health within the Turks and Caicos Islands.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Director of Agriculture -KHB1-17 Agriculture Department Providenciales Grade 9 - $59,522.50 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY: This job is a Senior Management position within Turks and Caicos Islands.

The role has responsibility for the administration and management of the Department of Agriculture, and its respective Divisions. As the Job Holder, the Director is specifically expected to liaise and collaborate when necessary with other departments and agencies on matters of agricultural development, animal and plant health and biosecurity of the country’s borders. The job holder is expected to implement and supervise polices, programmes and plans relating to: animal and diseases, pest control, veterinary public health, plant and animal quarantine.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

DEPUTY BUDGET DIRECTOR - JCB01-18 BUDGET DEPARTMENT GRAND TURK GRADE 9.1 - $59,552.50 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for assisting the Budget Director with leading and managing the Budget Office in the preparation and the implementation of financially responsible, policy-based, medium-term budgets that contribute to the achievement of TCI’s economic and social priorities.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

BUDGET ANALYST- JCB01-19 BUDGET DEPARTMENT GRAND TURK GRADE 6.1 - $33,415.00 PER ANNUM

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

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TRAINING MANAGER (CUSTOMS) - JCB01-22 CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT PROVIDENCIALES GRADE 6.1 - $33,415.00 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for planning, organizing, leading and supervising training for all operational units within the Customs Department.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Plumber –CBB1-23 Water Undertaking South Caicos Grade 4 - $21,935.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder is responsible to provide support to the Water Undertaking Department in dealing with all jobs associated with the pipe distribution network. This post will assist with the general maintenance of the entire distribution network.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

Plumber Assistant -CBB1-24 Water Undertaking South Caicos Grade 3- $16,707.50 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder is responsible to provide support to the Plumber in dealing with all jobs associated with the pipe distribution network.

JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

AC Supervisor – CBB1-25 Public Works Department Grand Turk Grade 5 $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder responsibilities include the installation, maintenance and repairs to all air conditioning and refrigeration units in government buildings.

Working along with the electrical supervisors, The A/C supervisor will assist in determining work programmes, job costing and in carrying out joint inspections with user departments prior to undertaking work.

JOB SUMMARY: This post is to provide rigorous analysis of expenditure proposals and make recommendations on expenditure prioritization to support the preparation by the Ministry of Finance of policy-based, medium-term budgets that contribute to the implementation of policy priorities in TCI. JOB TITLE: DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY:

STATISTICAL TECHNICIAN- JCB01-20 STATISTICAL UNIT GRAND TURK GRADE 5.1 - $26,650.00 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: This is a technical support position with floor level responsibility for the collection, processing and analysis of statistical data to inform economic and planning decisions. The job holder is expected to generate results that are deemed satisfactory when there is an efficient system to collect primary and secondary data from business establishments, households and governments, to process and present statistical data, and to generate timely relevant reports.

For more details regarding this position, kindly refer to the attached documents or visit www.gov.tc.

Please Note: Applications that are not accompanied by all required supporting documents will not be processed.

Reef Residences Resort Management Ltd. IS SEEKING

Guest Services: • 2 yrs experience working at a hotel or resort • Full time position • $2000 per month plus service fee and tips Maintenance person needed full time.

Experience in repairing a/c units, swimming pool pumps, klargesters, basic plumbing, carpentry and painting.

Submit resume to leanne@coralgardens.com

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Landscape TCI Ltd. Is seeking 3 Landscapers to do Landscaping To wok 6 days per week and flexible hours Salary- Negotiable and is based on experience Please Contact: 331-0221/331-0220

ABSOLUT CONSTRUCTION

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HOSEA & MERCEDES SIMMS

Is seeking Painters To work 6 days per week Starting Salary: $7.50 per hour Please Contact: 242-2610/ 345-9876

Is looking for a Hairdresser To work five days a week at Mercedes Beauty Salon Salary $6.50 an hour Please Contact Phone No. 346-2097

Gabriel Milien

Rochelle Vanalstine

In Grand Turk NEEDS A Steel Worker To work 6 days per week Salary $200.00 per week Please Contact 232-4240

ELITE SECURITY

JENNIFER IRON & WEILDING

A vacancy exist for Security Officers Suitable candidates with at least 4-5 years experience may apply.

Salary based on experience in the security industry.

Kindly contact 231-0047 or 331-7340

NICHOLAS MORLEY

Is Seeking 1 Domestic Worker must work 6 days a week Salary $6.25 Contact 241-1698

Candace Hanchell

Is seeking 1 Caretaker To work 6 days per week Salary $6.50 per hour Contact Person: Candace Hanchell telephone # 332-3458

SOBEIDA VENECIA GILL VERAS

TJ’S CONSTRUCTION

Is seeking a Domestic Worker To work 6 days per week Salary $6.50 per hour Please Contact: 343-1115

Is seeking a Care giver in Grand Turk To work Monday, Thursday, Friday also may be required to work an occasional Saturday Please Contact: (649)331-1979

NEEDS DOMESTIC WORKER In Grand Turk Salary: $6.25 per hour To work 6 days per week Please Contact 343-1691

SEEKS TO EMPLOY A PROFESSIONAL MASON IN GRAND TURK AT A SALARY OF $450.00 PER WEEK PLEASE CONTACT TEREZE AT TEL NO. 245-4888

Nathan Smith

SYDNEY GARLAND

Rony Valmyr

RC LIMO

Seeking One (1) Chief Mechanic Must have 10 years experience as a mechanic.

Wages: $12 per hour Location: Blue Hills, Providenciales.

The position held by a Work Permit Holder.

Applications to be submitted to the following; RC Limo gordon@gmail.com

v Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a Labourer Must be willing to work 5 days per week Salary $6.50 per hour Please Contact 231-4856

Needs a Labourer In Grand Turk Salary $250.00 per week To work 5 days per week Please Contact 241-3674

Is seeking a Labourer Seeking a Domestic Worker Seeking a Care Giver Pay is minimum wage Please contact 242-4805

The Labour Commissioner Labour Department Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

Oyster House

MBA CONSTRUCTION

Mavis Simms

GREEN ACRES FARM

SEEKS 1 Gardener Salary $7.00 per hour To work 6 days per week Please Contact 242-3450

Of Grand Turk Is seeking a Caretaker /Domestic Worker To work 5 days a week Monday to Friday Salary is minimum wage Please contact 347-5983

Is seeking Farmers To work 6 days per week Salary $6.25 per hour Contact # 231-3898

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

Is seeking a Pastry Chef - $10.00 per hour A cook - $9.00 per hour 2 Kitchen Helpers – $6.50 per hour To work 6 days per week, must be flexible Please Email resume to oyserterhousetciway.com /331-0221 This Position is not held by anyone ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY

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Brave’s ‘U’ for FNM first year

Opposition Leader Philip Davis yesterday gave the Minnis administration a “U” mark in his assessment of the government’s performance during its first year at the helm.

Mr Davis criticised the character of Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ cabinet, telling reporters on the sidelines of a CARICOM forum that the group’s arrogance has prevented them from seeking proper guidance to correct missteps.

He said Dr Minnis’ appeal on Sunday to his parliamentary caucus for unity and humility as they marked the anniversary of their first year in government, spoke volumes to the internal workings of the FNM.

“F for failure is being kind, I give them a U,” Mr Davis, Progressive Liberal Party leader, said.

“I think they came in not appreciating what governance is all about and from what I observe and what I think they suffer from is the inability to reach out to those who may be able to help and guide them. They thought being elected was some waving of a wand that gives them omnipotence, omnipresent, all knowing position, and that is the way they have been conducting themselves.

“I think reality is setting in but unfortunately I think their own character, what they are as persons, is prohibiting them from being able to adjust themselves to what they see the reality is today.”

In remarks at Living Waters Kingdom Ministries on Sunday, Dr Minnis warned party members not to attack each other or criticise the government’s efforts publicly because it would prop up the opposition’s campaign.

Opposition Leader Philip Davis

The prime minister maintained the PLP had violated the public’s trust during its last term, and insisted the party had changed leadership but not its lust for power. Dr Minnis said many of the same faces from the last administration remained on the frontlines.

Yesterday, PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell said there was objective evidence of division in Dr Minnis’ camp.

He pointed to the appointment of independent Senator Ranard Henfield as government whip in the Upper House, and his stance against recent government legislation.

Mr Mitchel also referred to the criticism levelled at Dr Minnis from junior Cabinet Minister Elsworth Johnson over the vacancy to the substantive chief justice post - a public position for which Mr Johnson has apologised.

“The objective evidence is there,” Mr Mitchell said, “the whip is supposed to be at one with the Cabinet, the whip can’t separate itself from the Cabinet, yet he (Mr Henfield) gets up in the Senate and attacks a piece of

legislation being put forth by the government.

“How are we supposed to believe the government’s position now, when the government is divided on this position?

Similarly we have a minister of the government giving advice to the prime minister on the appointment of a chief justice.

“A minister of the government doesn’t talk to the prime minister in public, presumably you can say this in private, so it’s clear. The signs are there that there are cracks in their morale, and cracks in their programme.”

Mr Mitchell continued: “So we’re going to do our best to tell the country that no lie lasts forever. They came on a programme of deceits. It’s now being exposed slowly and slowly, I say again we’re coming to get you.”

Mr Mitchell also suggested Dr Minnis take his own advice as the FNM Cabinet boasted at least five senior statesmen who have returned to frontline politics. He listed Attorney General Carl Bethel, Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes, and Minister of Public Service Brensil Rolle and others.

“Let’s just take the comment that nothing has changed,” Mr Mitchell said, “and the same old people are there.

Take your own advice…don’t give me this stuff that nothing has changed. The fact is the party uses the talents which are available to it. There is new leadership and we coming to get them.

“So brace for it,” Mr Mitchell continued, “you can stand on the beach of history but you can’t hold back the tide. So I tell them we coming for them.”

KAABOO expected to generate nearly $14 million

What may be the largestever festival planned for the Cayman Islands next year is expected to attract 11,000 people for each of its two days and, with them, a lot of money.

The greatest beneficiary of next February’s KAABOO Festival – featuring music, comedy, art, food and more – is expected to be the hotel industry.

But restaurants, retail, tech companies and transportation are expected to reap benefits as well.

Dart and Virgin enterprises are co-sponsoring the event. Dart CEO Mark VanDevelde said an economic impact forecast by Deloitte, a financial and consulting firm, shows KAABOO could bring $13.9 million to the island.

In an emailed statement, Mr. VanDevelde said the forecast estimates $8.7 million in direct spending in such areas as “food and beverage, local talent and designers, marketing, staging and equipment, site operations and accommodation for talent, KAABOO employees and incremental visitors to

the island.” An additional $4.4 million is expected in indirect spending along with $760,000 in government revenue.

Estimates specific to the festival are not yet available, although Dart, which is cosponsoring the festival, is working on an economic impact report.

Organizers expect about half of the festival attendees will be offisland visitors. The Department of Tourism’s 2016 annual report shows the average amount of money spent by a stay-over visitor is $178 per day. An average stay of three nights for 5,500 visitors would generate $2.9 million under normal conditions.

But KAABOO will not be business as usual. It will take an army of people to provide food and services for the festival.

Jason Felts, chief marketing and brand officer for KAABOO, said he expects to hire as many as 800 people to staff the event, workers who will do everything from parking cars to managing hospitality for VIP ticket holders. He said 70 percent to 80 percent will be local residents.

“We’ve already started interviewing,” he said. “We’ll start scaling up as we get closer.”

Companies and individuals hope to cash in on the opportunity.

Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce President Paul Byles expects a boost for many of his members.

“We have not discussed the event directly with the organisers but from what we have seen we support their efforts,” Mr. Byles wrote in an email. “I am sure there is likely to be a benefit to our local businesses.”

Mr. Felts has experience in promoting and producing large events. He is one of the organizers behind the KAABOO festival in San Diego, California, which is backed by Virgin Produced, the entertainment arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin empire. That event is heading into its third year with groups such as the Foo Fighters, Imagine Dragons and Katy Perry set to perform in September. Last Friday, Mr. Felts also announced plans for a KAABOO festival in Dallas, Texas, in May of next year.

No lawsuit yet from top cop Wendel Robinson

Wendel Robinson

There has been “no response” yet to the Police Service Commission’s letter to suspended Commissioner of Police, Wendel Robinson, who threatened to sue the state if his April 13 written demand for his reinstatement on or before April 20, was not met.

Dr. David Dorsett, who represents the commission, told OBSERVER media last evening that he has not heard from the top cop and his lawyer, Sir Richard Cheltenham, since writing to them over two weeks ago.

“We have sent a correspondence to him via email and we have not received any response to the email nor an acknowledgment, so there has been no response,” Dr. Dorsett said. He added, “We wrote to him on behalf of the Commission…we are not aware of any action taken by Mr. Cheltenham in response to our letter to him.”

According to the PSC’s legal representative, the Commission rejected Robinson’s demand and rebutted his argument that his suspension was unlawful.

Dr. Dorsett said the PSC acted lawfully when it suspended the police chief from duties, with half pay, pending the outcome of a probe into his alleged improper conduct with three male junior officers who have accused him of making sexual advances towards them.

The lawyer emphasised that contrary to Robinson’s belief the PSC “acted totally within its limit” therefore it will maintain the suspension.

On April 5, the Commission suspended Robinson and in the interim, his colleague, Atlee Rodney is the acting top cop.

Robinson, who is also a lawyer, threatened to sue the PSC which he said violated the law when is suspended him, by: “acting ultra vires; not complying with the rules of fair play, natural justice and due process; acting in a manner which is inconsistent with established practices and protocols; committing errors of law; failing to give any or any adequate reasons for the punitive steps taken; failing to take relevant considerations into account; abusing its authority; acting without administrative consistency and; violating the Commissioner’s legitimate expectations.”

Dad charged after allegedly using machete to hit daughter A 54-yearold Westmoreland businessman has been charged with assault occasioning bodily harm after allegedly using a machete to hit his daughter.

J o s e p h Arthurs of Revival district, Westmoreland reportedly committed the offence last Thursday, while his daughter was on her way to an Internet café.

The police say Arthurs was driving in a motorcar when he saw his daughter enroute to the café.

He reportedly told her to go home, however, she disobeyed his instructions.

According to the police, Arthurs then got out of the vehicle and used a piece of stick to hit his daughter on her hand.

H e subsequently went to the car, pulled a machete and used it to hit her on the back.

The matter was reported to the Grange Hill police on Saturday and Arthurs later arrested and charged.

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St. Vincent Men complained after Trinidad Mother takes a bullet for son suspected sex workers deported

Carlsen Field mother took a bullet to save her son as bandits opened fire outside a bar on Sunday.

Sherry Goolcharan, 38, was seated in her car parked on the roadway when she observed a man pointing a gun at her son.

Goolcharan exited the vehicle and confronted the gunman, who shot her in the right leg.

Her son, 21-year-old Nigel Samlal, was not hurt.

The incident occurred outside D’ Base Bar, Xeres Road, Carlsen Field, Chaguanas, around 4.18 p.m.

The shooting was captured on closedcircuit television cameras and released on social media.

Five arrested in major drug bust

The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Monday said they had seized cocaine with more than TT$34 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) at the Piarco International Airport late last month.

The police in a statement said that five people including two people employed with a security firm and two others, who are airport workers, had been arrested and charged with the possession of 38.8 kilogrammes of cocaine.

According to the police statement, the drugs were concealed in two suitcases that were loaded on a Caribbean Airlines flight destined for New York on Sunday April 29.

“The suitcases contained 38 and 39 packages of cocaine 42.88 and 43.92 kilogrammes of the drugs respectively,” the police statement said, adding that the drugs had a street value of TT$34.7 million..

The statement said the five people, including a women, are due to appear in the Arima Magistrate Court, east of here on Monday.

Access to online court records still in the works

Delays are continuing in the creation of a digitized court records system that is accessible to the public, with no launch date for the service in sight.

Court administrator Suzanne Bothwell told the Cayman Compass in late February that web designers were in the final stages of uploading all public court registers to an online format, but Shiona Allenger, Cayman’s clerk of courts, said Monday that she cannot affix a time line to the process.

“The site is under construction,” said Ms. Allenger in an email response to a request for comment.

The online system was slated for launch in either December or January. The court began uploading registers onto its platform in January, but the site has still not reached completion, four months later.

The court administrator told the Compass in February that all public documents going back five years will be freely available as part of the online register. The court also hopes to install a kiosk for viewing documents expressly for people who do not have access to computers at home.

Ms. Bothwell told the Compass last year that the only fees associated with the online register will be for people who are interested in purchasing court documents.

Recently, a Cayman Compass reporter was told that Judicial Administration will no longer provide free autopsy reports. Autopsy reports will cost $20 plus $0.50 per page. Ms. Allenger said that does not represent a change in policy as much as it is adherence to existing court rules.

“The fees charged are governed by the Court Fee Rules 2009,” said Ms. Allenger.

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15-year-old Trinidad Vincentian Prime & Tobago national stopped by Minister Ralph Gonsalves said immigration Gonsalves said there that after several suspected was another incident in which a sex workers were deported, he 15-year-old boy was stopped by actually received complaints immigration authorities from from several men about it. visiting his father who resided

According to a report in St Vincent because his letter by iWitness News, Gonsalves of authorisation had not been was speaking in Parliament notarised. on Thursday after an Interpol He said the boy’s mother report included the Caribbean had sent him along with a letter country as one in which human saying he would spending time trafficking occurred. with his father over the Easter

He said before the anti- holidays. human trafficking law was “Immigration … passed, that there were about detained the youngster because 50 women from the Dominican the letter was not notarised.

Republic who visited St Vincent They did not consider this a and the Grenadines for a holiday. sufficient letter to allow this

He said however that he child to travel and they were received complained from “irate saying that the airline ought not girlfriends and wives” about to have put the child on the plane their activities. with just a simple letter without

“I had the Commissioner it being notarised.” of Police immediately address Gonsalves said that the question, call in the two after further inquiry, the child or three ringleaders, including was allowed to enter St. Vincent. somebody from St. Vincent and The prime minister, giving I got the report and I told the another example, said that commissioner, well, they say there was a Chinese restaurant they have no money to go back in SVG, which he had been told to the Dominican Republic, what was one of the better ones that they want to do is to stay here to had “three or four persons who make some money to go back. had work permits to work at this

“So, I chartered a plane restaurant, including a husband and I deported all of them one and wife, who were the owners. day. Deported every single one of Gonsalves said the issue them,” the prime minister said. of human trafficking is one his

However he said after government takes very seriously. the women were deported, he “I give this to show the manner in again received complaints. which we address this question.

“Just as a footnote to We do so in a vigorous way...it is this, Mr. Speaker, after they had a matter which we are very, very

Vincentian Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. focused and sensitive on,” he said.

According to a BBC report, Interpol-coordinated Operation Libertad rescued victims who were forced to work in nightclubs, factories, markets, farms and mines throughout the Caribbean and Latin American region.

The raids were the result of a project funded by the Canadian government.

Officers from various Caribbean islands were involved, including Aruba, Curacao and the Turks and Caicos islands, as well as in Brazil and Venezuela.

Operations were directed from Barbados and supported

by Interpol command centres in Lyon, France and Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires.

Officers told harrowing tales of women forced to work as prostitutes near gold mines where they could not escape and where it was difficult for authorities to find them.

This is one of several Interpol projects under its global human trafficking task force, which is backed by G7 security ministers.

Bermuda’s First quarter air arrivals up

Tourist air arrivals rose for the ninth consecutive quarter, the Bermuda Tourism Authority revealed today.

But rough weather at sea caused cruise ship arrivals to drop by 49.5 per cent in the first three months of the year.

Kevin Dallas, BTA CEO, said 26,316 visitors flew to the island between January and March, 21.3 per cent more than in the same period in 2017.

He explained much of the increase was due to higher air capacity — particularly between the island and Boston.

Air capacity on flights from Boston was up 117 per cent during the quarter, with 73 per cent more air arrivals from the city.

Mr Dallas said: “We see the same positive impact from Boston we saw out of New York when the air capacity increased at JFK.

“When supply and choice increase, demand goes up too and the net result is more travellers to Bermuda.”

Mr Dallas added: “We have worked very closely with

JetBlue on a more robust marketing partnership to fill newly added airline seats and it is clearly paying dividends for the airline and Bermuda.”

He added: “With reduced hotel inventory and cancelled flights there was no shortage of challenges to overcome in the first quarter, but our industry has proven resilient once again.

“Double-digit per cent increases in leisure air arrivals and spending are further steps in a long growth trajectory that is built on solid marketing fundamentals put in place by the BTA.”

The total spending by leisure visitors during the period grew 25 per cent, rising from $26.3 million to $32.7 million.

Mr Dallas said six of the island’s hotels had rooms unavailable because of renovations in the first quarter, including Rosewood Tucker’s Point.

But he said revenue per available room increased by 6 per cent compared to the same time last year.

Mr Dallas said: “We are

still not at a point where they are profitable in the winter months, and that remains our goal.

“We really do want to get to a point where our hotels are profitable year round rather than just in the peak summer months, so we have more work to do.”

Mr Dallas said that visitor arrivals increased among all age groups, with the largest increases in those aged under 24.

The number of visitors under the age of 17 increased by 45.8 per cent, while those between 18 and 24 rose by 40.9 per cent.

Mr Dallas said: “In visitor stats, in media coverage and on social media, couples with young children are a constant, so we want to align stakeholders to ensure we’re growing this market segment and serving it with wellsuited on-island experiences.”

He said this October the island will host the Family Travel Association Annual Summit, which will bring about 200 family-focused tour operators and travel agents to Bermuda.

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Former finance minister released on $6 million bail

Former finance minister, Dr. Ashni Singh was granted $6 million bail on Tuesday when he appeared Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan, on charges of misconduct in public office.

Singh, along with the former head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, have been jointly charged by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) with three counts of misconduct in public office over the sale of three tracts of government land on the East Coast of Demerara, between December, 2008 and May, 2011.

The prosecution alleges that

in one instance, the property was sold below market value, while in the other two the deals went ahead without proper valuations of the land.

Brassington was also released on $6 million bail. Both men had failed to make an appearance in court on Monday when the matter was first called. They are reported to be residing overseas.

The magistrate had refused a request by attorney Anil Nandlall for the bail to be reduced to one million and Nandlall later told reporters that his clients had to resort to mobilising cash to post the bail or they would have been sent to the Georgetown Prison

pending the valuation of a property and the submission of transport as a surety.

The two men, who were associated with the former People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government, are due to re-appear in court on June 5 and the special prosecutor, Trenton Lake said he would apply for the case to be tried summarily instead of indictably which would require a preliminary inquiry to determine if they should face trial by a High Court judge and jury.

The two men face a maximum penalty of one year in jail if found guilty.

Trinidad says no official report from Jamaica on alleged dumping of flour

The Trinidad and of flour are being sold at below opportunities for further Tobago government Friday the domestic prices. It said expansion and diversification said it had not received any Caribbean Queen counter flour of exports to Jamaica as well as official complaint from Jamaica is produced by Caribbean Flour to strengthen and improve the regarding allegations that Mills Limited, a privately-owned business investment relations local flour manufacturers were mill in Trinidad, while Special between both countries”. dumping their products on the Palm Flour, produced by the She told legislators that Jamaican market.

Trinidad-based National Flour the allegations of dumping of

Earlier this year, the Mills Limited, are sold here in flour by Trinidad and Tobago Jamaican manufacturers said 45-kilogram bags. “was not raised by Jamaica during they intend to approach the But Trade and the trade mission”. island’s Anti-Dumping and Investment Minister Paula She said following Prime Subsidies Commission on the Gopee-Scoon told Parliament Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s issue. that while she was aware of official visit to Jamaica in 2016,

Dumping is a kind of the newspaper report “it is to an action plan was developed predatory pricing, especially in be noted that Trinidad and to improve the trade relations the context of international trade. Tobago has not received any between the two countries and It occurs when manufacturers formal communication from the since then Jamaica has submitted export a product to another government of Jamaica on the a proposed trade complaints country at a price below the claims being made”. mechanism “and this mechanism normal price.

She said that the Ministry is currently being finalised by

“We’re getting dumped of Trade and Industry has been in both countries”. products out of Trinidad. We’ve contact with the local companies She said the proposed approached Jamaica Flour Mills named – Caribbean Flour Mills mechanism aims to provide (JF Mills) to go as an industry to Limited also known as Republic guidelines that will allow for complain to the Anti-Dumping Grains Investment Limited and the quick resolution of trade Commission about the situation National Flour Mills – and that complaints between the two because they are causing material “both these producers have denied countries. damage to the industry here,” the allegations” adding that ‘it “Upon implementation Richard Pandohie, the general should also be noted Trinidad it is expected that issues which manager of Seprod Limited told and Tobago conducted a trade arise during the course of trade the Financial Gleaner newspaper mission to Jamaica during April between Trinidad and Tobago in February.

17-21. and Jamaica will be handled

The newspaper reported “The purpose of in a more efficient and timely that that at least two brands the mission was to provide manner,” she said

Island welcomes additional American Airlines flights

Barbados has welcomed the decision by American Airlines to include a third daily flight to the island, saying it anticipates an even larger influx of United States visitors following a year of record breaking growth.

The USA is a very important growth market for Barbados and the commitment we’ve seen from our airline partners to increase and enhance flight options is backing this trend,” said Tourism and International Transport Minister, Richard Sealy.

“As we know, ease and accessibility are primary drivers for customers’ consideration of a destination, and with this

increased service from the Miami gateway, we anticipate even more success with visitor arrivals from the USA market,” he added.

American Airlines, the largest airline carrier in the United States, unveiled its newest routes, which include a third daily flight from Miami International Airport (MIA) to Grantley Adams International Airport commencing December 19.

Tourism officials said the new route will hinge on Barbados ascension as the Caribbean destination du jour. In 2017, Barbados welcomed 188,970 U.S. visitors, a 30 year high.

Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), said

high-level airline partnerships have been a cornerstone effort for tourism industry here and this latest announcement is testament to this strategy.

“We’re thrilled to continue growing our presence in Barbados this coming December with a new seasonal frequency, further strengthening our more than 40-year commitment to this key destination in the Caribbean,” said Alfredo Gonzalez, BTMI Managing Director- Caribbean.

“With this new route we will now be operating up to four daily flights to Barbados during the winter season from our hubs in Miami and Charlotte,” he added.

Former finance minister, Dr. Ashni Singh

Coast Guard seizes a ton of marijuana in Caribbean Sea

US Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard says an estimated one ton of marijuana had been seized during a 71-day deployment of the Cutter, Resolute in the Caribbean Sea.

It said that the drug had a street value of US$2.2 million and that seven suspected drug smugglers have been apprehended as part of Operation Riptide.

“By working hand-in-hand with DHS (Department of Homeland Security) partners and the nation of Jamaica, we were able to efficiently interdict the 2,600 pounds of marijuana,” said Commander Carmen DeGeorge, the Resolute’s commanding officer on Tuesday.

He said the seizure “represents the ongoing commitment of US and international partners to combat transnational criminal networks and promote stability across the Caribbean region.

Govt. to spend US$300.0M to improve Santo Domingo’s traffic

The Government looks to spend RD$15.0 billion (US$300 million) to improve traffic and transportation in Greater Santo Domingo starting this year and until 2020, and includes work on nine corridors and the construction of seven bus terminals.

Public Works deputy minister Ramón Pepín made the announcement Tues. during a workshop hosted by sector agencies (INTRANT) and a think tank (UNITAR) .

He said the Government is committed to develop a land transport system that guarantees safe and agile citizen mobility and which safeguards productivity to compete globally.

The official said among the measures to improve mobility and safety figure completion of the Santo Domingo Beltway to the Samana highway.

“Nine corridors will be rehabilitated for public transport with bus stops , lighting and widened roads, construction of public parking in the area of greater economic activity and in the areas near the Santo Domingo Metro stations,” Pepin said.

“The Government in these infrastructures will invest more than fifteen billion pesos in the years 2018 to 2020, aware that investments in road safety, also constitute investments in human capital.”

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Europe moves to safeguard Iran interests after U.S. pullout

Europe’s heavyweight economies took steps on Friday to safeguard their commercial and political interests in Iran, seeking to keep the nuclear deal with Tehran alive after Washington pulled out and said sanctions would follow.

Germany, France have significant trade links with Iran and remain committed to the nuclear agreement, as does Britain, and all three countries’ foreign ministers plan to meet on Tuesday to discuss it.

That is part of a flurry of diplomatic activity lined up following Tuesday’s unilateral withdrawal from what U.S. President Donald Trump called “a horrible, one-sided deal”, a move accompanied by the threat of penalties against any foreign firms doing business in Iran.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said possibilities to save the deal without Washington needed to be discussed with Tehran, while France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said EU states would propose sanctionsblocking measures to the European Commission.

“There is a realization among all European states what we cannot keep going in the direction we are headed today whereby we submit to American decisions,” Le Maire told reporters in Paris.

In Berlin, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said Germany was ready to give help to its affected firms, including legal advice, to continue doing business in Iran.

French President Emmanuel Macron talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after being awarded Charlemagne Prize in Aachen, Germany May 10, 2018

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said transatlantic ties had been gradually damaged by shifts in U.S. policy. “We are prepared to talk... but also to fight for our positions where necessary,” he told Der Spiegel magazine.

Europeans fear a collapse of the nuclear deal could raise the risk of deepening conflicts in the Middle East.

Germany, France and Britain want talks to be held in a broader format on Iran’s ballistic missile program and its regional military activities, including in Syria and Yemen.

“The extent to which we can keep this deal alive ...is something we need to discuss with Iran,” said Merkel, who earlier spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue.

Divisions in Iran over

what should happen next were illustrated as senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University on Friday that European nations could not be trusted.

President Hassan Rouhani had said on Tuesday that Tehran would remain in the deal, provided its benefits stayed in force under its remaining signatories.

Iran’s foreign minister will travel to Moscow on May 14 and meet his Russian counterpart, Russia’s RIA news agency said, citing a Russian foreign ministry official.

Iran said it had asked Europe’s Airbus (AIR.PA) to announce whether it would go ahead with a plane deal with Tehran following the U.S. pullout.

That appears unlikely after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday that licenses for the planemaker and rival Boeing Co (BA.N) to sell passenger jets to Iran would be revoked. nL1N1SF1X2

Le Maire said Paris was seeking U.S. waivers and longer transition periods over Iran for French companies including Renault (RENA.PA) and Total (TOTF.PA), while pressing for European Union measures to improve the bloc’s “economic sovereignty” in the longer term.

“It’s time that European countries opened their eyes,” Le Maire said on Europe 1 radio.

French exports to Iran doubled to 1.5 billion euros ($1.79 billion) last year, driven by jets and aircraft and automobile parts, according to customs data.

Zimbabwe couple weds after crocodile bites off bride’s arm Victoria Falls Guide,

A couple attacked by a crocodile wedded days later in a travel website, describes a Zimbabwean hospital, where canoeing on the Zambezi above the bride was recovering after the Victoria Falls “the perfect activity for those who not losing an arm.

“In one week we went only want to see the abundant from shock and agony to a bird and animal life but also truly amazing experience,” want to experience the peace, 27-year-old Jamie Fox told The tranquility and beauty of the Zambezi River.”

Associated Press Monday.

Fox and his then For the couple, the experience fiancée, Zanele Ndlovu, were turned into a terrifying incident.

“I was shouting, trying canoeing on the Zambezi, one of Africa’s longest rivers when to save her. She was not a crocodile attacked them on complaining of pain when we Apr. 30. Zenele lost her right managed to pull her out of the arm and suffered injuries to her water, maybe because of the left hand. Five days later, they shock. We were hoping the married in a hospital chapel. doctors would save her arm

“We were glad we still but that was not to be,” said had our lives and managed to Fox, adding that the couple had keep our wedding date, although dated for about 18 months. we had to do with a much smaller “I proposed in February. venue. The celebrations went We are hoping to settle in the ahead at the original venue but U.K. so we are sorting out her Zenele and I had to remain at visa and then we will think of the hospital,” Fox said. the honeymoon,” he said.

Zenele Ndlovu walks down the aisle on

He described the Zanele was discharged her wedding day at a hospital Chapel in wedding as “incredible.” from the hospital on Monday.

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

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UK PM May suffers upper house defeat over plans to leave EU single market

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May visits the Oxley Group in Ulverston, April 30, 2018.

Britain’s upper house of parliament on Tuesday inflicted another embarrassing defeat on Prime Minister Theresa May’s government on Tuesday, challenging her plan to leave the European Union’s single market after Brexit.

May, who has struggled to unite the government behind her vision of Brexit, has said Britain will also leave the European Union’s single market and customs union after it quits the bloc next March.

That stance has widened divisions not only within her own Conservative Party but also across both houses of parliament, which like Britons at large, remain deeply split over the best way to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership.

By a vote of 245 to 218, the unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords, supported an amendment to her Brexit blueprint, the EU withdrawal bill, requiring ministers to negotiate continued membership of the European Economic Area, meaning that it would remain in the single market.

“The time has come over Brexit, really, for economic reality and common sense to prevail over political dogma and wishful thinking,” said Peter Mandelson, a member of the House of Lords from the main opposition Labour Party, who backed the amendment.

His comments drew criticism from proBrexit peers, including Conservative member Michael Forsyth who described the amendment as part of an attempt by “a number of people in this house who wish to reverse the decision of the British people”. Those proposing the amendment deny the charge.

This is the 13th time in recent weeks that the government has been defeated in the House of Lords on the draft legislation that will formally terminate Britain’s EU membership.

The votes can be overturned by the more powerful lower house, the House of Commons, where May’s party has a slim majority with the support of a small Northern Irish party, but could embolden lawmakers who hope to derail her plans to forge a new relationship with the EU.

The defeat was also damaging for the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after members of his party in the upper house defied orders to abstain from the vote and instead backed a cross-party alliance in support of the amendment.

While Corbyn has changed his position to support Britain’s membership of a customs union with the EU, he remains opposed to remaining in the single market.

Earlier, opposition parties in the Lords and rebels in May’s Conservative Party inflicted another defeat on the government, voting to strip out the fixed timing for Britain to leave the EU at 11 p.m. on March 29 next year.

The government has already set the clock ticking in a two-year exit process hampered by her gamble on a snap election last June which cost her party its majority in parliament. It also remains unclear what the final divorce deal will look like.

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Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says Russian firm’s U.S. affiliate paid Trump attorney $500,000

An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, was paid $500,000 by a company with ties to a Russian oligarch who was hit last month with U.S. sanctions to punish Moscow for activities that included suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

In a tweet and a report, Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, said a U.S.-based company controlled

by Viktor Vekselberg, a businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, sent Cohen the payment.

It was not immediately clear how Avenatti would know of any payments made to Cohen. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said Cohen paid her $130,000 in October 2016 to stay quiet about a 2006 sexual encounter she had with Trump.

Neither Avenatti nor Cohen responded to requests from Reuters for comment.

The disclosures could add to pressure on Cohen, whose house, office and hotel room were raided by the FBI a month ago as part of a criminal investigation into the hush payment and other business dealings.

Avenatti said Vekselberg and his cousin, Andrew Intrater, made eight transfers to Cohen between January and August 2017 through a U.S.-based company called Columbus Nova LLC for a total of $500,000.

A lawyer for Columbus Nova said Vekselberg had nothing to do with

U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen exits a hotel in New York City, U.S., April 13, 2018 the transactions.

Columbus Nova was listed by Renova Group as one of its companies as of November 2017, according to an archived webpage for Renova, whose website now says it is under construction. Renova Group is a conglomerate controlled by Vekselberg.

The United States imposed sanctions last month on Vekselberg and Renova to retaliate for the Kremlin’s suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other “malign activity.”

The New York Times reported last week that Vekselberg was questioned by U.S. agents this year as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference and possible collusion by Trump’s campaign.

Russia denies U.S. intelligence agencies’ accusations it meddled in the election, and Trump has denied any collusion. He also denies having had an affair with Daniels.

Jay-Z ordered to testify next week in U.S. SEC investigation

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday ordered Jay-Z to testify on May 15 in an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission involving the sale of the rapper’s Rocawear clothing brand to Iconix Brand Group Inc.

At a hearing in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe said Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, had failed to respond to SEC subpoenas served on him November and February, despite the regulatory agency’s repeated efforts to schedule a time for him to testify.

“The testimony has been delayed for five months, and I do not intend to tolerate any further delay,” Gardephe said.

Jay-Z was represented at the hearing by his lawyer, Alex Spiro, and did not appear himself. Spiro and lawyers for the SEC did not say where the testimony would take place.

The SEC filed a petition last week to enforce its subpoenas against Jay-Z.

Jay-Z sold Rocawear to Iconix in 2007 for about $204 million.

The SEC has said it is looking into writedowns totaling this sum, $169 million in 2015 and $34.6 million in 2017, that Iconix took in connection with Rocawear.

The agency has said it wants to ask Jay-Z about his personal involvement with Rocawear and about transactions between his companies and Iconix.

Jay-Z said in a court filing on Monday that forcing him to testify at length would interfere with his preparations for an upcoming world tour, and that his testimony would

Jay-Z not be relevant.

Gardephe disagreed, saying at Tuesday’s hearing that the agency had a “legitimate purpose” in seeking to interview Jay-Z.

In Monday’s filing, Jay-Z asked the judge to limit his testimony to a single day. The SEC said it opposed any time limit.

Gardephe said Tuesday he would not impose a time limit, saying that could be an incentive “run out the clock.” However, he said he expected the testimony could be finished in a day, and that the SEC must ask him for permission to go beyond that.

Spiro said after the hearing that he was “pleased” with the outcome.

Jay-Z, 48, is famous for songs including “Hard Knock Life,” “99 Problems” and “Big Pimpin.’”

The Brooklyn native has won 21 Grammy Awards, most recently in 2015 for Best R&B song and Best R&B performance for “Drunk in Love” with his wife, pop star Beyonce.

His most recent album, “4:44,” was nominated for eight Grammys but did not win any.

Vekselberg and Intrater could not be reached for comment, but Richard Owens, a lawyer for Columbus Nova, said in a statement the company hired Cohen after Trump’s January 2017 inauguration “as a business consultant regarding sources of capital and potential investments in real estate and other ventures.”

Owens said Columbus Nova was solely owned by Americans and that any claim that Vekselberg was involved in providing funding for the payments to Cohen was “patently untrue.”

Avenatti also detailed payments he said were made to Cohen by U.S. telecommunications company AT&T, Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd . He said all the payments were made in late 2017 and early 2018.

“There are too many unknowns to reach conclusions as to whether anything involved with these

transactions was illegal,” said Michael Zeldin, a money-laundering expert and former federal prosecutor who is now a legal analyst on CNN.

AT&T confirmed the payments, saying they were aimed at gaining “insights” into the new administration.

AT&T has been pursuing an $85 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc, which the U.S. Justice Department is trying to stop.

Avenatti also said he discovered four payments of just under $100,000 each by Novartis to Essential Consultants, the same company used

by Cohen to make payments to Daniels.

A Novartis representative said: “Any agreements with Essential Consultants were entered before our current CEO taking office in February of this year and have expired.”

AT&T said Essential Consultants was one of several firms it “engaged in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration” but that it received no legal or lobbying services from Cohen’s firm.

AT&T said the contract ended in December 2017.

A spokesman for Korea Aerospace Industries said the company had signed a contract with Essential Consultants last year for legal consulting concerning accounting standards on production costs, and upon the expiration of the contract, made a payment in November.

World’s ‘oldest person’ dies in Japan aged 117

Nabi Tajima, born in 1900, holds a bouquet in Japanese southwestern island of Kikaijima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken in 2015 and released

by Kyodo

A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world’s oldest person died on Saturday, Kyodo news agency said. She was 117.

Nabi Tajima, born in 1900, died from old age at a hospital on her native southwestern island of Kikaijima, Kyodo said.

Guinness World Records had been conducting research with a view

to certifying Tajima as the oldest person alive after the previous record holder, Violet Brown of Jamaica, died last year at 117, Kyodo said.

The organization recognized a 112-year-old Japanese man, Masazo Nonaka, as the world’s oldest man earlier this month.

In Japan, the number of centenarians totaled 67,824 last year, government data shows, up sharply from 153 in 1963.

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New York state attorney general resigns after report he abused women

New York state Attorney before he announced his resignation.

General Eric Schneiderman resigned “I have not assaulted anyone. I have on Monday after allegations of physical never engaged in non-consensual sex, abuse by four women were reported in which is a line I would not cross.” an article in the New Yorker magazine.

Cuomo, in his statement

Governor Andrew Cuomo had calling for Schneiderman’s resignation, called for Schneiderman’s resignation referred to “the damning pattern of within hours of the article’s publication, facts and corroboration laid out in the and only slightly more than an hour article,” and said he did not believe later Schneiderman, a Democrat who it was possible for Schneiderman to was running for re-election, said he continue to serve as attorney general. was stepping down.

The New Yorker reported that

“In the last several hours, two of the women who spoke to the serious allegations, which I strongly magazine “alleged that he repeatedly contest, have been made against me,” hit them, often after drinking, Schneiderman said in a statement. frequently in bed and never with their “While these allegations are unrelated consent.” to my professional conduct or the The two women who were operations of the office, they will named in the article both called the effectively prevent me from leading abuse by Schneiderman “assault,” the the office’s work at this critical time. I magazine reported. One of the women therefore resign my office, effective at said Schneiderman slapped her the close of business on May 8, 2018.” across the face after she rejected his

In the article published late advances and that when she told him on Monday, the New Yorker reported she wanted to leave, he said, “A lot of that four women who said they had had women like it. They don’t always think romantic relationships or encounters they like it, but then they do, and they with Schneiderman said they had been ask for more,” according to the article. subjected to nonconsensual physical A spokesman for Manhattan violence.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance said

Reuters has not independently the office is opening an investigation. confirmed the accusations.

Schneiderman is not the first

“In the privacy of intimate top-ranking New York politician who relationships, I have engaged in role- was forced to resign following media playing and other consensual sexual reports about his personal life. activity,” Schneiderman said in a Eliot Spitzer resigned as New statement issued by Stu Loeser & Co York’s governor in 2008 after a

Canada school shooter sentenced to life in prison

An exterior view of La Loche Community School in La Loche, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 29, 2016. Four people were killed and others injured in the school shooting.

A judge has sentenced a Canadian man to life in prison for killing four people, two of them in a school, and injuring seven more in a rare mass shooting in Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) reported on Tuesday.

The man’s identity is protected by a courtordered publication ban because he was a minor during the January 2016 killings in the isolated and impoverished town of La Loche in northern Saskatchewan.

He was sentenced after pleading guilty last year to killing a teacher and teaching assistant in a local school and two teenage brothers in their home in La Loche, 850 kilometers (528 miles) northwest of Saskatchewan’s capital, Regina.

Judge Janet McIvor sentenced the man as an adult even though he was 17 at the time of the shooting. She ruled earlier this year that a lighter youth sentence was inappropriate.

He will be eligible for parole in 10 years, CBC reported.

“I can’t undo what I did. I’m sorry,” the man said in a Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan courtroom, according to the CBC report.

CBC reported that the publication ban on his identity remains in place until the appeal period lapses.

The man pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

Mass shootings are less common in Canada than the United States, which has less stringent gun laws. A gunman killed six people in a January 2017 Quebec mosque shooting.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.), speaks to guests during the National Action Network (NAN) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Public Policy Forum in the Harlem borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 15, 2018 New York Times report revealed that he was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet a prostitute in a Washington hotel room.

Spitzer, a Democrat who as the state’s attorney general before becoming governor once broke up prostitution rings, was married at the time. He faced intense pressure to resign and impeachment threats from Republicans.

Schneiderman, a Harvardeducated lawyer, has been New York state’s attorney general since late 2010. He has been a high-profile proponent of the #MeToo movement, which has seen accusations of sexual misconduct leveled against prominent men in politics, media, entertainment and business. They include Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

In February, Schneiderman sued the Weinstein Company and Weinstein himself, alleging years of sexual harassment and misconduct by the movie producer.

Weinstein has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 70 women, including rape. He denies having non-consensual sex with anyone.

And in March, Cuomo ordered Schneiderman’s office to review an investigation by Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, of a 2015 sexual assault case involving Harvey Weinstein, a case that Vance had decided not to try and prosecute.

The front page of Schneiderman’s re-election campaign website on Monday night displayed his statement denying the accusations reported by the New Yorker, along with copies of news stories about his fight for abortion rights and a battle with the Trump administration. His statement of resignation was not posted.

US questions why power not fully restored in Puerto Rico

Federal legislators grilled U.S. and Puerto Rico officials on Tuesday on why power has not been fully restored to the island nearly eight months after Hurricane Maria, and as a new storm season looms.

Lawmakers at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources also questioned why the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was pulling out of Puerto Rico next week.

“Tens of thousands Walter Higgins, Chief Executive Office, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, of Americans there are still in center, speaks at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources the dark. The threat to their on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 health and wellbeing is real,” maintained for decades. is in the process of contracting said Sen. Martin Heinrich, “I don’t doubt we’ll have three new companies to replace D-N.M. “If 20,000 Texans or some growing pains,” he said. crews once the Corps leaves.

Floridians were without power, “It has not been maintained the As the next hurricane I can’t imagine FEMA saying way it needed to be. You just season approaches, the ’Mission accomplished.’...It’s don’t build a transmission tower U.S. Department of Energy reprehensible.” and walk away and hope that recommended that Puerto Rico

The concerns come as the everything will be fine.” immediately ensure that mutual Caribbean prepares for the start The U.S. Army Corps aid agreements with power crews of hurricane season on June 1, of Engineers, which has been in the U.S. mainland are in place, and the new CEO of Puerto Rico’s overseeing federal power said Bruce Walker, an assistant power company warned that restoration efforts, is leaving May secretary with the department. restoring power to the more than 18 as determined by FEMA, and He also said crews 22,000 customers that remain in efforts to extend that deadline are working to establish micro the dark has become increasingly have not succeeded. So far, crews grids that would be able to keep difficult because of where they’re have repaired 69 percent of sub- providing power to a small region located. transmission lines and 88 percent amid a broader blackout.

Several initiatives are of transmission lines, said Higgins said the company underway to help strengthen Charles Alexander Jr., the Corps’ is planning emergency drills the Electric Power Authority’s director of contingency operations ahead of any storms. system, said CEO Walter Higgins, and homeland security.

“We will have practiced but he noted that a grid nearly 80 Carlos Monroig, a power and practiced and practiced to be percent destroyed by the Category company spokesman, told The as ready as possible for the next 4 storm had not been properly Associated Press that the agency season,” he said.

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US calls for Venezuelan President Maduro to step down

The Trump administration 35-nation Organization of American called Tuesday for Venezuelan States to suspend Venezuela.

President Nicolas Maduro to step down.

Quoting numbers from the

“For the safety and security United Nations, Haley said 1.5 million of all the peoples of Latin America, Venezuelans have fled the country it is time for Maduro to go,” U.S. since 2014 and described the exodus as Ambassador to the United Nations “the largest displacement of people in Nikki Haley said during a speech on the region’s history.”

The Venezuelan government Latin America.

“I am not sure how we will has refused to allow international aid, make that happen but I know that alleging that would amount to foreign we can’t stop,” she said right after her intervention. The South American speech during a conference organized nation also denies there is an ongoing by the Council of the Americas. “We humanitarian crisis. have to continue to isolate Maduro At the same event Tuesday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John until he gives in.”

Haley said the people of the J. Sullivan announced an additional South American country are “unwilling $18.5 million in bilateral funding to victims of a criminal narco-state” and support displaced Venezuelans in said the May 20 elections in which Colombia.

This new funding is in Maduro is seeking re-election will be fraudulent if independent observers addition to the more than $21 million in humanitarian assistance the United are absent.

The Venezuelan embassy did States has provided since 2017. not immediately respond to a request Haley’s remarks were not limited to Maduro. She characterized for comment.

On Monday, Vice President the current situation in Venezuela as Mike Pence urged members of the part of a model that also includes Cuba

Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks about Venezuela to the Council of the Americas, during a luncheon at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 and Nicaragua and “has proved to be a complete and total failure.”

The U.S. diplomat made a reference to the recent street demonstrations that took place in Nicaragua and called on President Daniel Ortega to honor his offer to engage in a national dialogue, and to include the business community, students and the Roman Catholic church.

Brazil anti-corruption judge says he will not run for president

Joaquim Barbosa, a former chief justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court with anticorruption credentials, said on Tuesday he would not run for the presidency in October, despite a growing clamor for his candidacy.

Barbosa, the first and only black member of the high court, had in recent weeks positioned himself as a potential center-left candidate. He was attractive to many because of his clean image and background as a judge who battled corruption.

That is an essential selling point in this election, the first since a massive legal probe revealed stunning levels of political graft. Scores of powerful businessmen and politicians have been jailed, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who still leads all election polls.

“It’s decided.

After reflecting for several weeks, I finally came to a conclusion,” Barbosa wrote on his verified Twitter account. “I do not intend to be a candidate for the presidency.”

Barbosa, 63, added that

Joaquim Barbosa, former Chief Justice in Brazil, is seen before a meeting with PSB Election Commission in Brasilia, Brazil April 19, 2018 the decision was “strictly personal.”

His party, the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), confirmed the decision in a written statement, and said it would continue to work for political renewal.

Barbosa’s decision could benefit Ciro Gomes, a leftist whose Democratic Workers Party was talking with PSB leaders about an alliance before Barbosa’s name surfaced. Gomes stands at third in the most recent polling.

Left-leaning former environment minister and twotime presidential hopeful Marina Silva may also see a boost with Barbosa out. She is tying for second place in opinion polls with extreme-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Barbosa never fleshed out what planks he may have run on, aside from saying that he did not believe in “ultraliberal positions” for a country like Brazil, with its deep, persistent economic inequalities and poverty.

In early April, Barbosa registered with the PSB just before the deadline for any potential candidates to belong to a party if they wished to run.

Yet he rejected calls from inside the party to more aggressively lay the groundwork for a run.

Several party sources said in recent weeks they were convinced Barbosa did not want the pressure of a presidential run. However, most PSB leaders maintained he was going to be their candidate, and they gushed over his strong showing in a Datafolha poll last month.

“But talking is not enough,” she said. “The real test will be whether the Ortega government will meet the people’s demands for democratic reforms and transparency.”

Haley asked for the support of neighboring governments in confronting authoritarianism.

“We cannot allow the last few surviving authoritarians to drag down the hemisphere,” she said.

Leopard grabs, kills toddler in Uganda national park

A wildlife official says a leopard has attacked and killed a toddler in a protected area popular with tourists.

Bashir Hangi, a spokesman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, said Tuesday that the victim, the two-year-old son of a game ranger, was attacked Friday evening while following a nanny to a kitchen outside their house in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

He said the nanny heard the child scream and then saw the animal dragging the boy to the bush.

A search team later found the boy’s skull and other remains that were buried over the weekend.

The incident has shocked many in Uganda, where leopard attacks on humans are rare.

Leopard attacks on children are sometimes reported in parts of rural India.

Five more Australian MPs leave parliament after court’s citizenship ruling Australia faces a series of byelections after the High Court ruled on Wednesday an 11th lawmaker must leave parliament in a test-case decision that prompted four more lawmakers to quit amid a widening citizenship crisis.

The court found unanimously that opposition Labor Party Senator Katy Gallagher was a British citizen at the time of her election, despite her attempts to renounce it, and so ineligible to be elected to the federal parliament.

Dual citizens are blocked from national elected office under Australia’s 117-year-old constitution.

The decision prompted four other lawmakers in similar predicaments to Gallagher to resign, triggering by-

elections for their lower-house seats.

Gallagher and the other four are not members of Australia’s ruling center-right coalition, keeping its slender majority safe, but the resulting polls will be a litmus test of the public mood and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity ahead of a general election due next year.

“By-elections are notoriously difficult things,” Nick Economou, a political scientist at Monash University in Melbourne, told Reuters.

He said the Queensland state seat of Longman, held by Labor’s Susan Lamb on a knife-edge margin until her resignation on Wednesday, was a bellwether contest.

“If Labor was to lose that,

it’d be a huge fillip for Turnbull,” Economou said.

“On the other hand, if Labor was to win with an increased majority, that would be a sign that there’s a problem for the government,” he said.

Lamb said she intended to recontest her seat and Labor MPs Josh Wilson and Justine Keay, who also resigned on Wednesday, and independent member Rebekha Sharkie, said they would do likewise in their separate electorates.

Dates for the by-elections have not been set officially but could be as early as mid-June.

Gallagher, who said she was disappointed but accepted the court ruling, will be replaced by another Labor politician in the Senate.

“The High Court has adopted the strictest possible reading,” George Williams, professor and Dean of Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told Reuters.

“I’m surprised by the result.

I think it delivers a proposition that is unworkable ... because of how hard it will be to comply with these requirements now,” he said.

In a nation in which half the population were either born overseas or have parents who were, the dual citizenship rule has cut a swath through the national parliament.

It has prompted the departure of 15 lawmakers and last year briefly left Turnbull’s LiberalNational coalition clinging to a minority government.

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Google sells the future, powered by your personal data

Google CEO Sundar Pichai stood on stage at the company’s yearly developer conference on Tuesday and rolled out some of its most advanced technology: an assistant that can schedule appointments for you over the phone, customized suggestions in Google Maps, and even a new feature that can help finish your sentences as you type an email.

It’s all underpinned by the same thing: the massive trove of data that Google is collecting on billions of people every day.

Until recently, most users may have either been unaware their data was being used like A Google campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa this or were fine with the tradeoff.

Google has seven products that The company’s data and targeted for advertising. And each have at least 1 billion active collection practices also include it doesn’t allow marketers to monthly users, and they couldn’t scanning your email to extract target users based on sensitive work as well without access to keyword data for use in other categories like beliefs, sexual users’ data.

Google products and services and interests or personal hardships.

That has helped make to improve its machine learning However, that doesn’t Google one of the world’s most capabilities, Google spokesman prevent the company from selling well-regarded brands, according Aaron Stein confirmed in an email advertising slots that can be to a Morning Consult poll. But to NBC News. narrowed to a user’s ZIP code. in a post-Cambridge Analytica “We may analyze [email] Combined with enough other world that is growing increasingly content to customize search categories of interest and behavior, leery of how major tech companies results, better detect spam and Google advertisers can create track people, the data collection malware,” he added. a fairly tight Venn diagram of practices by the world’s leading It doesn’t stop there, potential viewers of a marketing digital advertising company have though. Google says it is also message, with a minimum of 100 come under renewed scrutiny. leverages some of its datasets to people.

“Google is walking a very “help build the next generation “They collect everything fine line,” David Yoffie, a professor of ground-breaking artificial they can, as a culture,” at the Harvard Business School, intelligence solutions.”

On Scott Cleland, chairman of said in an email. “Search, plus Tuesday, Google rolled out “Smart NetCompetition, an advocacy Android gives Google amazing Replies,” in which artificial group that counts Comcast and insight into individual behavior. intelligence helps users finish other cable companies among its Google’s stated privacy policies sentences. members, told NBC News. “They seem adequate, but the question The extent of the information know they’ll find some use for it.” that I cannot answer is whether Google has can be eyebrow-raising Google’s stated policy and actual even for technology professionals.

WHAT CAN YOU behavior are one and the same. Dylan Curran, an information DO ABOUT IT? Facebook had a stated policy for technology consultant, recently the last three years which most downloaded everything Users can see and limit of us found acceptable, until Facebook had on him and got the data Google collects on them Cambridge Analytica came to a 600-megabyte file. When he by changing their advertising light.” downloaded the same kind of file preferences through an online from Google, it was 5.5 gigabytes, dashboard.

WHERE DOES THE DATA about nine times as large. His The internet giant offers COME FROM? tweets highlighting each kind of fine-tune controls to opt out of information Google had on him, tracking via Google’s advertising

The more Google products and therefore other users, got cookie, as well as limiting you use, the more Google can nearly 170,000 retweets. whether you’ll see targeted ads gather about you. Whether it’s “This is one of the craziest based on your interest groups Gmail, the Android smartphone things about the modern age, we and categories. You can also see operating system, YouTube, would never let the government and delete many of the personal Google Drive, Google Maps, and, or a corporation put cameras/ tracking data about yourself, of course, Google Search — the microphones in our homes or including your entire search company is collecting gigabytes of location trackers on us, but we just history and any geolocation data data about you. went ahead and did it ourselves that may have been tracking your

“We use the information because … I want to watch cute every physical movement if you we collect from all of our services dog videos,” Curran wrote. were signed into Google services to provide, maintain, protect and on your phone. improve them, to develop new WHAT DOES GOOGLE

“We give users controls to ones, and to protect Google and GUARANTEE? delete individual items, services our users,” Google says in its or their entire account,” said privacy policy. “We also use this The company has Google’s Stein. “When a user information to offer you tailored installed various guardrails decides to delete data, we go content – like giving you more against this data being misused. through a process over time to relevant search results and ads.”

It says it doesn’t sell your personal safely and completely remove

Google offers free access information, makes user data it from our systems, including to these tools and in return shows anonymous after 18 months, and backups. We keep some data with you super-targeted advertising, offers tools for users to delete a user’s Google Account, like when which is how it made $31.2 billion their recorded data piece by piece and how they use certain features, in revenue in just the first three or in its (almost) entirety, and to until the account is deleted.” months of 2018. limit how they’re being tracked

Galaxy Note 9 Leak Exposes Samsung’s Nasty Surprise

Galaxy Note 9 concept which proved overly optimistic

We know almost everything about the Galaxy Note 9, especially after a major leak exposed Samsung’s most significant upgrades last week. Unfortunately, however, we now have an update from the source of that leak which reveals the headline feature has been dropped…

Speaking on Twitter, the ever-mysterious Ice Universe stated it is now “almost certain” the Galaxy Note 9 will not have a fingerprint reader integrated into the display. Instead, it will just be a regular reader on the back of the phone like last year.

For those in denial, Ice Universe has a strong Samsung track record. He/she previously broke the Galaxy Note 8 design, attained the first real-world photos of the Galaxy S8 and nailed every single detail of the Galaxy S9.

Ice Universe didn’t specify what caused Samsung to ditch the in-display reader so late in development, but given performance issues scuppered its inclusion on the Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S9 it wouldn’t be a wild guess to assume the same thing has happened again.

Of course, the argument that will be thrown at Samsung is why can’t it get this technology right when Vivo, a much smaller manufacturer, already has a smartphone with it (the X20 Plus UD) on sale? In short, because Vivo is not producing the X20 Plus UD in massive quantities like the Galaxy Note 9 so it doesn’t have to stress test its production at scale.

Most Facebook users as active or more since privacy scandal

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - Most of Facebook’s U.S. users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations that a political consultancy collected information about millions of accounts without owners’ permission, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.

Facebook has faced pressure from regulators, privacy advocates and shareholders since it said in March that political consultant Cambridge Analytica wrongly obtained personal data through a quiz app connected to Facebook. U.S. lawmakers grilled Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg for two days on the matter.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll adds to other indications that Facebook has so far suffered no ill effects from the episode, other than a public relations headache.

The national online poll, conducted April 26-30, found that about half of Facebook’s American users said they had not recently changed the amount that they used the site, and another quarter said they were using it more.

The remaining quarter said that they were using it less recently, had stopped using it or deleted their account.

That means that the people using Facebook less were roughly balanced by those using it more, with no clear net loss or gain in use.

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2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan The best, made bigger

It might not be the first superluxe automaker with an SUV in its lineup, but Rolls-Royce is determined to have the best one, and its name is Cullinan.

This has been a long time coming. The sea change in buyer attitudes toward SUVs has moved from morbid curiosity to unabashed stanning, regardless of price point.

If Rolls-Royce didn’t make a utility vehicle, it’d be leaving money on the table. It didn’t rush one out, though, which is where many automakers get tripped up.

Rolls-Royce clearly wanted to make a car that embodies every inch of its badge, and it seems that the 2019 Cullinan fits the bill.

Looks the same, but different

The front end’s layout is similar to the eighth-generation Phantom’s, but the character lines are exaggerated. Everything is blockier, bulkier. The Sprit of Ecstasy hood ornament, a Rolls-Royce staple since the Bronze Age, is right where it should be. The chrome grille is a bit more understated than the Phantom’s, but the latter is still head of the family, after all.

Out back, the Cullinan’s D-pillar is as beefy as the Phantom’s, but whereas the super-sedan’s tuchus has more of a curve to it, the Cullinan again takes the blockier approach.

The spoiler out back is very obviously for slipping through the wind, but it’s a silly thing to see on a Rolls-Royce, even though it’d look weird without it.

Open up the suicide doors (on an SUV! Have mercy!) and you’ll find an interior fit for the six-figure price

2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan tag. The dashboard layout is similar to that of the Phantom, but once again, there’s a bit more bulk and it lacks the Phantom’s ridiculous Gallery on the passenger side.

The real treat is in the second row. The first configuration, called Lounge Seats, is a typical threeabreast layout with electronically folding rear seats where the headrests move up to avoid imprinting the leather.

The second configuration is a bit more traditional. The Individual Seat layout has two separate rear seats with a large, permanent center console between the two that carries both whisky glasses and champagne flutes in addition to a refrigerator.

There’s also a glass partition between the cargo area and the seats, so that

automatic.

Approach the Cullinan and it lowers about 1.5 inches to let you in, raising upon startup. The air suspension has adaptive damping and was built specifically with some degree of off-roading in mind -- but a Rolls-Royce kind of off-roading, where everything is still preternaturally smooth. A single off-road button on the dash is all it takes to prep the thing for the dirt. It’ll ford just over 21 inches of water, if you need it to.

Following with the tradition of the latest BMW infotainment systems, the Cullinan’s in-dash tech now sports touch-capable operation, but there’s still a dial on the center console if you prefer. There’s also a touchscreen map for the rear. A Wi-Fi hotspot is available, but not in North America. Additional tech includes one need not suffer the presence of adaptive cruise control, night vision luggage. assist, a surround-view camera

The trunk has a removable system, forward collision warning and parcel shelf. The floor is lower than a head-up display. the seat base to prevent things from Rolls-Royce’s Bespoke arm sliding forward when the seats are also has these things called Recreation flattened, but it can raise up to Module. Each is tailored to an owner’s accommodate large items like, as specific pastimes -- the press release Rolls-Royce’s press release suggests, uses drone racing as an example. The “a Mark Rothko from the Art Gallery.” module slots into the cargo area, and Please stop by my house on the way when it’s time to party, a motorized home with that one. drawer opens up with everything

Twelve silent cylinders and you’ll need for said pursuit. a lot of tech Under that long hood When it comes to Rolls-Royce, is Rolls-Royce’s 6.75-liter, twin- the sky’s the limit in terms of what turbocharged V12 putting out 563 you can spend on a vehicle, but it’s horsepower and 627 pound-feet of not like the starting price isn’t in torque. It’s sent to all four wheels the stratosphere to begin with. The through a transmission of some Cullinan starts at $325,000, so you’d kind, Rolls-Royce didn’t say, but it’s better start saving those stacks for probably the Phantom’s eight-speed when it goes on sale.

EU predicts bright outlook for economy, tougher times for UK

BRUSSELS — easing to 2 percent. For the Still, he said there Economic growth across the 19-country eurozone, the was no room for complacency European Union will remain Commission forecasts the and warned of the perils of robust this year and next, same levels of growth this trade protectionism amid fears that U.S. President particularly when compared year and next. with Britain, which is set to Pierre Moscovici, the Donald Trump will go ahead leave the bloc in less than commissioner responsible for with plan to impose tariffs on a year, the EU’s executive economic matters, said the steel and aluminum. Earlier forecasts are further evidence this week, he exempted the branch said Thursday.

In its spring forecast, that the debt crisis that has EU for a month. the European Commission ravaged the eurozone and “Protectionism only creates said it expects economic many of its members, notably problems and we hope that growth across the 28-country Greece, is now past. we can find ways and means EU to dip to 2.3 percent this “All indicators are currently of avoiding that,” Moscovici year, from last year’s decade- flashing green,” he said. said.

He also urged high rate of 2.4 percent. Next “Europe has finally turned the eurozone governments to year, it expects a further page of the crisis.”

push on with economic reforms, particularly to their labor markets. Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent. It is exorbitantly high in some countries like Greece, where more than one in five people are out of work.

“In short, we have come a long way but now is not the time to sit down and relax,” he said.

The eurozone has

benefited from waning fears over debt-ridden Greece and the defeat of a run of populist — and anti-euro — politicians in elections in France and the Netherlands.

Moscovici made much of the fact that for the first time since the euro was born in 1999, no country in 2018 will have a budget deficit over 3 percent of annual GDP — a key limit that governs the single currency and which has been flouted by many countries.

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BENJAMIN DUDLEY ALONZO WALKIN MELISHA IANTHE SMITH CHARISSE FRANZETTE BEEN GIBBONS ANDERSON WESTMORE WALKIN ZOILA MARIELA SUAZO HERNANDEZ-MORRIS DIANA OLIVIA HIGGS LUCA HOLDINGS LTD CLAYTON STEPHEN BEEN DESMOND OLIVER HALL WATERSPORTS UNLIMITED LTS EXCELSIOR HOMES LTD C/O LLOYD & LEILA RODNEY DAVID GEORGE DURHAM GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES NORTH POINT INVESTMENTS LTD CHRISTOPHER GEORGE GARDINER SEVENS INVESTMENT LTD NATIONAL DRUG COUNCIL OF THE TCI ORLAN OBANETTE BASSETT MAXINE MARIA JOHNSON CALVIN COOLRIDGE WILLIAMS LORENZO ALEXANDER DAVID SMITH GERON O’NATE RUSSELL LINDY JASON LEVAR RIGBY BENJAMIN MIQUEL RENARDO EWING BRIAN BRASSINGTON STATIA MURRAY ALEXANDER MUSGROVE MALCOLM DWIGHT ADAMS NADEGE PARKER KARIS TACARA DELICA FRANCIS PIERRE YLLIPONIS MARC PEAN KEBBA KANITA MORGAN MARIE LOURDES TORCHON BARRY BEATRICE MAHALIA BUTTERFIELD SHONIA SIGRID MOORE MARTINEZ

ALVIN MARTELL GLINTON OWANTA GEORGETTE WALKIN DOROTHEA AUGUSTA FORBES AGAPITA MARTINEZ HOWELL CHARMAINE TESS FORBES SANDRA DORREN WALKIN BRENT LERONE AKINO SKIPPINGS MARY CHERYL TUCKER JACQUELINE ANTONETTE MORRIS NIKEVA FRANCESCA TAMARA ARIZA THEMARLA AMBROZINE SKIPPINGS SASHA ZONNELL SIMMONS ELORINE MINETTE WALTERS RUPERT WILTON NELSON RONICA LOUIS BAIN JERVON MALACHIJAH BUCKLEY ELLIOT LAVAR CUNNINGHAM TABITHA SHANDRA MONALESS GIBSON DORINE SHARINE BOTTEX KIMBULE AUDRIC RIGBY ZENETH DELORES ROLLE JASON MCDONALD MISSICK JOHN GIORGIO JENNINGS STEPHEN DEON HALL MELANIE BAPTISTE DELERICE LORITA GLINTON DIANA CECELIA SMITH IVY SARAH CUNNINGHAM FORBES QUENTIN BRADLEY WILLIAMS MANDRY WILLIAMS ALONZO MAXFIELD SEYMOUR FLOYD ANDERSON WALKIN JOHN FITZGERALD WILLIAMS SONIA ELIZABETH WILLIAMS WALTER EVAN MOORE SAMARDIA REYNALDA PALMER KIRKLEY DELROY WILLIAMS SHERVIN LAMBERT MORRIS EMILY EVA JENNINGS CYRIL ROBERT FOUNTAIN CHARLES ANTHONY WILLIAMS CLINTON KENNETH OUTTEN WILLIAM CLEVELAND BAIN DARON DESHIELD NAYTON

BLOCK 60400 – PROVIDENCIALES WELLINGTON HENRY WILLIAMS KEN LYNDON & SCOTT ANDERSON HALL EVELYN ADELLA TAYLOR RAQUEL DIONN LIGHTBOURNE REGAN TERENCE ANTHONY ASTWOOD HUDSON LINTON EWING PATRICE GLORIA FORBES CAPRON DONAVAN ERSKINE FRANCIS JACQUELINE ANNAROSA SMITH VILLMA ROSEMARY CLARE WILBERT EBENEZER HANDFIELD ZELMA SHAKIRA FORBES HERNANEZ LOUANN LEONI & ROMNEY O. MISSICK CAROL JACQUELINE BURTON KATHLEEN ANN MORRIS KELIAN SHAMAL HOWELL DESMOND OLIVER HALL CLAUDETTE MELINDA BASDEN MARYANN LOUISE RIGBY INGRAHAM SONIA PATRICIA & SAMANTHA LAKISHA WILLIAMS NATHANIEL SAMALI RIGBY DAISY ETHEL SWANN SHARLEEN ANN ADDERLEY LEONARD WINSTON FORBES EBENEZER BENJAMIN WILLIAMS WENDELL LEROY MALCOLM GUERDA PHILLIPS BENJAMIN BRUCE WALKIN PHILIP ALLENBURY MISICK ANDREW JACKSON YOUNG ERVIN BERNARD EWING DSW INTERNATIONAL LTD NADINE DEVEAUX WILLIAMS JUDITH ANTHEA WALKIN HUGH EMANUEL ADAMS NICK ENTERPRISES LTD JERARD MICHAEL SPENCER VERNON HUNUALD SMITH DONELLA VIOLA & JERMAL LEVARDO FULFORD ARLINGTON THEOPHILUS CAPRON RUTH LEANER WIGNAL CARLTON ROYNETTE WILLIAMS

BLOCK 60003 – PROVIDENCIALES DAVID HUGH SAUNDERS DEBORAH MARIE TAYLOR GLENROY JESSLEY GRANT SIMONA ELANA SWANN-VAUGHN LLEWELYN FRITZGERALD PHILLIPS TANITHCA ANTHIEA KENNEDY LAVARDO ENKOMO GARLAND JAVANO TREMAINE FORBES ALLERMAY LUCILE HANDFIELD KAMEAL KAHILA SEYMOUR LIONEL ALEXANDER BARRANCO DESMOND RICARDO EWING ANTHEA LOUISE MCTAIRE ROSE HALL GILESA GABRIEL MALCOLM CHAVO GREG GARLAND ROSEITA LOUISE WATKINS BLOCK 60503 – PROVIDENCIALES QUELIN PETER JOSEPH KAREN ANTHEA SIMMONS ETHLYN MADALENE TUCKER JOSEPH RIGBY DANIEL CHRISTOPHER BRISCO NATASHA ELIZABETH HALL ROSEBELLE ELIZA GIBSON BARBARA PET RIGBY ROSEMARY CECELIA BRISCO MARJORY WILLIAMS-HECTOR ALLAN CLIFFORD FRANCIS AUSTIN LLEWELYN SMITH NANLESS THELMA TAYLOR EDITH LUCILLE WILSON SONIA JOANNA EWING IRENE GEORGIA EWING PHILOMENE CHARLES EWING ALISTON SMITH IREAL A. & CECELIA M. SMITH DEVON MCDEVITTE SEYMOUR QUINLIN PETER JOSEPH LOVELY GRACITA WILLIAMS LARRY FILS AIME WILLIAMS CHRISTOPHER LORETT FORBES

ANTHONY MCCLEAVER WALKIN WINIFRED LOUIS REASIAS GERALD DOUGLAS WILLIAMS BRENDA ALVISE JOHNSON SHERLOCK C. WALKIN MAXWELL MACDONALD CLARE MARVIN MCBRIDE MISSICK VICTORIA ELIZABETH GRANT VERNA C. RIGBY ETHLYN MADALENE TUCKER BLOCK 60502 – PROVIDENCIALES RAYMOND MOMPREMIER CARRINGTON WINTERPOOL WILLIAMS SHADROY SANWARDO DICKENSON ELSA CLEO WILLIAMS HEARTLYN BEATRICE HANCHELL LISSETTE RACHAEL BAUTISTA PARKER TERRANCE WALTER SMITH NATHLIE NADINE THOMAS JENNIEMAE MARGARITA RIGBY HOLTON LEROY WILLIAMS YVONNE MARCIA FORBES HENRY JOHN STEPLIN AMBER NALA JAMES CHRISTOPHE JUSTIN MCALLEN RACHEL SHEINIKA THOMAS KISHMA CHARMAINE ADAMS LEATHE KAYE PHILLIPS CHARLES GUSTAVOURS ROPER MAGUIE MONESTIME CLAUDIA ANITA BEEN LOUIRISSA LOVENDER GARRICK BARRETT LEROY SWANN TROY CLIFTON SAUNDERS JNR KENNETH J. & LIDA L. WALTERS RODRICK DONALDSON HALL DAISY LOUISE NEMBHARD SHARLANEE RENAY WILSON THOMAS DUNCAN TIMOTHY CHISTOPHER DEAN CHALSIE JOANN TUCKER HEWDEN JAMES BASSETT RAYMOND MOMPREIER JAMES C. & MARION O. WILLIAMS DAPHNEY VALERINE OUTTEN LAURIE LOUIS WILSON LILUCE VERONICA DONNALEE EWING GRAY GLORIA MONIQUE ROCHELLE RIGBY PETERSON JODASH KENNEDY KATHERINE PATRONELLA GRANT LOURDY PARKER BLOCK 60501 – PROVIDENCIALES SHERLOCK CONWELL WALKIN KERTH KAMEL WALKIN ALBERT HILTON WILLIAMS CINDY ELIZABETH PARKER LAURA BETHSHEBA HALL VELMA VANDERLEE WALKIN THOMAS EMMANUEL PARKER SAMENTA ROSHALL PARKER TURKISA VELIKA OUTTEN HORACE ALLAN COVERLEY BRUCE BENJAMIN WALKIN GUSTAVOUS NATHANIEL FRANCIS DOUGLAS ALEXANDER COX VANDALL ALEXANDER WALKIN SANADIA ROMANICA WALKIN DERAK PETERSON DEAN MERRILL VALEEK HUNSAKER GIBSON EFREM CORDEIMEIN STUBBS JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS INDIANNA DESIRMONA ROBINSON TIFFANY HARRIS KELSEN CHRISTOPHER BRISCO JANELLE GARNELLE TIFFANY HOWELL BRUCELY MONSELL GRANT MARILA JEAN PIERRA WILLIAMS KIZZYMAE STACEYANN HARRIS JAMALA KALI TAYLOR MACK DANIEL WILLIAMS ELLIOTTE DANIEL JOHNSON SANDRA JONES GRANT BLOCK 60811 – PROVIDENCIALES SHANKA SHANTEL DELANCY BLOCK 60809 – PROVIDENCIALES JOAN MARCIA WILLIAMS LARRY LAMARD GARLAND JUDYMAE VERENE JOLLY-KNOWLES BEATRICE VIONEL FORBES CARLTON RODNEY MORRIS ROBERT ALBERT WILLIAMS

CARL WILLIAM JOHNSON CAROL LORENE BEATRICE STUBBS KETTERLEY LOUIS MOORE CALVIN NATHENIAL HANDFIELD SHENEKA DIEDREA WILKINSON MILLS INSTITUTE SHEREEN REID WILLIAMS HEPHZIBAH ALMADA SMITH JOAN SYLVIA SUTTON DENELTA SIMONE SAUNDERS CECILLE ELAINE FRANCIS RONNIE EUGENE SIMMONS CLAYTON LEON COX BRADLEY DONBARTON HANDFIELD LUSHEN MARCUS GRAY CANDLE ALEXANDER THOMAS WILLHAND HOLDINGS LTD CAROLINA CORNELIA MALCOLM TURKS AND CAICOS NATIONAL MUSEUM VALERIE EUGENIA WILSON-FORBES PAULA BRIDGET CUMBERBATCH DAVID NATHANIEL SWANN WILLHAND HOLDINGS LTD BENJAMIN BRUCE WALKIN BLOCK 60804 – PROVIDENCIALES JEFFREY CHRISTOVAL HALL STINA ISIAH STUBBS ENOS NATHANIEL GARDINER JOHN HILGROVE PARKER SEAN SYDRIAN PRATT OREITA ISADORA STUBBS FRANKLYN DELANO FORBES SARAH ESTERLEEN PRATT-QUANT LELLIE VERLENE STUBBS OSWALD PENRHYN BROOKS BENJAMIN BRUCE WALKIN (JNR) JANET LEANN SMITH ARTHUR SAMUEL WILLIAMS DOUGLAS ALEXANDER MISSICK NEWRON PRINCE ALBERT STUBBS ROBERT NATHANIEL STUBBS RIO LAWRENCE STUBBS & OLIVER JOSEPH STUBBS GEORGE CLEOPHAS DONLEY PRATT BLOCK 60803 – PROVIDENCIALES SANDRA DOREEN WALKIN BLOCK 61112 – PROVIDENCIALES EDISON ALDEN HANCHELL JORDACHE TORIANO QUANT ANGULIT VERONICA HALL ANDREA BEATRICE MISSICK LOIS ALRIKAH THOMPSON DEVON KYLE COX ELBRICK BOAS FORBES EDWIN JAMES LIGHTBOURNE VIRGINIA PATSYLEE GARDINER BEANCHO MARIA HARVEY JOSEPH JUDITH PATRICIA SWANN EUWONKA LUEKINE SELVER ASHA YOLANDA STUBBS ABIGAIL ADIZA ZIBA DELANCY BROOK ANDERSON AND SHERNELLE FRANSISCA LOUISE CAPRON WALTER CARNEALIOUS STUBBS SHANE SHATANGI HAWKINS MELISSA MANDRELL DURHAM SHENICA MONALISA FORBES AUDREY ALEMEDA AND BRIAN HAROLD CYRUS THERESA KIMBERLY HALL LOIS MAXINE GLINTON DESMOND JEROME QUANT

Contact Leroy Charles Director Crown Land Unit Grand Turk 8:00am- 4:30pm ( MondaysThursdays) 8:00am- 4:00pm (Fridays) Sharon Brown Deputy Director Crown Land Unit Providenciales 8:00am- 4:30pm ( MondaysThursdays) 8:00am- 4:00pm (Fridays)

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DEDROY ARRINGTON HINDS VERNARD ALICINE HANDFIELD SANFORD ALEXANDER HANDFIELD GEORGIA ROSE MARIE WILLIAMS ALICIA BEATRICE ASTWOOD CALVERT MONTGOMERY LIGHTBOUNE LORNIS CHRISTINA FORBES CHARLES DON TIPTON CINDY ALEXANDRIA EWING DEYON KIMBRAL SEYMOUR CLAUDE HENRY LIGHTBOUNE BELINDA MARIE CARTER DESRIKA ALMEDIA DURHAM ANDY ALEXANDER WILLIAMS CINDY FORBES WAYNE ANTHONY OUTTEN PENDITER LOUISE HUTCHINSON DEKA MONIQUE WILLIAMS MAUREEN ROBERTHA HANCHELL IONA BEATRICE GLINTON DELLAMAE KAYANN PRATT EID MACNAUGHTON ROBINSON LEODICA ATRICIA DELANCY DARCIA-ANN ICILDA PARKER INGHAM GORDON ANTHONY PALMER ANTHONY STEVE BEEN LARANDA CASHERA PARKER COWDREY LOVETT LIGHTBOURNE ODETTE EDITH HANDFIELD KELVIN EDWIN WILLIAMS JENNIFER DAINIA HARVEY RUDOLPH BERNARD HANDFIELD JERMAINE DURRELL MISSICK BLOCK 61113 – PROVIDENCIALES TURKS AND CAICOS NATIONAL TRUST HENRY NATHANIEL RIGBY AND ROSIE MAE RIGBY EDITH ANDREA COX DEREK ADRIAN GREEN HANNA JERELLE EDDISION LAPORTE ALWOOD WENDEL GARDINER DELERIA KATHLEEN SIMMS CAMARDIA CHARMIKA HIGGS TIMOTHY CLYDE PHILLIPS AND KIMBERLY KRISHNA PHILLIPS MANVELLA MISSICK AND ATON DELANCY HARRETTE LOUISE SMITH MILTON DONALD ROBINSON RICARDO SAMADIO GARLAND KEMALA SHAWNETTE SWANN EUNICE BLYTHE CLARE KINGSLEY CONWARD JOHNSON SHENIGUA ELIZABETH OUTTON-COX JOHN HENRY FORBES AND DENISE PATRICIA FORBES LEILA ELAINE LAWERENCE BURTON DEBBIE MELITA DELANCY LINDA SHERLEANE SMITH JOHRAM JAMAR HOUSEMAN AND ROBERT ALEXANDER HOUSEMAN VICTORIA ALICE MAY WILLIAMS GEORGE LINCOLM SEYMOUR ALMIRA GRACITA FORRESTER MARTIN WITHLY HENDFIELD WENDAL DONNAWAINE WILSON TAMIKA CARMALL STUBBS SHENEKAH LOUISE STUBBS DEBORAH DESAREE WILLIAMS SANFORD ALEXANDER HANDFIELD GEORGE CLEOPHAS DONLEY PRATT BLOCK 61203 – PROVIDENCIALES TURKS AND CAICOS NATIONAL TRUST BLOCK 60706 – PROVIDENCIALES CLADE.K & EDITH L.HALL CLIFFORD.H HAMILTON HELENA NAOMI GREEN LEROY CLIFFORD BROOKS WOMAN IN DEVELOPMENT CHARITY MMARILYN .N WILLIAMS & JOSEPH.F HIGGS TURK & CAICOS AIDS AWARANESS FOUNDATION DEBRA YVONNE GARLAND DARREN OSWALD RIGBY PROVO WATER COMPANY LTD. BLOCK 60900 – PROVIDENCIALES QUINCY .L THOMAS MANFRED .L SMITH ROSCOE .M TALBOT TABITHA D SIMMONS ALNINA .V LIGHBOURNE SUSAN .E SYMONETTE

ELIZABETH .L ROLLE CAROL .J BURTON ERIC T MORGAN STEVENSON M MAYHEM CLOTILDA B TAYLOR SIMEON O CAMPBELL KAMEO K S K WALKIN MELANIE D JOHSON GIGI Y WILLIAMS ELVA A TALBOT-SWANN BARBARA E SAMUELS-KWATT ALEXANDER A SMITH DORN R FULLFORD TURK & CAICOS WATER COMPANY JOSEPH B SMITH JANABE V WILLIAMS CURLENA L HIGGS-PHILLIPS SHIRMAY S INGHAM IVYLEEN R FORBES JUSTIN A WILLIAMS BRENDA L HANDFIELD ADRIAN C WILLIAMS MICHELLE D MILLS-PARKER DEBBIE L PROSPERE TERRENCE E EWING WESLEY M WILLIAMS THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA E MORA BLOCK 60611 - PROVIDENCIALES RICO OTIS ROLLE BENSON EDWARD RIGBY ALEXANDER LAMBERT TERRANCE WAYNE TAYLOR TWELAN SHADARACH SWANN CLEAVIE NATHANIEL RIGBY LILLIAN ELAINE BEEN DONAVON ERSKINE FRANCIS SAMUEL EMMANUEL FORBES LOU-ANN LEONI ROBINSON TENIESHIA TAMARA SELVER TIFFANY TIORA MCQUELLE HENDFIELD ALCICA DUVERNA MANDY LLAINE THOMPSON PANSY BETHSHEBA BUTTERFIELD GODFREY LIVINGSTON BEEN ALPHEUS ALEXANDER SMITH JOSEPH ARTHUR RIGBY LLOYDY WELLINGON HANDFIELD FERNANDY LOUIS FELIX O’NIEL DELANCY ARLINTON ALEXANDER MUSGROVE JAMAL JOSEPH EWING SAMANTHA MELISSA WILLIAMS DORSETTE GARDINER BLOCK 60610 - PROVIDENCIALES ANTHONY McCLEAVER WALKIN SHERLOCK CONWELL WALKIN KARL ERNEST BAIN THE CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY EVELINE GRACITA WYNNS ERNEST NEWTON WILLIAMS MARIE RAYMONDE AUGUSTA MISSICK JUDITH EVERLEEN HANDFIELD MERVIN NATHANIEL COX SARAH IVY RIGBY FORBES JOHN BENJAMIN FERGUSON NANCY IRENE GREEN FEASTER WASHINGTON SMITH ALEX HIGGS KENNETH HAROLD FORBES ANNIE LOUISE HINSON FLORINA GERTRUDE GRAY JAMES WILLIAM MITCHELL BLOCK 60609 – PROVIDENCIALES SELMA FRANCINE DELANCY MEGAN CARMELA DEAN SANDY LOU WILLIAMS

GREGORY LODELL WILLIAMS MELONDA ROCHELLE ROBINSON PAULA BLANCHEVA TUCKER-ST. JEAN DEON HENDERSON WILSON YASMIN YOLANDA RIGBY BLUES DARIN MARVIN BAIN LILLIAN ISABELLA LEWIS ANNA LEILA GERTRUDE CAPRON WILLIAM CECIL ASTWOOD ARTHUR WESLEY HAMILTON CATHERINE PENDITHA WILLIAMS GLADYS CLEMENTINA STUBBS GEORGETTE JEANDELL HANCHELL BEVERLY VENITA HARRIS RANDY DEXTER HOWELL PAUL JOHN COX OLGA RONAY TAYLOR

NATALIE JOSEPH LLOYD WELLINGTON HANDFIELD WENDELL RICARDO SAUNDERS ORLANE CHRISTSANDRA JOLLY ANGELA PATRICE JENNINGS SHERVIN RIGBY LEON EMANUEL CAMPBELL SHAKEIKA MEDSHI MOHAMMED BLOCK 60606 – PROVIDENCIALES ALBERT CORNELIUS STUBBS CLAYTON LEON COX SHEKERA OMARSHAREE CLARKE MURRAY CARLSON FORBES ROSITA ELIZABETH MISSICK LONDA LOVEVANTA GRANT ADOLPH STEPHEN ALEXANDER FORBES DOLSON DERVIL AZIZI JENNELLE PARKER KENNEDY HILGROVE WILLIAMS DOVERN WENDLE INGHAM ROSELYN CENEIR ZAHODNIK NIKESHA SHEMEQUEN LAVERN FORBES DENISE ELAINE GARLAND ANTOINE GEDEON MERCEDES UNALEE CLARE DARREN OSWALD RIGBY MICHELLE TAMIKA ARTHUR IVY ELEANOR CAMPBELL HYLON WILL VETROY HIGGS JACKLYN BEATRICE SMITH JEAN SHARVONE JEANIE RIGBY STANLEY ALEXANDER STUBBS CHARLES EMMANUEL FORBES DESSAMICE OSSE MARIE JEANNA CHARLES RONALD GARDINER CHRISENE LIVINGSTON JENNINGS BRIAN TYRONE RIGBY LARVERNE LAVONDA GLINTON KEYSE ANN WALTERS MARIE THERESE WALKIN GODFREY P. & REGINA E. ROBINSON LEWIS BENJAMIN EWING FLOYD RENDELL FORBES ADRIAN EDWIN RIGBY VERONICA ELENE RIGBY CARIN WOODBURY GARDINER DWANE MALBERT FULFORD JERMAL LEVERDO FULFORD STEPHANIE MENEMIA ASTWOOD FEASTA WASHINGTON SMITH JOHN SAUNDERS JOLLY JNR. LADONA ROCHELLE BASSETT GEORGE GILBERT GARDINER WILLDY ROBYN CLARE MARJORIE GERTRUDE COX MARIE ALCINA JOSEPH JACOB & THELMA CAMPBELL EUSTACE EDWARD MUSGROVE CYNTHIA GLORIA CLARKE ELOISE ELLEN COX VERNICE ELAINE WILLIAMS KELLIER ARTHUR M. & VIOLET V. GARDINER BLOCK 60605 – PROVIDENCIALES TREVOR MELVIN COOKE STANLEY ARTHUR BASSETT SEAN SYDRIAN PRATT FRANCINA LOUISE FORBES TERENCE ANTHONY ASTWOOD GLENDAMAE LOUISE WALKIN GWENDOLYN ETOILE HANDFIELD PATRICIA LOUISE RIGBY BRENDA DENISE RIGBY CARL ANDERSON GARDINER CARLTON ROYNETTO WILLIAMS CARL EMMANUEL JOLLY PROBUS DEROSIERS VILBERT JONATHAN EMANUEL SWANN

BLOCK 60604 – PROVIDENCIALES EDDY SELVER CHARLES HOVIS RIGBY CLIFFORD RIGBY JNR. ANGELA FLORINA TUCKER JERMAINE STEPHEN CLARKE WINSTON RIGBY JOHN ROBERT FORBES GLORIA MYERS LEARNEX RIGBY KITCHENER ALSWORTH PENN BLOCK 60603 – PROVIDENCIALES FRANKLYN HUDSON RIGBY

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Contact Leroy Charles Director Crown Land Unit Grand Turk 8:00am- 4:30pm ( MondaysThursdays) 8:00am- 4:00pm (Fridays) Sharon Brown Deputy Director Crown Land Unit Providenciales 8:00am- 4:30pm ( MondaysThursdays) 8:00am- 4:00pm (Fridays)

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MAY 12TH, 2018 – MAY 19TH, 2018

OASIS DIVERS is seeking applications from suitably qualified

candidates for the following positions. The successful applicants must: CERTIFIED DIVERS / LIFEGUARDS/DIVE MASTER -Hold a valid diving certification of Open Water Diver or higher -Be at least 25 years old -Have a clean criminal record -Have a valid passport -Hold a valid certification in CPR and First Aid -Have at least 3 years’ experience in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Other experience in the tourism industry would be an asset -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business TOUR DISPATCHER -Have at least 3 years’ experience dispatching tours -Possess the ability to remain calm in a high stress environment -Be well spoken with English as primary language -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business -Have a valid passport -Be at least 25 years old -Have a clean criminal record TOUR GUIDES

-Be at least 25 years old -Have a clean criminal record -Have a valid passport -Hold a valid certification in CPR and First Aid -Have at least 3 years’ experience in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Other experience in the tourism industry would be an asset -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business CHEF/ RESTAURANT CAPTAIN -Have at least 5 years’ experience in a supervisory position as a chef/cook within a quick pace multiple kitchen operation.

-Experience with Microsoft POS system required -Possess the ability to remain calm in a high stress environment -At least 25 years of age.

-Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business TOUR DEVELOPMENT TRAINER -Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in Tour Development /Safety Standards in a service oriented business.

-Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the management, and training of staff and development of safety standards operating procedures for staff.

-Valid Driver’s License -Highly Professional and Ethical standards of Leadership with a passion for nature and the environment.

-Positive and disciplined attitude toward work in a fast pace, multi-tasking customer service oriented business, with ability to handle complaints and work under pressure.

-Excellent verbal and written communication, with Networking skills -Excellent analytical, inter-personal and customer service skills.

-Ability to recruit and appraise staff performance as well as have a strong track record of fostering team work and motivating staff with multi-cultural differences.

-Must be willing and able to work outdoors, 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 SAFETY DIVER -Strong swimmer, life guard training an asset -Be at least 25 years old -Have a clean criminal record -Have a valid passport -Hold a valid certification in CPR and First Aid -Have at least 3 years’ experience in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Other experience in the tourism industry would be an asset -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business BOAT PAINTER -Have a valid passport -Have at least 5 years’ experience in boat repair, including working with fiberglass and other dangerous chemicals -Positive and disciplined attitude toward work -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business STEWARD/GUEST SERVICES -Have at least 5 years’ experience in the hospitality and tourism industry.

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

-Possess the ability to remain calm in a high stress environment -Be well spoken with English as primary language -Have a valid passport

-Be at least 25 years old -Have a clean criminal record -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business BOAT CAPTAIN -Have a proven and unblemished track record of employment -Have a valid passport -Have at least 5 years’ experience as a boat captain working in the tourism industry.

-Possess a valid grade 2 boat masters license.

-Have CPR and first Aid Certification -Basic knowledge of boat engine maintenance and repair -Have a clean criminal record -Positive and disciplined attitude toward work -Excellent verbal and written communication skills -Be at least 25 years old -Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, including on weekends and Public Holidays, as necessary to meet the challenging needs of the cruise ship schedule and/or reasonable needs of the business SERVER/ BARTENDER/LABORER/KITCHEN ASSISTANT Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar position -Ability to stand for long periods -Excellent customer service and friendly disposition -Able to lift moderate weights -Speaks good English.

WATERSPORTS OPRTATIONS COORDINATOR -High school diploma/ Bachelors -Dive Instructor or higher professional dive rating from an internationally recognized organization -Five years’ experience in a related position -Hold a valid certification in CPR and First Aid -Extensive knowledge of all standards and procedures with regards to international dive regulations -Ability to repair scuba equipment.

-Basic knowledge of boat engine maintenance/repair -Basic knowledge of compressor maintenance and repair -Detailed knowledge of dive shop and watersports operation, organization and recording/ logging protocol.

-Knowledge of general operation process.

Be at least 25 years old ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OFFICER -Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies or Biology -Two years’ International experience in a similar position -Teaching / trainer experience -Open water PADI certification or higher -Basic accounting background -Computer literate -Excellent written and verbal communication skills -Second language is an asset -Excellent organizational skills -Possess a valid driver’s license DRIVER -3 years’ experience in a similar position -Basic vehicle maintenance skills an asset -Valid drivers license -Excellent reporting skill -Excellent time management skill -Ability to work on own initiative -Accident free driving record -Clean police record -Excellent verbal communication skills.

MECHANIC -Two years’ experience in a similar position -Knowledgeable in mechanical repair and maintenance of All terrain Vehicles, boat engines, diesel engines, trucks.

-Highly organized and able to work on own initiative -Excellent organizational skills -Literacy -Possess a valid driver’s license Preference will be given to documented Turks and Caicos Islanders Written applications only and accompanying CVs/resumes must be addressed to the Manager at the following address:

Cee’s Plaza, Suite No. 1 Church Folly PO Box 86 Grand Turk Turks & Caicos Islands

OASIS DIVING, LTD. c/o EPIC Corporate & Consultancy Services Ltd. Phone: 649-946-1128 Fax: 649-946-1128 Email: oasisdiv@tciway.tc

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Cole Potts placed 2nd at Long Beach Grand Prix

Nineteen-year-old Cole Potts, the son of Hallmark Trust business owner Craig Potts, recently placed 1st in Australia and 2nd place at the Long Beach Grand Prix.

The Scottsdale, Arizonaborn raced against Aria lyndike the Bachelor and Robby Gordon. The event took place between April 13th -15th in Long Beach California.

Commenting on his achievement Cole Potts told The SUN that this accomplishment is surreal and it feels like all the hard work he Cole Potts has put in is paying off.

“Traveling the world meeting Cole Potts races in off-road amazing people and getting to race in Trophy trucks and Stadium Super different countries has been amazing Trucks in multiple series. and has always been a dream of mine,” Potts encourages young youth he said. “I decided to start competing his age to have their goals in mind, in the start of 2018 season in the visualize their success, and take a leap Stadium Super Truck (SST) series. The of faith and pursue them with Integrity opportunity to become a Speed Energy and complete devotion. athlete in off-road and SST (Stadium When asked by The SUN, Super Trucks) was brought to me by where does he see himself in 10 years, Robby Gordon the series owner earlier Potts said racing IndyCar and multiple this year. I decided to join the SST professional race series around the series because I saw the highly skilled world and staying busy fighting for the level of competitors and liked the many win. opportunities that the series had to The Toyota Grand Prix of Long offer.”

Beach is an IndyCar Series race

Cole Potts Vehicle held on a street circuit in Long Beach, California. Christopher Pook is the founder of the event. It was the premier race on the CART/Champ Car calendar from 1996 to 2008, and the 2008 race was the final Champ Car series race prior to the formal unification and end of the open-wheel “split” between CART and IRL. Since 2009, the race has been part of the unified IndyCar Series. For most of its history, the race has traditionally been held in April.

It is one of the longest continuouslyrunning events in Indy car racing, and with its rich history, is considered one of the most prestigious events on the

circuit.

The Long Beach Grand Prix is the longest running major street race held in North America. It started in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race, and became a Formula One event in 1976.

Incredibly, in an era when turbocharged engines were starting to come to prominence in Formula One, Long Beach remains one of the few circuits used from the time Renault introduced turbos in 1977 until the last Long Beach Grand Prix in 1983 that never once saw a turbo-powered car take victory.

Local SURFside Swim Team Traveling to May Bahamas Swim Meet

7 local swimmers from the SURFside Ocean Academy Swim Club and their coach, Jessica Soderquist, will be traveling up to the Bahamas to participate in the Mako Aquatics Club Invitational Swim Meet May 18 & 19.

This will be the 3rd off island swim meet that the Club has ever attended, and the first meet ever for some of the team. The athletes entering this meet are sisters Lilly Taylor (12), Sophie Taylor (10), Olivia Taylor (8), Sean Ewing (11), Alex Maclaren (15), Thais Burgess (12) and Angelina Lindenhahn (11). Of these athletes, 2 have gone as

far as to represent TCI on the national swim team for CARIFTA in 2018 and 2017.

Says SURFside swim teacher, Morgan Luker, “We do not have a 25 or 50 meter pool in our country, so our kids need to travel to other islands and countries in order to gain competitive swimming experience, and pool training skills that they cannot receive on island. They also need proper qualifying times for certain meets and so can only do this by using these larger competitive pools and timing systems.”

In an effort to raise funds

for this meet and a second off island meet in Fort Lauderdale on June 19-22 at the SFTL International Classic,coachSoderquist created a Swim-a-thon named the “SURFside 20k Relay Challenge for the kids to swim this Saturday May 12. The Swim Team will attempt to swim 20,000 meters in 2 hours as a Team. As of Thursday, May 10 the YouCaring site indicated that the Club had raised $2,600 of their $5,000 goal. For more information on the SURFsideswimathon or to donate to the fundraiser go to www.youcaring. com.

Adds Luker, “Since it’s initiation only 3 years ago, our Swim Team kids have been swimming, swimming and swimming. They are using any pool time they can get in the earliest of hours and using the ocean for endurance training when there is no pool time available. They are all inspirational examples of what hard work, commitment, and dedication are all about. They deserve to have as much proper pool and competitive experience they can gain through these off island swim meets.”

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Bahamas to give up World Relays after 2019

The Bahamas is unlikely to host the IAAF World Relays beyond 2019 and President of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA)Rosamunde Carey thinks that Jamaica would make perfect hosts.

The Bahamas hosted the first ever World Relays in 2014 and again in 2015. They also hosted the 2017 edition and will be hosts again in 2019. However, going forward, Carey believes financial constraints will most likely see the World Relays leave the Bahamas, at least for a few years.

“We know that we have the expertise, we have the experience, we have the skill set. We know what it takes to build the brand and we know that 2019 will possibly be the last one for us,” Carey revealed to SportsMax. TV on Tuesday.

“What we have asked the IAAF is that given the financial constraints, we thought it would be prudent with the Government’s blessing, to rotate it within the Caribbean. We are the best people to host the World Relays in the Caribbean region. So the thought was to send it out and cycle it and then it

comes back to the home, the birthplace of the world relays, every two cycles.”

Recent reports suggest that Jamaica could be in line to host the relays. Jamaica’s sports minister Olivia Grange revealed last week that the Government was in discussions to host either the Relays or another major youth championship. However, the minister was reluctant to reveal any detail on those discussions.

Carey believes that Jamaica, who has hosted the 2002 World Juniors and hosts two international track meets each year, is more than ready to play host to the World Relays.

“Absolutely! Jamaica is our sister country and they have been known to host international meets and so hosting the World Relays would not be a stretch,” she said.

She said hosting the World Relays provided a major boost to the Bahamian economy.

“The World Relays has had a significant impact on the Bahamas and how the Bahamas is advertised around the world, and it brings people from all around the world,” she said.

Rosamunde Carey President of the BAAA, with IAAF President Sebastien Coe, believes 2019 will be the last year of the IAAF World relays for the Bahamas, at least for now

“We are televised into 214 to be the home of the World Relays countries in different territories so which was the intent of the previous you see, the exposure is exponential administration. Dr Danny Johnson, in the millions of persons that would who was the previous minister of be able to see the Bahamas. So, the sports, that was his goal, that is what economic impact is there so we still he went to the IAAF with,” said Carey.

“We now have a new excited about it. It’s an event that can only grow, the potential is there and administration and they have their we have the niche.” fiscal constraints and we do appreciate

However, for now being that and we do understand that and permanent hosts might be too we understand that as a country we have to do what is right for the people expensive.

“If it was just the IAAF and of the Bahamas.” (SportsMax)) the BAAA’s alone, we would love

IAAF unveils new mass worldwide running event

LONDON - A new series of one-mile runs in 24 cities around the world to celebrate Global Running Day on June 6 and tagged “Run 24:1” was unveiled by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Monday.

Partnering with sports ministries, city governments, race organizers and member federations around the world, the IAAF

initiative incorporates races to be held in cities across 15 time zones that will each start at the same local time to create a ‘simultaneous’ worldwide celebration of running.

IAAF Run 24:1 will commence at 1700 local time (GMT +12) in Auckland, New Zealand, then cross Oceania to Sydney, enter Asia in Tokyo, move to Europe in Minsk, into Africa in Addis Ababa, and cross the Atlantic

to the Americas in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires before the day’s final race in Vancouver on Canada’s west coast.

In all, IAAF Run 24:1 will include stops in 23 countries, uniting tens of thousands of runners around the world.

“Running is accessible to everyone, it is fun, it is competitive,” said IAAF President Sebastian Coe.

Olympic gold medalist Van Niekerk targeting July return

CAPE TOWN - South Africa’s Olympic 400-metre gold medalist Wayde van Niekerk is targeting a return to the track by the start of July, his coach Ans Botha has said.

Van Niekerk is to travel to Qatar this week for an assessment by sports physician Louis Holtzhausen as he recovers from a knee injury sustained in a charity touch rugby game last October that forced him to miss the recent Commonwealth Van Niekerk is the only sprinter in Games.

“We are flying to Doha to history to have run the 100m in under see Dr Louis (Holtzhausen) and 10 seconds, the 200m in under 20 the medical team and he will start seconds and the 400m in under 44 intensive rehabilitation in two weeks’ seconds time,” Botha told TimesLIVE.co.za.

Following the retirement of Jamaican

“He will come back to sprint great Usain Bolt, Van Niekerk continue with the process for six was keen to compete in the 100 and weeks in South Africa and return to 200-meters as well as the 400 at the Doha for the last time.”

2020 Olympics in Tokyo. However,

While stating that Van he may now have to manage his Niekerk hoped to return in late June workload more carefully. or early July, it remains unclear when Van Niekerk was one of the exactly he will be back on the track. major attractions at the 2016 Olympic

“It will only be after his Games in Rio de Janeiro when he second visit to Doha that we will have smashed the 400m world record a good idea of how far he is in terms with a time of 43.03, beating the of returning to competitive running,” long-standing mark set by American Botha added.

Michael Johnson in 1999.

“It can be social, it can be solitary. It is testing, it is personal but most of all it builds strength, stamina, fitness and health. It is the mother of all sports.

“On Wednesday 6 of June, we want as many people as possible to celebrate Global Running Day – the biggest annual celebration of running.”

Each race will be headed by a designated ‘City

Captain’, a former or current athlete who will lead local efforts to spread awareness of the initiative and to involve their respective running communities.

Celebrating its third year in 2018, Global Running Day is a grassroots initiative where people of all abilities and from all paths of life come together to celebrate their passion for running and inspire others to get moving.

Kiprop says doping officials took money

LONDON - Kenya’s former Olympic and world 1,500 meters champion Asbel Kiprop said that a doping sample might have been Former Olympic and world 1,500 tampered with by testers who not only meters champion Asbel Kiprop, 28, is a tipped him off about their visit but senior police officer in Kenya also took a payment from him.

Kiprop also said that he left

Although there has still been no official confirmation of his the room after giving his sample and positive test, Kiprop went into great suspected that it could have been detail about the test, carried out in interfered with. He said the testers November last year, in a statement suggested he admit to doping so that that ran to over 1,000 words. he could be given an “ambassador role”

The 28-year-old, a senior with the International Association of police officer, said he paid the testers Athletics Federations (IAAF).

He also said that testers had an unspecified amount of money via an electronic transfer and did not given him advance notice of their consider it untoward. visit – something clearly against anti “I did not at the time expect doping procedures. that the request for the money had Kiprop was informed of the failed test anything to do with the sample,” in February.

Kiprop said in the statement.

“I am the last person to

“At that time I did not see commit such an atrocious un-sports the money as inducement or bribe like thing,” he said, adding that he was for anything. I gave it in good faith perplexed how his “innocent sample thinking they may have some need turned positive”. known to them. In retrospect, I now As part of IAAF head clearly see the money as having a Sebastian Coe’s reforms of the sport’s relation with the sample collected governing body, doping matters are on that date, and even the irregular now dealt with by the independent Athlete Integrity Unit. advance notice I was given.”

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Who’s the GOAT, LeBron or Michael? Breaking down the argument, and making a call

This is the time of year when we watch the NBA playoffs and ask, “Has LeBron James finally seized the Greatest player Of All-Time title, or is Michael Jordan still the GOAT?”

They missed sharing the court by only one season. Michael, 55, played his final season in 2002-03. LeBron, 33, played his first season in 2003-04. But

by Michael’s final season he no longer was Michael, and in LeBron’s first season he had yet to become LeBron.

Michael is quicker, LeBron bigger and stronger. Michael played better defense. LeBron is by far the better passer. Michael has won six NBA championships. LeBron has won three.

What would you give to watch them go at each other in their primes?

Speaking of which, when does LeBron’s prime expire?

LeBron leads all scorers in the 2017-18 playoffs with 34.3 points per game. He also averages 9.4 rebounds and 9.0 assists.

Only two players in these playoffs have more assists than LeBron, and both are point guards – Rajon Rondo of the New Orleans Pelicans averages 12.9, and John Wall of the Washington Wizards averaged 11.5.

Going into Game 5 of the Golden State Warriors-New Orleans series, Golden State forward Draymond Green also was averaging 9.0.

LeBron is 11th all-time in assists. The 10 players in front of him are guards, as are the14 players behind him.

There was a time when defenses would step back and invite LeBron to shoot from the outside.

(Michael, too, was not an accomplished shooter when he entered the league.)

Defenses can’t do that anymore, as

LeBron James and Michael Jordan LeBron’s 34.3 points attest.

But the beauty of LeBron’s game is his forays to the basket. Speed and strength come together and he’s suddenly the Norfolk Southern. Take a charge against LeBron, if he’s called for one, and you should win a prize.

The older LeBron gets, the more clutch he becomes. Eight seconds remained in Game 3 of the Cleveland Cavaliers-Toronto Raptors series, and Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue pulled a Roy Williams and did not call a timeout, which meant the Cavaliers had to drive the length of the court. It meant LeBron had to drive the length of the court.

So he did. He ignored the double team, splitting it. Toronto calls itself The North. LeBron was The

Left. He drove to the left of the basket, which you knew he would, and not far from the Toronto bench put up a soft one-hander off the glass and into the hoop for the winning basket.

I suspect that the older you are, the more likely you are to consider Michael the GOAT. We tend to favor the player that was in his prime when we were. I thought Muhammad Ali was the best heavyweight I had ever seen.

My dad said Joe Louis was. My kids said Mike Tyson was. Then we watched Tyson dine on Evander Holyfield’s right ear, and they immediately switched their allegiance to Ali. I like to think that they would have, anyway.

One of the qualities that distinguished Michael is his poise.

When the game was being decided, he

decided it. The deeper into the playoffs he advanced, the better he became.

In the finals, he was stone cold years before wrestler Steve Austin claimed the name.

Michael made six championships and won them all. Not one of went seven games. That’s as stunning a statistic as you’re going to find.

LeBron, too, is clutch. The shot off the glass is his second gamewinning basket in the first two rounds of the playoffs. But this number will haunt him: In the finals, he has a record of 3-5.

Michael, 6-6, played at about 195 pounds; LeBron, 6-8, plays at 250 pounds. Jordan played 15 seasons.

This season is LeBron’s 15th.

In Michael’s 15th season, his game had worn out. LeBron is as good as he’s ever been. Along with his outside shot, he’s added the fadeaway, and more than at any time in his career he’s willing to take the shot that will win, or fail to win, the game.

For 15 NBA seasons, LeBron has dragged his 250 or so pounds up and down the court, and he’s still the best player in the world.

I was leaning toward LeBron being the best I’ve seen. Then I went back and looked at film of Michael.

Watch him. A player of extraordinary quickness, he played as if he was offended when an opponent dared guard him or try to score against him.

I can’t imagine anybody being better. So I contend that Michael is still the GOAT.

But if you don’t believe the call is close, you haven’t been watching Cleveland.

Coleman wants to be one of the best indoors and out

After wiping out the 20-year- by retired world record holder and old 60 meters world record and winning multiple Olympic and world champion the world indoor title, the young Usain Bolt.

Coleman, Canada’s triple American has loaded up his outdoor schedule with nine Diamond League Olympic medalist Andre De Grasse, meetings as he seeks top honors in South African 400 meters world record holder Wayde van Niekerk and both the 100 and 200 meters.

“I want to be looked at as one American Noah Lyles, the 300 meters of the greatest sprinters of all-time. global record holder, all are among the With that comes running both events,” young front runners.

World 100 meters champion the 22-year-old world 100 meters silver medalist told Reuters from his Justin Gatlin, who defeated Coleman and Bolt for the gold, also is back and Knoxville, Tennessee base.

The races are almost evenly expecting another top-notch season . divided between the 100 and 200 with “There are so many guys Coleman considering doing both in his that they are talking about that may season-opening appearance at the May be the ‘next one’ or may be the next 25-26 Prefontaine Classic Diamond Bolt,” Coleman said. “That whole League meeting in Oregon. conversation is exciting to me and

His quest comes as athletics really humbling.” looks for ways to fill the void left

LOOKING AT PERSONAL BEST? Based on his 6.34 second 60 meters record, the fast-starting Coleman could be looking at running the 100 meters in a personal best 9.7 seconds this year, former holder Maurice Greene told Reuters.

Only seven sprinters have run faster, including Bolt whose world record is 9.58 seconds.

But Coleman seldom talks times, at least publicly.

“I never really set any time goals,” he said. “I think that puts a limit on yourself. When you set a time and you hit that time, you are kind of satisfied. I never want to have that type of feeling.”

His goals are more about achievements. And while wanting to

leave his mark this season, 2017’s fastest 100 meters runner (9.82 seconds) and third fastest in the 200 (19.85) already is thinking about the 2019 Doha world championships and 2020 Tokyo Olympics and doubling in both.

“Since this is not a championship season, you kind of want to use this (season) as preparation for going into 2019 and 2020,” he said.

That’s where the Diamond League races come in.

World champions and Diamond League event winners earn byes into the next world championships.

“Gatlin already has the bye (in the 100) from winning world championships,” said Coleman, who is preparing for his first full professional season.

Ferguson recovering in hospital following brain surgery

LONDON - Sir Alex Ferguson, the most successful manager in Manchester United’s history, underwent emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain hemorrhage, the club said.

“The procedure has gone very well but he needs a period of intensive care to optimize his recovery,” a statement said. “His family request privacy in this matter.”

United captain Michael Carrick tweeted: “Absolutely devastated to hear about Sir Alex being unwell in hospital. All my thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Be strong

boss.”

Aberdeen, winning three Scottish

Ferguson’s son Darren, the League titles and the European Cup manager of Doncaster Rovers, was Winners’ Cup. reported to have missed his team’s After taking Scotland to the 1986 World match on Saturday for family reasons.

Cup following the death of Jock Stein,

The 76-year-old was United Ferguson joined United in November manager from 1986 to 2013, winning 1986 after Ron Atkinson was sacked. the Champions League twice, the It took three and a half years Premier League 13 times and five FA to achieve his first success with them, Cups. the FA Cup title in 1990.

He was knighted in 1999, From there he was unstoppable, the year United achieved a treble by quickly achieving his ambition to winning those three trophies in one “knock Liverpool off their perch” as season.

United became the team of the 90s and

He made his managerial beyond. reputation in his native Scotland with In 2001 he decided to leave

the following year but was persuaded by his family to change his mind and stayed on until 2013.

He remained a regular visitor to Old Trafford and was there last Sunday to make a presentation to old rival Arsene Wenger on the Arsenal manager’s last appearance at the ground before he leaves the London club.

Since Ferguson left, United have struggled to repeat his triumphs and great rivals Manchester City have now won two titles in that time, including this season’s.

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