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FOREIGN INVESTMENT BOOMING IN NORTH AND MIDDLE CAICOS

by Hayden Boyce Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

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everal wealthy foreign investors have been purchasing prime real estate, including beachfront land, on the islands of North Caicos and Middle Caicos and building expensive luxury villas and other residential and commercial developments.

Investigations by The SUN revealed that there has been a significant increase in land purchases and construction on those two islands in recent years, indicating that they are becoming a viable investment alternative to Providenciales which has traditionally been the development Mecca of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Information from various sources showed that most of the land sales are by private residents of those two islands, some of whom have sold their land for “close to and above a Pictured From L-R – Goldray Ewing, Force, Stephen Dean, Deputy Education- Hon. Karen Malcolm and million dollars” in some instances.

Minister for Home Affairs, Senior Governor Her Excellency Anya Hon. Vaden Delroy Williams-Minister

“The construction and Assistant Commissioner of Police Williams, Premier Hon. Sharlene of Immigration. (See page 14 & 15 development has been taking place from the Royal Bahamas Police Cartwright-Robinson, Minister of for more photographs). rather quietly,” said a source in the construction industry. “If you haven’t been to North and Middle Caicos for a Caicos, confirmed the investment and there is a bright future for North and promising as investors seek to get ahead long time you will be surprised by the development boom on the twin islands. Middle Caicos in particular and the of the investment curve.” number and type of villas being built.” “All in all, I think this represents the Turks and Caicos Islands in general,” Higgs said the development

In an exclusive interview, signs of a good, robust economy, a sign Higgs said. “Development is moving, boom will eventually lead to significant Hon. Ralph Higgs, Minister of Tourism of investor confidence in the current and I would say that the future of North direct and indirect benefits for the and MP for North Caicos and Middle government and it also indicates that and Middle Caicos looks extremely residents of Middle and North Caicos.

Chance for Change program launched in TCI

TCI can benefit from Caribbean police forces and enhanced community policing

By Todeline Defralien

Turks and Caicos Islands can indeed benefit significantly with help from Caribbean police forces and enhanced community policing, according to Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Stephen Dean.

During an exclusive interview with The SUN, Mr. Dean said that having an exchange where TCI Police can go and learn from The Bahamas and other Caribbean Islands will enhance their policing.

“I see that for the whole Caribbean. I wish that we were so united that we use to do it. The door is there and we have the Association of Caribbean Commissioner of Police, they meet every time and they share, but how does that trickle down to our officers getting that

exchange? We do it a lot of times with the United States...”

Dean said regional police assistance from The Bahamas or Jamaica can make a difference in TCI.

“One of the things that will benefits is TCI officers doing initial training in The Bahamas. I think that there is a group getting ready to go to Freeport but that is on the entry level scale, but how do you do on the supervisory level and getting them on the ground? There are some things that you can learn and when they took me on a tour (in Turks and Caicos Islands) I saw some communities that looks familiar and I know some of the things that we’re done with some of those communities (in The Bahamas), so maybe when you think about those points, if we can get them there and they can take some patrols with us and they can understand

some of the things that we do then that will help.”

Furthermore, Dean said that policing various communities that you know are affiliated with gangs is a must for the police force.

“If a fella thinks that he’s a bad man in this area we will know what to do. There are certain approaches that you can take to a fella, so you cannot just keep policing and saying that things are quiet (when) it is not quiet. You have to let the bad man know that things are not quiet and we have to have a conversation every two weeks, but you have to come to my office to have that conversation.

There are things that we can do so that the guy can get confused and so you have to play a physiological thing with them. There is a lot of ways in policing; you have to be on the ground and that is why it is important that when you reach

Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Stephen Dean a certain level, you have good ground experience. You don’t spend all day in the office and then you come here to tell me, it is not in the book. Things change out there as it relates to decision making and you cannot go to any page in the book all the time because some of the guys in these communities are not going to understand the book,” he explained.

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LOCAL NEWS

Hon. Karen Malcolm attends UWI/DISES International conference in Jamaica

Hon. Karen Malcolm, Minister for Education, Youth, Culture, Social and Library Services attended the DISES International Conference which was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica from June 26-28 2019, under the theme “Inclusion for All in a Changing World”.

Hon. Malcolm said the conference was an enlightening experience that provided her delegation, which included Mr. Jas Walkin, Education Officer for Special Needs, Ms. Betty-Ann Been, Director of the Special Needs Unit, Ministry of Health, Mr. Simon Wiltshire, Director of Health Policy and Planning, Ms. Sriya Smalling, Educational Psychologist and Mrs. Tracey Outten, Scholarship Manager, with a wealth of knowledge that can of Division of International Special with Special Needs held in Turks & assist in developing and improving the Education & Services (DISES) Mark C. Caicos last year November. area of special needs within the Turks Francis and other DISES representatives.

The delegation from the Turks DISES is an organization that shares its & Caicos Islands were invited to a and Caicos Islands.

The Minister stated; “It was work around the world to fight for the special “sit-down” with a member of indeed a privilege to be a part of this rights of persons with disabilities.

Jamaica’s media where they discussed

The conference’s opening the milestones reached and challenges conference, my team and I have gain great insight into the practices and ceremony was chaired by Hixwell in the area of Special Needs in the policies adopted both regionally and Douglas (PhD) a person described as country. Additionally, Hon. Malcolm internationally in the area of Special a professional motivational speaker, and her colleagues were able to share Needs Education and we hope to use educator, counselor, storyteller and Turks and Caicos Islands Government this knowledge to enact practices and toast master for all occasions. Like his current initiatives in the area of special policies to assist persons within our friend Senator Morris who was guest needs as well as future plans at a special society with special needs. Once, the speaker at the conference, he is also “update on the region” roundtable Ministry identify the children with visually impaired and was diagnosed discussion. disabilities and put the provisions in from an early age.

TCI Delegation noted; The

Greetings were brought by Her CEC-DISES connect provides a valuable place to deal with their needs, socially and otherwise, then the issue of Excellency, The Most Honourable Lady resource for the Departments of inclusiveness will be less challenging.” Allen, wife of the Governor General Education, Social Services and Health

While in Jamaica, attendees of Jamaica. The keynote address was as they organize themselves to work were able to take part in daily sessions done by Senator Floyd Morris (PhD), together to advance the well-being, that discussed for three days the rights Director for the University of the West education, and productive development of persons with disabilities, current Indies Disability Studies. Senator Floyd of persons with disabilities. Our practices and policies that exist for Morris was the first blind person to be interactions with the varied disciplines special needs inclusion both at a appointed to the Senate of Jamaica in represented at the Conference was 1998 and was the keynote speaker at the beneficial in that it helped to affirm regionally and internationally level.

Attendees met the President National Symposium for Individuals the progress we have made so far as

well as highlight the distance we still need to go. A great deal will depend on defining and refining the departmental/ interdisciplinary roles in this process inclusive of strengthening the legislative and policy framework, and advancing the provisions for special needs education.

Some of the topics covered during the three-day conference were: •Developing a Road Map towards an Inclusive Society •Evaluating and Implementing effective programs and services for students with Disabilities •Using the Law to keep students with disabilities in school •Training Staff to support inclusion •What special accommodations exists for the children with disabilities in public schools?

•Refining Inclusion: Policies Guiding Inclusion in a Special School •Measuring Indicators of Inclusive Education in the Caribbean: A Systematic Review •Preparing Special Education Teachers to Communicate Globally about Disabilities

In addition to Turks and Caicos Islands, there were representations from 9 other nations. However, the Turks & Caicos Islands delegation was highlighted throughout the conference because we were third largest delegation and the only one to have a ranking Cabinet Minister in attendance.

At the end of the conference all attendees stated they were pleased with the contacts they had made and hope to share the knowledge they had gain within their countries.

Ministry of Tourism announces mobilization of tidal gauges in Grand Turk, Providenciales

One of the deliverables Pressure Gauge emanating from a Memorandum of o This instrument uses pressure Understanding signed between the readings to record water height at Department of Maritime and Shipping 10-minute intervals and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), the UKHO committed •Valeport Tidemaster and Valeport to assist the Turks and Caicos Islands Radar Level Sensor (TCI) implement protocols to ensure that the TCI are complying with its o This uses pulsed K-band radar to obligations under the International record water height at 10-minute Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea intervals; and (SOLAS).

As a result of this cooperation, •Sutron Satlink-3 Data Logger and two Tidal Gauges were recently Satellite Transmitter mobilized in the Turks and Caicos Islands, one Tidal Gauge is installed o Compiles the pressure and radar at South Dock in Grand Turk and one data and transmits through a NOAA Tidal Gauge is installed at Sapodilla Bay satellite to a NOAA land-based data in Providenciales. system. The six 10-minute ensembles are transmitted every hour. Specifics: Each Tidal Gauge station consists of: National Oceanic and Atmospheric •1 x Valeport Tidemaster Data Re Administration (NOAA) Geostationary corder and Valeport Pressure Gauge Operational Environmental Satellites •1 x Valeport Tidemaster Data Re (GOES) East Satellite to the NOAA corder and Valeport Radar Level Data Collection System (DCS) Sensor Administration and Data Distribution •1 x Sutron Satlink-3 Data Logger System (DADDS). and Satellite Transmitter Why is the data recorded?

For those who are not familiar with Tidal Gauges, one might ask, •The data is recorded to obtain accurate tidal information What do the instruments do?

•Logged tidal data could be used for historical purposes •Provision of near real-time tidal •Valeport Tidemaster and Valeport

data •Recorded data can be processed using harmonic analysis to produce accurate tide table predictions How will it benefit TCI? •Improved bathymetric mapping of TCI •Safer navigation and traffic for mariners •Engineers could use the data for coastal zone projects such as construction of bridges and docks •Habitat restoration projects require accurate tidal data •Tide data is critical to commercial fishing and recreational sports •Could be used to study tidal fluctuations associated with global warming and climate change •Ecologists could study tidal mixing of near-shore waters, where pollutants are removed and nutrients are recirculated Will it provide information on upcoming inclement weather, including hurricanes and Tsunamis?

•No, but can provide a historical database for storm surge.

Storm surge is the abnormal rise in seawater level during a storm, measured of the

water above the normal predicted astronomical tide. If a sufficiently long dataset is measured, estimates of extreme water levels would be possible, which would help with any future coastal development projects in TCI.

Minister Honorable Ralph Higgs commented, “This is another achievement of my Ministry as the Turks and Caicos Islands prepare for the pending audit of the International Maritime Organization in 2020. The first draft of the National Maritime Policy Document and the Action Plan has already been submitted and is currently being reviewed by the Steering Committee. Mapping of the Turks and Caicos Islands seabed is completed and once confirmation is forwarded to the UKHO that all Navigational Aids are functional, new charts would be produce in additional to Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) of the recently mapped seabed.”

Four Officers within the Department of Maritime and Shipping was recently trained by the Independent Contractor Fugro in Tidal Gauge management and maintenance.

These Officers will be responsible to assist with data collection and to ensure that the UKHO and the TCI Maritime Department are kept up to date with monthly reports.

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Over 100 young men and women jailed in TCI each year

By Todeline Defralien

According the statistics, over one hundred young men and women are incarcerated in Turks and Caicos Islands each year.

These alarming statistics were provided by Permanent Secretary Wesley Clerveaux, of the Ministry of Home Affairs during the launch of ‘Chance for Change’ on Wednesday July 10th.

Giving his account in the TCI situation Mr. Clerveaux said, “According to the Department of Statistics there are currently over 100 young men and women incarcerated in Turks and Caicos Islands each year. Prison is a revolving door with persons incarcerated and persons being released. Within the coming months, significant percentage of these offenders in jail today will be released and then return to the communities from which they came.”

Between the period of 2012 and 2017 67.8% of the persons incarcerated were below the age of 35 years of age here in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The

highest percentage three years of their fraction of the cost a minuscule amount release from prison, because the ex-offenders would have of age group of become a contributing member of convicted persons, this increases to 67% or two out of the society and not dependant on the are persons which are below the age of three ex-offenders government. Change for Change is a returning to prison. restorative initiative with the aim of giving 20 years old.

Revocations are ex-offenders a chance to become a good I n addition, statistics the fastest growing citizen while simultaneously affording the category of prison greater community with the opportunity over the past fourfive years revealed admissions. Sadly to enjoy safer neighborhood in which to live in a lesser tax burden,” he explained. although the that 24% of the Meantime, Clerveaux said that research was not prison population specific to TCI, no child at the age of growing up set for is below 20 years of we can see some themselves to ambition to be a prisoner. age.

H e parallel trends in “All children that are asked the question what do you want to be when you grow u these Islands as added: “We can well.” will tell you that they want to be a doctor, therefore see that C l e r v e a u x lawyer, engineer, pilot, chef and the list it is imperative Mr. Wesley Clerveaux, Permanent Secretary, Ministry upon us and the also stated that the goes on. They all envision becoming a of Education productive citizen. However, at some point average cost to the society to work in their journey they may have made a TCI taxpayer to together to help mistake and strayed from the direct path. our young people to reenter the society incarcerate 50 ex-offenders over a three and make their contribution. Research year period is estimated to be at $72.00 per The Chance for Change program will assist them to get back on the right course and it around the world has shown on average day or $394,000 over the three years. is therefore incompact upon us as a society “If these same ex-offenders that 30% of adult offenders released from prison are rearrested within the first six had successfully on supervised release, to do what we can to help those in need to it would have cost the TCI taxpayer a get back on their feet,” he said. months of their release. Even worst within

Tourist Board partners with Lifetime TV to promote Turks and Caicos Islands

Brand Turks & Caicos made its Lifetime Television debut on June 10th on the award winning Balancing Act morning show. The twelve minute destination segment was organized and sponsored by the Turks & Caicos Tourist Board and is part of the board’s strategic marketing plan to promote the destination in the U.S. market.

The segment takes viewers on an exploration of Providenciales, North Caicos, Middle Caicos and Ambergris Cay. The visual journey through the islands is led by celebrity chef Ralph Pagano with Director of Tourism Ramon

Andrews and U.S. Marketing Manager Pamela Ewing as tour guides. Viewers are treated to scenic views of Grace Bay Beach, Mudjin Harbour and the Conch Bar Caves. Additionally, the local delicacies are showcased with a visit to Da Conch Shack.

U.S. Marketing Manager Pamela Ewing commented, “The reach and visibility that the brand will receive from our partnership with Lifetime Television will be impactful and will result in increased arrivals and exposure for the destination. It was also important to highlight our Sister Islands

to convey to the audience the range of options available for a Turks & Caicos Islands vacation. The Tourist Board’s U.S. office has worked with Lifetime in the past however this is the first time we’ve brought down a production crew to film within the destination. After the initial airing of the feature we received a lot of positive reviews from viewers.

This partnership with Lifetime will reap tremendous benefits for Turks & Caicos and we are already in discussion regarding the next project”.

Lifetime Television is a leader in women’s television, one of the top-rated

J and W Construction Ltd

Long Bay, Providenciales Turk and Caicos Islands Applications are invited from suitable and qualified candidates to fill the following positions:

Carpenters: Duties of position: •Ability to assemble scaffolding and other needed construction structures •Skilled in using tools to cut, shape and smooth limber and other material •Able to read blueprints, drawings and sketches •Calculate accurate measurements and amounts of materials needed for a job •Build window and door frames, staircases and framing buildings using raw material or pre-constructed items •Install hardwood floors, sidings, cabinets, drywall and insulation •Must be able to lay out flooring, roofing and drywall, ensuring they are level, plump and with little waste Plumbers: Duties of position: •Interprets blueprints and building specifications to map layout for pipes, drainage systems, and other plumbing materials •Installs supports for pipes, equipment, and fixtures prior to installation •Modifies length of pipes, fixtures, and other plumbing materials as needed for a building •Installs heating and air-conditioning systems, including water heaters •Collaborates with contractors and construction workers in installing and repairing plumbing •Tests plumbing systems for leaks and other problems •Analyses problem and identifies appropriate tools and materials for repairs •Ability to choose plumbing materials based on budget, location and intended uses of building Slab Finisher/Masons: Duties of position •Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors etc. using a variety of hand and power tools •Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or ditches; and use saws to cut expansion joints •Layering building materials such as blocks, concrete, tiles and other construction materials •Fabricates, alters, repairs, and maintains walls, sidewalks, floors, partitions and other related structures or surfaces.

•To use various tools and techniques to shape rock and stone pieces or artificial mineral productsinto the geometric shapes needed to build or design, buildings etc Steel Erectors Duties of position: •Install and fix steel girders, pipe work and beams that make up the framework of buildings and large structures.

•Level steel sections by bolting or welding steelwork together.

•Coordinate with a variety of teams and heavy equipment, such as cranes •A assemble scaffolds and structural components made from steel.

Requirements: At least five (5) years of knowledge and experience in the relevant field, a high school diploma and must possess a clean police record, a valid driver’s license and a good employment track record.

Salary: $1500 – $2000 monthly All successful candidates must be willing to work on weekends and holidays.

Contact: Applications comprising letter, Belonger card or prove of TCI status, resume, references, police record etc. should be submitted no later than July 31, 2019 to: The Manager J and W Construction Long Bay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Email:jcb.jwc@gmail.com

cable television networks and is ranked the number one highest-rated women’s channel in the U.S. targeting over 96 million households. The Balancing Act is Lifetime Television’s highly acclaimed morning news and talk show.

The encore presentation of the special Turks & Caicos episode will air on July 22nd and July 30th at 7:30 AM. The episode will also air approximately 200 times in syndication throughout 100 U.S. stations and in up to 500,000 hotel rooms. Additionally, the episode can be streamed on The Balancing Act’s website.

LS LTD. LS Limitedis seeking suitableapplicantsfor the following position:

LABOURERS Candidates must be physically capable of performing manual labour outside daily which involve grass cutting, tree trimming, removal of brush and weed, general cleanup of debris and garbage from the company properties. Assist with irrigation and small construction installation projects which includes manual trenching and digging.

Previous experience is preferred. Candidates must be willing to work holidays and weekends when required.

Starting wages: $6.50per hour Please submit applications to: Veronica Rigby, LS Ltd, P.O. Box 124, Regent House, The Regent Village, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tel: (649) 946-5126; Fax (649) 946-5191; Email: ronnie@habgroup.com Interested Belongers must also submit copies of their application to the Commissioner of Labour& Work Permit Board Zone 2. Position currently held by a work permit holder.

Closing date for application is 22ndJuly 2019.

British Caribbean Bank Limited Credit & Sales Administrator Duties •To liaise with credit customers in collection efforts to ensure timely payments, address queries as required with appropriate departments and personnel •To actively monitor and follow up on AML and CTF documentation for credit activity.

•To take ownership of projects/key risk decision areas, utilizing your expert command of statistical analysis •To be responsible for obtaining, analyzing and providing relevant information, advice and opinion to Credit Manager.

• To complete all necessary manual credit analyses of customers’ financial accounts and to assist in the credit underwriting function.

• To identify risks associated with potential business transactions and where appropriate give recommendations on risk mitigation in different business areas Requirements •Minimum 5 years of experience in Credit, Sales or Project Administration •Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint are essential •Strong communication skills and ability to defend decisions made.

The salary for this position starts at $30,000 per annum based on experience. Belongers only need apply.

Closing date for all applications to be submitted is July 19th, 2019 Interested persons may contact our Corporate HR department Mon. – Fri. from 9am-3pm via telephone number 946-8054 or you may submit your resume with qualifications and experience to: hr@wihl.com Please also submit a copy to the TCI Labor Department

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Minimum wage in TCI needs reviewing, says President of Provo Chamber of Commerce

By Todeline Defralien

Turks and Caicos Islands Government (TCIG) must review the minimum wage in the country, according to President of Providenciales Chamber of Commerce, Kyle Smith.

Speaking during the launch of Business and Human Rights on Wednesday July 3rd at Brayton Hall, Smith said, “The TCIG needs to review its economic model which is at the core of this to identify ways to reduce the cost of running business in the TCI. It needs to engage the business sector in discussions on revisiting. The TCIG must play a role in looking at the cost of doing businesses and develop policies to make cost of business profitable whilst simultaneously ensuring that people are not only engaged in decent labour, but that they receive a fair wage for the work to do.”

He added: “The minimum wage to ensure complementarity with International Labour Organization (ILO) standards where a person is allowed to work 48 hours at a rate to give them the ability across the board to have a decent standard of living. Embodied in this concept of decent standard of living is health, promotion of healthy lifestyles that include the ability to afford healthy foods. The number of chronic illnesses and deaths in TCI can be attributed to affordability in this regard.”

Smith went on to say that he loves Sweet Tees chicken and so does the majority of the local populace, because it is tasty and cheap. But he questioned the daily consumption.

“Persons working multiple jobs are deprived of the time to provide homecooked meals for themselves and their children. Furthermore, the social impact where children deprived of parental care is left to the devices of social media which we are witnessing the impact.

Smith stressed that people are employed to work; the purpose of work is to make money which is needed for food, housing, living, fun and to hopefully lead to a more independent and comfortable lifestyle.

“To grant employment to these persons, a business needs to generate sufficient revenue to cover start up and operational costs, turn a profit and remain sustainable to pay their employees at best the minimum wage of $6.25 as mandated by the Employment Ordinance. At its minimum, is this wage enough to provide an individual a decent living?

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), standard weekly working hours (excluding overtime) cannot exceed 48 hours per week and eight hours a day.

According to the ILO, “the imposition of hours limits was intended to ensure a safe and healthy working environment and adequate rest or leisure time

between shifts,” the President explained.

He argued that a quick calculation will immediately show that at this wage rate and to be in accordance with the standards as set out in the ILO which is subscribed to and cited in the employment ordinance $300 dollars a week on average $1200 per month is negligible as a wage earning to service the cost of living of an individual or family in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

He continued: “Unfortunately, there has been no correlation between wages and the incremental increases in the cost of living in the TCI to ensure adherence to the standards and effect a decent standard of living for hundreds in the TCI. This is reflected in the National Skills Audit whose data outlines the following: Thirty-ninepoint nine percent (39.9%) persons responded that their “current monthly wage in the TCI” is between US$ 1000 to $1999 and 20.5% stated between US$2000 to 2999. The others were as follows: Under 1000 – 11.8%, 3000 to 3999– 6.7%, 4000 to 4999 – 6.2%, 5000 to 5999 – 1.5%, 6000 and above - 3.1and Not Applicable – 10.2%.”

Meantime, Smith stated that these numbers alone are a clear indicator that most persons are surviving just on the boundary of minimum wage and the income is NOT enough to sustain the most basic living standards here.

“It is an indisputable fact that

President of Providenciales Chamber of Commerce, Kyle Smith businesses prefer not to have employees that are employed in multiple jobs, or to moonlight or engage in activities that impede on their regular job, however for them it is a necessity. In this case I raise the first level of irrefutable discrimination that I call to address.”

Smith said a country, a nation, an economy operates in an organized sequence which is inclusive of businesses, households, inputs, outputs and at its core we have Governments.

All of which must operate in tandem for the survival and sustainability of a balanced and growing economy.

Chance for Change program officially launched in TCI

By Todeline Defralien

The long waited ‘Chance for Change’ rehabilitation program for criminal offenders has officially launched in Turks and Caicos Islands.

The officially launch took place during a brief and informative ceremony took place on Wednesday July 10th at Blue Haven Resort.

Chance for Change will join efforts of various Government departments, private sector organisations, churches and other non-governmental groups all working together to assist offenders and to support their transition from incarceration back into society.

Among those who attended the event were: Deputy Governor Her Excellency Anya Williams; Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson; Chief Magistrate Hon. Mrs. Tanya Lobban-Jackson; Minister of EducationHon. Karen Malcolm; Hon. Goldray Ewing, Minister for Home Affairs, Hon. Vaden Delroy Williams-Minister of Immigration; PDM chairman Douglas Parnell, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education Mr. Wesley Clerveaux, various pastors, representatives from the Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, Tourist Board and public and private sectors.

Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Stephen Dean was the guest speaker at the launch where plans and objectives were outlined and existing efforts to rehabilitate offenders were shared.

Plans to launch the Chance for Change program began under the leadership of the former minister with responsibility for Social Development

and Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP), Hon Vaden Williams. Hon Karen Malcolm who now assumes responsibility for social development, spearheads the project along with the Social Development Department.

Premier Cartwright-Robinson commenting on the initiative said, “There are some of our people, Turks and Caicos Islanders, who may have made a mistake one time, or made a bad decision that landed them in prison and are being branded by that decision for the rest of their lives. They are often times forced to live sometimes in poverty because no one is willing to offer them a chance for redemption. Chance for Change will change that. There is urgency for every facet of society to unite to restore the faith in these individuals who have served their prison sentence, learned their lessons, paid for their mistakes and are willing to work and be a part of civil society once again as law abiding citizens. We cannot as a small country toss any citizen aside. Our behaviour to not accept them makes us a part of the problem.”

Robinson stated that her government fully supports this initiative and will do what they can, along with the partnership of the private sector, to push this project forward.

“We have waited long enough for this launch and I am eager and excited to get this program up and running. There is a lot of work to do, but this is the first step,” the Premier added

Minister of Education Hon. Karen Malcolm added that crime has become the main public safety issue for the Turks and Caicos Islands and a significant threat to any country’s human and economic development.

She said, “Rightfully so, crime

and its provision has become a much debated issue, as such it is incumbent upon all of us to do our part to curb or prevent crime in these islands.

Chance for Change program is one such initiative that we believe will go a long way to reduce crime by helping to reform persons previously committed of a crime so that they do not fall into a vicious cycle. My government and I are strong believers that if we want to stop the revolving door of incarceration for our young people, we need to provide them with the skills and opportunity to reintegrate into families, social aspect of communities so that they not just reenter the same set of circumstances that lead to incarceration in the first place.”

Malcolm said she is very happy that they are finally getting this program off the ground and she asked for it to be supported.

Deputy Governor, Her Excellency Anya Williams said offenders should have another chance at life.

“Often time we don’t understand how demanding the work is of the prison and for many years many persons have sees prison as punishment.

Prison from the day that they were sentenced and you walk through those gates you are suppose to working towards building a better person so that when that person leaves the prison they don’t re-offend and they have another chance at life. This program is so very important. It is something that has been talked about for a very long time and it is great to see that it has come to fruition,” the Deputy Governor said.

She added: “I want to use the opportunity to encourage every person here to support the work of the prison and the Social Development Department

because they are trying their best, but there is more that can be done and more that each of us can do as private citizens and also as corporate bodies. Everyone makes mistakes in life. Some persons make mistakes that are more serious than others, but that doesn’t have to be a life punishment. Supported is needed in all forms. Government can’t do everything. There has to be more done by everyone.”

Williams commended the Ministry of Education and the Government on the launch of this program and stated that they had the full support from the office of the Deputy Governor.

Mr. Clyde Green, Asst.

Superintendent of Her Majesty’s Prison, stated that this is a major change for the prison.

“This is a good day for us and I hope everyone recognizes how big of a deal the Chance for Change is. There are hundreds of men and women that come through those prison doors and often times it seems to be a cycle, but with us bringing forth this platform to engage offenders, I think that we are giving each and every ex-offender a chance to be a real and productive citizen in this country. Some of that would be easy and some of that would be difficult, but it is important that our society/islands will be improved by our joint contributions seeking to uplift these persons and to help those leaving to never return. I encourage each of us to support this program and help the prisoners and by extension to help our country,” he explained.

There were also testimonials from two ex-offenders, Emanjoe Forbes and Audley Williams.

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Senior Managers trained in legislative process and drafting instructions

The Legislative Drafting Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers hosted a seminar for Senior Managers across the public service on ‘The Legislative Process and Drafting Instructions’. The seminar took place on Grand Turk at the Life Centre Building on Old Airport Road on 26th June 2019.

The seminar focused on four key areas: 1) how to develop legislative policy; 2) how to provide quality legislative drafting instructions; 3) how to prepare Cabinet Papers on Legislative proposals and frame recommendations; and 4) the legislative process.

The seminar was geared to Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Heads of Department and generally, persons who are involved in providing legislative drafting instructions to the Attorney

General’s Chambers.

This training forms part of the work plan of the Attorney General’s Chambers for the financial year 2019/2020 and sought to strengthen the capacity of senior managers across the public service to promote quality legislative proposals of interest to their respective Ministries and departments.

Presenters at the Seminar were Ms. Desiree Downes MBE, Principal Legislative Drafter in the Attorney General’s Chambers along with Ms. Gogontle Gatang and Ms. Priscilla Paquette both of whom are Senior Legislative Drafters in the Attorney General’s Chambers.

There was an overwhelmingly positive response to the interactive sessions with some 7 Ministries, 21 departments 3 Statutory Bodies participating for a total of some 58 persons in attendance. The training consisted of a series of presentations followed by mock exercises designed to test understanding and provided

an opportunity for feedback.

The Hon. Attorney General Rhondalee Braithwaite Knowles OBE QC brought remarks and thanked the participants for their strong interest in gaining a better understanding of the Legislative process and how to provide drafting instructions. She noted that the Legislative Drafting division of the Attorney General’s Chambers works in accordance with the Government’s legislative agenda fixed by the Cabinet which sets out the Government’s Legislative priorities for each financial year. The Hon. Attorney General welcomed the opportunity provided by the Seminar to foster greater collaboration across the public sector.

Due to the high level of interest within the public service and wider public sector, the training seminar will be held again in July on Providenciales and on that occasion will seek to include senior officers of statutory bodies.

Paracetamol 500mg tablets recalled

M&A Pharmachem has recently conducted a voluntary recall of two batches of the drug Paracetamol 500mg tablets.

Paracetamol is an analgesic (pain reliever), antipyretic (anti-fever) and anti-inflammatory (reduces inflammation and swelling) drug. These tablets are in pack sizes of 1000’s and are usually sold to pharmacies and other authorised retailers. However, these tablets are normally repackaged for sale to patients/consumers.

The Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Sports and Human Services said the recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and follows recent and emerging information regarding a

small number of pots from each batch having been found to contain discoloured tablets due to fungal contamination. The batch numbers are: 1.0110 (expiry date: June 2023) 2.0174 (expiry date: Oct. 2023)

The fungi have been identified as Penicillium citrinium and Penicillium brevicompactum.

It is reported that it is unlikely that any affected tablets have gotten to the patient level as the discolouration is noticeable on opening affected packs.

However, we advise persons who have purchased this product to stop taking same and to notify their doctor and/or pharmacist as soon as possible. There

JOB TITLE: Customer Experience – B2B Field Services Technician.

JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the B2B Field Services Team Lead or designate, this renewable contract position as B2B Field Services Technician will be responsible for the installation, service, maintenance and removal of all customer related Voice, IP and Data services and equipment, across all of the company’s networks for our enterprise and corporate customers.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: • Install, move, change, troubleshoot, maintain and support of all voice, data and IP related services and equipment offered to our enterprise and corporate customers.

• Installation and configuration of customer premise equipment in accordance with industry and company specified standards.

• Perform site visits of customer’s premises to establish the most appropriate route for carrying out wiring, and ensuing necessary minimum requirements are met to support physical, environmental, electrical and grounding requirements for the installation of equipment.

• Develops tactical and strategic plans, standards, guidelines and policies for CPE deployment.

• Leads or assists on projects related to the network infrastructure and customer deployment, ensuring projects are delivered on time and meet expectations.

• Ensure the delivery of services and resolution of customer faults are done within the specified SLAs and KPIs. • Progress/ Complete work flow across all platforms (LIBERATE, CERILLION, ACUT, SCCD).

• Provides pre- and post-sales support and actively participates in special project meetings.

• Complete documentation pertaining to jobs in accordance with the department processes and standards, such as RFOs, network diagrams.

• Performs any other duties related to the job function.

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE: • High school diploma or equivalent.

• Five (5) or more years’ experience performing the duties and responsibilities specified.

• Data Networking certification or equivalent would be an asset.

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED: • Innovative/Creative Thinking.

• Problem-Solving/Sound Judgment.

• Goal Oriented.

• Must be highly motivated to learn new and existing technologies.

• Must possess the ability to broaden your knowledge of existing system and new systems that may emerge.

• Computer Literacy.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Effective communication skills.

• Knowledge of digital telecommunications techniques and procedures.

• Ability to multitask and work in a fast paced environment.

Interested persons can send their resume to HR at anissa.bootle@cwc.com

are suitable alternative generics (with the same active pharmaceutical ingredient) and other alternative treatment options which are available in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The Ministry of Health said it is committed to regulating medicines and aims to ensure that quality standards and systems regarding the safe use of medicines, imported and utilized within the TCI, are implemented. The MoHASHS’ top priority is to ensure patient safety and we will continue to monitor this situation.

For more information regarding the regulation of controlled drugs, please contact the National Pharmacist, André Morgan at 338-3072.

HS LTD. FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER This position will provide all Food &Beverage Management services within Fairways Bar and Grill at Provo Golf Club, including the daily operation of the F&B in the club house and on the golf course, as well as event/tournament banquet services.

RESPONSIBILITIES •preparing and updating of various F&B menus •costing of all F&B items to ensure margins and profitability •hiring, training and development of all front of house and kitchen staff •implementing training programs & procedures in accordance with hygiene and food safety standards •planning labour rotas, stock ordering/handling and cost control •preparing annual financial budgets, monitoring and forecasting sales •implementing cost controls, labor management and revenue generating programs •promoting the facility to maximise revenue REQUIREMENTS •a proven track record of operating a F&B facility •an understanding of golf course etiquette, team management & good organizational skills •experience with EPOS systems including payroll management, purchasing and inventory systems •strong technical literacy including Microsoft Word and Excel •must be able to work closely with the Director of Golf to ensure that golf visitors and members are being properly serviced and that functions/ events are being professionally managed to ensure repeat business.

•Must be able to worksplit shifts and unsociable hours on weekends when events are taking place.

The remuneration for this position is $36,000.00 per annum commensurate with experience.

Please submit applications to: Veronica Rigby, HS Ltd, P.O. Box 124, Regent House, The Regent Village, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tel: (649) 946-5126; Fax (649) 946-5191; Email: ronnie@habgroup.com Interested Belongers must also submit copies of their application to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2. Position currently held by a work permit holder. Closing date for application is 22nd July 2019.

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Telecommunications Commission announces public consultation on number portability The Telecommunications Commission is seeking the counsel of the public on the subject of number portability for the Turks and Caicos.

Number portability is the ability to retain your number when changing providers.

This facility is regulated by the Commission but carried out by local telecommunications carriers. If enacted it essentially means that customers will be able to use their current number on any carrier of their choice. No longer would we be able to identify a person’s phone company by the beginning digits of their number.

There will be no distinction between postpaid and prepaid, also fixed line service can be transferred from one carrier to the next.

Number portability is available in many countries across the world including countries in Africa, Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom to name a few. Mobile portability is spreading to the Caribbean as well, in countries such as St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The consultation process for number portability in the Turks and Caicos began in 2016 with discussions between carriers concerning its appropriateness

and feasibility.

The Telecommunications Commission will conduct a public consultation to understand the customers’ perspective on allowing number portability in the Turks and Caicos.

“To ensure that the implementation of Number portability is the desire of the consumers, we hired Outside the Box Advertising to conduct a Number Portability Survey throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands,” says Mr. Kenva Williams, Director General for the Telecommunications Commission.

The Commission believes that the local telecommunications market could benefit from the introduction of number portability across both mobile and fixed platforms, as it can bring value to the consumers, by enabling them to move their number to a provider of their choice that best meets their needs.

“It’s important to us to know if this is something that the public wants.

Therefore, we are seeking the assistance of the public to provide feedback on the development, implementation, and introduction of mobile and fixed Number Portability services within the Turks and Caicos Islands,” says Mr. Williams.

The surveys will be conducted across all islands. Survey interviewers will

A & J TRUCKING

ROCK OF JESUS MINISTRY

Is seeking for: (1). SPANISH PASTOR Provide visionary strategic and collaborative leadership for the life and ministry of the Spanish Ministry, bring discernment and focus to priorities that support the vision of the ministry.

RELEVANT QUAIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

A minimum of 5 years’ SALARY: $300.00 per week.

Deadline date July 31, 2019Must be a Christian Please fax or email resume to Fax: 649-946-4283 Email: info@roj.tc

South Dock Road, Providenciales Is in need of Dump Trailer Driver & (2) Waste Collector Is seeking (1) Labourer - $6.25 per hour Is seeking (1) Mechanic - $400.00 per week •Driver must have at least 5 years experience in driving 24ft-30ft Dump Trailer Salary is $10.00 per hour •Waste Collector must be willing to work on garbage trucks, cleaning garbage from roadsides and various districts in Providenciales.

Salary is $250.00 per week Interested Belongers must submit their application to the Labour Board and contact: Julie Smith Telephone # 231-0032 anytime These position are currently held by Work Permit Holders

Turks and Caicos Sun

Suite#5, Airport Plaza Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands Tel: (649) 348-6838 Fax: (649) 941-3281 Email: sun@suntci.com Read us online at www.suntci.com Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Hayden Boyce

Mr. Kenva Williams, Director General for the Telecommunications Commission make contact with private citizens and business persons. Copiesof the survey will be available online through a link which can be found on The Commissions Facebook page (https://www.facebook. com/tcitelecommision/). Results from the public consultation will be provided on The Commissions website at a later date.

D. SELWYN MILLS In South Caicos Is seeking an Assistant for a hardware store To work 5 days per week Duties include transportation of goods and stocking of shelves Heavy lifting required Salary: $ 200.00 per week Please contact: 241-3375 This position is currently held by a work permit holder Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are encouraged to send a copy of their application to the Labour Board

Graphic designer Information Technology and Production Manager: Kelano Howell Todeline Defralien Reporter

The Turks and Caicos SUN is a subsidiary of The SUN Media Group Ltd. We are committed to excellence in journalism, educating and informing our readers, serving and satisfying our advertisers and assisting in the overall development of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

BUTTERFIELD GOLD GROUP OF POSITIONS AVAILABLE All positions are held by work permit holders

Coral Quarry

Any other assigned duty

One (1) Driver/Concrete Batcher

Salary from $6.50 per hour

Relief Driver

Butterfield Gold

Batch software programme

One (1) Labourer

Ensure that design mixes are prepared in accordance with standard test methods so that the results reflect the actual characteristics of the batched concrete

Cleaning downtown parking lot removing garbage, pruning, watering and replanting plants at the Town Centre Mall, parking Lot and Butterfield Square parking Lot.

Observes gauges, dials and the operation of machinery to ensure conformance to processing specifications

Wages from $7.00 per hour

Prepare invoices, delivery tickets and related documents and assigns driver for scheduled delivery Test and inspects products at various stages of the production process in accordance with specifications Interpret mix design formulas and make adjustments to compensate for moisture conditions of aggregates Ensures the cleanliness of the work environment and oversee and small work crew Performs other related duties as assigned Assist in the General Office Any duties pertaining to Butterfield Concrete & Construction Material Salary: from $2,400.00 per month Island Pride Fuel One (1) Domestic Worker Cleaning restroom, shelves, merchandise, floors & windows Relief Pump Attendant

One (1) Electrician Minimum 10 years’ experience in maintenance and repair of electrical equipment, including electronic circuit boards and be able to implement a maintenance schedule. Certification required.

Salary: $10.00 per hour Application forms available from Butterfield Gold Human Resource Department. Only applicants selected for interview will be notified.

Submit applications to by July 23, 2019 to: Butterfield Gold Ltd.,

Human Resource Department Town Center Mall Providenciales Tel: 649-946-4211 Labour Commissioner Employment services Sammy Been Building Airport Road Providenciales

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Premier Cartwright-Robinson attends CARICOM Heads of Government meeting

Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Hon. Sharlene CartwrightRobinson and Executive Director for the Office of the Premier, Mr. Ronlee James recently attended the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.

The meeting, at the Sandals Grande St. Lucian Hotel, was held under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Allen Chastanet. During the two-day conference, the Premier along with other Heads of Government participated in four day plenary sessions discussing topics such as: •CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)

•Security •Blacklisting •Integrating Caribbean Science and Technology Institutional Capabilities •Border Issues •And the SIDS Resilience Foundation

Heads of Government also engaged with representatives of the private sector, labour and civil society; met with Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett from the US Virgin Islands; and discussed topical issues such as Climate Change and sustainable development which are included in the agenda for the high level general debate at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly scheduled for September 2019.

Heads of Government also

engaged with the Prime Minister of Norway, Her Excellency Ms. Erna Solberg and actively constructed a proposal to establish a permanent Africa-BrazilCaribbean Diaspora Commission which will seek to strengthen relationship across the region.

This 40th Meeting built on the St. Ann’s Declaration approved at the CARICOM 18th Special Meeting on the CARCICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), which was held in Trinidad and Tobago in December 2018.

The Declaration, which established the CSME as the most practical platform to support the region’s growth and development agenda, proposed several actions for determined movement.

The conference followed an

official opening ceremony held at the Royalton Resort on Wednesday, 3 July 2019, where the outgoing Chairman, Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris of St. Kitts and Nevis addressed the conference and welcomed CARICOM’s new Chairman, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Hon. Allen Chastanet.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has 15 Member States – Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago; and five Associate Members – Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Annual “In The Pink” slated for October 12th

Plans are well underway as The Palms and With donations from corporate businesses the organizing committee of In The Pink will host and generous individuals, the team transforms The the 11th annual “In the Pink” event to raise money Palms into a shopping paradise, allowing buyers to for TCI’s Cancer Society. snag excellent bargains on a wide variety of new

The event is slated to take place on Saturday, and gently used clothing, shoes, accessories and October 12th, 2019 at The Palms Resort at 6 pm – 12 many designer items. am.

After the shopping, the fun continues with

The event hosts a mega-shopping frenzy, a a superb after-party in the elegantly pink-decorated PINK Poker Tournament sponsored by CasaBlanca courtyard in front of the famed Parallel 23 restaurant.

Casino and a lavish after-party where Prime DJ’s The after-party includes live music and charming will rock The Palms courtyard well into the night, “guest bartenders” serving up themed cocktails and including a silent auction and raffle giveaways. raffle giveaways from Jai’s.

TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NIB SICKNESS BENEFIT! This outline gives general information on Sickness Benefit provided under the National Insurance Program.

Did you know…

1. If you are an insured person with NIB below the age of 65 who cannot work because of a specific illness, whether physical or mental, you might qualify for Sickness Benefit?

2. Public Officers do not qualify for Sickness Benefit.

3. In order to receive Sickness Benefit, the following contribution conditions must be met: (i) the insured person must have paid at least twenty-six (26) contributions or six months; or (ii) the insured person must have paid at least eight (8) contributions within a continuous thirteen (13) week period of the last twenty-six (26) weeks right before the week in which the day of the continuous period of not being able to work happened.

4. The insured person can claim Sickness Benefit by simply completing the official Sickness Benefit application form and submitting it to the nearest NIB office.

5. The claim for Sickness Benefit must be submitted within six (6) days from the first day of the insured person’s inability to work.

6. Sickness Benefit is calculated from the 4th day of the continuous period that you were unable to work.

7. The employer will be responsible for paying the insured person for the first three (3) days for a maximum of 12 days per year in which that person became sick.

8. NIB Sickness Benefit is paid for a maximum period of six (6) months.

9. The Sickness Benefit is paid at a weekly rate of 60% of the average weekly earnings on which contributions were paid.

10. Sickness benefit is paid in arrears weekly by means of direct deposit preferably or by cheque.

In the Pink, a powerful and inspiring event was created 11 years ago to honor breast cancer survivors, raise awareness about steps individuals can take to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer, and raise money to assist those persons locally who require additional assistance with extensive treatments.

To share this year’s great ideas, the organizing committee of ‘In The Pink’ will soon hosts a media press briefing with more details. For more information contact Karen Whitt, karen. whitt@hartlinggroup.com or 649-232-1010.

TCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 872 Business Solutions Complex, P.O. Box 203, Leeward Highway, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands JOB ADVERTISMENT The Telecommunications Commission (TC) is a statutory body responsible for regulating the telecommunications sector of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), protecting interests of users of telecommunications services, and advise the Minister Telecommunications on telecommunications policies.

POSITION TITLE:

Legal Advisor

SALARY RANGE:

USD 60,000 – 80,000

In order to ensure its legal competency in issues relevant to regulation of the telecommunications sector, the TC seeks to employ a Legal Advisor. The Legal Advisor’s main functions will include, but will not be limited to: DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: Provide legal advice and opinion on matters required by the Commission Reviewing and drafting contracts / agreements Enforcement procedures Liaising with external Attorneys with respect to litigation portfolio including the preparation of briefs to external counsel.

Training staff on telecommunications and/or competition law; Drafting, in association with the office of the Attorney General, new or amending legislation, regulations, reciprocal and other agreements or documents, as required.

Advising on matters of general law, which may arise in connection with administration procedures.

Submitting Monthly Reports to Directors General on all legal activities.

Advise the Director General on all telecommunications and competition law issues Inter-operator dispute resolution; Consumer complaints; Support internal administrative processes and procedures; Other functions as required to achieve objectives of the Telecommunications Commission.

• • • • • • • • • • • • •

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL: • • • • • • • •

Have a degree in law and admitted or eligible for admission to the Bar in the Turks and Caicos Islands; Have at least 5 years’ experience in telecommunications and/or competition law; Be a team player; Be of a strategic/conceptual orientation; Be able to work independently and exercise discretion in relation to work matters; Have superior interpersonal as well as verbal and written communication skills, including first class legal drafting skills; Be able to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines; and Be flexible, accountable and reliable.

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

Shortlisted candidates will be required to submit a Police Certificate that is issued no longer than six months from the date of submission. Applications should be addressed to The Chairman of the Turks and Caicos Islands Telecommunications Commission at info@telecommission.tc under the subject matter Application – Legal Advisor.

Turks and Caicos Islanders need only apply, and applications without all supporting documents will not be processed.

While we thank interested persons for their application, only persons selected for an interview will be contacted.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 19th, 2019

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Autistic Jermaine Williams Jr. beats the odds, places third in GSAT mathematics

By Todeline Defralien

Ten-year-old Jermaine William Jr. certainly beat the odds and proved that nothing is impossible once you put your mind to it.

The parents of Jermaine Jr. are beaming with pride as their autistic son is breaking autistic ceilings in the Turks and Caicos Island and has scored 97.60% in mathematics placing third overall in GSAT.

In addition, Williams Jr. is also the valedictorian at Wesley Methodist School for year 2019.

In an exclusive interview with The SUN, mother Melisha Williams spoke about her sons struggles and what they as parents are so proud of his accomplishments.

According to Mr. Williams, Jermaine was first diagnosed with autism at the age of three at the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre and only starting talking at the age of five.

“After his first birthday we noticed that he wasn’t speaking or behaving the same as other children his age, so we were a bit concerned and we decided to take him to Jamaica for consultation. We meet with a specialist there and we were informed that he is too young to be tested. They usually don’t test children at that age when they see speech delays because boys usually develop later than girls and they told us that there was no need to be concerned. We also noticed other signs as well; whenever we called his name he wouldn’t respond. He would play with certain toys and he had the tendency to line them up and he constantly covered his ears whenever he heard loud sounds; I found it strange too.”

Williams said her pregnancy was difficult because doctors informed that the size of her son’s head wasn’t normal.

“At two years old, I figured that we should put him in a daycare where he would be able to interact with other children and hopefully that would help his speech and other

behavioral issues that he was having,” she added. “My husband worked at the Wesley Methodist School as a high school teacher at the time, so we were fortunate that we could place him there and my husband was able to check on him.”

Williams told The SUN she fasted for 21 days and prayed to God every day to heal her son.

“I remember writing exactly what I wanted the Lord to do on a paper and the main thing was to protect my son and help him to speak and come around. I remembered that stage in my life, because it really made a difference.

In times when others were sleeping, I was up on my knees praying morning and night.”

Williams said at home her son threw a lot of tantrums and as she observed him, she knew he was frustrated and wanted to speak and they weren’t able to understand him.

In addition, Williams believes that going to church prepared her for this challenging experience, adding that she sees other mothers with special needs children and she understands their frustration because she lived it.

The mother of two said Jermaine began to speak and interact with people at age five, with the great help of his sister who always played with him.

She gave a great testimony, stating that at a very young age her son was able to say well over 14 time tables, which she describes as incredible.

“This particular afternoon at just five years old we were practicing for his math test the following day and I started to say 2x1 is 2 and he continued and when he finished his two time tables he went on to the three tables and then the four and the five and by the time he reached twelve he was saying 12, 24, 36 and I just stood there and the hair in the back of my neck literally stood up. I remember this moment and I was afraid because he didn’t stop at 12, he went on to 13, 14 and he kept going and I had to tell him to stop,” she added.

Furthermore, brilliant Jermaine also has a photographic memory and can remember the license plates of family members, teachers and his parents, which most adults cannot remember.

Williams said she believe that it was through God’s grace, her fasting and prayers and through early intervention, that her son is where he is at this point in his life.

“At the end of the day he is my child and I am responsible for him and one of the greatest fears that I believe mothers with special needs children have, is if I were to die today, what would happen to my child and who will take care of my child. I am fighting daily for him to be at a point so that if I leave him he can take care of himself.

This is something that I cannot do alone and God has put an institution in my life who has built a structure, a foundation that constantly supports him,” she continued.

William stated that Jermaine Jr. was in a normal classroom and he is able to function in a normal classroom and for him to be able to do so is a major accomplishment.

“It is not going to stop here and I don’t want it to stop here. Sometimes we see special needs children and we put limits on them. You cannot limit them. God does not limit anyone and he is able to do the impossible. You don’t have to be rich and you don’t have to be well known, but God has done something great in my life for my child and I believe that others need to know that God is able,” she explained.

Williams stated that she felt very emotional when her son sat the GSAT exams but his overall accomplishments are to be celebrated.

“He may not be where he is supposed to be, but he has come a mighty long way and I am thankful for that. My son is a testimony that you shouldn’t watch the label; God is able. When you ask him what he wants to be he tells you he wants to be a transportation civil engineer and I

Jermaine Williams Jr. pictured with Minister of Education Karen Malcolm at GSAT prize giving ceremony on Monday July 1st, 2019 believe that is exactly what he is going to do.”

Williams said she tried to receive assistance from the government but none was provided and as a parent, she and her husband took on the task and became Jermaine’s behavioral therapist.

“I reached out to government for assistance because he needs to see a behaviour therapist and it is going to be costly and I was wondering if they could pay half of his school fee or pay his school fee so that I could take the money and get the extra help to help ease the burden. I applied three times and never heard from them. The government should do more and more should be put in place,” she added.

The Williams family is so proud of Jermaine Jr. and encourages other families with autistic children to pray and God will help them.

Williams thanked Mrs. Yolande Robinson of Learn & Lead, the teachers, Bethany Baptist Church members, family members, the Wesley Methodist teachers and the Hope Foundation who all have been very supportive.

Hon. Goldray Ewing attends annual Caribbean Postal Union Conference in Havana, Cuba

Honourable Goldray Ewing, Minister for Home Affairs, Public Utilities and Transportation attended the Annual Caribbean Postal Union Conference and the Council of Ministers of Postal Affairs in Havana, Cuba from 25th – 28th June 2019 under the theme “Our Way Forward – Building on the Pillars of the Regional Postal-Sector Strategy”.

Other members of the delegation included Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Clara Gardiner, Postmaster General, Mrs. Elizabeth Garland-James and Head of Secretariat, Ms. Cynara John.

The Caribbean Postal Union (CPU) is a governing body that aims to have a Caribbean that has a sustainable Post Network that provides a wide range of demands, communication and logistic services, at a reasonable cost.

At this year’s conference, countries were able to hold discussions on identifying ways to strengthentheir operating capacity, opportunities to contribute to economic growth and the promotion of effective trade through the use of technology, financial inclusion and connectivity.

It was through those discussions that countries were able to explore avenues to improve competitiveness and their continued viability in a very challenging and operating environment.

Some of the common challenges being faced by the Post in several countries are: Manual processing with costly ineffective software or no access to technology Urgent need to generate revenue to sustain their operations; inadequate customer focus; inability to digitize bill payments and other agency services; difficulty in monitoring and control.

Postmaster General, Mrs. Elizabeth Garland-James had the opportunity to take part in panel discussions under the topic Produce for New Business, Products and Services.

Mrs. James shared that the recently opened George Brown Post Office in Providenciales is very timely as it affords the Post the space to handle the opportunities that online shopping and overseas shipment brings, not only for overseas vendors but for local entrepreneurs likewise. She also shared that the use of technology is central to improving customer service and that

the process of implementing parcel tracking software has already begun.

Commenting on his first conference overseas since assuming his new portfolio, Honourable Goldray Ewing, Minister with responsibility for Postal Services said: “Attendance at this Caribbean Postal Union Conference and the Council of Ministers for Postal Affairs was very worthwhile. In addition to deliberating on, and learning firsthand about policies decisions that have the potential to affect the Turks and Caicos Islands before the end of this

year, it provided tremendous insights as to how we can revolutionize postal services in our own country. A major takeaway from the conference for me is the potential to offer a wide range of services that can be meaningful to a larger percentage of our population and by extension increase Government revenue. It also provided a forum to meet Ministerial colleagues, who no doubt, will be a meaningful resource in my efforts to elevate postal services in the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

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CIBC FirstCaribbean donates to TCI’s National Museum Following the successful launch of their fundraising campaign with the TCNational Museum Gala last month, the Turks & Caicos Islands National Museum Foundation (TCNMF) continues its fundraising efforts for the construction of a new national museum in Providenciales.

Recently, regional bank CIBC FirstCaribbean contributed to these efforts by purchasing two large customized 12’ by 12’ bricks.

CIBC FirstCaribbean Country Manager, Larry Lawrence, met with the museum’s director, Michael Pateman, to present a cheque that will pay for the purchase and customization of the bricks.

Mr. Pateman explained, “The bricks are one of the

fundraising tools that the Turks better opportunity to serve the & Caicos National Museum is local population. Finally, it will using towards the new museum give the visitors to the islands facility. The engraved bricks a different opportunity to see will be used on the walkway and experience TCI’s cultural leading to the museum and heritage,” he added.

Mr. Lawrence said, in the paths of the heritage gardens. By purchasing bricks, “CIBC FirstCaribbean prides companies and individuals itself in being a communityhave the opportunity to leave a minded business, and we lasting tribute and legacy at the believe the preservation of our history and culture is of the new museum.

“The museum and utmost value and importance to all of the Turks and Caicos the Turks & Caicos community, national collections are because it represents who we located at the Guinep house are as a people and as a country. and science building on Front Therefore, we see this donation Street, Grand Turk, a few feet to the TC National Museum’s from the ocean.

This new fundraising efforts as a vital facility will provide a safer contribution on our part, and location to host the national we commend the TCNMF for collections. Additionally, the their work in preserving and majority of people in the Turks sharing the culture of the Turks & Caicos live on Providenciales & Caicos Islands.”

Mr. Pateman said, “I and this will give the museum a

CIBC FirstCaribbean Country Manager (TCI) Larry Lawrence (left) presents TC National Museum Director Michael Pateman (right) with a cheque towards the purchase and customization of two “CIBC FirstCaribbean”-etched bricks to help with the fundraising efforts for the construction of a national museum in Providenciales. would like to thank CIBC FirstCaribbean for their donation and their continued support of the museum through their purchase. As a non-profit organization it is donations like these from our corporate partners that help the museum expand our programming in the islands.”

The TC National

Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history and culture of the Turks & Caicos Islands. The TCNMF held its inaugural gala at the Shore Club last month to kickstart their fundraising efforts, raising $200,000 towards the construction of the new museum.

Sailrock first culinary workshop with Marjorie Basden students

On July 27, Sailrock hosted its Inaugural Culinary Workshop with students from Marjorie Basden High School. This initiative offered Home Economics students exposure to a 5-star kitchen, and hands on training and coaching from Sailrock’s Executive Chef, Carvison Pratt.

Eleven students participated in the Workshop and Chef Pratt spent time speaking with them about choosing a career in the

culinary field, basic kitchen etiquette, avoiding common issues such as cross contamination, healthy eating, and food cost and menu planning.

After learning from Chef Pratt, the students were able to participate tangibly, by breaking into groups to prepare an appetizer, entrée, and dessert to showcase to School Administration, and other local leaders.

This opportunity was very helpful in letting students see first-hand

WORK PERMIT ADVERTISEMENT REQUIREMENT The Ministry of Border Control and Employment is reminding employers, as well as the general public, that the Immigration Ordinance 2015 which was brought into force on April 1, 2016 established new conditions for advertising jobs which must be met when recruiting new staff or seeking a work permit renewal.

For clarity, Section 28 (2) of the Immigration Ordinance states the following.

The advertisement condition is satisfied if the employer has advertised the position in at least two consecutive issues of a newspaper published in and sold or distributed on the Islands and the advertisement— (a) describes the nature of the position available in sufficient detail to enable persons reading the advertisement to have a reasonable indication of the nature of the work and conditions of employment;

what it is like to be in a professional kitchen and to get a taste of what a career in culinary arts could look like.

Sailrock would like to thank Stacey Ann Wharton Albert as well as MBHS Principal Mr. Cox for putting together the initiative and championing these future chefs! We are excited to be a part of training and mentoring students with an interest in Hospitality careers and we appreciate our growing partnership with MBHS.

HS LTD. LS Limitedis seeking suitableapplicantsfor the following position:

CLEANERS The applicants will be responsible for the daily cleaning and upkeep of theexterior of a commercial plaza. Duties will include sweeping, mopping, cleaning of windows and doors, removal of trash and cleaning of restrooms.

Undertake any other duties as required as it relates to the general cleaning of the plaza.

Requirements: The applicants must be able to work with little to no supervision, must have knowledge of proper cleaning techniques,must be able to speak, read and write in English and understand verbal and written instructions, should be physically fit, hardworking and reliable.

Starting wages: $6.50 per hour Please submit applications to: Veronica Rigby, HS Ltd, P.O. Box 124, Regent House, The Regent Village, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tel: (649) 946-5126; Fax (649) 946-5191; Email: ronnie@habgroup.com Interested Belongers must also submit copies of their application to the Commissioner of Labour& Work Permit Board Zone 2. Position currently held by a work permit holder. Closing date for application is 22ndJuly 2019.

Bohio Dive Resort Location: Grand Turk

(b) contains the name of the employer and details of the whereabouts of the office or other place to which the application is to be submitted together with contact details, including telephone and fax numbers and an email address; (c) sets out clearly the salary package relating to the position; (d) invites prospective applicants who are Islanders to send copies of their applications to the Board; and (e ) state whether the position is currently held by a work permit holder.

For further information or questions, please refer to the following Website: http://www.gov.tc/work-permits infobordercontrol@gov.tc

or

email

address:

SEEKS AN ACCOUNTS SUPERVISOR All applicants should possess the following: REQUIREMENTS *Bachelor of Commerce *accounting certificate or degree *minimum 5 years experience in account process JOB DESCRIPTION * bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, accounts payable and accounts receivable, wage control * must understand inventory control * proficient in Sage 50 accounting and Microsoft Office * English both written and oral - French and Spanish an asset * ability to keep all information confidential * must be able to work long hours, nights, weekends and holidays * responsible for weekly payroll, general entries, monthly reconciliation * assist in budget preparation * cost reporting for all departments * oversea purchases & documentation control Salary: $400.00 per week This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Interested candidates should apply in writing with a cover letter and resume and references to info@bohioresort.com.

Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit copies of their applications to Labour Board

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Beer Fest in Grand Turk attracts hundreds

overnor’s Beach in the country’s capital Grand Turk, saw hundreds gathered in support of the Rasco Sounds, five-star music festival, Beer Fest 2019.

Organizers created a stellar ambiance and line-up of local and international artistes with the exquisite Turks and Caicos turquoise waters as the backdrop for what could potentially be the #1 community music festival in the

TCI.

The one-day event, mainly sponsored by telecoms giant Flow, along with Caicos Express, interCaribbean, and many others, hosted a wide display of local food and talent in grand style from vendors such as Friskey’s, Da Conch Man, Ariza Connect, Fisherman’s Paradise, The Spot and the musical talents of Elroy, Keno and Kaz, Nishie and the Boys, Hypa

Sounds, Dutty Dex, Prime DJs and others.

“We were happy to show our support to the community of Grand Turk, offering valuable prizes and giveaways to our customers, keeping them connected on the #1 LTE network in the TCI. Kudos to the organizers for a great event and for their vision and creativity”, said Flow’s acting Country Manager, Audley Gibbs.

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“A Chance for Change’ launched in TCI C

hance for Change, a programme which will give law offenders the much-needed opportunity to successfully re-enter society, officially launched in Turks and Caicos Islands, on Wednesday July 10th, 2019.

This new initiative was launched under the leadership of Minister of Education, Youth, Culture, Social and Library Services, Hon. Karen Malcolm and the Social Services

Department.

Among those who attended the event were: Deputy Governor, Her Excellency Anya Williams; Premier, Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson; Chief Magistrate Hon. Mrs. Tanya Lobban-Jackson; Minister of Education, Hon. Karen Malcolm; Hon. Goldray Ewing, Minister for Home Affairs; Hon. Vaden Delroy Williams-Minister of Immigration; PDM chairman,

Douglas Parnell; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Wesley Clerveaux, representatives from the Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, Tourist Board and public and private sectors.

Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Stephen Dean was the featured speaker at the launch.

Remarks were brought by Mr.

Clyde Green, Asst. Superintendent of Her Majesty’s Prison, Grand Turk and Hon. Karen Malcolm, Minister of Education. A special poem was ready by Rachel Harvey.

In addition, ex-offenders Audley Williams and Emanjoe F‑orbes both gave testimonials about their lives after prison.

Photo Credit: Todeline Defralien.

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Measles

By Dr. Marsha Barnett

In the world of global travel, a measles outbreak in any part of the Europe or the United States could have serious implications for all countries and people. With measles intermittently domineering the headlines, it is best to understand the condition to help prevent contracting it and its complications.

How will it present?

Most persons think of the generalized red rash when thinking of measles. However, the rash usually appears 3 to 5 days after the initial symptoms start! The first symptoms of the infection are usually a cough, runny nose and fever. You can also develop red eyes and red spots to the mouth called Koplik’s spots.

How contagious is it?

A person who has measles is contagious and can spread the disease from 4 days before the rash appears! In fact, they are most contagious while they have a fever, runny nose, and cough and would appear to have a common cough and cold. Measles is highly contagious — 90% of people who haven’t been vaccinated for measles will get it if they come in contact with an infected person. Measles spreads via respiratory droplets, which means that when people breathe in or have direct contact with virus-infected fluid, such as the droplets sprayed into the air

when someone with measles sneezes or coughs, they are at risk of becoming ill. A person who is exposed to the virus might not show symptoms until 8-10 days later.

Why the recent outbreaks?

Before measles vaccination became available in the 1960s, there were millions of cases worldwide. More than 500,000 cases were reported every year in the United States, and about 500 of them died.

Due to widespread immunizations, the number of measles cases declined steadily to very low numbers.

But in recent years there has been an anti-vaccination movement especially against the Measles, Mumps and Rubella, MMR, vaccine. This was because persons were touting possible side effects of vaccinations, questioning the need for them and also linking them to the development of developmental issues in children, in particular Autism.

Consequently, due to an increase in the number of unvaccinated children, the illness has risen in prevalence, spreading quickly in areas where too few people have received the vaccine. In fact, about 85% of people infected with measles were not immunized or their immunization status was unknown, although they were eligible to receive the vaccine!

The people at highest risk of getting measles during these outbreaks are infants who aren’t old enough to get the vaccine, pregnant women,

and persons with weakened immune systems.

The vaccine

The most important thing you can do to protect your children from measles is to have them vaccinated.

For most, measles protection is part of the Measles- Mumps-Rubella vaccine (MMR) given when they’re 12 to 15 months old and again when they’re 4 to 6 years old.

Infants are generally protected from measles for 6 months after birth due to immunity passed on by their mothers. Measles vaccine usually is not Dr. Marsha Barnett given to infants younger than 12 months old. But if there’s a measles outbreak, Treatment the vaccine may be given when a child is 6-11 months old, followed by the There is no specific medical usual MMR immunization at 12-15 treatment for measles. To help manage months and 4-6 years of age. symptoms, which usually last for about

Like all other vaccines, the 2 weeks, have plenty of fluids and most common side effect is fever. In rest. You can give a non-aspirin fever about 5% of kids, a measles-like rash, medicine, such as acetaminophen or which isn’t contagious and fades on its paracetamol. own may appear.

Children with measles should

Many adults are uncertain of have their condition closely monitored their immunization status or may be by a doctor as they can develop concerned about their susceptibility to complications, such as ear infections the virus. Speak to our doctor to decide which would require antibiotics. if an adult vaccination series or booster Pneumonia and encephalitis which would be advisable for you. is an inflammation in the brain can

Because certain people cannot also result from measles and requires receive the measles vaccine for health hospitalization. reasons, such as being pregnant or In the case of measles, like immunocompromised, it’s all the most illnesses- Prevention is the way to more important to make sure that go. children who can get the vaccine get it on schedule. This is because of a *Dr. Marsha Barnett is a general phenomenon called herd immunity practitioner who also specialises where having a high percentage of in dermatology. For questions or people immunized against a disease comments, please contact her at prevents the disease from spreading in a drmarshabarnett@gmail.com, or population and helps prevent outbreaks. at Associated Medical Practices 946-4242.

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Invest more in sports. It is an investment in the future of our youths

By Drexwell Seymour

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of having Mr. Jarred Forbes (Director of Sports) as my guest on Financially Speaking weekly show.

During the show, he revealed how his department was able to invite coaches to the Turks and Caicos Islands and a result Bryana Brown secured a 60% scholarship from Tennessee Tech.

Well done.

I also want to thank the Government for the initiative that was implemented recently by offering scholarships specifically for athletes.

Finally, I want to thank all of the 15 established sporting federations that are making a difference in the lives of our young people.

This article is for us to seriously review the funding for sports in the TCI. It is struggle for these organizations getting funding from the private sector, so this is one area that our government can assist by increasing the budget for the sports department.

Current sports budget

The current budget allocated to the Sports Department is $987,076 which represents .004 of the overall total expenditure budget for TCIG.

Of this amount, $503,926 is allocated to payroll. The remaining $483,150 is for the operations covering transport, electricity, maintenance, rental, grants and contribution, inter school sports and water. The two largest components are maintenance and contributions with $80,000 each, followed by electricity of $70,992.

Recommended sports budget

At minimum, the sports recurrent expenditure budget should be tripled resulting in about $3M. One international game alone can cost $40,000, depending on the number of players. A local basketball tournament can cost around $30k and we will need at least four of these for the year. A track and field tournament can cost as much as $60k.

Some countries are members of International Olympics and as a result, benefit significantly from contributions.

Because TCI is not a member, it is incumbent upon us to invest more. We will need to recruit more coaches and additional staff.

Apparently, there are a lot of volunteers, but the commitment to sports may improve if there is compensation to individuals. The thing is, a lot of people are already full-time

employees elsewhere and some have businesses and don’t have the time to commit as they would like, so we will have to pay individuals for assistance.

Why invest more in sports?

Mr. Forbes believes that persons that are involve in sports will be excellent employees, as they will be team-players, hard workers, resilient workers and great leadership skills

I believe there is too much idle time among our young people and as a result, they are finding others things to get involved in. If we have consistent sports programs, this can keep our young people occupied and hopefully take them off the streets, thus reducing crimes among them.

Sports unite people no matter who you are. If there is one thing we need in our society right now, it is for us to unite.

Sports can result in healthier lives. It enhances and promotes patrotism Conclusion

I know the budget process is a rigorous one and if we certainly increase the sports budget, we may have to reduce something else. However, if we

focus on increasing our revenue items, we can have flexibility in increasing other expenditure items such as sports.

As Mr. Forbes stated, we must have consistent and regular events, but these events require money. Of course, the money must be managed properly, with good controls in place, and our programs should be structured and organized well.

We talk a lot about helping our youths, uniting people and trying to alleviate crime. Here is one way to do so; invest more in sports.

Limpid English Learning

By Dian Kennedy One of the most often ignored concepts in the English language is that of gender. In languages like Spanish, it is extremely important to note the difference in gender as the gender determines the verb form or even how the spelling and flow is affected.

In grammar, the gender of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word’s gender can affect its form and behavior. In English, only personal pronouns such as ‘she’, reflexive pronouns such as ‘itself’, and possessive determiners such as ‘his’ have gender.

Gender is not only used in relation to the above, but also as it relates to how we refer to animals.

I would like to use this week to examine those words as we improve our basic knowledge of words and how they are used in the English language.

MASCULINE

FEMININE

BACHELOR SPINSTER/MAID BUCK DOE BULL COW COLT FILLY COUNT COUNTESS DUKE DUCHESS EMPEROR EMPRESS FOX VIXEN FRIAR NUN GANDER GOOSE STALLION MARE LAD LASS WIZARD WITCH RAM EWE HORSE MARE STEER HEIFER MASSEUR MASSEUSE Along with our table above that examines gender we will also examine the names we call the young of our animals.

ADULT

YOUNG

SALMON SHEEP LION SWAN TROUT DEER TOAD GOAT MARE

Also this week, let us look at the correct names in English for the sounds that our animals make.

ANIMAL

CALF FOAL EAGLET GOSLING

SOUNDS

BEARS GROWL CATS PURR BULLS BELLOW CALVES BLEAT DONKEYS BRAY CRICKETS CHIRP DUCKS QUACK ELEPHANTS TRUMPET HYENAS LAUGH/ SCREAM MICE SQUEAK WOLVES HOWL TURKEYS GOBBLE SNAKES HISS OWLS HOOT MONKEYS CHATTER

MONASTERY MARQUEE MOSQUE QUAY RESERVOIR STY

KEPT A PLACE FOR PRIESTS OR MONKS A LARGE TENT USED FOR OUTDOOR FUNCTIONS A MUSLIM PLACE OF WORSHIP A PLACE WHERE SHIPS ARE LOADED AND UNLOADED A PLACE WHERE WATER IS STORED FOR TREATMENT A PLACE WHERE PIGS ARE KEPT

Our final lesson for this week will be spent looking at words that denote places APIARY AVIARY BREWERY BARRACKS CACHE DISTILLERY

COW DONKEY EEL GOOSE

PARR LAMB CUB CYGNET FRY FAWN TADPOLE KID FILLY

HANGAR HUTCH

A PLACE WHERE BEES ARE KEPT A PLACE WHERE BIRDS ARE KEPT A FACTORY MANUFACTURING BEERS BUILDINGS WHERE MILLITARY PERSONAL ARE HOUSED A PLACE WHERE TREASURES OR AMMUNITION IS STORED A PLACE WHERE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE PRODUCED A PLACE FOR HOUSING AEROPLANES A PLACE WHERE RABBITS ARE

Word of the week Denote (Verb) To be a sign, symbol or symptom of; indicate or designate Example: A flashing yellow light denotes caution. * Dian Kennedy holds a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialisation in teaching English as second language. For feedback or queries she can be contacted at diankennedy31@gmail.com.

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Premier Robinson participates in Health in All Policies Workshop

The Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, Government Ministers and members of Parliament were in attendance at the first of a series workshops as part of a Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Sport and Human Services and Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) joint initiative geared toward Health in all Policies. Minister for Health, Hon. Edwin Astwood brought remarks for the opening of the event at the Shore Club on Monday, 8 July 2019.

The main objectives for the training exercise was to: • Obtain commitment to consider health outcomes during policy making across all sectors of government • Identify roles of health and nonhealth sectors in a Health in All

Policies (HiAP) approach using the examples of Non-Communicable Diseases and Climate Change • Identify opportunities for a HiAP approach in Turks and Caicos Islands • Build capacity to promote, implement and evaluate HiAP • Facilitate exchange of experiences and lessons learned, and encourage multi-sectoral collaboration Throughout the day, there were presentations on the Introduction and the Determinants of Health; Sustainable Development Goals; 21st- Century Health Dynamic and Inequality; Health in All Policies; The Role of Government and NonGovernmental Stakeholders in HiAP and the Whole of Government Approaches to HiAP.

The Premier participated in a full day of training and group sessions, facilitated by PAHO officials including: PAHO/World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative, Dr Esther de Gourville; and National PAHO Consultants: Dr Keva Thompson and Brittany Jones.

Commenting on the training exercise, Premier Robinson stated: “As the Minister of Finance, I can say that it is very important to ensure that good health practices are threaded throughout all policies because the largest chunk of TCI’s budget is going to health. We are spending a considerable amount on illnesses; so not only is this training very timely, but it is crucial to decision making going forward.

This information will help us as policy makers to ensure that

healthcare takes priority and is included in the process of policy development to shift our practices and habits and also redirect funding to go toward prevention initiatives rather than response.

So this exercise will do wonders for Turks and Caicos; it will do wonders for the Ministry of Finance but it will also help to form a population that is more productive, that is healthier and that hopefully will live longer.

I applaud the Ministry of Health for this wonderful initiative and look forward to a more health conscious approach to policy making across Government.”

Workshops continue until Wednesday, 10 July 2019 to include senior officials in Government and other relevant stakeholders.

Prada Lounge Bar & Grill

Prada Lounge Bar & Grill

Location: 8B Ball Park Lane, Downtown (Kew Town), Providenciales Is seeking one (1) Labourer Duties Include: Site maintenance and cleaning Salary is $6. 50 per hour Please Contact: 331-8705 This position is new Interested Belongers must submit their application to the Labour Board

Location: 8B Ball Park Lane, Downtown (Kew Town), Providenciales Is seeking Two (2) Barmaids Duties include preparing alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages for bar and patrons. Interacting with customers, taking orders and serving snacks and drinks Salary is $6. 50 per hour Please Contact: 331-8705 These positions are new Interested Belongers must submit their application to the Labour Board

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The Financial Intelligence Agency of the Turks and Caicos Islands is inviting applications for the following vacancies: APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16th August 2019 Please Note: Applications that are not accompanied by all required supporting documents will not be processed.

All positions advertised are contract positions.

POSITION: LOCATION: SALARY:

DIRECTOR PROVIDENCIALES USD74-84,000 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder will be responsible for the daily management of the FIA’s operations and its staff ensuring that optimal use of human and other resources is applied towards meeting the Agency’s legislative mandate, operational and financial targets. With an emphasis on high professional standards, integrity, confidentiality and general conduct work with stakeholders to fulfil the Turks and Caicos Islands AML/CFT mandate. The post holder may be required to carry out other duties as may be required by the Board.

Requirements and Qualifications: ▪ Undergraduate degree in Management, Finance, Law, Law Enforcement or related field with at least 5 years as a senior manager in an AML/CFT capacity; OR 10 years executive management in a legal, law enforcement, financial or intelligence capacity with an AML/CFT background.

▪ Proficiency in the preparation, recording, presentation and explanation of high-level reports to a Board of Directors or senior level administrators.

▪ Experience in an investigative/ intelligence role or similar.

▪ Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Power Point and Access.

POSITION: LOCATION: SALARY:

DEPUTY DIRECTOR PROVIDENCIALES USD60-70,000 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder will be required to manage the process of receipt, analysis and dissemination of confidential information received through disclosures of financial information reported via Suspicious Activity/ Transaction Reports (SARs/STRs) related to Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and connected crimes. The Deputy Director will ensure the accuracy and validity of the information as well as create new and develop existing case files, maintain and update information and cases on the computer database and other FIA databases and will create reports for review by the Director. The post holder will be required to perform the duties of the Director in his or her absence. With an emphasis on high professional standards, integrity, confidentiality and general conduct, carry out the functions of the Agency. The post holder may be required to carry out other duties as may be required.

Requirements and Qualifications: ▪ Undergraduate degree in Management, Finance, Law, Law enforcement or related field with 5 years management experience; OR 10 years management experience in law enforcement with a focus on AML/CFT. ▪ Experience as a financial intelligence analyst with an AML/CFT focus.

▪ Proficient in an investigative/ intelligence role or similar environment.

▪ Experience in the preparation, recording, presentation and explanation of high-level reports to senior management or senior level administrators.

▪ Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Power Point and Access ▪ Must be able to maintain a professional approach within a high-pressure working environment that may present fluctuating work demands and very tight deadlines.

POSITION: LOCATION: SALARY:

FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYST PROVIDENCIALES USD50-58,000 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder will be responsible for receipt, analysis and dissemination of confidential information received through disclosures of financial information reported via Suspicious Activity/ Transaction Reports (SARs/STRs) related to Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and connected crimes. The Intelligence Analyst will ensure the accuracy and validity of the information as well as maintain records and cases and update the computer database and other FIA databases and will create intelligence, analysis and other reports for the Director; With the emphasis on high professional standards, integrity, confidentiality, professionalism and general deportment, conduct analysis into the financial circumstances of those involved in criminal or suspected criminal activity. The post holder may be required to carry out other duties as may be required by the Director from time to time.

Requirements and Qualifications: ▪ Qualified as or trained as a Tactical and Strategic Analyst. – Undergraduate degree in Management Studies, Finance, Economics or Social Science discipline or a related field or at least 4 years’ experience working as an analyst in an analytical, research or investigative environment.

▪ Experience in an intelligence/ analyst role or similar environment ▪ Experience in the preparation, recording, presentation and explanation of quality reports for managers.

▪ Experience in analysing complex financial transactions with a level of appreciation of various financial and non-financial services and products, their legal structures and potential connections with money laundering and terrorist financing schemes.

▪ Advanced proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Power Point and Access.

▪ Must be able to maintain a professional approach within a high-pressure working environment that may present fluctuating work demands and very tight deadlines.

POSITION: LOCATION: SALARY:

FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE / IT SUPPORT OFFICER PROVIDENCIALES USD50-58,000 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder will be responsible for receipt, analysis and dissemination of confidential information received through disclosures of financial information reported via Suspicious Activity/ Transaction Reports (SARs/STRs) related to Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and connected crimes. The Intelligence Officer will ensure the accuracy and validity of the information as well as create new and develop existing case files, maintain and update information and cases on the computer database and other FIA databases and will create reports for review by supervisors. Additionally, he/she will provide Information Technology and Network System Support; with the emphasis on high professional standards, integrity, confidentiality and general conduct, conduct analysis into the financial circumstances of those involved in criminal activity.

The post holder may be required to carry out other duties as may be required within the scope of the administrative functions of the FIA. Requirements and Qualifications: ▪ Qualified or trained as an Intelligence Officer (IO). – Undergraduate degree in a law enforcement or related field and IT; OR Certification as an IO with at least 4 years’ experience as an IO and certification as a computer/ systems administrator.

▪ Experience in an investigative/ intelligence role or similar environment and provision of IT

▪ ▪

▪

▪

network and systems support to private or public sector agencies.

Experience in the preparation, recording, presentation and explanation of information.

Demonstrate experience in dealing and liaising with public, external agencies and internal colleagues, particularly by telephone and email.

Proficiency in the use and administration of Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Power Point and Access.

Must be able to maintain a professional approach within a high-pressure working environment that may present fluctuating work demands and very tight deadlines.

POSITION: LOCATION: SALARY:

BUSINESS OPERATIONS OFFICER PROVIDENCIALES USD40-45,000 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY: The post holder will be responsible for effective and efficient office operations of the FIA and the Board and maintenance of the Agency’s finances, with the emphasis on high professional standards, integrity, confidentiality and general conduct carry out his/her functions in accordance with TCI laws and Agency guidelines.

The post holder may be required to carry out other duties as may be required within the scope of the administrative functions of the FIA. Requirements and Qualifications: ▪ Undergraduate degree in accounting or finance OR an Associate degree in accounting or finance with at least 4 years experience in office administration or as a Senior Administrative officer.

▪ Experience in an administrative or business operations officer.

▪ Experience in the preparation, recording, presentation and explanation of budget, expense and accounting reports.

▪ Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access.

▪ Knowledge of the use of accounting software and applications such as QuickBooks.

Terms and benefits (All) An initial contract of up to 3 years with the option to renew dependent upon performance and Agency requirements. The successful candidate will adhere to the FIA Security and Staff Policies and be required to sign a confidentiality agreement TO APPLY PLEASE SUBMIT: 1. Application cover letter indicating position applied for.

2. Copy of updated Curriculum Vitae including your contact details.

3. Two reference letters; one of which must be from a person who can speak to your professional capacity for the job.

4. Copies of relevant qualifications.

5. Copy of passport Bio page.

6.

A Police certificate of character no older than 6 months.

Applications along with your CV are to be submitted to hr@fia.tc Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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We hire smiles!!!

Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort Villages and Spa, the only 6 Diamond All-inclusive property in the Caribbean is inviting applications from Turks and Caicos Islanders for the following vacant positions. We hire the personality and train the individual.

Applicants must have a clean police record and a good command of the English language both written and spoken. In addition candidates must be able to work nights, public holidays and week-ends. The Resort thanks everyone for their interest in advance and advises that applicants will be contacted for an interview via Text Message.

The Information Technology Department requires: 

Information Technology Manager

Reports to:

Senior IT Manager and Director of Information Technology

The Information Technology Manager will be responsible to promote user awareness for the safe and secure management of all equipment and applications and be responsible for all I.T.-related problems, encompassing hardware, software, telecommunications and other infrastructure as assigned by the Department.

Applicants should satisfy the following criteria:  Must demonstrate a high level of Integrity and professionalism.  Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.  Must be able to prepare monthly reports to relevant team members, (i.e. General Manager, IT Regional Manager and Group IT Director).  Must be able to troubleshoot and resolve technical IT related problems.  Must be able to monitor and support hardware maintenance by performing repairs on site or engaging authorized external technicians.  Must be able to maintain and secure timely backups of data systems, ensure backup integrity by performing timely restore testing operations.  Must be able to maintain and perform Software upgrades and testing and advise in a timely manner of their success or failure.  Provide 24 hour on call support whenever this is required by the property.  Must be able to work on shifts including nights, weekends and public holidays whenever this is required by the property.  Must be able to work extended hours on short notice during critical or emergency situations.  Must be willing to relocate, if required to do so.

Qualifications and Experience:  Undergraduate degree in an Information Technology related discipline or an Associate degree with IT certification (e.g. A+, MCSA, and MCSE).  A minimum of 2 years working in an IT business environment; would be an asset.

Knowledge and Skills: The incumbent must be proficient and knowledgeable in the following areas:  Microsoft windows configuration, installation, maintenance, and support.  Computer PC hardware, software systems and programs  PC networks, installation and administration  Troubleshooting PC Network and Network computer Hardware  Computer viruses and security  E-mail, MS Office Suite and Web based programs.

Additionally the following would be an asset in this position:  Experience with Database Administration, MS SQL 2008 and Virtual Environments.  Supporting and troubleshooting of VOIP telephony, TCP/IP and WIFI Networks There is currently an Information Technology Manager with on island status however two are required. Recruitment to fill this position is underway at this time. Should a suitable local applicant not be found a permit application will be submitted.

The salary for this position ranges between $ 28,000.00 and $40,000.00 The Administrative Department requires: 

Managing Director Requirements include but are not limited to:  Minimum 20 years previous General Manager experience  Experience with a 6 diamond hotel with excess of 700 rooms  Strong Food & Beverage, Rooms and Operational background  Administrative & Financial proficiency

Reports to: Chairman The salary for the position listed above is negotiable The Administrative Department requires: 

Director of Operations (Manager)

Reports to:

Managing Director

The Director of Operations Manager ensures the resort meets the brand’s target of customer needs, team member satisfaction and maximizes the cost effectiveness of the company. Assist with special projects and day to day operations.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Minimum Bsc. Preferably in Hospitality from a recognized institution;  Minimum eight (8) years’ work experience in the Hotel Industry;  Experience managing in a 400 room or more hotel;  Experience managing a team of minimum 1000 employees; The Assistant Director of Operations Manager position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder.

The salary for this position is dependent on experience.

Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to: mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com or placed in the secure drop box at the service gate or Fax to: 941-4870 Attn: M McClean-Vaughn The Labour Commissioner The Human Resources Labour Department Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands

and and should reach not later than July 24th 2019

Department Beaches Turks and Caicos P.O. Box 186 Lower Bight Road

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KNOW YOUR ENERGY CONSUMPTION. SAVE ON YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL.

SIGN UP FOR MY ONLINE ACCOUNT TODAY. With My Online Account, the power is in your hands.

My Online Account helps you understand how much electricity you use, how to save on your monthly bill, and manage your account, anytime, anywhere. All with the a few simple clicks.

With My Online Account, you can: • Compare your energy consumption from previous periods • View daily, weekly and monthly consumption • Set consumption limits and receive notifications once these limits are met • Use the Smart Meter tab to track events or installations that may impact your electricity consumption • View your bill • Pay your bill and receive immediate confirmation of your payment Sign up at: https://www.myftcionline.com/app/login.jsp For more information on My Online Account, contact: customerservice@fortistci.com; call us on 649-946-4313 or stop by any of our customer service centers.

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Anika Talbot’s Commerce Cocktails & Conversations 2019 a hit!

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t was a very successful and enjoyable night at the second annual Commerce, Cocktails and Conversations which was held at Margaritaville, Grand Turk, on June 28th, 2019 and highlighted local businesses.

There were 26 vendors in attendance, offering a diverse array of products and services. Among them were the Turks & Caicos Government’s Business License Unit and Invest TCI’s MSME unit providing valuable information to persons in regard to

accessing support and capital on new business ventures, as well as being compliant with laws on launching new businesses.

It was indeed a vibrant, organized and well-attended event.

The crowd was engaged by Super P “The Entertainer” and Co-host Keisha Taylor. While shopping and socializing they were entertained by V6 Band, Prime DJS and also got to experience the debut of local Artist PopMillz’ new single, Conch & Lobster, Sweet Fish Shrimp

Pasta.

CEO of A&H Beauty Supply and event Organizer, Anika Talbot told The SUN, “On behalf of A&H Beauty Supply, I want to extend a heart-felt thank you to all the stakeholders for their contributions toward making CCC 2019 a success and I look forward to your continued support and partnerships as we continue to grow and promote local businesses in the Turks & Caicos Islands.

You all are truly appreciated.”

CCC2019 Sponsors were: The

Premier’s Office, Tourist Board, CORE, FLOW, Olympic Construction, The Wine Cellar, Grand Turk Cruise Center, Caicos Express, Turks Wear, Yummies tasty Treats, The Palms, Osprey Beach Hotel, Radio Turks & Caicos, Margaritaville Grand Turk, O – Corporate, A&H Beauty Supply, Arie’s Glitter Glam, The SUN newspaper, Long Bay Express, Kakia’s Makeup, Dove’s Security, Shikey’s, Liv’s Kitchen, Anna’s Fashion Boutique and Cashwiz.

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CELEBRATING OUR WINNERS: SUPPORTING YOUTH SPORTS FortisTCI proudly celebrates another successful season of the FortisTCI Youth Football League and our ongoing partnership with the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA).

Since its launch in Providenciales in 2017 as the TCIFA’s first competitive youth football league for players aged nine to 13 years, the FortisTCI Youth Football league has grown significantly.

This is reflected in the expansion of the youth leagues to Grand Turk, North Caicos and South Caicos in 2018. Today, the number of players has almost doubled from where it begin 2017 and improvement in players skills’ levels, teamwork, discipline and social development are evident across all age groups.

As a committed partner in youth education and sports, FortisTCI congratulates all the winning teams and top individual performers on a remarkable season and extends appreciation to all the players, coaching staff, parents, and our very own staff volunteers who support the leagues week after week.

Providenciales Winners: Right and Below U9: 1st - Transformer Hotspurs 2nd - Power Munich 3rd - Lightning City

U11: 1st - Transformer Hotspurs 2nd - Lightning City 3rd - Power Munich

U13: 1st - Electric Blazer 2nd - Lightning City 3rd - Transformer Hotspurs

MVP Girl - Patrice Saintleus MVP Boy - Rodniqua Johnson Golden Boot - Altheo Roullet Golden Glove - Alex Garland

MVP Girl - Innocent Jean MVP Boy - Arianne Hosein Golden Boot - Maddox Zaiden Golden Glove - Jordan Louis

MVP Girl - Emmanuel Martin MVP Boy - Anika Harry Golden Boot - Kaiden Bobb & Emmanuel Martin Golden Glove - David Vilus

South Caicos Winners: Left and Right U11: 1st - Transformer Hotspurs 2nd - Electric Blazers 3rd - Power Munich

U13: 1st - Transformer Hotspurs 2nd - Lightning City 3rd - Power Munich

MVP Girl - Callie Hall MVP Boy - Niamiah Ewing Golden Boot - Van Valamour Golden Glove - Emmanuel Ewing

MVP Girl - Crystal Baptiste MVP Boy - Marko Williams Golden Boot - Judelin Valamour, Callie Hall, Kaylie Hall Golden Glove - Crystal Baptiste

“As sponsor of the youth football leagues across the Turks and Caicos Islands, FortisTCI has been pleased to support the TCIFA again this year to fulfill its commitment to youth football development in our country.

Grand Turk Winners: Left and Below

U13: 1st - Lightning City 2nd - Transformer Hotspurs 3rd - Power Munich MVP Girl - Kimori Simmons MVP Boy - Rogal Aniston Golden Boot - Cherrybelle Saunders Golden Glove - Fransley Aniston

“Across the Sister Islands and in Providenciales, the leagues have been fostering player growth, teamwork and enthusiasm, and we are confident that they will continue to grow from strength to strength.”

North Caicos Winners: Above and Below

U13 1st - Lightning City 2nd - Transformer Hotspurs 3rd - Electric Blazer MVP Girl - Malaska Maxis MVP Boy - Didhlien Cherenfant Golden Boot - Didley Cherenfant

Ruth Forbes FortisTCI Senior Vice President of Corporate Services & CFO

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Highlights from Health in All Policies Workshop cocktail reception

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he Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Sport and Human Services in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) recently hosted a joint initiative geared toward health in all policies.

The three-day workshop took place from Monday July 8th to Wednesday July 10th, 2019, at the Shore Club.

Deputy Governor Her

Excellency Anya Williams, Attorney General (AG) Hon. Rhondalee Braithwaite Knowles, Premier Hon. Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, Minister of Education- Hon. Karen Malcolm, Hon. Vaden Delroy Williams-Minister of Immigration, Hon. Ruth Blackman Elected Member for South Caicos, Hon. Goldray Ewing, Minister for Home Affairs, Speaker of the House- Hon. Dwyane Taylor, PDM chairman Douglas

Parnell, Hon. Porsha Stubbs-Smith, Elected member for Grand Turk North, Hon. George Lightbourne and members of Parliament were in attendance at the first of a series workshops.

Minister for Health, Hon. Edwin Astwood brought remarks for the opening ceremony on Monday, 8 July 2019.

In addition, all participated in a full day of training and group sessions,

facilitated by PAHO officials including: PAHO/World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative, Dr Esther de Gourville; and National PAHO Consultants: Dr Keva Thompson and Brittany Jones.

These photographs show highlights from the cocktail reception hosted on the evening of July 8th.

Photo Credit: Todeline Defralien.

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ENTERTAINMENT Jay-Z’s companies sue NYC licensing company for fraud

Jay-Z speaks onstage at the 2018 Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York

Jay-Z’s business entities sued a New York City licensing firm, claiming it cheated the companies as part of a “colossal accounting scandal.”

The lawsuit accuses Iconix Brand Group Inc. of lying about its finances when it made deals with the rapper’s Roc Nation apparel company.

There was no immediate response to a phone message Friday seeking comment from Iconix.

When Roc Nation entered into a brand partnership with Iconix in 2013, the defendant company was fabricating financial reports to falsely inflate its earnings, according to the suit filed Thursday in state court in Manhattan.

The allegations arise “out of a massive years-long fraud perpetrated by Iconix and its affiliates to amass a portfolio of trademarks under false pretenses, in the process defrauding its licensees and partners, and setting off a colossal accounting scandal the depths of which are still being uncovered,” the suit says.

It adds that the scheme “sent its share price from a peak of more than $400 per share in 2014, to less than a dollar today.”

Jay-Z, who’s given name is Shawn Carter, was questioned behind closed doors last year about the fraud allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission. At the time, his lawyers said they didn’t believe he had any relevant information to share with SEC investigators.

The suit says Jay-Z’s companies “have incurred substantial legal expenses in connection with, among other things, the federal government’s investigations into Iconix’s massive fraud.”

The plaintiffs are seeking payment of legal fees and unspecified damages.

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Sean Paul: ‘Language barrier’ a problem for dancehall artists

Sean Paul says a “language barrier” is one of the reasons dancehall artists fail to make it big in the UK and US.

He believes it’s hard for some people to understand “hardcore patois” - which is a mixture of several languages, including English, spoken in Jamaica.

But he says dancehall has set a trend - big acts like Justin Bieber and Drake have been influenced by its sound.

“One day we are going to get people logging on back to what we do,” Sean Paul tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

To fans of dancehall, Sean Paul will always be known for his hardcore tunes such as Get Busy, Temperature and Gimme The Light from the early 2000s.

But over the last few years he’s had some big chart hits with massive pop stars including Dua Lipa (No Lie), Sia (Cheap Thrills) , Little Mix (Hair) and Clean Bandit (Rockabye).

And this year he played on the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury as well as the main stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

But Sean Paul says he’s had his fair share of failures too.

“It’s been a long journey for me. I keep my ears to my ground and listen.

“There’s been a lot of times

“I’m able to speak in a little tongue where someone can understand me,” he says.

“Sometimes a lot of people still gravitate towards my music and say ‘I don’t understand what you’re saying’ but they get the gist of it.

“People speaking in hardcore patois, it’s kind of hard for people to understand so that’s a big factor.

“But it’s like the Latin music right now. A lot of people here don’t speak Spanish but people get it.”

Sean Paul is hoping to help other dancehall artists make it big Sean Paul - he’s just signed Jamaican star Chi that I did lose, a lot of times that I Ching Ching to his record label never really won with the song and Dutty Rock Productions. failed.

He says dancehall music

“People remember those has “set a trend” over the years but I think the story of the glory is and is still influencing the current pretty cool and a lot of the songs popular sounds - such as reggaeton, reached the glory stage, so big up pop and afrobeats. to everyone who helped me to be He believes the genre will that.” have its own comeback again soon.

Dancehall’s influences can “What we do comes from be heard on many big hits such as Africa but also the vibe that we set, Rihanna’s Work, Drake’s Controlla, it’s been followed right now,” he Wiley’s Boasty (which features Sean says.

Paul) and Ed Sheeran and Justin “Big up to afrobeats - I love Bieber’s I Don’t Care. it but I know it’s kind of come from

But very few dancehall what we’ve done. artists manage to break into the “Afrobeats didn’t sound main UK and US music charts. like that 10 or 12 years ago.

Sean Paul thinks part of “We just feel proud of that the reason is down to the way some fact and we humbly wait for our Jamaicans speak. turn to make the city burn again.”

Taylor Swift Spent Fourth of July in Caribbean Amid Drama with Scooter Braun and Her Former Label

Stevie Wonder says he’s getting a kidney transplant in fall

Scott Borchetta, Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun Stevie Wonder performs live at the “House Full of Toys 22nd Annual Benefit Concert” press conference in Los Angeles

Stevie Wonder surprised concertgoers in London Saturday night by announcing that he will take a break from performing so that he can receive a kidney transplant this fall.

The 69-year-old music legend made the announcement after performing “Superstition” at the end of a packed British Summer Time concert in London’s Hyde Park.

He said he was speaking out to quell rumors and sought to reassure fans that he would be okay.

“I’m going to be doing three shows then taking a break,” he said. “I’m having surgery. I’m going to have a kidney transplant at the end of September this year.”

He said a donor has been found and that he would be fine, drawing cheers from a devoted crowd of tens of thousands that stretched out from the stage as far as the eye could see.

“I came here to give you my love and to thank you for yours,” he said. “You ain’t gonna hear no rumors about us. I’m good.”

He did not provide additional information about his kidney illness. There had been a recent report that Wonder was facing a serious health issue.

A representative for Wonder didn’t immediately respond to a request Saturday for details about his health. He has kept an active schedule, including performing recently at a Los Angeles memorial service for slain rapper Nipsey Hussle.

Taylor Swift headed to the her music catalog — at Amazon and childhood pal Abigail Caribbean with her girlfriends for Music’s Prime Day Concert in New Anderson, honored a wide range some rest and relaxation before York City. of characters, performing in New York City on For several years in a from Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz Wednesday. row, the “You Need to Calm and Mary Poppins to Nancy Drew,

Last week was a tough one Down” singer was the queen of Steve Irwin and Mr. Toad. Swift for Taylor Swift, but the superstar Independence Day, throwing a dressed up as Ariel from The Little is spending quality time with her massive bash packed with her Mermaid. loved ones. famous pals and childhood friends Hours after news broke of

Days after the Grammy at her Rhode Island home.

Braun’s purchase, Swift wrote in a winner, 29, sparked a heated Since 2017, however, Tumblr post that she was “grossed debate among heavy hitters in the star has kept a lower profile out” by Braun’s acquisition of the industry over music rights and kept any Fourth of July Big Machine Label Group and and bullying, Swift flew with her celebrations under wraps. Last her catalog, accusing him of girlfriends to the Caribbean for a year, Swift headed to Turks and “manipulative bullying.” beach getaway, PEOPLE confirms.

Caicosfor a relaxing vacation with Borchetta, who worked

“Taylor loves a good sun her boyfriend Joe Alwyn. with Swift from 2006 until she left vacation. One of her favorite spots On New Year’s Eve, Swift Big Machine for Universal Music to visit is the Caribbean islands,” — who has become much more Group late last year, responded says a source. “She has been many private about her personal life and with his own lengthy statement times in the past, and her July 4th friendships over the last couple on the label’s website, essentially vacation was long-planned. It had years — gave fans a glimpse into a accusing Swift of bending the nothing to do with her getting star-studded party she threw at her truth and denying her claims of away from any drama.” home in New York City. bullying by Braun.

On Wednesday, the The musician rang in the Swift’s peers — including star will make her first public new year by inviting her friends to Halsey, Lily Allen, Todrick Hall and appearance since going to battle dress up as their childhood heroes, more — rushed to defend her with with Scooter Braun and her former and they certainly delivered. impassioned statements on social label head Scott Borchetta over the Attendees, including media while others, including manager’s $300 million purchase Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Demi Lovato, Sia and more backed of Big Machine Label — and Reynolds, Gigi Hadid, Iris Apatow Braun.

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HEALTHY

LIFESTYLE Startups make meat that avoids slaughter

Uma Valeti slices into a pan-fried chicken cutlet in the kitchen of his startup, Memphis Meats. He sniffs the tender morsel on his fork before taking a bite. He chews slowly, absorbing the taste.

“Our chicken is chicken ... you’ve got to taste it to believe it,” Valeti says.

This is no ordinary piece of poultry. No chicken was raised or slaughtered to harvest the meat.

It was produced in a laboratory by extracting cells from a chicken and feeding them in a nutrient broth until the cell culture grew into raw meat.

Memphis Meats, based in Emeryville, California, is one Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti shows chicken his company produced in a laboratory from of a growing number of startups chicken cells in Emeryville, Calif worldwide that are making cell- produced meat, it is only a matter market for people that want based or cultured meat. They want of time before meat replacements delicious meat that doesn’t require to offer an alternative to traditional capture a substantial market share.” animal slaughter.” meat production that they say But first cultured meat Finless Foods, another is damaging the environment must overcome significant startup in Emeryville, is making and causing unnecessary harm challenges, including bringing cultured fish and seafood. It’s to animals, but they are far from down the exorbitant cost of produced cell-based versions of becoming mainstream and face production, showing regulators salmon, carp and sea bass, and it’s pushback from livestock producers. it’s safe and enticing consumers to working on bluefin tuna, a popular

“You are ultimately going take a bite. species that is overfished and to continue the choice of eating “We’re a long way off from contains high levels of mercury. meat for many generations to becoming a commercial reality The company has invited guests to come without putting undue stress because there are many hurdles we sample its cell-based fish cakes. on the planet,” said Valeti, a former have to tackle,” said Ricardo San “The ocean is a very fragile cardiologist who co-founded Martin, research director of the ecosystem, and we are really driving Memphis Meats in 2015 after alternative meat program at the it to the brink of collapse,” CEO seeing the power of stem cells to University of California, Berkeley. Michael Selden said. “By moving treat disease.

“We don’t know if consumers are human consumption of seafood

The company, which also going to buy this or not.” out of the ocean and onto land and has produced cell-grown beef and As global demand for meat creating it in this cleaner way, we duck, has attracted investments grows, supporters say cell-based can basically do something that’s from food giants Cargill and Tyson protein is more sustainable than better for everybody.”

Foods as well as billionaires Richard traditional meat because it doesn’t The emerging industry Branson and Bill Gates. require the land, water and crops moved a step closer to market in

A report released in June needed to raise livestock — a major March when the U.S. Department of by consulting firm A.T. Kearney source of greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture and the Food and Drug predicts that by 2040, cultured Many consumers would love to eat Administration announced plans meat will make up 35 percent of meat that doesn’t require killing to jointly oversee the production meat consumed worldwide, while animals, said Brian Spears, who and labeling of cell-based meat. plant-based alternatives will founded a San Francisco startup Food-safety advocates compose 25 percent. called New Age Meats that served its will be watching to ensure the

“The large-scale livestock cell-based pork sausages to curious agencies provide rigorous oversight industry is viewed by many as an foodies at a tasting last September. and protect people from bacterial unnecessary evil,” the report says.

“People want meat. They contamination and other health “With the advantages of novel don’t want slaughter,” Spears said. threats, said Jaydee Hanson, policy vegan meat replacements and “So we make slaughter-free meat, director at the nonprofit Center for cultured meat over conventionally and we know there’s a massive Food Safety.

Legalizing pot tied to less teen marijuana use

Marijuana legalization laws don’t appear to increase teen pot use and instead may have the opposite effect, a U.S. study suggests.

To see how teen marijuana use compares in states with and without such laws, researchers examined survey data on substance use collected from 1.4 million adolescents between 1993 and 2017. During that period, 27 states and Washington, D.C. legalized medical marijuana and seven states legalized cannabis for recreational purposes.

Medical marijuana laws didn’t appear to influence whether teens used marijuana, the study authors reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

Recreational marijuana laws, however, were associated with an 8% decline in the odds that teens would report trying cannabis in the previous 30 days and a 9% decrease in teens reporting frequent use.

Reduced supply may explain why, said lead study author Mark Anderson, an associate professor in agricultural economics at Montana State University in Bozeman.

“It may actually be more difficult for teens to obtain marijuana as drug dealers are replaced by licensed dispensaries that require proof of age,” Anderson said by email.

“Selling to minors becomes a relatively more risky proposition after the passage of these laws.”

The study wasn’t a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how legalizing marijuana might directly alter teen use. State laws legalizing recreational marijuana generally focus on adult use and don’t permit sales to minors.

Other studies have linked marijuana to a range of behavioral and emotional problems in teens. Some previous research also suggests that effects of marijuana use may be more pronounced in teens because adolescence is a period of rapid brain development.

It’s possible legalizing marijuana leads more parents to talk to kids about the risks of drug use, said Rebekah Levine Coley, a professor of developmental and educational psychology at Boston College who wasn’t involved in the study.

12-month supply of birth control pills cuts unintended pregnancies, cost

When women are given a 12-month supply of oral contraceptives, they are less likely to have an unintended pregnancy than if they need to get refills every three months, a new study shows.

Researchers also found that supplying 12 months of the pill to female veterans was more cost effective than doling out just three months of contraceptives at a time, according to the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The common practice of dispensing only three months of pills “is the norm and thought to be a cost saving measure to prevent wastage of medications that people don’t end up using,” said the study’s lead author, Colleen Judge-Golden, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. “But the concerns about waste are overshadowed by the

potential savings from pregnancyrelated outcomes. A couple of days of not having the medication can lead to a pregnancy that is not desired.”

While the study was conducted in women who had served in the military, “gaps in contraceptive use are common among women in the general U.S. population as well, and extended dispensing for short-acting hormonal contraception is an evidenced-based strategy to help women use these methods consistently when that is their goal,” Judge-Golden said. “As of 2019, 17 states and the District of Columbia have enacted legislation requiring insurers to cover dispensing of 12-month contraceptive supplies at an initial fill.”

Judge-Golden and her colleagues used a computer model to look at the impact of reducing the number of times a woman

would have to refill her contraceptive prescriptions on the risk of unplanned pregnancies and cost. Data from the VA have shown that 43% of women who receive their oral contraceptives in three month increments experience at least one gap of at least seven days between refills over the course of a year of use.

The average annual cost per woman was about $700.60 for the 12-month dispensing option, compared with $787.72 for the three-month dispensing option, which meant that on medication costs alone, the VA would save $87.12 per woman, which would add up to more than $2.1 million annually for the 24,309 women vets receiving OCs.

The biggest cost savings would come from reductions in unplanned pregnancies. Annually, 149 unintended pregnancies were expected per 1,000

women with the 12-month option, as compared with 173 per 1,000 with the three-month refill option, for a total reduction of 24 unplanned pregnancies per 1,000 female vets per year. That reduction would translate into 583 unintended pregnancies averted each year if the VA adopted a 12-month dispensing option, Judge-Golden and her colleagues found.

The researchers are hoping the new study will spark changes at the VA, “especially since female veterans have no access to abortion or coverage for abortion even in cases where (the mother’s life is in danger),” said the study’s senior author Dr. Sonya Borrero, director of the Center for Women’s Health Research and Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh and associate director of the VA’s Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion.

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•Liaise with the Resort General Manager on long term planning of the maintenance department.

•Produce a departmental rota to ensure emergency call out duties are covered at all times.

•Order and maintain supplies of materials and equipment for use by the department, tobudget.

•Participate as a member of the Management team, attending and actively participating in weekly head of departmentmeetings.

GREAT HOUSE MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED [SAILROCK]

•Ensure that health and safety and other statutory regulations are adhered to at all times.

is seeking qualified candidates for the positions below in the Maintenance Department

•Undertake any other maintenance duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

Maintenance Manager has overall responsibility for the internal and external maintenance of all buildings and engineering services across the resort in a safe, cost effective and efficient manner, ensuring a high standard of appearance and smooth running for the enjoyment and comfort of Sailrock Resort guests.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES •Maintain and improve the interior and exterior fabric of the buildings across the resort to a highstandard.

•Maintain services to the building, i.e. water, electricity, gas, oil, to aserviceable standard.

•Organise and manage associatedpaperwork.

service

contracts

and

process

•Ensure all electrical equipment is maintained to a safe standard with the minimum of downtime.

•Ensure that fire alarms and other fire equipment are maintained to a high standard in accordance with specifications issued by the FireAuthority.

•Work to reduce energy costs across the resort by ensuring effective energy management.

•Maintain the plant room and the emergency generator to a highstandard.

•Ensure the maintenance of the swimming pool and spa areas, to meet health and safetyrequirements.

•Manage general repairs to ensure that they are attended to by maintenance team staff as quickly as possible, with minimum disruption to guestservices.

•Manage the general andexpenditure.

repairs

/

maintenance

budget

•Undertake administrative paperwork, required documentation and record keeping associated with the smooth running of the maintenancedepartment.

•Recruit, train, and take responsibility for the day to day management of the maintenance team staff throughout the entire employee lifecycle, taking advice and support from HR as appropriate and following and implementing formal company procedures, where necessary.

•Carry out annual appraisals for the maintenance staff and continually motivate, support and inspire the entire team in their dailywork.

•Manage refurbishment and redevelopment projects and the programme of planned maintenance across the resort and work with the Resort General Manager and other departments to ensure that these projects are carried out to a high standard and with minimum disruption to guests andfacilities.

•Ensure that all external contractors working onsite on project work fulfil their contractualobligations.

Skills •Effective people management and teammotivation.

•Managing projects and delivering these withinbudget.

•The ability to make effective decisions and produceresults.

•Well presented with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain good working relationships within and across departments at alltimes.

•Excellent computer and systemskills.

•A relevant trade qualification from an accredited body would be desirable •Excellent Knowledge and understanding of Fire Safety and Health and Safety Legislation to ensure a safe working environment at all times.

Other requirements •A positive and can-doattitude.

•Friendly, helpful andapproachable.

•Ability to manage own time and work on owninitiative.

•Organisation and administration skills required to manage a schedule of work and the associated paperwork and documentation.

•Flexible to work hours, including evenings andweekends.

•5 years’ experience in a 5-star resort.

Salary Range: •$30,000 yearly Drywall Installer/Painter/Handyman – 2 positions available •This person will install and finish all drywall for private villas and hotel product Responsibilities •Installing gypsum board to wood framing and mud •Apply drywall to walls or ceilings •Fasten drywall to inside framework of building •Prepare panels for painting by taping or finishing joints •Smoothing out imperfections •Working with ceiling tile installers to build walls •Paint interior walls and smooth out as needed Qualified Candidates will have/be: •Must have 3+ years’ experience in drywall •Ability to paint neatly and cleanly •Ability to follow instruction •Well-organized and detail oriented •Ability to work well with others Salary Range •$18,000 - $20,000 Annually Please submit applications to Human Resource: •Drop off: W104 Venture House, Grace Bay, Providenciales •Tel: 649-941-2121 •Email: humanresources@sailrockresort.com/swharton@ southcaicos.com These positionsare currently held by a Work permit holder. Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders must also submit copies of their application to the TCI Labour Board.

JULY 12TH, 2019 – JULY 19TH, 2019 North Pole Air Condition Services

Position: AC Technician Duties & Skill Required: Provides services in which you are responsible for identifying, repairing, replacing, installing, inspecting, maintaining and upgrading AC / refrigeration systems and equipment. Also to assist where needed in the skilled trade areas. Be able to lift heavy objects, Be able to communicate in English, a second language is preferred.

Applicants must have: Minimum of 5 years in HVAC systems maintenance.

Skills: Certificate in Air condition & Refrigeration system repair and maintenance Ability to work on Electrical / Wiring, and Plumbing Salary: $10.50 an hour Belonger Only Need Apply.

You may email your Resumes / CV to: northpoleacs@gmail.com 649-243-3929 for contacting Ms. Williams Applicants who are Turks & Caicos Islanders should also send copies of their applications to the Labour Board

Kostco Super Savors

On Airport Road, Providenciales Is seeking (3) Labourers - $7.00 per hour Duties may include cleaning and preparing a job site, loading and delivering materials, and using a variety of tools and machines (3) Domestic Workers – $6.50 per hour To do housekeeping work, must be able honest, trustworthy and speaks English (2) Sales Agents - $8.50 per hour Duties include: working with customers to find what they want, create solutions and ensure a smooth sales process To work 6 days per week All of these positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders except for one of the Sales Agents Please Contact: 232-1199 Applicants should also send copies of their application to the Work Permit Board and Kostco Super Savors office on Airport Road #230315

CAICOS SEAFOODS/ LEWIS COX/VELMA COX

Is seeking Labourers, domestic workers, plant workers, seafood processors, conch peelers, freezer person On the Island of South Caicos Pay is minimum wage / daily rate / commission Applicants must be able to clean office, peel and pack conch, wash and pack lobsters, push loaded buggies, Jobs are currently held by Haitian Nationals Please Contact 231-4554 Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit copies of their applications to Labour Board

Cactus Café

Location: Airport Road, Providenciales Is seeking a Sous Chef Duties: Must be able to work night shifts and ensuring that inventory and food are properly in place Salary is $400.00 weekly To work 5 nights a week Please Contact: 432-4271 This position is new Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit copies of their applications to Labour Board #230304

Kenva Williams Job Location: Blue Hill, Providenciales Is seeking a Labourer Candidates must be physically capable of performing manual labour outside daily which involve grass cutting, tree trimming, removal of brush and weed, general cleanup of debris and garbage from the properties To work 6 days a week Salary is $6.25 per hour Please Contact: 232-3977 This position is currently held by a work permit holder Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit their applications to the Labour Board #230313

Provo Discount Ltd.

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Real Adventures

Location: Unit 1, Central Square, Provo Seeking (2) Sales Clerks Duties: Operate Cash Register with POS system, Greet Customers, Inventory, Stock and Tidy Store Salary: $6.25/hr; 42 hrs/wk Positions currently held by work permit holders Closing date for applications is July 26, 2019 Applications can be dropped off at the office, Immigration Board, and/or emailed to pdl@tciway.tc

Location: South Dock, Providenciales Is seeking One (1) ATV Mechanic- $9.00 per hour Duties: Perform routine maintenance tasks, such as replacing spark plugs or changing the oil. also perform minor repairs to the body, such as removing dents from fenders Is seeking Two (2) Labourers - $6.50 per hour Duties may include cleaning and preparing a job site, loading and delivering materials and using a variety of tools and machines To work 6 days a week These positions are new Please Contact: 332-5707 Applicants who are Turks & Caicos Islanders should also send copies of their applications to the Labour Board

Insight LTD.

DUDLEY LEWIS

#230316

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Vanessa Rolle

Fresh Fish

Seeks to employ a Domestic Worker In Grand Turk To work for 5 day a week At a salary of $250-$300 per week The successful is required to supervise, care for the child and maintain home Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit their applications to Labour board zone 1 and contact Vanessa Rolle at 232-6302 This position is presently being held by a work permit holder

Location: Sam’s Building, Down Town Is seeking a Supervisor of Sales and Purchasing Duties: Maintain records of goods ordered and received, Locate vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them in order to determine product availability and terms of sales and Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.

To work 5 days a week Salary is $10.00 per hour This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Please Contact: 346-9913 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board #230305

E. L. Construction

Denis Prosper Domestic Worker WANTED In Grand Turk Must be able to do general cleaning and speak English Salary $400.00 Monthly To work 5 days per week Please Contact: 242-1307 This position is currently held by a work permit holder Applicants who are Turks & Caicos Islanders should also send copies of their applications to the Labour Board

5 Academy Way, Providenciales Is seeking a Kitchen Helper Salary is $6.25 per hour Duties: Clean kitchen areas and wash dishes and help workers who prepare or serve food and beverages Please Contact: 399-9000 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder

In Grand Turk Is seeking one (1) Domestic Worker Must be able to wash clothes, Iron and clean house To work six (6) days a week Salary $6.25 per hour Please contact 649 -246-7742 This is a new position and applicants who are TCIslanders should send copies of their application to the Labour Board

Location: Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking a Painter Duties: Prepare paint surfaces, mix, match, and apply paints and other finishes to various surfaces.

To work 6 days a week Salary is $6.50 per hour Please Contact: 231-6153 This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Applicants who are Turks & Caicos Islanders should also send copies of their applications to the Labour Board

Hanfield Convenient Store

Hartington Process Systems

BOHIO DIVE RESORT

Location: Glass Shack, Providenciales Is seeking a Labourer To do ,general cleanup of debris and garbage from the properties To work 6 days a week Salary: $6.25 per hour Please Contact: 341-1642 This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit their applications to the Labour Board

Location: Salt Cay/Grand Turk Is Advertising for a Salesman Duties: Welcomes customers by greeting them; offering them assistance, keep clientele informed by notifying them of preferred customer sales and future merchandise of potential interest To work 6 days a week Salary is: negotiable Please Contact Delphine Simons at telephone number: 232-6028 This position is new Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit copies of their applications to Labour Board

Location: Grand Turk Is seeking PADI DIVE INSTRUCTOR Required The successful candidate will have: •MSTD PADI Master Dive Instructor certification •Mature and flexible attitude •Experience in a resort type environment, ideally in the Caribbean •Excellent written and spoke English •Excellent references Interested candidates should apply in writing with a cover letter and resume and references to info@ bohioresort.com.

This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Prospective applicants who are Islanders can send copies of their applications to the Labour Board

-Minimum of 6 years experience in similar position -Must be computer & R.P.E/ P.O.S system literate -Certificate in advanced wine studies or graduate from a reputable trade school -Pay is $9 per hour (up to 55 hours/week in season) -Share of gratuities -2 professional and 2 personal references -Clean Police Record -Minimum 5 years experience in fast paced fine dining restaurant in similar position Position is for a work permit renewal.

Qualified and interested Belongers Only to apply either via email Or drop resume at our place of business with copies To Immigration Board/Employment Services.

Employer Information: Magnolia Restaurant-Miramar Resort-Turtle Cove Tel: 941.5018 Email: magnoliaprovo@live.com

TC Industrial Services

GRACEWAY IGA SUPERMARKET

Faith Baptist Church

Location: Providenciales Seeks to employ a Project Administrator To assist with project management duties which includes managing budget & expenditures, performing administrative duties, doing payroll, accounts receivable and payable, estimates & quotations for clients & banking Wages is $12.00 per hour This position is new Applicants who are Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit applications to the Immigration Boards Zone 1 and TC Industrial at telephone 941-4051 or email tcisimms@yahoo.com.

Closing date July 22nd, 2019

Is looking to hire a Cleaning Location: Front Road, Blue Hills, Technician to carry out heavy Providenciales duty cleaning tasks and special Is seeking a Pastor projects.

•Must have Ability to preach and Must be able to work handle teach the Saint Doctrine heavy equipment and machinlike Baptist. ery and perform minor mainte•Must be able to drive and to nance inspection / repair works. speak Haitian-Creole, French Payrate $8.00 – 8. 50 PER hour and English properly Belongers are encouraged to To work 6 days per week email their resume to hr@ Salary $7.00 per hour gracewayiga.comthis position Please Contact: 332-3515 is for First time work permit This position is currently held holder. by a Work Permit Holder Deadline for application: July Applicants who are Turks and 18th, 2019 Caicos Islanders should also Please Note: Only short-listed send copies of their application applicants will be contacted to to the Labour Board attend interviews

Triple C’S Carwash Located on Airport Road, Providenciales Labourer Wanted Labourer wanted for a carwash, person will assist in the cleaning and washing of customers vehicles Salary: US$6.25 per hour Open to working any day of the week Deadline for applications July 19, 2019 Please Contact: cjjolly7@gmail.com This position is new Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit their applications to the Labour Board

Roxie Williams 11 Rainbow Garden, Blue Hills Is seeking a Labourer To do General Cleaning around the yard and keeping the surroundings clean Must be able to speak English To work 5 days a week, 8:00am -5:00pm Salary $6.50 per hour Please Contact: 247-0682 This position is new Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit their applications to the Labour Board #230314

Crambelin Youth

Location: North Caicos Is seeking a Gardener Assist with maintaining the landscaping by cutting and shaping the grass and surrounding trees and shrubbery to a standard expectation To work 6 days a week Salary is $6.25 per hour Please contact: 442-0354 This position is new Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit their applications to the Labour Board

#230312

#230309

Sommelier Position

#230317

Calvert Robertson Location: Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking a Domestic Worker To carry out domestic duties around the house such as sweeping, mopping, vacuuming and laundry To work 5 days per week and sometimes on weekends Salary is $6.25 per hour Please Contact: 342-2927 This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Applicants who are Turks and Caicos Islanders should also send copies of their application to the Labour Board

#230317

Island Under The Sun Tours Location: Bay Road, Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking a Cleaner Duties: Including cleaning, washing and maintaining that the boat is kept clean Must be able to speak english To work 4 days per week Salary is $6.50 per hour Please Contact: 241-5071 or 342-0275 This position is new Interested Applicants who Turks and Caicos Islanders should submit Copies of their application to the Labour Board

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We hire smiles!!!

Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort Villages and Spa, the only 6 Diamond All-inclusive property in the Caribbean is inviting applications from Turks and Caicos Islanders for the following vacant positions. We hire the personality and train the individual.

Applicants must have a clean police record and a good command of the English language both written and spoken. In addition candidates must be able to work nights, public holidays and week-ends. The Resort thanks everyone for their interest in advance and advises that applicants will be contacted for an interview via Text Message.

The Security Department requires: The Maintenance Department requires: 

 

Senior Stove Technician

Reports to: Security Manager

Reports to: Chief Engineer To work closely with the Rooms Division to ensure that the physical appearance in and around the room is as per the Resort’s established quality and standards; to ensure that the furniture, fixture, A/C’s, plumbing and equipment are properly maintained, and to provide a prompt and efficient response to all guest service requests in a timely and courteous manner.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Must have a minimum of a high school diploma and/or a certificate in a field of engineering from a recognized Vocational Training Institution  Basic computer literacy and internet knowledge is preferred  Physically fit with the ability to lift and bend.

These positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders (note however more than one is required).

Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

The salary for this position ranges between $ 7.25 to $10.00 per hour

Under the guidance and supervision of the Security Manager, and within the limits of established Sandals Resorts policies, procedures, ensures the safety of Guests and Staff.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Ability to generate reports and maintain logs  Previous experience in this or similar capacity  Experience supervising a team or shift (Supervisor) These positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders (note however more than one is required). Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

The rate for the positions listed above is $6.25 to $8.50 an hour.

The Maintenance Department requires: 

Shift Leader

Reports to: Assistance Maintenance Manager

The Cost Control Department requires: 

Supervisor Officer

To work closely with the Rooms Division to ensure that the physical appearance in and around the room is as per the Resort’s established quality and standards; to ensure that the furniture, fixture, A/C’s, plumbing and equipment are properly maintained, and to provide a prompt and efficient response to all guest service requests in a timely and courteous manner.

Assistant Store Keeper

Qualifications and Experience:  Ability to meet deadlines  Knowledge of Accounting procedures  Computer Literate  Physically Fit;

The Housekeeping Manager position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Must have a minimum of a high school diploma and/or a certificate in a field of engineering from a recognized Vocational Training Institution  Basic computer literacy and internet knowledge is preferred  Physically fit with the ability to lift and bend.

These positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders (note however more than one is required).

Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

The range for this position $6.25 to $10.00 per hour

The salary for this position ranges between $ 7.25 to $10.00 per hour

The Offsite Department requires:

The Watersports and Catamaran Departments require:

Reports to:

 

Logistic Manager

Caretaker Groundskeeper

Reports to:



Properties Manager

To work closely with the Properties to ensure that the physical appearance in and around the staff accommodation and other holdings are maintained as per the established quality and standards.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Physically fit with the ability to lift over 30 lbs.  Minimum 2 years’ experience in a related position.

Shift Leader

Reports to: Watersports Manager Under general supervision, ensures the safety of patrons of an aquatic facility by preventing and responding to emergencies.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  First Aid & CPR Certified; These positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders (note however more than one is required).

Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

These positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders.

The range for these positions are $6.25- $7.00 per hour

The range for these positions is $7.25 to $10.00 per hour

The Kitchen Department requires:

The Weddings Department requires: 



Wedding Steward

Reports to:

Reports to:

Assistant Wedding Manager

Under the guidance and supervision of the Assistant Wedding Manager within the scope of established Sandals Resort & Spa policies, the Steward will ensure that all aspects the Weddings operation are performed accordingly.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Physically fit with the ability to lift over 30 lbs.  No allergies to chemicals  Minimum 2 years’ experience in a related position.

These positions are currently held by Work Permit Holders (note however more than one is required).

Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

The range for these positions is $6.25-$6.50 per hour

Executive Chef

Under the guidance and supervision of the Executive Chef and within the limits of established Sandals Resorts policies and procedures, oversees and directs all aspects of the kitchen operation at the level of standard and quality established by the company.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Culinary institution or equivalent technical schooling or apprenticeship training preferred  Three to five years’ experience as a manager/supervisor in an international first-class hotel/resort.

This positions is currently held by a Work Permit Holder (note however more than one is required).

Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

The salary for this position ranges between $23,000.00 and $38,000.00 The Island Routes Department requires:

The Dining Room Department requires: 

Sous Chef



Shift Leader

Reports to: Restaurant Manager Is responsible to assist with Dining Room supervision this includes the coordination, planning, organizing and control the activities of the restaurant.

Standard Specifications: Qualifications and Experience:  Supervisor certification  One year experience in similar capacity  Extensive food & beverage/wine knowledge;

Senior Tour Specialist Requirements include but are not limited to: o Must be service driven with excellent customer service skills o Excellent Organizational Skills o Ability to meet and exceed sales targets

The Senior Tour Specialist is responsible for assisting with ensuring that all tour events are well coordinated and also acts as the main source of information for the guests on the resort, ensuring they are having an enjoyable experience.

The salary range for the position indicated above is $40,000.00 to $55,000.00

This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder (however more than one is required). Recruitment to fill these positions is underway at this time.

The rate for the position listed above is $6.75 to $7.50 an hour.

Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to: mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com or placed in the secure drop box at the service gate or Fax to: 9414870 Attn: M McClean-Vaughn The Labour Commissioner The Human Resources Labour Department Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands

and

Department Beaches Turks and Caicos P.O. Box 186 Lower Bight Road

and should reach not later than July 24th 2019

JULY 12TH, 2019 – JULY 19TH, 2019

CARIBBEAN WORLD

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CARIBBEAN NEWS

NEWS NEWS

Overseas Territories leaders unite against ‘modern colonialism’

Leaders from Britain’s commerce, Albert Isola, said it was overseas territories met in the “anti-democratic” for the UK to Cayman Islands last week and impose legislation on issues that pledged to work together to defend are the responsibility of the OTs’ their right to self-government in the elected governments. wake of perceived “constitutional “There is no way today overreach” from the United we can accept modern colonialism Kingdom. through the back door by allowing

“I see a beacon of hope these things to happen,” he said. with our team here, because we all “On that, as has been demonstrated realise that divided we fall, united today, we are all 100 percent on the we stand,” said Premier Andrew same page.”

Fahie, according to the Cayman Compass.

Coming UK meeting

Mr. Fahie attended both the June 26 annual United Kingdom At the Pre-JMC, heads of Overseas Territories Association government from the British OTs Pre-Joint Ministerial Council and the UK met to discuss the Meeting and the inaugural UK/OT agenda for the JMC meeting that International Trade Summit on June will take place in November in 27.

London and to receive updates on

During the talks, OT the work the UKOTA carried out leaders said they would resist any over the past year, according to a attempts to impose policies on June 26 government press release. same-sex marriage, belongership At the trade summit, and financial services regulation, officials from UK and OTs discussed as recommended in a recent report opportunities for the OTs to engage from the UK House of Commons in UK trade initiatives and to Foreign Affairs Committee, which work with the Commonwealth’s stoked indignation across the Virgin Enterprise and Investment Council, Islands. the release stated.

While the UK government The summit was the first of ultimately rejected many of the its kind, and it was hosted jointly by most controversial suggestions of the governments of the UK and the the FAC report, some OT leaders Cayman Islands. expressed fear of continued pressure “This inaugural UK/OT on the issues of same-sex marriage International Trade Summit is an and voting rights. opportunity to showcase what the

“Modern-day colonialism overseas territories have to offer and is what is being attempted by those to also discuss trade opportunities persons in Westminster, and I am with and for all OTs as we all look for certain that all overseas territories ways to diversify our economies and will resist it vociferously,” Bermuda take advantage of the opportunities Premier David Burt said at a press that will be afforded after Brexit,” conference on June 26.

Cayman Islands Premier Alden

Many leaders took issue McLaughlin said in a statement. specifically with the legislation Officials at the summit imposing public registers of also talked about other industries, beneficial ownership by 2023, while including financial technology, others like Gibraltar’s minister for tourism, health care and the “blue

An Indiana toddler fell to her death aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas ship over the weekend

BVI Premier Andrew Fahie shakes hands last week with Lord Tariq Ahmad, United Kingdom minister for overseas territories economy” or “the economic use and preservation of the marine environment,” the press release stated.

Junior Minister of Tourism Shereen Flax-Charles, Junior Minister of Trade and Economic Development Sharie de Castro, Acting Permanent Secretary in the Premier’s Office Elvia SmithMaduro, and Acting Director of the International Affairs Secretariat Najan Christopher also attended the summit.

Caricom meeting

This week Mr. Fahie is attending the 40th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in St. Lucia, which started yesterday and ends tomorrow, according to a Tuesday press release.

Government officials plan to discuss different measures to enhance the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, as well as issues related to security and regional and foreign relations.

Border patrol discovers $5.3 million in an abandoned boat in the Caribbean

After border patrol agents in Puerto Rico chased after a boat on Sunday, they found five duffel bags stuffed with $3.7 million (AUD $5.3million) in cash.

US Customs and Border Protection agents and the DEA made the seizure after tracking the vessel that was traveling without lights from Puerto Rico to the US Virgin Islands.

As authorities followed the boat, it made an abrupt turn back toward Fajardo, on the east coast of Puerto Rico, and landed near the Rio Fajardo.

Occupants in the vessel could be seen unloading bags, according to the press release.

As agents closed in, they fled the scene.

“We remain committed to working with other federal and local law enforcement partners to detect and deter smuggling attempts throughout the Caribbean,” Johnny Morales, a director from the Caribbean

Authorities discover nearly $4 million in an abandoned boat in Puerto Rico Air and Marine Branch, said in a statement.

Inside the boat, the duffel bags full of cash were recovered along with a loaded pistol and 63 rounds of

Toddler dies in 11-storey fall on board Royal Caribbean cruise ship after ‘slipping from grandfather’s arms’

ammunition.

“CBP seized the currency under failure to declare and bulk cash smuggling laws,” stated the press release.

A toddler has died after plunging 150 feet from a cruise ship while being dangled out of a window by her granddad.

The 18-month-old girl slipped from his arms and fell from the 11th floor of Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas ship.

The child is believed to have fallen onto the concrete below while the ship was docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The tot was rushed to hospital at around 4:30 p.m. local time yesterday.

She was pronounced dead a short time later.

According to the local Primer Hora website, the girl was from Indiana and on holiday with her parents and grandparents.

Police have now launched an investigation and are trawling CCTV of the ship as well as interviewing passengers.

The girl’s family have not yet been quizzed by detectives but police have said they believe the incident was a tragic accident.

Elmer Román, of the local Department of Public Security, said: “Police have now launched an investigation and are trawling CCTV of the ship.

“At this time (the Division of) Homicide is in place. It has not been possible to interview the family.

“It is a very strong scene, very sad and tragic.

“At one point, one of her grandparents… in an act of games, exposes the girl to the void and falls out of his hands.”

The boat has a height of around 210 feet and the 11th floor will have been around 150 feet above land level when the vessel was docked.

There’s a 44 percent chance that one major hurricane could hit Caribbean, latest forecast predicts

According to the venerable hurricane forecasters at the Colorado State University, there’s a 44 percent chance that a major hurricane could strike the Caribbean this year. The prediction, released in C.S.U.’s latest forecast on Tuesday, is 2 percent above the average of 42 percent for the last 100 years, C.S.U. said.

For the U.S. coastline, the probability climbs to 54 percent, just 2 points above the average of 52 percent.

C.S.U. estimated in its latest forecast that 2019 will have an additional 6 hurricanes (average is 6.4), 13 named storms (average is 12.1), 54.25 named storm days (average is 59.4), 20 hurricane days (average is 24.2), 2 major (Category 3-4-5) hurricanes (average is 2.7) and 5 major hurricane days (average is 6.2).

The latest forecast is based on an extendedrange early July statistical prediction scheme that was developed utilizing 37 years of past data, C.S.U. said. “We anticipate a near-average Atlantic basin hurricane season. The tropical Atlantic currently has sea surface temperatures near their long-term average.

Near- average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic tend to be associated with near- average Atlantic hurricane seasons.”

C.S.U. said the odds of the currently-observed weak El Niño persisting for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season in 2019 have decreased slightly. If El Niño were to persist, it would tend to lead to more vertical wind shear in the Caribbean extending into the tropical Atlantic, tearing apart hurricanes as they are trying to develop and intensify.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS

Trinidad & Tobago set to decriminalise marijuana, joining other Caribbean islands

In late 2018, Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced that the Trinidad and Tobago government would decriminalise marijuana as early as June 2019 — but with discussions continuing into July, the public is wondering what exactly this proposed law will entail and when it might come into effect.

If the legislation is passed, Trinidad and Tobago will join only a handful of other Caribbean countries that have decriminalised cannabis in an effort to reduce drug trafficking, lighten the load on the judicial system, ensure religious inclusion and help boost local economies.

The prime minister’s initial announcement came as a shock to many, as he had previously been adamant that marijuana law reform was not his priority. However, recent moves by regional territories like Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda, as well as continual encouragement by the public and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), seem to have influenced his Cabinet’s stance on the issue.

Many citizens regularly get arrested for marijuana possession in Trinidad and Tobago. While arrests don’t always result in incarceration, they do usually go hand-in-hand with a court appearance.

Under the country’s existing legislation, possession of marijuana is subject to a fine of TT $25,000 (approximately $3,690 USD) and a five-

year prison term, both of which can be increased to twice the amount based on the quantity of marijuana found, as well as whether or not the accused has any prior convictions. In fact, you can be charged with possession even if found in a private space — such as a home or car — unless you can prove it was there without your knowledge.

Decriminalisation would mean that cannabis possession for personal use will not lead to penalties. The attorney general, Faris al-Rawi, has officially finished drafting legislation which he says contains specificities such as the amount allowed per person and details of production and distribution.

Decriminalisation, however, is not legalisation.

Even if the new legislation comes to pass, marijuana will still be illegal to consume in public spaces and the penalties for this will most likely remain high. In his first press conference about the issue, Prime Minister Rowley stressed that his government was only focusing on decriminalisation at the moment.

One major reason for the new legislation is its anticipated effect on local law enforcement and the justice system. By making a distinction between marijuana consumption and drug trafficking, the new law would, at the very least, unclog the backup in the courts by not prosecuting cases of personal consumption — and ideally assist in reducing trafficking levels.

Caribbean reefs damaged by mysterious disease

There’s a mysterious disease leading a science team trying to tackle currently ravaging the reefs of the the outbreak from multiple research Caribbeans, leaving only white angles. skeletons of corals behind, and it’s According to Brandt, who’s alarming. also from the University of the

This was recently discovered Virgin Islands, past instances of coral by divers, all of whom were busy reef diseases have cut down the monitoring reefs in the U.S. Virgin population of these “sea gardens” by Islands back in January. As they were up to 50 percent in just a year’s time. collecting data, they started noticing However, whatever this disease is, it’s some white lesions breaking up certainly much more alarming, as it the colorful tissues of corals. This has affected the same amount in less continued for quite some time, with than half a year, making it the most some suffering for up to four weeks, devastating outbreak for coral reefs while some died by the very next yet. day, marked by their white stony For now, scientists are skeletons. In fact, it got so bad that by suspecting that the mysterious disease the time the fourth from when they could be stony coral tissue loss disease, first discovered it ended, more than sometimes referred to as SCTLD, or half of the reef has already suffered. “skittle-D.” The disease is supposedly

Per scientists estimate, the responsible for one of the worst coral mysterious disease is now affecting disease outbreak the world has ever around a third of the Caribbean’s 65 experienced, and was first seen in reef-building species. Unfortunately, Florida back in 2014. However, the what the disease is actually is still in disease is merely a “prime suspect,” the dark, and at press time, scientists and the researchers still need more are still not sure if it’s microbial, time to investigate and hopefully put bacterial, viral or some other type. a stop to it.

“Whatever the cause, it’s “It marches along the reef annihilating whole species,” said and rarely leaves corals behind,” coral ecologist Marilyn Brandt, who is Brandt said. “We’re pretty scared.”

Cougar Holdings LTD. 45 Universal Road Provo Industrial Park Are seeking 1 Onsite Labourer Duties Include: Site maintenance and cleaning Salary $6.50 per hour 8 days per hour Must be able to work 6 days per hour This position is currently held by a Work Permit Holder Applicants who are Turks and Caicos Islands should also send copies of their application to the Labour Board and kindly email centralstoragetci@gmail.com

Trinidad and Tobago continually be worth billions of dollars within the feel the effects of drug trafficking on the next few years. islands and this distinction may allow High demand and low supply — law enforcement to focus more on drug especially for medical use — means that traffickers and smugglers, with more countries seeking medical cannabis will time, money and resources allocated to likely turn to countries with thriving snuffing out more nefarious criminal marijuana import and export potential. activity.

Jamaican cannabis farmers are able to

In 2013, the country’s chief export their product to countries like justice, Ivor Archie, said the law should Canada and certain US states, where treat drug traf¬fick¬ing and drug there is a high demand for medical con¬sump¬tion dif¬fer¬ent¬ly: marijuana.

The burden on the police and The other factor that makes it a prisons and the courts in terms of cost high-demand product is that cannabis is and human resource will be lessened if able to grow more naturally in tropical we focus on the scourge of trafficking, climates like the Caribbean. While the but as long as we have laws on the books Jamaican cannabis industry is still in we have to enforce them. We must take a its infancy, it has massive potential — long hard look at policy in this area. leaving many Trinbagonians to wonder

Many economists think that if they can also make their mark on a decriminalising cannabis could have a growing industry. major effect on the economy. A recent The push for law reform on CARICOM report echoed this sentiment. marijuana is not a new concept to Among other things, the paper regional governments. The Caribbean’s highlights how countries should go Rastafarian community has continually about decriminalisation (or legalisation) asked for reform so that they can practise within a regulated framework, the their religion without fear of arrest: benefits of cannabis as a medicinal drug Rastafarians believe that marijuana is the and how it could help boost many slow- “tree of life” mentioned in the Bible; its moving regional economies. use is ritualised by members of the faith

Jamaica, for instance, is investing to assist in meditation as the doorway to in the medical cannabis industry as spirituality. part of its economic diversification and Despite the success stories, some devoting more scientific research to still fear that decriminalisation will the plant’s healing properties. Recent only make the crime situation worse in studies have suggested that the medical Trinidad and Tobago. If the legislation is marijuana industry has the potential to passed this year, it will be historic.

Antigua PM hopeful of the establishment of a Caribbean bank

Prime Minister Gaston Browne

St Kitts and Nevis (WINN): The establishment of a Caribbean Bank and Antigua and Barbuda’s wish to get first priority to purchase the Scotia bank branch in his country are two key issues Prime Minister Gaston Browne continues to push for.

Scotia Bank is selling nine of its operations in several Caribbean countries to Trinidad-based Republic Financial Holdings Limited.

The banks are in Guyana, St Maarten, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Prime Minister Browne is recommending that the OECS countries band together and purchase the Scotiabank branches in their countries as a united entity.

So how is that proposal being received?

PM Browne said, “…For some reason within the OECS we have not been able to get a consensus on the issue, so far to my knowledge it would appear that all of the other leaders have agreed to the Republic Bank deal. We have no difficulty with their decision they have right so to do, they have a

sovereign right to make their own decision, we can’t be angry with any decision that they would take but I see a great opportunity for the OECS countries to step up and to take control of the Scotiabank branches, form a new bank and probably call it ECAB, Eastern Caribbean Amalgamated Bank.”

Prime Minister Browne says a Caribbean Bank with branches in the international arena would help alleviate the region’s correspondent banking problems.

“Having a bank that would have a few billion dollars US in assets, because one of the problems is that within the corresponding banking space they do not like small banks that have less than a billion dollars in assets, they don’t think it is worth their while.

So if we can have that Caribbean bank it could have branches in Canada, in the United States and in the UK where you have large Caribbean diasporas.

And I’m quite sure that Caribbeaners in Canada, in the US and in the United Kingdom that they would be happy to do business with their own bank.

And that very bank itself could then provide corresponding banking services through those branches.”

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Amber Guyger’s attorneys want her murder trial for killing Botham Jean moved to new venue

Fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger’s attorneys asked a judge Monday to move her murder trial out of Dallas, citing “media hysteria” surrounding the fatal shooting of Botham Jean.

Guyger, 30, killed Jean on Sept.

6 inside his apartment when she was offduty but still in uniform. Authorities said she mistook his apartment for her own.

She said his door was unlocked and she thought Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St. Lucia, was a burglar.

Guyger’s attorneys, Robert Rogers, Toby Shook and Michael Mowla, argued in their court filing that the “publicity surrounding this case has been prejudicial and inflammatory.” Jean’s death was international news and area media outlets published a stream of stories after his death. Guyger’s attorneys cited 297 articles about Guyger and Jean in their motion.

Whether potential jurors are qualified to sit on the jury isn’t about whether they’ve heard about the shooting or even whether they know Jean or Guyger’s name. To serve, jurors can’t have an opinion about Guyger’s guilt or innocence.

The trial is scheduled to start Sept. 23. Jury selection is slated to begin on the first anniversary of Jean’s death.

Prosecutor Jason Hermus has not responded to the motion. State

Botham Jean (left) and Amber Guyger District Judge Tammy Kemp signed a gag of having “perpetuated the pervasive, order preventing attorneys involved in prejudicial and inflammatory publicity” the criminal case from speaking with the in the case, they wrote in the motion. media.

The attorneys said Johnson

Guyger’s attorneys requested “poisoned the jury pool” by commenting that the trial be moved to Collin, on the case publicly, pointing to news Grayson, Kaufman, Ellis, Rockwall or conferences she spoke at after Guyger’s Fannin County. arrest and indictment, along with Jean’s Public officials weighed in family.

Guyger’s attorneys argue that The attorneys argue that several prominent public officials’ Johnson interfered with Guyger’s right comments on the case, along with media to a fair trial. coverage, make it impossible for the The motion also names former former Dallas officer to get a fair trial in Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, U.S. Dallas County. presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke

Faith Johnson, whose tenure as and state Sen. Royce West as officials Dallas County district attorney ended who “injected themselves into the case.” when John Crezuot took office in The attorneys write that media January, is accused by Guyger’s attorneys outlets pushed the false narrative that

Family claim police beat man while in custody

A mother is demanding answers after an expletive-laced altercation between her son and members of a police team manning a checkpoint on Pretoria Road in Kingston 13 left him nursing multiple wounds and needing surgery to repair a broken jaw.

The son, 31-year-old Ricardo Humphrey, is now a patient at Kingston Public Hospital and the family say the police claim that he fell and hit his face while resisting arrest.

“I am giving the police the benefit of the doubt and accept that he fell and hit his face. But when I visited him in hospital yesterday I was asked to purchase a pin because his jawbone is broken, his nose bridge is broken, four of his front teeth were knocked out, and some of his jaw teeth are now loose. So the idea that he was injured from a fall doesn’t make any sense,” said Humphrey’s brother Kimorley.

According to the family, about 3 o’clock Saturday morning, Ricardo was in a heated exchange with a woman at his house on Pretoria Road, metres from a police checkpoint in the St Andrew South police division, where a state of emergency was imposed on Sunday.

The family said a member of the police team accosted Humphrey and chided him for his use of indecent language and an argument developed.

It is alleged that the policeman slapped Humphrey across the face before putting him in handcuffs and indicating that he was being charged for the use of the indecent language and resisting arrest.

Donna Humphrey said she was at her cookshop on Saturday morning when she was approached by a team of policemen who inquired if she was Ricardo’s mother. She said that when she responded in the affirmative she was told she should accompany them with a utility bill and a passport-sized picture to bail him.

According to Donna, she was initially taken to Denham Town Police Station and later to the zone of special operations base in Denham Town where she was told that he had been offered bail in the sum of $20,000.

“All this time mi never know that him was in the hospital. Is when the next police say to mi, ‘Yuh a go up a di hospital?’ is that time mi know. But how di police look mi see say something nuh right, even though dem tell mi say him drop and lick him face,” the woman said.

“merely because … [Guyger] is white and Mr. Jean was black, the incident must have been racial in nature.”

They pushed back against that notion, saying Guyger mistakenly entered an apartment she thought was hers and had “no idea” who was inside.

“There is no evidence showing that defendant knew that a black man lived in that apartment,” they wrote in the motion. “There is no evidence showing that defendant knew that a person in that apartment was smoking marijuana.

And certainly, neither defendant nor her attorneys had anything to do with the discovery of marijuana in Mr. Jean’s apartment or the dissemination of this fact to the media.”

The motion mostly cites area media coverage. But it also cites national coverage, which would have been seen locally, statewide and nationally, such as an episode of The View during one of the hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, said that if Jean had shot Guyger, Jean “would be somewhere hanging now,” according to the defense motion.

“This is inflammatory and utter nonsense,” the motion states. “There is no known situation in recent memory where a black man is alleged to have killed a police officer and the suspect was lynched.”

The Caribbean Must Play Its China Card Wisely

In his recent swing debt and scant investment. And Myers, who runs the Asian Latin through Latin America, U.S. while the Caribbean’s cache of America program at the InterSecretary of State Mike Pompeo commodities is meager compared American Dialogue. “Whether it’s had some stern words for regional to the haul in other BRI partners, climate change or trade, they’re leaders about Chinese bearing gifts. Beijing’s lavish reception of visiting working to establish connections, “Malign practices,” “predatory ministers and heads of state went and Belt and Road purports to offer loans,” envoys toting “bags full neither unnoticed nor unrewarded. an alternative model.” It hasn’t hurt of money” to bribe officials: Such Most immediately, the charm that even as the U.S. and European were the hazards of consorting offensive peeled away the region`s Union bought few Caribbean goods with the would-be mandarins of historic ties to Taiwan. Panama, in in the first quarter of 2019, Chinese the Americas, he said in April.

2017, not only ended decades-long import demand was still growing.

But listen closely and you’ll support for the regime in Taipei; Not everyone sees the catch a more plaintive beat: It’s a it went on to break off a lucrative Chinese as developing world courtship gone sour. If the United free trade agreement. In 2018, El champions.

Local companies States hoped to enlist hemispheric Salvador and Dominican Republic complain that the Chinese import neighbors in its rolling quarrel also decided to recognize China, wage slaves instead of hiring locally with China, that effort has now hit the government in Santo Domingo and crowd out national contracts a familiar reef. Beijing’s far-flung doing so on the hush even as by low-balling bids. In a 2017 strategic trade and investment it closed a deal for Taiwanese video still generating comment on deals have taken its envoys deep military equipment. None of the the web, former Jamaican national into the Americas, from Patagonia three governments consulted with security minister Peter Bunting to the Andes and, more recently, the U.S. over their diplomatic denounced the “new colonialism,” uncomfortably close to U.S. shores. turnabout. Six Caribbean countries as China “took over” construction

China’s Belt and Road have since joined Belt and Road, and architecture. Other critics warn Initiative (BRI) is now in full with its promise of bounteous of the fine print and conditions force across the Caribbean, credit and zero tariffs on some 90% – importing Chinese labor and finding takers among poor island of traded goods. machines, multiyear tax breaks – governments who feel snubbed and China, sensibly, declared written into finance agreements. underappreciated by the hegemon it had no interest in provoking “Chinese loans cannot compare next door. While the diplomatic Washington, least of all along the to the low interest credit from rhetoric has turned testy, the island crescent touted as the U.S.’s the Inter-American Development rivalry between the world’s two “third border.” Yet the Caribbean Bank or the World Bank,” said one leading economies may be the best incursion predictably comes with former official from a multilateral opportunity the Caribbean has political undertone. Hence China’s lender. seen in years to parlay geopolitical gesture of launching a national Yet one of the perks jockeying into collateral advantage. development plan for Grenada, the Chinese bring to the table is their Beijing’s Caribbean island the U.S. invaded over its ability as interlopers to disrupt the pursuits began in earnest in 2013. Cuban military advisers in 1983 schemes of clubby insiders who That’s when President Xi Jinping and has mostly ignored ever since. leverage cronyism, hired muscle met with 10 Caribbean leaders to The Chinese military has also and padded contracts to game herald a new era of cooperation, been active in the Caribbean basin, public works. Sandra Glasgow, now investment and loans. That was selling patrol vessels to the Trinidad a business consultant, got a glimpse reggae to the ears of regional & Tobago navy and hardware to of that possibility as early as 2001, governments, which have the Jamaican armed forces. Several when she oversaw a $100 million struggled with the politically toxic island nations are collaborating tender to build the Technology combination of sluggish growth, with China on regional security.

Innovation Center at University high debt, fiscal imbalance and “The fact is, China has of Technology Jamaica. A Chinese natural disasters. Consider that managed to leverage its role as company won the contract, easily the Jamaican economy is only a champion of forgotten and outbidding the local competition, now emerging from more than neglected nations, and found then delivered the project before three decades of low growth, high willing clients,” said Margaret deadline.

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Second couple sue after clinic ‘uses wrong embryos’

A US couple are suing a fertility clinic, saying the company implanted their embryo into a different woman.

The woman gave birth to twins in March, only for DNA tests to allegedly show the babies were not related to her or even to each other.

Anni and Ashot Manukyan have now taken custody of one of the children.

Both the Manukyans in California and the unnamed couple in New York who gave birth to the babies are suing CHA Fertility Center.

The company has not yet commented on the lawsuits.

“CHA robbed me of my ability to carry my own child, my baby boy,” Anni Manukyan told a press conference. “Who wants to meet their child in a lobby of a hotel?”

The second baby boy allegedly comes from the egg and sperm of a third, unrelated couple. Court filings reportedly say the birth couple ceded custody of the child, and that the clinic has made contact with his biological parents - although they have not come forward publicly.

The New York couple - identified only as AP and YZ in the lawsuit to protect them from “embarrassment and humiliation” - gave birth to two boys who were not of Asian descent, as they are.

Earlier signs during the course of the pregnancy also suggested something was wrong.

Scans showed they were giving birth to boys, despite doctors saying they had used female embryos.

Ms and Mr Manukyan had unsuccessfully gone through IVF in August 2018 using an embryo they thought was theirs. The pair say they were then asked to take a DNA test after the birth of the twins in March.

Their lawsuit says the couple then discovered “much to their horror” that their son had been “implanted into a stranger that later became his birth mother”.

The couple then had to fight in the courts to reclaim their child, after the birth couple gave him up.

“What about the woman, you know? What is she going through right now?” Ms Manukyan told broadcaster CBS News. “Thank God we got our child back but she ended up with nothing.”

The California lawsuit alleges negligence and emotional distress, as well as claiming CHA Fertility broke a state law preventing the use of embryos for any purpose other than that consented to by the provider.

Conviction on that charge could reportedly carry a prison sentence of between three and five years.

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Britain says Iranian vessels tried to block tanker in Gulf

The British navy said it prevented three Iranian paramilitary vessels from impeding the passage of a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Thursday, a day after Iran’s president warned of repercussions for the seizure of its own supertanker.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard denied the allegations, saying if it had received orders to seize any ships it would have done so immediately.

The incident came at a time of heightened tensions over Iran’s unraveling nuclear agreement with world powers, signed in 2015. Iran recently began breaching uranium enrichment limits in response to the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement last year and its imposition of sweeping sanctions.

In recent months, the U.S. has sent thousands of additional troops, an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets to the region. Washington has blamed Iran for a series of mysterious attacks on oil tankers — charges that have been denied

by Tehran — and said it shot down an American military surveillance drone in international airspace.

Iran said it downed the drone after it veered into its own airspace.

The U.K. said in a statement that the British naval vessel HMS Montrose had been

British navy vessel HMS Montrose escorts another ship during a mission to remove chemical weapons from Syria at sea off coast of Cyprus in February 2014 accompanying the commercial ship, British Heritage, through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for energy shipments .

“HMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels and British Heritage and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away,” the statement said.

“We are concerned by this action and continue to urge the Iranian authorities to de-escalate the situation in the region,” it added.

The HMS Montrose is on a three-year mission at the British navy’s support facility in Bahrain, the hub of its naval operations east

of the Suez Canal.

Russia and China, both signatories to the nuclear agreement along with Britain, France and Germany, called for restraint.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “freedom of navigation should be ensured in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.”

About 20% of all oil traded worldwide passes through the Strait of Hormuz from Middle East producers. Iran has periodically threatened to close the shipping lane if it is prevented from exporting its own oil. The U.S. sanctions have largely shut down its oil exports.

Mexico steps up raids on migrantsmuggling trucks, uses giant X-ray

Mexican officials have captured more than 200 migrants hidden in trucks over the past two days, including dozens spotted by a large X-ray scanner huddled in secret compartments, as the country steps up a crackdown under U.S. pressure.

Footage of the X-ray shows a ghost-like truck filled with the brightened silhouettes of the migrants - some sitting and others lying down - along two levels of the crowded compartments on Sunday.

An additional 228 hidden migrants were found in a routine search of a soft drink transportation truck in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday, Mexico’s security ministry said in a statement.

The apprehensions come weeks after the appointment of hard-charging former prisons chief Francisco Garduno as the new head of Mexico’s immigration authority, the National Migration Institute (INM).

Under Garduno, the agency has made a number of high-profile captures of migrants smuggled in commercial vehicles.

The weekend Garduno took office, INM found 800 people in four trucks in the eastern state of Veracruz.

Mexico’s stepped-up

Migrants are seen in a tractor trailer after being detected by police X-ray equipment in Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas state, Mexico July 7, 2019 efforts to stop record flows of mainly Guatemalans, Hondurans and El Salvadorans reaching the United States follow a June 7 deal under which Mexico averted tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump with a promise to use security forces to intercept more undocumented migrants.

In another video of the

X-ray-assisted detention released

by Mexican authorities, an official approached the cargo vehicle at night to open the door to one of the crates. Sobs emerged from the otherwise-quiet container while he identified himself as a police officer and asked if migrants were in good health.

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WORLD NEWS Financier Epstein pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges involving girls

American financier Jeffrey Epstein pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of sex trafficking as prosecutors accused him of luring dozens of girls as young as 14 to his luxury homes in New York and Florida and paying them for sex acts.

An indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan accused Epstein, 66, of arranging for girls to perform nude “massages” and other sex acts, and paying some girls to recruit others, from at least 2002 to 2005.

“The alleged behavior shocks the conscience, and while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it is still profoundly important to the many alleged victims, now young women,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said at a press conference. “They deserve their day in court.”

Epstein was known for socializing with politicians and royalty, with friends who have included U.S. President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and according to court papers, Britain’s Prince Andrew.

None of those people was mentioned in the indictment.

Wearing dark blue jail scrubs, Epstein entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman to one count of sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking conspiracy. Epstein faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted.

According to the indictment, the former hedge fund manager “intentionally sought out minors and

knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18, including because, in some instances, minor victims expressly told him their age.”

Epstein, who registered as a sex offender under a 2008 plea deal in Florida, has said in earlier court filings that his encounters with alleged victims were consensual and that he believed they were 18 when they occurred.

Epstein will remain in jail until at least July 15, when a judge has scheduled a bail hearing.

Prosecutors have said Epstein should be denied bail, arguing he poses an “extraordinary risk of flight” because of his wealth, private planes and significant international ties.

Epstein was arrested on Saturday night at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where he had returned on his private plane from Paris.

Prosecutors said a search of Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan uncovered evidence of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of nude photographs of “what appeared to be underage girls.”

Berman encouraged other victims to come forward and contact prosecutors.

The case is being handled by the public corruption unit of Berman’s office.

Berman declined to discuss media speculation about people affiliated or associated with Epstein, telling reporters: “I urge you not to read

into that one way or the other.”

Epstein first came under investigation in 2005 after police in Palm Beach, Florida, received reports he had sexually abused underage girls in his mansion there.

By 2007, Epstein was facing a potential federal indictment for sexually abusing dozens of girls between 1999 and 2007. Epstein struck a deal, however, to plead guilty in 2008 to a lesser Florida state felony prostitution charge, and register as a sex offender.

He served 13 months in a county jail, but was allowed to leave during the day to go to his office.

Some of Epstein’s accusers have criticized that agreement as too lenient.

Berman, the U.S. attorney, said he was not bound by it.

Reid Weingarten, a lawyer for Epstein, told the magistrate judge on Monday that his client had led a “law-abiding life” since 2008, and the indictment appeared to be “essentially a do-over.”

Prosecutors who helped craft the Florida agreement included Alex Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida and now Trump’s secretary of labor. A spokeswoman for the Labor Department declined to comment on Sunday.

According to the indictment, Epstein would initially recruit victims to provide “massages,” which they would perform nude or partially nude.

Prosecutors said the encounters

Sir Kim Darroch resigns as UK ambassador to US

Sir Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, as a row over leaked emails critical of President Trump’s administration escalates.

The US president had branded him “a very stupid guy” after emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration “clumsy and inept”.

Theresa May said Sir Kim’s departure was “a matter of deep regret”.

He said he wanted to put an end to speculation about his role and the leak had made it “impossible” to continue.

In a letter to the Foreign Sir Kim Darroch Office, Sir Kim said: “Although debate on Tuesday night, whether my posting is not due to end until he would keep Sir Kim in post if he the end of this year, I believe in became prime minister. the current circumstances the Following Sir Kim’s responsible course is to allow the resignation, he said he was “a appointment of a new ambassador.” superb diplomat” and whoever

The leak was described as was responsible for the leak “has “malicious” by Sir Simon McDonald, done a grave disservice to our civil permanent under secretary and servants”. head of the diplomatic service, Europe Minister Sir Alan who told Sir Kim: “You are the best Duncan said it was “contemptible of us.” negligence” not to support Sir Kim.

Mrs May said he had had “He’s basically thrown this fantastic the full backing of the cabinet and diplomat under a bus to serve his had given a “lifetime of service” to own personal interests,” he said. the UK, for which he was owed an Fellow Tory leadership “enormous debt of gratitude”. candidate and Foreign Secretary “Good government Jeremy Hunt said he “profoundly” depends on public servants being regretted the “outrageous” leak able to give full and frank advice”, that led to Sir Kim’s departure. “It she said. should never have come to this”, She spoke of the importance he added. of “defending our values and BBC political editor Laura principles particularly when they Kuenssberg said: “Failing to back are under pressure”.

Darroch last night was the first

His resignation has major act of the still hypothetical prompted widespread support Johnson premiership that led to for Sir Kim while some have his resignation.” questioned Tory frontrunner Boris In the Commons, Labour Johnson’s stance. leader Jeremy Corbyn described

Mr Johnson had refused Mr Trump’s comments about him to say, during the Tory leadership as “beyond unfair and wrong.”

In the emails leaked to the Mail on Sunday, Sir Kim said: “We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.”

The emails, dating from 2017, said rumours of “infighting and chaos” in the White House were mostly true.

Sir Kim thanked those who had offered their support, both in the UK and the US during a “difficult few days”, adding that it had “brought home to me the depth of friendship and close ties between our two countries”.

The government has opened an internal inquiry into the publication of the memos.

Police have been urged to open a criminal investigation into the leak.

Born in South Stanley, County Durham, in 1954, Sir Kim attended Durham University where he read zoology.

During a 42-year diplomatic career, he has specialised in national security issues and European Union policy.

In 2007, Sir Kim served in Brussels as the UK permanent representative to the EU.

He was the prime minister’s national security adviser between 2012 and 2015, dealing with issues such as the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, Russian annexation of Crimea, the nuclear threat from Iran and the collapse of government authority in Libya.

He became ambassador to the US in January 2016, a year before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.

American financier Jeffrey Epstein would become increasingly sexual, sometimes including groping and indirect contact with victims’ genitals, where Epstein would typically masturbate and ask victims to touch him while he did.

Epstein paid girls to recruit new girls, to ensure a “steady supply of new victims to exploit” prosecutors said.

Three unnamed employees, one in Manhattan and two in Florida, aided Epstein by arranging some of his sexual encounters, the indictment said.

At a second court hearing on Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller whether other people might be charged. Rossmiller said no additional indictment was imminent but it was possible “down the road.”

Angela Merkel pictured shaking for third time in recent weeks

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been seen shaking for a third time in a month.

Video footage shows Mrs Merkel trembling, shaking back and forth alongside Finland’s prime minister during a ceremony in Berlin. The trembling lasted over a minute.

After the incident, Mrs Merkel said she was “very well” and there was “no need to worry”.

A government spokesperson said she would continue meetings as planned.

Mrs Merkel, 64, was last seen trembling two weeks ago ahead of a trip to Japan for the G20 summit. She told journalists at the summit she was fine.

On Wednesday, the chancellor gripped her hands as she tried to control her shaking, standing alongside Prime Minister Antti Rinne.

According to Focus.de, the shaking affected her whole body.

She was first seen shaking last month during a welcome ceremony in Berlin for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Her office has repeatedly dismissed concerns about her health.

Mrs Merkel is now in her fourth term as chancellor, a role she first began in November 2005.

She has said she will leave politics when her current term ends in 2021.

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WORLD NEWS U.S. State Department approves possible $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan

The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of M1A2T Abrams tanks, Stinger missiles and related equipment at an estimated value of $2.2 billion, the Pentagon said on Monday, despite Chinese criticism of the deal.

China’s foreign ministry expressed anger about the sale and urged the United States to revoke it.

The timing is especially sensitive as the Washington and Beijing are seeking to resolve a bitter trade war.

The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement the sale of the weapons requested by Taiwan, including 108 General Dynamics Corp (GD.N) M1A2T Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger missiles, would not alter the basic military balance in the region.

DSCA notified Congress on Monday of the possible arms sale, which it said could also include mounted machine guns, ammunition, Hercules armored vehicles for recovering inoperative tanks, heavy equipment transporters and related support.

Reuters reported last month that an informal notification of the proposed sale had been sent to the U.S. Congress.

The United States has no formal ties with self-ruled and democratic Taiwan but is bound by law to help provide it with the means to defend itself.

The United States is the main arms supplier to Taiwan, which China deems a wayward province.

Beijing has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control.

Speaking in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said U.S. arms sales to Taiwan were a serious violation of international law and a “crude interference in China’s internal affairs, harming China’s sovereignty and security interests.”

“China is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to this and has already made stern representations to the US side,” Geng told a daily news briefing.

“Taiwan is an inseparable part of China’s territory and nobody should underestimate the Chinese government’s and people’s firm determination to defend the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and oppose foreign interference.”

China urged the United States to immediately revoke the planned arms sale and end all contacts between the U.S. and Taiwan militaries to avoid further damage to Sino-U.S. ties and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, he added.

Taiwan’s Presidential Office expressed “sincere gratitude” to the U.S. government for the arms sale.

“Taiwan will speed up investment on defense and continue to deepen security ties with the United States and countries with similar ideas,” Chang Tunhan, a spokesman for Taiwan’s president, said in a statement.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said in March that Washington was responding positively to Taipei’s requests for new arms sales to bolster its defenses in the face of pressure from China.

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry confirmed it had requested those weapons and that the request was proceeding normally.

The U.S. commitment to providing Taiwan with the weapons to defend itself helps Taipei’s military raise its combat abilities, consolidates the Taiwan-U.S. security partnership and ensures Taiwan’s security, the ministry said last month in a statement.

Montana man pleads guilty in $43 million fraud

A Montana man has pleaded guilty to defrauding a Canadian financial institution of $43 million by posing as a legitimate business owner.

Todd Capser entered the wire fraud plea in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.

Prosecutors say the 47-year-old Billings, Montana, man defrauded a Toronto entity and tried to cheat nine other institutions of millions more.

The institution was identified in a lawsuit as Third Eye Capital Corp.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a release that Capser posed as a legitimate businessman before flooding the financial institution with false information.

Prosecutors say that Capser sought to engender sympathy, deflect questions and explain suspicious behavior by falsely telling some financial institutions that his daughter was dying from cancer.

Sentencing was set for Nov. 8.

Trump ‘dossier’ author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs

Federal lawyers probing the origins of the investigation of ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign have interviewed the author of a “dossier” that alleged misconduct between Trump and Moscow, prompting the lawyers to extend their inquiry.

Three attorneys from the Inspector General’s office of the U.S. Department of Justice met in person in early June with dossier author Christopher Steele in Britain, said two sources with direct knowledge of the lawyers’ travels.

The interview with Steele, a former top spy on Russia for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, took place while Trump was in London for a formal state visit with Queen Elizabeth and a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

Steele’s dossier, made public in 2017, alleged that Moscow attempted to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that there was potential collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign, along with other unverified and salacious claims about the president.

The Justice Department’s inspector general has been examining the earliest stages of an FBI investigation of Trump, his former 2016 presidential campaign rival Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Russia and former Trump adviser Carter Page.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz, whose office is an internal Justice Department watchdog, launched his probe in March 2018 amid allegations by Republican lawmakers that the FBI erred in seeking a warrant to monitor Page.

Trump has described the Steele dossier as “bogus” and Republicans have long sought to discredit the FBI’s investigation,

A police car drives past an address which has been linked by local media to former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who has been named as the author of an intelligence dossier on President-elect Donald Trump, in Wokingham, Britain, January 12, 2016 which was later taken over by U.S. Business Intelligence, Steele’s Special Counsel Robert Mueller. London investigations firm, His final report on Russia and the declined to comment.

Trump campaign was released in UK government agencies redacted form in mid-April. declined to disclose whether they

In that same month, were in contact with Horowitz’s Attorney General William Barr, team in London. who now heads the Justice Moscow repeatedly Department, told a congressional rejected accusations of interfering committee that the Horowitz in the election. probe would be completed by May Mueller’s report, released or June. on April 18, said that Russia

One of the two sources did meddle in the election in said Horowitz’s investigators an attempt to boost Trump’s appear to have found Steele’s candidacy. It said Trump campaign information sufficiently credible officials had multiple contacts to have to extend the investigation. with Russian officials. But it found Its completion date is now unclear. insufficient evidence to establish a

A key focus of the criminal conspiracy between the Horowitz probe is whether the FBI campaign and Moscow. followed proper procedures when The report also described it applied for a warrant with the numerous attempts by Trump to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance impede Mueller’s inquiry, but it Court (FISA) to secretly conduct stopped short of declaring that surveillance on Page and his ties he committed a crime. Mueller to Russia. during his inquiry brought charges

Declassified documents against 34 people, including show that the FBI cited Russian agents and ex-Trump information in Steele’s dossier aides. when it asked the secretive FISA Page, a foreign policy court in late 2016 for a warrant to adviser during Trump’s campaign, eavesdrop electronically on Page, a drew scrutiny from the FBI, U.S. businessman with interests in which said in legal filings in Russia.

2016 that it believed he had been

Horowitz’s office in “collaborating and conspiring” Washington declined to comment. with the Kremlin. But he was not

A spokesman for Orbis charged.

Hong Kong leader says extradition bill is dead, but critics unconvinced

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the extradition bill that sparked the Chinese-ruled city’s biggest crisis in decades is dead and that government work on the legislation had been a “total failure”, but critics accused her of playing with words.

The bill, which would allow people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party, sparked huge and at times violent street protests and plunged the former British colony into turmoil.

In mid-June, Lam responded to protests that drew hundreds of thousands of people on to the streets by suspending the bill, but that did not stop demonstrations that shut government offices and brought parts of the financial center to a standstill.

Her latest attempt to restore order did not satisfy many protesters who stood by demands that she completely withdraw the bill.

“There are still lingering doubts about the government’s sincerity or worries whether the

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks to media over an extradition bill in Hong Kong, China July 9, 2019 government will restart the process in the Legislative Council,” Lam told reporters on Tuesday.

“So, I reiterate here, there is no such plan, the bill is dead.”

The government’s work on the bill had been a “total failure”, she said.

The bill triggered outrage across broad sections of Hong Kong society amid concerns it would threaten the much-cherished rule of law that underpins the city’s international financial status.

Lawyers and rights groups say China’s justice system is marked

by torture, forced confessions and arbitrary detention, claims that Beijing denies

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the promise of a high degree of autonomy, including an independent legal system and right to protest, but in recent years there has been growing concern about the erosion of those freedoms at the hands of Beijing.

Critics of the extradition bill fear Beijing could use it to crack down on dissent.

University students who have been out in force during the protests denounced Lam’s comments.

“What we want is to completely withdraw the bill. She is playing word games,” said Chan Wai Lam William, general officer of the Student Union of Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Demonstrators have also called for Lam to resign as Hong Kong chief executive, for an independent investigation into police actions against protesters, and for the government to abandon the description of a violent protest on June 12 as a riot.

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Man who says Spacey groped him invokes right not to testify

The man who accused and we still don’t have it,” Attorney Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Alan Jackson said.

Massachusetts resort island bar in

Unruh told investigators 2016 asserted his Fifth Amendment that she deleted items concerning her right against self-incrimination and son’s “frat boy activities” from the refused to testify Monday after being phone before giving it to authorities. questioned about text messages the She acknowledged Monday deleting defense claims were deleted. things that “concerned” her but

The man’s decision not to denied touching text messages or testify caused the judge to question anything else relevant to the case. the viability of the case against the

Spacey was not required to two-time Oscar winner, whose career attend Monday’s hearing, and he collapsed in 2017 amid a string of did not appear. sexual misconduct allegations.

The accuser’s testimony

Spacey’s accuser was came days after he voluntarily ordered to take the stand after he dismissed a lawsuit that he had said he lost a cellphone sought by filed against the actor about a week the defense, which says the man Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at district court in earlier. deleted messages that support Nantucket, Mass

There was no settlement, Spacey’s claims of innocence not immediately dismiss the case, Unruh said Monday. The man’s and provided investigators with but acknowledged prosecutors lawyer said the case was dropped manipulated screenshots of would have a tough time bringing it because the accuser is on an conversations. to trial if the man won’t testify. “emotional rollercoaster” and wants

The accuser, speaking “Once exercised, it may to focus on the criminal matter. publicly for the first time, said he be pretty hard to get around this “He only wanted one roller gave police what he had “available” privilege at trial,” Judge Thomas coaster ride at a time. The criminal to him “at the time” and did not Barrett said. “The matter may case is enough,” Garabedian said. alter any of the messages. well be dismissed for the reasons The man told police he

“I have no knowledge of indicated,” he said. went over to talk to Spacey after any deletions of messages on my The man’s cellphone has his shift ended at Nantucket’s Club phone,” the man said. been a key issue in the case against Car bar because he wanted to get

The Associated Press does Spacey, who is accused of groping a picture with the actor. He said not typically name people who say the then 18-year-old at a popular Spacey bought him several drinks they are the victims of sexual assault Nantucket bar and restaurant, and tried to persuade him to come unless they identify themselves where the man worked as a busboy. home with him before unzipping publicly. Spacey pleaded not guilty The allegations were first made in the man’s pants and groping him to indecent assault and battery in 2017 by the man’s mother, former for about three minutes.

January.

Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh.

The accuser told police he

After being pressed by The accuser’s lawyer, tried to move Spacey’s hands, but Spacey’s lawyer about whether he Mitchell Garabedian, said they the groping continued, and he knew that altering evidence used cannot find the phone, but were didn’t know what to do because in a prosecution is a crime, the able to retrieve a copy of its he didn’t want to get in trouble for man invoked his right against self- contents that had been backed up drinking because he was underage. incrimination, and the judge said to a computer.

The man said he fled when Spacey his testimony Monday would be But Spacey’s lawyer said went to the bathroom. stricken from the record. that’s not enough.

Spacey’s lawyer indicated

Spacey’s lawyer urged the “None of that answers the that the defense would file a written judge to dismiss the case, calling it central question, which is: Where motion to dismiss the case in the “completely compromised.” is the actual phone? That’s what we coming days. The judge set another

The judge said he would want. That’s what we’re entitled to, hearing for July 31.

Royal baby Archie christened at private Windsor ceremony

This is an official christening photo released by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Saturday, July 6, 2019, showing Britain’s Prince Harry, right and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex with their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor at Windsor Castle with with the Rose Garden in the background, in Windsor, England

The youngest member of Britain’s royal family, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was christened at Windsor Castle on Saturday in a private ceremony — too private for some royal fans.

The 2-month-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was baptized in the castle’s private chapel by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England.

Palace officials said that, in keeping with royal tradition, Archie wore a lace and satin christening gown — a replica of one made for Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter in 1841 — that was also used for his cousins Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

He was sprinkled with water from the River Jordan at an ornate silver baptismal font that has been used in royal christenings for more than 150 years.

Archie, born May 6, is the first child of Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle, and seventh in line to the British throne.

His parents released two photos taken by fashion photographer Chris Allerton, including a black-and-white image showing the couple cradling a tranquil Archie between them, with the castle’s Rose Garden in the background.

It was accompanied by a color portrait taken in the castle’s Green Drawing Room of the young family surrounded by relatives, including Harry’s brother Prince William and his wife Kate; Harry’s father Prince Charles and his wife Camilla; Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland; and Jane Fellowes and Sarah McCorquodale, the sisters of Harry’s late mother Princess Diana.

Archie’s great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, did not attend the christening because of a prior engagement.

Colorful self-made billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89

H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self- his graduation, and he really built the take on negative campaigning (“let’s made Texas billionaire who rose from computer-services industry at EDS.” get off mud wrestling”) and on getting a childhood of Depression-era poverty “He had the vision and the things done (“don’t just sit here slow and twice mounted outsider campaigns tenacity to make it happen,” Luce said. dancing for four years”). for president, has died. He was 89.

“He was a great communicator. He never Some Republicans blamed

The cause of death was employed a speechwriter — he wrote Perot for Bush’s loss to Clinton, as Perot leukemia, a family spokesman said all his own speeches. He was a great garnered the largest percentage of votes Tuesday. storyteller.” for a third-party candidate since former

Perot, whose 19% of the vote in Perot first attracted attention President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 1992 stands among the best showings by beyond business circles by claiming bid. an independent candidate in the past that the U.S. government left behind Perot’s second campaign four century, died early Tuesday at his home hundreds of American soldiers who years later was far less successful. He was in Dallas surrounded by his family, said were missing or imprisoned at the end shut out of presidential debates when the spokesman, James Fuller. of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the organizers said he lacked sufficient

As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, issue at home and discussed it privately support. He got just 8% of the vote, and Businessman and U.S. presidential candidate Perot delivered newspapers from the with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, the Reform Party that he founded and H. Ross Perot, of Texas, waves. Perot, the Texas back of a pony. He earned his billions in angering the Reagan administration, hoped to build into a national political billionaire who twice ran for president, has died, a family spokesperson said Tuesday, July 9, 2019. He a more modern fashion, however. After which was formally negotiating with force began to fall apart. was 89 attending the U.S. Naval Academy and Vietnam’s government.

Henry Ross Perot was born in Texarkana becoming a salesman for IBM, he went Perot’s wealth, fame and on June 27, 1930. His father was a cotton In 1962, with $1,000 from his his own way — creating and building confident prescription for the nation’s broker; his mother a secretary. Perot wife, Margot — they met on a blind Electronic Data Systems Corp., which economic ills propelled his 1992 said his family survived the Depression date — Perot founded Electronic Data helped other companies manage their campaign against President George relatively well through hard work and Systems. Hardware accounted for about computer networks.

H.W. Bush and Democratic challenger by managing their money carefully.

80% of the computer business, Perot

The most famous event in his Bill Clinton. In June of that year, a Young Perot’s first job was delivering said, and IBM wasn’t interested in the business career didn’t involve sales and Gallup poll showed Perot leading his papers in a poor, mostly black part of other 20%, including services. earnings, however. In 1979, he financed major-party rivals, but he dropped out town from his pony, Miss Bee. When the Many of the early hires at a private commando raid to free two in July, then rejoined the race less than newspaper tried to cut his commission, EDS were former military men, and EDS employees who were being held five weeks before the election. he said he complained to the publisher they had to abide by Perot’s strict dress in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned Perot spent $63.5 million of his — and won. He said that taught him to code — white shirts, ties, no beards or into a book and a movie. own money, much of it on 30-minute take problems straight to the top. mustaches — and long workdays. Many

“I always thought of him as television spots during which he used From Texarkana, Perot went to the U.S. had crew cuts, like Perot. stepping out of a Norman Rockwell charts and graphs to make his points, Naval Academy, never having been on The company’s big break came painting and living the American summarizing them with a line that a ship or seen the ocean. After the Navy, in the mid-1960s when the federal dream,” said Tom Luce, who was a became a national catchphrase: “It’s Perot joined International Business government created Medicare and young lawyer when Perot hired him to just that simple.”

Machines in 1955 and quickly became Medicaid. States needed help running handle his business and personal legal His homespun quips were a a top salesman. In his last year at IBM, the programs, and EDS won contracts work. “A newspaper boy, a midshipman, hallmark of his presidential campaign. he filled his sales quota for the year in — starting in Texas — to handle the shaking Dwight Eisenhower’s hand at Other memorable lines included his January. millions of claims.

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TECHNOLOGY

UK plan to control online porn is watched as test case

The global push to more tightly operating the system itself. Instead, it’s millions of users. regulate the internet and big tech firms is being outsourced to private companies, They note that tech-savvy spreading to one of the web’s biggest and which can sell their own age verification youngsters will figure out how to how to least visible corners: porn. technology to porn sites. Oversight, evade restriction by using, for example,

The British government wants meanwhile, has been handed to the virtual private networks. And there’s a to require porn websites to verify their British Board of Film Classification, a loophole exempting social media sites users are adults. The effort is being film ratings and censorship body akin such as Twitter, where plenty of smutty watched by other countries hoping to to the Motion Picture Association of content is now found. better regulate pornographic content America.

The film board acknowledges but has raised concerns about privacy, Privacy campaigners worry that that “age-verification is not a silver censorship and competition. It has run handing over personal information to bullet,” but it will stop kids inadvertently into multiple delays that reflect the access adult sites means a person’s porn coming across inappropriate material. confusion surrounding it. viewing habits can be tracked. Those “Determined teenagers will find ways to

“It’s a mess,” said Jim Killock, of fears are compounded by the lack of access pornography.” the London-based Open Rights Group, a privacy and security standards for age There’s also the question of how digital civil liberties group. verification providers. Instead, there’s a the new rules would be enforced on the

Killock says the government’s voluntary certification with vague and many porn sites based outside the U.K. blueprints for its online “porn block” imprecise requirements.

The film board says it could ask payment don’t do enough to protect personal One age verification provider, providers to withdraw their services and data. Others believe the plan amounts 18+, has said it won’t apply for the U.K. internet service providers to block to economic censorship. And many fear certificate because its digital wallet them. the rules would effectively give more system wouldn’t be recognized.

Jackman said the result could be power to a little known company that “There are huge privacy concerns “economic censorship,” because smaller, dominates the internet porn industry. with how the data will be held, because independent British porn producers that

Under the plan, which is now the sort of information that people will can’t afford to comply would simply expected to come into force late this year, have to be giving up is highly personal,” shut down.

British porn site visitors will be asked to said Myles Jackman, a London-based Online porn is a huge industry, prove they are 18 or older. Options to do lawyer. Also, “there is a risk that that but estimates of its size are notoriously so would include buying a card with an data will be hacked, breached, stolen or hard to come by and there’s no official access code in a shop, where they will published in the public domain.” data. Pornhub, the world’s most popular have to show photo ID, or going online Critics point to data breaches adult site, is the 16th most visited in the to submit a copy of a passport or driver’s at adult-oriented websites, notably a U.K., according to Amazon’s Alexa web license or use a credit card. high-profile hack at infidelity site Ashley analytics .

The British government isn’t Madison that exposed personal details of Further raising concerns about

Twitter bans ‘dehumanizing’ posts toward religious groups

Twitter now prohibits hate but it has not done so yet, sparking speech that targets religious groups criticism from civil rights groups.

“Twitter’s failure to ban by using dehumanizing language, a ban it says may extend to other all forms of dehumanization immediately casts doubt on the categories like race and gender.

The social network already company’s commitment to fully bars hateful language directed at stopping hate on the platform,” said individual religious adherents. It Rashad Robinson, the president of also bans hate speech on the basis online racial justice group Color of someone’s race, gender and of Change, in a statement. “It’s no other categories. Tuesday’s change secret that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey broadens the hate speech rule to and other Silicon Valley leaders forbid likening entire religious groups have been reluctant to stamp out to subhumans or vermin, without discrimination and misinformation targeting a specific individual. for fear of a conservative backlash.”

Facebook has a similar policy

Twitter, along with YouTube dehumanizing speech, and Facebook, has been under fire banning for the prevalence of harassment “statements of inferiority” and attacks and hate on its service. Twitter’s against people or groups who share latest update came after users wrote protected characteristics such as race, in thousands of responses when ethnicity, sexual orientation, caste or the company asked for suggestions religious affiliation.

YouTube’s policy also bans on how to expand its hate speech material that promotes “violence or policies.

The company says it may hatred” against individuals or groups also ban similar language aimed at based on categories such as age, other groups such as those defined by disability, race, immigration status gender, race and sexual orientation, among others.

M.S. Construction Location: Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Is seeking Cleaner Duties: Dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, cleaning ceiling vents, restroom cleaning etc To work 5 days a week, Monday – Friday Salary is: $6.25 per hour Please Contact: 241-5134/ 333-0888 This position is new Interested Turks and Caicos Islanders are required to submit copies of their applications to Labour Board #230319

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Also include disposing trash, clean windows and door frames To work 6 days per week Salary $6.50 per hour Please Contact: 243-4620 This position is a first time position Applicants who are TC Islanders should send a copy of their Applications to the Labour Board

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This photo taken in London on Monday July 8, 2019, shows a laptop screen displaying the website for AgeID, an age verification system for the British government’s planned online “porn block”. the new system, one of the first age verification systems, AgeID, is owned by a multinational, MindGeek, which is widely recognized as the owner also of some of the most popular adult websites, including YouTube-like portals such as Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube.

In response to a consultation by the film board, numerous people and groups said they were concerned that a company responsible for providing so much pornography online would also become a gatekeeper that potentially allows it access to reams of user data.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to go public by year-end

British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic

British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic plans a stock market listing by the end of the year, giving it the much-needed funds to take on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the race to space.

The company will list its shares as part of a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, which will also take a 49% stake in Virgin Galactic.

Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 to cash in on burgeoning demand for satellite launch services and, eventually, space travel, a market long dominated by industry stalwarts such as United Launch Alliance - a partnership between Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp.

But since its early days, his ambitious timeline for taking customers into space has suffered delays and setbacks.

In February, the company took a step closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists when its rocket plane soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time.

Rival Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket to space, but its trips have not yet carried humans.

SpaceX last year named Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as its first passenger on a voyage around the moon, tentatively scheduled for 2023.

Hundreds of people from 60

countries, including actor Leonardo DiCaprio and pop star Justin Bieber, have paid or put down deposits to fly on one of Virgin’s suborbital flights. Some of Virgin Galactic’s ticket holders have been waiting over 14 years for their trip.

A 90-minute flight, which allows passengers to experience a few minutes of weightlessness, costs about $250,000.

The cost is expected to come down “dramatically” over the next decade as space travel becomes more accessible to common people, Branson told CNBC on Tuesday.

“I think we can do it a lot quicker than aviation did it.”

Virgin’s current reservations represent about $80 million in total collected deposits and $120 million of potential revenue.

Social Capital Hedosophia’s chief executive officer, Chamath Palihapitiya, will invest $100 million as part of the deal and will become chairman of the combined company.

“By embarking on this new chapter, at this advanced point in Virgin Galactic’s development, we can open space to more investors and in doing so, open space to thousands of new astronauts,” Branson said in a statement.

The deal was earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal, which said the SPAC will invest about $800 million in Virgin Galactic for a 49% stake.

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REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERTISE/SKILLS

VACANCY: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER POSITION SUMMARY-OVERVIEW This is a managerial position, which is responsible for shaping the direction of the Information Technology (IT) Department of the NHIB and provides direct supervision for the Systems Administrator. The IT Manager provides strategic leadership for the department and the technical resources to facilitate the development, implementation and/or integration of applications systems as well as the network and computer hardware within the target environment.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES •Developing policies, procedures, standards and controls for effective management of the IT Department • Designing, implementing and evaluating IT projects • Designing training plans for all system users • Providing departmental and system reports to facilitate decision making • Developing and ensuring continuous updating of manual to guide the operations of the department and the use of IT systems • Ensuring that systems are in place to recover/restore lost or damaged files • Identifying and sourcing new technology to enhance the capability and capacity of the systems • Developing, monitoring and assessing preventative maintenance schedule to ensure continued reliability of the systems • Managing and supervising the use and allocation for all IT resources • Ensuring service quality management • Ensuring that departmental IT needs are met • Preparing the departmental budget • Monitoring security/fire wall systems • Chairing the Organisation’s Disaster preparedness committee • Having scheduled and on demand meetings with departments to identify opportunities for training; be kept apprised of and timely resolve end-user

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology or related field • Management qualifications and experience preferred • At least five (5) years on the job experience to acquire the necessary competencies to effectively respond to the challenges of the job.

• Auditing and Systems Needs Analysis • Systems Development and Management • Networking • Database Development and Management • In-depth knowledge of IT System development, administration and management; • Knowledge of IT System Security • Knowledge of website development and management • Strong writing skills • Computer literacy in the main processing, spreadsheet, accounting software and presentation graphics programmes.

• Skills in managing meetings, negotiation and consensus building.

• Excellent interpersonal, oral communication and customer services skills SALARY Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience scale $72,000.00 to $84,000.00 per annum.

All Applications should be addressed to: Sheena Smith-Yip National Health Insurance Board Salt Mills Plaza Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands British West Indies Email: recruitment@tcinhip.tc Please ensure the application clearly demonstrates how you meet the noted qualifications as applicants will be screened based on the information provided. We would like to thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those who are selected for an interview will be contacted. Applicants who applied for any of the above listed positions, do not have to reapply. After submitting application to National Health Insurance Board Human Resource department, Qualified Belongers may also submit a copy of their applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Immigration Board.

Deadline for submission is July 26, 2019

maintaining a planting program and soft landscaping - Ensure that property grounds and car parks are a visibly inviting, safe and aesthetic environment for teams, coaches, spectators, and staff.

- Undertake general maintenance tasks in relation to the playing surface and surrounding areas, as well as, within the stadium buildings and offices - Ensure that all projects you are involved with are managed to the highest standards; working with sub-contractors, where required; and ensuring that the quality of site provisions meets the needs of TCIFA’s employees and customers.

Head Grounds Attendant The Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) is seeking a Head Grounds Attendant on a full-time basis. The successful candidate will support the Facilities Manager with the delivery of grounds maintenance, associated services, and processes that support the operation and setting of the TCIFA. They will ensure the highest standards of safety of building, landscaping, and grounds maintenance for the TCIFA’s employees and its customers.

Job Description & Responsibilities: - To deliver quality grounds maintenance services at the highest standard, in line with TCIFA policies and in compliance with the best practice of the Turks and Caicos Islands legislative, environmental, and certifying authorities.

- Maintain high levels of customer service and customer care standards when interacting with customers, staff, supporters and members of the general public.

- Prepare and maintain playing and training surfaces to a high standard, undertaking all duties to ensure they are in the best possible condition to facilitate the playing of Football - Under the supervision of the Facilities Manager, be responsible for allocated ground maintenance tasks from start to completion, undertaking the work personally or coordinating with others to ensure its timely completion.

- Take action when necessary – under the supervision of the Facilities Manager, where inclement weather or other factors are predicted to ensure that games are played. This may involve action in relation to public areas to ensure safety.

- Ensure that the fields and stadiums are prepared correctly for Fixtures and other TCIFA events, while supporting Match day operations i.e. the set up and break down of equipment on field; brushing of Artificial Turf - Ensure that all machinery is maintained and that they are safe and in operable condition, while adhering to the highest health and safety standards.

- Assist with lawn service and maintenance of areas around the grounds. This may include: mowing, edging, raking leaves, and other lawn maintenance functions;

Requirements - A minimum of 2 years’ experience with sports turf – a horticultural background would be an advantage, but is not essential - A strong sense of responsibility with good communications is required - Willingness to work outdoors, in all weather conditions - Ability to work as a team member - Must possess a “can do” attitude - Must have a flexible approach to meet the nature and demands of the TCIFA business The Head Grounds Attendant will be required to work, under the supervision of the Facilities Manager, approximately 44 hours per week. However, during match days and other business events, he/she may be required work outside normal office hours, in the evening and on weekends, to a high standard and have a flexible attitude.

Salary $2000.00 per month Please direct all applications to: Oliver A. Smith The General Secretary The Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association Venetian Road Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Email: olivertcifa@gmail.com The above-named position is currently held by a work-permit holder.

TCIFA invites and encourages all prospective applicants who are Turks & Caicos Islanders to send their application to the Immigration Board & Labor Commissions.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Deadline: July 23rd, 2019

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Are you a self-motivated, talented team-player, interested in joining a dynamic team?

The Amanyara Resort invites all suitable candidates to apply for the following position:

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE •The position of Director of Finance (DOF) is critical to the efficient and successful operation of both Hotel and Villas (private homes), having responsibility for maintaining & improving accounting systems, internal controls & processes.

The DOF is responsible for ensuring financial results are maximized, through effective budgeting, forecasting and cost controls.

•Assume responsibility for all day-to day accounting functions within the Hotel and the Villas, including banking, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, inventory, and cash management.

•Lead the accounting team, ensuring all daily operational & financial transactions are prepared accurately and in a timely manner. Hire, train, and evaluate the performance of the accounting team members.

•Produce month-end & year-end financial statements and forecasts in an accurate and timely manner, analyzing, understanding and communicating the relationship between actual results to budget and prior year and provide commentary on variances.

•Review and continually improve internal controls, processes and procedures to ensure financial information is complete & accurate and to ensure the security of assets.

•As an active member of the Management Team, assist the GM & Division Heads in budget preparation, business plans & the gathering of financial data for special projects & reports. Recommend and implement cost savings strategies.

Requirements: •Degree in Accounting/ Finance/ Business, and a professional accounting designation/certification or MBA in business are essential. Complete knowledge and experience with hotel accounting systems, USALI, and procedures.

•Minimum 10 years of International Managerial Accounting/ Finance experience in the hotel/resort industry within recognized branded properties, and exceptional analytical ability required.

•Experience and working knowledge of SunSystems, SAGE, Opera, Micros, Adaco and Advanced Excel skills.

•Ability to plan, prioritize & implement effectively multi-task while working effectively in a fast paced and ever changing and challenging environment.

•Willingness to work weekends, holidays and long hours during high season and/or as necessary. Applicants may be required to take a skills assessment test.

Salary: $9500-$9700 per month based on experience, plus service charge CHEF DE CUISINE •Responsible for the day to day management and operation in the allocated kitchen in the hotel, ensuring quality, cost control, safety and hygiene standards are adhered to.

•Responsible for directing, training, supervising, planning and coordinating within the allocated kitchen including any projects requested by the Executive Sous Chef or Executive Chef of the hotel.

•Ensuring quality products for the guests, and secure profit margins while maintaining the corporate image of the Hotel at all times.

•Assist in developing and execution of long and short range strategic plans to meet the desired objectives set by the management.

•Prepares food as per the recipes for guests, efficiently, economically, and hygienically and follows the standards and procedures.

•Always maintains high standards of food hygiene, cleanliness, and tidiness in the kitchen, storage, fridges/freezers and wash up areas.

•Works flexibly within the Kitchen area •Prepares various types of Hot and Cold Food related MEP •Works in a hygienic, safe, efficient and productive manner at all times.

Requirements: •Minimum 10 years work experience; preferably in a luxury resort •At minimum, a High school diploma and a Culinary diploma/degree •Must be proficient in English •Knowledge of HACCP •Must be able to lead multi-cultural team •Proven track record of cost control including food, equipment, labor and wastage to meet the set goals •Very strong managerial, leadership, communication and organizational skills Salary: $3200 per month, plus service charge VILLA HEAD CHEF •Responsible for the day to day management and operation of all Villa kitchens in the Resort, ensuring quality, cost control, safety and hygiene standards are

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•Responsibility for directing training, supervising, planning and coordinating in all areas within the culinary department including any projects requested by the Director of Residences/Executive Chef/F&B Manager.

•Ensuring quality products for the Guests, and secure profit margins while maintaining the Corporate image of the Resort at all times.

•A Villa Head Chef is the commander of the kitchen; he/she coordinates the kitchen staff and manages the preparation of meals, therefore, his/her duties include menu planning and management responsibilities, such as, plans menus, creates daily and weekly specials, creates special menu for functions, and determines portions sizes.

•Before and during meals, a Villa Head Chef oversees prep work and ensures that all meals are precisely prepared before leaving the kitchen and should reflect consistency in presentation and quality.

•A Villa Head Chef must be active in cost controlling and maintaining of food cost.

•The Villa Head Chef will train and manage kitchen personnel and supervise/ coordinate all related culinary activities •Modifies menus or creates new ones that meet quality standards •Estimates food requirements and food/labor costs •Develops and implements menus and meal plans that fit the facility, restaurant, or kitchen needs and goals on a daily basis.

•Direct and supervise kitchen operations and designated back of the house staff.

•Works well as part of a team and contributes to a positive work environment.

•Maintains a well-stocked inventory, and exercise wise cost control.

•Monitors hygiene and sanitation within kitchen and food-prep environments.

•Complies with nutrition and sanitation regulations and safety standards •Liaising with purchasing companies for food orders.

•Producing menus and new dishes and especially, the ability to write menus that are both creative and profitable and to assure that food preparation is economical and technically correct and within budgeted labor cost goals.

•The Villa Head Chef may cook selected items or for select occasions. The Villa Head Chef will sometimes oversee special catering events and may also offer culinary instruction.

Requirements: •Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role.

•BS degree in Culinary Arts or related certificate and/or four years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.

•Should have minimum 5 year experience in Villa Operations and high end Resort industry.

•Excellent communication & written skills.

•Should have excellent leadership& kitchen management skills and able to manage diverse teams.

•Computer literate and proficiencies in the following computer applications: Restaurant/Culinary Management software, POS Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint and Opera System.

•Previous experience with control food and labor cost, demonstration cooking, menu development and pricing; and development of culinary team preferred.

Salary: $2800 per month, plus service charge STEWARD SUPERVISOR •To maintain an organized, clean and sanitized back-of-house food and beverage area and to provide all outlets and banquets with clean operating equipment consistent with established standards; this will be achieved through planning, organizing, directing and controlling the stewarding operation and administration.

•To participate along with Food and Beverage Manager in the formulation of the Annual Operating Budget in determining projected operating expenses, operating equipment requirements in the line with the compilation of the Annual Business Plan.

•To ensure that the stewarding department is managed efficiently.

•To ensure that the food production areas are supplied with clean and dry kitchen utensils.

•To supervise night cleaning in kitchen and back-of-house food and beverage area •To ensure that back-of-house cleaning schedules and garbage runs are strictly adhered to and areas are cleaned according to the established standards.

•To strictly adhere to the par stocks for all operating equipment and supplies and to ensure that the department is adequately equipped.

Requirements: •Minimum 2 years stewarding supervisory experience in a luxury hotel.

•Good communication skills.

•Good organizational skills.

•Able to lift up to 30kgs.

•Familiar with Food Safety Regulations.

Salary based on experience: $1500-$1800 per month plus service charge For further information on the above positions please contact us by using the details below.

Candidates must be available to work 6 days a week, weekends, and holidays.

Positions marked with * are currently held by a work permit holder. However, qualified belongers are encouraged to send a cover letter & resume with the following attachments: Valid Police Record, Passport Bio Page, Proof of TCI status i.e. PRC, Belonger Status Card or Naturalization Certificate.

Human Resources Amanyara Resort Northwest Point, Providenciales E: amanyara.training@aman.com Prospective applicants are also asked to send copies to the Labour Board.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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BFC dethrones defending Champions BAZZ 001 in 2019 Championships Caicos United Premier League Championship powered by Flow well supported

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ix teams from various settlements competed for the coveted title of 2019 Champions of the Caicos United Premier League. In the final matchup on Sunday, July 7th, which attracted hundreds of fans, the defending Champions, Team BAZ 001 were dethroned by this year’s undefeated Team BFC, winning the championship game 3 to nil.

The 2019 CUPL Championships, mainly sponsored

by telecoms giant Flow, along with other supporting sponsors - namely, Caicos Express, TCI Lotto, The Haitian Consulate - was indeed one of the most exciting matches of the season.

In attendance were members of the Flow senior leadership team including Ag. Country Manager, Mr. Audley Gibbs, and members of parliament along with members of the Department of Sports and other supporting sporting bodies.

“We would like to thank all of our sponsors, without their support this tournament would not be possible.

Congratulations of the winners of the 2019 CUPL Championship. We look forward to growing this event through continued partnerships of both the government and corporate sponsors to unite our communities around sports”, Committee Member, CUPL, Clara Lightbourne.

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Durant officially joins Nets, Russell to Warriors

The deal bringing Kevin Durant return to join a new-look Nets team that to Brooklyn is official, and he’s changing added Kyrie Irving as well this summer and officially signed him Sunday, he’ll his number along with his address.

The Nets completed a sign-and- wear No. 7 — after playing in No. 35 trade with the Golden State Warriors on throughout his career.

Durant released a statement Sunday night, with Brooklyn landing Durant and a protected first-round pick saying he wore 35 to honor someone in next year’s draft for D’Angelo Russell, “very near and dear” to him.

Shabazz Napier and Treveon Graham.

“But as I start this new chapter

Durant said last week he would in my basketball life, the number I’ll sign a max deal with Brooklyn, which be wearing on my back is the Number would be $141 million over four years, 7 next time you see me on the floor,” after three seasons with the Warriors. Durant said.

Durant is a perennial All-Star and The rest of the deal was worked out over subsequent days, and the NBA signed off two-time NBA champion after winning Finals MVP honors with the Warriors in on the terms Sunday.

“Along with the rest of the 2017 and 2018. He’s a four-time scoring league, our coaching staff has long champion and his 22,940 points ranks admired Kevin’s incredible skill, third among active players. He missed resilience and tenacity,” Nets coach most of this past season’s playoffs, first Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant dunks Kenny Atkinson said. “He has already with a calf injury and then the Achilles as San Antonio Spurs’ Rudy Gay (22) watches established himself as a champion and rupture during the NBA Finals — a series during the the first half of Game 3 of a first-round one of the best players of all-time, and Golden State lost to Toronto in six games. NBA basketball playoff series in San Antonio we couldn’t be more excited to welcome “We’re thankful to Kevin for the incredible Russell got a $117 million, fourthings he did for our team and franchise year contract from the Warriors. He was him into our program in Brooklyn.”

Durant isn’t expected to play during his three years with the Warriors,” an All-Star for the first time last season, at all next season while he recovers Golden State general manager Bob Myers averaging 21.1 points, 3.9 rebounds, 7.0 from an Achilles injury. When he does said. assists and 1.2 steals per game.

Zion Williamson out for summer league with bruised knee

Z i o n Williamson’s summer league is over.

The New Orleans Pelicans announced Saturday that the No. 1 pick in this year’s NBA draft will not play any more at the Summer League in Las Vegas because of a bruised left knee. The team stressed the move is precautionary.

“Zion will move forward from this incident without issue,” Pelicans Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations David Griffin New Orleans Pelicans’ Zion said. “However, in an Williamson (1) reacts during abundance of caution, the team’s NBA summer league we have made the basketball game against the determination that he will New York Knicks on Friday, July 5, not appear in game action 2019, in Las Vegas for the remainder of the two-thirds of the seats NBA Summer League.” were taken even though W i l l i a m s o n ’ s all were sold. presence helped the When the Summer League sell out Pelicans announced that its opening day Friday Williamson’s summer was and reach another sellout over, it had a quick impact Saturday — when he on the resale markets: was scheduled to play Tickets that were going in his second game of for more than $300 apiece the summer against on Friday for the session Washington. that included the Pelicans’

Instead, he was game against No. 3 pick RJ watching from the bench Barrett and the New York area in a polo shirt and Knicks were available for not a jersey. That’ll be his under $100 on Saturday. game-time role until the W i l l i a m s o n NBA preseason starts in scored 11 points in nine October. minutes of his debut game

Every seat in against New York. But he the lower bowl of the took a knee-to-knee hit Thomas & Mack Center in the first half and was was taken Friday night for ruled out at halftime of a Williamson’s debut. That game that was eventually wasn’t the case Saturday, shortened after the when a generous estimate tremors of an earthquake might have been that were felt in Las Vegas.

“We’re excited to add a player of D’Angelo’s ability to our roster,” Myers said. “He’s coming off an All-Star season with the Nets and we feel, at the age of 23, his best basketball is certainly ahead of him in regards to his career trajectory.”

Another big free-agent deal got done Sunday when Utah completed the signing of forward Bojan Bogdanovic to a four-year, $73 million contract.

“We are very pleased to welcome Bojan and his family to our organization,” Jazz executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey said. “His ability to play both ends of the floor in addition to his exceptional shooting will make him an integral contributor to our franchise and our postseason goals.”

Former NBA MVP Derrick Rose also completed his signing with Detroit on Sunday, wrapping up a $15 million, two-year deal.

Many other agreed-upon deals remain pending, such as Kawhi Leonard’s signing with the Los Angeles Clippers and the blockbuster trade that will see Paul George join him via a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Silver says changes to rules on draft trades possible NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wants the hat game fixed.

Mindful that it was awkward for draft picks this year who were selected by one team and had already been traded to another — but because of league rules, were unable to be introduced by their actual franchise for more than two weeks — Silver said a discussion at the league’s board of governors meeting Tuesday was about how to change that going forward.

Several ideas are under discussion, including changing the rules about how and when draft-night trades can be announced. It could be earlier next season and not necessarily attached to the early July end to the moratorium on trades and certain signings.

“We’ve got to fix that,” Silver said.

First-round draft picks were issued hats to wear on stage at the draft, corresponding with the team that chose them. De’Andre Hunter went No. 4 overall, taken by the Los Angeles Lakers. His rights had been traded twice — first to New Orleans as part of the Anthony Davis deal, then to Atlanta. But since neither of those trades could be closed before July 6, Hunter wore a Lakers cap on stage.

“We talk about being fan-friendly, and that isn’t fanfriendly,” Silver said.

There are plenty of changes that will be under consideration in the next few months, including one about the rules regarding the start to the negotiating period for free agents.

Silver said that was also a topic among the board of governors on Tuesday.

For the draft-night-traded players,

it’s about more than the hats.

Because some draftees couldn’t be part of their franchises before July 6, they were assured of missing the start of NBA Summer League. It cost a few players the chance to play in summer league at all, which disappointed many of them.

That won’t be an issue next year, with Summer League in Las Vegas scheduled to begin on July 10, 2020, and long after the NBA’s new league year is likely to begin. So any draft pick that gets traded on draft night should, in theory, be with their actual team in plenty of time to take part in summer contests.

But this year, it was an issue.

“I was really Virginia’s De’Andre Hunter, right, is greetdisappointed,” Phoenix rookie ed

by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Ty Jerome said. after being selected with the fourth pick

Former North Carolina overall by the Los Angeles Lakers during forward Cam Johnson wound up the NBA basketball draft in New York with Phoenix after being drafted No. 11 by Minnesota. By the Travis Schlenk said he thought time the draft could be executed, this year was an outlier on the the Suns felt it was too late to put picks-being-traded front, simply Johnson and Jerome — the No. because of how many teams 24 pick whose rights were traded found themselves in situations twice on his way to Phoenix — where moves were possible. on the floor for summer league.

The Hawks introduced

So they remained in a their draft picks, Hunter and very cautious state of limbo for a Bruno Fernando, in Las Vegas couple weeks, because an injury over this past weekend instead could have potentially derailed of in Atlanta, because both any trades. were draft picks whose rights

“The one thing I was were held up in trades until the told was just to lay low,” Johnson moratorium was lifted and swaps said. “As much as I wanted to could be finalized. go out there, I wanted to play “It’s a hard situation, pickup, I was back at Carolina because you don’t have their for a week and there were alumni rights even though everyone games and all that that I didn’t kind of knows it,” Schlenk said. really take part in because I was “I’m sure the league will look told to lay low — which I did. A into it to see what they can do. lot of court workouts, a little one- They take, obviously, tampering on-one every now and then, a lot and salary-cap circumvention of lifting, staying under the radar and trying to get around it very but continuing to work.” seriously, so I’m sure they will

Atlanta general manager take a look at it.”

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Jamaica’s ‘spoilt’ male sprinters need to work harder – Bolt

Olympic sprint great Usain Bolt sees struggle ahead for Jamaica’s men at the world championships, claiming the Caribbean nation’s “spoiled” young sprinters lack the discipline to train and the hunger for success.

Bolt, who won eight Olympic gold medals and led Jamaica through a golden era in sprinting, said he felt motivation levels had fallen since his retirement after the London world championships in 2017.

“I don’t think it is going to get any better because I think these youngsters are a little bit spoiled,” the 32-year-old told Reuters from his home in Kingston on Tuesday, pointing to their attitude to training.

“I must say yes about that when it comes to sprinting in Jamaica right now on the male side.

“When I was around I think the motivation was there and we worked hard and the level was high, but now that I have left the sport, I feel like it has dropped.

“Not that I’m saying (it’s) because I left the sport, but now that I have left, it has dropped for me and Glen Mills, who is a top

Gold medalist Usain Bolt (JAM) of Jamaica bites his medal coach that I look up to.”

The 100 and 200 metres world record holder’s comments echoed sentiments put forward

by Jamaican sprint coaches Mills and Stephen Francis, who feel the nation’s male sprinters are not cutting it at the highest level.

Bolt bowed out of London with a bronze in the 100m and suffered a hamstring injury during the 4x100 relay as Jamaica’s men’s team missed out on a medal for the first time since 2005 in Helsinki.

The Jamaican men also had a disappointing Commonwealth

Games on the Gold Coast last year, picking up bronzes in both the 100m individual and relay events despite the relatively weak fields.

Bolt was more positive about Jamaica’s hopes in the women’s events at the Sept. 28-Oct. 6 world championships in Doha, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson jointly holding the year’s best time of 10.73 seconds in the 100m.

“Again I think that the females will do well,” said Bolt.

“If we are going to fail, it will be on the male side, but I feel like the females will hold up their end and will do well, but we’ll see what happens.”

Bolt said Jamaica’s women simply had more ambition and drive than their male counterparts.

“It’s the fact the females, I must say, are smarter,” he added.

“I personally believe that because they want to be rich ...

They want to be great, they want to accomplish things in life so they work towards certain things.

“They want to develop and go on to do big things. I don’t think that the males are there.”

Leonard, George officially join Clipper

The Los Angeles Clippers signed free agent forward Kawhi Leonard to a three-year, $103 million maximum contract and officially completed a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder for Paul George.

President of basketball operations Lawrence Frank announced the moves Tuesday but did not disclose terms of the deal, which have been reported by multiple outlets. It was originally reported that Leonard would receive a four-year, $142 million maximum contract.

Leonard’s deal is actually for two years guaranteed with a third-year player option, according to multiple reports. That would allow Leonard, a 28-year-old Southern California native, to opt out and become a free agent again in 2021, when he will have 10 accrued seasons and be eligible for the largest possible extension.

George, who the Clippers traded for to pair with Leonard, also has two years guaranteed and a player option remaining on his deal.

Kevin Durant’s four-year, $164 million contact with the Brooklyn Nets includes a player option for the final year, according to multiple reports.

ESPN reported that the Nets’ other big free agent acquisition, point guard Kyrie Irving, also has a final-year player option on his four-year deal worth $142 million.

Durant can opt out of his deal after the 2021-22 season, which could give the Nets just two healthy seasons from the 10-time All-Star. He is expected to miss the 2019-20 season with a ruptured

Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard holds his NBA Finals MVP trophy as he celebrates during the championship parade in Toronto on Monday Achilles he suffered in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors.

The Golden State Warriors officially released point guard Shaun Livingston after he spent five years with the team.

“We thank Shaun for his immense contributions, wish him well in his next chapter and look forward to honoring him at some point in the future,” Warriors cochairman and CEO Joe Lacob said in a statement.

Livingston, 33, considered retirement earlier in the offseason but now intends to play a 16th NBA season.

Veteran big man Mike Muscala kept his commitment to the Oklahoma City Thunder, signing his new contract with the team. Terms of the deal were not announced.

Muscala had been given the option of backing out of his agreement after the Thunder agreed to trade George to the Clippers.

Alec Burks, who had also agreed to terms with the Thunder, was given the same option and decided to sign with the Warriors instead.

Muscala, 28, has averaged 5.7 points and 3.3 rebounds in 15.9 minutes per game over 307 games.

He split last season between the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers, averaging 7.0 points and 3.8 rebounds.

The Boston Celtics waived forward Guerschon Yabusele.

Boston selected Yabusele, a native of France, with the No. 16 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. He played the next season overseas before coming over to play for the Celtics, but he has failed to make an impact.

In two seasons in Boston, Yabusele played in 74 games (five starts), averaging 2.3 points, 1.4 rebounds and 6.6 minutes per game. He shot 44.2 percent from the field and 32.3 percent (21 of 65) from beyond the arc.

Alex Morgan, US women’s soccer team honored at The ESPYS

Alex Morgan, a member of the U.S women’s national soccer team, accepts the award for best female athlete at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles

The U.S. women’s national soccer team celebrated its Women’s World Cup victory on both coasts Wednesday, honored with a ticker tape parade in New York City before jetting to the West Coast and collecting trophies at The ESPYS.

Alex Morgan won female athlete of the year and shared the best team award with her soccer mates.

“Sorry, but this is probably the second-best trophy we won this week,” Morgan said jokingly, hoisting her individual trophy.

As she got up from the front row, Megan Rapinoe’s black tuxedo jacket opened and exposed part of her left breast, which was caught by cameras showing the in-house feed of the show. An ABC spokesperson said the show would be further edited for the Mountain and Western time zones.

“I’ve dropped the F-bomb on every stage I’ve been on for the last three days, so we’ll just spare you that,” Rapinoe told the audience.

Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks won male athlete of the year at the show honoring the past year’s top athletes and moments in sports.

“This is all about hard work. When you believe in your dreams this can happen,” Antetokounmpo said. “Hopefully, if I keep working hard there’s more to come.”

Comedian Tracy Morgan presided over the show at Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Alex Morgan thanked ESPN for its recent deal to televise NWSL games.

“When the World Cup is behind us, it is the professional league that we need to continually lift up and grow,” she said. “Investment in women and girls should not only occur on the playing fields but in more storytelling of badass, amazing women who continue to show that we are more than just athletes.”

Sandra Bullock announced the best team award, saying, “All those in favor of equal pay say aye.”

The U.S. women’s team is suing to receive pay equal to their male counterparts.

“Keep fighting for equality,” Billie Jean King told the team from the stage earlier in the show.

Carli Lloyd informed the crowd the team had its hair and makeup done during the flight from New York.

“We look pretty fabulous, I think,” she said.

Lloyd added, “It’s been an incredible journey. Here’s to the next World Cup.”

Other athletes acknowledged the Women’s World Cup victory from the stage, including Drew Brees, winner for best record-breaking performance.

“It’s going to be in history forever,” new New Orleans Pelicans player Lonzo Ball said on the red carpet. “I don’t even watch soccer and I watched it. That means a lot.”

Zion Williamson, the No. 1 pick in last month’s NBA draft, earned best college athlete honors for his one-and-done season at Duke.

“Wish I could have stayed a second year, but I had other things to do,” a smiling Williamson said.

The best moment award was shared by a trio of recent retirees: Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, NFL player Rob Gronkowski and NBA player Dwyane Wade.

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