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BY DELANA ISLES

The government is urging these persons to prepare for the opening of the new portal by collating all the required documentation needed to verify that they meet the eligibility criteria.

Former Senior Prosecutor, Sophia Thomas

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consulted.“Itwas noted that Ms Thomas has a right of appeal against the decision. However, while this decision subsists, its reputational implications on the Office of the DPP, the TCI Public Service and the TCI Bar Association, all of which Ms Thomas was a member, could not permit her to continue in the employment of TCIG as a Prosecutor or as an attorney of the TCI,” Otuonye Accordingly,said. on August 3, Thomas was placed on administrative leave and ceased to perform the functions of her office, save to update, and hand over her case files. The following day, she resigned from the TCI Public Service as a Senior Public Prosecutor with ODPP.Her Excellency, the Deputy Governor Anya Williams accepted that resignation and Thomas’s last day in office was Friday, August 12. Many in the TCI have called into question cases she has prosecuted in the territory, with calls for them to be reviewed to ensure no injustice to any of the defendants in those cases, given her misconduct in Jamaica.However, nothing has been mentioned by the DPP. Allegations against Thomas In 2017, Lowell Spence, who was accused of stealing five million dollars, was charged with money laundering, obtaining money by fraud and conspiracy in 2009. In December 2017, the trial was aborted following issues with witness statements submitted by the prosecution, led by Thomas. Spence’s 2019 complaint stemmed from the prosecutor’s attempt during his trial, to refresh a witness’ memory from a statement. According to media reports out of Jamaica on the case, when asked during the trial if the statement was a replica of the original, Thomas reportedly said yes. However, upon examination of the two documents by the judge, the two statements were not consistent with each other, with several differences between them. During cross-examination by the defendant’s lawyer, Bert Samuels, the witness, Dominic Duval, a bank employee, admitted that he had signed the purported original statement the day before court in November 2017 on the instructions of the head of the bank’s internal investigation unit. The witness said the May 2017 statement submitted to the DPP “is the original statement and that this one was done the day before coming to court”. Duval said he was asked by the bank’s investigator to sign a new statement, which he did, and gave to Thomas.Following this disclosure, in December 2017, Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn stepped in and surrendered the eight-year-old fraud case because of prosecutorial misconduct. Thomas is currently awaiting a date to be heard in mitigation before a sanction is imposed upon her by the General Legal Council in Jamaica.

Applicants will have to submit proof of residence in TCI, which can include an active NIB number, TCI voter’s registration number or a copy of a utility bill displaying the applicant’s name which was issued in the TCI during the last 12 months.Inextenuating circumstances, residents may be required to provide a letter from a Justice of the Peace or District Commissioner located in the TCI to validate residence in the TCI, which shall be accompanied by a standard affidavit. In the case of students, letters from educational institutions in the TCI must be provided as proof of residence. This is to verify that students were enrolled in the institution during the roll-out of the stimulus or submission of their application.Onceopen, the new portal will only accept new applications from applicants not listed on the preapproved list who would not have benefitted for one reason or another.Allother stimuli programmes are closed for enquiries and processing.

the submission of a completed form on the portal and proof of documentation of Turks and Caicos Islands status holder or British Overseas Territory Citizenship. Proof of TCI Status may include TCI Status Card; TCI Status certificate or copy of applicant’s TCI birth certificate, along with a copy of one or both parents’ TCI statusApplicantsCard. can also submit a copy of their TCI birth certificate along with a copy of one or both parents’ birth certificate; or copy of the applicant’s TCI birth certificate with Islander Status Card/Island Status Certificate if one or both of his/her parents is a British Overseas Territory Citizen, a copy of their passport with expiration date no later than March 31, 2022, or a copy of their BOTC certificate if the applicant is a BOTC. The applicant must not be incarcerated in prison and must be 18 years of age and over.

“We can confirm that the matter has now been carefully deliberated upon and relevant TCI authorities and stakeholders, including the TCI Bar Council, have been duly

The programmes generally require as eligibility criteria

Embattled attorney Sophia Thomas resigned as a Senior Prosecutor one day after her membership to the local bar was revoked and she was placed on administrative leave by the TCI Public Service. Thomas is fighting a verdict by a Jamaican legal disciplinary panel that she intentionally deceived a court of law by producing false evidence during a trial she prosecuted in 2017 in Jamaica.

Following a hearing of the Jamaican disciplinary committee in July, Thomas was found guilty of professional misconduct, and her integrity called into question, causing rippled effects in TCI where she was at the time a member of the local bar and a practicing prosecutor.Thisweek, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Eugene Otuonye Q.C., gave the final decision of his office on the matter.

ProsecutorJamaican Sophia Thomas resigns from TCI post

A new portal comes on stream this September for eligible residents who do not appear on the preapproved list to apply for the $1,000 citizen inflation adjustment stimulus.OnAugust 10, the Government commenced the distribution of the cheques to the pre-approved applicants, and this September those whose names are not on the pre-approved lists can have their applications processed. A statement from the government this week said that once started, the vetting process of new applications will take a short time as the portal will only allow those persons who have not received a benefit during the preapproved process to complete an application.

Portal opens this September for new applicants to apply for $1K stimulus

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As part of the project, works will also be carried out to improve drainage systems across the islands.“Anyone who has driven on the highway would notice that a lot of the bush was cut significantly back than normal because again, we’re trying to determine where the road reserves end, the survey boundaries of the highway as well as the installation of the power poles by Fortis where they are in the road reserve,” she added.

TCI’s roadways to improve with $20m upgrade

Paulanjo Gardiner aka ‘Loopi’ was killed last weekend in the South Dock area, after being shot numerous times. The shooting occurred at about 11:45 pm on Friday, August 12, as Gardiner along with female occupants in the car were leaving a location in the Five Cays community in Providenciales. Eyewitness reports are that upon being shot, Gardiner crashed his vehicle into a pole. Police immediately converged on the scene, cordoning off the area. Gardiner was shot several times, resulting in his death, and a woman in the vehicle he was driving also received serious injuries. A murder inquiry has been launched into what the Commissioner of Police, Trevor Botting, is calling a targeted attack. “This appears to be a targeted attack, but detectives are keeping an open mind as to the motive,” the commissioner told the public

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Assembly back in May. “The funding is in the budget for us but we had to do the initial leg work to determine where can the highway be expanded, where would the highway be renovated, where can we rehabilitate these roundabouts, so this requires a lot of preparatory work.” She explained that while some of the work can be executed quickly, assessing the area and detailing the scope of work that needs to be done will take some time. “When it comes down to laying the asphalt, that can be done relatively quickly, but it is the preparation work.”

Paulanjo Gardiner murdered The crashed vehicle in which shots were fired, killing one and injuring another Multiple shots leave one dead, another injured shortly after the incident. As always, if anyone knows anything about the shooting, they are urged to call 911 or tell Crime Stoppers. “We cannot just accept this level of violence and we need to work together to stop the cycle of shootings. If you know something, please say something,” Botting said.Gardiner is the son of former minister of government, Amanda Missick.Thismarks the ninth murder in the territory. (DELANA ISLES) In an effort to improve road users' experience, the Government will pump a whopping $20m over the next three years into upgrading the busiest highways and roads in the TCI.To this end, preparatory works are ongoing as the Government gear up to commence upgrades and expansion projects along the Leeward Highway, and other main thoroughfares.Thisisaccording to the Minister of Physical Planning and Infrastructure Development (PPID), Hon Akeirra Missick. “We have the Leeward Highway project and I want to say thank you to Edner Siffrard and Jayme Malcolm of PWD Project Management Division who I see 5 a.m. in the mornings surveying the entire highway because it is a 23 miles long project from Heaving Down Rock to the (Providenciales International) airport. ‘They’ve completed the survey that they have to do to the highway, they moved into Millennium Highway and eventually, they will get to South Dock,” she said during a recent interview on Radio Turks andSheCaicos.”further explained that funding for the projects was allocated in the 2022-2023 budget which was passed in the House of Leeward Highway, Providenciales

Trumped up chargesagendasand While many will see the wisdom in this measure, it is fraught with danger and uncertainties. There are young men in the US who have been arrested and charged and destroyed simply on “Trumped up Charges”. The same result could emerge from a Whistleblower policy. Basically, the problem is that “anyone” could make a call and get away with it. The added incentive in a time when money is sorely needed is a further danger. Motivated by the promise of a reward there could be many pranks, and false and misleading calls. Just for the money. The Whistleblower Policy should contain some degree of truth requirements, penalties for making false reports etc. What about when they admit they “got it wrong” but the call is made and an innocent life is destroyed?

This policy needs "secondguessing" owing to the inherent dangers and concerns that it presents. For every policy, there are countervailing disbenefits: such as public safety, personal liberty and revenge calls. To implement such a policy of whistle-blowers, to fight crimes and for cash creates a tenuous hold on freedoms. There are persons who would make reports to the Police just to “Hurt somebody”. There is malice, hatred, recriminations and abuse owing to ill will and bad “feelings”. Crime stoppers has done a wonderful job over the years but this is a path they should travel down carefully. It is somewhat comforting that this policy came out of the National Security Council (NSC) which is composed of elected officials who are accountable to the people of the TCI. For that alone, there must be some “balance to the policy” and the way it is implemented. With the Premier and Minister of Finance sitting on the NSC, TCIslanders can expect that there is some level of “representation” for them coming out of this council. There should be rules, guidelines, regulations and more critical “safeguards”. Crime continues to spiral out of control The crime wave in the Turks and Caicos Islands has reached a crazy point where some people fear for their lives. There are revenge killings, crimes of desperation where robberies happen simply for survival. None of this justified. The crime wave has gotten out of hand and the system is looking for solutions. The youths who are doing these killings are deemed as “disaffected”. They have no care for life or limb. Many fought to survive, as in some cases, they had no father or mother to provide them with the “Milk of Human Kindness”. This trend has hurt the TCI to no end. What can be done? There aren’t many answers. The Police Force seems divorced from realities on the ground.

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The Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force is looking to review its public communications on crime, as well as renew its cash-for-information initiative. These and other issues were discussed at the last national Security Council meeting on August 2. On previous occasions, police have offered cash for information, but according to Commissioner of Police, Trevor Botting, the initiative has not reaped many rewards in the past. The initiative is offered through Crime Stoppers for information given anonymously, and the Commissioner is hopeful that residents will reconsider and make use of the offer, given the recent upsurge in crimes. What are your thoughts?

The Turks and Caicos Islands Government is weighing the feasibility of constructing a centralised headquarters in the near future.The Minister for Physical Planning and Infrastructure Development (PPID) Akierra Missick recently disclosed that her ministry is currently awaiting the final designs from consultants for the central complex which will make it easier for residents to access a range of government services.Missick explained that the project was conceptualised by the previous administration but little was done to bring it to fruition. During an interview with local talk show ‘Expressions, she said: “That was a project that when I became Minister, I found on the table, it hadn't moved in any way shape, or form, so we re-engage the awardee of the consultancy… they came as soon as the pandemic restrictions lifted”. She explained that her ministry has conducted several meetings with the consultants to flesh out the scope of work and the investment needed to commence the project. “We had about five or six meetings with them in Providenciales. “We’ve looked at various sites, we’ve seen their first set of designs and drawings and they’ve also done their detailed designs and drawings for the project and now we’re just waiting for them to issue the final sign-off which should have been done last month, but it is probably in train for us to be in a position to go out and tender for it.”

Well it seems that “no one” is willing to talk. Not even for the money. It is laudable to fight crime but leakers and whistleblowers are not a good idea. It never worked and will not work. How about old-fashioned policing? Officers walking the beat and doing real police work. That reaps more benefits than relying on calls for cash. Police need to rebuild trust Some crimes are very profitable. Especially corruption, people and drug smuggling. Many ex-pats don't trust any law enforcers and will not until the hunting stops. It's difficult to maintain the rule of law under an apartheid regime.

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Missick further explained that the Government is weighing its priorities as it contemplates the massive investment against other important projects. “The real question is, what we want to spend the money on, would it be a new airport or a central complex, because that complex is coming in roughly at $100m”, she added.Turning her attention to Grand Turk, Missick stressed that the government is the largest renter of commercial properties on the island, so it has to be very cognisant of its role in the economy. She said: “If government decides, yes we’re going to build a massive complex and pull everyone into it, we are then going to disrupt the economy in this island, so we are looking at a strategic approach to developing possibly the ministry of finance office because once NJS Francis Building is finished the office of the premier will return there, but not the ministry of finance.“We’re looking at probably moving forward with constructing a standalone building for the ministry of finance, but I don’t think it will be prudent or reasonable to kind of vacate all of our rental agreements here in the island (of Grand Turk) until we can get a substantive private population that isn’t government based that can rent all of these spaces”, she added.

A young man who had an illegal gun, ammunition, and drugs in his possession while at the Criminal Investigations Compound in Providenciales, is being hauled before the courts on Policecharges.reported this week, that 20-year-old James Ingham, a resident of Old Airport Road, Providenciales, was observed acting suspiciously while he was in the CID compound last Saturday, August 13, at about 10:30 am. As a result of his actions, police pursued him and took him in for questioning. Ingham was searched and a quantity of illegal drugs (Cannabis) and a firearm were found in his possession. He was thereby arrested and charged with carrying a firearm, carrying ammunition, and unlawful possession of controlled drugs (cannabis). He is currently awaiting a court date.

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

programmes and initiatives, there is room for improvement. He said: “We know that more needs to be done. “US $655,000 has been allocated to build out a Communications Directorate which will manage government communications, media relations and most important citizens engagement. “Six additional persons will be hired in key roles, including a head of the unit who will create an appropriate structure, and plan and purchase equipment and tools for the unit to function “effectively.”

It doesn’t matter if you offer them manna from heaven they’re not going to come forward and talk, the culture of secrecy is so deeply ingrained in the Turks and Caicos Islands, but the poor police has no choice but to try everything under the sun. Good luck Integrity of the force Maybe the public does not trust the integrity of the police. Still scared

Misick acknowledged that while his Government has been assiduous in keeping residents informed of its

TRANSPARENCY During his 2022-23 Budget Address in the House of Assembly on Thursday, May 5, Premier Hon Charles Washington Misick explained that the communications directorate is one of his government’s promises outlined in the People’s Contract to improve transparency and access to government information. He said: “This is our first step towards a comprehensive public information network. “This government has made significant efforts to be transparent, we have held regular press briefings and updates; our Cabinet Ministers and members are in the community regularly, and we have increased our social media presence.”

“A transparent and open government will strengthen citizens’ trust, encourage more citizen involvement, and build better communities. That is another promise kept.”

A search for a missing man earlier this month led to police uncovering a stash of guns, ammunition and drugs in a Providenciales house. Police reported that during the commission of a search on the residence and vehicle of Keneil Duveril on August 7, detectives found two illegal firearms, ammunition, and a quantity of cannabis. The 20-year-old Duvervil, who lives in The Bight, was arrested the same day, and on August 9, he was charged with the offences. He appeared in court in Providenciales this past Monday, August 15, where he was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison in Grand Turk. Duvervil will appear in the Supreme Court for a sufficiency hearing in September.

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Misick underscored that the goal is to “meet people where they are”, noting that informed citizens make “better decisions about their lives” and have better access to services. In this vein, he said: “We will improve information delivery using an array of media including, broadcast, print, online and of course the ever-pervasive and popular social media platforms.

Man charged with firearm and drugs offences remanded to HM Prison

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Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly, Hon Akeirra Misick.

Most people want a reduction in crime and many can do with the money, but the network of criminals has been woven so thickly that some people are scared. We have seen retribution and retaliation crime over the years, how safe are we if we talk? How many times don’t we see leaks in the police forces throughout the world—the risks outweigh the rewards. The Government is making significant headway with its plan to establish a national communications directorate to efficiently and effectively connect with the populace. This is according to the Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly, Hon Akeirra Misick.“The communications directorate was funded and I'm advised by the Office of the Premier where this directorate will sit, it is presently recruiting for the staffing of the directorate that will provide a better strategy for us as an administration to communicate what we are doing to the public”, she said during an interview with Mr Robert Hall on Friday, August 5. She stressed that the communications directorate will also allow the Government to garner feedback on its plans and acknowledge concerns that residents may have. “I think a lot of persons generally feel that ministers or permanent secretaries or directors are on Facebook, and they’re reading comments on various things…I can tell you hand on Bible I have not been on Facebook in about five years, I am social media savvy on Instagram. “And so I find that because there's no Director of Communications, the channelling of concerns and questions happens on a public platform like Facebook, but is unable to be addressed because Facebook does not fit within the day-to-day work that we do as ministers and or permanent secretaries or directors.” She emphasised that clear lines of communication are crucial to the Government’s ability to reach its people. “I'm looking forward to the establishment of the communications director so that we can have better communication skills, and services platforms for all those whom we represent”, she added.

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The University of the West Indies; and the University of Technology. During the meeting with the Governor General and Prime Minister on Wednesday, the final day, the TCI delegation spoke about diaspora initiatives currently underway in TCI and the importance of human capital development to give citizens of both countries better opportunities. The leaders also discussed the potential for direct trade between Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands to reduce the cost of certain foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables in the TCI. His Excellency, Sir Patrick Allen and Premier Misick reminisced on early life in Jamaica and the Seventh Day Adventist Church where both are members. The Premier also shared with the Governor General his family’s political history as well as his own failures and successes in business andAlsopolitics.on Wednesday, the Premier, accompanied by his wife and Minister Rachel Taylor, paid a visit to Turks and Caicos Islanders receiving treatment in Jamaica at the University Hospital of the West Indies.Hon Misick was able to meet with patients available for visitation and receive an update from senior university hospital officials. The Premier’s visits – all of which were documented on his official Facebook page - were well received locally, particularly the one paid to the TCI patients receiving medical attention in Jamaica. Turks and Caicos Islands has for several years – through its treatment abroad programme –sent patients to the sister Caribbean Island to receive medical treatment not readily available in the territory. One commenter, BerthaLee Belle wrote of the hospital visit: “Good optics showing that the premier“Nextcares.timeput such visits on the itinerary. And where is the minister of health pray tell me? He of all ministers should be in attendance at the visits to hospitals to see our patients!“Weshould not have to send our patients abroad for medical treatment in the first place as we boast about having two stateof-the-art diamond standard hospitals."Another, Crissy Vanessa Pratt, also commended the hospital visit, saying: “I'm glad that he visited the hospital so at least they can see that our hospital in TCI needs to be upgraded so that our love one's can have the family support that is needed especially while your in hospital, am sure its and eye opener that TCI hospital needs to give us what we paying for.” (DELANA ISLES)

A whirlwind four-day visit to Jamaica saw the Premier, government ministers and other ministerial delegates further solidifying the territory’s longstanding bilateral relations with the sister Caribbean country. Premier, Hon Charles Washington Misick arrived in Kingston, Jamaica last Friday, August 12, to among other things give the commencement address at the Northern Caribbean University in Central Jamaica, where he was also conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Commerce Degree. On Monday and Tuesday, he paid courtesy calls on Jamaica's Governor General, His Excellency, Sir Patrick Allen; Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness; and Leader of the Opposition, Mr Mark Golding. The Premier’s delegation included: First Lady, Mrs Delthia Russell-Misick; Hon Arlington Musgrove, Minister of Immigration and Border Services; Hon Rachel Taylor, Minister of Education, Labour, Employment and Customer Service; Mr Wesley Clerveaux, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Labour, Employment and Customer Service; Ms Althea Been, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Immigration and Border Services; Mr Miquel Swann, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Office of the Premier and Public Policy; Mr Edwin Taylor, Commissioner of Labour; and Mr Bentley Johnson Aide De Camp. The Premier and his team also met with officials from the Port Authority of Jamaica; the passport, immigration and citizenship agency; the Ministry of Labour; Premier Charles Misick met with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness TCI Delegation met with Jamaica’s Governor General, Sir Patrick Allen

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Premier visits with Islanders receiving treatment in Jamaica Premier and team met with Jamaica’s Opposition leader Mark Golding

Premier Misick enhances TCI’s relations with Jamaica during visit

When asked if the wastage will adversely affect the supply of vaccines to the Turks and Caicos Islands, Robinson said: “The UK Government has been generous in continuing to supply the TCI with the needed vaccines and it's anticipated if the need remains they Rendition of the new ferry dock and boat slips Existing Boat Slip

Modern boat slips are currently being constructed at Bellefield Landing in North Caicos following the signing of a contract this week between the government and Coastal and Marine Design Build Limited.Astatement from the Ports Authority on Wednesday, August 17, said the project commenced immediately and will provide a new dock for the ferry services and slips to berth ten vessels, with lengths up to 50 feet.

The project supports the goal of promoting prosperity and sustainable livelihood in North Caicos and Middle Caicos.

Minister of Health and Human Services Hon Jamell Robinson speaking to the Weekly News on Thursday, August 18 said: “Presently we have two batches of Covid-19 Pfizer Vaccines which are due to expire 30th of September and 31st of October respectively. “Unfortunately, we can’t say specifically how many will be discarded but can confirm that uptake has remained slow.”

Modern boat slips under construction at Bellefield Landing

Vials of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines

The initial batch of 9,750 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, enough to vaccinate 4,875 people (approximately 11% of the population), arrived in the country on Thursday, January 7, 2021, via the London to Providenciales British Airways flight. The TCI, along with the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, were the only British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean to receive this initial batch of vaccines from the UK. This was attributed to the Turks and Caicos having the required infrastructure to maintain the vaccine (requires cooling to -70° C) and to distribute it effectively.

The new boat slips will consist of a floating dock with concrete decking, polythene floats, and an aluminum frame that will replace makeshift wooden boat slips currently in use at the port facility.They will also improve the safety of residents who travel to Providenciales through the port, and tourists who visit North Caicos and Middle Caicos from Providenciales.Theconstruction of the modern boat slips complements several other projects that the Ports Authority is currently implementing at Bellefield Landing, such as the construction of the port office and welcome centre and dredging of the port turning basin and Bellefield Landing navigation channels.

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The Ports Authority noted that the project is consistent with their strategic plan for 2019 to 2023 and with several goals of the government’s ‘People’s Plan for Progress: Transforming TCI through Inclusive Growth’, whereby they express their commitment to establishing resilient infrastructure, innovation and industry as well as ensuring sustainable, inclusive, safe, and resilient communities.

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Massive vaccine dump imminent as uptake remains low will continue to assist in its supply.” As it refers to the territory’s current vaccination statistics, Robinson said 87% of the territory’s population has been fully vaccinated (two doses) while 92% has been partially vaccinated (oneAlthoughdose). vaccine doses remain relatively scarce globally, concerns around waning immunity have prompted many countries, including the Turks and Caicos Islands to start administering additional doses. These additional doses commonly referred to as ‘booster shots’ are given to fully vaccinated individuals when the protection from the original shots has begun to decline, as well as extra shots given to people, such as the immunocompromised, who did not have a strong immune response from their initial doses. The uptake for these additional jabs has remained staggeringly low in the TCI, according to the Health Minister 22% of the population has received their first booster shot, and only 3% has taken a second booster jab. The Turks and Caicos Government began vaccinating the local population against the COVID-19 virus on 11 January 2021.Governor Nigel Dakin and then-Premier Sharlene CartwrightRobinson were amongst the first to receive the vaccine in an effort to encourage persons to take it.

Large amounts of expired PfizerBioNTech Covid-19 vaccines will be discarded soon, as vaccination rates continue to lag in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The pace of people getting Covid-19 vaccines or booster shots in the islands has plummeted in recent months, resulting in a large number of doses going unused. The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine which has been steadily supplied by the United Kingdom Government to the territory currently has a shelf life of six months.

Minister of Health and Human Services Hon Jamell Robinson

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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.

From Bermuda and the Bahamas in the north to Trinidad and Tobago in the south, near-record numbers of seaweeds are smothering the Caribbean Atlantic coasts, and an unusual avalanche of brown algae have drifted into the Caribbean Sea, releasing a stench from noxious gases, annihilating fish and other wildlife, threatening tourism and economies across the region. The University of South Florida Optical Oceanography lab claims, 24m tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June this year and subsequently, boat owners were forced to suspend ferry services. Meanwhile, kayaking, paddle boarding, jet skiing and snorkelling tours were also cancelled. Sources revealed, the normally crystalline turquoise waters around the islands turned into a thorny yellowish-brown mush and scientists are speculating that this seaweed invasion of the Atlantic emanates from climate change and the warming of the waters, human activities, nitrogen-laden fertilizer, and sewage, which sustain the algae.The large throngs of seaweeds harbour acute environmental effects, as decaying algae modifies water temperatures and the pH balance and invigorate the deterioration of coral, sponges, and seagrasses.Eachisland had its unique share of challenges. The concentration of algae in Guadeloupe was so severe that it agitated residents suffering from asthma and other breathing complications, forcing the authorities to issue a health alert, and warned communities about the high level of hydrogen sulphide gas exuding from the rotting clods of Aseaweed.similar situation prompted President Biden to declare a federal emergency in US Virgin Islands following a cluster of sargassum clogging machinery at a desalination plant near St Croix, which disrupted the water supplies – unable to meet demands amid the recentAdditionally,drought. the seaweed occupation of the shoreline in Union Island, St Vincent and the Grenadines, has forced the closure of resorts for up to five months. In Martinique, a glut of sargassum killed thousands of fish, trapped in seaweeds, spurring concerns about the plight of endangered sea turtles that are dying off, because the carpet of algae spread across beaches is prohibiting turtles from laying eggs in the sand. While masses of sargassum is unhealthy for humans and marine creatures, tourism, and the economy, it possesses some unexplored benefits to society and the environment. Sargassum in moderation helps to purify water and absorb carbon dioxide and serves as a key component for habitats for turtles, fish, crabs, and shrimps.Too, it is regarded as a biofertilizer, which is useful in crops, biofuel, construction materials and medicinal products. This nutrient-dense macroalgae is minted in minerals, water-soluble polysaccharides and phenolic compounds, which enhance soil health, quality, productivity, and enzymatic activities and considering, the TCI is promoting backyard farming, sargassum could be a game changer. However, since the technology for exploiting such a feat is inexistent – for now – we must focus on the likely challenges it posits. Experts are now saying that this extremity poses grave threats to the health of regional tourism and fisheries industries, society, and economies including the TCI. Coupled with, the pandemic, climate change and global economic downturns, if the incursion of seaweeds in the region does not coerce TCI authorities to activate economic diversification, I am convinced, nothing else will!

He who feels it, knows it

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TCI under threat from sargassum influx

BY DREXWELL SEYMOUR Drexwell Seymour is a certified public accountant and is the managing partner for HLB TCI. His favourite hobby, however, is writing. He has a personal website, www.drexwellseymour. com, where all of his writings are posted. He also has a YouTube channel where you can find inspirational videos. Drexwell has a BA in Accounting and an MBA in Finance. Many times, we cannot comprehend the decisions some people make. You must go through a similar situation to understand. There are people who have been grieving for years. The initial response from some of us is that these individuals need to let go. We don’t know what they are experiencing. I too did not have empathy for persons that went through grief until I lost someone who was very close to me. “He who feels it, knows it.” There are some of you who have an issue with people who got divorced and some of us would say we would never get a divorce. We don’t know what some people went through in their marriage. They may have encountered abuse and betrayal. On the other hand, there are some people that continue to stay in their marriage despite the cheating and abuse. There are also some situations whereby individuals remarried shortly after the loss of their spouse and some of us began to question that. Again, he who feels, it knows it. There are some people who give up easily and many of us questioned why they gave up. We do not know what people are going through. We do not know the stress and what is going on in their minds. We do not know their level of faith. Trust me, it is so easy to give up when the situation looks so impossible to turn around. There are many times I felt like giving up but because of my love for my family and my faith in God, I persevere. However, not everybody will persevere because even some Christians give up. Many of you had a problem with the way your parents chastised you and you probably say you will never chastise your children in that same manner. Until you become a parent, you realise what your parents had to go through and therefore you are repeating the sameSomepatterns.ofyou also criticised your leaders and say you will never do what they do. Being a leader is not easy and from the outside, it looks easy. You do not know half the story that leaders go through. The hands of some leaders are truly tied. You do not know the parameters that some leaders must work with. Furthermore, while you are sleeping, your leaders are “burning the midnight oil.” Some of us also believe that if we were to go into politics, we would do things differently but when we get there, we are doing the same thing as our predecessors. We don’t understand and appreciate how government works until we getInthere.conclusion, there is a patient who makes loud noises while experiencing cramps on dialysis, I used to say to myself, why this lady cannot be quiet as it cannot be that awful. Well, one day, I experienced cramps and I finally understood what the lady was experiencing. Only shame and pride kept me from making noise. He who feels it, knows it more. Therefore, don’t ever say you would never do that. Of course, set and maintain your standards and try your best not to compromise them.

Overcoming the obstacles in your life

Akierra Missick signals intention to lead PNP

I have some good news for you leaders. At some point in your life, you are going to experience some form of adversity, trial, or hardship. I know it’s the beginning of the weekend, and this is the last thing you wanted to hear before forgetting that the weekend is two days long and the work week is five days long. Ok, I should not have said good that was unnecessary. However, the point remains that in the course of your life, no matter who you are, there will come seasons that stretch you beyond your comfort level. The question is when those times of adversity come, how would you respond? I have four things from the third chapter of the scroll of Joshua that may help. Here is the first one. Look to God and not your circumstances. When the road becomes bumpy and the clouds gather, it is very easy to only see how bad things are. Easy, but not helpful. Focusing exclusively on the bad that is happening to us often leads to distraction and discouragement, to the point that inertia steps in, and we become blind to the opportunities to make positive changes. Put your focus on God’s grace – the fact that He treats us better than we deserve - willingness to help you, and commitment to the good purposes that He has for you. Secondly, look in the mirror. More specifically, look at the condition of your relationship with God, with those around you, and with yourself. Sometimes the thing that staples us to the trials in our lives is the person staring at us from the mirror. Our obstacles are overcome quicker when we take responsibility for our actions, make restitution where and when necessary, and do right. Forget the rah-rah of the cheerleading section that shouts to you “you can do it, you can do it, you can do it”. No, you can’t. Your resolve, network, and education would not bring you through life’s adversities. But God’s power would, and because of that, you need to rely on God’s power. Getting clarity about your limitations is one of the most freeing things that can happen to you. Contrary to your daily affirmation devotional you are not super-woman, you don’t have it all together and you are not the universe’s best friend. You are congealed dust supported by tubes with liquids running through them. Ok, that was a bit harsh. But the point is that we need to come to grips with our weaknesses because when we do we are ready to seek, receive and trust God’s help.God would show us what to do, and give us the power to get it done.Finally, when obstacles rise up in our lives, to overcome them we must step out in faith. Joshua was tasked with leading three million people across a raging river. He looked to God for help and was told what to do, but still needed to act in faith. The obstacle you may be facing right now is called unemployment, stepping out in faith is you getting your resume written up and printed, and hitting the road getting as many applications to as many employers as you could. For someone else, stepping out in faith is having that conversation you have been putting off for months. Obstacles come. Some people get crushed by them, others thrive. Which one do you want to be?

FAITH IN ACTION

Minister of Infrastructure, Housing, Planning and Development Hon Akierra Missick is throwing her hat in the ring to become the next Premier of the TCI. She was however insistent that her ambitions will never cloud her loyalty to the current leadership of the“Whenparty. the time comes for us to make those decisions, I will put my hand forward to be the next leader of the Progressive National Party (PNP), but I will never in any way shape, or form challenge Charles Washington Misick’s leadership, I am 100% on his support team”, she said during a recent interview on ‘Expressions’, with host Mr RobertMisick,Hall.a lawyer and Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly, made it pellucid that she will not challenge the party’s incumbent leader, Premier Hon Charles Washington Misick if he decides to run for a second term in the territory’s next general election slated for 2024-2025. “I stand in the same place I did previously, I'm here to support Hon Charles Washington Misick, and if it's retirement at the end of this term or next term, I will support him as leader until he leaves”.Missick said since her last appearance on the show, which is aired on Radio Turks and Caicos, she has received numerous calls and messages from residents who have asked her to seriously consider this pursuit but she was not ready to signal her interest at thatShetime.said: “In terms of putting myself forward, I have heard the calls, I have received a lot more messages over the last few months, I guess after the last show people were not very pleased that I was not ready to make it publicly known that I would be happy to lead the Progressive National Party when the time comes. “At the end of the day, it's up to the delegates, but if there is that level of support, if my constituency wants to share me at that level, then I will be here to serve.” Hon Akierra M D Missick, is the Elected Member of Parliament for Leeward and Long Bay in Providenciales after successfully contesting that district seat for the thirdHontime.Missick also served as the Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Youth Affairs, Sport and Library Services in the Government of the Turks & Caicos Islands from 2012-2016. She obtained an LL.B (Honours) from the University of Nottingham and is a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. She is called to the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar and practices as a senior litigation attorney with Misick & Stanbrook with a focus on civil law, family law, employment, labour and dispute resolution.Shehas had the privilege of appearing before Her Majesty’s Minister of Infrastructure, Housing Planning and Development Hon Akierra Missick

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, England and Wales, which is the highest judicial body for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Commonwealth. Hon Missick also obtained a Professional Development Certificate in Parliamentary Governance from McGill University and is a regular presenter and trainer in parliamentary practices which has provided her an opportunity to engage Members of Parliament around the world.

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Kenyatta Lewis is the pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel, a growing church committed to taking followers of Jesus deeper and going further in their faith. Besides loving, serving, and helping people he has watched the extended Director’s cut of the Lord of the Rings trilogy multiple times.

KENYATTA E. LEWIS

– Says will support Premier Misick until he decides to step away from politics

BY OLIVIA ROSE

at least 2.6 MW of solar energy installed on the grid. The UORE programme, operated by FortisTCI, has been in place since 2015. The programme now has 18 partnerships following the recent signees, which will increase the number of solar energy system installations across partner properties. Customers undergo a prequalification process, and successful applicants receive incentives for leasing their roof space and the solar energy produced by the system. FortisTCI purchases, install, maintains, and owns the solar system at these properties at no cost to the customer.

FortisTCI partners with Sam’s Club and Cargo Express/Tropical Shipping to boost solar energy

Do you have a subject of interest that you’d like to share with our Perhapsreaders?you’re a great cook and have created lots of delicious recipes that use local ingredients.Maybeyou have ideas on how to save money when shopping and know where to find all the latest bargains. Or are you an entrepreneur who would like to share tips on setting up a new business? We need regular contributors 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. Contact us now tcweeklynews@gmail.comat

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Sam's Club and Cargo Express/ Tropical Shipping are the latest companies to sign onto the UtilityOwned Renewable Energy (UORE) programme with FortisTCI. The utility has leased the 18,000 square foot roof space of Sam’s Club, a grocery wholesale business on Leeward Highway in Providenciales, to install a 312.8 kW solar photovoltaic system. Once commissioned, the system will produce renewable energy for the country’s electricity grid and avoid approximately 317 metric tons of carbon emissions annually. Similarly, FortisTCI has leased the 13,000 square foot roof space of Cargo Express/Tropical Shipping’s building on South Dock Road in Providenciales to install a 200-kW solar photovoltaic system. This system is projected to avoid approximately 188 metric tons of carbon emissions annually onceBothcommissioned.systemswill be installed by the end of Commenting2022.onthe partnership, Director of Cargo Express/Tropical Shipping, Carl Simmons said they are eager to partner with FortisTCI in advancing renewable energy initiatives in the islands. “This partnership allows us to protect the environment by generating electricity using solar energy, thereby reducing the use of fossil fuels. The installation of solar panels on Cargo Express's 13,000 square foot roof will benefit our organisations and the wider community," Simmons stated. Owner and Manager of Sam's Club, Gus Karagianis stated: "I am very fortunate to qualify for the UORE programme operated by FortisTCI. I hope that more businesses that can qualify for the programme, embrace the opportunity, and one rooftop at a time, we can all make a difference in creating a more sustainable energyPresidentfuture."and CEO at FortisTCI Ruth Forbes commended the utility company’s newest UORE customers for supporting the journey to a more sustainable energy future. She stated that roof-mounted solar installations have allowed the company to steadily increase its solar footprint year-over-year. “Our studies have found that at least four acres of land are needed to produce 1MW of solar energy. Therefore, we continue to maximise roof spaces through customer partnerships. “We also continue to pursue regulatory reform to advance our clean energy plan, which includes investing in utility-scale solar projects.” Forbes added that by December 2022, FortisTCI expects to have (L-R) Vice President of Innovation, Technology and Strategic Planning at FortisTCI, Rachell Roullet; President and CEO at FortisTCI, Ruth Forbes; Owner and Manager of Sam's Club, Gus Karagianis and Manager of Innovation and Resource Planning, TeAnn Thomas.

(L-R) Vice President of Innovation, Technology and Strategic Planning at FortisTCI, Rachell Roullet; President and CEO at FortisTCI, Ruth Forbes; Director of Cargo Express -Tropical Shipping, Carl Simmons and Manager of Innovation and Resource Planning, TeAnn Thomas.

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The Premier travelled to the island nation with a delegation including his wife First Lady, Mrs Delthia Russell-Misick; Hon Arlington Musgrove, Minister of Immigration and Border Services; Hon Rachel Taylor, Minister of Education, Labour, Employment and Customer Service; Mr Wesley Clerveaux, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Labour, Employment and Customer Service; Ms Althea Been, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Immigration and Border Services; Mr Miquel Swann, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Office of the Premier and Public Policy; Mr Edwin Taylor, Commissioner of Labour; and Mr Bentley Johnson Aide De Camp.

Premier Hon Charles Washington Misick was robed and hooded at NCU’s commencement ceremony (Office of the Premier photo)

Hon Charles Washington Misick, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, was conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Commerce Degree (DCom) awarded during a Commencement Ceremony in Manchester, Jamaica on Sunday, AugustMisick14.who attended Northern Caribbean University, formerly West Indies College nearly 50 years ago, delivered the commencement address to the candidates before he was robed and hooded as he received his honorary degree. During his speech, he impressed upon the graduating class of NCU the importance of continuous learning.Misick told graduates not to allow the achievement of a degree to be the end of their studies. He said: “The fast pace of change in our world, especially with new technology requires continuous learning, adaptation and growth to keep you current”. The Premier who shared his story of successes and failures and how he used each experience as a building block to succeed, reminded them that the more they know, “the more opportunities” will come their way. Misick implored the graduates to use common sense, take calculated risks and work hard as he stressed the importance of moral conviction and integrity.

Premier Misick receives Honorary Doctor of Commerce Degree in Jamaica

notable contemporary artists such as Bradley Theodore, Banksy, and Kerry James Marshall. Artsy facilitates over $20m in art sales each month through their programme with galleries like Black Pony, with buyers and sellers having an average of 3000 miles in distance. With art business partners and art collectors around the world, Artsy is the leading marketplace for reaching a global audience. (DELANA ISLES)

A piece by TCI artist Hezron Henry HezronH partners with ongalleryBermudianfordebutArtsy

TCI-based artist Hezron Henry (HezronH) has made another move in establishing himself as an international talent, this time partnering with Black Pony, a Bermudan-based gallery. Championing mainly Atlanticbased and the wider Caribbean artists and challenging the definition of traditional ’Island art’ the gallery is managed and owned by Lisa Howie, former executive director of Bermuda National Gallery and founder of the Atlantic World Art SpeakingFair.to the collaboration this week, Hezron stated that this partnership will give him access to millions of art buyers worldwide on the Artsy platform, a New York-based online art brokerage, which specialises in developing and hosting website for numerous galleries as well as selling art for them. Hezron’s work captures the nuances of human existence through fine art and illustration.

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His body of work consists of acrylic on paper, canvas, and digital painting, adapting traditional painting mediums to his signature style. His artwork is characteristically laden with stunning vibrancy, highlighting the emotive power of colour. Hezron believes that artists should make no apologies for their work. His passion is honest artistic expression, creating an experience people can enjoy and connect with on an ethereal level. He said the partnership is significant for his growth in the art world, as it indicates that the gallery sees value in his current work and that which he will produce in the future, which in turn stabilises his production and boosts sales. Hezron along with Black Pony Gallery recently launched a solo exhibit titled “DEUS” on Artsy featuring some of the artist’s recent works.The exhibition went live on August 12, on www.artsy.net/

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We welcome letters from all members of the public on a variety of topics to get the probiotic onto the corals in sufficient quantity and to make it stick for long enough to help. They initially applied it in a paste form the same way the antibiotic mixture has been applied around the region but found that putting it in a bag worked much better.

PROBIOTIC TREATMENT

The Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR), the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund (TCRF) and the South Caicos School for Field Studies (SFS) represented the Turks and Caicos Islands at an Overseas Territories Coral Conservation workshop in the Cayman Islands last week. High on the agenda was the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), which is affecting the region.SCTLD is a white plaquetype disease, which was initially reported off the Florida coast in 2014, since then it has spread rapidly throughout the Caribbean. According to information from the DECR, the workshop helped regional entities “share and learn new techniques and management strategies to combat the disease. Focus topics included monitoring strategies, experimental design, photogrammetry, probiotic treatment development and coral reef disease action plans”.

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The region is trying to stop the SCTLD

According to information from Dr Blake Ushijima, from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the university has developed a probiotic treatment. Cayman News Service (CNS), which quoted Dr Ushijima, said that “very early results suggest that the treatment is more effective than the antibiotic paste currently being applied to infected corals, offering hope that this deadly disease can be Thecountered”.research is in its very early stages, but there is some indication that a deficiency or lack of certain bacteria could be making corals vulnerable to the still mysterious disease. Ushijima further explained that the scientific world is still struggling to pin down what is causing SCTLD and exactly how it infects corals. While there are some theories, it is likely to be a multitude of things that are simultaneously impacting the coral, made worse by the increasing sea temperature. He explained that corals are exposed to a variety of viruses and bacteria in their warm wet world. Some of these pathogens can hurt the coral, while others are harmless or even helpful, and the challenge is working out which is which. Ushijima said that, just like humans, corals need good bacteria to be healthy and this is probably why the probiotic mixture they have developed is working. Kelly Pitts from the Smithsonian Marine Station, who is working with Ushijima, was quoted by CNS as saying that among the difficulty they faced was working out how TCI was represented at the Overseas Territories workshop The disease can be considered one of the greatest threats currently impacting Caribbean coral reefs

Stony coral tissue loss disease discussed at Overseas Territories workshop

It said that the SCTLD can be considered one of the greatest threats currently impacting Caribbean coral reefs. The disease arrived on TCI reefs in early 2019. “The cause of SCTLD is still unknown but it is affecting over 30 species of corals - especially brain, pillar, star and starlet corals. The disease spreads quickly causing high coral mortality. Since its identification, outbreaks of SCTLD have been confirmed on coral reefs throughout the Caribbean,” DECR explained.During the workshop, TCI participated in Cayman's Coral Fest', where the festival welcomed local and international coral experts to discuss SCTLD, coral ecosystems, their conservation and other threats faced by this unique biome. During the event, the DECR, TCRF and SFS also presented their ongoing efforts to protect TCI coral reefs from SCTLD.

Commenting on the visit, Premier Misick said: “As the growth and development of the islands continue, it is important that our people are equipped to be employed in the best jobs available and make a meaningful contribution to the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

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ELEVEN Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from the victim’s widower, lawyers and politicians.Themenwere convicted in early 2008 and released from jail in Panchmahals in the western state of Gujarat on Monday, when India celebrated 75 years since the end of British rule. The Gujarat violence, one of India’s worst religious riots, led to the deaths of more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. Gujarat was then led by current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as chief minister, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party still rules it.

Opposition politicians and lawyers said the release contradicted the government’s stated policy of uplifting women in a country notorious for violence against“Thethem.remission of the sentence of convicts of a gruesome crime like gang-rape and murder is morally and ethically improper,” said senior lawyer Anand Yagnik. “What is the signal we are trying to send?” (CNN)

India frees 11 men convicted of gang-raping pregnant Muslim woman

Premier, Hon Charles Washington Misick and a high-level delegation this week met with the leadership of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology (UTECH) in Jamaica. During the meeting at UWI - held Wednesday, August 17the Premier and the Minister of Education, Hon Rachel Taylor engaged in extensive discussions with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and his team on several issues including an education partnership. The aim is to strengthen and improve tertiary programmes offered in the TCI; increase the attractiveness of degree offerings and make graduates more marketable, a statement posted to the Premier’s Facebook page read. UWI is ranked in the top five per cent of universities in the world, with campuses in several Caribbean islands, including an open campus in Turks and Caicos Islands.Atthe University of Technology, the TCI team held discussions with President, Professor Colin Gyles and his team on the potential for partnerships with the TCI to create more opportunities for higher education.Working in partnership with TCI delegation meets with heads of UWI and UTECH in Jamaica (Office of the Premier photo)

Panchmahals’ top bureaucrat told Reuters that the district jail advisory committee had recommended the release after considering the time the 11 had spent in jail and their good behavior.“Thefact is they had spent close to 15 years in jail and were eligible for remission,” Sujal Jayantibhai Flower petals scattered by victims’ relatives at the doors of a train carriage.

MayatraIndiansaid.laws allow convicts to seek remission after 14 years in jail, officials said. Media footage showed a man feeding the convicts sweetmeat outside the jail after touching the feet of one of them, a mark of respect.Thewidower of the victim told Reuters they were disappointed because the riots had also killed many family members. “We have lost our family and want to live in peace, but suddenly this has happened,” Yakub Rasul said. “We had no prior information about their release, either from the courts or the government. We only learnt about it from the media.”

UWI and UTECH is an important step towards building the capacity of TCI Community College, the statement read. It added that the mandate of the government is to build the professional capacity of the islands by investing in higher learning for Turks and Caicos Islanders.

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Bahamas: Final decision on minimum wage expected next week

US authorities have seen a spike in weapons smuggling to Haiti and the Caribbean in recent months, officials said on Wednesday, promising to boost efforts to combat the trade that is fueling rampant gang violence in Haiti and rising crime in the region. The announcement follows several bloody outbreaks of gang violence in Haiti that included gun battles in downtown Port-auPrince, and comes as countries such as The Bahamas and Jamaica are reporting rising incidence of gun-linked homicides. “Not only have we seen a marked uptick in the number of weapons, but a serious increase in the caliber and type of firearms being illegally trafficked,” said Anthony Salisbury, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Miami. “We have been ramping up our efforts to stem the flow of illicit weapons into Haiti and the Caribbean,” he said, flanked by officials from other agencies including the Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection. A display of seized arms that were destined for Haiti included hand guns and an array of semiautomatic weapons, one of which officials identified as a sniper rifle. Legal export of weapons from the United States typically requires licenses from U.S. authorities. Haiti is still subject to a 1990s arms embargo, which has been amended to allow some exceptions for exports of weapons to Haitian security forces. Guns are frequently acquired in the United States via straw buyers, some of whom identify themselves as the ultimate end users of the guns but later illegally export them. A string of recent armstrafficking scandals in Haiti, including last month’s discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, ignited anger over a steady flow of guns. Haitian police on Wednesday arrested Frantz Cole, a priest with the Episcopal Church of Haiti, as part of the investigation into the July weapons seizure, a police spokesman told Reuters. Samuel Madistin, a lawyer representing the church, declined to comment. (Reuters)

Labour and Immigration Minister Keith Bell.

Weapons seized by U.S. authorities that had been destined for illegal export to Haiti are displayed during a news conference in Miami, Florida.

US reports spike in weapons smuggling to Haiti and the Caribbean

LABOUR Minister Keith Bell says he expects the government will make a final decision on what the country’s national minimum wage will look like during next week’s Cabinet meeting.

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Cayman Islands: New law coming to cut legal drink-drive limit by a third

“I am pleased to advise that the matter is before the Cabinet,” Mr Bell said when asked for an update on the issue yesterday. “The Cabinet is in active discussion, and we anticipate that at the Cabinet meeting, which is next week Tuesday, that we should be able to come to some conclusion with respect to what the minimum wage would look like. “Obviously, as you anticipate there will be more dialogue and consultation, but I am very pleased where we are at this stage with it.”

Currently, the national minimum wage is pegged at $210 per week, while the minimum wage in the public sector is $225 per week. The Progressive Liberal Party committed to increasing the country’s minimum wage to $250 per week during last year’s election campaign, as well as to examine the creation of a liveable wage. Shortly after assuming office, the Davis administration asked the National Tripartite Council, the body responsible for all labour-related matters in The Bahamas, to study the issue and provide recommendations to the government.Aftermonths of research, the body submitted its recommendations on the matter to the government in June, which was confirmed by NTC deputy chairman and labour director Robert Farquharson last month. While he did not want to say what the council had proposed, he noted that the recommendations submitted was a favourable one and that it would put smiles on the faces of many Bahamians. According to the labour director, there are approximately 340,000 men and women in the labour workforce. “We know that about approximately 25 per cent of those persons are impacted by the minimum wage,” he added, “and so before the government takes a decision, the government wants to ensure that there is additional widespread discussion and consultation so we expect in the very near future a number of town meetings to be held where we will invite members of the press and public to hear what the recommendations are. “I will not say what the figure is. I can say specifically that the recommendation will put a smile on the face of many persons who fall within that category, and it will cause them to have greater buying power.” As it relates to the government’s plans for a “liveable” wage, Mr Bell told reporters earlier this month that government has not backtracked on its promise to deliver an acceptable “liveable” wage for Bahamian workers. “This isn’t about something we want to coerce anyone into doing and we have to be mindful in terms of striking a very delicate balance by in terms of what it is that we want to make minimum wage or liveable wage, as well as we have to ensure that we have respect for the pocketbook of the private employers,” Mr Bell said at the time. (Tribune242) CAYMAN’S drink-drive limit, currently one of the most lenient in the world, could be cut by onethird. An amendment to the Traffic Act, which was gazetted today, will reduce the legal blood-alcohol content for drivers from 0.1% to 0.07%.This means that, if the amendment is passed, the legal blood-alcohol limit will be reduced from 100 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 mililitres of blood to 70 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. No other country in the world that has drink-driving laws has a limit higher than Cayman’s current 0.1% limit. (RadioJamaica) No other country in the world that has drink-driving laws has a limit higher than Cayman’s current 0.1% limit.

Bermuda: Increase in residents who are spending less as concerns grow over economy

PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis repeated his calls this week for Caribbean leaders to unite and take action in the fight against climate change. Mr Davis noted that too many countries in the region were struggling with debt caused by climate related disasters. He said now was the time for countries to come up with solutions because our very lives depended on Theit. Prime Minister further spoke about the financial impacts of the environmental threat, noting that most of The Bahamas’ debt could be linked to natural disasters like hurricanes and highlighted the need for regional nations to have greater access to climate funding. He was addressing regional leaders during the opening ceremony of the Caribbean regional heads of government meeting at Baha Mar on Tuesday. The high-level talks ended on Wednesday.“Ourcountries are struggling with debts accumulated by climate disasters,” Prime Minister Davis stressed to Caribbean leaders. “What does this mean for the development of our nations, when our risk profile is becoming so severe that insurers question their willingness to offer risk facilities to offset climate disasters? Put simply, we are in danger of becoming uninsurable. He added: “Many if not all of us have already faced challenges in accessing climate-related funds. “By acting in common cause, we can move with more authority and with greater impact to address legacy issues, which have held us back from making meaningful progress.”MrDavis also pointed to “historic” steps taken by countries like the United States and Australia to address carbon emissions, which he said demonstrates that nothing is impossible, and called for all heads of states to come to the table to brainstorm ideas. “Let us work together to construct a joint solution in respect of climate risk insurance and other climate risk facilities and let us take practical steps to improve access to climate finance,” the prime minister added.

More than half of the residents are concerned about the growing cost of grocery.

From left former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, former Prime Minister Perry Christie, Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis, and former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.

MORE than half of residents are spending less and going without basics amid fears of a shrinking economy and rising inflation, according to a survey. A similar number are also worried that they will not have sufficient savings to be able to retire.The online survey of 382 adults, conducted by Narrative Research Bermuda, revealed that 56 per cent of residents were going without and buying less – up from 34 per cent in the last quarter. And in a drive to cut household costs, residents are finding other ways to tighten their belts. More than 40 per cent said they are buying local where possible, 28 per cent are buying in bulk, and 20 per cent are growing their own food.Afurther 18 per cent are buying items second-hand or trading with others.

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He further urged leaders to work together to advance the use of a multi-dimensional vulnerability index to reflect the needs of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and also lobby donors and partners to ensure that all SIDS are eligible for access to bilateral climate financing.

The Caribbean Regional Heads of Government is a twoday summit being hosted by The Bahamas in preparation of COP27, which will be held in Egypt later thisMoreyear.than a dozen heads of state are in the country for the climate change conference and key issues being discussed at the event include access to climate funding, disaster mitigation and strengthening resilience and recovery among otherDuringtopics.apress conference ahead of yesterday’s opening ceremony, Mr Davis said the outcomes of the high-level discussions will be documented in a paper that will be presented to officials at COP27. He also expressed optimism that talks from the conference will prove fruitful, noting that countries are tired of hearing unfulfilled promises related to climate change like the 2009 pledge made by wealthy countries to mobilise $100 billion annually to aid developing states with climate finance. “We are commitment fatigued and we are pledged fatigued so the pledge to make available $100bn has yet to be realised and that was made (nearly) 15 years ago and so the question now is the time for action is now. The time for talking needs to cease,” he also said. (Tribune242)

According to Narrative Research Bermuda, lower and middle-income earners were more likely to have bought less. The research company added: “With inflation surging and interest rates on the rise, residents in Bermuda are increasingly pessimistic about the Island’s economy, becoming more wary about their ability to afford goods and services. “Given rising inflation, increased interest rates, and lingering effects from supply chain issues, Bermudians are growing increasingly wary about the island’s economy, including the cost of living and their purchasing power.”Thesurvey showed that 54 per cent of residents were concerned about their ability to save for their retirement.Other concerns centred on health issues, with 49 per cent of participants claiming to be worried about their ability to buy healthy food, and 39 per cent anxious about the cost of health insurance. Just 12 per cent of recipients said they had no financial concerns. The latest results show a growing concern among residents over the personal finances and the economy.Inasimilar survey conducted by Narrative Research Bermuda in March, only one in three residents said they were being forced to cut back on basic foodstuffs as a result of rising costs. Also in that survey, 17 per cent of participants said their spending habits had not changed. That number has now dropped to just 11 per cent. (RoyalGazette)

PM Davis calls on Caribbean leaders to take action on climate change “We are well aware that, going into COP27, work is underway to advance the implementation of a Santiago Network on Loss and Damage, along with the establishment of a Loss and Damage Facility.” He continued: “These are important tools to support our countries. However, we also need to ensure that risk or insurance facilities are also in the toolbox of solutions to help our people. Access to climate finance should not be unclear or cumbersome. “And the application of per capita overseas development assistance eligibility should not be taken as the main consideration for offering climate finance, which means that many Caribbean states would be frozen out from the start.”

The BBC’s Central America and Cuba correspondent Will Grant says the move is something hardliner revolutionaries have opposed for years and its success is by no means guaranteed. And Cuba’s tightly statecontrolled environment does not make it an attractive option for many investors, he adds. Some stores in the country have had to introduce rationing, to ensure consumers are able to have access to essential items, like cookingThousandsoil. of people have voiced their anger over high prices and shortages of food and medicine in protests across the country. However, unauthorised public gatherings are illegal in Cuba and many were arrested as a result. The coronavirus pandemic, lower subsidies from Venezuela and former US President Donald Trump’s tight restrictions and sanctions on the island have all contributed to its economic problems.InMay, the US agreed to ease Trump-era sanctions on Cuba. Under the new measures approved by the Biden administration, restrictions on travel and how much money US residents could send back to their families in Cuba family were relaxed. At the time, Cuba’s foreign minister welcomed the announcement, saying it marked “a small step in the right direction”. (BBC)

CUBA says it will allow foreign investors into its wholesale and retail trade for the first time in 60 years. The move is a major shift for the island nation’s Communist government, and overturns a 1960s Fidel Castro policy of nationalising retail.But Cuba is now facing its most severe economic crisis in decades, with rising prices and public discontent.Thepolicy aims to tackle shortages of basic goods, like food and medicine - but stops short of fully opening trade. Government officials said that foreign investors would be able to wholly or partially own CubabasedButwholesalers.retailwill not be open to international investors without scrutiny, as “a state market has to prevail” foreign trade minister Betsy Díaz Velázquez said.

Simon Stiell will take over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

A Bermudian company is developing a new class of electric ferries for the world.

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GRENADA’S former Climate Resilience Minister Simon Stiell will become the new United Nations climate chief, UN Secretary General António Guterres announced yesterday. Stiell will take over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with under three months before the latest round of climate negotiations at COP27 in Egypt. He will replace Mexican diplomat Patricia Espinosa. Stiell served for five years as Grenada’s Minister for Climate Resilience and the Environment until June 2022 and previously served as Minister for Education and Human Resource Development. The UN called Stiell a “true champion for formulating creative approaches for our collective global response to the climate crisis” in a statement. Stiell has been a prominent figure at UN climate negotiations, often calling for the world’s largest polluters to set more ambitious climate goals and to deliver finance promised to vulnerable countries, including small island nations. That funding is key to preparing for future climate impacts including extreme temperatures, rising sea levels, more frequent storms and drought. Stiell told Reuters in an interview last year that the G20 group of the world’s most powerful countries “generate 80% of global emissions and constitute 85% of global GDP. They have the wealth and technology to act.” (Reuters) Cuba is facing its worst economic crisis in 30 years.

UN selects former Grenada minister as climate chief

Bermuda company to launch electric ferries

Cuba bids for foreign investment to tackle goods shortages

A unique team of naval architects, electrical engineers, investment managers, experienced mariners and environmental activists from around the world incorporated e- Link in 2018 with base of operations established in Bermuda.MrVaucrosson, president of e-Link, said: “We’ve had strong interest from operators in the UK, Boston and Toronto and elsewhere. This is not a hybrid but a fully electric vessel that can be quickly charged even on the water.”

A BERMUDA company expects to deliver in the near future a new class of waterway vessels powered entirely by sustainable energy — vessels envisaged as the next generation of commercial ferries. Breakthrough technology and preliminary approvals from a number of shipping and municipal organisations had the company on deck just before the pandemic hit. The Bermuda company, e-Link Commuting Co Ltd, with co-founders Alan Burland and Andrew Vaucrosson, are working with Aspin Kemp & Associates, an energy integration and electrical engineering company with headquarters in Montague, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Their goal is to make electricpowered water taxis and ferries a reality across the globe. They are collaborating to accelerate net-zero waterway transportation. The development would put Bermuda on the map for a number of reasons, including another first in maritime expediency (the Bermuda sloop) and a highly developed environmental victory in green energy implementation. AKA and e-Link, the local company said to be transforming human and package mobility on the water, are combining extensive sustainable energy expertise with deep understanding and experience in the transportation sector to design and build the new class of vessels.

Bermuda’s Olympic sailor and business executive Mr Burland said that he and Mr Vaucrosson intended to deliver a product that cities around the world will find useful.He said: “This environmental consciousness is a fundamental component to how we are designing the power system and propulsion systems for our eLC shuttle platform.”

He added: “We recognise there will be ongoing innovations in battery technology, shore power recharging and drivetrain technology requiring foresight and dedication, which is why our collaboration with AKA and other strategic partners will lead to our success.”

The e-Link team will focus on the technical aspects of the boat design and shuttle build/assembly, while AKA’s team will design the vessel’s power system and drivetrain propulsion as well as the addition of hydrogen fuel-cell innovation to help to extend the battery life of the e-Link shuttle platform.

Economy minister Alejandro Gil said the move will allow for the “expansion and diversification of supply to the population and contribute to the recovery of domestic industry”. In 1969, Fidel Castro nationalised Cuba’s private wholesale and retail industry. The new foreign investment bill, however, recognises that the country’s centralised government cannot resolve its essential goods shortage without investment from overseas.Under the new policy, businesses that have been based in Cuba for several years will be prioritised. Government officials said they will prioritise deals with businesses selling green energy technologies and equipment that could boost domestic production. It added that there will be no market competition at first.

The Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, is facing a backlash after being seen partying in a leaked video.In the footage, thought to be taken from social media, she and friends including Finnish celebrities are seen dancing and singing. She has faced criticism from opposition parties, with one leader demanding she take a drug test. Ms Marin, 36, denied taking drugs, saying she only drank alcohol and just partied “in a boisterous way”.

China’s decision to fire missiles over Taiwan must be contested, a top US military commander has said.Seventh Fleet commander Vice Admiral Karl Thomas said otherwise such action by China would become the norm, calling it “a gorilla in the room”. Beijing held military drills around the self-governing island earlier this month but did not confirm if any missiles passed directly over it. Tensions soared after US politician Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August. Her high-profile visit infuriated Beijing, which claims the selfruled island as part of its territory. Tuesday’s comments by Vice Admiral Thomas are significant, Based in Yokosuka, Japan, the Seventh Fleet is the largest forward-deployed fleet in the US Navy, with some 50 to 70 vessels and submarines - and is a key part of its military presence in the region. “It’s very important that we contest this type of thing. I know that the gorilla in the room is launching missiles over Taiwan,”

Sanna Marin: Finland PM partying video causes backlash

China launches a missile during a long-range live-fire drill in the Taiwan Strait.

The younger generation drinks less alcohol than their parents.

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Japan urges its young people to drink more to boost economy sake, shochu, whiskey, beer or wine.The group running the competition for the tax authority says new habits - partly formed during the Covid pandemic - and an ageing population have led to a decline in alcohol sales.

US ‘must contest’ Chinese missiles over Taiwan, says admiral

Formerly the world’s youngest Prime Minister, Ms Marin makes no secret of partying, and has often been photographed at music festivals.Lastyear she apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.

China’s decision to conduct nearly a week of military drills in the waters around Taiwan disrupted major shipping and aerial routesa move the island said effectively amounted to a blockade. It also accused Beijing of using the drills as practice for an invasion. Taiwan said the missiles China fired flew high into the atmosphere and posed no threat. Its defence ministry did not disclose the trajectory of the missiles, citing intelligence concerns.

It wants contestants to come up with promotions, branding, and even cutting-edge plans involving artificial intelligence. Japanese media say the reaction has been mixed, with some criticism about the bid to promote an unhealthy habit. But others have posted quirky ideas online - such as famous actresses “performing” as virtual-reality hostesses in digital clubs.Contestants have until the end of September to put forward their ideas. The best plans will then be developed with help from experts before the final proposals are presented in November.

Formerly the world’s youngest Prime Minister, Ms Sanna Marin makes no secret of partying, and has often been photographed at music festivals.

The Japanese embassy in Washington said it believed four missiles fired by China had passed over Taiwan’s capital Taipei. The US and other allies have stepped up naval crossings in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, another area of strategic importance to Beijing, to emphasise that these are international waters. While the US has official diplomatic relations with China and not Taiwan, it maintains a special relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for defence - an arrangement that has long troubled China. In recent years it has also become yet another flashpoint between Washington and Beijing as tensions between the two soured. (BBC)

JAPAN’S young adults are a sober bunch - something authorities are hoping to change with a new campaign.Theyounger generation drinks less alcohol than their parentsa move that has hit taxes from beverages like sake (rice wine). So the national tax agency has stepped in with a national competition to come up with ideas to reverse the trend. The “Sake Viva!” campaign hopes to come up with a plan to make drinking more attractiveand boost the industry. The contest asks 20 to 39-yearolds to share their business ideas to kick-start demand among their peers - whether it’s for Japanese

The campaign’s website says Japan’s alcohol market is shrinking and the country’s older demographic - alongside declining birth rates - is a significant factor behind it. Recent figures from the tax agency show that people were drinking less in 2020 than in 1995, with numbers plummeting from an annual average of 100 litres (22 gallons) to 75 litres (16 gallons). Tax revenue from taxes on alcohol has also shrunk over the years. According to The Japan Times newspaper, it made up 5% of total revenue in 1980, but in 2020 amounts to just 1.7%.

Just last week, Ms Marin was dubbed the “coolest prime minister in the world” by German news outletCommentingBild. on the video on Thursday, she said she knew she was being filmed but was upset that the video had become public. “I danced, sang, and partiedperfectly legal things. And I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve seen or known of others [using drugs],” she Oppositionadded.party leader, Riikka Purra, called for Ms Marin to take a voluntary drug test, saying there was a “shadow of doubt” hanging over the prime minister. Other opposition party politicians have criticised both the prime minister and the media for talking about partying - instead of more important domestic problems. Ms Marin told journalists: “I have a family life, I have a work life and I have free time to spend with my friends. Pretty much the same as many people my age.”

The World Bank estimates that nearly a third (29%) of Japan’s population is aged 65 and olderthe highest proportion in the world.

Vice Admiral Thomas told reporters in Singapore. “It’s irresponsible to launch missiles over Taiwan into international waters. “If you don’t challenge it... all of a sudden it can become just like the islands in the South China Sea [that] have now become military outposts. They now are full functioning military outposts that have missiles on them, large runways, hangers, radars, listening posts.”

GOVERNMENT officials in Ecuador have blamed a deadly explosion in the port city of Guayaquil on organised crime. At least five people were killed and 26 more injured in the blast on Sunday. Ecuador’s interior minister said it was a “declaration of war” by criminal gangs against the government.TheAndean country, which is used as a cocaine smuggling route from neighbouring Peru and Colombia, has seen a sharp rise in murders and gang-related crime recently.Astate of emergency has been declared in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s most populous city and an important trade hub. It is the fourth emergency to be declared in Ecuador since October because of gangEightviolence.houses and two cars were destroyed in the early morning blast, according to the National Risk and Emergency Management Service. Pictures from the scene show the front of houses ripped off and cars smeared in blood with their windows blown in. At a news conference late on Sunday, officials said the attack was directed at two men who go under the aliases of Cucaracha and Junior and are linked to Los Tiguerones, one of the leading crime gangs in Ecuador. “Organized crime mercenaries, who have long drugged the economy, now attack with explosives,” Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo tweeted after the blast.“It is a declaration of war on the state,” he Guayaquilsaid. has seen shocking levels of violence, including decapitated bodies hanging from pedestrian bridges and deadly prison riots between rival gangs. Nearly 400 inmates have been killed in six separate riots since FebruaryFollowing2021.the explosion, the city’s mayor, Cynthia Viteri wrote an open letter to President Guillermo Lasso, who took office last year. This image, dated 17 August 2022, shows firefighters on the ground in Setif.

Ecuador: Guayaquil blast ‘declaration of war’ by gangs - officials

“Criminal gangs have become a government within a government in Ecuador,” the letter begins. “We have witnessed people hanging from bridges, murders on motorcycles, rapes at shopping centres and on school buses,” she wrote.“What else do you want us to do to defend ourselves? A President is the protector of his people, but so far we have not seen a single safe step to combat crime.” On Twitter, Mr Lasso said he would “not allow organized crime to try to run the country”, however he has faced an uphill battle and criticism over the lack of any meaningfulGuayaquilchange.hasbeen ranked the 50th most violent city in the world by Insight Crime. The investigative journalism website reports that Ecuador’s homicide rate increased faster than any other country in Latin America or the Caribbean in 2021. (BBC)

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AT least 38 people have been killed and dozens more injured in forest fires that have devastated northern Algeria. Kamel Beldjoud, the country’s interior minister, said 24 people died in El Tarf, near the border with Tunisia, as well as a mother and daughter in Setif. Local media said at least 200 others have suffered burns and respiratory problems. Firefighters, supported by helicopters, were still trying to contain several blazes on Thursday morning.Thenames of the mother, 58, and her 36-year-old daughter who died in Setif have not yet been released, but officials there said flames had reached dozens of homes and villages. Officials said that some 39 fires were ravaging various parts of northern Algeria, and they warned that hot winds could spread the flames further. The civil protection agency said that the city of El Tarf was the worst hit area with 16 fires currently burning. And reports say some 350 residents have been evacuated in several provinces. Northern Algeria is affected by forest fires every year, with Mr Beldjoud noting that 106 fires have broken out in Algeria since August, destroying 800 hectares of forest and 1,800 hectares of woodlands.Some90 people are thought to have died in fires last year- and more than 100,000 hectares of woodland was burnt. Last August, Mr Beldjoud blamed a spate of fires in Algeria’s Kabyle region on arson, claiming “only criminal hands” could explain “the simultaneous outbreak of about 50 fires across several localities”. Thursday’s toll brings the total number of Algerians killed in wildfires this summer up to 42. The latest blazes come during a summer which has seen a number of countries in the Mediterranean region ravaged by wildfiresparticularly in Europe, with France, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy all affected. Just last week, more than 1,000 fire officials battled what they described as a “monster” wildfire near Bordeaux. (BBC)

Algeria forest fires: At least 38 dead, emergency officials say Ecuador has been rocked by waves of gang-related violence recently.

A HUGE explosion has ripped through a crowded mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people, police say. Another 33 people were injured, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran added. Wednesday’s blast occurred during evening prayers. The mosque’s imam Amir Muhammad Kabuli is reported to be among the dead.Itis unclear who was behind the attack, a week after Islamic State (IS) militants killed a pro-Taliban cleric in a suicide bomb blast, also in Kabul.Security forces have now sealed off the blast scene in Kabul. Witnesses described hearing a powerful explosion which shattered windows in nearby buildings.“Isawthat so many people were killed, even people were thrown out of the windows of the mosque,” one eyewitness told Reuters news agency.Stefano Sozza, the head of the medical charity Emergency, which runs the city’s main hospital, told the BBC his group had already treated 35 people, including children.

machines, in a reference to the president’s cheating claims. The president, in office since 2019 and flagging in opinion polls, denounced the petition, tweeting that the constitution was the only letter that mattered in guaranteeing democracy.Several of his election rivals have signed the petition, including leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who tweeted: “Our country used to be sovereign and respected. We need to get it back.” (BBC)

Brazilians march in defence of democracy over electionBolsonarofears

Afghanistan: Deadly blast rips through crowded Kabul mosque

Critics of the president have voiced fears that he is preparing to follow the example of former US President Donald Trump and allege widespread fraud if he loses the election.

Some victims were buried on the outskirts of the city.

“Our doctors... operated [on] the patients in need of surgical assistance all night long. The injuries were mainly related to the blast, so there were shells inside the bodies and burning injuries all over the bodies of the victims.” He said he believed the blast was inside the mosque. “There was probably someone entering during the prayer time, so it was crowded at that moment and then [the attacker] activated this body burning improvised explosive device.“So that all the persons that were close to the attacker were basically dead and the ones all around received several injuries,” Mr Sozza said. News agency AP quoted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying that the “perpetrators of such crimes will soon be brought to justice and will be punished”. But in a series of tweets, the UN mission in Afghanistan (Unama) urged the Taliban to take “concrete steps” to prevent terrorism and provide additional support to vulnerable communities. It said the attack was “the latest in a disturbing series of bombings which have killed & injured more than 250 people in recent weeks, the highest monthly number of civilian casualties over the last year”. Senior Taliban officials are meeting more than 2,000 tribal and religious elders on Thursday in Afghanistan’s second city Kandahar, the movement’s main power base. A spokesman quoted by AFP news agency said “important decisions” would be taken at the major gathering. The Kabul bombing comes days after the assassination of prominent cleric and Taliban supporter Rahimullah Haqqani in a suicide bombing. The Islamic State group said it carried out the attack on Mr Haqqani, one of the highest profile figures to be killed since the Taliban returned to power a year ago. (BBC)

THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s election. Protesters marched in several cities on Thursday in defence of democracy over fears the farright leader would not respect the outcome of the vote. Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly sought to discredit Brazil’s voting system.Hehas claimed that electronic voting machines enable cheating, because of the absence of a paper trail.A year ago, Mr Bolsonaro tried to change the system to introduce printed ballot papers, but the proposal was defeated in Congress.Critics of the president have voiced fears that he is preparing to follow the example of former US President Donald Trump and allege widespread fraud if he loses theTheelection.demonstrations came on the same day that a citizens’ manifesto was read out and signed by a million Brazilians. The manifesto, inspired by a declaration from 1977 denouncing Brazil’s dictatorship at the time, warned that the country’s democracy was facing great danger.Crowds protested in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Recife, while thousands gathered outside the University of São Paulo, where a petition “in defence of the democratic state of law” was read out.People held up banners denouncing Mr Bolsonaro and proclaiming “respect the vote, respect the people”, while some were dressed as electronic voting

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Basic Salary: $7.00 per hour Long Bay Rd Is seeking to employ a HANDYMAN RODEMIDE (649)CONTACT:JOSEPH348-8986 32008 To assist in cleaning the store, Dusting the shelves. To help with the up keeping of the store by providing the customers with a clean and comfortable environment to Basicshop.Salary:$6.25hourly Five Cays Road, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a HELPER JOSEPH (649)CONTACT:SKIPPINGS242-8790 32014 Mix Cement, Lay mixturemortarApplyBlocks.SmoothorotherovertheworksurfaceBasicSalary: $7.50 per hour 286 Chalk Sound Is seeking to employ a MASON BEST PRINTING PHOTO & DESIGN SERVICES CONTACT: 342-9699 32022 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Clean the store every morning, clean printing equipment, remove trash from the store and bathroom, assisting the owner when needed. Salary: $6.25 per hour. CLEANER Grace Plaza, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a SUPREME BODY SHOP CONTACT: 000-0000 32023 THIS POSITION IS BEING ADVERTISED FOR A FIRST-TIME WORK PERMIT APPLICATION Examine vehicle damages; Remove damaged parts/repair; Make cosmetic repairs; Bolt/Weld replacements parts in position using welding tools; File, grind, sand and paint repaired surfaces; Salary $15 per hour 6 days a week BODYAUTOMAN Is seeking to employ a DUDLEY MALCOLM CONTACT: 331-4416 32016 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Sweep the house. Mop the floor. Wash & iron, and cook for the Salary:children.$6.25perhour DOMESTICWORKER Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a JC BUILDING & CONTACT:CONSTRUCTIONHANDYMAN649-342-0275 31968 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD RENEWAL Fix and mechanicalmaintainequipment,buildings,andmachines.Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc. Salary: $300.00 Weekly MAINTENANCEWORKER Bay Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a DESTINATION TURKS AND CAICOS LTD. #8 La Petite Place, Grace Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 649-946-5855 32035 TAILOR This ad is to support a work permit renewal. Belongers may apply at Labour Board or INFO@DESTINATIONTCI.TCEMAIL: Design Arch Drapery. Repair voile or organza draping. Install draping, arch and decor. Salary: $9.00 hourly L&K CONTRACTOR GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a 1(649)CONTACT:2325934 32024 ONEHELPERMASON Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit $6CLEANINGholderSalary:perhour RICHARD KENDALL GIBBS #10 Princess Dr., The Bight Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 241-0136 31604 DOMESTICWORKER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position. Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly WATER SUPPLY SERVICE Kew Town Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 346-9099 31967 DRIVERTRUCK Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this commercialdeliveryResponsiblepositionforofwatertoresidential/property. Salary: $360.00 Weekly L&K (649)CONTACT:CONTRACTOR000-0000 32021 CLEANINGGRANDTURKIsseekingtoemploya HELPERMASONONE BLESSING DELIVERY SERVICES CONTACT: 342-1055 32020 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Assisting in delivering items to different addresses and through different routes. Cleans vehicles. Clean the store. SALARY: 6.25 per hour DELIVERYDRIVER Robinson Drive, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a ELIE & ADAMS CONTACT:CONSTRUCTION242-8751 31971 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/or concrete sidewalks; makes and repairs steps and plasters. $9.00 Hourly Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. $7.50 Hourly Install materials on floors, walls, ceilings, countertops. Level the surface with a layer of mortar or plywood. $9.00 HourlyMASON2LABOURERSTILE LAYER Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

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Alec Baldwin and Halyna Hutchins.

Alec Baldwin shooting on ‘Rust’ set was accidental, medical investigator says

LAST year’s “Rust” shooting in which a firearm handled by actor Alec Baldwin discharged and killed the movie’s cinematographer was accidental, the Office of the Medical Investigator in New Mexico said Monday. The medical investigator says there was “no compelling demonstration” that someone purposefully loaded the gun with live ammunition before that Oct. 21, 2021 incident on a Santa Fe-area movie set, nor was there any “obvious intent to cause harm or death.” Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after being struck by a gunshot inside a church at the Bonanza Creek Ranch. Director Joel Souza was also wounded in theBaldwin,incident. 64, claims he was told the gun was cold, indicating it wasn’t loaded with live ammunition.Noonehas been charged in the shooting. Baldwin’s lawyer says the medical investigator’s findings are the latest evidence that he shouldn’t be charged.

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWSAugust 20-26, 2022 31 Classifieds 946-4664 Fax: 946-4661 Email: Website:tcnews@tciway.tctcweeklynews.com JOB REALAUTOSERVICESLISTINGSSALESESTATE Applicant must have experience as a Floral Assistant or Florist. Must have extensive knowledge of tropical flowers, foliage and potted plants, including their names, seasonal availability and lifespan. Candidates must have experience using current styles in floral design while at the same time understanding the traditional use of certain flowers for weddings, funerals etc. salary commensurate with experience. IS URGENTLY LOOKING FOR FLORISTACONTACT:231-3788 CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING LTD 32009 APPLY IN WRITING TO CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING LTD. LIMITED, P. O. BOX 158, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS. CONTACT: INFO@CSECARIBBEAN.COM OR FAX TO LABOUR OFFICE, PROVIDENCIALES ON 946-7184. THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT MUST POSSESS: • University Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering (B.SC Engineering or Higher) • Minimum 6 years post qualification work experience • Computer literate with experience in Word, Excel, Autocad, • Structural Design Software and Rebar Detailing. • Chartered or Graduate Member of a Recognised Engineering Institution. DUTIES WILL INCLUDE AND CANDIDATES SHOULD HAVE EXPERIENCE IN: CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEER CSE LIMITED Seeks • Structural & Civil design calculations and drawing work • Structural Surveys and Reports. • Design Coordination. Salary will be $56,400.00 per annum. The suitable candidate will be able to work under their own initiative, and be able to see through Design Projects from conceptional design to final drawing works. This position is available immediately and closing date for application is 19th August 2022. Qualified Turks & Caicos Islander Preferred. COOK • Must have at least 3 years of experience • Salary $300 per week • Duties: Cook and prepare strict diet • Must have a clean drivers toBelongerslicenseareencouragedsendcopyoftheir RESUMES TO CONTACT:DEPARTMENT,LABOUR649-232-2137RENEWAL32051 PAUL BERESFORD CARIBBEANPROVIDENCIALESDIAMOND, Is seeking to employ a CONTRACTOR • Visit the site, estimate, and plan. • Provide all tools and materials. • Adhere to building code. • Maintain communication with clients. • Manage all employees. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 331-4683 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32048 ARLINGTONNEWMONDBUCKLEY Le Vele Plaza, Grace Bay Is seeking to employ aDOMESTICWORKER 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: 242-5421 Belongers only apply Renewal 32045 MERRILYN GARDINER NORTH CAICOS Is seeking to employ a USUAL HOUSEHOLD CHORES: SWEEPING THE HOUSE, MOPPING FLOORS, CLEANING BATHROOMS, MINOR LAUNDRY. 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 GALMO & ALTHEA WILLIAMS VENETIAN ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to hire DOMESTIC WORKER CONTACT: 946-4536 This position is held by a work permit holder Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Department 32092 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. JEAN LAURENT MILLENNIUM ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a CONTACT:LABOURER649-341-9945 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 32057 • Applicant must be honest, reliable and hardworking. • General andwashing,housework,ironing,cookingcleaning Salary: $250.00 Weekly JUNIOR ETIENNE RIGBY BACK ROAD, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a DOMESTIC WORKER CONTACT: 331-8166 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32081 PAINTER Apply paints, stains, and coatings to interior and exterior walls, new buildings, homes, offices and other structural surfaces. Salary: $8.50 Hourly CONTACT: 346-6622 Belongers only apply Renewal 32003 PORT CONSTRUCTIONATLANTIC Y VON PETIT YARD, FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly 649-241-6702CONTACT: Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31998 S & M CONTRACTING CO. WALTER COX STREET, KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a BARTENDER • Uphold customer service • Maintain Bar • Mix and serve drinks Salary: $8.00 Hourly CONTACT:231-2397 Belongers are to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Renewal 31996 THREE K’S RESTAURANT AIRPORT RD. BESIDE THE FISH MARKET Is seeking to employ a

August 20-26, 202232 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS SNR RESTAURANT & (649)CONTACT:CAFETERIA346-4624 32021 To mealspreparefollowing a specific menu. Basic Salary: $360.00 per week Five Cays Rd., Providenciales Is seeking to employ a COOK GRACE BAY WATERSPORTS & SKY PILOT PARASAILING (649)CONTACT:333-7878 32104 To test performancethe of marine engines and electrical systems. Basic Salary: $10 per hour Turtle Cove, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a MECHANICBOAT JEROME (649)CONTACT:BROWN345-9911 32090 Knowledgeable in installing Knowledgeableglass.inhandlinghandpowertools.BasicSalary: $7.50 per hour Wheeland- Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a INSTALLERGLASS COCOCURELTD2@GMAIL.COVACANCYCONTACT:EMAIL: 32127 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDERS BELONGERS ARE ADVISE TO APPLY WITHIN THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT POSITION CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER Cleaning up around the yard, removing all trash and debris, and any other duties as may be necessary. Salary $8.00 per hour weekly LABOURER MARIE G. M. RAPHAEL CONTACT: 344-8780 32126 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Sweep the house. Wash and iron for the family. $6.25Salary:Cook.perhour DOMESTICWORKER The Bight, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a KENNETH IULO 32089 BELONGERS ONLY CAN SEND THEIR CLEAN POLICE RECORD AND CV, NO LATER THAN AUGUST 24ST, 2022 TO: KENNETH IULO, C/O - MISICK & STANBROOK, LEEWARD HWY, PROVIDENCIALES. TEL: 339-2010 EMAIL: INFO@MISICKSTANBROOK.TC. For the upkeep and maintenance of the grounds at his residence situated in Leeward Going Through, Provo. This position is held by a Work Permit Holder. Salary for this position is $6.50 per hour. LABOURER Is seeking to employ a ADIELLE CONTACT:MESANIEU-CELESTIN345-4551 32111 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $6.50 Hourly LABOURER The Bight Is seeking to employ a ALEX CLEANING SERVICES CONTACT: 649-332-5690 32122 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly 2WORKERSDOMESTIC #87 Marby Dr., Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a LAS BRISAS RESTAURANT CONTACT: 649-332-4320 32164 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. Assists in keeping a restaurant, and bar clean and sanitary, assists in cleaning dishes, and tends to customers' needs. Salary: $7.00 p/h STEWARD 533 Chalk Sound Is seeking to employ a ANNIA DEETJEN Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 346-8047 32119 NANNY Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children,Salary:housework,medicine,administeringdoingandetc.$6.25Hourly BENJAMIN WALKIN Wheeland, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 231-0770 32108 LABOURER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 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 BLACK BOY & JEAN TRUCKING 17 Ralph Close, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a 242-3631/346-6731CONTACT: 32107 HEAVY DUTY TRUCK DRIVER Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this operatingPerformpositionworktaskswhileheavymachinery. Salary: $10.00 hourly BABES AND TOTS CONTACT: 247-0582 32106 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Stocking and supplying vacuuming,dusting,facilitydesignatedareas,sweeping,mopping,restroomcleaningetc. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CLEANER Academy Dr., Down Town Is seeking to employ a BEEN FRANKLYN HENRY CONTACT: 332-5101 32097 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and housework.other Salary: $6.50 Hourly DOMESTICWORKER Palm Grove, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a DELIMENE PHANOR EMMANUEL CONTACT: 245-7854 32102 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and housework.other Salary: $6.50 Hourly DOMESTICWORKER Overback, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a DES ELECTRICAL 245-1239CONTACT:OR243-6883 32110 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD RENEWAL Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $300 weekly LABOURER Mydees Plaza, Airport Road, North Caicos Is seeking to employ a DOROTHY O. MALCOLM Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 241-1235 32115 DOMESTICWORKER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly E&D TOUCH OF CLASS BUY & SELL 31112 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD RENEWAL To assist in cleaning all rental vehicles and property.- To assist withrequests.customers' HELPER Sunny Food Blue ProvidencialesHills, Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 000-0000 FRANCIUS PHILISTIN 32116 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD 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 DOMESTICWORKER Horseshoe Lane, the Bight Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 241-7000 GOOD TASTE LIQUOR Five Cays Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 246-5189 32105 LABOURER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $7.00 Hourly AMB WHOLESALE & RETAIL (649)CONTACT:231-6858 32155

Providenciales Is seeking to employ a ISEMANE JOSEPH 332-9257

DOMESTICWORKER

Selling

32160

Clean the doors and windows. Clean the ceiling and walls.

per hour

WILL

product, counts good, in and out. Place order, Prepares list of depleted items survey of defective or unusable items. Salary 6.25- 9 hourly. Blue Hills Provo Is seeking to employ a INVENTORYCLERK

per hour

CONTACT: 346-7978

JUDITH GUERRIER

DOMESTICWORKER

Providenciales Is seeking to employ

OLD/NEW, BELONGER BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

Sweep the house. Mop the floor. Salary: $6.25

32153

Sweep the house. Wash and iron for the family. Cook. Salary: $6.25

CONTACT:

Salary from $2,000.00

needs,

COURT REPORTER College or high school graduate with at least five (5) years’ experience in community reporting. Ability to drive and use a camera a desirable asset. Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

skills, coaching, teamwork and problem-solving. Flexibility, knowledge in other fields and all aspects of security are an advantage. SECURITY ANALYTICS MANAGER SECURITY TRAINER/TRAININGOFFICERSOFFICER Long Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ SUNSET HOME AND BABY 32175THIS POSITION IS FOR A WORK PERMIT RENEWAL CONTACT: 232 0918 • Duties include will include: • Sales processes, inventory receiving, managing, stocking, displaying of goods. • Must be able to drive, transport and lift unassisted boxes and packages up to 65lbs. SALES/RECEIVING CLERK Airport Road, Providenciales, Is seeking to employ a • Must be willing to work weekends and holidays as required. • Ability to speak a foreign language (e.g. Spanish and Creole) would be helpful. $1,600Salary:permonth CONTACT: 231-6432 32173 BELONGERS ARE ASKED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK employDuties:PERMITTocarpentrySkillsonvariousjobs. Salary: $8.00 per hour CARPENTERS&BCONSTRUCTION Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 231-1806 32170 BELONGERS, KINDLY SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. DUTIES: To open store and help With the operations.daily SALARY: $6.50 per hour. STORE CLERK T AND A SOUVENIRS Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

FOR MAGAZINES AND OTHER

POSITIONS

abilities,

PERIODICALS GRAPHICS PRODUCTION

outcomes.

EMAIL: TCNEWS@TCIWAY.TC NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Preferences will be given to Belonger and Legal Residents FORWARD APPLICATIONS TO: VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS CLEANER Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, restroomvacuuming,sweeping,mopping,cleaningetc.Salary:$6.25hourly CONTACT: 346-0002 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Renewal 32084 VR SUPERMART MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a On Behalf of our Client WARATAH CONSTRUCTION We are seeking to employ: RESPONSIBILITIES (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) • Prepping of surfaces. • Lay Blocks and bricks following plans and drawings, • Lay out work using chalk lines, tapes, squares and levels. • Mix cement and mortar. • Operate equipment such as wet saws. • Cut or break blocks, bricks and concrete using hammers, power saws, drills and • hand tools. • Molding expansion joints and edges using jointers, straightedges and edging tools. • Fabricate, repair, alter and maintain slabs, walls, curbs, sidewalks, pavers, conc. Countertops etc • Must have ten years’ experience. Salary $12.00-$15.00 commensurate on Qualification and experience. SKILLED MASONS 31649 INTERESTED AND QUALIFIED PERSONS SHOULD SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO RUSSELL AND ASSOCIATES (2004) LTD., 229 PRESTIGE PLACE, GRACE BAY ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS OR CONTACT US VIA EMAIL: DELTHIA@RUSSELLANDASSOCAITESLTD. COM; TELEPHONE: 649-244-3572. APPLICANTS ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR APPLICATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ON OR BEFORE 28TH JULY 2022. ONLY SHORT-LISTED PERSONS WILL BE CONTACTED. WC SECURITY SERVICES 32019 CONTACT-333-6577 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY Salary $3,500.00 per month This role requires significant experience in providing private security services and involves the analysis, interpretation and reporting of security data and information to improve business performance and achieve company growth. The successful candidate will have carried out security analytical work across a national area and will also have worked through various frontline security roles in their career. The successful applicant will also hold a recognised qualification at Management Level from a Nationally accredited security training body. Salary $7:00 per hour plus benefits Responsibilities include: Maintaining a safe

are

Candidates must have had actual hands-on experience selling advertising space for newspapers and magazines. Ability to assist clients with the writing of copy for ads and gathering of collateral an asset. Salary is commission based. AVAILABLE

Candidates must have at least five (5) years’ experience working full-time for daily newspapers and/or news/features magazines, reporting on hard news, features and parliamentary/court proceedings. Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

ones,

WRITERS/ PHOTO JOURNALIST

DESIGNER/ PAGINATOR

August 20-26, 2022 33CLASSIFIEDSTURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

ADVERTISING SPACE SALES PERSON

The Turks and Caicos Islands oldest and leading publishing house is in need of additional staff to fill the following posts: THE PUBLISHER DUNCANSON PUBLICATIONS LTD. and secure environment for customers/clients. Patrolling, deterrence, monitoring and securing properties and business establishments. Surveillance Skills, Deals with Threats, exercising excellent Judgment, Objectivity, Dependability, Conflict Management, Integrity, Safety Management, Professionalism, Reporting Skills, CCTV and Security Alarm knowledge are desirable.

Responsible for identifying, developing, facilitating, and monitoring training activities in our Assessing training developing internal training programs, or contracting external facilitating learning, providing feedback, and monitoring Essential qualifications researching and planning excellent communication, and presentation

This position requires someone with at least five (5) years’ experience working with Macintosh or PC computers. Must be skilled in the make-up of advertising and pagination. Proficiency using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop software for print is essential. Some technical, networking and web design knowledge an asset. Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

company.

T & M

BELONGER ONLY APPLY RENEWAL

32098

August 20-26, 202234 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VACANCY 32163 POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS. QUALIFIED BELONGERS APPLY WITH LABOUR DEPARTMENT. HEMINGWAY’S941-8408 The Sands, Grace Bay $7.00 per hour Assist kitchen staff etc. GUTTERS347-9104EXPRESS 16 Bible Street, Blue Hills $6.25-$8, Lifting materials, fabricate & install metal etc. KITCHEN LABOUR/ROOFERHELPER CHURCH OF GOD ABUNDANT LIFE CONTACT: 241-0452 32152 FIRST TIME, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Teach children and adolescents the fundamental principles of music and musicianship skills, such as drums, recorders or xylophones Salary: $1000.00 per month. TEACHERSMUSIC Up the hill, Kew Town Providenciales Is seeking to employ a BERNADO JULES CONTACT: 346-4667 32161 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Care for the children, wash their clothing and clean the house, cook for them. Salary: $6.25 per hour NANNY South Dock, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a 32151 RENEWAL. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME ISLANDBROKERAGECONSULTANCY@TOGMAIL.COM To conduct cleaning services. To cut hair. Pay: 6.25 to 7.00 per hour NANNY,DOMESTIC/CLEANER/LABORERHELPER,BARBER. Acting on behalf of our clients. Seeking for: ISLAND BROKERAGE LINVILLE A. WILLIAMS CONTACT: 345-1562 32148 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. Sweep the house, wash and iron for the Salaryfamily.starts at $6.25 per hour DOMESTICWORKER Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a DESIREE DURHAM CONTACT: 232-4377 32149 RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. To clean the house, wash & iron To clean the property and conduct labour work. Salary starts at $6.25 per hour DOMESTICWORKER Leeward Palms Is seeking to employ a LABOURER BETTY’S RESTAURANT & BAKERY CONTACT: 342-9699 32150 RENEWAL. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE Sweep or scrub floors, clean food preparation areas, transfer supplies, equipment between storage & work areas, wash dishes. Pay: 6.25 per hour LABOURERKITCHENHELPER/ Kew Town, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a COME TO SEE VARIETY STORE CONTACT: 342-7810 32147 RENEWAL. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE Clean the store, cleans customer bathroom, loading and unloading of goods. Assisting during sales Pay: 6.25 per hour HELPERSTORE Residence Yard Is seeking to employ a JEANNINE I. MILIEN CONTACT: 343-3564 32099 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Applicant must be good with children. To care for children, washing, ironing and keeping them clean at all times. Salary: $7.00 Hourly BABYSITTER Blue Hills, Provo Is seeking to employ a JOANNE MALCOLM CONTACT: 231-5086 32165 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT. WORK PERMIT RENEWAL Work 5 days a week Clean yard and Windows and keep. Salary: $6.50 hr LABOURER #51 Robinson way Five Cays New Subdivision Is seeking to employ a JOHANNY CLEANING SERVICES CONTACT: 649-346-8228 32120 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY Soil cultivation, digging, and forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting. $7.00 Hourly Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines. Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair, electrical repairs, etc. $8.00 Hourly HANDYMANGARDENER Chalk Sound Villa 12 Pounds Is seeking to employ a JOSETTE JN LOUIS CONTACT: 232-9775 32118 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and housework.other Salary: $400.00 Weekly DOMESTICWORKER Providenciales Is seeking to employ a LOUISE ERILIEN Five Cays Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 241-6229 31325 DOMESTICWORKER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and housework.other Salary: $7.50 Hourly C & S (649)MANAGEMENTPROPERTYCONTACT:231-7363 32166 To perform general cleaning on both exterior and interior surfaces for commercial and residential properties. Basic Salary: $250.00 per week Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a CLEANER MYRLIENNE VILVERT CONTACT: 345-1178 32109 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly DOMESTICWORKER Five Cays Is seeking to employ a OVANDO CONSTRUCTION LTD. CONTACT: BELONGERS649-331-9854/649-344-8971AREENCOURAGEDTOAPPLYTOTHELABOURBOARD Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for equipment,pipes,etc. Salary: $10.00 Hourly PLUMBER #101 Suite Court, Grace Bay Is seeking to employ a 32121 PAMELAR PATRICE WILLIAMS CONTACT: 245-0938 32096 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $6.50 Hourly LABOURER Palm Grove, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a VACANCY 32154 TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDERS/ BELONGERS ARE ADVISE TO APPLY WITHIN THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT. POSITION CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. CONTACT EMAIL:COCOCURELTD2@GMAIL.COINFORMATION Work 5 days a week Clean yard and Windows and keep. Salary: $6.50 hr LABOURER R&B TIRES AND AUTO ZONE CONTACT: 332-8300 32113BELONGERS ONLY APPLY Repair vehicle tubes and tires in the field or garage. Balance tires for all vehicles, order tires for all vehicles in the fleet, order patches and plugs for tires. Salary: $6.50 hourly REPAIRMANTIRE #769 Leonie Plaza, Leeward Hwy. Is seeking to employ a SCOTT ISLAND WATER CONTACT: 331-0527 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive and maintenanceproductivesystems. Salary: $10.00 Hourly TECHNICIAN 28 Hope St., Grace Bay Is seeking to employ a 32101 SECURITY CONTACT:SERVICESMANAGEMENTLTD.649-331-7678 32112 BELONGER ONLY APPLY RENEWAL Applicant must be honest, reliable and willing to work in different business places 6 days a week when asked to do so. Salary: $7.00 hourly SECURITYOFFICER #14 TDMG Building, Five Cays, South Dock Road Is seeking to employ a STANLEY EDWARD LANDY Glass Shack Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 333-0209

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: $9.50 Hourly MASON #34 Millennium Highway, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a TEMPCO VARIETY STORE Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 231-0977

DOMESTICWORKER Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly

32114

CONTACT:CONSTRUCTION245-3160

32117

DOMESTICWORKER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly

• Keeping accurate customer records.

OUR MISSION AND CORE VALUES: Our mission and purpose at Family Care Medical Services are to provide each client with unparalleled services, experiences, and quality health products to live healthily and feel their best. We devote ourselves to listening to our clients and going above to meet their needs. We believe that the residents of and visitors to the Turks & Caicos Islands community deserve world-class healthcare services.

• Adhering to applicable legal rules, regulations, and procedures governing pharmaceutical practice.

• Monitoring customers’ drug therapies, advising interventions, and informing customers of any potential side effects.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Competitive Salary Offered

32103 Senior Management Role reporting Directly to the General Manager. Ideal candidate with by qualified to Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent as a minimum, with extensive experience of Facilities Management including at least two specialist areas from below: • Mechanical and Electrical Services • Dietetics and Retail Catering • Soft Services • Security & Man Guarding Services • Business Administration Role requires both Business Administration and Soft Services experience, with formal Qualifications in both elements. Successful candidate will have at least 5 years Management experience in a Hotel Services or Healthcare Environment, carrying out a similar role. This is a Senior role incorporating Strategic Management responsibilities, and a high focus on Contractual and Financial performance across all services. ADDITIONAL KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Management & Control of all FM Departmental Heads • Financial Budgetary Delivery • Health & Safety Management • Business Continuity • Disaster & Emergency Preparedness Role incorporates on Duty Requirement on a rostered basis. Scheduled visits to Grand Turk are also required as part of role. Qualified Belonger's will be given first consideration. Salary:Interhealth$51K Canada Construction and Services are seeking Highly Skilled Professionals to join the busy Facilities Management Department at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre, Providenciales. TOTAL FACILITIES MANAGER – PROVIDENCIALES Interested candidates please forward your resume to: DPINNOCK@INTERHEALTHCANADA.TC FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND QUERIES, PLEASE CONTACT DONIQUE PINNOCK ON TEL: 941-2800 EXT 71802. CLOSING DATE: SEPTEMBER 02ND 2022 APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE CLOSING DATE. 32144 CONTACT: 231-0371 32169 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS IS A FIRST TIME WORK PERMIT Duties:APPLICATION.Toclean an office building. SALARY: $7.50 per hour CARIBBEANCLEANERENVIRONMENTDESIGNASSOCIATES Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 244-6319 32172 BELONGERS ARE ASKED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OFFICE. THIS IS A FIRST TIME DailyDuties:APPLICATION.Preparemenusformeals,andcookingMeals. SALARY $8.00 per hour. COOK K & S BAKERY Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 244-0914 32174 BELONGERS KINDLY SUBMIT A COPY OF RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS IS A FIRST TIME WORK PERMIT APPLICATION. Duties: ChoreshouseholdRegularandmustbewilling To work a 6 day week. SALARY: $6.50 per hour DOMESTICWORKER MERVIN SIMMONS Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree

• Excellent communication skills with a customer-oriented approach.

• Must be organized and multi-tasker.

• Strong passion for helping people with all pharmacy-related problems.

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• Post-graduate degree preferred

Living this mission every day requires a fully engaged, knowledgeable, and trusting staff. From our patient care staff to our administrators, everyone at Family Care is on the frontlines of delivering innovative, quality healthcare characterized by being helpful, welcoming, teamwork-focused with every client. As we continue to grow, we are seeking results-oriented, high-performing members to join our team. The ideal team members are motivated by the opportunity to serve others, align with our mission, and share our core values.

We are looking for qualified candidates to fill the following roles in Providenciales:

• Compounding and dispensing medications, as prescribed by physicians.

PHARMACISTTOBECONSIDEREDFORTHISPOSITION,PLEASEEMAILCVSTOT.BEWAJI@FAMILYCARETCI.COM.

• Thorough understanding of dosage administration and measurement, chemical compounds, medical brands, etc.

• Instructing customers on how and when to take prescribed medications.

ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking an experienced Pharmacist to join our growing team. This individual will be passionate about the company’s mission, enthusiastic about the challenges confronting the organization, and dedicated to achieving its goal. The role will empower you to be the connection between your genuine commitment to excellent care and real, positive results. This role will ensure that the daily operations of the hospital pharmacy meet all customer and patient expectations.

• Performing other administrative tasks when needed.

FAMILYCARE MEDICAL IS HIRING!

• Minimum 7 years of relevant pharmaceutical work experience

RESPONSIBILITIES:

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ensuring a safe and clean working environment.

• Completing operational requirements of the pharmacy, including verifying order entries, maintaining records of controlled substances and charges, and removing expired and/or damaged drugs from the pharmacy’s inventory.

• Conducting health and wellness screenings.

• Providing immunizations and other medical services, such as taking blood pressure, temperature measurements, and checking blood sugar levels.

professionalism and efficiency • Understanding of reporting for AML, ATED, US and UK FATCA, and CRS • Good command of Viewpoint (Version 7) software, including entity admin and practice management module • Proficient user of Microsoft Packages including Power point, Excel and Word • Understanding of Private Equity, Hedge funds and Quoted investments REQUIREMENT: • Minimum 10 years’ experience working internationally in the trust and company secretarial field • STEP qualified • Experience in client relationship management in Private Client industry • Strong knowledge of the international and domestic regulatory and compliance regime • Strong command of written and spoken English • Financially literate, and ready to support the Finance Director and Managing Director in managing performance targets for the business Salary will be according to experience and competitive with other international finance centres, and in the range of US$85,000.00 TO US$100,000.00. CORIATS requires a SENIOR TRUST OFFICER INTERESTED AND QUALIFIED TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDERS SHOULD MAKE APPLICATION TO OFFICE@CORIATS.COM OR 82 CHEROKEE ROAD, AND ALSO WITH THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT. THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD

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BLUE

• Liaising with various vendor partners and seeking new distributors/ partnership agreements (MUST have existing contacts in the industry)

• Must be able to research and source products affordably given world-wide supply chain shortages

• Must have extensive knowledge on NCR 7456 or similar POS System

Belongers

DOMESTICWORKER

PURCHASER

Belongers

ATTRIBUTES/TECHNICAL

materials on floors, walls, ceilings, countertops.

Sunny foods is aiming to be the country’s premier cash and carry operation.

• Setting up of trust structures per international tax advice and maintain and administer existing trusts structures, unit trust and offshore companies.

CONTACT:346-9102 Belongers

• Setting up training programs for employees on proper merchandising, inventory and supply chain management

• Draft and coordinate the drafting of all necessary legal documents required for managing day to day matters of Trusts and Corporate entities (e.g. letters, trustee resolutions, deeds of amendments, etc.) and be responsible for managing the relationship, legal and administrative matters of a portfolio of trusts and companies following applicable legislation and internal procedures.

• Manage client relationships, operational risk, service level agreements and coordination of client deliverables. Develop, maintain and expand contact with clients and the intermediaries working for target clients, especially high net worth individuals/ families; and ensure that all stakeholders are serviced well. SKILLS:

This now requires technical analysis of sourcing and supply chain management, especially in this post-covid era of supply shortages.

• Taking care of the child, washing, ironing and cleaning. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 649-243-1154 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32124

• Supporting the continuous improvement of existing supply chain processes and procedures

DAPHNE OUTTEN Bay Shore Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a TILE LAYER Install Level the surface a layer of mortar plywood. Salary: $9.00 Hourly are to FIVE CAYS seeking - $8.00

CONTACT:

• Execute and manage the full cycle of typical trust transactions, including trust setup, bank account opening, asset injections, restructuring, declaring distributions, change of deed’s jurisdiction, and terminations.

• Ensures orders are placed in a timely manner, customer request are met quickly and efficiently while looking to source ways to fill orders

We are looking for an experienced senior (10 years full time experience or more) Trust professional to join our team

send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 32129 F & A MILLWORK CONSTRUCTION&

• Must have strong data analysis skills

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• Salary $600 per week plus benefits. Remuneration based on experience.

• Expertise in the laws, processes and documents relating to trust and company secretarial administration, as well as trust accounts Strong organisation and communication skills, excellent attention to detail

This position is for work permit renewal Interested applicants can email their resume to sunny@sunnyfoodstci.com or send resume to the Labour Board. need only to apply. FOODS HILLS ROVIDENCIALES, TCI IS LOOKING FOR: 32157 outside the property sweeper, pick up yard waste and Salary: $6.25 hourly. 649-331-3937CONTACT: Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. 32128

• 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

with

ALDERAYGARDINERVANESSA Boodle Way, Blue Hills Is seeking

electrical repairs, etc.

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with

• Applicant must be honest, reliable and hardworking.

to employ a PLUMBER - $8.00 Hourly Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for pipes, equipment, etc. STEELMAN

• Must be have prior experience with Quick Books 2022

• Performing inventory analysis and preparing inventory reports

LABOURER Cleaning

CLIFTON ASTWOOD BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a HANDYMAN Fix and mechanicalmaintainequipment,andproperty.Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, Salary: $6.50 hourly 241-5443 are encouraged to send a copy of their resume the Labour Board.

• Control and handling of monthly billing, including reporting of productivity and recommendations of out of scope work.

• Most work is required by standing of long periods of time and working in an environment that is not air conditioned such as a dry warehouse.

BERNARD EWING 38 WINDWARD ROAD, COOPER JACK BAY Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT:342-2322 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32135

• Able to meet deadlines in a fast-moving environment while maintaining high standards of BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. 32146

• Must be Multilingual and have good communication skills in able to communicate with overseas vendors and logistics companies.

• Analyzing supply chain risks and developing strategies to resolve the issues

Hourly Build and install iron or steel girders, columns, and other andstructures.materialsconstructiontoformCut,position,boltdownsteelbars. CONTACT: 333-1505 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY 32133 JDS CONSTRUCTION Walter Cox Drive, Kew Town Is seeking VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

SUNNY

• Must have prior experience purchasing Asian & American Products.

collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

SMITHCO #84 INDUSTRIAL PARK ROAD, FIVE SeekingCAYS

BEEN MEP CO. LTD. Unit #54 Saltmills Plaza, Grace Bay Road, Grace Bay Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 247-4347 Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32159 C & S SERVICESPROFESSIONAL Acting on behalf of HYLON V. HIGGS Five Cays, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Is seeking to employ

VAGUY VILMAR Wilson Circle, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a DRIVER Transport materials and goods centers.distributionmanufacturing,amongandretailPerformsalesandcustomerservice.Salary:$6.25hourly CONTACT: 244-8820 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Renewal 32185

August 20-26, 2022 37CLASSIFIEDSTURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS LABOURER • Assist with food preparation, cooking, meal service as assigned. • Clean all dishes and utensils after every meal. • Clean all food handling, food storage areas, and dish room. Salary: $7.00 Hourly CONTACT: 649-241-5563 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL 32123 MR.RESTAURANTGROUPER Lower Bight Road, Provo Is seeking to employ a 2 BARBERS Cutting, stylingshampooing,trimming,andhair,trimmingbeards,orgivingshaves.Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 333-1505 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32134 SANTIAGUEROBARBERSHOP AIRPORT 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: $6.25 hourly CONTACT: 244-9543 Belongers only apply Renewal 32130 SUSAN MUSGROVE 8 TROPICANA DRIVE, GLASS SHACK Is seeking to employ a 10 TILE LAYERS - $10.00 HOURLY Install materials floors, walls, ceilings, etc. Level the surface with a layer of mortar or plywood. 3 TILE LAYER HELPER - $7 HOURLY • Supplies mixes materials for the tile layer. • Clean installed tiles. CONTACT: 333-5559 Belongers only apply Renewals 32132 TC TILES #24 A Line Avenue, Blue Hills. Seeking 2 MECHANICSDIESEL Keeps equipment available for use by inspecting and testing vehicles; completing preventive maintenance such as, engine tune-ups, oil changes, tire changes, wheel balancing, and replacing filters. Salary: $7.00 Hourly CONTACT: 232-7177 Belongers only apply Renewal 32131 VAN’S TIRE SHOP INDUSTRIAL PROVIDENCIALESDRIVE, Is seeking to employ a LANDSCAPER cuttingLandscaping,andtrimmingoftreesanddecorating.Salary: $10.00 Hourly 649-343-1420CONTACT: Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32138 BRUTUS LANDSCAPING 61 Sisal Street, Long Bay Rd., Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Is seeking to employ a BABYSITTER Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and etc. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT: 345-9785 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32140 ADRIANCHARLESGIBSON GLASS SHACK Is seeking to employ LANDSCAPER Cut lawn using hand, power or riding mower and trim and edge around walks, flowerbeds, and walls. Planting flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 241-0607 Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board 32177 CUTTING EDGE LANDSCAPING & DESIGNS Residence Yard, Five Cays Is seeking to employCARPENTER 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: $7.00 Hourly CONTACT: 243-3844 Belongers only apply Renewal 32182 D & U CONSTRUCTION Shore Club, Long Bay Is seeking LABOURER Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 246-2284 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32139 DEOMARDO CLARE Moses Ave., Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a CLEANER Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, cleaningmopping,vacuuming,restroometc.Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 232-2347 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32180 HYACINTH SWANN Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a JANITOR Stocking and sweeping,designatedsupplyingfacilityareas,dusting,vacuuming,mopping,restroomcleaningetc.Salary: $6.50 hourly CONTACT: 341-1580 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Renewal 32183 LESSIA’S FASHION #3 JOICE PLAZA, AIRPORT RD, PROVO Is seeking to employ a ACESTAR 331-8064 MAINTENANCE MAN - $8.00 Hourly Maintaining equipment, buildings, and machines. CARPENTER - $10.00 Hourly Follow blueprints and building plans. Install structures and fixtures. Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. HANDFIELDDANIEL 242-2240 LABOURER - $7.00 Hourly • Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. • Renewal NATASHA’S CONSULTANCY Acting on behalf of BELONGERS ONLY 32178 CARPENTER Follow blueprints and building plans. Install structures and fixtures. Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. Salary: $9.00 Hourly CONTACT: 649-331-1067 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32181 P & D EMPLOYMENT Acting on behalf of ERB CONSTRUCTION Millennium Highway, Blue Hills CLEANER - $6.50 HOURLY Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc. HELPER - $6.50 HOURLY Cleaning property, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. CONTACT: 244-3192 Belongers only apply 32179 ALONZORODERRICKWILLIAMS S OUTH BACK SALINA, GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT: 246-8679 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32136 SHANTELLSAMANTHAFORBES FIVE CAYS 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 doorframes. Salary: $8.00 Hourly CONTACT: 243-4905 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 32137 SCOODIE CONSTRUCTION Phase #2, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a BOOKKEEPER • Use QuickBooks to input all data • Prepare accounts receivable • Prepare statement of account for corporate and government accounts • Excellent knowledge in bank reconciliations • Graduate of B.S.C major in Salaryaccountingcommensurate on experience CONTACT: 231-0984 SMITHCOTCI@GMAIL.COMOR Belongers only apply.Renewal 32149

ADAMS BROKERAGE Prospect 10, Cooper Jack Bay. Is seeking a 2 KITCHEN HELPERS @6.75 an hour Cut meats, prep all food items 1 BUTLER @9.00 per hour Cook and serve private clients 1 DOMESTIC WORKER @6.75 Mop, sweep and clean ALLACTSERVICESFOR: CONCHBUGALOOSCRAWL Five Cays 32947 CARPENTER Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. Salary: $8 hourly CONTACT:231-6920 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour RenewalBoard.32190

LABOURER Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $8.00 Hourly CONTACT: 346-0002 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour RenewalBoard.32184

August 20-26, 202238 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS LABOURER Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. Salary: $7.00 Hourly. CONTACT: 244-4399 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32077 ENTERTAINMENTSTUBBS Norway Rd., Five Cays Is seeking to employ a SECURITY OFFICER -$7.00 Hourly Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; surveillancemonitoringequipment;inspectingbuildings,equipment,andaccesspoints;permittingentry.Renewal ROBERTS AGENCY Acting on behalf of EAGLE CLAW SECURITY South Dock Road 241-2043 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD 32080 PLUMBER Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for equipment,pipes,etc. Salary: $650.00 Weekly CONTACT: 233-7099 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32052 R.C. CONSTRUCTION 10 Nicole Cl., Providenciales Is seeking to employ a NOTICEPUBLIC TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDER STATUS APPLICATION ( SECTION 4(3) OF THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDER STATUS ORDINANCE) Take notice that I, Nigel Dakin, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands in exercise of the powers conferred in me by Section 6(4) of the Turks and Caicos Islander Status Ordinance intend to grant a Certificate of Turks and Caicos Islander Status to Dania Altagracia Lora De Bailey by virtue of marriage to a Turks and Caicos Islander. PAMPERED PAWS 32017 ALL POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS. BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND THEIR RESUME TO LABOR DEPARTMENT AND PAMPERED PAWS ONLY QUALIFIED PERSONS WILL BE INTERVIEWED PLEASE CONTACT 431-1119 OR SHARWIND2002@YAHOO.COM • Experience is essential. No less then a minimum of 5 years consecutive and verifiable experience in grooming and animal behavior will be accepted, references will be required • Experience in Quickbooks • Must be able to read write and speak the English language • Must be able to start work at 6am • Must be able to bath dogs in preparation for grooming, including comb outs, brush outs, stripping, detangling, de-matting and clipping • Must be able to de-tick manually and use chemicals safely and responsibly • Cleaning of animals quarters outside and inside bathing and grooming areas, including feces pick up on a hourly basis • HEAVY LIFTING REQUIRED • Must have own transport and willing to transport animals in vehicle • Hourly rate is $7 and is based on experience. • Must have 5 years experience obedience training- written evidence is required • Must be qualified to conduct group and private classes • Heavy Lifting and a flexible schedule is required • Must be willing to work 6 days per week • Understanding and willingness to utilize sanitary regulations in accordance to kennel licensing requirements • Must have experience with QuickBooks • Must have own transportation and willing to transport animals in vehicle. • Starting hourly wage is $7 per hour. • Must have written evidence of 3 years grooming experience for all breeds • Must have written evidence of animal behavioral background • Must have experience with Quickbooks • Heavy lifting and daily cleaning routines required which include feces pick up and able to manually remove external parasites from tick infected animals. • Must have own transportation and willing to transport animals in vehicle. • Must be available to work 6 days per week • Starting Wage is $7 per hour based on experience. DOGDOGGROOMERTRAINERLABORER 61 Gumbo Limbo, Discovery Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

DISCOUNT LIQUORS AND WINE CELLAR IS LOOKING FOR A: SALES AND REPRESENTATIVEMARKETINGTHEWINECELLAR #1025 Leeward Highway, Providenciales E-mail: info@winecellar.tc . NO telephone calls please. APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO: 32093 SKILLS REQUIRED: • Qualified ACA, ACCA, CPA or ACMA •

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BLUE CONSTRUCTIONHILLS Back Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ MASON 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: $12 hourly

CARDINAL ARTHUR Conch Bar, Middle Caicos Is seeking to employ a SALES CLERK Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT:243-2129 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32083

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32074 JENDERLYS SALON Morris Plaza, Airport Road Is seeking to employ a

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CARLANDE PARKER Snake Hills, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly. CONTACT: 441-4072 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32049 CLEOLA BEAN LONG BAY Is seeking to employ a NAIL TECHNICIAN Basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, hand massages, nail fills, nail repair, and nail polishing. Salary: $7.00 Hourly CONTACT:244-5191

CONTACT: 245-8350 Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board 32047

ABRAHAM BAR AND RESTAURANT Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ KITCHENHELPER Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times. Salary: $6.50 hourly

5 years’ post qualification experience • Extensive knowledge of QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online DUTIES: • Lead a team of bookkeepers and senior associates to deliver accounting services to a broad portfolio of clients • Prepare and maintain financial records for clients and prepare financial reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles • Liaise on accounting issues with vendors, banks and Government bodies on behalf of clients • Identify and implement efficiencies in the upkeep of accounting records, including automation of processes • Act as key liaison with clients • Evaluate 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 bookkeepers and senior associates Salary range: $60,000 - $80,000 per annum This position is currently held by a work permit holder, Turks & Caicos nationals encouraged to apply. ONE (1) ACCOUNTING SERVICES MANAGER APPLY TO CONTACT@TC.GT.COM OR TELEFAX: 649-946-4892, NO LATER THAN AUGUST 12, 2022 PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS 31868

BARMAID - $7.00 Hourly Taking food and beverage orders, serving customers. KITCHEN HELPER - $7.00 Hourly Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times.

CONTACT: 345-7257 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 32078

LANDSCAPER Cut lawn using hand, power or riding mower and trim and edge around walks, flowerbeds, and walls. Planting flowers, grass, shrubs, and bushes. Salary: $7.00 Hourly CONTACT: 347-7899 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32087 FORCESECURITYDEFENSE PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ aSTORE CLERK Assist the Operation Managers and co-workers in all other areas deemed necessary. Salary commensurate with experience. Minimum of

- $7.00 Hourly Selling products and providing customer service. Maintain the outlook of a store by cleaning and restocking shelves. DOMESTIC WORKER - $6.50 Hourly Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. F&G OFFICE SUPPLIES FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ CONTACT: 341-1377 Belongers only apply RENEWAL 32075 NATURE OF POSITION: • Clean Shop • Heavy Lifting • Assist have a clean driver’s license. Salary: $8 hourly EXPRESS EQUIPMENT LTD. P.O Box 1125 South Dock Rd, Providenciales LABOURERPHONE:(649)946-5919/(649)245-2897 Drop off resumes/cv at the office located on P.O Box 1125 South Dock Rd or at Labourer Department in Providenciales or email: admin@ expressequipmentjcb.com Current position is being held by a work permit Belongersholderonlyneed apply 32082 DOMESTICWORKER $300.00 Cleaning the house, making beds, wash, cook and iron. BELONGERS APPLY/RENEWALONLY 32091 EMPLOYEMENTEASYWAYSERVICS ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT FREDERIC PIERRE 332-2295 South Dock DESCRIPTION OF POSITION 1) Promote all the products carried at our wholesale and retail operation. 2) Help customers make selections by building customer confident and offering suggestions and opinions. 3) Maintain a complete sales history and purchase pattern of our wholesale customers. 4) Establish customer sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas. 5) 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. 6) Provide regular SWOT analysis reports to management on the progress or detriments of each account, in order to determine appropriate strategies for account success. 7) Assist Operations Manager in setting up proper inventory purchasing cycles in an effort to maximize the use of the business cash flow. 8) Maintain customer sales volumes, product mix, and selling price by keeping current with supply and demand changing trends, economic indicators and competitors. 9) A minimum of 5 years in Sales & Marketing in the Beverage Industry. 10)

RESTAURANTAUTHENTIC M ILLENNIUM HIGHWAY, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a MASON 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: $12.00 Hourly CONTACT: 649-346-0002 Belongers only apply 32085

CONTACT: 241-0730 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board Renewal 32073

KEZZIA HAMILTON Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a MAINTENANCE Fix and Plumbingmechanicalmaintainequipmentandtheproperty.work,painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc. Salary: $10.00 Hourly CONTACT: 3160/232-9261245Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Renewal 32189

SALARY: $6.50 per hour

BELONGERS KINDLY SUBMIT A COPY OF RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER.

CONTACT: 232-1400

DOMESTIC WORKER

Grand Turk, Is seeking to employ a KEITH MALCOLM 32168

PAMELARWILLIAMSPATRICE Palm Grove, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 431-1275 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32188

DOMESTIC WORKER 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, and doorframes. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 245-0938 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32186

Duties: Regular household Chores and must be willing To work a 6 day week.

JEAN CLAUDE TIRESIAS 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, and doorframes. Cares for garden on a daily basis. Salary: $6.50 hourly CONTACT: 241-1529 Belongers only apply Renewal 32191

GODET JOHN LEON Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CASHIER Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 344-4360 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32145 C & S SERVICESPROFESSIONAL Acting on behalf of THOMAS WATKINS Kew Town Is seeking to employ

CONTACT: 232-3692 Duties: Regular household Chores and must be willing To work a 6 day week.

SALARY: 6.25 per hour.

KEZZIA HAMILTON Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 431-1275 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32187

CONTACT: 242-0952 Sweep and mop, clean and maintain the salon's appearance, clean equipment, and wash salon towels.

CLEANER Granny Hills, Five Cays, Providenciales, Is seeking to employ a KAS CUTS 32167

BELONGERS KINDLY SUBMIT A COPY OF RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER.

RENEWAL. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

August 20-26, 202240 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS 32018 THIS IS A WORK PERMIT RENEWAL Successful applicant should have at least 8 years of kitchen and restaurant experience including • Knowledge of food costing and controls, monthly inventory, • Knowledge of food hygiene and safety, menu planning, managing and scheduling staff, • Plus the knowledge and experience of worldwide pastries, desserts and chocolates • Responsible for the selection of wines as costing and menu print • Use of micros POS system, Applicant should be able to both operate and program the POS. This position above requires working long hour’s nights and days public holidays and weekends SALARY RANGE BASED ON EXPERIENCE • Minimum 2 years of food and beverage in a upscale restaurant • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, knowledgeable on Micros, must work well under pressure • And have a friendly yet professional demeanor, must be a team player All the positions above requires working long hours nights and days public holidays and weekends. SALARY $6.25 FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER SERVER/ BARTENDER GRACE BAY CAR RENTAL 32176 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER CONTACT: 649-441-8515 EMAIL: FRANTZ@GRACEBAYCARRENTALS.COM • Ensure effective and timely implementation of all logistics daily goals inclusive of vehicle functions and inventory management. • Develop and initiate monthly reports of the fleet. • Lead training for car washer and dispatchers. • Establish and manage relations with vehicle maintenance team and body repair. • Oversee and monitor availability of car rentals. LOGISTICS SUPERVISOR #1216 Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Is seeking to employ a • Support simplification and standardization of processes to accelerate logistics and enhance efficiencies. • Identify enhancement opportunities and suggest solutions for improvement to top management. • Head team to develop, articulate and maintain logistic process documentation. • Valid driver license • 6 years of experience W&F VARIETY STORE CONTACT: 242-6980 32095 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, and machines. Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc. $6.25 Hourly Greets customers, receive payment, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. $6.25 Hourly STOREHANDYMANCLERK Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a EXCLUSIVE ACCESSORIES 32100 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD CONTACT: 247-5610 Repairs broken jewelry. Work Permit Renewal. $6.25 Hourly Apply paints, stains, and coatings to accessories, etc. Develop creative ideas or new methods for making art. Create sketches, templates, or models to guide their work. $6.25 Hourly JEWELRYARTIST/PAINTERREPAIRMAN #17 Salt Mills Plaza, Is seeking to employ a BLACK & CLASSY SALON 32162

August 20-26, 2022 41CLASSIFIEDSTURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS FIRST SOURCE EMPLOYMENT AND RECRUITMENT AGENCY CONTACT: 649-2413109 32054BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Main Duties: CLEANING THE YARD, WASHING WINDOWS, TAKING OUT THE TRASH, MAINTAINING, CLEANING INTERNAL OF HOUSE and other cleaning duties assigned. Wage: $6.80 per hour ALI BABA CLEANING Five Cays Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands is seeking to employ 1 CLEANER Acting on the behalf of SUPREME BODY SHOP CONTACT: 946-5855 32023 THIS POSITION IS BEING ADVERTISED FOR A FIRST-TIME WORK PERMIT APPLICATION Examine vehicle damages; Remove damaged parts/repair; Make cosmetic repairs; Bolt/Weld replacements parts in position using welding tools; File, grind, sand and paint repaired surfaces; Salary $15 per hour - 6 days a week AUTO BODY MAN #30 Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a S & F WHOLESALE CASH & CARRY LTD CONTACT: 941-8112 32032 THIS POSITION IS FOR WORK PERMIT RENEWAL INTERESTED BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THE RESUME TO THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT. Responsible for doing Manual work Loading and unloading Container Assisting in stocking shelves Should be physically fit to lift products 50lb or more. Being able to work at heights Committed to work flexible hours, days, nights, weekends and holidays. Salary $7.00 per hour. 2 X LABOURER(S) 1 X DOMESTIC WOKER Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands Is seeking to employ the following position VACANCY 32037 THESE POSTINGS ARE FOR WORK-PERMIT HOLDERS. THESE EMPLOYERS ARE ACTING ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES. ROSELAINE R. M. TOUSSAINT Glass Shack, Providenciales All basic cleaning in and around the house including, mopping, sweeping, vacuuming, dusting. Washing and folding clothes. Basic Salary: $250.00 per week Contact: (649) 344-5450 YRAMENE B. WILLIAMS South Dock Rd, Providenciales All basic cleaning in and around the house including, mopping, vacuuming,sweeping,dusting. Basic Salary: $6.50 per hour Contact: (649) 341-3168 DOMESTIC WORKER DOMESTIC WORKER 32013 NOTICE REGULATION 8 OF THE PHYSICAL PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION) REGULATIONS, 2014 An Application, REGISTERED PR 16271 The Point Ltd. for the development of Seven (7) Storey Beachfront Condo-Hotel comprising of Thirty-Eight (38) Condo Units with One Hundred and Ten (110) Bedrooms, Two (2) Pools, Restaurant, Beach Amenities, Semi Sunken Carport & Support Facilities. Four (4) Two-Storey Pool Loft comprising of Four (4) One-Bedrooms, Sixteen (16) Garden Casitas comprising of Thirty-Two (32) Bedrooms. Reception, Spa, Retail Offices, Gym, Two (2) Tennis Courts, Kids Club with Pool, Laundry & Maintenance Building, Service Yard & Staff / Guest Parking. Has been submitted to the Department of Planning for consideration of Development Permission on parcels 60905/30,31,32,47,48,51,102,10,1 53, Leeward Going Through, Providenciales. 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.

QUALIFIED BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST CONSIDERATION.

InterHealth Canada Construction & Services (TCI) Ltd seeks to appoint a General Manager for its operations within the Turks and Caicos Islands to oversee and manage all of its contractual operations & services at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre and Cockburn Town Medical Centre. We are seeking someone with experience in contract management and administration of FM services in a public private partnership framework with an emphasis on compliance and strategic performance with detailed understanding of project agreements and working with twin SPV models under a PPP contract. Experience in the development of plans, processes and corporate policies to ensure that the organization conforms to the requirements of relevant legislation. Proven track record in creating and implementing strategies, together with a senior management team, to determine company Dealingdirection. with company obligations under a PPP legal framework with experience of policies from government departments and external bodies, which may impact the organization. Planning, developing and evaluating methods and processes for gathering, analyzing, interpreting and presenting data and information. Proven track record in guiding process development at a board level, implementing high-risk, high impact, strategic projects across a multi-disciplinary, multi-functional team of business professionals with experience in providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change, communicating across audiences, effectively defining and utilizing escalation paths and updating executive Candidatesstakeholders.must have a minimum of 15 years TFM (Total Facilities Management) experience at General Manager level with 10+ years’ experience being within a Healthcare environment with appropriate supporting qualifications. For an extensive list of requirements and experience needed for this role please contact dpinnock@interhealthcanada.tc Salary: Negotiable, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Date: 32010

APPLY IN WRITING TOGETHER WITH AN UP TO DATE CURRICULUM VITAE TO: APPLICATIONSDPINNOCK@INTERHEALTHCANADA.TCCLOSINGDATE:AUGUST30TH2022WILLNOTBEACCEPTEDAFTERTHECLOSING DATE.

GENERAL MANAGER

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August 20-26, 202242 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS TDMG CONCORDIA LTD CONTACT: 941-3445 32038 EMAIL: INVOICES@TDMGLTD.COM BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO LABOR BOARD. We are looking for a mechanics to fix vehicles and service vehicle. Assemble mechanical components according to specifications. Examine machines and oversee diagnostic tests to determine functionality problems. Maintain work logs, repairs, and maintenance records. Etc… Salary $10-15 per hr, work 6days a week including holidays. MECHANICS Grace Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a HERITAGE INSURANCE COMPANY 32033 SUBMIT COVER LETTER AND RESUME TO MRS. COLLETTE COOPER STUBBS AT COOPER@HICCL.COM. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS AUGUST 12, 2022. Responsibilities: Manage phones, engage customers, process customer files and documents, process policies and general office duties. Qualifications: proven customer support experience, excellent communication and presentation skills, Ability to multi-task, prioritize and mange time effectively. Multi- lingual (Creole/Spanish) a plus. OFFICE ASSISTANT/ CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Is seeking to employ an CLOVER LEAF AGENCY TEL: 947-0561 32036 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY EMPLOYER: BERNICE HIGGS Bottle Creek, North Caicos Rate: $6.50 per hr Description: Cleaning house, washing clothes EMPLOYER: CLOVER LEAF AGENCY EMPLOYMENT Major Hill, North Caicos Rate: $1200.00 Monthly Description: Attending to owners & guest requests EMPLOYER: CLOVERLEAF AGENCY EMPLOYMENT Major Hill, North Caicos Rate: $6.50 per hr Description: Cleaning house, Washing clothes DOMESTIC(RENEWAL)WORKER EMPLOYER: KIM TAYLOR Conch Bar, Middle Caicos Rate: $6.50 per hr Description: Cleaning and weeding yard, moving trash, etc 1 LABOURER (NEW) 4 LIVE IN BUTLERDOMESTIC(NEW)WORKER EMPLOYER: CLOVER LEAF AGENCY EMPLOYMENT Major Hill, North Caicos Rate: 6.50 per hr Description: Assist with house chores, responsible for the kid. LIVE IN NANNY (NEW) ALL THINGS WOOD CONTACT: 341-3168 31986 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Cutting and trimming wood for cabinets and furniture.other Salary: $7.00 Hourly FINISH CARPENTERSWOOD South Dock Rd. Is seeking to employ a CECELIA ELIZABETH RITCHIE CONTACT: 246-6009 31976 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Stocking and supplying vacuuming,dusting,facilitydesignatedareas,sweeping,mopping,restroomcleaningetc. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CLEANER Lower Bight Is seeking to employ a CAICOS WATERWAY EXPRESS CONTACT: 243-0599 31975 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc. $6.50 Hourly Cleaning outside the property, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. $6.50 Hourly LABOURERCLEANER North Caicos Is seeking to employ a CARIBBEAN DREDGING AND DEVELOPMENT LTD. CONTACT: 341-9408 31978 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY Must be trained and certified to operate the equipment assigned. $15.00 Hourly Inspecting and testing vehicles, engine tune-ups, oil changes, tire changes, wheel balancing, and replacing filters. $10.00 Hourly 3 HEAVY DIESELOPERATORMACHINEMECHANIC #22 MORRIS PLAZA, AIRPORT ROAD Is seeking to employ a CHANCES GAMING CASINO CONTACT: 345-5221 31974 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Secures premises and personnel by patrolling property; surveillancemonitoringequipment;inspectingbuildings,equipment,andaccesspoints;permittingentry. Salary: $11.00 Hourly SECURITYOFFICER Rock House Plaza, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a CLOVER LEAF AGENCY TEL: 947-0561 32063 SANI HOLDINGS LTD. Conch Bar, Middle Caicos Rate: $2,000 per month Description: Prepare food for the guest at the restaurant and Management of staff. ACE PLUMBER Rate:Providenciales$1,500permonth Description: Install and repair pipes. CHEF (NEW) PLUMBER (RENEWAL) Is seeking to employ a CHRISTOPHER GAUL CONTACT: 941-2451 31989 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOURRENEWALBOARD Sweeping, mopping, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels, personal clothing, and other housework. Salary: $6.25 hourly

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DOMESTICWORKER June Plum Street, Leeward Is seeking to employ a FUN CRUISES 333-1505 ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOURRENEWALBOARD boat, paint and repair fiberglass. To work 6 days a week. To work 9am-5pm.from Salary: $9.00 Hourly BUILDERBOAT Blue Haven Marina Is seeking to employ a AUTO & ACCESSORIES 344-9820

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THE LABOUR BOARD Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and Salary:doorframes.$6.25Hourly LABOURER

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clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 hourly DOMESTICWORKER 33 Joe Wood Dr., Long Bay Is seeking to employ a YRAMENE B WILLIAMS (649)CONTACT:341-3168 32033 All basic cleaning in and around the house including, mopping, sweeping,Basicdusting.vacuuming,Salary: $6.50 per hour South Dock Rd., Providenciales Is seeking to employ a DOMESTICWORKER EXPERIENCE TAILOR SHOP Osbourne Rd., Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 341-6670 32007 SEAMSTRESS Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this Alterations,positionsew hems, fix tears, mend zippers and apply buttons. Salary: $350.00 Weekly GEORGIO STACY ALLEN CHAMBERS CONTACT: 244-3319 31980 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, Salary:mopping,vacuuming,restroomcleaningetc.$6.25Hourly CLEANER Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

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KITCHENHELPER Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This Position is held by a work permit holder. Duties: Help the cook, Clean Dishes, record all SALARY:used.stocks $6.50 per hour.

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MARGUERITE ALTIDOR Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 231-6432 32069

Duties: To supervise a team of SALARY:tailors. $8.00 per hour

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DOMESTICWORKER Belongers kindly submit a copy of resume to the Labour Board. ThIs Position is held by a work Permit holder.

August 20-26, 2022 43CLASSIFIEDSTURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS GOOD TASTE RESTAURANT CONTACT: 246-5189 31988 BELONGERS ARE TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR RENEWALSBOARD Take orders and serve food and beverages. $6.50 Hourly Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. $6.50 Hourly DOMESTICWAITRESSWORKER Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a GOOD TASTE RESTAURANT Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 246-5189 31983 WAITER Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Take orders and beverages.foodserveand Salary: $6.50 Hourly ANDRE PIERRE JEANNERET CONTACT: 331-1400 32059 RENEWAL. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE Care for the garden, water plants including soil cultivation digging, forking, mulching, raking, weeding, edging, seed sowing, clean the yard, Pay: 6.25 per hour GARDINER Grace Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a DELARIE WILLIAMS CONTACT: 346-9094 32058 RENEWAL. BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE Pick up yard waste, clean the yard, lift garbage bags and cans into garbage truck during collection, Pay: 6.25 per hour

BABYSITTER Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the labour board. These position is currently held by work permit holder ARTHUR DEAN Blue Hills, Provo Cares for infants, includingdiapering,feeding,anddressing.$6.25p/h

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DOMESTICWORKER Belongers kindly submit a copy of resume to the Labour Board. ThIs Position is held by a work Permit holder Duties: ChoreshouseholdRegularandmustbewillingtowork6daysaweek SALARY: $6.50 per hour SANDBAR RESTAURANT Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 244-5606 32068

WAITRESS Belongers are asked to Submit their Resume to the Labour Board. This position is Currently held by a Work Permit holder. Duties: To take orders, Customersserveandcleantables. SALARY: $6.50 per hour. SHAVAGO LANARDO THOMAS CONTACT: 232-3435 32006 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD the house, Bay Is seeking to employ a TASTE 1-649-244-7137CONTACT:THING BELONGER APPLY TO DEPARTMENTLABOUR EMAIL: BASSETT-27@HOTMAIL.COM Preparing a variety foods Salary:daily. $9.00 Hourly New Work Permit COOK Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a KITCHEN HELPER Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT: 231-3639 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board LOUNGESHISHALTD. GRACE BAY PROVIDENCIALESROAD, Is seeking to employ a

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CONTACT: 342-2986 BELONGERS ONLY Greets customers, receive payment, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. $8.00 Hourly Selling products and providing customer service. Maintain the outlook of a store by cleaning and restocking shelves. $9.00 Hourly CASHIER 2 STORE CLERKS Five Cays Is seeking to employ a LJ CONTRACTING SERVICES Kew employ a CONTACT: 247-5731 32067

WARD’S CONSULTANCY Acting on behalf of our client: CONTACT: 231-5173 32070

NATE LIGHTBOURNE Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 241-2579 32065

TAILORASSISTANTSHOPMANAGER Belongers are asked to submit A copy of their resume to The Labour Board. This is position Is held by a work permit holder.

Town Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 331-8546 31992 DOMESTICWORKER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and Salary:housework.other$6.25Hourly PERTMY HIGGS Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 341-8058 31985 STAY-IN-HELPER Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 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 LUCY FRITH CONTACT: 344-7751 31990 BELONGERS ARE TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD Uses equipment like nets, fishing rods, and traps, to catch fish and other marine life. Salary: $300.00 Weekly 2 FISHERMEN Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a MARINO MIESES CONTACT: 242-3256 31987 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOURRENEWALBOARD Apply paints, stains, and coatings to interior and exterior walls, new buildings, homes, offices and other structural surfaces. Salary: $8.00 Hourly PAINTER Glass Shack Is seeking to employ a MINISTRIES OF JESUS CHRIST CONTACT:INTERNATIONAL347-3520 31973 BELONGER ONLY APPLY RENEWAL Plays music at the church & musicSalary:lessons $7 hourly MUSICIAN 33 Joe Wood Dr., Long Bay Is seeking to employ a PASHA JENNINGS CONTACT: 333-1236 31994 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL Pick up waste, cut grass and assist with mentally ill child. $300 weekly LABOURER #403 Leewrad Highway Is seeking to employ a NATACHA ETIENNE CONTACT: 000-0000 32053 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY Ensuring a preparingenvironment,safeandgivingmeals,bathinganddressingchildren,administeringmedicine,doinghousework,andetc. Salary: $ 7.00 hourly BABYSITTER Kew town Is seeking to employ a #403 Leewrad Highway R&R CAR RENTALS AND SALES CONTACT: 345-1036 31981 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL Greeting customers in a friendly and professional manner, promote sales, prepare bills for payments, collections. French translator Salary: $6.50 hourly REPRESENTATIVE/SALESTRANSLATOR #3 Electronics Building, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a SHA CONSTRUCTION Glass Shack Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 231-6858 31984 PLUMBER Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for equipment,pipes,etc. Salary: $8.00 Hourly CLAUDIA SEYMOUR Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a CONTACT: 245-6538 32064 LABOURER Belongers kindly submit a copy of your resume to the Labour Board. This position is filled by a work Permit holder. Duties: To clean andpremisesmaintain and Other chores as assigned. SALARY: $7.50 per hour. FERGUSON WILLIAMS Grand Turk Is seeking to

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August 20-26, 202244 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS 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 BELONGERS ENCOURAGEDARETOAPPLYTOTHELABOURBOARD.RENEWAL31997 BAIN CROSLEY JEDRICK VENATION TURKSPROVIDENCIALESROAD&CAICOSISLANDS Phone: 649-246-2555 Is seeking DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT:243-4350

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32044 BARBRA ADAMS LEEWARD PALMS 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: $6.25 hourly CONTACT:339-9275

REQUIREMENTS:

• Providing immunizations and other medical services, such as taking blood pressure, temperature measurements, and checking blood sugar levels.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Adhering to applicable legal rules, regulations, and procedures governing pharmaceutical practice.

• Thorough understanding of dosage administration and measurement, chemical compounds, medical brands, etc.

• Minimum 7 years of relevant pharmaceutical work experience

Belongers only apply Renewal 32046 BELLE FEMME ROSE Airport Road, Downtown Is seeking to employ a OUR MISSION AND CORE VALUES: Our mission and purpose at Family Care Medical Services are to provide each client with unparalleled services, experiences, and quality health products to live healthily and feel their best. We devote ourselves to listening to our clients and going above to meet their needs. We believe that the residents of and visitors to the Turks & Caicos Islands community deserve world-class healthcare services. Living this mission every day requires a fully engaged, knowledgeable, and trusting staff. From our patient care staff to our administrators, everyone at Family Care is on the frontlines of delivering innovative, quality healthcare characterized by being helpful, welcoming, teamwork-focused with every client. As we continue to grow, we are seeking results-oriented, high-performing members to join our team. The ideal team members are motivated by the opportunity to serve others, align with our mission, and share our core values.

• Monitoring customers’ drug therapies, advising interventions, and informing customers of any potential side effects.

• Strong verbal

• Instructing customers on how and when to take prescribed medications.

• Strong passion for helping people with all pharmacy-related problems.

• Performing other administrative tasks when needed.

• Compounding and dispensing medications, as prescribed by physicians.

• Keeping accurate customer records.

• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree

• Ensuring a safe and clean working environment.

• Excellent communication skills with a customer-oriented approach.

and written communication skills. Competitive Salary Offered FAMILYCARE MEDICAL IS HIRING! We are looking for qualified candidates to fill the following roles in Providenciales: PHARMACIST 32060 TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE EMAIL CVS TO T.BEWAJI@FAMILYCARETCI.COM MASON - $8 hourly Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/ or concrete sidewalks; makes and repairs steps and plasters. 2 PAINTERS -$8 hourly Apply paints, stains, and coatings to interior and exterior walls, and other structural surfaces. ER CONSTRUCTION LTD. 11 Mark Cl., Cooper Jack Is seeking a CONTACT: 649-333-1199 BELONGERS ONLY. RENEWAL 32001 BARBER Cutting, givingshampooing,trimming,andstylinghair,trimmingbeards,orshaves.Cleanandsterilizescissors,combs,clippers,andotherinstruments.Salary: $11.00 hourly CONTACT: 244-2327 Belongers only apply Renewal 32041 DIDINE BEAUTY SALON AND BARBER SHOP Bishop Plaza, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a 2 BUTLERS Greet guests at the door, assist in the planning of events and dinner parties, oversee table settings, and serve drinks and food. Salary: $7.00 Hourly CONTACT: 241-6698 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewals 32004 CAICOS MANAGEMENTPROPERTYLTD. PARROT CAY Is seeking to employ a MARIE C.P LOUIS WILLIAMS 348-5921 South Dock DOMESTIC WORKER $300.00 Cleaning the house, making beds, wash, cook and iron AROLD ROMELUS Five343-6068Cays # 88 BABYSITTER $300.00 Monitor & caring for my son, feed & bath him, cook, wash & iron SONIA DAVIS Kew241-4900Town # 86 DOMESTIC WORKER $350.00 Cleaning the house, making beds, wash, cook and iron SAVED BY GRACE VARIETY STORE 241-3896 CLEANER $350.00 WEEKLY Stocking shelf, counter tops, mopping, cleaning the store and clean my home, wash, iron and cook CLEVINSON M. MISSICK 242-2704 Venetian Road # 94 LABOURER $300.00 pick up waste, wash doors & windows, cut grass, water flowers & keep property clean at all times EASYWAY EMPLOYEMENT SERVICS ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT BELONGER ARE ENCOURAGE TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO LABOR BOARD. THESE POSITION ARE NEW OR HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDER VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

• Must be organized and multi-tasker.

• Conducting health and wellness screenings.

• Post-graduate degree preferred

BENEFITS: Service gratuity, vacation & employee meals. The above position is currently held by a Work Permit Card Holder.

Candidates can complete an application form in person at The Somerset on Grace Bay or submit a CV by e-mail to twilliams@thesomerset.com. All applications must be copied to the Immigration Board Zone 2 at jobregistration@gov.tc. The closing date for applications is September 10th, 2022.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for providing Legendary Customer Service to people desiring to travel, by determining and recommending the service that meets the Customers' needs.

• Finalizes sales of contracted Airlines flights,

HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR

32072

confirms reservations, and provides information regarding ticket purchase and other special services. • Answers Customer inquiries regarding flight arrivals, delays, cancellations, flight irregularities, facilities, and other general information. • May be assigned to specialized duties such as aircraft grooming, assisting and/or lifting disable passengers on or off aircraft. • Utilizes computerized reservations system including a computerized video display terminal and keyboard on a constant basis to book reservations and retrieve information on flights and schedules. •Requirements:Warmandfriendly personality • Computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Suite • Must be able to lift a minimum of 50lbs • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills. • Must have a clean Police Record • Must be able to travel regional and internationally • Must be able to work weekends and Public holidays Salary Scale: $9.00 per hour. The Human Resources Manager TCA Handling Ltd. Town Centre Mall, Providenciales TCI Application should reach no later than August 26,2022. For further information/ appointment you can contact us at Tele:649-941-5969/941-5353 and/or email hr@tcahandling.com. This position is held by work permit holders EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TCA Handling Flight Services Ground Handlers for American Airlines and JetBlue is currently seeking qualified Belongers to fill the following vacant positions. CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENTS/TICKET AGENTS APPLICATION GIVING FULL DETAILS OF QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO: HOUSEKEEPING Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing. Ensuring all rooms inspected according to standards. Salary: $300.00 Weekly CONTACT:331-8546 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 32050 LEVELT JULIEN KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a LABOURER - $6.25 Hourly Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. DOMESTIC WORKER - $6.25 Hourly Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. KERVINEROUSSEAUXPIERROT Five Cays. Is seeking CONTACT: 345-0734 Belongers only apply 32079 DOMESTICWORKER 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: 332-3022 Belongers only apply Renewal 32088 KELCI TALBOT Leeside Avenue #83A, Long Bay, Providenciales Is seeking a MAINTENANCE MAN Fix and buildings,mechanicalmaintainequipment,andmachines.Plumbingwork,painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc. Salary: $10.00 Hourly CONTACT: 331-2251 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32086

TERRISHA WILSON

Millennium Highway, Blue Hills. Is seeking

The Somerset Resort Management Ltd. is seeking for dependable, disciplined, self-driven, and efficient candidates for the positions listed below. Suitably qualified Belongers who possess the requirements listed are encouraged to apply, the positions advertised below are currently held by Work Permit Card Holders.

August 20-26, 2022 45CLASSIFIEDSTURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS BARTENDER • Uphold customer service • Maintain Bar • Mix and serve drinks Salary: $6.25 hourly CONTACT: 345-8613 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32002 TONY’S PLACE Dock Yard, Kew Town Is seeking to employ a SALES CLERK Selling products and providing customer service. Greet customers and guide them in finding products they want to buy. Maintain the outlook of a store by cleaning and restocking shelves. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT: 649-344-9803 Belongers only apply Renewal 32000 TURKS AND ELECTRONICSCAICOS AVIATION PROVIDENCIALESDRIVE, Is seeking to employ JOB SUMMARY: • As a Housekeeping Supervisor, you will support the Housekeeping Department by ensuring the upkeep and cleanliness of the entire hotel including guest rooms, public areas, back of house areas and Team Member facilities. Candidate must have previous experience in a five-star resort environment. MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: • Allocate work duties to Team Members and supervise contractors • Perform routine inspections of all check out rooms and spot checks of all occupied rooms • Schedule and supervise deep cleaning and any other projects • Manage and train Room Attendants, Housemen, Laundry Attendant, Public Area Attendants and Linen Room Clerk • Manage, efficiently, stock control and the maintenance of equipment • Provide excellent Guest service, including Owners, VIP and other special requirements REQUIREMENTS: • Housekeeping Supervisors are always working on behalf of our Owners, Guests and working with other Team Members. To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude, behaviors, skills, and values that follow: • Previous experience in a Housekeeping supervisory role • A successful track record of managing a team • Strong organizational and analytic skills

• Effective communication skills

• Proficiency, preferred, with computers and computer programs, including Microsoft Office Base salary range: $10.00 - $13.00/ hour to commensurate with qualification & experience.

FUNCTION

NATIONAL COMPANY SERVICES,

THE

SUITABLE CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED FOR AN INTERVIEW. THE POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. PLEASE EMAIL APPLICATION LETTER AND RESUME TO: 32061 CRAFTMAN Create art and design items. Salary: $6.50 hourly. L & M CRAFT MARKET GRACE BAY Is seeking to employ a CONTACT:347-3451 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31995 BABYSITTER Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine doing housework etc. Salary: $6.25 Hourly 649-344-9588CONTACT: Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 32005 LOUDWIGE GARCON SOUTH BACK SALINA,

Is seeking to employ a 2 CARPENTERS Follow blueprints and building plans to meet the needs of clients. Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. Salary: $8.00 Hourly 649-331-9854CONTACT:

QUALIFICATIONS & ABILITIES 2+ years experience in a Maintenance/Carpentry/Plumbing

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST: (a) Have over 20 years working experience in Banking with familiarity and knowledge of Core Banking Systems and remittance systems; at least 15 years’ experience at the Senior Management level (b) Demonstrable track records of strategic targets achievements (c) Minimum Master’s degree in Business Administration or Equivalent from an accredited academic institution (d) Certification in Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism policies, procedures and practices – minimum ICA or ACAMS at the advanced level (e) Demonstrated ability to organize and manage a complex product, service and procedures (f) Possess very strong writing, problem solving and analytical skills (g) Have a strong understanding of customer and financial institutions market dynamics and requirements (h) Be flexible to give support to rotated shifts between 7:00 am – 7:00pm daily including weekends and public holidays at various locations in TCI (i) Be conversant with computer application – ability to handle up to 10 different POS systems.(j) Advance skills in Microsoft Suite especially excel (k) Have proven excellent inter-personal skills in interacting with customers, staff and management. (l) Maintain a good character record.

THE APPLICATION

JOB TITLE: CHIEFOFFICEREXECUTIVE(CEO) BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 6 TCI - EMAIL: HR@ NCSFSG.COM. DEADLINE IS AUGUST 22, 2022. GRAND TURK Belongers #101 GRACE BAY COURT, GRACE BAY $7 231-0977 Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 32040 JOBELIN CHARITE 32 PALM LEEWARDWELLS,PALMS Is seeking to employ aDOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.50 Hourly 649-242-5113CONTACT: Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 32042 ISHEKA THOMAS Leeward Palms Is seeking to employ a MAINTENANCEWORKER 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: $8 hourly. G & F CONSTRUCTION #52 OLD SAINTS BAPTIST YARD OFFICE, THE BIGHT Is seeking CONTACT: 4721/241-3729342Belongers only apply Renewal 32043 The Maintenance man takes instruction to maintain the facilities of the resort on a day-to-day and larger project-level basis. Our Resort Maintenance staff attends to the immediate maintenance needs of the property, and carries out typical maintenance-related duties and tasks. Tasks include but are not limited to; Carpentry, HVAC repair and maintenance, Plumbing, Painting, Reverse osmosis water treatment, Preventative maintenance on equipment, guest room appliances and fixtures and public areas. Reporting to a Maintenance Supervisor effectively on job progress and working with a front desk; responding efficiently to guest requests in keeping with thecompany's standards and service philosophy. Must be able to safely operate and comfortably handle all maintenance equipment and tools.

hourly CONTACT:

only apply/ Renewal 31999 CONSTRUCTIONOVANDO LTD.

The CEO is responsible for providing strategic, financial and operational leadership for National Company Services and will closely coordinate and work with the Board of Directors and senior leadership team. The role includes but not limited to: (1) Oversight and Governance for National Company Services (NCS) (2) Developing high quality business strategies and plans ensuring alignment with short-term and long-term group objectives Leading and motivating senior management to advance employees empowerment and develop a high performing managerial team (3) Overseeing all operations and business activities to ensure desired results are produced and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission (4) Oversees all administrative functions, including customer service, accounting, facilities management, human resource management, marketing, and remittance services (5) Managing the operations to ensure that performance targets, and long and shortterm goals and objectives set by the Board of Directors are achieved. (6) Responsible for communicating to and recommending to the Board of Directors any developmental changes that may affect the overall success of the company. (7) Acting as the primary liaison between the Corporative Services and governmental regulatory agencies and other stakeholders and ensure compliance with performance and operating standards set by these agencies (8) Knowledge and support of financial sector policies and procedures is expected as well as knowledge of applicable Government laws and regulations (9) Write, update and disseminate written policies and procedures related to Operations and Compliance activities

Wage: $48,000 per annum plus other allowances – commensurate with qualification and experience.

August 20-26, 202246 CLASSIFIEDS TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

position. Valid driver’s license with no evidence of driving infractions in the past year. A positive, outgoing, and buoyant attitude. Standing for most of duration of shift, frequent heavy lifting and cleaning, use of power tools. Ability to lift 50 pounds and ability to work in a variety of outside conditions for long periods of time. Working knowledge of sanitation procedures.Ability to follow written and verbal instruction from Supervisor. Salary Range – $10.00-$14.00 per hour depending on experience. All applicants arerequired to produce a clean police record. All positions require fully flexible hours during working days, nights, weekends and public holidays. Employment includes enrollment in national health insurance and national insurance as specified by Law. JEM HOSPITALITY LTD East Bay Resort, South Caicos MAINTENANCE MAN APPLY WITH RESUME AND COVER LETTER VIA EMAIL TO: MARSHA BLANCHE EMAIL: MARSHA@MISICKSTANBROOK.TCTEL.:(649)946-4732 32034 VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

PARADE AVE, BUTTERFIELD SQUARE, PROVIDENCIALES,

DOMESTICWORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary:

CLASS TEACHER Your responsibilities will include caring for, planning for and teaching a class of primary school age children. Applicants must hold a Teaching Degree in Primary Education or similar teaching qualification. You must have at least two years’ experience working within a British National Curriculum School. Salary range is commensurate with experience, posts of responsibility and qualifications, from $36,000 - $52,000 per annum (based on 40 hours per week). This position is currently held by a work permit holder.

SCIENCE TEACHER

The closing date for applications is 29th August, 2022 SkyPass Caribbean is the premier provider of fast pass arrival and departure services and transfers for passengers at Providenciales International Airport. We are seeking an experienced hospitality professional to join our team as: WE'RE HIRING! See all details at: www.skypasscaribbean.com/ careers This is NOT a work permit renewal advert. Email your Resume, Cover Letter and 2 professional reference letters to hr@ skypasscaribbean.com before August 30th, 2022 OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR

August 20-26, 2022 47CLASSIFIEDSTURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS PO Box 329, Graceway, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies Tel 649 333 5638 Email: director@provoprimary.com Website www.provoprimary.com

You will be required to teach Physics, Biology and Chemistry up to IGCSE level. Applicants must hold a Teaching Degree or similar teaching qualification. You must have five years’ experience working within a British National Curriculum School. Salary range is commensurate with experience, from $40,000 – $50,000 per annum (based on 40 hours per week). This is a new position.

You will be required to teach Computer Science up to IGCSE level. Applicants must hold a Teaching Degree or similar teaching qualification. You must have five years’ experience working within a British National Curriculum School. Salary range is commensurate with experience, from $40,000 – $50,000 per annum (based on 40 hours per week). This is a new position.

AIRPORT

TEACHING ASSISTANTS

COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER

Your responsibilities will include supporting the classroom teacher in caring for, preparing for and teaching a class of Early Years or primary school age children. Applicants must have experience working in a primary school or in an Early Years environment and/or hold an Early Childhood Certificate. Salary range is commensurate with experience, posts of responsibility and qualifications, from $21,000 - $26,000 per annum (based on 40 hours per week). This position is currently held by a work permit holder. We invite prospective applicants who are Turks Islanders to send copies of their applications to Providenciales Primary & Middle School and to The Immigration Board. PLEASE SEND A FULL RESUME, LETTER OF APPLICATION, CERTIFICATES AND POLICE CHECK, TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES AND PHONE NUMBERS OF TWO REFEREES, TO TOBY BARKWORTH-KNIGHT AT TOBY.BK@PROVOPRIMARY.COM.

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS August 20-26, 202248 Science & Technology CASHIER Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. Salary: $6.50 Hourly CONTACT: 649-241-5563 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 32158 PRINCE CONSTRUCTIONALBERT 52 Tropical St., Lower Bight Road, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a JOB DESCRIPTION: • Must have strong communication skills in English and Spanish • Ability to translate documents from Spanish to English • Experience with computers with high importance on the following software - Excel, Word, HR Plus • Oversee and implement the development, application, and communication of policies, guidelines, and procedures that support the growth of the business • Managing communication with oversea contacts • Support and Assist upper management • Oversee, support and implement policies and procedures • Assist performance management policies • Outstanding organizational and time-management abilities • Problem-solving and decision-making aptitude • Strong ethics and reliability • Self Motivated • Good Analytical Skills • Excellent numeracy skills EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATION: • Bachelor's Degree in Business or similar • 10+ years Experience Salary range $3500.00 to $4500.00 per month Commensurate with Qualifications and Experience Interested and qualified persons should submit an application to Russell and Associates (2004) Ltd., 229 Prestige Place, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands or contact us via email: delthia@russellandassocaitesltd.com; Telephone: 649-244-3572. Applicants are also encouraged to send a copy of their application to the Department of Labour and Employment Services on or before 1ST September 2022. Only short-listed persons will be contacted. On Behalf of our Client WARATAH CONSTRUCTION We are seeking to employ: PERSONNEL OFFICER 32193

DUTIES: To assist with keeping All waste from store cleared and Clean.

Experiments on 437 people showed the updated vaccine was safe and gave better immune protection against newer variants. Levels of antibodies that were able to stick to and disable Omicron (BA.1) were 1.7 times higher in people given the new vaccine. Tests against more recent Omicron variants (BA.4 and BA.5), which are causing the UK’s current wave, also showed higher levels of protection with the updated vaccine. However, it is far from clear what that means in terms of preventing someone from becoming seriously ill. Additionally, it is uncertain what variants we will be facing in the coming months and exactly how well the updated vaccine will perform against them. Health ministers have officially given the go-ahead for the bivalent vaccines. In England, Health Secretary Steve Barclay said it was “very good news for the UK population” and those eligible “will have the comfort of knowing that their immunity has been topped up”. People will be contacted from early September, he said. Wales’ health minister Eluned Morgan said vaccines “have saved countless lives” and urged everyone who was eligible to come forward. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, has confirmed the following groups should be offered some form of booster in the autumn: health and social care staff · everyone aged 50 and over carers who are over the age of 16 people over five whose health puts them at greater risk, this includes pregnant women people over five who share a house with somebody with a weakened immune systemStéphane Bancel, the chief executive officer of Moderna, said he was “delighted” the vaccine had been approved. “This represents the first authorisation of an Omicroncontaining bivalent vaccine; this bivalent vaccine has an important role to play in protecting people in the UK from Covid-19 as we enter the winter months,” he said. Prof Wei Shen Lim, from the JCVI, said: “It is important that everyone who is eligible takes up a booster this autumn, whichever vaccine is on offer.”

THE UK has become the first country to approve a dual vaccine which tackles both the original Covid virus and the newer Omicron variant. Ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. Moderna thinks 13 million doses of its new vaccine will be available this year, but 26 million people are eligible for some form of booster. Health officials say people should take whichever booster they are offered as all jabs provide protection. The original vaccines used in the pandemic were designed to train the body to fight the first form of the virus which emerged in Wuhan, in China, at the end of The2019. Covid virus has since mutated substantially, with a stream of new variants emerging that can dodge some of our immune defences. They have caused large surges in cases around theTheworld.original vaccines still provide strong protection against becoming severely ill or dying, but companies are tweaking them to match the virus as it evolves. Cases of coronavirus are currently falling in the UK. In mid-to-late July, around 2.5 million people tested positive for coronavirus.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour LABOURER EDRIC SMITH Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

32171

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS POSITION IS HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER.

and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has considered the evidence and given the vaccine approval for use in adults. Dr June Raine, the regulator’s chief executive, said: “What this bivalent vaccine gives us is a sharpened tool in our armoury to help protect us against this disease as the virus continues to evolve.”

Covid: UK first country to approve dual-strain vaccine

‘SHARPENED TOOL’ Moderna’s latest vaccine - called Spikevax - targets both the original strain and the first Omicron variant (BA.1), which emerged last winter. It is known as a bivalent vaccine as it takes aim at two forms of Covid. The UK’s Medicines Moderna’s latest vaccine - called Spikevax - targets both the original strain and the first Omicron variant (BA.1), which emerged last winter.

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Originally those aged 50-65 were not going to be jabbed. However, the immunisation campaign has been expanded because of the rapid spread of variants, uncertainty about how the virus will mutate and the expectation that we will are likely to be more socialand therefore give the virus a helping hand this winterincluding at Christmas. However, most people under 50 will not be boosted in the coming months. The focus remains on preventing those most at risk from becoming seriously ill, rather than stopping the young passing the virus on to older relatives.Moderna is not the only company updating its vaccines. Pfizer has also been developing vaccines that can target Omicron. The beingvaccine,Oxford-AstraZenecahowever,isnotupdated.(BBC)

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MORE than half of people—56%— who are infected with the Omicron variant are not aware of their infection. That’s the conclusion of a small study published on Aug. 17 in JAMA Network Open. It’s good news, in some ways, since it underscores the fact that The downside is that many people are likely spreading the virus unintentionally.DrSusanCheng, director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, and her colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles and Abbott Laboratories, studied 210 employees and patients at Cedars-Sinai who provided at least two blood samples for antibody testing—one before the Omicron surge and one after. The researchers analysed them for levels of antibodies to the SARSCoV-2Mostvirus.of the people in the study were vaccinated, and the researchers measured levels of two different types of antibodies: those that the immune system made in response to the vaccines, and those that the immune system made after infection with the virus. At the start of the study, all of the volunteers had to have infectioninduced antibody levels below a certain threshold, indicating they had not recently been infected with the virus. That way, any rise in antibody levels served as a proxy for an infection. The participants also filled out health surveys describing their symptoms and any COVID-19 PCR testing to determine if they had an infection during the study period.

spread of the virus. “If one message comes out of our study, I hope it’s that awareness of your infection status is going to be really key to get us through this pandemic faster,” says Cheng. “Lack of awareness and lack of knowing could lead to walking around with something transmissible, and unwittingly passing the virus to a household member, neighbor, co-worker, or someone at the grocery store.”

“Increasing people’s awareness of their status is our goal,” she says. “Unfortunately, we have to live with this virus for some time, and if we can be more aware, then we can potentially help ourselves, our families, and our communities to curb the spread of the virus.” (Time)

Half of people with Omicron don’t know they’re infected, study says

The researchers found that 56% of the people in the study who tested positive were not aware that they had been infected, either because they did not experience any symptoms of COVID-19 or felt only mild symptoms they attributed to a cold or allergies. The findings support early data from around the world suggesting that throughout the pandemic, anywhere from 25% to 40% of SARS-CoV-2 infections have been asymptomatic, which presents challenges for publichealth officials trying to control the WHEN an asteroid slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs, did it have a companion? Was Earth bombarded on that terrible day by more than one spaceTherock?discovery of what seems to be a second impact crater on the other side of the Atlantic, of a very similar age, is raising these questions. It’s not as big as the one we know at Chicxulub in Mexico, but still it speaks to a catastrophic event.Dubbed Nadir Crater, the new feature sits more than 300m below the seabed, some 400km off the coast of Guinea, west Africa. With a diameter of 8.5km, it’s likely the asteroid that created it was a little under half a kilometre across.The hidden depression was identified by Dr Uisdean Nicholson from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. He’d been analysing seismic survey data, looking for somewhere to drill, to better understand past climatic changes on Earth. Such surveys, frequently obtained by oil and gas prospectors, record the different layers of rock and sediment underground, often to a depth of several kilometres. “These surveys are kind of like an ultrasound of Earth. I’ve Mexico’s famous sinkholes (cenotes) have formed in weakened limestone overlying the crater.

Omicron tends to cause relatively mild symptoms (or no symptoms at all) in vaccinated people.

Dr Nicholson’s team has to be cautious about tying the two impacts together.

Nadir has been given a very similar date to Chicxulub based on an analysis of fossils of known age that were drilled from a nearby borehole. But to make a definitive statement, rocks in the crater itself would need to be pulled up and examined. This would also confirm Nadir is indeed an asteroid impact structure and not some other, unrelated feature caused by, for example, ancient volcanism. The idea that Earth may have been hit by a cluster of large space rocks in the past is not a new one. And people have already speculated that the impactor that created Boltysh Crater in Ukraine may also be related to the Chicxulub event in some way. Its age is not too dissimilar. Prof Sean Gulick, who co-led the recent project to drill into the Chicxulub Crater, said Nadir might have fallen to Earth on the same day. Or it might have struck the planet a million or two years either side of the Mexican cataclysm. Scientists will only know for sure when rocks from the west African crater are inspected in the lab “A much smaller cousin, or sister, doesn’t necessarily add to what we know about the dinosaurs’ extinction, but it does add to our understanding of the astronomical event that was Chicxulub,” the University of Texas at Austin researcher told BBC News.

The data showed that people’s awareness of their infection status improved after at-home rapid test kits became widely available earlier in 2022. While about 75% of people were unaware of their infection in January and February, only about 56% were by May.

Impact crater may be dinosaur killer’s baby cousin spent probably the last 20 years interpreting them, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” he told BBC News. “Nadir’s shape is diagnostic of an asteroid impact. It’s got a raised rim surrounding a central uplift area, and then layers of debris that extend outwards.” The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been about 12km across. It gouged out a 200km-wide depression, and in the process set off mighty earth tremors, tsunamis, and a global firestorm. So much dusty material was thrown into the sky that Earth was plunged into a deep freeze. The dinosaurs couldn’t ride out the climate shock. By comparison, the effects from a Nadir-sized impactor would have been much smaller. “Our simulations suggest this crater was caused by the collision of a 400m-wide asteroid in 500800m of water,” explained Dr Veronica Bray from the University of Arizona, US. “This would have generated a tsunami over one kilometre high, as well as an earthquake of Magnitude 6.5 or so. “The energy released would have been around 1,000 times greater than that from the January 2022 eruption and tsunami in Tonga.”

The fact that one out of two people infected with Omicron aren’t even aware that they have COVID-19 makes a strong case for more frequent testing. Regularly testing yourself with at-home rapid antigen kits is a good idea even if you don’t feel sick, since transportation, work, school, and crowded public venues—like for concerts or sports games—are all places where you can potentially getKnowinginfected. your infection status, says Cheng, could become increasingly important as studies show that people are getting infected not just once, but twice and even multiple times with Omicron subvariants. She is currently studying reinfection to better understand how many times people are getting multiple infections, and what risk factors make it more likely.

A group of 111 healthy women participated in a task that evoked the dopamine-related RPE response. The task involved a classic sucrose taste-conditioning paradigm where participants learned to expect or not expect a sucrose reward. Throughout the task, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure participants’ brain activity. Additionally, the women reported how much aerobic exercise they engage in on a weekly basis. The researchers then analyzed the fMRI data, focusing on brain responses when participants either unexpectedly received a sucrose reward, unexpectedly did not receive it, or expectedly received it.

Overall, the results suggest a link between aerobic exercise and the brain’s response to unexpected reward.

a person receives an outcome of an event that is different than expected, causing dopamine neurons to send out a signal. This unexpected outcome could be positive, like receiving an expected reward, or negative, like having a reward unexpectedly taken away. The RPE is thought to reflect motivational salience — a cognitive process that drives a person’s behavior toward a positive outcome. The researchers speculated that people who exercise more often might show a stronger salience response in the dopamine system. “The type of reward system response that we focus on responds to unexpected stimulus receipt – one could say excitement over receiving a reward unexpectedly, or unexpected stimulus omission, or disappointment over not receiving a reward that was expected,” Frank told PsyPost. “The stimuli we use are taste stimuli sucrose or water.”

The physical and mental health benefits of exercise are widely known, yet finding the motivation to exercise can be a challenge. The authors of the study said that a look inside the brain may shed light on how people can be encouraged to maintain healthy exercise habits. More specifically, the dopamine reward system may play a role in motivating people to exercise, and the study authors proposed that regular exercise might alter the brain reward response.

Neuroimaging study finds people who exercise more display an elevated brain response to reward

For all three conditions, increased exercise was associated with a stronger response in the right medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). But after correcting for multiple comparisons, this heightened activity was only significant during the unexpected receipt condition. “Higher amount of cardio/ aerobic exercise was associated with higher brain response (orbitofrontal cortex, an area between the eyes that is important for valuation of rewards) when participants received the sugar stimulus unexpectedly, but did not affect the response to unexpected stimulus omission or disappointment,” Frank explained. “We believe that higher amount of exercise might change your brain that receiving a reward unexpectedly is more enjoyable.”

“My background is in eating disorders research and those individuals frequently engage in very high amount of exercise. Before we explore the effects of exercise in that population, I wanted to study the relationship between exercise and brain reward processing, specifically dopaminerelated reward processing,” said study author Guido K.W. Frank of the University of California, San Diego.The researchers examined brain activity during a reward prediction error (RPE) task. An RPE is when Scientists say they have solved an evolutionary mystery involving a 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature with a mouth but no anus.When it was discovered in 2017, it was reported that the tiny fossil of this sack-like marine beast could be humans’ earliest-known ancestor.Theancient animal, Saccorhytus coronarius, was tentatively placed into a group called the deuterostomes.Thesearethe primitive ancestors of vertebrates - including humans. A new study now suggests Saccorhytus should be put into an entirely different group of animals. A team of researchers in China and the UK carried out a very detailed X-ray analysis of the creature, and concluded that it belongs to a group called the ecdysozoans - ancestors of spiders andOneinsects.source of this evolutionary confusion was the animal’s lack of an Emilyanus. Carlisle, a researcher who studied Saccorhytus in detail, explained to BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science: “It’s a bit confusing[most] ecdysozoans have an anus, so why didn’t this one?” One “intriguing option”, she said, is that an even earlier ancestor of this whole group did not have an anus, and that Saccorhytus evolved after“Itthat.could be that it lost it during its own evolution - perhaps it didn’t need one because it could just sit in one spot with one opening for everything.”Themain reason though, for the “repositioning” of Saccorhytus on the Cambrian tree of life is that, on the initial examination, holes that surrounded its mouth were interpreted as pores for gills - a primitive feature of deuterostomes. When scientists looked in more detail - using powerful X-rays to examine the 1mm creature closely - they realised that these were actually the base of spines that had snapped off. Scientists studying these fossils try to place each animals on a tree of life - much like a family treeenabling them to build a picture to understand where they came from Artist’s reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimetre in size.

Notably, the right medial OFC is implicated in goaldirected decision-making and the calculation of reward value. The findings may suggest that exercise strengthens this circuitry, driving higher brain activity in the OFC. Alternatively, it could be that higher activity in the OFC reinforces engagement in exercise. “It is therefore possible that individuals who engage in more aerobic activity may be intrinsically more responsive to salient stimuli and especially stimulus receipt,” the researchers wrote, “or alternatively, engagement in aerobic exercise has modulated brain activity and dopamine signaling, which may then reflexively reinforce and functionally maintain the exercise behavior.” The authors note that both of these explanations could be Overall,true. the results suggest a link between aerobic exercise and the brain’s response to unexpected reward. “It is possible that exercise may in particular enhance the ability to value or enjoy stimuli or experiences, which could be important for intervening on psychiatric disorders,” the authors said, adding that an “altered brain salience response is characteristic of many psychiatric Illnesses.”

If exercise is found to improve motivational salience, this could reveal potential treatment options for affected individuals.

Mystery of half-billion year old creature with no anus solved and how they “Saccorhytusevolved.would have lived in the oceans - in the sediment with its spines holding it in place,” explained Ms Carlisle, who is based at the University of Bristol. “It would, we think, have just sat there - in a very strange environment with lots of animals that would have looked like some creatures alive today, but a lot that looked completely alien.” The rocks containing these Cambrian fossils are still being studied. “There’s so much we can still learn about its environment,” Ms Carlisle added.

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NEW research published in the journal Biological Psychology revealed that people who exercise more show increased brain activity when receiving an unexpected reward, specifically in the right medial orbitofrontal cortex. These findings may suggest that regular exercise alters the reward-circuit function, potentially reinforcing exercise behavior.

Reed was nicknamed ‘Captain America’ for his emotional performances on US Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams from 2014-19.

Patrick Reed: American golfer suing The Golf Channel for defamation in $750m lawsuit

PATRICK Reed has filed a $750m defamation lawsuit against American television network The Golf Channel and its commentator Brandel Chamblee. The filing says “calculated, malicious, false and reckless attacks” have caused 2018 Masters champion Reed major damages. The 32-year-old American suggests the comments have cost him several multi-million-dollar sponsorshipChambleedeals.and The Golf Channel have yet to respond to Reed’sReedaccusations.joinedtheLIV Golf Series in June.The lawsuit alleges that Chamblee and the network have been “actively targeting Reed since he was 23 years old, to destroy his reputation, create hate and a hostile work environment for him, and with the intention to discredit his name and accomplishments as a young, elite, world-class golfer”. Reed goes on to accuse Chamblee of “misreporting information” with “reckless disregard of the truth”. A number of high-profile players have left the established American-based PGA Tour for the £1.6bn Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf circuit. The PGA Tour responded by imposing indefinite bans on players who committed to LIV Golf as well as raising the prize money for several of its own tournaments.

BRITISH billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to buy Manchester United. News of the 69-year-old’s interest follows a Bloomberg report that the Glazer family are willing to sell a minority stake in the“Ifclub.the club is for sale, Jim is definitely a potential buyer,” Ratcliffe’s spokesperson told The Times.“If something like this was possible, we would be interested in talking with a view to long-term ownership.”United, 20-time English champions, are bottom of the Premier League after losing both their opening games of the season under new manager Erik ten Hag. The woeful start has intensified criticism of the Glazers and their perceived lack of investment in the team.This summer has seen new signings fail to materialise, NBA superstar LeBron James has agreed to a two-year extension to his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday, in a deal worth $97.1 million, according to various reports, including ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The new contract takes the 37-year-old to $532 million in guaranteed career earnings, making him the highest paid player in terms of salary in the league’s history, surpassing Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant. The deal includes a player option for the 2024/25 season, which means that James will be able to opt out of the final year of the contract if he no longer wants to stay with the team.

The new deal puts to rest any notion of James, who is already an official billionaire, becoming a free agent next year with the four-time NBA champion and MVP instead focusing on making more history with the Lakers. The new season gets underway on October 18 and, if he steers clear of injury, James should be on track to overtake Kareem AbdulJabbar as the NBA’s all-time leadingJamesscorer.averaged 30.3 points per game in 56 appearances last season despite the Lakers missing the playoffs in a difficult season. But the franchise now has the salary-cap flexibility to add another max contract player to the team, potentially bolstering the star-studded roster which already boasts the likes of James, Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis. (CNN)

James becomes highest paid NBA player ever after signing two-year extension with Lakers

Manchester United Supporters’ Trust (MUST) cautiously welcomed the interest from Ratcliffe but said a takeover would need the support of fans. A MUST spokesperson told BBC Sport: “While supporters have called for change, this of course has to be the right change. “Any prospective new owner has to be committed to the culture, ethos and best traditions of the club. They have to be willing to invest to restore United to former glories, and that investment must be real new money spent on the playing side and the stadium. “Finally, any new ownership structure must embed supporters, including a degree of fan share ownership, in their operating model.”Earlier on Wednesday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, said he was joking after tweeting he was going to buy United. Musk, 51, is reported to have a net worth of $270bn (£223bn) according to Forbes, while Ratcliffe is worth an estimated $16.3bn (£13.5bn). In May, Ratcliffe made an unsuccessful £4.25bn offer to buy Chelsea after owner Roman Abramovich put the London club up for sale. At the time, Ratcliffe told BBC Sport he was still a Manchester United fan and the reason he was not bidding for the Red Devils is because they were not for sale. (BBC)

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe is Britain’s richest man, according to Forbes.

LeBron James has reportedly become the highest paid player in NBA history.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Billionaire wants to buy Manchester United including a fruitless pursuit of Barcelona’s Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong, while superstar striker Cristiano Ronaldo could leave Old Trafford. The club has struggled since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 and has not won a trophy since 2017. There have been multiple protests against the Glazers’ ownership in recent years, including one in May 2021 which caused the Red Devils’ home league match against Liverpool to be Unitedpostponed.fans are planning another protest against the American family during their latest meeting with their Anfield rivals on Monday at Old Lancashire-bornTrafford.Ratcliffe, the majority shareholder of chemical group Ineos, is a boyhood fan of the club. He also owns French side Nice, Swiss club Lausanne-Sport and Ineos Grenadiers cycling team, while Ineos has a partnership with the Mercedes F1 team. “This is not about the money that has been spent or not spent,” the spokesperson added. “Jim is looking at what can be done now and, knowing how important the club is to the city, it feels like the time is right for a reset.”

FORMER WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will return to the ring later this year for the first time since his third fight with Tyson Fury. The American will face Finland’s Robert Helenius at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on 15 October. “It’s been a long journey for me and as of today it continues,” said the 36-year-old Wilder. Wilder was stopped in the 11th round by Fury last October as the Briton retained the WBC title. He was honoured with a statue in his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama earlier this year and said that played a part in his decision to accept the bout with Helenius, who has won 31 of his 34 fights. “I thought so many times about whether I should stay out of the business or come back,” added Wilder.“Once I got my statue in my hometown and saw so many people arrive and celebrate with me [it] made me feel like my job is not done.” (BBC) Casemiro won the Uefa Super Cup with Real Madrid earlier this month.

Deontay Wilder suffered a second straight loss to Tyson Fury in October last year. Wilder to face Helenius in first fight since loss to Fury

Ronaldo has a year left on the contract he signed when he rejoined United from Juventus a yearDespiteago. his return, United missed out on Champions League qualification last season after finishing sixth in the Premier League. They are now bottom of the table for the first time since 199293 after losing their opening two games of the season.

The 30-year-old would become one of the club’s top earners if he decided to join the side currently bottom of the Premier League after two matches. After talks to sign Juventus’ Adrien Rabiot collapsed over the player’s demands, United have turned their attention to Casemiro as they look to address weaknesses in Erik ten Hag’s midfield. Casemiro has been with Real since 2013, winning three La Liga titles and five Champions Leagues.

United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has said he will soon reveal “the truth” about his future after reading so many “lies” thisAlthoughsummer. the Portuguese wants to leave United, new manager Erik ten Hag said he is “not for sale”. But it is now thought United could let the 37-year-old leave before the transfer window shuts on 1 “TheySeptember.[will]know the truth when they interview in a couple weeks,” Ronaldo said on Instagram.

Ronaldo’s former United teammate Gary Neville said on social media: “Why does the greatest player of all time (in my opinion) have to wait two weeks to tell Manchester United fans the truth?

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Although Casemiro has a contract that runs to 2025, Real are mindful of the scale of United’s offer of a contract that could extend to 2027 once the option of an additional season is added on. They would not stand in his way if he decided to accept. He would arrive at United on a big salary in keeping with his status as one of 30 players nominated for this year’s Ballon D’Or, even if his place at Real is under threat from new arrival Aurelien Tchouameni.

One of the best defensive midfield players in the world, Casemiro has been effective in a team that drops deep when it does not have possession, which Real tend to do with Luka Modric and Toni Kroos in their team. Casemiro’s impact can be seen by looking at Opta statistics to compare his figures against those of other central midfielders in La Liga last season. The Brazil international ranked top for successful blocks, placed second for tackles made, behind Barcelona’s Sergio Busquets, and also came third overall for possession won. Real Sociedad’s Mikel Merino was first and Busquets runner-up in that latter category. He also contributed to Real’s attacks, ranking fifth for forward passes and joint-sixth for shots among the league’s central midfielders. Casemiro spent a season away from the Bernabeu on loan at Portuguese side Porto in 2014-15 but returned to Spain the following season after Real activated his buybackHeclause.hasmade 222 appearances for the Spanish giants and scored 24 goals. (BBC)

MANCHESTER United have made an approach to sign Real Madrid’s Brazil midfielder Casemiro in a deal that would be worth about £60m.

Cristiano Ronaldo played in Manchester United’s 4-0 defeat at Brentford on Saturday.

Casemiro: Manchester United make an approach to sign Real Madrid midfielder

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Ronaldo liked a post on a fan account which referred to a report that Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone was interested in signing him.But in a reply to the post, the exReal Madrid forward added: “The media is telling lies. “I have a notebook and in the last few months of the 100 news [stories] I made, only five were right. Imagine how it is. Stick with that tip.”

Manchester United: Cristiano Ronaldo will soon reveal ‘the truth’ about his future

thrashes Victoria Azarenka in Cincinnati

triumph in New York last year, when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title in what was only her fourth senior tournament. The victory propelled the previously little-known teenager into global superstardom, but she has since faced the difficulties often encountered by young players in their first full season on the WTA Tour. Regularly hampered by fitness issues this year as she adjusts to the rigours of the senior tour, Raducanu arrived in Cincinnati with a record of 11 wins and 14 losses this season. But with her fearless and accurate groundstrokes, she has so far shown a similar level in the WTA 1000 event to the one which led to her success at Flushing Meadows.Pegula, however, is likely to provide a sterner test - and a more accurate appraisal of Raducanu’s current level - than Williams or Azarenka. In what was her first career meeting with 23-time major champion Williams and likely to be the last, the teenager clinically took advantage of the 40-year-old’s lack of sharpness by hitting 14 winners and making just one unforced error in a ruthless victory. After that night session, Raducanu returned to Cincinnati’s centre court against 33-year-old Azarenka and produced another dominant display. The forehand continued to be a potent weapon, while she was also helped by wayward returning from the two-time Grand Slam champion.After cruising through a 26-minute opener to record a second straight bagel, Raducanu raced into a 4-0 lead in the next set, before Azarenka finally got on the scoreboard with back-to-back holds. She offered a little more belated resistance when Raducanu served for the match, earning two break points and saving a match point before the Briton wrapped up victory.“Inthe second set I could feel the important moments and a couple of turning points that could have made the second set really difficult,” added Raducanu. “I am really pleased with how I dug in, and serving it out in that last game was really difficult.” Gauff plays down injury fears before US Open American teenager Coco Gauff has played down the seriousness of the ankle injury which forced her to retire from a first round match against Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova on Tuesday. With her home Grand Slam looming, the 18-year-old said it was a minor sprain that “should be healed very soon”.

Emma Raducanu continued her preparations for the forthcoming defence of her US Open title with a 6-0 6-2 win in Cincinnati.

good analytically, not good at kind of working through things and coming up with strategies, and you can have someone tell you what to do. I hate it.”

Romania’s Simona Halep pulled out of the Cincinnati event with a thigh injury before Wednesday’s match against Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova, while Polish world number one Iga Swiatek, Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and Tunisia’s world number five Ons Jabeur reached the last 16. (BBC)

AHEAD Raducanu stunned the sporting world with her unexpected RAFAEL Nadal’s first match since pulling out of the Wimbledon semi-finals because of injury ended in defeat at the hands of Croatian Borna Coric at the Cincinnati Open.The Spaniard, 36, lost 7-6 (9-7) 4-6 6-3 to the world number 152. Nadal has spent six weeks recovering from the abdominal muscle injury and the defeat in the round-of-32 match is a blow to his US Open preparations. The year’s final Grand Slam event gets under way on 29 August. “In terms of New York, it’s a Grand Slam, a different kind of tournament,” said Nadal, who has won the US Open in 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2019. “I was only able to play two sets before this match in the last 40 days. “I know that to gain condition, I will have to be on the tour practising with the guys.”

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American Taylor Fritz, who Nadal beat in the Wimbledon quarter-finals, defeated Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-3 6-2 to reach the thirdFritzround.then criticised the ATP Tour’s off-court coaching trial, saying allowing players to receive instructions during a match went against the idea of tennis being an individual sport. “It’s a dumb rule,” said the world number 13. “Why are we making it not an individual sport? A huge part of tennis is as much mental as it is physical, and a big part of it is you need to be figuring it out on the court for yourself. “I think it’s ridiculous that you can be mentally not there, not Rafael Nadal pulled out of his Wimbledon semi-final with Nick Kyrgios last month because of a muscle injury.

RADUCANU IMPRESSIVE BUT TOUGHER TESTS

Rafael Nadal loses at Cincinnati Open in first match since returning from injury

BRITISH number one Emma Raducanu produced another eyecatching display as she thrashed former world number one Victoria Azarenka less than 24 hours after beating Serena Williams. Raducanu continued her preparations for the forthcoming defence of her US Open title with a 6-0 6-2 win in Cincinnati. The 19-year-old played Belarusian veteran Azarenka just 18 hours after beating Williams, who will retire after the US Open, 6-4 6-0 on RaducanuTuesday.faces Jessica Pegula next.The Briton, ranked 13th in the world, will meet the American seventh seed in the last 16 of the Western and Southern Open on Thursday.“Iwas playing a great match for sure and to play Vika I had to stay focused throughout,” said Raducanu, who beat 22nd-ranked Azarenka to earn her first top-30 win since last year’s US Open.

Fritz will next play sixth seed Andrey Rublev after the Russian beat Italy’s Fabio Fognini 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2. Greek fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas won 6-3 6-4 against Serbian Filip Krajinovic while Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz lost to American John Isner 7-6 (7-5) 6-7 (7-5) 6-2. Elsewhere, Canada’s seventh seed Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Australian Alex de Minaur 6-3 6-2 and compatriot Denis Shapovalov fought back to win 3-6 6-4 6-3 against American TommyShapovalovPaul. will next take on world number one Daniil Medvedev next while AugerAliassime faces Italian Jannik Sinner. (BBC)

Western and Southern Open: Emma Raducanu

Having earned his first individual world medal in Eugene, where he finished behind the United States’ Michael Norman and Kirani James of Grenada, Hudson-Smith was denied Commonwealth gold by Zambian Muzala Samukonga’s strong finish in Birmingham. But the British record holder displayed his class as he capped a superb hat-trick of medals with a brilliant gold in Munich, pulling away on the final bend to secure a dominant victory - and his nation’s first athletics gold at the championships. Hudson-Smith admitted following his podium at the worlds that he had struggled with his mental health and even attempted suicide after enduring three years of “absolute hell”, in which he battled with injury, debt and the Covid-19 pandemic.

European Championships Munich 2022: Great Britain’s Matt Hudson-Smith retains title

THE Global Capital Masters League, 35-and-over battle, will be taken to another level this season with the inclusion of female players. The event kicked off this month with defending champion Realest FC stamping their authority on the competition with a 9-0 win. In the second clash of the opening day, Police FC came out on top against Beaches FC with a 3-1 victory.Victor Lowe, founder and Technical Director of the TCIFA Dane Ritchie receives the sponsorship cheque. SPORTS

president of Global Capital Ltd, noted “Our sponsorship is not only because of our corporate responsibility, but it also embodies the very backdrop of what this company was founded on, ‘helping people to help themselves’

”. He said that as brand sponsor “we wish to thank Madam Sonia Fulford-Missick, President of the TCIFA and Executive Committee Member of FIFA; Mr Oliver Smith, General Secretary, The TCIFA, and all of the hard-working members and staff for the great work they are doing. To the players, we wish them much success, as their efforts do not go unnoticed”.

Last year, Realest FC were crowned champions with Cheshire Hall FC in a close second. Phillip Shearer (Realest FC), was awarded the Golden Boot, whilst his teammate and goalkeeper Aaron Lawrence walked away not only with the Golden Glove award but also with the league MVP award.

GREAT Britain’s Matt HudsonSmith successfully defended his men’s 400m title at the European Championships as team-mate Alex Haydock-Wilson claimed the bronze in Hudson-SmithMunich. moved away from the field in the final 100m to ensure he completed his set of three major medals this summer with gold in 44.53 seconds. The 27-year-old won world bronze in Eugene in July and claimed Commonwealth Games silver in Birmingham 10 days ago. Haydock-Wilson, 23, clocked 45.17.

Action in the new season of the league kicked off recently.

Switzerland’s Ricky Petrucciani posted a season-best performance of 45.03 to take silver at the Olympiastadion. In the women’s event, Victoria Ohuruogu fell short of collecting another medal in her excellent season.The29-year-old Commonwealth silver medallist had set a new personal best of 50.50 seconds in qualifying - and though she clocked 50.51 in the final it was not enough to make the podium.

The Netherland’s Femke Bol, bidding to win a 400m and 400m hurdles double in Munich, claimed victory in 49.44, with Poland’s Natalia Kaczmarek (49.94) and Anna Kielbasinska (50.29) taking silver and bronze respectively. Matt Hudson-Smith rank the 400m in a time of 44.53s.

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Meanwhile, Rochelle Brown, the CEO, stated that “as a good corporate citizen, we aim to not solely be relevant and responsive to the needs of the communities in which we live but to also invest in empowering people with the proficiencies required to improve their health, safety, and wellbeing. By sponsoring athletics, arts, music, education, and more, we are supporting the goals of our customers and employees.”

The national 4X100m relay team will hope to break the national record again.Ifeanyi Otuonye will look to build on his solid form.

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7.80m, 7.65m, 7.52m and 7.67m). Former 400m record holder Garland will again attempt the 400m event, while both Missick and Durham will compete in the 100m.

COACH Randy Ford is optimistic that the team competing in this week’s North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Senior Championships 2022 in the Bahamas can break the national 4X100m record. Three of the athletes who competed in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK and broke the four-year-old 4X100m relay record, are expected to again attempt the feat. These include Ifeanyi Otuonye, Angelo Garland and Courtney Missick. What gives them the edge is that they will be joined by Aleiandio Durham, who is a 100m specialist.Withthe four, the possibility of breaking the record (41.17s) set by Otuonye, Garland, Missick and Wilkinson Fenelon earlier this month is very possible. Prior to the 2022 Commonwealth Games record, Otuonye had teamed up with Colby Jennings, Devante Gardiner and Emmanuel Agenor to clock 41.21s in 2018. Each athlete would also compete in an individual event. Otuonye, who reached the final of the long jump at the Commonwealth Games will again hope to reach the winner’s podium. Competing against the likes of US and Canadian athletes however, might be a Nevertheless,challenge.the national long jump record holder proved his consistency with five of his six jumps (the other was a foul), reaching over 7.50m (7.53m, TCI’s U14 boys’ team drew two of their first three games of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys Under-14 Challenge Series which is being played in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The young side opened with a 1-0 loss to Anguilla before they drew nil-nil with the BVI and St Maarten. The TCI boys were carded to play the US Virgin Islands on Thursday. The National U14 side. National U14 football team draw matches against St Maarten and BVI

“The unavailability of Emmanuel Agenor and not getting clearance for Delano Williams to be in our relay pool was a major blow.” He also credited the exploits of the team in the UK and called Otuonye’s and Yanique HayeSmith’s accomplishments of making their respective finals, “a gallant effort”.

Coach Ford hoping that athletes can break national relay record at NACAC Championships

GREATER POOL Coach Ford noted that the TCI needs to work on creating a greater pool of senior athletes, especially for events such as the Commonwealth Games and the NACAC Senior Championships.

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