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HUGE CONSTRUCTION AND INVESTMENT BOOM

By Todeline Defralien

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he Turks and Caicos Islands is about to experience the biggest investment and construction boom in the history of these islands, according to the Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson.

In an exclusive interview with The SUN, the Premier said a significant number of jobs and opportunities will be created as a result of this boom which is expected to last for a number of years.

“The economy is strong and even today I had meetings with two good investors who are fully financing their projects and we continue to have a number of investors who are flying here, so we expect a construction boom,” Premier Robinson said. “We expect a groundbreaking in July, we expect another one in September and we expect another major announcement soon in Providenciales.”

The Premier could not quantify the cost of inward investment but noted that the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands will be very pleased with the high-end brands that are coming.

In response to a question from this newspaper, the Premier said the expected construction and investment boom will be greater than what was experienced during the last such peak period under a former Progressive National Party (PNP) administration when the Turks and Caicos Islands earned the distinction of being the fastest growing economy in the Caribbean.

“It’s very busy and I am pretty sure that it will be busier than back then,” she said. “This year alone we have a number of ground breakings that we expect and you would notice with me that even with Government projects I do cornerstone laying. So I have developers who are ready to go

Haitian nationals protest for sloops to stop!!

Haitians nationals in Turks and Caicos Islands came out in numbers on Friday May 18th to protest against the major problem of illegal sloops entering the country.

The protest took place outside the Haitian Consulate on Leeward and say listen we want our detailed permission/our land permission before we even make an announcement because I don’t do false starts. The construction boom that is where we expect it, there is a lot of real tangible projects on the table and is moving and we’re looking at at least three more groundbreakings for big projects,” she added. “We’re poised to do well and I am very optimistic but cautiously optimistic, because when you have the announcement of public registers, when you have the possibility of a more active hurricane season, anything that deters our flights and stops our tourism product is of concern.”

When asked by The SUN what is happening with Grand Turk and South Caicos in regards to construction, she said: “That is the problem with multiisland chains. For example, you would

Highway, Providenciales on a day which is normally celebrated as Haitian Flag Day. Resident of the Turks and Caicos Islands, John Phillip who also protested told The SUN, “We are doing a peaceful protest sending a message

see Nassau and Freeport moving ahead of all of the islands (in The Bahamas).

Investors choose where they want to go, but it is for Government to put policies and initiatives in place to encourage them to want to go elsewhere. But when someone comes to the table and says that I want to go where the infrastructure/ market is and I don’t want the extra headache of transporting materials or having to have their guests go another way and take another flight, that’s the challenge.”

However, Robinson revealed that under the new investment policy statement that she will be introducing soon to the public speaks more to particular type of projects for islands outside of Providenciales.

“We heard of shovel-ready like Invest TC where persons present their

to the Haitian Government to tell them that we need them to take up responsibility through the Haitian Consulate and let them know that we are here as Haitians and we need someone to represent us and we are tired of the illegal sloops.” projects, so we want to do shovel-ready; for example we want a nice high-end dive resort for Grand Turk and we want a nice wellness type resort for Middle Caicos, but all of these islands we don’t want to develop like Providenciales, but you’re looking for an anchor project. You want to be able as a Government under this new investment policy statement to be able to present a full project with approvals to a developer who doesn’t want to go through all of that headache,” she explained.

Additionally the Premier noted that the encouragement of the development ordinance and the stamp duty ordinance; the rates are much lower to encourage development outside of Providenciales.

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HUGE CONSTRUCTION AND INVESTMENT BOOM

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“Our concessions are greater for persons outside of Providenciales, but again you want to bait the investor but the final decision is for them and they’ve been buying personal property, they’ve been buying private property, so it isn’t as if you’re giving crown land on Providenciales where you can have some sort of edge. They’re actually investing in their own private property,” she ended.

Meantime she continued: “That is why it is important for Government to stay on top of it and manage it because you don’t want development to happen and where there are opportunities they’re not getting it. A development is for the benefit of the partner that comes and invests the money, that’s why they’re here because they expect benefits from it but it must also benefit the country and the residents, they cannot be mere spectators. They have to be players.”

LABOR SHORTAGE EXPECTED

Although this is great news, the Premier noted that their biggest challenge will be labor, but she noted that the Ministry of Border Control which is headed by Deputy Premier Hon. Sean Astwood, will make sure that Turks and Caicos Islanders who are available to work are employed but there will be an active search for alternative labor markets.

She added: “Border Control is going to be making sure that there is a special skills drive to make sure that those Turks and Caicos Islanders who are available to work are employed, but it’s not going to be enough and that is why I said that there has been active search for alternative labor markets. It’s a good problem to have and it is good to plan to know that is going to happen.”

When asked by The SUN they’re young professionals or people what other markets they are looking who want to replace homes after the to tap into, the Premier said: “I can’t storms, there’ll be a need for housing,” say but I know that up to today we’ve she explained. had an offer from someone who said For years in the Turks and that they can sit with the Minister Caicos Islands labor has been coming and say where people are going. It is a from countries such as Haiti, Jamaica major Caribbean issue as to the labor and the Premier confirmed that they markets that we will be tapping into will be looking to make sure that there and there are new markets that are is a balance of different nationalities. emerging. I know for a fact that Border “The Policy going forward has to Control has been talking about this for be to break up larger numbers months. You would find that some of and introduced different countries/ the developers themselves are looking nationalities and look at a quota. In at the provision of housing and I know fact we have not as large as the resorts one in particular that was actually but another investment that is coming looking at the local partnership of along who is targeting St. Lucia it, because persons want to say that because a lot of skilled labor that that is an opportunity for a Turks people are looking for is there. People and Caicos Islander and if a Turks are looking at their markets and their and Caicos Islander is ready to come asking what is your thought but if forward than yes there will be need they’re skilled and you cannot find it for housing whether it is attached here than of course,” she ended. to construction or the mere fact that

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$38 million in contract up for grabs, says Premier

By Todeline Defralien

The Turks and Caicos Islands currently has $38million in contract up for grabs, according to Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson.

“We’re doing about $38 million in projects, $18 million from our reserve and $20 million from what is initially in our Foreign Service Pension System (FSPS),” she told The SUN in an exclusive interview. “All of that is in construction because we’re doing critical Government buildings, schools

and roads.”

The Premier also noted that one of the challenges that she foresaw for Government is the availability of local contractors.

“We’re having contractors who have three and four and I think one even has five projects with Government and it is really an opportunity for contractors to get on the scene. This is Government work alone and I don’t even know what they’re doing privately, but I know that it is a busy time..but what I propose to do in the next few

weeks is to meet with local contractors again and look at the bidding process,” she told The SUN.

Robinson stated that they do not lack contractors but most contractors are discouraged from bidding and they feel that the same contractors are getting all of the work.

She added: “A lot of people are discouraged from bidding. They bid over and over and they feel that the same contractors are getting the work, so we want to make sure that when Government puts money into an

economy that as many people benefit as possible. But there is a process and we have to find out what is the deterrent, why some are not bidding and what other issues may be arising and that is the strategy up front. We have enough contractors, but we just need more players in it. The contractors are there but we’re having the same persons who are bidding are winning. We have a number of contractors we have spoken to over and over who just refuse to bid or feel that the system is just not in their favor.”

United Kingdom border experts arrive in TCI

A five-member team of experts from the United Kingdom (UK) Home Office, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands on May 13, 2018 to assess the current illegal migration issues within the islands over the next two weeks and to provide advice to the Ministry of Border Control on how to Deputy Premier and Minister of Border Control with UK Border Control Team Departments, Royal Turks enhance the effectiveness made by the Premier of the Ahmad. of the Turks and Caicos Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI), Meetings will be and Caicos Islands Police Islands response to tackling Hon. Sharlene Cartwright held with senior government Force, sea ports and airport – Robinson which has been officials and stakeholder authorities. immigration crimes.

The Deputy Premier,

This initiative agreed by the Overseas institutions including Maritime, Customs, Radar Hon. Sean Astwood met with emanated from a request Territories Minister Lord

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Five Cays Haitian residents complain about ill treatment by Police

By Todeline Defralien

Haitian Belongers in the Five Cays community are complaining about alleged ill treatment received from members of the Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force.

According to numerous complaints reaching The SUN, residents from Five Cays said that members of the Police Force allegedly mistreated the Haitian community while making arrests

In an interview with The SUN, an 18-year-old who preferred to stay anonymous said, “They were arresting one of the immigrants and he had no shoes on. He had several surgeries before. While the officers were walking, I asked why you just don’t let the man put on his shoes because he is sick and they didn’t listen to me. So I said, have some decency and at least let the man have some shoes on and you can put him back. No one was listening. As I was turning around, another officer that was behind me questioned me and asked, do you have papers? I said yes I do, I’m a citizen/American and he said let me see your papers. I told him I live right over there I am going to get it, then he held me by my hand and I said ‘do not touch me’ and he kept holding my hands and didn’t listen.”

The teenager added: “I think that it was one of his supervisors that told him to arrest me, and I said why you are arresting me, I am a citizen and

you guys don’t really have no rights to arrest me for me no reason. My family came along and said I am a Belonger and have my status and everything.

They weren’t cursing, pushing or shoving, they all just came in front of me and that’s when the officers started pepper spraying them. While the officers were pepper spraying them another officer was holding my hand and he held my hand very hard which is the reason why my wrist is hurting me and as he did it he sprayed it twice.”

The resident continued: “There’s another officer that had a gun in his hand and my neighbor came and asked why is he arresting me, because I didn’t do anything wrong and then the other officer that had the gun he was looking for a place to shoot the young man in his feet and they literally just stop, because other officer got sprayed in his eyes too. They arrested me and while the guy was putting the handcuffs he meant to put it tight in my hand and carried me to the bus.”

Residents also made mention of the lack of presence from their MP, Hon. Sean Astwood during the incident even though he was notified by them.

Belonger Mary Missick who was also pepper sprayed in the incident said, “When I call Honorable Sean Astwood, he said to send the video to him and I sent the video to him. The police treat the Belongers just like dogs and I never saw anyone from the PDM party came out to ask what is

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Police officers and Five Cays residents during the incident happening, but when they want you to number of messages via WhatsApp do something for them you see everyone with allegations that the police had one time. I don’t want anyone to use pepper sprayed someone. I advised me like that because Hon. Sean know those persons who contacted me to that I have too much respect for him take the individual to the hospital to because he never did anything wrong have their eyes checked. I also advised to me but now when he is Minister he them that if they felt a police officer has no respect but he knows that if he operated inappropriately to make an comes to talk to use someone else will official complaint to the police station. give him problem and that’s why he I was subsequently sent the video you didn’t show up.” mentioned along with a number of

Responding to the complaints, pictures taken during the enforcement Deputy Premier, Border Control and exercise. I sent these on to the necessary Employment Minister and Member of persons to look into the allegations.” he Parliament for Five Cays and Chalk concluded.

Sound, Hon. Sean Astwood told The In a statement to media on SUN, “I met with a couple of persons Tuesday May 15th, Police Public in Five Cays on Saturday morning who Relations Officer Takara Bain said, expressed their concerns in the manner “The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands in which certain members of the task Police Force are aware of a video force were carrying out their duties. At circulating of an alleged pepper spray the time the reports were of a minor incident involving one of our officers. nature which I enquired further to We have not received an official ensure that the proper oversight of the complaint, but in the interim, the video task force was effectively in place.” is currently under review.”

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Premier and Minister of Health welcome Doctors Hospital delegation

A four (4) member delegation from Doctors Hospitals in the Bahamas headed by President and Chief Medical Officer, Dr Charles Diggiss visited the Turks & Caicos Island, May 14-15, 2018. The delegation held talks with the National Health Insurance Board, TCI Hospitals and Ministry of Health Officials.

The visit was welcomed by the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB), as Doctors Hospital is a major overseas healthcare provider under the Treatment Abroad Program managed by the NHIB.

The objective of the two (2) Seated: Dr. Charles Diggiss, Honourable Premier Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson and day visit was to explore opportunities Honourable Edwin Astwood. Standing: Mr. Charles Sealy, Mr. Dearl Simmons, Dr. for greater collaboration with the Hamlet Nation, Mrs. Romain Missick-Smith, Dr. Nadia Astwood, Mrs. Angel ColebyNHIB and the local healthcare Taylor and Dr. Michael Darville. sector. The Doctors Hospital team team from Doctors Hospital for the to greater collaboration in the future”. made a telemedicine presentation high-quality care and good patient The Premier also highlighted the fact at TCI Hospitals which presents experience that is delivered at their that the NHIB is looking critically opportunities for enhanced clinical facility. Premier Robinson noted that at existing relationships, making management and communication “While we focus on strengthening local considerations in relation to the between TCI Hospitals and physicians systems and programs in particular increasing healthcare costs, and at Doctors Hospitals. primary healthcare, we know for the complexity of cases to ensure that

The Premier, Honourable foreseeable future, we will continue to there is sustainable financingto Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson in rely on your services, the Government respond to the needs of beneficiaries. her remarks at courtesy call with the is very appreciative of the partnership For his part Honourable visiting delegation thanked the and look forward Edwin Astwood, Minister of Health

highlighted that there was keen public interest in the Treatment Abroad Program and encouraged Doctors Hospitals to look at the areas that could provide greater value to NHIP beneficiaries. He highlighted that Doctors Hospital gets approximately 15 percent of overseas referrals at a cost of $2-3million per year.

Dr Diggiss expressed a commitment on behalf of the delegation to a further deepening of the partnership and to fostering mutually beneficial objectives. He highlighted that Doctors Hospital was looking to introduce new services in long term rehabilitation, paediatric care, and affordable accommodation options for family members etc. to complement existing services. These services are expected to come on stream before the end of 2018.

The visiting team included; Dr Charles Diggiss (President & CMO), Dr Michael Darville(Medical Director) Mr Charles Sealy(CEO) Mr Raymond Wright (ITManager). The discussions and negotiations continuewith the National Health Insurance Board on a range of issues.

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PDM Government has big plans for Grand Turk

By Todeline Defralien

The country’s capital, Grand Turk, is about to receive a major economic boost, according to Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson.

The Peoples Democratic Movement Government has big plans to enhance the island and noted that people in the community should not feel that Grand Turk is abandoned.

In an exclusive interview with The SUN, Premier Hon. Sharlene CartwrightRobinson said, “Grand Turk is an easier island than the others. We have over $6 million in the Carnival infrastructure and fund. We got into office and we meet over and over with Carnival that is eager just as Government to use that fund to enhance Grand Turk and to create small employment opportunities . We agreed on certain projects for beatification as well as job creation and Carnival has been around for eleven (11) years and the final decisions was made that we have to have an Memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed and it was never before signed, but now an MOU is required to be signed.”

The Premier stated that the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) Government is at the stage where Carnival is now with the MOU and once that is signed Grand Turk sees much more.

“Grand Turk doesn’t require much you know, Grand Turk requires the attention and Grand Turk is the only island that has a pot of money that can be spent on it and nowhere else. Grand Turk has not been abandoned and certainly not by the PDM Government.”

“My commitment to Carnival was that roads are done from that, but what my Government is committed to do is show our goodwill by having the roads done and that’s why Grand Turk had all the roads in the first year. Grand Turk always feels abandoned and as the nation’s capital

they want more and deserve more, but Grand Turk always feels abandoned.

Grand Turks sees the seat of Government only as in name, because when people had to go to Grand Turk to do business, we’ve seen a steady flow of high ranking civil servants move from Grand Turk to Providenciales but of course that’s no design of a Government especially in this setting. But what Grand Turk wants to feel is that there’s an opportunity to grow or to get into business or have a job they want it to be in Grand Turk. They shouldn’t have to move to Providenciales in order to go into a business or to get a good job,” she explained to The SUN.

The Premier also noted that Grand Turk will get its roads, the Community College will be upgraded, better communication will come for the islands and the challenge with water supply will be fixed.

“Grand Turk is challenged with water supply for many years and we’re looking at the possibility of a reverse osmosis plant at the other end of the island. I am not technical but I don’t know if it’s a pump issue or a pressure issue but when Carnival (ships) are in the pressure seem to be diverted to the port’s oppose to the residential areas. Despite the issues Digicel trenching, Grand Turk will have better communication and even with FLOW upgrades there will be better communication.”

When asked by The SUN what plans the Government has to correct the unfavourable perception that people in Grand Turk have, the Premier said that it cannot be corrected by speaking the people will have to see it.

She added: “You cannot correct it by speaking. They actually have to see it, so our plan is to push towards the signing of the MOU to use the monies available.

We are in the middle of wrapping up a Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

(SME) policy and a review of the cruise line industry to see how we can get more out of it. We’ve changed the MSME program, the legislation when the House is opened and that’s already approved that restricted or that actually didn’t include tourism activity as an area that you can get monies from as a priority area for funding.”

Premier Robinson expressed that this change will make a difference for the small businessman that wants to get into business in Grand Turk, especially with the cruise line because it is a market that comes to them.

In addition she also stated that the reason why Government infrastructure took the blow that it did from the hurricanes is because they build buildings and don’t maintain them.

“The reason why Government infrastructure took the blow that it did is because we build buildings and don’t maintain them, so they will see that steady flow of building repairs/demolition of buildings and they will get a facelift.

We, like every Government, will try and steer an anchor project in Grand Turk but what will be different from any other Government is that we will create a project that we can market and just need funding.

The facelift is critical for the people’s psyche they need to see more than broken down buildings and broken down roads,” she added

The Premier also commented on the Grand Turk Airport stating that works are commencing soon.

“The Airport project was noted from before the end of March. That was insurance money that has nothing to do with Governments funds or anything like that because the Airport is insured. It is a matter of getting through to the insurance company and then of course the only thing that had to be done is noted by Cabinet.”

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EXTRAORDINARY MINDS ASHLEY'S LEARNING CENTRE, WAS THE RECIPIENT OF FUNDS AWARDED FROM THE NYC EASTERN CARIBBEAN RELIEF FUND! THE NYC EASTERN CARIBBEAN RELIEF FUND HAS DONATED FUNDS THROUGH THE BLUE HAVEN MARINA TO HELP WITH MUCH NEEDED REPAIRS TO THE ONLY SCHOOL IN TURKS AND CAICOS THAT PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS. IGY MARINAS STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE FUND FOR ITS EFFORTS OF REBUILDING THE CARIBBEAN AFTER HURRICANES IRMA AND MARIA.

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL TO INTRODUCE A NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL

THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE TCI BROKE GROUND FOR ITS BRAND NEW, PURPOSE BUILT FACILITY WHICH WILL HOUSE GRADES 7, 8 AND 9. THE BUILDING WILL BE BUILT TO FACILITATE STUDENT LEARNING AND SET UP WITH THE APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN MIND. STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO BE INVOLVED IN PARTS OF THE DESIGN PROCESSES AND WILL HAVE CLASSROOMS WHICH ARE DESIGNED FOR ITS FLEXIBILITY ALLOWING COLLABORATIVE AND INDIVIDUAL LEARNING. PRINCI PRINCIPAL, KATIE HINKS STATED “I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE CAN OFFER HERE: A TRULY INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOR OUR STUDENTS, WHICH WILL SET THEM UP FOR THE FUTURE WHICH THEY ARE DESTINED FOR. WE ARE TRULY BLESSED WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR BOARD AND OUR PARTNERS AT WIHL. WE OWE A HUGE DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THEM FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND COMMITMENT TO THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF EDUCATION FOR OUR STUDENTS.”

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Jojo the dolphin hurt but will survive, says DECR

By Todeline Defralien

After a tragic accident, Jojo (the Dolphin) will survive and his injuries are not life threatening, according to Ms. Amy Avanant, Environment Outreach Coordinator for DECR Following photographs circulating on social media by concerned residents and tourists showing the injuries Jojo suffered, Avanant confirmed to The SUN that Jojo swam too close to a boat.

In a statement issued by the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR), it read, “The DECR received a report that our beloved Jojo (the Dolphin) had been injured. Upon further inspection it seems that he may have swam too close to a boat. The wound, although unpleasant, will heal. We also ask that one be mindful of all marine life before

turning your vessels on.”

The statement also requested for tour operators, local and resident boat operators to give Jojo the space he requires to heal.

Over the years Jojo has been one of the TCI’s most famous residents since the early 80s when he began visiting residents and tourists alike.

JoJo is a wild Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) which freely interacts with humans. In 1989 this dolphin was declared a National Treasure by the Turks and Caicos Islands Government.

JoJo is a male dolphin weighing about 880 pounds and approximately 10 feet in length, and is different from other dolphins in that he voluntarily interacts with humans.

As JoJo is a wild animal, there isn’t any guaranteed location or time to see him. He’s frequently seen

The injuries on Jojo’s body swimming in the waters off Grace Bay Beach, and in the cays off the eastern end of Providenciales.

It’s easy to identify him because of unfortunate propeller scars on his back, and individuals will have a

good chance of seeing him if they spend some time boating in the Grace Bay area. Persons must always remember, never touch any marine animal or reef, as dolphins may attack if provoked.

Teen visitor dies during jet ski accident in Grand Turk

A 16-year-old male visitor died after he was involved in a two- jet ski collision near the Cruise Terminal in Grand Turk on Wednesday May 16th, 2018.

The name of the deceased has not yet been revealed by police but it was noted that his father who was involved in the collision received no injuries.

In a release, the Ministry of Tourism encourages anyone that witnessed the incident to

contact the police. recognizes the importance of taking the necessary

The Minister of Tourism, Hon. Ralph precautions to ensure safety on the water and Higgs expressed his shock in learning of the will be hosting workshops to further increase unfortunate mishap and asks that residents keep awareness.

“The Ministry of Tourism in general and the the family in their prayers.

Higgs further asked that the community Turks and Caicos Tourist Board in particular will allow the grieving family time to contact their continue to offer assistance to the family in any loved ones and refrain from speculation. way possible and we extend our heartfelt sympathy

He said a number of key agencies such to the grieving family,” the release concluded. as the DECR, Tourism and Maritime department

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Sailrock hosts annual career day at Sailrock Resort

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or this year’s annual Career Day chance for the students to peer into at Marjorie Basden High School, the resort & hospitality industry 19 students and 1 Teacher was to get a better understanding of all treated with a special trip to Sailrock the moving parts that keep a resort Resort where they went behind- running efficiently. “The resorts the-scenes to learn more about the throughout Turks and Caicos provide many career opportunities in the a phenomenal career opportunity for local students following graduation”, hospitality industry.

The students met with the said Stacey-Ann Wharton, Human managers of the resort’s various Resource Coordinator for Sailrock. departments where they received “And the trip to Sailrock should presentations detailing a typical aid the students in deciding if they workday, the skills required to be would like to purse a career in the successful in the positions were Hospitality Industry”.

The students from Marjorie highlighted and the students were reminded of the importance of hard Basden have a unique opportunity work in the classroom. The managers with Sailrock Resort as the resort outlined how each employee’s efforts has developed an internship program contribute to the overall success of specifically for the school’s students. the resort and answered questions Some of the students who visited from the eager students.

Sailrock will participate in the second

The day at Sailrock was a annual Sailrock Internship Program dynamic and tangible experience this coming summer where they that allowed the students to facilitate will dive deeper into the hospitality a connection between their school industry and learn industry skills from the staff at one of Turks and work and real world careers.

The trip was a perfect Caicos’ premier resorts.

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International School grade 1 class cleans beach

By Todeline Defralien International School of Turks and Caicos (formerly known as the Ashcroft School) grade one (1) class, parents and teachers came out in numbers to help beatify and keep Providenciales clean.

Armed with paper bags, gloves and hand sanitizers, a grade one class on Wednesday May 16th cleaned up the beach/vicinity of Ricky’s Flamingo Café, Grace Bay.

This grade one class is currently learning about the environment which upset them and led to them suggesting a beach

cleanup day. The children had an hour cleaning up the beaches and an hour enjoying the oceans.

Grade one (1) Teacher at International School, Katy Shimmin told The SUN, “We’re concentrating on global warming and looking after the environment and saving the animals such as turtles and we just said let’s do a big cleanup to try and help the ocean and get all of the litter off of the street basically. I think that this could truly be something great we all do as an island to help not just The Turks and Caicos Islands, but to teach our children about our forever homes and taking care of it.”

Shimmin emphasized the importance of hosting clean-ups island-wide and stated that living on an island that is so close to the ocean, it’s everybody’s duty to look after the ocean.

She added: “I think it was really important for the kids and even though some of the children only picked up little bits, it still made them think about picking up things on the street and made them consciously aware of putting things in the bin.

Maybe if more schools can take part in something like this it would be more positive. The children had so much fun doing it and it’s just a simple thing

for an hour, picking up the litter and we had a great time. Just try and put stuff (garbage) in the bins, there are lots of garbage bins in different areas.”

Shimmin noted that they will be hosting more cleanup events and hopefully other schools can come on board as well.

“This is something that we hope to not just be a (world Earth day event) but possibly a monthly event to our environment, by schools and work places alike and then maybe we could make it an Island fun event to do this with all the schools and work places involved,” she ended.

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Soroptimist International Club of Providenciales Annual Spring Affair S

oroptimist International of Providenciales held their Annual Spring Affair on Friday April 27th at Brayton Hall under the theme: “Stepping Out, Leading the way” where Eight (8) amazing women were honored for the contribution and their role as leading women in the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Honored were: Her Excellency Deputy Governor, Mrs. Anya Williams, Hon. Premier, Mrs.

Sharlene Cartwright- Robinson, Hon Attorney General, Rhondalee BraithwaiteKnowles, Minister of Education, Hon. Karen Malcolm, Patron of Soroptimist International Provo and elected member, Hon. Josephine Connolly, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, Mrs. Angela Brooks, Elected Member for Leeward & Long Bay, Hon. Akierra M. D. Missick and Police Sergeant and member

of Soroptimist International Provo, Mrs. Mary Durham.

The night was a fun filled with laughter and loads of prizes won.

The SUN captured these photographs at the event.

Photos By: Todeline Defralien

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Problematic insect bites

By Dr. Marsha Barnett

Ever wondered why some persons are bitten by insects and have absolutely no visible reaction, whereas others are bitten by the same insects and develop itchy bumps, swelling and even scarring? That’s because some persons are hypersensitive to insect bites. This condition is known as papular urticaria.

WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF PAPULAR URTICARIA?

a fluid-filled blister. They are most in areas notorious for insects or at the often on the legs and other uncovered beach in the evenings if you react when areas such as forearms and face, but bitten by sandflies. DEET is the gold sometimes they are scattered in small standard however in persons who are groups all over the body. The lesions averse to using synthetic chemicals or can become infected especially if you in infants, a good alternative is products have been scratching the area. When containing lemon and eucalyptus oils. this happens, it will get swollen, tender to touch and even exude pus and cause •Treat Bites Promptly a fever. In many person, after the lesions have resolved they are left with When bitten, the process is fueled spots and scars which can take years to by histamine release so if you are clear or never resolve on its own. prone to itchy bumps, take an oral antihistamine promptly and continue HOW IS IT TREATED? to do so once the lesions are itchy.

Topical steroid creams can also be The best approach to managing papular helpful to help reduce itching and urticaria is a multi-leveled one. inflammation in the area.

Papular urticaria is thought to be an allergic or hypersensitivity reaction to insects in the environment. Affected individuals rarely notice the initial bite but once bitten, a cascade of •Avoid Getting Bites •Treat The Complications chemicals, especially histamine is released, leading to the stereotypical Monitor your outdoors for mosquito If the bumps become infected, your itchy bumps. When you are bitten breeding sites such as containers doctor may give you antibiotics to clear Dr. Marsha Barnett by an insect such as a mosquito or a with stagnant water. Stagnant water the infection. Also, the lesions may mite, your body releases histamine as a that cannot be drained can be treated heal with dark spots and scars. If the to which they are allergic. However, reaction to the bite. In most persons, a to reduce infestation. Because you appearance is bothersome, your skin the condition is notorious for leaving small amount of histamine is produced can react to fleas and mites from care specialist will be able to suggest difficult to treat spots on the skin, however in some persons, excessive animals in your household, ensure creams and even procedures such as so prompt management is key. amounts are released, leading to itchy they are properly cared for. Reduce chemical peels to help lighten spots Additionally, not everyone becomes areas and bumps. It is not known why the likelihood of insects entering your and improve texture. immune and so this can be a lifelong some persons exhibit a hypersensitivity home by investing in window meshes problem for some individuals. reaction to insect bites. and if an infant has papular urticaria, LONG-TERM OUTLOOK covering the crib with a mosquito net *Dr. Marsha Barnett is a general WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? might be a good idea.

Many children with papular urticaria practitioner who also specializes

Cover up when you go outdoors become desensitized to the insect bites in dermatology. For questions Papular urticaria is more common especially at dusk and dawn when as they age and no longer develop or comments, please contact at in children than in adults. Bumps mosquitoes are most likely to pounce. bumps when bitten. The same applies drmarshabarnett@gmail.com or at crop up where the bites occurred Use insect repellants on all exposed to individuals who migrate to an area Associated Medical Practices - 946and sometimes each spot develops areas when outdoors especially when that has insects in its environment 4242.

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The Loyalist in the Turks & Caicos Islands – A Reward for Patrotism

By Dr. Carlton Mills

During the American War of Independence (1776 -1783), there were people in the USA who remained loyal to the British King. Subsequently, they were labelled as Loyalist, or Tories, Royalists or King’s Men.

They could also be described as “British Faithfuls”. They sided with the British during this War and following the USA victory over the British, they were expelled by the Americans because they were seen as traitors. They were opposed by the Patriots – those who supported the revolution and were called by them as “persons inimical to the liberties of America”.

They were also viewed as being harmful, detrimental, traitors and prejudice to the American cause.

At the time of the Revolution, they constituted about one third of the United States population.

The British certainly have a way of taking care of and compensating their own. When others do it, they tend to regard it as a crime, dishonest and in particular, corruption – which is generally their most profound label especially in relation to their overseas territories.

They may even take it a step further by calling a Commission of Inquiry to investigate alleged wrong doings if they so desire. They found a refuge for their faithful servants (The Loyalists) by sending them to

one of their overseas territories – The Turks and Caicos Islands. They not only dispatched them to the TCI, but as a reward for their loyalty to the King, they were granted large tracks of land on Middle and North Caicos.

No questions asked.

Prior to their arrival, the Caicos Islands were sparsely populated.

Their arrival was somewhat of a blessing. Most of the activities at the time were centered around the Turks Islands – Grand Turk, Salt Cay and South Caicos because they were the salt hubs. Many of the Loyalists did not have much. Saunders (1985) recalled that many of them worked on small holdings rather than large plantations. Their homes consisted of unplastered stone with a palm thatch roof.

The British provided the incentives to attract them to the Caicos Islands. One of the possible reasons for choosing these islands could have been because of their sparse population, such an influx of people would have gone unnoticed to the international eye.

Secondly, this could also have been for more security reasons since Britain benefitted substantially from the Salt Trade she had to ensure that no other European Power of the day challenged her territory and occupy areas that were not well populated.

This economic incentive came through the distribution of land to the Loyalists. This stimulus package

TCINIB PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT 8TH ACTUARIAL REVIEW REVISION OF NIB BENEFITS & CONTRIBUTIONS REGULATIONS

In order to ensure that benefit payments remain relevant and stay abreast with the ever-increasing cost of living, the National Insurance Board (NIB) is required by law to review earnings and incomes every two years.

Since inception, some 26 years ago, the NIB has increased benefits rather significantly on numerous occasions without any corresponding increases to the contribution rate or ceiling.

The contribution ceiling for employed persons was increased from $2,600 to $4,000 per month over the last three years. Effective June 1 2018, the self-employed wage bands will change to reflect the increased incomes over the past 26 years. Existing self-employed contributors with the following elections will be increased as follows: $100 - $225 $200 - $325 $400 - $525 $600 - $735 Or $925* The new $925 wage band provides for the self-employed person to be on par with the employed person’s new ceiling of $4,000 per month. Since wage elections can only be adjusted at the beginning of the calendar year, the new $925 wage band can only be selected by eligible persons from January 2019.

Call us today if you require additional information on the contribution ceiling review at 946-1048 (Grand Turk) or 941-5806 (Providenciales) for further details.

You are also invited to visit our website at www.tcinib.tc or our Facebook page to see detailed information on the recent legislative changes.

would also benefit Britain in years to come. In modern day economic terms, this could be described as a ‘stimulus package’.

According to Kozy, the British awarded 92 grants of land to 72 Loyalists totaling 18,138 acres of land.

On an average, each person received 197 acres. Some of the major donations went to the following Loyalists:

John Bell – He was granted over 1000 acres on Middle Caicos where he developed two plantations “Increase” and “Industry”. Kozy also noted that when he died, he had accumulated 1470 acres of which 300 was under Cotton production.

Stephende Lancey – He was granted 900 acres which is popularly known as Greenwich Plantation. In 1800, he had 18 slaves, a cotton gin and household items.

John Lorimer – He is famous for being known for the settlement of Lorimers in Middle Caicos being named after him. He was granted 504 acres on Middle Caicos in 1791.

He set up the historical Haulover Plantation. According to Kozy, Wade Stubbs eventually purchased his estate in 1807.

One of the most outstanding Loyalists was Wade Stubbs.

He came from Cheshire County in England. He emigrated to Florida near St. Augustine. After the US War of Independence, he and about 70 other loyalists were granted tracks of land in the TCI by King George lll of England for their loyalty. These tracks of land were mainly granted in North and Middle Caicos.

Stubbs was granted 860 acres on North Caicos which was described as the best agricultural land in the TCI. This was in the area originally known as Bellefield and which later became known as “Wades Green Plantation”. Here he continued with the production of Sea Island Cotton as he had done in Florida. This was very productive. In 1791, Kozy noted that his total exports was 260 tons which accounted for half of the total output from the Bahamas – Turks and Caicos Chain (as during this time, the TCI was being administered by the Bahamas).

Because of his economic success, Wade encouraged his brother Thomas Stubbs to get involved.

This resulted in Thomas setting up Cheshire Hall in Providenciales.

Cheshire Hall’s poor soil was discouraging resulting in Thomas selling it to his brother in 1810. Wade can therefore be deemed as one of the

Dr. Carlton Mills most substantial real estate owners of his day.

It is evident that the Loyalists made a significant contribution to the growth and development of the TCI. They stimulated the economic development of the Caicos Islands which was basically unknown at the time. This was done through the help of the British as an award for their allegiance.

Between 2003 -2006, the then local administration in the TCI is alleged to have granted tracks of land to Turks and Caicos Islanders which in their view was to help generate growth and empowerment among the local population. Some on the other hand argued that this was also done to enrich those in positions at the time. Some similarities can be drawn between the actions of the British during the time of the Loyalists and during the period of the local administrators. Both granted large tracks of land to stimulate and empower people. The British did it to white owners while the local administration did it to blacks who owned basically nothing. The Loyalists were not from the TCI but were granted large tracks. Nothing said. No court case. I guess, they would argue that the land was owned by the Crown who could disperse it at will. On the other hand, it can be argued that despite the time frame, the British set a precedent for rewarding faithfuls and those who are allegiant to them. Was this in any way something that was handed down to the overseas territories? Who set the stage for this kind of action? Was it something that an overseas territory could have possibly inherited? Just some food for thought.

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No TCI Islander should be Unemployed - 23, 027 jobs and 8,589 TCIslanders in the labour force

By Drexwell Seymour

According to Annex A of the National Skills audit (page 259), the labour force in TCI is 23,027 of which 8,589 are Belongers. It is also noted that the Belonger population of over 14 years and older is only 9,888.

I know one of the major cries among our people are that they are unable to find a job. However, the ratio of the labour force to the number of employable Turks and Caicos Islanders is 2.68 to 1 which means for every Turks and Caicos Islander who can work, there are 2.68 jobs for each of them.

I am conscious of the fact that the majority of the jobs are on the island of Providenciales and so the aforementioned ratio may not be applicable to the islands of Grand Turk, Salt Cay, South Caicos, Middle Caicos and North Caicos. If you are on the other islands and you are unemployed and you are looking for a job, then you will have to make a decision to come to Providenciales. Alternatively, start a viable business and create jobs for others on the other islands.

There are more than enough jobs for Turks and Caicos Islanders.

If you are unemployed then register with the Labour Department. The Government must develop a labour data base. The National Insurance Board and the National Health Insurance Board have a data base respectively of all legal employers and legal employees.

One of those platforms can be

used as a basis to develop a national data base recording every employee, their name, job title, salaries, length of time on the job, allowances, benefits, experience and qualifications. The data base also needs to reflect all of students (locally and overseas) studying at a tertiary institution and their expected completion date.

This data base will allow the Private Sector, the Public Sector, Labour Department and the Immigration Department to make better decisions in terms of labour clearances, work permits and recruitment of staff. The Labour Department needs to use the data base and work pro-actively with the employers to ensure that every Turks & Caicos Islander is not only employed but they are employed in the right job.

Considering that there is less than 9,000 Belongers in the work force, the process of ensuring that there is full employment for TCI Islanders should be easily accomplished.

I believe if every TC Islander is employed, our relationship with each including other nationalities will be improved because some of us are frustrated in that we are unable to find a job and many times, we take our frustration out on the expatriate worker when in fact sometimes they are not to be blamed.

I am aware of cases where locals have been waiting for years for a job and many times are forced to leave TCI to seek employment elsewhere. This is unacceptable and must be dealt with through the

Drexwell Seymour collaboration between the Labour Department and the Private Sector.

For students, the TCIG should ensure that once the graduates return home whether they were on scholarship or not, arrangements should be in place with TCIG Human Resources Dept and the Private Sector to have these students working on a project in TCI until a vacancy becomes available. If the local does not have the experience but have the academic qualifications, then let them understudy someone until they are able to do the role.

I am also aware of cases where some locals have a preference for the type of job they want. I know I have mention several times on the radio show that individuals should

never be on a job they do not enjoy but if there is a particular company you want to work for and there is an opening, you should apply for it and get in the door. Once the company sees your performance, you may end up getting your desired job in the end. Do something rather than complaining and being unemployed.

There are many students that are graduating from secondary school this year. Our focus on them should not be about getting a job. Our focus should be to develop and upgrade their skills either through the Community College or a Vocational/Technical School. Once they have achieved their qualifications then the focus should be on a career path.

In conclusion, if the 1,665 employers are operating profitable businesses in the Turks and Caicos Islands, one of the best way an employer can contribute to TCI is by hiring local staff in the right position at the right pay. There is adequate capacity for local staff and work permit holders as the local staff of 8,589 cannot be on every 23, 027 jobs in TCI.

If your business is benefiting by being in TCI, then return a favour to TCI by giving the TC Islanders an opportunity to work at your establishment. TC Islanders if you want a job, you need to apply for the job, inform the labour department and when given the opportunity, perform to the best of your ability. The ball is in your court. No TC Islander should be unemployed.

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May 16, 2018 Post: Job Category: Relevant Work

Receptionist Customer Service Experience: 2 years minimum in equivalent position Education Level: High School or Community College Graduate in Business Studies (preferred) Salary: $26,500 per annum

Job Description: Provo Water Company Ltd is seeking a people friendly individual with a minimum of High School or Community College Diploma in a business-related field with Customer service experience to fill the post of Receptionist.

This position serves visitors to the company, both personally and by telephone; answering or referring inquiries. This role will maintain the company’s telecommunications system and direct visitors appropriately to fulfill their needs.

The applicant should display a positive and proactive attitude, strong people & telephone skills, professionalism, customer focus, organizational skills, and possess excellent communication skills.

The applicant should be able to deal with emergencies in a timely and effective manner; multitasking and stress management skills are essential for this position Responsibilities (including but not limited to): •Telephone Answering

Education •High School Graduate or Community College Graduate in Business Studies (preferred) •2 years Customer Relations or customer facing Experience Skills and Experience Requirements •Proven work experience as a Receptionist, Front Office Representative or similar role •Able to work in a fast-paced environment with continual interruptions •Strong organizational skills •Able to contribute to a team environment •Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite •Hands-on experience with office equipment (e.g. fax machines and printers) •Ability to be resourceful and proactive when issues arise •Solid written and verbal communication skills •Customer Service attitude •Multitasking and time-management skills, with ability to prioritize tasks Deadline All applications (inclusive of cover letter, CV & copies of qualifications) must be submitted by 21st May 2018 to: Customer Service Manager Provo Water Company Limited 197A Grace Bay Road Grace Bay, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands

c.malcolm@provowater.tc Only applicants selected for an interview will be notified

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Windrush: Brexit and Blackxit

by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles

Caribbean Prime Ministers witnessed it first-hand. They were gathered in England as a Commonwealth when Prime Minister May tried to take the sails out of the Windrush.

They spoke of the crime of citizenship denied; they demanded justice for all West Indians. Prime Minister Holness spoke to the press and held the centre for the Caribbean. There was vexation in his eyes but his upper lip was stiff with the resolve of a seasoned statesman.

The season of injustice against injured West Indians seemed unending.

Long have they been detached from ancestral freedom and detained in the dungeon of imperial Britain.

The slave ship Zong in 1781 came from Africa to Jamaica laden with its crime against humanity. The cargo ship Empire Windrush laden with Jamaicans sailed to England in 1948 with the legacy of the crime. The cycle of enslaved labour, and its legacy, are now before the world for adjudication.

The British had grabbed with guns and cannons over two million enchained and enslaved Africans for shipment to Caribbean plantations.

With this army of enchained ‘free’ labour, and navies commanding the waters, Britain took the lion share of Caribbean wealth. Enriched and empowered with surplus capital, and skilled in the deployment of the fiscal and financial, they went about the task of transforming the domestic economy into the world’s first industrial complex.

This manufacturing machinery was to call forth, a century later, the children of the emancipated, for another round of labour.

Of the two million enslaved mess left behind by Hitler’s bombs; they

by Britain, less than 25% survived. answered Churchill’s call for the speedy The children of these survivors of the return of the nation to normalcy. They holocaust, a century later, were targeted did the job, cheaply and cheerfully. and recruited to travel back across the Then, after fifty years of service Atlantic, to rebuild the nation that had to Britain, came Blackxit. It was now enslaved their forebears. time for them to be rounded up and

An abundance of cheap labour returned to the Caribbean from whence was required by the post-war economy. they came. Blackxit was implemented.

Empire Windrush sailed from Jamaica It was another phase in the crime with the first large cohort; other West against the Caribbean. Brexit rested in Indians sailed in its wake. It was the a democratic referendum; Blackxit was second ‘middle passage’ for the blacks. rooted in ethnic terrorism.

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles They were back on the high seas, again The West Indians had hoped that in the basement of ships owned by the the slavery mentality of the ‘motherland’ A British prison in Jamaica Empire. had evolved and evaporated. But they was the key to unlock the Blackxit.

In Caribbean agriculture they were wrong. It was still addicted to free Together these themes constitute a were whipped to high productivity; or cheap black labour with no connection disgraceful episode of deportation and dein Britain they were managed in to citizenship. Brexit took the Brits out of registration that reflected an inner logic manufacturing for high profitability. In Europe; Blackxit drove the West Indians of Brexit. Making Britain white again the cane fields slave laws provided for out of Britain. was the opera of the saga. Blacks, they their caning.

West Indians were harassed in said, could never become true blood Brits.

As factory hands they were their communities and at borders. Vans There was no call to build a wall. policed by SUS [Search on Suspicion] with ‘GO HOME’ posters traversed the The blacks had arrived in the Caribbean laws, an application of the Vagrancy Act streets West Indians had made home. from Africa in British ships. They had of 1824. The principles and provisions of Children born in those streets asked their arrived in Britain from the Caribbean in the slave laws and the SUS laws were parents for explanations. The concept of British ships. the same. ‘born here’ meant little. Parents paused British harbours and airports

The West Indians had travelled but had no plausible answer. The pain of awaited their return. Back to the to the metropole to find that perspectives dispossession was too much to bear. This Caribbean they should go; there to await on their presence had changed little was home. But home, said Billie Holiday, the next call to labour, to build a nation for the better. Back home they were is filled with pain. beyond their tropical homes. organized into labour gangs; in the History is not without its ironies. cities of factories they were terrorized by Blackxit is brutal. Thousands of citizens *Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, an lawless gangs. were stripped of their social rights Economic Historian, was installed

The movement from fields to and many sent packing. Families were as the 8thVice-Chancellorof The factory was a migration internal to the forced to hide members and adopted the University of the West Indies (The UWI) Empire. They were distributed across survival tactic of oppressed Jews in Nazi on May 30, 2015. Before assuming the Britain. Wherever cheap bodies with Germany. office of Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, second-class legal rights were required Documents bearing their Sir Hilary was Principal and Pro by the crown, the West Indians could be identities were destroyed by the state, Vice-Chancellor of the University’s found. leaving them paperless and stateless. Cave Hill Campus in Barbados

There was no factory, hospital, Erased from history, they had no proof of for 13 years (2002-2015). Sir Hilary public bus, or train that functioned their permanence. Like snowflakes in the is a distinguished university without the West Indians. They swept spring, their acquired Britishness melted administrator, and transformational the streets. They cleaned up the awful away; gone as a race without a trace. leader in higher education.

SENIOR DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & UTILITY ANALYTICS Description  Drive business innovation.  Support leadership team in delivering quantifiable and transformative business and operational strategic solutions.  Direct and responsible for business developments, resource planning and utility analytics program.  Lead enterprise-wide implementation and optimization of utility analytics.

Main Duties Key Responsibilities:  Drive enterprise-wide projects that incorporate a proactive and innovative solution to addressing business challenges and achieving organizational goals and objectives.  Monitor business trends, opportunities, threats and industry disruptive challenges.  Evaluates operational issues to determine how competitive and current it is with the latest trends in the industry.  Monitors external and internal environment for development of new market segments, new services, or programs.  Assists in or produces feasibility studies/business plans required for new programs and integrated resource planning requirements.  Assists Corporate Communications in developing marketing strategy and campaigns for new programs and services.  Assist the Executive Office in performing ad hoc research projects or feasibility studies that do not clearly fall within an existing business unit.  Establish strong, effective, and collaborative partnerships with key business unit leaders, subject matter experts, and project leaders to build and deliver on effective solutions and strategies.  Lead implementation of utility analytics and ensure enterprise-wide coordination.  Lead promotion of business process management best practices.  Direct development of integrated resource planning program.  Manage resources and activities relating to utility analytics, renewable energy programs, and new business developments.  Meet with various businesses.

Minimum Requirements

 Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics or field relating to Alternative Energy, Business Developments, and Data Analytics  MBA or Professional certification is an advantage i.e. PMP, CIA, CPA, CISA, Six Sigma  At least five years of leadership responsibility managing a team and cross functional teams  Highly analytical and strong problem solving skills  Familiarity with utility regulatory rules, energy resource planning and various rate structures  Experience in business developments, financial and business modeling  Experience in managing projects or enterprise-wide initiatives  Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Abilities, Skills, Experience, Aptitude & Judgement • Knowledge in electric utility business / industry • Strong business analysis, problem solving, and strategy development skills • Leadership qualities including the ability to motivate, inspire, counsel and facilitate individuals and teams to take responsibility and accountability for the goals.

• Ability to drive collaboration with executives, business and technical teams to achieve effective solutions.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to help build effective processes • Effective communication skills with all levels in the organizations and ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audience.

• Flexible and resilient, comfortable with ambiguity, adaptable to a high-change environment and open to new concepts and/or processes.

• Comprehensive understanding of business processes and practices.

• Conflict resolution and negotiations skills to resolve disagreements quickly and effectively, bringing a problem-solving attitude to conflicting approaches and priorities involving others.

•Demonstrated experience in driving business transformation (including mastery of a broad range of service model / strategy / transformational / process improvement tools and approaches).

Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Deadline for submission of applications (inclusive of a cover letter, resume and a FortisTCI application form) is Monday May 21st, 2018 to: Avi Adams Manager, Human Resources FortisTCI Limited P. O. Box 132, Providenciales Email address: hrapplications@fortistci.com or aadams@fortistci.com

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Bishop Clarence Williams earns Master’s in Religion

On Saturday, 12th day of May, 2018, Bishop Clarence N. Williams graduated from the prestigious Cordon Conwell Theological Seminary with a Master’s Degree in Religion. This well sort after degree among Theologians entails completing 60 credit hours or 600 hours of intensive classroom studies in addition to research and examinations.

Bishop Williams is a Theologian who was the Principal of The Church of God of Prophecy, Bible Training Institute in the Bahamas and Bermuda for over 27 years and he holds numerous advanced diplomas, certificates and awards in Counselling, Bible and Christian studies from the Center of Biblical Leadership in Cleveland, Tennessee and other universities.

Bishop Williams has also done research in religion for many years in Holy Land among Jews, Christian Arabs and Muslims in the Holy Land, He has also studied native religions of Africa.

For decades, Bishop Williams has been a member in Public Practice of the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants and, among others, a Fellow of the Association of International Accountants in England.

A marriage officer for both the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and

the Turks and Caicos Islands, he has performed approximately 500 weddings and conducts counselling sessions in marriage, drugs, alcohol and behaviours at his office in Providenciales.

The Bishop served as a founding member of The Integrity Commission of the Turks and Caicos Islands and on numerous occasions, acted as Chairman. He also was a founding member and Vice Chairman and Economist to the Turks and Caicos Communications Commission

Bishop Williams who resides in Providenciales features the five days per week radio programme, From God’s Word and currently serves as the National Overseer/Bishop of Turks and Caicos and Joint Regional Overseer of the Leeward Islands.

The Bishop has written several books on marriage, faith, poetry and many more. He has a passion for the orderly training and development of young men and women both in academia and ministerial life and has ordained well over 200 ministers, pastors and Bishop to the ministry of Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Bishop has represented the Caribbean General Presbyter in all areas of the Caribbean, Haiti and the Guyana. An ambitious student of Law, the Bishop, at the request of the

General Presbyter, advises the Church of God of Prophecy in the Caribbean on legalities of church properties and organizational structure of religious institutions.

He is a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public for the Turks and Caicos Islands.

A long time international preacher and conference speaker on religion, management and counselling, he can be access at bcnwilliams@gmail.com.

A life-long learner, the Bishop, at 73 is still pursuing more degrees and continues to research religious living in the Middle East and Africa in relations to current and scriptural text.

Bishop Williams is the founding Pastor for The Church of God of Prophecy in Seven Hills, Nassau, Bahamas and has established congregations in Abaco, Nassau. Grand Bahama Island and San Salvador. The Bishop has organized congregations in French Guyana in South America.

For many decades, Bishop Williams served in ministry to H. M. Prison in Nassau as President and Chairman of the Board of Bahamas Prison Fellowship and on occasions, acted as Chaplain.

The Bishop plans to continue with Master’s degrees in Christian Leadership and Urban Drugs Counselling. He is pursuing PhD in

World Religion with research in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia.

An avid swimmer, he enjoys the beaches of Providenciales and Nassau. He is married to Rev. Dr. Barbara F. Williams nee Brennen of Nassau, Bahamas

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

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

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WE’RE HIRING SUMMER STUDENT INTERNS!

Are you considering a future career in IT, Electrical Engineering, Business, Marketing, Mechanics, Customer Service, Analytics, Finance or Human Resources?

Apply TODAY to be a FortisTCI Summer Intern. What better way to help uncover your passions and discover your future career path than through real work experience.

Student Summer Employment Program (SSEP) Student Internship Program (SIP)

A three month program open to college and university students from June to August

SIP is a great introduction to the workplace. Spend two exciting weeks with FortisTCI this summer and learn what it’s like in a corporate environment.

Participating students will work in teams throughout various departments.

SSEP participants will gain valuable work experience and learn about the electric utility industry, under the supervision of FortisTCI’s seasoned professionals. This program is closely aligned with your chosen field of study.

A two week program open to 4th & 5th form high school students

SIP Criteria • • • •

Applicants must be 4th or 5th form students enrolled at a high school recognized by the Turks and Caicos Islands Ministry of Education.

Applicants must present a recommendation letter from their principal or guidance counselor.

Applicants must submit a 250 word essay titled, “Why FortisTCI Should Hire Me as an Intern”.

Applications are available from your school counselor or principal.

Submit your completed application, along with required documents to your counselor or principal by May 31, 2018.

SSEP Criteria • • • •

Applicants must be enrolled in a university or college undergraduate program majoring in: Accounting, Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, or a closely related field.

Applicants must possess a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher.

Applicants must provide an official transcript, attendance record, 2 letters of recommendation, and proof of residence status with a copy of your NHIB card.

Applications are available online at www.fortistci.com/careers, or pick up a copy at FortisTCI’s Leeward Highway office. Submit completed applications and required documents at the office, ATTN: HR, or by email to: aadams@fortistci.com, or cmunnings@fortistci.com, no later than May 31, 2018.

2017 Winner

Allied Member of the Year

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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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BEYOND POWER LINES.

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.

2017 Winner

Allied Member of the Year

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Beaches Employees to Showcase Top Talent at Annual Festival of the Arts E

mployees at Beaches Turks & Caicos lit the French Village Stage on fire as finalist strutted, sang and danced their way to the 2018 Sandals Resorts International [SRI] Festival of the Arts regional finals.

Lynn Delancy and Evanz Inelus emerged as top Female and Male vocalist as they sang their way into the hearts of judges with their amazing vocals, while Entertainment’s Deidre Davis and William Fulford strutted their way to the top with their model behavior by showcasing their perfectly toned

bodies in two wardrobes, which “Festival of the Arts creates a included swimwear and formal attire. platform for our talented team

Twiston Forbes won the members at Beaches Turks and spoken words category, while Caicos to showcase talents across Katherine Jimenez and Eric Soriano several areas of the performing arts,” excelled in the dance group category. Ellis said, “Beaches Turks & Caicos Jean Nicholas won the DJ Clash realized the need to show these local segment and Charles Hugues of the talents and has created an avenue to watersports Department performs in not only perform at regional level but the instrumental musical category. also to reward participating team

Spearheaded by the Director members for their abilities.”

This year the resort was able of Entertainment David Ellis, Festival of the Arts, the competition to secure top judges for this year’s was created to showcase the vast competition. The tough responsibility array of talents present within the fell upon Fashion Designer Kadrica Hamilton-Wynn, Real Estate guru company.

and fashionista Michelle Swann, Entertainment Director for the Turks & Caicos Collection Hotels Davon Crowe and TCI Most Wanted DJ Shakes.

Beaches and Sandals International Festival of the Arts, will take place June 2-9 in St, Lucia, where finalist go on to compete against the regional winners from Sandals/ Beaches Resorts in Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua, and the Bahamas for the International crown.

Photos By: Earlson Robinson.

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LIFESTYLE

Congo and WHO race to prevent runaway Ebola outbreak

Congolese and U.N. officials The other Ebola cases were were racing on Thursday to prevent spread across sites in remote areas a runaway Ebola outbreak in Congo, where the disease might not travel working out the logistics of keeping quickly. newly arrived vaccines well below An experimental but highly freezing in a steamy region on the effective vaccine is being deployed, equator with unreliable power. with health workers being vaccinated

World Health Organization first, but it normally needs to be kept (WHO) spokesman Christian 80 degrees Celsius below freezing Lindmeier said the U.N. body would in a humid region where daytime convene an Emergency Committee temperatures hover around 30. meeting on Friday to consider the “For now, the cold chain international risks. is guaranteed at -80 degrees until

This is Democratic Republic Kinshasa,” Health Minister Oly Ilunga of Congo’s ninth epidemic since the told Reuters. “There is a fridge that disease was identified in the 1970s, but will be prepared (on Thursday) ... in also its most alarming because of the Mbandaka and that will be at -80.” risk of transmission via regular river “This vaccine is no longer transport to the capital Kinshasa, a experimental. The effectiveness has city of 10 million. been proven and validated,” he added.

There have already been 44 “Now that we are facing the Ebola virus suspected, probable or confirmed we must use all the resources we have.” cases of Ebola, and 23 people have WHO spokesman Tarik died. Potentially most worrying is a Jasarevic told Reuters the vaccine can confirmed case in Mbandaka, a city of still be effective for up to two weeks if about 1 million connected to Kinshasa stored in a fridge at between 8 and 2 by the Congo River. degrees above freezing.

“This does change the way we Mindful of criticism it received need to respond,” Peter Salama, WHO’s for being too slow during the huge West medical emergency program head told African Ebola outbreak, which killed at Reuters TV in Geneva. “Overnight, least 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Mbandaka has become the number one Leone and Liberia from 2014 to 2016, priority for preventing this outbreak the WHO is moving fast on Congo’s from getting out of control.” latest outbreak.

Congolese Health Ministry officials carry the first batch of experimental Ebola vaccines in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo May 16, 2018

The emergency committee will capital. They are so overloaded with decide whether to declare a “public people that they sometimes topple health emergency of international over, their toilets are usually filthy and concern”, which would mean getting water for washing absent. access to more resources, Lindmeier “If this Ebola outbreak ever said. reaches Kinshasa, what we are going to

The Kinshasa government see is death here,” Jean Marie Mukaya, reported the outbreak on May 8, one a resident of the city, told Reuters day after two samples tested positive, TV. “Because it is very dirty here. The and within days the WHO was sending government and the population must ... experts, preparing a helicopter “air get rid of all the dirt.” bridge” to the site, and planning a Already the WHO has warned vaccination campaign. that there is a “moderate” regional risk

The nightmare scenario is because the disease could travel along an outbreak in Kinshasa, a crowded the river to Central African Republic city where millions live in unsanitary and Congo Republic. But it has said slums not connected to a sewer system. the global risk is low because of the

Several public transport remoteness of the area and the rapid boats a day head from Mbandaka response launched so far. downstream over the river to the

Florida officials probe cause of fatal vape device explosion

Fire investigators are examining whether the battery in an electronic cigarette triggered a small explosion that killed a man in Florida this month, sending fragments of the vape device into his skull, in what may be the first such fatality in the country.

Tallmadge D’Elia, 38, was found dead on May 5 when police and firefighters responded to a blaze at his home in St. Petersburg.

D’Elia was killed by fragments of a vape device that shot through his skull. He also suffered burns on more than 80 percent of his body, the local medical examiner said in an autopsy report issued on Tuesday.

Police have ruled the death e-cigarettes that heat liquid nicotine accidental. Fire investigators are or other substances into vapor. trying to pinpoint the cause of the Lawrence said the explosion, mostly by systematically investigation should be finished by ruling out any possible causes besides next week, adding that the U.S. Food the device’s battery. and Drug Administration has taken

“The likelihood of the an interest in the case. battery being the actual cause of the While lithium-ion batteries fire is more probable than not,” St. used in e-cigarettes have been known Petersburg Fire Rescue spokesman to cause fires and explosions in rare Lieutenant Steve Lawrence said by cases, they had previously caused no deaths, the U.S. Fire Administration telephone on Thursday.

“We feel that the battery had said in a report issued last July. the potential energy to basically turn The agency, an arm of the the vape mod into a missile, and it Federal Emergency Management penetrated the victim’s cranial cavity,” Agency, tallied 195 incidents of he said. Vape mods are bulkier, more burning or exploding e-cigarettes complicate versions of pen-sized between January 2009 and the end

of 2016 that resulted in 133 acute injuries, of which 38 were severe.

“Since the current generation of lithium-ion batteries is the root cause of these incidents, it is clear that these batteries are not a safe source of energy for these devices,” the agency said.

To help avoid vape device explosions, the FDA warns users against overcharging batteries or using a charger other than the one that came with the device. It also recommends that batteries not come in contact with metal, and that they be replaced if they become damaged or wet.

Early puberty in girls tied to bullying in school

Girls who go through puberty early may be more likely than peers who mature later to be involved in bullying at school - either as victims or perpetrators, a recent study suggests.

The researchers examined data on puberty timing and any experiences with bullying among 227,443 teen girls in 35 countries.

Slightly more than 4 percent of the girls started menstruating early, defined in the study as before age 11.

Early menstruation was associated with 21 percent higher odds

that girls would be occasional victims kids whose physical development of bullying and a 35 percent greater puts them out of synch with their chance of frequent victimization. peers,” said Jane Mendle, a human

At the same time, teens who development researcher at Cornell started menstruating sooner than University in Ithaca, New York, who most other girls were 19 percent wasn’t involved in the study. more likely to occasionally bully other “Peers are so important students at school and had 46 percent during early adolescence, especially higher odds of becoming frequent for girls,” Mendle said by email. bullies.

“Maturing early can contribute to kids

“This study emphasizes feeling different from others in their how intricate and complicated grade at school, and it can also make peer relationships can be during kids stand out.” early adolescence, particularly for While few previous studies

have examined the link between bullying and puberty timing, early maturation has long been linked to an increased risk of conflict with other kids, feeling different and isolated, and being the victim of peer sexual harassment, Mendle added.

Puberty usually starts between the ages of 8 and 13 years old in girls. Breast and pubic hair development usually come first, followed about two years later by the start of menstruation.

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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.

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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

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UK could have wrongly deported up to 63 Caribbean migrants, says minister LONDON - British authorities could have wrongly deported up to 63 immigrants from the Caribbean, the new interior minister said on Tuesday in the latest revelation on the Windrush scandal that cost his predecessor her job.

The British government is under intense pressure to come clean on the mistreatment of descendants of people from the so-called Windrush generation, who were invited to settle in Britain after World War Two to plug labor shortages.

Although fully entitled to live and work in Britain, an unknown number of Windrush descendants have been wrongly identified as

illegal immigrants and denied basic rights such as healthcare. Some have been detained and may have been wrongly deported.

Sajid Javid, who took over as home secretary, or interior minister, on April 30 after Amber Rudd was forced to resign over her handling of the Windrush scandal, appeared on Tuesday in front of a committee of lawmakers investigating the scandal.

Javid said that so far, Home Office officials had identified 63 records of people who were deported to the Caribbean and who may in fact have been entitled to remain in Britain under rules applying to Windrush immigrants.

Javid said the number was provisional as work on Home Office records was still going on.

However, he said he did not yet have data on how many Windrush immigrants had been detained. A number of cases have been detailed in media reports and have been highlighted in parliament by individual lawmakers, but so far there has been no clarity on the scale of wrongful detentions.

The immigrants are named after the Empire Windrush, one of the first ships to bring Caribbean migrants to Britain in 1948.

The government has tried to portray the Windrush fiasco as

an administrative problem in which people got wrongly caught up in immigration controls that were not aimed at them, and were asked to produce extensive documentary proof of their status that authorities had not previously asked them to obtain.

But the opposition Labor party and other critics have argued that the Windrush crisis was a consequence of an anti-immigrant climate at the Home Office which they said dated back to Prime Minister Theresa May’s six years as home secretary between 2010 and 2016.

Father of Barbados Opposition Leader denies benefiting from tax waiver

Prominent Barbadian Queen’s Counsel Elliot Mottley Wednesday denied that he had approached the Barbados government of then prime minister Owen Arthur seeking a waiver from the Inland Revenue Department more than two decades ago.

“It is clear that the Minister of Finance as he was empowered to do under the Income Tax Act waived the interest but not the tax or penalties. I wish to reiterate that at no stage did I make any request to the Minister of Finance to waive any tax on my behalf and at no stage did I receive any tax waiver,” a visibly upset and emotional Mottley told reporters.

“Let me make it very clear that there was no need for the cabinet to be involved in my application because it was made under the Income Tax Act and not under the Duties, Taxes and Other Payment Exemption Act Cap 67 (b) of the laws of Barbados,” he added.

The issue of the waiver first emerged on the political platform here when Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, who is leading the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) into the May 24 general election, told a public a meeting on Sunday that the present leader of the main opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), Mia Mottley, should inform the public whether or not her father was among

Elliott Mottley, QC, and his daughter, Mia Mottley, leader of the Barbados Labour Party those who benefitted from waivers the country. totalling millions of dollars.

Arthur, speaking at a news

“Elliott Deighton Mottley conference on Monday, denied had two judgments lodged against approving any tax waivers for Mottley, him for monies due and owing to the and added that his daughter Mia Income Tax Department upwards of should clear the air on the matter one million dollars (One Barbados Mottley told reporters that dollar=US$0.50 cents). In 1998, I after having his personal finances walked in the Registry one morning audited for the period 1987 to 1993, and everyone had frowns on their it was found that he owed the Inland faces. They were saying that here it Revenue Department substantial is that we have to pay our taxes but arrears of income tax, and that yet over BDS$400,000 of that tax in January 1995, the department obligation was being written off by the registered two judgments against him Owen Arthur administration,” said in the sums of BDS$1 031 284.37 and Stuart. $20 587.91 respectively.

But Stuart sought to distance “I categorically state that at then prime minister Owen Arthur from no time did I ever apply to Mr Arthur the transaction, telling supporters for a waiver of arrears of income tax that while the former prime minister which I owed the Inland Revenue had denied the request for the write- Department,” Mottley said. off, it was granted as soon as he left

“It was entirely untruthful

and misleading for Mr. Arthur to make assertions that I applied for a waiver of tax which would have invoked the process under the Duties, Taxes and Other Payment Exemption Act. “I am particularly disappointed that for Mr. Arthur for whom I acted as an attorney at law and continue to act as an attorney ….and on whose behalf I obtained damages for defamation now resort to making the kind of statements he made,” Mottley said, adding that he was more than enraged at the suggestion by the former prime minister.

Elliott told reporters, that the official records would show that his daughter, who is now seeking to become the first woman to head a government here, acted as Minister of Finance during a particular timeframe when it was claimed she had taken up the position because Arthur was overseas on official business.

“For the avoidance of doubt, I wish the public to know that at no time during the period 1994 to 1999, did my daughter, Mia Amor Mottley, ever act as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Barbados.”

Mottley, who was flanked by attorney, Roger Forde, QC, did not field questions from the media indicating that defamation litigation surrounding the issue was pending.

Shane Gibson extortion charges dropped Former Bahamian Minister of Labour and National Insurance Shane Gibson is not only facing fewer charges, but the timeframe in which the offenses allegedly occurred has also been amended.

Gibson, 55, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Stephen Isaacs for a case management hearing.

Office of the Attorney General lawyer Terry Archer presented an amended indictment alleging that Gibson received $610,000 in kickbacks from contractor Jonathan Ash in order to expedite payments owed to him by the government.

When Gibson initially appeared before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola

Swain in August, prosecutors alleged Last month, the Office of the Attorney that Gibson received the money between General announced that it would no January 2, 2017 and April 30, 2017. longer proceed with the extortion counts While the amended charges state the and a charge of misconduct in public office specific dates that Gibson allegedly against Gibson. received the money, the Crown now Director of Public Prosecutions Garvin alleges that the payments were made Gaskin said in a statement, “The Office of between January 17, 2017 and March 27, the Attorney General has engaged queen’s 2017. counsel in order to continue the objective Gibson was initially charged with two prosecution of this matter. counts of conspiracy to commit extortion, “It was determined by the Office of the two counts of conspiracy to commit Attorney General, in conjunction with bribery, 15 counts of extortion, 16 counts queen’s counsel and my advice, that to of bribery and one count of misconduct in continue proceedings with the bribery public office. counts alone, provides a simplified and Now, only the bribery charges remain. singular focus on this statutory offense.” Shane Gibson

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Antigua PM says Minister was “encouraged to resign”

Antigua and Barbuda’s former week.

Trade and Investment Minister Asot In the recordings made by Michael was “encouraged to resign” German authorities, Virdee said after the bribery probe that led to his Michael had asked him for a car for arrest in London last October came his mother, US$2 million, and a watch. back to haunt him.

Michael insisted that he

This was revealed by Prime was neither a party to the court Minister Gaston Browne. proceedings nor charged with any

Browne also contended wrongdoing, but said he would resign that unless Michael is cleared of “to allow the government to fulfil its wrongdoing, he will be blocked from obligations to the people, without any holding any government post. distraction”.

When asked about Michael’s However, Browne suggested future as a member of the ruling that Michael did not go solely of his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party own volition, but was pushed to step (ABLP), Browne said he preferred not down. to speculate, saying that “the outcome “We are gung-ho about of the litigation” would determine operating a fully transparent and that. However, he had no hesitation accountable government, and where in saying where Michael’s ministerial people end up having personal future stood. liabilities, those liabilities should not

“What I do know is that be transferred to an institution; they there is no possibility of him serving have to face the consequences of their in my government at this time, or in own action, and that’s the basis on the future for that matter, if he is which – let’s put us this way – that incriminated,” he said. he was encouraged to resign in the

Michael announced his interest of government,” he said. resignation on Tuesday after his name With Michael out of came up in transcripts of telephone the Cabinet, his ministerial conversations between British responsibilities will be split and billionaire Peter Virdee and his shared, Browne explained. business partner, Dieter Trutschler, “There will be no replacement. in a court in the United Kingdom last What I intend to do is to literally

subsume his portfolio within probably two or three existing ministries.”

This is the second time that Michael has found himself out of the Cabinet.

On October 23, 2017, hours after officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Michael in London and questioned him about bribes which a UK national allegedly paid for business contracts in the Caribbean, Browne stripped him of his Tourism, Economic Development, Investment and Energy portfolio.

The Prime Minister said the NCA was acting on information about attempted bribery.

On Thursday, he said the matter could still go further and he needed to distance his government from any appearance of corruption.

“I’m not too sure how far it will go. If the actual bribe action had taken place, then clearly it would have been a slam dunk. I’m not too sure the fate of the minister, but I took a position that we have a country to govern and the last thing we want at this point is any form of distraction in the governance of the country,” he said.

“We believe in running a transparent, accountable government; one that is free of corruption. And I

Asot Michael did not want any speculation that we are potentially harbouring someone who may have been involved in any form of criminal activity.”

Browne acknowledged that he made similar pronouncements when he fired Michael last year. But he said that without having any concrete information of any wrongdoing by the minister, and having seen him overwhelmingly winning the constituency of St Peter in the March 21 general elections, he felt he could return to the Cabinet.

“He…ended up with the highest percentage support. I think he got about 75 or 76 per cent of the votes. So, clearly, that was a form of validation by his constituents, and in the absence of further information, it was difficult to sustain the dismissal of October of 2017,” he said.

Jack Warner ordered to repay multi-million dollar loan

A High Court judge has ordered former government minister Jack Warner to repay TT$1.5 million to the owner of a local company which was used to finance the 2007 campaign of the United National Congress (UNC).

The funds, which was organised by businessman and UNC financier, Krishna Lalla, was paid to Warner by the technology company Real Time Systems Ltd over the period of two months.

Lalla, who also owned Super Industrial Services Ltd (SIS), told the court that Warner had promised to repay him by February 2008 as he was expected to receive US$10 million from the International Football Federation (FIFA), of which he was then vice president.

However, Warner, who served at one time as national security minister in the UNC-led People’s Partnership government

between 2010-15, argued in court that the money was not loaned to him but was donated by Lalla for the financing of the UNC 2007 general election campaign.

In delivering his judgement on Tuesday, Justice Frank Seepersad called for proper regulatory framework for election campaign financing noting that in a developing democracy, courts should not have to decide whether sums of money received were spoils of campaign financing.

“The veil of secrecy and anonymity must be removed and there should be full disclosure of financial contributors, with caps placed on the amounts which can be received by a political party from individuals, companies or institutions.”

Justice Seepersad said that for far too long election campaign financing has played a central and dominant

role in politics.

“There is an entrenched public perception that elected officers can be sold to the highest bidder and that campaign contributions are the functional equivalent of bribes which ensure that favourable treatment is given by government by those who provide the said funds.

“The evidence adduced in this matter demonstrates the perception may well be the reality that unfolds.

In the absence of regulations, financiers can legitimately purchase goodwill and exercise undue influence over politicians and political parties,” the judge said, noting that as a consequence, the insular interests of those financiers may be considered paramount when executive decisions are undertaken.

“Such an approach to governance in untenable, unethical and inconsistent with the oath of public office which mandates that

all decisions and actions should be made freely, fairly and in the best interest of citizens of the Republic.

The absence of campaign finance regulations have led to a culture of kickbacks and corruption.”

Justice Seepersad said that even with the enactment of the procurement legislation and appointment of a procurement board, the dire need for a proper regulatory framework has to be priority and election campaign finance reform should be effected as matter of urgency.

He also said safeguards and/ or prohibitions need to be formulated with respect to the award of contracts to financiers.

The judge said taxpayers’ money and resources do not belong to any political party and cannot be used to court a party’s financiers.

The judge also ordered that Warner pay interests and costs.

Senior police officer suspended after woman filmed in his uniform The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Last week, Williams called on the (TTPS) says a senior officer has been Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) suspended as the probe continues into to initiate an immediate investigation the circumstances that led to pictures into the matter. of a woman, scantily dressed in the “PCB has been given clear directions uniform of a senior police officer being that the matter is to be treated with a level of urgency so that the appropriate posted on the social media.

In a statement issued late Monday action ca be taken,” the statement said. night, the TTPS said that the Acting President of the Trinidad and Tobago Commissioner of Police Stephen Police Social and Welfare Association, Williams had “issued a suspension Inspector Michael Seales, said the notice to be served on Acting Assistant photos had brought the entire police Superintendent of Police, Michael service into further disrepute in the Sooker, of the North Eastern Division, eyes of the public and urged Williams relative to an allegation of discreditable to take a strong stand. conduct linked to photographs that It is against the law for anyone to surfaced on social media last week”. wear a police officer’s uniform unless

authorised by the Commissioner of Police.

The woman in the photo appears to be a Latin American national and media reports here said that several police officers were allegedly doing “favours” for Latino women, most of whom are believed to have entered into the country illegally.

The Trinidad Guardian newspaper quoting a police source, reported that “many Venezuelan women who are allegedly caught and found to be here illegally are said to be offering sexual favours for the dropping of any charges or possible handing over to Immigration officers”.

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May defeats Labour bid to force her hand on customs

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May defeated a bid by the opposition Labour Party to force her government to disclose details of its two Brexit customs proposals, thwarting efforts to embarrass her divided team.

May’s Conservative Party defeated Labour by 301 to 269 votes, handing the government a victory in a parliament equally divided over the terms of Britain’s divorce from the European Union and their future customs arrangements.

Labour used a rare parliamentary device called a “humble address” to try to force the publication of “all papers, presentations and economic analysis” on the two options which have split May’s government and all but stalled Brexit talks.

The government had already moved late on Tuesday to rebuff Labour by saying it would soon publish its vision for Brexit, setting out over more than 100 pages its plans for everything from fishing to finance to security cooperation.

May is under pressure at home and in Brussels to move forward with talks on Britain’s divorce from the EU, but is struggling to unite her cabinet of ministers around a single customs proposal to bring to the negotiating table.

Her cabinet office minister David Lidington told parliament the release of such documents as requested by Labour would undermine the need for ministers to have “frank discussions”, the ability of officials to give advice and the privacy needed to prepare for negotiations.

“It would not be in the national interest to release information that will form part of our negotiating position,” he told parliament to jeers from opposition lawmakers.

Earlier on Wednesday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on May to step down and allow his party to negotiate a “comprehensive customs union” with the EU, something opposition lawmakers say is gaining support in parliament.

But May has yet to swayed by

the growing calls for such a union with the EU.

Instead, she has pressed on with work on the two options - a customs partnership which would see Britain collect tariffs for the EU, and a streamlined customs arrangement, which would use technology to maintain trade flows.

She has divided most of her cabinet into two groups to try to improve the two proposals and come to a conclusion over which is best placed to prevent a return to a hard border with EU member Ireland and ensure trade moves as freely as possible.

They have been meeting regularly, but on Tuesday the wider, so-called Brexit war cabinet again did not reach agreement. Ministers have suggested that any decision could take weeks.

EU negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday that no significant progress had been made in the Brexit talks since March and warned London that time was running out to seal a deal by October to prevent Britain

British Prime Minister Theresa May crashing out of the bloc.

By promising to publish a White Paper, a policy document that sets out proposals for future legislation, next month, the government hopes to set out its stall before the next summit of EU leaders on June 28-29.

But without an agreement on customs, those plans would be incomplete.

It is “an opportunity to set out clearly to both a domestic and an EU audience the reasoning behind our approach”, Brexit minister David Davis said.

Hawaii volcano erupts in 6-mile-high plume, ‘ash fallout’ alert

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano spewed ash nearly six miles (30,000 feet/9 km) into the air on Thursday and scientists warned this could be the first of a violent string of explosions in the crater.

“This has relieved pressure temporarily,” USGS geologist Michelle Coombs told a news conference in Hilo. “We may have additional larger, powerful events.”

Residents of the Big Island were warned to take shelter from the ash fallout as toxic gas levels spiked in a small southeast area where A soldier of the Hawaii Army National lava has burst from the ground since Guard wears a mask to protect himself the eruption began two weeks ago, from volcanic gases in Pahoa during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano authorities said.

The wind could carry in Hawaii, U.S., May 17, 2018 Kilauea’s ash plume as far as Hilo, the explosions last seen 1924, rather than Big Island’s largest city and a major “the big one” that nervous residents tourism center, the County of Hawaii had been fearing.

A spike in toxic sulfur dioxide Civil Defense warned in an alert.

“Protect yourself from ash fallout,” it gas closed schools around the village of Pahoa, 25 miles (40 km) east of the said.

Geologists said the 4:15 a.m. volcano, where fissures have destroyed (10:15 a.m. EDT) explosion was likely 37 homes and other structures the first in a series of steam-driven and forced about 2,000 residents

to evacuate, health officials said.

National guard troops were forced to put on gas masks at a nearby road intersection, according to a Reuters reporter.

USGS geologists and staff were evacuated from the Kilauea summit shortly before the blast and a webcam showed a gray plume of ash and chunks of magma known as pyroclasts that showered the volcano’s slopes.

But the eruption was shortlived, said Coombs who called it “a big event that got people’s attention, but did not have widespread impact”.

“Tall but small,” she said of Thursday’s plume.

An aviation red alert was in effect due to risks that ash could be carried into aircraft routes and damage jet engines, USGS said. Passenger jets generally cruise at around 30,000 feet, the height of Thursday’s plume.

Pahoa fire station on Thursday morning recorded a “red level” of sulfur dioxide, meaning it would cause choking and an inability to

breathe, Fenix Grange of the Hawaii Department of Health told a news conference in Hilo.

“If it’s red, it’s get out of Dodge,” She said. “We’re trying to create a ring around sulfur dioxide so we can protect people.”

Lava has destroyed at least 37 homes and other structures in communities near Pahoa, in the southeast area of the island, and forced around 2,000 people to evacuate their homes.

Across the Big Island, home to 200,000 residents, people were encouraged to avoid driving in ashfall areas, as the powdered rock makes roads slippery, and not go outdoors unless necessary.

“Not a good day to go out running,” said Fenix. “People want to stay put and stay behind closed doors.”

Locals in communities near the volcano hit by ashfall such as Volcano, Pahala and Naalehu were to be issued one ash mask per family member, according to a civil defense message.

Texas woman who ran over cheating husband released from prison

A Texas woman who killed her cheating husband by repeatedly running him over with her car has been released from prison.

Clara Harris served 15 years for the murder, which made headlines worldwide and was featured in a made-for-television movie.

The 60-year-old walked out of prison on Friday.

In 2002, Harris had hired a private investigator to follow her husband, David Harris. She suspected he was having an affair with a former employee.

She confronted her husband and his lover in the lobby of a Hilton

hotel in the Houston area. The fight tape by the private investigator moved outside to the parking lot, Harris had hired to document her where she hit him with her Mercedes- husband’s affair.

Benz, then drove over him again and Harris worked as a dentist again. and her husband as an orthodontist.

Her husband’s daughter After her conviction, the state of from a previous marriage was in the Texas revoked Harris’ license to car with her at the time of the killing, practice dentistry, CNN affiliate and testified against her in her 2003 KPRC reported.

She was initially sentenced trial.

During the trial, Harris’ attorney to a 20-year prison sentence but was argued that the crime happened granted parole last year, according to moments after an emotional and KPRC reporting. volatile confrontation at the same As part of her parole hotel where the couple had gotten conditions, Harris must wear an married. ankle monitor, remain employed and

The crime was caught on stay in the Houston area.

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Nanny who killed 2 kids gets life in prison without parole

Texas deathrow inmate Juan Castillo is pictured in this police handout photo obtained by Reuters August 29, 2017

Texas executes ‘Lovers’ Lane’ killer, convicted of 2003 murder

Texas executed an inmate on Wednesday dubbed the “Lovers’ Lane” killer who was convicted of a 2003 ambush in which he tried to rob a man in a parked car on a remote road in San Antonio and then fatally shot him.

Juan Castillo, 37, was put to death by lethal injection at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said.

It was the 11th execution this year in the United States and the sixth in Texas, which has executed more inmates than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

“To everyone that has been there for me you know who you are, love y’all. See y’all on the other side. That’s it,” he was quoted as saying in his final statement by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Castillo had maintained his innocence, saying he was not at the scene.

He was convicted of killing aspiring rapper Tommy Garcia, then 19. Prosecutors said Garcia was set up by his then girlfriend, who lured him to the remote spot with the promise of sex and drugs but plotted to have him robbed by Castillo and two others.

After Garcia parked, Castillo, brandishing a pistol, smashed a car window, opened a door and demanded Garcia give him his money and jewelry.

When Garcia refused and tried to run away, Castillo shot him seven times, prosecutors said.

Of the four people in the plot, only Castillo was sentenced to death and his lawyers have said there was no physical evidence that linked him to the crime.

They also said he was convicted because of tainted testimony that included a jailhouse informant who told a Texas court Castillo confessed to him that he was the triggerman.

The informant later recanted and said he lied to help himself, court documents showed.

Prosecutors said sources pointed law enforcement to the suspects and that Castillo’s codefendants told authorities he was the person who shot Garcia.

A nanny who was convicted of brutally murdering two small children in her care while their parents were out was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole during a dramatic courtroom encounter.

Yoselyn Ortega wept as she spoke briefly — a rare show of emotion in a lengthy trial at which she was convicted of the gruesome October 2012 stabbing deaths of 6-year-old Lucia Krim, known as Lulu, and 2-year-old Leo Krim.

“I’m very sorry for everything that happened, but I hope that no one goes through what I have gone through,” said Yoselyn Ortega, a trusted nanny to a well-to-do family, listens to court the 55-year-old Ortega. “Although proceedings during the first day of her trial,in New York many people wish me all the worst, never should have put the family, back bathroom. my life is in the hands of God.” the jurors or the audience through Krim had been at a

The children’s parents, it. swimming class with her 3-yearspeaking to the judge before “The defendant is an evil old daughter, Nessie Krim. Ortega sentencing, demanded the and utterly dangerous narcissist,” was to have dropped off Lucia at maximum sentence. he said. “It is right that she should her dance class, and Krim was

“The defendant may think live and rot and die in a metal case, to pick her up. But when Krim she destroyed Lulu and Leo, but like the ugly and dark shadow of arrived, Lulu wasn’t there. Krim she is a failure in this, too. Lulu Lulu and Leo’s bright and shiny frantically tried to reach Ortega, and Leo are powerful forces,” lights.” who had worked for the family for the mother, Marina Krim, said The couple left the about two years. through tears. “They are two courtroom and didn’t return Krim opened the door stars now who will always lead us before Ortega asked for mercy, to the bathroom to discover the forward.” having never appeared to make children’s bodies stacked in the

She and her husband, eye contact with her. tub. Lulu was stabbed more than Kevin Krim, spoke of how Ortega “I ask for a great deal of 30 times, and Leo was stabbed robbed them of their children and forgiveness,” Ortega said through five times. Ortega had cut her own how Ortega’s family and friends a Spanish-English interpreter. throat in a failed suicide attempt. helped with this by lying to them “To God, to Marina, to Kevin. I At the sentencing, Marina about Ortega’s personality and wish my family had told them that Krim talked about what that crime experience as a nanny. Ortega, I did not feel well.” scene may have done to Nessie, who’s from the Dominican Republic, But Judge Gregory Carro even though she has grown into a had been recommended by her referred to Ortega as “pure evil” strong, happy child. sister, a nanny for another New and said she should spend the rest “As Nessie grows up, York family, and her background of her life in prison. she will be asking Kevin and me and references were faked by her During the seven-week deep, unanswerable questions family. The consequences, the trial, jurors grappled with whether about life that most parents avoid Krims said, were horrifying.

Ortega had been too mentally ill talking about with their kids,”

“We miss hearing them to understand what she was doing Marina Krim said. “But we will call out my name and run to hug when she killed the children. The try to answer her questions with me when I got home from work,” emotional testimony often kept the sensitivity the best we can.” the father said while crying. “We panel and the audience in tears.

Prosecutors argued that miss feeling their soft skin in our Jurors heard heart-wrenching Ortega was jealous of Marina arms.” testimony from Marina Krim, who Krim’s life and lashed out in

He eviscerated Ortega for spoke of coming home to her eerily the worst way possible — at her not pleading guilty and forcing the quiet apartment and finding her children. case into a courtroom. He said she children covered in blood in the

Pope condemns Gaza killings, says Mideast needs justice, peace

VATICAN CITY - Pope “I repeat that the use community to redouble efforts Francis has condemned the of violence never leads to peace. “so that dialogue, justice and killing of Palestinians near War begets war and violence peace prevail”.

Last December, when the Gaza-Israel border, saying begets violence.”

Israeli forces killed 60 U.S. President Donald Trump the deaths would only lead to more violence, and appealed Palestinians near the Gaza- announced the decision to move for dialogue to bring justice and Israel border on Monday during the embassy, Francis called for peace to the Middle East. demonstrations against the Jerusalem’s “status quo” to be

“I express my great pain opening of the U.S. embassy in respected, saying new tension in for the dead and wounded and I Jerusalem, in the bloodiest day the Middle East would further am close in prayer and affection in Gaza in years. inflame world conflicts. to all those who are suffering,” Francis, who visited Speaking earlier in the he told tens of thousands of Israel and Palestinian audience to a group of Polish people at his general audience territories in 2014, asked both World War Two veterans, he in St. Peter’s Square. sides and the international said: “We never learn.”

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Mexico rejects Trump’s comments Superman’s Lois Lane, that some immigrants are ‘animals’ Margot Kidder, Dies

MEXICO CITY - U.S. border impervious to illegal Mexico’s Foreign Minister said immigration. on Thursday that recent remarks “We have people coming

by U.S. President Donald Trump into the country, or trying to describing some undocumented come in, and we’re stopping a lot immigrants as “animals” were of them, but we’re taking people unacceptable, and that a formal out of the country. You wouldn’t complaint would be filed with the believe how bad these people are.

These aren’t people. These are State Department.

“President Trump animals,” said Trump.

At the meeting, Trump referred to some immigrants, perhaps he had criminal gangs voiced hostility for Mexico, which in mind, I don’t know, as animals, will be partnering with the not as persons,” Luis Videgaray United States and Canada in an said in an interview with local TV unprecedented bid to host the soccer World Cup in all three station Televisa.

“In the opinion of the countries in 2026. It is also part of Mexican government this the North American Free Trade is absolutely unacceptable Agreement (NAFTA) that Trump and we are going to formally hopes to renegotiate or end.

“Mexico does nothing communicate this to the U.S. State Department today,” he said. for us,” Trump had said at the

Trump made the remarks meeting. “Mexico talks but they on Wednesday during a meeting do nothing for us, especially at with California municipal leaders the border. They certainly don’t who favor his goal of making the help us much on trade.”

Malaysian police search ex-PM’s house; lawyer denounces ‘harassment’

Malaysian police on Thursday searched ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak’s home and other places linked to him in connection with an investigation into the scandal-plagued state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Police entered Najib’s family home late on Wednesday, an extraordinary scene that thousands watched unfold as it was streamed live. Few would have predicted such a scenario before a May 9 general election that he was expected to win.

Amar Singh, the director of police commercial crime investigations, told Reuters that searches were being carried out at the home, at the prime minister’s office and a residence he had used, as well as two apartments owned by his family.

“We are in the midst of collecting information, we will have more details once we have completed our search,” he said, confirming that the searches were related to investigations into the 1MDB scandal that had dogged Najib since 2015.

Authorities in at least six countries, including the United States, are investigating the multi-billion-dollar scandal over the fund that Najib founded.

Najib has denied any wrongdoing.

A lawyer for Najib, Harpal Singh Grewal, said on Thursday afternoon the police search had gone on for almost 18 hours and was “harassment”.

Najib had indicated he was “prepared and willing to extend his fullest cooperation” to authorities but their long presence and the drilling open of a long-unopened safe suggested “unwarranted harassment,” Grewal said.

Grewal had police had

at Age 69

Despite Trump’s comments, Mexico has been working hard to try and win favor with the U.S. administration in areas like diplomacy and migration, in the hopes of garnering a beneficial renegotiated NAFTA deal.

The United States is still pushing for a deal to revise NAFTA, the White House said on Wednesday, while a top Mexican official held out the possibility of an agreement in the coming weeks.

Since 2014, when former President Barack Obama was in the White House, Mexico has more aggressively enforced its own southern border, detaining and deporting tens of thousands of immigrants, many of whom hail from the poor, violent Central American nations of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Police arrive outside former prime minister Najib Razak’s residence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 16, 2018 found “nothing incriminating” have enough reasons to raid,” he but took away some personal said. items, including handbags and Mahathir has replaced clothing. the attorney-general and officials

“This harassment has at the anti-graft agency, in what now continued for almost 18 appears to be a purge of people hours and nothing meaningful seen as close to the former has come from the search and premier. seizure of what would appear to U.S. authorities allege be insignificant personal items,” that more than $4.5 billion was he said. stolen from 1MDB in a fraud

Asked if police would orchestrated by a financier arrest Najib, Grewal said: “There known to be close to Najib is no indication that they will do and his family. U.S. Attorneyit.”

General Jeff Sessions has called

A police truck packed the 1MDB scandal “kleptocracy with big, blue boxes left the at its worst”. compound of the house on Filings by the U.S. Thursday afternoon, a Reuters Justice Department in a civil witness said. There was no lawsuit indicated nearly $30 immediate word on what was in million of the money stolen was the boxes. used to buy jewelry for the prime

Days after Malaysia’s minister’s wife, including a rare long-ruling political coalition 22-carat pink diamond set in a was defeated in the election, necklace. new Prime Minister Mahathir A Malaysian Mohamad barred Najib and government advisory panel set his wife, Rosmah Mansor, from up by Mahathir announced on leaving the country.

Thursday that it would form a

Najib was once a protégé committee to look into matters of Mahathir, 92, who now says related to 1MDB. there is sufficient evidence to Malaysian politics has investigate the scandal at 1MDB. undergone a sea-change in the

Asked about the searches last eight days with the stunning at a news conference, Mahathir defeat of Najib, his replacement said it was a police matter, and by Mahathir and the pardon and he had little information. release of jailed reformist Anwar

“I suppose the police Ibrahim on Wednesday.

Margot Kidder.

The big screen’s Lois Lane has died.Margot Kidder passed away on Sunday at her home in Livingston, Montana, PEOPLE has confirmed. She was 69. Her cause of death is unknown.

Funeral arrangements for the Canadianborn actress are pending.

Kidder rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman: The Movie opposite Christopher Reeve. She went on to reprise the part in the movie’s three sequels.

She also starred as Kathy Lutz in The Amityville Horror (1979), and appeared in movies such as Black Christmas (1974) and Heartaches (1981). Kidder acted as producer and starred as Eliza Doolittle in a 1983 adaptation of Pygmalion with Peter O’Toole for Showtime.

Despite her success, Kidder battled mental health issues that left her homeless.

After being reported missing for days in 1996, police took her away in handcuffs to Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

“The woman we saw was in obvious mental distress,” Officer Rick Young of the Glendale police told PEOPLE at the time. “She didn’t think one person was following her. She thought a whole group of people were after her.”

Kidder told PEOPLE five months later that the root of most of her problems — which included “mood swings that could knock over a building” — was manic depression. She was first diagnosed with the condition by an L.A. psychiatrist eight years prior, but she refused to take the recommended prescription of lithium, the recommended treatment.

“It’s very hard to convince a manic person that there is anything wrong with them,” said Kidder, who was working on a memoir at the time.

“You have no desire to sleep. You are full of ideas.”

She is survived by her daughter, Maggie McGuane.

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Chilean bishops open to resignations, reparation for abuse

Chile’s Catholic bishops said Monday they were open to whatever Pope Francis proposes to overhaul the Chilean church, including the removal of bishops, reforms of seminaries and paying financial reparation to victims of a clergy sex abuse and cover-up scandal.

Representatives of the Chilean bishops conference told reporters they were heading into three days of meetings with Francis humbled, pained and shamed for their own errors in handling abuse cases. They said they wanted to listen to Francis and would follow his lead in asking forgiveness of the victims Luis Fernando Ramos Perez, left, and Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, meet they had discredited.

A conference spokesman, reporters at the Vatican, Monday, May 14, 2108 Bishop Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, said he stood by Barros because remains why Francis appointed said “it’s possible” some bishops his “brother felt hurt, alone, a bit Barros bishop of Osorno in 2015 would offer to resign, but that it abandoned,” and that any good despite objections from some was up to the pope. “We’ll respect Catholic would have done the Chilean church leaders who what he says. If he asks, we’ll do same. feared continued fallout from the it,” he said.

Victims of the Rev. Karadima affair.

Francis summoned the Fernando Karadima have They had proposed having bishops to Rome for an emergency described the pain and anguish Barros and two other Karadimasummit after receiving a 2,300- they felt over the support afforded trained bishops resign in 2014 and page report on the abuse cover-up Barros, whom they placed at the take a year sabbatical. Francis scandal, which he had helped fuel. scene of their abuse. overruled them, presumably During a visit to Chile in January, Barros and two other acting on other advice.

Francis strongly defended a Karadima-trained bishops are One critical behind-thebishop, Juan Barros, who was widely expected to resign. But the scenes player is a Spanish Jesuit accused by victims of Chile’s scandal has tainted other bishops, known to be close to Francis, the most notorious predator priest including one of Francis’ top Rev. German Arana. He hosted of having witnessed and ignored advisers, the retired archbishop of Barros during a spiritual retreat their abuse.

Santiago. in 2014 and is believed to have

Francis admitted he made Gonzalez and the given Francis a positive readout. “grave errors of judgement” in the secretary general of the conference, Arana accompanied Barros case and blamed a “lack of truthful Bishop Fernando Ramos, said during his protest-marred 2015 and balanced information” for his it was clear that changes were installation in Osorno and was missteps. necessary in the Chilean church. seen arriving with him in Rome

Chile’s bishops have They said the seminary training this weekend ahead of this week’s insisted they provided Francis Chilean priests receive needs to meetings. with correct information, and they include courses on child protection.

Chile’s La Tercera declined Monday to go into detail They also didn’t rule out revealed on Monday that a about who knew what and when. financial reparations for victims. group of Osorno Jesuits wrote

Gonzalez, the conference Karadima’s main victims were their superior a letter in 2016 spokesman, was among Barros’ publicly humiliated by Santiago’s expressing dismay at the role strong defenders. He said as church leaders after they sued the Arana had played in the affair, recently as January that the archdiocese for alleged cover-up. saying “We think it isn’t right accusations against Barros were After a court ruled against them, and doesn’t look good for someone politically motivated and devoid the victims are appealing. from outside the diocese to get of proof.

The key unanswered mixed up in local church issues

On Monday, Gonzalez question about the scandal that he doesn’t know.”

If it happens, it happens: Trump says not told anything on North Korea summit

Secret Service agents hold the door to his car as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to visit first lady Melania Trump at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

President Donald Trump on Thursday distanced himself from comments from his national security adviser that led North Korea to cast doubt on a planned summit and said as far as he knew the meeting with Kim Jong Un was still on track.

“North Korea is actually talking to us about times and everything else as though nothing happened,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a picture-taking session with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Trump said he was not pursuing the so-called “Libya model” in getting North Korea to denuclearize. His national security adviser, John Bolton, had suggested the Libya model in comments on Sunday, prompting North Korea to threaten to cancel.

He said the deal he was looking at would protect Kim - “he would be there, he would be running his country, his country would be very rich,” Trump said.

“The Libya model was a much different model. We decimated that country,” he said.

He said the Libya model would only come into play if a deal cannot be reached with North Korea.

“We cannot let that country have nukes.

We just can’t do it,” he said.

Trump told reporters that if the meeting happens then “it happens” and if not the United States will go on to the next thing.

Bye bye ‘beer bike’? Amsterdam determined to tame tourism “I’m very happy that the city

Amsterdam unveiled far- reaching plans on Wednesday to rein in is now finally taking action, because tourism, reflecting the dissatisfaction residents have been asking for it for of many residents who feel the city’s a very long time,” said Bert Nap of historic center has been overrun. neighborhood organization d’Oude

The leading Green-Left Binnenstad, in the historic center.

“What I’m worried about is that and other parties negotiating a new municipal government after March this package of measures is so drastic elections vowed to return “Balance to that there will be a lot of lawsuits and the City”, in a document of that name political resistance, which will cost a lot of time.” seen by Reuters.

“The positive sides of tourism He said the city was suffering such as employment and city revenues from too many visitors in general, are being more and more overshadowed which had the effect of changing the by the negative consequences” character of the center into one big including trash and noise pollution, tourist attraction. He also said some the document said. unruly, drunken tourists were making

Changes the document the city center an unattractive place outlines include curtailing “amusement for local residents. transportation” such as multi-person With a population of around “beer bikes”; cracking down on alcohol 800,000, the city expects 18 million use in boats on the canals; further tourists in 2018, an increase of 20 restricting AirBnB and other home percent from 2016 levels, many drawn rentals; and a large tax hike. by an edgy atmosphere generated by

The plans announced on readily available soft drugs and the Wednesday also include creating an “red light” sex zone. and antiinventory of all commercial beds in the Anti-tourist city to try to cap various sectors such expatriate sentiment have been as those on cruise ships and in hotels. steadily on the rise in Amsterdam, as

Tourists pose for photos outside the Rijksmuseum in central Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 1, 2017 both are blamed in part for helping drive housing prices increasingly out of the reach of ordinary Dutch people.

The average apartment in Amsterdam cost 407,000 euros ($475,000) in 2017, an increase of around 12 percent from 2016 levels, according to national real estate association NVM.

The change of emphasis has already started from national government over the past years, to try to dissuade visitors from the more earthy pastimes the city is famous for.

Advertising campaigns have focused on the city’s canals, the Anne Frank House and the museums packed with the greatest works of Van Gogh and Rembrandt.

Legislators have helped the re-branding, shutting a third of the city’s brothels in 2008 and starting a program in 2011 to close marijuana cafes located near schools.

“Amsterdam is a city to live and work in - it’s only a tourist destination in the second place,” the municipal document said.

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Facebook took down 21 million pieces of adult nudity in three months

Facebook’s technology is good at removing nudity and violence, but not at removing hate speech.

The social network said it took down 21 million pieces of adult nudity in the first three months of the year, according to its first Community Standards Enforcement Report.

The report, released Tuesday, revealed how much content has been removed for violating standards. Its enforcement efforts between October 2017 and March 2018 include sixcategories: graphic violence; adult nudity and sexual activity; terrorist propaganda; hate speech; spam; and fake accounts.

The company estimated that

for every 10,000 pieces of content seen on Facebook overall, between seven and nine of them violated its adult nudity and pornography standards.

Facebook’s internal technology flagged adult nudity or sexual content about 96% of the time before it was reported by users, according to the report.

But most of Facebook’s removal efforts centered on spam and fake accounts promoting it. In the first quarter, Facebook disabled about 583 million fake accounts and removed 837 million pieces of spam, the report said.

Facebook acknowledged it has work to do when it comes to properly removing hate speech. It took down 2.5 million

pieces of hate speech during the period, only 38% of which was flagged by its algorithms.

“For hate speech, our technology still doesn’t work that well and so it needs to be checked by our review teams,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of product management, said in a blog post.

Meanwhile, Facebook removed or added warning labels to about 3.5 million pieces of graphic violence content. In this case, 86% was flagged by its technology.

Related: Facebook shuffles execs, bets on tech behind bitcoin

The company said government requests for account data rose globally

Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices for Prime members in new grocery showdown

Amazon.com Inc and Whole Foods Market are making a surgical strike in the already brutal grocery price war.

On Wednesday, Whole Foods debuted a much-anticipated loyalty program that offers special discounts to Prime customers, including 10 percent off hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials such as $10 per pound off wild-caught halibut steaks.

Those perks are available now in Florida and will roll out to all other stores starting this summer. Amazon previously announced free two-hour delivery from Whole Foods stores for members of Prime, its subscription club with fast shipping and video streaming.

The new loyalty strategy will test whether Amazon’s $13.7 billion deal for Whole Foods brings muchfeared disruption and an intensified price war to the $800 billion U.S. grocery industry dominated by Walmart Inc and Kroger Co.

Whole Foods, with 463 U.S. stores and roughly 1 percent share of the fragmented U.S. grocery market, has gained momentum since the Amazon merger last summer, Whole Foods co-founder and Chief Executive John Mackey told Reuters.

Closely watched basket size - the number of items purchased per transaction - has grown since the merger, said Mackey. He declined to offer specifics.

Mackey is betting on Prime to convince shoppers wary of its “Whole Paycheck” reputation that it is an

affordable option for more of their purchases.

The new perks could make Whole Foods cheaper than conventional grocers for about 8 million of its customers who already subscribe to Amazon Prime, according to Morgan Stanley analysts.

Prime members scan an app or input their phone numbers at checkout to receive the discounts.

Still, Philadelphia-area Whole Foods shopper and Prime member Heather Kincade, 46, is going to need convincing.

While Whole Foods’ prices on staples like rotisserie chicken, bananas and avocados have come down, she still thinks some every day items are prohibitively expensive. “If I start buying dish soap and other things there, I will have hit the big time,” she said.

LOWER MARGINS

In Amazon, Whole Foods has found an owner that is famously comfortable spending away profits on new businesses or on lower prices.

“Given how important it is for Amazon to provide value for their customers, and customers value lower prices, I would think they’d be comfortable operating Whole Foods at a lower margin while experimenting with the operating model,” said Tom Furphy, former vice president of consumables and AmazonFresh, and now chief executive of Consumer Equity Partners.

by about 4% during the first half of 2018 compared to the first half of 2017.

Requests increased from 78,890 to 82,341.

In the United States, government requests were roughly the same compared to the same period last year.

“We always scrutinize each government request we receive for account data — whether from an authority in the US, Europe, or elsewhere — to make sure it is legally valid,” Chris Sonderby, Facebook VP and deputy general counsel, said in a blog post. “If a request appears to be deficient or overly broad, we push back, and will fight in court, if necessary.”

YouTube to launch music streaming service

Google’s YouTube will launch a music streaming service next week, looking to use its popular internet video brand to tap the growing market for paid music streaming.

YouTube Music, which will offer both ad-supported and $9.99-permonth versions, will compete directly with services from Spotify Technology SA, Pandora Media Inc, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc.

YouTube Music will launch on May 22, and include features such as personalized playlists based on a user’s YouTube history. The service is expected to eventually replace Google Play Music, the Alphabet Inc unit’s existing music streaming brand.

The news sent stocks of music streaming companies Spotify and Pandora lower by about 2 percent on Thursday morning.

“Google has an advantage given YouTube’s more than a billion users and viewers. So, it has opportunities to convert some into YouTube Music listeners or premium subscribers,” said Ali Mogharabi, analyst at Morningstar Research.

The growing adoption of paid music streaming has helped wean a generation of music listeners away from free or pirated music, and has led to services such as Spotify and Apple Music becoming the recording industry’s single biggest revenue source.

Revenue from music streaming services overtook sales of CDs and digital downloads for the first time in 2017, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

YouTube Music will launch in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea on May 22. It will roll out to more countries in the following weeks.

Separately on Thursday, YouTube also said it would revamp YouTube Red, the paid version of YouTube that comes with original programming, to include YouTube Music at an additional price of $2.

YouTube Premium, which will replace YouTube Red, will cost $11.99.

Here’s a $4,500 iPhone X with a solar charger on the back

A Russian accessory maker named Caviar has started selling a solar-powered version of the iPhone X going for $4,500.

Caviar is branding the phone the iPhone X “Tesla” and it initially announced its plans back in November, as spotted by AppleInsider.

Since Caviar makes neither iPhones nor Teslas, the iPhone X Tesla’s functions aren’t built directly into the device. Instead, the iPhone X Tesla is actually a pretty thick phone case that

attaches directly onto the device, with a solar panel on the back that powers a secondary battery for additional juice.

Caviar claims the case has IP67 water and dust resistance.

Caviar’s first unit of the iPhone X Tesla case has the engraving, “Made on Earth by Humans,” in honor of when Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket back in February. Each unit is also getting its own production number, and Caviar says

it’s only making 999 units.

For $4,555, you can get the iPhone X Tesla with 64GB of storage (the phone is included with case), and for $4,805, you can get the 256GB model. Since it’s imported from Russia, there may be additional taxes and duties. If you’re more of a Vladimir Putin fan than an Elon Musk fan, Caviar has also made a $2,500 Nokia commemorating Putin’s meeting with President Donald Trump, as well as a $3,000 Apple Watch worthy of Putin himself.

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Dubai unveils its newest old hotel: the QE2

In Dubai, the new is easily coveted -- from skyscrapers to sports cars. So it may come as a surprise that the latest luxury hotel is also its oldest.

In April, the Queen Elizabeth II (QE2), the world’s most famous ocean liner from the 1960s, opened its gangways to guests once more. But its cruising days are over -- this time around the QE2 is staying put in its new home, the city port of Mina Rashid.

The ship’s age gives it an edge in Dubai’s hotel market, says Hamza One of the world’s most famous ocean liners, Queen Elizabeth II (QE2), was built in Mustafa, CEO of PCFC Hotels, the 1967 in the shipyards of Scotland. 51 years later, she has just been opened as a government-owned company operating floating hotel in the Dubai port of Mina Rashid the ship. guests -- “by invitation only” -- there famous ocean liners ever to exist,” says

“It’s a new offering, it’s is the opportunity to sleep in the royal Mustafa. “We have glorified her, we something with a lot of historic value,” suites where Queen Elizabeth II and have brought her back to her might, he tells CNN. “Dubai is a new city and her mother once rested their heads. we have focused on things that make this is one of the oldest things here.”

224 rooms are currently open her famous... For her to be a museum

In fact, the ocean liner, for business -- rising to at least 600 by first, and then a hotel.” launched by the UK’s Queen Elizabeth the hotel’s grand opening in October -- “When you walk on board you II in 1967, is 4 years older than the and prices start at $150 per night. The feel like you’ve stepped into a time formation of the UAE itself. rooms have dark wooden paneling as capsule -- the time is 1969, her maiden Preserving the ship’s history they did in the sixties, and some still voyage,” he adds. “You get a sense of

The ship’s historic value is boast the original portholes. the history, of what the ship was.” its selling point when you stay here.

The retro touches don’t Traveling through time There will be no sky-high tennis courts, stop there. Of the 13 restaurant and The QE2 was born 5,000 miles aquariums or ski slopes, as offered nightlife venues, the Chartroom Bar away from the docks of Dubai in the elsewhere in the city. will still serve chicken liver mousse shipyards of Clydebank, Scotland. For

Instead, its main attractions and Eton Mess, the Golden Lion pub more than 30 years she was Cunard are firmly grounded in the past: a has beer on tap, and the casino is lined Line’s flagship, marking the end of museum mapping QE2’s 39 years of with original slot machines (albeit now the golden age of ocean liners and the service, a chance to walk the same purely decorative). start of today’s world of cruising. decks as Nelson Mandela and David “(The QE2 is) a very famous When she was sold to Dubai, the 963-ft Bowie, and for some very special lady to us, she’s one of the most (293.5m) liner had carried 2.5 million

passengers, completed 812 Atlantic crossings and 25 world cruises. She had traveled further than any other ship -almost six million miles, according to Cunard Lines.

Crowds followed the QE2 wherever she went. Over a million watched her sail into Liverpool for the first time in 1990. She drew spectators in ports worldwide, from Australia to Japan, to Singapore and Hong Kong.

Her fame surged following visits from pop icons like the Beatles’ Ringo Starr and George Harrison, and film stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and John Travolta.

She even had a spell as a troopship during the Falklands War in 1982, when her decks became dormitories for 3,000 British soldiers.

A boost for tourism

Dubai has spent a fortune on the ship already. She was originally bought for $100 million, and PCFC’s renovation has cost more than that again, requiring a total of 2.7 million man hours.

But the UAE as a whole is more than willing to invest in tourism.

After all, according to government figures, total contributions to the travel and tourism sector in the UAE generated $43.3 billion in 2016 -12.1% of GDP. It also provided 5.4% of the federation’s total employment.

Apple wants $1 Billion from Samsung at smartphone retrial

Apple Inc. is seeking about the components that were infringed? $1 billion from Samsung Electronics Samsung says the latter -- and is Co. in another go-round stemming urging the jury to limit damages to from a long-running smartphone $28 million.

“Lawsuits can take a long time,” Lee patent-infringement dispute.

Jurors at the retrial before told jurors Tuesday. He asked them before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to “step back in time” to 2006 to in San Jose, California, learned at consider flip phones, sliders, and the outset that the South Korean what other cell phones looked like company infringed three of Apple’s before Apple’s iPhone. design patents and two utility Samsung made $3.3 billion patents. Their sole job, Apple lawyer in revenue and $1 billion in profit Bill Lee said, is to determine what from millions of phones that infringed damages Apple can collect.

Apple’s three design patents, Lee said.

The basic question for the That’s apart from profits Samsung jury is: Should Samsung have to pay made from infringing two of Apple’s damages on the whole device or just utility patents, Lee said.

A $1.05 billion jury verdict were found to infringe Apple patents from 2012 has been whittled down -- rather than the entire device. by a previous retrial in 2013, along Quinn told jurors to maintain with appeals and adjustments. an “open mind” and resist Apple’s After Samsung agreed to pay some casting South Korean company as damages, the case went to the U.S. being “mired” in old phone models Supreme Court in 2016 and was until it copied Apple. The scope of returned to Koh with an order to Apple’s design patents “are so very revisit a $399 million portion of narrow” he said. damages.

“They’re seeking profits

Without mentioning the on the entire phone,” he said. But Supreme Court’s ruling explicitly, Apple’s patents “do not cover the Samsung lawyer John Quinn entire phone,” Quinn said, adding emphasized the room the decision that they are entitled only to the affords the company to argue damages profits of the infringing components, should be based on the profits it and “not on anything that’s inside made off the specific components that the phone.”

U.S. investigating Cambridge Analytica

WASHINGTONThe U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are investigating Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct political data firm embroiled in a scandal over its handling of Facebook Inc user information, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have sought to question former Cambridge Analytica employees and banks that handled its business, the newspaper said, citing an American official and others familiar with the inquiry,

Cambridge Analytica said earlier this month it was shutting down after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from reports the company harvested personal data about millions of Facebook users beginning in 2014.

Allegations of the improper use of data for 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by President Donald Trump’s 2016 U.S. election campaign, have

prompted multiple investigations in the United States and Europe.

The investigation by the Justice Department and FBI appears to focus on the company’s financial dealings and how it acquired and used personal data pulled from Facebook and other sources, the Times said.

Investigators have contacted Facebook, according to the newspaper.

The FBI, the Justice Department and Facebook declined to comment to Reuters. Former officials with Cambridge Analytica was not immediately available to comment.

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013, initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times has reported. Bannon left the White House on August 2017.

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Michigan State to pay out at least $500 million to Nassar victims

Michigan State University will pay out at least $500 million in settlements to the victims of Larry Nassar after two days of mediation in California.

Over 300 victims have sued the school over sexual abuse at the hands of Nassar.

Representatives for the victims and the university met behind closed doors this week to hash out the settlement for 332 victims, formally announced on Wednesday.

Trustee Brian Breslin, chairman of MSU’s governing board, said the school is “truly sorry” for what victims and their families went through and says the school recognizes a “need for change” in sexual assault awareness and prevention.

A lawyer for many of the victims spoke of the settlement to the Detroit Free Press, saying the school

must pay $425 million immediately and hold $75 million in reserve for future settlements.

“I don’t think (the victims) can ever be made whole, but this is a step in the right direction,” attorney Jamie White said.

“This historic settlement came about through the bravery of more than 300 women and girls who had the courage to stand up and refuse to be silenced,” said John Manly, another attorney for many of the victims.

“It is the sincere hope of all of the survivors that the legacy of this settlement will be far reaching institutional reform that will end the threat of sexual assault in sports, schools and throughout our society.”

Former state Supreme Court justice Robert Young, who served as special counsel to MSU, weighed in on the agreement.

and the efforts of the mediator, which achieved a result that is responsible and equitable.”

Nassar, who worked as an osteopathic physician for USA Gymnastics and was a faculty member at Michigan State, was convicted in three courts of charges that included abusing his patients. More than 200 victims, including Maroney, spoke at his sentencing hearing.

Nassar, 54, is serving a 60year sentence at a federal prison in Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 Tucson, Ariz., on child pornography to 175 years in one Michigan county and charges. He has been sentenced to 40 40 to 125 years in another on sexual to 175 years in one Michigan county assault charges and 40 to 125 years in another on

“Michigan State is pleased sexual assault charges. that we have been able to agree in ESPN announced on principle on a settlement that is fair Wednesday that the survivors of to the survivors of Nassar’s crimes,” Nassar’s abuse would be awarded the Young said. “We appreciate the hard Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the work both sides put into the mediation, 2018 ESPYs.

Serena Williams coach confident she’ll play the French Open

PARIS - Serena tour organizers WTA on Williams’s coach Patrick Monday.

Mouratoglou said he was The Frenchman, confident that the 23- however, admitted she time grand slam singles returned too soon after her champion would take part pregnancy, which resulted in the French Open this in early exits in Indian month.

Wells and Miami in March.

The 36-year-old “After her Williams, who has not pregnancy, Serena had to played on clay this season, rebuild her body. When she withdrew from the Madrid arrived at the Mouratoglou and Rome tournaments Tennis Academy, around because she was not ready April 30, we realized that she was not ready yet,” to compete.

“Serena will play said Mouratoglou.

“The time she lost the French Open to win it.

Can she do it? Serena can after the delivery, with all achieve anything - after the medical issues she had being her coach for six years, to go through, was missing.”

I’m even more sure of that The French Open starts on statement,” Mouratoglou May 27. said in an interview with

Serena Williams

NFL will vote on video review for all ejections

NFL owners will vote at next week’s league meetings on a proposal to make all ejections subject to video review, the league announced Wednesday in a written rules proposal.

The proposed rule change, which will apply to “any disqualification of a player,” is another step in the league’s emphasis on player safety this offseason, after a rule was approved in March to penalize, and for flagrant offenses eject, players who lower their helmets to make contact with an opponent.

Paired together, the two rules would function similarly to the NCAA’s targeting rule.

Many coaches and members of the league’s competition committee have

pushed to make ejections reviewable as a backstop for the enforcement of the “lowering the helmet” rule, which was initially met with skepticism from some.

If approved, the new rule would require the league’s officiating center in New York to review video of any offense after an ejection is called and confirm or overturn the decision. The on-field referee will not be involved in reviewing the play or making the decision.

In its current form, the rule would allow for a review only when an ejection has been called, not to determine if an ejection is merited after one was not called on the field. Additionally, reviewing a play on which an ejection was called will not make other aspects of that play reviewable. Currently,

all reviewable aspects of any play are subject to be overturned once a replay review has been initiated.

The other major proposal owners will vote on at next week’s meetings in Atlanta is a tweaking of kickoffs, intended to make the play more like a punt in order to reduce high-speed collisions and improve player safety.

The new rule would require all members of the kickoff team to be within one yard of the ball when it is kicked, at least eight players on the return team to be within 15 yards of the ball when it is kicked, and no blocking permitted in that 15-yard area until the ball hits the ground or is caught. Additionally, no wedge blocks of any kind would be permitted.

Suns win lottery for No. 1 pick in NBA draft; Kings 2nd

The Phoenix Suns were awarded the No. 1 pick in next month’s NBA draft via the lottery held Tuesday in Chicago.

The Suns, an NBA-worst 21-61 this season, had the highest odds at the No. 1 pick at 25 percent entering the drawing. The Sacramento Kings, with an 18.3 percent chance to select in the top three, will pick second, and the Atlanta Hawks (42.6 percent at top three) will make the No. 3 pick.

The Memphis Grizzlies (55.8 percent at top three) and Dallas Mavericks (42.6 percent) were bounced from the top three with the drawing.

They will pick fourth and fifth, respectively.

“This is a historic night for the Phoenix Suns,” general manager Ryan McDonough said in a statement. “Those of us in the room in Chicago felt the tension, then it was an unbelievable feeling to see it revealed that we received the No. 1 selection. In the illustrious history of the franchise, we’ve never had the first overall pick and to bring it home in such a loaded draft at an important point in time for our franchise, it’s incredible.”

The draft will be held June 21 at Barclays Center in New York.

“Extremely excited — I think it’s something that we really needed,” Suns representative Josh Jackson, the No. 4 pick in last year’s draft, told ESPN. “Now we just gotta sit and see who we want.”

The Orlando Magic will pick sixth, followed by the Chicago Bulls seventh and Cleveland Cavaliers eighth. The Cavs’ pick originally belonged to the Brooklyn Nets — the key piece to last summer’s Kyrie Irving trade with the Boston Celtics.

The New York Knicks will pick ninth, and the Philadelphia 76ers will choose 10th — a pick originally held by the Los Angeles Lakers that could have gone to the Celtics if it landed at No. 2 or No. 3. The Charlotte Hornets hold the No. 11 pick, and the Los Angeles Clippers will pick back-to-back at Nos. 12 and 13 with the Detroit Pistons’ pick (No. 12) falling outside the top four.

The Denver Nuggets round out the lottery at No. 14.

The rest of the draft order has already been determined by worst to best record among playoff teams, with the Washington Wizards holding the No. 15 pick.

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Kyrie Irving’s absence isn’t hurting the Celtics. It’s crushing LeBron’s Cavaliers

The Cleveland Cavaliers lost Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals to the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night in spectacular fashion.

A seven-point halftime lead disintegrated into a seven-point deficit entering the fourth quarter, and it turned into a 14-point hole with less than three minutes to play, resulting in a 107-94 defeat that put Cleveland in a 2-0 bind that few teams recover from.

LeBron James did his part, finishing with 42 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists for his 22nd career postseason triple-double, but it was not enough to get the Cavaliers even in the series.

”We’ve got to help Bron,” JR Smith told reporters after the loss. ”We can’t just expect him to do everything.

As role players, we’ve got to play our role.”

Role players are part of the problem, but there is plenty of blame to go around.

Coach Tyronn Lue’s most used lineup of James, Smith, Kevin Love, George Hill and Kyle Korver was outscoring opponents by 17.5 net points per 100 possessions leading up to this series, but the Celtics have dominated that lineup, outscoring it by 21.1 net points per 100 possessions.

The second-most frequently used lineup, which swaps in Tristan Thompson for Korver, is getting beaten by 9.0 net points per 100 possessions.

If only the Cavaliers had another superstar who could run the floor with James and Love to even things out.

Oh, wait; they did — Kyrie Irving. And his absence appears to be hurting Cleveland more than it is his

current team, the Boston Celtics.

Irving was traded to the Celtics this summer and immediately made an impact. An all-star for the fifth time in his career, Irving averaged 24.4 points, 5.1 assists and 3.8 rebounds while shooting 41 percent from behind the arc before a knee injury sidelined him in March for the rest of the regular season and the playoffs.

When Irving and James shared the court during the 2017 NBA playoffs, the Cavaliers scored 124.9 points per 100 possessions.

This year, that offensive rating has dropped to 109.8 with James on the court and declines to 94.4 during the 99 minutes James has been on the bench. Sure, it’s a small sample size, but that offensive efficiency without James is worse than what we saw from the Phoenix Suns, winners of Tuesday night’s draft lottery to claim the No. 1 pick in the 2018 draft, during the regular season.

And since Cleveland’s defense, which at one point was one of the worst in the NBA, also took a step back, it’s clear the Cavaliers don’t have enough firepower to make up the difference.

The Celtics, meanwhile, scored 107.7 points per 100 possessions in Irving’s absence during the regular season.

Irving’s skills as a spot-up shooter who also can beat his man in isolation made him a formidable weapon for Cleveland in the regular season and the playoffs, and now the Cavaliers are having problems with both of those play types.

In the playoffs, Cleveland’s spot-up shooters are shooting 35 percent and producing less than a

Kyrie Irving (left) and LeBron James point per possession; only the San Antonio Spurs were less efficient on those possessions this postseason.

Love has been particularly bad (0.86 points per possession), as have Smith (0.94), James (0.94), Jose Calderon (0.82) and Rodney Hood (0.80). Not only has James been off the mark on those attempts, but some of them are occurring so late in the shot clock that he has had no choice but to heave desperate attempts from way beyond the arc.

Boston has excellent spotup shooters in Terry Rozier III (1.4 points per shot), Marcus Morris (1.1) and Jaylen Brown (1.08). Rozier is producing an effective field goal rate of 74 percent on his spot-up opportunities, the fourth-highest rate among players who have taken at least 25 spot-up shots in the playoffs.

During last year’s run to the NBA Finals, Cleveland used both James and Irving in isolation, with Irving finding himself in man-to-man coverage almost 32 percent of the time, significantly higher than James

played in isolation (23 percent).

In 2018, James is going at it alone 29 percent of the time, making it his most frequently used play type. James has used 114 postseason possessions in isolation, more than twice as many as the rest of the team combined (55). Boston runs more isolation plays than Cleveland, but Coach Brad Stevens also spreads out the responsibilities more. Jayson Tatum leads the team with 54, followed

by Morris (32), Rozier (31), Marcus Smart (21) and Al Horford (17).

It may be unfair to say Boston’s strong start to the series is the result of the Cavaliers having one fewer star on their roster, but it’s also clear that Boston had the talent to make up for losing Irving, while Cleveland did not. James and the Cavaliers are left scrambling to find an answer, but they better find it quick: In NBA history, teams that fall behind 2-0 in the conference finals have come back to win the series less than 6 percent of the time.

Harden, James, Anthony Davis named MVP finalists

Houston Rockets guard James Harden, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis were named finalists for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award, the league announced Wednesday.

The winner will be announced during the awards show on June 25, four days after the NBA draft.

Harden, who finished second in last year’s voting behind Russell Westbrook, and Davis are looking (l-r) New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis, Houston Rockets guard James to win the award for the first time. Harden, and Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and third three times in that span, Harden also finished second in 2014- per game.

At 33, James would be the and he finished fourth last season.

15 behind Stephen Curry, three spots oldest player to win the award since He finished the regular season with ahead of Davis.

Harden, 28, averaged a a 35-year-old Karl Malone did so in averages of 27.5 points, 9.1 assists and career-high and league-leading 30.4 1998-99. Only one player in his 30s 8.6 rebounds per game, with the latter points per game. He also contributed has won the award since then: Steve two figures equaling or exceeding career highs.

8.8 assists and 5.4 rebounds per game Nash did so at 30 and 31.

Davis was also named a A four-time winner of the while leading Houston to the league’s award (‘08-09, ‘09-10, ‘11-12, ‘12-13), finalist for Defensive Player of the best record.

Davis, 25, averaged a career-high 28.1 James will finish in the top five of Year, alongside Utah Jazz center Rudy points, 11.1 boards and 2.6 blocks, MVP voting for the 13th consecutive Gobert and Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid. Gobert finished second along with a personal-best 2.3 assists season. He has finished second twice

Australia warns missing African athletes to comply with visas

Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said that a group of African athletes who went missing during the Commonwealth Games must give themselves up or face being deported.

Eight athletes from Cameroon, two from Uganda and a Rwandan parapowerlifting coach went missing from the April 4-15 Games at the Gold Coast, local media have reported.

The athletes will be in Australia illegally from midnight on Tuesday when their visas expire, unless they have taken

last year to Draymond Green.

The Sixers and Jazz also have representatives in the Rookie of the Year race, guards Ben Simmons and Donovan Mitchell, respectively.

Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum is the third finalist in that category.

Dwane Casey, who was voted as the league’s coach of the year by his peers before being fired by the Toronto Raptors last week, was named a finalist for the official award voted on by sportswriters and broadcasters. He is joined by Utah’s Quin Snyder and Boston’s Brad Stevens.

Rockets guard Eric Gordon, Raptors guard Fred VanVleet and Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams are finalists for Sixth Man of the Year, which Gordon won last year as Williams finished third. Williams won the award in 2014-15.

Houston’s Clint Capela, the Brooklyn Nets’ Spencer Dinwiddie and the Indiana Pacers’ Victor Oladipo are finalists for Most Improved Player.

legal steps to stay.

Ben Lumsdaine, a solicitor at the Refugee

“If they breach the conditions, Advice and Casework Service, told the they’re subject to enforcement action,” paper on Tuesday.

Dutton told reporters on Tuesday.

Australia’s immigration

“Like anyone else, they’re expected authorities often grant temporary ‘bridging’ to operate within the law, and enforcement visas that allow in-country residency action will take place to identify those applicants to remain while their cases are people and to deport them if they don’t self- assessed. declare.”

The eight Cameroon athletes

Some of the athletes had contacted comprised one-third of its 24-athlete a refugee advice center in Sydney, the delegation to the Gold Coast Games.

Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.

Illegal immigration is a highly contentious

“Some have been to us for advice,” political issue in Australia.

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