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Former integrity watchdog appointed as new DPP

BY OLIVIA ROSE FORMER Director of the TCI’s Integrity Commission, Eugene Otuonye, has been appointed as the new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

According to a statement from the Governor’s Office issued on Thursday (January 3), the well-known and respected Queen’s Counsel was selected for the position following an open recruitment process.

Governor John Freeman appointed Otuonye QC as the new Director of Public Prosecutions, based on recommendations from an interview panel led by the Chair of the Judicial Service Commission, Sir Michael Barnett.

The search for a new DPP began in November 2018 when the former DPP Jillian Williams discharged the duties of her position due to serious health concerns.

Under section 91 of the 2011 Constitution, the DPP is appointed by the governor in consultation with the premier, the leader of the Opposition, and the Judicial Service Commission.

Otuonye QC attained his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1983, and his Certification in Legal Education in 1984 in Nigeria and again in 1998 in Jamaica.

He commenced employment in law as a legal aid counsel in Nigeria in 1984 and from 1985 until 1996 he worked as a private sector attorney in Nigeria.

From 1996 until 1999, he served as the clerk of courts and prosecutor with the Department of National Security and Justice in Jamaica.

In 1999 he joined the TCI’s Attorney General’s Chambers

New Director of Public Prosecutions Eugene Otuonye

where he rose through the ranks from Crown counsel, criminal to be the TCI’s second deputy attorney general conducting both criminal prosecutions and civil litigation.

In 2006 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel in the TCI and from January 2006 until March 2008 served as the attorney general of the sister British overseas territory of Montserrat.

Otuonye was also granted Turks and Caicos Islands status.

In 2008 he returned to the TCI to serve as chairman of the Public Service Commission from 2008 to 2010, and from 2009 until 2011 was also a member of the Turks and Caicos Islands’ Advisory Council.

Otuonye held the position of the first director of the Turks and Caicos Islands’ Integrity Commission, representing the TCI as the elected chairperson of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commission and Anti-Corruption Bodies 2017 to 2018.

He is a member of the Bar

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Associations of Nigeria, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands and the International Bar Association. He is married with three sons.

The role of DPP was created by the 2011 Constitution which confers upon the governor the power to appoint or remove a DPP only with the prior approval of the Secretary of State.

132 Haitian illegals mark end of year for record numbers THE LAST recorded Haitian illegal sloop for 2018 was intercepted by the Royal TCI Police Force’s Marine Branch on Sunday, December 23.

On board the 40 foot blue wooden power boat were 132 illegal migrants - 102 men and 30 women.

The vessel was detected by the Coastal Radar System at 12.22am in the area of the Bluff, immediately following which Marine Branch M/V Sea Guardian and Sea Pursuit successfully intercepted it.

The detainees were transported to the South Dock Port in Providenciales and handed over to Task Force members who escorted them to the Detention Centre for processing and repatriation.

In October, Director of Immigration Derek Been told the Weekly News that between January 1 and August 31, the number of illegal migrants that the Government had already sent back home had already surpassed 2017’s overall total.

As at August 31, 2018, the TCI Government had sent home 1,476 people, with Haiti receiving the majority.

In 2017, that figure was 1,335.

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‘Don’t work with the new DPP’ says angered PNP member

BY DELANA ISLES THE RECENT appointment of former TCI Integrity Commission boss as the territory’s new Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has angered one Opposition member.

On Thursday (January 3) George Lightbourne, PNP elected member for Grand Turk North, launched a scathing attack on the appointment of the Nigerian lawyer, calling on local employees attached to the Office of the DPP not to work along with the new non-local appointee.

Queen’s Counsel Eugene Otuonye’s appointment as the new DPP was announced via press statement from the Governor’s Office on Thursday morning.

The release stated that Otuonye was selected for the position following an open recruitment process and following recommendations made by an interview panel led by the Chair of the Judicial Service Commission, Sir Michael Barnett.

In his statements to the press, the PNP member called the appointment “another slap in the face to indigenous Turks and Caicos Islanders and a clear indication that the powers that be are paying scant regard to the wishes, qualification, advancement and feelings of our people”.

Lightbourne contended that there are many Islanders who are qualified, able and willing to take on the many employment opportunities that the territory offers, including that of director of public prosecutions.

“But we are disregarded in favour of foreign nationals who are only here to reap the benefits that our beloved Turks and Caicos Islands has to offer them and at the same time they look down on us with inferiority.”

Otuonye is also a Turks and Caicos Islander by way of bestowment, but according to Lightbourne, he is a ‘paper Belonger’ - a group of people the member feels are given unfair advantage over ‘indigenous Belongers’.

“It is obvious to me that indigenous Turks Islanders are morally and despicably discriminated against every time an employment

PNP elected member, George Lightbourne

opportunity arises.”

The elected member then issued this call: “I am calling on all the local employees working in the Office of Public Prosecutions to protest and resist this attack on us by refusing to work with the new director. I am sick and tired of watching our people being taken advantage of.”

Although he claims not to have anything against the native Nigerian, Lighbourne pointed this out: “He is a man who I believe is unable to find work in his native land and certainly will not be given a job as director of public prosecutions in Nigeria (the most corrupt country in Africa) and he is only here because of the opportunity this country offers to people like him.”

He added that, in his estimation, it would appear that the people of the territory have been beaten into submission by a belief that they are not entitled to anything and that foreign is better.

“My call to you is wake to hell up and demand what is rightfully yours and stop settling for second and third best in your own country.

“People can only do to you what you allow them to do. This behaviour seems to be a pattern and it will continue until we take a stand against it,” the Opposition member said.

Otuonye takes up his new post on January 14, replacing former DPP and Trinidadian native, Jillian Williams who left the post late last year due to serious health concerns.

First form schoolboy admits to several burglaries A THIRTEEN-year-old schoolboy rang in the New Year at Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk, after being remanded there on several counts of burglary.

On the last Friday of 2018, December 28, Providenciales resident magistrate Jolyon Hatmin was compelled to remand the teenage student of the Long Bay High School for the offences after he pleaded

guilty to all the charges police laid against him.

The child, who is only in the first form, was unrepresented by legal counsel at his court hearing.

The boy (name withheld) is from Blue Hills, Providenciales, and has to return to court later in January for sentencing.

The child’s mother was also present in court at her son’s arraignment.

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TCI added to Dutch tax haven blacklist THE DUTCH government has added the Turks and Caicos Islands and 15 other countries to a tax haven black list.

The jurisdictions listed have no corporation tax or a corporation tax rate of less than nine percent, a press release from the Government of the Netherlands stated.

The 16 countries added to the list are in addition to five countries already black listed by the European Union American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa, and Trinidad and Tobago.

UK Caribbean overseas territories Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands were among those added.

Others include the Bahamas, Bermuda, Bahrain, Belize, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Vanuatu and the United Arab Emirates.

The list was published on December 28 in the Netherland’s Government Gazette.

“By drawing up its own stringent blacklist, the Netherlands is once again showing that it is serious in its fight against tax avoidance,” said State Secretary for Finance Menno Snel. “And that’s just one of the steps we’re taking.”

The list will be used in relation to three measures to combat tax avoidance.

The first is the additional measure on controlled foreign companies announced on the Dutch budget day, which

came into effect on January 1.

With this measure the government aims to prevent companies avoiding tax by moving mobile assets to low-tax jurisdictions.

The list will also be used to implement a conditional withholding tax on interest and royalties from January 1, 2021.

This means that companies registered in the jurisdictions on the Dutch list will pay 20.5 percent tax from 2021 on interest and royalties received from the Netherlands.

This will prevent funds being channelled to tax havens through the Netherlands.

Thirdly, the Tax and Customs Administration will no longer issue rulings on transactions with companies headquartered in jurisdictions on the list.

The Dutch list will be updated each year, while the EU list will be updated in the first quarter of 2019.

The Dutch list was subject to a consultation from September 25 to October 22. The consultation resulted in 16 responses, none of which led to the list being amended.

Just last summer, the TCI Government was celebrating when it was not placed on the European Union’s tax haven black list, despite being on the anti-corruption watchdog’s grey list in 2017.

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson in a statement

on June 7, credited the territory’s tax transparency, fair taxation and anti-base erosion, and profit shifting measures for preventing the black listing.

The EU process to set up a tax haven black list was triggered by publication of the Panama Papers documents that showed how wealthy individuals and multinational corporations use offshore schemes to reduce their tax bills.

The TCI was one of eight jurisdictions placed on a grey list, partly as a result of the 2017 storms.

Caribbean islands hit by hurricanes last year were given more time to comply with EU tax transparency standards when the black list was established in December 2017.

The premier along with several senior government officials with private sector partnership engaged the EU Code of Conduct Group in February 2018 in Brussels to start the dialogue and conversation of matters of mutual interest.

The premier said the TCI Government was able to demonstrate to the group significant legal and operational reforms implemented in the area of tax transparency and reporting.

The Chair of the Code of Conduct Group communicated with the premier by email on June 7 that the TCI would not be included in the 2018 List of Non-Cooperative Jurisdictions.

NIB, NHIB and credit card fees will be deducted from service charge

BY DELANA ISLES ONE of the proposed new changes to the Hotel and Restaurant (Service Charge) Ordinance 2018, will see NIB and NHIB statutory payments being deducted from service charge to be paid to hospitality workers.

This means that the statutory deductions that are required to be made by the employer from employee’s earnings, will now be taken from the service charge.

Due to the passage of the Service Charge Ordinance in September, proprietors of hotels, restaurants and villas who apply the service charge fee are now mandated by law to apply a set 10 percent to their customers and guests’ bills.

The ordinance stipulated that 100 percent of those monies collected were to have been paid to employees.

However, this stipulation caused a quite lot of discontent among proprietors, with some threatening

to pull benefits from employees, layoff and downsize of staff if they can no longer retain 40 percent of the service charge applied, as obtained in the past.

Another change to the ordinance seeks to clarify that the service charge will be applied to the total charges paid or payable by a customer or guest, which will then be distributed between staff.

The amendment bill also defines a number of key terms to better assist in compliance with the ordinance, and provides proprietors with the ability to have a distribution scheme prescribed or approved by the minister responsible for employment services.

It further defines the purpose of the facility fee and removes the cap on the rate of facility fee to allow proprietors or employers to choose to charge a facility fee appropriate for their property.

The ordinance in its current form

provides that proprietors can charge up to five percent in facility fee; the amendment bill removes this five percent and leaves the percentage open ended.

The amended bill also clearly states that a proprietor can cover the costs associated with administering the service charge through the facility fee.

It also goes on to clearly lay out the difference between service charge and tips, a point which has caused some confusion over the past several months.

The draft amendment bill reads: “A tip (also called gratuity) is not service charge which is payable under this ordinance; a tip is a payment made by a guest or customer to an employee or employees which can be in the form of cash or credit or debit card; and payment of service charge is mandatory under this ordinance, and

is automatically added to customer’s bill, whereas payment of tip is optional.”

The final amendment to the ordinance, sees another deduction being applied to the employees’ previously promised 100 percent service charge.

The bill states that the proportion of the banking fees from credit card transactions, that are associated with the collection of service charges only, will also be taken out of the service charge.

CONSULTATION As a result of these proposed amendments to the Service Charge Ordinance, members of the public have been invited to participate in providing feedback until January 11.

The amendments come on the heels of additional representations the Government engaged in with proprietors who will be affected by the change in the new Ordinance,

as well as further dialogue with stakeholders.

The draft bill, the Government said, seeks to improve the functioning of the ordinance by clarifying certain matters.

“Your comments are necessary to finalise these proposed amendments which are intended to ensure the viability of the industry for employers and employees.”

The proposed amendments to the Hotel and Restaurant (Service Charge) Ordinance 2018 can be found on the Government’s website www.gov.tc Comments can be sent to the following email address: servicechargeconsultation@gov. tc or can be provided in hard copy by being dropped off addressed to the Commissioner of Labour with the caption ‘Feedback on Service Charge’ at the Department of Employment Services, Sammy Been Plaza, Airport Road, Providenciales.

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Visiting consultant maritime specialist Brent Williamson (second from left) meets Government officials

TCI prepares for international maritime audit EFFORTS are being made to ensure the standards and procedures of the maritime sector in Turks and Caicos Islands are on par with the rest of the world.

Maritime consultant and specialist Brent Williamson visited the TCI recently to help with the development of a five-year maritime strategy.

Minister of Tourism and Environment with responsibility for the maritime sector Hon. Ralph Higgs and Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson met with Williamson in December to discuss a number of issues facing the sector.

In a statement issued on December 24, Higgs said major work

being undertaken in the Maritime Department will allow the territory to reach two critical goals.

“These are two key documents that are necessary to determine the future direction and strength of the maritime sector here in TCI,” he said.

“As stated by the IMO, it is necessary for flag states to evaluate its performance with respect to the implementation of administrative processes, procedures and resources necessary to meet its obligations as required by international instruments to which it is a party.”

Williamson began his on-island stakeholders consultation on December 12 by reviewing a number

of documents including agreements and international obligations the TCI is signatory to.

“As minister I am quite excited at the proposed outcome of this consultancy and the impact it is planned to have on our maritime sector,” Higgs said.

In 2020 the International Maritime Organisation will review the performance of the TCI against the Triple I (III) code that was implemented in 2013 and that sets critical standards to be adopted by member states.

The audit will assist the TCI and port authorities to prepare for a wide range of potential threats and security situations. (By Olivia Rose)

Wellness Centre receives two smart TVs from employees at Jai’s and Just Jai’s

Jewellers buy TVs for Wellness Centre STAFF members at a TCI jewellery retailers generously donated a portion of their wages to help brighten the lives of others this Christmas.

Money donated by employees of Jai’s and Just Jai’s helped to buy two smart televisions for the Special Needs Unit at the Wellness Centre in the capital.

On December 19, Tanya Russell and Manish Lalwani of Jai’s flew over to Grand Turk to present the centre’s members with their gifts.

In a press release on December 27, Russell said: “We wanted to give back to our community. Everyone donates to the schools, so we just wanted to give the elderly some

attention.”

The initiative was conceived by Jai’s team members who said they have a moral duty to use what they have to help others.

They are committed to continuing this throughout 2019, where once again they will make a team decision on a worthy community recipient.

Gift bags contained toiletries for inmates at Her Majesty’s Prison

Hotels donate gift bags to prisoners INMATES at Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk were given gift bags full of toiletries this Christmas thanks to the Providenciales hotels, Point Grace and Bianca Sands on Grace Bay. Patricia Duff, a volunteer at the prison for 13 years, took the bags which contained deodorant, shaving cream and shampoo among the items to Grand Turk last month to distribute to the prisoners.

In a press release on January 2, she said it was “heart wrenching” to know that many of the prison’s residents had not seen shampoo for years.

“Deodorants and shaving cream are also not issued, principally because there is no money for them,” she said.

On October 17 members of the TCI Human Rights Commission visited the prison in Grand Turk and conducted a review.

Following the review, director Sabrina Green released a lengthy statement exposing the appalling state of the penal facility which she described as “not fit for human habitation” and should be condemned.

Green said the condition of the facility is in breach of several UN standards and inmates have been “dehumanised” by poor living conditions leaving little room for

rehabilitation.

Following her recent visit to the prison to donate the gift bags, Duff stressed that a society and its degree of civilisation can be judged by the state of its prison.

She said the criticism by the commission is a “direct reflection of us and the lack of foresight of our Government”.

“The purpose of a prison, aside from the punishment of depriving a person of their liberty, is to rehabilitate people so they return to society as useful individuals and not reoffend,” she said.

However, Duff stressed that too little is available in the prison to assist this process and more funding is needed for rehabilitation.

“Leaving custody with no money, no job and no mentoring or other support, makes crime seem the only alternative to survival. Is this what we want?

“One of our Government’s roles is to ensure we live in a safe and secure environment.

“TCIG needs to support this by spending sufficient money to rehabilitate prisoners so they don’t reoffend.”

Anyone who would like to volunteer to support inmates can call Patricia Duff on 244-6838 or email patricia@turksandcaicos-islands.net

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Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson and Minister of Education Hon. Karen Malcom join American Airlines flight crew

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American Airlines introduces inaugural Chicago to Providenciales flight

American Airlines introduces non-stop Chicago to Provo flight INTERNATIONAL flight operator American Airlines officially launched its new Chicago to Providenciales

route on Saturday, December 22.

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, Minister of Education

Private schools told to reregister with Government ALL private schools and educational institutions have been asked to reregister with the Government to ensure quality education is being issued across the territory.

The Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services will be accepting registration forms until March 31 – and following up with school inspections.

A Government press release on January 2 explained that the aim of the exercise is to improve the administrative support, programming, quality assurance and standards provided to private schools.

This will ensure that “optimal educational outcomes are achieved for students in the Turks and Caicos Islands”, it read.

All private pre-primary, primary, secondary schools and tertiary institutions currently operating in the TCI should reregister with the Ministry of Education and have their documents submitted to the Department of Education before March 31.

The registration form will be available on the ministry’s website, emailed to existing schools and a limited number of hard copies will be available at the Department of Education offices in Grand Turk and Providenciales.

Once the completed registration form along with supporting documents are received, an inspection team comprised of officers from the Department of Education, the Department of Environmental Health, the Planning Department and the Fire Department will conduct site inspections.

The outcome of the inspections and review of registration forms will be communicated to proprietors and principals.

Schools that are in full compliance will be issued with a certificate by the Ministry of Education which will be used to enable them to proceed with renewal of business licences for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Schools not satisfying the inspection criteria will be given a deadline by which full compliance must be achieved.

All schools and educational institutions operating in the Turks and Caicos Islands are required by law to seek approval to operate from, and register with the Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services.

Pre-primary, primary and secondary schools are regulated by the Department of Education and all post-secondary and higher education institutions and programmes are regulated by the Higher Education Advisory Board.

Hon. Karen Malcom and other tourism officials welcomed the first of the non-stop flights.

The Boeing 737-800 arrived at 3.07pm at Providenciales International Airport (PLS) from Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD) and was welcomed with a customary water canon salute from the local fire service.

The new direct flight from ORD will not only be a winter addition to the Turks and Caicos Islands.

It has also been decided that the route will be coming back in the summer with three weekly flights in operation.

The summer route will take place from June 6 until September 3 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and is available for sale online.

American Airlines is gearing up to add even more US to Caribbean flights this winter season.

They include new flights to Aruba (AUA) from ORD and DFW, and

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to Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, (GCM) and Nassau, the Bahamas (NAS) from ORD. Customers will also gain new access to Eleuthera (ELH) and Marsh Harbour (MHH) in the Bahamas from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT).

American Airlines is one of the first US carriers to serve the Turks and Caicos Islands and has operated in the Islands for over 25 years. (By Olivia Rose)

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Weekly News Person of the Year

Washington Misick

A cautious custodian, a unifying presence and a ‘most unpolitical politician’

BY GEMMA HANDY

Washington Misick with his wife Delthia

WASHINGTON Misick chooses his words carefully, each one delivered at a steady, considered pace. So the candour that accompanies them is unexpected.

It emerges when he talks about the challenges currently facing the TCI. Again when he’s quizzed about who he thinks is best placed to lead the Progressive National Party (PNP) after his own imminent departure.

And once again when asked to compare his leadership style to that of his youngest sibling who was at the nation’s helm during some of the biggest scandals it has ever seen.

Such guilelessness, along with an unassuming nature and propensity for putting caution before charisma, have made him perhaps an unlikely politician.

In an era where autocrats rise to power on little more than charm, rhetoric and a sharp suit – and conflate strength with unbridled exercise of power – humility and authenticity are hardly buzz words.

Yet it’s precisely these qualities he insists are paramount but absent among most contemporary officeholders.

Finding a replacement to head the PNP after his term ends is an undertaking which has, by his own admission, consumed him for much of 2018.

An old photograph of Washington Misick with his family, celebrating the 60th wedding anniversary of his parents (front row, second and third from left).

Leadership is about teaching people, helping them face challenges Throughout the turbulence of recent times, Misick has been a judicious presence, working quietly to get the TCI back on its feet after a decade of controversial British intervention in its affairs, alarming rates of violent crime, rampant illegal immigration and tribulations wreaked by hurricane Irma.

Now, as he prepares to exit politics for good in 2020 – the same year he turns 70 – he’s devoting his attentions to helping safeguard the future of the Islands to which he has dedicated five decades of public service.

It is that long commitment to his country, along with his efforts and accomplishments as Opposition Leader, which have seen him named Weekly News Person of the Year 2018, an accolade he was “taken aback” by.

He describes the last 12 months as “very active” as he has striven to reorganise the PNP and guide it onto a “stronger footing”, endeavours hindered by postponements to the

party’s national congress and thus the election of a new chief and executives.

One of the problems with local politics, he continues in that measured tone, is a tendency for a cult following to arise.

“People have a convoluted concept of what a political leader should be like; his job, his function.

It’s important to break away from that strongman view,” he explains.

“In third world politics, leaders have tended to be charismatic and, while that has worked in liberation movements, they have often turned out to do more harm than good in the long-term. It’s the same thing that’s happened in the TCI. “A good 21st century leader is someone with self-knowledge, who is authentic and true to himself, able to orchestrate his following based on shared values, core beliefs and a democratic process, and whose focus is on his team rather than himself as a saviour.

“Leadership is about teaching people, helping them face challenges, embrace opportunities and coalesce around ideas that are of benefit to all.”

It was never Misick’s intention to be anything more than an interim Opposition Leader when he took on the role after the PNP lost the 2016 election prompting erstwhile Premier Rufus Ewing to quit.

“I see my position as providing experience and advising the next generation, rather than being out front leading the party,” he says.

“It’s a challenge to find the right person, not because there aren’t capable people but because a lot of very capable people are busy making a living and don’t want to put their families through the rigours and negativity that sometimes surround a political career.”

Stringent British oversight and constitutional reform have inarguably changed the TCI political scene.

“It’s no longer a winner-takesall system and to me that’s a good thing. But, in some cases, it’s wound too tight and one could become frustrated in terms of their ability to achieve a legitimate agenda,” Misick continues.

Would he describe himself as

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Washington Misick is a dedicated father and a grandfather to a blended family.

Here he is at a restaurant in New York with his wife, children and step children

a reluctant leader? He laughs, hesitates.

“Yes, I would say so. Ideally, this position should be held by someone interested in continuing in politics, which I am not.”

So, who would have his vote?

“At the risk of being partial – which I am – I would like to see Rufus Ewing return. He’s sharp with sound values, he has the experience and understands the challenges, plus he was head of the administration that successfully stabilised the economy and returned growth.”

The value of a solid fiscal understanding is not something Misick overestimates. His illustrious commercial career includes several banking and big league accountancy roles, plus many years in real estate.

But it’s public service that’s in his blood and a journey he embarked on from a young age. While other teens were lapping up the nascent freedoms of the swinging 60s, the Bottle Creek-born eldest son of 12 siblings was joining the police force as a fresh-faced 16-year-old.

Those three years as a PC stationed in South Caicos and Grand Turk opened Misick’s eyes to the “realities of life” and would have a marked effect on his future path.

These days, he looks back on his “rustic” North Caicos childhood with fondness and nostalgia.

“I grew up in a family that was service-oriented; my dad was involved in local government. My parents were literate but not educated; they went to a one-room grade school and worked as subsistence farmers.

We were poor but very, very close.

They were strong disciplinarians and as a kid I worked hard in the field,” he recalls.

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We need to get back those traditional values these Islands have been known for children, all privately and universityeducated, had experienced more of that “character-forming” way of life.

Misick’s first foray into politics was as campaign manager for the PNP in the 1980 and 1984 elections; the party was triumphant on both occasions. In 1988, he was appointed to the Legislative Council by then Governor Michael Bradley. Two years later he made a successful bid for leadership, taking the PNP to victory and becoming Chief Minister.

That four-year reign was followed by an eight-year stint as Opposition Leader after two successive election defeats.

Then, in 2003, a new face appeared on the scene – one who would change the course of the Islands’ history forever.

Misick was ousted from the PNP top spot by his brother, Michael, an affable, effervescent character whose brash style was a far cry from Washington’s own pragmatic, circumspect approach.

Party members voted in favour of the new injection of energy – and Washington found himself not only ejected as party leader but from Government too after failing to win a seat in elections of the same year. It would be almost a decade before he would return to politics.

Asked for his views on those heady, halcyon days of the noughties

with Michael governing the Islands, he’s diplomatic but frank.

“I would have preferred it if he didn’t win the party leadership but it was civil,” he remembers.

“In mature democracies, if a leader loses an election he resigns; I continued because no one else came forward, so to bring in a new leader in 2003 was the correct thinking.”

He continues: “Mike and I have different approaches. He’s a fantastic marketing machine, he’s charismatic, gregarious and a great people person, whereas I am more subdued.

“Those years were a time of unprecedented economic growth.

That’s not intended to take anything away from him but I believe there was a certain amount of organic growth that would have taken place anyway.

“I am a bit more cautious in the way I approach things and of course wisdom and maturity have something to do with it; I am not quite as impacted by the headlights of stardom, so we would not have ended up having the same scandals.

“But Mike has a tremendous ability to engage people. In 2003, he had a narrow win but in 2007 he had a landslide. He was liked; people were endeared to him.”

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direct British rule due to “endemic” corruption. Still, Misick is not an advocate for full independence.

“It’s really just a label. I don’t think small islands like ours could survive with political independence.

What I would really like to see is a stable economy and a return to some of the provisions of the 2006 constitution.”

For now, there are different concerns keeping this grandfather of seven, also a Seventh Day Adventist and Justice of the Peace, awake at night.

Disregard for the environment and the “breakdown of discipline in communities” are the biggest challenges for the nation, he thinks.

“I am afraid for the TCI,” he says simply. “People are becoming so influenced by American culture that it’s damaging the family structure and leading to an increase in deviant behaviour and crime.

“When I grew up it was the village’s responsibility to raise a child. Somehow we need to get back those traditional values these Islands have been known for.”

One of the reasons he’s keen to leave politics is so he can focus more on “unifying” the TCI’s “fractured” society.

“As more people have come to live among us, there’s a huge amount of misunderstanding between the various groups. I want to help build community solidarity.

Our existence depends on finding ways to coexist.”

Misick continues: “I am really worried about our environment. We are not careful with what we import, how we dispose of it, or with what and where we build.

“The dump is smouldering, our cancer rates are increasing and we

don’t know why, but I believe it has to do with the food we eat and what we are bringing into the country.”

And while he might be preparing to bid farewell to the political stage, his devotion to serving his country remains steadfast.

“I certainly won’t be retiring,” he reveals. “I plan to get back into real estate development, go back to North Caicos and hopefully be successful enough to pay it forward to the community that was so instrumental in my boyhood.”

It’s high time, he says, that the advantages of the TCI’s economic boon are spread beyond Providenciales to the sister islands in the shape of better clinics and schools.

“I believe these Islands have a tremendous future if we can do these things right.”

One of the great beauties of age, he imparts, is reaching the point where one can focus on his legacies.

Given his time over, he wouldn’t change much, save for garnering more life experience to better equip himself for the obstacles that accompany life in the public eye.

Asked about his proudest moments, being awarded an OBE in 2000 for services to government, something which “came as a complete shock”, is the pinnacle.

Ultimately, he’d like to be remembered for his work helping found some of the TCI’s most critical institutions, such as the TCI Community College.

“I believe, if you did a poll on the streets, you would find most Islanders would classify me as one of the most unpolitical politicians,” he adds with a smile, “as someone who built institutions, and cared deeply about the people.”

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TCI leadership at an all-time low THE LEVEL of low to which Turks and Caicos Islands leadership and local governance has fallen is absolutely shocking and jawdropping.

On December 6, leader Sharlene Cartwright Robinson took a delegation, that had no elected Opposition officials, to London to negotiate with the British and come to some agreement on amendments to our current TCI constitution.

On return she held a press conference to announce that the British refused to see her group, and they cited as reason, lack of crossparty cooperation and agreement.

In this release, instead of looking at herself, leader Cartwright Robinson is making it sound as if the Opposition is at fault for her group being turned away by her British masters.

An event she had no doubt been looking forward to, in sitting down with the British and appearing to have accomplished something significant.

The British refusal to see her is a most embarrassing state of affairs for the TCI’s local governance and leadership.

This is a regression in the territory’s representation and leadership stature and, instead of pointing fingers, Mrs Cartwright Robinson should ask herself what it is she did that might have led to this embarrassing dismissal by the British (see my previous article last month in the TC Weekly News in regard to this very meeting).

BY BEN ROBERTS Ben is a Turks and Caicos Islander and a writer and published author of ‘Jackals of Samarra’. He is also a founding member of the NGO Turks and Caicos Forum. He can be contacted at grandt730@aol.com.

Was her damn-the-torpedoes ploughing ahead on this meeting without Opposition participation for the benefit of the people, or was it something solely for her own gratification?

Moreover, does she not know the meaning of the word ‘consensus’, which is a necessary quality to possess in the art of governance and representation?

Should leader Cartwright Robinson not be hiding away shame-facedly at this national embarrassment that the British turned her and her delegation away like errant children, instead of pointing fingers at the Opposition?

Now get this, as one who hardly agrees with the British on most things when it comes to their dismal performance on governance oversight in the Turks and Caicos Islands, their action in denying audience to Mrs Cartwright Robinson and her team was very much in order.

In my previous article leading up to this planned meeting I queried whether this meeting was a case of ‘bush league politics’ and wondered aloud whether it was a fool’s errand.

From their curt dismissal and refusal to entertain Mrs Cartwright Robinson and her group, the British apparently came to that conclusion.

But one must wonder, what did Mrs Cartwright Robinson expect the British to do?

Should they have entertained her half-baked, unilateral proposals on something as serious as a constitutional document?

These people, for better or for worse, have a long-running parliamentary system where things are thrashed out in discussion and debate before it becomes the law of the land and the wishes of their people.

Why would anyone take her and her team seriously in the lack of sophistication in the way they crossed the Atlantic to address this matter?

Such quality of presentation and judgment by Mrs Cartwright Robinson and her group really does make one wonder about the quality of leadership in this crucial time for the TCI’s progress when an allhands-on-deck approach is needed so that our best and brightest are in

the forefront and at the helm charting our course.

The very fact that one of the Constitutional ‘amendments’ leader Cartwright was most keen on revising was one currently requiring the territory’s citizens not at home to meet a 12 out of 24 months’ residency just prior to election to qualify to vote, leaves serious doubt about her representation of the rights of the TCI’s citizens, and her vision for the progress of our country.

Her revised amendment was to change this requirement to a more stringent and nearly out-of-reach 36 months.

That does not sound like leadership suited to taking the Turks and Caicos Islands forward into this new and advancing global world.

Moreover, such restrictions do not exist in the British system for their citizens away from home.

In fact, they have an absentee balloting process designed to easily facilitate their citizens abroad being able to exercise their right to vote.

Same thing goes for the United States, as well as most developed, developing, and progressing countries.

In this case, in her ploughing ahead to meet with the British to further disenfranchise the people she is supposed to be leading, is leader Sharlene Cartwright Robinson not taking the country backward, and turning the Turks and Caicos Islands into a national embarrassment while doing so?

I have serious disagreements with the British and never thought I would say this, but thank God that they saw fit to do the right thing in this instance, as far as the TCI’s administrative oversight is concerned. Hopefully that trend continues.

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The new year COMMENTARY

WE ARE on the verge of starting the third year of ‘Change Government’ under the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM).

The first PDM Government in 13 long years.

The Progressive National Party (PNP) had it under Michael Misick, Rufus Ewing and Washington Misick. The British had it under Gordon Wetherell and whomever.

Now we have elected leaders that are in place by and for the people.

God is watching and as always has a long-term plan. We may not understand it but in the long run it will work out.

December 2018 was a sad, sad time in Grand Turk as a key young person named Joy passed

BY DAVID TAPFER

David is a retired mobile hydraulic engineer and business executive. He has been married to Middle Caicos native Yvette Robinson Tapfer for 27 years and has lived in Conch Bar, Middle Caicos, since 2002. David formerly served as branch chairman of the PDM from 2008 to 2011

away. She was Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson’s secretary.

Joy lived with Yvette and I about 25 years ago when she first encountered the disease that took her life.

She was a real Joy. Grand Turk overflowed with mourners. What a sad time.

Why did God choose this path for Joy? I asked the same question way

back in the 70s when my 11-year-old son Jeffrey was taken.

Maybe God wants the special young people near him sooner rather than later. However, I can testify, the pain lingers on, and on.

We must all look forward not backwards. History is an important element in planning the future. We must learn from our mistakes.

As I reflect on the disease that

took Joy, I cannot help but celebrate the fact that another younger person I know, the son of a TCI politician who had a similar illness, was treated in the USA and cured. Thank God. Now it’s up to Sharlene and her ministers to remember yesterday as they forge new beginnings.

The recent word from Britain is they will not consider a stronger constitution for the predictable future.

The official statement from Britain is not worth the paper and ink it took to write it.

They won’t consider constitutional change because the Opposition was not present in London. What Opposition?

The truth is obvious. Britain gave, what is now the left-over Opposition, the 2006 constitution along with its spending and borrowing power.

Then they failed to follow up.

Former British parliamentary under-secretary of state Meg Munn could not see anything to worry about as the TCI’s finances and land went down the drain.

It took an inquiry to start the years of trial and revelation of tonnes of evidence.

Britain gave the PNP the power and failed to follow up. Now they are frightened.

Frightened about their own ability to observe and act for a potentially rich overseas territory.

That is how Britain lost America, India, Australia, New Zealand etc. They never learn, but concerned TCI folk do.

That is why there is no ‘opposition’. Despite what recently did not happen in London we are happy and optimistic for this fresh new year.

The TCI waited for 13 years to change back to what worked before - Government for and by all the people!

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Parent Lisemene Moise with baby Yamie Pierre Louis and nurses

Angnic Saunders and her partner with baby Jah’nye Ricardo Zeiden Forbes and nurses

Kadisha Simmons with her baby girl Kendra Thompson and hospital staff

Two babies for Christmas and first one of 2019 THREE bouncing babies were safely delivered at the TCI Hospital to three exhausted but happy mama’s this

Christmas and new year.

Jah’nye Ricardo Zeiden Forbes was born at 5.10am on December

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25 at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre to mother Angnic Saunders and her partner.

The bouncing baby boy weighed three kilograms, 980 grams at birth.

Later in the day, at 10.55pm, the Providenciales medical team delivered a baby girl named Yamie Pierre Louis to mother Lisemene Moise.

Little Yamie weighed three kilograms, 490 grams at birth.

Although there were no January 1 births anywhere in the territory, the

hospital did record its first birth for the year with the arrival of beautiful little baby girl Kendra Thompson to mother Kadisha Simmons. Kendra weighed in at 3,660 grams at birth.

InterHealth Canada - Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital congratulated the three mothers, and in keeping with its annual tradition, presented the parents with a gift bathtub filled with infant-care items.

Commenting on the joyous occasion, chief of clinical services Mikette Been said: “I would like to congratulate

the proud parents on the birth of their neonates on Christmas Day. “This is such a wonderful time for your families and we hope that motherhood is filled with lots of fun, love and cuddles.

“A brand new miracle to call your own! Wishing both families the very best of luck with their newborns.”

Congratulations were also extended by the hospital to mother Kadisha and wellwishes to baby Kenda, the first to be born in a brand new year.

Grand Turk cop arrested for underage sex

A POLICE constable in Grand Turk was arrested on December 20 on suspicion of unlawful carnal knowledge with a minor.

The officer was given police bail in the sum of $10,000. He was then placed on administrative leave.

Provo cop charged and suspended

A POLICE constable on Providenciales has been charged with taking a vehicle without authority and corruption in relation to a report made on September 5, 2018.

He was arrested on Tuesday, December 18, charged and placed on $3,000 bail. He is scheduled for court on January 7.

The officer has also been suspended from the Royal TCI Police Force.

Burglary charges for middle aged man

POLICE have charged a 54-year-old man with burglary in relation to a report made on November 25.

He was arrested on Tuesday, December 18, and is set to return to court sometime later this month.

Teen on burglary charge

AN 18-year-old man was on December 19 charged with two counts of burglary in relation to two reports that were made between December 4 and 5.

He is expected to return to court soon.

Members of the Rotary Club with partners distribute the gift bags

Rotary donates food bags to elderly THE ROTARY Club of Providenciales donated more than 100 non-perishable food gift bags to elderly residents throughout the TCI this December.

The club partnered with the Turks and Caicos Real Estate Association and South Caicos Hope for the Senior Citizens Food Donation 2018.

A December 27 press release from the organisation said: “This initiative brought organisations together for one common cause, giving.”

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to arrest the men, one of them was shot by a rank and later succumbed to his injuries.

Police said Smith’s partner managed to make good his escape and police are now actively searching for him.

During the same incident, a police officer was also shot, the report said.

Judge Robert Shuster All Island Member, Josephine Connolly

PDM PARLIAMENTARIAN JOSEPHINE CONNOLLY DENIES SWITCH TO PNP AS 2018 began, rumours flew around the blogosphere that member of the House of Assembly and PDM stalwart Josephine Connolly had “jumped ship” to the opposition party PNP. On Wednesday, January 3, these rumours were staunchly denied by the PDM All Island Member in statements to the press, with her calling them malicious and mischievous.

Online news site, Magnetic Media reported that the rumours about Connolly’s defection to the PNP came just two hours before a press conference was hosted by Leader of the Opposition Washington Misick.

GOV’T TO CLAMP DOWN ON TAX EVADERS IN THE HOSPITALITY SECTOR IT WAS announced that long running tax evaders in the vacation villa rental sector would be compelled to pay taxes following an amendment to the Tourism Accommodation Ordinance.

This came as the Government continued to actively engage operators of the sector to collect revenue in a bid to regularise and level the playing field for all accommodation providers in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The clamp down on tax evading operators in the hospitality sector stemmed from a myriad of complaints from the owners of the Regent Grand and other hotels about the tax evasion practice of some villas, condos and private homes in the TCI.

Illegally erected fence blocks Taylor Bay beach access

BEACH ACCESS ROW SPARKS NATIONAL OUTRAGE THE RIGHTS of access to public beaches in front of private properties raised its head again on New Year’s Day, after several beachgoers looking for a spot to soak up the sun were accused of trespassing and told to leave Taylor Bay beach.

A video which circulated on social media depicted a heated argument between an apparent home owner and a group of residents.

The Weekly News understands that a private landowner erected a gate and a chain-link fence to block access to an overgrown path that leads to the popular Taylor Bay beach.

Wellington Williams who recorded the video believes the homeowner was racially prejudiced.

He said: “What made us furious was that, at this same beach there was about eight tourist families who also entered the beach the same way we did.

POLICE KILL LAVERN SMITH IN NEW YEAR’S DAY SHOOTOUT TWENTY-five-year-old Lavern Jeven Smith met a sudden and untimely death on January 1 at the hands of a police officer, making this the first death of the new year.

The Kingston youth was shot down by police at about 5.45am following a shootout with cops. Ranks of the Royal TCI Police Force visited Aviation Drive following a report they received of people being in possession of firearms.

The cops went with the intention of arresting two men whom they were informed had guns.

According to a police report of the incident, while attempting

Former TCI jurist is Trinidad’s new president, Paula Mae Weekes

TCI APPELLATE COURT JUDGE IS TRINIDAD’S NEW PRESIDENT JUDGE of the Court of Appeal of the Turks and Caicos Islands Paula Mae Weekes was set to become Trinidad and Tobago’s first female president.

On February, 2017, the Justice Paula-Mae Weekes was sworn in by Governor John Freeman for a term of three years.

But Justice Weekes was nominated by her government for the position of president to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

BEACH ACCESS REVIEW TO BE CONDUCTED THE GOVERNMENT announced it would be conducting an assessment of beaches across the Turks and Caicos Islands to distinguish public access.

This was revealed by Tourism Minister Ralph Higgs just over a week before a heated row which erupted on New Year’s Day on Taylor Bay beach over public beach access.

He said: “We will be momentarily releasing a report of that assessment which will identify clearly our beach accesses across the length and breadth of our country.

“Will identify those which are suitable for any sort of development and we will earmark some that will not be subjected to any commercial development.”

JUDGE ROBERT SHUSTER LEAVES JUDICIAL BENCH BRITISH Judge Robert Shuster who joined the TCI Supreme Court in March 2015 was announced to proceed on leave as his contract comes to an end.

Shuster who attained the age limit for judges in the Turks and Caicos Islands, 70 years, was commended by Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale for his sterling record and his rigorous approach to his work on the local bench as she wished him and his wife success in their future endeavours.

PNP LEADERSHIP UP FOR GRABS AT ITS upcoming convention, the Progressive National Party (PNP) was expected to vote for its next party leader who will take the party to the 2020 elections.

Current PNP party leader, Charles Washington Misick said he will be stepping aside to give the young people of the party a chance to lead.

The statement followed an impromptu announcement Misick made during a press conference on December 19, 2017, when he first indicated his desire to ‘step aside’.

At the time the seasoned and outspoken politician was remarking on a recent controversial government bill that appears to grant more powers to the sitting governor.

FIRST CARIBBEAN SUSPENDS OPERATIONS IN SOUTH CAICOS NO BANKS will be operating in South Caicos after CIBC First Caribbean suspended its services to the hurricane ravaged island, it was revealed.

The bank announced that customers will have to take a ferry or flight to complete their banking at either the Providenciales or Grand Turk branch.

On Thursday, January 18, a statement from CIBC First Caribbean said that weekly visits by staff to provide banking services through its agency there would be suspended with immediate effect.

PREMIER NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR SEVERAL GOV’T DEPARTMENTS AND STATUTORY BODIES AS OF FEBRUARY 1, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson was expected to take over control of several government departments as well as a number of statutory bodies.

The change to the premier’s portfolio was announced by way of the Gazette published on January 19.

The premier was charged with responsibility for the conduct of government business relating to investment, trade and finance, CARICOM affairs, the National Insurance Board, the National Health Insurance Board, the Ports Authority, the Airports Authority, the Civil Aviation Authority and Invest Turks and Caicos.

She is also now granted responsibility for the Budget Department, Strategic Policy and Planning Department, Customs Department, Accountant General Department, Revenue Control Unit, Trade Department, Central Information Technology Unit, Exchange of Information Unit, Statistics Department and District Administration.

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Year in review 2018 BILL TO LEGALISE COURT REGISTRY IN PROVO DISRUPTS HOA A BILL to amend the Supreme Court Ordinance so that the court registry in Providenciales can be recognised in law caused much anger and disruption in the House of Assembly on Monday, January 31.

The bill was staunchly opposed by Opposition appointed member Royal Robinson and elected member for Grand Turk North George Lightbourne, with the latter slinging accusations of government interference in the judiciary.

He said that Grand Turk is being side-lined due to the

movement of government resources and services out of the capital.

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revealed that the overall cost to the Government to fully repair schools across the territory will be $10.1 million.

This sum will be taken from the $15.2 million pay-out to the TCI Government from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF).

GOVERNMENT SCHOOL REPAIRS PRICED AT $10.1M FOLLOWING a damage assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education, it was

Digicel’s technical team at work

DIGICEL TO INJECT $15M INTO NETWORK AND SERVICE UPGRADES DIGICEL customers throughout the TCI were expected to enjoy faster and more reliable internet speed as the company announced a whopping $15 million investment to upgrade its network and improve services across the territory.

The company’s critical infrastructure suffered immense damage throughout the Islands following the two hurricanes in 2017.

Digicel announced a myriad of ambitious plans to deliver enhanced quality services at a press conference held on Thursday, February 1, at its main office in Providenciales.

HOA MEMBERS BEMOAN LACK OF HURRICANE RECOVERY IN SISTER ISLANDS BOTH Temard Butterfield and George Lightbourne spoke out against the slow pace of recovery in the sister islands, particularly in the capital of the TCI, Grand Turk.

Butterfield, who is one of two Governor appointed members, spoke during the Monday, January 29, meeting of the House of Assembly.

He called on the Government and businesses whose services have still not been fully restored in the islands to keep the people informed so they don’t feel so forgotten.

“There must be a deliberate attempt to keep our citizens updated on progress that is happening in Turks and Caicos Islands,” he said.

PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE TICKETS FOR FINES ON ILLEGAL STRUCTURES MEMBERS of the House of Assembly all voted to amend the Physical Planning Ordinance on Monday, February 5, so that tickets could be issued for those in contravention of the ordinance and TCI’s building codes.

Minister of Infrastructure, Housing and Planning, Goldray Ewing, presented the Physical Planning Amendment Bill 2018 and received bipartisan support for the amendment put forth.

He said that in order for the Department of Planning to be more effective in carrying out its mandate, the ordinance must be updated giving it more teeth to enable the department to swiftly carry enforcement when there are breaches of the law.

TWO DAY HOME INVASION SPREE ROCKS BLUE HILLS A SLEW of consecutive home invasions left Blue Hills residents in fear as the community remained without any police presence.

On Monday, February 5, the police press office reported on the weekend robberies, in which no suspect had been arrested for questioning up to press time.

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Year in review 2018 SERIOUS CRIME DOWN 36% AT END OF 2017 SERIOUS crime in the Turks and Caicos Islands was down 36 percent at the end of 2017 due to a number of crime-fighting strategies, TCI’s police chief said.

A February 14 press statement revealed that there was a sharp decline in crime for the third quarter of 2017, from October to December.

Commissioner of Police James Smith said the force recorded 426 crimes, down from 667 in the same period the year before.

He said: “In that period, we have detected 28 percent of reported crimes, up from 22 percent for the same period last year.”

The commissioner added that from April to December 2017 there were 1,756 crimes recorded.

ELDERLY MAN STRUCK DOWN IN FIVE CAYS MEMBERS of the public, the police and family of John Parker appealed to the driver of the vehicle that struck him down and killed him to come forward.

On Friday, February 9, the 73-year-old was hit by a vehicle in Five Cays. The incident took place at about 11pm.

It was reported to the 911 Centre that an unresponsive man was found lying in the main roadway coming out of Five Cays.

Reports are that Parker’s body was found a few feet from his apartment. His phone, wallet and keys were not found on his person.

Shabby illegal homes in Blue Hills, Providenciales

GOVERNMENT GRAPPLES WITH SQUATTING ISSUE ALTHOUGH the Planning Department has the legislative teeth to fully enforce the territory’s building codes, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson said people “cannot and should not expect overnight results”.

In a press release issued on Monday, February 19, the premier threw her full support behind the Planning Department and the Ministry of Infrastructure for the arduous work to be undertaken.

She stressed that while the department has come in for heavy criticism on many occasions, it simply did not have the tools and legislative authority to carry out its functions as efficiently and effectively as mandated.

GRACE BAY BEACH NAMED BEST BEACH IN THE WORLD – AGAIN BREATHTAKING turquoise waters and powdery white sands won Grace Bay in Providenciales the top honour of Tripadvisor's ‘Best beach in the world’.

The popular beach increased its position from the number two ranking in 2017 and reclaimed the top spot it held in 2016.

Tripadvisor’s annual rating placed Grace Bay on top of the Travellers’ Choice Beach Awards, beating competition from beaches in Brazil, Cuba and Spain and Florida.

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NATIONAL SKILLS AUDIT TO BOOST EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THE GOVERNMENT completed a National Skills Audit in a bid to develop a more vibrant and competitive workforce in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The audit report will direct national strategic plans and provide policymakers with the necessary information and data to increase employability and to assess the working and living conditions of residents.

Ritz Carlton breaks ground

‘IT HAS TRULY BEEN A BUMPY ROAD TO PARADISE’ - ROBERTO STIPA AFTER seven years of challenges, the Desarrollos Hotelco group was set to begin construction on the territory’s first 12 storey resort and spa.

Ceremoniously breaking the earth on Monday, February 26, with a small toss of soil at the Grace Bay site of the new hotel, were Roberto Stipa of Desarrollos, Marriott brand’s Tim Sheldon, Governor John Freeman, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson and local realtor Walter Gardiner.

Roberto Stipa, who represented his father Walter and other principals of the Desarrollos Hotelco group, spoke of the ambitions his company has for the project.

“Today’s ground-breaking milestone is the first of a series to follow. We’ve had a long road, too long, a road full of potholes and setbacks.

“I think we can all agree that it has truly been a bumpy road to paradise. We are not there yet, but with all of your continuous support and assistance we will prevail and successfully reach the ultimate goal.”

GOV’T TO MOVE AHEAD WITH ISLAND LINK PROJECT AN INFRASTRUCTURAL development that will see all of the inhabited islands of the Turks and Caicos Islands being connected by highways or bridges, is on its way.

This is according to Minister of Infrastructure, Housing and Planning Goldray Ewing, whose thoughts on the project were recently solicited by the Weekly News.

On February 14, at a Cabinet meeting in Grand Turk the minister provided members with an information paper on the ‘The Turks and Caicos Spine Road Project’ which would provide inter-island connection from as far as South Caicos to Providenciales.

MARCH STATUTORY BODIES REPORT RECOMMENDS TOTAL DISSOLUTION OF NHIB A LONG-awaited report on the performance and management of statutory bodies in the TCI recommended a total dissolution of the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB) due to inefficiency.

The report, which made damning revelations about the state of affairs of several statutory bodies in the TCI, was released at a joint press conference with Governor John Freeman and Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson on Thursday, March 1, at the Office of the Premier in Providenciales.

The review, which was conducted by the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Stephen Turnbull, evaluated the governance and administrative structure of all statutory bodies and zeroed in on the internal procedures and the effectiveness of the boards’ supervision.

It examined the internal procedures of the senior management of the boards with an overall objective to ensure more transparency and accountability of the semi-autonomous bodies.

TOURIST BOARD, COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD AND NHIB ARE ‘LIABILITIES’ THE TOURIST Board, Community College Board, the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB) have over the years demonstrated poor standards of governance which have resulted in significant contingent liabilities being incurred by the Government.

A 67 day review conducted by former chief financial officer (CFO) Stephen Turnbull was commissioned by the Government to examine the statutory bodies.

A detailed version was disseminated to the public on Tuesday, March 6.

Although the deficiencies of all statutory bodies were exposed, the review strongly recommended the dissolution of three boards on the basis that they have failed to demonstrate adequate control over the entities leading to a collapse in governance.

It stated that management systems have broken down and the functions which are undertaken in a statutory body means that the Government cannot exercise the level of oversight required to properly bring these boards under control.

ARTHUR FORBES NOT GUILTY OF RAPE FORMER president of the Labour Tribunal, Arthur Forbes, was found not guilty of three counts of rape.

The jury trial started on Monday, March 6, in Providenciales Supreme Court, with Forbes being represented by attorneys Clayton Greene and Keith James.

It concluded on Thursday, March 15, with a jury verdict of not guilty.

Forbes was accused of having sex on three separate occasions with a woman without her consent.

STATUTORY BODY BOSSES’ EXTORTIONATE SALARIES REVEALED SENIOR officials of several statutory bodies in the TCI were matching their salaries to noncomparable countries in the region, which has resulted in extravagant salary increases.

This was revealed in the comprehensive Statutory Body Review report undertaken by former chief financial officer (CFO) Stephen Turnbull, who examined the state of affairs of the semi-autonomous bodies in the territory.

Major salary differences across the boards were highlighted with a common thread of inflation for the chief executive officers or managing directors of these organisations.

The report disclosed that when some statutory bodies conducted job evaluation exercises inequitable salary comparisons were made and often adopted.

MP JOSEPHINE CONNOLLY SITS WITH OPPOSITION IN HOA ELECTED all island member and former Government minister, Josephine Connolly requested to be seated away from the Government benches in the House of Assembly.

The issue was raised during the House of Assembly sitting on Thursday, March 15, during a personal statement made by the member.

The member took her grievance to the House in the form of a personal statement, in which she said that she felt disrespected by the Government, and requested a different seating arrangement.

Connolly, who is the former minister of education in the PDM Government and is still a member of the PDM party, sits in her old position on the Government’s side of the House.

OPPOSITION SAYS HALT NEW WORK PERMITS FOR HAITIANS NO NEW work permits should be handed out to Haitian

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Year in review 2018 nationals in a bid to stem illegal migration, according to Leader of the Opposition Hon. Washington Misick.

He said the move would send a strong message to the Haitian government which has not been “an honest partner”.

“And as a neighbour we should have a relationship with them, but we need to speak sternly to them, we need to make sure that they understand that we’re not going to allow our Islands to be colonised by Haiti.”

The suggestion came following a recent influx of illegal migrants, which prompted the deployment of Royal Navy ship RFA Mounts Bay to the TCI.

Communications, Vaden Delroy Williams.

In an invited interview with the Weekly News on Thursday, April 5, Williams said that the public consultation on the issue carried out last year had been completed and they were prepared to take it one step further.

“We have completed the transportation survey and now we have a paper coming before the next Cabinet to deal with some amendments to the Road Safety Ordinance that will help to guide the way forward and how we are going to implement the public transportation service,” Williams said.

PROVO AIRPORT TERMINAL IN NEED OF ‘MAJOR UPGRADES’ FORMER premier Michael Misick has said the terminal at Providenciales International Airport (PLS) should be on par with other developing nations and is in dire need of major upgrades.

He expressed his opinions about the facility on the Average Joe Show on PTV on Wednesday, March 21.

During the broadcast Misick said: “Over a couple years ago I understand $10 million was spent on expanding the airport.

“I don’t see the difference. Clearly the present facilities need to be upgraded.”

RFA Mounts Bay off the shores of Grand Turk last September helped assist with hurricane recovery

ROYAL NAVY SHIP REDEPLOYED TO HELP WITH TCI BORDER PROTECTION ON MONDAY, March 19, a directive from the United Kingdom government saw the Royal Navy ship, RFA Mounts Bay being deployed to the waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The ship was redeployed at short notice from regional operations, arriving to assist the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police and border control authorities with tackling the recent upsurge in the number of illegal sloop landings in the TCI.

HMP PRISONERS GO LIVE ON FACEBOOK ONE of the many features of social media, called ‘live streaming’ was put to inappropriate use by several prisoners being held at Her Majesty’s Prison in Cockburn Town.

In a 40 minute long uninterrupted video posted on Thursday, April 5, at about 6pm, the unsupervised inmates expressed themselves through song, dance, socialising with the many people who commented on the stream and even added many others to the video.

One of the prisoners was later identified as Christopher Forbes, a native of the Bahamas who is on remand at HMP on two murder charges, others included Conrad Thomas Jr who is in prison for murder, Collins Delaney Jr for manslaughter and many other voices who could not be seen but have since been identified as persons in custody for offences such as robberies, attempted murders, thefts, burglaries and firearm related offences.

‘CONTRACT KILLING’ LEAVES INNOCENT BYSTANDER DEAD AND ANOTHER INJURED SWIFT police action and video surveillance evidence led to the quick capture of two young men in the tragic March 23 murder of Andreika Stubbs and shooting a 17-year-old schoolboy.

After being arrested on Friday and Saturday the two men - aged 19 and 20 - were taken before the Supreme Court on Sunday where a judge ordered that they could be detained beyond the lawfully stipulated 48 hours without them being charged, and while investigations continue.

HOTELS TO PAY SETTLEMENT TO GOV’T IN 12 STOREY LEGAL BATTLE THE GOVERNMENT of the Turks and Caicos Islands will receive a $112,000 settlement from the two hotels with whom they were entangled in a year long building height increase legal controversy.

The terms of the settlement between the parties were revealed on Tuesday, March 27, by Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson during a sitting of the House of Assembly in Grand Turk.

The premier was responding to questions posed by Opposition Appointed Member, Royal Robinson when she made the disclosure.

Robinson’s questions on the withdrawal of the appeal to the Privy Council by The Tuscany and The Venetian Strata Corporation hotels and the settlement to be paid to the Government as part of the litigation, have been pending for quite some time.

APRIL GOV’T MOVING AHEAD WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE THE PROMISE of public transportation moved may soon be fulfilled, according to Minister of Home Affairs, Transport and

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RECOVERY VIDEO RELEASED TO ENCOURAGE INVESTMENT A VIDEO that highlighted the TCI’s quick recovery following hurricanes Irma and Maria was released online.

‘Turks and Caicos Islands Bounces Back’ was produced by FDi Intelligence, a global foreign direct investment service run by the Financial Times, in collaboration with Invest TC. Beautiful visuals, insightful commentary and interviews with tourism sector heads show that the Islands are open for business and remain an investment destination of choice.

The 17 minute FDi On Location segment premiered at MIPIM, the world’s leading international real estate business, conference and networking event in Cannes, France, on March 13.

MARIO RIGBY SPEAKS AFRICA AND INSPIRATION THE Weekly News sat down with Mario Rigby upon his arrival in Turks and Caicos Islands, to get his perceptive on how his two year expedition across the African continent has changed and shaped him for the better, or the worse.

Mario started his journey across the African continent in November 2015, completing his solo 12,000 kilometre expedition from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt, on January 24.

UK NOT PREVENTING GOV’T SPENDING, SAYS GOVERNOR A CLEAR message was sent by Governor John Freeman that the United Kingdom is not preventing the Turks and Caicos Islands from spending any of its money or from borrowing on the international market if the Government so desires.

That message was conveyed to the media on Thursday, April 12, during a rap session the governor hosted with the local media at his Raleigh House office in Providenciales.

The issue came following statements made by the governor in relation to the aid the UK has given to the TCI since the territory was hit by two major storms last September.

Governor Freeman stated that the Government can spend its own money to further aid in the territory’s recovery from the devastating hurricanes.

“I should add that in terms of identifying funding to meet immediate post hurricane renovations and repairs the UK has not restricted this in any way, and has encouraged TCIG to draw as necessary on its financial resources including if necessary on it comparatively large reserves,” the governor said.

PROVO CABBIES PROTEST ‘UNFAIR’ PRIVATE CONTRACTS PROVO taxi drivers on Sunday, April 15, parked their vehicles and refused to provide service leaving many passengers stranded at the airport, over what they call “unfair” competition.

Ron Higgs, president of the United Taxi Alliance (UTA), speaking to the media on Monday said concerns were falling on deaf ears.

The group had repeatedly lobbied for a sit down with the TCI Airport Authority (TCIAA), he said, but had been denied such a meeting.

“We had to take some action that we were not happy to take but we felt we were being forced to take that action, which was to just park our vehicles and not move when we were being called.

Murder accused Christopher Forbes

‘FACEBOOK FAMOUS’ PRISONER TO STAND TRIAL FOR DOUBLE MURDER TWO years after being remanded to prison for two murders which shocked and terrified the territory, Christopher Forbes was told he would finally get his day in court on May 26.

Forbes retained senior foreign counsel to argue his case in the Supreme Court.

Representing him was set to be Queen’s Counsel, Jerome Lynch out of the United Kingdom and who was already representing former Government minister and corruption accused, McAllister Hanchell in the SIPT trial.

TRAFFICKED WOMEN ‘ISOLATED AND SEXUALLY EXPLOITED’ HUMAN trafficking is an issue of great concern in the Turks and Caicos Islands, according to the TCI Human Rights Commission.

The watchdog group issued a statement on Monday, April 16, in the wake of an immigration task force sweep which saw the detention and repatriation of 36 women from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Columbia.

The commission said human trafficking is modern day slavery and is common in the TCI with enablers throughout the territory.

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Year in review 2018 It added that women are usually provided with visas or work permits and are brought to the Islands under the pretext of legitimate working opportunities such as barmaids, nannies, waitresses and dancers.

They then often find themselves, unwillingly in most cases, plying sexual favours, engaging in prostitution or being victims of other forms of forced labour.

PNP SEEKS TO PROPEL PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP DURING SEMINAL EVENT MEMBERS of the Progressive National Party (PNP) embarked on a conference intended to pave the way for a younger and brighter leadership.

The seminar came just a few short months following party leader and leader of the Opposition Charles Washington Misick’s decision to step back and give the younger generation a shot at charting the course to 2020.

Over the course of two days - April 20 and 21 - members were invited to listen to and engage with a series of high profile speakers from the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas and Jamaica.

GOV’T TO FOCUS RESOURCES ON PRIMARY HEALTHCARE A CONCERTED effort is being made to prioritise primary healthcare in a bid to reduce the financial burden on the treatment abroad programme.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, April 23, Minister of Health Hon. Edwin Astwood said greater focus needed to be placed on disease prevention and early detection to decrease the burden on secondary care.

He pointed out that it is more cost effective and efficient to invest in resources required for primary healthcare facilities and to undertake prevention work to curtail the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, as opposed to focusing on the far costlier curative aspect of medical care.

MAY ANGER OVER UK’S COMPANIES PUBLIC REGISTRY DECISION A DECISION by the United Kingdom’s house of representatives to force British overseas territories (BOTs) to make beneficial owners of registered companies public, angered many BOTs in the Caribbean.

The decision came after a cross-party amendment to a sanctions and anti-money laundering bill was accepted by the UK government on Tuesday, May 1.

The amendment requires the 14 overseas territories to introduce public ownership registers by the end of 2020 or have the requirement imposed by the UK. Chairman of the PDM party and elected member for Cheshire Hall, Doug Parnell said since coming into office, the PDM has been committed to being transparent, spending a considerable amount of time passing new companies legislation that complied with the recent goals set by G7 countries.

He added that despite the many goalposts set by the UK for BOTs to attain, they continue to change them.

REPATRIATION COSTS ARE DRAINING THE TERRITORY’S FINANCES THE GOVERNMENT spent a total of $4.3 million in the last four years on repatriation of illegal immigrants, according to Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson.

Speaking at a press conference on April 20, she said the excessive expenditure is draining the TCI’s funds that could be used to further develop the territory.

She added that the high number of undocumented people in the Turks and Caicos Islands is a major cause for concern.

In breaking down the statistics spanning a five year period (2013 to 2018) Cartwright Robinson revealed that in 2013 there were six sloop landings and nine intercepted vessels, which saw some $1,286,505 being spent to repatriate 1,279 people.

This was the highest amount spent during any year on repatriation.

HAITIAN MAN FOUND DEAD IN PARKED CAR A TRAGEDY shook many in the territory as a well-known young man was found dead in his car in Blue Hills.

The man, who police did not name, but who was since identified as Haitian native Steve Pierre, was discovered unresponsive in his vehicle by emergency personnel at about 3.20pm on Tuesday, May 1.

Pierre’s parked vehicle, with him inside of it, was spotted on Bible Street by residents in the area who contacted the 911 Centre.

UK BLINDSIDED OTS WITH EARLY PUBLIC REGISTER DECISION THE MOVE by the United Kingdom government to impose public registers of company ownership on British overseas territories was hailed as an unpleasant surprise.

Since the Tuesday, May 1, decision, many of the territories that were chiefly affected by the move expressed a sense of betrayal.

Similar sentiments were expressed by TCI’s Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson on Friday.

In a sharply worded statement a few days after the announcement, the premier called the unilateral move “destructive, constitutionally regressive, offensive and disappointing”.

She said the UK’s decision is regrettable, especially in the light of the OTs’ previous commitments to building a strong partnership with the country.

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woman, but as she tells it, her true passion lies in pencil and paper.

Meet Vanessa Valbrun, an artist and an outspoken Godfearing young lady whose determination to succeed in her professional and artistic endeavours has been an inspiration to many who know her and follow her on social media.

Our team first noticed Vanessa’s artistic abilities when the now famous ‘Gilley’ (Galmo Williams) pencil drawn portraiture started making the rounds on social media by her local fan base.

The drawing of the former premier garnered hundreds of likes and comments on Facebook, and as Vanessa herself tells us, prompted scores of others to commission her for similar work.

PRINCE’S HOME HAS INVESTORS’ EYES ON PROVO INVESTORS’ eyes were angled squarely on the TCI amid global headline-dominating news that legendary singer Prince’s luxury Providenciales mansion is to hit the auction block in July.

The attention the spectacular six-bedroom home in Turtle Tail triggered was “very exciting”, Bernadette Hunt, owner of Turks and Caicos Property, told the Weekly News.

“This will absolutely raise the interest level for real estate in the Turks and Caicos over all,” continued Hunt, whose Grace Bay company has the five-acre estate listed for sale.

AMERICAN TEEN KILLED IN JET SKI ACCIDENT AN UNFORTUNATE incident involving two jet skis near the Grand Turk Cruise Centre terminal left one teenager dead.

On Wednesday, May 16, police reported the accident which occurred about 11.30am.

Deceased was a 16-year-old male from the United States who was travelling with his family.

The family were passengers on cruise ship Carnival Sunshine that had docked at the Grand Turk port earlier that morning.

Reports were that two jet skis, one of which the teen was operating, collided in the water causing the teenager to fall and break his neck. He was killed instantly.

The other person, the teen’s uncle, did not sustain any injuries.

Local artist Vanessa Valbrun

ARTIST VANESSA VALBRUN OPENS UP ABOUT HER CRAFT SHE is a dancer, a working woman, an aspiring business

Protesters gathered in front of the Haitian Consulate

‘STOP THE SLOOPS’ - HAITIAN RESIDENTS DEMAND ACTION FROM NATIVE GOVERNMENT SCORES of irate Haitian-born TCI residents called on Haiti’s government to “do its part” in curbing the relentless illegal migration to the territory.

The protesters gathered in front of the Haitian Consulate in Providenciales on Friday, May 18, on Haitian Flag Day. They said the recent influx of illegal sloops was not only making life difficult for them but was also draining the territory’s coffers of funds that could otherwise be used for its development.

Protest organiser John Phillip Fontaine told the Weekly News that the demonstration was arranged to coincide with Haitian Flag Day to send a strong message to the country’s government.

DEFENDANTS IN KENLEY WALTERS TRIAL ALL FOUND GUILTY IT WAS an emotional moment for friends and family of murdered teenager Kenley Walters on Tuesday, May 22, when five unanimous verdicts of guilty were announced by the jury foreman in Providenciales Supreme Court.

The five defendants - Charlex Bottex, Lorvensky Joseph, Kurt Delancy Jr, Woody Baptiste and Evenson Capron - were quiet as the guilty verdicts on charges of manslaughter were read.

Throughout the trial there were references to an escaped man being the one who dealt the two lethal stabs to the teenager on the fateful evening of December 27, 2014.

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Year in review 2018 Parnell said that when Freeman did so, he handicapped ministers’ ability to frankly air their views and arguments in the privacy of Cabinet and with the assurance that the concealment of these views would be maintained.

He undermined the “collective responsibility” to which he is a part, he said.

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A model of the Turks Cay Resort which will be built in Turtle Cove, Providenciales

TURKS CAY RESORT GETS FINAL PERMISSION TO BUILD NEW YORK developer Arik Kislin is quite excited about the business and tourism development possibilities in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Kislin has a slew of successful ventures in his portfolio from the famous Chelsey Markets in Manhattan to the Gansevoort resorts around the US and in TCI. He is the man behind the upcoming development - Turks Cay Resort (previously reported as The Cove Resort and Marina) in Turtle Cove, Providenciales.

The Weekly News met with Kislin on Wednesday, May 23, during one of his many trips to the TCI to gauge his commitment to the territory’s development and to learn a bit more about the project.

LONG BAY RESIDENTS ROUND-UP ILLEGAL MIGRANTS -AUTHORITIES CALL ON THEM TO CEASE CITIZEN ARRESTS RESIDENTS decided to take matters into their own hands and rounded up a number of illegal immigrants over the holiday weekend after another sloop arrived on shore in the TCI. The vigilante exercise was spearheaded by a male Islander on Monday, May 28.

Following the citizens’ arrests, both the police and the Minister of Border Control, Hon. Sean Astwood thanked the residents, but cautioned them that this is the work of police and immigration officers.

Instead, members of the public were urged to immediately call 911 if they had any information on this or any illegal landing or see someone believed to be an illegal migrant.

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Ralph Thorne is one of Barbados’ new parliamentarians

FORMER SIPT LAWYER WINS SEAT IN HISTORIC BARBADOS ELECTIONS FORMER SIPT lawyer and Queen’s Counsel Ralph Thorne was part of the stunning win that held the Caribbean captive on Thursday, May 24, over in Barbados.

Thorne effortlessly sailed to victory under the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) simple yet effective slogan ‘Ready to Serve’ led by newly sworn in prime minister Mia Mottley.

The Caribbean island has been in a state of crippling debt for several years under the now former government of Freundel Stuart of the Democratic Labour Party.

SCOTIABANK TO CLOSE GRAND TURK AND GRACE BAY BRANCHES SCOTIABANK announced the closure of its Grand Turk and Grace Bay branches as part of a scheme to “consolidate” its facilities.

By the end of the year all services were set to be run from the current head office at ScotiaCentre on Cherokee Road in Providenciales.

Scotiabank made the announcement in a statement to press on Thursday, June 7.

It read: “In order to preserve the standard of service and multiplicity of specialised services offered in the region, the bank has decided to streamline its branch model.

“This initiative will see the implementation of a banking facility that houses more services under one roof.”

The head office, which currently houses the retail branch, corporate and commercial banking and the managing director’s offices, became the new home for the full suite of services.

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knowing a local “smuggler” whom he was yet to report.

In a sound bite obtained by the Weekly News, Astwood during a radio interview said: “It’s not all persons from Haiti. In fact, I can tell you that many Haitian persons living amongst us are very upset with their own people and they would come and apologise for people who they do not know.”

The minister went on to relate that one of his childhood associates was a known smuggler whom he confronted about his illegal activities.

He said: “I know a gentleman who I grew up with and apparently I got wind that he’s into this smuggling and I went and approach him about it and the answer he gave me, I just looked at him and couldn’t say nothing.

“After I questioned him on it, he said ‘Look minister, you make your money leave me and let me make my…money’. All I could do was look.”

HMP PRISONERS ATTACK PRISON STAFF REPORTS reaching the Weekly News were that prisoners at Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk had been assaulting prison guards and a high ranking official at the facility.

Six officers were allegedly assaulted during five incidents carried out by four inmates, according to sources at the prison.

CHIEF JUSTICE RULES DENIAL OF FOUR YEAR WORK PERMITS WAS ‘UNLAWFUL’ A DECISION to deny the issue of two four year work permits was quashed in Supreme Court.

In her judgment Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay Hale stated that neither the Work Permit Board nor the Immigration Appeal Tribunal’s decisions followed the rule of law.

And while a Government policy had stated that only one year permits would be issued during a change of format to plastic cards, it was an “unlawful” blanket policy that was never published, the judge said.

Lawyers Anthony Stephen Gruchot and Claire Elizabeth McAvinchey of Graham Thompson and Co applied to renew their work permits for four years.

They were of the understanding that the Work Permit Board had the discretion to issue permits for up to five years.

However, the board refused the applications and granted an extension of one year only on each permit, giving no reason for its decision.

The applicants took the matter to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal, which upheld the decision stating “work permits are currently being issued for no more than one year at a time”.

PDM Chairman, Doug Parnell

‘GOVERNOR SHOULD OFFER PUBLIC APOLOGY’ - DOUG PARNELL CHAIRMAN of the PDM and elected member for Cheshire Hall and Richmond, Doug Parnell, called on Governor John Freeman to offer a public apology to the premier.

In a statement to the Weekly News on Thursday, May 31, the party chairman said the governor violated the Turks and Caicos Islands’ Cabinet Code of Conduct when he made public statements about the finances of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Minister of Health Hon. Edwin Astwood said he could say nothing after meeting a known smuggler

HEALTH MINISTER IN HOT WATER FOR NOT REPORTING KNOWN SMUGGLER MINISTER of Health Hon. Edwin Astwood landed in hot water over statements he made on national radio where he admitted

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson meets with Lord Ahmad

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Year in review 2018 Territories Pre Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) in London.

The meeting, which was held at Lancaster House, saw Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson head a delegation which met with fellow overseas territory leaders and British government representatives to discuss a number of issues.

The premier, who arrived in London on Tuesday, June 12, immediately joined a meeting with colleagues from the Caribbean.

SIPT COSTS TO HIT $30 MILLION THIS YEAR HEAVY costs to the TCI public purse from the ongoing SIPT trials hit almost $30 million, latest figures show.

The hefty price-tag for the case into corruption-accused former officials was revealed in budgets from the 2016-2017 financial year through to the most recent estimates for the current year released to the Weekly News on Tuesday, June 19.

They do not include any costs incurred for the first few months of the trials which opened in December 2015.

GOV’T ANNOUNCES $38M IN NEW PROJECTS FOR 2019-2020 MORE than $38 million in new projects were lined up for the fiscal year, all of which were set to help to revive and boost the economy of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

This huge investment will greatly impact the performance of the construction industry going forward, Governor John Freeman stated.

These statements were made on Monday, June 18, during the House of Assembly meeting in Grand Turk.

Reading the Government’s fiscal and strategic policy statement, known as the throne speech, the governor stated that the Government has also contracted more than $12 million in construction projects.

JULY TCI MAINTAINS BBB+ FINANCIAL RATING WITH SLIGHT DOWNGRADE FOR the fifth consecutive year the Turks and Caicos Islands met every benchmark in order to acquire a positive financial grading from rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P).

In 2017 for the first time, the agency upgraded the territory’s outlook assessment from that of stable to positive.

But given the two hurricanes which trampled some parts of the Islands in 2017 and the resulting recovery that is still needed, that outlook was re-adjusted to stable - BBB+/Stable/A-2.

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costs.

On Wednesday, July 11, chief executive officer Eddinton Powell, flanked by other top executives of the company, delivered the news to media at the company’s Leeward Highway, Providenciales, headquarters.

Earlier the same day FortisTCI officially applied to the Government for the intended increase.

Under Section 34 of the Electricity Ordinance, TCIG has to approve all increases by a public supplier, such as FortisTCI, before they can be instituted.

That increase termed a “rate variation” under the law, if approved, would be an average of 6.8 percent across the board for all electricity consumers in the TCI.

STRANDED ST THOMAS SAILOR RESCUED IN TCI A STRANDED sailor was rescued by US Coast Guards after his sailboat sank six miles southwest of Big Sand Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

According to the Coast Guard’s official website, the rescued mariner was identified as Robert Petersen, 66, from St Thomas, US Virgin Islands At about 9.30am on Friday, June 29, watchstanders at Coast Guard Seventh District Command Centre became aware of a radio beacon alert from the 36-foot sailing vessel ‘Wings’ with one mariner aboard.

LAW AMENDED TO ALLOW FOR AFFORDABLE MINIBUSES, COMMUNITY CABS MINI buses and community cabs are two new categories of services that the Government has introduced into the road traffic laws.

On Thursday, July 19, Minister of Transportation, Hon. Delroy Williams presented the Road Traffic Amendment Bill to the House of Assembly to resounding bipartisan support from other members in the House.

One of the two amendments to the bill made way for the public to acquire and operate as public vehicles, seven to ten seater mini-buses.

Audley Astwood, former press officer at the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force

Member of parliament Josephine Connolly said the throne speech was full of rhetoric

CONNOLLY CALLS PDM GOVERNANCE AN ‘ABJECT FAILURE’ “NO AMOUNT of spin, no amount of dissembling, no amount of finger pointing, no amount of dog ate my homework excuses can remove from the lives of the people of this country the consequences of the complete, utter and abject failure of this Government.”

These were the words of Hon. Josephine Connolly during her presentation on Friday, June 29, in the House of Assembly, following the June 18 throne speech delivered by Governor John Freeman.

In her strongly worded contribution she berated the Sharlene Cartwright Robinson-led administration for its ineptitude these past 18 months in office.

‘I’M NOT A SMUGGLER’ - AUDLEY ASTWOOD A FORMER public relations officer for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (RTCIPF) denied allegations that he is involved in an illegal smuggling ring.

Audley Astwood, who spoke exclusively to the Weekly News on Thursday, July 5, called on the public to stop spreading baseless rumours which he said are besmirching his character.

According to Astwood a fake wanted poster and warrant for his arrest in connection with trafficking persons from Haiti made the rounds on social media.

Deciding to clear the air, he told the Weekly News that this embarrassing ordeal led to him being harassed by strangers in public.

FORTISTCI APPLIES FOR 6.8% INCREASE IN ELECTRICITY COSTS AS CITIZENS and residents braced themselves to ride out another hurricane season, utility company FortisTCI sought to recoup their 2017 hurricane losses by increasing electricity

FORMER LABOUR COMMISSIONER ARRESTED IN CORRUPTION PROBE FORMER labour commissioner Michelle Fulford-Gardiner was on Wednesday, July 18, arrested for questioning on suspicion of corruption at her place of work.

As news of the seven year commissioner’s arrest spread across the territory, many were in a state of disbelief.

Reliable sources informed the Weekly News that FulfordGardiner was apprehended at the Ministry of Tourism in Providenciales where she served as the deputy permanent secretary.

Fulford-Gardiner’s home and office were allegedly searched and some undisclosed documents were seized during the joint operation involving the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police and the Integrity Commission.

UK TERRITORIES’ FUTURE UNDER SCRUTINY AS BRITAIN PREPARES TO EXIT EU A FRESH probe by Britain into the governance of its overseas territories - and how it envisaged their future - was announced.

The inquiry by the UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) came 11 years after the last of its kind which paved the way for the TCI’s Commission of Inquiry.

It was set to scrutinise how effectively London ensures the “security and stability” of its 14 remaining territories – and may hone in on individual nations where appropriate.

FAC spokeswoman Estelle Currie told the Weekly News there was “no particular hook” for the process.

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Year in review 2018 Washington Misick during solicited comments by the Weekly News.

Meanwhile Governor John Freeman and Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson chose not to respond to questions on the topic.

The large scale inquiry was set to be conducted by the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) and to examine how Britain envisages its future in its territories.

By Dr Mark Osmond

Local attorney Beryn Duncanson has filed a constitutional motion against the chief justice

New year’s resolutions

WITH the start of January and the making of new year’s resolutions it is a good time to have a think about our dental health and whether our current practices are ideal in ensuring that our teeth and gums are staying in great shape.

Do we need to resolve that we won’t give our children candy just before going to bed? Or maybe promise that we will floss more?

To help you make the right resolutions, I would like to go back to basics and highlight the steps we should all follow to look after our teeth and gums.

BRUSHING TEETH This is the single most important thing you can do to care for your teeth.

You should brush at least twice a day, when you get up in the morning and the last thing before going to bed at night.

Use a toothbrush with a small head as this makes it easier to get into hard-to-reach places in the mouth.

I recommend a fluoride toothpaste as fluoride strengthens tooth enamel, can reverse early decay and help reduce sensitivity.

Gently brush the outside, inside and chewing surface of each tooth.

Two minutes is enough time to thoroughly brush an adult’s teeth.

Also, keep an eye on the ‘health’ of your tooth brush. If the bristles are splaying out and flattening, it’s time to invest in a new one.

In the case of younger children, it is often better that the adult does at least some of the brushing.

I do not want to discourage children from brushing their own teeth but from experience with my own children I know that if I leave them to brush unassisted they generally just eat the toothpaste and then chew the toothbrush for a few seconds before announcing that they’ve finished!

FLOSSING It is recommended that adults floss once a day. I recommend flossing after you have brushed your teeth in the evening.

REGULAR VISITS TO THE DENTIST Six monthly check-ups with the dentist will ensure that any problems are detected early and corrective action can be taken.

You can have cavities or gum disease without necessarily having pain; bad breath, bleeding gums, a white or light brown mark on the teeth can all be signs of potential problems or you may have no obvious symptoms at all.

Early detection and correction of dental problems will mean less chance of dental pain, less chance of requiring emergency or complex treatment and less chance of losing teeth.

Professional cleaning will also ensure that teeth are given a thorough, deep cleaning and any calculus - which regular brushing at home cannot remove - is scaled away.

These simple steps will go a long way to keeping your teeth strong and healthy. Good luck with your resolutions and happy new year!

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Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale is accused of refusing to sign an ‘order of recusal’

LOCAL ATTORNEY SUES CHIEF JUSTICE IN A historic development a TCI attorney sued Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale.

Beryn Duncanson of Duncanson and Co filed a constitutional motion against the chief justice on July 18.

He cited her refusal to sign an ‘order of recusal’ despite his claims there had been a de facto recusal by her from his cases.

CCTVS GO LIVE ON AUGUST 31 AROUND PROVIDENCIALES MORE than 100 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras were acquired by the Government, 11 of which were already installed and working around Providenciales.

On Tuesday, July 31, members of the press were invited to an official unveiling of the new facility that was set to house the surveillance system at the Digicel Headquarters on Leeward Highway in Providenciales.

That facility, which was nearing completion, also doubles as the 911 call centre with the operators and a police officer monitoring all of the equipment.

The new high definition and high-resolution cameras were set to go up at 50 different locations around Providenciales that were identified by the police force.

AUGUST $200 BRIBE GETS COP KICKED OFF POLICE FORCE POLICE Constable Georgio Chambers was spared jail time but had to conduct community service while also being disqualified from holding public office for five years.

The sentence for corruption was handed down on August 2 by Justice Shiraz Aziz in the Supreme Court.

Chambers’ sentence was suspended for a period of 12 months provided that he carried out 200 hours of community service. He was also ordered to undergo counselling.

The charges were brought against the corrupt cop by the TCI Integrity Commission and the Royal TCI police force in 2017.

The 31-year-old cop, who served in the force for seven years, was found guilty of corruption on June 27, following a jury trial.

INQUIRY IS ‘WORTHWHILE EXERCISE’ -OPPOSITION LEADER ENCOURAGES PUBLIC TO PARTICIPATE IN FAC PROBE AN INQUIRY into Britain’s governance of its overseas territories was called a positive step for the Turks and Caicos Islands.

This optimistic tone was on Thursday, August 2, taken by Leader of the Opposition, Hon.

Terrell Handfield and Judah Gail lost their lives

STRING OF VIOLENCE LEAVES TWO DEAD IN PROVO OVER the holiday weekend, the Turks and Caicos Islands was rocked by two fatal incidents of what many were calling ‘gang violence’.

Dead were Judah Gail and Terrell Handfield.

Both men were gunned down in separate incidents on August 3 and 4, which also left two men nursing gunshot wounds.

CABINET APPROVES SERVICE CHARGE BILL A CABINET approved Service Charge Bill that will restore 100 percent service charge to hospitality workers was set to head to the House of Assembly for debate.

Deputy Premier Sean Astwood told Weekly News on Wednesday, August 15, that the bill - a draft copy of which is already in the public domain - had been approved by Cabinet with slight modifications.

He said it was set to be placed on the Order Paper of the House of Assembly in very short order.

‘NEW MODERN RELATIONSHIP NEEDED WITH UK’ - PDM CHAIRMAN A GREATER degree of autonomy for the TCI could result from the latest probe by Britain into the governance of its overseas territories.

That was according to PDM chairman Doug Parnell who said it was important Islanders’ “voices are heard” during the inquiry by London’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC).

Members of the public had just over a fortnight left to send written submissions on everything from how territories are financed to their relationship with the UK. “This is timely given the fact the UK is preparing to exit the European Union. That has brought up so many questions regarding how this will affect us,” Parnell told the Weekly News.

OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE OPENS ITS DOORS IN TCI ON TUESDAY, August 21, US chain restaurant Outback Steakhouse officially opened its doors to the TCI public.

The opening came one day after the restaurant CONTINUED 

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Tourism officials predict a bright 2019 for regional destinations THE Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) says it’s looking forward to 2019 with a sense of optimism, excitement and much hope.

“For 2019, the outlook is bright for our destinations….We are optimistic because we are seeing signs that the lows which Mother Nature imposed upon us during the latter part of 2017 into 2018 are being reversed,” said CTO Secretary-General Hugh Riley.

“We are excited about our prospects because of the incredible turnaround that we are seeing in the most impacted destinations. And we hopeful that the progress of our member countries and supporters can continue unabated, to maintain the momentum they developed since the storms of 2017 when everyone rolled up their sleeves and got down to work to build an improved and more sustainable product.”

Riley said the CTO was also pleased to report that tourism accommodations are being rebuilt and reopened, airports are receiving their full schedule of flights with the return of airlines in full force and the diverse product offerings within our destinations are being restored.

At the same time, increases in the number of available seats, positive messaging and promotions in the marketplace have enabled the unaffected destinations to register continuous growth.

“The demand among international visitors is strong and Caribbean nationals have continued their quest to explore and enjoy the pleasures of their neighbouring destinations,” Riley said.

Atlantis resort is one of the most popular tourism attractions in the Bahamas.

Caribbean tourism is set for a big rebound in 2019.

Regarding the cruise sector, the CTO Secretary-General said most ports have been repaired and cruise calls have already returned to normal levels.

“Indeed, regional cruise visits grew in each month since May, with the region registering growth of 13.7 per cent during the May to September period and 17.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2018,” he reported.

“In October, the region launched a digital awareness campaign, ‘The Rhythm Never Stops’ on social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, coinciding with augmented airlift for the 2018/19 tourist winter season. Travel professionals and their clients received the message that the Caribbean is a resilient region with an unstoppable resolve to succeed and to keep on moving in the right direction.”

Riley added that the CTO was quite excited about declaring 2019 the “Year of Festivals” in the Caribbean. The Year of Festivals will

focus on the fascinating events that have become an integral part of the Caribbean tourism calendar.

At the same time, the CTO official said tourism stakeholders must also approach the New Year with a degree of caution since there’s still much work to be done.

“While preliminary data from our member countries revealed increased demand for travel to the vast majority of the 24 reporting countries, and despite a 9.1 per cent increase in arrivals in September 2018 when compared to the same month in 2017, overall our performance was still down in 2018.

A third quarter decline of 3.2 per cent made this our best quarter, and the rate of tourist arrivals is now expected to slow to -1.0 per cent to -2.0 per cent – a definite sign that the tide is turning. Cruise passenger arrivals are projected to grow at an accelerated rate of around 6 per cent to 7 per cent,” he said.

Guyana government looking to dismiss no-confidence motion, opposition says no GUYANA’S government was hoping for a positive ruling from Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland, this week on the consequences of the no-confidence motion against the administration earlier this month.

That ruling was expected on Thursday, and Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams said that if the Speaker finds that an error has been made, he has the power to revisit any decision he sees fit.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is adamant that the motion which he moved was lawfully passed and, under the Constitution, the government should resign and elections called within 90 days of the passing of the motion. On December 21, 33 MPs in the 65-seat National Assembly, including government backbencher Charandass Persaud,

voted in favour of the motion.

But Williams said the government’s position has always been that the motion was not validly carried since the opposition needed 34 instead of 33 votes for an absolute majority.

“Parliament is actually supreme in its own arena. So, we are responsible for our internal rules and procedures.

There are rules that can be changed by amending certain standing orders and once the vote is carried, then that is it,” he said when he appeared on the National Communications Network (NCN) live televised programme “Context” where he addressed the government’s current position on the issue earlier this week.

According to the Attorney General, the government has also decided on presenting the House Speaker with a legal memorandum, where he will be provided with

all available options regarding the no-confidence motion. He said the Speaker can also invite a similar document from the parliamentary opposition, after which he can make his ruling.

Vice President and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, also speaking on the NCN programme, said there are precedents the government intends to build its argument on, in challenging the motion.

He acknowledged that immediately after the motion was passed there were statements by President David Granger and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo accepting the outcome of the motion.

However, he said that was based on what the government felt at that time, and now that it believes a mistake was made, the situation must be remedied.

Sir Franklyn: ‘High chance’ of new Atlantis Ownership SIR Franklyn Wilson says there is “a high possibility” that Atlantis may undergo a change in ownership in 2019, describing this as a “significant” investment boost for The Bahamas.

The Arawak Homes chairman, in an interview with Tribune Business, said he had obtained information that The Bahamas’ prime mega resort may soon be in new hands and receiving a “major injection of capital” to ensure it remains competitive with rival Baha Mar. Sir Franklyn did not disclose his information source, nor did he identify any potential new buyer or the rationale that current owner, Brookfield Asset Management, would have for exiting now after holding the Paradise Island property for almost seven years.

Ed Fields, Atlantis’ senior vicepresident of public affairs, could not be reached for comment last night.

His office phone voice mail said he was away until January 7, 2018.

However, Sir Franklyn said the predicted Atlantis ownership change was one of three forces that could drive New Providence’s economy towards increased growth in 2019.

Besides Baha Mar’s continued investment, and potential development of a water park at the old Crystal Palace hotel site, the prominent businessman revealed that the Nancy Oakes estate had also sold some of its land in the Clifton area. While not disclosing the purported buyer’s identity, he described them as “well known to the Bahamian people”.

“I understand there’s a high possibility of a change in ownership at Atlantis, and that will be a significant event for the country,” Sir Franklyn told Tribune Business.

“My understanding is a significant part of what makes that a good situation is a new investor coming in will appreciate they have to keep the property competitive with Baha Mar, and will have to step up what it has to offer. That requires a significant injection of capital.”

There have been no outward

signs, though, that Brookfield has any desire to sell Atlantis, which it acquired from Kerzner International in an early 2012 debt-for-equity swap.

Realising that the resort’s product constantly needs to be refreshed, the Canadian-headquartered asset manager has maintained Kerzner’s policy of frequent annual capital upgrades.

Brookfield has also twice refinanced Atlantis’ debt, the last transaction occurring in mid-2018, and previously sold the Ocean Club to Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries to raise principal to pay down that debt.

Morningstar Credit Ratings, the investment analysis firm which assigned the highest ‘triple-A’ rating to the most senior financing tranches in Atlantis’s last $1.85bn refinancing, revealed in a July 2018 report that the resort “feels strongly” that Baha Mar’s emergence will not impact its long-term performance after net operating income jumped 27 percent for the 2018 first quarter.

“Management feels strongly that Atlantis will maintain its operating performance on a longterm basis given the resort’s brand affiliation with Marriott’s Autograph Collection; the property’s superior overall amenities and activities package; increased airlift capacity at LPIA; and the potential to increase visitation by cruise ship passengers,” Morningstar wrote.

“Management also shared financial information which shows that despite the opening of Baha Mar and additional displacement of rooms down for renovation at Atlantis, net operating income at the property increased by approximately 26.6 percent ($10.4 million) in the first quarter of 2018 as compared to the first quarter of 2017.”

Morningstar added that Atlantis’s annual net operating income had increased by 22 per cent, or almost $30 million, in the six years since Brookfield replaced Kerzner International as the Paradise Island resort’s owner.

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Digicel Group CEO Dies Suddenly on Holiday CHIEF Executive Officer (CEO) of telecommunications group Digicel, Alex Matuschka von Greiffenclau, died suddenly yesterday while on holiday with his family in his native Germany.

Digicel chairman Denis O’Brien confirmed the death of the 47-year-old married father of three who took over as CEO in February to replace Colm Delves.

“No words can adequately express our sadness at Alex’s passing or our gratitude for having worked with him,” O’Brien said in a statement issued today.

“Digicel has lost a committed, hard-working and exceptional Chief Executive. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know him on a personal level have lost a dear friend.”

O’Brien has taken up the role of interim CEO at Digicel which

Alex Matuschka von Greiffenclau died suddenly in his native Germany.

has operations in 31 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific. He was expected to travel to Jamaica on January 2. (Cayman Compass)

File: Haitian Independence is widely celebrated.

CARICOM congratulates Haiti on anniversary of independence THE Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque Tuesday congratulated Haiti on its 215th anniversary of independence noting that the resilience, courage and determination of Haitians continue to be an inspiration to all.

“This occasion is, indeed, cause for celebration, but it is also a timely reminder of the historic importance of the Haitian Revolution and its continued significance as a symbol of triumph over adversity in the quest for liberty, equality and control of national destiny,” LaRocque said in his congratulatory message to President Jovenel Moise.

He said Haiti’s leadership as it represented CARICOM at major hemispheric and global fora, including the G7 and the Quartet of the Community for Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC), earlier this year was highly

appreciated.

“These were important opportunities to articulate the interests and concerns of the Community to the most influential global actors,’ LaRocque said, adding that the 15-member grouping was looking forward to Haiti’s continued efforts to participate fully in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), which allows for the free movement of goods, skills, labour and services across the region.

He said Port au Prince’s participation “will be of great assistance in creating an enabling environment for enhancing the welfare and advancement of all its citizens”. Haiti gained its political independence on January 1, 1804 after Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a former slave, led the revolutionaries at the Battle of Vertieres on November 18, 1803 where the French forces were defeated. (CMC)

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Netherlands puts several Caribbean islands on tax blacklist THE Netherlands has compiled a new list of 21 low-tax jurisdictions, including the Cayman Islands, to fight tax evasion, according to the Dutch ministry of finance.

The list was published on Dec. 28 in the country’s government gazette.

It contains the five jurisdictions – American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa, and Trinidad and Tobago – that are currently blacklisted by the European Union.

In a sign that substance legislation, recently passed by several offshore jurisdictions to avoid an EU-wide blacklisting, will not be enough to appease EU member countries, the Dutch list also contains 16 low-tax jurisdictions. The only criterion for the list appears to be that these jurisdictions have a corporation tax rate of less than 9 percent or no corporation tax at all. They are Anguilla, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Vanuatu and the United Arab Emirates.

“By drawing up its own stringent blacklist, the Netherlands is once again showing that it is serious in its fight against tax avoidance,” said State Secretary for Finance Menno Snel in a press release. “And that’s just one of the steps we’re taking.”

The list will be applied to

several measures to combat tax avoidance. From Jan. 1, 2021, companies registered in blacklisted jurisdictions will be subject to a 20.5 percent withholding tax on interest and royalties received from the Netherlands.

“With this measure, the government aims to prevent companies avoiding tax by moving mobile assets to lowtax jurisdictions,” the Dutch ministry of finance said.

In addition, Dutch tax authorities will no longer issue advance tax rulings on transactions with companies headquartered in blacklisted jurisdictions.

In its implementation of EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives, the Netherlands will go beyond prescribed minimum standards with stricter controlled foreign company rules and special measures to prevent earnings stripping and hybrid mismatches that attempt to exploit differences between tax systems.

The Netherlands itself has come under criticism for operating a tax haven for international corporations, which use the extensive international treaty network of the country with 150 double taxation agreements to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions.

A recent study by government agency Statistics Netherlands found that the country had received 4.6 trillion euros (US$5.2 trillion) in “foreign direct investment” in 2017.

However, less than a fifth of that money – $836 billion – remained in the Dutch economy, while $4.2 trillion was routed through shell companies to other jurisdictions.

Researchers said about a third of the money ended up in “offshore tax havens.”

In 2016, the Netherlands accounted for the third most foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows in the world, making it one of the dominant global FDI centers for multinational corporations.

IMF data, reported by academic Jan Fichtner in the Cayman Financial Review, shows that in 2015 Cayman entities received $53 billion in foreign direct investment from the Netherlands, and $49 billion were sent in the opposite direction.

In a fact sheet, the Dutch government acknowledged that its tax system was open to abuse.

“It comes in for particular criticism for allowing funds to be channeled to tax havens. The Netherlands is therefore sometimes (incorrectly) labelled a tax haven. This damages the country’s image and makes it less attractive to real businesses,” the fact sheet said. “Furthermore, it can undermine taxpayer compliance and weaken support for tax facilities that are important to multinationals, such as the extensive treaty network and the provision of certainty in advance.

This is undesirable.”

Bahamas: ‘Marital rape issue must be addressed’ THE Bahamas government can no longer ignore calls for martial rape legislation, Social Services Minister Frankie Campbell said on Tuesday.

In an interview with reporters at the 2019 New Year’s Day Junkanoo parade, Mr Campbell revealed a variation of the legislation will, in some form or another, receive major attention from the government.

He told reporters: “Owing to the delicate, sensitive nature of the matter, there needs to be more wider consultation. But it is a matter that we cannot ignore.”

Mr Campbell added: “It is being advocated in the international community and we don’t exist in a vacuum so we have to continue to talk about it.”

He said the Ministry of Social Services continues to ensure that dialogue continues, but admitted that the country was not yet at a point where a decision could be made.

To that end, he explained: “(The Minnis administration) is not starting a conversation. We are continuing a conversation. “The conversation has been started for a while, there is a view held by the religious groups, there is a

Social Services and Urban Development Minister Frankie Campbell.

view held by the legal community and then there is the average man on the street who has his own view.

“We have to find a way to marry all of those views to come with a bill that will be acceptable to all.”

When directly asked the role international groups like United Nations’ Committee to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) are playing in pushing the

legislation forward, Mr Campbell said communications are ongoing.

“Well, we just reported to CEDAW in October of last year.

“We acknowledged that we are deficient in some areas, but we also acknowledged upfront that the road to the elimination of discrimination against women is a journey and not a destination and we are committed to remaining on that journey.

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EU rules out renegotiating Brexit deal (again) THE European Union has reiterated its position that the Brexit deal agreed with UK Prime Minister Theresa May will not be renegotiated.

Several British lawmakers continue to argue that the EU will want to avoid a so-called “no deal” outcome, and could be forced into changes if the UK’s Parliament refuses to back the deal on the country’s scheduled departure from the bloc in March.

But speaking in Brussels on Thursday, the European Commission’s deputy chief spokesperson Mina Andreeva rejected that idea.

“For now, no further meetings are foreseen between the Commission’s negotiators and the UK negotiators as negotiations have indeed been concluded,” she said.

“We are not renegotiating what is on the table.”

The British Parliament is due to vote on May’s Brexit deal later this month, but many lawmakers have already indicated they will vote against it.

A vote was due to take place in mid-December but the PM pulled the plug when it became clear she would lose “by a significant margin,” she admitted.

May then survived a confidence motion triggered by members of her own party, before meeting with EU leaders in an attempt to renegotiate the deal.

However her overtures were

The record number of women elected to Congress were key to Democrats’ reclaiming the majority in the House.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May faces a crunch vote on her Brexit deal.

rejected and now the EU has said, once again, that the existing deal is the only one available.

Brexit supporters are worried that Britain might end up staying in the EU if May’s deal is voted down in parliament.

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, a prominent Brexit supporter, warned that there is a “5050” chance Brexit won’t happen if Parliament rejects May’s deal.

However, as things stand, the UK is set to leave the EU on March 29 whether or not an agreement is in place.

The prospect of a “no deal” Brexit has stoked worries over the potential for massive disruption to almost every aspect of British life.

The UK would suddenly no longer be a party to the legislative and regulatory framework that has governed its external trade and much of its internal economy for the past four decades, and experts said there was simply not enough time to put in place an alternative framework.

“The UK is not prepared because it is simply too big a question to be prepared for,” David Henig, a former government trade official and director of the UK Trade Policy Project, told CNN. In preparation the government has released an additional £2 billion ($2.5 billion) from the UK Treasury to help mitigate these consequences -- in addition to the £4.2 billion already allocated since 2016.

Record number of women elected to US Congress ready for work THE 116th class of Congress broke barriers before its members even set foot in Washington.

One example: Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who will be the first Somali-American member of Congress, noted the history of her election on Twitter on Wednesday night.

“23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington DC,” she tweeted, along with a photo of her and her father smiling with suitcases.

“Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress.”

Omar is just one of dozens

of stories started a new chapter Thursday. There were record numbers of women who were sworn in. Muslim women are serving for the first time -- including Omar and Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib of Michigan -- as will Native American women, including Reps.-elect Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland. The state of Texas sent the state’s first two Latina members to Congress, and two black congresswomen-elect from New England will also make history by coming to Washington. The historic firsts come from both parties and at least one member -- Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York -- will be younger than 30.

North Korea ambassador to Italy ‘disappears’, says South SOUTH Korea’s spy agency has told officials that North Korea’s ambassador to Italy has disappeared.

The announcement follows unconfirmed reports that Pyongyang’s top diplomat in Italy had sought asylum from an unidentified Western country.

Jo Song-gil, the acting North Korean ambassador to Rome, is the son and son-in-law of high-ranking North Korean officials.

The last senior diplomat to defect was the deputy ambassador in London.

Thae Yong-ho abandoned his post in 2016, along with his wife and children. He defected to South Korea.

As one of the highest-ranking officials to ever defect from the North, his move was seen as a blow to Kim Jong-un’s regime. He would go on to urge the world to spread information in North Korea to undermine Mr Kim’s status among his people.

Speaking after a briefing from the spy agency on Thursday, Kim Minki, a government MP, told reporters that Mr Jo fled the Rome embassy

Several big international firms are setting up or expanding in Ireland due to Brexit, IDA Ireland said.

Brexit: Rep of Ireland gains more than 4,500 jobs related to UK’s EU exit Thae Yong-ho was North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain when he defected in 2016.

more than a month ago.

“Acting ambassador Jo Songgil’s term was ending in late November last year and he escaped the diplomatic compound in early November,” the MP said.

South Korean’s National Intelligence Service, which interrogates all defectors from the North, told lawmakers they had not had any contact from him since then. The agency would not confirm

that he is trying to defect to another country.

Mr Jo’s wife is believed to be with him.

Italy’s foreign ministry has told the BBC that it has no record of an asylum request made by Mr Jo. Diplomatic sources said the last Italy heard of him was when officials received a note last year from the North Korean government saying that Mr Jo was being replaced.

THE Republic of Ireland has gained more than 4,500 jobs from international firms as a result of Brexit, according to the country’s foreign investment body.

IDA Ireland revealed the figure in its annual results for 2018.

It said the jobs were a result of more than 55 “Brexit-related” investments which were approved last year.

It listed Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Legal & General among firms setting up or expanding in Ireland.

“For investors, the importance of

Ireland’s ability to provide a stable, predictable investment climate cannot be overstated,” the report stated.

“Ireland’s advantages in a postBrexit context include English language, commitment to the EU, a common law system in addition to our existing competitive proposition,” it added.

Other firms involved in the Brexit-related investments include Citi Group, Barclays, AXA XL, Thomson Reuters, BRE Global and Neueda Technologies, according to the report.

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Corbyn defies calls from within Labour to back second Brexit referendum JEREMY Corbyn will defy calls to change course on the party’s Brexit policy ahead of parliament’s vote on the deal, insisting that the government should secure a new deal with the EU if MPs reject Theresa May’s agreement.

Under increasing pressure from Labour members and MPs to reconsider his approach as preparations for the delayed “meaningful vote” ramp up over the next week, Corbyn said on Wednesday that the party’s policy remained “sequential” and that no decision could be made on a second referendum until parliament voted down the deal on offer.

His remarks come as Westminster gears up for the end of recess and the return in earnest of the Brexit debate.

MPs are expected to hold the delayed vote in the second week of January.

With Corbyn’s position coming under increasing scrutiny ahead of the crucial vote, it is understood that a number of high-profile leftwing Labour figures, including

Jeremy Corbyn: ‘What we will do is vote against having no deal, we’ll vote against Theresa May’s deal.’

Ann Pettifor, a former adviser to the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, as well as the economics commentator Paul Mason, and Manuel Cortes, the general secretary of the TSSA trade union, are in advanced discussions about forming a policy commission to make the left’s case for remaining in the EU. Their planned intervention

Around 150 Central Americans tried to make the crossing near the town of Tijuana to the south of California on New Year’s Day.

US fires tear gas at migrants at Mexico border crossing US agents have fired tear gas over the border into Mexico at migrants trying to enter the country illegally.

Around 150 Central Americans tried to make the crossing near the town of Tijuana to the south of California on New Year’s Day. One US official described the migrants as a “violent mob”.

It comes as the US federal government remains shut down as President Donald Trump and Congress argue over funding for his proposed border wall.

The US said security forces used tear gas after migrants threw rocks, and that they were deliberately aiming upwind of rock-throwers who they say hindered agents from helping

migrants who were passing children over razor wire.

But the Associated Press reports rocks were only thrown after agents fired tear gas, and a Reuters witness says one migrant was struck by what seemed to be a tear gas canister.

US Homeland Security spokeswoman Katie Waldman called the group a “violent mob”, and said agents used “the minimum force necessary to defend themselves”.

In a statement, Ms Waldman called on Congress to “fully fund the border wall”.

US Customs and Border Protection said 25 people were detained, including two teenagers.

The majority of migrants returned to Mexico.

follows the publication of a new study revealing that an overwhelming majority of party members want the Labour leader to back a second referendum, though most remain loyal to Corbyn’s leadership.

Corbyn and several of his closest allies have been both publicly and privately sceptical of the policy, and the Labour leader has said in a previous interview with the Guardian that the party would pursue a negotiated Brexit deal even if it won a snap general election.

Corbyn said May should return to Brussels once her deal is voted down to find an agreement that Labour could support, including a full customs union.

“What we will do is vote against having no deal, we’ll vote against Theresa May’s deal; at that point she should go back to Brussels and say, ‘This is not acceptable to Britain’ and

renegotiate a customs union, form a customs union with the European Union to secure trade,” he said.

Negotiations for any future permanent customs union with the EU would be likely to form part of the next stage of talks, once the UK has agreed the terms to leave in March. MPs are due to vote on the negotiated withdrawal agreement as well as a political declaration on the future relationship, which is not legally binding.

Labour frontbencher Chi Onwurah said the party’s policy should be to push for an extension to article 50, rather than to allow May to run down the clock towards no deal, a move also backed by the TUC. In an article for the Guardian, Onwurah, the shadow minister for industrial strategy, said the threat of no deal was “an act of supreme economic sabotage” and would not be carried out. “We must recognise the challenge of negotiating a deal that obtains cross-party support before the March deadline,” she said.

“Labour’s conference motion does not reference an article 50 extension, but we have acknowledged it may be necessary.

“Increasingly, it is clear that the options to avoid an economic and social catastrophe are a general election, a public vote and/or article 50 suspension. With each day that passes, Theresa May’s inept blackmail makes it harder to do anything responsible without stopping the clock.”

After a lull over the Christmas

recess, pressure on May is also expected to step up again as MPs prepare to return to Westminster.

Over the festive period, May embarked on a round of telephone diplomacy with EU leaders, speaking to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Christmas Eve and again on Wednesday, as she attempted to negotiate a new legally binding wording to provide reassurances on the Irish backstop arrangements.

The Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, is to meet junior ministers from all other government departments to receive updates on no-deal planning at midday on Thursday, the Guardian understands.

A Whitehall source described the meeting as a “stock-take” and said all departments had assigned one junior minister the responsibility for no-deal planning, after the cabinet agreed to significantly increase preparations before Christmas. No other cabinet ministers are expected to attend.

The study of Labour members found that 72% believed their leader should back a second referendum.

The research, part of the Party Members Project led by Prof Tim Bale of Queen Mary University of London, found that while Labour members still strongly supported their leader overall, they appeared to be sceptical about his reasons for refusing to support a referendum.

However, the study also found a majority of Labour members said they supported the party’s current position, with 47% in favour versus 29% who opposed it.

UK army seeks ‘snowflakes’ and ‘selfie addicts’ in recruitment ads

IF YOU’RE a millennial who’s addicted to taking selfies, video gaming or consider yourself a class clown, you could be exactly what the British Army is looking for.

For its 2019 recruitment campaign, “Your Army Needs You,” the army is seeking recruits from the “snowflake generation.”

The army drew inspiration from the World War I-era “Your Country Needs You” poster featuring Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, and recreated a series of videos and posters to attract people between the ages of 16 and 25.

The posters feature six soldiers labeled with stereotypes of younger people, before listing a positive value for each that would be welcomed by the army.

“Selfie addicts” have confidence, “snowflakes” have compassion, “phone zombies” have focus, “binge gamers” have drive, “class

clowns” have spirit, and “me me me millennials” have self-belief, according to the posters.

The army says the campaign shows young people who are ambitious and feel undervalued have the potential to work for a job with “real purpose” and “do meaningful work.”

It also released several ads featuring young people being labeled a stereotype before portraying them in army roles working abroad in war zones and providing humanitarian relief.

Portrayed is a late-night video gamer who the army claims has “stamina,” and a slow supermarket worker who is bullied by her colleagues but who is described by the around in the office, followed by the line: “there’s always room for people with a bit of spirit.”

The campaign was intended to show that “the army sees people

differently” and that they “look beyond the stereotypes and spot the potential in young people,” Major General Paul Nanson said in a statement.

“We understand the drive they have to succeed and recognize their need for a bigger sense of purpose in a job where they can do something meaningful.”

British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson said in a statement that the campaign was “a powerful call to action that appeals to those seeking to make a difference as part of a innovative and inclusive team.”

He said joining the army “provides comradeship, adventure and opportunity like no other job does.”

The campaign comes after it was revealed last year that the British Army failed to meet recruitment targets, with only 77,000 fully trained troops compared to its 82,500 target. (CNN)

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Barack Obama debuts on Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart THE votes are in, and Barack Obama has scored a spot on

the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart.

Barack Obama delivers George Washington’s farewell address on the track that also features original Hamilton cast member Christopher Jackson and gospel star BeBe Winans.

The former president debuted on this week’s list for his contribution to the new gospel-inspired arrangement of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” hit “One Last Time (44 Remix),” according to Billboard.com.

Obama delivers George Washington’s farewell address on the track that also features original Hamilton cast member Christopher Jackson and gospel star BeBe Winans.

The song, a variation on the original song from Miranda’s pop-culture phenomenon “Hamilton: An American Musical,” debuted at No. 22 – one slot above the John Legend holiday anthem, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.”

Miranda released the track Dec. 20 as his last “Hamildrop” of the year.

Its title is an obvious nod to Obama, who was the 44th U.S. president.

Obama’s history with Miranda dates back to May 2009, when the then-president held “An Evening of Poetry,

Music & Spoken Word” at the White House.

Miranda rapped a song from what he was calling his “Hamilton Mixtape,” and the performance garnered tens of thousands of views online.

The event helped inspire the full-blown 2016 musical that went on to win 11 Tony awards, including Best Musical, as well as the 2016 Grammy for best musical theater album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

The cast visited the White House in 2016, and Miranda returned in early 2017 to perform “One Last Time” as a tribute to Obama at the end of his second term.

Miranda’s monthly Hamildrops started a year ago as a way to produce new Hamilton content and raise money for charities including March for Our Lives.

They’ve included collaborations with The Decemberists, Nas and Mobb Deep, among other artists.

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The famed singer is going through her third battle with cancer.

Newton-John’s family denies ‘ridiculous’ rumours that she’s dying of cancer OLIVIA Newton-John’s family says the actress and singer is in “good health” during her cancer battle, slamming “ridiculous” reports that say otherwise.

Various media outlets, including RadarOnline and Australia’s Now To Love, claim the 70-year-old Australian is “clinging to life” and has “weeks” to live, following her third bout with cancer. Reports added that the “Grease” star is spending her final days with husband John Easterling and daughter Chloe Rose Lattanzi, in hopes of seeing her only child wed.

However, Newton-John’s niece Tottie Goldsmith quickly dispelled hearsay on her Instagram account: “Just

giving you the heads up that Livvy is in good health, so let’s leave that distressing rumor where it belongs.”

Newton-John’s publicist, Michael Caprio, doubled down, telling USA TODAY that “the reports are quite ridiculous – but what do you expect when the source is the Enquirer and Radar.”

The “Physical” singer was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. In 2013, doctors found cancer in her shoulder after she was involved in a car accident, a diagnosis Newton-John did not reveal to the public until years later. Most recently, she revealed her breast cancer metastasized to her lower back in 2017.

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Thousands flock to Grace Bay

BY OLIVIA ROSE THOUSANDS of tourists and residents turned out to revel in the streets of Grace Bay, Providenciales, for the 8th annual Maskanoo street festival.

On Boxing Day (December 26) Grace Bay Road was lined with vendors selling local food, beverages, arts and crafts, creating a carnival like atmosphere along the tourist strip.

The festival, which is sponsored by the Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association in conjunction with the Cultural and Arts Commission, saw special performances by local talent, Kew Band Links, Pro-Vision and Tess and dance pieces by several local dance groups.

After the sun set over Grace Bay Beach, the night hit high gear.

A vivid street parade, thumped, jumped and whistled along Grace Bay Road.

Dozens of local musicians and dancers dressed in vividly coloured costumes, headdresses and masks were followed by hundreds of dancing party participants.

Speaking to the Weekly News, coordinator and host David Bowen said the 2018 Maskanoo celebrations were hugely successful.

He said Maskanoo could be described as four things in one: a street party, parade, concert and a craft fair for tourists.

“It’s not just a street festival, it’s an opportunity for tourists to learn about our people, our culture and our history,” he said.

He noted that notwithstanding the financial

challenges that the organising committee faced this year, the event was a major success which left people buzzing and anticipating next year’s event.

“We had some challenges this year with sponsorship - because Maskanoo is a free event businesses are reluctant to sponsor the festival.

“But I must say a big thank you to the premier and other businesses for their support in making the event a reality.”

Going forward Bowen said the committee is not only looking to increase the numbers of performances on stage but to increase the number of groups participating in the parade.

“I’m trying to get more communities to come together and form groups to participate in the parades.

“I’ll give them everything they need, all they have to do is to form groups and we will ensure they have costumes, placement etc. We need them to become more involved.”

He revealed that 2018 saw a larger vending turnout than any of the previous years.

Bowen noted that plans are already in the pipelines to make the 10th annual Maskanoo festival memorable.

Maskanoo has its roots in the ‘Masses’, a masquerade tradition that fuses traditional African culture with costumed balls held in the colonial era.

In Providenciales, Maskanoo originated with enslaved people brought by the Bermudian salt farmers to work the salt ponds of nearby Salt Cay and South Caicos 200 years ago.

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Spacey must appear in court for arraignment A MASSACHUSETTS judge on Monday denied Kevin Spacey’s request to be excused from his arraignment in Nantucket District Court next week.

Judge Thomas Barrett denied the request without offering further information regarding his decision.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by CNN, authorities have video of an alleged 2016 groping incident involving Spacey and a busboy at the Club Car, a Nantucket, Massachusetts, bar and restaurant.

The accuser, then 18, told police he told Spacey he was a 23-year-old Wake Forest University student.

CNN has reached out to Spacey’s attorney for comment.

Spacey intends to plead not guilty and wanted to waive his right to be physically present at his January 7 arraignment on charges of indecent assault and battery, according to court documents obtained by CNN. “I am requesting that this

Kevin Spacey intends to plead not guilty at his January 7 arraignment on charges of indecent assault and battery.

court excuse my physical presence at the arraignment as I reside out-of-state and believe that my presence will amplify the negative publicity already generated in connection with this case,” an affidavit from Spacey filed in advance of Monday’s decision read.

The Oscar winner appears to be inching his way back into public life.

Spacey was videotaped Sunday in Baltimore bringing a pizza to a photographer who has been staking him out. He

has not responded to requests for comment on the allegations in the Nantucket case.

On a video posted by TMZ, the former “House of Cards” star tells the photographer, “It’s not a big deal. Appreciate what you’re doing.”

Spacey then adds, “Try to stay warm and have a happy new year” as he walks away.

Spacey has remained mostly off the radar since November 2017 after an explosive Buzzfeed News article. In it, actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of

making a sexual advance toward him in 1986 when he was 14 and Spacey was 26.

Spacey tweeted an apology at the time, saying, “I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”

“The Usual Suspects” star also used the apology to come out as gay.

Netflix fired Spacey from his hit show following a CNN report in which current and former members of the “House of Cards” production staff alleged sexual harassment.

This latest complaint came more than a year after the accuser’s mother, former New England TV news anchor Heather Unruh, came forward to accuse Spacey of sexually assaulting her son.

Unruh held a press conference in November 2017 saying her son “panicked” and “froze” before he fled the bar while Spacey went to the bathroom.

Jamaican Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange (right) discusses the design of the Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce statue with sculptor Basil Watson.

Jamaican sculptor to create Martin Luther King Jr monument for Atlanta JAMAICA’S Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sports, Olivia Grange says she is happy to receive word that the Jamaican sculptor, Basil Watson, has been selected to create a monument in honour of the American civil rights icon, Martin Luther King Jr. Grange said that Watson, who has created sculptures of Usain Bolt and ShellyAnn Fraser Pryce under contract with her ministry, was given the nod to design

the tribute to Martin Luther King, which will be erected in Atlanta, Georgia.

Grange said: “I am very proud that Basil Watson, an outstanding Jamaican artist, has been selected to develop a monument celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. “Basil has been one of our leading sculptors and this is recognition of the great work that he does and an endorsement of Jamaican talent. I look forward to his design, which I know will be awesome and inspiring.”

Kardashian and West expecting baby No. 4 via surrogate KIM Kardashian and Kanye West are expanding their family again.

A source close to the couple told CNN Wednesday that they are expecting their fourth child via surrogate this year.

The couple welcomed their daughter Chicago West via surrogate last January. The couple also have daughter North, 5, and 3-year-old son Saint. Us Magazine was the first to report the news.

A representative for the couple could not be reached for comment.

Kardashian West was very private when it came to the news she was expecting her third child and did not confirm that the baby was on the way until well into the pregnancy.

She opted to reveal the news on her E! reality show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”

She has been open over the years about her struggles to get pregnant and documented the process on the show.

While pregnant with North, Kardashian West suffered from pre-eclampsia, a complication characterized by high blood pressure. She also

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West already have two daughters and a son.

had placenta accreta in both pregnancies, which occurs when the placenta attaches too deeply in the uterine wall.

Following the birth of North, she wrote about the terrifying moment when her doctor realized the placenta had attached too deep.

“My doctor had to stick his entire arm in me and detach the placenta with his hand, scraping it away from my uterus with his fingernails. How disgusting and painful!!! My mom was crying;

she had never seen anything like this before. My delivery was fairly easy, but then going through that—it was the most painful experience of my life!” she said. “They gave me a second epidural but we were racing against time, so I just had to deal. They say that this is what some women died from as a result of childbirth back in the day, without proper care. I’m so thankful that my doctor was able to catch this and address the issue immediately.”

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Year in review 2018 formally cut the ribbon at a VIP event in the lobby of its Grace Bay, Providenciales, outlet.

Christopher Mortimer was set to serve as president and CEO of the restaurant. The Mortimers are joined in their investment by local partner, Philip Misick.

The owners took the opportunity on Monday to make their first corporate donations to the Turks and Caicos Islands community.

PREMIER CLEARS THE AIR ON ‘EMBARRASSING’ HELICOPTER BILL “IF I have to reach the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands I will do it by any means necessary.”

These were the sentiments of Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson who attempted to clear the air on what she called an “embarrassing situation”.

The territory’s leader suffered harsh online criticism for not paying a substantial amount of money owed for helicopter services rendered from the Camacho Emergency Relief team after last year’s storms.

Speaking on the popular RTC radio show ‘Expressions’ which was webcast live on Wednesday, August 22, Cartwright Robinson fervently took responsibility for her actions.

their service charge “when” the new service charge bill is passed later this month.

Those were the words of Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, expressed during an interview with the Weekly News on Wednesday, September 12.

Following an official joint press conference at the Hilly Ewing Building with the premier and Governor John Freeman, questions related to the concerns and warnings aired by local hoteliers about the service charge bill, were raised with Cartwright Robinson.

She was firm in her statement that the Government was done drafting the service charge bill and that it would be debated on September 24, following which it would be passed.

CONTINUED corruption trial rested his case – after two and a half years.

The long-awaited development came on Thursday, September 20, just before the 1pm lunch break at the Supreme Court annex on Leeward Highway, Providenciales.

The trial officially began on December 8, 2015, with the Queen’s Counsel Andrew Mitchell commencing very lengthy opening remarks on January 18, 2016, which lasted 15 days.

Following his summation, Mitchell told the Weekly News that during this time, in excess of 200 witnesses were called before the court to put the facts and circumstances that resulted in the charges against the defendants before the court.

He also advised that the defence indicated that they would seek to have the case dismissed and that the court had given them five weeks to prepare their submissions.

ANOTHER LAWYER FILES A CONSTITUTIONAL MOTION AGAINST CHIEF JUSTICE GRAND Turk-based attorney Courtenay Barnett mounted a legal challenge against a decision made by Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale in respect of one of his clients.

Barnett sought a determination from another jurist on the legality of a ruling made by the chief justice in a matter involving his alleged mentally incapacitated client Kenrick Forbes who was accused of raping a toddler.

SERVICE CHARGE BILL PASSED IN PARLIAMENT FOURTEEN for, three absent members and one abstention saw the service charge bill easily passing in the House of Assembly.

Following several hours of debate by members of the House, the Service Charges (Hotel and Restaurants) Bill 2018 was passed without amendments on Monday, September 24.

The proceedings effectively repealed and replaced the Service Charges (Hotel and Restaurants) Ordinance 2003 with the new bill.

De’Angelo Harvey killed during the commission of a crime

Murdered man Prince John Brutus

PRINCE BRUTUS, 22, MURDERED TWENTY-two-year-old Prince John Brutus was murdered on Friday, August 31, and his body discarded along Leeward Highway in Providenciales.

Brutus, who had a long string of arrests, was found lying motionless at the side of the highway at Horseshoe Lane about 9.40pm when someone made a call to the 911 Centre.

Both police and emergency personnel were dispatched and Brutus was pronounced dead at the scene.

Reports were that he was shot to the neck.

ROBBER SHOT DEAD WITH ILLEGAL GUN, SHOOTER ARRESTED DE’ANGELO Harvey, also known as ‘Lil D’, was the latest fatality in Providenciales.

He was shot and killed during the commission of a robbery in the early hours of Sunday, September 9.

Multiple gunshots rang out from a Dominican bar and club located in the Cinema Complex on Leeward Highway in Providenciales at about 3am.

Reports are that Harvey entered the establishment with robbery on his mind; he was stopped by one of his would-be victims, but not before he had already shot a woman he had just robbed.

The shooter, a native of the Dominican Republic, was subsequently arrested after police determined that the firearm he used to kill the criminal did not belong to him and may have been unlicensed.

NO CHANGE TO SERVICE CHARGE BILL, SAYS PREMIER THERE will be no downturn in the economy and neither will hospitality workers lose out on

OCTOBER FORTISTCI RATE INCREASE APPLICATION DENIED THE GOVERNMENT finally revealed that FortisTCI’s application for a rate increase was denied – a month prior.

Governor John Freeman, on August 17, served notice on the power company refusing its application, a statement to the press said on Wednesday, October 3.

It went on to say that FortisTCI had since requested that a commission of inquiry (COI) be conducted to examine the reasonableness of its application.

On Wednesday, September 25, that request for a COI was formally granted by the governor.

SEPTEMBER LAYOFFS PREDICTED IF NEW SERVICE CHARGE BILL IS PASSED THE GOVERNMENT headed back to the drawing board on the service charge issue as hoteliers warned of an economic downturn and job losses if they are forced to pay workers the entire 100 percent collected.

The issue is a People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) campaign promise to TCI hospitality workers that they will restore the entire sum collected back to them.

That promise proved quite difficult for the PDM administration to fulfil as its first major attempt - in the form of a Draft Service Charge Bill - received resounding protest from the local hotel community.

FORTISTCI CALLS FOR INQUIRY AS COMPANY SEEKS TO VALIDATE RATE INCREASE POWER company FortisTCI called on Governor John Freeman to launch an inquiry in an effort to substantiate the company’s rate increase application.

This came about two months after the firm applied to the Government for a 6.8 percent increase in electricity costs across the territory.

Cabinet since refused to take the application forward pending a “cost of service” study to avoid unjustifiable price discrimination.

In a statement obtained by the Weekly News the company said: “FortisTCI has requested that His Excellency the Governor appoint an independent inquirer to conduct an inquiry into the reasonableness of our application.”

SIPT prosecutor Andrew Mitchell

PROSECUTOR RESTS CASE IN SIPT TRIAL WHILE DEFENCE LAWYERS SEEK DISMISSAL THE PROSECUTOR in the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT) government

BAN ON SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAGS TAKES EFFECT FROM JANUARY 2019 SINGLE use plastic shopping bags will soon be removed from supermarkets and shops across the TCI as the Government plans to crack down on the environmental villain.

This comes as the Government forges ahead with its plan to better preserve the environment and safeguard the territory’s ‘beautiful by nature’ reputation.

At the latest meeting of Cabinet on September 26, members

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approved a ban on the import of single use plastic bags, it was announced.

The import ban will come into effect from January 1, 2019, and a ban on the use of single use plastic bags by retailers will come into effect on May 1, 2019.

UK on these issues.

Premier Cartwright Robinson explained: “It is important to understand that we were a part of the PNP Government-led constitutional team and these are the works from that team that were submitted in 2015.”

2018 RECORDS HIGH ILLEGAL MIGRATION STARTLING figures showed that just eight months into 2018 the number of illegal migrants repatriated back to their native countries surpassed the total recorded in 2017.

Director of Immigration Derek Been spoke with the Weekly News and confirmed that between January 1 and August 31, 1,476 people were sent home. In 2017 1,335 people were repatriated in total.

The 2018 number, Been said, included 888 from illegal vessel landings during this time. He added that Haiti received the majority of these repatriations.

In addition to repatriations, 36 people were charged with unlawfully entering the Turks and Caicos Islands via illegal sloops or through apprehension by officers.

TCI NO LONGER A ZIKA THREAT, SAYS HEALTH BODY RESIDENTS and visitors to the TCI are no longer at risk of catching the mosquito borne zika virus, according to an international health body.

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson made the announcement on Friday, October 19, at a press conference held at the Hilly Ewing building in Providenciales.

She explained that that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had removed its zika virus classification scheme.

The scheme had categorised most of the Caribbean countries and territories as having active zika virus transmission since the vicious outbreak in 2015.

UK POLITICIANS’ STANCE TOWARDS OTS HAS LEFT THEM ‘VULNERABLE’ OVERSEAS territories are currently facing a “much more hostile and less supportive” relationship with British political leaders.

That was the claim from a leading analyst whose written submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee’s (FAC) inquiry was among the first evidence to be published.

Right-leaning leaders – traditionally seen as allies to the territories – “conveniently ignored” OTs’ “strong preference” to remain part of Europe during the Brexit referendum, associate professor of politics Peter Clegg asserted.

Meanwhile, those on the left have used the threat of direct rule from London to force OTs to “make radical changes” to their financial services industries, he said.

“For many years there has been a high degree of consensus between the major political parties in terms of how the overseas territories should be managed and supported. But that has now changed, which has made their position more vulnerable,” Clegg warned in his 2,300-word submission.

Murdered NYC attorney Marie Kuhnla

NYC PUBLIC DEFENDER WAS MURDERED A MURDER investigation was launched into the death of Long Island, New York, attorney Marie Kuhnla.

On Monday, October 22, police announced that they were treating the woman’s death as a murder after having received the autopsy results.

The body of the 61-year-old mother was discovered on October 16 at about 7am among waist high bushes near the Club Med resort in Providenciales where she was vacationing with friends.

The discovery is said to have been made by one of the woman’s friends, all of whom had launched a search party for her after she was not seen or heard from for an entire day.

They had also filed a missing person’s report.

The police were subsequently called in to the resort when the discovery of the body was made.

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT GIVES SPEECH ON YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOURTH form student Raymond Kendall of HJ Robinson High School in Grand Turk led a passionate youth address as part of National Youth Month 2018.

His address written under the theme, ‘Empowering the youth, one island at a time, no child left behind’ examined youth empowerment as a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives.

“They do this by examining their circumstances and then take action in order to improve their access to resources, and change their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes,” Kendall said in his presentation.

CDB APPROVES LOAN TO TACKLE TCI’S SOLID WASTE WOES A TWENTY-year solid waste plan aimed at addressing a myriad of waste management issues will soon be developed for the TCI. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) approved a whopping $672,500 loan to help the territory improve its inadequate and antiquated systems.

The cash will be used to prepare a feasibility study of solid waste management options that are unique to the TCI’s problems.

Additionally, it will assist with the costs of consulting services to develop an integrated and multi-faceted solid waste plan, aid in creating detailed engineering and architectural designs for the preferred infrastructure options and develop a related programme of institutional strengthening and capacitybuilding.

ADVANCED BORDER SECURITY SYSTEM ON HOLD, PENDING UK APPROVAL

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WORRIED PARENTS FLOCK TO HIGH SCHOOL AFTER BOMB THREAT MARANATHA Academy in Providenciales was briefly locked down on Tuesday, October 23, after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat.

According to a teacher at the Millennium Highway school, the call was made shortly before 8am.

Teachers immediately evacuated the students to the front of the compound as a precaution and parents were called into collect their children.

Several hours later members of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force responded and conducted a sweep of the building.

GOV’T SENDS CONSTITUTIONAL AND CROWN LAND CHANGE PROPOSAL TO UK A PROPOSAL outlining the desired changes to the territory’s 2012 Constitution and to the Crown Land Ordinance was sent off to the United Kingdom government.

That was according to Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, who on Friday, October 19, told members of the press the proposal would have been dispatched on Monday.

The premier also revealed that although these changes were discussed, drafted and agreed upon by both the former PNP Government and the then PDM opposition in 2015, the PNP was no longer joining the PDM Government in its talks to the

THE IMPLEMENTATION of an Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS) which has the capability to bolster border security in the TCI was on hold awaiting UK approval.

This was revealed on Thursday, October 18, during the recently held National Security Council meeting.

It was envisaged that APIS would be fully operational in the TCI by September 2017, however at the meeting Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson informed the council that a letter of entrustment had been requested from the UK Government.

This would enable the TCI to sign the instrument of accession to the memorandum of understanding for intelligence sharing among Caricom member states.

GDT MAN MURDERED IN BAR SHOOTING A 24-YEAR-OLD man was arrested for the murder of 28-yearold Kyle Williams.

The fatal shooting took place at a bar in Over Back, Grand Turk, at about 4am on Saturday, October 27.

Williams, who was shot three times, was taken to the Cockburn Town Medical Centre shortly after the shooting incident.

He later succumbed to his injuries sometime after 2pm the same day after being flown for surgery in Jamaica.

Police were holding the 24-year-old at the Grand Turk police station on suspicion of murder. No charges were filed up to press time.

PNP TO ELECT NEW LEADERSHIP AND EXEC IN FEBRUARY 2019 THE PROGRESSIVE National Party (PNP) deferred the election of a new party leader and executives to February 2019.

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Speaking with the Weekly News on Thursday, November 8, Misick stated that the November 3 meeting at Beaches resort, was held to iron out the agenda for coming National Congress meeting sometime in February 2019 and deal with other party business.

TCI MAINTAINS HIGH REVENUE COLLECTION BETTER than expected revenue performance marked the first of half of the 2018-2019 fiscal year (FY) of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

This was revealed on Monday, October 29, by Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson during a presentation of the Half Performance Report in the House of Assembly.

The report was mandated by the Framework Document published under section 109 of the Constitution and Section 4 of the Public Financial Management Ordinance of 2012.

It outlined financial highlights, economic outlook, performance update from the Ministry of Finance, Trade and Investments, and performance updates from selected statutory bodies.

VISTA DEVELOPMENT COURTS BUSINESS COMMUNITY AHEAD OF ANDAZ-HYATT RESORT THE LOCAL business community was on Friday, November 16, given an opportunity to familiarise itself with the newest upcoming five star development - the Hyatt branded Andaz luxury resort and residences.

Executives of Vista Development, which is responsible for the management of the project, mingled with local developers, agents and other business men and women during an evening of wine, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at the company’s sales office at Le Vele Plaza on Grace Bay in Providenciales.

Those involved in bringing the luxury brand to Turks and Caicos Islands are Vista Development’s managing directors Matt McDonald and Jon Siegel, director of development John Fair and director Ramez Hakoura.

OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS FOR SNAP ELECTIONS LEADER of the Opposition Hon. Washington Misick said Governor John Freeman should dissolve the House of Assembly and call a general election to avert a complete systemic breakdown.

Misick, in a strongly worded statement on Tuesday, November 20, demanded that Sharlene Cartwright Robinson throw in the towel and resign, citing the neglect and resultant dilapidation of the NJS Francis parliament building in Grand Turk.

Previously, the Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Planning said the building, where important deliberations such as the House of Assembly are held, was experiencing some structural failures.

GOV’T NO SHOW FOR JOINT PRISON INSPECTION A JOINT inspection of Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk did not go ahead as planned on Wednesday, November 21, after the home affairs minister failed to attend.

According to Sabrina Green, Director of the Human Rights Commission (HRC), Delroy Williams conducted his own inspection but left the building before their arranged meeting.

In a statement to press, she described it as a “disappointing turn of events”.

“After allegations of baseless findings levied by the minister, an invitation was extended to the minister and it was agreed to jointly inspect the facility,” Green said.

On November 7, Green released a lengthy statement exposing the appalling state of the facility.

The report, which followed an inspection of the penal facility, said it was “not fit for human habitation” and should be condemned.

Green claimed it breaches several UN standards and inmates have been “dehumanised” by poor living conditions leaving little room for rehabilitation.

PREMIER SAYS NJS FRANCIS RENOVATION TO COST MORE THAN $3M THE BUILDING which houses the territory’s represented officials is reportedly going to cost the Government in excess of $3 million to fix.

This was revealed by Premier Sharlene Cartwright during an interview with Magnetic Media on Wednesday, November 28.

In an online article posted on to its website, Magnetic Media reported that the premier said the $3 million plus renovation works to the severely run down NJS Francis building would force all occupants out.

DECEMBER PREMIER SAYS OPPOSITION IS ‘TRIFLING’ WITH TCI’S GOVERNANCE PREMIER Sharlene Cartwright Robinson said the Opposition was “trifling” with the territory’s governance and she would not wait for the party to “get their act together”.

The Government would be moving forward as planned with talks with the UK government on major proposed changes to the constitution, she insisted.

A few months prior, the Opposition pulled out of the discussion process designed to pursue constitutional advancement for the TCI. The governing People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) later described the decision by the PNP Opposition to pull out of this process as “reckless” and said the PDM Government would forge ahead on behalf of the people without them.

FCO DIRECTOR VISITS TCI AS PART OF WHIRLWIND OTS TOUR DIRECTOR of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Ben Merrick, visited the TCI on a tour of British overseas territories in the Caribbean region.

During his brief visit, Merrick met with Governor John Freeman, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, Opposition members, several other officials, members of civil society, local newspaper publishers and visited a number of locations and institutions around the territory including Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk.

INVESTIGATION INTO POLICE SHOOTING OF ILLEGAL FISHERMAN AN INDEPENDENT investigation was being conducted by the Royal Cayman Islands Police Force into a Royal TCI Police Force involved shooting on November 24.

The shooting occurred during an inter-agency operation in response to potential illegal fishing near to Bush Cay, within the waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Two vessels were intercepted and eight Dominican nationals were arrested in connection with illegal fishing.

During the arrest of the eight fishermen, a police officer on board a RTCIPF boat fired his gun, hitting one of the fishermen in the upper arm.

RTCIPF since recruited the services of officers from the Cayman Islands police to conduct an independent probe.

TWO MONTH DELAY TO 100% SERVICE CHARGE IMPLEMENTATION THE HOTLY debated 100 percent service charge payment to hospitality workers was postponed until February 1, 2019.

Two hours before the Hotel and Restaurant (Service Charge) Ordinance 2018 was to have come into force, Deputy Premier and Minister of Employment Services, Hon. Sean Astwood announced its postponement.

The minister cited a lack of adequate education and understanding of the ordinance as reasons in a press release.

As a result of this, the minister promised further public education and clarity on the legislation would be carried out ahead of its implementation.

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implement 100 percent service charge on the promised date of December 1.

That was according to Washington Misick, PNP Leader and Leader of the Opposition.

“On the issue of the service charge legislation, let me say that the premier has been intellectually dishonest in that she bypassed common sense and rationality by failing to fully analyse the complex nature of the hospitality industry for selfserving reasons in her rush to improve her ratings.

“But political expediency is a bad legislative advisor and wrongheadedness is a dangerous trait in a leader,” Misick told the press on Thursday, December 6.

UK REJECTS CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION FOR A SECOND TIME REQUESTED changes to the TCI Constitution were rejected amid the surprise revelation that the United Kingdom had already denied similar modifications three years ago.

Following her visit to the UK, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson said the British government refused to engage her delegation on constitutional amendments.

During a press conference in Providenciales on Tuesday, December 11, she stated the reason was because of a lack of agreement from the Opposition.

However, she revealed that she learned that the proposed changes, which are based on the work of the TCI Constitutional Review Committee in 2015, had previously been wholly rejected in 2015.

CENTRE TO AID ABUSE VICTIMS OPENS IN PROVIDENCIALES A NEW centre to help people who have been abused opened in Providenciales.

On Monday, December 10, the Royal TCI Police Force commissioned the Ethel Ingham Centre.

It aimed to better protect children and vulnerable adults through a multi-agency approach while reported offences are investigated.

The centre was constructed with funding from the UK government through the UK NCA safeguarding project and Unicef which provided funding for the internal fixtures and fittings.

It was named after the first female police officer of the force and will house a multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) function.

GOV’T WARNS RESORTS NOT TO PUNISH WORKERS OVER SERVICE CHARGE CHANGES WNERS and operators of hotels and restaurants were put on notice that a zero tolerance policy is now in place for those who seek to punish hospitality workers for the 100 percent service charge they will soon have to pay them.

The warning was issued on Tuesday, December 11, by Deputy Premier and Labour Minister, Hon. Sean Astwood during a press conference at the Hilly Ewing Building in Providenciales.

It came a couple of days after a letter addressed to workers purporting to have been written by the management of the Gansevoort Turks and Caicos Wymara Resort and Villas was released.

The letter informed workers that due to the service charge coming into force, workers would no longer be able to receive certain services that they did while the company was legally allowed to retain 40 percent of the service charge paid by customers.

GRIEVING HUSBAND OF MURDER VICTIM SAYS POLICE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH THE BEREAVED husband of a New York lawyer who was mysteriously slain while on vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands was still looking for answers.

Marie Kuhnla, 62, a Long Island public defender of Wantagh, was travelling with a co-worker and one or two others who reported her missing on October 15.

Her body was later discovered in bushes near the Club Med resort just after 7am the following day. She was subsequently pronounced dead.

In an interview with USA television news station ABC news on December 11, her husband, Rick Kuhnla said he was very suspicious of the manner in which authorities in the TCI were handling the investigation.

Kuhnla said he was very frustrated with how little was being done to catch his wife’s killer.

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JOB LISTINGS SERVICES AUTO SALES REAL ESTATE

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946-4664 Fax: 946-4661

Email: tcnews@tciway.tc

Website: tcweeklynews.com

FLOWER GIRL

WANTED URGENTLY

FLORAL DESIGNER

Must have thorough knowledge in the floral business with 3-5 years experience.

Call: 231-3788

SPACE AVAILABLE ON BUSY HIGHWAY FOR IMMEDIATE RENT. THIS SPACE IS NEWLY RENOVATED.

GOOD FOR LAW OFFIES, REAL ESTATE, SPA, BEAUTY SALON ETC...

CALL 649 231-3788

FOR SALE House in Richmond Hill residential area on a half acre land.

CONTACT: 231-3788

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SPACE AVAILABLE ON BUSY HIGHWAY FOR IMMEDIATE RENT. THIS SPACE IS NEWLY RENOVATED.

GET LEGAL HELP ON YOUR INSURANCE CLAIM CALL OR EMAIL US AT

duncansonlaw@gmail.com duncansonlaw.office@gmail.com 649-941-4444/ 649-245-1314/649-348-5744

GOOD FOR LAW OFFIES, REAL ESTATE, SPA, BEAUTY SALON ETC...

CALL 649 231-3788

DUNCANSON & CO BARRISTERS & ATTORNEYS

WE ARE OPEN

DELIVERY BOY

16121

WITH FRESH FLOWERS AT REASONABLE PRICES

CONTACT: 649-946-4894 A&J SECURITY SERVICES Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; monitoring surveillance equipment; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry. Obtains help by sounding alarms. Salary: $6.50 per hour. Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 3465-1550

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 11468

AMAZING INTERNATIONAL STORE

Address: Blue Hills, Providenciales, TCI

LABOURER

Contact: (649) 342-9375 Seeking: Nanny

Salary/Wages: $7.50 per HOUR

BABYSITTER WANTED Full time, 40 hrs per week Location: Grand Turk Must be experienced and love children

CALL 649-431-4905

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Contact the Publisher at tcweeklynews@gmail.com

In compliance with section 28 of the Immigration Ordinance:

NIKIRA FORBES

SECURITY OFFICER

We are in need of a young man to deliver bills, pick up checks and distribute newspapers. Must be honest and have a clean driver’s license.

Responsibilities/Duties: • Taking care of, feeding, bathing of children (one of which requires special attention) • General cleaning - washing dishes, ensuring surroundings is clean • Safety and security of two small children (one of which requires special attention) This position is being applied for, for a new Work Permit Holder.

Belongers are invited to submit their application to the Labour Board, Ministry of Boarder Control.

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FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Cleans the store, unpacks boxes, stocks shelve, dust shelves etc. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 342-8555

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board.

This position is a First Time work permit holder. 14670

AUTO GROUP CAR SALES LTD. Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

RECEPTIONIST

• Welcomes visitors by greeting them, in person or on the telephone; answering or referring inquiries. Directs visitors by maintaining employee and department directories; giving instructions. Maintains security by following procedures; monitoring logbook; issuing visitor badges.

• Must speak and understand Creole, French, English and Spanish. Must be familiar with Excel and QuickBooks Salary: $7.00 per hour Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 243-0442

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder

C&J CONSULTANCY BLUE HILLS Acting on behalf of our clients who are seeking the following LETICIA D. HALL

CARETAKER

Clean, cook, wash, etc.

Salary: $6.25 per hour DELANO EWING

DOMESTIC WORKER

Clean, cook, wash, etc.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: DARLING86@ HOTMAIL.COM

Holders are currently held by work permit, Belongers apply only 14673

Bayview Motors is currently looking to employ a

Is looking for a

DELIVERY AGENT who is reliable, trustworthy and want to make some extra cash Delivery times are 11 A.M and 3 P.M Call 231-3788 or 246-7856 for further information

LABOURER Who will be responsible for the daily maintenance of the building and its surroundings. Must be able to drive a range of vehicles including buses, must be courteous at all time. Must have excellent customs service skills.

Salary $10.00 hour • All applicants must possess a valid driver’s license • Willing to work with little or no supervision

• Must be willing to work weekends and holidays • Must be able to drive a manual vehicle.

• Belongers or PRC holders preferred Please email all application to syrmondg@bayviewmotors.com Bayview Motors Ltd P.O Box 619 Leeward Highway Providenciales

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C&S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

Acting on behalf of their client Kevin Myers. Who is seeking to employ

LABOURER

MARBLE AND GRANITE CLEANER/ RESTORER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Cares for garden on a daily basis.

Must be willing to work 6 days per week. Salary: $6.25 per hour

Grind, sand, clean, or polish tiles and counter tops, parts to correct defects or to prepare surfaces for further finishing, using hand tools and power tools.

Salary: $300 per week

CONTACT: 241-5922

CONTACT: 243-8307

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14787

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MISICK'S GAS STATION

NEW HOPE WESLEYAN CHURCH

is seeking to fill the following positions:

LOCATION: Millennium Highway

PASTOR

(1) GAS ATTENDANT

Preparing weekly sermons Preaching and conducting worship services. Responsibility to interpret biblical scripture for the congregation Provide care and counseling to church members and assist them in crisis situations Officiate at special services, such as baptisms, weddings and funerals Collaborate with choir leaders to integrate music into church service Assisting in church financial matters Holding regular staff meetings to coordinate ministries Ensuring church facilities are functioning Attending social events at the church and completing administrative duties SALARY: 1500.00 per month Telephone: 347-5385 TYPE OF APPLICATION: Renewal, this position is currently held by a work permit holder

Working hours are from Monday- Friday between the hours of 7:00 a.m.- 7:00 p.m.

Wages are based on the minimum wage and paid on a weekly basis. Applicant's are to provide their resume and any accompanying documentation to the following:

MISICK'S GAS STATION CHURCH FOLLY GRAND TURK (649)331-0610 14783

DIVINE ROOTS

I.B.O. PLAZA, LEEWARD HIGHWAY

HAIRDRESSER To work 6 days a week Basic salary $6.50/hr.

PLEASE CALL: 241-4248

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JAMES TRANSLATION THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Cares for garden on a daily basis.

Salary: $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 241-5942

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board.

This position is a First Time work permit holder

DESIGN STUDIO

Design Studio is seeking a suitable qualified applicant to fill the following position:

INSTALLER PERMANENT, FULL TIME

POSITION SUMMARY:

KEW TOWN

Is seeking to employ a Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames.

Cares for garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.25 per hour. Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 246-0914

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14697

DWIGHT SWANN FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

HOUSEKEEPER/ BABYSITTER

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing young baby administering medicine, doing slight housework.

Salary: $7.00 per hour. Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 2412128 OR 244-2121

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14594

ERIC SMITH GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, set up forms for the pouring of concrete foundations, and even hand tools to workers, remove all debris, pack up tools, put away any unused materials, and take down bracing and scaffolding. keep debris away from worksite. Salary: $6.25 per hour. Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 231-0167

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14676

DESARROLLOS HOTELCO JWM LTD. Desarrollo Hotelco, is a leader in building luxury hotels, Is seeking an experienced and proven leader.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified Candidates for the following positions:

CARPENTER

Duties of this position include: Ability to read blueprints, drawings, and sketches and to fully grasp requirements. Accuracy taking measurements and calculating the size and amount of material needed for a project, Skilled in use of all tools necessary to cut, shape and smooth lumber and other material (e.g. fiberglass) according to measurements, Able to build window frames, doors, staircases, brattices, and frame buildings by using raw materials or pre-constructed items, Able to install items such as hardwood floors, siding, cabinets, drywall, and insulation a plus, Skills needed to lay out flooring, roofing, and drywall, ensuring they are level, plumb, and installed with as little waste possible, Inspect products and conduct repairs or maintenance as needed, Ability to assemble/ build scaffolding and other needed construction structures.

PLUMBER

Duties of this position include: Interprets blueprints and building specifications to map layout for pipes, drainage systems, and other plumbing materials. Installs pipes and fixtures, such as sinks and toilets, for water, gas, steam, air, or other liquids. Installs supports for pipes, equipment, and fixtures prior to installation. Assembles fittings and valves for installation .Modifies length of pipes, fixtures, and other plumbing materials as needed for a building. Uses saws and pipe cutters as necessary. Installs heating and air-conditioning systems, including water heaters. Collaborates with contractors, construction workers, electricians, pipefitters, and steamfitters in installing and repairing plumbing. Tests plumbing systems for leaks and other problems. Analyses problem and identifies appropriate tools and materials for repair. Chooses plumbing materials based on budget, location, and intended uses of building. Follows health and safety standards and complies with building codes. Writes report documenting the problem and summary of actions taken. Performs inspections of plumbing systems to identify and replace worn parts. Prepares bids and schedules and oversees other workers, such as apprentices and helpers

PURCHASING AGENT

Self-motivated full-time installer required for high-end Interior Design firm.

MAIN DUTIES AND SKILLS

• • • • • •

DOUGLAS COX

LABOURER

JOB OPPORTUNITY

• • • •

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Hanging complicated window treatments both manual and electronic Accuracy with measuring Demonstrate manual dexterity and lift or carry heavy loads from containers Able to read and understand installation manuals and be able to carry out the assembly of all types of furniture pieces Must be fluent in English Applicant must have a valid TCI Driver’s License and hold a good driving record.

Applicant must have their own vehicle.

Must be a team player while still being able to command respect from his coworkers.

Candidate must be able to work evenings and weekends.

Must have own tools

Qualified candidates should email their CV to faye@designstudio.tc or hand deliver to unit B105 Regent Village 941-4848 Salary: $8.50 per hour. This is a new position The closing date for application is January 18 2019 All applicants should also send a copy of their application to the department of labor and employment services.

Please note only people short-listed for interview will be contacted.

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Duties of this position include: Request and review trade bids and estimates; Negotiate and award contracts for construction; Possess energy and enthusiasm for learning the building process, and spending time outside on construction sites, Desire to crosstrain across multiple departments ( development, operations); Communicate effectively with company construction personnel (Superintendents), professionals (architects), and coworkers; Support construction personnel and subcontractors with research on product substitutions, accounting and new vendors; Ability to interpret and understand building plans and product information; Multitask in dynamic, fun, never-the-same fast paced environment; Innovative thinkers not afraid to recognize and offer process improvement ideas.

Requirements include: at least 5 years relevant experience, a clean police record and driver’s license with a successful drug screen; at least a high school diploma; possess a good employment track record with demonstrated.

Salary: 1000 to 1500$. May be required to work on weekends and holidays Applications comprising a letter, resume, references, Police record etc.

The Manager DESARROLLOS HOTELCO JWM Ltd. Grace Bay, Salt Mills Plaza Unit 22A Email: llopez@hotelcointernational.com

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CLASSIFIEDS 39 JFS LEARNING LTD.

IBO Plaza, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

JOB OPPORTUNITIES SECURITY OFFICER - PROVIDENCIALES

This Position Reports to the Security Supervisor/Security Manager To ensure the overall day-to-day safe, orderly and efficient operation of all airport security activities. Ensure Officers compliance with standard operating procedures/regulations for security and the requirements of Airports Authority. A minimum of three (3) years’ experience in an aviation related field.

Salary: $27, 199.80 per annum

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER

This Position Reports to the Senior ATC/ATS Manager This is a specialized technical position. It reports to the Senior Air Traffic Controller has unit-level authority for the control and coordination of aircraft and vehicular traffic operation in Turks and Caicos Islands aerodromes and their airspace. The incumbent is required to produce flight plans, plan, and control and coordinate air traffic flow. Additionally, the incumbent is required to produce and disseminate weather updates, provide aircraft with navigational assistance, record statistics carryout equipment checks and produce reports.

Salary: $37, 260.00 per annum

TERMINAL CLEANER

The Night Watchman patrols the Airport facilities. A minimum of three (3) years’ experience in an aviation related field. Effective communication skills.

Ability to work with minimal or no supervision and under pressure. Excellent interpersonal and basic conflict management skills. Willingness to embrace change and be flexible to meet deadlines.

Salary: $10.00 per hour

This Position Reports to the Financial Controller The Senior Accountant responsibilities include reconciling account balances and bank statements, maintaining general ledger and preparing monthend close procedures. A successful Senior Accountant combines excellent analytical skills with thorough knowledge of accounting principles to analyze financial reports and forecasts. The ideal candidate has also experience collaborating and/or managing a team of Accountants and Accountant Officers. Proven experience as a Finance Manager, Accounting Supervisor or Senior Accountant. Thorough knowledge of basic accounting procedures.

In-depth understanding of International Accounting Standard (IAS). Handson experience with SAGE (Peachtree) accounting software packages.

Advanced MS Excel skills including VLOOPUP’s and pivot tables. BS degree in Accounting, Finance or Relevant.

Salary: $57, 960.00 per annum

GENERAL HELPER/ Maintenance Technician

TERMINAL CLEANING SUPERVISOR

Information Technology Assistant (IT)

This Position Reports to the Terminal Manager To supervise and investigate the quality and standard of caretaking and cleaning services of the TCI Airports. The cleaner performs janitorial duties to include terminal and landside surroundings.

Salary: $21, 735.00 per annum

COMMUNICATION & NAVIGATION TECHNICIAN

This Position Reports to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager The individual must be able to install, maintain, repair, modify and ensure the safe operation of ATC communication and navigation systems.

This position provides maintenance of equipment service to the Air Traffic Services (ATS) Department through scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and responding to ad hoc situations as they arise. All work must meet current legislation and regulations. Repairs & maintenance on Navigation Aids preferably Racal MK2 A VVO and Fernau DME 2020. Repairs & Maintenance on Communications (VCCS, Radio Systems, Antenna Systems, Cabling Systems).

Salary: $36, 894.50 per annum

NIGHT WATCHMAN-SECURITY This Position Reports to the Security Manager

maintain and repair both mechanical and circuitry issues in gaming machines.

This involves transporting machines and assembling them by using meters, electrical parts, hand tools and soldering irons. Salary: $1600 per month

CONTACT: 242-0672

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder

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JULIEN LANDSCAPING

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

This Position Reports to the Terminal Manager/Cleaning Supervisor The cleaner performs janitorial duties to include terminal and landside surroundings.

Cleans building floors by sweeping, moping, scrubbing, waxing and polishing them Using electrically powered scrubbing and polishing machines to burnish, scrub, polish and spray clean floors (after receiving proper instruction and training).

Salary: $7.00 per hour

GAMING MECHANIC Must be able to install,

This Position Reports to Engineering & Maintenance Manager Provide services as general helper for maintenance and engineering Department. Ensuring shrub removal around the fences at various Aerodromes, Ensure the runway is cleared of debris and overgrown vegetation and foreign object as required by regulations.

Salary: $7.00 per hour

This Position Reports to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager The Job of the Information Technology Assistant staff member covers a wide range of systems, equipment and the company’s Local Area Network, the successful applicant will be responsible but not limited for the continued operation and maintenance of the company servers, workstation, printers, fax, Airline shared use system, self-check-In Kiosks, time clock system, CCTV Security and access control systems. This individual will provide the IT Administrator and the Engineering & Maintenance Manager with the necessary recommendations and guidelines for the continued operation, expansion, design and security of the TCIAA systems and Equipment.

Salary: $25, 039.80 per annum

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ

GARDENERS Soil cultivation, digging,

forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting.

Salary: $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 244-8372 Email: julienlandscaping@ hotmail.com

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14694

KELCI TALBOT Long Bay Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER Fix items around the premises and keep it clean. Salary: $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 332-3022

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

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SAFETY MANAGER-SMS

This Position Reports to the CEO Among other duties, the Safety Manager will be familiar with and undertake the following SMS duties. Monitor and evaluate results of corrective actions with respect to the original CAP requirement and consequential hazard, incidents. Proving knowledge of aviation legislation and ICAO. Salary: $48, 300.00 per annum These positions are held by work permit holders.

Perspective applicants who are belongers kindly send copies of your application to the TCI Labor Board.

ADVERTISE

IN THIS SPACE! ONLY

$33

Interest persons must submit their applications on or before January 11, 2019 to:

PER WEEK

yHuman Resources Manager Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority Providenciales International Airport Telephone# 649-946-4420, Fax# 9415996.

Email: hrrecruitment@tciairports.com

CALL 946-4664 11472

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ACA/ACCA/CA

DOMESTIC WORKER

Opportunities exist for four fully qualified Chartered/Public Accountants who possess a minimum of four years professional experience gained within a "Big Four" public accounting firm. Salaries range from US$40,OOO to US$80,OOO per annum. These positions are currently held by work permit holders.

If you wish to be considered for these opportunities please apply in confidence by sending details ofyour experience and qualifications to either:

KPMG Ltd. or The Labour Commissioner,

P.O. Box 357 Labour Office

The Village at Grace Bay Butterfield Square Providenciales Providenciales

Turks & Caicos Islands Turks & Caicos Islands Or fax your particulars to 946-4619

LINDA GRANT

HELPER

Applicant must have a minimum of three years’ experience. Must be very proficient, honest and a reliable worker and also willing to work weekends and holidays. Clean Police record is essential.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

An opportunity exist for a full time domestic worker. Must be willing to work Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Salary: US$6.50 per hour.

If you wish to be considered for this opportunity, please apply in confidence by sending details of your experience to:

KPMG Ltd. or The Labour Commissioner,

P.O. Box 357 Labour Office

The Village at Grace Bay Butterfield Square Providenciales Providenciales

Turks & Caicos Islands Turks & Caicos Islands Or fax your particulars to 946-4619

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14700

ORKIN TURKS AND CAICOS

MERVCO

Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a

854 Leeward Highway, Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

Unit #3 Provo Plaza, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

PUMP ATTENDANT-REQUIRED

CONTACT: 231-6100

Email: tcangel16@hotmail. com Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14671

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to fuel up customer tank and storage tank, clean and maintain the work area, stock shelves and freezers. Be willing to work weekends and holidays.

Belongers are encouraged to send resumes to the Labour Department as this position is currently held by a Work Permit holder. $7.00PER HOUR 649-941-3390 MERVCO.ACC@GMAIL.COM

14679

OVANDO CONSTRUCTION KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER

Controlling pests Salary: $15 per hour

Follow blueprints and building plans to meet the needs of clients. Install structures and fixtures, such as windows and molding.

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. Salary: $10 per hour. Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 946-5663

CONTACT: 331-9854

EXPERIENCED EXTERMINATOR Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a currently held by a work permit holder

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holder 14705

ROBERTS AGENCY

Airport Road Acting on behalf of our clients who are seeking to employ the following NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

PAINTER $10.00 PER HOUR

Painting walkway and premises touching up areas when needed.

This position is currently held by a work permit holder Contact: 342-5731 VERONIQUE INGHAM

LIVE-IN CARETAKER $6.50 PER HOUR

Must be able to care for children for children in absence if parents cooking and Laundry is also required at times This position is currently held by a work permit holder Contact: 341-5220 MERCEDES BEAUTY SALON

1 NAIL ARTIST

Must be able to design using airbrush.

This position is a new position.

OC MAINTENANCE PLUS

TILE LAYER $10.00 PER HOUR

Must be able to slay tables professionally without being supervised. Must be able to design floors. This position is a new position CONTACT: 345-6991 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board

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STERLING PROPERTY CONSULTANTS

STANLEY WILLIAMS

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

BUILDING THERMOGRAPHER

SECURITY OFFICER

DISCOUNT LIQUORS AND WINE CELLAR IS LOOKING FOR A

Capable of conducting building energy audits.

The qualified person should have an internationally recognized building thermography qualification and have suitable Caribbean experience in building energy audits and networking.

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

is looking to hire a qualified

SALES AND MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF POSITION:

• Promote all the products carried at our wholesale and retail operation • Helps customers make selections by building customer confident and offering suggestions and opinions • Maintain a complete sales history and purchase pattern of our wholesale customers • Establish customer sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotes • Coordinate and assist in devising and implementing various sales and marketing strategies for the wine cellar, retail and wholesale divisions, along with similar programs for all other affiliated business within the group • Provide regular SWOT analysis reports to management in the progress or detriments of each account, in order to determine appropriate strategies for account success • Assist Operations Manager in setting up inventory purchasing cycles in an effort to maximize the use of business cash flow • Maintain customer sales volume, product mix, and selling price by keeping current with supply and demand changing trends, economic indicators and competitors • A minimum of 5 years in sales and marketing in the Beverage Industry • Assist the Operations Manager and co-workers in all other areas deemed necessary Salary commensurate with experience

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO DISCOUNT LIQUORS AND WINE CELLAR EMAIL: DISCOUNT@TCIWAY.TC (OR) FAX: 946-4871. NO TELEPHONE CALLS PLEASE

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The suitable candidate will be paid on a salary $1625 per month with company and performance bonus.

Applicants should send their Curriculum Vita to info@ sterlingpropertyconsultants.com 14689

THE BARBER SHOP

Grant’s Building, Downtown Is seeking to employ a

HAIRSTYLISTS

Shampooing, cutting, and styling hair, though they may also provide hair treatments, including deep conditioning, permanents, hair coloring, and weaving Salary: $6.25 per hour Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 243-4166

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14684

TCI SECRETARIAL ADMINISTRATION SERVICES Millennium Highway, Blue Hills Acting on behalf of our clients who is seeking to employ the following K AND T’S DISPOSABLE

CLEANER

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, cleaning ceiling vents, restroom cleaning etc.

Must be willing to work 6 days per week Salary: $6.25 per hour TERMA CATERING DELIGHT SERVICES NORTH CAICOS

KITCHEN HELPER $6.25 PER HOUR

Assisting the chef with the preparation of food and keeping the kitchen clean at all times

LABOURER $8.50 PER HOUR

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames.

ASSISTANT COOK $12.50 PER HOUR Maintaining supplies, handling leftovers, preparing food, testing new recipes, cleaning the kitchen, keeping cooking utensils organized, and plating dishes.

CONTACT: 346-9362

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board.

These positions are first time work permit holders.

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; monitoring surveillance equipment; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry.

Obtains help by sounding alarms. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 946-2475

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14788

T&R PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Acting on behalf of our clients who are seeking to employ the following

RICHARD GIBBS (1) MAINTENANCE WORKER – To do Labourer chores around the home, cutting grass, cleaning yard, painting and any other duties assigned. First time work permit application JERKEY’S CATERING & PRIVATE CHEF

(1) KITCHEN HELPER

- prepare a variety of food items for cooking, stack and store food supplies, equipment or other utensils in the kitchen. Wipe down kitchen surfaces using proper sanitizers and to clean any used kitchenware. First time work permit application.

Salary: $6.25-$6.75 per hour Belongers only apply Contact: 242-8792 for further details

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PROVO BEVERAGES

DOWNTOWN Is seeking to employ a

IS LOOKING FOR

LABOURER to work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour this position is for work permit renewal email: dave@turksheadbeer.com / 941-3637 • Assisting with brewing and bottling and canning operations • Keeping the facility and equipment clean and operational.

• Loading Delivery drivers trucks, • Unloading containers and stocking warehouse with inventory • Cleaning the yard, cleaning machines.

• Assist in delivering goods to customers.

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DOMESTIC WORKER/ SUPERVISOR

Sweeping, mopping the floor, clean bathroom and to supervise other persons. Salary: $7.00 per hour.

This position is currently held by a work permit holder. Belongers are invited to submit applications to the Labour Board

CONTACT: 331-0818

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CLASSIFIEDS 41

THE WINE ESTABLISHMENT IS LOOKING TO HIRE

WINE STEWARDS REQUIRED JOB DESCRIPTION:

restock as required.

Maintain display shelves and ensure appropriate labeling of all bottles and vintage according to company policy. Ensure appropriate storage of wine for serving and

• Must have extensive knowledge of various brands and quality of wine.

• Must have existing relationships with new and old-world producers.

• Must have wholesale and customer service experience.

• Must be able to work 60 hours per week.

• Must be Fluent in English, French and Italian.

Suggest and sell wine, wine tasting experiences, wine clubs and non- wine products. Monitor wine inventory and design wine menus.

Beginning wage is mostly commission based and commensurate with years of experience.

Interested applicants may submit your resume with qualifications and experience to: sommtcisland@gmail.com and the TCI Employment Services and Labour Department.

BOTH POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY VACANT

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS A VACANCY EXIST AT THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS NATIONAL INSURANCE BOARD FOR A

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR/ PROGRAMMER At its Providenciales Branch Office

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons to fill the post.

The Database Administrator/Programmer with report to the Information Technology Manager

CORE FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB:

• Developing adequate computer programs • Designing and testing programmes • Microsoft SQL programming • The creation and maintenance of databases and tables associated with NIB applications • Configure of database backup and replication • Update and maintenance of the BeMa and Mas200 applications • Monitor database growth • Troubleshooting systems and implement solution as necessary • Design and maintenance of the NIB Website • Develop reports using Microsoft reporting server • Installing and testing new software • Developing and assigning users to various application security levels • Provide first level technical support for staff at the Providenciales office.

• Supporting and assisting users in accessing information to enable them to perform their function • Preparing monthly reports • Research various applications that would increase efficiency within NIB

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

This position requires a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology. In addition to a Bachelor’s Degree the, position requires specialized training in the following areas: • Computer programming and modern computer languages • Systems analysis • Database management • Project management • Supervisory management • Communication The position requires at least three (3) years on the Job experience to acquire the necessary expertise to respond effectively to the challenges of the functions Compensation will be determined based on qualifications and experience.

Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to the Deputy Director Corporate Services, National Insurance Board, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands to reach no later than Thursday, January 31, 2019.

IN THE GRAND COURT OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS FINANCIAL SERVICES DIVISION CAUSE NO. 231 OF 2018 (RSJ) IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES LAW IN THE MATTER OF PINNACLE GLOBAL PARTNERS FUND I LTD

ADVERTISEMENT OF WINDING UP PETITION TAKE NOTICE that a petition for an order that Pinnacle Global Partners Fund I Ltd, whose registered office was previously situated at Maples Corporate Services Limited, P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, South Church Street, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman Islands and is currently unknown (the Company) be put into liquidation and wound up in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Law has been presented to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

The Petition was presented by Perlen Holdings Ltd of Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands and Nerthington Ltd of 19 Waterfront Drive, P.O. Box 3540, Road Town, Tortola VG1110, British Virgin Islands (the Petitioners). Copies of the petition and supporting affidavits may be obtained free of charge from the Petitioners' attorneys, Harney Westwood & Riegels, of Harbour Place, 103 South Church Street, Grand Cayman, P.O. Box 10240, KY1-1002, Cayman Islands (attention: James Eggleton james.eggleton@harneys.com / Lachlan Greig lachlan.greig@harneys.com).

The Petition seeks an order that Messrs Andrew Morrison and David Griffin (each of FTI Consulting (Cayman) Ltd, Suite 3212, 53 Market Street, Camana Bay, P.O. Box 30613, Grand Cayman KY1-1203, Cayman Islands) and Mr John Batchelor (of FTI Consulting (Hong Kong) Ltd, Level 35, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong) be appointed as joint official liquidators of the Company.

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that the hearing of the Petition will take place on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 at the Law Courts, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands at 11:00am. Any creditor or shareholder of the Company may be heard on the questions whether or not a winding up order should be made and, if a winding up order is made, who should be appointed as official liquidator[s] of the Company. Any creditor or shareholder who opposes the appointment of Messrs Andrew Morrison, David Griffin or John Batchelor must nominate an alternative qualified insolvency practitioner[s] who consents to act and has sworn an affidavit complying with the requirements of the Companies Winding Up Rules, Order 3, rule 4. Any creditor or shareholder of the Company intending to appear and be heard on the petition shall give at least three (3) days’ notice to the Petitioners’ attorneys.

Dated: 4 January 2019 Harney Westwood & Riegels Attorneys-at-law for the Petitioners

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42 CLASSIFIEDS WATERPLAY PROVO GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

CLEAR VIEW WINDOW CLEANERS

CREEKER BITES

LABOURER

LABOURER/ HANDYMAN

SALT MILLS Is seeking to employ a

BEACH ATTENDANTS

• Renting Paddle Boards, Kayaks, Hobye Cat

CERTIFIED WAKEBOARD INSTRUCTOR

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Salary: $325 per week

• Must be certified in teaching wakeboarding

CERTIFIED KITE BOARD INSTRUCTORS

• Must be certified in teaching kiteboarding Salary: Based on experience

CONTACT: 232-7245 (NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE)

CONTACT: 231-0001

Applicants may send their CV’s to the email listed waterplayprovo@ gmail.com Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. These positions are vacant 14703

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Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder

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DOWN TOWN Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Cares for garden on a daily basis.

Fix and repair and broken object around the building.

Salary: $350 per week

CONTACT: 243-3993

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holder 14713

ER CLEANING SERVICES LTD

CARETAKER

JANITOR

LEEWARD PALMS Is seeking to employ a

• To help with an elderly man, the person must be kind, gentle, caring and compassionate. Must be able to help turn him, clean him, learn to use feeding tube etc.

• Part-time Monday – Saturday 9 A.M to 3 P.M Salary: $150 weekly

CONTACT: 231-6565

WESLEY METHODIST SCHOOL

NEEDED URGENTLY The following vacancies exist at the Wesley Methodist School. Prospective candidates are now encouraged to apply for the following teaching positions at the high School level.

Biology and Chemistry Physics and Mathematics Business Studies Guidance and Counseling (Part-Time)

Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition.

Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish.

Salary: $7.00 per hour Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 241-1246

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holder 14706

MENELIK ASTWOOD

KATTY WALKIN

LABOURER

DOMESTIC WORKER

General chores such as cleaning outside of property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, cleaning of windows and other related chores as gardening etc.

Must be willing to work five to six days per week Salary: $6.50 per week

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holder. 14710

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

CONTACT: 242-3005

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holder 14708

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other house work. Salary: $6.25 per hour.

Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 242-0193

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

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HUMPHREY PROSPERE GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

• General chores such as cleaning outside of property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, cleaning of windows and other related chores as gardening etc.

• Must be willing to work five to six days per week Salary: $6.50 per week

CONTACT: 241-0990

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

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I SPARKLE THE SALON Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

BEAUTICIAN

Provide beauty services, such as shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May apply makeup, dress wigs, perform hair removal, and provide nail and skin care services.

NAIL TECHNICIAN

Nail and hand services to customers, such as basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, hand massages, nail fills, nail repair, and nail polishing.

Pedicures and the application of acrylic toenails may also be performed Salary: NEGOTIABLE

CONTACT: 341-0363 OR 246-2689

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. These positions are currently held by work permit holders.

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Ocean Club Resorts is looking for qualified applicants for the position of:

GARDENER Involves strenuous physical labor, which requires being able and willing to perform heavy lifting, and other physically demanding functions. Must be able to speak English fluently. Preference will be given to someone with previous resort experience.

PRIMARY SCHOOL

All applicants must be able to present a clean Police Record if offered a position. Wage commensurate with experience. Individuals must be willing to work holidays and weekends on a flexible schedule dictated by business demands.

Primary School Education PRE-SCHOOL Early Childhood Education

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

Applicants must possess a Degree in the stated subject area from a recognized institution of learning and five (5) years teaching experience in the subject area. Some competency in the field of music will be an asset.

In addition, applicant must be honest and trustworthy and will be expected to uphold the tenets of the institution in the quest to raise the standard of education for life-long learners. Applicants must be of the Christian Faith.

Basic Salary: $26,712.00 per annum.

Domestic Workder: 5-Days per week, $6.25.

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. These positions are currently held by work permit holders Interested educators are asked to submit their application accompanied by their Curriculum Vitae, a Police Record, a contact number and two references, not later than 31st January, 2019 to:

This position is currently held by someone with a work permit.

Applications available at Ocean Club or Ocean Club West.

Only those receiving an interview will be contacted.

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SAURICIO MILLS

PORSHA WILLIAMS

OUTREACH MINISTRIES OF LOVE GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

SEXTON – MISSIONARY CREOLE TEACHER

#57 Plantation Dr. Long Bay Is seeking to employ a

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other house work. Salary: $6.50 per hour. Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 346-3659

THE CHAIRMAN OR THE PRINCIPAL WESLEY METHODIST SCHOOL LEEWARD PALMS, PROVIDENCIALES TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS Telephone: (649) 941-4791/946-5786 Email: wesleyschool@tciway.tc

DELORES HANDFIELD

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14722

DOWN TOWN Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Salary: $300 per week

• General chores such as church caretaker and all other related chores etc.

• Must be willing to work five to six days per week Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 232-1473

CONTACT: 246-4093

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

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CHINSON RESTURANT AND PASTRIES

CLUB MED

REQUIRES A

ASSISTANT MANAGER

Responsibilities • Assist with inventory management and cost control.

• Assist General manager in the training and supervision of line staff.

• Preparing reports at the end of the shift/week. Including staff control, food control and sales.

• Creating and executing plans for department sales, profits, & staff development.

• Planning and coordinating menus.

• Enjoy providing excellent customer service.

GRACE BAY ROAD

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Qualification • Must have at least 10 years’ experience in full service.

• Must have working knowledge of Micros or equivalent POS systems.

• Possess valid driver’s license.

• Multi-lingual would be an asset.

• Ability to multi-task is essential.

• Must be very honest.

• Salary rate : $2500.00 per month.

DOMESTIC WORKERS

Submit applications to the HR Department no later than June 15, 2018 Located: 17 Savannah RD, Leeward Highway, Providenciales TCI Email: hr@edeninternationalltd.com 14629

CLOVERLEAF AGENCY On behalf of: ADDISON FORBES

JITENDER GANGLANI PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a:

HELPER

Description: Moving trash, washing windows, dumping garbage, running errands and any jobs given by employer

DOMESTIC WORKER

KOMPLETELY KLEAN MAID SERVICES

HELPERS

Description: Moving Trash, washing windows, dumping garbage, running errands and any jobs given by employer

NANNY

CONTACT: 246-7382 INTERESTED BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT

PLEASE CALL 649-231-1977

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Salary $6.25 per hour

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CORAL GARDENS MANAGEMENT CO LTD

Whose address is Penn’s Rd, Lower Bight, Providenciales, is seeking suitable qualified Belongers to fill the positions of

‘HOUSEKEEPER’

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provides courteous and professional service at all times.

• Ensure that all guestrooms are cleaned to the established standards.

• Ensure that the facilities are kept clean and orderly in line with the resort standard of cleanliness.

• Reports for duty punctually

QUALIFICATIONS: • Minimum of 2-3 years of housekeeping experience • Must be able to work weekend and holidays Salary: $8.00 per hr.

ON BEHALF OF CLIENTS:

PELICAN BEACH Is seeking:

1 LABOURER

• Willing to perform gardening/yard maintenance

• General cleaning/run errands • MUST be reliable and honest • Clean Police record Salary: $6.25 per hour CONTACT: PELICAN BEACH HOTEL @ 649-241-2076

Position is currently held by a work permit holder 14632

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Marsha Blanche Email: marsha@misickstanbrook.tc Tel.: 946-4732 Applications should be received no later than January 04, 2019.

• Clean and tidy all areas to the standard cleanliness within time limits.

• Prepare dinner rooms tables with tableware.

• Re-set dinner rooms tables and terraces.

• Clean dining rooms tables and terraces.

• Clean windows, sweep floors, mop and polish fixtures.

• Remove dinner wares from dining tables into carts.

• Work with minimum supervision and remain motivated.

Minimum 2-3 years in the specialized field. To work 6 days per week rate $6.58 per hour.

DOMESTIC WORKERS

wearing the correct uniform and name tag at all times.

• Laundry

Qualified Belonger candidates with a clean police record are requested to submit a CV by e-mail to:

RELIABLE BUSINESS SERVICES

• Clean and tidy all areas to the standard cleanliness within time limits.

• Deliver excellent customer service.

• Maintain equipment in good condition.

• Ability to bent, lift and walk upstairs.

• Report on any shortages, damages or security issues.

• Handle reasonable guest’s complaints/ requests and inform others when required.

• Ability to work independently and remain motivated.

To work 6 six days per week rate $6.58 per hour.

Minimum 2-3 years in the specialized field.

A busy Retail store on Provo has an immediate opening for a

LABOURER

Responsibilities include: Complete ground work as directed by the Supervisor which may include the upkeep of the property and must be able to work weekends.

Salary: $8.00 per hour.

Interested persons should send their resumes/ CVs by email to marsha@ misickstanbrook.tc Tel: 649-946-4732.

Applications should be received no later than Friday, January 04, 2019.

Belongers Only Please!

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• Clean and sanitize production equipment, work surfaces and kitchen according to cleaning schedules and procedures.

• Scrape food from dirty dishes, wash them by hand or place them in the racks to conveyor through the dishwashing machine.

• Set up and breakdown buffet.

• Wash and peel vegetables using knife or peeling machine.

• Empty trash containers as required and maintain assign work station in a safe and sanitary condition.

• Maintain cleanliness of work and kitchen areas using proper cleaning chemicals.

• Work cohesively with kitchen cooks, sous chefs and head chef.

To work 6 six days per week rate $6.58 per hour.

Minimum 2-3 years in the specialized field.

LABOURERS

• Clean building floors by sweeping, mopping,

scrubbing, or vacuuming them.

• Gather and empty trash, service, clean, and supply restrooms.

• Ability to bent, lift and walk for long periods.

• Clean and restore building interiors damages, using commercial cleaning equipment and fixing equipments if damage.

• Clean and polish furniture and fixtures.

• Collect towels from beach and pool.

• Clean windows, glass partitions, mirrors, using soapy water or other cleaners, sponges, furniture, walls, machines and painting.

Minimum 2-3 years in the specialized field.

To work 6 days per week rate $6.58 per hour.

LABOURER

• Carry and label guest’s luggage with tags to rooms.

• Ability to bent, lift and walk upstairs.

• Sweep and mop floors and vacuum carpets.

• Ensure building entrance is free of clutter at all time.

• Direct guests to the reception areas or the appropriate rooms/office.

• Arrange taxi service upon request.

• Collect beverages from the bar for guests at arrivals.

• Report damages, call technicians and monitor repairs.

• Follow evacuation rules in case of emergencies.

Minimum 2-3 years in the specialized field.

To work 6 days per week rate $6.58 per hour.

LABOURER

• Must be able to lift 20 pounds on a consistent basis.

• Ability to bent, lift and walk upstairs.

• Collect all dirty lines from rooms.

• Prepared and distributed towels, lines and rags to different departments.

• Arranged and maintained a sanitary hallway and area outside of the laundry and rooms.

• Load all laundry into washer and add specified cleaning agents.

• Operated liner feeder, and tables’ linen ironing machines.

• Monitored and operated computer driven washers and dryers according to recommended capacity and manufacture guidelines.

Minimum 2-3 years in the specialized field.

To work 6 days per week rate $6.58 per hour.

Candidates must have the ability to be on time and present for all scheduled shifts and split shifts including weekends and Holidays.

THIS AD IS FOR WORK PERMIT HOLDER. EMAIL YOUR RESUME TO TURCREHU02@CLUBMED. COM OR CONTACT: 649-946-5500 HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT. HOWEVER, THE POSITIONS ARE ALL OPEN TO ALL QUALIFIED TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDERS. POTENTIAL TURKS ISLANDERS CANDIDATED MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE TURKS AND CAICOS LABOUR DEPARMENT. CLOSING DATE JAUARY 4th, 2019.

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GOVERNMENT VACANCIES JOB REFERENCE: CFB6-01

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER/TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST DEPARTMENT: Disaster Management and Emergencies MINISTRY: Home Affairs, Transportation & Communication LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 7.1 $41, 205 per annum plus Allowances.

JOB SUMMARY:

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is to support the Department in the key areas of tactical employment, training, administration, personnel management, maintenance, force protection, and sustainment of the Intelligence Team.

JOB REF: JCB6-9

DEPUTY DIRECTOR SPPD

DEPARTMENT: STRATEGIC POLICY AND PLANNING UNIT LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: Grade 9.1- $59,552.50 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

Under the direction of the Director of the Department of Disaster and Emergencies (DDME) the Radio Communications Manager/Telecommunications Specialist is responsible for maintenance and repair of all DDME emergency communication equipment, as well as receiving and transmitting communication.

This is a senior professional and technical position.

This post has the responsibility of assisting in shaping and facilitating and implementing economic policies to promote sustainable economic and social development etc.

JOB REFERENCE: CFB6-02

Deputy Collector of Customs – Financial Management

TRAINING AND EDUCATION SPECIALIST

DEPARTMENT: Disaster Management and Emergencies LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 7.1 $41, 205.00 per annum plus Allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The Education and Training Specialist (ETS) will be responsible for the coordination, design and implementation of Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) education and training programmes in support of capacity building within the Turks and Caicos Islands (TC).

JOB REFERENCE NO: JCB6-04

Labour Inspector

DEPARTMENT: Labour LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: GRADE 5.1 $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is an administrative and operational support position initially with island wide responsibility for monitoring and regulation of labour laws, policy, standards and procedures.

JOB REFERENCE NO: JCB6-07

Senior Immigration Officer

MINISTRY: Border Control & Employment LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 6.1 $33, 415.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a middle management position which has departmental responsibility for the supervision of junior Staff at the office, airport and field duties.

JOB REFERENCE NO: JCB6-8

Intelligence Manager

DEPARTMENT: Immigration Department MINISTRY: Ministry of Border Control and Employment LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 7 - $41,205.00 per annum

JOB REFERENCE NO: JCB6-11

DEPARTMENT: Customs Department LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 9.1 - $59,552.50 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY:

The Incumbent has responsibility for the financial performance of the operational units within the Customs Department and provides leadership and direction to all officers in regards to financial matters pertaining to the Customs Department.

JOB REF: JCB6-12

Deputy Director CITU

DEPARTMENT: Central Information and Technology Unit LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 9.1- $59,552.50 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

The work of this position emphasizes the management, coordination and planning of all functions of a major organizational unit of the Information Technology Department.

JOB REFERENCE NO: CBB6 - 13

Development Control Officer

DEPARTMENT: Planning Department LOCATION: Providenciales & Grand Turk SALARY: GRADE 5.1: $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a junior position with responsibility for the enforcement of the Physical Planning Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder throughout TCI. JOB REFERENCE NO: CBB6-14

Energy Analyst

DEPARTMENT: Energy &Utilities LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 7.1 $41,205.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

Provide research and analytical support to the Energy and Utilities Department by collecting data for

conducting effective analysis of conventional and nonconventional energy generation and energy use in the TCI. JOB REFERENCE NO: CBB6-15

Crown Counsel

MINISTRY: Attorney General’s Chambers LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 8.1: $51,147.50 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The job holder in this position must be able to provide legal advice to the Turks and Caicos Islands Government as it relates to a wide range of Government activities, public service matters, and advice to the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force: other than in relation to criminal prosecutions.

Job Reference No: CBB6-16

Chief Valuation Officer

DEPARTMENT: Valuation Office MINISTRY: Attorney General’s Chambers LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 9.1: $59,552.50 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a senior managerial position with national responsibility for shaping the land development, acquisition, disposal, and valuation policy of the TCI. JOB REFERENCE NO: CBB6-17

Senior Compliance Officer

MINISTRY: Attorney General’s Chambers DEPARTMENT: Crown Land Unit LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 6.1: $33,415.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Land Compliance Officer is a middle level post in the Crown Land Unit and is responsible for monitoring use of all Crown Land in the area to which they are assigned other than protected areas, and for ensuring that quick action if taken against any breaches of the Crown Land Ordinance or the terms and conditions of Crown Land leases or licenses, under the guidance of the Deputy Director(s), Crown Land Unit.

JOB REFERENCE NO: LWB6-18

Grounds Maintenance Worker

DEPARTMENT: Education Department – Iris Stubbs Primary School LOCATION: South Caicos SALARY: $499.98 bi – weekly

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a general support services position, to assist with cleaning and maintenance of assigned facilities and grounds so that they are clean and ready for use.

JOB REFERENCE NO.: LWB6-19

CLEANER

DEPARTMENT: LIBRARY LOCATION: PROVIDENCIALES SALARY: $499.98 bi-weekly

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GOVERNMENT VACANCIES Unit and ensuring quality care for all clients.

JOB SUMMARY:

Required to perform various cleaning duties as delegated by the supervisor and is responsible for helping to create a pleasant environment for workers and customers.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6-25

JOB REFERENCE NO.: LWB6-20

DEPARTMENT: Contract Management Unit LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: per annum

LIBRARY ASSISTANT DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: SALARY: annum

LIBRARY South Caicos Grade 4.1 $21,935.00 per

JOB SUMMARY:

Ensure library objectives are met by assisting in all planned activities of the Library.

JOB REFERENCE NO: LWB6-21

Procurement Officer

MINISTRY: Deputy Governor’s Office (Contracts & Corporate Performance Management) LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 6.1 - $33,415.00 per annum.

JOB SUMMARY:

The post holder supports the Director of Contracts and Corporate Performance Management and the office by providing guidance on procurement and project management matters to Ministries, Departments, Statutory Bodies and other Public Bodies to allow for effective project and business decisions.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6- 22

Occupational Therapist

MINISTRY: Health, Agriculture and Human Services LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 8 - $51,147.50 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a professional position, performing evaluations, developing and implementing effective patient treatment plans to restore, compensate or adapt for loss of patient function, by planning and administering medically prescribed therapy treatments in accordance with professional standards governing the facility and their discipline.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6-23

Quarantine Officer

DEPARTMENT: Agriculture Department LOCATION: Various SALARY: Grade 6.1 $33,415.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

Is to oversee and evaluate the trapping operations of the animal welfare unit and enforcement of animal control ordinances. To investigate cases of mistreatment, nuisance and other breaches of the animal control ordinances.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6 – 24

DEPUTY SUPERVISOR WELLNESS CENTER (Temporary)

DEPARTMENT: Special Needs Unit LOCATION: South Caicos SALARY: Grade 6 - $33,415 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The job entails responsibility to assist the Supervisor with the management of the Wellness Centre/Special Needs

LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: SALARY: Grade 7.1 - $41,205.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

Contract Performance Manager

This is a senior professional position responsible for the effective management of the Migrant Health Program $69,700.00

JOB SUMMARY:

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

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6-26

JOB REFERENCE NO: CFB6- 31

Prison Officer

DEPARTMENT: Her Majesty’s Prison Service LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: SALARY: Grade 5.1 - $26,650.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

MEDICAL OFFICER

To support the Superintendent of Prisons to maintain security, control, supervision and the safe custody of offenders. The successful candidate will be responsible for looking after Offenders and to help them lead law abiding and useful lives in custody and after release.

JOB SUMMARY:

JOB REFERENCE NO:JCB6-32

DEPARTMENT: Primary Health Care SALARY: Grade 8 $51,147.50 per annum plus allowances.

LOCATION: Various The successful candidate will provide a high standard of primary health care to patients in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6- 27

Chief Medical Technologist MINISTRY: Health, Agriculture and Human Services LOCATION: Providenciales ALARY: Grade 8 - $51,147.50 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The Chief Medical Technologist is responsible for coordinating, monitoring and evaluating laboratory activities to ensure quality patient care and management and is expected to generate results that are deemed satisfactory when laboratory results are accurate, reliable and timely and client confidentiality is maintained.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6-28

Administrative Assistant – Migrant Health Unit

DEPARTMENT: Primary Health Care LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 4.1 $21,935.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is an administrative support position, which has responsibility for secretarial and administrative support functions in the office.

JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6- 29

Primary Health Care Manager

DEPARTMENT: Primary Health Care Unit LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: SALARY: Grade 9.1 - $59,553.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

Under the supervision of the Director of Health Services, the Primary Health Care Manager plans, organises, directs and controls through primary health care staff the delivery of Primary Health Care services on each island and by extension the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI); JOB REFERENCE NO: KHB6- 30

Migrant Health Manager

DEPARTMENT: Primary Health Care Unit

Citizenship Caseworker

DEPARTMENT: Registration and Citizenship Department LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 5 - $26,650.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is an administrative support position which has departmental responsibility in assisting the department of Registration and Citizenship in the execution of various documents.

JOB REFERENCE NO: JCB6-33

NETWORK AND WIRING SPECIALIST MINISTRY: FINANCE, INVESTMENT AND TRADE DEPARTMENT: CITU LOCATION: PROVIDENCIALES SALARY: Grade 7.1 $41,205.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This position will seek to address the need for permanent IT personnel presence and support on the island of Providenciales to service the IT needs of Government Offices on site and offices in the neighboring islands of North and Middle Caicos as needed.

JOB REFERENCE NO: LWB6-34

Administrative Assistant

DEPARTMENT: Marjorie Basden High School LOCATION: South Caicos SALARY: Grade 4.1 $21,935.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is an administrative support position, which has responsibility for secretarial and administrative support functions in the office.

JOB REFERENCE NO: LWB6-35

SCHOLARSHIP OFFICER

DEPARTMENT: Scholarship Secretariat LOCATION: Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 6: $33,415.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

The Scholarship Officer provides administrative support to the Scholarship Secretariat/Unit.

PLEASE NOTE:

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

Application Deadline 4th January. 2019

Continued 

46 CLASSIFIEDS CHURCH OF GOD ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES KEW TOWN

on behalf of: AGNES SWANN

Telephone: 241-0452 TYPE OF APPLICATION: Renewal, this position is currently held by a work permit holder 14663

ANTONIO PIERRE BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Keeping the church clean and tidy between events, services, and various church activities, Cleans the sanctuary thoroughly after services, including vacuuming, cleaning out the aisles of programs or paper left behind, wipes down windows, including stained glass.

Empties the wastebaskets and removes any other debris in communal areas. Scrubs restrooms after every service and events.

Keeps all restrooms stocked with toilet paper, paper towels, and soap.

SALARY: 6.25 per hour

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CLOVERLEAF AGENCY

HELPER

Description: Moving trash, washing windows, dumping garbage, running errands and any jobs given by employer. Salary $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 246-7382 INTERESTED BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT

14667

HOUSEKEEPER

Keeping my home clean at all times and getting my children ready for school.

Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 345-3800

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14640

BLACK BOY & JEAN TRUCKING BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

DRIVER

Trucking sand, gravel or cement. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 242-3631

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14613

ISABELLA ADAMS

GOVERNMENT VACANCIES Continued  JOB REFERENCE: KHB6-36

Administrative Officer

MINISTRY: Office of The Premier & District Administration LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 5.1 $26,650.00 per annum plus Allowances.

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other house work. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 244-5775

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board.

This position is currently held by a work permit holder

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GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Cleaning and ironing Salary: $6.50 per hour Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 344-4709

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14615

GILLEY’S ENTERPRISES

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

BRIDGET SIMMONS

AIRPORT ROAD Is looking for

1 LABOURER

Salary; $6.75 per hour Must be willing to work 6 days per week and sometimes on holidays

CHEF

1. Responsible for ordering all provisions pertaining to food and cleaning supplies and kitchen equipment 2. Responsible for supervising general cleaning and maintenance of kitchen equipment 3. Responsible for taking food inventory at the end of each month 4. Responsible for respectable food cost

5. Operate large volume cooking equipment such as frills, deep fryers, etc.

6. Regularly review kitchen procedures and identify ways to improve and/or streamline processes Remuneration; $7.00 per hour DESCRIPTION OF SUITABLE PERSON; 1. Must be hard working and efficient 2. Must have a positive attitude toward works 3. Be able to work (6) six days per week, weekends and holidays if needed Must have at least five (5) years’ experience in the hospitality industry

Contact: Mrs. Tate Forbes between the hours of 9:00 am- 3:00 pm at 946-4472 or email gilley’scafe@tciway.tc 14644

C&S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Sam’s Building, Down Town Acting on behalf of our clients Lawanda Basden who is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames.

Cares for garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 343-6168

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14544

GEORGE SOLON FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

BOAT MECHANIC Mechanical work on fishing boat. Salary: $7.50 per hour

CONTACT: 344-9209

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14616

JOB SUMMARY:

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

JOB REFERENCE: KHB6-37

Communications Coordinator

MINISTRY: Office of The Premier & District Administration LOCATION: Providenciales SALARY: Grade 7.1 $41, 205 per annum plus Allowances.

JOB SUMMARY:

This job provides a proactive and reactive professional media and public relations service for the Premier's Office, to ensure that the policies, programmes, decisions and activities of the Office of the Premier, Cabinet and the Legislature are communicated to key stakeholders and the public.

JOB REFERENCE: KHB6-38

Aide de Camp

MINISTRY: Office of The Premier & District Administration LOCATION: Providenciales and Grand Turk SALARY: Grade 5.1 $26,650.00 per annum plus Allowances.

JOB SUMMARY:

The job holder is primarily responsible for assisting with the provision of transportation services to the Premier and the First Family and the Acting Premier in performing their official duties.

JSS BEAUTY SALON FIVE CAYS

HAIRDRESSER Duties: must be able to style, wash, cut and color different types of hair. Salary $350 per week. Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 649-247-4507 This position is new Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

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SHAWN GARDINER

KENNETH & SON Discovery Bay Road Is seeking to employ a

DIESEL MECHANIC Applicant must be organized and readily available when called upon. Salary: $6.25 per hour, hours of operation are from Mon - Sat

CONTACT: 242-8558

LAWRENCE TALBOT

LESTER WILLIAMS

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

• General Chores such as sweeping, mopping and cleaning of home, doing laundry and any other related chores.

• Must be willing to work five to six days per week Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 243-2919

Duties include: Removing debris from site, mixing mortar, loading and offloading materials etc.

Salary: $6.25 per hour, Monday - Friday 7 AM- 5 PM

CONTACT: 242-7113 Email: lynles6@hotmail. com

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. All Belongers should contact Kenneth Handfield on the above number.

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Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14634

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is a first time work permit holder 14621

SAMUEL JOSEPH

JUBA SOUND Is seeking to employ a

#57 Plantation Dr. Long Bay Is seeking to employ a

SAURICIO MILLS

SAMUEL LOTIS HARVEY

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other house work. Salary: $6.25 per hour

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other house work. Salary: $6.50 per hour.

Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 242-9923

CONTACT: 346-3659

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14637

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14668

South Dock Road Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Cares for garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 231-0098

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14612

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

CARETAKER To take care of employer Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 342-5882

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14623

January 5-11, 2019 CAICOS VIBES KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

BARTENDER

• Uphold customer service • Maintain Bar • Mix and serve drinks • Clean and organize all areas including bathrooms Salary: $2500 per month Must be willing to work 6 days per week

CONTACT: 345-3900

CALVIN GREENE FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Clean debris from yard, fixing minor problems around the house, light cleaning like washing windows and dusting.

Salary: $1500 per month

CONTACT: 246-3175

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holder 14661

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14652

GABBY BEAUTY SUPPLY LTD.

FLAMINGO CAFÉ

AIRPORT ROAD Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning and keeping the store organized at all times. Salary: $150 per week. Must be willing to work Monday- Friday 9:00 am- 3:00 pm

CONTACT: 232-4400

GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

BARTENDER Mixing and serving beverages, serving food & maintaining a clean environment.

Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 946-4343

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14642

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14641

LUCY FRITH

MARIE LAFIE MATHURIN

Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing young baby administering medicine, Salary: $325 per week

CONTACT: 343-9028

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is a First Time work permit holderThis position is currently held by a work permit holder 14666

SAMUEL HARVEY South Dock Is seeking to employ a

KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

Specialized in heavy equipment. Salary: $400 per week

CONTACT: 231-0098

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position Is currently held by a work permit holder 14638

D&B AUTO LTD Shamrock Plaza, Industrial Park, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

MECHANIC HELPER

• Must have six months of prior work experience • Assist Head Mechanic in servicing and repairing customer cars • Must be able to work flexible hours • Able to use cleaning devices/ equipment for washing vehicles • Knowledgeable on basic auto maintenance and repair and has ability to perform such tasks as prescribed • Able to assist in performing maintenance and repair of different variety of vehicle • Basic wage is $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 941-8438

Email: dnbautoparts@tciway.tc Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder 14617

MAINTENANCE MAN

Maintenance done on 4 apartments, 2 houses and 1 store. Salary: $7.50 per hour

CONTACT: 244-3700

VERONIQUE INGHAM

MERCEDES BEAUTY SALON

1 Nail Artist Must be able to design using airbrush. This position is a new position.

OC MAINTENANCE PLUS

Tile Layer $10.00 per hour Must be able to slay tables professionally without being supervised. Must be able to design floors. This position is a new position Contact: 345-6991 14622

LABOURER $7.00

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, set up forms for the pouring of concrete foundations, and even hand tools to workers, remove all debris, pack up tools, put away any unused materials, and take down bracing and scaffolding. keep debris away from worksites

CONTACT: 331-8988

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a First Time work permit holder

14638

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS: • Communicate scheduling and relevant infrastructure shifts to affected staff • Provide technical support to other departments, including internet searches,

ELBERT’S CLEANING SERVICE

MAINTENANCE

LABOURER

FIVE CAYS ROAD Is seeking to employ a

Maintenance on the building, electrical work, plumbing work etc. Salary: $400 per week

LABOURER

Helping with the delivery, keeping the site clean, loading and offloading, picking up debris and discarding it. This position is a new work permit holder

CONTACT: 941-8185

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

materials souring and quality assurance • Co-ordinate and track progress and schedules • Information reporting- professional communicate with clients and staff both verbally and electronically • Identify system issues and propose resolutions and inform clients and Maintenance Manager • Irrigation Trade Certificates required.

Salary approximately $400-450 per week based on experience and qualifications. Interested applicants including islanders/ Belongers can send applications to Environmental Arts Irrigation Ltd. by email to mary@eagrouptci.com Located #65 Beechwood Road, Grace Bay, Providenciales. successful applicants will be notified by phone for interview. This positon is currently held by work permit holders 14624

NEON HOLDINGS LTD

#2 Tranquility Lane, Leeward Is seeking to employ a

• Full time Cook to prepare meals for a large family • Ability to communicate in English and Spanish • 6 days per week, weekends and some holidays Salary: $7.50 per hour

CONTACT: 941-7923

RAYCAL HANDFIELD

Live-In Caretaker $6.50 per hour • Must be able to care for children for children in absence if parents cooking and Laundry is also required at times • This position is currently held by a work permit holder Contact: 341-5220

Follow blueprints and building plans to meet the needs of clients. Install structures and fixtures, such as windows and molding. Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials

EBS BROKERAGE SERVICE

IRRIGATION SUPERVISOR

ROBERTS AGENCY

Painter $10.00 per hour • Painting walkway and premises touching up areas when needed.

• This position is currently held by a work permit holder Contact: 342-5731

CARPENTER $10 PER HOUR

JOB SUMMARY The successful applicant will be expected to be able to assemble, draft, edit and review irrigation and landscape quotes and technical documents.

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

Airport Road Acting on behalf of our clients who are seeking to employ the following

Is seeking to employ a

is seeking to employ an

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a first time work permit holder

14614

DAIN CONSTRUCTION

ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS IRRIGATION LTD.

COOK

NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

MECHANIC

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

14645

Priton Homes, Blue Hills Looking for a

DOMESTIC WORKER

the successful applicant. Will work from 8 am to 5 pm on a regular day, Monday – Friday.

Sometimes will be called upon to arrive at work 6:30 am. Applicant might be called on some weekends to work.

Applicant should speak English.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-241-2228

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Also, Belongers are advised to send a copy of their resume to tis email kathleenhandfield@hotmail.com This position is currently held by a 14659 work permit holder

PARROT CAY Is seeking to employ a

Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing.

Ensuring all rooms are cared for and inspected according to standards.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 243-8577

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14665

ELIZABETH GARLAND BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Cares for garden on a daily basis.

Salary: $7.00 per hour Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 241-3362

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

14546

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NOTICE REGULATION 7 OF THE PHYSICAL PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION) REGULATIONS, 1990 An application, REGISTERED PR 13190 by BEEN MEP CO. LTD., for rezoning of parcel 60716/75 Cheshire Hall on Providenciales which is currently zoned for R6 Apartments to C1 Commercial. The planning application is for a, Office Building and Storage. Anyone wishing to make representation(s) may do so in writing to the Director of Planning, South Base, Grand Turk or through the Department of Planning, Emily House, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, within twenty-eighty (28) days of publication of this Notice.

Anyone wishing to make representation(s) may do so in writing to the Director of Planning, South Base, Grand Turk or through the Department of Planning, Leeward Highway, Emily House, Providenciales, within twenty-eight (28) days of publication of this Notice.

Dated Posted November 19th, 2018 14460

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January 5-11, 2019

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

JOB OPENINGS Pharmacist Needed Community/Retail Pharmacy located on the Island of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, is seeking 4 fulltime pharmacists.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

1. Dispensing prescription medication, checking dosage, giving advice and instruction on the usage of over-the-counter medicines and medical appliances.

2. Patient counseling on health matters especially relating to managing hypertensive and diabetic patients.

3. Liaising with doctors about prescriptions and new medication 4. Managing, supervising and training pharmacy support staff.

STANCH CONSTRUCTION

CARIBBEAN VACATION CLUB is seeking suitable qualified candidate:

PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to hire a

JOB POSITION: HOUSEKEEPER

MASONRY LABOURER

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provides courteous and professional service at all times.

• Ensure that all guestrooms are cleaned to the established standards.

• Reports for duty punctually wearing the correct uniform

Duties include: Repairing, maintaining and altering buildings, retaining walls and other brick or stone edifices, mix mortar/concrete, lay bricks, plaster walls, and pick up tools needed for daily tasks.

Must be able to work 5 days a week and weekends if need be.

Salary: $9/hr.

and name tag at all times.

• Laundry QUALIFICATIONS: • Minimum of 2-3 years of housekeeping experience • Must be able to work weekend and holidays Salary: $8.00 per hr.

Qualified Belonger candidate with a clean police record and driving license is requested to submit a CV to:

Interested applicants should submit their resume to stanchconstructionltd@gmail.com or 231-6089 and TCI Employment Services and Labour Department. This position is currently vacant.

MARSHA BLANCHE EMAIL: MARSHA@MISICKSTANBROOK.TC TEL.: 946-4732

Applications should be received no later than December 24, 2018.

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14626

SKILLS REQUIRED:

1. A minimum of three years experience within the Retail Pharmacy business will be an asset.

2. Certification from a reputable institution as well as proof of current pharmacist registration.

3. Good communication skills, and keen attention to details 4. Proficient in the English Language however a second language (Spanish or French Creole) will be an asset.

5. Knowledge of the Kroll pharmacy computer program or similar 6. Must be willing to work flexible hours, including holidays and weekends in rotation.

Ad is for renewal however position is open to all suitably qualified applicants.

Salary ranges from $36,000.00 to $42,000.00. Applicants can apply for further details via e-mail addressed to the Managing Director, Grace Bay Pharmacy, Box 276, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands or email jobs@gracebaypharmacy. com.

Pharmacy Technician Required KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

1. Assist pharmacist in labeling and filling prescriptions as well as enter prescriptions into the computer 2. Assist patients in dropping off and picking up prescriptions 3. Compound oral solutions, ointments, and creams under Pharmacist supervision 4. Medication ordering 5. Work with insurance carriers to obtain payments and refilling authority

SKILLS REQUIRED:

1. Previous experience working as a Pharmacy Technician 2. Certification from a reputable institution as well as proof of current Pharmacy Technician license.

3. Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

4. Understanding of medical terminology and calculations 5. Proficient in the English Language however a second language (Spanish or French Creole) will be an asset.

6. Must be willing to work flexible hours, including holidays and weekends in rotation.

Ad is for permit renewal however position is open to all suitably qualified applicants.

Salary ranges from $22,800.00 to $25,200.00. Applicants should apply to the Managing Director, Grace Bay Pharmacy, Box 1276, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands or email jobs@gracebaypharmacy.com.

Domestic Worker Needed for retail business.

Must be willing to work Weekends and Holidays Ad is for work permit renewal however position is open to all suitably qualified applicants. Salary $7.00 per hour

Applicants should apply to the Managing Director, Grace Bay Pharmacy, Box 1276, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands or email jobs@gracebaypharmacy.com.

TURKS AND TACOS

TCI PROGRESSIVE IMMIGRATION

GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

EMPLOYMENT SERVICES (2316991):

RESTAURANT MANAGER • Proven work experience as a Restaurant Manager, Restaurant General Manager, Hospitality Manager or similar role • Proven customer service experience as a manager • Familiarity with restaurant management software,

DOMESTIC WORKER 5 days per week to clean, wash, Iron and assist where necessary. Part Time. Salary $10/hr.

like Open Table and Peach Works • Strong leadership, motivational and people skills • Acute financial management skills Salary: $38,000 per year

CONTACT: 946-5369 EMAIL: COCOBISTRO@TCIWAY.TC

CONTACT: BELINDALIGHTBOURN@ HOTMAIL.COM

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

Or 231-6991.

Preference to TCIslanders.

New position 14628

14130

HERZOG CARIBBEAN LTD. is seeking to employ a

MECHANIC’S ASSISTANT JOB DESCRIPTION

To provide support to lead mechanic working in shop by directly helping with repair and maintenance related tasks.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• • • • • •

Work on projects under the lead mechanic’s supervision Perform preventative maintenance tasks Repair and replace equipment parts Provide diagnostic support Maintain equipment records Support shop cleanliness and safety

QUALIFICATIONS

• Clean Police Record • Must have own vehicle to travel to work

SKILLS

• • • • • •

Background in mechanics/electrical Good physical strength Good physical stamina Good manual dexterity Great attention to detail Works well as part of a team

COMPENSATION

• $8 ~ $9 per hour

POSITION TYPE

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• Full-Time

Please submit applications to main office at C 5-6 Caribbean Place, Leeward Highway, Providenciales TCI. 14625

January 5-11, 2019 SOLOMON ALTIDOR OF GRAND TURK. Is seeking to employ two

CARPENTERS Duties: Follow blueprints Build from plans to meet Client’s needs. Install Structures and fixtures, Doors, Windows, must be Able to use electrical tools.

Salary: $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 231-6432

Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to The Labour Board.

14653

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS LLEWLYN WILLIAMS Of Grand Turk.

Is seeking to employ two

CARPENTERS Duties: Follow blueprints Build from plans to meet Client’s needs. Install Structures and fixtures, Doors, Windows, must be Able to use electrical tools.

Salary: $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 245-2962

Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to The Labour Board.

15654

ERIC W. SMITH OF GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ ab

ELECTRICIAN HELPER

DUTIES: Install and Maintain wiring, Repair and replace Wiring and equipment Trenching and cutting Walls.

Salary: $6.75 per hour

CONTACT: 231-0167

Belongers are encouraged To send a copy of their Resume to The Labour Board. This position is Currently held by a work Permit holder. 14656

WILLIAMS CATERING SERVICES

COOK

– to be held by a work permit holder • Inspect food preparation and serving areas to ensure observance of safe, sanitary foodhandling practices.

• Turn or stir foods to ensure even cooking.

• Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience.

• Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or piercing them with utensils.

• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients

HAIRSTYLIST

Duties: Repair, Maintain And alter buildings, Retaining and boundary Walls, mix mortar, Plastering, lay Bricks and stone.

Salary: $7.00 per hour.

Duties: Braiding, Weaving, Relaxing, Loc, grooming And maintenance, cutting And trimming. Salary: $7.00 per hour.

CONTACT: 231-4856

Belongers are asked to send A copy of their resume to The Labour Board.

14657

Of Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

MASON

CONTACT: 946-1542

Belongers are asked to send A copy of their resume to The Labour Board.

14657

THOMAS SWANN Of Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

PLUMBER

Duties: Must be able to Read blueprint, Install, Fit cut Plumbing pipes. Must be will to work Six days a week.

Salary: $7.00 per hour.

CONTACT: 332-1022.

Belongers are asked to Send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board.

14655

SAND DOLLAR INVESTMENTS

VILLA CHEF

DOMESTIC WORKER

who duties would include basic housekeeping and child care. Remuneration is $7.50 per hour and work days are Mondays to Fridays from 1pm to 5pm.

SUNSHINE EQUIPMENT

TRUCK DRIVER

– to be held by a work permit holder • To make deliveries • Must be willing to work weekend and holidays • Rate 7-11

ADDRESS: WILLIAMS PLAZA, OLD AIRPORT ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS .CONTACT 946-4726.RESUMES CAN BE FAXED TO 941-3425 AND THE LABOR DEPARTMENT, PROVIDENCIALES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

14651

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PUBLIC NOTICE

LEA ASTWOOD

OF GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

Suite A 201 Regent Village East, Grace Bay

according to recipes or personal judgment, using various kitchen utensils and equipment.

• Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve food to waiters or patrons.

• Rate $400.00 per week

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NATHAN SMITH

A job vacancy exist for a

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

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For more information and to arrange an appointment, kindly contact Yaa McCartney, PO Box 54, Palm Grove, Grand Turk and telephone number 946-2067.

14633

NATALIE BEEN Providenciales

LABOURER

His responsibilities are pick up years waste and collect leaves, clean the yard with sweeper, lift garbage bags and cans into garbage truck, pick up yard waste and tree limbs, repair broken furniture and assist with other work when needed. SALARY: 6.25 per hour

TELEPHONE: 331-2695 TYPE OF APPLICATION: Renewal, this position is currently held by a work permit holder

• At least 7 years’ Chef experience in a luxury hotel/ Luxury Villa • He/she must possess the ability to prepare a range of international cuisines (Asian, fusion cuisine, French, Italian), as well as cater to guests individual dietary preferences that includes vegetarian, vegan, kosher, organic diets etc.

• Full ability and responsibility to take on menu planning, shopping, food prep and service for up to 16 VIP guests • Maintain the cleanliness and proper sanitation of kitchen and equipment at all times.

• Exercise cost control, with weekly monitoring of stocks and supplies

• Be willing to work flexible hours, weekends, holidays etc. Be able to work within a team, be reliable and trustworthy • Be extremely well presented and have an excellent command of English • Must possess a clean Turks & Caicos Islands driver’s license, preferable have their own vehicle Must be prepared to carry out other duties when guests/ owners are not in house as is required with regards general property upkeep.

• Preference will also be given to individuals who have worked within a 5-Star luxury environment Salary: $2500 per month

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Please respond via Email: luxturksvilla@gmail.com ( NO PHONE CALLS, THANK YOU!) Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently vacant.

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Laying blocks on site Salary: $6.75 per hour CONTACT: 346-2473 OR 242-2548

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PLEASE CALL 649-232-2857

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BELONGER STATUS APPLICATION (Section 3 (5) of the Immigration Ordinance)

Take Notice that I, John Freeman, Governor of Turks and Caicos in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3(2) of the Immigration Ordinance intend to grant a Certificate of Belonger Status to SAMANTHA ANITHA THOMPSON by virtue of marriage to a Belonger.

JOHN FREEMAN

ATTORNEY-CORPORATE/COMMERCIAL Karam & Missick requires the services of a Senior Solicitor or Barrister with a minimum of 15 years post-qualified experience and with the following additional qualifications: - Masters in Law or equivalent - International financial services experience - Experience in large commercial transactions - STEP member or willingness to sit requisite exams - Proven ability in, and willingness for, training of junior colleagues - Willingness to travel to and possibly relocate to the firm’s other international offices Belongers are particularly encouraged to apply. Apply in writing, with CV and cover letter to Christian Papachristou via email to cp@bishopslegal.com with a copy to the Labour Office, Providenciales, on or before December 28, 2018.

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Pulisic signs with Chelsea to become most expensive football signing in US history EUROPEAN soccer’s January transfer window is barely a day old, but already a high-profile signing has been announced with American soccer star Christian Pulisic signing for English Premier League side Chelsea for a fee in excess of $73 million.

The move from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea makes the 20-year-old -- widely touted as one of the world’s best young players -- the most expensive American player in history.

“It’s a privilege to have signed for such a legendary club and I look forward to working hard towards being

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a contributor to their team of world class players,” Pulisic said on social media.

Pulisic, who joined Dortmund’s academy in 2015 and made his first team debut aged 17, will remain on loan with the Bundesliga outfit until the end of the season.

“It feels like only yesterday that I arrived in Dortmund as a raw, excited, very nervous but exceptionally proud 16-yearold from a small American town called Hershey,” Pulisic -- the youngest goalscorer in U.S Soccer history -- added.

“I had no idea what lay ahead but I soon discovered that as a young Schwarzgelben, I would be in the best possible hands.

“I would not be where I am today without the Club and their belief in giving young players a chance. It’s been an honor and a dream to pull on the black-and-yellow in front of the Südtribüne [the famous south end of Dortmund’s stadium].”

Pulisic has earned 23 caps for the US national team, scoring nine times. He has made 80 appearances for table-topping Dortmund but has faced competition this season for a starting berth following the emergence of 18-year-old Englishman Jadon Sancho.

Serena Williams (second left) and Roger Federer are flanked by teammates Frances Tiafoe and Belinda Bencic as they line up before the start of their mixed doubles clash at the Hopman Cup.

Federer beats Williams in battle of the tennis legends The move from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea makes the 20-year-old -- widely touted as one of the world’s best young players -- the most expensive American player in history.

In a statement, Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia said: ‘We are delighted to have signed one of Europe’s most sought-after young players.

“Christian has shown his quality during a fantastic spell in Germany and at just 20, we believe he has the potential to become an important Chelsea player for many years to come.

“We look forward to welcoming him to Stamford Bridge in the summer and wish

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him and Dortmund every success for the remainder of the season.”

For Dortmund, meanwhile, the club’s management felt Chelsea’s offer was one that couldn’t be turned down.

“It was always Christian’s biggest dream to play in the Premier League. It’s something to do with his American background and consequently it wasn’t possible to extend his contract,” said sporting director Michael Zorc.

“He stressed it was with this in mind that we have decided -- in view of the small amount of time his contract has to run -- to accept the extremely lucrative offer from Chelsea.

“Christian is by character an impeccable player. I’m sure that he will do everything in the coming months to bring his quality to the team and to help them to achieve their sporting goals with his teammates at Borussia Dortmund.” (CNN)

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ROGER Federer was on the winning side in his historic mixed doubles match against fellow tennis great Serena Williams at the Hopman Cup Tuesday, but in the end the result hardly mattered.

Paired with Belinda Bencic, Federer beat Williams and Frances Tiafoe 4-2 4-3 (5-3) to give Switzerland a 2-1 win over the United States in their round robin match.

More importantly, it was the first and probably last time that fans would get to see the two tennis players, widely regarded as the greatest of all time, battle it out across the net in a competitive match -and after it was over they even had time to pose for a selfie that is sure to go viral.

Federer eventually clinched it for the reigning champion by claiming the winning point in the truncated tiebreak used in mixed doubles with a perfect angled volley.

The Swiss maestro had talked before the match of his nervousness at facing the feared Serena serve and his fears seemed confirmed as he was unable to cope with two deliveries in her opening

service game, but thereafter he took control of the match with Bencic.

“I was nervous returning because it’s a wonderful serve and you just can’t read it,” said Federer in the post-match interviews.

“It was great fun and she is a great champion. You can see how focused she is and that’s what I love about her.”

In truth, Serena was not given the chance to show much of the doubles prowess that has seen her win 16 grand slam titles in that discipline on top of her 23 in singles.

Partner Tiafoe lost his service for the Americans to lose the opening set and she also appeared to be nursing a right shoulder injury although she insisted it was of no concern with the Australian Open looming.

However, despite the disappointing defeat which leaves the United States unable to reach the final of an event it has won six times, Serena clearly relished testing herself against Federer.

“It was a great experience, I’m sad it is over, I was just warming up,” she joked.

T.C. GAS LTD.

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Positions vacant for our operations in Providenciales. Turks and Caicos Islanders only need apply

DOMESTIC WORKER/NANNY

DRIVER / PROPANE GAS FILLING STATION ATTENDANT.

To do housekeeping i.e. clean, wash dishes, do laundry, babysitting, feeding and bathing kids Salary: $275 per week

CONTACT: 333-2588

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14714

Requirements: we seek applications from persons experienced in driving heavy trucks and ideally some knowledge of handling gas. Training is available for suitable candidate.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

TRAINEE GAS FILLING STATION ATTENDANT.

We seek to employ a young man or woman willing to learn the business and to learn fluid engineering.

In both cases we need persons who will commit themselves to a career with opportunities for advancement. Honesty and integrity are key requirements as this is a cash business.

Applications in writing must be delivered to Claymore Group, Market Place Providenciales or by email to japclaymore@gmail.com 14716

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

DRIVER

Offloading goods, picking up and dropping off items Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 341-6493

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 14719

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World Anti-Doping Agency accused of being ‘played’ by Russia

Tenshin Nasukawa was floored three times by Floyd Mayweather.

Japanese kickboxer ‘underestimated’ Mayweather JAPANESE kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa says he “underestimated” Floyd Mayweather but that he had “concerns” before his defeat in an exhibition boxing match on Monday.

American former five-weight world champion Mayweather, 41, needed only 140 seconds to beat Nasukawa in Tokyo.

Nasukawa, 20, was knocked down three times and ended the fight in tears.

“The days since the fight was confirmed have been enjoyable but

WINKEY’S CATERING BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER Serving food and drinks Salary: $7.00 per hour

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with concerns,” Nasukawa said.

He wrote on Instagram: “I am disappointed at myself since I thought I could have done better.

“But I will face the facts and will continue to take on any challenge.

I learned that I didn’t work hard enough to earn this opportunity, and I will use this defeat to improve myself and move forward this year.”

Mayweather had a 4kg (9lb) weight advantage for the contest, which was worth a reported $9m and was widely criticised.

THE World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been accused of being “played by the Russians” after the country’s anti-doping agency missed the December 31st deadline to hand over data from its Moscow laboratory.

Sir Craig Reedie, WADA president, said he was “bitterly disappointed” that one of the conditions set when it lifted the three-year suspension on the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) in September had not been met.

WADA’s compliance review committee will meet on January 14 in Canada to consider its options, which could see the country once again banned from international events.

Travis Tygart, United States anti-doping agency (USADA) chief executive, said the situation was a “total joke” and an “embarrassment for WADA and the global antidoping system.”

In a statement, Tygart said: “In September WADA secretly moved the goalposts and reinstated Russia against the wishes of athletes, governments and the public. In doing this WADA guaranteed Russia would turn over the evidence of its

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– Turtle Cove, Providenciales Catering Supervisor $20.00 per hourHandles all aspects of the day-to-day work of a catering business, interacting with clients, preparing menus, overseeing the presentation and serving of the food

CONTACT: 232-3483

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state-supported doping scheme.

“No one is surprised this deadline was ignored and it’s time for WADA to stop being played by the Russians and immediately declare them noncompliant for failing yet again to meet the deadline.”

However, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has suggested Russia would not be suspended for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, saying the country had “served its sanction” when banned from the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang last year.

WADA’s decision in September allowed Russian athletes to return to competition across all sports despite the country not having complied

MILLHOUSE A SYLLA BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

Responsible for making sure all assigned area of the Hotel s neat and tidy Contact: 941-5160 or Email: josalee@ yourvilldelmar.com

• Pay $6.50-$7.00 per hour (depending on experience) • Must have previous gardening experience and be familiar with landscaping equipment such as lawnmowers, trimmers etc.

• Must be willing to carry out work such as heavy lifting, digging, weeding, trimming and plant waste removal • Must be willing to work weekends and holidays • Must have a clean police record and provide employer references on request • These is for work permit renewal

• To supervise and manage a Construction site.

• Hours are 7 am to 6 pm, Monday through Saturday Salary: $25. 00 per hour

Travis Tygart, CEO of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

with all demands following the revelations in 2015 of a statesponsored doping program.

The suspension was lifted pending Russia meeting “strict conditions” that included a timeline for “access to the former Moscow laboratory data and samples.”

In November Reedie had said it was “very hard to believe” Russian authorities “won’t deliver,” but last month WADA was unable to extract all of the promised data with the Russian authorities reportedly saying that the team’s equipment required to be certified under Russian law.

The UK anti-doping athlete commission said RUSADA must be declared non-compliant and suspended.

It said: “The Russian state needs to prove unequivocally that they have learned from the biggest doping scandal under WADA’s watch, and that they will from this date forward be committed to a drug-free, transparent regime across international sport.

“Otherwise the WADA compliance review committee and the WADA executive committee must immediately declare Rusada non-compliant.

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Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames.

Salary: $6.50 per hour Must be willing to work 6 days per week

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Keeping surroundings and properties clean at all times. Salary: $6.50 per hour Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board.

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T&M CONSTRUCTION Airport Road, Providenciales Tel; 1-649-245-3160 is seeking employment for the following

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Hours of work are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday.

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Positions are vacant and Belongers are encouraged to apply. Interested candidate may submit their resume to the Labour Department on Airport 14620 Road.

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TURKS and Caicos sports went through trying times in 2018. Many of our venues were affected by the destructive hurricanes of 2017 and it took a while before some sports were even played. For

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others, 2018 would go down as an off year.

Despite the drought of activities early in the year, some sports picked up and in the end, there were a lot to be happy about.

Members of the TCIFA with FIFA president Gianni Infantino (fourth from right) during the historic visit.

Various winners at the 24th Annual President’s Championship.

JANUARY In the opening weeks of the New Year Jarrett Forbes became the new Director of Sports. The experienced basketball coach brought his international exposure and determination, which helped to reignite sports after the hurricanes had all but killed it.

Prior to Forbes taking control of sports, football was the talk of the islands, as FIFA executive member and president of the TCIFA Sonia Fullford (then Bien-Aime) convinced the president of FIFA Gianni Infantino to visit Provo—a first for TCI. The most powerful man in sport had said that he was “extremely pleased and happy to be here” Infantino went on to say that he sees the passion in the TCI and was impressed with the development of the sport by the TCIFA.

Last January Levard Missick Jr. became the first player in over 11 years to pull down 30 boards in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

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Helcy-Ann Brianna Sauver was outstanding in the relays for Benedict College.

SONIA HAD CALLED THE MOMENT HISTORY IN THE MAKING. Also in January, the International team registered a resounding come-from-behind victory to beat the North Americans in the Provo Golf Club’s Ryder Cup 22.5 to 16.5. In individual golf, veteran golfer Jumphol Srinark and pre-teen sensation Brooke Rivers were crowned the Provo Golf Club Men and Ladies champions. Srinark had won his 12th Provo Golf Club Men’s Club title with scores of 83 and 82, while Rivers finished with scores of 79 and 75.

Ace distance athlete Lynn Robinson who thrilled TCI with 3000 miles in 2017, started 2018 with a victory in her first ever full marathon in Provo.

The then 49-year-old had won the Move-A-Thon TCI Age Meridian Marauders won the Winter Tag League in February.

The TCIFA was well represented at the Weston Cup last February.

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Wikenson Fenelon broke his pole vault record in February.

(L-r) Colby Jennings, Ken Reyes and Wikenson Fenelon were in record-breaking mode at the 2018 Champs.

Here the Jamaica College trio pose with fellow national athletes Emmanuel Agenor and Kyo Simpson.

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invite this year.

Group Marathon in a time of 3:53:46.

Another runner Yanique Haye-Smith, who was then stilling awaiting approval to run for the TCI (she gained international consent late last year), had opened her indoor season with a 600M personal best (1:31.19.).

National long jump record holder Ifeanyi Otuonye also had a strong opening meet after winning gold with a jump of 7.64M, which was his best season opener to date.

Jamaican based national athletes Ken Reyes and Colby Jennings were also lighting up January. Reyes, our best ever 800M runner had won the Queen’s Grace Jackson track meet, while Jennings had won both of his heats in the 200M and the 400M. In basketball, Rising Stars basketball club player Levard Missick Jr. was making a name for himself in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association by becoming the first player for his high school, Pike County Central High School Hawks, to pull down 30 rebounds in a game.

In terms of teams, the Sonics participated in the 2018 Copa Mitchell American’s Cup in the Dominican Republic in the first month last year and their performance led them to another

FEBRUARY THE Meridian Marauders won the Graham Thompson Winter Tag Rugby League which concluded in the first week of February at the Meridian Field. The Marauders had gotten past an undermanned Le Bouchon Nuff Said team 21-5 for the coveted Cup trophy.

Our Golden Boy, Delano Williams made his mark in his first team event for the Maximising Velocity and Power (MVP) Track and Field Club in Jamaica. The then 24-year-old had led his team to an easy victory in the 4X200M at the Milo Relays.

Also in track, two national athletes Kivarno Handfield and Devante Gardiner had helped their school the Saint Augustine’s University to win the CIAA Indoor Track and Field Championships which was held in Raleigh, NC. Gardiner ran the 200M in a time of 21.87s for a sixth place finish and the 60M in 7.02s for a fourth place finish, while Handfield had placed second in the high jump despite jumping with some discomfort (knee pain). Another jumper, Otuonye

Caption: The Clement Howell High School Eagles tallied 599.5 points at the 2018 Inter-High School National Championships to claim victory.

broke his national record early last year. He had eclipsed the 7.75M which he made in 2016, with a jump of 7.80M at the Tyson Invitational in the USA. Another record-breaking field performance was done by Wikenson Fenelon. The multi events specialists had broken his previous record twice in the pole vault to finish with a new national record of 3.8M. Meanwhile under the stewartship of coach Randy Ford, the TCI team had won 21 medals, including seven gold, 10 silver and four bronze in Haiti at the Friendship Games.

In football, the TCI reached two finals in the Weston Cup. The TCI earned two second place finishes in the U10 and U12 divisions.

MARCH For his performance earlier in the year, national high jumper Kivarno Handfield had earned an All-Region honour in NCAA Division II in March.

The Turks Islander was outstanding last indoor season and played a pivotal role for his school in several competitions.

During the process, he also broke the national indoor record with a jump of 2.10M. He had shared the previous record, of 2.04M, with Simpson Penn (2011 and 2012).

Reyes outstanding season also continued as he broke his 800M record at the Digicel Grand Prix, the sixth former clocked 1:52.41 to eclipse his previous mark of 1:52:52.

Another national athlete making waves in March was HelcyAnn Brianna Sauver, who helped her relay team set a school record in Georgia.

At home the Clement Howell High School Eagles defended their Inter-High School National Track and Field Championships title, but they faced some stern test from the ever-improving Raymond Gardiner High School.

The two-day meet, which had featured 30 athletes each from 12 high schools in the TCI had CHHS ending on 599.5 points, Raymond Gardiner on 506.5 and Marjorie Basden High School on 383 points.

Williams renewed his two-year contract with Flow TCI in March. The first Olympic athlete from the Turks and Caicos Islands was signed as a pan-regional Brand ambassador.

Williams, had said that he was “honoured to sign with the #1 telecommunications provider in the Turks and Caicos, Flow, for a second term as a pan regional brand ambassador.”

Williams who had dominated Jamaica’s Champs several years prior must have been elated when TCI Jamaica College trio dominated the event last year. Fenelon copped a silver medal and broke his decathlon and pole vault records, while Reyes captured a silver medal while he broke his 800M record and Jennings finished with a bronze in the 4X400M relays after he broke his 400M record with a fifth place finish.

In sailing the then Provo Sailing Club announced that Ross Darmody would be their new instructor in March.

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