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UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS COMING INCREASE IN NI PAYMENTS WILL FUND PERMANENT SCHEME

A bill that will guide the implementation of both a temporary and permanent unemployment benefit scheme has been passed in the House of Assembly.

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Hundreds risk lives to leave Haiti for TCI MORE than 200 people were apprehended last week after making the treacherous 190 mile journey from Haiti to the TCI crammed tight onto a tiny wooden boat.

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BEACHES POSTPONES OCTOBER REOPENING OVER TAX DISPUTE

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TC REEF FUND SAYS PETROLEUM BILL CONSULTATION IS TOO SHORT PAGE  13

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Beaches postpones October reopening over tax dispute

BY DELANA ISLES BEACHES Resort and Spa is holding the Government’s feet to the fire, refusing to reopen its huge revenue generating resort until a long running tax dispute is resolved to its satisfaction.

On Friday, October 9, five days before the resort was slated to reopen its doors, it announced it would not be doing so - at least until negotiations with the Government are complete.

The hotel is now slated for a November 18 reopening, more than a month later than the previously announced October 14 date.

Since before July 24, when the resort took the tax dispute public, Beaches said it has been trying to settle the issue.

It is only until recently that it reported favourable news that negotiations with the Government are continuing.

“Negotiations with the Government are ongoing and Beaches will continue to make every effort to have these matters fairly resolved,” the resort said in its October 9 press statement.

“There is absolutely no reason why this matter cannot be resolved before the end of October as the issues are not new and have been discussed time and time again for four years.

“Beaches is deeply concerned about the impact on its team and the wider community in the delayed

reopening particularly since this year has presented horrendous difficulties for so many.

“Beaches is ready, willing and able to start negotiations immediately.”

The company stated that the Government’s inaction for nearly four years forced them to delay their reopening.

“To date, the Government has not demonstrated the same care and deep concern for the citizens and communities of the TCI, by allowing this matter to remain unresolved for so long.

“We hope and trust that the Government will treat this matter with the speed, sincerity and good faith that it demands.”

The resort emphasised that its commitment to the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands, since Beaches opened its doors in 1995, has never wavered.

“Neither has our profound sense of responsibility as we fully recognise that Beaches is the most significant economic engine, ranging from being the largest employer, foreign exchange earner, taxpayer as well as generating 70 percent of the airlift to the Island.”

The company said it fully recognised that it is the people who are the lifeblood of any country and Beaches is first and foremost a partnership with the people of the TCI. During its closure these last several months, Beaches has been

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engaged in training staff in its platinum protocols, which were adopted to ensure that the entire hotel environment is safe.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has been the greatest challenge which the travel and hospitality industry has faced in our lifetime,” the statement said.

“We are mindful of the tremendous effect it has had on all stakeholders, including airlines, tour operators and travel agents.

“Our tour operators, travel agents and airline partners will be kept abreast of our reopening plans.”

The company stated that it recognises it is a partner with the Government in the economic recovery of the TCI, and promised to do its part.

Beaches is said to owe the Government $76.4 million in penalty on taxes owed in the amount of $26.7 million.

An audit conducted by the previous administration, covering September 2014 to August 2016, revealed that Beaches and successive governments had operated on the understanding.

This was that it should pay 60 percent of the 12 percent

accommodation tax.

However, there was no written evidence, except a letter written by Hon. Washington Misick in 2014 confirming this to be the practice.

The resort maintains that the Government cannot disregard legally binding development agreements nor the ministerial commitment given in writing by the then finance minister as to the method of calculating the hotel accommodation tax.

The company has also maintained that it is the one that is owed money for overpayment of taxes.

Hundreds risk lives to leave Haiti for TCI MORE than 200 people were apprehended last week after making the treacherous 190 mile journey from Haiti to the TCI crammed tight onto a tiny wooden boat.

Officials from the Radar Station detected a “suspicious target” west of Providenciales on Friday, October 9, according to the police press office.

At about 10.15pm, Marine Branch officers on motor vessel Sea Guardian intercepted what turned out to be a blue 45 foot boat powered by two 45 horse power outboard engines.

Crowded on the sloop were 206 Haitian migrants – 145 men, 58 women, two girls and a boy.

Additional Marine Branch officers arrived on police boats Sea Pursuit and Sea Enforcer, and helped to transport the Haitian boat to South Dock Port.

“During the operation, several migrants jumped overboard but were immediately detained,” the police press office said.

All of the passengers were handed over to Immigration Department officials between 4am and 8am the following day for processing and have since been repatriated to Haiti.

Several sloops arriving from Haiti have been intercepted and hundreds of passengers repatriated over the summer months.

A wooden boat containing 124 travellers from Haiti was detected one mile from Turtle Rock on September 20.

The blue 38 foot vessel with

There were 206 people crammed onto this 45 foot wooden boat

twin outboard engines, which was in TCI waters illegally, was intercepted by officers of the police Marine Branch at 9.49pm.

While towing the boat to South Dock Port, several migrants jumped overboard to escape but were quickly detained.

On September 12, a small motorboat carrying 23 people was intercepted in TCI waters travelling from Haiti.

Officials from the Radar Station tracked the 25 foot vessel five miles from South Dock in Providenciales at about 10.20pm.

The boat was towed to shore and the 18 men and five women were removed and handed over to Immigration Department officials for processing and repatriation.

Illegal vessel landings and repatriation cost the TCI Government close to $3 million during the financial year 2019-

2020.

In a statement on June 11, Hon. Vaden Williams, Minister of Immigration, Citizenship, Labour and Employment Services, stressed that it is an offence to harbour or assist illegal aliens.

Anyone found guilty is liable to a fine of $20,000 or a term of imprisonment of four years, or both in accordance with the Immigration Ordinance 2018 Revised.

A Haitian-born woman who had lived in the TCI for several years was deported on September 28 after being found guilty of sheltering two illegal migrants.

Neltha Jean-Francois Hosse pleaded guilty in court to two offences and was fined $1,000 for each.

Any suspicious movements can be reported to the police on 911 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1-800-8477.

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Law passed to make way for unemployment benefits Increase in NI payments will fund permanent scheme

BY DELANA ISLES A BILL that will guide the implementation of both a temporary and permanent unemployment benefit scheme has been passed in the House of Assembly.

The passage of the bill makes way for $4.2 million to be paid out over October and November to people who became unemployed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic this year.

It also makes way for the establishment of a permanent unemployment scheme starting in 2022 which will be funded by a small increase in National Insurance payments.

On Tuesday, prior to the National Insurance Amendment Bill 2020 being passed, members of the House of Assembly were given a chance to share their thoughts on the proposed legislation.

Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Washington Misick said the Progressive National Party supports the creation of the programme.

“We think it’s timely, we think it has to be done. Like everything else, we believe these things ought to be done systematically.”

However, Misick said he thinks it’s “dangerous” to make a projection on how the permanent scheme will be established.

He said the Government should

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson

Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Washington Misick

deal with the crisis being faced right now to ensure people have money in their pockets.

Opposition appointed member, Hon. Royal Robinson said he was worried that people who recently started paying National Insurance would have nothing to look forward to.

This is because to be eligible for the unemployment benefit they will have had to have made a certain amount of contributions.

“Because it starts from the premise that persons who will benefit would have to have contributed 250 payments to the scheme and that would be for about five years.”

Robinson also pointed to the coming increase in National Insurance contributions - which will be implemented 18 months from now and suggested they should start now.

Currently employees contribute 3.4 percent and employers pay

4.6 percent of the worker’s wage to National Insurance, while selfemployed people pay 6.8 percent.

The breakdown of the increase to the rate to make way for unemployment benefit has not yet been confirmed – but is likely to be less than one percent overall.

In his contribution to the bill, governor’s appointed member, Hon. John Phillips was of the firm belief that contributions to the National Insurance Board (NIB) should be increased even more.

This is in order to strengthen the organisation for the future and to properly run a longterm unemployment benefits programme.

“I think, as we have 18 months before implementation, we should seriously consider the rate at 10 percent and not nine,” he said.

SEVERANCE PAY Elected member for Leeward and Long Bay, Hon. Akierra Missick

questioned whether employers will still have to pay employees severance pay, since they will now be eligible for unemployment benefits.

“Is there consideration to amend the Employment Ordinance to take into consideration that laid off employees will receive some form of income, but remove the burden from the employer to provide a severance payment?”

Employees are owed severance after having been with a company for no less than two years.

She explained that since Covid-19 forced many out of jobs, many employees have given notice to their employers that they intend to claim severance.

However, she stated that since the pandemic has affected everyone economically, these employers have been unable to honour the severance pay requests from former employees.

Hon. Missick also pointed to another part of the regulations which state that unemployed persons who benefit from other public grants would not be eligible for the unemployment benefits under the $4.2 million scheme being disbursed this year.

She asked whether those who received the tourism stimulus grants would still qualify for the unemployment benefit.

In wrapping up the debate,

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson first addressed the members’ statements that the public ought to be made aware of how they can benefit from the 2020 unemployment scheme.

She advised that the public can expect a robust public relations campaign from the National Insurance Board on how the benefits will be paid out, how to apply and who exactly will be eligible to receive the benefit.

The premier also responded to suggestions that the increase to the NIB contributions should start from now.

“That is cruel and unusual punishment to ask to increase NIB now,” she said, adding that whatever increase employers have to pay will be passed on to the consumers and the cost of living will go up.

She also clarified that people will actually need 50 contributions to qualify for the temporary scheme, and that Turks and Caicos Islanders will be credited with 200 contributions.

“There’s a credit scheme to make you qualify and you would not have to satisfy the 250 weeks.”

During the committee of the whole, the premier clarified that those who benefited from the stimulus disbursements will also qualify for the unemployment scheme this year.

Acting police chief offers ‘thoughts and prayers’ Friends and family mourn death of loved one AFTER another violent homicide in the TCI last week, Acting Commissioner of Police, Rodney Adams offered “thoughts and prayers” to the victim’s family and friends.

The murder of Twelyn Swann, 50, was the 20th of 2020, far surpassing last year’s record total of 13 murders between January and December.

According to the police press office, officers were called to the scene at 7.11am on Thursday, October 8.

They found the welder’s lifeless body with gunshot wounds outside his place of business on South Dock Road, Providenciales. He was pronounced dead at 8.57a.m.

In a police press release later that

day, Adams extended condolences to the family and friends of Swann on behalf of the Royal TCI Police Force and executive members.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you,” he said.

“While officers investigate the circumstances surrounding this latest murder, I want to encourage anyone with information to come forward - this is crucial at the early

stages.

“In the meantime, we will continue to be visible on the streets, visiting the hotspot areas and doing what we can to give justice to the many families of victims of gun violence.

“We need your help and you can do so by providing us with information anonymously.”

Tributes to Swann flooded social media after his death on October 8.

His sister Dian Swann wrote: “I found myself mourning and in such despair that I have never experienced in my life.

“I cried for a week every day and I just couldn’t figure out why. All I know is that I know yesterday was the end of it all. I felt in my spirit that something was over.

“I woke up this morning to the phone call that my brother was just murdered. My soul hurts beyond any pain.

“My soul just hurts right now.

Why did you have to killed my brother just why, why, why?”

Anyone with information can call 911 or Crime Stoppers confidentially on 1-800-8477.

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A Weekly News column that puts you on the spot for your opinions on the issues of the day

MINING FOR PETROLEUM

A two-week long online consultation is underway to garner feedback from the public on the freshly drafted Petroleum (Exploration and Exploitation) Bill 2020.

The bill proposes an ordinance to give the Crown power to make provision for the search for and recovery of petroleum within the TCI’s territorial waters.

What are your thoughts?

Insane

Why are we investing in fossil fuels, which involves putting our pristine water and coastline and beaches at risk?

Covid-19 will eventually go away but oil exploration means so will our whales and dolphins.

One mistake could be the ultimate disaster. Do we really want to jeopardise our ‘beautiful by nature’ country? To me this is insane.

Why not invest in alternate energy like the rest of the clear-thinking world?

Risks too high

I am against anything that could even possibly impact the serenity and beauty of the Islands.

Even if there is a scintilla of possibility that something could possibly go wrong I would say definitely NO.

Self-sufficient

This would be disastrous for our beautiful and pristine waters and sea life.

The only economy of any note the TCI has right now is tourism. This would be the last thing we need.

The Crown has already bankrupted us with the ridiculous ongoing SIPT trials and now they want to destroy our waters with ugly machinery, pollution, tanker traffic and damage to our sea life and frankly way of life.

Once TCIG understands the lessons learned from Covid-19 we can only hope they have the sense to put into action,

backed by firm commitment and funds, local business boosting agriculture projects and sustainability, fishing and farming and raising livestock.

Market gardens should abound and TCIG should ensure that all local produce is purchased first by hotels, supermarkets and local community and only then to the goods shipped in from the US. We need to become more self-sufficient including going green and using solar power, etc.

Reduce our dependence on others, especially the UK. We may then finally stop being so dependent on tourism and keep our waters pristine without ugly oil exploration and machinery and all that entails.

Decision time

Points of concern embedded in the bill include a provision that the property in the mined petroleum becomes the property of the developer.

We may not get there as it should be the people of the TCI who must assert and take the final say in this debate.

It is time to shut the emotionally driven voices of politics out of this debate as most of them, we have seen it over the years, have been purchased.

It is time for TC Islanders, not the ‘politrician’, to decide what they want.

Do we want to move away from ecotourism? Do we the people want to diversify the TCI’s economy in this kind of industrial direction?

Can we handle the onslaught of new money, new people, new technologies and

the possibility of an environment fallout?

The decision is the people’s and they must insist on having the final say in this process.

Have our economic and social interactions with new people, new monies, new resorts and ideas been all that good?

Are we real players in the resort or related Airbnb sectors been all that good? Are we part of that and will we be part of this?

Have investors since 1976 to now kept their promises, lived up to their development agreements, hired or trained TC Islanders?

Serious questions of a deep and farreaching nature portend to the Government and the Opposition.

One can be grateful that we live in a democracy where the minister responsible, Hon. Goldray Ewing, opted to publish this earth-shaking measure and give the people a chance to issue an opinion on it.

In some countries, the government would determine that this is already a done deal.

Not the time

Bills and adjudications of such magnitude should be left to after election because it’s too close to that day.

To weigh up such heavy issues and of paramount importance shows the Government’s nonchalance and ‘don’t care’ attitude towards the hunger and plight of the people in a pandemic.

Get busy and bring relief and run on after.

Don’t be led

A legislative and policy measure of this nature presents an enormous set of new circumstances and a host of unknowns which are insurmountable, others are not.

Oil works, in a fragile and sensitive environment such as the TCI, is a tangible risk that this Government seems willing to consider.

It is really comforting that the decision is not theirs but that of the public.

The petroleum bill as published begins with a policy that “like all major legislation, the process of completion requires structured input from its stakeholder groups to provide their views on the various provisions detailed, such as safety, research and development, environmental considerations, standards, penalties, permitting, etc”.

At least there is some kind of consultation which is critical on the part of the people who must be vigilant not to be led, told and given the answers.

This is the public’s chance to speak.

How its split

Like Guyana, the real issues are: a) Who gets what. b) In what proportions.

That is what it will boil down to if oil is found.

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Taskforce inspects hundreds of businesses

BY OLIVIA ROSE NEARLY 500 businesses have been inspected by the Covid-19 Joint Compliance Taskforce to ensure they are following rules designed to limit the spread of the virus.

Six of those businesses were found to have violated at least one of the Government’s coronavirus safety measures and protocols and were ticketed.

Director of Environmental Health Kenrick Neely made this disclosure during a press conference on Friday, October 9, at the Office of the Premier in Providenciales.

He explained that these figures represent overall inspections conducted at food establishments, bars, beauty parlours and variety stores.

From September 30 to October 6, 498 businesses were scrutinised

for Covid-19 compliance - 275 in Providenciales, 158 in Grand Turk and 65 in North and Middle Caicos.

In keeping with the Ministry of Health’s updated restrictions, Neely reminded that business establishments are not allowed to host more than 30 percent of their occupancy capacity.

“Right now all businesses, restaurants, bars etc should be operating at 30 percent capacity.

“So if your establishment’s capacity is 100 persons, that means you’re only allowed 30 persons at your establishment.”

He stressed that whether it is inside or outside, the companies need to comply with these regulations.

“We need you to ensure you are following social distancing, the wearing of face masks and washing hands which is key in helping to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

“You don’t want to wait until we come around. You should ensure that you are doing what is necessary and you’re following the Covid-19 protocols and regulations.”

Neely said the compliance team has ramped up its inspections as the territory’s active coronavirus cases have decreased “tremendously”.

“And we want to keep it that way.

“The Government is doing its part in ensuring we have these regulations and ensuring that enforcement is being done and we the public have a key role to play in containing, suppressing Covid-19.”

Under the Government’s business regulations for Covid-19, employers or managers are required to encourage employees to wear cloth face coverings in the workplace.

They must also implement policies and practices for social distancing at their establishments, among other measures aimed at reducing the spread of the virus.

The Covid-19 Joint Compliance Taskforce was established to help suppress the spread of the virus

Director of Environmental Health Kenrick Neely said the public has a key role to play

in the TCI and to enforce the Covid-19 regulations as set out in the law.

The taskforce also has an objective to educate businesses on safety measures and follow up on

complaints by the public.

The team which consists of Environmental Health Department staff, police and Immigration Department officers conduct weekly and daily inspections.

Continued

Reject imperialism

Clause 14 of the bill provides against exclusivity of reconnaissance licences, which is good.

Provision is made for approval of transfers of licence by the commissioner. Such decision need be taken by Cabinet or a duly appointed commission.

Clause 40 deals with environmental matters, mitigation of effects on the biodiversity of the Islands.

The clause is too brief and requires a far more detailed framework that would comply with existing environmental laws of the TCI, the Environmental Charter and the exacting provisions of the TCI’s constitution addressing matters of environmental management.

The decision to proceed with this proposed law cannot be left to the Government but really to the people of the TCI through public consultation, inputs, serious views and people not given to emotion or imperialistic imposition.

The UK already played its hand, many years ago when it comes to environmental matters by former prime minister William Hague declaring to the world that the TCI is a critical part of Britain’s biodiversity.

TC Islanders must reject this neo colonial and imperialistic approach to the management of their environment and seek to own and management their own environmental affairs.

One can be sure that the bill as prepared hits all of the needed policy issues in dealing with the commercial and policy issues of risk.

Not a follower

This is not compatible with our ‘beautiful by nature’ motto.

Our reefs which supports both fishing and tourist industries may be damaged beyond repair.

The damage may far outweigh any benefit!

The fact that some Caribbean islands are doing this, does not mean we have to follow.

Under the tree By Benneth Williams

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10pm curfew returned as Covid-19 cases drop

BY OLIVIA ROSE RESIDENTS have two extra hours to shop, eat and drink before returning home in the evenings as the 8pm curfew has been pushed back to 10pm.

Minister of Health Hon. Edwin Astwood announced the revision of the curfew and other updated measures and regulations on Tuesday (October 13).

He said a decrease in positive Covid-19 cases and increase in recoveries also prompted the Government to allow businesses to stay open until 9pm rather than the former 7pm cut off.

However, social distancing, mask wearing and capacity rules remain firmly in place.

Astwood explained that the Government’s strategy is to introduce measures to effectively stem the spread of the virus in communities.

“Thereby ensuring we can avoid having to impose any general lockdown measures, leaving such as a last resort,” he said.

Speaking via a live Facebook broadcast from the House of Assembly, Astwood said: “A curfew is imposed on all islands for 10pm to 5am every night starting from October 14 until 5am on November 2.”

The 30 percent capacity for bars and restaurants based on square footage will also remain in place until 5am on November 2.

The minister urged business establishments to indicate their capacity limit to patrons by placing a visible sign outside of their premises.

“This includes restaurants, bars and all other businesses. Capacity should be calculated in order to comply with social distancing requirements and relevant applicable regulations.”

Restaurants and bars were encouraged to continue or implement take-out and curb side dining as an alternative to indoor dining.

He stressed that social distancing, sanitisation and mask wearing protocols should always

be adhered to at all times.

From October 14 at 5am to November 2, religious places of worship will have to indicate their capacity by a sign placed outside on the door to ensure compliance with social distancing requirements and other relevant regulations.

The minister said: “From September 30 to 5am on October 14, the number of persons that may be permitted inside a religious place of worship at any given time shall not exceed 30 percent of occupancy based on square footage as verified by the Public and Environmental Health Department.”

Funeral services are now permitted to be held outdoors only with a maximum of 25 people at a service and at least one officiant and essential mortuary staff, which has to be approved by the chief medical officer.

Public gathering and social activities including weddings remain restricted to no more than 25 people, and these activities must also be held outdoors.

Minister of Health Hon. Edwin Astwood hopes to avoid a general lockdown

Restrictions for public beaches also remain in place - gatherings of no more than six adults outside the same household is permitted.

The health minister reminded residents that Covid-19 has not been eradicated from society and as such mitigating measures still need to be enforced.

He said: “Because we are not free of this virus, it is not realistic to think that we will be. There will be new clusters, but we must avoid a new wave.

“We have done very well up to now as a country in avoiding the worst effects of Covid-19 and we can continue to do well if we stick together, follow the rules and protect our most vulnerable.”

Checks will be done on all domestic travellers to ensure a person is not the subject of any Covid-19 contact tracing or a suspected case.

Screening and temperature checks will also take place at airports and seaports or landing sites.

Registration with the Department for Environment and Coastal Resources is now required prior to travel and for return to the island by local boatmen.

All of the domestic travel restrictions implemented on September 30 will remain in place until December 31.

Astwood said: “From September 30 to 5am on October 14, the Airports Authority and the Ports Authority shall, in accordance with protocols issued by the Ministry of Health, implement and conduct temperature checks on every person before the person boards an aircraft or boat for interisland travel.

“No person shall offer for hire or seek to travel on any interisland private or commercial air or sea transport that is nonessential, provided that an airline or a boat shall reduce the number of persons traveling on inter island transportation to permit physical distancing.”

He added: “From October 14 to 5am on November 2, the existing measures to be retained until December 31.”

Travel for the purpose of banking, businesses, doctor and hospital visits, funeral, international travel or continuing a journey to an island of destination upon arrival in the TCI, emergencies and cargo is considered essential travel.

People who plan to travel inter island are urged to apply to the Ministry of Health for authorisation.

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Recounting the record year that 2019 was for the Caribbean hotel sector, BCQS said this record year was no more prevalent than in the TCI

Hoteliers hoping for 60% plus occupancy

BY DELANA ISLES HOTEL owners and managers are hoping to see no less than 60 percent occupancy levels when the peak tourist season starts this November.

President of Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association (TCHTA) Todd Foss said the group is projecting 40 to 50 percent occupancy rate for the upcoming high tourist season.

“The Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association are hopeful that Christmas time we can reach occupancy levels of between 60 and 80 percent, but we feel that many of those bookings will be made not too far in advance.”

Foss said hotel occupancy has naturally been down this year, given the Covid-19 pandemic and closure of borders.

But now that borders have reopened and the spread of Covid-19 is being arrested, he said the big resorts have expressed satisfaction with a 65 to 75 percent occupancy during the peak season.

“If we could average about 60 percent from January to April I think people would be happy with that. That’s the expectation for this season after what we’ve been through.”

In a Caribbean hotel market report in July, BCQS International outlined its projections for the rebound of the hospitality industry in the coming peak season for the TCI and wider Caribbean.

Recounting the record year that 2019 was for the Caribbean hotel sector, BCQS said this record year was no more prevalent than in the TCI. “Displaying double digit growth across both hotel revenue per

available room (RevPAR) and hotel revenues, the TCI further demonstrates itself as a maturing market and truly a premium holiday destination within the Caribbean region.”

The current challenges relating to the Covid-19 pandemic will however, at least in the short term, have an impact on this market which is currently difficult to quantify, the company noted.

It stated that with the arrival of 2020, a notable downturn in global hotel performance was already being seen.

According to STR data, throughout January and February, the Caribbean region was already outputting year on year declines in both occupancy and average daily rate (ADR) performance of about

minus five percent and minus one point five percent, respectively.

This decline, BCQS said, was not a result of Covid-19, but more a loss in momentum when compared to 2019’s impressive performance at the beginning of the year.

However, by the end of March 2020, a quarter on quarter review revealed that the Caribbean had experienced a -20.6 percent in hotel occupancy, minus three percent in ADR and -23 percent in RevPAR. From these final weeks of March through to the second week of April, Caribbean occupancy rates plummeted and were unable to even reach double digit figures.

By the second week of April, the region collectively achieved an occupancy rate of only seven percent, during which time its

RevPAR also declined by a staggering 95 percent year on year.

Pointing to the most recent statistics published by the World Travel and Tourism Council (2019), BCQS noted that 13.9 percent of the Caribbean’s GDP was attributed to travel and tourism.

However, this contribution to GDP significantly varies on a territory by territory basis, reaching upward of 90 percent in some islands.

Many islands including Cayman, Trinidad, Jamaica and the British Virgin Islands have a far more diverse economy, each with strong alternative industries such as manufacturing, financial or professional services and mining capabilities to name a few.

However, the TCI does not possess such a varied economy and consequently remains one of the most travel and tourism dependent locations for GDP contribution, not only within the Caribbean, but globally.

However, BCQS is hopeful that a consistent rebound of increased visitation will be seen in November and December, which is largely influenced by peak holiday periods.

“Consequently, and subject to no second wave of Covid-19, we foresee hotels targeting the greater demand during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays to capitalise on the much-needed lucrative business as we close out 2020.”

Premier talks border security at OT meeting A ONE-DAY virtual meeting was held last week for leaders of Britain’s overseas territories to discuss topics they would like to address during an upcoming annual conference.

The Joint Ministerial Conference (JMC), which joins together members of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA), will be held online from November 26 to 27.

Premier Sharlene Cartwright Robinson attended the preparatory meeting on October 6 where she joined discussions

on matters that promote the interests of the territories.

Attendees talked about the co-operation between them and the collective and individual partnerships between the territories and the UK government.

The premier was joined

by Ronlee James, Executive Director at the Office of the Premier, Local Government and Community Affairs, and UK representatives for the TCI Tracy Knight and Kimo Tynes.

Among the specific topics discussed were crisis and security,

environmental protection and climate change, protecting vulnerable groups in a pandemic, EU exit and international trade.

The gathered leaders also spoke about a recent press regarding Her Majesty’s Government sending asylum seekers to overseas territories for processing.

The premier led discussions on border security during the meeting, outlining the TCI Government’s strategy, planned developments and partnerships for managing maritime safety.

The UKOTA is a representative group of 12 inhabited British overseas territories including the TCI. It presents the collective view of the overseas territories through dialogue and contact with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and other UK government departments.

The annual JMC brings together political leaders from the overseas territories along with the minister for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

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Coronavirus has exposed the flaws of capitalism IN HIS recent weekly piece, entitled, ‘Socialism is never a free lunch’, David Tapfer deviated from my recommendation to temporarily adapt features of socialism to curb the incessant debacle we now face regarding the disproportionate share and inequality to proper healthcare and other sectors across capitalist states during Covid-19.

While he correctly recounted the characteristics of socialism, I’m not advocating for socialism across the board or for the Government to control everything.

My suggestion was simply employing effective socialist principles to ensure equality.

Too, he focused primarily on funding as his topic suggested.

It’s common knowledge that nothing is free in any eco-political systems – neither in liberal democratic nor socialist states.

The stimulus packages being dispersed in capitalist nations must be financed through taxes and in rare cases the printing of money for quantitative easing with dire consequences – driving up inflation rates and negatively impacting the currency.

Indeed, capitalism is the greatest phenomenon that ever happened to humanity.

However, it has failed in terms of appropriating healthcare to all its citizens and in other areas in a time when everyone is gravely affected.

BY D MARKIE SPRING D Markie Spring, a TCI resident of 15 years, is an expert in law enforcement. He worked as a detective in the Royal TCI Police Force and was director of security at Beaches Turks and Caicos.

There is an undeniable disparity in the dispersion of healthcare services. Those with no and low-paying jobs, and without health insurance, have no access.

The same is true about the education system. The absence of electronics and internet disallowed poor children access to remote learning.

A similar situation exists in quarantine services and falling-out between governments, companies and citizens over who should pay, and while in quarantine access to foods present another drawback.

So, how should poor people pay for all these services while jobs and wages are diminishing?

Undoubtedly, the capitalist Covid-19 devastation has been vastly amplified by an illogical system which evaluates human lives in respect of profit and loss.

Confronted with collapse, governments are now interceding in the markets.

Under the socialist arrangement, everyone has equal access to all these services, foods

and learning.

Henceforth, it is reasonable to adapt this feature to better address the short-comings of capitalism in these times.

Because of widespread inequality, capitalist nations are getting sicker, hence the call for transformation.

Verifiably, Bill Gates is concerned about equitable access and the lack of purchasing power, especially in developing states.

It’s expected, only 14 percent of these populations will receive coverage.

He cited: “The only way to eliminate the threat of this disease somewhere, is to

eliminate it everywhere.”

It is for the same reason former president Barack Obama instituted the Affordable Care Act to cover more people and Bernie Saunders’s quest for universal healthcare (Medicare for all).

Currently, the WHO is promoting universal healthcare coverage ensuring that the entire world’s population has access, and not just those who can afford it, without suffering financial hardship regardless of political ideology.

In his address to the nation, Alok Sharma MP, Britain’s Secretary of State, announced that 100 million doses of vaccines will be available to UK’s entire population and for developing countries at an affordable cost, pumping £131 million into research at Oxford University and Imperial College London.

While capitalism pivots around competition and influence, socialism is rallying its proponents to consider the global sphere as an arena of compromise.

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Bats old and new COMMENTARY

I LOVE ancient classic films.

The old horror films were interesting and scary.

They reflected early classic literature written to entertain our great-great grand folks who were reduced to reading before radio, movies and television were on the scene.

The TV people still dig out some of these old movie classics today because they not only entertain but they fit the news of the day in some strange way.

I stumbled across one recently made way back in 1934. It was about vampires, bats and the like. Staring was Bela Lugosi the head vampire, the head bat.

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 30 years and has lived in Conch Bar, Middle Caicos, since 2002. David formerly served as branch chairman of the PDM from 2008 to 2011

The story takes place in this huge old haunted mansion with a group of folks milling around. The head bat, vampire, already had bitten the female star and she is now 90 percent vampire.

Bela has his own private

casket where he resides during the daylight hours. At night, he attempts to bite the other occupants.

However, one fellow in the house must have read some of the old texts that prescribe certain shrubs that keep the vampire and

vampire bats at bay.

One is called ‘wolf’s bane’, something like cow bush? The vampire movies were repeated many times until we don’t see any remakes these days.

In any event, how is any of this related to today’s bat virus?

Did a Chinese lab worker read the same old text somewhere along the way years ago giving he or she the bat idea.

Racing forward to the 1950s and beyond we find Batman and his boy assistant Robin. They don’t inject, bite or otherwise ingest bat vitals.

They use their bat costumes as symbols to make them look

scary. Bats are scary.

Batman and Robin succeed where the police fail in catching the criminals. Other cartoon characters find it easy to overcome the criminals. We need our own Batman!

I am not serious about any of this, but who likes bats and why did that person or persons make a flu that infects humans and is so infectious that in a matter of days it’s all over the world?

Will we be able to develop a vaccine that protects us and wipes this off the face of mankind.

This we just don’t know. Stay home and wait it out.

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Be aware! Get tested for breast cancer

THE MONTH of October is recognised internationally as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

While there are many other types of cancer, the most common cancer case is breast cancer which is also the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.

Because death can take place as a result of breast cancer, it is important you become aware and do what is necessary to survive this battle should you encounter it.

The earlier you get tested, the earlier you can be treated to avoid the spread of this dreadful disease.

There are five stages of breast cancers.

Stage 0 is non-invasive breast cancer and there is no evidence of cancer cells in the body.

Unlike Stage 0, Stage 1 is invasive breast cancer and is divided in two categories Stage 1A and Stage 1B. In Stage 1A the tumour is measured up to two centimetres and it does not spread

DREXWELL SEYMOUR

Drexwell Seymour is a certified public accountant and the managing partner for HLB TCI. He has a BA in accounting, an MBA in finance and his favourite hobby is writing. For more content visit www.drexwellseymour.com or subscribe to ‘Drexwell Seymour’ on YouTube.

outside of the breast.

Stage 1B there is no tumour in the breast but rather small groups of cancel cells larger than 0.2 millimetres.

Stage 2 also has two categories - Stage 2A and Stage 2B. Stage 2A means no tumour in the breast but can be found in the lymph nodes. The tumour can be less than two centimetres and up to five centimetres.

In Stage 2B, the tumour is greater than five centimetres but cannot reach the lymph nodes.

Stage 3 has three subcategories, Stage 3A, 3B and 3C. In 3A, no tumour is found in the breast but in four to nine axillary lymph nodes.

Stage 3B is inflammatory and the breast is red, swollen and warm.

In Stage 3C, the tumour has spread more than 10 axillary lymph nodes.

In stage 4, the cancer has spread to other organs such as lungs, liver and brain.

No one really knows the root cause of breast cancers however, a damage to a cell’s DNA does cause breast cancer.

The risk of drinking alcohol can also lead to breast cancer but of course there are people who drink alcohol and never got breast cancer.

The initial symptom may be a lump in your breast. However, other symptoms of breast cancers are as follows - swelling in your underarm pit, swelling of your breast and pain in the nipple area.

It may be difficult to prevent breast cancer but it benefits to detect it early therefore get tested on a regular basis.

If you have breast cancer, some women remove both breasts to prevent the spread from one breast to the next.

Another prevention of breast cancer like any other disease is to eat healthy. Do not smoke and do not drink alcohol. Always exercise.

While it is true that breast cancer is common among women, men can also get breast cancer. I encourage you even if you do not have the symptoms still get tested.

Can mineral extraction ever be environmentally acceptable?

PART ONE IN AUGUST, the price of gold reached a record high of $2,073 per ounce.

It did so as investors concerned about the impact of Covid-19, global economic instability and falling bond yields decided it was a safe haven.

Coincidentally, the spike occurred as Guyana’s Stabroek News published an investigative report in collaboration with InfoAmazonia and media partners in Brazil and Venezuela which described how a significant part of the Republic’s informal gold production is trafficked abroad.

A few weeks later, InfoAmazonia published a more detailed account.

‘Tracing Tainted Gold’ described how across the Guiana Shield, mercury trafficking networks are enabling gold produced by artisanal miners to be laundered; how it is moving across uncontrolled borders and through the region’s ports; suggesting that it is entering legitimate global supply chains, and possibly ending up in products made by some of the world’s biggest corporations.

Almost in passing, it indicated too that

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

the whole illegal process has come to support the Amazon economies of Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, and Venezuela.

What additionally the two reports did, was to draw attention to gold, a Caribbean economic activity which otherwise receives little regional media coverage, is largely only commented on by environmentalists and those who follow mining, and about which few reliable or recent independent Caribbean statistics exist.

This is surprising because, not only is the informal production and trade in gold growing, but so too is the interest in industrial gold mining and extraction in the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana, and to a minor

extent in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba.

By far the biggest single producer in the Caribbean is in the Dominican Republic.

Operated by the Canadian miner, Barrick Gold, its Pueblo Viejo mine is expected to produce a little below 18 tonnes or between or between 0.53m and 0.58m ounces of gold this year.

The gold it produces accounts for at least 30 percent of the republic’s overall exports, and according to government estimates the company is expected to pay about $153.7 million in taxes in 2020, although this may vary substantially based on the price of gold and other factors including production levels.

More generally, Barrick Gold is expected to increase its already large capital

investment by another $1.3 billionn to add another 15 years to its planned operations, possibly doubling the contribution the mine will make until well into the 2030s.

In addition, another Canadian company, GoldQuest, has identified a potentially significant gold and copper prospect and is hoping that approval by the country’s new president will enable it to commence formal environmental studies on what may be a significant new find.

Every other major Caribbean producer of gold is located on the Guyana Shield, the geological formation that extends from Venezuela to French Guiana and into Northern Brazil: an area that geological surveys indicate also has reserves of diamonds, manganese, rare earths, chromium, nickel, copper, lithium, uranium, niobium, tantalum, and precious stones.

In recent years, this vast trans-border region has begun to attract significant new interest from mining companies from across the world as there is strong evidence that this under explored, but environmentally sensitive area of rain forest, could offer the possibility of one or more large ‘tier one’ gold mines and support the extraction of other minerals in demand globally.

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The shadow of imperialism looms PART ONE ON THIS TCI National Heritage Day, the shadow of imperialism looms large and may best be described in the following words of the prophet Jeremiah reflecting on the indignities perpetrated against his people by their captors: ‘Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.’

Lamentations 5:2-4 It is characteristic of the UK to place on its territories burdens and conditions it cannot and would not place on its own people in the UK. After all the Brexit decision was predicated upon sovereignty and driven by identity politics.

In contrast the eagerness of the UK to indiscriminately expand the TCI franchise is not only hypocritical but betrays its agenda to establish a foreign political and economic hegemony in the common interest of the UK and those to whom it is eager to empower.

This alliance is against the interest of Turks and Caicos Islanders and the UK agenda must be resisted at all cost.

The Foreign Affairs Committee report entitled ‘Global Britain and the British Overseas Territories:

BY WASHINGTON MISICK

Washington Misick is a former chief minister of the TCI and current leader of the PNP Opposition. He describes himself as a politician, entrepreneur, thinker and strategist.

Resetting the relationship’ includes the latest pronouncement of the UK of its intentions for the overseas territories on the important issue with cultural, social and economic significance of the enlargement of the franchise.

To vote in the TCI, one must have acquired Islander Status under the TCI Islander Status Ordinance 2015.

Islander Status is acquired by right or by grant. It is the acquisition by grant that is of major concern to many Turks and Caicos Islanders.

The ordinance establishes an Islander Status Commission.

Under Section 4 of the ordinance the governor may, on the recommendation of the commission grant Islander Status to persons meeting certain nationality criteria including to BOTC and British citizens who fulfil minimum residency conditions.

In addition, certain categories of persons qualify to applying for Islander Status including the spouse of someone who

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of 400 word articles on a variety of topics for our Lifestyle pages.

Get in touch with us at the Turks and Caicos Weekly News and pitch your idea for a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly column.

You will have your name in print along with your business contact details if requested.

It’s a great way to share your knowledge and promote your business or start-up.

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has Islander Status, holders of permanent residence permits who meet the additional residency requirement, together with their spouse or children endorsed on the PRC of the applicant among others.

The steps leading up to the issue of Islander Status are as follows: Applications for grant of Islander Status, must be submitted between June 1 and September 30 of every year.

Upon receipt of applications the secretary of the commission shall give notice of such in two issues of a local newspaper allowing 30 days of the last publication, for submissions from the public.

The applications must be examined by the status commission after January 1 in each year to consider the applications and make recommendation to the governor in writing before October 31.

The names of the persons so recommended is then published in at least one issue of a local newspaper circulating in the Islands.

The governor must then publish a notice of his intention to grant status to the persons so recommended in at least two issues of a local newspaper circulating in the Islands.

The notice published in five above shall request any submissions to be made not later than 30 days after the date of the last publication.

Under Section 14 of the Ordinance the Commission shall consist of five members including the chairman and two persons nominated by the premier and two by the leader of the Opposition.

I withdrew my recommendations for appointment on the grounds that the prescribed process were not followed - that is the applications were published before the appointment of a commission, and without a commission there could not legally be a secretary to the commission to publish the applications.

To be continued in next week’s newspaper.

Introducing the Human Rights Commission

THE TURKS and Caicos Islands Human Rights Commission is delighted to be commencing its newspaper column.

The column is designed to look at various aspects of our society from a human rights perspective and provide members of the public with the necessary information needed to better protect both their rights and the rights of others.

On a weekly basis, the commission will write an article about human rights.

Some of these articles will be topical in nature addressing current issues and others will concentrate on providing the public with information that can arm them in the protection of their human rights.

WHAT IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION?

The Human Rights Commission is a constitutional body created to promote good governance.

The mandate of the commission is to promote inclusivity and transparency, to protect all residents of the TCI’s civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as well as to provide the public with education on human rights.

OUR MISSION

The TCI Human Rights Commission is dedicated to upholding the principles of human rights.

We aim to encourage and facilitate a positive relationship between the Government and individuals and to ensure that the internationally proclaimed standards are protected in law and practice.

We are committed to: • Promoting awareness and education • Fostering diversity • Eliminating discrimination • Providing protection for all people living in the Turks and Caicos Islands

WHAT DOES THE COMMISSION DO?

Monitor the activity of the Government and ensure that the rights of residents are not being breached.

The commission assesses new legislation as it is passed through parliament to ensure that it does not contravene the TCI Constitution or any of the international treaties that the TCI has become a party to.

The commission conducts reviews of facilities across the Islands such as Her Majesty’s Prison on Grand Turk, the Detention Centre on Providenciales and schools throughout the TCI. The commission holds multi-agency stakeholder meetings with various government departments to identify areas where policies and procedures can be improved.

The commission is also responsible for the investigation of any complaints regarding the breach of human rights and these can be in a variety of areas from the right to a birth certificate to racial discrimination.

Another function of the commission is to promote and educate about human rights.

The education arm of the commission tours schools throughout the TCI, assists in the training of various government departments, from prison officers to immigration and produces articles for the news media addressing human rights issues or the human rights perspective on current affairs.

WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT FROM THIS COLUMN?

The education arm of the commission’s work touches on all aspects of the organisation’s operation and the weekly column will address all aspects of this work.

In the coming weeks and months, you can expect to see commentary on specific human rights and why they are important as well as the human rights perspectives on current affairs.

The TCI Human Rights Commission can be contacted on 9415343 or tcihumanrightscommission@hrc.tc

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Don Stark, Turks and Caicos Reef Fund chairman, has demanded a longer consultation period

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Petroleum exploration equipment image (Gov.tc)

TC Reef Fund says petroleum bill consultation is too short

BY OLIVIA ROSE THE TURKS and Caicos Reef Fund (TCRF) has lobbied the Government to extend its consultation for a proposed Petroleum (Exploration and Exploitation) Bill 2020.

Don Stark, chairman of the environmental preservation organisation, spoke to the Weekly News about the inadequate length of public debate on Wednesday (October 14).

He said the three-week timeline was not sufficient to effectively inform or consult citizens on such an “potentially significantly impactful piece of legislation”.

The Government’s efforts have not met even the most basic of effective public consultations as outlined by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Stark said.

The consultation which was launched on October 1 was previously expected to run for two weeks until this Wednesday (October 14).

On October 13, an update was posted on gov.tc stating that it had been extended by another week and is expected to conclude on October 21.

The TCRF submitted a letter to the Government on October 14, requesting a further extension of

Calls on Government to extend to January 2021 the consultation and highlighted a number of concerns about the process.

In the correspondence, which was exclusively shared with this publication, Stark said that not only is the consultation period too short but the bill virtually inaccessible.

The organisation called on the Government to conclude the consultation in January 2021 to allow for all affected persons to take part in the process.

“Before we can even begin to address the potential environmental impact that would come from oil exploration and exploitation in our waters and have true consultation, we need to address the plain and simple fact that there has been no effort to consult and inform the public on what this bill actually means for the future of TCI both economically and environmentally.

“There is no copy of the draft bill available for download anywhere on the Government’s website.

“Only through multiple contacts working together were we able to get a copy of the draft bill. Without access to the information, there is

no ‘public consultation’.

“We are now aware that it was printed in the recent copy of the Weekly News which was published on October 10, giving anyone who purchased the paper four days to digest the bill.”

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS Stark stressed that the seemingly rushed consultation does not meet guidance or recommendations as stipulated by the IFC, a globally recognised authority on environmental assessment and public consultation.

He added that under the guidelines outlined by the IFC, meaningful public consultation includes but is not limited to: “Identification and engagement with key stakeholder groups, including representatives from all likely affected entities and persons.

“Provision to the public at large of a workable strategy and timeframe for the implementation of all phases of any project.

“Provision of all available information to key stakeholder groups and the public at large, including, but not limited to, any

background information, reports, bills, and correspondence that may be relevant.

“Consultation activities must be conducted in a manner and time frame that allows all affected people access and adequate time to respond “All affected persons, including women, vulnerable groups, ethnic and religious minorities, etc. should be consulted.

“People’s concerns should be reflected in any final outcomes.

“Consultation methods should include direct interviews with key stakeholders (such as TCRF, DECR, TCNT); surveys, polls and questionnaires; public meetings; public hearings; and continuous participation in the process by key stakeholders.”

The bill was drafted by the Attorney General’s Chambers after oil and gas exploration companies, such as CaribX (UK), signalled interest in conducting offshore hydrocarbon exploration in the territory’s waters.

It is intended to provide a legislative framework to effectively manage and regulate the exploration and production of

petroleum within the territory.

If enacted the bill will allow developers to conduct petroleum exploration activities in the territorial waters, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of the TCI. An explanatory memorandum of the bill from the Attorney General’s Chambers said evidence from drilling in the Bahamas between 1959 and 1986 suggests there may be small quantities of flowing oil and natural gas in the TCI. The chambers described the probability of finding commercial oil or gas as “very low, probably five to 10 percent”.

“The Government said it is cognisant of the fact that the protection of the environment is of paramount importance and gives the assurance that the bill makes provision for the continued general conservation and preservation of the environment and of the coastal and marine environment in particular in the TCI.” It continued: “However, the Government is poised to allow for the exploration of petroleum in the Islands in line with the Government’s commitment to diversify the economy.”

A downloadable copy of the bill is now available to the public at https://fliphtml5.com/pejq/zieq

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Experts talk breast cancer signs at first annual symposium

BY OLIVIA ROSE EARLY detection and diagnosis is key in the treatment of breast cancer, and can be literally lifesaving for many people in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

This was the resounding message at the territory’s first virtual Breast in the Spotlight Symposium hosted by the Ministry of Health.

The symposium was live streamed on Facebook on Monday (October 12) at 6pm in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month which is observed in October annually.

The symposium was aimed at raising awareness about the risks and signs of breast cancer, as well as methods for diagnosing breast cancer during its earlier and more treatable stages.

Panellists included Jamaican oncologist Dr Dingle Spence, oncology nurse with TCI Hospital Latoya Silvera, nutritionist from the Ministry of Health’s Primary Health Care Department Lakeisha Wilson, Jamaican clinical psychologist Dr Keisha BowlaHines, and breast cancer survivor Michelle Swann.

Speaking via a video link, Dr Spence, senior medical officer at Hope Institute Hospital, told viewers about breast cancer risks and prevention, what early detection is and why it matters.

She explained that while breast cancer is more common in women, men can also develop cancer of the breast too.

“I know a lot of people think that only women get breast cancer but that’s not true, men also get breast cancer obviously at much reduced frequency but it’s still a disease of both genders.

“It’s rare, so I would say it’s certainly less than five people per 100,000 population, so if TCI has a population of 50 we might see one or two men per year possibly.”

She explained that breast cancer is a complex disease caused by the combined effects of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors.

“Ideally breast cancer is something difficult to prevent 100 percent, so what you want to do is to reduce one’s risk.”

Dr Spence pointed out that it is important for people to understand that breast cancer is not just a disease of the breast, it can be a disease of the whole body.

“So even though you might start with a lump in your breast and have that successfully removed we always have to think about the possibility that the cancer may have sent seedlings around the body.

“And therefore we think of it as what we would call a systemic disease and not just an illness of the breast, but something that can affect a women or man’s entire body.”

She stressed that women over 45 should have a mammogram annually.

Turning her attention to hereditary breast cancer, the doctor explained that although most cases of breast cancer are not caused by inherited genetic factors, however some are.

In hereditary breast cancer, the way that cancer risk is inherited depends on the gene involved.

She added that: “It’s about 10 percent, so about one in ten women will have family history of breast cancer and maybe at increased risk.

“I think in particular in TCI because it’s very small, I think a lot of people are related to other people.

“And so what we see in TCI is a little bit of a skewed picture and we see a lot more folks with relatives who have breast cancer.”

She said it would be interesting to do a study to see if the percentage is higher in the TCI. SELF-EXAMINATION A simple self-examination has long been touted as a good way for women to increase their breast awareness and detect any new changes which can be discussed with their doctors.

This point was highlighted by oncology nurse with TCI Hospital,

Symposium speakers - oncology nurse at TCI Hospital Latoya Silvera, host Aldora Robinson, Ministry of Health nutritionist Lakeisha Wilson and breast cancer survivor Michelle Swann

The first annual symposium was broadcast live on Facebook

Latoya Silvera, who said there is value in women being familiar with their own breasts.

“We would suggest to our women to find some time for yourself, get in front of the mirror and do a self-breast examination.

“When you stand in front of the mirror, you will notice the shape of your breast, you will notice if there are any lumps, so you want to observe all of that…

“It predominantly affects women and women over the age of 40, therefore I would suggest that these women if they feel lump or any suspicion they should contact their family doctor.”

She explained that although most breast changes detected during a self-exam for breast awareness have benign causes, some changes may signal something serious.

“That doesn’t mean it’s cancerous, sometimes some

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tumours in the breast are benign.”

The chances of getting breast cancer increase as women age, with more than 80 percent of breast cancer cases occurring in women over 50.

Keeping fit, maintaining a healthy weight, minimising alcohol intake and avoiding smoking are just some of the ways women can prevent the disease.

Lakeisha Wilson, nutritionist from the Ministry of Health’s Primary Health Care Department, during her presentation highlighted risk factors.

She emphasised that a wellbalanced diet which includes fresh fruits and vegetables and is low in sodium and sugar is crucial to maintaining a healthy body.

“Just being active, just doing a brisk walk for 30 minutes a day would help to lower your risk of breast cancer.”

Dr Spence echoed similar sentiments, she said: “Breast cancer self-examination is very important, but if we want to look at the bigger picture good general health is more important.

“Don’t allow yourself to get overweight, take regular exercise, eat fresh food. I think that breast health equals general health as well.”

The oncology department at the TCI Hospital provides a range of modern facilities to the residents of all the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Dr Spence lauded the territory’s oncology programme as one of the best in the region.

She said: “I don’t think people in the TCI realise this - the population in the TCI gets some of the best oncology treatment in the entire Caribbean.

“I can prescribe things in the TCI that I can only dream about in Jamaica, because you have such a great national insurance service.”

Treatments include chemotherapy (oral or intravenous), biological therapies and additional treatments such as hormone therapies and bisphosphonates.

Over the past five years in the TCI there has been a significant increase in the number of breast cancer diagnoses, totalling 122 men and women.

From January to September there have been seven newly diagnosed cases. The most affected age group among women is 45 to 65-years-old.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women overall, both in developed and developing countries.

It is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women in 140 of the 184 countries worldwide.

Since 2008 worldwide breast cancer incidence has increased by more than 20 percent and mortality has increased by 14 percent.

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Cookies, geeks and water THE SALT CAY NOTE

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HIS is the 60th Salt Cay Note.

It seems only yesterday that I wrote about having completed 50 columns.

Since that milestone was reached we have had a cannon fall off a bluff, a fire, a renewed curfew, and we have launched a website for the Salt Cay Note, saltcaynote. com If one is to believe a very talented geek who, with the help of ‘cookies’ and other tech tools, analyses the Salt Cay Note, its ‘hits’ and things like search engine optimisation, our readership on all the combined outlets has reached a whopping 3,000 plus.

I am not entirely sure how to explain the success of a column that is part diary, part ongoing commentary about the one of the smallest populated islands in this archipelago, which we are fortunate to call home, but somehow it appears to resonate with people.

My own, probably oversimplified explanation is that during these times of uncertainty it is perhaps comforting and reassuring to read about a little place where there prevails a sense of normality and simply ‘getting on with it’, with a remarkable spirit of cautious optimism and resilience.

So much for the cookies and geeks.

When I first moved to Salt Cay, a little over four years ago, I remember someone telling me: “It never rains on Salt Cay.” With rainwater, mostly collected in above-ground cisterns, still being a significant contributor to the island’s water supply, conservation is both a necessity and very much a way of life.

In the event of severe draught one can - and must - rely on the Government’s reverse osmosis plant, but understandably this comes at a cost.

Then, suddenly, starting in early

BY TITUS DE BOER

Titus de Boer was born in Hamburg and spent his formative years in the West Indies.

After a formal education in Germany and subsequent training as a journalist, he moved to the TCI in 1989. Titus’ Salt Cay stories and photographs can be found on www.saltcaynote.com

September 2016, it rained constantly.

Indeed I remember some of the oldtimers telling me that they hadn’t seen that much rain in a long time. The island blossomed, cisterns filled up and in some cases overflowed.

Of course nobody minded the unusual, above average amount of rain.

It was a welcome reprieve.

Fast forward to the September of 2020. How can you tell that it hasn’t rained properly on Salt Cay for a while, other than the dust, the dried out salinas and a look into an empty cistern?

Enter...garden hoses! While it is possible to have water delivered to one’s house by truck (between 500 to 1,000 gallons a time), if you really want to make a difference to your cistern’s water content, you ‘plug’ into the government RO plant.

This is really easy if, let’s say, you live 100 feet away from it, but does become a bit more of a challenge with increased distance.

And yet, over the years, the residents of Salt Cay have truly perfected the ‘let’s run a garden hose across neighbouring properties, streets, walls, etc. for as long as it takes’ method of supplying one’s

Water being pumped from the government water catchment

house with H2O. What may appear really abstract to readers in Providenciales where ‘city water’ is something one doesn’t spend too much time thinking about and more or less takes for granted, has however become increasingly challenging on Salt Cay when faced with a RO plant that these days does not work for weeks on end.

So much for plugging into the system and all those hoses.

And so, the residents owe much to the ingenuity and forward thinking of Enrique Dickenson, who not only delivers water but also appears to source the precious H2O when and where no one else can, and who had the foresight to fill the Government

water catchment - until the RO plant packed up.

But even the most ingenious, resourceful water manager will eventually run out of options and it would appear that we have come to that point.

Sporadically, a part will come in, an engineer will make an appearance and there is a glimmer of hope, but for too long now the RO plant hasn’t really performed satisfactorily.

In last week’s Salt Cay Note I had bragged about the fact that Salt Cay is a place where “stuff works,” and so a note to the decision makers - let’s get this thing sorted and we can continue bragging, and take a shower while we’re at it!

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Soroptimists donate tablets to TCI girls

BY OLIVIA ROSE SEVERAL female primary school students have been given electronic tablets to assist with their online studies.

The donation was made by Soroptimist International Providenciales branch on Saturday (October 10).

In celebration of International Day of the Girl Child, members of the organisation visited the homes of girls in Providenciales to deliver their devices.

The United Nations designated day is observed every year on October 11. This year’s theme ‘My voice, our equal future’ focused on how girls globally are leading the way.

To celebrate the day, the club solicited tablets from businesses and individuals who wanted to support vulnerable children with online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Program action leader Rachael Taylor said: “Soroptimist International Provo will continue its efforts to garner the support to provide additional electronic devices for students, as we seek to empower them for tomorrow, giving them equal opportunities to access their education during these challenging times.”

She said observing International Day of the Girl Child helps to promote the empowerment and fulfilment of girls while also highlighting the challenges that girls experience.

“Progress for adolescent girls has not kept pace with the realities they face today, and Covid-19 has

reinforced many of these gaps.

“Girls of the TCI, we are here to constantly remind you that you have the right to a safe, educated, and healthy life, not only during your critical formative years, but also as you mature into womanhood.”

Taylor added that everyone has a role to play in ensuring girls in the TCI are equipped to take advantage of the various platforms available to them.

“Platforms that will allow them to use their voices to speak up and speak out against all injustices they may experience in an effort to achieve their equal rights in all sectors of life.”

She said the TCI women continue to pave a positive way for girls to follow.

“We have positioned ourselves as a constant reminder that they have the ability to change their country and through continuous empowerment have an even greater impact on the world.

“Our girls will have a bright future of hope and prosperity, if we all take the time to show we care in spite of their background, social status, ethnicity, disability or education.

“Let us inspire our girls as they are tomorrow’s mothers, employees, business women and politicians.

“Thank you to the Soroptimist sisters for their continuous role in the advancement of girls across the TCI.” On December 19, 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare this special day in an effort to recognise girls’ rights and the special challenges girls face around the globe.

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Weight loss surgery should not be classified as cosmetic, says MP

BY DELANA ISLES A MEMBER of parliament is calling on the Government and the National Health Insurance Board to amend their policy in order to allow funding for weight loss surgery.

Hon. George Lightbourne, elected representative for Grand Turk North, said bariatric surgery can be life-saving and should be provided for in the National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP).

“I have been contacted by several persons who are in dire need of life saving bariatric surgery,” he said.

“These persons are telling me that they are being told by NHIP that the hospital is not willing to pay for their surgery or even refer them to another hospital for help because they consider this particular surgery to be a cosmetic procedure.”

Bariatric surgery is an operation that helps people to lose weight by making changes to their digestive system.

Some types of bariatric surgeries make the patient’s stomach smaller, allowing them to eat and drink less and feel full sooner.

Lightbourne said he has called on the Government and the health insurance board to amend their policy forthwith so as to accommodate these patients before it is too late.

“Some of these persons have

very serious medical conditions such as lymphedema and I also know of another person who is in need of a kidney transplant and is unable to acquire one without first doing a bariatric survey.”

He said it is a matter of urgency that the policy be amended.

“Once again I am asking the medical authorities to act with haste and give this matter the level of seriousness that it deserves.”

Bariatric surgery is widely considered to be cosmetic and is not funded by most government health programmes.

However, medical professionals have over the years been divided on whether it should be classified as such.

Cosmetic surgery is typically done to enhance looks. A person who loses weight due to a bariatric surgery and looks better due to the weight loss, is merely experiencing a ‘side-effect’ of the surgery, health professionals argue.

They say it is not the aim of the procedure to make a person look better, but to help him or her to lose weight and live a healthy life.

According to a number of physicians, if a person loses even 10 percent of their body fat, they will be able to see a remarkable change in the severity of conditions such as diabetes, heart function, infertility, menopausal symptoms due to hormonal imbalances among several others.

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The dieffenbachia is one of the most dangerous plants for humans and animals alike

The dieffenbachia ONE of the favourite plants is one my mother grew indoors back in Canada. Every time I see this plant memories of my childhood home come back to me.

The dieffenbachia is a plant of Brazilian origin with very large oblong leaves on short stems offering various variegations: large spots, pits and parallel stripes.

Their large, showy foliage hides the fact that it is one of the most dangerous plants for humans and animals alike.

But with the proper handling and care, the dangers of having dieffenbachia can be avoided. I mean I grew up with this plant and I’m writing this today, just sayin’.

Dieffenbachia are evergreen plants with leaves that are patterned green and white.

They grow up to 12 inches tall and sometimes bloom into a pale spathe inflorescence that is rather inconspicuous under the large, showy foliage.

Also known as dumb canes, they are used by natives in various folklore medicines and as an ingredient in poison arrows.

‘Camille’ is one of the cultivars of D. seguine. This cultivar grows up to 31 inches tall and features large, oval leaves with a delicate pattern of dark green margin that fades to a creamy white at the centre.

‘Exotica’ is a tall, showy cultivar of D. seguine. This cultivar features ivory white leaves with green specks and

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a narrow green pattern on the margin. They can grow up to 24 inches tall.

‘Oerstidii’ is the only variety of dieffenbachia that has leaves that are almost green throughout, except for the midrib which is ivory white.

The leaves are impressive with their solid matte colour. They can grow up to 51 inches in height.

Other varieties of dieffenbachia include ‘tropic snow’, ‘honeydew’, ‘snow’ and ‘tiki’.

This is one plant that you can grow indoors and of course outdoors. Dieffenbachia is not the hardiest of houseplants. It is quite fickle and fussy when it comes to its growth requirements.

But with the proper care and maintenance you can keep your dieffenbachia plants thriving for years.

Dieffenbachia thrives well under shaded conditions, but that does not mean it doesn’t need light.

Place your dieffenbachia plants in areas where they can receive diffused sunlight or in partially shaded areas.

Dieffenbachia are herbaceous plants with lots of water in their stems. Overwatering can cause the plant to develop leaf yellowing and root/base rot.

Pay close attention in watering your dieffenbachia plants. Water

them regularly while allowing the soil to dry before the next watering, like you would do with any other indoor plants.

Dieffenbachia plants grow best in loose and fertile soil that drains well. A well-draining soil is important to prevent overwatering.

They are heavy feeders which means they require more nutrients compared to average plants. You can use fertiliser every four to six weeks during February to October.

The great thing about the dieffenbachia is that it’s easy to propagate through stem cuttings or tip cuttings.

When propagating by stem cuttings, choose ones that have at least one lateral bud and cut them into two inch pieces.

You can just lay them on their sides in moist soil or in sphagnum moss for faster rooting, and then at some point you wind up with a new plant.

For tip cuttings, just choose from either the terminal bud or the lateral bud of the plant. When propagating dieffenbachia, make sure to avoid contact of the plant sap with your skin.

You can see some beautiful dieffenbachia at the entrance of the Beaches Resort.

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IMF slashes Bahamas prospects for rebound THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week, dampened The Bahamas’ prospects of a swift rebound from COVID-19 by slashing this nation’s projected 2021 economic growth to 4.6 per cent.

Its revised forecast, which shaved 2.1 percentage points off the 6.7 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth it predicted for The Bahamas back in April, further signals that this nation - in common with many others - faces a longer and harder road to recover from the pandemic than initially thought.

The IMF, in its latest World Economic Outlook, also brought its projections for the extent to which the Bahamian economy will shrink in 2020 more into line with those of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the credit rating agencies, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (S&P).

The Fund, which had forecast an 8.3 percent contraction during the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, is now predicting a 14.8 percent shrinkage. This compares to the Central Bank’s projection of a 15-20 percent decline, and the 20 percent contractions estimated by the credit rating agencies.

Using 2018 real GDP data, as the 2019 figures are not yet available, the IMF’s forecast would see Bahamian economic output shrink from $10.763bn to $9.17bn - a loss of $1.593bn in real economic output.

Applying the IMF’s revised 4.6 percent GDP growth estimate for 2021 to the $9.17bn figure results in Bahamian GDP rebounding by some $420m to $9.59bn, a figure that is

still some $1.173bn below 2018’s economic output, and which gives an insight into the severity of the losses and devastation inflicted by COVID-19.

The IMF’s projections came as James Smith, the former minister of state for finance and Central Bank governor, accused The Bahamas of “fumbling the ball” by failing to contain its COVID-19 infection rate well below those of its major source markets to give visitors sufficient confidence to travel to this nation.

Warning that there will be no COVID-19 recovery unless this is addressed such that tourism can recover, he told this newspaper: “The crux of the matter is we’re facing a pandemic. The pandemic is stopping visitors coming in, which is our main foreign exchange earner.

“To create an environment where they feel safe we need to take measures that demonstrate the rate of infection in The Bahamas is going down compared to the rest of the world. That would give confidence and comfort to a visitor, but we’re going in the opposite direction.”

New Providence, prior to the weekend lockdown, was averaging between 50 to 100 new COVID-19 cases per day, or around 500-600 per week, amid complaints that The Bahamas is lagging when it comes to testing and contact tracing.

“Why come to The Bahamas if it is a higher infection rate than where you are coming from?” Mr Smith asked. “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see what the solution is: Bring the rate down and give confidence to travellers that it is safe to come.

Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) chief executive, Gowon Bowe, said that the IMF’s economic growth projections for The Bahamas and many other countries are “guesstimates as opposed to estimates”.

“We’re almost at the end of the year, and are still having increases in our major tourism recipient island of New Providence. We’ve not been dealing with the pandemic in a way that gives comfort to the travelling public.”

Arguing that a rapid tourism turnaround was unlikely for at least six months, which would take The Bahamas through much of the peak winter tourism season to the end of the 2021 first quarter, Mr Smith reiterated: “What would make the visitor, 80 percent of whom come from the US, comfortable coming to The Bahamas if The Bahamas has a higher infection rate than they do?

“They’ll fly over here, and go to a destination that has a lower rate. We took our eyes off the ball when we opened too quickly to allow Bahamians to go into Florida,

which was a hot spot, and let them off testing if they returned within 72 hours.”

Gowon Bowe, Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) chief executive, told Tribune Business that the IMF’s economic growth projections for The Bahamas and many other countries are “guesstimates as opposed to estimates” given that so much remains unknown as to how the COVID-19 pandemic will ultimately play out.

In the Bahamas’ case, this was the uncertainty surrounding the strength and timing of any tourism rebound.

“Until the dust returns to a normal economic flow there’s always going to be revisions,” Mr Bowe said.

“Until we have a tourism re-opening there’s only going to be uncertainty.

“The Bahamas’ fortunes or misfortunes always be linked to that

industry. The economy is not built for the 400,000 citizens and residents of The Bahamas. It’s built for that 400,000 plus the five to seven million visitors that come on an annual basis.

“That five to seven million probably equate to another one million persons on a daily basis in The Bahamas. Our is built on the size of 1.5m consumers, so to have that drop to 400,000 is a very drastic position,” he added.

“There will be no clear understanding of the recovery until that one million trickles back in. I would expect there to be constant revisions until we have some certainty on the tourism market position for The Bahamas.”

Matt Aubry, the Organisation for Responsible Governance’s (ORG) executive director, responded “ouch” when informed of the IMF’s revised GDP growth projections for The Bahamas. However, he said these reflected the increasing uncertainty over the timing and strength of the global economic recovery as increasing numbers of countries impose new COVID-19 restrictions.

Noting Carnival Cruise Line’s decision to push the resumption of sailing back to December 2020 at earliest, and with many major Bahamian hotels yet to confirm their re-opening dates, Mr Aubry said of the IMF’s actions: “I think this is evidence of how things are rolling out.

“The hope and premise was it would be a more manageable scenario in the fall, and as we move to November 1 and the re-opening of tourism we see more indications that confidence is just not there.”

(Tribune242)

Several Jamaicans on November ballots in US polls WITH early voting already under way in a number of states, with others set to start polling later this month, there is a massive push within communities with large numbers of Jamaican and Caribbean nationals to rally support for a number of Jamaicans running for posts in the November 3 elections to elect a president and fill Senate and House seats across the country.

Among them are two Jamaican women representing the Democratic Party in races in the United States House of Representatives.

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke is running for re-election in the Brooklyn Congressional seat she currently holds while Jackie Gordon is seeking to become the first woman of colour to win the second congressional seat on Long Island.

If Gordon is successful, she would replace Republican Congressman Pete King, the long-time holder of the seat who decided not to seek

Jackie Gordon is seeking to become the first woman of colour to win the second congressional seat on Long Island.

re-election. She would become the first Jamaica-born member of the US House of Representatives.

Gordon was born in Jamaica but grew up in Queens, New York.

She served for more than 29 years

in the United States Armed Forces and is an educator. She is a longtime resident of Long Island and has served on a number of boards as well as the Babylon Town Council. Her campaign is focused on improving access to healthcare and education, support for veterans and military families, as well as boosting the economy and reviewing taxation.

Also facing the electorate on November 3 are Donna McLeod, who is seeking re-election to the Georgia House of Representatives; Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, who is aiming to hold on to her Rhode Island House of Representatives seat; Hazel Rogers, who is seeking re-election as mayor of Lauderdale Lakes in Florida; and Kay Maragh, who could make history if she gets the nod as the first Jamaica-born woman to become mayor of Palm Bay City in Central Florida.

Justice Sam Walker is seeking re-election to the New York State Supreme Court.

Also running are Marlon Bolton, who wants to be returned as vicemayor of the City of Tamarac in Florida; Melissa Dunn and Richard Campbell, who are seeking to win seats as commissioners in Lauderhill, Florida; Michael Jones, who wants to become city commissioner in Tamarac; Dale Holness for commissioner of Broward County, Florida; Mark Douglas, who is running unopposed as commissioner for the City of Sunrise in Florida; and Jeff Holness, who is running for the school board in Broward County..

Anton Andrew, whose mother is from Jamaica and his father from Trinidad, is also aiming to get the nod for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Among his priorities are full and fair funding for public schools, fighting gun violence, expanding access to affordable healthcare, as well as protecting a woman’s right to choose. (Jamaica Gleaner)

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The unprecedented military presence on the border comes on the heels of unrest in northeastern Haiti, where local media report clashes between rival gangs.

Almost 10,000 Dominican troops at the border on Haiti turmoil SOME 9,748 members of the Dominican military have been deployed along the border with Haiti, including 120 Intelligence specialists to control alien trafficking.

The unprecedented military presence on the border comes on the heels of unrest in northeastern Haiti, where local media report clashes between rival gangs.

The deployment was ordered by Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Carlos Díaz Morfa, who said that the armed forces manage and improve actions to control the illicit trafficking of people, goods and drugs.

“The old-fashioned idea of ??a neglected border region, with little surveillance, in charge of poorly equipped and isolated military posts, is a thing of the past,” Díaz noted this week.

He revealed that surveillance on the border is charged to 8,672 members of the Army, who have now been joined by 153 sailors from the Navy, 83 from the Air Force, 702 from the Specialized Border Security Corps (Cesfront), 18 from the Specialized Port Security Corps, and 120 intelligence specialists from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

There are approximately 11,200 closed-ended or private funds registered in the Cayman Islands.

Cayman Islands named top domicile for private equity funds THE Cayman Islands has been named ‘Best Private Equity Fund Domicile’ at the 2020 Private Equity Wire US Awards.

The awards, hosted by industry publication Private Equity Wire, were announced at a virtual ceremony on 8 Oct. According to the publication, “The winners represent the best in the US private equity industry, from GPs [General Partners] to service providers, covering all the various

parts of the private equity ecosystem.”

Bloomberg partnered on the awards, providing the data based on which finalists were shortlisted before a vote by industry representatives determined the winners.

“This means that winning a Private Equity Wire award constitutes a vote of recognition from your peers and a significant mark of achievement, particularly so in this extraordinary year,” PE Wire said in a press release.

There are approximately 11,200 closed-ended or private funds registered in the Cayman Islands.

Cayman Gov’t still cautious over resort ‘bubbles’ THE recent scare of a potential reemergence of COVID-19 in the community has further fuelled government’s hesitancy over the concept of resort ‘bubbles’ as a way to kick-start the tourism sector.

Premier Alden McLaughlin outlined at a recent press briefing the dilemma he feels the government faces over trying to protect the people of the Cayman Islands from the virus while facing the collapse of tourism, once the second most important pillar of the economy.

The premier said the hoteliers will not force government’s hand to reopen, regardless of the discussion about resort bubbles, because the CIG is still not satisfied they can be safe.

With a steady flow of people coming into and leaving the Cayman Islands, public concerns increased over the soft opening. Many have seen this as an opening for returning visitors to bring the virus with them.

These fears were then stoked by the suspected outbreak at Red Bay Primary, though, based on testing and tracing, that was almost certainly an isolated case.

However, McLaughlin said Friday that there is no general tourism yet.

It is also evident the government

remains reluctant to spell out when and how the borders can open to tourists, despite the vocal pleas from some of the larger hotels and other tourism-related businesses entirely dependent on visitors that cannot transition their business model or manage on the government support offered so far.

Speaking at the press briefing, the premier said he was not sure how much more careful government could be in its effort to keep the island free of coronavirus. He said many people think government is being far too conservative about who it is currently allowing in and the circumstances surrounding the quarantine rules, as he spoke of the conflict he, as leader, must now resolve.

“We constantly get pressure from the tourism operators that we need to open up,” he said, because of the fears many businesses will close down. “But we have resisted and we will continue to resist those entreaties until we do so safely,” McLaughlin said, as he warned that even “safely” is not without risk.

On the other hand, the premier said he was “aware we cannot exist in a complete bubble going forward

and none of us know how long this pandemic will last. Considering how others are living around the world and the death, too, shows how well off we are, despite the challenges.”

“But anyone who believes… they’re going to force the hand of government… they have gotten it wrong,” he said as he pointed to the Ritz-Carlton and the Chamber of Commerce. “There is a lot of discussion going on about resort bubbles and government has not closed its mind to that, but we are not yet satisfied that we can do so safely.

Until we are satisfied, that is not going to happen,” the premier stated.

Government will now be occupied by the Legislative Assembly for the next two weeks. However, no information has been released about phase 2 of the reopening or if, indeed, government plans to make any changes next month to the categories of potential visitors, increases in flights, clearance for additional commercial airlines or changes to the quarantine and homeisolation regime and protocols.

There has been no indications at all from the premier or the tourism minister when, or what, phase 2 of the reopening process will be. (CNS)

Canada now on Barbados’ high-risk list BARBADOS has placed Canada in the high-risk category in a new set of COVID-19 travel protocols which go into effect on October 16.

Canada has recently been recording a steep rise in coronavirus cases, with Ontario recording 809 new cases and Quebec 1 097 yesterday, causing the instituting of measures in some

parts of the country to control the spread of the disease. Border restrictions have been put in place since March. Canadians have been advised to avoid all non-essential travel out of their country.

People travelling to Barbados from high-risk countries are required to have a PCR test done within three days before arrival,

and must present the negative test result. They will be retested two or three days after arrival.

However, if that negative test result was not received in time for the trip, the visitor can have the test done on arrival in Barbados and must remain in quarantine until the negative test result is received. (Barbados Nation)

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The Haitian president says he wants students to know that he has heard their cries and understands their frustration.

Haitian president calls for calm, asks police to shed light on student’s killing Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang (left) in discussion with Lloyd Distant, president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, at an even last year.

Over 700 Jamaicans murdered since COVID-19 outbreak AMID the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 700 people have been murdered across Jamaica since the dreaded respiratory ailment reached local soil.

The staggering death toll comes despite a range of stringent COVID-19 containment measures that have restricted the movement of citizens.

Ten of the 19 police divisions nationwide were also blanketed by states of emergency (SOEs) for varying periods this year.

A total of 268 murders were recorded between January 1 and March 10 this year, when Jamaica confirmed its first case of the virus.

Since then, there have been 709 reported killings, pushing the year-to-date total to 977 up to last weekend, according to statistics obtained by The Sunday Gleaner.

Nationally, murders are down 1.7 per cent when compared with the corresponding period last year, but this was of little comfort to some business leaders.

“This wouldn’t be surprising under normal circumstances, but it’s disappointing, given the fact that there are a number of measures I

know the Government has attempted to put in place,” said Lloyd Distant Jr, president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce.

“I know the commissioner of police and the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) continue to work arduously at stemming the ongoing increase in crime. We know that those things are happening, so it’s just disappointing to hear that those things have not resulted in the reduction that we seek,” he added.

Days after the first positive COVID case was confirmed, the entire island was declared a disaster area by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, paving the way for a range of measures aimed at curtailing the spread.

Among the measures were allisland curfews, which require citizens to remain indoors, and a lockdown of the entire parish of St Catherine as well as several communities in the capital city, St Mary and Clarendon.

But according to the statistics, St Catherine, which was also blanketed by a SOE up to August 17, leads all parishes with 123 killings across its two police divisions since March 10.

Beau Rigabie, commanding officer for the St Catherine North Police, could not confirm The Sunday Gleaner’s figure, but said gangsters fighting for “dominance” of lucrative turf in the Old Capital were contributing to the killings.

Other causative factors, he said, were domestic disputes and streetlevel crimes committed by armed thugs.

Rigabie disclosed that a number of gangsters are now in police custody, but acknowledged that the decades-old problem of access to cell phone in jails continues to present a challenge for the police.

“It’s no secret that St Catherine North has two of the most violent gangs. There are still persons out there hell-bent on creating mayhem through their gang activities,” he said, making reference to the Clansman and One Order gangs.

Over the near eight-month period since the first confirmed case of COVID-19, there were also 75 murders in the St Andrew South Police Division, 71 in St James, 58 in Kingston West, and 45 each in Clarendon and the Kingston East.

(Jamaica Gleaner)

HAITIAN President Jovenel Moise is calling on the country’s justice and police departments to bring to light the circumstances surrounding the death earlier this month of a university student, allegedly at the hands of police.

Moise also appealed to student protesters to remain calm as the nation awaits the findings of investigators in the case of 29-yearold Gregory Saint-Hilaire.

“All those involved must do their jobs – which means the justice department, including the police, DCPG (the director general of the national police force) – everyone in general. We must find the truth surrounding the death of the student,” Moise said in a video posted on his official Facebook page.

University students in the capital, Port-au-Prince, organized five days of protests last week, at times becoming violent, to demand justice and revenge in the death of SaintHilaire.

He was killed on university grounds while demanding the teaching job he was promised after graduating. The national ministry of education signed an agreement with the Ecole Normale Superieure (the state university Saint-Hilaire attended) offering internships and teaching jobs to graduates. That didn’t happen, angering students, who accused officials of playing politics.

“We are out in the streets to ask for our right to life to be respected.

This is a fight against impunity, this is a fight against injustice,” a student protester told VOA Creole, adding that the government does not seem prepared to respond to their calls for

justice.

Student Jean Ronald Olicier, an eyewitness who was with SaintHilaire at the time of his death, told VOA Creole the student was shot in the back by the USGPN [Unite de Securite Generale du Palais National] – the specialized police unit that protects the president and is under his command. Olicier said police fired tear gas at them, then live rounds as they were attempting to leave the university complex where they had been discussing job placement with university officials.

Saint-Hilaire lay bleeding inside the university complex for three hours, Olicier said, before students were able to get him to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Saint-Hilaire, described by fellow students as an honest man who was fighting for a just cause, lived in the Village de Dieu (Village of God) slum of the Haitian capital, notorious for gang violence. He graduated in 2018 from the Ecole Normale Superieure, which is is near the national palace. He majored in social sciences and then went on to study law at the school.

In his videotaped message, Moise offered condolences to Saint-Hilaire’s family, friends and fellow students, saying he remembered what it was like to be a university student. “I hope the circumstances of his death will be brought to light so we may all know what happened,” he said. “All those who were involved in the murder of the student should pay.”

The president said he wants students to know he has heard their cries and understands their frustration but called on them to remain calm.

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Labour shadow minister Dan Carden resigns over spying bill A LABOUR MP has resigned from the shadow frontbench over a bill to allow covert agents to break the law.

Former shadow financial secretary Dan Carden said he planned to go against the party whip so he could vote down the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill as “a matter of conscience”.

In a letter to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, he said he feared the law would set “dangerous new precedents”.

Labour MPs have been ordered to abstain when it returns to the Commons later.

The bill would explicitly authorise MI5, the police, the National Crime Agency and other agencies that use informants or undercover agents to commit a specific crime as part of an operation.

A number of Labour MPs have already voiced their concerns over the human rights implications of the legislation, as well as some Tory backbenchers, who believe it could impinge on people’s liberty.

The Unite union has also criticised the bill, saying there was a “well-documented history of state surveillance of lawful trade union

activity and justice campaigns in recent years” and it threatened their future.

In his letter, Mr Carden said he had followed the party’s orders on previous votes over the bill, hoping he could “work constructively to shift the party’s position towards opposing the bill” at its next stage, but it was “now clear that this has not been possible”.

He added: “You will understand that as a Liverpool MP and trade unionist, I share the deep concerns about this legislation from across the Labour movement, human rights organisations, and so many who have suffered the abuse of state power, from blacklisted workers to the Hillsborough families and survivors.”

Despite his resignation, Mr Carden said the Labour leader still had his “full support”.

He said: “My focus now and in the months ahead will remain on representing my Liverpool Walton constituency and fighting for the people of my city as we face the huge

Dan Carden was Labour’s shadow financial secretary until his resignation.

challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. “ CHILD SPIES A cross-party group of MPs have put forward an amendment to the same legislation to stop children being used as undercover agents and informants - apart from in exceptional circumstances.

Presenting the amendment in

Parliament, Labour MP Stella Creasy said “not everyone of these people is James Bond who can give consent freely” and that some children who become involved in cases “will be very vulnerable people who will need us to stand beside them and insure their interests are protected”.

She added: “Let’s send the message that children should be children, not child spies.” (BBC)

Kyrgyzstan president Jeenbekov resigns after unrest Paulette Simpson, who is deputy chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee in the United Kingdom, is being honoured for services to the Caribbean community.

Influential Jamaican in Britain to receive Queen’s Honour A WELL-KNOWN and influential Jamaican in Britain, Paulette Simpson, is to be made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Simpson, who is deputy chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee in the United Kingdom, is being honoured for services to the Caribbean community in the UK by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II this year in her Birthday Honours.

She will be honoured along with 1,494 people this year receiving the Queen’s honour, some 96 of whom will be conferred with the order CBE. CBE is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award, followed by Officer of the Order of the British Empire and

then Member of the Order of of the British Empire.

Simpson is the deputy managing director of JN Bank in the United Kingdom, Britain’s first Caribbean-owned bank, which was launched last Thursday in London. She is also executive, corporate affairs and public policy in the UK for The Jamaica National Group, which owns JN Bank, and executive director of the Voice, Britain’s only black national newspaper.

In 2018, the Walderston, Manchester native, who attended Manchester High School, was also named in the 2018 Powerlist of Britain’s most influential people of African and African Caribbean heritage.

KYRGYZSTAN’S President Sooronbai Jeenbekov resigned on Thursday after days of protests over a disputed parliamentary election, saying he wants to prevent clashes and bloodshed between security forces and protesters.

“For me, peace in Kyrgyzstan, the integrity of the country, the unity of our people and tranquility in society are above all. There is nothing dearer to me than the life of each of my compatriots,” Jeenbekov said in an announcement published on the presidential website.

“I’m not holding on to power. I do not want to remain in the history of Kyrgyzstan as the President who shed blood and shot at his own citizens. Therefore, I’ve decided to resign.” eenbekov is the third president of Kyrgyzstan, a small country in Central Asia bordering China, to be removed from office after a popular uprising since 2005. Demonstrations kicked off on October 4, when the opposition rejected the results of a parliamentary election in which Jeenbekov’s allies claimed victory.

In the statement, Jeenbekov addressed Sadyr Japarov, one of the opposition leaders who was appointed prime minister on Wednesday, urging him to remove his supporters from the capital Bishkek

Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov said that peace was needed in the country.

and restore peace in the city. Japarov was previously in exile but returned to Kyrgyzstan in 2017, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. He was then arrested and jailed for 11 years but freed by the protesters a few days ago.

Following Jeenbekov’s resignation, parliament speaker Kanatbek Isayev would assume presidential powers. Should he also resign, the powers would pass to

Japarov, Reuters reported.

Hundreds of Japarov’s supporters were rallying some 700 meters away from the presidential residence. As news of Jeenbekov’s resignation reached them, they started chanting “Parliament must go!” and “Isayev must go!”

The prime minister’s spokesman declined to comment on whether Japarov would now press the speaker to stand down.

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Wine cellar donates $60,000 to youth charities

BY OLIVIA ROSE

Wine Cellar representatives hand over cheques totalling $60,000 to youth charity representatives

THE WINE Cellar has donated a whopping $60,000 to help foster youth development at three community-based organisations in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

On Tuesday, October 6, at a ceremony held at the Leeward Highway store, three charities that cater to young people were presented with cheques to help support their work.

The donation came from the proceeds of the 10th Annual Wine Cellar Golf and Fishing Tournament held from March 5 to 8 at Provo Golf Course and Turtle Cove Marina.

The Edward Gartland Youth Centre, a non-profit organisation which provides a place for young people to enjoy activities from tutoring to sports and arts and crafts, received $20,000.

The Turks and Caicos Amateur Athletics Association, which affords youths the opportunity to participate in international sporting events, also received $20,000.

The third charity to benefit was Food for Thought TCI, which provides free breakfasts to children at Government primary schools in North, Middle and South Caicos and Salt Cay. It received 65 laptops worth $20,000 to assist school children with learning from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sales and marketing representative Desmond Williams told the Weekly News that making tangible contributions to empowering youths has always been at the core of the company.

He said it was “the whole reason for starting this charitable event”.

“Gilly [Galmo Williams, the owner of the Wine Cellar] saw there was a need to help youth based charities on the island.

“He always had a passion for helping the youths of Turks and Caicos and we just thought it was a good way to combine fun and raising money for a good cause.”

He added: “We would like to thank our sponsors and organisers who were key in our efforts to give back to the youth of the TCI community.

“We look forward with great anticipation to next year’s event.”

Over the last ten years the WCGFT Committee has donated an incredible $341,000 to help different youth-oriented charity organisations in the TCI.

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Stevie Wonder is ready to get back into the spotlight.

At 70, Stevie Wonder launches new record label venture, releases two new songs THE legend of Stevie Wonder lives on.

On Tuesday, the pop music world’s true genius announced the launch of a new record label venture and released two new songs.

So What The Fuss Music, a division of Republic Records/ Universal Music Group, marks a major departure for the 70-year-old singer/ songwriter/producer and multiple instrumentalist who has recorded for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records empire since being signed in 1961.

With the hip-hop-fused “Can’t Put It in The Hands of Fate” featuring rappers Rapsody, Cordae, Chika and Busta Rhymes, social justice themes such as Colin Kaepernick’s outspokenness, the reaction to Black Lives Matter movement and the police-involved murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd are explored.

“Can’t put it hands of fate, ain’t nobody got time to wait,” Rhymes raps on the chorus in his distinctive raspy voice.

Wonder’s iconic harmonica-

playing skills are laced throughout the Go-Go styled track.

In the guitar-laden, earthy “Where Is Our Love Song,” featuring Grammy Award winner Gary Clark Jr., Wonder poses the question about the whereabouts of a “desperately needed song for love of hope and peace for you and me and them and us” and a “desperately needed prayer for peace.”

All of Wonder’s proceeds from the song’s royalties will be donated to the Feeding America organization.

The book had been owned by a private US college since the 1960s.

Shakespeare First Folio fetches a record $10m at auction A COPY of William Shakespeare’s First Folio has been sold for a record $9.98m (£7.6m) at auction in New York.

The 1623 book, published seven years after the Bard’s death, was the first collected edition of his plays.

About 235 copies of the

book exist, but only a handful of complete versions are known to be in private hands.

The edition sold on Wednesday was the first complete copy to go under the hammer since 2001, when one fetched $6.1m (£4.9m) - the previous record.

It was sold by Mills College in Oakland, California - a private college that has owned it since the 1960s. The identity of the buyer was not immediately known.

Auction house Christie’s had conservatively estimated its value at between $4m-$6m.

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Kerry Washington says Black people are ‘seduced into voting conservative’ They’ll vote against their own best interests.’

Kerry Washington has a theory about why so many Black people are riding the Trump-train all the way to the voting polls on Nov. 3.

The actress believes there’s a reason why some Black voters “are seduced into voting conservative,” even if it means voting “against their own best interests.”

“I know from being on the campaign trail in ’08, and ’12, and now, how many Black folks are seduced into voting conservative, because of their feelings about gay marriage. They’ll vote against their own best interests on all these other areas, because of these ideas,” Washington explains in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Washington shares details with the publication about her upcoming Netflix movie The Prom, in which she plays a homophobic, conservative PTA president.

Washington hopes the character pushes “audiences to expand their idea of who they think conservatives are,” and also “hold up a mirror to folks of color in this country to say, ‘How are you treating your own children? Do you have the courage to truly love your children unconditionally?’ Because it’s a huge issue in communities of color,” she says.

The Ryan Murphy film is an adaptation of the Tony-nominated musical, starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden and

Jenkins is among dozens of top Hollywood directors appealing to the U.S. government to provide a financial lifeline to cinemas.

Director Jenkins warns moviegoing could become extinct Kerry Washington feels that a lot of Black people vote conservative, due to their stand on homosexuality.

Keegan Michael-Key. According to the synopsis, the story centers on selfobsessed theater stars who “swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom,” per IMDB.com.

Washington’s character objects to gay students at prom. In her THR interview, the actress compares homosexuality in the Black community to her own mother’s concerns about her pursuing an acting career. “[My mom] was like, ‘Your life is already going to be so hard as a Black

woman, do you really want to be a starving artist? Do you want to layer that on top of your struggles?’ I think that’s how a lot of parents of color of LGBTQ kids feel, like, ‘Honestly, you’re Black and a woman and now you want to love other women too, like really?’”

At the 2020 Golden Globes, Washington gushed to ET about The Prom and finally getting a chance to work with Murphy.

“I play a complex character,” she said. “There’s a little bit of a dark side to her, so I’m into it.” (The GRIO)

PATTY Jenkins’ new Wonder Woman movie has been delayed three times during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the director is sounding the alarm that movie-going itself is under real threat.

Jenkins is among dozens of top Hollywood directors appealing to the U.S. government to provide a financial lifeline to cinemas. Without it, she warned, the century-old tradition of going to the movies could disappear from American culture.

“If we shut this down, this will not be a reversible process,” she said in an interview from her home in Los Angeles. “We could lose movie theater-going forever.”

While theater attendance has rebounded in some countries following a global shutdown in March, the U.S. market is struggling.

Cineworld Group Plc is temporarily closing Regal locations that reopened in August. The National Association of Theatre Owners said 69% of small and mid-sized cinema companies could be forced to file for bankruptcy or shutter permanently.

Jenkins said widespread closures would lead Hollywood studios to stop investing in films for theaters, and turn to streaming instead.

“It could be the kind of thing that happened to the music industry,” she said, “where you could crumble the entire industry by making it something that can’t be profitable.”

Expensive action movies like “Wonder Woman” would be much less common on streaming, she said, and audiences would miss out on the experience of watching on a big screen in a large group.

Willow Smith says she and Jaden felt ‘shunned’ by the Black community for being ‘too different’ ON the latest episode of “Red Table Talk” on Facebook Watch, the cohost Willow Smith said she believed she and her brother Jaden Smith were “shunned a little bit” for being “too different.”

The 19-year-old singer made the comment after her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, recalled the waves of backlash she received after Willow cut her hair off at 11 years old.

Later in the episode, Jada Pinkett Smith said she was mom-shamed as Jaden Smith got older and began dressing unconventionally, like the time he wore a skirt for a Louis Vuitton campaign.

Willow Smith spoke candidly about feeling like an outcast during a new episode of her online TV show.

“Specifically with the African American community, I kind of felt like me and Jaden were shunned a little bit, like, ‘We’re not gonna take pride in them because they’re too different,’” the 19-year-old singer said of her and her brother during the latest episode of “Red Table Talk” on

Jaden and Willow Smith at the 2016 Met Gala

Facebook Watch, released Tuesday.

“Even some of our family members, I would feel they thought, ‘You’re too different,’” she added.

During the new episode of “RTT,” Willow sat down with her cohosts

— her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, and grandmother Adrienne Banfield Norris — to discuss mom-shaming.

Willow Smith’s comments about feeling judged by the Black community came after Pinkett

Smith said that the first time she got “hardcore” mom-shamed was when her daughter shaved her head at 11 years old. Willow Smith later said she underwent the drastic transformation as an act of rebellion after the success of her 2010 song “Whip My Hair.” She also went on to dye her hair green and later pink.

Pinkett Smith said during the discussion that the mom-shaming didn’t end there. She also felt backlash from the public as Jaden Smith got older. Specifically, the “Girls Trip” star recalled the negative attention the family received when her son wore a skirt for Louis Vuitton’s 2016 womenswear campaign.

“When he was wearing a skirt, then he isn’t what people consider your ‘typical Black man,’” Pinkett Smith said.

Jaden has continued to challenge fashion norms over the years by wearing heeled shoes to the 2017 Met Gala, donning a Batman suit to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s 2014 wedding, and sporting the outfit

again at prom in 2015. And in 2016, the actor launched a gender-neutral clothing line called MSFTSrep.

Speaking with Variety, Jaden Smith said the collection was made for “the girl that wants to be a tomboy or the boy that wants to wear a skirt, and people try to condemn.”

Two years later, he commented again on his fashion sense by tweeting: “If I wanna wear a dress, then I will, and that will set the new wave...”

Pinkett Smith said on “RTT” that people within the Black community “create stereotypes around ourselves,” which contributed to the shaming she said she got for her parenting.

“It’s something that we as a community really have to learn how to let go of,” the actress said.

“I know that people felt like: ‘It’s dangerous. You cannot afford to raise your children this way because it’s dangerous. You know what it’s like to be a Black or brown person in this world. You are doing your kids a disservice.’”

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Brexit: EU leaders to call for UK trade talks to continue EU leaders are set to call for postBrexit trade talks to continue beyond the end of the week - the deadline suggested by Boris Johnson.

They are gathering in Brussels for a two-day summit and are due to discuss Brexit later.

But a draft summit conclusions document seen by the BBC says they will urge the UK to make the “necessary moves” towards striking an agreement.

No 10 says the prime minister will decide the “next steps” on Friday.

Both sides are calling on each other to compromise on key issues, including fishing and limits on government subsidies to businesses.

They are seeking an agreement to govern their trading relationship once the UK’s post-Brexit transition period ends in December.

Mr Johnson expressed “disappointment” at recent progress in a pre-summit call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday, according to Downing Street.

As the summit got under way, Mrs von der Leyen said she would be self-isolating for the second time in a month after a member of her staff tested positive for Covid-19.

In a tweet, she added she had tested negative herself but would be leaving the summit “as a precaution”.

In the draft summit “conclusions” document, the EU expresses “concern” that not enough progress

More than half of England’s population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis is among 27 EU leaders discussing Brexit at the Brussels summit.

has been made in key areas for a deal to be reached.

It adds that the EU will “step up their work” for all possible outcomes, including the possibility a deal is not reached before December’s deadline.

Downing Street said the UK’s chief negotiator Lord Frost has returned to London and updated Mr Johnson on the “state of play”.

On Wednesday, a No 10 spokesman said Mr Johnson would “reflect” on the outcome of the summit “before setting out the UK’s next steps.”

Arriving at the summit, French

President Emmanuel Macron said his country’s fishermen would not “in any situation” be “sacrificed to Brexit”.

“We didn’t choose Brexit.

Preserving access for our fishermen to British waters is an important point for us,” he told reporters.

The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin said a deal was still possible “within the timeframe available to us”.

He told the BBC a no-deal outcome would represent a “significant additional shock to our societies” on top of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Russia approves second Covid-19 vaccine after preliminary trials RUSSIA has granted regulatory approval to a second Covid-19 vaccine, according to its register of authorized medicines.

A delighted President Vladimir Putin announced the news at a government meeting on Wednesday.

The jab was developed by the Vector Institute in Siberia and completed early-stage human trials last month. However, results have not been published yet and a largescale trial, known as Phase III, has not yet begun.

“We need to increase production of the first and second vaccine,” Putin said in comments broadcast on state TV. “We are continuing to cooperate with our foreign partners and will promote our vaccine abroad.”

The peptide-based vaccine, named EpiVacCorona, is the second to be licensed for use in Russia.

There has been a placebo-controlled trial on 100 volunteers between 18 and 60 in Novosibirsk.

Russia said it will produce thousands of coronavirus vaccines per month before the end of the year.

A shot developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, Sputnik V, was licensed for domestic use in August.

That vaccine, based on an adenovirus vector, was also registered before Phase III trials. A trial involving 40,000 participants is now under way in Moscow.

A large-scale human trial of EpiVacCorona is likely to begin in

November or December, the TASS news agency cited the consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, which oversees the institute, as saying this month.

The trial is expected to involve 30,000 volunteers, of whom the first 5,000 will be residents of Siberia, according to the Interfax news agency.

Covid alert level: London, Essex, York and other areas moving to Tier 2 MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

Under this “high” alert level, there is a ban on households mixing indoors, including in pubs and restaurants.

It comes as a final decision has yet to be made on whether Greater Manchester faces “very high” Tier 3 measures.

More than half of England’s population will now be living under high or very high-alert restrictions.

The areas to go into high alert restrictions this weekend are: London, Essex, Elmbridge in Surrey, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, York, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash and Derbyshire.

Delivering a statement to the Commons, the health secretary said “things will get worse before they get better”.

“Now, I know that these measures are not easy but I also know that they are vital,” Mr Hancock told MPs. “Responding to this unprecedented pandemic requires difficult choices, some of the most difficult choices any government has to make in peacetime.”

The new three-tier system sees every area of England classed as being on medium, high or very high alert - also known as Tiers 1 to 3, respectively.

It came into effect on Wednesday, and the Liverpool City Region remains the only area currently in the highest tier.

Labour mayor Sadiq Khan told London’s City Hall there was “simply no other option” to the new restrictions.

“Nobody wants to see more restrictions but this is deemed to be necessary in order to protect Londoners,” he said.

Mr Khan said he is continuing

to press the government for more financial support, adding that “we’ve got a difficult winter ahead”.

The London mayor also backed calls by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for a temporary national “circuit-breaker” - a short limited lockdown - to stem the spread of the disease.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS providers, said he favoured this move to ensure the NHS is not overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases.

“What we need to do is err on the side of caution to ensure the NHS has the capacity that it’s got to treat every patient over winter,” said.

However, concerns have been raised about the impact the restrictions will have on businesses, particularly in the hospitality sector.

The tier change means the capital’s 3,640 pubs and 7,556 restaurants will not be eligible for government support available to premises which have been ordered to close.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), the trade association for Britain’s brewing and pub sector, said Tier 2 restrictions without a “proper package of support” would “decimate” pubs.

Emma McClarkin, BBPA chief executive, said: “All pubs are already particularly struggling due to the current restrictions of the 22:00 curfew, rule of six and low consumer confidence exacerbated by low footfall caused by a lack of tourists and commuters.

“These further restrictions will leave most pubs fighting for their very survival.”

Nickie Aiken, Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, said she remained “deeply concerned about the impact further lockdown will have on the capital’s hospitality, leisure and retail businesses.”

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Kamala Harris halts travel after two involved in campaign test positive for coronavirus

Mrs Trump said her “fear came true” when Barron tested positive for Covid-19.

Trump’s son Barron had coronavirus, says first lady US President Donald Trump’s 14-year-old son Barron contracted coronavirus but has since tested negative, First Lady Melania Trump revealed.

Mrs Trump said her “fear came true” when Barron tested positive for Covid-19.

But, she said, “luckily he is a strong teenager and exhibited no symptoms.”

Both the president and first lady also tested positive for coronavirus - as well as other White House staff but have since recovered.

Before leaving for an Iowa campaign event on Wednesday, Mr Trump told reporters at the White House that his youngest son was doing “fine”.

An event at the White House on 26 September, for the unveiling of Mr Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, is thought to be the root of the localised outbreak.

The White House press secretary, former Trump counsellor Kellyanne Conway and two senators were among the people around the president who tested positive for the virus. On 2 October, hours after the first couple announced they had tested positive, Mrs Trump’s chief of staff Stephanie Grisham told US media that Barron had tested negative.

The US has recorded more than 7.8 million coronavirus cases and 216,000 deaths, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.

Mrs Trump revealed Barron’s positive test result in an essay entitled “My Personal Experience with Covid-19”, published on the White House website.

After she and the president received their positive results two weeks ago, she said “naturally, my mind went immediately to our son.”

DEMOCRATIC vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris’ communications director and a “non-staff flight crew member” have tested positive for the coronavirus, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign announced Thursday morning.

Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillion said that all inperson campaigning by the senator from California - including stops planned for today in the crucial battleground state of North Carolina - have be canceled for the rest of the week and weekend.

Dillion said the campaign learned late Wednesday night that both Allen and the non-staff flight crew member tested positive for COVID-19.

“Senator Harris was not in close contact, as defined by the CDC, with either of these individuals during the two days prior to their positive tests; as such, there is no requirement for quarantine,” Dillon announced in a statment.

But she emphasised that “regardless, out of an abundance of caution and in line with our campaign’s commitment to the highest levels of precaution, we are canceling Senator Harris’s travel through Sunday, October 18th, but she will keep a robust and aggressive schedule of virtual campaign activities to reach voters all across the country during this time.”

Dillon said that Harris tested negative for COVID on Wednesday and was expected be tested again on Thursday. She added that Harris would return to in-person campaigning on Monday.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris is expected to return to in-person campaigning on Monday.

She stressed that “neither of these people have had contact with Vice President Biden, Senator Harris or any other staffers since testing positive or in the 48 hours prior to their positive test results.”

And Dillon emphasised that Biden will continue on with his schedule today.

Two weeks ago President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, as well as top White House and Trump reelection campaign offiicials tested

positive for the coronavirus.

The president was hospitalized for treatment for three days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and was briefly sidelined from the campaign trail.

But the president has resumed holding rallies with large crowds of supporters tightly packed together and many not wearing masks, which goes against the warnings of national and local public health officials.

(Foxnews.com)

Queen carries out first public engagement outside royal residence since March THE Queen has carried out her first public engagement outside of a royal residence in seven months.

The monarch, 94, was joined by the Duke of Cambridge for the visit to Porton Down, near Salisbury, to meet scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

They also met staff involved in the rapid response to the Novichok poisoning attack in Salisbury in 2018.

Special safety measures were put in place to protect the Queen.

She arrived separately to her grandson William and all those due to come into close contact with the pair were tested for coronavirus ahead of the visit and came back negative.

Small groups of people taking part in the event were arranged two metres apart.

Neither the monarch nor William wore a face covering when they arrived and they walked two metres apart.

Kensington Palace declined to

The Queen was last seen outside a royal residence on 9 March, when she joined the Royal Family at Westminster Abbey for a Commonwealth Day service.

comment as to whether the duke was required to have a test in order to be able to accompany his grandmother.

A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: “Specific advice has been sought from the medical household and relevant parties, and all necessary precautions taken,

working closely with DSTL.” But the pressure group Republic said the Queen should have been “setting an example” by wearing a face mask.

Face coverings are required by law in certain indoor settings, such as on public transport, in shops and

places of worship.

The government recommends wearing a face covering in indoor places where social distancing may be difficult and where the public come into contact with those they do not normally meet.

Royal commentator Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, said the Queen and William would inevitably be criticised, but medical advice would have been carefully followed.

Until now, the Queen has been in royal residences with a household of reduced staff, nicknamed HMS Bubble.

She knighted Captain Sir Tom Moore in the grounds of Windsor Castle in July and had also watched a socially-distanced Trooping the Colour there for her birthday the previous month.

The Queen travelled to Balmoral for her private summer break and also spent a few weeks in Sandringham before returning to Windsor on 6 October.

Before the Porton Down visit, she had last been seen outside a royal residence on 9 March, when she joined the Royal Family at Westminster Abbey for a Commonwealth Day service.

The monarch and William were shown weaponry used in counterintelligence during their visit to DSTL and met counter-terrorism staff.

As part of the visit, they then spoke to those involved in identifying the nerve agent used in the Novichok incident, and those who worked on the decontamination clean-up operation.

Russian intelligence has been accused of being behind the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Months after the attack, Dawn Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley fell ill in nearby Amesbury.

Ms Sturgess later died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to be linked to the case.

(BBC)

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22663

PALM GROOVE, GRAND TURK 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. To work 5 days a week. Salary: $7 per hourly

CONTACT: 649-332 5934

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22825

FLAMINGO SPA

11 Mark Cl., Cooper Jack Is seeking a

#6 Bible Street, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

MASON - $8 HOURLY

SPA THERAPIST

• Manicure, pedicure, massages, waxing and facials.

• Must have 5 years experience.

Salary based on commission

GARDENSCAPE TCI Position Available

GARDENER

to work 5 days a week including some weekends.

Applicant should be able to work without supervision and have good time management skills and eye for pruning.

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board Work permit holders currently holds these positions 22846

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22841

ALL INTERESTED APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO P.O. BOX 521, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS OR EMAIL: GARDENSCAPETCI@GMAIL.COM SALARY $8.00 PER HOUR. NB: THIS AD IS FOR A WORK PERMIT RENEWAL. 22836

GIBSON DESIGN BUILT

GIORDANI PHANOR

ISLAND BARGAINS

CONTACT: 333-1199

Department: Bank and Trust Location: Providenciales Annual Salary: $84,607.00- $105,642.00

Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to The Labour Board. These position is Held by work permit holder.

22856

Duties: cleaning, and waste disposal, gardening. Salary $6.25 per hour 5 days per week

LABOURER

Working 4 or 5 days during the week.

Salary: $7. 50per hourly

Installing wallboards to ceilings or to interior walls of buildings and applying plaster.

Smooths out imperfections with trowels and shackle.

DIRECTOR – BANK AND TRUST

CONTACT: 231-1195

LABOURER

LABOURER

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DRYWALL FINISHER - $8 HOURLY

The Financial Services Commission (FSC), the regulator of financial services business in the Turks and Caicos Islands, is seeking suitably qualified applicants to fill several vacancies.

APPLICATION DEADLINE 19 OCTOBER 2020

Duties: To clean and maintain. Job sites at the end of the day.

And to assist skilled workers. Salary: $6.50 PER HOUR

#48 OLD GRACE ROAD, LONG BAY PROVIDENCIALES

WILLIAMS KYLE LANCE

Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/or concrete sidewalks; makes and repairs steps and plasters.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

LABOURER

ANGELA DUNCOMBE

LILUCE TILE CONTRACTING

ER CONSTRUCTION

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION

UNIQUE CREATIONS

BACK SALINA. Grand Turk.

CONTACT: 344-5632

JOB SUMMARY

This a senior management position. The office holder is responsible for the managing the Bank and Trust Department in its regulation and supervision of banks, trust companies, credit unions and investment dealers in the TCI. The regulation of the cited sectors is guided by the relevant legislation, international industry standards, and best practices for financial regulation, and the detection and prevention of financial crimes.

This position is currently held by a work permit holder.

Details on the above vacancies can be found on the Commission’s website at https:// tcifsc.tc/vacancies/ or by contacting the Commission at telephone numbers 649-9462550 or 649-946-2791 ext. 4021 or 4048.

Applications should be emailed to administration@tcifsc.tc no later than 19 October 2020. A copy of the application should be submitted to the Employment Services Department by emailing to CHbacchus@gov.tc and MCadams@gov.tc.

Applications received after the application deadline may not be considered in this recruitment phase but may be placed on file for future reference. While we appreciate your response, please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

22841

Unit #1, 10 Prospect, Cooper Jack Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER

• Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials.

• To work 5 days a week Salary: $7.50 hourly

CONTACT: 243-0137

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is a renewal of work permit

22825

Overback, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

2 LABOURERS

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $300 weekly

CONTACT: 347-1124

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Work permit holders currently holds this position 22833

CENTER MEWS, LEEWARD HIGHWAY 649-941-2724

WAREHOUSE CLERK

Salary: $6.25-$12 hourly Cleaning and clearing items for processing for customers Paulina Theodore 13A Blue Hills 649-245-3137

LABOURER

Salary: $6.25-$12 hourly Clean home.

Marilyn Outtons Stephoms #43 Blue Hills 649-232-8961

CAREGIVER

Cleaning and cooking in dwelling home.

Salary: $6.25-$12 hourly Email: bassett_27@hotmail.com Belongers only apply Worker permit renewals 22848

October 17-23, 2020

BAIN CROSLEY JEDRICK Venetian 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, and door frames. Salary: $6.75 hourly

CONTACT: 246-2555

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22843

TREVORSON SAUNDERS

BACK SALINA GRAND TURK 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.

To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $7 per hourly

CONTACT: 341 23 78

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

22826

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

C&S PROFESSIONAL Acting on behalf of Church of God of Prophecy #15 Aviation Drive, Providenciales

MUSICIAN

Play music instrument in the church as a professional. Salary: $6.50 hourly.

CONTACT: 241-5922

CAREY SKIPPING #21 MOORE’S LANE, JUBA SOUND Is seeking to employ a

MAINTENANCE WORKER

Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines. Tasks include plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, heating, and air conditioning system.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 346-9276

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

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22850

RENY INNOCENT

DONALD LIGHTBOURNE

22721

GRAND TURK 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. To work 5 days a week. Salary: $7 per hourly.

CONTACT: 247-1689

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22824

OVERBACK, Grand Turk 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. To work 5 days a week. Salary: $7 per hourly.

CONTACT: 243-7980

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CLOVER LEAF AGENCY 246-7832 On behalf of our clients

PELICAN BEACH HOTEL Rate: $8.00 hr (Renewal

MAINTENANCE

Description: fix and maintain building, and machines.

MOUNT LEBENON BAPTIST CHURCH

HELPER

Pay: 6.50 hr (Renewal) Description: A variety of tasks, cleaning the church, cleaning the church yard

ELIZABETH SWANN Whitby, North Caicos

1 LABOURER (RENEWAL)

Rate: $6.50 per hr Weeding yard, moving trash, washing windows 22817

CLASSIFIEDS 29 CONSTANT LOU JEUVE MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

THAMARA PARKER

Address: GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

His job is to sweep the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, living room, laundering sheets. Salary: $7. 50per hourly

CONTACT: 346-5172

CONTACT: 345 94 55

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22834

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22827

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

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GENERAL MANAGER THE JOB:

If you are an enthusiastic team player who thrives in an environment where customer service, communication and cooperation is encouraged, along with some Maritime and mechanical knowledge, this may be an opportunity for you.

This job entails the monitoring of all day to day operations of various vessels in the Ferry, Charter vessels and Jet Skis in the companies fleet, in the execution of services to its customers ensuring that all services are provided as per the companies standards.

Focus is placed on operational efficiencies and goal setting in the direct operations of the companies goals.

226 Grace Bay Road is looking for a candidate in the following full time positions

LABOURER

Salary $6.50/ hour Excellent physical strength is required. Job summary: cleaning both inside and outside of property, loading and/or delivery of heavy equipment, drainage cleaning, experience in general maintenance including painting and care and polishing of woodwork is required.

Candidates must be willing to work on weekends, dayshift - night shifts and holidays

DICE DEALER

Salary $12/ hour All candidates should have at least 10 years’ experience in the same field, excellent, 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 of efficiency and customer service in accordance with gaming policies and procedures laid down by the company and gaming laws.

CONTACT: 649-941-3737.

EMAIL: ACCTG.CASABLANCA@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.

Support the overall process of management and operational decision making to ensure the organization maximizes its, short, medium and long term profitability. Working with other members of the management team to implement the companies strategic and operations plans, with a keen eye on budgets Is essential.

Provide support to vessel captains and mates in regard to the scheduling of all necessary resources of Ferry and Charter division requires to accomplish daily activities.

Maintain local maritime training programs and ensure that all licenses and ratings are current and that vessels are crewed with qualified personnel.

Coordinate daily operational needs with maintenance teams with particular emphasis on systems for regular maintenance, ordering of spare parts and engines and the upkeep of vessels hulls and structures, ensuring that all safety and regulatory issues are addressed.

Demonstrate financial management and budgeting skills, prepare annual budgets and liaison with in house accounting team in the prudent management of resources within budgeting guidelines.

Make sound business decisions bases on data and statistics.

Maintain the organization culture, values and reputation in the company markets and with all staff, customers, suppliers, partners, regulators and official bodies.

Salary commensurate with experience

Contact: 232-3082 or 231-2358 Please respond to Mtcc@tciway.tc or keith.burant@meridiantrust.tc

22821

CASABLANCA CASINO

30 CLASSIFIEDS

ISLAND NETWORK

Chancery Court, 1276 Leeward Highway, Providenciales Is seeking a

LECTURER FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES

REQUIREMENTS:

• Studies in humanistic transpersonal therapy.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience.

• Metaphysic in the human energy field.

• Hold lectures on meditation and human energy alignment healthy lifestyle Salary $7.50 Per hour + commission

Contact Darlene Hudson: 941-5605

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

JULIEN LANDSCAPING MANAGEMENT SERVICES

#24 behind Mara, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

2 LABOURERS

• Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

• To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $7.10 hourly

CONTACT: 347-2280

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board Work permit holders currently holds this position 22832

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SOMMELIER

The Sommelier is a specialist trained in the area of Wines, Spirits, and Alcohol beverages. Sommeliers have superior knowledge of regions, production of wines and all alcoholic beverages, business of the drinks industry, logistics and also is proficient in all aspects of formal and informal dining etiquette, food and wine parings and service.

ROLE:

• • •

Acting on behalf of CLOVER PARKER

Millennium Highway, Blue Hills

LIVE-IN HANDYMAN - $7.50 HOURLY Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs.

Contact: 231-7222

SERGE PIERRE

Norway Street, Kew Town

DOMESTIC WORKER- $6.25 HOURLY Cleaning the house, doing

Promote and effectively generate increased wine sale Advise and Consult for new products, cellar improvement Maintain controls on stock and arrangement of the Cellar Lead tastings and instruction to clients Represent Turquoise Distribution in a professional and ethical manner Participate in the inventory selection of cellar selections in accordance with the team Receive and manage and coordinate lead times of deliveries Management of all supplies and stock Inventory control and cost control Design and consult on wine lists for restaurant and Hotel clients Organization of the cellar implementing FIFO and accordance to vintage change Sales analyses and Depletion analysis for inventory management and replenishment Maintaining accuracy of Cellar Lists/Stock/Inventory Daily operations of Cellar opening and closing duties.

laundry and other housework.

Contact: 344-6057

T&R/SKY SPRAY Subdivision, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

CONTACT: 241-1252 OR 346-7910

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

22822

LAS BRISAS

#533 Chalk Sound Is seeking to employ a

BARTENDER

STEELMAN - $8 HOURLY

• Uphold customer service • Maintain Bar • Mix and serve drinks Salary: $500 weekly

CARPENTER - $8 HOURLY

CONTACT: 946-5306

HARD ROCK CONSTRUCTION

#128 Millennium Highway, Blue Hills

Cut, position, and bolt down steel bars to reinforce concrete.

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials.

Contact: 244-3939

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board These positions are held by work permit holders 22835

LABOURER

Requires a

• • • • •

KECHIE

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.75 hourly

TURQUOISE DISTRIBUTION LTD

• • • • •

October 17-23, 2020

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

SCOOTIE & JOSE MECHANICS & BODY SHOP

Interested Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board Work permit renewal 22869

SAMANTHA LIGHTBOURN

#4 Kitch Apartment, Old Airport Road, Providenciales

GRAND TURK Back Salina Is seeking to employ a

MECHANIC

DOMESTIC WORKER

• Maintenance and repair of diesel-powered vehicles.

Running diagnostic tests on vehicles, testdriving vehicles to gauge performance and maintaining detailed records of the vehicles they have serviced.

• To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $10 hourly

CONTACT: 243-4905

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22831

Duties: to sweep the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, living room, laundering sheets. Salary: $7. 50per hourly

CONTACT: 333 62 64

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22829

GARDENERS/ LABOURERS NEEDED Applicants must be able to work outdoors performing manual and physical labor.

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 is $ 6.50 / hr and may be required to work on weekends and holidays if needed.

Interested applicants including Islanders/Belongers can send applications to Services by EA email to yvonne@eagrouptci.com. EA located at #65 Beechwood Road, Grace Bay, Providenciales. Successful applicants will be notified by phone for interview. This position is currently held by work permit holders.

22855

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Sommelier Training and Certification (WSET Advanced, ISG, MS, CGEP, or equivalent will be considered) • Hotel & Restaurant Management Degree or equivalent experience minimum 5 years in a supervisor or management role.

• Fluent in English both Oral and Written, a second language would be considered beneficial but not required.

• Comfortable with public speaking.

• Must be able to lift 35Kgs. Salary is $2,500.00 per month.

HUNTLEY & SONS MOTOR VEHICLE SALES & RENTALS East Suburbs, Grand Turk. Is seeking to employ a

LABOURERS

Interested persons should apply in person at Queen’s Court Plaza, Unit #8, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, as well as at the Labour Department. Islanders and Permanent Residents will be given preference. Deadline for applications is 31st October 2020. This position is held by a work permit holder.

22880

Duties: To clean maintain Vehicles after renting and Usage, also, to clean premises and dispose of refuse and any other duties as necessary.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 241-9259/431-9259

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

22875

ECHOES OF CALVARY CHURCH OF GRAND TURK IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A

PASTOR

Duties: To lead the Creole Congregation and to administer. The sacraments to the body of Believers. SALARY: $400.00 per week

CONTACT: 245-5949

Belongers are encouraged to Submit a copy of their resume. To the Labour Office This position is currently held by a work permit Holder.

22878

October 17-23, 2020 LILUCE TILE CONTRACTING

Rock House, Blue Mountain Is seeking to employ a

TILE LAYER

Install materials on floors, walls, ceilings, countertops. Level the surface with a layer of mortar or plywood.

Salary: $500 weekly

CONTACT: 346-1897

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22847

SALOMON ALTIDOR/S&B CONSTRUCTION Over Back, Grand Turk Is seeking a

PAINTER • Applying paint, stains

and coating of exterior and interior walls of new buildings and existing buildings after completion/ construction.

• Must be willing to work weekends and holidays if necessary.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 231-6432

Belongers are encouraged to apply at the Labour Board.

Work permit renewal 22854

NATASHA’S CONSULTANCY

NEPTUNE VILLAS #533 Chalk Sound Drive Is seeking to employ a

Acting on behalf of

CAMCO ENTERPRISE LTD

382 Grace Bay Road

SECURITY GUARD - $8 HOURLY Securing the property

VILLA HOST - $10 HOURLY Greet guest and cleaning villas.

2 DOMESTIC WORKER $6.25 HOURLY Cleaning rooms and bathrooms.

Contact: 231-6012

31B Moore’s Lane, Juba Sound

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER $6.50 HOURLY Cleaning rooms and bathrooms.

Contact: 245-0093

Duties: get villa ready for guests, change bedding, clean villas.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

CHAMBERS CAR RENTALS

#1 Bay Road, Blue Hills

CONTACT: 946-5306

SECURITY GUARD - $ 8 HOURLY Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property.

Contact: 243-8090

PAULA PARKER

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Work permit renewals

S&M CONTRACTING CO

22863

ROSAM’S CONSTRUCTION

Walter Cox, Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

#12 MUSGROVE HILL, KEW TOWN. Is seeking a

DRYWALL FINISHER

CONSTRUCTION LABOURER

Responsible for installing wallboards to ceilings or to interior walls of buildings and applying plaster.

Smooths out imperfections with trowels and shackle.

Salary: $8 hourly

CONTACT: 649-241-6702

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22845

NOTICE

I Dimple Ganglani DOB June 07th 1981 W/O Sanjay Gopaldas Residing at #40 Lagoon Rise, Richmond Hill, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands have Changed my name to DIMPLE GOPALDAS

22853

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, set up forms for the pouring of concrete foundations, and even hand tools to workers, clean worksite.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 649-342-2511

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22851

THE LUX MOTOR DEALER 1267 MARKET PLACE, LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

SECURITY OFFICER

Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; monitoring surveillance equipment; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry.

Obtains help by sounding alarms. Salary: $6.75 hourly

CONTACT: 244-2327

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22862

This position is currently held by a work permit holder Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Department

22868

R&C SNACK BAR

#100 Walter Cox Street, Kew Town, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

BARMAID

• Taking food orders, serving customers.

Taking beverage orders from customers or wait staff and serving drinks as requested, paying extreme attention to detail.

• To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 241-6307

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22844

Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

MASON Duties: To mix mortar, Help skilled worker lay Bricks and stone, form and pour concrete.

Salary: $8.00 per hour.

CONTACT: 241-1186

Belongers are asked to send A copy of their resume to The Labour Board. This position is Currently held by a work permit Holder. 22879

TRANSPORT ANT SERVICE Frith Street, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

PERSONAL DRIVER • Driving personal vehicle and transport clients.

• Must have a valid driver’s license.

Salary: $15 hourly

CONTACT: 246-6157

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22861

THE NANA HAIR CENTER BOUTIQUE Building #17 Unit #4 Spot Plaza, Down Town Is seeking to employ a

HAIRSTYLIST

Shampooing, cutting, and styling hair, though they may also provide hair treatments, including deep conditioning, permanents, hair coloring, and weaving.

Salary: $7.50 hourly

CONTACT: 344-3138

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22842

PARKER’S VARIETY STORE 526 Bay Road, Blue Hills

SALES PERSON

Responsibility includes helping customers in making choices and assisting them to locate items they want to buy. Providing info about products, they are interested in and must have knowledge of service and products.

Salary: $6.25 hourly CONTACT: 649-331-6993 EMAIL: MARGARETANN@YAHOO.COM

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22866

QUALITY CAR RENTAL LTD. #41 Princess Drive Is seeking to employ a

AUTO MECHANIC

• Keeps equipment available for use by inspecting and testing vehicles; completing preventive maintenance such as, engine tune-ups, oil changes, tire rotation etc.

• 5 days per week Salary: $12 per hour

CONTACT: 946-4510

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22840

PAUL JOHN TAYLOR

#99 Yellow Elder Street, Leeward Palms is looking for a

LABOURER

• Cleaning the yard, lifting heavy items, rearranging storage.

• to work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour This position is for work permit renewal

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT CONTACT: 244-1184 22864

PRECISION BUILDERS TCI LTD. first time work permit

PLUMBER

DESCRIPTION: Assemble and install pipes and plumbing fixtures. Clearing obstructions and repairs.

WAGES: $10 per hour.

HOURS: 6 Days a week

LOCATION: UNIT 1, #99 LEEWARD HIGHWAY 231-4626 DAVIDSONKEMP@ HOTMAIL.COM 22852

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THREE (3): SENIOR AUDIT MANAGERS Skills Required:

QUALIFIED ACA, ACCA, CPA OR ACMA Minimum of 5 years’ post graduate experience DUTIES:

CLARABELLE GARLAND

CLASSIFIEDS 31

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

• Conduct audits of various clients in accordance with International Standards on Auditing and audit methodology, reporting to responsible partner.

• Lead engagement teams through planning, execution and completion stages of audits, validation of financial reporting packages of multinational concerns and other varied special nature engagements.

• Establishing overall strategy and preparing Audit Plans in context of applicable financial reporting framework, International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), and other industry specific reporting requirements.

• Supervising progress of audits including resolution of differences of professional judgment, addressing significant

accounting and auditing questions arose during the audit, and review of work performed by team members.

• Assessing business and audit risks, coordinating with professionals of various fields such as legal, actuarial and IT experts and decision making for resolution of critical matters.

• Key liaison with clients.

• Evaluating internal controls identifying weaknesses therein and making appropriate recommendations to management for improvement.

• Coach staff by providing candid, timely and constructive feedback, and act as a counsellor for assigned associates and senior associates and coach them throughout the course of audit.

Salary range: $82,000 - $100,000 per annum

Apply to ladarnya.smith@tc.gt.com or Telefax: 649-946-4892, no later than October 30, 2020 Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands

22823

32 CLASSIFIEDS DAVIS CONSTRUCTION

#14 Norway Rd., Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

LITTLE HAVANA GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

BARMAID

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, mixing concrete, hand tools to workers, and cleaning work site.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

Duties: To take client orders, Mix and Serve drinks. Keep counter areas clean. Must be willing to work Irregular, long and late hours. Salary: $10.00 per hour

CONTACT: 232-5420

CONTACT: 341-1039

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

Belongers are encouraged to Send a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. These Positions is currently held by a work permit holders.

BLANCO CONSTRUCTION

TATIANA FORBES

Boll Weevil Ave, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

4 MASONS

22877

Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER

Repairs, maintains and alters buildings, retaining walls and other brick or stone edifices.

Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/or concrete sidewalks; makes and repairs steps and plasters Salary: 8 hourly

• Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and disciplining children when necessary.

• To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 649-347-8695

CONTACT: 347-7163

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

22895

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22872

SALLY RAMPERSAUD Palm Grove, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Duties: Regular housekeeping, Which includes Cleaning mopping, Dusting, sweeping and Assisting with cooking and any other chores. Salary: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 332-9245

Belongers are encouraged to Send a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. This Position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22874

SUNSET BAR #2

Aviation Drive, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

DJ

• Connect with listeners at bar.

• Review the weekly and daily playlist.

• Taking music requests and engaging with listeners.

REQUIREMENTS • Previous experience as a dj.

• Knowledge of modern music trends.

• Good presenting skills Salary: $8.50 hourly

CONTACT: 231-6318

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22871

WARD’S CONSULTANCY WOOD’S CONTRACTUAL SERVICES

Leeward Palm Contact 231-0337

1075A Leeward Highway Tel: 941-4575

Watering and feeding plants, trimming trees and shrubs

Cleaning and preparing a job site.

GARDENER $7.00 P/H

COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION

YOSHI SUHIS BAR RESTAURANT

#53, P. O. Box 68, Blue Mountain, tel: 231-0337 Install structures and fixtures.

Prepares foods to the specifications of the client

CARPENTER HELPER $10.00

PJ’S BABER SHOP/BEAUTY SALON

HAIRSTYLIST/ MANICURIST

Duties: Braiding, Weaving, Relaxing, Loc, grooming And maintenance, cutting And trimming and styling.

Manicures and Pedicures.

Salary: $7.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 244-4147

Belongers are asked to send A copy of their resume to The Labour Board. This position is Currently held by a work permit holder.

22873

OSWALD SIMONS #46 Airport Road, Providenciales

LABOURER

Work including: Cleaning inside and outside the property, pick up yard waste dispose of trash, cleaning and painting Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 231-6412

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22870

EAST WEST MANAGEMENT

HELPER • Take coconuts off tree

DOMESTIC WORKER

and peel them. Cleaning the restaurant. Preparing coconuts to eat.

• To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

CONTACT: 244-0786

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22860

1198 Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

• Sweeping, moping floor, clean kitchen and living areas and balcony. Wash, fold and iron personal clothing, laundering sheets, towels and rugs to do other household work as needed.

• To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 343-0053

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22867

OCEAN CLUB RESORTS

is looking for qualified applicants for the following positions, currently held by persons on work permit:

PAINTER / LABOURER GARDENER

All applicants must be able to present a clean Police Record if offered a position. Wage commensurate with experience. Drop off resume or pick up application at Ocean Club or Ocean Club West, alternatively send to: diane@oceanclubresorts.com or Fax: 1-649-946-5845

Only those receiving an interview will be contacted.

All TC Islanders are invited to copy their resumes to the Immigration and Labor Departments.

22901

COOK $7.00 P/H

DUDLEY MALCOLM

Eddie Laporte Plaza, Academy Ave. Provo, tel: 9414515

#30, new sub division, five cays Tel: 347-4416

Cut, extension and shape hair

Supervision the child, cooking for him and light housekeeping.

COSMETOLOGIST - $300.00 WEEKLY

Harbour House, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

COCO VIBES LTD

#57 EDEN LANE, Lower Bight.

Is seeking to employ a

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

LABOURER - $12.60 P/H

#20 & 21 Saltmills Plaza Grace Bay Road, Tel: 941-3374

SERENITY SALON & DAY SPA

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT

DESMAN QUANT

October 17-23, 2020

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BABYSITTER $6.25 P/H

Belonger are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the labour board. These position is currently held by work permit holder.

22891

NOTICE Regulation 8 of the Physical Planning (Development Permission) Regulations, 2014

BLUE PARROT

Unit #1 Caribbean Place, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

• Cleaning office complex.

• Work hours are Mon-Fri, weekends when call.

• 8am-5pm.

Salary: $6.25 hourly CONTACT: 649-946-4344 ALL RESUMES SHOULD BE SENT VIA EMAIL: INFO@ DEMPSEYANDCOMPANY

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22897

DERIK GRANT

#24 John Grant, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 232-7946

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22894

DIANE FORBES

NORTH CREEK ROAD, GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

• Care for elderly disable person.

• Complete housekeeping duties.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 347-4995

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22893

An Application, REGISTERED PI 170, by PINE CAY UTILITIES LTD for the development of 500 KW SOLAR PANEL SYSTEM. Has been submitted to the Department of Planning for consideration of Development Permission on parcels 61208/22, East Cays, Pine Cay. 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.

Date: 22648

October 17-23, 2020 ANDRE PIERRE JEANNERET

Grace Bay, Providenciales 331-1400

GARDENER Pay: 6.25 per hour

Type of application: Renewal Care for the garden, plant trees in the yard, water plants including soil cultivation digging, forking, mulching, raking, weeding, edging, seed sowing bed preparation and planting, clean the yard, transporting garbage of property and assist with other work THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

22882

BERNADO JULES

South Dock Road. 346-4667

NANNY care for my children, supervise while am at work, maintain the house clean, wash dishes, clean dining & living room, wash and iron. Pay: 6.25 per hour RENEWAL. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

22885

KECHIE

Acting on behalf of HARD ROCK CONSTRUCTION

DRYWALL FINISHER - $7 HOURLY

Installing wallboards to ceilings or to interior walls of buildings and applying plaster.

Contact: 244-3939

YOUTHFUL FORBES

#128 Millennium Highway, Blue Hills

HANDYMAN - $6.75

KK’S CLEANING SERVICES

#128 Millennium Highway, Blue Hills

4 CLEANERS - $6.25 HOURLY

• Lift heavy objects • Must be willing to climb heights.

• Must be able to operate cleaning machine.

Contact: 244-3939

TEN & SANCHEZ LTD

12 Bronze Lane, Long Bay

HANDYMAN - $6.25 HOURLY Clean up site daily after work.

Contact: 341-4752

Clean worksite, minor maintenance.

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board Work permit holders currently holds these positions

22900

DREADZ

Unit #2 IBO Plaza, Leeward Highway. Is seeking

HAIR DRESSER

• Shampooing, cutting, and styling hair, though they may also provide hair treatments, including deep conditioning, permanents, hair coloring, and weaving.

• To work 6 days a week Salary: $6.50 hourly

CONTACT: 345-2182

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position

22896

CARIBBEAN NURSERY & LANDSCAPING Discovery Bay, Providenciales Telephone: 241-7710

LABOURER Pay: 6.25 per hour

Care for the garden, plant trees in the yard, water plants including soil cultivation digging, forking, mulching, raking, weeding, edging, seed sowing bed preparation and planting, clean the yard, transporting garbage of property and assist with other work

TWO(2) CARPENTERS Duties: Clean work place, lifting, general construction. Salary $10 per hour BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND COPY OF THEIR RESUMES TO LABOUR DEPARTMENT. CONTACT: (649) 244 5638 Currently held

by W/P Holder

22881

LABOURER Cleaning outside the

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22892

STEEL MAN

CARE GIVER

LABOURER

Build and install iron or steel girders, columns, and other construction materials to form buildings, bridges, and other structures. Cut, position, and bolt down steel bars to reinforce concrete.

SALARY: 8.00 per hour

STEPHENSON JENNINGS

CARPENTER

CONTACT: 343-4671

GOVIND TOLANI

AG CONSTRUCTION

THOMAS C.A.MISSICK

Follow blueprints and building plans to meet the needs of clients. Install structures and fixtures, such as windows and molding.

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials.

Salary: $12 hourly

GOVIND TOLANI

RENEWAL, POSITION IS HELD

BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE 22888

GRANT’S PETROLEUM

#771 Leeward Highway, P.O Box 477, Providenciales Is seeking

ERB CONSTRUCTION

# 93 Leesicle Ave Long Bay, Providenciales 342-1889

property, 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.

Renewal, Belonger will be given first preference.

Leeward. 332-4100

North Side Close, Millennium Highway. 331-1067

RENEWAL. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE 22883

1B TDMG Building, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Contact: 244-3939

#128 Millennium Highway, Blue Hills

CLASSIFIEDS 33

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To help around the house, helps monitor medication and meal, assist during doctor appointment, run errands, clean the house and assist around the house. Pay: 6.25 per hour

Cleaning outside the property, 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.

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

Leeward Highway Telephone: 341-4502

CONSTRUCTION LABOURER

22887

Unit 4, Annuela Building, Leeward High, Providenciales Telephone: 242-1402

CLEANER

Sweeping outside the building, remove dirt and hazardous waste outside the apartment, clean the door frames and windows, clean the outside wall. Salary: $ 6.25 per hour RENEWAL APPLICATION, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE 22903

DELICIOUS DISHES

LE BOUCHON DU VILLAGE

ASSISTANT CHEF

to performed concrete sealing tasks, removed rubble, dirt, and hazardous waste from construction site, performed post-construction site cleanup and executed building cleaning activities, operated cleaning equipments and utilized cleaning materials, organized all companyprovided equipments and materials on sites.

Assist chefs aid head chefs with skilled food preparation and cooking. oversee the storage and disposal of leftover food products, help to make sure that the kitchen is clean. Help head chefs develop and test new recipes, and maintain records of what food has been prepared and what ingredients were used.

Salary: $ 9.00 per hour

RENEWAL, THIS POSITION IS HELD

BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 22886

Renewal, Belonger will be given first preference

22884

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS P&D EMPLOYMENT Acting on behalf of

D&B TILE

Building roofs, partitions, etc.

DOMESTIC WORKER - $6.25 HOURLY

Tie Steel Contact: 346-7379

Millennium Highway, Blue Hillls Clean and mop tile, etc.

Contact: 232-3465

22890

Elite Plaza, Airport road 347-6373

CLEANER

Clean meats, sweep or scrub floors, clean dishes, kitchen, food preparation equipment, or utensils.

Wash dishes, glassware, flatware, pots, or pans by hand. Maintain kitchen work areas, equipment, or utensils in clean and orderly condition. Salary starts at $6.25 per hour.

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 22902

SANCHEZ & WILLIAMS CAFE

Unit #5 Sherlock Walkin Building, #18 old airport road Is seeking a

ASSISTANT CHEF Assisting head chef prepare meals and takes orders. Salary: $10 hourly

CONTACT: 649-231-2397

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22898

22889

# 111, Regent Village. Grace Bay, 333-5034

STEEL MAN - $8 HOURLY

ASSEMBLE IT

MEP Solutions TCI Ltd

Chandelle Drive, Venetian Road

LABOURER

Painting building’s interior and exterior.

Contact: 343-1056

#999 Leeward Highway

M&E CLEANING SERVICES

Leeward

Clean workstation, lift heavy materials.

Contact: 946-5907

PAINTER - $8 HOURLY

MARIE NICOLE PORTER

Jean Senique Mecidor

South Dock Rd, Five Cays

HANDYMAN - $6.50 HOURLY

Clean yard.

Contact: 346-8110

12 Woodland St, Blue Hills Minor repair, etc Contact: 246-9603

LABOURER - $6.25 HOURLY

DAVID G. CAMPBELL

Easy Shop

7 Shores Unit #1, Leeward Highway

SHELF STOCKER - $6.25 HOURLY

Prepare meals, bathe and comb hair, ensure child safety Contact: 241-6461

#15 Dock Yard, Kew Town

Stocking shelves, cleaning and dusting items, etc.

Contact: 244-4857

BABYSITTER - $6.25 HOURLY

ALKENIAH STUBBS

DOSSOU CONSTRUCTION

The Bight, Leeward Highway

CARPENTER - $10 HOURLY

Clean yard, wash windows, etc.

Contact: 241-3922

South Dock Rd, Five Cays

LABOURER - $6.50 HOURLY

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Work permit renewals

34 CLASSIFIEDS ABOVE THE REST CLEANING #10 MARY JANE LANE, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

6 CLEANERS

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc. Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 346-7956

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22807

BERVELY GERVAIS Black Crow Road, Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 341-3680

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22811

#18 ZINNA LANE, RICHMOND COMMONDS Is seeking to employ a

CONSTRUCTION LABOURER

• Maintaining cleanliness of the work site.

• Responsible for ensuring all job sites are left clean and any excess garbage is removed.

• Sorted recyclable materials for resale.

Salary: $7.50 hourly

CONTACT: 332-3866

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22810

THOMAS SWANN

Seeks to Employ

LABOURER

Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

PAINTER - Preparing painting surfaces by washing walls - Repairing holes/removing old paint - Mixing, matching, and applying paints and other finishes to various surfaces - Cleaning yard debris/washing windows Salary - $8 hourly/6days a week

Belongers are encouraged to drop-off resume to Labor Department or the office listed above. This position is currently being held by a work permit holder. 22799

West Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Duties: To clean maintain Premises, dispose of refuse and waste and any other duties as necessary. SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 346-3638

ALLAN DICKENSON South District, Salt Cay Is seeking to employ

2 LABOURERS

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $300 weekly

CONTACT: 332-1022

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22746

KIRK FORBES

Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Duties: To clean maintain Premises, dispose of refuse and waste and any other duties as necessary.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

Duties: To clean maintain Premises, dispose of refuse and waste and any other duties as necessary.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 231-6663

CONTACT: 431-2640

LA FAMILIA RESTAURANT

SUNSHINE NURSERY

Behind Ball Park, Kew Town

3 Sunshine Crescent, Grace Bay Road

Serving drinks, taking orders, washing dishes.

Contact: 341-1021

Plant maintenance, trans planting

BARMAID - $6.25 HOURLY

CHARLES EQUIPMENT

Five Cays

MECHANIC - $8 HOURLY Changing car parts and general car maintenance.

Contact: 231-2490

Is seeking a

DOMESTIC WORKER

3 years’ experience working with villa rental turnover protocols, evening and weekend work a must. English and Spanish required. Car required. Salary: $6.50 hourly CONTACT: 231-1474 EMAIL: TRANQUILITYTCI@ GMAIL.COM

P.O. Box 433, Providenciales Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22765

KELY LOUIMA

Hospital Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Duties: Regular housekeeping Which includes Cleaning mopping Dusting, sweeping and Assisting with cooking and any other chores. Salary: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 247-9643

22796

Belongers are encouraged To send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held By a work permit holder. 22793

PATRIANNA SIMMONS

S & B CONSTRUCTION

SHERINA LIGHTBOURNE

WILSON VALBURN

LABOURER

CARPENTER

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

Duties: To clean maintain Premises, dispose of refuse and waste and any other duties as necessary.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

Duties: To Install Structures and fixtures, Doors, Windows, must be Able to use electrical tools. Salary: $8.00 per hour

CONTACT: 232-6009

CONTACT: 245-2962

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

22795

Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to The Labour Board. This position is Held by a work permit holder.

22794

Hospital Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Duties: Regular housekeeping Which includes Cleaning mopping Dusting, sweeping and Assisting with cooking and any other chores. Salary: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 332-5200

Belongers are encouraged to Send a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. This Position is currently held by a work permit holder.

22792

LABOURER - $6.50 HOURLY

CONTACT: 243-1054

MASON - $8 HOURLY Repairing walls and sideways.

Contact: 946-5443

22755

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

Over Backm, Grand Turk.

Is seeking to employ a

GARDENER - $6.50 HOURLY

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

TRANQUILITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT #17 SAILFISH LANE, VENETIAN ROAD, Provo

MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 232-7077

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22733

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

Plant maintenance, trans planting

Belongers are encouraged To send a copy of their Resume to the Labour Board. This a first time work permit Application.

South District, Salt Cay Is seeking to employ a

Phase 2, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

Acting on behalf of

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This Position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22792

22797

WELGENS PROPHETE

ROBERT’S AGENCY

DREAM CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

NORTON DEVELOPMENT LTD.

299A La Petite Place, Grace Bay, Providenciales Tel: 946-5855

MAXLIN GELCIUS

October 17-23, 2020

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

TRULY NOLEN

UNIT #26 ALLIANCE PLAZA, GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ

3 LABOURERS

With 5 or more years in pest control and willing to work on schedule as well as on calls. Salary: $575 bi-weekly

CONTACT: 9464272 OR 231-0195

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22808

UNITED MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE 332B Back Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, door frames. Cares for garden.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 242-4551

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Work permit holders currently holds this position 22786

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

MARIE MADELINE PIERRE

VARDLYSHA COLLECTION

DOMESTIC WORKER

SEAMSTRESS

Over Back, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Duties: Regular housekeeping.

Which includes Cleaning mopping, Dusting, sweeping and Assisting with cooking and any other chores. Salary: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 243-0639

Belongers are encouraged to Send a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. This Position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22790

WINKEY’S CATERING #674 BLUE HILLS ROUNDABOUT

LABOURER

• Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

• Must be able to work 5 days per week Salary $6.25 per hour This position is for work permit renewal

CONTACT: 244-4398

Belongers can submit their resume to the Labor Department 22784

22748

MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY, MIRACLE CL. Is seeking to employ a

Alterations, sew hems, fix tears, mend zippers and apply buttons.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

CONTACT: 345-8326

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position

22761

ADRIAN RIGBY Rigby Hill, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

HOUSEKEEPER

Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing. Ensuring all rooms inspected according to standards.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 245-2435

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22818

October 17-23, 2020

CAICU NANIKI

STORE CLERK

• Receive payments, issue receipts and change.

• Must have pleasing personality and at least 2 yrs. experience in this type of the job, has knowledge of computer operations and software such as point of sale.

• Knowledge of standup paddle boards Salary: $1,200 monthly

CONTACT: CHLOE- 232-4030 EMAIL: INFO@CAICUNANIKI.COM

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22737

Shore Club, Long Bay Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 346-0939

DAVIS CONSTRUCTION

#14 Norway Rd., Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, mixing concrete, hand tools to workers, and cleaning work site. Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 232-5420

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

AUDREY EWING

BETTER BUILD CONSTRUCTION

22899

Leeward Palms Is seeking to employ a

GARDENER

Soil cultivation, digging, and forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 242-2326

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22729

AG CONSTRUCTION

#62 Malvin Road, Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER

Follow blueprints and building plans to meet the needs of clients. Install structures and fixtures, such as windows and molding. Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials.

Salary: $8.50 hourly

CONTACT: 244-5638

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22744

CLUB PILLOWS

CLIMATECH LTD

CAICOS CAFÉ PLAZA, GRACE BAY ROAD Is seeking to employ a

T&S PLUMBING

CLASSIFIEDS 35

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22906

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ

2 CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

Salary: $7.00 – $12.50 per hour. Must be willing to work, 6 days per week, incl. holidays

CONTACT: 649 242 3005

22655

S & B CONSTRUCTION

OVERBACK, GRAND TURK

CARPENTER Duties: To Install Structures and fixtures, Doors, Windows, must be Able to use electrical tools. Salary $7.00 per hour/ 6 days per week

CONTACT: 231-6432

This position is for a first time applicant Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 22736

LABOURER

Grace Bay. Seeks

– position held by a work permit holder

• Moving A/C equipments • Clean up job sites • Rate 6.25 Address: 636 Industrail Park , Providenciales Contact 231-4545 .Resume can be dropped off at the Labor Department, Providenciales as soon as possible 22729

Labourer

Must have at least 3 or more years experience and able to work with little or no supervision. Duties include but not limited to cleaning of surroundings and what other duty manager sees fit. Salary start at $6.50 per hour

Contact 941-4034 if interested

All Belonger are encouraged to submit copy of their resume to Labor. This position is currently held by a work permit holder.

22754

L.M. VARIETY STORE

BENJAMIN ROBINSON

HAMILTON TREVEN TRAVAT

CLERK

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

Is seeking to employ a

Working 6 days during the week.

Salary: $ 8.00 per hours CONTACT: 332-3826

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22776

CHRISTOPHER GAUL

#28 JUNE PLUM STREET, LEEWARD Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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 hourly

CONTACT: 941-2451

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22731

ANTHONY FORBES CONSTRUCTION DOCK YARD BLDG#19, KEW TOWN Is looking for a

MASON

• To work from Monday to Saturday.

• Laying Blocks and plastering walls in different sites when needed.

Salary: $6.25 per hour INTERESTED APPLICANTS PLEASE CONTACT US AT THIS NUMBER: 345-8613 Only Belongers need apply

22719

Address: GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

His job is to sweep the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, living room, laundering sheets. Salary: $7. 50per hourly

CONTACT: 231 70 26

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22773

Address: Over back Grand Turk 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. To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $7 per hourly

CONTACT: 242 08 30 Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22771

CHAMPIONS FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE

An affiliate of A Touch of Love Ministries International Center Accepting Applications. Positions Needed:

General Studies Teacher GENERAL STUDIES TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors/Master’s Degree from reputable institution; Minimum of 5-7 years teaching • experience in primary and/or secondary education. Experience with Christian • education curriculum. Specialties in Mathematics and Science is a plus

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualified applicants for all 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 Positions are held by work permit holders. Interested islanders should submit copy of resume to the Labor 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

36 CLASSIFIEDS LORENZO THOROLD FRANCIS Address: Grand Turk 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. To work 5 days a week. Salary: $7 per hourly

CONTACT: 442 01 16

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22772

L&M CRAFT MARKET Al Vernas Craft Market, Grace Bay Road Is seeking to employ a

MORRIS WADE CARLISLE

NORMAN SAUNDERS

DL HOLDINGS 111 LTD.

LABOURER

DOMESTIC WORKER

BUTLER

AIRPORT Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

SOUTH CAICOS 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. To work 5 days a week. Salary: $7 per hourly

His job is to sweep the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, living room, laundering sheets. Salary: $7. 50per hourly

CONTACT: 244 1954

CONTACT: 332-3826

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22770

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder 22774

DOMESTIC WORKER

• Cleaning and other work needed.

• Must be willing to work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

CONTACT: 347-0198

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

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• Assist with the washing of dishes and putting them away • Polishing of tables when restaurant is closed • Sweeping and moping of floors at the end of the day • Assist with cleaning of kitchen in preparation for next day.

• To work six (6) days per week Wage: $6.50 per hour

Contact: Tate @ gilleyscafe@tciway.tc (or) 946-4472 22751

DISCOUNT LIQUORS AND WINE CELLAR

Is currently looking to employ a

HOUSEKEEPER

Interested persons would be required to answer calls to the household phone, greet guests, assist in the planning of events and dinner parties, oversee event or dinner setup and serve drinks and food. Supervise housekeeping staff.

This position is for a first-time applicant Work hours are 7:30am to 4:30pm 5 days per week.

Salary US$275.00 weekly

CONTACT: 941-3082 EMAIL: MTCL@TCIWAY.TC

Interested belongers are asked to submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Department

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Duties: Cleaning of house, Washing, Ironing and making sure house is clean up to standard

This position is for firsttime applicants. Work hours are 7:30am to 4:30pm, 5 days per week.

Salary US$7.25 per hour Contact: 941-3082 Email: mtcl@tciway.tc Interested belongers are asked to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 22726

FLAMINGO CAFÉ

Is seeking to hire (1)

CARETAKER/GARDENER (PREFER A MALE)

• Cleaning and maintaining of property, • Planting and taking care of garden, • Disposing of refuse.

• Make sure property is secure in Owner’s absense • Any other duties assign by employer • Must be willing to work six (5) days per week • Must be trustworthy and reliable • Salary $250.00 per week

Contact: gilleyscafe@tciway.tc - 946-4536 22752

#13 GRACE CULTURAL MARKET, GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

• Sweeping, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, and other work • To work 6 days per week Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 946-4343

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Currently held by a work permit holder 22732

CATERING & PRIVATE CHEF SERVICES REQUIRES

#1025 LEEWARD HIGHWAY, PROVIDENCIALES LEEWARD HIGHWAY. IS LOOKING FOR A

L ABOURER

SALES AND MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF POSITION: • Promote all the products carried at our wholesale and retail operation • Helps customers make selections by building customer confident and offering suggestions and opinions • Maintain a complete sales history and purchase pattern of our wholesale customers • Establish customer sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotes • Coordinate and assist in devising and implementing various sales and marketing strategies for the wine cellar, retail and wholesale divisions, along with similar programs for all other affiliated business within the group • Provide regular SWOT analysis reports to management in the progress or detriments of each account, in order to determine appropriate strategies for account success • Assist Operations Manager in setting up proper inventory purchasing cycles in an effort to maximize the use of business cash flow • Maintain customer sales volume, product mix, and selling price by keeping current with supply and demand changing trends, economic indicators and competitors • A minimum of 5 years in sales and marketing in the Beverage Industry • Assist the Operations Manager and co-workers in all other areas deemed necessary Salary commensurate with experience Applications must be submitted to Discount Liquors and Wine Cellar Email: discount@tciway.tc (or) fax: 946-4871.

NO telephone calls please

DL HOLDINGS 111 LTD.

Is currently looking. to employ a

GALMO WILLIAMS

GILLEY’S ENTERPRISES Is seeking to hire:-

LABOURER

October 17-23, 2020

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The successful candidate should be selfmotivated and energetic and this post requires some interaction with international clients at private villas.

Some duties include but not limited to: • Lifting boxes and setting up of culinary pots and pans in the shop as well as at various villa locations; • Ensuring that cooking and surrounding

areas are cleaned and sanitized at all times; • Cleaning kitchen area and ensuring garbage is properly disposed; • Assisting cook with serving guests at private villas; • Assisting cook where necessary and as directed at private villas and shop; • Salary - $1,000.00 per month.

Belongers will be given preference for this position. Interested persons should contact Unique Catering at 342-5210 or at Market Place, Leeward Highway, by email – celia_parnell_301@msn.com and also the Labour Department.

SHINING FINISH

Poinciana Drive West, Providenciales. Is seeking a

PAINTER

Must have at least 5 years experience.

Salary $9.00 per hour.

Duties: prepare, install drywall, apply paint, coating on interior and exterior walls Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to Labour Board Contact: 649 246 6630 Currently head by a work permit holder 22780

MERCEDES BEAUTY SALON & SUPPLIES OLD AIRPORT ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a

NAIL TECHNICIAN Basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, and etc.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT:342-0395

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

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22777

NATURES VISIONS LTD

#1 Hidden Habour, Discovery Bay, Providenciales Is seeking a

LABOURER

• Must work weekends • Applicate will be digging holes, jackhammering.

Planting and caring for shrubs and trees.

• Jobs are outside • Driving license, a must.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 232-2272

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22746

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DIGITAL CONSTRUCTION Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, mixing concrete, hand tools to workers, and cleaning work site.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

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Seeking the following positions. Salary starts 9:00 to 12:00 per hour Please drop resume at Building Materials office

SALE PERSON

A friendly individual with excellent communication skills who will be responsible for greeting customers, assisting them in locating items as well as using vast product knowledge to advise on products needed for projects and other customer needs.

Also responsible for; meeting sales objectives and keeping track of inventory.

MECHANIC

We are looking for a skilled mechanic to maintain and repair vehicles. Responsible for troubleshooting issues and fixing them aiming to maximum reliability and functionality. Who is well-versed in complex mechanical or electronical systems of vehicles and have excellent problem-solving abilities.

ER CONSTRUCTION

ELITE SECURITY

IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY

A CARING, KIND AND COMPASSIONATE LIVE-IN

PAINTER - $8 HOURLY

SECURITY OFFICER

CAREGIVER

TO PROVIDE PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANCE TO HIS ELDERLY MOTHER. THE CAREGIVER IS ALSO TO PROVIDE COMPLETE LIGHT HOUSE KEEPING AND PERFORM ADDITIONAL TASK AS NEEDED. SALARY: $800.00 PER MONTH

INTERESTED PERSONS, PLEASE CONTACT: ERIC SMITH, GRAND TURK TEL#231-0167 22738

Mason - $8 hourly/6 days a week • to test concrete quality • lay blocks • float floors and walls • plaster interior and exterior buildings

Steelman - $8 hourly/6 days a week

- cut, position and blot steel bars into concerte - assemble steel columns for buildings tie beams/ corners/foundation

CONTACT: 241-4488 Belongers are encouraged to apply to Labour.

Positions are currently held by work permit holders

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22727

11 Mark Cl., Cooper Jack Is seeking to employ a

ERIC SMITH OF GRAND TURK

#57 Plantation Dr, Long Bay. Seeks to Employ:

Leeward Highway 946 4131

CONTACT: 347-7527

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION

BUILDING MATERIALS DO IT CENTER

BEHIND MENZIES, GLASS SHACK

CLASSIFIEDS 37

Apply paints, stains, and coatings to interior and exterior walls, new buildings, homes, offices and other structural surfaces.

CONTACT: 333-1199

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22615

ISLAND FIRE SUPPLIES LTD.

• Must have over five (5) years’ experience.

• Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; monitoring surveillance equipment; inspecting buildings, equipment, and access points; permitting entry.

Obtains help by sounding alarms.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 649-231-0047

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 22745

KELCI TALBOT

Saltmills Plaza, Providenciales Requires a fully qualified

Fire Alarm Technician for Commercial and Residential Installations

• Must have at least 10 years experience in the installation, maintenance and repairs of Fire Alarm Systems, Suppression Systems and Fire Sprinklers. Must have a qualification in Fire Extinguisher maintenance and service.

• Knowledge of Gamewell FCI, Simplex and Fire Lite systems is a must.

• Hourly rate starting at $12.00 and must be willing to work weekends and public holidays.

Please email resume to ifs@tciway.tc or call 331 0732

30 Reo Drive Limited, Juba Sound, Providenciales Is seeking a

22769

Mystique Car Rental & Tours Ltd Is Seeking to Employ a

Labourer/Vehicle Prep Worker Must be able to drive multiple types of vehicles Must be able to work outdoors in all types of weather conditions • Have knowledge of most types of cars • Must be able to work on weekends, holidays and nights • Cleaning of car rentals • Checking fluids (engine oil, transmission, tire pressure etc.)

• Full gasoline tank and check fuel levels on all fluids • Have a Valid Driver’s License and a clean Police Record Please forward resume to Mystique Car Rental & Tours Ltd.

72 Old Airport Road, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. Deadline: October 19, 2020 22735

Leeside Avenue #83A, Long Bay, Providenciales Is seeking a

DOMESTIC WORKER

• Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework.

• To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 332-3022

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22741

NATURE’S TOUCH CONSTRUCTION Seashell Drive, Long Bay Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $7 hourly

CONTACT: 232-3899

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22743

CRAVE TCI #320 BLUE WATER VILLA

15 PRIVATE CHEFS JOB DESCRIPTION AND DUTIES ARE AS FOLLOWS, AND YOU ARE EXPECTED TO: • Communicating with Guest Daily Meal Plan • Managing food production for social/religious guest.

• Creating fresh seasonal meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) on Villa Guest Request • Additional duties and responsibilities as needed and upon request • 6 Day working schedule • Your job description or duties may be changed, amended or increased or you may be assigned new duties from time to time as your employer’s requirements dictate.

• salary $4,200.00 monthly

PROCUREMENT CLERK JOB RESPONSIBILITIES • Interview potential suppliers prior to contract negotiations, including visiting plants and distribution centers and discussing materials, products and quality standards with vendors • Evaluate current and new suppliers to determine optimal setup for supply contracts, taking into account costs, delivery times, product quality and available inventory • Analyze supply contracts, financial reports and other data using accepted optimization models to determine which vendors best meet company needs and project requirements • Participate in negotiations with vendors, including researching prices, products and other data beforehand and coordinating with suppliers to create optimal purchasing contracts • Maintain current knowledge of existing vendors, industry trends and relevant pricing by attending trade shows and conferences and reading professional publications • Oversee fulfillment of supply contracts by verifying quantity and quality of incoming shipments, checking invoices for accuracy, ensuring compliance with contractual regulations and working with vendors as necessary to resolve any discrepancies • Create and maintain computerized database of supply purchase orders, paid invoices, goods delivered, product and raw material quality, current inventory and future order scheduling All application must possess a valid driver’s license Must be computer literate Must be willing to work weekends and holidays Will to work with little or no supervision Salary $2000.00 monthly

DOMESTIC WORKER • Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels, and personal clothing and other house work.

Salary: $7 hourly

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Work permit renewal 22782

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38 CLASSIFIEDS RODEMIDE JOSEPH Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER

ROSE BRICE

Hospital Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

CARETAKER

• Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and disciplining children when necessary.

• To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

• Help the patient get dressed, eat, bathe and complete light housekeeping duties, such as dishes or folding laundry.

Plan, prepare and monitor meals. Run errands, remind patients of medications.

• 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 348-8986

CONTACT: 342-2313

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position

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Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position

22740

SABRINA ISAAC

NANNY/ HOUSEKEEPER

Salary: $7.00 per hour Work Week: Monday Friday 7:30am to 4:30pm

TELEPHONE # 649-232-1492

Location: 33 Horizon Close, Blue Mountain, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands This is for a work permit renewal Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department

NOTICE OF SALE

BY PUBLIC AUCTION Scotiabank (Turks & Caicos) Ltd. of Cherokee Road, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands hereby gives notice of its intention to sell by Public Auction the following properties pursuant to its power of sale as registered Chargee under the Registered Land Ordinance of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Parcel 60808/95

The Bight and Thomas Stubbs, Providenciales – Vacant Land 0.22 located in The Bight Registered Proprietor: Maud A. Cunningham

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PROGRAM AND EVENT COORDINATOR Nila Destination Management Company is looking for a highly professional, self motivated person with proven program management and event coordination skills.

Parcel 61112/38

Long Bay Hills, Providenciales – Four bedroom, three bathroom, Single family home, approximately 1,690 sq. ft. on 0.30 acres of land located in Long Bay. Registered Proprietor: Pathine Stubbs

The auction will be held at the office of Scotiabank (Turks and Caicos) Limited, 88 Cherokee Road, Providenciales at 11 o’clock in the morning on Friday the 30th day of October 2020.

A reserved price will be fixed on all parcels and a deposit of 10% is due immediately upon all accepted bids. Conditions of Sale available upon request or at the Auction.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating innovative estimates, programs and events for groups from 2 to 200 attendees showcasing the islands, while staying within allotted budget and meeting clients needs • Maintaining strong working relationships with local vendors and resorts • Negotiating contracts with hotels and service providers. Keeping up to date database of providers and services • Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with overseas clients, attending industry trade shows and meetings in the US when necessary • Developing and confidently delivering oral presentations to potential and current clients, both small and large groups • Managing of operational and fiscal activities including: agendas, budgets, pre and post-event evaluations, review and payment of event bills, maintenance of records of event aspects and financial details • Marketing through design of websites and social media promotion • Onsite supervision and coordination of corporate events at various locations, SKILL REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10 years experience in corporate event planning and program coordination essential • Proven knowledge of event logistics, accounting and budgeting • Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and decision making skills • Excellent multi-tasking and problem solving ability • Strong local knowledge and the ability to promote Turks and Caicos as a destination to foreign markets • Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with program management staff, team members, vendors and guests • Ability to present facts and recommendations effectively, ability to accept constructive criticism from clients, adherence to company policies • Effective networking and identification of new sales opportunities and clients • A strong work ethic and flexibility to adapt to a variety of business and social situations.

• Full working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, QuickBooks. Knowledge of Web design, blogging and marketing through social media essential. Mac system knowledge also an advantage • Full understanding and ability to work within EVED platform, including E360 • Flexibility, with long working hours, evenings, weekends and public holidays.

Required hours vary daily depending on season • Physical endurance as most events take place outdoors.

Salary $40K per annum.

Qualified Turks & Caicos Islanders please forward resume, passport photo and references to: nila@niladestinations.com. Fax: 208-247-1688. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. Position currently held by a permit holder.

EXECUTIVE CHEF JOB DESCRIPTION

• Manage the day to day kitchen operations.

• In conjunction with the Purchasing Department, to supervise all food ordering in line with Company Policy.

• Monitor the performance of the food outlets and to ensure that standards of food production, presentation and service are maintained.

• Co-ordinate the production of all products ensuring specifications, quality targets and delivery timetables are met.

• Meet the company’s food cost target as set out in its plan through implementing and maintaining prudent and established costs.

• In conjunction with management, to create menus for all outlets having regard to customer demand and company margins.

• In conjunction with management and the kitchen team to develop and achieve the departmental goals and strategies.

• Develop and enhance the culinary reputation of East Bay Resort through product improvement, effective PR and participation in local and international culinary competitions.

• In conjunction with Food and Beverage, to devise and organize food promotions as appropriate.

• To be fully conversant with current Health and Safety legislation affecting food preparation and service areas and to ensure that the laid down requirements are met.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years’ experience as executive Chef • Understanding of various cooking methods, ingredients, equipment and procedures • Excellent record of kitchen and staff management • Working knowledge of various computer software programs (MS Office, restaurant management software, POS) • Certificate/degree in Culinary science or related certificate would be a plus Must be prepared to live full time in South Caicos, beginning salary commensurate with experience

Interested applicants may submit your resume with qualifications and experience to: info@saunders.tc and the TCI Employment Services and Labour Department This position is currently vacant.

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October 17-23, 2020 UNIQUE TOURS & RENTALS Bay Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

HORSE TRAINER

UPRISING TRUCKING #41 BUTTERFIELD DRIVE, KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

TRUCK DRIVER

$350.00 per week • Train and feed horses • To work 6 days a week.

CONTACT: 441-8687

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Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22750

Transport materials and goods among manufacturing, distribution and retail centers.

Inspecting vehicles for mechanical issues relating to safe operation, and basic repair work.

Salary: $300 weekly

CONTACT: 244-7337

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22739

WENDY LAFLEUR

Puritan Higgs Apt #2, Glass Shack, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER • Clean house and shop.

• Must be willing to work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 2326969 OR 341-7079 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board

22728

ADAMS BROKERAGE PROSPECT 10, COOPER JACK BAY Is seeking a

DRIVER

• Transport materials and goods among manufacturing, distribution and retail centers. Perform sales and customer service.

• To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 244-8820

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22797

CLASSIFIEDS 39 ADAM’S HAIR BRAIDING

Providenciales Beaches Is seeking to employ a

HAIR BRAIDER

To braid guest hair on the beach.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

CONTACT: 342-3525

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22787

P&D EMPLOYMENT

Acting on behalf of Bella Rose Hair Center & Spa Unit #6 Kishco Plaza, Leeward Highway

HAIR STYLIST - $7 HOURLY

Shampooing, cutting, styling hair, etc.

and

NAIL TECHNICIAN - $7 HOURLY

Basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, hand massages, nail fills, nail repair, and nail polishing.

Pedicures and the application of acrylic toenails.

CONTACT: 441-4124

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

22820

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THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

HERZOG CARIBBEAN LTD. is seeking to employ a

ASPHALT QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN

PROVO ELECTRIC

Generator Maintenance Man • Monthly repairs to generators • Maintain records and files, prepare reports and order supplies/equipment • Perform complex maintenance, testing, operated, diagnosed, repaired, and aligned generators • Rate $10-$15 Address: 34 Williams Plaza, Old Airport Road, Providenciales

MAX’S MIN MART

Labourer

- position held by a work permit holder • Stocking shelves and freezer • off load pallets when new shipment arrives • Rate 7.00 per hour Address: 54 Airport Road , Providenciales

QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum 5 years’ experience in related field • Clean Police Record • Valid Driver’s License

WILLIAMS CATERING SERVICES

Cook

- position held by a work permit holder • Inspect food preparation and serving areas to ensure observance of safe, sanitary food-handling practices.

• Turn or stir foods to ensure even cooking.

• Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience.

• Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or piercing them with utensils.

• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes or personal judgment, using various kitchen utensils and equipment.

• Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve food to waiters or patrons.

• Rate $8.00 per hour Address: 34 Williams Plaza, Old Airport Road, Providenciales

SKILLS • Must know and understand all TCI/DOT regulations, such as sampling frequency, sampling methods, graduation requirements, quality requirements, etc.

• Proven ability to develop relationships and to work with teams as both a leader and a participant.

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills; building rapport, listening, presenting, giving, and receiving feedback.

• Must be able to perform simple mathematic calculations.

• Must have or acquire basic computer skills and be able to work with e-mail and simple spreadsheets.

COMPENSATION • Based on Experience POSITION TYPE • Full-Time Please submit applications to main office at

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C 5-6 Caribbean Place, Leeward Highway, Providenciales TCI.

22734

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

RESPONSIBILITIES • Use accepted methods to inspect, sample, and test aggregates, asphalt, or other materials for the purpose of quality control.

• Sample and test mixtures to stay in compliance with contract specifications and quality control tolerance.

• Monitor and test process functions and materials daily to ensure our products meet or exceed requirements of the appropriate agency or customer.

• Prepare and record accurate information; maintain test results database.

• Obtain required certifications in a timely manner.

• Maintain all laboratory equipment, keeping track of all certification paperwork on lab scales and other equipment that requires annual re-certification.

• Follow quality control plans and guidelines as assigned.

• Follow directions of manager as to daily tasks and expectations for each specific duty.

• Ensure a safe work environment in compliance with all safety policies and procedures using the appropriate tools and equipment for the task.

• Follow all company policies and OSHA / MSHA regulations for safe working procedures.

• Perform general cleaning of work areas.

40 CLASSIFIEDS M&S CRAFT

JULIA HELIENE JOSEPH

#4 NEW SUBDIVISION, FIVE CAYS

#36 Snakehill Ave, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

3 ARTIST

LABOURER

- $8 hourly Draw and paint artwork

2 METAL ARTIST -$8 hourly Cut and tie metal to create art.

CONTACT: 243-8302

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 331-3887

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

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

M&W MEP SERVICES

RODEMIDE JOSEPH

22798

#3 Robert Apt., Millennium Highway, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

22758

Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

CONSTRUCTION LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

• Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, mixing concrete, hand tools to workers, and cleaning work site.

• To work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.75 hourly

CONTACT: 231-2650

CONTACT: 348-8986

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22760

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Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22756

ISLAND CAFE

#332 MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

BARTENDER • Uphold customer service

• Maintain Bar • Mix and serve drinks • Clean and organize all areas including bathrooms • To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 342-1465

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22805

ROYAL ROBINSON 493 Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER

Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. Salary: $300 weekly

CONTACT: 649-231-0327

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22764

E&V EQUIPMENT LIMITED Williams Auditorium, Five Cays Road, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

MECHANIC AND OPERATOR

• Drive company trucks.

• Must be knowledgeable with Caterpillar Machines and Cummins Engine.

Salary: $650 per week

SANITATION WORKER

-$6.25 hourly Picking up garbage.

CONTACT: 649-941-8494

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board work permit renewals 22720

SERCURITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES (SMS) TDMG, South Dock Road Is seeking to employ a

SECURITY OFFICER

Monitor property entrance, authorize of people and vehicles.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 649-331-7676

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22763

DES ELECTRICAL

Mydees Plaza, Airport Road, North Caicos. Is seeking a

LABOURER

• Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

• To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $300 weekly

CONTACT: 2451239 OR 243-6883

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22783

DEE’S HAIR SALON

#11 Cox Dr., Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

NAIL TECHNICIAN

Basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, hand massages, nail fills, nail repair, and nail polishing. Pedicures and the application of acrylic toenails.

Salary: $275 weekly.

CONTACT: 341-0682

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22757

LAS BRISAS

#533 Chalk Sound. Is seeking to employ a

2 COOKS

• Must set up workstations with all ingredients and cooking equipment.

• Preparing ingredients for use in cooking (peeling and chopping vegetables, cutting meat, etc.) 6 days a week Salary: $600.00 per week

KITCHEN HELPER

Preparing work stations for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 946-5306

Interested Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Work permit renewal

22804

Sunny Foods Wholesale Cash & Carry

53 South Dock Road, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Is now interviewing for the following position:

PURCHASER

1 Fourth Street, South Caicos East Bay Resort Ltd. is seeking to fill the following position.

SOUS CHEF JOB SUMMARY

Will be second in command in our kitchen, following the Executive Chef’s specifications and guidelines. The successful candidate will employ his/her culinary and managerial skills in order to play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing the Resort’s guest’s satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Sous Chef.

• Help in the preparation and design of all food and drinks menus.

• Ensure the kitchen operates in a timely manner that meets the Resort’s quality standards.

• Fill in for the Executive Chef in planning and directing food preparation when necessary.

• Understanding of various cooking methods, ingredients, equipment and procedures.

• Excellent record of kitchen and staff management.

• Working knowledge of various computer software programs (MS Office, restaurant management software, POS).

• BS degree in Culinary science or related certificate would be a plus.

Applicants must be willing to relocate and live in South Caicos. Only suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview. Beginning salary commensurate with experience. Interested applicants should submit their resume with qualifications and experience to: info@saunders.tc and the TCI Employment Services and Labour Department.

This position is currently vacant.

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JOB REQUIREMENTS • Must have prior experience purchasing Asian & American Products.

• Must be have prior experience with Quick Books 2020.

• Must be available to work on Holiday, Nights and weekends.

Both Saturday and Sunday nights are required with a day off during the middle of the week.

• Must be have good communication skills in able to commutate with overseas vendors and logistics companies .

• Ensures orders are placed in timely manner, customer request are met quick and efficiently.

• Must have extensive knowledge on NCR 7456 or similar POS system.

• Setting up training programs for employees on proper merchandising and customer service skills.

• Most work is required by standing for long periods of time and working in an environment that is not air conditioned such as a dry warehouse.

CONTACT: 941-8112 Salary for this position will commensurate with qualification and experience.

This Position is for work permit renewal interested Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of the resume to the Labour Department.

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BIG J CONSTRUCTION

Norway Street, Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $8 hourly.

CONTACT: 243-0948

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

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GOOD TASTE WHOLESALE & RETAIL #87 Walkin Plaza, Five Cays

CASHIER

• Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers.

• To work 5 days a week Salary: $350 weekly

CONTACT: 345-2061

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds the positions 22747

F&G OFFICE SUPPLIES

UNIT #3 GRAND PLAZA, DOWNTOWN Is seeking to employ a

ALL STARS BAR & RESTAURANT

Unit #6 Grant’s Gas Station, Down Town Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER

Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 346-2332

VALMAN FORBES BACK ROAD, FIVE CAYS PROVIDENCIALES

LABOURER (RENEWAL)

Duties: cleaning outside of premises and ensuring trash and debris is discarded of Salary $6.50 per hour

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 22806

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT

F.M.M MAINTENANCE SERVICES

F&G OFFICE SUPPLIES

#42 Moses Ave, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Sweeping, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, and other work.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 242-2548

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

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UNIT #3 GRAND PLAZA, DOWNTOWN Is seeking to employ a

STORE CLERK

• Receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers.

• Must be willing to work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

ACTING ON BEHALF OF

bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework.

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

2 TYREMEN - $7 HOURLY

Blue Hills next to Chicken Shack 242-7012/333-0803

CONTACT: 649-341-1377

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals,

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22759

Balance tires for all vehicles, order tires for all vehicles in the fleet, order patches and plugs for tires.

BLUE HILLS GLASS

GLASS MAN - $10 HOURLY

Install and cut glass windows and doors.

Deleno A. Carter

Gifted Shop Variety

BABYSITTER - $290 WEEKLY

STORE HELPER - $6.25 HOURLY

Lower Bight 245-7274

GLASS SHACK, PROVIDENCIALES. Tel: 333-0209

2 LABORERS

(RENEWALS) Duties: cleaning up site ensuring it is free of debris salary $7.00 per hour

2 MASONS (RENEWALS)

Duties: ensuring levels, tiles, cement pouring Salary $8.00 per hour

2 CARPENTERS (RENEWALS)

Duties: cutting of wood and measurements, buildings cabinets Salary $8.00 per hour

2 DOMESTIC WORKERS (RENEWALS)

Duties: cleaning of premises Salary $6.26 per hour

Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Department 22800

JEANNE TALBOT

7 M MOTORS #475 MILLENIUM HIGHWAY, PROVIDENCIALES 241-0531

LABOURER

Duties: keeping the boats clean. Salary $6.25 per hour THIS POSITION IS FOR RENEWAL OF WORK PERMIT BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT 22801

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

Industrial Park, Williams Storage 347-3858 Clean the store, stock shelves, pick, pack, receive and restock products inside the store

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

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TDMG

is looking for an

ACCOUNTANT

To manage all accounting transactions, prepare budget forecasts, Publish financial statements in time, handle monthly, quarterly and annual closings, and reconcile accounts payable and receivable. To ensure timely banking payments and compute taxes and prepare tax returns, to manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements, report on the company’s financial health and liquidity. To audit financial transactions and documents, and reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary and comply with financial policies and regulations.

5 days a week – Salary: $19 per hour.

Qualified belonger candidates can submit their application to:

TDMG Concordia Ltd., South Dock Road, P.O.Box 86 info@tdmgltd.com Tel: 649-9413445.

RECRUITMENT

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

EASY WAY EMPLOYMENT

Windsor Place #895, Leeward Highway 232-5420/345-1421

TRIPLE “S”

CONTACT: 649-341-1377

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 22762

DAVIS TIRE SHOP & SERVICES

DOMESTIC WORKER

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We are seeking an accomplished individual with demonstrated experiences as a Hotel Financial Controller.

REQUIREMENTS: • Demonstrates strong experience & background in Finance with specific emphasis on hotel financial reporting, investments, risk management and cash flow analysis.

• Must be an ACA/ACCA/CPA with public accounting background as well as 3-5 years’ experience as a Hotel Financial Controller • Must have experience with Strata Corporation accounting • Detailed knowledge of Visual 1 software package • Excellent people skills, high-energy, entrepreneurial spirit, and professionalism • Caribbean or similar International exposure RESPONSIBLE FOR: • Preparation of monthly Hotel and Strata Corporation financial statements • Assist in the preparation of the Company’s financial budgeting and forecast process.

• Provide leadership in establishing high-quality standards within the accounting department and must possess excellent communication and leadership skills.

• Direct reports will include accountants, purchasing staff and all peripheral receiving, inventory controls personnel.

• Assist in the preparation of budget presentations; the production of periodic financials, statistics and operational metrics for senior management Salary: USD70,000 per annum (Salary is negotiable and based on level, experience and qualifications)

ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING ABOVE REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE CONTACTED

Candidates should apply via e-mail at info@santralmanagement.com for consideration. Prospective applicants who are Belongers kindly send copies of your application to the board and the Employment Services Department.

Application deadline: October 15, 2020

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

Science & Technology

Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions THE virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say.

The findings from Australia’s national science agency suggest SARS-Cov-2 can survive for far longer than thought.

However, the experiment was conducted in the dark. UV light has already been shown to kill the virus.

Some experts have also thrown doubt on the actual threat posed by surface transmission in real life.

The coronavirus is mostly transmitted when people cough, sneeze or talk.

But there is also evidence that it can also be spread by particles hanging in the air. It is also possible someone could get Covid-19 by touching infected surfaces such as metal or plastic, according to the US Centers for Disease Control.

This is believed to be much less common, however.

What does the study say?

Previous laboratory tests have found that SARS-Cov-2 can survive for two to three days on bank notes and glass, and up to six days on plastic and stainless steel, although results vary.

However, the research from Australian agency CSIRO found the virus was “extremely robust,” surviving for 28 days on smooth surfaces such as

BCS-CS/ GRACE BAY CAR RENTALS #1216 LEEWARD HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

Computer Technologist • Performs various duties depending on circumstances and current company needs • Installs software and hardware systems, including new equipment, anti-virus programs, CRM programs, and other tools commonly used by a company's team members • Uninstalls old programs • Strives to resolve malware and virus issues within personal workstations and a company's network • Repairs and maintains servers, personal computers, and other technology equipment • Works with team members to troubleshoot both complex and routine computer issues • Contributes to the overall operations of a company by writing and distributing memos about best practices for computer use • Performs one-on-one computer coaching on technology when necessary • Configures computer networks • Communicates with individuals by phone and email to solve technical problems • Stays abreast of current trends and technology and makes recommendations that will help a company keep up with technology standards in the industry • Adapts quickly to changing circumstances, new standards, and requests by company management • Acts quickly in crisis situations so the company can resume normal operations as soon as possible • Provide technical assistance and resolution as necessary • Set up new computer systems and perform routine maintenance • Ensure that Internet security software is updated and running properly • Maintain computer equipment and software to ensure secure and efficient operations • Repair computer hardware and servers as required • Test and implement new software programs for the company • EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science *MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL GRACE BAY CAR RENTALS SOFTWARE; RENT CENTRIC, EUROCAR- ALL DATA MANAGE ONLINE, QUICKBOOKS, POINT OF SALE, EXCEL POWERPOINT AND WORD. BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. POSITION ARE HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS. Contact: 441-8515; Email; frantz@gracebaycarrentals.com

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glass found on mobile phone screens and both plastic and paper banknotes, when kept at 20C (68F), which is about room temperature, and in the dark.

In comparison, the flu virus can survive in the same circumstances for 17 days.

The study, published in Virology Journal, also found SARS-Cov-2 survived for less time at hotter temperatures than cooler temperatures; it stopped being infectious within 24 hours at 40C on some surfaces.

It also stayed longer on smooth, non-porous surfaces than on porous materials such as cloth, which was found not to carry any infectious virus past 14 days.

Prof Ron Eccles, former director Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University, criticised the study and said

CALVIN BEEN

Palm Grove, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ

2 LABOURERS

These results highlight the need to wash hands and clean touchscreens regularly.

the suggestion that the virus could survive for 28 days was causing “unnecessary fear in the public”.

“Viruses are spread on surfaces from mucus in coughs and sneezes and dirty fingers and this study did not use fresh human mucus as a vehicle to spread the virus,” he said.

“Fresh mucus is a hostile environment for viruses as it contains lots of white cells that produce enzymes to destroy viruses and can also contain antibodies and other chemicals to neutralise viruses.

“In my opinion infectious viruses will only persist for

ILONKA’S SOUVENIRS FASHIONS & RETAIL

Methodist Street, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

SALES CLERK

hours in mucus on surfaces rather than days.”

In a paper published by the Lancet in July, Emanuel Goldman, professor of microbiology at Rutgers University, said “the chance of transmission through inanimate surfaces is very small”. He said studies that suggested a significant risk had been designed with “little resemblance to real-life scenarios”.

Last week Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, said the coronavirus did not spread via surfaces.

SIGRID LIGHTBOURNE

Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

CLEANER

Duties: To clean maintain Premises, dispose of refuse and waste and any other duties as necessary.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

Duties: Greet customers Receive payments by cash, Credit cards and cheques, Issue receipts and change. SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 346-6278

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

CONTACT: 343-9884

Belongers are encouraged To send copy of their resume To The Labour Board. This position is currently held a work permit holder. 22815

Belongers are encouraged to Submit a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. This position Is held by a work permit holder.

22812

CLUB 2005

DYPCO LTD

AVERYL JUNE MURRAY

22816

2005 Plaza, Aviation Drive Is seeking to employ a

BARMAID

Taking food orders, serving customers.

Taking beverage orders from customers or wait staff and serving drinks as requested, paying extreme attention to detail.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 241-5635

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

22819

#70 Five Cays Road

LABOURER $7.00 (Cleaning, emptying garbage, cleaning machinery etc)

CONTACT 231-1490

Caribbean Construction Builders for a Cabinetmaker, Building #999, Leeward Highway contact: 946-5907 $12.00 per hour (building cabinets and vanities) 22813

Duties: Cleaning the church, Mopping, sweeping, vacuuming Rugs, cleaning windows and doors. SALARY: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 348-3298

Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

MAID

Duties: Regular housekeeping.

Which includes Cleaning mopping, Dusting, sweeping and Assisting with cooking and any other chores. Salary: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 243-4125

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This Position is currently held by a work permit holder. 22814

October 17-23, 2020

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Science & Technology Trial to test if Vitamin D protects against Covid-19 SCIENTISTS are looking for volunteers to take part in a trial to see if taking vitamin D can give the immune system a boost against Covid.

People who join would be sent pills in the post to take daily for six months if a finger-prick test shows they are deficient in the “sunshine vitamin”.

UK residents are already advised to consider taking supplements over winter when vitamin D levels can dip.

That is to improve general health,

not specifically to stop infections.

SHOULD I TAKE VITAMIN D? Vitamin D deficiency is more common in older people, in people who are overweight, and in black and Asian people - all of the groups who are at increased risk of becoming very ill with Covid.

The trial, led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London and funded by Barts Charity, will use higher doses of vitamin D than regular supplements.

Principal investigator David Jolliffe said the trial “has the potential to give a definitive answer” to the question of whether vitamin D offers protection against Covid.

“Vitamin D supplements are low in cost, low in risk and widely accessible; if proven effective, they could significantly aid in our global fight against the virus,” he said.

Although vitamin D supplements are very safe, taking more than the recommended amount every day can be dangerous in the long run. (BBC)

Many people in the UK have low vitamin D levels.

Room-temperature superconductivity achieved for the first time A TEAM of physicists in New York has discovered a material that conducts electricity with perfect efficiency at room temperature — a long-sought scientific milestone. The hydrogen, carbon and sulfur compound operates as a superconductor at up to 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the team reported today in Nature. That’s more than 50 degrees hotter than the previous high-temperature superconductivity record set last year.

“This is the first time we can really claim that room-temperature superconductivity has been found,” said Ion Errea, a condensed matter theorist at the University of the Basque Country in Spain who was not involved in the work.

“It’s clearly a landmark,” said Chris Pickard, a materials scientist at the University of Cambridge.

“That’s a chilly room, maybe a British Victorian cottage,” he said of the 59-degree temperature.

Yet while researchers celebrate the achievement, they stress that the newfound compound — created by a team led by Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester — will never find its way into lossless power lines, frictionless high-speed trains, or any of the revolutionary technologies that could become ubiquitous if the fragile quantum effect underlying superconductivity could be maintained in truly ambient conditions. That’s because the substance superconducts at room temperature only while being crushed between a pair of diamonds to pressures roughly 75% as extreme as those found in the Earth’s core.

“People have talked about roomtemperature superconductivity forever,” Pickard said. “They may not have quite appreciated that when we did it, we were going to do it at such high pressures.”

Materials scientists now face the challenge of discovering a superconductor that operates not only

A novel metallic compound of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur exhibited superconductivity at a balmy 59 degrees Fahrenheit when pressurized between a pair of diamond anvils.

at normal temperatures but under everyday pressures, too. Certain features of the new compound raise hopes that the right blend of atoms could someday be found.

Electrical resistance occurs in normal wires when freely flowing electrons bump into the atoms that make up the metal. But researchers discovered in 1911 that at low temperatures, electrons can induce vibrations in a metal’s atomic lattice, and those vibrations in turn draw electrons together into couples known as Cooper pairs. Different quantum rules govern these couples, which stream together in a coherent swarm that passes through the metal’s lattice unimpeded, experiencing no resistance whatsoever. The superconducting fluid also expels magnetic fields — an effect that could allow magnetically levitating vehicles to float frictionlessly above superconducting rails.

As the temperature of a superconductor rises, however, particles jiggle around randomly, breaking up the electrons’ delicate dance.

Researchers have spent decades searching for a superconductor whose Cooper pairs tango tightly enough to withstand the heat of everyday environments. In 1968, Neil Ashcroft, a solid-state physicist at Cornell University, proposed that a lattice of hydrogen atoms would do the trick. Hydrogen’s diminutive size lets electrons get closer to the nodes of the lattice, augmenting their interactions with the vibrations.

Hydrogen’s lightness also allows those guiding ripples to vibrate faster, further strengthening the glue that binds the Cooper pairs.

Impractically high pressures are needed to squash hydrogen into a metallic lattice. Still, Ashcroft’s work raised hopes that some “hydride”— a mixture of hydrogen and a second element — might deliver metallic hydrogen’s superconductivity at more accessible pressures.

Progress took off in the 2000s, when supercomputer simulations let theorists predict the properties of various hydrides, and the widespread use of compact diamond anvils let experimentalists squeeze the most

promising candidates to test their mettle.

Suddenly, hydrides started setting records. A team in Germany showed in 2015 that a metallic form of hydrogen sulfide — a pungent compound found in rotten eggs — superconducts at -94 degrees Fahrenheit under 1.5 million times the pressure of the atmosphere.

Four years later, the same lab used lanthanum hydride to hit -10 degrees under 1.8 million atmospheres, even as another group found evidence for superconductivity in the same compound at 8 degrees.

Dias’ lab in Rochester has now shattered those records. Guided by intuition and rough calculations, the team tested a range of hydrogen compounds searching for the goldilocks ratio of hydrogen. Add too little hydrogen, and a compound won’t superconduct as robustly as metallic hydrogen does. Add too much, and the sample will act too much like metallic hydrogen, metalizing only at pressures that will crack your diamond anvil. Over the course of their research, the team busted many dozens of $3,000 diamond pairs. “That’s the biggest problem with our research, the diamond budget,” Dias said.

The winning recipe proved to be a riff on the 2015 formula. The researchers started with hydrogen sulfide, added methane (a compound of carbon and hydrogen), and baked the concoction with a laser.

“We were able to enrich the system and introduce just the right critical amount of hydrogen necessary to maintain these Cooper pairs at very high temperatures,” said Ashkan Salamat, Dias’ collaborator and a condensed matter physicist at the University of Nevada.

But the fine details of the hydrogen-carbon-sulfur potion they’ve cooked up elude them.

Hydrogen is too small to show up in traditional probes of lattice structure,

so the group doesn’t know how the atoms are arranged, or even the substance’s exact chemical formula.

Eva Zurek, a computational chemist at the University at Buffalo, belongs to a group of theorists loosely affiliated with Dias’ lab.

Earlier this year they predicted the conditions under which one metal that might have formed between the diamond anvils should superconduct, and they found different behavior.

She suspects that high pressures instead transformed Dias’ substance into an unknown form whose superconductivity is especially robust.

Once Dias’ group can figure out exactly what they’ve got on their hands (details he and Salamat say are coming soon), theorists will build models exploring the features that give this hydrogen-carbon-sulfur mixture its superconducting power, in hopes of further modifying the recipe.

Physicists have proved most two-element hydrogen hybrids to be dead ends, but the new threeelement blend marks a potentially significant advance into the world of complex chimera materials. One of the elements involved seems particularly promising to some.

“What I like about this work: They bring carbon into the system,” said Mikhail Eremets, an experimentalist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany whose lab set the hydride records of 2015 and 2019.

He explained that the lightness of hydrogen is not the only way to beef up the vibrations that steer electrons into Cooper pairs. Stronger links between neighboring atoms in the lattice also help, and, he said, “carbon has very strong covalent bonds.”

Materials with carbon frames could bring the added benefit of preventing the whole assembly from tumbling down at the low pressures humans find comfortable.

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Sports Interational

James honours Kobe Bryant days after leading Lakers to title LEBRON James already delivered perhaps the greatest possible tribute to Kobe Bryant by leading the Los Angeles Lakers to their 17th championship on Sunday night.

Now, days later, James shared a touching message to the fallen Lakers star many have dedicated that title to.

“Hope I made you proud my brother!!” James wrote with a series of photos on Instagram on Wednesday night. “Love and miss you Champ!!”

Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among seven people killed in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles in January. The Lakers honoured him constantly throughout the rest of the season, including the addition of jersey patches and a special “Black Mamba” jersey — which earned them a near-perfect 4-1 record in the playoffs in Florida this year.

The Lakers cruised to a dominant win in Game 6 on Sunday night to close out the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. James was named the NBA Finals MVP, too, the fourth time in his career he’s earned that honour and the first player in league history to do so with three different teams.

Countless Lakers players, executives and fans have honoured Bryant in the wake of the title.

Lakers president Jeanie Buss mentioned him during her speech

The Juventus forward needs to return a negative test by October 21 in order to be eligible to play against Barcelona -- and old nemesis Lionel Messi -- in the Champions League on October 28.

Ronaldo watches on television as Portugal defeats Sweden 3-0 – Star footballer in isolation after positive COVID-19 test

The Lakers cruised to a dominant win in Game 6 on Sunday night to close out the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat.

accepting the Finals trophy at Walt Disney World, and Lakers fans were heard chanting “Kobe!” throughout the streets of Los Angeles immediately after Game 6.

Lakers star Anthony Davis dedicated the title to Bryant in his postgame interview on Sunday night.

“He was a big brother to all of us.

We did this for him.”

While James has more than done his part to honor Bryant’s legacy since his death, Wednesday’s post officially closed the chapter on one of the strangest, longest seasons in NBA history. (Yahoo Sports)

NO RONALDO? No problem.

After testing positive for coronavirus, Cristiano Ronaldo watched the Nations League on television as Portugal cruised past Sweden 3-0.

The Juventus forward returned to Turin, Italy, aboard a private air ambulance to continue his isolation after returning a positive test on Tuesday, donning his international kit as he watched his country’s victory.

According to the head of Portugal’s General Health Directorate, the journey was permitted as Ronaldo,

who has residency in Italy, organised and paid for his own private transport.

Bernardo Silva scored Portugal’s first before Diogo Jota, who had assisted Silva’s opener, bagged a brace, securing a result which puts the undefeated defending champion top of group A3, level on points with France.

The Portuguese Football Federation said Ronaldo was “well (and) without symptoms” when it announced his positive test earlier this week. The 35-year-old must now wait to see when he can return to action.

Davis will re-sign with Lakers after he opts out of contract AS expected, Los Angeles Lakers superstar Anthony Davis plans to opt out of his contract and then re-sign with the franchise after winning the title, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.

Davis has a $28.75 million player option for next season, but he’s set to decline that in order to make more money on a new deal. The star big man will discuss a variety of contract options with agent Rich Paul over the next few weeks as the NBA figures out its financial future, including short- and long-term deals.

Here are some of the options based on the salary cap staying where it is at around $109 million: • Two years, $68,103,360: Oneplus-one, player option in year two.

• Three years, $106,084,080: Two-plus-one, player option in year three. This deal would bring Davis to 10 years of service before 2022 free agency and thus make him eligible for the 35 percent max contract. Using a $125 million cap projection in 2022, Davis’ max deal would be worth $253.75 million over five years, or $196 million over four

Anthony Davis was key for the Lakers in winning the 2020 title.

years.

• Four years, $146,684,160: Three-plus-one, player option in year four. Using a potential $131.25

million cap in 2023, Davis would be in line for a $266.4 million max over five years or $205.8 million over four years.

The Lakers big man played things rather coy when asked about his free agency after winning the title, but during the ensuing

celebration he said he wanted to “run it back” while on Quinn Cook’s IG Live. There was never really much doubt about Davis’ desire to return to L.A. after he won his first title.

Davis was terrific throughout the season playing alongside LeBron James. The two immediately built a strong rapport after Davis’ trade from the New Orleans Pelicans, and they have also proven to be an unstoppable force together on the court.

While it was LeBron who won Finals MVP, Davis was a worthy sidekick, dominating throughout the playoffs and in the championship series. The Lakers big man averaged 25.0 points, 10.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.0 blocks and 1.3 steals while shooting a ridiculous 57.1% overall, 42.1% from 3-land and 93.8% from the free-throw line against the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals.

Anthony Davis and LeBron James are in line to dominate again next season, and likely even longer than that. (Clutch Point)

October 17-23, 2020

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Sports Interational

Hamilton equals Michael Schumacher record with 91st win

Conor McGregor announced on Twitter that he will fight Poirier on January 23, 2021.

Conor McGregor says he’s accepted a UFC fight against Dustin Poirier CONOR McGregor has said that he has accepted a fight against Dustin Poirier.

The Irishman announced on Twitter that he will fight Poirier on January 23, 2021 and hopes to stage the fight in the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.

“I accept, Jan 23rd is on!” the 32-year-old said. “My goal is to see this fight take place in Cowboy stadium. Proper Style! Jerry Jones is a friend and the stadium can hold our crowd. I will be ready for Texas and Texas will be ready for my fans!

Then Manny.”

Poirier responded to McGregor on Twitter: “Close to home for me on my birthday weekend! What weight?”

The pair have fought before. In 2014, with McGregor beating the

American in the first round.

McGregor hasn’t fought since his 40-second victory over Donald Cerrone in January at UFC 246. He announced his retirement in June.

Last month, McGregor said on Twitter that he would be coming out of retirement to fight 41-year-old boxer Manny Pacquiao.

The former two-division UFC World Champion, said he’s “boxing Manny Pacquiao next in the Middle East.”

McGregor has fought one boxing match before, losing in the 10th round to boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2017.

After his initial tweet about facing Pacquiao, McGregor said in a second tweet: “It will be a true honor to have faced two of the greatest boxers of the modern era.” (CNN)

LEWIS Hamilton equalled the alltime record for career Formula 1 victories by winning the Eifel Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver’s win was the 91st of his career and he will surely break Michael Schumacher’s record soon.

Hamilton extended his championship lead over team-mate Valtteri Bottas to 69 points after the Finn retired.

Behind Max Verstappen’s Red Bull in second, Daniel Ricciardo scored Renault’s first podium since returning to F1 as a constructor in 2016.

The race had been poised for a close fight between Hamilton and Bottas before the second Mercedes hit trouble at the Nurburgring in Germany.

Hamilton, second on the grid, made a better start than Bottas and dived for the inside at the first corner, pushing him wide, but Bottas held his ground and recovered the lead on the inside of the second corner.

That gave Bottas control of the race, but Hamilton pressured him hard and in the end the leader buckled.

Bottas handed the advantage back to Hamilton on lap 13, locking a wheel into Turn One and running wide, allowing Hamilton to close in and pass for the lead around the outside of Turn Two. Three laps later, the race fell further into Hamilton’s lap when a virtual safety car allowed him and Verstappen to pit for fresh tyres and retain their positions ahead of Bottas, and two laps after that Bottas retired with a suspected failure of the

“It’s going to take some time to get used to it,” Hamilton said of equalling Schumacher’s record.

MGU-H, part of the hybrid system.

Although Verstappen stole the point for fastest lap from Hamilton on the last lap of the race, Hamilton’s lead is close to three clear race victories with only six races remaining. A seventh world title - which would equal another Schumacher record - is beckoning.

A SPECIAL TROPHY FOR HAMILTON Schumacher’s son Mick presented Hamilton with one of his father’s old helmets, from his last F1 season with Mercedes in 2012, to recognise the

achievement.

“I don’t know what to say,” Hamilton said. “When you grow up watching someone and you idolise them, really, for the quality of the driver they are and what they are continually able to do as a driver and with his team week on week.

“Seeing his dominance for so long and I don’t think anyone - especially me - thought he would get close to this record.

“It’s an incredible honour but I could not have done it without this incredible team. A big thank you and huge respect to Michael.” (BBC)

Mark Cavendish has ‘no desire’ to quit despite retirement talk

Mark Cavendish is second on the all-time list for stage wins at the Tour de France behind Eddy Merckx.

MARK Cavendish says he has no “desire to stop” racing, three days after appearing to suggest he was set to retire.

The Manxman, 35, has struggled for form in recent seasons, when he has been affected by the EpsteinBarr virus.

But he says rumours Wednesday’s one-day Scheldeprijs race would be cancelled contributed to his tearful interview at the end of Sunday’s Gent-Wevelgem race.

“I don’t want to stop. I love this sport,” he said.

“There were rumours at the start of the race that the rest of the races would be cancelled,” he told Belgian broadcaster Sporza.

“The government in Belgium

had a meeting on Monday about restrictions over coronavirus. It suddenly dawned on me that I don’t have next year sorted yet and that it could be the last race of the season and potentially my career.

“I wear my heart on my sleeve and especially with racing here in Belgium - here in Scheldeprijs [in 2007] was my first win as a professional. I was looking forward to this race and I was enjoying racing in Belgium. It’s pure racing like when I was a kid again. I don’t have a desire to stop.”

Cavendish, who has won Scheldeprijs three times, is considered one of the greatest riders in road cycling, having won 30 stages at the Tour de France, but as yet he has no

contract to ride next year.

The GB rider, who races for Bahrain-McLaren, also won the 2011 World Road Race Championships, 15 stages of the Giro d’Italia and the Milan-San Remo ‘monument’ oneday race in 2009.

And despite not having won since the third stage of the Dubai Tour in February 2018, Cavendish says he has plenty left to offer.

“That’s relative - 80% of riders don’t win a race in their career,” he said. “I’m fortunate that I’m looked at that if I don’t win it’s a problem.

“Of course, I want to win but unfortunately, it’s how it is. If I’m second it’s looked on as bad whereas if another rider is second then it’s possibly good.” (BBC)

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The TCIFA celebrated the International Day of the Girl earlier this week.

Players and officials were tested prior to the re-start of practice sessions.

TCIFA tests over 70 staff members and players before re-start THE TURKS and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) is leading from the front in protecting athletes from COVID-19.

Prior to their re-opening last Thursday, the FA tested several dozen full-time staff and players to ensure that all were protected on the field.

A release from the FA noted that the safety and health of the athletes have always been key for the FA as they navigated through the pandemic.

“TCIFA’s overriding priority since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the health and safety of its most valuable stakeholders, so several initiatives were implemented to support those persons as football charts a path toward a new normal. Among TCIFA’s

– Will continue to focus on health and safety protocols responsible conduct approach to the COVID-19 crisis, over seventy (70) tests for the novel Coronavirus were administered to full-time staff and members of the Men’s and Women’s National Teams.”

The FA had suspended its activities on March 12; one day after the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared a pandemic. The Sonia Fulford-led administration was extra cautious in returning to the field and only did so after TCI Premier Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson announced that sporting organisations across the country were free to permit athletes to return for training.

“The route to the re-opening the FA facilities was laid out in accordance with the health and safety regulations of the Ministry of Health. Measures were carefully tailored to our unique football environment, and implemented across a full range of activities,” a release stated.

According to Fulford, the FA never stopped working to get football back on the ground.

“We extended, and spent our entire quarantine period preparing to reopen, and ensuring that we had every product or piece of equipment we needed to safeguard public health. We

prepared an elaborate, clear-cut reopening plan which speaks to pre-entry, protective equipment, transportation, staggered entry and exit, designated areas, temperature checks/ symptom assessment, contact tracing, use of equipment, cleaning/ hygiene protocols, social distancing/ training protocols, and more. We knew that the process would be gradual, but also knew that it would be deliberate.”

The TCIFA head said that, “Nearly every day brings us new developments in the fight against COVID-19, so we are constantly reviewing and refining all the methods and means we have

implemented.

TCIFA’s ability to continue serving their stakeholders is a testament to its focus on stakeholders’ wellbeing, and attempting to lead the way in that regard as the organisation decide what sports will look like in the coming year.”

Meanwhile, Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Candia Ewing noted via the release that the FA continues to work hard to ensure Turks and Caicos grassroots physical activities return as strong and vibrant as it was before.

“To that end, our commitment to the Turks and Caicos Islands is that we will remain a champion for the role of physical activity.”

For more information on the opening, contact Ewing at 9415532 or cewingtcifa@gmail.com

TCIFA looking to hire Equipment Manager THE TCI Football Association (TCIFA) is looking to hire a full-time Equipment Manager would can handle local and overseas engagement.

The FA just last week re-started team practices and have opted to put systems in place early. The successful candidate would earn a monthly salary of $1500 to $2000.

According to information from the FA, the Equipment Manager would be required to work under the supervision of the General Secretary and the Technical Director for approximately 44 hours per week.

During match days and other national team events, he/she may be required to work outside normal office hours.

Among the responsibilities of the

successful application would be: - To issue appropriate equipment to team members - Ensure that all equipment and uniforms comply with FIFA/CONCACAF guidelines.

- To take responsibilities for the management and care of all TCIFA national teams, individual and portable field equipment and physical facilities.

- Stores, repairs, and reconditions equipment and uninform used by all TCI National teams.

- Supervised and maintains equipment inventories and oversees the maintenance of equipment inventory records for all TCIFA National Teams.

- To ensure that all uniforms, equipment,

and first aid kits are kept fully stocked.

- Fits or monitors fitting of athletic equipment to ensure athletes receive appropriate equipment for maximum protection while correcting outfitting problems of athletes on teams.

- Oversees uniform and equipment distribution to and retrieval from all National Teams.

- Oversees and coordinates all game equipment and uniforms, ensuring that necessary field equipment, number and coloured jerseys, balls, or the other game equipment, team refreshments, etc. are available.

- Works with coaching staff to ensure that all uniforms and related apparel and equipment are maintained and returned

in a clean and serviceable condition.

- Attend all National Team training sessions - Work closely with coaches in field set-up requirements for National team training sessions or competitions.

- Stores and packs uniforms and equipment appropriately when not in use.

- Attend scheduled meetings as required - Must have the ability to travel overseas - Performs miscellaneous job-related and other additional maintenance.

The position is opened to Turks Islanders only. Send application to Oliver Smith at olivertcifa@gmail.com The deadline for the application is October 21.

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Forbes hopes to return to Austin Bold FC – Finishes season as leading goal scorer SENIOR national captain Billy Forbes is hoping to sign another contract with United Soccer League (USL) football club Austin Bold after a solid season this year.

The 29-year-old dominated the games and finished as the leading scorer for his side.

In total, Forbes scored seven times.

“The season was good and I would love to sign with them [Austin Bold] again, but will have to wait and see.”

Forbes, who almost

carried his team into the playoffs this season, seems to be set on returning.

“I haven’t talk to any team, just enjoying some time off.”

The Turks Islander was explosive in the reduced season.

Of his goals, one of his most rewarding came against his former club, the San Antonio FC earlier this month.

Although Austin were already out of the playoffs, Forbes still managed to score in a 2-1 win.

In total, Austin Bold FC finished the 2020 season in third place of

Billy Forbes (left) was outstanding for club team Austin Bold FC this season.

Group D with 22 points.

When Forbes signed his oneseason contact in January of this year, General Manager of Austin Bold FC, Roberto Silva, had

indicated that the Turks Islander would be a valuable asset to the club.

“We’re excited to add Billy Forbes to our 2020 roster. “He has

many years of USL experience that will be incredibly valuable to us in our sophomore year.”

The TCI footballer lived up to expectations.

Chase becomes latest TCI basketball player to gain scholarship to West Virginia school – O’Neill delivers again FOUR Turks and Caicos high school students have now benefitted from scholarships to the Greater Beckley Christian School in West Virginia.

Coach Ciaran O’Neill was instrumental in getting the youngsters into the US school.

LaTarj Chase joins Azel Carmichael, Sherlock Padmore and Tamiko Robinson.

Three of the players were from the Clement Howell High School, while Robinson attended Maranatha.

Though all four can guard the ball, Carmichael and Tamiko would play in the point guard position, Robinson as a combo guard and Padmore as a forward.

According to O’Neill, he helped organise the scholarships, but the players and their parents also played their parts.

“It was achieved by having

The four talented basketball players will look to hone their skills in the USA.

faith, patience and the right timing.

In addition the parents committed to helping their sons reach their dreams of studying and heading to

a great environment for their sports future.”

LaTarj had won a Championship at CHHS and is looking to make an

impact at his new school. As the other players, he is expected to train every day and benefit from a 40-game season.

If the players excel, they will get the opportunity to be recruited by college coaches from all across the United States.

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