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

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‘I’M NOT A SMUGGLER’ – AUDLEY ASTWOOD A FORMER public relations officer for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force

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‘I’m not a smuggler’ – Audley Astwood BY OLIVIA ROSE A FORMER public relations officer for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (RTCIPF) has denied allegations that he is involved in an illegal smuggling ring. Audley Astwood, who spoke exclusively to the Weekly News on Thursday (July 5), is calling 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 have made the rounds on social media. Deciding to clear the air this week, he told the Weekly News that this embarrassing ordeal has led to him being harassed by strangers in public. Astwood explained that upon returning home to Providenciales last week after a three-month trip overseas the matter was brought to his attention and he quickly went to the police station to clear his name. He said: “I was off island in the Bahamas receiving medical treatment and I got back to find out persons were taking advantage of my name in my absence.

“So I went to the Chalk Sound Police Station to tell them that I heard they had a wanted poster for me and a warrant for my arrest. “They said they never issued any warrant for my arrest, so I asked them if they could do a public notice stating such and they said they can’t do that since they never issued one in the first place. “Everywhere I go people keep telling about this thing. It ain’t just relatives and friends, total strangers come up to me and say I recognise your face from social media. You’re the one bringing in the boats.” Astwood, who is the younger brother of Border Control Minister Hon Sean Astwood, said he believes people are victimising him based on kinship and political affiliation. “I think what is happening is political tribalism at its best. That’s pretty much it. I wish I knew who started these rumours. “I feel disappointed that illegal migration is in such a crisis in this country and I have been vocal about this issue and would never engage in anything of the sort. “Rather people look for solutions. They are going around making false claims about me that even the police can refute.”

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Astwood who has long been outspoken against such illegal practices says he is appalled that people would associate him with those activities. Tired of being constantly bombarded for his alleged actions, Astwood is urging people to not only refrain from peddling untrue accusations about him, but to report any illegal activities of this nature to the police. He further encouraged people to use the anonymous tip hotline Crimestoppers on 1-800-8477 if they have information regarding a crime.

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

UK admits ‘lessons learned’ from Irma response Promises beefed-up action for 2018 hurricane season BY GEMMA HANDY A RAFT of measures to deliver faster UK assistance after a disaster was announced on Wednesday (July 4) by the British government which previously came under fire for slow, inadequate action following hurricane Irma. Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said “important lessons” had been learned from the UK’s response last year. He pledged “strengthened coordination and communication” with overseas territories, plus earlier intervention when a storm is approaching. Predictions for the 2018 season from Colorado State University – generally considered among the most accurate – were slightly scaled back this week. Researchers now think there will be a total of 11 named storms, a drop from the original forecast of 14. But the season got off to an early start when Subtropical Storm Alberto hit the US coast in May killing several people and causing more than $50 million in damage. And on Thursday, meteorologists issued early warnings to people in the east of the region as two Atlantic systems threatened to develop into tropical cyclones. Britain’s Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn was among those who previously claimed the UK did not do

enough to prepare its territories as Irma barrelled towards the Caribbean. He was quoted in September as saying the warnings signs were “well-known” and the ensuing destruction “entirely predictable”. The UK also had to fend off rebukes that France and the Netherlands acted much quicker in supporting their dependencies. In addition to the TCI, fellow territories the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla were also badly hit by category five Irma. Anguilla’s former Attorney General Rupert Jones called the £32 million ($42 million) in emergency aid stumped up by the UK “a drop in the Caribbean Sea”. “To put it in perspective, the Government recently spent £285 million on St Helena, its territory in the South Atlantic, for an airport that is effectively unusable. The UK’s foreign aid budget is around £12 billion,” Jones wrote in the Guardian newspaper last autumn. This week’s statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office puts the total figure committed to assist the three territories in September at £72 million, followed by a further £70 million towards reconstruction efforts. Meanwhile, emergency shelters and hygiene kits have been piled aboard Royal Navy ship RFA Mounts Bay which will remain on standby in the region throughout the

2018 hurricane season. The 177-metre vessel - currently in Anguilla - visited the TCI in March to help the Islands deal with the surge in illegal, migrant-loaded sloops from Haiti. Extra preparedness measures also include the deployment of experts to the Caribbean to lead negotiations on various commercial contracts before peak season. Professional analysis of critical infrastructure is also underway and all islands affected by last year’s hurricanes are now covered by the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Fund (CCRIF) which provided more than $50 million in quick payouts to affected islands in 2017. Britain’s International Development Minister Lord Bates said: “The scale of last year’s hurricanes was unprecedented and the UK aid mission was huge, covering small islands stretching more than 1,000 miles apart, where buildings and roads had been destroyed. “Britain continues to stand by those people whose lives were devastated. Not only have we been working with the islands’ governments to make sure they are more resilient to natural disasters but we are also well prepared to respond and provide humanitarian relief if a hurricane hits again,” Lord Bates added.

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TCI maintains BBB+ financial rating with slight downgrade BY DELANA ISLES FOR the fifth consecutive year the Turks and Caicos Islands has met every benchmark in order to acquire a positive financial grading from rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P). Last year 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 late last year and the resulting recovery that is still needed, that outlook has been re-adjusted to stable - BBB+/Stable/A-2. REVISED OUTLOOK As outlined in the full report found on their website, S&P states that the outlook revision reflects their view that the likelihood that the TCI’s creditworthiness could strengthen within the next two years has become more remote. Reports estimate that total damage, losses and other costs associated with hurricanes Irma and Maria, which both made landfall on TCI in September 2017, are around $558 million, or about 55 percent of the Islands’ GDP, the agency said. They added that the large majority of these costs will likely be shouldered by the private sector - tourism in particular - which has rebounded relatively quickly following the hurricanes. “Nevertheless, TCI’s weakened economy will be less likely to enhance the Government’s policy flexibility in order to offset the territory’s structural vulnerabilities in the near term. “We could lower our ratings on TCI over the next two years should the Government’s financing needs rise significantly, due to, for instance, the execution of large investment projects, leading to an increase in net general government debt that we expected to persist over the rating horizon.” However, they added that at the same time they could raise their ratings over the same time frame should new GDP or external

We could lower our ratings on TCI over the next two years should the Government’s financing needs rise significantly. data reveal significantly stronger economic or external positions and materially improved data quality. In a press statement this past week, Premier and Minister of Finance, Sharlene Cartwright Robinson welcomed the news that the territory has once again maintained its BBB+ rating, adding that the it is unfortunate that the outlook has been revised. “Government is cognisant that the revision in the outlook is a result of the damages, sustained due to the passage of the hurricanes that made landfall in 2017.” She further stated that the Government is putting in place the necessary policies and procedures to ensure that they continue to assess the economy, strengthen its fiscal prudence and increase economic activity in the territory. “This will ensure that TCI obtains a positive outlook or an upgrade in the credit rating in the future,” the premier said. ECONOMIC GROWTH Despite the slight downgrade to the territory’s outlook, the agency has very positive expectations for the TCI’s main economic and financial driver - tourism. “We expect Turks and Caicos Islands’ large tourism sector will continue to rebound following the disruption caused by the passage of two major hurricanes in late 2017. “Nevertheless, we expect that it will take time for the economy to fully recover.” As outlined in its institutional and economic profile of the TCI, the agency outlined that economic growth is less likely to mitigate risks of future shocks. Stating that while they expect the TCI’s economy to continue to recover following the hurricanes,

they believe it will be less likely to strengthen enough to significantly mitigate risks inherent in its structure. “We now expect TCI’s GDP per capita to reach around $25,300 in 2018.” They stated that the tourism industry directly accounts for about 38 percent of the Islands’ GDP and, indirectly, likely accounts for an even larger share. Total hurricane-related damages, losses, and other costs were estimated to have reached $328 million for the tourism sector alone, which is nearly 60 percent of damages estimated for the entire territory. These damages forced nearly all of the TCI’s hotels and villas to close for most of third-quarter 2017, while flights were also cancelled. As a result, stay-over arrivals fell by nearly 13 percent in the quarter relative to the same period in 2016. This interruption, S&P said, contributed to an estimated 1.5 percent contraction in GDP and six percent contraction in real GDP per capita in 2017. “Nevertheless, nearly all hotels were up and running by the end of 2017, and we expect that a rebound in visitors, together with an increase in construction activity due to rebuilding efforts and some new tourism projects, will contribute to over three percent growth in real GDP in 2018.” The agency stated that over the next three years, they expect that growth in the TCI will reflect the addition of new tourism projects, a steady stream of tourists, the gradual execution of public-sector rebuilding projects, and some challenges in the labour supply. “We expect that real GDP will grow by about two percent on average from 2019-2021. “Major tourism projects in the

pipeline include The Ritz Carlton and Turks Cay Resort and Marina, which should introduce at least 250 new hotel rooms to the territory by 2020.” They said that although they expect these projects will continue to drive growth in the TCI, they will reinforce the economy’s structural dependence on the volatile tourism sector. However, they noted that at the same time the territory will remain vulnerable to weather-related events, given that studies have shown that a hurricane passes in the vicinity of the territory on average every two years and hits the territory every seven years. Increases in climatic catastrophic events could further raise these frequencies. MITIGATING ECONOMIC RISKS “We expect that TCI’s prudent institutions will continue to deliver policies that aim to mitigate the inherent risks in the economy. “The Government enacted the National Wealth Fund Ordinance at the end of 2017 to invest its savings in order to stabilise its economy against external shocks or natural disasters, among other uses. “We expect the Government to allocate an initial $8 million to this fund in 2018,” S&P outlined. In addition, the agency looked favourably on the Government’s increase of its coverage under the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in fiscal 2018-2019, after receiving a $15.3 million pay out in 2017-2018 related to hurricanes Irma and Maria. “These policies have occurred under a lengthening track record of political stability, which we expect will continue in the foreseeable

future.” The agency also reflected on the retirement of the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), to that of a financial advisor in 2017, stating: “In our view, this transition was smooth, and we expect the current arrangement to continue through our rating horizon.” FLEXIBILITY AND PERFORMANCE The agency noted that strong public finance serve as a public policy anchor given the lack of a monetary policy. They noted that debt repayment and low financing needs will maintain the Government’s net asset position, but that the TCI’s dollarization and lack of a central bank will continue to limit its monetary policy flexibility. However, they acknowledged that the Government will continue to progress toward completion of its international investment position and balance of payments data. “We expect the TCI Government to maintain its strong track record of executing fiscal surpluses over the next three years. “The Government’s surpluses have averaged eight percent of GDP annually since 2012, when TCI held elections marking the end of the UK’s direct rule. “Despite a small deficit in 2018-2019, due to recoveryrelated spending, we expect the Government’s surpluses to average about 3.5 percent of GDP from 20182021, and expect the change in net general government debt to average negative four percent of GDP.” The Government’s 2018-2019 spending priorities include projects that will be prioritised ahead of the finalisation of the official recovery plan. These include the rebuilding of critical government infrastructure such as schools, government offices, and shelters. Total damage and additional costs associated with the public housing, health, and education sectors caused CONTINUED 

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National policies to consider climate change BY OLIVIA ROSE CLIMATE change adaptation will be integrated in all government policies, spending and investment decisions, as the Government takes a proactive stance in addressing the global threat. Governor John Freeman speaking in the House of Assembly on Monday, June 18, said the mechanisms to guide the territory along the path of climate change adaptation are already set in motion. Delivering the throne speech on behalf on Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson’s administration, he underscored the dire need for the territory and its inhabitants to become more climate conscious. He stressed that in facing hurricanes Irma and Maria, ignorance cannot be feigned when it comes to the significant impact that climate change will present to the Islands in the future. He said: “Though the Turks and Caicos Islands is not a major contributor to the practices that significantly impact climate change, we have experienced and will remain vulnerable to its effects if we do not take aggressive action and a firm stance on the global political stage and challenge the international community to partner with us in implementing strategies to mitigates its effects. “The Government believes that it is of extreme importance that we collectively support this climate change initiative, as it has not only national but global implications.” He said that it is imperative for the Government to create an enabling environment where both governmental and non-governmental bodies can make timely and wellinformed decisions on how to address the risks posed by climate change. To achieve this objective, the Government will integrate adaptation into all planning processes. Governor Freeman said: “A Climate Change Committee led by the Office of the Premier has been formed and a Climate Change

Policy Statement which speaks to my Government’s initiative and commitment to mitigating the effects of climate change in these Islands has been completed and endorsed by Cabinet.” Subsequent to this policy statement, a policy and Green Paper will follow in August, ensuring that climate change adaptation provisions are included in all national policies, programmes, strategies and action plans. “This policy will not be a static document but a dynamic work plan that is not only efficiently and effectively executed but updated every five years to ensure that the Turks and Caicos Islands remains proactive and responsive to the everevolving threat of climate change. “As guardians of the natural environment of these ‘beautiful by nature’ Islands the Government will ensure sustainable practices are actioned and incorporated into daily lives and a culture of ecoawareness is fostered throughout this archipelago.” Governor Freeman further acknowledged the significant role the natural environment plays in the territory’s primary industry, tourism. “The Climate Change Policy is only one part of a comprehensive initiative that the Government will mobilise to addresses the challenges and practices that impact our natural environment.” The Government has since initiated a waste management plan for the entire Turks and Caicos Islands. The plan, which is being supported by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will enable corporate citizens to play an active role in the upkeep and cleanliness of public spaces. Plans are also in the pipelines to launch the Plastic Bag Policy which will see a full ban on plastic bags as part of the ‘Going Green’ initiative. “The Government will also introduce a number of environmental initiatives that will aid in reducing pollution of our air and oceans, and for the preservation of our pristine environment,” the governor revealed.

BREATH TESTS FOR DRUNK DRIVERS AS OF Sunday (July 1), police officers were on the streets in Providenciales and Grand Turk looking out for drunk drivers. Officers have now been provided with breathalyser machines to test drivers who may have had too much alcohol before getting behind the wheel of a car. Drivers who fail the test could be arrested and charged for the offences of driving or being in charge of a motor vehicle while under the influence of drink or drugs. What are your thoughts?

A gimmick?

It’s vital of course and no one should argue against it. But doesn’t it fit ever so conveniently into that moulding of us all into that regulated system we see everything turning into nowadays. Pity we don’t see them pursuing the lunatic dangerous drivers on Leeward Highway with the same zeal. Meanwhile of course murders, robberies, mugging and unsolved burglaries continue, business as usual. Mind you that could be dangerous. It may prove to be a gimmick and what happens when the equipment packs up like so many things here and there is no money to fix or replace it, like when we had no police cars a few years ago on the roads. Policing is still seriously underfunded, courtesy of London. That’s how silly things get here. Of course it’s welcome and necessary, but inside most of us isn’t there a little gremlin saying, ‘here comes the nanny state again’?

A slow process

That’s a good news. The question is enforcement. How many people drive over speed and don't get stopped? Same for seatbelts. It’s a slow process but we are getting there.

Public transport

Reducing drunk driving is good for the community. There is strong evidence that a properly executed drink driving law saves lives. Naturally the morons in our elite have blundered. We have no public transport and no ordinary taxi services. It’s normal here. Why bother thinking about policy? Just get out of bed and do it. Draw lots for the sober member, folks, and dream of what life could be like in the TCI if those who rule over us had brains.

Time to end

We have heard from Mike Misick

on this. He says we should NOT be seeking drunk drivers. We have had many deaths caused by intoxicated drivers since the Misick administration opened the bars for long hours. He facilitated the cause of the deaths. Time for this to stop but can our police handle this test?

Saving lives

This is very good. It may save lives. Provo roads are becoming dangerous because of irresponsible drivers, including those from big countries that live here and drive like they are on big roads.

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Opposition leader calls throne speech and budget ‘empty’ BY OLIVIA ROSE LEADER of the Opposition Hon Washington Misick said the PDM Government’s throne speech and 2018-2019 budget is “empty” and lacks the financial provisions for their vague promises. Eleven days after the throne speech was delivered in the House of Assembly by Governor John Freeman, the territory waited with bated breath for the Leader of the Opposition to respond to the grandiose speech, as is customary. However, due to an unprecedented change in the agenda on June 18, the opposition leader’s response was delayed. Delivering his over an hour long rebuttal on Friday, June 29, in the House of Assembly, Hon Misick reminded the public that the throne speech though read by the governor is the speech that aligns the Government’s “priorities and policies” for the upcoming year. Pointing to what he deemed as vague promises, Misick endeavoured to expose the glib use of certain words in the speech which he claimed were used to camouflage the bogus promises of the Government. He said: “The first being the counterfeit ‘national priority poll’ purported to be an invitation to all stakeholders to participate in providing feedback on priorities as we progress works on the Turks and Caicos Islands Government Budget for the Financial Year and the Vision 2040 Medium Term Development Strategy.” The survey, which will assess resident perspectives on national and community priorities and needs, was scheduled to commence June 1 and concluded on June 14. Misick argued: “Whether it

Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay - people expect consistency not a flip flopper. happened or not is a matter for the premier to address. What is clear is that there has been no evidence of its findings in the throne speech. “This kind of skulduggery is a hallmark of this administration modus operandi. “An honest desire to determine the priorities of the public so as to inform the allocation of resources through the national budget would have been done months ago, and ahead of the approval of the FSPS and budget by the UK.” He stressed that the survey was closed on June 14 and the budget was laid on June 18 leaving “absolutely no possibility” of taking the view of the public into account, calling it “smoke and mirrors”. “And as it relates to the vision statement commissioned and substantially drafted under the former PNP administration as part of the framework for sustainability and resilience agree with the CDB, the premier indicated in the speech from the throne that public consultation will continue in June and July.” Misick accused the Government of trying to hoodwink the populace with a bogus survey. Turning his attention to the issue of constitutional reform, he argued that the constitution was absolutely no hindrance to the Government as was previously conveyed to the people. He said: “Did anyone notice that

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by the 2017 hurricanes are an estimated $47 million. “We believe that it will take time for the Government to fully address this damage,” S&P stated. They expressed the view that the Government’s strong asset position will continue to provide it with ample fiscal policy flexibility, and that they expect net general government debt to average negative 39 percent of GDP from 2018-2020. Government assets include the investment assets of the National

Insurance Board, the newly formed National Wealth Fund, and other accumulated liquid government assets that S&P expects will average 39 percent of GDP over the same period. At the same time, they said that following the TCI’s repayment of the Government guarantee loan in 2016, the Government’s other gross debt outstanding has been very low, and that they expect it will be nearly fully repaid in the next two years. “Therefore, we expect general government interest payments will average less than 0.1 percent of GDP through 2020.”

the once problem constitution has literally fallen off the radar? “The premier played along with the constitution reform committee and in the end withdrew support for the final report the above statement denied her sincerity in the first place. “Today she sees the necessity for constitutional change now that the shoe is on the other foot. “Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay - people expect consistency not a flip flopper.” NO REAL RECOVERY The opposition leader further argued that the Government continues to blame the 2017 storms for every social malady affecting the Turks and Caicos Islands. Misick stressed that the TCI economy is not the only economy impacted by the hurricanes that has recovered post hurricane. “While the catastrophe caused by them could be described as a crisis; and it is true that the combined efforts of government, private sector, civil society, domestic, regional and international agencies created a temporary holding environment, it is a gross misstatement of facts to say that the Islands have recovered as the throne speech seems to indicate and would be conflating the economy with the society. “The Caribbean Development Bank estimated that Grenada, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Antigua and Barbuda had the highest growth rates, at 4.5 percent, 3.4 percent, and three percent, respectively in 2017.” He said: “While the Turks and Caicos may boast of GDP growth, Gross National Wellbeing (GNW) is declining as we witness environmental, physical, mental, working conditions, social, and political degradation. “The premier brags about listening tours and promises others but to whom is she listening? Not those who have been made destitute by the weather. “Her Government has done nothing to improve their lives nor the lives of the growing number of working poor and there was nothing in the throne speech that provides evidence of that commitment to universal benefit from a growing economy.” He went on to addressing in particular the prevailing circumstances in the hardest hit islands in 2017, Grand Turk, Salt Cay and South Caicos.

Leader of the Opposition Hon Washington Misick in the House of Assembly

“As one travels through this group of islands, one is left in awe that such catastrophic storms did not claim lives, and for that we are deeply humbled and thankful to the Almighty.” He noted that nine months later, many people in those islands and elsewhere in the territory remain entombed in an environment of destruction and devastation. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE The opposition leader during the debate noted the premier’s rhetoric in the throne speech that “the Government now has the awesome task of rebuilding and doing so responsibly and resiliently” is not aptly matched with actions or actionable project proposals. He pointed out that “the destruction to Government buildings including the many schools across the Islands, this House of Assembly that we are sitting in today, the Post Office which was supposed to be repaired more than a year ago, the Land Registry, the burnt out Public Library remain an eyesore”. He also spoke of the displacement of public servants, with too many housed in small constricted spaces, some being required to work in mould infested offices. The civil servants want to work in buildings that are not a danger to the health or physical person, he said. SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Misick reminded the premier of the Government’s promise to the vulnerable in society.

“There are grandmothers and widows and other vulnerable persons still living in houses covered with tarpaulin in the midst of another hurricane season, and the airport the main gateway into Grand Turk, the Port in Salt Cay, all still in a state of disrepair. “The premier’s good memory failed her since she made the following statement in 2016: ‘Governments are put in place to improve the quality of life of its people. Governments are not put in place to increase hopelessness and to break the spirit of its people.’” Misick, who lambasted the Government for its slothful recovery efforts, said: “Nine months later people are left to fend for themselves. “Yes, repairs and reconstruction are taking place but by individuals who have thankfully had insurance. Not one project is accredited to this Government. “This successful appeal which put her where she is today stands in stark contrast to the mean spiritedness and cold heartedness on display by the Government. “The fact that she disembarked from the aircraft into her vehicle whenever she visited Grand Turk, choosing not to experience the appalling conditions that travellers were subjected to, is a testament to her lack of compassion.” Misick in his seethe said the people of this territory are calling for a government that will listen to them, a government that will be ready on day one, a government with a plan. The 2018-2019 budget is projected at $290 million.

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No mould in Downtown courthouse, Orkin TCI reports BY DELANA ISLES THE JUDICIAL administration has assured staff, court users and anyone else who frequents the courthouse on Old Airport Road that there is no mould in the building. The assurance comes on the heels of a widely circulated social media post, which accused the administrator of courts Nalini Shiwram Kulpa of neglecting the health of workers there despite the many complaints of possible mould in the building. The incendiary post which also sought to launch a personal attack on Kulpa, warned the public to stay away from the building which the poster alleged also has fungus. Calls were made for the building to be condemned and a better environment to be found for the staff to work in. Last Friday, June 29, Registrar Renee Mclean responded to the post in a press statement and submitted a full report from Orkin Turks and Caicos on the full inspection they conducted on the building. “While it is not the policy of the judicial administration to respond to social media posts which do not contain any truth but are patently designed to alarm the public and

embarrass the administration, we considered that there was a very real risk that staff, jurors, court users and other members of the public may have become concerned that their health and wellbeing might be affected if they attended court and that we should set the record straight. “The facts are that the building was inspected by the Department of Environmental Health at our request after the passage of hurricanes Irma and Maria, even though it suffered no damage and there was no ingress of water during the storms, because we wished to ensure that it was safe work environment for the judge, the staff and all court users. No mould was found.” The registrar said that the building was again checked by the Department of Environmental Health and by Parkway, the week before that message was posted, and again no mould was found. On Saturday, May 23, a third inspection was conducted by Orkin which again confirmed that there was no mould in the building. The building, the registrar said, is safe and fit for purpose. INSPECTION REPORT FROM ORKIN The Supreme Courthouse, which experienced complaints from current

employees about the possibility of mould being present and affecting health, was fully inspected in accordance with Orkin’s Integrated Pest Management (IPM) procedures. The following areas were all inspected to ascertain if the conditions needed to encourage mould growth, were present - storage rooms, staff/jury meeting rooms, bathrooms, interior sheetrock wall surfaces, ceiling panels and surfaces, air conditioning units and moisture distribution lines, ceiling voids, floor rugs, offices and utility closets. The Orkin inspection team concluded no sign of mould was present. Three areas worth pointing out displayed signs of previous water leaks and damage - the female bathroom, office supplies storage closet and ceiling crawl space. This resulted in a discoloration and swelling of the paint in some areas, water stains on the sheetrock wall surfaces and on the plywood within the ceiling. A previously identified area on the wall within the jury room had been reported to have had mould in the past, but it was effectively remedied with the correct treatment by the cleaning staff of the courthouse, as no evidence of its possible return was present at the time of inspection.

Cop and expat resident first DUI arrests under new law POLICE Officer Bennett (only name provided) and Gregory Raymond Pinder are the first two motorists to be charged under the new drink driving legislation since its enactment on July 1. Bennett, who is a current officer with the Criminal Investigation Division (CID), has also been suspended from duty, charged with driving under the influence (DUI) and granted bail. The 50-year-old man was asked to take a breathalyser test on Wednesday (July 4) after being involved in a vehicular accident around midnight on Aviation Drive, in Providenciales. He was arrested at the scene after his breath alcohol content was determined to be more than the legal driving limit. He was then taken to the

Chalk Sound Police Station where a positive sample was detected on the evidential breath test machine. Bennett will appear in court on July 12 to answer to the charge. The second motorist, Gregory Pinder, 42, was the first person to be arrested, just one day after the law came into effect. Pinder is an expatriate resident in the Turks and Caicos Islands. He was arrested on two charges - one for driving when his alcohol content was three times over the legal limit and on a drug possession charge. On July 2, Pinder was stopped by police while he was driving along Airport Road, where he was subsequently asked to take a roadside breath test.

After being found to be excessively over the legal limit, he was taken to the Chalk Sound Police Station where he provided a positive sample on the evidential breath test machine which was significantly above the legal limit of 35mgs. He was subsequently charged, granted bail and released. The second charge lodged by police against Pinder is for possession of a controlled drug. Police reported on Thursday that Pinder was driving with a 19-year-old male at the time of the stop. A search of their person produced the illegal substance. Both men were charged, granted bail and released. They are scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday (July 10). (Delana Isles)

Moving forward, Orkin recommended the following action be taken to ensure all methods of prevention have been considered: -Service all AC units - clean filters and remove excess moisture from inside. This allows units to cycle clean fresh air. -Schedule quarterly or bi-annual inspections and keep logs for reference. -Keep humidity levels low (no higher than 50 percent) – the build-up of a humid atmosphere after shutting off the AC units could contribute to providing an environment for mould growth. Scrub down and make sure all paint contains mould inhibitors – this will aid in identifying any future

leaks and the early stage of mould. -Clean bathrooms with mould killing products. -Ventilate rooms from time to time in order to swap out air. -Maintain records of staff allergies and health related issues. Request official doctor reports. The company noted that the presence of mostly wooden furniture within the building would give the air a “wooden” scent. “This is natural and should not be confused with the scent that mould gives off. “In conclusion, the Orkin inspection team found no evidence of substantial or initial mould growth especially to the levels that would affect human health.”

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Murder accused admits to assaulting prison officer CHRISTOPHER Forbes, who is on remand for the murders of two Dominican women, pleaded guilty late last month to assaulting prison superintendent Raymond Grant. Forbes appeared in the Grand Turk Magistrate’s court charged with the offence on June 27. Before resident Magistrate Kamar Henry-Anderson he admitted to the crime which was committed several weeks ago. He was sentenced to two weeks in prison. Forbes was to have stood trial in May in this year for the murders of Yuneiry Veras and Sonrineida Moreno Arias whom he is accused of killing in 2016. The case was not heard and was subsequently adjourned. The Weekly News has learned

that Forbes will instead stand trial for the murders sometime in September or October this year. Both women were found dead within three months of each other in a secluded area in the western district of Providenciales. He was first arrested on August 31, 2016. While he remains on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison, Forbes has made a name for himself. A few months ago, he was one of many inmates who engaged the public in a Facebook live stream in a relaxed atmosphere from the Grand Turk facility. The video caused many in and out of the Turks and Caicos Islands to question the security at the severely understaffed penitentiary.

Sex offender inmate gets four more months for smuggling Also before Magistrate Kamar Henry-Anderson on June 27 was sexual assault convict Jerry Welch. Welch was caught by prison officials trying to smuggle nearly a quarter pound of marijuana into Her Majesty’s Prison in his groin area earlier

this year. Magistrate Anderson sentenced him to additional four months in prison. This sentence will run consecutively with (after) the eight years he is currently serving for the sexual assault of two underage girls.

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Stranded St Thomas sailor rescued in TCI BY OLIVIA ROSE 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 last week. 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. According to the Coast Guard, they directed the launch of an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew deployed in the Bahamas. The Jayhawk crew located the sailing vessel, hoisted Petersen on board and transported him to Providenciales at 11.53am. Peterson survived the harrowing ordeal with no reported injuries.

A rescue swimmer with Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater talks with and prepares the survivor to be hoisted (US Coast Guard photo)

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Man charged with kidnapping and indecent assault

FIFTY-two-year old Linville Alexander Williams has been arrested, charged and taken before the Magistrate’s Court for kidnapping a Haitian man and several other offences. On Tuesday, June 26, Williams turned himself into police with his lawyer after discovering that he stands to face several serious offences. He is also charged with wounding, using an offensive weapon so as to cause fear and indecent assault. Reports to this publication are that Williams, acting with another person, kidnapped the victim. The male victim was then taken to an undisclosed location where he was severely beaten, tortured by way of a pliers being applied to his genitals, bound and gagged and then thrown into the streets and left for dead. After Williams turned himself into police, he was taken before a magistrate where he was remanded to prison. He later applied for bail through the Supreme Court and was successful. He will return to court on August 3 for a sufficiency hearing.

Burglary gets man remanded to HMP

Johnathan Alexander Handfield, 28, was formally charged and cautioned on Friday, June 29, for the offences of burglary and handling stolen goods. The arrest was made in relation to a report made on June 13. Handfield was taken before the Magistrate’s Court on Monday (July 2) and was remanded into custody at Her Majesty’s Prison until July 16.

$3k fine for drug possession with intent to supply

Thirty-year-old Jeremy Cox has admitted to the court that he was in possession of a controlled drug that he intended to supply when police arrested him. The man had appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on July 2, when he pleaded guilty to the offence. He was fined $3,000 which he is required to pay in three months or face imprisonment.

Primary school burglar arrested

On July 2, 25-year-old Jeff Saunders was charged with burglary in relation to a report made by the Ianthe Pratt Primary School. The report was made on May 27 after workers arrived at the school and saw that the school building had been burgled. Saunders will appear before the Magistrate’s Court on Monday (July 9) to answer to the charge.

Blue Hills gas station robbed

Police in Providenciales are investigating an armed robbery that occurred on Monday (July 2) at Grant’s Texaco Gas Station. According to police reports, shortly after 5pm, two armed and masked men robbed the gas station of an undisclosed amount of cash before getting into a black vehicle and speeding away. There were no reports of injuries. Police have since been appealing to members of the public who may have any information in connection with this crime to come forward.

Man shot at beach party

Police are asking members of the public to come forward

with any information they may have to help solve a shooting that occurred on Sunday (July 1). It is reported that while leaving a party being in Long Bay sometime around 1am, a 30-year-old man was shot twice. The man was rushed to the hospital and is now listed as stable. No arrest has since been made.

Another Haitian sloop intercepted

A 28 foot, blue and red Haitian sloop was intercepted three miles off Providenciales, on Sunday (July 1) at about 5am. Arrests were made following successful efforts by the Royal Turks and Caicos Marine Branch and Coastal Radar Officials to intercept the sloop before its passengers could escape into the territory. A total of 92 Haitian nationals, 64 males, 27 females and one juvenile were apprehended. The illegal migrants are currently being held at the Detention Centre awaiting processing and repatriation by immigration officials.

Store on Cooper Jack Road robbed by masked gunmen

Police are investigating a robbery that was reported by a store owner on Saturday, June 30. According to reports, shortly after 11pm, two masked men were brandishing firearms when they stormed into a business establishment on Cooper Jack Road. The men proceeded to hold the occupants of the store at gunpoint while demanding cash. After bagging their loot, they fled on foot. Police said the men made off with an undetermined amount of cash.

The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force is appealing to any member of public who may have any information on these crimes. They can contact Chalk Sound Police Station on 338-5901 or make use of the confidential reporting system through Crimestoppers on 1-800-8477.

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Well done graduates Dear Editor, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step” - Lao Tzu. They have made it - yeah! They have completed yet another important milestone and are about to take the first step to their chosen life paths. I pause at this time and use this medium to congratulate the 2018 graduating class across the Turks and Caicos Islands, specifically those individuals who have completed their secondary education. I am ecstatic as I view the future of the Turks and Caicos Islands through their lens. They are youthful, exuberant, luminous, ingenious and perceptive, and ready to move this country to another dimension. As I reflect on my life, I vividly remember the day that I graduated from high school. My ultimate dream was to pursue a career in law. However, I was discouraged from pursuing this goal because my speech capability was deemed as inadequate, so I studied hospitality management instead. Despite not following my true passion, I am elated that I am making an indelible mark in this country through my various business ventures. I dare not say that I am not faced with challenges, but I stand as a proud Turks and Caicos Islander who has been investing in my country for

the past 13 years. Graduates are the future leaders of tomorrow but they must continue the legacy that has been passed down to us by our forefathers. They have now received the baton and must continue the race. The adage, ‘Labour for learning before you grow old because learning is better than silver and gold - silver and gold will vanish away but a good education will never decay’ is still very potent today. Many will be tempted to delay furthering their education for employment. However, I implore them to reconsider this notion. We are now living in a global society. Knowledge is power. Nothing compares to the confidence you feel when you are educated. The prestigious jobs in

this country require particular competencies. I am referring to university degrees or technical skills. This can only be ascertained through higher education. Don’t get me wrong, I acknowledge and thank the many persons from other countries who continue to make invaluable contribution to our nation building. My vision as a young Turks and Caicos Islander is to see my fellow countrymen achieve maximum success in whatever they do. I believe that the time is now for young Turks and Caicos Islanders to grab the opportunities afforded to them and pursue higher education. “Ask not what your country can do for you,” John F Kennedy, are words that resonate with me as I encourage young people to develop their skills. Too many of our natives pursue higher education, but have not returned to use their skills to develop our country. A country’s greatest resource is its people. As they embark on further studies, I challenge them to return and use the skills acquired to improve our country. The Turks and Caicos Islands’ social and economic development is depending on them for sustenance. In conclusion, I leave the CONTINUED 

The story of the plaque Dear Editor, On Sunday (July 2) while in the vicinity of our living room with my family and friends, my youngest daughter who is visiting for summer break picked up a plaque I own and asked: “Who are these people?” Immediately this question brought a sense of excitement upon me to tell her and her friend all about it. It also then reminds me of an instruction God gave to Moses for whenever the future generations asked the meaning of them - they will be told. As I began, my daughter and her friend sat and listened attentively giving me a greater desire to share the story of the plaque with them. I told them how I as well as my coworkers almost got fired for that and she asked: “Why?” I said: “Well you see we boycotted a training session for one that would’ve been more beneficial to us. “When I had first begun working for PPC I almost got electrocuted and none of my coworkers on the ground did or could’ve done (with the exception of one) anything other than say: ‘Johnnie, loose the wire.’ “After I heard what they were saying I decided to jump out of the bucket and one of them pulled the wire that was hanging to the ground

and I got freed at the same time. “I then made a promise to myself, I wouldn’t want that to happen to neither one of my coworkers and want to be able to rescue them should that ever happen to them. “You see, we had this training session and several of us didn’t go and the general manager’s idea was to fire us. “I told him he cannot do that. He said yes he can and that he could easily pay us $5,000 and tell us he no longer needs our services. “I told him again, ‘You can’t do that! We need the right training that will be able to help us save one another lives should it occur.’ “And within a short while, we got that training and within months an accident happened and one of your former teacher’s husband and me were able to rescue him, and this white guy transported him to the medical facility. “And many others have this same plaque.” Reflecting on the then PPC, the Crothers family were indeed caring and loving company to their employees and customers. May God continue to be merciful to them. Jonathan Gardiner, Providenciales

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God bless America and the TCI IN 1938 on US Armistice Day, singer Kate Smith introduced what was to become her personal anthem - the song ‘God Bless America’. Armistice Day celebrates the end of World War I when the USA under the leadership of General John Pershing bailed out England and France from the attacks of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. In 1939, a year after Kate sang, Germany reborn under Adolph Hitler marched into Poland. Britain had a mutual defence agreement with Poland and World War II was off and running. Two years later America was in the war and once again bailed out Britain and France. After the war, prime minister

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

Winston Churchill and president Harry Truman gave Poland to Russia which soon became the Soviet Union, a communist atheist nation. Poland was a Christian country. That was over and it took 50 years of Cold War before the Soviet Union came tumbling down. It took president Ronald Reagan to get that job done. Now roll forward to a younger

generation. In 1991, as America readied for war with Iraq, Whitney Houston gave out the best and most famous rendition of America’s National Anthem - the ‘Star Spangled Banner’. The words of that anthem describe the rockets and battle of America’s Port of Baltimore in the war of 1812, a second war of independence from Britain. The USA won out over Britain once again.

All this remembered as the USA celebrated its annual Independence Day, July 4, with fireworks. What is interesting is that as a result of WWII Germany and its allies Japan and Italy are now powerful nations economically. They lost militarily but won economically. Britain, recently part of the European (financial) Union, has dropped out. Coming on strong is China which during WWII decided to go communist and now is moving fast towards social capitalism similar to Japan. It has taken 75 years for all this to play out. Where will the world be 75 years from now? The TCI, which in 1938 was living off the sea, the land and trade with Haiti, is now deeply dependent on USA tourists. In WWII, the US had military bases here. The USA gives TCI folk

a 10 year visa and use of their dollar. More TCI folk live in the US than home. Some of our youth now travel to Britain for education. I wonder what history the British teach about the last 75 years? Our new Government, planning to rebuild on the ashes of the past administrations and several hurricanes, is describing a shining star of a country. Is this realistic? Yes it is, as long as we elect honest governments. As an ancient American born then naturalised in the TCI, we lived through WWII and beyond. We lived through 2003 through to today. We learned the history of the 1980-1985 drug running era. God bless America and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Future proofing the Caribbean – PART TWO IN THE Caribbean, some creative individuals are finding tech-related solutions to break down the distance between them and the consumer markets they want to sell into. The best example is perhaps surprisingly a private Cuban company, Clandestina, known globally for its ‘Actually, I’m in Havana’ t-shirts. The clothing label has a flagship shop in Old Havana, and a witty online presence which features t-shirts which carry its designers’ graphics. To avoid the complications of US legislation, tariffs and shipping, it offers its product on its website. It then makes the selected designs available through a US manufacturer that uploads them, prints, produces and ships the finished garment to customers around the world. What the company has found is a way to deliver its creative content

commercially in the most complex of situations. In the Anglophone Caribbean too, some socially led companies are developing alternative ideas and ways to support their remoteness, particularly to leverage the growing desire of millennials to own or experience something authentic. In Guyana, Wabbani, an environmentally committed company, is marketing online artisan products which fit the exact specifications of certain kitchen and furniture products made by Ikea, the global household brand. Utilising the skills of local artisans around Yupukari in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo where Wabbani and its associated environmental projects are located, it is selling such handmade, culturally authentic items through an e-commerce platform that links rural craft workers to markets in the developed world. It has in much the same way sought crowdfunding globally to finance its project’s development. A very different example relates

BY DAVID JESSOP

David Jessop is a consultant to the Caribbean Council. He has worked on Caribbean issues for over 40 years. David is the editor of Caribbean Insight and Cuba Briefing publications. He can be contacted at david.jessop@caribbeancouncil.org

to Cuba’s rapidly growing number of highly trained IT specialists. In its nine years of its existence, Cuba’s Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas (UCI) has graduated thousands of computer scientists with many now establishing independent software design and coding services. These are delivered through self-employed groups within Cuba offering non-state outsourcing facilities to foreign enterprises. Such examples are however isolated, individually-led and unlikely to bring huge economic gains. Although welcome they do not suggest a region thinking

comprehensively about where its productive sector will be in another 25 years, or what the impact of the rapid changes taking place in technology will mean for education, or on a fragmented region with high labour costs and climatic vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, there is little space in the Caribbean for incubating the new out-of-the-box thinking that exists among many of many of the region’s bright, creative and increasingly tech-savvy servicesoriented young people. While regional and national ICT initiatives exist, these are unlikely to encourage inspirational thinking about the future.

This suggests governments or the University of the West Indies ought to be inviting individuals from leading-edge Silicon Valley type companies to take seminars across the region that consider how the extraordinary technological changes now taking place globally will impact the Caribbean. Such companies have become deeply conscious of their social responsibility and are looking for projects to engage with that demonstrate their developmental commitment. There may also be value in Caricom nations exploring Cuba’s new emphasis on rapidly digitising almost every aspect of Cuban life, and whether it might consider at a regional level its IT graduates helping support the transformation of Caribbean informatics. Much of the Caribbean entered the 21st century trying to catch up rather than look at what is happening globally and new opportunity. If history is not to be repeated, more thought needs to be given to future proofing the region.

Leadership in the dark or in denial? MOST people in the TCI know by now that Turks and Caicos Islanders Alpha Gibbs of Lorimers, Middle Caicos, and Ben Roberts of Grand Turk addressed the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation in New York a little over a week ago on June 19, in matters related to their home. What many of them do not know is that we have done so since 2011 on at least six different occasions, with the first visit being comprised of Gibbs, myself, Leroy Saunders, and Glenn Missick. What they also do not know is what the top elected representative of the people of the TCI, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, thinks of this event. Now get this. There have been

BY BEN ROBERTS

Ben is a Turks and Caicos Islander and a writer and published author. His book ‘Jackals of Samarra’ can be found at Amazon. com, and other internet book sites. He can be contacted at grandt730@aol.com.

tonnes of feedback on the posting of this event from fellow citizens at home, abroad in the US, Britain, and Dominican Republic, as well as some in other overseas territories similarly affected as the TCI by British administrative authority’s horrendous decision making. Practically every response has been positive, congratulatory and describes uplifting from those viewing the video of this event.

Well done ... following advice: -Further your education. -Allow no one to influence or change your mind from achieving your dreams. -Remember your roots as you plan your route. -Remember to put God first in

all that you do. -Make the most of this opportunity that you are given. Remember you only get to live this time only once! Dameko C Dean, Providenciales

That is very nice in knowing that something I am involved in brings positivity to my fellow TC Islanders, though endorsement is not a requirement for what Turks and Caicos Forum (TC Forum) and I have been doing, as we would do it in any event, because we think it is progressive for our people. However, the reaction of the leader of the TCI to this event is worth noting, as it leaves one to wonder where the TCI is headed in this crucial time. Here’s what I mean: One of the social media recipients of this UN appearance event, someone closely connected to the PDM and its founder JAGS McCartney from day one, was quite pleased on receiving it. So much so that they reposted it with words and phrases like “commend”, “step forward”, “sterling efforts”, and “eloquently represent the interest of Turks and Caicos at this level”, to describe what they thought of it. Among those they reposted to was the leader of the TCI government and the leader of the PDM, Sharlene

Cartwright Robinson. Here is her response: “Thanks for sharing. Can you say here what case was made on our behalf?” Folks, this is the leader of the TCI Government and its people. My question here, on seeing this was, what kind of leadership does the people of the TCI have acting on their behalf? Suffice it to say that no response to this was required from me, or anyone involved in with TC Forum and the video presentation as this TC Islander in no uncertain terms eloquently and passionately schooled the TCI leader Sharlene Cartwright Robinson on what was conveyed in the presentation. But let us not be fooled. Mrs Cartwright Robinson did not need to be schooled. She knows exactly ‘what case was made on our behalf’! She might not like the case that was made or she might not like that it was made by TC Islanders other than herself, but she knows fully what case was made. Which brings us to the question, what type of leadership do we have in Turks and Caicos, and is it capable of taking us forward? In his ‘Speech from the Throne’ message of a few days ago, the governor droned on about advancement and progress for the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and about achieving those goals in 2040 something. Was this the rambling and

meandering nothings of someone sent out there by his bosses to say something that people would buy, or are these concrete goals set out to be reached? If the recent Register of Interest decreed on the TCI and other OTs, as well as other atrocious issues in the TCI, is anything to go by then these are just empty words not worth the paper they are written on. Why is this so you ask? Because the Register of Interest assault will negatively impact the TCI economy and take us backward, not forward. Because the illegal migration, allowed to continue while the British, the responsible administrative authority violates the TCI constitution by standing idly by and doing nothing, and in so doing stops the TCI from progressing and reaching its boundless potential. Because the governor in his effort to take over control of the locally run statutory boards, is not only taking the TCI backward, but also violating internationally agreed-to commitments and conventions as in Article 73 of the United Nations Charter. To counter all these assaults on our country we need leadership. Real leadership! Not leaders pretending they are unaware of what is going on. Or attempting to minimise what is being done to counter these ongoing assaults on the progress and development of our country.

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PNP calls on Gov’t to aid the elderly and vulnerable – Government says there is no money BY DELANA ISLES LEADER of the Progressive National Party (PNP), Hon Washington Misick has called on the Government to devise a means by which they can provide some more relief to elderly and vulnerable across the Turks and Caicos Islands this hurricane season. The call came by way of a private member’s motion in the House of Assembly on June 18. In presenting his motion to the House, Misick pointed out that he is merely asking the Government to find a way to help the old and indigent in the TCI, as he recognises that under the Finance Management Ordinance the leader of the opposition cannot bring a motion that has any impact on the revenue or expenditure of the territory. The party leader said that he deliberately phrased the motion in that way so that the Government can decide whether it is something they wish to look at, but stated that he thinks it is an important discussion to have. The motion read: “Whereas the Turks and Caicos Islands being subject to hurricanes experienced two serious hurricanes in 2017 leaving a trail of devastation and damage to property; most of these properties, especially those uninsured and those of the elderly, and vulnerable, and whereas many of the elderly and vulnerable have no possible way

Leader of the Opposition, Washington Misick

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson

of self-repairing their properties; therefore, be it resolved that this Honourable House debate possible measures that the Government may wish to take to bring relief to this group of people.” The motion is the first to be heard for 2018. The party leader noted that the group he is most concerned about is the elderly and vulnerable in society. “I don’t think that it is a prohibitive cost, and to the extent that it may be, I would suggest that reference to the uninsured homeowners be left out, because that is a choice that they make on their own even when they may have the ability to self-insure. “I am mostly concerned about old people and the vulnerable and because this is a fairly young population there are an abundance of old people who don’t have a means of sustenance and I think we still have a tradition in these islands where we care about our parents,” Misick explained.

She added that the opposition leader spoke about using the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) fund, but stated that this is not possible. “Unfortunately, this Government does not have the luxury of taking these monies away from the schools… “Now I see today that the leader has raised the matter of the contingency fund, and I did say in the budget that the contingency fund was going to be at $42 million this year. “In our very first year we had to draw down on it, 2016-2017 with the incident of the poachers, last year we had to look at supporting border control and the National Health Insurance Plan, and this is a fund that is used for unforeseen events…” She said the question for the Government is to figure out how they can help those in society who really need their help and where they will get the money from.

He stated that although some people may be able to help their elderly relatives, there are some who cannot afford to adequately house them. He is further suggesting that the Government conduct a survey within each of the communities so that they can know who the persons are that are in need of help and are unable to provide for themselves. The PNP leader also suggested that it would be a worthwhile exercise to have a serious look at what it would cost to provide some relief to people who are indigent and the elderly in order to assist them with their means of shelter. Responding to the PNP leader, Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, first noted that contrary to some belief, the Government provided aid to the elderly in society particularly since the hurricane’s passage. “So to say there are no direct assistance given is incorrect.”

“I totally understand, totally agree and totally accept we should be helping, [but] it is how and from which fund, how do we do it?” She further referenced how long it took the EU funds to arrive; funds that were granted to help people in the TCI rebuild after hurricane Ike. Those funds came through seven years after the storm had passed. “I can say in this House, as I’ve reported in the UK reconstruction team last year, that I have asked for grant funding in terms of housing and it is expressly because I personally cannot see where [to get it]... “When we go through the budget if you can show us where we can sensibly do that, I stand in full support that.” The premier added that she does not want anyone to have the impression that members of the Government do not want to help, particularly the elderly, “but where do we get those monies from, how do we fund it?”

Investment agency to present at trade show A REPRESENTATIVE from Invest Turks and Caicos will be presenting at an upcoming international summit and trade show. The 22nd Annual International African American Hotel Ownership and Investment Summit and Trade Show is being hosted in Miami from July 25 to 27. Investment services executive Rochelle Thompson was extended a special invitation to represent as an advisory board member and presenter. In a statement on July 4, she said it will be the second time she has attended the event after going last year.

Thompson explained that during her previous visit it became evident that it was an opportunity for Invest TCI to “push an agenda where we are instrumental in paving the way for Turks and Caicos Islanders to become bigger players in the industry, not only as service providers but as owners, developers and operators”. She said: “Our role at Invest TCI is to make persons aware of the investment opportunities whilst assisting existing local and foreign investors with as much information as possible. “We believe this conference is a

great way of doing such.” The conference is presented by the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators and Developers, Black Meetings and Tourism Magazine and Horizons International Group. This year’s theme is, ‘New opportunities with great partners’. The summit will be packed with information to help attendees understand the many opportunities available in the lodging industry including hotel ownership, investment, management, employment and supplier diversity. Angela Musgrove, acting CEO

for Invest Turks and Caicos, said: “We will see a major shift in the encouragement of domestic investment as this has become a priority of the Turks and Caicos Islands Government and by extension, the agency. “We want to encourage local entrepreneurs and local investors to become more active in the industry from a hotel ownership and development perspective; this conference provides the ideal platform to do just that.” The three day long educational event opens on July 25 with a scholarship golf, deep sea fishing and shark tournament to raise

money for minority hospitality students. It will follow with the orientation programme for new and prospective hotel owners, and committee meetings. Later the opening general session takes place followed by the welcome reception in the evening. General sessions and workshops are held on Thursday and Friday with student workshops on Friday and Saturday. More information is available at www.nabhood.net/ or Invest Turks and Caicos on 338-4772 or info@ investturksandcaicos.tc

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GSAT results see reduction in passes A beneficiary receives a grant from InvestTCI

Invest TCI offers cash grants to budding businesses BY OLIVIA ROSE ENTREPRENEURS throughout the TCI are being encouraged to take advantage of the financial assistance and technical support available at Invest Turks and Caicos. On June 28, the investment promotion agency launched another campaign with the goal of fuelling entrepreneurial ambitions among small and medium businesses. According to Alexa CooperGrant, vice president of SME development, the campaign seeks to bring more awareness to the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) programme. It is managed by Invest Turks and Caicos with support from the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) and the Ministry of Finance, Investment and Trade. Cooper-Grant, speaking at the launch of the campaign, said: “We would like to see an increase in persons taking advantage of this programme. “We encourage locally owned small businesses and start-ups to take advantage of the opportunity and apply for financial assistance, technical assistance and/or customs duty reduction.” She further stated that business owners who are interested in applying

will receive one on one consultations with Invest TCI and representatives of the CED and who offer support with formulating a business plan and completing the application process. Trina Adams-Smith, vice president of marketing and promotion, said: “Persons can look out for new billboards around the Islands, radio and newspapers advertisements featuring recent recipients speaking on their personal experiences, roadshows and various social media advertisements amongst other efforts.” She stressed that the overarching aim of the campaign is to educate, empower and enable small business owners to fulfil their entrepreneurial dreams. Cornelius Forbes, proprietor of Ocean Breeze Laboratories, is a recent beneficiary of the programme. “Our family business benefited from over $20,000 in cash grant and technical assistant as well as reduction on duty concessions,” he said. “The process was seamless, and the support received from Invest TCI was invaluable.” Since its inception in 2016, the MSME programme has disbursed well over $200,000 in cash grants, technical assistance and duty concessions to numerous small businesses in various priority areas such as tourism, agriculture, fisheries and art and music.

A NEARLY five percent drop in passes for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) was recorded this year. Figures from the Government show that 75.56 percent of students passed the exams in 2018 compared to 80.45 percent in 2017. Subjects that suffered include science and English, while more pupils passed mathematics and the general paper. Four hundred and forty-five students were registered for the GSAT which took place on June 13 and 14 this year, and 368 of them scored 50 percent or higher. The number of students who scored between 70 and 89 percent rose slightly compared with 2017. There was a slight decrease in the pass rate for English and the pass rate in science decreased by 19.56 percent. However, the pass rate in mathematics increased by 11.91 percent compared with the results for 2017 and the pass rate for the general paper increased by 2.91 percent. Top scorers include Neroy Kennedy of Ona Glinton Primary School who scored 98.40 percent in mathematics. T’Andre James of Precious Treasures International scored 94.50 percent in English and Franklyn Ewing of Eliza Simons Primary School scored 93.50 percent in science. Margaret Lewis of Ona Glinton Primary School and Chimbuchi Orumba of Ianthe Pratt Primary School shared first place in the general paper with 96.50 percent. According to a statement from the Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services, the impact of the storms at the beginning of the school year brought new challenges. “The Government has expressed its commitment to rebuilding stronger more resilient schools, and to ensuring that all learners have the tools needed to be successful,” it

The graph shows the spread of marks in 2018 compared with 2017

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read. “The ministry will continue to make professional development opportunities available to all staff, continuously upgrade facilities in primary and high schools and expand the ICT inventory in schools.

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“The ministry remains committed building a resilient and inclusive education system in which each learner can be successful.” It went on to extend best wishes to all grade six achievers as they transition to high school.

North Caicos teen hosts empowerment seminar BY MARGUERITE ANDERSON IF YOU have a dream about the world you want to live in, then you must be bold enough to create that world. This is what 16-year-old North Caicos teen Jessica Corvil seems to be doing. Corvil, who is a forth form student at Raymond Gardiner High School, has been charting her own course for a brighter future for female teens like herself. On Saturday, June 2, she hosted a second Girls’ Empowerment Seminar in North Caicos, under the theme, ‘Becoming the unapologetic me’. The first was held in Providenciales in May. Corvil said the idea for the seminars came after she discovered

that many female teens are “going through challenges, dealing with life-situations and gagging their emotions”. She lists low self-esteem, mental abuse and other such dilemmas among the list of life issues. Corvil said that some people have the notion that these situations are only met by teens in broken homes or by teens with no parental figures at home. But unfortunately, there are teens struggling with these even in some instances when parents are present in the home. Too often these young ladies end up feeling lost, unloved and broken and more so because they do not feel comfortable seeking help or they cannot find the words to explain their

situations, she said. Eventually, teens allow these situations to depict who they become in life and this dilemma should never be. “Living in a world where, as females, we literally have to fight for equality, where society paints ugly images of us, where older men see us as prey towards their own sexual desires and where we are forced to believe we are inferior to men, I believe it is indeed time that a difference be made,” she said. It is this concern that led to her idea of an empowerment programme for female teens and pre-teens. She said the empowerment seminar is her way of letting other girls know that they are not alone. Corvil believes that there is

nothing more powerful than a group of empowered, smart, beautiful and aspiring young women. The girls who come to these events are given the opportunity to speak out freely and to interact in a relaxing environment which they usually enjoy. They get to listen to older successful women tell their stories, play games, eat, ask questions and to just be themselves. The girls who attend usually leave the seminar feeling like they can conquer the world, rejuvenated and happy, the teen said. The event on North Caicos was hosted at the Kew Community Centre, and guest speakers were Samantha Bowman, science teacher from Raymond Gardiner High

School, and psychologist Kacy Higgs. The teens engaged in rap sessions after listening to life-experiences of the speakers. Corvil said she was grateful for the support from North Caicos’ District Commissioner Cynclair Musgrove, Kiesha Delancy and Pastor Rupert Gibson, whose artistry created the atmosphere for the warm and relaxing venue where participants could feel unrestricted to express. She also thanked her classmates Deshanti Forbes, Aiyana Been and Pandel Lightbourne who were instrumental in the planning process. She added that through God’s blessing she expects to continue hosting other seminars throughout the upcoming school year.

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Dr Shaun Sullivan (right), seen here with Agile LeVin, is a leading authority on Lucayan archaeology

A previous TCI archaeological dig site

Secrets

FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Major excavation at Long Bay aims to solve mysteries of TCI’s past

BY GEMMA HANDY ARCHAEOLOGISTS hope to unlock the secrets of the very first people to call the TCI home when they embark on a major excavation later this year. A Lucayan village dating back to at least the 14th century once occupied the Long Bay site where construction on the 90-unit South

Bank residential development is due to start in 2019. Archaeologists say the area is of particular interest due to its large amount of imported pottery which could solve age-old mysteries such as who prehistoric indigenous people encountered and traded with from across the Caribbean. They are on high alert for elusive Lucayan human remains too,

Artefacts discovered at a Lucayan site on Middle Caicos

eminent archaeologist Dr Shaun Sullivan, who is leading the dig, told the Weekly News. Unlike other islands where aboriginal burial sites are often found, they are “very rare” in the TCI and Bahamas. “Where the majority of Lucayan dead are, we don’t yet know,” Dr Sullivan said. Modern technology allows

advanced genomic studies to be carried out on human remains at relatively low cost. Data is then compared to that collected at other sites to help trace genetic relationships between ancient peoples and answer questions about their identity. “Some prehistoric populations came to the Caribbean from South America, some evidently from

Central America and it’s possible some even came from North America. “In the next few years, genomic studies of human remains from the Caribbean will tell us a great deal more about that,” the archaeologist explained. Dr Sullivan, who has been probing the territory’s subterranean secrets for decades, first discovered the Long Bay site in 1976. Artefacts previously uncovered there also include remnants of the fish, turtles, crabs and molluscs the Lucayans ate. But it was the abundance of ceramics consistent with those known to originate in other islands that really piqued his interest. “This settlement had a lot of contact by sea with other preColumbian populations from Hispaniola and Cuba. “We found more imported pottery there than any other Lucayan site in the TCI and we’re very interested in any information we can gain on its source and the reason behind the intense outside contact,” Dr Sullivan continued. Decorative images on the pottery help determine where it was made. “The imported ceramics are thinner and harder and have very distinctive patterns. They’re sometimes anthropomorphic moulded effigies, animals and spirits CONTINUED 

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Talented tourism professionals win regional awards TWO tourism representatives from the TCI captured prestigious tourism industry awards in Miami last month. Stacy Cox and Nandana Kandabadage scooped the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) honours at the opening of the fourth Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF). Cox, executive director of the Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association, received the prestigious Caribbean Association Executive of the Year award. It honours leading executives and employees from across the Caribbean, a press release on Wednesday (July 4) read. A native of the Bahamas and a citizen of the Turks and Caicos

Islands, Cox wields more than 20 years of hospitality experience. She is known for her advocacy, marketing and human resource development initiatives to build a sustainable tourism product through awareness, outreach and education. Cox was appointed president of the Caribbean Society of Hotel Association Executives (CSHAE) last year. She brings “a rare combination of savvy, sophistication and a forwardlooking view of the industry,” according to the statement. Cox has volunteered her time not only with CHTA but also with community organisations and events such as Youth Explosion, Maskanoo, TCI Shines Clean-up Campaign and TCI Little Chefs.

Winners of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association awards

Nandana Kandabadage of Seven Stars Resort was named Caribbean Supervisor of the Year for demonstrating exceptional leadership in his management abilities. He started his career as a room attendant in 1994 in Dubai where he began learning the importance of first class service through various positions. Part of the original housekeeping team at Seven Stars Resort, Kandabadage’s skills led to his promotion to housekeeping

supervisor in 2012. The first to volunteer for ‘lateral’ service, he also introduced changes to work practices and procedures which led to his department receiving a score of 100 percent on the recent Forbes hotel inspection. Other winners included Caribbean Employee of the Year, Harold Rasjmin, restaurant captain of The Chophouse (formerly The French Steakhouse) at Manchebo Beach Resort and Spa in Aruba. The Caribbean Allied Member of

the Year Award went to Neil Kolton of Interval International. The CHTA is the Caribbean’s leading association representing the interests of national hotel and tourism associations. For more than 50 years it has been the backbone of the Caribbean hospitality industry. Working with some 1,000 hotel and allied members, and 32 national hotel associations, CHTA is shaping the Caribbean’s future and helping members to grow their businesses.

Secrets from the underground... - unlike local pottery which didn’t have those, probably because local clay is hard to work with,” he said. Analysis of the mineral content is also key. Artefacts from limestone islands like the TCI and the Bahamas are markedly different from those uncovered in volcanic isles to the south. The dig, slated to start in October, came about after Dr Sullivan revisited the area last spring. Developers Windward Long Bay gave permission for the site to be investigated and provided funding to help. Further artefacts unearthed will be given to the national museum. Dr Sullivan is especially keen to involve local high school and community college students in the dig. “The Islands have been occupied by humans for more than 1,000 years, well before colonisation. “We want to teach young people archaeological techniques, increase their knowledge in prehistoric cultural history before written records began, and start to develop indigenous archaeologists,” he said. EARLY RESIDENTS Lucayans, a branch of the Tainos, were the original inhabitants of the TCI and Bahamas and those encountered by Columbus in the late 15th century. By the early

16th century they were extinct. Still much has been gleaned about their lives through modern studies. Radiocarbon dating shows the Long Bay village was occupied in the 14th century, although it was likely inhabited both before and after then too. Lucayan settlements commonly ranged from a couple of dozen to up to 300 people who lived in huts constructed with wooden poles and roofs thatched with reeds, grass or palm fronds. Lucayans were skilful agriculturalists and fishermen. The historical accounts of early colonists have long painted stereotypical pictures of Amerindians as either gentle farmers or savage cannibals. The Lucayans were neither warlike nor peaceful, Dr Sullivan believes. “They’re likely to have had occasional armed conflict between themselves and other aboriginal groups but kinship links, trade networks, personal and group alliances probably served to reduce tensions and avoided most conflicts,” he said. In the end, they were overwhelmed by outsiders with superior technology. “A variety of New World cultures that were accomplished at warfare among their peers were annihilated by European civilisations. “When people turned up from other places in very large numbers with highly organised social and military structures, metal weapons,

Tim Ainley, one of the project’s sponsors, became interested in the Lucayans during research into Columbus’ landfall

gunpowder and new diseases, there was no contest,” Dr Sullivan added. Correcting inaccurate colonialera narratives is one objective for national museum director Dr Michael Pateman, a partner in the project.

“History is written by the colonisers so of course information is skewed towards their understanding of the Lucayans,” he said. “As archaeologists we have to try to fill in the gaps and piece together the missing parts based on what’s left

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behind. “This work is an important step in allowing locals to explore and uncover the history of these islands.” Volunteers are now being sought to assist with the dig, along with additional benefactors. Costs for the project are estimated at $24,000, with $6,000 left to raise. Windward Long Bay director Ivor Stanbrook said the company was “proud” to support the team in documenting TCI heritage “whilst also introducing students and volunteers to the practical side of archaeology”. Other sponsors include excursion company Sail Beluga and non-profit organisations, Turks and Caicos Reef Fund and the Anthropological Research Council. Sail Beluga’s Tim Ainley previously sponsored a venture to prove Columbus’ first landfall in the Americas was in Grand Turk. He said it “seemed fitting to now go back in time to unearth what is left of the people who lived here before any of us got here”. “I’m really excited about this,” Ainley added. “We are sitting on a lot of Lucayan history here and it will be fascinating to unravel the mysteries of their culture.” Email sullivans@anthropresearch-council.org or info@ tcreef.org for more details or to offer assistance.

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Summer fun at the Edward Gartland Youth Centre SUMMER is here and with schools now closed it is time to get the kids occupied with some summer fun, while the adults continue to toil away at their day jobs. As usual the Edward Gartland Youth Centre (EGYC) has come to the rescue of parents and guardians with its annual summer camps and workshops, but spaces are limited so people are reminded to sign up early. With over 20 camps and workshops offering an array of educational and fun activities all Summer, the EGYC’s camp experience is always one of a kind. “We offer two camps daily covering different areas for your kids to get involved in, keeping them engaged as well as providing them with a positive learning experience,” director Roxann Wake-Forbes told the media this week. “We are excited to announce our camps including Math, Sea Trek Camp, Fitness and Nutrition of Nutrition and Demand, Boys and Girls Camp facilitated by various recognisable and influential members of our community.” Camps are charged at $25 per camp for non-members or $10 per camp for members, and there are limited spaces available so children need to be registered today to avoid disappointment. Starting July 9, the Edward Gartland Youth Centre will be open from the hours 10am to 6pm catering to ages 10 to 18. To register a child to take part in any or all camps this summer, parents or guardians can stop by to collect and fill out a registration form and sign up at their heart’s content. The centre is located downtown behind Smart IGA in Providenciales. CAMPS AVAILABLE Perform on Point Camp (POP) - Do you like Singing? Do you enjoy Performing? Well this camp is for you. The camp will give persons vocal and performance training as well as help mapping a future in music, song choices and other essential parts of the industry. Top local artists will be assisting under the guidance of music teacher Maurice Clarke. At the end, we will be making our own music video. Fitness and Nutrition Camp This informative and interactive camp will teach participants about healthy eating habits making healthy foods and explore different fitness techniques. Facilitated by Nutrition and Demand. Tag Rugby Camp - Tag rugby is a non-contact team game and in this camp participants will be taught basic rugby skills, drills games. The camp with be facilitated by the Turks and Caicos Rugby Football Association. Math Camp - Come to flex your math muscles and explore the fun of math in its real world applications.

local boating and fishing businesses to give an amazing experience.

2017 summer camps were lots of fun for the children, be sure to sign them up again this year

Field trips will be included to really open the eyes of participants and make learning math easier. Covering math from forms one to five. Boxing Camp - This camp will be a combination of learning the discipline and skill of boxing and get cross training and fitness. Facilitated by the Turks and Caicos Boxing Federation. Girls Camp - Various recognisable women in the TCI community will be facilitating this year’s Girl’s Camp. Each day of camp will cover a different topic focusing on learning to be ‘Royal Ladies’. It will end with a fun day trip out for the girls only. Dance Camp - This one-week hip hop and contemporary dance camp will get you moving and learning some new dance choreography. Dance show to follow. Cricket Camp - Learn the skills needed to play and all aspects of the game of cricket. This camp is facilitated by the Turks and Caicos Cricket Association for children ages 10 to 16. Boys Camp - Various recognisable men in the TCI community will be facilitating this year’s Boys Camp. Each day of camp will cover a different topic focusing on raising men. It will end with a fun day trip out for the boys only, ages 10 to 15. Sea Trek Camp - Five different sea related camps including snorkelling, sailing, wake boarding, kayaking and kiteboarding. Participants must know how to swim and be a minimum of 90lbs. Lacrosse Camp NEW This boys only camp will teach the fundamentals of the popular American sport of lacrosse. Participants will get an exciting opportunity to learn the rules, skills and game play over this five day camp. DECR Camp - Be sure to sign up for this camp ‘From Trash to Cash’ so that you can learn how to preserve the TCI’s natural environment and turn your finds into a cash making opportunity. Basketball Camp - This year’s camp will be in collaboration with TCI Sports Department and Coach Don Kelbick and surprise NBA

guests. ‘Drillz and Skillz’ will cover the disciplines of the sport including basics of ball control, dribbling, shooting, defensive and offensive drills and scrimmages. Basketball Camp is open to boys and girls ages 10 to 16. Theatre Workshop (FREE) Sponsored by the Turks and Caicos Friends of the Arts (TCFAF), the fantastic duo Scott and Susan from Philadelphia are back for another summer. This year they will be doing Telly TCI. The camp will be providing participants with an opportunity to act and perform on stage through an exciting and intensive five-day camp, ending with a show on the final day from 5pm to 7pm. TCI Animal Camp - NEW - If

you like learning about animals then this camp is for you. Participants will experience TCI’s finest animals from bats, dogs, iguanas, birds and horses. Come get ready to experience it all in this practical learning camp. Multimedia Camp - The aim of this camp is to capture the different facets of multimedia. Participants will learn to take photographs, make short films, editing. Spotlight Communications and PRoMotion media companies will be teaming up to deliver this amazing camp. Junior Anglers Camp - NEW This camp will teach participants the fundamentals of local and sports fishing. From the history to the practical tools needed to preserve the islands fishing industry. This fun and informative camp will work with

FREE WORKSHOPS Creative Tips and Toes by Melissa These one-day free workshops will teach participants the art of nails. Age 14 to 16. DJ Workshop - In collaboration with Caribbean House Evolution, this free workshop will give and enhance participants’ knowledge of the art of DJing. Three lucky participants will also be chosen to perform at Somewhere Café on the Saturday after the workshop. Baking Workshop - Have some fun baking some of your favourite recipes and getting some helpful tips on baking in this free workshop. Girls only. INDEPENDENT CAMPS Art and Animation Camp - These two camps are designed to help participants enhance their artistic abilities and to aid them in becoming a better artist/animator. Art ages six to 15. Animation ages 14 plus. Contact Vanessa Valbraun for more information on 345-9761. Taylors Tutoring Educational Camp - Grades three to six classes tailored to the needs of children in reading/comprehension, creative writing, math and grammar. Held in July only. For more information contact Rachel Taylor on 247-0623.

‘Strong will’ sees civil servant promoted AN AMBITIOUS public worker will be working in her third role in three years after receiving another promotion. Vanessa Rolle has been elevated to the position of senior finance officer within the Accountant General Department, according to a statement from the Deputy Governor’s Office. Rolle said: “I am indeed grateful for the opportunity presented to me to serve within the Ministry of Finance, Trade and Investment and am proud to be a part of a financial team that plays such an important role in Government. “Finance is my passion and I intend to utilise all the skills and experience gained to make an impact within the ministry while also gaining new professional skills and experiences.” Rolle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Barry University in Miami, Florida. She joined the TCI civil service as a tax officer in the Revenue

Vanessa Rolle is senior finance officer within the Accountant General Department

Department in November 2014 and following on from cross training in the Budget Department in July 2015, later took up the post of Budget Analyst in that department in December 2015. Rolle is currently pursuing an ACCA and Global MBA in Financial Management from London School of Business and Finance Online, which is being partially funded through the Civil Service Professional Development Fund.

During her time with TCIG she has also attended various training programmes. Deputy Governor Anya Williams said: “We are pleased to see the existing trend of upward mobility within the Turks and Caicos Islands civil service and I am proud to congratulate Vanessa on her new role. “During her short tenure in government she has demonstrated her strong will and desire to excel, having in the last three years taken on three different roles in her quest for upward mobility. “I congratulate her on her recent promotion and look forward to even greater prospects from her in the years ahead.” As a senior finance officer, Rolle will work very closely with the accounting officer of her assigned ministry to ensure that the departments adhere to the various financial procedures and that budgets are managed and executed in accordance with the Public Financial Management Ordinance and Regulations.

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GARDENING 

Iris Stubbs Primary School students learn about maintenance from Rudolph Seymour

Charity introduces pupils to South Caicos work options A FEMALE empowerment charity took a group of six grade pupils from Iris Stubbs Primary School in South Caicos on a trip around the luxury Sailrock Resort recently. It was all part of Soroptimist International Organisation’s Personal Development Programme. Traditionally, much of the local population of South Caicos moves to Providenciales after completing their education, a statement from the group said. But South Caicos subsidiary of Soroptimist International Organisation seeks to change the narrative. Madeline Mills, secretary of Soroptimist International of South Caicos, said: “After finishing their schooling, many people from South Caicos are moving to Provo in order to look for jobs. “As more and more people leave South Caicos, it results in a brain drain. “We want to ensure that the youth here are aware of all of the opportunities available in South Caicos and understand that working in Provo is not their only option.” The sixth-grade students were picked up from their classroom and chauffeured to the resort on Friday, June 22. Human resources coordinator Stacey-Ann Wharton greeted the children and began the tour. Together they explored various areas such as the front desk, lobby, beach, pool, as well as the kitchen. Visiting the Beachfront Villas was a hit as spa manager Juni Erawati and her spa team treated the sixth graders to massages. The students also loved the bar as food and beverage manager

Putra Ratnaya mixed them up childfriendly refreshments. Wharton said it was a pleasure to host the students. “By introducing the students to various departments, including human resources, spa, reservations, maintenance, as well as food and beverage, they were able to see how important each and every department is to the functioning of a luxury resort.” The 54-acre luxury resort is continuing to progress as more Ridgetop Residences and Beachfront Villas are being constructed with new bedroom configurations in order to accommodate more guests. Wharton added: “As Sailrock continues to develop and expand its operations, more and more job opportunities will come available. “South Caicos has an extremely bright future and we’re happy to have been able to work with Soroptimist International of South Caicos in order to provide an opportunity for the students of Iris Stubbs Primary School to expand their knowledge of the hospitality industry. “We look forward to seeing many of these children getting a closer look at the industry and the opportunities available in South Caicos in a few years through our Sailrock Summer Internship Programme.” The annual Sailrock Summer Internship Programme was created exclusively for students of Turks and Caicos Community College and South Caicos’ Marjorie Basden High School. Students are able to apply their academic knowledge and experience the hospitality industry first hand while earning salaries.

The visitors explore the Sailrock grounds in South Caicos

A pond in the garden – PART TWO WHEN you add rocks to your koi pond, make sure they are safe for fish. Don’t use decorative, coloured ones that are used for other purposes as they may kill your fish. You will also need to use smoother rocks on the sides and bottoms, because koi are curious and rooting fish. They have a big risk of getting injured if you have sharp or pointy rocks. Then fill the hole with fresh water. Make sure pond retains water before putting in plants. Start to add plants to the pond if wanted. Some people will argue that you must have plants in the pond because the plants are necessary to consume the nitrates that build up in the pond. That would be true if it weren’t for all the algae that naturally forms in a pond. A healthy pond will normally develop a three quarter inch layer of green algae on all the inside walls of the pond. These algae, which feeds on nitrates just like pond plants do, is usually more than sufficient to keep the nitrates at a safe level. Keep in mind plants can take a while before they start to take hold and look healthy.

BY DENIS BELANGER - NATURE SPLENDOR

Denis is a passionate landscape architect who enjoys the creative process and his clients’ joy when projects come to life. Contact Denis at Nature Splendor for your landscaping, installation or garden maintenance needs. For more information call 332-3381 or email denis@naturesplendor.net.

Wait the proper time then add your koi fish. If the pond is retaining water, you will need to wait for a few weeks before you put the koi in. It’s important to let the water circulate and build up some sediment. You can install a floating mesh on your pond, it is one of the best ways to protect your koi fish. The floating mesh is a way will prevent birds and land animals from snatching the fish on your koi fish ponds. Predators will not be able to reach through the mesh to eat your koi. No one will notice that there is a floating mesh on your koi pond because it will be invisible from afar. You can use ultrasonic gadgets that make noise whenever a predatory bird or land animal approaches your garden pond. The ultrasonic noise can only be heard by animals so the gadget will not disturb anyone except those predators who are eyeing the fish on your koi pond. You can also install automatic water squirts around your koi fish ponds to scare away cats and dogs

that will try to fish on your garden fish pond. By building underwater fish cages, it can create an underwater sanctuary where the koi fish can hide if it detects danger. These sanctuaries are usually called koi houses and they are made from mesh cages. The cages should have large opening so that the koi fish can easily slide in to hide. This anti predator solution however may not be effective against wily and swift flying birds. Natural barriers such as plants, vegetation and rocks can serve as good protection against predators. You have to use these natural barriers to make your koi pond predator-proof. Rocks and other solid decorative objects around your garden pond can deter land predators. On the other hand, water plants and lilies in koi fish ponds can shield your fish from predatory birds.

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MARIE TOUSSAINT PIERRE Wheeland, Blue Hills PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Duties: general housework, ironing, washing, cleaning etc. Must be honest, reliable and hardworking Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 348-5111

This position Is currently held by a work permit holder Belongers are asked to forward resumes to Turks & Caicos Labor Department 12902

STYLZ ABOVE THE REST SPOT PLAZA AIRPORT ROAD

Is looking to fill the following positions:

NAIL TECHNICIAN

Duties: apply and polish nails, nail care and treatment Salary $6.25 per hour Hair Stylist. Duties: wash, color and treat and style hair, sew in weaves, curl hair. Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-332-1726

Qualified Belongers are asked to forward their resumes to the Turks & Caicos Labor Department 12904

KAREN MISSICK GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning the yard, fixing minor problems around the house. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 231-7489

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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HYACINTH BEEN KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ

2 DOMESTIC WORKERS

Cooking, cleaning, Washing and ironing. Salary: $300 per week

CONTACT: 244-1490

Email: hyacinthbeen83@ gmail.com 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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POSITION AVAILABLE AT THE MERIDIAN CLUB ON PINE CAY:

ISLAND GENERAL MANAGER MANAGEMENT COUPLES WELCOME

The Meridian Club on Pine Cay includes a hotel and home rental operation, along with restaurant, bar, commissary, guest excursion desk, marine, airstrip, maintenance, gardening, K-9 security and housekeeping services. We handle reservations and some marketing services in-house. Given our size and limited housing capacity, we cannot have distinct management personnel for each area of operations, so this is a unique position requiring multiple skill sets, responsibilities and obligations. Hours in this position are those necessary for proper operation of the resort and island 7 days per week throughout the season. This employee must be available at all hours for emergency response and therefore must reside full time on-island.

DUTIES OF ISLAND GENERAL MANAGER:

Day to day management of the resort, including, but not limited to, the hotel, private homes including some in rental pool, restaurant, bar, spa, gift shop and commissary; oversee all operations incidental thereto, including, but not limited to, reservations, marketing, pricing, coordination with travel sites and agencies; implementation and integration of technology systems, guest services and staff performance in resort operations; Coordinate and oversee administration of homeowner maintenance and marine services in conjunction with senior management and report to homeowners on status of their projects; Assume primary responsibility for transfers to and from Pine Cay; Ensure and coordinate staff training, develop on-going training program for all levels of resort service staff, including reception, reservations, housekeeping, bar and wait staff; Coordinate with governmental and other agencies as needed for safe, effective and compliant resort and residential operations; Coordinate as needed with ecological oversight, including invasive species eradication; Coordinate, as needed on IT systems, including with point of service and property management systems, reservations, billing and other technology systems; Coordinate as needed on new construction and facilities updates; Source, coordinate and oversee necessary external providers for marketing, public relations, website, corporate and leisure retreat and destination wedding providers, and all other travel and hospitality marketing providers; Coordinate with accounting and payroll and other internal and outsourced business service providers; Conduct staff performance reviews, as necessary, for such staff members; Coordinate security needs for resort with Head of Security Department and with K-9 security guards; Respond, as necessary, to security issues and health emergencies involving guests, homeowners, staff and other persons on island; Provide first aid procedures when necessary and coordinate evacuation of injured or ill persons requiring greater medical care to Provo; Arrange special functions for guests and homeowners; Oversee and maximize guest experience on the island; Oversee all sports activities, sports instruction and sports and leisure excursions and concierge services for guests and homeowners; Dine with guests on a regular basis and monitor guest and homeowner satisfaction with food service and quality; Monitor and ensure proper sanitation and cleanliness on island, including, without limitation, in and about the hotel, restaurant, commissary, staff quarters, staff kitchen and staff recreation center; Manage the recruitment and hiring process to bring in qualified candidates as positions become available; Ensure proper conduct of resort staff and their compliance with the Employment Manual; Ensure compliance with all applicable TCI laws regarding employment of resort staff, and resort operations; Conduct and/or coordinate staff meetings to discuss important issues involving staff; Conduct and/or participate in staff disciplinary proceedings as needed; Help with the supervision of all aspects of resort administration, including accounting; Assist in preparation of annual budgets for resort operations and perform such other functions as may be necessary to ensure proper operation of the island and resort; Oversee reporting to Board of fiscal management and forecasting reports related to resort operations; Lead cost containment and waste

reduction efforts for island operations; Report as requested or necessary, on resort operations and homeowner services to the Board.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR ISLAND GENERAL MANAGER:

- Minimum of 30 credits of undergraduate education from an accredited college or university, including course work in business, management, economics and/or accounting - Minimum of 15 years of experience in leadership, culminating in at least 5 years as a general manager/executive leadership position at luxury international hotels and resorts - Must have at least 5 years of experience in resort sales and marketing operations, and liaising with travel sites, travel agents, travel publications, and other travel providers - Must have at least 5 years of experience overseeing resort reservation operations - Must have at least 5 years experience as a sports director (including sailing, tennis, dive operations) - Must have at least 5 years of experience in preparing resort operational budgets, critical paths, SOPs for all departments, and implementing service standards - Must have at least 5 years of managerial experience including with hiring and recruitment, training and performance reviews - Must have at least 8 years experience working at all-inclusive resorts - Must have demonstrated experience improving sales and revenue, and containing costs, at island properties - Must have demonstrated experience improving on-island sales and food and beverage revenue - Must have prior restaurant/food and beverage managerial experience - Must have prior experience overseeing resort facilities renovations - Must have prior experience overseeing resorts with marina, water sports, and spa facilities - Must have extensive prior experience with human resources, including implementing HR guidelines and employee handbooks - Must have prior experience with private island resorts, barging in of all supplies, and living on remote islands - Must have experience directly reporting to private owners (homeowner boards or single/multi family ownership) - Must be computer literate in Quickbooks, Excel and Word, point of sale and property management systems, travel websites, and travel reservations systems - Must have experience implementing and training on property management systems and point of sale systems - Must have prior experience working with luxury travel designations, including Preferred Hotels & Resorts - Must have training in first aid and emergency resuscitation techniques, and must be able to swim - Must be willing to work evenings when necessary and remain available for emergencies at all times - Must be willing to take K-9 training courses and/or interact with K-9 officers - Must speak fluent English and have fluency in a second language (preferably French, given the large number of French speakers on the island) - Must be willing to reside on Pine Cay on a full-time basis, 24 hours/day - Must be skilled in handling all duties specified above Salary: Commensurate with education, training, and experience Starting Date: Negotiable

SEND RESUMES TO:

Twa, Marcelin, Wolf Chancery Court, PO Box 209, 1276, Leeward Highway Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Attention: The Meridian Club tmw@tmwlaw.tc Note: Please respond no later than August 1st, 2018. All qualified applicants will be interviewed.

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CARICOM heads to consider dismantling marijuana prohibition THE dismantling of the prohibition of marijuana in its totality across member states is a key recommendation contained in the report of the CARICOM Regional Commission on Marijuana 2018, which will be reviewed by heads of government at the 39th conference of the regional body to be held in Montego Bay, St James, from July 4-6. In its report, the Commission, comprising professionals with expertise in the fields of law, ethics, sociology, psychiatry, medical, and social research, and criminology, argued that a strictly regulated framework for marijuana akin to that for alcohol and tobacco, should be introduced. Alcohol and tobacco are harmful substances that are not criminalised in CARICOM states. “The commission is unanimous in its view that the current classification for cannabis/ marijuana as a ‘dangerous drug’ with ‘no value’ or narcotic should be changed to a classification of legal cannabis as a ‘controlled substance’,” the report stated. There was also unanimity among members of the commission who argued that children and young persons must be protected from possible adverse effects of cannabis. Consequently, the commission said that prohibition for children and young persons within an appropriate age

This Atlantic Hurricane Season will not be nearly as active as last year’s, according to forecasters.

CARICOM is looking to make the region more marijuana friendly.

limit should be maintained, except for medical reasons. It further pointed out that young people who use marijuana should be directed to treatment and diversion programmes rather than being prosecuted or criminalised. On the question of using marijuana and driving, the commission agreed that drug-driving laws and mechanisms should be put in place to prevent persons from driving under the influence. At the same time, the report stated that the law must also ensure unhindered access to cannabis/ marijuana for scientific and medical research by approved institutions and researchers. The commission recommends that marijuana smoking and other uses should be banned in all public spaces. The commission used Jamaica as

a point of reference, having amended the Dangerous Drugs Act in 2015, effectively decriminalising the use of two ounces, or less, of ganja. It also allows for a scheme of licences, permits, and other authorisations that enable the establishment of a lawful, regulated industry for ganja for medical, therapeutic and scientific purposes. The Regional Marijuana Commission was tasked to “conduct a rigorous enquiry into the social, economic, health and legal issues surrounding marijuana use in the Caribbean and to determine whether there should be a change in the current drug classification of marijuana, thereby making the drug more accessible for all types of usage (religious, recreational, medical and research).” (Jamaica Gleaner)

Jamaican Finance Minister urges public pressure on banks FINANCE Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has advised Jamaicans to take their business elsewhere if commercial banks fail to follow the lead of the central bank in reducing their interest rates. “Medium-sized and small businesses need to demand of their financial institutions that they benefit from these reductions in interest rate and that they put themselves in a position to shop their businesses to alternative institutions if their financial institutions refuse to lower their interest rates,” Clarke declared during Thursday’s opening ceremony of the Caribbean Leadership Project symposium Given the complexities of governance in the 21st century, democracy demands an informed population that is able to fully understand the intricacies of state policies among other issues of national interest, to make informed decisions, Clarke pointed out while delivering the keynote address. “So, for example, the Bank of Jamaica has lowered their policy interest rate since October 2016 from five per cent in eight moves

Only one major hurricane this season, according to latest forecast THIS year’s Atlantic hurricane season should be even quieter than previously predicted. Meteorologist Phil Klotzbach from Colorado State University released a new forecast on Monday, and the prediction is that for the rest of the season, there will be 10 more named storms. On April 5 and May 31, the Colorado team predicted that there would be 14 named storms. The first forecast was that seven would develop into hurricanes – three of them major (Category 3, 4, or 5). In May, that was revised downward to six, with two becoming major. But according to the latest predictions, there will be 11 named storms overall (one system, Subtropical Storm Alberto, formed in May is included in that number), and four will become hurricanes. Only one of them will be a major hurricane, according to the experts. “We have decreased our forecast

and now believe that 2018 will have below-average activity,” the Colorado State forecast said. Hurricanes need the fuel of warm ocean water to develop and strengthen, and the forecasters noted that “the tropical and subtropical Atlantic is currently much colder than normal, and the odds of a weak El Niño developing in the next several months have increased”. “With the decrease in our forecast, the probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the United States coastline and in the Caribbean has decreased as well,” Colorado State said. The probability of a major hurricane tracking into the Caribbean is now 31 per cent, compared to 53 per cent and 42 per cent in the April and May forecasts, respectively. However, the Colorado State team reminded that people should prepare for every season, regardless of how much activity is predicted.

CARICOM heads to discuss free movement for Haitians – Grenada objects to entitlement

Laurie Peters, Canada’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, makes a point to Dr Nigel Clarke, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, at the launch of the Caribbean Leadership Project at The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in St Andrew, on Friday. (Kenyon Hemans photo)

downwards to two per cent yesterday (Wednesday). As a result of that, banks have the incentive to lend to businesses at lower and lower rates. “So medium-sized and small businesses need to demand of their financial institutions that they benefit from these reductions in interest

rates and that they put themselves in a position to shop their businesses to alternative institutions, if their financial institutions refuse to lower their interest rates,” the finance minister told the audience of regional participants at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston.

CARICOM’s Office of the General Counsel has produced two legal opinions defending the right of Haitians to move freely within CARICOM. Currently, Haitians need a visa to enter CARICOM territories, except Barbados, which abolished the requirement last month. The matter has been receiving attention from some member states, according to CARICOM’s secretary general, but Grenada contends that Haitians do not have such entitlement based on issues surrounding the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC). “There will be a discussion on Haitian nationals and whether a visa is required for them to enter the Community, that discussion will take place. That was a mandate from the last meeting of heads of government,” said Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, secretary general of CARICOM, on Monday at a press briefing in New

Kingston. The 39th summit for the heads of government runs from July 4 to 6 in Montego Bay, St James. “Based on the law set out in (Shanique) Myrie v The State of Barbados, and on the fact that the Republic of Haiti is a party to the Revised Treaty, and in the absence of a reservation by Haiti excluding participation in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), it was advised that Haitian nationals, as Community nationals, are entitled to an automatic stay of six months,” the Office of the General Counsel argued. It also pointed out that the heads of government in 2007 decided that all CARICOM nationals should be allowed automatic entry, in a push to enhance their sense of belonging and community. Entry would be denied if citizens were deemed undesirable and if they were likely to be a burden on the public purse.

July 7-13, 2018

Regional News

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

Bahamas: Two accused of sex attack on tourists The seaweed has affected many of the beaches in the region.

Bajan fishermen to harvest Sargassum seaweed BARBADIAN fishermen stand to reap real rewards from the influx of the Sargassum seaweed plaguing the beaches. As the brown macroalgae continues to litter shores, Minister of Maritime Affairs Kirk Humphrey said there was money to be made in the collection of seaweed. “We have to find a way to use the Sargassum and the fish that it brings, but we also have to stop the Sargassum because fishermen said that some of the seaweed is getting into their boats and affecting their

fishing. “But there are some people who are prepared to pay fishermen, to ‘fish’ the Sargassum out of the water. So if that is something the fishing industry is interested in we can develop a relationship where we can start using the fishermen to help us . . . and then we would use that to help us make methanol, methane gas, and fertiliser,” Humphrey said. He did not disclose who would be buying the seaweed, but said more details would follow. (Barbados Nation)

TWO Harbour Island natives were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday over allegations they raped a 17-year-old female tourist and had unlawful sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old tourist late last month. Julian Stewart, 29, and Kevin Cambridge, 26, both of Colebrooke Street, Harbour Island, stood before Deputy Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain charged in connection with the June 28 incident. It is alleged that sometime between June 27 and 28, they both raped the 17-year-old and also had unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl two years her junior. According to initial reports from police, sometime around midnight and 2am on the date in question, the girls were on a beach when they were allegedly indecently assaulted by the two Bahamian men. The men, residents of the island, were later taken into custody. Neither man was required to enter a plea to the charges and the matter was adjourned to September 12 for service of a voluntary bill of indictment (VBI). Bail was denied and they

Julian Stewart, 29, and Kevin Cambridge, 26, are accused of sexually assaulting two teens.

were remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDCS) in the interim. However, they have the right to apply to the Supreme Court for bail. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Ahkeil Tynes, of Pineyard Road, was arraigned before the deputy chief magistrate charged with having unlawful sexual intercourse with a

13-year-old girl sometime during February 2016. Tynes was not required to enter a plea to the charges and the case was adjourned to September 12 for service of a VBI. Bail was denied and he too was remanded in the interim. He has the right to apply to the Supreme Court for bail. (Tribune242)

Christian Council ‘won’t fight’ Sands over free condoms plan World base: Arbitrade has said it is buying Victoria Hall, on the market for $6.5 million, to house its global headquarters.

Arbitrade unveils bold plans for Bermuda FROM expecting to be granted title to $10 billion in physical gold, to a pledge to support programmes in Bermuda that will see gang members paid to work on chicken farms, it is hard to know where to start with the latest news attributed to Arbitrade. The cryptocurrency exchange and coin company has said it will set up its global headquarters in Victoria Hall in Hamilton, purchasing the $6.5 million seven-storey office block. Some bold statements have been made in a reported telephone press conference about what Arbitrade would like to do for Bermuda, including: • A donation of $1 million to what is claimed to be the Bermuda Government’s $4 million purchase

of a Park Place building for a fintech incubator space; • A $45,000 donation to a gang violence reduction proposal that is to include gang members being paid to work on chicken farms. • A $30,000 donation towards the ALICE programme for activeshooter preparedness taught by the FBI at schools and local charities. • A $25,000 donation to the Mirrors programme. • A $25,000 donation to The Family Centre. It makes for an impressive list, together with prior talk by Len Schutzman, chief executive officer of Arbitrade, about plans for hundreds of jobs for the island as a result of Arbitrade setting up its global HQ at Victoria Hall.

BAHAMAS Christian Council President Delton Fernander said the organisation will not challenge Health Minister Dr Duane Sands over any plans to provide free contraceptives for students. In an interview with The Tribune yesterday, Mr Fernander insisted that both the church and government had roles to play in the push to eradicate the spread of HIV. He noted that while the church’s collective message continues to be abstinence, his organisation does not intend to take on an adversarial position to Dr Sands’ stance. “The church, through the council, has been committed with UNESCO to do its part in the fights against the spread of HIV,” Bishop Fernander said. “I don’t know if he was aware of that, but we have been doing a lot of work here and home and throughout the region to aid in this message. “Our position is abstinence and we will not move away from that, but in a fight this big, we all have roles to play. “Obviously, from a counselling standpoint, there is an age at which you can’t start to present sexual education and the availability of condoms.

Minister of Health Dr Duane Sands at the HIV testing day on Friday at Victoria Gardens.

“But we are not going to lecture the government on this. We are committed to doing our part, and it seems that the government is committed to what they have to do.” At an HIV testing event on Friday, Dr Sands said the country is living in a “bubble”, where Bahamians “pretend like they don’t have sex”, and if they do, they act as if “it’s always responsible or protected”. “We see a significant number of teen pregnancies, and we’re not only

seeing HIV, but syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes and other sexually transmitted infections,” he said. Dr Sands added that he believes a revamped approach to HIV prevention and treatment inclusive of sex education and free contraceptives for students is “the way to go”. The minister also said the “social approaches” employed over the last decade need to be “revisited” and assessed “critically” to be brought in line with reality.

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July 7-13, 2018

UK investigates alleged Russian links to Brexit campaign AS the largest backer of the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union, Arron Banks rejoiced in being called one of the “Bad Boys of Brexit.” Now the UK’s National Crime Agency is investigating his financial support for the campaign and his contacts with Russian officials, according to three sources familiar with the probe. The agency recently received an extensive archive of Banks’ emails and other documents, the sources say, which include descriptions of meetings with Russian diplomats and possible business opportunities in Russia. At least some of those emails have already been leaked to media organisations in the UK and the US. Banks, who provided loans and donations totalling about $12 million to Leave.EU, the Brexit campaign group he co-founded, has complained to the police that they were stolen. A spokesperson for the National Crime Agency told CNN it never confirms or denies the existence of investigations. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office also declined to comment on whether it had opened an investigation. The Sunday Times of London first revealed the National Crime Agency’s involvement last weekend. In a text to CNN on Monday, Banks’s spokesman Andy Wigmore said the NCA had not contacted either of them. “And they are unlikely to, firstly because both UK and US authorities were fully briefed and know the truth -- there is no evidence of any wrongdoing or collusion because it didn’t happen so even they know there is nothing to

investigate,” Wigmore said. Banks’ financial support for Leave. EU in the runup to the 2016 vote made him the biggest individual donor in British political history. The group won the endorsement of the leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, one of the leading pro-Brexit campaigners. According to the latest accounts of Leave.EU, Banks’ loan has not been paid back. His emails were passed to the National Crime Agency by a third party. Sources have told CNN the documents have also been shared with the UK’s domestic intelligence service MI5 and, in the US, with Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee. The committee has been investigating allegations of collusion between people associated with the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election campaign. Some of the emails, which CNN obtained, discuss meetings between Banks, Wigmore and diplomats at the Russian embassy in London, including with the ambassador Alexander Yakovenko in 2015 and 2016. The cache of emails reveal that, before the EU referendum in June 2016, Banks was offered the chance to invest in several Russian businesses, including the consolidation of Russian gold mines and a sale of shares in the country’s largest diamond mine company, Alrosa. In one email sent to the Russian mining magnate Siman Povarenkin in November 2015, Banks said he was “very bullish on gold so keen to have a look.” He copied a wealthy business partner and fellow Brexit supporter, Jim Mellon, on the

Arron Banks, right, pictured with leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage in 2015.

correspondence. Two months later, Banks wrote to an adviser with experience of Russian business deals, Nick van den Brul. Banks asked whether there was “any chance Andrew Umbers [another adviser] and myself can see you about the Russian Gold Play. I intend to pop in and see the [Russian] ambassador as well.” The following month Van den Brul wrote to Wigmore, saying: “You may have seen that Alrosa, the Russian diamond monopoly, may have been touted as one of the companies which could be privatised. In my view there won’t be full privatisation but it could open up some opportunities for Arron through ‘partial’ privatisation.” Efforts by CNN to reach Van den Brul were unsuccessful. In April 2016, the correspondence shows Banks was offered an introduction by a business acquaintance to an “adventurous” Russian gold miner seeking capital for a prospecting business in the west

African state of Guinea. Banks has said repeatedly that he never invested in any of the schemes on offer. Wigmore told CNN they had received advice not to invest in any of the proposals. “No deal and no business with any Russian,” he told CNN. But a fund linked to Jim Mellon did buy into the Alrosa offering. Based in the Isle of Man, a tax haven in the Irish Sea between the UK and Ireland, Mellon has long experience of investing in Russia. He held a minority stake in Charlemagne Capital, which successfully bid for shares in Alrosa when the Russian government sold part of the company in July 2016 for some $800 million. A report in September 2016 by a fund run by Charlemagne noted that “placements of this type often provide a profitable entry point, and diamond producer Alrosa has performed well.” Alrosa’s stock price rose sharply in the three months after Charlemagne had purchased millions of shares

in the company. Other investment banks and hedge funds had also bought into Alrosa. A representative for Mellon refused to comment on the record, but CNN has been told that at the time Mellon was not involved with Charlemagne’s investment committee and had no knowledge of the acquisition. In August 2016, fresh from his victory in the EU referendum two months earlier, Farage appeared with Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, at the invitation of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. Later that year, the Atlantic Council think tank published a report on Russia’s influence in Europe, entitled “The Kremlin’s Trojan Horses.” Widely cited in the media, the introduction to the report claimed that Farage was “unabashedly proRussian.” In response, Wigmore made contact with the US embassy in London to set up a meeting between Farage and a senior US official. The goal was to demonstrate that allegations of collusion with Russia were untrue and “to make sure we did not embarrass Gov Phil Bryant and President-elect Trump,” Wigmore told CNN. Wigmore says he was transparent about contacts with Russian officials and had handed over “all correspondence and contacts we had” to US officials. “I met with them on over six occasions,” he told CNN. Leave.EU is already subject to an investigation by Britain’s Electoral Commission and has been fined £70,000 (approx $92,000 at current rates) for spending beyond the UK’s strict campaign spending limits ahead of the 2016 EU referendum -a decision it is appealing.

Trump asked advisers about invading Venezuela in 2017 PRESIDENT Donald Trump last August asked several top foreign policy advisers about the possibility of invading Venezuela during a meeting about diplomatic sanctions the US was enacting on the autocratic government, a senior administration official familiar with the comments said. Trump’s aides, including thennational security adviser HR McMaster, vigorously urged him against the notion of a military invasion of Venezuela, warning him it could backfire and explaining that US allies in the region were firmly opposed to such drastic action. Taking military action against Venezuela would be a dramatic escalation of the US’s so-far solely diplomatic and sanctions-focused response to the political and economic crisis roiling the South American country.

Still, the official with knowledge of Trump’s private comments noted there was “no imminent plan for a military strike” and chalked the comments up to Trump thinking “out loud.” “The President says and thinks a lot of different things,” the official said. “He just thinks out loud.” Trump’s private comments to his advisers were first reported by the Associated Press. They came a day before he said publicly -- standing alongside then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley -- that he was not taking “a military option” against Venezuela off the table. Trump in the following month continued to press Latin American leaders about the possibility, including on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly when he dined

with many of those leaders -- all of whom said they did not want a US invasion of Venezuela. Venezuela has been a key focus of the Trump administration’s policy toward Latin America, with Trump taking numerous steps to ratchet up pressure on the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The administration has enacted numerous sanctions and issued strongly worded statements urging the Venezuelan government to allow free and fair elections to take place. Vice President Mike Pence has also met numerous times with Venezuelan opposition leaders and has issued stinging criticisms of the Venezuelan government during his recent trips to Latin America. Trump’s comments were not the first time he has raised the

A large number of Venezuelans are opposed to the autocratic government in the South American country.

possibility of military action against another country. Before the cooling of tensions with North Korea in recent months, Trump deliberated with aides about the possibility of preventive strikes against the Pyongyang regime and in January

sought to order the evacuation of US military dependents in South Korea -- sounding alarms among the President’s top national security aides who worried North Korea might interpret the move as wartime preparations.

July 7-13, 2018

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Friends, co-workers shocked by arrest of ‘kindhearted’ nurse charged with murdering babies

Wiltshire pair poisoned by Novichok nerve agent

A BRITISH nurse was arrested Tuesday for allegedly murdering eight newborns and trying to kill six others in a UK hospital’s neonatal unit, according to reports. Lucy Letby, 28, allegedly engaged in the killing spree at Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England. Letby wasn’t named by police but she was identified in news reports in the UK. She is in custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder charges but hasn’t been formally charged. Letby’s arrest shocked friends and co-workers, who said she was devoted to the job and the infants in her care. One friend, Jordan Sands, who knows Letby through a former girlfriend, told the Times of London, “She was quite awkward and geeky but seemed like a kindhearted person.” Another called Letby “an amazing person.” Letby was also active in a $4 million fundraising campaign to build a new neo natal unit at the hospital. “I hope the new unit will provide a greater degree of privacy and space,” she told the Chester & District Standard in supporting the campaign. The 680-bed hospital in Chester,

A MAN and woman found unconscious in Wiltshire were poisoned by Novichok - the same nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police say. The couple, believed to be Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, are in a critical condition having been found unconscious at a house on Saturday. Police say no one else has presented with the same symptoms. There was “nothing in their background” to suggest the pair were targeted, the Met Police said. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said it could not be confirmed whether the nerve agent came from the same batch that Mr Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were exposed to. But he said the possibility was “clearly a line of enquiry”. Mr Basu said no contaminated items had yet been found, but officers were putting together a “very detailed examination of [the couple’s] movements” in order to determine where they were poisoned. He added that members of the public should not pick anything up if they don’t know what it is. “We have no idea what may have contained the nerve agent at this time,” he said. The Counter Terrorism Policing Network is now leading the investigation, working with Wiltshire Police. The BBC’s security correspondent Gordon Corera said: “The most likely hypothesis is that this is leftover Novichok from the attack on the Skripals back in March.” England’s chief medical officer,

Lucy Letby, 28, allegedly engaged in the killing spree at Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England.

southeast of Liverpool, asked police in May 2017 to investigate a sudden, unexplained mortality-rate spike in the unit that houses premature babies and those needing special care. When doctors couldn’t determine how they died, the police were asked to rule out “unnatural causes of death.” The probe initially focused on the deaths of eight babies, but authorities said Tuesday it now includes the deaths of 17 and 15 “nonfatal collapses” between March 2015 and July 2016.

The pair, believed to be Dawn Sturgess, 44 and Charlie Rowley, 45, were found unconscious on Saturday in Amesbury.

Sally Davies, said: “I want to reassure the public that the risk to the general public remains low.” The Skripal episode meant officials had a “well-established response” in place, she said. “As before, my advice is to wash your clothes and wipe down any personal items, shoes and bags, with cleansing or baby wipes before disposing of them in the usual way. “You do not need to seek advice from a health professional unless you are experiencing symptoms, as any individual who had been significantly exposed at the same time would by now have symptoms.” On Saturday, paramedics were called twice to the property in Amesbury - in the morning, after Ms Sturgess had collapsed, then later the same day, after Mr Rowley had also fallen unwell.

“It was initially believed that the two patients fell ill after using possibly heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs,” Wiltshire Police said. The news that Novichok was to blame was announced following analysis at the defence research facility at Porton Down, Wiltshire. As a precautionary measure, sites in Amesbury and Salisbury, believed to have been visited by the couple before they fell ill, have been cordoned off. There is no evidence to suggest either visited the sites that were decontaminated following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. Local residents have been warned to expect to see an increased police presence - including officers wearing protective equipment. (BBC)

US bill would establish beneficial ownership registry Maleka Jackson, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was enjoying a romantic getaway with her husband, Tiran Jackson, when the engine of a small tour boat they were riding on suddenly exploded off the coast of Barraterre Island.

Tennessee woman killed in a Bahamas tour boat explosion THE American woman killed during a tour boat explosion in the Bahamas on Saturday was a devoted mother who had been celebrating her 15th wedding anniversary with her husband when tragedy struck. Maleka Jackson, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was enjoying a romantic getaway with her husband, Tiran Jackson, when the engine of a small tour boat they were riding on suddenly exploded around 9 a.m.

off the coast of Barraterre Island, according to CBS and ABC News. Jackson’s father, Malvin Grimes, told CBS that she was a loving mother to her 12-year-old son. “Maleka would be I guess what I call a shooting star,” Grimes said. “She had a life that kind of stayed straight on the course and it was a life that brought a lot of joy and a lot of support and love into the lives of others.”

THE United States could soon have a central registry containing the beneficial ownership information of U.S.-registered companies. Right now, companies in the U.S. are formed at the state level. Some states, such as Delaware, require no beneficial ownership information to be submitted by anyone who wants to incorporate a company there. A bill before Congress would change that, giving federal oversight over company formation issues. According to the Wall Street Journal, the legislation would establish a beneficial ownership database maintained by the U.S. Treasury, which could be accessed by law enforcement. The proposed change bears resemblance to the United Kingdom’s recent decision to force its British Overseas Territories to implement public beneficial owner registries, but there are several key

differences between what happened in the U.K. parliament and what’s being mulled in the U.S. First, the U.S. registry will only be accessed by U.S. investigators, while the registries the U.K. is forcing its territories to implement will be public, according to Robert Briant, the chairman of BVI Finance – the British Virgin Islands’ version of Cayman Finance. Another difference is that the U.S. is seemingly working toward its change in conjunction with the states, said Mr. Briant. The secretary of state of Delaware – which has roughly 1.3 million entities registered in the state, more than Cayman, the BVI, and the rest of the British Overseas Territories combined – has reportedly endorsed the legislation in Congress. Mr. Briant said that states have been loathe to implement reforms because if a state such as Delaware, for example, implements stricter

know-your-client information, then it would give other states a competitive advantage. But because the rules would apply uniformly across the U.S., states are likely more willing to come on board, he said. In contrast, the recent U.K. legislation has been met with great resistance by British Overseas Territories. Along with not having a say in the matter, the colonies are aggrieved that the U.K. legislation does not apply to U.K. Crown dependencies such as Jersey and Guernsey. Mr. Briant also said that the systems proposed by the U.S. and the U.K. both fall short of what are already in place in Cayman and the BVI. That is because regulators in Cayman and the BVI regularly audit financial services firms to make sure their beneficial ownership information is accurate – unlike in the U.K. and what’s being proposed in the U.S., he said.

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experience required. • Hours of operation 8-5.30pm Mon-Friday Saturday 9am-1pm. • Salary range between 45k-55k. • Based on qualifications and experience.

AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR TECHNICIAN.

Duties include: • Identify mechanical problems, often by using computerized diagnostic equipment • Test parts and systems to ensure they are working properly • Follow checklists to make sure all critical parts are examined • Perform basic auto care and maintenance services • Replace worn or malfunctioning parts • Use testing equipment to ensure that repairs and maintenance are effective Minimum Job Requirements: • Must possess adequate tools to perform duties • Must be able work with little or no supervision • Must have experience using computerized diagnostic equipment • Must possess a valid TCI Driver’s License. • Must possess applicable ASE Certification or equivalent Salary range is $28.00 - $30.00 per flat rate hour commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Please email all application to syrmondg@bayviewmotors.com Only applicants who meet the minimum requirements will be contacted for an interview. Bayview Motors Ltd. P.O Box 619, Leeward Highway, Providenciales 12716

• Oversee preparation of all medicines • Dispense prescription medicine to customers with proper advice • Advise customers on the treatment of minor ailments using OTC Medicine • Inventory control and management • Prepare monthly and quarterly management reports. Compensation is commensurate with experience and qualifications APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN AUGUST 8TH, 2018 MANAGING DIRECTOR EMAIL ADDRESS: DIRECTOR@FAMILYCHOICEPHARMACY.COM Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

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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 position:

ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN

DUTIES OF THIS POSITION INCLUDE: • Evaluates electrical systems, products, components, and applications by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of electricity and materials. Confirms system's and components' capabilities by designing testing methods; testing properties. Develops electrical products by studying customer requirements; researching and testing manufacturing and assembly methods and materials. • Develops manufacturing processes by designing and modifying equipment for building and assembling electrical components; soliciting observations from operators. Assures product quality by designing electrical testing methods; testing finished products and system capabilities. Prepares product reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. Provides engineering information by answering questions and requests. • Maintains product and company reputation by complying with federal and state regulations.

Keeps equipment operational by following manufacturer's instructions and established procedures; requesting repair service. • Maintains product data base by writing computer programs; entering data. Completes projects by training and guiding technicians. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

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: 1350 to 2000$. May be required to work on weekends and holidays Applications comprising a letter, resume, references, Police record etc. should be sent no later than Tuesday, July 06th, 2018 to:

THE MANAGER

DESARROLLOS HOTELCO JWM Ltd. Grace Bay, Salt Mills Plaza Unit 22ATel: (649) 3475378. Email: llopez@hotelcointernational.com

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EMMA JEAN SELVER South Dock Road Is seeking to employ a

HENRY RAYMOND JENNINGS of Palm Grove Grand Turk is seeking to employ a

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DCK PROJECTECH LTD.

PROJECT NAME OF PROJECT: TCI ANDAZ RESORT AND SPA, TURKS & CAICOS dck worldwide, Six PPG Place, Suite 710, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Phone: 412-384-1000 Please send resumes to resumes@dckww.com, when responding, title as TCI ad

FARMER Farming, digging, plowing and planting Salary: $200 per week

CONTACT: 232-8729 Email: clarencejolly1@ hotmail.com

LABOURER Salary is $6.50 per hour and interested person can

Annual Salary Range – $77k-$101k New Position

CONTACT 2455508

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12689

Belongers are encouraged to send copies of application to Employment Services Department. Position currently held by a work permit holder 12637

KAREN MISSICK

HYACINTH BEEN

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning the yard, fixing minor problems around the house. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 231-7489

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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KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ

2 DOMESTIC WORKERS

Cooking, cleaning, Washing and ironing. Salary: $300 per week

CONTACT: 244-1490

Email: hyacinthbeen83@ gmail.com 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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ISLAND NETWORK #1276 LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is looking for a

LECTURER FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES

REQUIREMENTS: • Study in humanistic transpersonal therapy • Minimum of 5 years experience • Metaphysic in the human energy field • Salary based on experience

between the hour of 12-5pm

This position is for work permit renewal Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

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GLASS SHACK Is seeking to employ a

EKD CONSULTANCY

Acting on behalf of our clients who are seeking the following: DUJOHN FULFORD GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

CONTACT: 345-2426

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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TO PERFORM HOUSEHOLD CHORES INCLUDING COOKING, CLEANING, PROVIDING CARE FOR SMALL CHILDREN AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT CHORES SALARY $6.50 PER HR

CONTACT #241-4378

POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER

ELVA WILLIAMS

GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

LABOURER

TO PERFORM DUTIES SUCH AS YARD CLEANING, MENDING FENCES, MINOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS AROUND THE HOUSE SALARY $6.50 PER HR

CONTACT # 231-4657

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Cleaning the yard and washing the vehicles Salary: $150 per week

Position General Superintendent

Annual Salary Range – $82k-$111k New Position

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Education and experience include four-year engineering degree or equivalent combinations of technical training and/or related experience. Minimum of ten years construction management and/or craft supervision experience in similar facility construction. Thorough knowledge of all aspects of construction (technology, equipment, methods); engineering, cost control schedules and safety required. Fluent aptitude and experience in Primavera P6, CMiC, and PlanGrid. Excellent communication, organizational and supervisory skills are essential. Annual Salary One (1) Assistant Superintendent (Structure) Range $73k-104k: New Position Two (2) Assistant Superintendents (Finishes) Annual Salary Range $73k-104k: New Positions Job description: Four-year engineering degree. Knowledge of various construction disciplines, safety regulations, scheduling, cost control, engineering drawings and other documents. Knowledge of and experience with construction management technology such as BIM, project management software, P6, PlanGrid and CMiC.

Position Project Scheduler

Annual Salary Range – $78k-118k: New Position

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Plan, develop, coordinate, provide technical expertise, and manage projects. Train and supervise lower level engineers, participate on a regular basis in business development. Education and experience requirements include 4 year degree in environmental, mechanical or civil engineering, or equivalent, advanced degree is highly preferred, plus 8 or more years of experience engineering activities. Professional certification is required. Individual must be able to apply current and technically sound approaches to project planning, execution, and data interpretation. Attention to detail and ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects is required. Effective use of computer software, both standard spreadsheet and word processing as well as industry standard technical programs is expected. Fluent aptitude and experience in Primavera P6, CMiC, PlanGrid, and site engineering activities. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential.

POSITIONS:

CONTACT: DARLENE HUDSON AT 649-946-4736

LEGISTER MISSICK

Position: Sr. Project Engineer

POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Education and experience requirements include four year engineering degree plus two or more years similar construction scheduling experience or equivalent combinations of training and related experience. An understanding of the nature of process systems, structures and construction technology required. Fluent aptitude and experience of Primavera, Microsoft Office products, CMiC, and PlanGrid.

Position Sr. Cost Accountant

Annual Salary Range – $70k-106k: New Position

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Four-year accounting degree or equivalent required. Four to six years progressive, professional level experience. Construction job cost experience required. Experience with spreadsheet and word processing software, understanding of general accounting systems and understanding of construction accounting systems. Fluent aptitude and experience with CMiC.

Position Cost Accountant

Annual Salary Range – $60k-$80k: New Position

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Four-year accounting degree or equivalent required. Construction job cost experience required. Experience with spreadsheet and word processing software, understanding of general accounting systems and understanding of construction accounting systems. Fluent aptitude and experience with CMiC.

Position Safety Manager

Annual Salary Range – $85k-120k: New Position

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Education and experience requirements include fouryear occupational safety/health degree or equivalent combinations of training and related experience. At least five years construction and/or industrial safety experience. Thorough understanding of and ability to enforce all OSHA, NIBOSH, local, and company regulations. Ability to recognize hazardous situations and implement corrective measures essential. Good interpersonal and communication skills required. Fluent aptitude and experience with CMiC.

Position Electrical Coordinator

Annual Salary Range – $74k-115k: New Position

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Education and experience requirements include BSC in Electrical Engineering or a combination of suitable qualifications and experience. Minimum ten years’ experience in construction related to process systems. Experience working on instrumentation and controls, preferred. Excellent supervisory, communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

Position Mechanical Coordinator

Annual Salary Range – $76k-112k: New Position

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Education and experience requirements include BSC or four year engineering degree plus five years mechanical experience or equivalent combinations of training and experience. Good knowledge of mechanical program requirements and special process/test techniques required. Experience in mechanical equipment procurement and installation. Fluent aptitude and experience with CMiC and PlanGrid. Excellent supervisory, communication and interpersonal skills are essential. 12727

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Entertainment

Somers defends Freeman as a ‘big flirt’ after sexual harassment accusations

TO THE GRADE SIX STUDENTS OF COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY WHO WERE ALL SUCCESSFUL AT THIS YEAR’S GSAT EXAMINATION. TOP THREE

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SUZANNE Somers doesn’t think Morgan Freeman should be lumped in with Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby as a sexual predator because, after all, the Oscar-winning actor is simply a “big flirt.” Somers, 71, came to the defense of her longtime friend Tuesday, two months after Freeman was accused of sexually harassing eight women in a lengthy CNN report.

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Suzanne Somers defended old friend Morgan Freeman as a “big flirt.”

Resort General Manager

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The Somerset Resort is looking for a General Manager, Employee will be required to fulfill his duties and responsibilities on an “as needed” basis. It is mutually understood that the standard work week (40 hours) does not apply to this position. Employee understands he/she is considered to be “on call” at all times when on property, and reachable by senior Resort personnel and Ownership when not on property. Employer further expects Employee to attend various evening, weekend or holiday functions as necessary for the benefit of the Employer.

SOUS CHEF

The key goals of the General Manager are to maximize profitability and ensure guest, owner and team member satisfaction.

The Meridian Club is seeking a Seasonal (November-April) Resident Sous Chef. The successful applicant must have extensive culinary credentials and training from a culinary institute. Using only the freshest ingredients, menus are inspired by regional, international and local specialties. Working in the kitchen, you will be an integral part of the culinary team. Your goal will be to utilize the ingredients provided to create a unique array of dishes that are full of delicious flavor. Our Sous Chefs are involved with all aspects of food production including breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You will work closely with other members of the culinary team every day to ensure that the kitchen operations run smoothly and that all service provided to our guests are of the highest standards.

• Understand every aspect of the world of luxury and have a passion for delivering luxury service • Inspire team members to deliver unique experiences, personalized to every guest • Maintain a laser focus on luxury standards (people, products, services) • Provide strategic and tactical oversight on maintaining property standards • Continue to evolve The Somerset’s service culture to drive service excellence and customer loyalty, driving repeat guest stays and direct bookings • Personally connect with guests, team Members, owners, and suppliers, and have an unfailing ability to apply the correct etiquette to each and every interaction • Lead a cohesive tam of luxury service professionals, who take pride in ensuring every guest experience is exceptional • Is a passionate ambassador of the location and brand, in the industry world wide. • Bring public relations knowledge and expertise

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work directly with the Executive Chef to produce diversified menus for our guests based off of the fresh ingredients • Organize the work in the kitchen so that kitchen processes run efficiently • Produce high quality dishes that follow up the established menu choices • Adhere to all of the guests dietary requests • Maintain order and discipline in the kitchen during work hours • Make sure that the hygiene and food safety standards are placed as a top priority throughout all stages of food preparation • Ensure that all meals are prepared as quickly and deliciously as possible • Enforce food and safety standards

QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years in Luxury Hotel in Senior Management with a multi disciplinary background • 10+ years as General Manager of a 5-star Luxury Resort responsible for budgeting and Forecasting • Experience managing complex owner relationships • Excellent communications skills, public speaking, written and oral, with the ability to customize the message to the audience (guest, team member, owner, and other stakeholders) • Ability to attract, motivate, lead, inspire and direct a talented team • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited and recognized university in Hotel Management, Hospitality and Business Administration. • Preferred candidate will have a Master’s degree from an accredited and recognized University in Hotel Management

QUALIFICATIONS

• • • • • • • •

Minimum 3 years of culinary experience in full service resort, hotel or cruise ship Familiar with food safety standards Capability to multi-task Ability to take direction MUST be a team player Ability to work with composure under pressure Possess problem solving skills, self-motivation, and organization Must be able to speak, read, and understand basic cooking recipes and adhere to directions • An effective leader who is able to effectively control his/her time management • Excellent oral communication and interpersonal skills • Training and Teaching experience • Must be willing to reside on Pine Cay on a full-time basis, 24 hours/day • Must be skilled in handling all duties specified above. Salary: Commensurate with education, training, and experience

Salary: $144,000 per annum. The position is currently held by a work permit holder. Preference will be given to Turks & Caicos Islanders meeting the foregoing qualifications. Applicants are invited to copy the TCI Labour Board, Providenciales with applications. PLEASE SEND RESUME WITH REFERENCES ADDRESSED TO EMPLOYER

Starting Date: November 1, 2018

Note: Please respond no later than August 1, 2018. All qualified applicants will be interviewed.

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Send Resumes to:

manager@meridianclub.com

Somerset Resort c/o Twa, Marcelin, Wolf at Chancery Court, 1276 Leeward Highway, Providenciales, via email only to tmw@tmwlaw.tc. 12879

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VACANCIES InterHealth Canada Construction and Services has pleasure in announcing the following vacancies within the Facilities Management Department at Cheshire Hall & Cockburn Town Medical Centres, Providenciales and Gran Turk.

Portering Team Leader – Providenciales

Responsible for the patient, equipment, waste, medical gases and laundry movement. Cleaning duties also included. Team also working with disaster and emergency response, security support and response to emergency hospital codes.

Housekeeping Supervisor – Providenciales Supports Housekeeping Manager with all personnel related functions in the department including, mentoring, developing, performance managing and disciplinary action as required.

Food Service Assistants Providenciales

Duties to include food service to public and patients, cash handling, basic food

production, cleaning duties, due diligence recording and customer service.

Hospital Porter – Providenciales

Duties include transporting patients and specimens, performing cleaning duties to adhere to cleaning schedules ensuring compliance with hygiene and health safety policies and procedures.

Domestic Assistant – Grand Turk

Performs all cleaning duties associated with a department in order to maintain a clean environment and adhere to cleaning schedules. Staff Complies with hygiene and health & safety policies and procedures. All post has 40 hours per week, 5 shifts per week, shift patterns include weekends, late shift and night shifts. Excellent communications skills, good standards of English and literacy, IT literacy and previous customer service experience are necessary. Belongers only are invited to apply.

Interested candidates please forward your resume to: Dpinnock@interhealthcanada.tc For further information and queries, please contact Donique Pinnock on Tel: 941-2800 Ext 71802. 12903

PASTRY CHEF The Meridian Club is seeking a Pastry Chef. The successful applicant must be creative, experienced and able to make a wide variety of desserts and baked goods, including confectionery work. As our Pastry Chef you will be responsible for the daily preparation of all baked goods and pastriesin, scheduling and production of all baked goods to maintain an inventory of fresh baked goods at all times, assisting the Executive Chef at all stations during service as well as fill in for the Executive Chef on days off and vacation. Some International experience and working with international teams and guests is preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Pastry; • Minimum of 3 years experience in assisting an Executive Chef; • A Degree in Pastry Arts and/or 3 to 5 years of like experience; • Experience in professional cooking; • Effective communication skills with Restaurant staff, management and suppliers; • Possess sound knowledge of food hygiene practices; • Enthusiasm and passion to create excellent product ; • The ability to work well under pressure; • A strong desire to achieve goals & targets; • Flexible work ethic; • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite; • Experience in operating in remote locations; • Must speak fluent English ; • Must be willing to reside on Pine Cay on a full-time basis, 24 hours/day; • Must be skilled in handling all duties specified above. Salary: Commensurate with education, training, and experience Starting Date: Negotiable SEND RESUMES TO: Note: Please respond no later than August 1, 2018. All qualified applicants will be interviewed.

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manager@meridianclub.com

Entertainment

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Elba launches music label

Idris Elba has set up his own label, 7Wallace Music and his first signing is French-Cameroonian artist and Diddy associate James BKS.

IDRIS Elba is no stranger to the music world, having released his own EP, Big Man, in 2006, as well as having an Ibiza DJ residency. Now the Luther actor has decided to throw his weight behind some of his favourite bands. Elba has set up his own label, 7Wallace Music and his first signing is French-Cameroonian artist and Diddy associate James BKS.

The 45-year-old told Billboard: “James is a rare find. His hip-hop sensibilities transfer to the other music he makes, he’s a nice person to work with and is gonna be a strong artist for the future.

“It’s a huge move for 7Wallace, a small indie label.” A small indie label with a millionaire boss, mind. James BKS’ debut single Kwlele is set for release next month. (BBC)

Singer and actress Katharine McPhee, 34, revealed she was engaged to the twice-her-age music producer David Foster, 68, in a series of social media posts on Tuesday.

Foster’s daughter, 35, refers to his new fiancée McPhee, 34, as ‘Mommyyy’ DAVID Foster’s daughter seems to have a good sense of humor about her dad’s new engagement to much younger Katharine McPhee. Erin Foster — who, at 35, is a year old than her dad’s fiancée — wrote “Mommyyy” along with three heart emojis in the comments section of her dad’s latest Instagram photo with McPhee. The music producer’s 37-yearold daughter Sara, meanwhile, commented on the same photo, “Out

of the country. What did I miss.” McPhee, 34, revealed she was engaged to the twice-her-age Foster, 68, in a series of social media posts on Tuesday. Her rep, meanwhile, confirmed to the Daily News that Foster proposed to the former “American Idol” star during a recent European vacation. The duo was first romantically linked last year but remained quiet about their relationship status until recently.

Janet Jackson and her father Joe Jackson during a movie premier several years ago.

Janet Jackson honours late father with Instagram tribute JANET Jackson remembered her late father Joe Jackson with an Instagram photo and thanked her fans for their support during a difficult week. The pop icon shared a picture from her childhood that shows her being held by her dad, who died last week at 89 after a battle with cancer. She simply captioned the image with a heart emoji. Jackson, 52, then addressed her

fans in a subsequent post, which included a video of her sharing her excitement for an upcoming tour. “Thank u for all your love and support,” she wrote in the caption. “Means so much to me during this time.” The Instagram posts mark the first time Jackson, who attended a memorial service for her father on Monday, has publicly addressed his death.

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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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FOR QUICK SALE ONE BRAND NEW WASHER CALL 231-3788

WE ARE OPEN WITH FRESH FLOWERS AT REASONABLE PRICES

CONTACT: 649-946-4894 JEREMIAH MISSICK KEW TOWN Is looking for a

LABOURER Duties: working around construction site clean forms Must be willing to work 5 days per week salary $8.00 per hour

CONTACT: 649-243-0948

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JOHN JOSEPH FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

HOUSEKEEPER 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

CONTACT: 348-7082

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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 DUNCANSON & CO BARRISTERS & ATTORNEYS 16121

DELIVERY BOY

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. Contact the Publisher at tcweeklynews@gmail.com

JOVAR CONSTRUCTION SOUTH DOCK ROAD Is seeking to employ a

KIRKLAND ST. CLAIRE TAYLOR

L.P.S/ YVON PETIT

LAVARD DWIGHT KORNBLUTH

DOMESTIC WORKER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash. Clean windows, door frames, cares for the garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.25 per hour

LABOURER

SALES PERSON

LABOURER

General cleaning for home and office, this includes sweeping, mopping, dusting, ironing and washing Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 344-7416

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12746

KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

CONTACT: 241-2829

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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JACA TCI

Bottle Creek, North Caicos Is seeking 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

PROJECT MANAGER Day to day project monitoring Salary: based on qualifications

CONTACT: 941-8126 Belongers are encouraged to

send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12755

FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Helping customers in making choices by assisting them to locate items, providing info about products they are interested in and must have knowledge of services and products. Salary: $6.25 per hour. From Monday-Friday

CONTACT: 346-6622

All applicants can send their Resume to this Email: yvonpetit@yahoo.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 12706

PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a

Pick up yard waste, collect leaves, clean the yard with sweeper, pick up yard waste and tree limbs, conduct labor work in the yard. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 332-6831

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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JAFOOE LIMITED STORE

SALES CLERK • Minimum 3 Years’ experience working in Cell Phone Sales & Repairs • Customer Service experience • High School Graduate • Must be able to speak English & Spanish • Salary payable $1500.00 per month • Only Belongers need apply • New Position Email all resumes to info@jafooe.com JAFOOE LIMITED, Graceway Plaza, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, TCI 241.1545

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AUDELIN CHARITE

DOMESTIC WORKER

CARETAKER/ DOMESTIC WORKER

GRAND TURK Seeking to employ a

Job Description: The individual is responsible for household chores including cooking, cleaning, laundry, running errands, any other related chores directed by employer, must be willing to work on weekends and holidays if necessary Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-244-2152

Holder is currently on work permit

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FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Assisting with medication goes to doctor appointments with me, goes to the pharmacy to purchase my medications, pick up groceries from supermarket, takes out trash and assist with house cleaning, make the beds, sweeping and mopping the floor and wash dishes. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 346-2311

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AUGUSTE ST. CYR BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH

#250 BAY ROAD, BLUE HILLS, PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking suitable candidates for the following positions:

DOMESTIC WORKER General household cleaning; sweeping dusting and mopping. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 344-5751

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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LABOURER NEEDED

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

JANITOR LABOURER The individual should meet the following requirements: • Be able to work in around church premises • Salary $6.25 per hour • Working hours are 7:00am – 3:00 pm MondaySaturday This position is currently held by a work permit holder. Application can be dropped off at

BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH OFFICE

or email: bethany@tciway.tc, copy all enquiries to the Labour Board, Turks & Caicos Islands Contact: 649-941-5632 12848

Needed for yard work, off-loading container, cleaning windows Monday to Saturday Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 231-1391

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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REQUIRES FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-19

necessary • Basic Requirements: • Ability to engage in physical activities for approximately 8 hours daily • Ability to work well with others in a fast paced non-climate controlled environment • Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to write legibly • Salary: $8.00 per hour for 40 hour workweek.

Please contact Cargo Express Services, in person, at 70 South Dock Road or email application to bkerr@tropical.com Application deadline: July 13, 2018. *Position is currently held by a work permit holder

CHARLIE PALMER

TCI EDUCATION FOUNDATION

CARGO EXPRESS SERVICES LTD

GENERAL DUTIES: • Cleaning and maintenance of the environment & equipment used inside/ outside of warehouse facility • Manual & mechanical movement of dry and chilled cargo from containers to/ from warehouse • Assisting customers with loading/ unloading cargo from/onto vehicles • Assist Port Teams overnight and early mornings at South Dock location when

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• VICE-PRINCIPAL (AND TEACHER OF ICT/ENGLISH) • TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS • SCHOOL LIBRARIAN/TEACHER OF PSHE Suitable candidates must have at least a bachelor’s degree, teaching qualifications, and a minimum of five (5) years’ experience teaching the British National Curriculum and CIE Examination syllabi. Salary starts at $3,200 per month and is commensurate with qualifications, experience, and responsibilities. CV, letter of application, and names of two referees to: THE PRINCIPAL, BRITISH WEST INDIES COLLEGIATE, PO BOX 338, 51 VENETIAN ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES TEL. (+1 649) 232-3331. OR EMAIL: PRINCIPAL@BWIC.TC Current positions held by work permit holders. Suitable candidates will be called for interview. TCI Islanders are invited to send copies of their application to the Immigration Board.

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ADMINISTRATOR/ PERSONAL ASSISTANT To coordinate, oversee and organize from start to finish all events, locally and internationally for A Touch of Love Ministries International Center and its group of affiliated ministries.

REQUIREMENTS:

• • • •

Must be born again, Spirit filled believer. Strong Organizational, Communication and Linguistic skills. Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Must be trustworthy; able to be trusted with highly sensitive and confidential information • Must be able to carry a heavy workload and flexible for sudden travel • Reports to Senior Pastor

SALARY PACKAGE

• $1,500 per month

This position is currently held by a work permit holder. Interested islanders should submit copy of resume to the Board. No phone calls please SEND RESUME TO:

A Touch of Love Ministries International Center Attn: Senior Pastor 1141 Leeward Highway P.O. Box 751, Providenciales, TCI 332-4903 or email info@atolministries.org

12829

HEAD BREWER • Day to day running of brewing and bottling and canning operations • Wine making and alcoholic malt beverages • Developing Quality recipe formulation and ingredients selectionhandling and assessment of raw materials and grains. • Controlling quality of product and keeping the facility and equipment clean and operational. • Equipment maintenance and troubleshooting. • Purchasing of raw products.

SKILLS

• • • •

Strong communications skills. Sound technical knowledge of brewing, winemaking and distilling. Ability to maintain organized records of brew and quality control data. Efficient computer skills.

Salary $50000 or commensurate with experience.

WORK PERMIT RENEWAL PLEASE EMAIL RESUME TO DAVE@TURKSHEADBEER.COM PROVO BEVERAGES INDUSTRIAL PARK, PROVIDENCIALES, TCI

12853

July 7-13, 2018

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CASABLANCA CASINO

COREY’S FUNERAL CHAPEL

GRACE BAY Is looking for the following positions

DICE DEALER- SALARY $10/HR

All candidates should have at least 5-7 years’ experience in the same field, full knowledge of all casino table games and excellent knowledge of Dice table game. Job summary: Carry out specific tasks in the gaming operation to the highest standard efficiency and customer service, in accordance with gaming policies and procedures laid down by the company and gaming laws.

LABOURER KITCHEN HELPERSALARY $8/HR

4-5 years of knowledge and experience working in

LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

the kitchen, excellent physical condition is required. Job summary: Washing dishes and glasses, cleaning, preparation for the bar back up, stock refill, bar beverage stock refill, preparation of food, assist in delivery preparation and stock

LABOURER- SALARY $6.50/HR

Excellent physical strength is required. Job summary: cleaning, cleaning outside of property, loading heavy equipment’s or delivery, drainage cleaning, polish wood materials inside the property, repaint walls Candidate must be willing to work on weekends, night shifts and holidays

Please drop off CV’s at the Casablanca Casino, address to HR or email at: casablancacasino1@gmail.com Tel:941-3737. Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. Positions are held by work permit holders 12842

THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER Taking care of children, washing, cooking and cleaning for children Salary: $150 per week

CONTACT: 343-2261

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12823

G&H ENTERPRISES SOUTH CAICOS Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

• Repair stone walls, some knowledge of basic carpentry • Keeps premises clean and free of shrubs • Stacking of merchandise on shelves, delivery of materials to customers Salary: $200 per week

CONTACT: 231-2402

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12833

DSW INTERNATIONAL

CARETAKER

• General housekeeping duties – cleaning and maintaining interior of all buildings, furnishings, equipment, appliances, and cleaning and maintaining the garage and all areas around the pool equipment. Required to reside on the property. • For a residential property in Providenciales • Basic wage $8 per hour, 6 days a week. Up to 4 ½ hours overtime expected each day. • Belongers only need apply. The position is occupied by a work permit holder.

GORDON ANTHONY PALMER NORTHSIDE, BLUE HILLS

DOMESTIC WORKER

To work 5 days per week Salary $6.25 per hour. Duties: washing, cleaning, ironing

CONTACT: 649-331-2703

Interested applicants can send a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

12857

ISLAND VIEW GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

STORE CLERK This person must be available to work flexible hours up to six days per week. DUTIES 1. Must conduct sales in a courteous and appropriate manner 2. When shopping is complete. Must total the bill, accept the payment and provide the appropriate change and receipt 3. Must maintain a log of all sales SALARY $8.00 PER HOUR. Belongers are encouraged to send resume to the Labour Board.

CONTACT NO. 649-231-9919 EMAIL ADDRESS: wmdforbes@ hotmail.com. THIS POSITION IS

CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK 12859 PERMIT HOLDER

GRACE BAY MEDICAL CENTER/ INTER ISLAND MEDICAL SERVICES

• Minimum of 5 years experience • Diagnose, treat and care for patients using natural healthy process • Promote well being by education patients about health care management • Management of chronic & acute medical conditions • Diagnostics testing (requesting) • Must have post-secondary/ graduate degree or equivalent

REGISTERED MEDICAL

MASSAGE THERAPIST

• Provide massage therapy for injured patients • Minimum of 6 years experience working at a Wellness Center or a similar environment • Post – Secondary degree or equivalent • Knowledge of current trends in a Wellness Center and provide Preventative Care • Therapeutic massages and also assist in assessment of range of motion and muscle strength • Experience in developing and implementing preventative maintenance programs • Extensive knowledge of different style of massages and treatment

Compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications Email: Cynthia.iis@tciway.tc

HELPER

Clean funeral parlors or chapel. Handle caskets, issue and store funeral equipment. Prepare graves and maintain cemetery grounds. Dig gravesite with shovel, position casket. Salary: $6.25 per hour

Duties: Sweep, mop, dust, wash, cleaning of drinking utensils. Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 333-1915

CONTACT: 649-232-7124

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12838

This position is held by a work permit holder Belongers are asked to send resume to the Labor Department 12854

DENISE SMITH BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER General household duties; sweeping, dusting, mopping, washing and ironing. Salary: $150 per week

CONTACT: 341-6493

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board

12824

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS CHAMPIONS FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

MONITOR/TEACHER’S ASSISTANT GENERAL STUDIES TEACHER

MONITOR/TEACHER’S ASSISTANT DUTIES INCLUDE: • To assist the Supervisor/Teacher in the general operation of Learning Center as set out in the Accelerated Christian Education’s Procedure Manual. He/She must be discreet, steady, thorough, peaceful and efficient; consistently and diligently supporting the Supervisor/Teacher in the Learning Center. • Qualifications: • Teacher’s Certificate, plus minimum of 2-3yrs experience • Salary package - $6.25 per hr • General Studies Teacher Qualifications: • Bachelors/Masters degree from reputable institution; Minimum of 5-7 years teaching • experience in primary and/or secondary education. Experience with Christian • education curriculum. REQUIREMENTS: • Qualified applicants for both positions must be a born-again Christian, active in their church, known to their Pastor and believe in the work of the Holy Spirit; Must be of good moral character and reputation; Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt to a flexible working environment; Must be enthusiastic and creative with an excellent work ethic, and a willingness to build character and Christian values in students Please submit resume and three references with telephone numbers and addresses including one from current Pastor. Salary package - $1,500.00 per month

#30 Allegro Road, Neptune Plaza POBox 276 Providenciales, TCI. Tel: 649-941-5252

NATHROPATHIC PHYSICIAN

BLUE HILLS Is looking for a

An affiliate of A Touch of Love Ministries International Center

Please send applications to Savory & Co. karensavory@savory-co.com or fax 946-4848. Applicants who are Islanders are invited to send a copy of their application to the Immigration Board.

12849

DJIMY ANTENOR

DAOUT SENAT LOLOUSE

12851

Positions are held by work permit holder. Interested islanders should submit copy of resume to the Board.

No phone calls Applications should be addressed to: Attn: Executive Board Champions for Christ International School of Excellence 1141 Leeward Highway, P.O. Box 751 Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands, BWI Or you may email: championsforchristtci@gmail.com or Tel. 649-332-4903 Fax: 1-877-580-8743

12830

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS LUXURY CAR WASH AIRPORT ROAD IS LOOKING TO EMPLOY

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE (TCICC)

1 LABORER

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT THE TCICC Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the following position at the TCICC immediately. Registrar The Registrar reports to the Dean, Vice President and the President and is responsible for providing leadership to plan, organize and manage all of the activities related to the records and registration department, including serving as the official authorized keeper of the College’s student records.

LIONEL BARRANCO

1 LABORER

DUTIES: VACCUMING INTERIOR OF CARS. CLEANING THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OF VEHICLES. SALARY $6.25 PER HOUR. MUST WORK 6 DAYS PER WEEK

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

MR. GROUPER RESTAURANT

TAILOR

CASHIER

Sewing, making alterations to dresses, shirts, pants etc. Salary: $8.00 per hour

CONTACT: 342-5450

CONTACT: 649-241-3019

Email: gmx8144@yahoo. com

TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDERS CAN SEND A COPY OF YOUR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT 12847

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12831

WARDS CONSULTANCY

WARD’S CONSULTANCY

Acting on behalf of our client who is seeking the following

• Organize and administer the record, registration and graduation functions, including transcripts evaluation, in order to provide maximum services to students while ensuring efficient and effective work flow. • Supervise the coordination, evaluation and certification of all graduation applications. • Responsible for collecting, recording, maintaining and reporting of student records within the TCICC guidelines, e.g. grades, registration data, transcripts and midterm verification. • Problem solves the research, analysis and resolution of student disputes as they relate to records and registration. • Collaboration with the Dean, Administrators, Faculty and IT personnel to facilitates and improve services to students. • Preparation of statistical reports on educational activities for use by the Board of Governors, the Government and Educational agencies and interprets registration policies to faculty and students. • Dissemination of information on courses offered and procedures students should follow to obtain grade transcripts. • Serve as ex-officio member of Curriculum committee. • Participate in professional development activities and serve on College committees that support the goals and objectives of the college. • Provide back-up for records and registration services, including registering students, issuing transcripts, reporting grades and working special events.

WOOD’S CONTRACTAL SERVICES 1075A Leeward highway, Providenciales. Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

• Perform setup and clean up task at job site • Direct traffic when necessary to ensure safety of pedestrian, motorist and work crew • Climb to heights and conduct work with proper safety restraints Salary: $12.60 per hour

CONTACT: 941-4575, WWW.WCSTCI.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 12827

Acting on behalf of our client Hide Away Grill & Chill Restaurant 16 Turtle Landing, Provo Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER

• Recorded customer’s orders • Monitored orders and ensure they arrived in a quick and in an organized manner • Swept, mopped and kept up with cleaning tasks regularly • Help in the kitchen when needed Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 244-8066

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12828

THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

Taking food orders, receiving cash and giving customers change Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 242-6780

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12834 T & R PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

acting on behalf of our clients is looking to fill the following positions:

ROBINSON CONSTRUCTION NORTH CAICOS

LABOURER

To work around the construction sited. Salary $6.50 per hour

ROBERT JOHNSON

t/a 2017 RED CONSTRUCTION LONG BAY

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

To work around construction site. Salary $6.50 per hour

PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTRY KEW TOWN

UPHOLSTER

Duties: examine furniture, frames, repairing furniture Salary $6.50 per hour This positons are for renewal CONTACT: 649-242-8792 OR EMAIL: TAMERALAMOUNT@HOTMAIL.COM Interested Belongers are asked to send a copy of your resumes to the Labor Department 12860

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES • A working knowledge of Microsoft suites such as Word and Excel. • Strong interpersonal, oral and written communications skills. • Ability to collaborate effectively with other College departments and crossfunctional teams. • Supervisory experience in a people-oriented environment. • A positive attitude and ability to plan and adapt to change.

REGISTERED LAND ORDINANCE, CAP 9.01

At a minimum, the ideal person should have a Bachelor’s degree.

NOTICE LOST LAND CERTIFICATE

Salary is in the scale: US$38,192.00 – $40,378.80 per annum. Entry point will depend on qualifications and experience. In the case of staff recruited from overseas, appointment is on contractual terms for an initial period of two years. A gratuity is payable at the end of satisfactory contractual service at the rate of 10% of salary drawn during the period of service. A housing allowance is payable at existing rates.

TITLE NUMBER SECTION ISLAND 60505/26 BLUE HILLS & STAMERS RUN PROVIDENCIALES

Applications with copies of qualifications (including official transcripts), CV, two character references, a police record and a recent testimonial from current place of employment should reach:

Whereas, STANLEY EUSTACE WILLIAMS of Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands has declared that the Land Certificate for the above mentioned title number (s) registered in the name of STANLEY EUSTACE WILLIAMS was inadvertently mislaid and cannot be found.

THE PRESIDENT, TCI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, P.O. BOX 236, GRAND TURK, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

Take notice that I, Brandie Anderson- Stewart, Registrar of Lands, shall issue a new Land Certificate for the said title six week of the date of the first publication of this Notice in a local newspaper and the Gazette.

not later than 16th July, 2018. Applications may be hand delivered or emailed to:

Dated this 1st day of June, 2018.

TCICOMC@TCIWAY.TC OR PRESIDENT@TCICC.EDU.TC OR DEAN@TCICC.EDU.TC We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only persons selected for interview will be contacted.

DUTIES: CLEANING THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIORS OF VEHICLES,VACCUMING SALARY $6.25 PER HOUR MUST WORK 6 DAYS PER WEEK

MAGIC SCISSOR & PRESSING AIRPORT ROAD Is seeking to employ a

Signed ....................................................................... Registrar of Lands Witnessed ................................................................. 12856

July 7-13, 2018

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OBED N. GARDINER NORTH CAICOS Is looking for a

Each company is looking for suitably qualified persons to fill the following positions:

CLIMATECH LTD

CARPENTER

RCO LTD

REEF RESIDENCE RESORT MANAGEMENT

GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ

STUBBS ROAD, LOWER BIGHT, PROVIDENCIALES IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

– To be held by a work permit holder

DOMESTIC WORKER

To work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour. Duties: cleaning and ironing

CONTACT: 649-241-4838

Applicants are asked to send a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12863

DUTIES: • 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 • Construct building frameworks, including walls, floors, and

Resumes can be email to climatech@tciway.tc and the Labor Department, Providenciales as soon as possible. Contact Greg at 231-4545 12846

SUNNY FOOD RETAIL & WHOLESALE LTD. PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER Salary 6.50 per hour. Please Contact: 649941-8112

12725

JACQUES ROBERT SAMSON KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

JACQUELINE GARLAND GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

DOMESTIC WORKER TO PERFORM HOUSEHOLD CHORES, INCLUDING COOKING, CLEANING, LAUNDRY ETC, ANY OTHER RELEVANT CHORES SALARY $6.25 PER HR

CONTACT #242-2497

Duties: general housework, washing, cooking etc. Applicant must be honest, reliable and hardworking. Salary: $200 per week

POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER

CONTACT: 347-0090

TO PERFORM DUTIES SUCH AS. YARD CLEANING, MENDING FENCES, MINOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS AROUND THE HOUSE SALARY $6.50 PER HR

This position Is currently held by a work permit holder. Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to Labor Department 12862

doorframes • Help erect, level, and install building framework with the aid of rigging hardware and cranes • Inspect and replace damaged framework or other structures and fixtures • Instruct and direct laborers and other construction helpers • Rate $10.00 per hour

NIXON DICKENSON

GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

LABOURER

CONTACT #347-0031

POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER 12841

SAVE MORE/ ELIASU ALI KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

SALES PERSON Cashing customers Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 244-1260

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12843

RONAL SAINVILUS SOUTH DOCK Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER Removing debris from the yard, assist in the renovation of home Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 346-9919

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12836

KITCHEN HELPER

KITCHEN HELPERS

Assists the chefs in food preparation and cleaning the kitchen. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 946-5921 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. Positions are held by work permit holders

12825

Email: info@lupo.tc Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12705

WELDER / FABRICATOR / MACHINIST

Fix beds, cleaning, wash sheets. SALARY: $6.25 PER HOUR

CONTACT: 941-3713 OR 432-1480 VERNE GOODRIDGE

THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER Email: verne@coralgardens.com BELONGERS ARE WELCOME TO SEND A COPY OF RESUME TO THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT 12861

is looking for a

TRAINED PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER with a minimum of ten years’ teaching experience and a teacher's certificate from an accredited institution. Teachers should be able to teach all subjects to any grade level, complete unit and lesson plans, serve on various committees, and complete annual reports. Salary is $2,200 per month. PLEASE APPLY IN WRITING TO RICHHILLPREP@YAHOO.COM

CONTACT: 946-4957

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12837

Tibor’s Machine Shop is looking to fill the following positions:

• • • • •

Must start early and leave late Clean metal works Positive attitude and eager to assist Miscellaneous painting Clean and maintain a clean shop, machines, equipment and any incoming jobs • Assist in repairs/welding/machining when required. • Operate specific equipment in a safe and efficient way per supervisor’s instruction • Able to operate power and hand tools • Provide manual labor assistance on various tasks and assignments Wage starts at $6.25 per hr.

WELDER

• Lay out, fit and fabricate metal components to assemble structural forms using knowledge of welding techniques, metallurgy and engineering components • Operates drill presses, power saws, grinders, metal lathes and a variety of welding equipment and hand tools • Analyze sample parts, blueprints, engineering drawings and specifications to plan welding operations • Remain in a standing position for extended

TCI Iron Works Full time position for a motivated, qualified person capable of working without direct supervision. Must have own reliable transportation and tools, clean police record. Willing to work Saturdays. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: • Ability to maintain and repair conventional • Very good command of English, spoken and machining tools. written. • Knowledge and experience programming • Diploma or certificate from post secondary, CNC machines. accredited institution, in Tool and Die, • Accounting skills to keep basic financial Welding or Machining. records (i.e. invoicing, estimating, • 15 years shop experience in fabricating & purchasing, accounts receivable). machining. • Applicants will be tested for all necessary • 15 years experience with TIG and MIG skills. welding of aluminum, anodized aluminum, • Salary: $15/hour. New Position. Belongers stainless steel and mild steel. only need apply. • Ability to read technical drawings.

HOUSEKEEPER

RICHMOND HILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL

LABOURER

CONTACT: 431-3232

periods of time. • Experienced in SMAW / GMAW / GTAW & oxy-fuel welding / cutting • Must have a valid trade specific certifications with at least 5 years working experience. Wage: Based on applicants experience and qualifications

MECHANIC

• Must be able to diagnose mechanic related problems • Must have theoretical knowledge and practical experience of complete brakes, gasoline and diesel engines, automatic and manual transmissions, steering and suspension components, exhaust and basic electrical. • Must be punctual and willing to work late hours when called upon • Maintain company vehicles, equipment, various machinery & make necessary repairs • Have experience in welding and perform welding tasks • Must have a valid trade specific certifications with at least 5 years working experience. Wage: Based on applicants experience and qualifications

INTERESTED APPLICANTS CAN CONTACT 941-5802/ EMAIL YOUR RESUME TO ancha@tiborsmachineshop.com. Or send resume to the Labour Board. 12858

Please send resume to Twa, Marcelin, Wolf, Attention: erica@tmwlaw.tc

Maintenance, cleaning, gardening

HELP WANTED

LUPO RESTAURANT

Regent Village, Grace Bay Is seeking to employ a

Responsibilities include: keeping the area clean, help prepare the recipes for the food process Salary: $6.25 per hour

LABOURERS

POSITIONS HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS; BELONGERS NEED ONLY APPLY

12382

38 CLASSIFIEDS ADAMS HAIR BRAIDING BEACHES BEACH Is seeking to employ a

ALL STAR AND BAR RESTAURANT

APEX INNOVATION BUILDERS LEEWARD HIGHWAY

GRANTS PLAZA, DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCIALES

CONTACT: 342-3525

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12544

ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY

12707

Braiding Hair. Applicant must be honest, reliable and hardworking Salary: Based on Commission

Long experience, motivate and qualified KITCHEN HELPER ability to speak French, Spanish and English Responsibilities: helping with the processing of foods and recipes, keep the kitchen area and utensils clean, sweeping and mopping the floor on a regular basis and make sure the area where service is provided is sanitized and in proper condition Work from Monday – Saturday including holidays Salary starting $6.25 per hour All applicants can send their resume to ALLSTARSRESTAURANT@ GMAIL.COM OR CONTACT: 649-344-0775

BLESSING DELIVERY SERVICES

CABINETS BY BERNARDO

ORDERING CLERK

LABOURER

CARPENTER Duties: installing structures and fixtures such as windows, molding and doors, measure and cutting wood. Must be able to work 5 days per week salary $12.00 per hour

CONTACT: 649-344-6599

Belongers are asked to forward a copy of your resume to the Labor Department 12865

ELIE JOSAPHAT BLUE HILLS Is looking for a

LEEWARD HIGHWAY

PROVIDENCIALES

KITCHEN HELPER

HAIR BRAIDER

July 7-13, 2018

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

DUTIES: cleaning outside and inside the cabinets, carrying materials to job site for installation, replace necessary materials, offload cabinet materials, clean all equipment necessary for your work, including handsaws, table saws, skill saws, and a variety of drills and sanding tools Salary $6.25 per hour

Duties: order, receive and process incoming orders from Haiti, merchandise, clothing materials, soaps, skin cream, informing customers of receipt, prices, shipping dates, and delays, preparing ordering sheets and handling complaints Must speak French, English, creole and Spanish Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-242-3803

CONTACT: 649-342-1055

Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 12872

Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12874

CLEANER Duties: clean home and office, iron, wash. Must be able to work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-232-7124

This position is for work permit renewal. Belongers can forward a copy of your resume to the Labor Department 12877

WEST SIDE INVESTMENTS LTD LONG BAY, PROVIDENCIALES

WILLIAM CATERING SERVICES

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT MANAGER

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS: • +10 years of experience in Management • Must be fluent in English, French and Spanish • Need to work well under stress to meet tight deadline • Normal working hours are from 9h00 to 17h00, Monday through Saturday. Work schedule may vary depending on clients’ needs. Must be available to work weekends, nights and holidays • Must have strong problem solving skills, leadership and be assertive in challenging situations

WAITRESS

To be held by a work permit holder DUTIES • Providing excellent customer service • Presenting menus to customers • Explaining menu items to customers • Answering questions from patrons about food and beverages • Sharing information with customers about the status of their orders • Finding out if customers need additional items • Verifying that customers are satisfied with their orders • Taking food and drink orders • Entering each item ordered into restaurant register system • Accepting payment for the meal Rate $ 6.50 per hour

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Responsible for responding to and fielding

QUALIFIED BELONGER CANDIDATES SHOULD SEND THEIR APPLICATION TO WESTSIDEINVESTMENTLTD@GMAIL.COM OR CALL 649-432-3450 Deadline: July 20th, 2018. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12864

DELUXE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING SERVICES

THE LODGINGS

Is seeking the following on behalf of their clients:

VILLA HOUSEKEEPER To be held by work permit holder

DELUXE MAINTENANCE AND CONTRACTING SERVICES:

DUTIES: • Answer immediately to request from guests, as well as from other departments • Load cart with supplies such as linens and move it to the required area • Enter guest rooms by adhering to proper procedures and ensure they are vacant • Replace used amenities in guest rooms • Provide clean linens and terry for dirty ones • Fold towels, make beds, and ensure bathrooms are clean • Take away, room service items, dirty linen, and trash • Perform check on all room appliances to ensure they are in good working condition • Adjust furniture, desk items, and appliances when necessary • Dust furnishings and walls and remove marks from them • Carry out floor care duties in hallway and guest rooms, and mop floor • Adhere to all safety, security, and company procedures and policies • Keep proprietary information confidential • Ensure company standards are followed in welcoming and acknowledging all guests • Expect service needs of guests and provide them even before called upon to do so • Apply professional language in communicating with guests and other people • Provide support to team to achieve common goals Rate $6.50-$9.10 per hour

Contact 946-4726 Resumes can be faxed to 941-3425 and the Labor Department, Providenciales as soon as possible.

telephone calls, relaying messages to the appropriate departments and handling incoming communications such as email and formal letters. • Responsible for compiling reports, dealing with difficult clients and situations, drafting letters and anticipating business needs • Update management on all operations achievements and key issues, as well as participating in resolutions • Manage employees from different departments and assist management with labor requirements and communications Weekly salary of $500.00 or commensurate with experience.

LABOURERS CONSTRUCTION HELPER STEEL MAN MASON PAINTER ELECTRICIAN

CONTRACT: 649 8876

TEONA SPA Grace Bay, Providenciales Seeking

SPA THERAPIST

DELUXE ENTERTAINMENT:

REQUIREMENTS: • Must have at least 3-5 years working experience as a therapist • Aesthetician - massage therapist full training • Required to work weekends, holidays and extraordinary hours

DELUXE ENTERPRISES:

Salary: • $7.00 per hour plus commission Only Belongers need to apply

ENTERTAINER

DOMESTIC WORKER 12845

$6.26 - 8.00 per hour Employee may be required to work weekends and holidays. Only Belongers need to apply

Salary ranges from:

CONTACT – 649 231-5051

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

12876

July 7-13, 2018

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

GLOBAL ADVOCATE SOLUTIONS is acting on behalf to its clients in compliance with section 28 of the Immigration Ordinance:

MARIE-CARMEL PREDESTIN

Leeward Highway, Providenciales, TCI Email: mcarmelpredistin@yahoo. com

Contact: (649) 241-2926

NANNY Salary/Wages: $6.25 per hour

Responsibilities/Duties: • Working in partnership with parenting responsibilities for the safety and development of the child • Child Laundry • Cleanliness of equipment, toys and room, while ensuring meals are prepared efficiently to the required diet 12869

SIMEON HAMILTON GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

GLOBAL ADVOCATE SOLUTIONS

CONTACT: 244-0440 Belongers are encouraged to

send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12734

FRANTZ GORDON LOUIS

is acting on behalf to its clients in compliance with section 28 of the Immigration Ordinance:

Kew Town, Providenciales, TCI Contact: (649) 344-7374

ENOS NATHANIEL GARDINER

LIVENIE ELLIS/L. P CONTRACTOR

DOMESTIC WORKER/ HOUSEKEEPER

1726 Leeward Highway, Providenciales, TCI Email: Bonefishprovo@tciway.tc Contact: (649) 231-0133

DOMESTIC WORKER/ HOUSEKEEPER

Salary/Wages: $250 per week RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES: • General House Cleaning • Laundry cleaning inclusive of ironing and folding These positions are currently held by a Work Permit Holders. Belongers are invited to submit their application to the Labour Board, Ministry of Boarder Control 12867

KAREN FORBES

of Breezy Brae Grand Turk is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

The individual is responsible for cleaning and beautifying property, minor maintenance and repairs, see all trash goes to dump. Must be willing to work on weekends and holidays of necessary. Salary: $6.50 per hour

GLOBAL ADVOCATE SOLUTIONS

is acting on behalf to its clients in compliance with section 28 of the Immigration Ordinance:

Complex Center, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, TCI Contact: (649) 345-8326

PAINTER

Salary/Wages: $7.00 per hour Responsibilities/Duties: • Painting of exterior and Interior of buildings using spray guns, brushes and rollers for residential and commercial clientele • Arranging and storing paint supplies, tools and equipments • Prepare and clean painting materials after work • Ensuring company vehicle is clean at the end of each work day These positions are currently held by a Work Permit Holders. Belongers are invited to submit their application to the Labour Board, Ministry of Boarder Control 12868

Salary/Wages: $250.00 per week Responsibilities/Duties: • General House Cleaning • Preparation of meals • Laundry cleaning inclusive of ironing and folding These positions are currently held by a Work Permit Holders. Belongers are invited to submit their application to the Labour Board, Ministry of Boarder Control 12870

TECHNOPHONE

OUTTEN ENTERTAINMENT

MORRIS PLAZA, AIRPORT ROAD Is looking for a long experience, committed and qualified

KEW TOWN

GUTROOF MANFACTURING INDUSTRIAL PARK

WELDER

DUTIES: prepare metal materials, roll from metal roofing panels, cut and bend trim flashing, assist onsite team leader in grid, installation of metal roofing panels, installation of finishing trim flashing Salary $9.00 per hour

CONTACT: 649-432-3945

This position is for work permit renewal. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12871

MARJ CRAFTS THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN

BABY SITTER

to work Mon - Wed from 2-5:30pm. Salary is $6.25 per hour. Interested persons may

CONTACT 231-2029.

Belongers are encouraged to send copies of application to Employment Services Department. This post is curreby my filled by a work permit holder 12877

Responsibilities: repairing and upgrading a variety of electronic equipment, computers, tv, cellphone and radio receiver etc. and providing mobile services to customers at their home when requested. Work hours are Monday – Saturday including holidays Salary starts: $7.00 per hour ALL INTERESTED APPLICANTS CAN SEND THEIR RESUME TO EDWADTITI8888@GMAIL.COM ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY

12708

NOTICE REGULATION 7 OF THE PHYSICAL PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION) REGULATIONS, 2014 An Application, REGISTERED PR 13554, by Devon Kyle Cox For the development of Multi-Unit Residence has been submitted to the Department of Planning for consideration of Development Permission on 61113/261, Long Bay Hills on Providenciales. The application as submitted seeks planning consideration for a Two (2) Story Main Dwelling comprised of Two (2) 3-Bedroom Units, One (1) 1-Bedroom, One (1) Caretaker’s Suite. 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-eight (28) days of publication of this Notice.

Dated Posted: 27 June 2018 12791

L.P.S./ YVON PEITIT FIVE CAYS

SALES PERSON

DUTIES: ability to speak French/ Spanish and English, work unsupervised, must have great computer skills, customer friendly and willing to work long hours and holidays as required, normal working hours are between 8:30am – 6:30pm MondaySaturday, selling products to customers and engage their interest to buy the goods, master the art of selling products and services, properly organize many sales events and keep inventory of merchandise on display ad general stock Salary $6.25 per hour

All interested applicants can send their resume to email: yvonpetit@yahoo.com

Position is held by a work permit holder BELONGERS ONLY NEED APPLY

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MARIE NICOLE PORTER FONTAINE

FIVE CAYS, SOUTH DOCK ROAD Seeks to employ: Hardworking, trustworthy and experienced

DOMESTIC WORKER

EVENT HELPER Duties: lifting of equipment, breaking down and putting up of equipment. To work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

LABOURER

Duties: To help around the shop. To work 5 days per week. Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-243-5791 OR EMAIL: ROOSIEOUTTEN@ HOTMAIL.COM

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of your resume to the Labor Department 12874

CONTACT: 649-242-6174

Interested Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

12866

Responsibilities: to clean the property and taking car of 3 children, required to work full-time employment, must be willing to work late/flexible hours. Demonstrate ability to work unsupervised. Must have good communication skills in both English and French This position is held by a work permit holder Salary $6.25 per hour

ALL APPLICANTS CAN CONTACT: 649-242-2220 ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY

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PLANT SUPERVISOR • • • •

• • • • • • •

Minimum 15 yrs experience in Commercial Laundry industry. Post-Secondary education in Business Management or related. Minimum 12 yrs Laundry Management experience. Responsible to create and oversee all Company operations to include; efficient and organized production, staffing, training, scheduling, client communications, customer service, inventory, linen quality control, Department budgets, health & safety protocol. Knowledgeable with all related equipment; washers, tunnel, press, dryers by Jensen, Lavatec, Chicago, Uni-Mac, Cissell, Ipso and order parts online and track parts inventory. Must set high standards and be both a team leader and builder. Available to manage different work shifts as required, including nights. Must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Must have exceptional computer skills, manage all Linen specific programs (Laundry Trak & Linen Master) and be proficient in Excel. Must be fluent in English. Starting Base Salary $45,000

CONTACT: 432-1797

Qualified applicants should email CV to info@pioneertci.com or deliver to Pioneer office in Grace Bay facility. Please fax/deliver copy to TCI Labour Office: 649-946-4164

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LABOURER

Clean the store every morning, loading and unloading of goods, maintain safety in the packaging area, off-loading container, pick, pick, receive and restock products. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 331-7188

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

A & P CONSTRUCTION PROVIDENCIALES

LABOURER

MAINTENANCE MAN

LABOURER Care for the gardens, plant trees on properties, water plants including soil cultivation, digging, forking, mulching, raking, weeding, edging, seed sowing bed preparation and planting transporting garbage of properties. Salary $6.25 per hour. Must be able to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 649-347-8726

CONTACT: 331-1787

CONTACT: 331-5034 Belongers are encouraged to

CONTACT: 649-432-5677

DEOMARDO CLARE

CONTACT: 946-7133

MAINTENANCE MAN

To service, clean the building attentively by sweeping and scrubbing, vacuuming and mopping. Repairs equipment, bathroom, repair broken furniture, ensure all service requests are completed on a daily basis. Salary: $6.25 per hour

EUSTAVE MUSGROVE

LABOURER

AFFINITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES GRACE BAY

MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY Is looking for a

LABOURER

Duties: cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames, care for the garden on a daily basis. Salary $6.25. Must be willing to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 649-348-1197

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12710

send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12759

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to The Labor Department

DAVIS CONSTRUCTION

CHRISTOPHER FORBES

BLACK BOY AND JEAN TRUCKING

AIRPORT ROAD, KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER Cleaning and removing debris from construction site Salary: $7.00 per hour

12773

FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning the store which includes, sweeping, mopping and dusting. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 246-5137

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12734

CONTACT: 346-7367

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12764

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

SOUTH DOCK ROAD 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 the garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.25 per hour

DRIVER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

FREDERICK BAIN

FLEURIDOR MOTORS LTD FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

SALES PERSON

ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN

KEW TOWN Is looking for a

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12756

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

DOMESTIC WORKER

BERNADETTE BENJAMIN

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12768

GASPA NACIUS

Taking care of the baby and clean the house, mop, clean bedroom, wash and iron the baby clothes. Salary: $6.25 per hour

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12767

CONTACT: 241-3631

GEORGE EWING

CARETAKER

CONTACT: 241-1227

CONTACT: 345-5113

GLEN A. WILLIAMS

Cleaning and removing debris from construction site Salary: $7.00 per hour Flamingo Variety Store

MAID

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, making beds, clean bathrooms, toilers, kitchen, living rooms are, dusting, polishing, furniture, wash and iron for the family. Salary: $6.25 per hour

EMAIL: JR-1-DAVIS@ HOTMAIL.COM

CONTACT: 232-5420

This position is for work permit renewal. Belongers are asked to submit a copy of their resumes to the Labor Department 12769

Front Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Cooking, Cleaning, Washing and Ironing. Salary: $6.25 per hour. Must be willing to work 6 days per week

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12745

AIRPORT ROAD Blue Sky Constructions

ALCICA DUVERNA

Transport and dump louse materials, such as sand, gravel, crushed rock, transport and dump garbage and trashes. Salary: $7.00 per hour

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12760

LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

12765

To clean all areas within the yard in Caicos, cleans exterior and gutters, repair outdoor structures, trim down the trees, sweeping and removing debris from outside, manually moving and transporting garbage from the yard, water the plants. Salary: $6.25 per hour

ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION

LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

Duties: remove rubble, dirt, and hazardous waste from construction site, performed post-construction site cleanup and executed building cleaning activities, operated cleaning equipment and utilized cleaning materials. Salary $6.25 per hour

Must be willing to work 5 days per week. Belongers are asked to submit a copy of their resumes to the Labor Department 12774

NORTH CAICOS Is seeking to employ a

ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION

NANNY

Duties: care for children, maintain the house clean, wash dishes, clean bedroom, bathroom, wash and iron Salary $6.25 per hour Must be able to work 5 days per week

CONTACT: 649-346-4760

This position is for work permit renewal. Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12771

HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL KEW TOWN Is accepting applications for the position of

ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION AND SUBJECT AREA TEACHERS REQUIREMENTS: • The employer requires the employee to be a missionary Roman Catholic Teacher • The employer requires the employee to be a fully initiated Roman Catholic in good standing • The employee is required to have documented experience in the area of teaching the Roman Catholic Religion • The employee must have full knowledge of the United States National Curriculum Standards • Education and experience • Associate or Bachelor’s Degree holders will be considered • Salary package $800 per month for twelve months, paid as a compensation package • This is for work permit renewal • Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board

For more information and resume submission contact: Fr. Orlando Gonzalez, Phone:649-941-5136, Email: holyfamilytci@gmail.com 12751

CONTACT: 341-3682

12762

7IM MOTORS

MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

July 7-13, 2018

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

Responsibilities include; Helping customers in making choices and assisting them. Providing info about products they are interested in and must have knowledge of services and products Salary: $6.25 per hour

DOMESTIC WORKER General house cleaning which includes, sweeping, moping and dusting. Cooking, Ironing and washing. Salary: $150 per week

His responsibilities to include fixing and repairing a variety of electronic materials, TC, computers and phones. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 241-7341

Interested persons may send their Resume to this email address: shellande. autoparts@gmail.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

CONTACT: 241-7341

CONTACT: 431-1634

Interested person may send their Resume to this email address: shellande.autoparts@gmail.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 12701

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder.

12750

12702

DREADZ BEAUTY SALON

IBO PLAZA, LEEWARD HIGHWAY DREADZ is now accepting application/ resume for the following position. Only highly self-driven and motivated, personable and professional individuals, whom have the desire to serve others, need apply: SKILLED POSITION COSMETOLOGIST JOB PURPOSE: Performs daily duties that serve customers, including haircuts, manicures, pedicures, and any service the customer requires. Initiates new ideas based on current fashions and trends. COSMETOLOGIST JOB DUTIES: • Performs haircuts based on the desires and needs of the clients • Performs manicures and pedicures • Performs any waxing procedures based on client specifications • Offers advice to client based o he latest trends and designer fashions • Performs hair dyes • Provides various beauty consultation services to clients

COSMETOLOGIST

• Schedules individuals for large scale events such as proms, wedding and formal events • Performs hair shampooing • Recommends beauty products for future beauty care needs • Sells products that a salon maintains as a business partner • Acts courteous upon meeting new clients • Maintains a safe work environment to maintain compliance with governmental business regulations • Performs personal care transformations for clients, including spa service treatments • Upsells clients to ensure return business • Follow up with clients after beauty procedures • Acquires knowledge of latest beauty car

trends and styles • Provides follow up advice to professionals • Schedules appointments with self and other beauticians or cosmetologists COSMETOLOGIST SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS: Cosmetology Training, Hair cutting and styling, manicures, pedicures, massages, problem solving, scheduling, interpersonal communication, excellent oral and written communication skills, basic computational skills, facial makeup application training, high school diploma or equivalent educational experience, innovative hair styling and beauty treatment techniques, some previous salon experience desirable Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-332-2182

Belonger are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

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July 7-13, 2018

CLASSIFIEDS 41

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

INTERIOR DESIGNER

• Must have a Bachelor Degree • Full design services from concept to working • Good design solutions with decorating to landscaping • Salary negotiable • Must be willing to work six days per week

MANAGER

• Must have a bachelor degree • Must be responsible for store location and direct all activities in coordination with General

Manager • Establishes sales and profitability goals, manages proper fleet levels, responsible for the effective leadership branch employees and drives a safety first culture. Plans and establishes systems to best Customer Services at the branch • Salary negotiable Must be willing to work six days per week BELONGERS ONLY NEED APPLY APPLICATIONS MAY BE HAND DELIVERED TO THE ADDRESS BELOW

LEEWARD HIGHWAY, PROVIDENCIALES & GRAND TURK TELEPHONE: (649) 331-6020, (649) 231-4101, (649) 339-4663 FAX: 941-8155, EMAIL: INFO@KBHOMECENTER.COM 11352

FIV CAYS (OLD FIVE CAYS ELECTRONICS) SEEKS TO HIRE AN EXPERIENCE, COMMITTED AND QUALIFIED

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Repairing and upgrading all of the electronics devices: computers, TV, cellphones, radio receivers etc., providing mobile services to customers when requested working hour are from Monday – Saturday salary $7.00 per hour. Successful applicants must have excellent customer service skills and be able to speak French, Creole, English

CONTACT: 649-241-7341

Position held by a work permit holder. All applicants can send their resume to: shellande.autoparts@gmail.com Belongers only apply

FLEURIDOR MOTORS LTD. FIV CAYS (OLD FIVE CAYS ELECTRONICS) SEEKS TO HIRE AN EXPERIENCE, COMMITTED AND QUALIFIED

SALES PERSON

Position held by a work permit holder All applicants can send their resume to: shellande.autoparts@gmail.com Belongers only apply

BELONGERS ONLY NEED APPLY. SEND APPLICATIONS TO KAREN@FOODFORTHOUGHTTCI.COM. ISLANDERS CAN SEND A COPY OF THEIR APPLICATION TO THE IMMIGRATION BOARD.12888

JEAN CLAUDE TIRESIAS BLUE HILLS

CHALK SOUND DRIVE

OPERATIONS & MARKETING MANAGER

Assist with the day to day operations of Breakfast Programme and Food Bank Programme - manage all inventory and purchasing food orders and merchandise, coordinating interviews and promotion, organizing and assisting events, food bank collections and deliveries. Part-time five days a week plus attending meetings and events held on evenings and weekends. $2,000/month Must have 5+ years' experience in merchandise planning, purchasing, inventory management, experience working/ volunteering for non-profit organization, driver’s license and use of a vehicle.

CONTACT: 649-241-7341

LAS BRISAS RESTAURANT

FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOUNDATION

Individual is required to work unsupervised. Must have great computer skills, customer friendly and willing to work extended hours and holidays as required. Normal working hours are between 8:30am-6:30pm Monday – Saturday (hours varies) salary $6.25 per hour. Successful applicants must have excellent customer service skills and be able to speak French, Creole, English. Duties: engage the customers interests to convince them to buy the goods, master the art of selling products and services. Properly organize and keep inventory of merchandise on display and general stock.

12701

JOB VACANCIES

FLEURIDOR MOTORS LTD.

12702

ANANDA LTD/ KB HOME CENTER

FRANK JEAN

ISLAND PURE WATER GRAND TURK /PART TIME

BLUE HILLS

IS LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED

COOK MUST BE ABLE TO COOK AND PREPARE VARIOUS CUISINES. THIS POSITION IS FOR WORK PERMIT RENEWAL. SALARY $400.00 PEER WEEK

LABOURER

CONTACT: RACHEL 649-946-5306 OR EMAIL: AIP007@AOL.COM QUALIFIED BELONGERS ARE ASKED TO SUBMIT APPLICATION WITH RESUME TO THE TURKS AND CAICOS LABOR DEPARTMENT

LUPO RESTAURANT

REGENT VILLAGE, GRAE BAY

KITCHEN HELPER

Ability to speak, French, Spanish, English Duties include: help the food process and the recipes, keep the kitchen area and utensils clean, sweep and mop the floors and make sure the area where service is provided is well sanitized, in proper condition.

CONTACT: 649-431-3232

Work from Monday- Saturday including holidays. Salary starting at $6.25 per hour. All interested applicants can send their resumes to info@lupo.tc This positon is held by a work permit holder. Belongers only need apply 12905

MANVALLA MISSICK LONG BAY Is seeking to employ a

12884

NEW STYLE SALON & BOUTIQUE KEW TOWN PROVIDENCIALES

2 HAIR STYLISTS

LABOURER

DUTIES: • Light janitorial work • Yard cleaning • Maintenance of apartment complex Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 242-9241

This position is currently held by a work permit holder. Belongers are encourage to forward a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 12894

Duties: wash, perm, braid, color and style hair. Must be willing to work 5 days per week. Salary $6.25

12895

LABOURER

AIR CONDITIONING MECHANIC

AC TECHNICIAN

Duties: Cleaning outside the property, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames, care for the garden on a daily basis Must be willing to work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-242-2989

Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 12892

PLEASE APPLY AT NCC@TCIWAY. TC OR CONTACT 946 7437

Belongers are encourage to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 12889

CONTACT: 649-245-3160

BOX 223 GRAND TURK

Belongers are asked to submit resume to Turks & Caicos Labor Department 12898

Deadline August 3, 2018 Belongers are asked to forward their resume to the Labor Department 12901

CONTACT: 649-346-7174

Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 12891

NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE WINDSOR PLACE

(THE LRAYE CINEMA AND ADJACENT TWO BUILDINGS)

CONTACT: 649-331-8154

Belongers are asked to forward a copy of your resume to the Turks & Caicos Labor Department

ROCK DB COOLING SERVICES

* An experience Air Conditioning Mechanic and a carpenter required for full time work at North Caicos * Must be willing to work 6 days a week * Must have 10 years' experience sizing and construction duct work and installing servicing complete central air conditioning systems * Must be proficient in MS Excel for Inventory purposes * Must demonstrate ability to work unsupervised with excellent communication skills is essential for the position. * salary is $12.00 per hour

needed Salary $7.25 per hour Must read/write English Submit resume to:

Must be able to work with Acrylic, put on and soaking off of nails, design and polish Must be able to work 5 days per week. Salary $6.25 per hour

NORTH CAICOS CONTRACTING NORTH CAICOS

Duties: helping clean up job site, lifting, minor repairs Salary $6.75 per hour

Duties: cleaning, restocking shelves, helping around shop. Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

1 NAIL TECHNICIAN

NICHOLAS LIVISTON WATKINS NEW AIRPORT ROAD

LABOURER/ DRIVER

DOMESTIC WORKER

WOODLE WAY, BLUE HILLS

Duties: repairing and upgrading of all equipments and providing mobile services to customers at their home when requested. Applicant must have a valid driver’s license and a clean police record. Working hours are from Monday – Saturday including holidays. Salary starts $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 649-242-4236 All interested applicants can send their resume to this email: ronacharles11@ gmail.com Only Belongers need apply

12703

EAST HARBOUR NOMINEES LTD. as Chargee, pursuant to the Registered Land Ordinance HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that it will cause to be sold by public auction the scheduled property at the offices of SAUNDERS & CO., 23 Parade Avenue, Second Floor, Providenciales at 10:00 am on Friday, 27th July 2018. SCHEDULE WINDSOR PLACE, located at 895 Leeward Highway, just 735 feet West of Graceway IGA, accessible from the Westbound lane. The property accommodates three buildings. Two two-story buildings comprise sixteen (16) rental units, twelve of which are approximately 600 sq ft (20’x30’) and four are approximately 750 sq ft (20’x30’ + 10’x15’). The third building is a structure of approximately 8,895 sq ft (45’x195’ + 12 x 10), formerly the LRAYE CINEMA, with multiple movie theatres, film rooms, offices, a storage room, a central court, and washrooms. All buildings total approximately 18,795 sq ft. The buildings are located on 60718/7, Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales, which is a 1.2 acre parcel. Auction terms may be secured in advance from Saunders & Co., 23 Parade Avenue, Providenciales, for the attention of The Loans Department, at info@saunders.tc. Full particulars of the property may also be secured by qualified purchasers, including a recent copy of the register of title, an abstract from the block plan, planning approval for the buildings, certificate of fitness for occupancy, and plans. The auction will be subject to a reserve, so serious enquiries only. The information provided herein is intended only as a general guide, and interested purchasers are required to independently investigate title and confirm all information and important particulars of the property. E&OE.

MAGIC SCISSORS AND PRESSING AIRPORT ROAD Is seeking to employ a

CLEANER

Sweeping the tailor shop throughout the day, mopping the floor and clean customer bathroom and assist the tailors when needed. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 342-9259

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12777

July 7-13, 2018

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS MARINA RIGBY

MANPOWER SERVICES

KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ

INDUSTRIAL PARK Is seeking to employ a

2 AIR-CONDITIONING TECHNICIANS

JOB SUMMARY • Electrical Diagnostics, installations and repairs, air-conditioning and refrigeration systems. • Necessary qualifications and experience required • Minimum of 10 years’ experience in similar position Salary: $10 per hour

3 LABOURERS Cleaning the yard, watering the garden Salary: $6.25 per hour

HELPER

• Assist the AC Technicians, cleans debris from the yard and plant trees. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 241-4976

All interested applicants should submit resume contact information to manpower-services@hotmail.com Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. These positions are held by work permit holders 12742

CONTACT: 341-5121

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12787

PUMP ATTENDANT $7.00per hour 649-941-3390

mervco.acc@gmail.com 12782

PAUL MCARTHUR DICKENSON MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY Is looking for a

LABOURER

Duties: cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames, care for the garden on a daily basis. Must be willing to work 5 days per week Salary $6.25

CONTACT: 649-241-9551

This position is for work permit renewal. Belongers are asked to submit a copy of their resumes to the Labor Department 12770

SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES, SOUTH CAICOS

SERVICES BY EA GRACE BAY VILLAGE

GARDENES/ LABORERS NEEDED Applicant must be able to wok outdoors preforming manual and physical laborer. They must be able to operate a jackhammer, lawn mower and chainsaw. They will be asked to dig holes, mix and spread topsoil/ cow manure and plant. They must be able to speak and communicate in English. Starting salary $6.50 per hour and may be required to work on weekends and holidays if needed.

Interested applicants including islanders/ Belongers can send applications to Services by EA by email: mary@eagrouptci.com. Successful applicants will be notified by phone for interview. This position is currently held by work permit holders.

MERVCO

12686

SEVERAL OPENINGS:

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LECTURERS, MARINE OPERATIONS COORDINATOR, SITE MANGER, AND CENTER DIRECTOR Job Summaries and Qualifications: Lecturer and Center Director – PhD required; Student Affairs Manager – Minimum BS degree required (Masters preferred), Dive Master certification; Marine Operations Coordinator – Coordinates all scuba activities, BS degree and PADI Instructor Cert required, Captains License; Site Manager – BS degree (Masters preferred) and Divemaster Cert (PADI preferred) required All positions required to live on-site, minimum Open Water Scuba Diver unless otherwise stated, prior experience living/working at a field station and boat handling is preferred.

To Apply: Please send your CV to HHERTLER@FIELDSTUDIES.ORG by July 15, 2018. Start Date: September 2018

12726

SERVICES BY EA

PROVO STEVEDORING LTD.

GRACE BAY VILLAGE

is seeking to employ a

IRRIGATION TECHNICIAN

HEAVY EQUIPMENT DIESEL MECHANIC With the knowledge of the standard • Skilled in the use of a variety of hand tools. practices, materials, tools and • Skilled in the use of gas and equipment used in the repair and maintenance of heavy equipment electric welding equipment. and engines. • Skilled in the use of mechanized tool, jacks and hoists. • Skilled in the use of a variety RESPONSIBILITIES of diagnostic testing and tuning • Applicant will be expected to perform Preventative equipment. Maintenance, correct defects, • Ability to diagnose mechanical, electrical and hydraulic prepare equipment for work daily malfunctions. and make possible field calls. • Ability to read manuals and schematics. QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum 5 years’ heavy • Ability to rebuild engines and major driveline components. equipment mechanic experience • Ability to enter information in • Clean Police Record fleet maintenance management • Valid Driver’s License software. SKILLS • Knowledge of safety issues in COMPENSATION the use of tools, equipment and • $40K ~ $50K supplies used in the repair of POSITION TYPE motorized vehicles and heavy • Full-Time equipment.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Coordinating, assigning and reviewing the work of assigned maintenance personnel • Review work orders and schedule personnel and equipment in accordance with job requirements • Prepare and maintain maintenance logs of work performed • Plan and recommend materials needed for work projects; order approved supplies and materials; keep time sheets; assist with budgeting; complete written records of work performed; material/ labor estimates • Direct, train and evaluate subordinate personnel. Build and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, and other contractors’ employees using principles of good customer service. QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS • Applicants must have knowledge of the installation and operation of irrigation systems and components • Knowledge of work methods, tools, equipment and materials

used to maintain and repair irrigation systems • Extensive knowledge of electronically controlled irrigation systems and programming functions, including drip irrigation systems • Applicants must be able to read construction drawings, blueprints., plans and specifications, while maintaining clear records of the installation and maintenance of irrigation systems • Applicants must have a strong skill set with the ability to diagnose and troubleshoot irrigation problems, pumping system problems and remove and install pumps. He or she must also be able to install and replace faulty valves and solenoids and repair piping of all types. • Safely operate and maintain a variety of related tools, power, and agricultural related equipment • Trade Certificate Required • Applicants must be willing to work outdoors with irregular hours including weekends and holidays. Starting salary is approximately $8.00 per hour

Interested applicants including islanders/ Belonger can send applications to Services by EA by email to: mary@eagrouptci. com. Successful applicants will be notified by phone or interview. This position is currently held by work permit holders

12684

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SERVICES BY EA

GRACE BAY VILLAGE, PROVIDENCIALES

NURSERY COORDINATOR • Minimum five years’ experience in operations/ coordination role • Excellent English and written skills • Comprehensive experience using QuickBooks for financial accounting, generation of financial reports and analysis • Adept at managing accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll transaction • Experience dealing with high-end clients

• Willing to work outdoors and irregular hours including weekends and holidays if needed • Understanding of plants in indigenous Environmental application • Preferable a Bachelor of Business Administration Finance and or Bachelor of Science • Salary $3,200 per month commensurate with education and experience.

INTERESTED APPLICANTS INCLUDING ISLANDERS/BELONGER CAN SEND APPLICATIONS TO SERVICES BY EA BY EMAIL TO MARY@EAGROUPTCI.COM. SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY PHONE OR INTERVIEW. THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS.

Please submit applications to main office at

Provo Stevedoring Ltd., Port Authorities Building, South Dock Port, Providenciales TCI.

Belongers are encourage to send a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

12754

12780

July 7-13, 2018

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

PROVO STEVEDORING SOUTH DOCK ROAD Is seeking to employ a

STEVEDORE

RENOL PHILOXENE THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER

Loading and off-loading of ship safely and effectively Salary: $6.50 per hour

Taking care of children, cooking and cleaning for children. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 941-8975

CONTACT: 346-8047

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12779

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12752

ROCK AB COOLING SERVICES BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

SEFERINA LOECADIO COOPER KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

AC TECHNICIAN Responsibilities include; Repair AC equipment and conducting mobile services on request of customers. Salary: $7.00 per hour

CONTACT: 242-4236 EMAIL: RONACHARLES11@ GMAIL.COM

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. Only Belongers need to apply

12703

DOMESTIC WORKER

General House cleaning which includes; Washing, ironing, sweeping and mopping. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 348-0099

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12749

DOMESTIC WORKER Gladisha Cox is seeking to hire a cleaner to work 5 days a week. Salary $6.25 per hour

Interested applicants should have a clean police record and submit their resume with qualifications and experience to: info@saunders.tc and the T.C. I Employment Services and Labour Department

12724

JAFOOE LIMITED ELECTRONICS

REPAIR TECHNICIAN NEEDED

12789

• Minimum 5 Years’ experience repairing Electronics & Cell phones • Diagnose and repair Electronics & Cell Phones • Experienced in Micro Soldering & Reballing • Certified in Electronics Repair • Must be able to read Schematics • Salary payable is $8.00 to $10.00 per hour • Only Belongers need apply • New Position Email all applications to info@jafooe.com JAFOOE LIMITED, Graceway Plaza, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, TCI 241.1545

PROVO STEVEDORING LTD.

EQUIPMENT & MAINTENANCE MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION In charge of management of company’s equipment and maintenance operations. Schedules and prioritizes equipment repairs and maintenance. Oversees multiple maintenance mechanics, establishes productivity goals and tracks progress of work. • Oversees maintenance and repair of equipment, both in Ports of Providenciales and Grand Turk • Ensures that all equipment is completely inspected at least once a year, certified and is calibrated based on the manufacturer’s recommendations or government standard. • Reviews employee training to ensure a skilled mechanic workforce. • Establishes and monitors preventative maintenance schedule on equipment. • Establishes service schedules on equipment for warranty compliance. • Supports on the job projects including identifying all sources of equipment maintenance, fueling, repair and spare parts. • Establishes productivity expectations and tracks the production and activity of the mechanic workforce. • Manages the inbound and outbound inspection process. • Ensures the ready status of idle equipment. • Participates in the equipment evaluation process to determine buy/sell needs. • Develops and maintains files on all equipment for historical data. • Maintains a positive working relationship with other divisions of the company. MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES • Effectively trains, coaches, disciplines and develops employees to achieve and maintain positive working relationships within the maintenance crew • Achieves desired results through effective leadership and appropriate influence while adhering to established policies and procedures. • Supervises maintenance staff. • Reviews, verifies and approves maintenance mechanics time sheets on a daily basis. • Obtains and authorizes OT, shift work, or offhour work assigned to mechanics. • Maintains current contact information for persons under his direction. • Determines methods and course of action to achieve departmental and organizational goals through effective planning and efficient performance of the department.

• Strives for innovation within the department. ADDITIONAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: • Models and reinforces safety as a top priority of the organization. • Meets schedules and deadlines, adheres to policies and procedures and maintains a good attendance/tardiness record. • Exercises good interpersonal skills by gladly assisting others to accomplish work of the organization, even if it is outside the scope of regular duties. • Performs other duties as assigned by the General Manager. REQUIREMENTS • Minimum of high school degree and computer skills in excel, word, etc. • Minimum of 5 to 10 years managing heavy equipment (preferably lattice boom cranes) and trucks. • Strong heavy equipment electrical/electronic background. • Must be in good health to meet the demands of physically challenging work. • Must be available for emergency calls and be able to work at nights and weekends. • Must submit a clean driver’s license • Must submit a clean police record • Must be able to speak fluent English language TECHNICAL & MENTAL SKILLS • Reads, analyzes and interprets complex documents. (Electric schematics, drawings) • Responds effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints. • Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts and draws valid conclusions. • Recognizes and maintains confidentiality of information. • Organizes and manages time, duties and activities efficiently. • Ability to enter data and understand various computer programs. • Ability to analyze data for evaluation of equipment efficiencies. COMPENSATION • $52K - $62K POSITION TYPE • Full-Time

Please submit applications to main office at Provo Stevedoring Ltd., Port Authorities Building, South Dock Port, Providenciales 12753

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SIMON D. TAYLOR

SERVICES BY EA GRACE BAY VILLAGE

IRRIGATION LANDSCAPE TECHNICAL COODINATOR JOB SUMMARY:

• The successful applicant will be expected to be able to assemble, draft, edit and review irrigation and landscape quotes and technical documents.

QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS:

• Communicate scheduling changes and relevant infrastructure shifts to affected staff • Provide technical support to other departments, including internet searches, materials sourcing and quality assurance

• Coordinate and track project 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 • BS Certificate preferable, minimum qualification HNC • Salary approximately $400-$450 per week on experience and qualification.

Interested applicants including islanders/ Belonger can send applications to

Services by EA by email to: mary@eagrouptci.com. Successful applicants will be notified by phone or interview. This position is currently held by work permit holders12685

GOLF CLUB 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 the garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.25 per hour

• Must be will and able to work in diverse temperature environments including coolers and freezers that reach temperatures up to -10 Fahrenheit or -23 Celsius. • Must be willing to work extended hours including nights, weekends and holidays. • Must have financial management experience in a food service operation. • Higher education such as some college or university and formal culinary training is preferred.

EMAIL:SUNNY@SUNNYFOODSTCI.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. 12736

TCI PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS SERVICES

CONTACT: 231-6065

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12761

ARNOLD GARDINER Salary: $6.50 per hour Address: North Caicos Renewal

TEL (649)241-7878

BEST PRICE SELLER TCI DOWNTOWN Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER (BUILDING, ROOFS, CABINET, ETC.) TEL (649345-6174

LABOURER (YARD & HOUSE MAINTENANCE)

JOSEPH O. CAZI

DOMESTIC WORKER (HOUSE CLEANING, LAUNDRY, COOK Salary: $6.25 per hour Renewal:

TEL: 345-3216

THAI ORCHID RESTAURANT

Regent Village, Grace Bay Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER Receiving and cashing out of customers, assisting customers to items they want to purchase. Salary: $250 per week

CONTACT: 344-3970

EMAIL: OCHMAN2K@ GMAIL.COM

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12799

SERVER

Taking orders, serving food and drinks in a timely manner. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 231-0561

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

Must be able to perform body work and spray painting on cars and trucks. Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 242-1076

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12537

12687

Office Cleaning, which includes sweeping, dusting and mopping. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 232-1957

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12757

LEEWARD HIGHWAY

ELEVATOR TECHNICIAN Must have at least 10 years of experience in elevator installation, repair and troubleshooting with Otis, Kone, ECC, and Jrt Controller, must be capable of reading and understanding factor level. Must be self-motivated, punctual and able to work autonomously, must be willing to work after hours, holidays and weekends. Salary $20.00 per hour APPLICANT SHOULD SEND RESUMES TO:

TCIELEVATOR@HOTMAIL.COM DEADLINE IS JULY 10TH, 2018

Qualified Turks & Caicos Islanders preferred. This position is for work permit renewal. Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 12839

CAR CLEANER

DUTIES: applying soap to clean the outside of the rental vehicles, scrapping loose dirt, cleaning tires, rinsing with hose, drying, dusting, vacuuming the interiors, removing trash, cleaning seats, and polishing interiors and exteriors of vehicles. Salary $6.25 per hour. Must be able to work 5 days per week. This position is for work permit renewal

CONTACT: 649-333-5034

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12772

TCI ELEVATOR SERVICES LTD.

TCI WASTE DISPOSAL

Requires a Certified

LABOURER

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

Must have at least 10 years of experience in elevator installation, repair and troubleshooting with Otis, Kone, ECC, and Jrt Controller with at least 10 years’ experience at supervisory level, making budget, knowledge of QuickBooks Payroll, must speak English and French, must be willing to meet clients and present sales pitch, must be willing to work after hours, holidays and weekends. Salary $30.00 per hour Applicant must demonstrate skill level applicants should send resumes to: tcielevator@hotmail.com deadline is July 10th, 2018. This position is for work permit renewal Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department. 12839

TEFM LTD IS

Collecting garbage from various locations. Cleans spills from floor of collecting area. Clean garbage containers, load up truck, scrub dust, oil and grease from garbage truck every afternoon.. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 333-5034

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12775

TECHNOPHONE GLASS SHACK Is seeking to employ a

LOOKING FOR A

PRIVATE CHEF for private villas on Providenciales:

THE QUALIFIED APPLICANT MUST POSSESS; • At least 20 years of expertise • A minimum of 14yrs in high-end exclusive restaurants • Candidates must have ordering control, cost awareness and program knowledge • Must possess food handling certificates

LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

TC AUTO AND SALES

ELEVATOR SUPERVISOR

BLAZE CONTRACTING

Salary: $10 per hour Address: Juba Sound, Provo, TC I Renewal

TEL: 344-2402/345-5705

DOMESTIC WORKER

Providenciales

Send all resumes to Email:tciprobusiness@gmail.com/ Tel: (649)241-7878/Address: Spot Plaza, Airport Road, Providenciales, TCI

Salary: $ 10 per hour Employer’s: South Dock Road Renewal

BODY WORKER

Providenciales Requires a Certified

THAI ASIAN CHEF

CARPENTER (BUILDING, ROOFS, CABINETS ETC…)

TAG SECURITY SERVICES

Marcian Sturrup Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

HANDYMAN

Is now seeking to employ a:

REASA SHERELLA LOUIS

STURRUP CONSTRUCTION

TCI ELEVATOR SERVICES LTD.

Sunny Foods - Wholesale & Cash N Carry Ltd

• Job Requirements: • Must have minimum 5 years experience as a Chef preparing, cooking and presenting Asian / Thai Cuisine. • Must have experience in purchasing such products through cost efficient supply channels. • Must have a minimum of 5 years experience managing employees in a fast paced kitchen environment. • Must be experienced in the area of food safety and quality control.

July 7-13, 2018

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

• Must have the ability to work full days, weekends and holidays • Must have a clean drivers license and own car • Must be proficient in both Windows and Apple based programs • Must be fluent in English both reading and writing • Must have knowledge in Kosher

and Halal cooking methods • Must be well versed in both classical and modern cooking techniques and practices Salary is $9.75 per hour Works hours are minimum eight (8) hours per day The applicant will have to work on shift

Applicant must be willing to work holidays and weekend *essential*

Qualified Turks and Caicos Islanders must submit applications for this position to the Labour Board and to the office of: c/o Dempsey and Company, 1 Caribbean Place, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, Telephone # 649 946 4344, Email: info@dempseyandcompany.com before 8th July, 2018. This position is currently being held by a Work Permit holder.

12788

SALES PERSON

Cashing out the customer, as well as assisting customers with products and carry out other duties requested by management. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 333-0888

EMAIL: EDUARDTIRI88@ GMAIL.COM Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12700

July 7-13, 2018

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

PEOPLE’S CHOICE SUPER STORE

is seeking to employ the following individual:

CASHIER To work in local convenient store as a cashing agent. Applicant must be able to speak English, Creole and Spanish and work abnormal hours. Please send interests to email:

tadderley@icloud.com or call (649) 241-4678. Salary $9.00 per hour 12635

DONOVAN FULFORD OF GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

SUPERVISOR

DOMESTIC WORKER Duties Include: Cleaning, Washing and Ironing. Salary is $6.50 per hour,

CONTACT 242-0626

The Position is currently held by a work permit holder

12791

THE PINNACLE GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ

LABOURERS

Housekeeping, cleaning common area, moving furniture, setting up and removing of beach chairs and umbrellas. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 941-7366

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12741

• Supervising the bar • Inventory check • To make sure daily operations runs smoothly Must be willing to work 6 days per week Salary: $10 per hour

CONTACT: 946-8877

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12800

TOYOTA CONSTRUCTION Kew Town Is seeking to employ

3 LABOURERS Salary: $7.00 per hour

SHANDA RESTAURANT

3 WAITRESSES

Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 341-5121

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. These positions are currently held by work permit holders. 12709

2 - LABORERS AND/ OR GARDENERS TO WORK 5 DAYS A WEEK INCLUDING SOME WEEKENDS.

DUTIES INCLUDE: weeding, pruning and taking care of landscaping, making sure that property grounds always look presentable and acceptable. Successful candidate/s should also be available to work on landscaping contracts that the company acquires. Salary $8.50 per hour Please send interests to email:

gardenscapetci@gmail.com or call (649) 246-3602 12734

WISE SOLUTIONS LTD.

DOMESTIC WORKER REQUIRED

999 Leeward Highway, unit 2, Providenciales Telephone: 231-7080, Email:dclarke@ precisionbuilderstci.com

CARPENTER

salary $14.00 per hour • Must have at least 20 years experience working on high-end projects • Must be able to interpret construction and fabrication drawings • Extensive knowledge and work experience with exotic woods such as Teak, Ipe, Mahogany, Balau, Kapur, Bankirai • Fabrication and Installation of Windows, doors, flooring & cabinetry

GLASS SHACK Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER Cares for my children,

maintain the house, clean, wash dishes, clean bathroom, bedroom, wash and iron. Salary: $6.25 per hour

WINKEY’S CATERING

WALKER CONSTRUCTION LTD

GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

CLEANER

Cleaning outside the bar and the inside, dusting, moping, vacuuming, cleaning the ceiling vents, cleaning the restrooms, carry out heavy cleaning tasks, replace tissue from the restrooms. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 241-0426

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder

12784

• Must be willing to work on holidays/ weekend as needed CRUST BAKERY Grace Bay court, Grace Bay, Providenciales Phone: 432-6266, Email: gillian.crust@gmail. com

BAKER

• Prepare and make breads goods/cookies • Clean kitchen, takeout garbage • Must be willing to work on weekends/ holidays • Must have a clean TI police record and a driver’s license • Salary $6.25-$8.00 per hour

All positions are currently held by a work permit holder or application being made for a work permit. Qualified Belongers may apply or send resume to Labour Department. 12674

JUSTO LANDSCAPING

59 Bird Rock Street, Long Bay Road, Providenciales, TCI Contact: (649) 232-3037 Seeking:

GARDENER

Salary/Wages: $1,600.00 per month RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES: • General Landscaping • Manicuring of Lawns • Cleaning of Gardens • Ensuring Garden equipment are in good working conditions These positions are currently held by a Work Permit Holders. Belongers are invited to submit their application to the Labour Board, Ministry of Boarder Control. 12795

DISHWASHER

CONTACT: 244-4398

STEELMAN

Job description: to perform measurements and tying of steel

CARPENTER

Job description: To perform all carpentry work on windows, doors and any other duties as assigned

5 LABOURERS

Job description: to perform all duties assigned by helping with the construction work 1 DOMESTIC WORKER Job Description: to perform all cleaning and housing. Salary for Labourers at $7 per hour. Salary for skilled workers commensurate with experience The contact number is Pat 241-9355/ 231-0360 WORK PERMIT HOLDERS 12692

Must have over twelve (12) years experience master licence for 450 tug/barge

CONTACT: 941-5707

work days: Monday - Saturday. Salary: starting salary $2,000.00. This position is for work permit renewal. Turks & Caicos Islanders are asked to submit a copy of resume to the Labor Department

12790

HELPER

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12805

TILER

Job description: to perform laying of tiles and its set up design arrangements

ONE (1) TUG/ BARGE CAPTAIN

CLEANER

CONTACT: 649-346-2311

ELECTRICIAN

Job description: to perform all electrical installation

20 Honour Lane Downtown Providenciales Seeks the following person:

LEA EDWIN ASTWOOD

Duties: pressure washing the dump trucks to remove dust and salt water to prevent rusting, scrapping loose dirt, cleaning tires, rinsing with hose, dusting and vacuuming the interiors, clean the yard Salary $6.25 per hour

Job description: to perform plastering and block laying of building

LEW 1 SHIPPING LTD

JV’S TRUCKING SERVICES SOUTH DOCK ROAD

Is looking for the following:MASON

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12776

Global Advocate Solutions is acting on behalf to its clients in compliance with section 28 of the Immigration Ordinance:

Clean outside the store, clean store every morning, cleans customers bathroom, replace toilet tissue in customer bathroom, assist the cashier when needed Salary $6.25 per hour

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12804

Email all resumes to info@jafooe.com Wise Solutions Ltd., Graceway Plaza, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, TCI 241.1545 12792

GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12763

Minimum 2 Years House Keeping Experience. Must be able to Clean Houses and Living Spaces. Must be able to work Days, Nights, Weekends and holidays as scheduled. Must be able to speak English & Spanish. Salary payable $7.00 per hour. Only Belongers need apply. New Position

TROPICAL BAR

EASY SHOP

FIVE CAYS & KEW TOWN

CONTACT: 649-244-4857

CONTACT: 244-9767

Cleans dishes, kitchen, food preparation equipment, or utensils. Wash dishes, glassware, flatware, pots, or pans using dishwashers or by hand. Maintain kitchen work area, equipment or utensils in clean and orderly condition. Salary: $6.25 per hour

The Help Desk acting on behalf of our clients is looking to fill the following positions:

PRECISION BUILDERS TCI LTD

WINSTON QUELCH

GARDENSCAPE TCI

is seeking to hire the following persons:

THE CONCH SHACK

CLASSIFIEDS 45

GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

SALARY $6.50 PER HR JOB DESCRIPTION THE INDIVIDUAL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MATTERS INCLUDING HELPING AROUND THE HOME AS WELL AS THE STORE. ANY OTHER RELATED CHORES DIRECTED BY EMPLOYER. MUST BE WILLING TO WORK ON WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS IF NECESSARY.

PLEASE CALL #247-7447

HOLDER IS CURRENTLY ON WORK PERMIT 12793

MICHELLE SWANN

CONTACT NUMBER: 231-4429 Email: michelle.l.h.swann@ gmail.com

HELPER

in the home for Description: Work at cleaning of home and other locations and other miscellaneous work when needed. Belongers can summit a copy of their resume to labour board's office. Work permit renewal.

12792

46 CLASSIFIEDS ANTONIO JAMEL CLARKE

BERYL KERR

GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER General cleaning which includes sweeping, dusting, mopping, washing and ironing Salary: $6.25 per hour

HANDYMAN Cleaning of premises interior and exterior. Nurturing of vegetation. Daily care of dogs and light household cleaning Salary: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 343-4473

12802

CONTACT: 243-0880

July 7-13, 2018

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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 12822

DSW INTERNATIONAL

CARETAKER General housekeeping duties – cleaning and maintaining interior of all buildings, furnishings, equipment, appliances, and cleaning and maintaining the garage and all areas around the pool equipment. Required to reside on the property. For a residential property in Providenciales Basic wage $8 per hour, 6 days a week. Up to 4 ½ hours overtime expected each day. Belongers only need apply. The position is occupied by a work permit holder.

Please send applications to Savory & Co. karensavory-co.com or fax 946-4848. Applicants who are Islanders are invited to send a copy of their application to the Immigration Board.

"Prudhoe Caribbean" is the trading name of Tim Prudhoe as business licensee #14774 in the Turks & Caicos Islands (licence category "attorney"). PRUDHOE CARIBBEAN SEEKING PART-TIME

EDVARD JEAN

CLEANER Duties: sweeping and remove debris from outside, manually moving and transport garbage from the yard clean the yard trim down the trees in the yard, clean the vehicles, water plants. Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-241-0452

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department

12809

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)

PRE-SCHOOL

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

12795

COME TO SEE VARIETY STORE FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

BETTY HIGGS

KITCHEN HELPER

DRIVER

DOMESTIC WORKER

AIRPORT ROAD Is seeking to employ a

Assists the chef in the preparation of food Salary: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 331-0720

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12798 JASON FRANCIS/ URBAN CONSTRUCTION LEEWARD PALMS Is seeking to employ a

MASON Repairs, alters and fixes buildings, lays bricks, mixes mortar Salary: $10.50 per hour

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

PRIMARY SCHOOL

CONTACT: 242-7957

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12728

DELICIOUS DISHES

CONTACT: 231-0018

PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION

• Cut trees • Clean debris from yard • Assists Mason and Carpenter • Must be honest, reliable and hardworking Salary: $6.25 per hour

America. Spanish language skills also useful. • Clean driving record and own transport required. Previous experience would be a distinct advantage but is not essential for a candidate with the necessary enthusiasm, work ethic and ambition. • Only Turks & Caicos Islanders or others with existing freedom from immigration restrictions will be considered for this position.

This is a new position. Applications to jobs@prudhoecaribbean.com or in hard copy to P.O. Box 1525 at Regent Village with a copy to the Labour Department.

MILLENNIM HIGHWAY

LONG BAY Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

• EA required to work in Prudhoe Caribbean, a law firm, 8am-noon (or similar hours) MonThurs. • Responsibilities will be varied and will include scheduling meetings and appointments, managing diaries and travel as well as some office management duties and other on-island tasks. • Must be ready to learn the processes of court registries across the Caribbean Region and English-speaking parts of Central

SAMBO CONSTRUCTION

12801

Load and unload customer cargo or merchandises, deliver order goods to clients house, stowing goods in storage, receive return goods, drops invoices, collect payments and clean the delivery truck every afternoon. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 342-1262

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12815

SAMENTA R. PARKER WHEELAND, BLUE HILLS PROVIDENCIALES

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

General cleaning which includes, sweeping, dusting, mopping, washing and ironing Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 243-4020

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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EXOTIC HAIR & NAIL CREATION BLUE HILLS

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

CONTACT: 649-245-5725

CONTACT: 649-342-2222

Duties: general housework, cleaning washing, ironing, Applicant must be honest and hardworking Salary 46.25 per hour

Belongers are encourage to apply by sending resume to the Turks & Caicos Labor Department

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DUTIES: clean all areas within the property including inside the barber shop, he sterilizes the tools, and he takes out trash, wipes the chairs, clean windows Salary $6.25 per hour

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12806

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. Applications are also required for the post of Domestic Work at a rate of $6.25 per hour.

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 1st August, 2018 to:

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

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The Help Desk act on behalf of its clients JENDERLY'S SALON

Morris Plaza, Airport Road, Providenciales Telephone: 244-5191

NAIL TECHNICIAN

Salary 50 % of each job • Provide feet and nail care, artificial nails, polish etc. • Clean equipment & tools • Assist around the salon as needed

UNITED LEARNING CENTER MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY

DOMESTIC WORKER

TRIPPLE "S"STANLEY LANDY

Duties: sweeping the classrooms, mopping the floor, dust and wipe all furniture, clean the bathrooms, clean outdoor windows and door frames, empty waste baskets and transport thm to waste disposal outside, clean office Must be willing to work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

Behind Glass Shack, Providenciales Phone: 333-0209

DOMESTIC WORKER

Salary$6.25 • General house chores (cleaning, ironing etc.) • Salary $6.25

CONTACT: 242-4551

POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS. QUALIFIED BELONGERS MAY APPLY TO LABOUR DEPARTMENT.

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JOSEPH OSWALD CAZI BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

General cleaning which includes, cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 345-3216

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board 12812

LEOCADIO GARCIA JIMENEZ

JV’S TRUCKING SERVICES

KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

SOUTH DOCK ROAD Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

DRIVER

Transports and dump loose materials, such as sand, gravel, crushed Rock. Transport and dump garbage and trashes. Salary: $9.00 per hour

Clean, wash, iron and cook. Salary: $275 per week

CONTACT: 342-2803

CONTACT: 3462311 OR 242-6889

EMAIL: ACHARITECABINET@ YAHOO.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

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12758

PUBLIC NOTICE 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 HOWARD BOXX by virtue of marriage to a Belonger.

MARIE C. PIERRE LOUIS WILLIAMS FIVE CAYS

CARETAKER/ DOMESTIC WORKER

Duties: assisting with medication, going to doctor appointments, go to pharmacy to purchase my medications, refill medications, pick up groceries rom supermarket, takes out trash and assist with house cleaning, make up beds, sweeping and mopping the floor, wash dishes. Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-345-1963

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Gathered and removed rubble, dirt and hazardous waste from construction site. Operated cleaning equipment’s and utilized cleaning materials, swept and vacuumed building floors and wash interior, polish all floors and wipe windows Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 333-5034

Acting on behalf of our clients who are seeking the following GRANTS CONSTRUCTION

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning of interior and exterior each day Salary: $6.25 per hour Denise Elmerich

LABOURER

Watering plants, cleaning yard, grooming and cutting of trees. This position is held by a work permit holder Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 241-2043

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder 12816

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 12813

SYDENY M. DEAN

STEVEN JOSEPH HEGEWALD

STANLEY LIGHTBOURNE

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FIVE CAYS

CARETAKER

DUTIES: assisting with medication, going to doctor appointment, go to pharmacy for refill, take trash out, pick up groceries from the market Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 331-7110

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12807

VENETIAN ROAD Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

General cleaning which includes, sweeping, dusting, mopping, washing and ironing Salary: $1000 per month

CONTACT: 232-2128 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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GLASS SHACK

LABOURER DUTIES: cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose o trash, clean windows, door frames, cares for the garden on a daily basis. Salary $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 649-232-2367

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Qualified Belongers are asked to forward a copy of their resume to The Labor Department 12808

TURKS & CAICOS AIRWAYS HANDLING

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

JOHN FREEMAN

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

ROBERTS AGENCY

PROVOTECH

We are currently seeking to fill the following positions within our organization:

CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT REQUIREMENT:

PUBLIC NOTICE BELONGER STATUS APPLICATION (Section 3 (5) of the Immigration Ordinance)

• Provide exceptional friendly customer service to, and maintains positive relationships with all customers • High school diploma, GED or equivalent education • Must be at least 18 years of age • Valid passport, clean police record and able to travel internationally

DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Providing high level of service to customers • Check passengers in using a computer base system • Processing of passenger tickets, boarding cards, itineraries, compute fares, issue refund • Provide information about the company products and services • Process claims for lost or damaged baggage • Liaison with Customs, Immigration and all other airport authorities when necessary • Loading of passengers, cargo, baggage and the collection of excess in accordance with tariff rules and aircraft load plan • Respond to customer complaints Starting salary: $8.50 per hour (This position is currently held by a work permit holder)

Please submit your resume to our offices upstairs Town Centre Mall, Providenciales or email us at denise@tcahandling.com Tel:649-941-5353 Fax 649-941-5781. Or submit resume to Labour Immigration BoardProvidenciales Only persons who are committed and serious about working need apply.

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THE ATRIUM RESORT

SALOMON SHOP FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Located in Leeward, Providenciales has an immediate opening for a qualified Belonger to fill the position of

ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN Or an Understudy. This position is currently held by a work permit holder. The successful candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience in a Resort environment and is expected to possess the experience and skills to conduct the following: • Maintain all aspects of electrical and electronics vital to the operations of the resort • Ability to understand and read blueprints, instruction manuals, and follow electrical diagrams • Rough in and install 3 phase high voltage and low voltage lines including installation of electrical panels, plugs, switches, lights, fans and any electrical devices • Ability to program and maintain fire alarm systems (NFPA 72 certificate is essential) • Maintenance of diesel generator, transfer switch, fire pump and related emergency circuits • Automization and controls for pumps and motors • Understand functionality principals of electrical meters and collect readings from electrical and water meters • Collect, analyze, and summarize data and trends of the resort’s technologies • Installation, maintenance and repairs of elevators, CCTV & security systems, electronic safes, locks, card access system, appliances (fridge, stove, dishwasher, microwave, washer/dryer), in-room electronics, satellite TV equipment, VOIP equipment, Internet/local area networks (including Cisco POE smart switches, Linksys routers, POE devices and RJ-45 connectors) • Consistently update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organizations • Be available to attend to any emergency calls 24/7 Salary for this position is $4,100.00.

Marsha Blanche; email: marsha@misickstanbrook.tc; tel.: 946-4732

LIFE GUARDS:

• Must have training in CPR and First

CONTACT: 242-5459

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board This position is currently held by a work permit holder12732

MICHAEL BASDEN GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

Waterloo Plaza, Grand Turk

3 FINISHING CARPENTERS Olympic Construction is looking for 3 (Three) experienced, skilled individuals to fill the roles of Finishing Carpenters on a full-time basis. Salary $7.50 per hour

CONTACT 946 - 1278 Both positions are for the Grand Turk location

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THOMAS & HYACINTH SWANN / R & R MINI MART GRAND TURK

Is Seeking to Employ :

1 STORE SUPERVISOR Salary $ 7.50 Per Hour

LABOURER Salary: $6.25 per hour

1 LABOURER Salary $ 6.25 per hour

PLEASE CALL 332-1022 12713

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

responder. • Assisting in line handling for docking cruise ships as needed • Ensure the safety and security of passengers, tenants and their employees, personnel and guest at the GTCC. • Job related experience with increasing levels of responsibility

MARGARITAVILLE GRAND TURK CURRENTLY SEEKS TO EMPLOY THE FOLLOWING PERSONS:

GENERAL MAINTENANCE:

This position requires experience in general maintenance skills such as building, painting and masonry, to facilitate maintenance of all buildings and public areas in optimum condition. • Knowledge of plumbing and/or masonry would be an asset. • Knowledge of landscaping • Assisting in any various tasks, necessary to keep GTCC operating to the highest standard.

Applicants must be willing to work nights, weekends and holidays. Must be able to lift minimum of 50lbs, have a strong command of English Language (oral and written); and able to work well as part of a culturally diverse team. WAGES BASED ON QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE. Interested parties are encouraged to contact Ms. Wilson at Grand Turk Cruise Center office Phone: 649- 946-1040 /649-332-1304 E-Mail: admin@grandturkcc.com ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY

Clean the store every morning, loading and unloading of goods, assisted other personnel as needed to maintain safety in the packaging area, pick, pack, receive and restock products and unload containers. Salary: $6.25 per hour

This position is currently Held by a work permit holder 12722

Grand Turk Cruise Center is currently accepting applications for motivated Turks Islanders interested in the following positions listed:

Required Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in accounting/finance from an accredited university. • Minimum of 3 years work experience in Accounting. • Accounts Payable / Receivable. • Strict adherence to confidentiality and trustworthiness will be a requirement of this position. • Strong organizational skills and ability to meet tight month-end deadlines. • Possess strong knowledge of accounting software and excel. • Ability to work independently and a willingness to work extended hours, including weekends and public holidays.

LABOURER

CONTACT 231-4714

For consideration, please submit current resume with Belonger status and two (2) reference letters to:

ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT:

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ENTERTAINMENT SUPERVISOR DINING ROOM & RESTAURANT CAPTAINS SERVERS/WAITERS HOSTS/ HOSTESSES HOUSEKEEPERS, BUSSERS & RUNNERS BAR MANAGER BARTENDERS BARBACKS STEWARD KITCHEN HELPERS COOKS ASSISTANT COOKS STORE CLERKS COST CONTROL CLERK ACCOUNTS SUPERVISOR Persons must have a good command of the English Language and be able to work long hours, holidays and weekends. Submit applications accompanied by a resume to the Human Resource Department at

nrobinson@margaritavillecaribbean.com or by faxing to 649-946-1514. APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON 13TH JULY 2018 Whilst we thank every applicant for their interest in Margaritaville Grand Turk, only short-listed persons will be contacted. Only applications from Belongers will be accepted. 12747

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LIVE-IN CAREGIVER NEEDED for a sick elderly man. Six days per week at $1250 per month. Must be able to take care and lift as needed. Belongers only need apply.

CONTACT: 348-7244

Serious enquiries only12712

MARIE E. HIGGS & MURETTE SAINT LOUIS THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER

Cashing out customers, help stock shelves, assist customers when needed and any other duties request by management Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 342-0621

Email: murettejeanlouis@ gmail.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 12699

SHARKBITE BAR AND GRILL TURTLE COVE Is seeking to employ a

KITCHEN HELPER

Washing dishes, cleaning kitchen, removing trash, must be able to cook a wide variety of food. Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 941-5091 EMAIL: BISTROSHANNON@ YAHOO.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

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SHAVONDA WILLIAMS GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

GAS STATION ATTENDANT Salary $6.50 per hour

CONTACT 348-2815

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JOB VACANCY NOTICE

BY THE TCI INTEGRITY COMMISSION

The Turks and Caicos Islands Integrity Commission invites applications from suitably qualified individuals to the following position which will soon be vacant within the Commission.

Senior Compliance Officer (post to be based in Grand Turk or Providenciales)

PURPOSE AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

(a) To have oversight of the day-to-day management of the Compliance Unit of the Integrity Commission; (a) To manage, supervise and assist personnel of his/her Unit in ensuring that the Commission effectively and efficiently discharges its mandate as anti-corruption agency and institution protecting good governance, through: • the promotion of integrity, honesty and good faith in public life of the TCI; • the robust implementation of and compliance with the provisions of the Integrity Commission Ordinance, Political Activities Ordinance, Bribery Ordinance, the Code of Conduct for Persons in Public Life, and the Constitution to the extent relevant to the Commission. (b) To develop measures, including compliance policies, manuals and strategies aimed at strengthening the Integrity Commission’s ethical standards and anti-corruption efforts.

OTHER KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, TO:

• manage the intake and secure storage of declarations and statements of registrable interests; • provide oversight of and lead in the reviews and examinations of declarations for compliance, ensuring completeness, accuracy, consistency and validity of information for purposes of issuance of Compliance of Certificate; • provide oversight of and lead in the review and examination of statements of registrable interests for compliance, ensuring completeness, accuracy, consistency and validity of information for purposes of compiling and maintaining the Register of Interests; • manage the execution of full audits on declarations and statements of registrable interests to determine if there is evidence of possible corruption, falsehoods or fraudulent representations; • manage the examination of the practices and procedures of public bodies in order to facilitate the discovery of corrupt practices; • assist public bodies in developing robust policy and strategy to fight corruption and install integrity in their operations, including in the setting of ethics and compliance standards; • instruct, advise and assist the management of public bodies to put in place changes in practices or procedures necessary to prevent or reduce the occurrence of corrupt acts; • refine and improve on the current compliance policies and procedures and develop position papers on related issues; • provide ethics advice and information in relation to the Code of Conduct and conflict of interests matters; • design and implement training, communication and outreach strategy for “specified persons in public life”; • assist in other areas of work in the Commission as it becomes necessary;

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• a Master’s degree or equivalent in Accounting, Auditing, Law or similar. • a minimum of ten years’ experience in auditing, organizational ethics and compliance reviews, including at least 5 years at a senior managerial level; • Professional certifications including a CCEP, CIA, CFE are highly desirable; • overseas work experience (ideally in the Overseas Territories), experience of working closely with other cultures and/or experience working with public services in small Islands states; • a strong track record of achievement in compliance and related work.

COMPETENCIES AND OTHER DESIRABLE QUALITIES INCLUDE:

• possess and demonstrate the highest standards of integrity, probity and understanding of fiduciary responsibilities to the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands; • experience in administering a financial disclosure programme; • knowledgeable of current “best practices” in ethics and compliance programs, policies and procedures; • knowledge and understanding of global anti-corruption and good governance laws and regulations and ethical codes; • proven knowledge of public sector anti-corruption issues, policies and practices; • excellent understanding of financial instruments and transactions including banking instruments, investment vehicles and instruments, cash flows, corporate structures, partnership arrangements, and similar; • good knowledge of investigative strategies, principles and methods; • ability and experience in conducting interviews, eliciting relevant information and dealing with a wide range of stakeholders; • good analytic and evaluation skills to identify procedural or compliance weaknesses, and strong problem-solving ability; • be able to provide guidance on compliance and financial disclosure issues; • excellent interpersonal skills and oral and written communication and presentation skills • ability to manage and review large volumes of data, as well as experience and skill in reviewing documentation to identify relevant evidence; • demonstrates understanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality and awareness of how to handle and maintain documents of evidentiary value; • excellent IT competence, particularly in the use of spreadsheets, and the ability to drill down into computerised data to discover hidden information; • conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; • the ability to work under pressure and independently, as well as collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; • The applicant will particularly demonstrate suitability for a role that involves driving forward good governance, integrity and anti- corruption messages in the sensitive political and fragile financial, milieu of a small Overseas Territory.

REMUNERATION

• Salary is $78,000 per annum(circa) but negotiable depending on qualification and experience • Specific requirement for TCI Integrity Commission Ordinance • The successful candidate to this post will be required to file with the Governor, a Declaration of Income, Assets & Liabilities pursuant to section 39 of the Integrity Commission Ordinance.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Applicants are requested to submit their CV together with an accompanying letter demonstrating why they would wish to work with the Commission and what particular attributes they would bring to its work. Certified copies of qualifications as well as the names and letters of two referees must be submitted with your application. The deadline for applications is 20th July 2018. Please note that only applicants selected for interview will be notified. Applicants who had previously applied for any of these posts need not apply again.

Applications should be returned to the Secretary, TCI Integrity Commission either by email, fax, or mail Direct mail should be addressed to Mrs. Wanda Ariza, Secretary, The Integrity Commission, Franklyn Missick Building, Church Folly, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands. The contact details are: e-mail: secretary@integritycommission.tc; or Info@integritycommission.tc ; Tel. 9461941; Fax. 9461355. For further information on these vacant posts, please visit the Commission’s website at www.integritycommission.tc

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GOVERNMENT VACANCIES (APPLICATION DEADLINE: 20TH JULY 2018)

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

SENIOR INTERNAL AUDITOR –LWB2-1 DEPARTMENT: OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INTERNAL AUDITOR LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 7 – $41,205.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

to work alone or with a small team.

PRISON OFFICER – CFB2-6

DEPARTMENT: HER MAJESTY’S PRISON LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 5 – $26,650.00 per annum

The successful candidate will be accountable to the Chief Internal Auditor through the Internal Audit Manager and have responsibility for developing the strategy for financial and operational audits and taking lead responsibility for these audits as part of the approved annual internal audit plan.

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.

GRADUATE SECONDARY TEACHER (INDUSTRIAL ARTS) –LWB2-2

RESEARCH AND PROGRAM OFFICER –CFB2-7

JOB SUMMARY:

DEPARTMENT: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT LOCATION: VARIOUS SALARY: $35,926.25 per annum plus allowances

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

CULTURAL OFFICER –LWB2-3

DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 7 – $41,205.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This position offers an opportunity for persons to assist in the promotion and education of the culture of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

CHIEF EPIDEMIOLOGIST –KHB2-4

DEPARTMENT: NATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH UNIT LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 9 – $59,552.50 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The successful candidate will be responsible to manage, plan and develop epidemiologic and research programmes under auspices of the National Epidemiology and Research Unit (NERU) to ensure collection, analysis and interpretation of data about health effects and risks in TCI and disseminate this information locally, regionally and internationally as appropriate to be utilized in particular to promote evidence-informed decision making in health in TCI.

LABOURER –KHB2-5

DEPARTMENT: AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT LOCATION: PROVIDENCIALES SALARY: GRADE

JOB SUMMARY:

The post holder's responsibilities include providing labour / assistance in all aspects of animal \ (canine) control. Working under the instruction of the Supervisors the labourer may be required

JOB SUMMARY:

DEPARTMENT: GENDER AFFAIRS LOCATION: PROVIDENCIALES SALARY: GRADE 7 – $41,205.00 per annum This is a specialized professional position which has department-wide responsibility. The post holder is responsible for the coordination of gender oriented programmes and activities that seeks to empower the lives of women and men, boys and girls for compliance with national, regional and international guidelines.

NEWS AND SPORTS JOURNALIST –CFB2-8

DEPARTMENT: RADIO TURKS AND CAICOS LOCATION: PROVIDENCIALES SALARY: GRADE 6 – $33,415.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

This is a support position to the newsroom, which has responsibility for investigative reporting, news presentation & assignment coverage. The News & Sports reporter covers sports events, news press conferences, court news, parliamentary & breaking news; prepares and receives correspondence; arranges interviews, prepare news and anchors news.

DEPUTY BUDGET DIRECTOR – JCB2-9 DEPARTMENT: BUDGET DEPARTMENT LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 9.1 - $59,552.50 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY:

This post is to assist the Budget Director with leading and managing the Budget Office in the preparation and implementation of fiscally responsible, policy-based, medium-term budgets that contribute to the achievement of TCI’s economic and social priorities.

BUDGET ANALYST- JCB2-10

DEPARTMENT: BUDGET DEPARTMENT LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 6.1 - $33,415.00 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY:

This post is to provide rigorous analysis of expenditure

proposals and make recommendations on expenditure prioritization to support the preparation by the Ministry of Finance of policy-based, medium-term budgets that contribute to the implementation of policy priorities in TCI.

DIRECTOR OF COMPLIANCE – JCB2-11 DEPARTMENT: CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT LOCATION: PROVIDENCIALES SALARY: GRADE 7.1 - $41,205.00 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY:

This post is responsible for assisting the Collector of Customs in ensuring the adequate and appropriate control systems are operated within departmental requirements, administering leadership for team members and ensuring that the Customs Ordinance is adhered to and, along with the Collector that the strategic direction of the Department corresponds to Government objectives.

PLUMBER – CBB2-12

DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC WORKS LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: Grade 4.1 $21,935.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

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

PLUMBER ASSITANT –CBB2-13 DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC WORKS LOCATION: SOUTH CAICOS SALARY: Grade 3.1 $16,707.50 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

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

CUSTOMER SERVICE CLERK- JCB2-14 DEPARTMENT: CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 4.1- $21,935.00 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY:

This post is responsible for receiving and vetting applications submitted to the Customer Service Center. This post is also responsible for communicating with the customers and answering their queries both locally and internationally.

DATA PROCESSOR – JCB2-15

DEPARTMENT: REGISTRATION AND CITIZENSHIP LOCATION: GRAND TURK SALARY: GRADE 4 -$21,935.00 PER ANNUM

JOB SUMMARY:

This is an administrative support position, which has departmental responsibility to assist in case work/ preparation of various residency certificates including passport. It also has responsibility for administrative support functions in the office.

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

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

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Sports Interational

World Cup 2018: Diego Maradona apologises for saying England committed ‘robbery’

Marin Cilic was down ... and out at Wimbledon after losing to Guido Pella in the second round.

Cilic shocked by Guido Pella in mammoth Wimbledon upset THE shocks at the World Cup have made their way over to Wimbledon, with last year’s finalist Marin Cilic the latest casualty. Given his form and his nation’s performances in Russia, a World Cup and Wimbledon double on the final Sunday couldn’t have been discounted for Croatia but one half of the equation was nixed Thursday when Cilic blew a two-set lead and fell to world No. 82 Guido Pella of Argentina 3-6 1-6 6-4 7-6 (7-3) 7-5. The match resumed following rain Wednesday with Pella leading by a break at 4-3 in the third and incredibly, he never lost the momentum. Five years ago at Wimbledon, he experienced much different emotions, stretchered off with a leg injury in a fifth set. “Today when we came back, obviously he served two good service games in that

third set, came back two sets to one,” Cilic told reporters. “Obviously a little bit different situation.” Cilic said a slip on the grass Wednesday didn’t affect him, nor the pressure of being one of the men’s favorites. “I was just not feeling as comfortable as yesterday with hitting,” he said. “I was not as accurate. I was just missing some balls, some easy balls, giving him a chance to come back. That was playing a part. “It was not just the pressure. It was me not executing on the court well.” The third seed’s departure followed losses by pretournament women’s favorite Petra Kvitova, former champion Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki, although the Dane faced the ever dangerous Ekaterina Makarova. Cilic’s exit is arguably the most unexpected.

PUBLIC NOTICE BELONGER STATUS APPLICATION (Section 3 (5) of the Immigration Ordinance)

Six Colombia players were booked by Geiger.

showed him celebrating Yerry Mina’s late equaliser. Fifa said it was “extremely sorry” to read the comments

from “a player who has written the history of our game”. “Fifa strongly rebukes the criticism of the performance

of the match officials which it considers to have been positive in a tough and highly emotional match,” it said. Colombia captain Radamel Falcao also accused Geiger of bias, calling the American’s performance “shameful”. Geiger often struggled to control a feisty encounter in Moscow, which England won on penalties. “This situation was undermining us,” said Falcao. Former Chelsea and Manchester United striker Falcao was one of six Colombia players booked by Geiger, while two England players had their names taken.

TROPICAL AUTO RENTALS

TROPICANA PLAZA

TROPICANA PLAZA LEEWARD HIGHWAY, PROVIDENCIALES

LEEWARD HIGHWAY, PROVIDENCIALES

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT REQUIREMENTS: • Minimum of 3 years experience in car rentals, sales and parts • To include all aspects of customer service, car parts, sales • Must be dealing with email correspondences pertaining to car reservation, parts and sales

REQUIREMENTS: • Minimum of 3 years experience in car rentals, sales and parts • To include all aspects of customer service, car parts, sales • Must be dealing with email correspondences pertaining to car reservation, parts and sales • Candidate must have good communication and organizational skills • Must know how to use QuickBooks • Should also be willing to work weekends and holidays • Salary is commensurate with qualification and experience

• Candidate must have good communication and organizational skills • Must know how to use QuickBooks • Should also be willing to work weekends and holidays • Salary is commensurate with qualification and experience

Please submit your resume to or office at Tropicana Plaza, Leeward Highway, Providenciales or email us at tropical@tciway.tc or telephone: 649-946-5300 Belongers are encouraged to submit their resume to the Labor Department. This position is currently held by a work permit holder

Please submit your resume to or office at Tropicana Plaza, Leeward Highway, Providenciales or email us at

TROPICAL@TCIWAY.TC OR TELEPHONE: 649-946-5300

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Argentina legend Diego Maradona has apologised to Fifa for saying England committed a “monumental robbery” in beating Colombia in the World Cup last 16. Maradona accused referee Mark Geiger of bias towards England. Fifa said his comments were “entirely inappropriate” and insinuations about the referee “completely unfounded”. “I said a couple of things and, I admit, some of them are unacceptable,” said Maradona on social media. Maradona posted his message below a picture of himself and Fifa president Gianni Infantino, apologising to both the Swiss and football’s world governing body. “I have absolute respect for the work - which is not easy - that the institution and the referees do,” he added. Maradona, 57, felt Geiger should have penalised Harry Kane for a foul on Colombia’s Carlos Sanchez instead of awarding the penalty that allowed the England captain to open the scoring just before the hour mark in Moscow. “Here’s a gentleman who decides, a referee who, if you Google him, shouldn’t be given a match of this magnitude... Geiger, an American, what a coincidence,” Maradona had said on his nightly World Cup show for the Venezuela-based Telesur broadcaster. Maradona was pictured wearing a Colombia shirt prior to the game and TV images

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K9 SECURITY OFFICER The Meridian Club is looking for a K9 Security Officer. DUTIES:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in working K9 security dog. • Patrol the island with K9 security dogs. Train and care for the dogs. Security baggage checks at the docks. Check-in contractors. Monitor and review security cameras. Must have emergency first responder training and firefighting training. • K9 handler training from a government approved training facility. • Demonstrate written and verbal communication in the English language. • Requires staying on Pine Cay and being on call full-time. Accommodations provided. • Salary: $1730.40/month • This position is currently held by a permit holder. • Belongers need only apply Please submit written resumes to: manager@meridicanclub.com and Mr. Edwin Taylor Labour Commissioner Providenciales Note: Please respond no later than August 1, 2018. All qualified applicants will be interviewed.

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Real Madrid considering £88m Juventus bid for Ronaldo REAL Madrid are considering an offer of about 100m euros (£88m) from Juventus for Cristiano Ronaldo. The 33-year-old Portugal forward is Real’s all-time top scorer with 451 goals. However his age, and Real’s need to reshape a squad that finished 17 points behind La Liga champions Barcelona last season, has encouraged the Italian champions to make their move. Ronaldo won his fifth Champions League title with Madrid in May. Since that victory over Liverpool in Kiev, Real boss Zinedine Zidane has left the club and been replaced by former Spain coach Julen Lopetegui. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s future has been the subject of intense debate over the past few years, and his relationship with Real president Florentino Perez has also been questioned. Any move would eclipse Juventus’ record transfer fee of 90m euros (£79m), which they paid for Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain in 2016. It would also be more than the £80m Real paid Manchester United for Ronaldo in 2009. Reports of Cristiano Ronaldo’s unhappiness at Real Madrid have become an all-too-predictable annual occurrence, and in the past they have always resulted in the Portuguese having his ego stroked, his pay

Lebron James signed a four-year contract worth $154 million at the start of free agency. Ronaldo won his fifth Champions League title in May.

packet boosted and the problem solved. So when Ronaldo once again revealed his disenchantment with the club in the immediate aftermath of the Champions League final victory over Liverpool, at first nobody took him seriously. But this is starting to look a little bit different, and there’s a growing sense within Spain that this might actually be the summer when Ronaldo leaves Real Madrid. That suspicion has arisen partly because the club has not done too much - publicly, at least - to fight to keep him, fuelling speculation that

all-powerful president Florentino Perez believes this is the right time to cash in. If Real can command a fee of 100m euros from Juventus, Perez could well see that as great business for a player who will be 34 by the end of next season. Lurking in the background is the figure of Neymar. For a long time it has appeared to be just a matter of time before the flamboyant Brazilian ends his Parisian sojourn and moves to Madrid, where his combination of prodigious footballing talent and enormous marketing power would make him a perfect signing.

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James still hasn’t met with Lakers coach Luke Walton, report says LEBRON James is taking his time getting settled in Los Angeles. According to Yahoo Sports, which cited an unidentified source, James has “had zero contact” with Lakers coach Luke Walton throughout the team’s “entire recruitment process” that unfolded in the last week. James and Walton, who will be James’ seventh full-time NBA head coach, still haven’t crossed paths since Decision 3.0.

James signed a four-year contract worth $154 million at the start of free agency, but the 33-year-old and the Lakers will have their hands full after the Warriors added DeMarcus Cousins to their roster in response to Los Angeles’ Western Conference challenge. It was reported earleir this week the Lakers turned down the opportunity to sign Cousins as an unrestricted free agent on a one-year deal worth $5.3 million. (Sportingnews.com)

BUILDING MATERIALS LEEWARD HIGHWAY CONTACT: 649-946-4131 Is seeking to fill the following positions:

REGULATION 7 OF THE PHYSICAL PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION) REGULATIONS, 2014 An application, REGISTERED PR 13638, by GRAND PLAZA RESORTS LTD., for rezoning of parcel 60713/201 Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill on Providenciales which is currently zoned for R1 Low Density Residential Class A One (1) Unit Per Acre to Tourism Related Development. The planning application is for, Entry Lobby, Yoga Pavilion, six (6) Residential Buildings in form of two types A (x4) & B (x2); Building type A would comprise of a two story structure with three (3) bedrooms, dining cabana, jacuzzi & pool. Building B would comprise of a single-story structure with two (2) bedrooms & Pool. 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, South Base, Grand Turk or through the Department of Planning, Emily House, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, within twenty-eight (28) days of publication of this Notice

VACANCIES Labourer

Load materials to customer vehicles, moving materials within the depot facility by unloading and loading transport products

Driver

Transport sand, gravel, crushed rock, materials to customer’s location

Domestic Worker

General cleaning work throughout the store, maintain interior clean at all time, dust items on shelf, take out garbage outside, clean office and public bathrooms.

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Helper

General cleaning work throughout the store, maintain interior clean at all time, dust items on shelf, takes out garbage outside, clean office and public bathrooms

Mechanic

Servicing the company vehicles, test and systems to ensure that they are working properly, identify mechanical problems, repairs and maintenance work on each vehicle, inspect and repairs rental machines, engine tune ups, oil change Salaries for all positions starts from $9.00 - $12.00 per hour

Please drop off all resumes to Building Materials office Belongers are encourage to send a copy of your resume to Turks & Caicos Labor Department

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SURFside team records 29PBs and a podium finish in Florida ALL of the eight swimmers who represented the SURFside Ocean Academy in last month’s Swim Fort Lauderdale International Classic swim meet registered personal best performances. Personal best times were recorded in 29 races two weekends ago. Competition was stiff; so the team, which included four national swimmers, had to first make minimum qualifying times in order to compete in the very large meet, made up of 22 teams and top swimmers mostly from the U.S.A. The SURFside squad included: Team Coach Jessica Soderquist, Team Manager Morgan Luker, Team Chaperone Janine Taylor, and swimmers: Thais Burgess, 12, Caylen Castillo, 12, Selin Kilic, 11, Angelina Lindenhahn, 11, Alex Maclaren, 15, Jack Parlee, 16, Lillian Taylor, 12 and Sophie Taylor, 10.

The Summer Camps will target young athletes from four different islands.

Sports Department Summer Camps to help develop better ‘all-round athletes’ THE Department of Sports will run four Summer Camps from next Monday in the Turks and Caicos Islands in a hope of producing better all-round junior athletes. In an invited comment, Director of Sport Jarrett Forbes told the Weekly News that the idea is to give the young athletes a variety of sports. “Our goal for this Summer Camp is to utilise the additional time our youth have off from school to provide them with an opportunity to develop their skills in multiple sports as well as to grow in confidence, unity, work ethic and discipline.” Forbes, who is also a recognised basketball coach, said that: “playing

multiple sports help young athletes avoid burnouts, reduce the risk of overuse related injuries and develop better skills as an all-around athlete”. Action bowls off in North Caicos and Grand Turk on Monday with softball and cricket. The fourday camp in North Caicos will be followed by a basketball camp, while in the capital, from July 16-20 there will be volleyball and from August 6-10 participants can take part in a tennis camp. South Caicos will have football (soccer), basketball and volleyball camps in July, while Provo athletes will have volleyball and softball camps.

Sophie Taylor made four finals at the meet.

FOUR FINALS Sophie Taylor made four finals. She then finished with a bronze medal in her 50M backstoke, dropping 6.15 seconds from her previous best time, and a 4th place finish in her 50M butterfly. Taylor also dropped a whopping 42.17 seconds off her previous fastest time in the 200M IM. According to a release from the academy, “All swimmers trained extremely hard for this meet with practices in the early mornings and ocean training sessions, with sometimes two practices a day. All should be recognised and commended for their efforts, dedication and outstanding achievements at this large swim meet.”

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After fiveyear drought Williams to run 200M for Great Britain – selected in GB’s team for Athletics World Cup TCI born, British sprinter, Delano Williams has been selected to represent Great Britain at the Athletics World Cup, which is sheduled for London on July 14 and 15. When Williams runs the 200M at the London Stadium, it will be the first time in almost five years that he will represent GB in an individual sprint event. The last time he represented GB in sprinting was at the World Championships in Moscow in 2013. The TCI’s lone Olympian said he was excited when he found out about the selection this week. “I am excited and just trying to push forward as I want to build here into next season and try to stay healthy for rest of the season.” The British team will compete against the United States, South Africa, Poland, France, China, Germany and Jamaica.

THIRD BEST 200M PB The Grand Turk born, who has been rather successful representing GB in the 400M relays, has been pushing to return to the individual sprints. His break came at the Senior Trials last weekend when he clocked his third fastest ever 200M. The 24-year-old finished fourth in a time of 20.47s. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake won the meet in a time of 20.24s, while Adam Gemili finishing second (20.26) and Leon Reid (20.31s) third. Williams got past Edmond Amaning (20.51s), Jordan Broome (20.91s), Confidence Lawson (21.03s) and Miguel Francis in the final. Williams’s 20.27s, which he achieved in 2013, is his personal best and a TCI national record. HAPPY WITH MVP MOVE The Jamaica-based athlete, who began running under the Maximising

PABA 15-and-under 3on3 set for this Saturday At least six teams are expected to compete in the Provo Amateur Basketball Association 15-and-under 3on3 competition this Saturday. The teams will battle at the Bight Basketball court from 17:00h. Partons are asked to pay $5 at the gate.

Delano Williams said he is “over the moon to be sprinting again”.

Velocity and Power (MVP) Track and Field Club last year, said that he is ecstatic with his performance. “It’s great to be sprinting back and I feel amazing.” “I felt like the move I made at MVP track club paying off cause I been running slow for the season, but winning. So now I am coming back to form and I am excited for the remainder of the season.” The former Munro College student, who claimed World Youth and CARIFTA Games gold medals in 2012 as a junior athlete, is happy with his club coach. “My coach Steven Francis believes in me. He believes that I can sprint again and that’s exactly what I am doing.” BIG STEP Williams said he felt good in the race. “I don’t think I was very sharp as I haven’t race close to a month. So I am proud I came this far since I haven’t run this fast in four years.” “This is a big step for me. I’m over the moon to be sprinting again and I am finally seeing the progress.” STEPPING STONE The ace sprinter is hoping to build on his progress to be ready for the Olympics in 2020. “I like to acknowledge that I love the support Flow Turks and Caicos has given me and it’s just a stepping stone to the Olympics.” “I haven’t been sprinting; just 400M and I hated it, so now I am doing what I love. This is what people have known me for (sprinting) and I am prepping myself for the Olympics in two years’ time.”

Team Black won the first TCIBF 3-on-3 competition.

Team Black win 3-on3 basketball title TEAM Black emerged as champions in the first ever Ladies 3-on-3 competition which was held last Friday at the Lower Bight Basketball court. The four-team competition came down to a championships clash between Team Black and the Stealers. The former won the defensive clash 7-4 in 19 minutes of running time. Duajana Fulford led the attack for Team Black with five points, while Lynisia Gardiner (four points) was the Steelers’ go to scorer.

TCI Basketball Federation president Sydwell Gasgow told the Weekly News that the idea was to help grow the game for females in the TCI. “It’s important to have these tournaments to encourage female participation and excitement in the sport. We want to encourage female interest and involvement. The goal is to develop the female aspect of the game from grassroots to elite level in an effort to achieve local, national and international level participation in competitions.”

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