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WHY BRITAIN’S BLUEPRINT FOR BVI DIFFERS FROM TCI

“Serious impropriety and gross failures of governance.” – If the words PAGE levelled at elected officials in the British Virgin Islands by UK ministers  5 mulling a return to direct British rule sound familiar, it’s because they are.

CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANKS INK MOU TO PROMOTE INTER-REGIONAL TRADE

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African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina and Caribbean Development Bank President Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institutions.

CDB COMMITS TO INCREASING ACCESS TO $100BN TO PAGE ACCELERATE SDGS  4

MARIE KUHNLA: INQUEST REVEALS “HOMICIDE BY MANUAL STRANGULATION

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TCI STANDS FAIRLY HIGH CHANCE OF BEING IMPACTED

BY A STORM THIS YEAR – DIRECTOR OF METEOROLOGY

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CDB commits to increasing access to $100bn to accelerate SDGs

BY OLIVIA ROSE In an effort to accelerate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region, the President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Gene Leon has committed to improving access to a projected US$100bn required to bring the vision to fruition.

Dr Leon made this commitment during his keynote address at the Bank’s 52nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, held in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Wednesday, June 15 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.

With only seven and a half years to go to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), impactful change is imperative, and conversations about how to deliver that change have been the focus of the CDB’s flagship Annual Meeting.

As the region buckles down on actions to achieve the SDGs by 2030, more focus is being placed on collaborative-multi-stakeholder impact to build problem-solving communities and promote initiatives that will propel the respective and collective agenda of Caribbean nations.

In this vein, Dr Leon told the Board of Governors at the highlevel conclave that the Bank is exploring new avenues to leverage existing sources for funding to advance the ambitious development agenda of its members over the next three years.

He said: “We estimate that sustainable energy will require at least US$40bn, water and

President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Gene Leon sanitation US$22bn, transportation US$11.5bn, agriculture and food security US$13bn, and digital transformation another US$12bn.”

President Leon stressed that priority will be given to improving regional food security, energy and water supplies which are intrinsically tied to the institution’s corporate strategy and its push towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He further pointed out that the Bank is looking at SDG-themed bonds, private equity, contingent debt, derivative-based instruments - similar to the Belize debt swap and concessional funding.

The CDB President also alluded to the Bank’s intention to introduce measures to increase the affordability of funding to the Bank’s Borrowing Member Countries.

He said: “Having adequate and affordable finance, creating opportunities of demand, and promoting partnerships will

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not yield optimal, sustainable outcomes without effective implementation capacity.”

Turning his attention to some of the bottlenecks which include legislative reform to facilitate

investment and innovation; reducing bureaucracy and increasing the efficiency of procurement while enhancing project and people management and expanding skill sets, President Leon opined that a

cultural shift is required to boost development across the region.

To this end, he said the Bank is ready for this colossal undertaking with the support of its membership.

“I ask us all to recommit to action, to not allow the optimism of the will to be overcome by the pessimism of the intellect.

“CDB is the Caribbean’s development bank and I pledge our readiness to act…let us match words with action and transform our reimagined visions into reality for our people. Let’s move forward with deliberate haste.”

The Bank’s highest decisionmaking body, its Board of Governors, convened in the Turks and Caicos Islands for its 52nd Annual Meeting which concluded on Thursday June 16.

TCI Community College registers 85% pass rate in TVET PLAR assessment The first batch of students from the Turks and Caicos Islands Community College TVET Institute, who sat the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) Challenge Exam in February, have excelled.

According to the College, 23 of the 27 students who wrote the exam, were deemed fully competent in both the theory and practical aspect.

“This pass rate of 85% is indeed a celebratory occasion not only for TVET@TCICC but for the participants who worked assiduously to ensure their performances were aligned to the occupational standard and examination requirements of the National Council of Technical Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET) in Jamaica with whom the TVET@TCICC has an ongoing partnership”, a release from the college pointed out.

The Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR) is a certification pathway where experienced individuals in their respective fields are given the opportunity to obtain certification by producing stipulated evidence in the form of a portfolio or project as well as sitting a challenge exam.

The pass rate for each skill area is as follows: Level 1 Electrical installation – 72%; Level 1 Customer Service – 90%; Level 1 Commercial Food Preparation – 100%; Level 2 Food and Beverage (Bartending) – 100%.

According to the college, each successful participant is now eligible to receive their CVQ

Minister of Education, The Honourable Rachel Taylor observes Electrical Installation candidate Steve Michel during the February 2022 PLAR Exam. certificate from the accrediting body NCTVET under the HEART Trust NSTA. “Thanks to the facilitators from Clement Howell High School and the Louise Garland Thomas High School who led the classes and guided students through the material. Your assistance was invaluable and contributed to students’ success,” the release added.

GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED The Minister of Education, Labour, Employment and Customer Service, Hon Rachel Taylor, remarked that this certification is globally acclaimed and will enable each participant to build upon their competence and progress to the next Level.

She also expressed excitement over the success of the persons who stuck with the programme to the end and extend an invitation to many others to register for CVQ

courses that her Government has made available to Turks and Caicos Islanders and British Overseas Territory Citizens, tuition free.

Interim President of TCICC Mrs Clara Gardiner echoed the Minister’s comments by stating that these results are indicative of the tremendous possibilities that exist to certify and situate the TCI as having a skilled and certified workforce to strategically contribute to our economic productivity. TVET Dean Mr Kevin Baxter was keen to point out that “this is just the beginning as we intend to impact all the sister islands and saturate the TCI with world class training opportunities to meet the demand of an evolving global landscape”.

The TVET@TCICC is currently recruiting persons from Providenciales and Grand Turk to participate in the second cohort of participants to sit another PLAR TVET Challenge Exam in November 2022.

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Two territories, two strategies for reform – why Britain’s blueprint for BVI differs from TCI

BY GEMMA HANDY “Serious impropriety and gross failures of governance.”

If the words levelled at elected officials in the British Virgin Islands by UK ministers mulling a return to direct British rule sound familiar, it’s because they are.

What’s starkly different, however, is that while similar terminology was used when justifying the suspension of the TCI’s constitution in 2009, the June 8 announcement by London was for the BVI’s new administration to be first given the chance to implement reforms itself.

While many in the BVI are welcoming the retention of democracy, those here in the TCI may wonder at the ostensible incongruity in approach.

In both cases, the recommendations that followed commissions of inquiry into government corruption were unequivocally in favour of London reassuming the reins of power.

So what’s changed 13 years later?

One reason might be the switch in who’s at the tiller in Westminster.

The Conservative party, back in government since May 2010, has long had a tangibly different stance towards Britain’s Overseas Territories (BOTs) to its Labour party counterparts.

In 2016, in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal which lifted the lid on how the world’s elite use tax havens to hide their wealth, then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn declared it was time Britain stopped “pussyfooting” around tax matters.

He went on to controversially assert that places like the Cayman Islands and BVI be reminded of their status as “crown territories” and forced to toe the line – or face the consequences.

There was precedence for direct rule to be imposed, Corbyn pointed out, alluding to TCI’s previous fall from grace.

“The point is that they are not independent territories. Therefore, surely, there has to be an observance of UK tax law in those places,” he said.

Consider by comparison the language used last November by current Prime Minister and staunch Tory Boris Johnson.

In discussing the global challenges facing the territories, such as climate change and the Covid pandemic, Johnson referred to the BOTs as “part of one big British family” which the UK would “continue to put our arms

Members of the new Cabinet of the British Virgin Islands seen here holding their Oaths of Cabinet Confidentiality in May. (BVI Government photo)

Former BVI Premier Andrew A. Fahie. (BVI Government photo)

BVI culture week activity (BVI Government file photo)

around”.

The circumstances may be incomparable but the sentiment is clear.

In responding to Corbyn’s comments in April 2016, Andrew Rosindell MP, fellow Conservative and chairman of the UK's AllParty Parliamentary Group on the BOTs, decried “deeply unfair and unjustified criticisms” against the territories. He said it was firmly within self-governing BOTs’ rights to choose to operate as “low-tax, well-regulated economies”.

Rosindell said the imposition of direct rule would be “unnecessary and unjust”, adding that the UK should be proud of how its territories had succeeded in developing their own economies and being largely self-sufficient.

Current UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has also previously spoken of the extended “British family” and the “real value” the territories bring to it.

When news broke in late April that Andrew Fahie, the BVI’s then Premier, had been arrested in a drug sting there was broad expectation that the archipelago would face the

same fate as the TCI in 2009.

Indeed, a report released shortly afterwards, emanating from a 2021 Commission of Inquiry into corruption under his watch, called for the temporary suspension of the BVI’s constitution.

The report spoke of widespread abuses of power, including millions of dollars of government funds being spent each year by politicians and ministries without proper process, along with "serious dishonesty" relating to sales of public property.

Truss affirmed that “substantial legislative and constitutional change” was required.

But instead of a humiliating removal of the BVI’s quasi autonomy, such change will instead be enacted by the territory’s National Unity Government, a coalition comprised of all three political parties which was sworn in last month and is headed by Premier Natalio Wheatley.

The body is now tasked with implementing the 48 recommendations listed in the 2021 report which include urgent reforms, investigations and

medium-term measures.

“These will help deliver the deep change that the people of the BVI deserve,” Truss said last week.

She cited a number of “significant developments” that had taken place since the report was written.

“Not least the removal of Andrew Fahie as Premier through a vote of no confidence, and the creation of the new government of national unity. The Governor has also ordered a number of criminal investigations, as recommended in the report,” the Foreign Secretary explained.

She spoke of a “strict and comprehensive set of milestones that need to be met”.

“If they are, that will protect against corruption and ensure the return of good governance.

“I believe, in the first instance, that the new government should have an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to reform through the implementation of the 48 recommendations and the further measures they have proposed,” Truss added.

In a statement on Monday, a

spokesman for Britain’s Foreign Office told the Weekly News: “The findings and recommendations of the TCI commission of inquiry (COI) report and the BVI commission of inquiry report are different, and therefore necessitate different responses.”

He added: “The UK government's response to the BVI COI is based on the detail of the report and after consultations with both the government and the people of the British Virgin Islands.”

BVI politicians’ ability to display willingness to join forces with their opponents may have also provided a panacea.

And the House of Assembly’s vote of no confidence in Fahie would have sent a strong message to Britain that the Islands do not condone such malfeasance.

By contrast, in the wake of the COI report in the TCI, thenPremier Michael Misick stepped down, conceding he had lost the public’s support.

But there was to be no show of unity between the PNP and PDM. Misick was replaced by his former Home Affairs Minister Galmo Williams while the TCI’s political landscape remained bitterly divided.

It’s important to note that Truss has left the door firmly open for direct British rule to be enforced swiftly if the BVI’s coalition fails to make the stipulated changes.

Every government ministry and department must provide monthly reports, and the UK will make quarterly assessments on progress.

“We have a duty to protect the people of BVI from corruption, criminality and poor governance.

We will stand by them,” Truss said.

London has already submitted an Order in Council to the Privy Council paving the way for the “swift implementation” of direct British rule, she warned. It will be laid in Parliament but not yet brought into force.

“Should it prove necessary to do so, I will instruct the Governor to make a proclamation in the BVI Gazette appointing a day that the Order will come into force,” Truss said, adding: “The people of the BVI want and deserve change and have made their desire for better governance clear. Elected officials know this.

“We want to support the new government in making this change and allow them the opportunity to reform.”

Those now entrusted with the thorny task of displaying precisely that will be hoping and praying that they can.

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

NO ROOM FOR HAITIAN REFUGEES

In response to a United Nations request for regional governments to step up protection for (Haitian) refugees, the Minister of Immigration and Border Services, Hon Arlington Musgrove, said: “We cannot accommodate them in the TCI. The UN’s unrealistic call for regional governments to do more is nothing short of reckless and misguided. I do sympathise with the Haitian people, there is a real crisis in Haiti, one which the UN peacekeeping mission itself retreated from in 2019, and it has gotten progressively worse since then, but here is not the place for them.” What are your thoughts?

More diplomacy needed

He should just say what nice and honourable folks the UN team are and then shut up.

Then go and get an education in Diplomacy.

Fully support Hon Musgrove

I stand with The Honourable Minister on this FULLY. We cannot allow this and it should not be entertained. The Haitian people, the Haitian Consulate and the Haitian government itself has not shown any interest in helping to decrease the amount of illegal migration or address the real concern within Haiti that contributes to this mass illegal movement. We do not have the capacity or resources for such a request. They have already shown gross disregard for our laws and borders. I make no apology as this is not a time to be soft, but more so a time for natives to become more conservative to preserve what little they now have left.

The UN should call on France and the US to help

The UN would be far more realistic and

courageous if it found the courage to tell France and the United States of America the following truths. When Haiti had the revolution in which for the first time in history the enslaved people rose up to free themselves - which they did - they were punished by the Whites in many ways thereafter. France and the fellow Europeans blockaded the free nation of Haiti.

Next France demanded 21 million francs as compensation in reparations for loss of French property, the human beings, Haitian slaves. Then, at the time of the Louisiana purchase the French and the Americans effected a debt swap whereby a part of the purchase price was an allocation of the Haitian debt to thereafter be collected by the US. America ensured that dictators, such as the Duvaliers, were the only leaders who could hold power, enrich themselves, and ensure that Haitian cheap labour was available in abundance ( such as to stitch, by hand, all the baseballs the US use in the baseball league at maybe about 10 cents per ball). When Aristide set out to call in the UN General Assembly for payment of reparations from France in the same amount that was paid by Haiti by France, the US and France ensured his overthrow.

When Haiti had its recent devastating earthquake it was the Clinton Foundation which allegedly benefitted from the lion's share of the international donations. The more recent coup against Moise could yet again find the hand of the CIA at work. So, the Haitians, like any other people would, when faced with devastating hardships,

migrate to seek a better life. And the UN wonders why the Haitians head north where America (a big part of the origins of the economic problems along with France) does not want Black people to come - but white Cubans or Ukrainians are welcome.

Then turn to us in the Caribbean, some of us just about getting by, to assist in solving the manifest Haitian problems, both historical and contemporary, which France and America at core indubitably created.

UN’s request is an attack on Small Island Developing States

The request of the United Nations is a veritable joke and a cynical attack on the integrity of Small Island Developing States.

It seems that the United Nations, the US, Canada, the UK and France have a vested interest in keeping Haiti in the state it is in.

The major culprit, France, placed a lien on the Haitian Treasury for over 330 years, at $100 Million in Gold per annum, so that Haiti could trade globally.

The West is complicit with France in this rape and pillage which was taken in revenge for the Haitian revolution. So for over 70 years and owing to the stability caused, the TCI was overrun by net migration into the TCI. So much so that TCI is partly Haitian territory and the islands' culture is spiced by Creole nationals.

The United Nations is tone-deaf, callous and given to function as a Global “One World Government” without regard.

UN needs to lead by example

The request by the UN comes off as a demand and not as a request. They are seeking to tell the TCI Government what to do. The demand or edict has a touch of racism and imperialism attached to it.

The United Nations needs to raise a fund: $200bn to assist and stabilise the economy

of Haiti. If not, this problem of Haitian migrants, risking their lives, and dying in the waters will not end.

It strips Haiti of valuable Human Resources and the social exchange reduces the standard of living in the TCI. Not being able to speak English, the migrants, though highly skilled in some instances, must accept low-paying jobs.

This has created low standards of living, pockets of slums like in Duckyard, Providenciales and degradation. Too many acres of Crown Lands and private lands have been destroyed by squatting and shacks owing to net illegal immigration.

This seems to be the work, mission and aspiration of the United Nations. The request of the UN is insulting, a demand and with an aid package of at least $20bn to deal with the problem.

TCI's government needs to be more proactive in addressing the issue

The Minister needs to back his words with action. Budget for vessels, radars etc to effectively police the waters of the TCI. Let the Minister unite with regional governments, Bahamas, Jamaica, etc, to make a policy stance against this situation.

They must place this debacle at the feet of the UN and France. There is no way any government could agree to allow Haiti’s unemployment troubles to rest in the TCI. The call by the UN is unrealistic, untenable, unacceptable and insulting to common sense.

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Inquest reveals “homicide by manual strangulation” – Marie Kuhnla’s killer continues to elude police

BY DELANA ISLES The jury in a just concluded coroner’s inquest into the death of American tourist Marie Kuhnla, returned a verdict of homicide by manual strangulation, corroborating the 2018 autopsy findings.

Commissioner of Police, Trevor Botting revealed the verdict on Tuesday, June 14, during a livestreamed public briefing.

The inquest spanned seven days of evidence, and at its conclusion the jury deliberated for more than seven hours, over two days.

In his presentation of the findings, Commissioner Botting first addressed media reports by the international media – calling them inaccurate and sensationalist.

“Unfortunately, there has been much inaccuracy and untrue sensationalism reported in the media, particularly in other jurisdictions in regard to this inquest,” the Commissioner said.

He also addressed why, despite tries to solicit same, there was little to no information forthcoming from the Turks and Caicos Islands’ authorities on the matter.

“It would not have been appropriate for public officials, like His Excellency Governor Nigel Dakin, the Honourable Attorney General Rhondalee BraithwaiteKnowles QC, and myself to comment on the many erroneous and misleading facts published in the international press while the matter was before HM Coroner Jolyon Hatmin and the Jury, who were tasked to return a verdict on how Mrs Kuhnla passed.”

He pointed out that this is the first and only inquest that they have conducted into the American woman’s death, despite reports of a review of earlier findings.

The commissioner detailed that after the ministry of health’s pathologist, Dr Michael Steckbauer had first found that the cause of death was manual strangulation on the 25th of October 2018, a murder investigation was immediately launched by senior members of the Royal TCI Police Force.

Over the past few months, Kuhnla’s relatives had questioned the timing of the inquest, suggesting that TCI authorities were only now conducting one because of the family’s $10m wrongful death civil lawsuit against Club Med TCI; the

resort where she was vacationing with friends.

The family has alleged that TCI authorities are colluding with the resort management, accusing them of incompetence, telling international press that the local police had “suggested” that their relative had tripped and fallen.

On Tuesday, Commissioner Botting staunchly addressed these accusations.

“It was alleged in the American media that the justice system of these Islands would conspire with a tourist resort to cover up the alleged sexual assault and murder of an innocent woman to prevent adverse publicity. This is as preposterous as it is insulting and offensive.”

He said the Police Force, may in future proceedings, consider the motivation for such a contention.

The coroner and jury have showed through their hard work, attention and consideration in hearing this inquest and reaching their verdict, that prejudicial innuendo cannot replace facts.

The commissioner went on to outline the procedures the TCI follows on matters of this nature.

“In the Turks and Caicos Islands, as in the United Kingdom, it is customary and best practice for an inquest to be held either at the conclusion of a murder investigation, where an investigation has exhausted all the avenues of inquiry or any related criminal court proceedings have concluded.

“Otherwise, any police investigation or a fair criminal trial is in danger of being compromised by a premature inquest, thereby potentially denying justice for the deceased and their loved ones.”

He said that in the wake of the gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, jury trials resumed in earnest in the TCI in March this year, and the court scheduled the inquest at once thereafter.

“Police have always maintained an open mind as to the circumstances of the passing of Mrs Kuhnla and given the views of the pathologist, a murder investigation was initiated and pursued with vigour.”

He added that the police sought forensic analysis of evidence, and an independent American forensic analysis laboratory analysed biological samples.

Marie Kuhnla was murdered in the TCI Statements were taken from several potential witnesses, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were used as a liaison and cross jurisdiction Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty provisions were utilised to assist in the investigation, two sets of interviews were conducted in the United States with potential witnesses and officers travelled to the US to communicate with the family of Mrs Kuhnla, the Commissioner related.

He said that Mrs Kuhnla’s death was investigated by Assistant Superintendent Darron Williams, a senior officer in the Criminal Investigation Department in the RTCIPF, with some 27 years’ experience.

“The role of the investigator is a search for the truth, and this is achieved by keeping an open mind as to the circumstances of a person’s death and how they came about their passing.

"It was for this reason that ASP Williams offered potential alternatives as to how Mrs Kuhnla met her death, and these were explored during the Inquest for the jury to consider.

“At the conclusion of the inquest, they decided that Mrs Kuhnla was unlawfully killed, and that judgement is accepted by the RTCIPF,” Commissioner Botting said.

He noted that while the police have not charged anyone with her murder, the investigation remains open and if further lines of enquiry are identified, they will be followed up vigorously.

He said they will also consider any latest information that comes as a result of the inquest.

INQUEST FINDINGS The jury heard evidence that Mrs Kuhnla arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands on October 10, 2018, with her friends for a weeklong holiday in a local resort.

Immediately, her friends were

concerned that another guest had attached himself to her and was plying her with copious amounts of alcohol.

Evidence provided at the inquest suggested that the man was a nuisance, with one of her friends accusing him of indecent assault, as he had touched her posterior in the resort pool.

The same friend gave evidence that she had never seen Mrs Kuhnla intoxicated before the holiday and was surprised that she was uncharacteristically inebriated at times. Other guests corroborated this.

The coroner and jury further heard evidence that Mrs Kuhnla was not usually a drinker as she suffered from a seizure disorder and other medical conditions.

The commissioner related that a toxicology analysis conducted on the deceased revealed that there were prescription drugs in her blood for a seizure disorder, bi-polar disorder, depression and insomnia.

The inquest heard evidence from her friends that she had suffered several falls during her holiday that they had attributed to her uncharacteristic drinking. One friend remarked to the RTCIPF that she had bruising on her leg the last day she had seen her on October 14, 2018. Another guest who met Mrs Kuhnla when he arrived at the resort at 2:30 pm the same day, gave evidence that she was very slurred in her speech, and it was indiscernible what she was trying to say.

The coroner and jury heard that her friends last saw Mrs Kuhnla on the evening of October 14, 2018, at around 7 pm.

By afternoon the following day, her friends became concerned that they had not seen her since the night before. They began to search the resort as they feared that she was unconscious on the property due to her seizure disorder or her

uncharacteristic heavy drinking.

Her friends contacted the police, who arrived at about 7pm that evening. Police conducted an examination in Mrs Kuhnla’s room as well as the room occupied by the man accused of inappropriately touching one of her friends.

Police found nothing to be out of place, and they left.

The court heard that on October 16, a day later, one of Mrs Kuhnla’ s friends and another guest discovered her body in the bush near the resort’s football (soccer) pitch.

Commissioner Botting said: “As Dr Steckbauer reported, she was found in bush with her face in a downward position, with debris in her mouth, upper airway, her clothing was askew, and the back of her blouse/beach wrap torn.

“He conducted the autopsy on the 19th of October, but as he attested, he was unable to ascertain all the elements that could be associated with manual strangulation as the body was more decomposed than would have provided for an optimum autopsy. In his report dated the 28th of October 2018, Dr Steckbauer concluded that due to haemorrhaging of the strap muscles, dirt and debris in the mouth, bruises on the legs, abrasions of the legs and arms, a fractured rib, the manner in which she was found, her torn clothing and the crime scene photos, that Mrs Kuhnla had died by manual strangulation.”

The commissioner noted that during the inquest, Dr Steckbauer conceded that he did not have knowledge of her seizure disorder, the medications found in her toxicology, her uncharacteristic drinking and her falls earlier in the week when he came to that conclusion.

However, when questioned on the witness stand, he asserted that now knowing these factors, none of them would change his finding.

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TCI stands fairly high chance of being impacted by a storm this year – Director of Meteorology – Says probability at 59%, some 19% higher than average years The likelihood of the Turks and Caicos Islands being impacted by a major hurricane during the 2022 hurricane season has significantly increased.

This is according to the Director of Meteorology at the Turks and Caicos Islands Airport Authority, Dr Holly Hamilton who said Colorado State University has predicted “a 59 per cent chance we might be impacted by one this season”, which is a notable increase from the average 40% forecast.

Dr Hamilton was at the time speaking at the Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies press conference earlier this month, to mark the beginning of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane season.

During her meteorological presentation, she revealed statistics and predictions from the Colorado State University which has predicted 19 named storms, nine of which could become hurricanes and four of which would become major category 3-4 hurricanes.

“So we look at the general number of storms that we can expect for the hurricane season, but we usually wonder what does that mean for the Turks and Caicos Islands.

“So here on this slide, is a product that CSU Colorado State

University has most recently developed, which is where they produce impact probabilities are the chance of impact of a storm impacting your country during the hurricane season.

“On average, we have a 40% impact probability but for this year, they're forecasting a 59% chance that we might be impacted by a named storm this season, you see a 32% chance of us being impacted by a hurricane versus the 20% average, and an 18% chance that we are impacted by a major hurricane compared to the 11% average.”

Dr Hamilton stressed that these predictions underscore the need for the Turks and Caicos Islands to remain in a state of preparedness and readiness.

She said: “Across the board, there's an increased chance of us being hit by whether it's a named storm hurricane or a major hurricane this season.”

CLIMATE CHANGE Another important thing for residents of the territory to keep in mind is how the nature of the storms is changing due to climate change, Dr Hamilton pointed out.

“So there are two things that impact or determine how strong a tropical cyclone can become, that's the ocean surface temperature, and

Director of Meteorology at the Turks and Caicos Islands Airport Authority, Dr Holly Hamilton the temperature and the moisture state of the atmosphere.

“Now with climate change, we know that the sea surface temperatures are rising and secondly, we know that the global temperatures the air temperature is also increasing.

“So we already see that the two things that determine how strong a tropical cyclone can become is

increasing.”

She further explained that globally the intensity of tropical cyclones have also risen by about 25% which means that tropical cyclone is now more likely to become a major hurricane, category three or above compared to four decades ago.

“And in the Atlantic, that proportion has more than doubled,

so it is more than likely that the storm once it has developed could develop into a major hurricane in the Atlantic and we know that most mortality and damages are caused by these major tropical cyclones.

“The other thing is that tropical cyclones are also intensifying more rapidly, in the early 1980s, the chance of having a hurricane intensifying 35 miles per hour or more, that's what we categorised as a rapid intensification event in 24 hour period was about one in 100, 30 years later now the chance has increased by a factor of five. ‘ “So one in 20 storms now, more than likely to rapidly intensify.

“So to bring that picture to your mind, you would have noticed in the past seasons that you probably go to bed one night, and the storm is a cat two, by the time you wake up in the morning, it's a cat four or five”, she added.

Dr Hamilton pointed out that these factors prove a significant challenge for accurate forecasting since it is difficult to predict when these rapid intensification events will occur “So just in a nutshell, the consensus now is that climate change doesn't increase the tropical cyclone frequency.

“But what it does, is it increases the likelihood that a tropical cyclone becomes a major Hurricane, it rapidly intensifies and also has greater rainfall rates.”

She reminded residents although the Turks and Caicos Islands have been spared, climate change is an ongoing phenomenon and the effects could be devastating as seen in previous years.

Angela Musgrove appointed CEO of Invest TCI The Turks and Caicos Islands Cabinet has approved the appointment of Mrs Angela Musgrove as Chief Executive Officer of the Invest Turks and Caicos Islands Agency.

According to a post Cabinet statement issued on Friday, June 10, her appointment officially took effect on January 13, 2022, for a period of three years.

However, Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, chaired by His Excellency Governor Nigel Dakin, “approved amendments to the terms of the

appointment” for Musgrove as CEO of the Invest Turks and Caicos Islands Agency.

A daughter of the soil, Musgrove was born and raised in the Turks and Caicos Islands, according to her biography on the Agency’s website.

She distinguishes herself as “profoundly driven and focused; embracing the core values of integrity, excellence, and selfless service”.

Musgrove has graduate and post-graduate qualifications in economics and finance under her

Mrs Angela Musgrove, Chief Executive Officer of the Invest Turks and Caicos Islands Agency

belt and is passionate about nationbuilding.

She was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2013 for her services to youth development in the TCI and is excited about her continued contribution to the development of these islands in her current role as SVP-Investor Services.

Mother, wife, and entrepreneur, she enjoys simple pleasures, including family time and reading.

She considers her volunteer work with the youth population as one of the most rewarding ways to give back to her community as she firmly believes that you cannot build a nation without first empowering its people.

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Premier Misick urges borrowing countries to support CDB for continued development

BY DELANA ISLES Adaptation and resilience were two keywords that formed major parts of the discussion at the just concluded 52nd annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank.

The meeting of the Governors formally opened on Wednesday, June 15, at the Ritz Carlton, with key addresses by Premier, Hon Charles Washington Misick, who is the outgoing Chairman of the Board of Governors, as well as the bank’s President, Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon.

The second hosting of the annual meeting in the Turks and Caicos Islands was as ceremonious as its first in May 2017.

Hon Misick heads the board of governors; along with ViceChairperson Mr Roberto Fendt Junior, Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade and International Affairs, Ministry of the Economy; and Vice-Chairperson Mr Yi Gang, Governor, People's Bank of China.

Hon Misick was also the

Governor representing the British Overseas Territories, namely: Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Monserrat, and TCI, comprising a single membership of the Caribbean Development Bank.

Addressing the delegates, Premier Misick spoke about the difficulties that small island states have faced in the past two years.

“At a time when we seem to be moving from one crisis to another, from severe storms to COVID-19, to supply chain challenges resulting from the Russian/Ukraine war and price inflation, all member countries need to take keen interest in supporting the bank to ensure that it is equipped and able to help borrowing member countries navigate the challenges of food insecurity, renewable energy, climate change and environmental degradation.”

He said that coming out of this difficult period, many of the CDB’s borrowing member countries, already face and will continue to face the conundrum of having to

Opening ceremony of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (photo source: Caribbean Development Bank) do more with less.

“It is, therefore, most fitting that we should theme the meeting: ‘Measure Better to Target Better: Adaptation and Resilience.

“Indeed, achieving the Sustainable Development Goal targets will require not only adaptation and resilience in a fastchanging global environment but also a measurement system that considers the internal resilience capacity of our Borrowing Member Countries.”

He stated that measuring better means that borrowing member countries will need to see the value of consistent engagement and discourse on the various issues that they collectively address, with the aim to find solutions.

“Solutions can be found when we invest in and support the Caribbean

Development Bank by giving a voice at the table articulating our considered view on perplexing matters; being a voice at times for our brother who is not doing as well as we are, by the provision of resources, financial or otherwise.”

The Premier said solutions can also be found in funding research and development and other interventions that will assist all borrowing countries.

“We must continue to see the Caribbean Development Bank as a ‘regional public good’ – an enabler of the progression of the entire development agenda of the entire region, and a key resource for access to funding and capacity building. A resource that is supported by all for all. This requires all ‘hands on deck’.

Admittedly, he continued, some

borrowing member countries, can access more affordable lines of credit than offered by the CDB. However, interest rates should not be the sole variable in accessing credit.

“Developing banks like CDB have the added value of in-house technical expertise that allows them to participate in decisions involving choices of technology and scale.

“The Turks and Caicos is engaged with the Bank, and it is our intention to leverage our good credit ranking to the betterment of the TCI and the Bank toward economic transformation.”

The Premier also went on record acknowledging the contribution that the CDB has made to the success of the TCI, thanking the bank and its members for the support.

Caribbean and African Development banks ink MoU to promote inter-regional trade The Caribbean Development Bank and the African Development Bank have joined forces to promote trade between the regions and will work together on the sustainable development of MSMEs. This comes as the Presidents of both banks signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bolster their collaboration and renew bilateral ties during the CDB’s 52nd Annual Meeting on Tuesday, June 14 in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

President of the Caribbean Development Bank Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon and President of the African Development Bank Group Dr Akinwumi Adesina inked the agreement which will see the two financial institutions collaborating on a number of projects and initiatives relating to economic diversification initiatives in their respective regions. Emphasis will be placed on deploying technological and digital transformation solutions in commerce, trade, public services, and financial intermediation and

African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina and Caribbean Development Bank President Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon signed the MoU on behalf of their respective institutions. inclusion.

Dr Adesina who was invited to deliver the keynote address at the 2022 William G. Demas Memorial Lecture commenting on the MoU

said: “Our challenges and the solutions that we must pursue to address them are similar.

“Together, we are catalysing the development of our respective

regions, making a difference in the lives of our people, ensuring that impact is strong and lasting, and shaping the global narrative about our respective regions and

institutions.”

Dr Leon noted that deepening partnerships and knowledge sharing are critical for the regions to realise the transformative development envisaged by the people.

“This agreement will not only strengthen our relationship with the African continent but also further fuel the innovative path we are pursuing in areas of mutual interest beneficial to all,” he said.

The Banks will also play a catalytic role in making their regional economies more resilient, especially for those most vulnerable by promoting the development of and access to innovative financing instruments to encourage the flow of funds into the two regions.

The theme of the Caribbean Development Bank’s 52nd Annual Meeting— “Measure Better to Target Better” resonates with the two regional development banks, as both institutions place a high premium on measuring efficacy to better target the needs of their regional member countries.

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Set and maintain high standards in your life Don’t settle for mediocrity Many of us do not know our worth and so we settle for mediocrity. On the other hand, some of us know our worth but somehow still settle for less. As a human being, you are so significant and valuable, and no amount of money can replace your life if you lose it.

Therefore, I want to encourage you to set and maintain high standards in your life. Setting and maintaining high standards does not mean that you think of yourself higher than you ought to but it simply means you value the importance of your life.

I believe that everybody deserves the best but one of the reasons we do not get the best is because we do not demand the best and we do not put forward our best efforts.

Set high standards for your job.

Some organisations have already

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established high standards, but we still perform below expectations.

Why? Are you not enjoying what you do? Is this why you are not performing up to standard? If the latter reason is the case, then you need to find something that you enjoy and set high standards for your career path. Maximise your potential to exceed the established standards. Don’t focus on what

is being done on a normal basis because maintaining high standards will require you to go beyond the normal. You should be the one to raise the bar.

Set high standards for yourself.

The best standard of course to follow is the word of God. If you follow the word of God, you know where you stand, and people will know where you stand.

Set high standards for your health. This requires consistency, a lot of work and eating the right kinds of food. Stop compromising your health by settling for less.

Set high standards for your finances. There is nothing wrong with setting high goals to be in a better financial position. If you don’t set high standards for your finances, you may continue to spend all the money you make. Make the sacrifices, upgrade your skills, and increase your knowledge so you can be a step closer to achieving your standards.

Set high standards for your relationships. Some people may disagree and say that the reason you don’t have a relationship is that your standards are too high. Don’t let anyone distract you.

If you set high standards,

then you should aim for the best.

Too many of us have settled for mediocrity and have accepted anything just to get what we think we deserve when in fact you deserve so much more. Every day, we encounter mediocrity, and we don’t do anything about it and so we have allowed mediocrity to become the normal way of business. Speak up and demand high standards. Some people may in turn dislike you but don’t be bothered by what people think or say about you.

Why are you settling for any job when you are worth more? Why are you settling for any relationship when you deserve someone better?

Why are you accepting these explanations from others when you know the law says otherwise? Don’t settle for mediocrity.

Climate change: The evidence and TCI’s options to help limit global temperatures It is ‘code red’ for Earth’s inhabitants! The petrifying alerts are blinding, as floods, cyclones, prolonged droughts, intense temperatures and other extreme climate events signal impending doom.

Since the birth of the industrial revolution, the Earth has warmed to 1.3° centigrade and scientists say, if more drastic measures are not taken to stop burning fossil fuels, the situation on Earth could get worse.

Over the last decade, climate change scientist Joeri Rogelj has wielded data hoarded by hundreds of scientists worldwide to model future climate scenarios.

He concluded, there is a 1 in 4 chance – under current policies – Earth’s temperatures could hit

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3° centigrade by the end of the century.

In some parts of the world, the effects of inaction are already taking a toll. The days are reaching scorching temperatures and there is no doubt that climatic conditions have taken a quantum leap.

Should global temperatures rise to 3° centigrade, unquestionably it would be catastrophic with

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surmounting torridity.

Annual rainfall in the TCI could drop drastically and if extreme temperature levels persist manual labour, like construction, could be in recess for most of the year; hence, becoming a non-functional activity for TCI’s economy.

High nominal ‘wet-bulb’ temperatures – a measure of heat and humidity – could become prevalent.

This phenomenon suggests humans cool themselves by sweating; however, under intense conditions, when relative humidity nears 100 per cent evaporation is minimal; hence, preventing the body from losing heat. The body temperature limit is 35 degrees and even if given

inexhaustible shade and water the body would not lose its heat.

Also, prolonged periods of droughts would annihilate trees, crops, and livestock and considering that the TCI is within the hurricane belt, this sweltering heat could trigger an upsurge in cyclonic activities and eventually dump torrential rain–inducing floods and displacing coastal inhabitants.

Tourism will be impacted, as most of the tourist accommodations are rested along TCI’s lowlying shorelines. To bolster this argument, scientists predict, global sea level could climb to half of a metre by 2100 and; thus far, coastal vulnerability to climate change is already upending lives in Fiji.

This displacement will spur migration problems, as is happening in other parts of the world and exacerbates the reason for residents crossing borders; hence, increasing the competition for fewer resources. Water will be the focus, as it is already highly contested.

To mitigate accelerating global

temperatures, leaders who attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Scotland agreed on several policy compromises, including recognising the emergency, accelerating action, relying less on fossils among other net-zero targets. However, the TCI should embark on a climate change adaptation initiative to protect communities and habitats.

Otherwise, coral reefs will bleach, turned white, then die and this could transform the islands into desolate lands.

Therefore, the authorities must diversify their agriculture efforts, practice afforestation, and invest in renewables and other green projects; rather than, ignoring the call for action, which would accelerate global temperatures.

We can’t fix the holes in the ozone layer, we can’t bring the salmon back up a dead stream, we can’t bring back an animal now extinct, and scientists can’t bring back a forest that once grew where there is now a desert.

For these reasons, we must act now!

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A treasonous president and a nation in peril

I was at a loss for words to express my horror as I watched the first segment of the public hearing of the Congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. As long as the Republican Party denies what happened that infamous day and Trump remains free, this country faces unprecedented peril.

RIGHTING THE WRONG The Congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection began the first of its public hearings last week. Each of these is of the highest importance to the country, even if many Americans are unlikely to be swayed by them.

Last Thursday’s hearing revealed never-before-seen footage of the violence that erupted in the nation’s

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capital, and testimony from officials and advisors close to Trump (including Attorney General Barr and Ivanka Trump) made it clear that they did not believe Trump’s fabrication of a stolen election and told him so.

These hearings are crucial to our Republic, to maintaining the integrity of our democratic norms and institutions, and to preventing not simply another violent mob outbreak, but another attack on our

democracy orchestrated, as this was, by the highest office in the land.

Indeed, what happened on January 6, 2021, was unprecedented in our history. It was the culmination of a concerted months-long effort by the President of the United States to halt the transfer of power and stage a coup that would have meant the end of this country as we know it, had he been successful.

The rule of law hung in the balance that day. Trump knowingly

lied and continues to lie about the results of the 2020 election, and he summoned a mob to the capital promising that January 6 would be “Wild” – a last-ditch effort to prevent the certification of Biden’s election victory. Every president in our nation’s history has honoured the constitutional duty to relinquish power and allow the peaceful transfer of executive authority – every president that is, until Donald Trump.

This is what many Americans still fail to grasp or acknowledge: Trump struck at the very heart of our democracy, he broke a solemn oath and in doing so he has made it easier for this to happen again. If presidents are unwilling to honour the results of free and fair elections, then the future of this Republic

is in the gravest of danger. As it is, Trump has forever stained the office of the president: in breaking his oath to the constitution, he has irrevocably broken the sacred trust between the American people and their chief executive.

Nothing will ever change the fact that a sitting president attempted an illegal, unconstitutional, and profoundly immoral coup to remain in power; that is a cause not only for the gravest concern but for the deepest sadness. These hearings then are among the most important ever conducted in the 246 years since this nation was born, for they bear on nothing less than the very survival of this country as a CONTINUED 

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Busy being busy?

Hey? How are you?

Busy!

I’ve tried to avoid saying “I’m busy” whenever possible. You probably should try to do the same.

Your a mom, a dad, You go to work, You run a business, You run a house, You’re on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, G+ and Snap, You have seven children, With six dogs, five cats and three pet lizards, We get it, you have a life and yes, you are busy.

But by answering with ‘busy’, I can’t help but feel it’s actually a negative response. I now cringe when I say it and make a conscious effort to say something else.

We’re all busy. We’re in constant demand, and there are so many things vying for our attention these days. If it’s not having a long to-do list while sitting at your desk, there’s always something else to be done, and even after that, there’s your phone going off because someone at work desperately needs your help— this very second.

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ANSWER YOUR TEXTS, YOU’RE REALLY NOT THAT BUSY It is the people who are constantly glued to their phones the most, that rarely have time to reply to your texts. What they are doing is beyond me. If I see a new story on your Instagram every two hours, yet you are unable to reply to my text, you need to reconsider this friendship.

IT IS ONLY 9-5? ISN’T IT?

You run a business and have a family to look after. That is the story of us all. In the evenings and on the weekends, when you are home getting monkey work done, do think of those people who have tried to reach out. Take

particular attention to the people who kept investing in you and take time to reach out.

purposely aim to close as many tabs before they engulf me.

I’M PREOCCUPIED

Sometimes it is the very word “busy” that should be replaced.

Here’s how. Imagine someone knocking on your office door while you’re having a meeting.

Or imagine getting a call while you’re driving to work. In either case, you can say you were “preoccupied,” because you were already (“pre-”) occupied (busy doing something).

WRITE IT DOWN

I’M JUGGLING A LOT RIGHT NOW This is for the mothers, the busiest-bees of them all. Juggling takes a lot of energy and focus and it’s easy to make mistakes. So if you’re busy with a lot of things, it can feel like you’re “juggling” them. I’d prefer hearing that over a harsh “busy” any day.

COME BACK TOMORROW

TELL THEM WHAT YOU’RE UP TO Here’s another approach. How about letting the other person know what you have going on.

Just be sure you don’t recite a laundry list of all the things you’ve

If you are like me, you will not leave the house without your diary. I write everything down so 1) I do not forget and 2) If I do forget it, I can quickly get back to it when it is realised. If you are a bit more techy and wish to write notes on your phone—go ahead, do so.

Have you not heard this often enough? We love to postpone things to tomorrow, just because we cannot deal with it now. I do the opposite, I deal with things as soon as possible. By doing, I

done that day and all the things you need to do — just focus on your biggest accomplishments and upcoming obligations.

TAKE A RAIN CHECK

This method is especially effective when you’re declining an invitation from a superior. It can be as simple as, “I have to do X, Y and Z, but I’d still like to meet.

Can we do it on x day when things start to calm down?”

It is, by no means, a bad thing to be busy and is probably said with the best intention but by responding in this way, you’re only considering yourself in your response. What about the other person? ‘Busy’ implies a short one-way conversation, and that’s not very nice, is it?

You should not completely eliminate ‘busy’ from your vocabulary, but how about instead of a one-word answer, turn it into a positive. > Hey? How are you? > ‘I’m great thanks, got loads of really great stuff going on. How are you?’

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Food, energy, health security needed for Caribbean and Africa to overcome global challenges Food security, energy security and health security are among the key building blocks needed to overcome the current global challenges which threaten to stymie development on both the African continent and in the Caribbean region.

President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, shared this view as well as lessons for the Caribbean from the AfDB’s experiences, on Tuesday night in delivering the 2022 William G Demas Memorial Lecture.

The lecture, ‘Development in a Context of Global Challenges: Experiences and Lessons from the African Development Bank’, was part of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 52nd Annual Meeting, being held in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

With the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict negatively impacting energy prices, global supply chains and food security, Dr Adesina outlined how the AfDB had responded and continues to respond to these challenges.

Stating that the COVID-19 experience had shone a light on vaccine nationalism, overconcentration of ability and inequities in global supply, the AfDB President underscored that in addition, “the global system

of COVAX designed to provide vaccines for the developing countries failed developing countries.”

He highlighted the negative impact of this: “The vaccination rate in low-income developing countries is only 16% compared to over 80% for developed economies. While the developed economies were coasting to economic recovery on the back of booster shots, African countries, as well as countries in the Caribbean and other low-income developing countries, were struggling to get basic shots.”

He noted that this has been further worsened due to intellectual property rights battles at the World Trade Organisation over Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) related to vaccines, an impasse which he said, “endangers lives at the expense of profits for pharmaceutical companies.”

In response, the AfDB is developing an African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation to provide IPR protection so that pharmaceutical companies can deliver vaccine manufacturing technology, knowledge and processes to pharmaceutical companies in Africa.

Dr Adesina emphasised: “Africa should no longer outsource the health security of its 1.3 billion (people) to the benevolence of

President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina others. And neither should the Caribbean.”

On the topic of food security, the AfDB President highlighted that in both the Caribbean and Africa, the negative impacts of climate change are felt in the agricultural sector and this, combined with looming shortages prompted by the RussiaUkraine conflict, threatens food security.

The Bank President spoke of how the Bank’s Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme has helped deliver climate smart seeds to farmers in several African countries and in so doing, has been able to get ahead of

current wheat shortages. Under the TAAT programme, Sudan reduced wheat importation by 50% in two years, while Ethiopia was able to cut wheat imports altogether.

The AfDB also recently approved the $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility to help advance food security in the face of the RussiaUkraine conflict.

“We all agreed it is time to support Africa to produce its food. It is time to have food sovereignty. The same must apply to the Caribbean. A recent survey by CARICOM and the World Food Program shows that food insecurity has increased by 72% among the population of

the English-speaking Caribbean countries,” said Dr Adesina.

“Food aid cannot feed Africa.

Food aid cannot feed the Caribbean.

Africa and the Caribbean need seeds in the ground and mechanical harvesters to harvest bountiful food produced locally,” he stressed.

Regarding energy security, the AfDB head insisted the first two priorities must be to “ensure access and affordability of electricity…

Second, there must be security of supply”.

To that end, he highlighted the AfDB’s ongoing heavy investment in renewable energy, including the $20bn Desert-to-Power initiative in Africa’s Sahelian zone, which is set to become the world’s largest solar zone.

He also lauded the efforts of the Caribbean in pursuing renewable energy.

“The Caribbean region also has significant potential in renewable energy, and I applaud the efforts being made to unlock the potential.

From the 50 MW El Soco Solar farm, worth $90m, to Barbados’s plan to construct this year a $25m, 10 MW solar plant located in Mangrove, St Philip, to using wave energy to develop a 40 MW ocean commercial power park, to Jamaica’s plans to develop electric car charging stations, and the microgrid energy systems being developed by the British Virgin Islands.”

CDB urges members to align national budgets to SDGs to advance development

BY OLIVIA ROSE In order for Caribbean countries to advance and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, prudent budgeting strategies which prioritise the needs of people must be implemented.

This point was recently emphasised by the Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Mr Ian Durant who advocated for the Bank’s membership to embrace a new model for national budgeting that aligns with and tracks progress toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“There is a need for effective mapping of expenditures to targets, to help improve resource allocation.”

Although he indicated that an overhaul of existing

parliamentary budget systems and governance structures was not required, he expressed a need for “…complementing existing mechanisms to monitor, measure, and evaluate investments with respect to targeted economic, social, and environmental objectives”.

Durant was at the time speaking at a seminar entitled Budgeting for Sustainable Development as part of the CDB’s 52nd Annual Meeting held at Beaches Resort & Spa in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday, June 14.

He opined that administrators and policymakers in CDB Member Countries must focus on astute measurement and management while balancing the needs of people to achieve shared prosperity and close the gaps to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Caribbean Development Bank's ‘Budgeting for Sustainable Development' panel The high-level discussion saw a number of regional, global, private, and public sector experts who were assembled by the Bank to examine public financial management and supportive actions to achieve the region’s development agenda.

Durant who moderated the discussion also stressed that the issues and challenges faced by Small Island Developing States relating to climate change and its

impacts, are persistent and require modern, innovative, and inclusive solutions.

He added that: “In order to build a more resilient region, development activities must be targeted to achieve optimal results for intended beneficiaries, better measurement of spending and planning strategies are required.”

CDB, recognising this need, is moving with deliberate haste to

strengthen regional and national efforts toward achieving the SDGs, Durant stated.

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CDB President calls for greater collaboration in the Region – Says move necessary to allow small island states to continue advancing

BY DELANA ISLES President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Gene Leon called on Caribbean countries to join together for their own development by merging their abilities and mobilising funds from multiple sources, traditional and non-traditional.

His statement came at the closing of the annual meeting of the Bank’s Board of Governors, hosted this past week in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Dr Leon said that with these joint efforts, it is not only possible but also probable that small island states can increase investment in the region to the levels needed for its sustainability and continued development.

The sessions started on June 1, with multiple online discussions, followed by the formal in-person session here in the TCI, from June 13 with a welcome reception, panel discussions, lectures and opening and closing ceremonies spanning four days.

This is the TCI’s second hosting of the event, and the bank’s president extended his appreciation for the Premier’s stewardship as Chairman this past year.

“Premier, it is with a sense of tremendous satisfaction and optimism, and yes, a tinge of sadness that I deliver the closing remarks for the 52nd annual meeting of Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

“Chair, I first wish to thank you for agreeing to host the meeting in your little slice of paradise.

You and your team have worked tirelessly to make this meeting a success and have been extremely accommodating and gracious in meeting our needs.”

Dr Leon said the discussions with the Governors, as well as the seminars that were held over the past two weeks, have not only supplied ‘food for thought’ but have also showcased the wealth of talent in the Caribbean and the passion in our people to see the Region excel, particularly among the region’s youth.

From all accounts the William G. Demas lecture delivered this year by the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina was a resounding success.

“I especially appreciated his illustration of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) vision for Africa while providing a practical example of the economic and social transformation that is possible when visionary leadership is coupled with robust resource mobilisation and the institutional capacity to implement projects and policy reforms.”

He said the CDB is looking forward to working with the AfDB having cemented their relationship with the execution of a memorandum of understanding during the meeting.

“It is high time that Africa and the Caribbean form partnerships for inclusive and sustainable development,” the CDB president said.

“Governors, as we have heard repeatedly over the past few days and indeed elsewhere, the development prospects for our region are in peril. Before we can get a handle on one crisis another looms.

“I need not remind us that last year it was COVID and a volcano; this year it is COVID, the Russia-Ukraine war and the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season beckons with increasingly severe systems predicted.”

He said the region must move swiftly to a state where these exogenous shocks are but temporary glitches on the radar rather than seemingly permanently compromising the chance for inclusive and sustainable development.

“We must be able to respond and recover in the shortest possible time to minimise the impact on livelihoods.”

The President also shared parting thoughts, which he urged the attendees to keep at the forefront of their minds as island states move forward with deliberate haste to create the

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future as imagined, propelled by resilience and innovation.

“First, the quantum of resources needed by the Region to evolve a resilient ecosystem is only daunting if we see it as our individual responsibility to mobilise.

“Instead, I take this opportunity to reiterate that if we form the coalition for development, pooling our joint abilities, mobilising funds from multiple sources, traditional and non-traditional, then it is not only possible it is probable that we can increase investment in the region to the levels needed.

“Secondly, as we chart a way forward to more fairly determine access to affordable financing, I am reminded of Strategic Development Goal 8, which calls for us to develop a global partnership for development with targets related to the channelling of Official Development Assistance (ODA).”

He said meeting the targets related to ODA will be of no value if access to affordable finance is decided purely by Gross National Income, rather, the region will only succeed in perpetuating inequality.

“As demonstrated during our seminar on measuring resilience and vulnerability the Recovery Duration Adjuster is the answer.”

Thirdly, he continued, in keeping with the region’s thrust for innovation, countries must dare to be different and flexible.

“In this sense, we must be able to increasingly mobilise significant private sector financing for development.”

He said that as one of the oldest and most impactful regional public goods, CDB is only as strong and as effective, as its members and their collective voices.

“We remain deeply grateful for the confidence reposed in the Bank

as illustrated in the statements made by respective governors yesterday. I strongly urge that now is the time to make those voices louder.

“In this vein, I intend to deepen my engagement with our Board of Directors and Board of Governors, recognising that every member country of CDB brings value to this organisation and is critical to the delivery of our mandate.”

Speaking directly to the outgoing Chair, Premier Misick, Dr Leon commended the impact the TCI has had by being one of the bank’s strongest advocates.

“Know that we can continue to rely on your support.”

To the incoming Chair, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Philip Pierre, the Bank’s president said they look forward to collaborating with him to craft and execute his vision in his tenure as Chairman of the Board of Governors.

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constitutional democracy.

The existential danger that burst into deadly mob violence on January 6 has not been laid to rest, it is ongoing. It is still poisoning our country and casting a shadow over the next presidential election. Trump continues to lie to the public; Republican lawmakers continue to parrot those lies and downplay what happened on January 6 or excuse and even justify it as “legitimate political discourse.”

If a mob attack on the Capitol is “legitimate political discourse” then our fate is already sealed – it is, then only a matter of time until the next violent insurrection; and the next one may well make January 6 look like a mere rehearsal.

If Trump had his way, then Vice-President Pence would have also broken his oath to the constitution and derailed the certification of electoral votes.

Our continued existence as a Republic might very well have hung on Pence’s actions that day. The mob’s response was to call for Pence to be hanged, and

a noose and scaffold was erected apparently for that very purpose.

What was Trump’s reaction when he was told that the mob was calling for Pence’s summary execution? He is reported to have said that “Maybe our supporters have the right idea.” Mike Pence “deserves” it.

Trump did not want the attack to stop, responded angrily to advisors that begged him to call off the mob, and allegedly supported their aim to see Mike Pence, one of his most loyal followers, hanged. The country as a whole must reckon with and acknowledge what a sitting president perpetrated and the existential harm he brought on this country with his reckless, abhorrent, and illegal actions. To be sure, Trump was personally and directly responsible for the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814, and as long as he is at the helm of the Republican Party, he remains a very serious threat to the United States.

The Republican Party has been irredeemably hijacked by Trump’s autocratic ambitions. In following him they are bringing this country ever closer to another existential

precipice. Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming – effectively excommunicated from the Republican Party simply for performing her sworn duty as a member of Congress – said what every Republican lawmaker “defending the indefensible” must hear and take to heart: “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonour will remain”.

Indeed, if these hearings assure us of anything it is that history will not be able to forget or deny the peril in which the nation was placed by a violent mob deployed by the President of the United States to overturn the result of a legitimate election.

It is now clear, even before we hear more testimony, that Trump and his co-conspirators engineered a coup to prevent the peaceful transfer of power even though he had lost the election.

Trump knowingly violated the constitution that he swore to uphold and protect. Thus, there should be no doubt in anybody’s mind that he has committed treason against the United States, for which he must be charged and face his day in court.

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Footsteps4Good is stepping up for another year of adventure – Amanda Dakin – Participants have options in the 13-day 225-mile circumnavigation of the TCI

BY DELANA ISLES Footsteps4Good 2022 is ready to blast off, and they are getting an early jump on registration this year.

Amanda Dakin, wife of the Governor and patron of the Turks and Caicos Islands Red Cross, speaking with the Weekly News this week said she is eager to get things underway as this year promises to be exceptional.

This is the second year that Mrs Dakin will be hosting the event, first started by Jill Beckingham, wife of the former Governor Peter Beckingham in 2014.

Under Mrs Beckingham’s patronage, the event ran for three years, raising tens of thousands of

dollars for several local charities.

Mrs Dakin said after meeting Mrs Beckingham in 2019, she promised to restart the hike which had been stalled since 2017 due to the hurricane and rebuilding efforts in the territory.

That promise had involved an ambitious twist, one that Mrs Dakin incorporated in 2021 when she first restarted the event with the collaboration of John Galleymore, a seasoned explorer of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Galleymore is well-known for his adventurous exploits, such as walking, rowing and camping throughout the Islands – many of which he shares with his online audience.

Mrs Jill Beckingham first started the event in 2014 (photo taken from tcimagazine.com) Last year, Galleymore mapped out a challenging route to allow everyone and anyone to take part in the event, to do as much or as little as they wish.

And this year, the event will again take the same format, Mrs Dakin advised.

Footsteps4Good is a 225-mile circumnavigation of the ‘Beautiful

by Nature’ Turks and Caicos Islands over 13 days. Participants are allowed to choose how they want to take part – wade, swim, kayak, row, walk, run, and bike – it is all for charity.

The trip covers the full length of the Caicos Islands: Providenciales through to North, Middle, East and South Caicos, then crossing to Grand Turk, Salt Cay, and finally completing the circle back to Providenciales via Sand, Ambergris, French Cays, and West

Gomez to celebrate 50th anniversary as a bishop next week ARCHBISHOP of the Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the TCI, Drexel Wellington Gomez will celebrate a historic 50th anniversary of consecration as a Bishop in the Church of God on Friday, June 24.

According to information from the diocese, “Many Anglican clergies never reach 50 years of ordination as a priest, and even fewer as a bishop”.

Archbishop Gomez is a native of the Berry Islands, who travel to New Providence as a young boy.

He was ordained a deacon in December of 1959 and a priest on February 1, 1961.

During his early years of service, he travelled around the region.

He worked as a parish priest, diocesan secretary administrator in the Bahamas and as a lecturer at Codrington College, before he travelled to Barbados to serve as Bishop of the Diocese from 1972 to 1993.

He then served as the Bishop of the Diocese of the Bahamas

Archbishop Drexel Wellington Gomez and the TCI from 1996-2008 and Archbishop of the Providence of the West Indies from 1998 to 2008.

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retired from active ministry but remained involved, active and helpful.

Since then he has also continued to lecture at the Anglican Theological Institute, which he founded.

Next week’s Diocesan celebration will be led by the Archbishop of the Church in the Providence of the West Indies, His Grace, the Most Rev Dr Howard Gregory.

A number of special invitees are expected to attend the celebration, which includes a Golden Jubilee lecture by Bishop Robert M. Thompson (Southeast Florida) on Thursday, June 23, before the prime event at the Christ Church Cathedral on Friday, at which Archbishop Gomez will be the celebrant and Archbishop Gregory will be the preacher.

Events are also planned for Saturday, June 25 at the Queen’s Elizabeth Sports Centre and again on Sunday, June 26, at the Christ Church Cathedral.

Caicos.

“Experience something exceptional and come along for the ride, communities can come out in force and show what they can do,” Mrs Dakin encouraged.

Every step of Footsteps4Good raises well needed funds for over 20 local charities working with the vulnerable and hungry, chronic illness, youth development and empowerment, environment, heritage, special needs and animal welfare.

Registration for the event which kicks off October 21 is just $20 and includes a souvenir T-shirt.

Interested persons can email info2022fsfg@gmail.com for information and registration forms.

For those under the age of 18, registration is free.

“Every cent is donated to the charity of your choice, and I know

we can beat last year’s $47000.

“Come on OneTCI! Let your feet do the giving,” Mrs Dakin further encouraged.

This may be the last year that Mrs Dakin will organise the event, as Governor Dakin’s term in office comes to an end soon, with no indication he will be staying on in the territory as the Queen’s representative.

However, Mrs Dakin is optimistic that the event will continue: “I believe whoever is the next Governor’s wife or husband will carry the torch of Footsteps4Good into the future.

“No matter what, I know that all those involved in running the event on all the islands - our partners Provo Road Runners, the Red Cross volunteers and our intrepid John Galleymore who conceived the route - are here to continue the adventure.”

National Security Council monitoring hurricane preparations The Department of Disaster Management and Emergency (DDME) will continue its contingency planning for the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season, as the TCI Regiment devise a plan of its intended response and recovery strategies.

These were the only issues that came up when the National Security Council met on Friday, June 10, at the Premier’s Office in Providenciales.

His Excellency the Governor, Nigel Dakin, and the Hon Premier Charles Washington Misick, co-chaired a meeting.

Also in attendance were the Commissioner of Police; the Hon Attorney General; the Lieutenant Colonel of the Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment; the Permanent Secretary National Security and the Deputy Permanent Secretary National Security.

Her Excellency the Deputy Governor; the Hon Deputy Premier; the Hon Minister of Immigration and the National Security Threats Lead were not in attendance at the meeting and apologised for their absence.

Members discussed a presentation on disaster preparedness given by the DDME, with assurances that the department will keep the Cabinet abreast of its preparations and contingency plans.

Lieutenant Colonel of the TCI Regiment, Ennis Grant also brief the members on the Regiment’s disaster preparedness and capability.

Lieutenant Grant told the Security Council that they will be developing a communications plan to inform the public of its preparation and role in disaster response and recovery.

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TCI Community College Lauds Commendable TVET PLAR Assessment Results The Turks and Caicos Islands Community College TVET Institute have received the results from its inaugural cohort of participants which sat the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) Challenge Exam in February 2022.

WHAT IS PLAR? The Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR) is a certification pathway where experienced individuals in their respective fields are given the opportunity to obtain certification by producing stipulated evidence in the form of a portfolio or project as well as sitting a challenge exam.

Of the twenty-seven (27) participants that sat the PLAR Challenge Exam, twenty-three (23) were deemed fully competent in both the theory and practical aspects of the exam. This pass rate of 85% is indeed a celebratory occasion not only for TVET@TCICC but for the participants who worked assiduously to ensure their performances were aligned to the occupational standard and examination requirements of the National Council of Technical Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET) in Jamaica with whom the TVET@TCICC has an ongoing partnership.

Minister of Education, The Honourable Rachel Taylor observes Electrical Installation candidate Steve Michel during the February 2022 PLAR Exam

THE PASS RATE FOR EACH SKILL AREA IS AS FOLLOWS: • • • •

Level 1 Electrical installation – 72% Level 1 Customer Service – 90% Level 1 Commercial Food Preparation – 100% Level 2 Food and Beverage (Bartending) – 100%

Each participant is now eligible to receive their CVQ certificate from the accrediting body NCTVET under the HEART Trust NSTA. Thanks to the facilitators from Clement Howell High School and the Louise Garland Thomas High School who led the classes and guided students through the material. Your assistance was invaluable and contributed to students’ success.

The Honorable Rachel Taylor, Minister of Education, Labour, Employment and Customer Service remarked that this certification is globally acclaimed and will enable each participant to build upon their competence and progress to the next Level. She also expressed excitement over the success of the persons who stuck with the programme to the end and extend an invitation to many others to register for CVQ courses

TCICC Lecturer Kamala Kalidas performs exam proctoring duties over candidate Desmond Handfield during the February 2022 PLAR Exam

that her Government has made available to Turks and Caicos Islanders and British Overseas Territory Citizens, tuition free.

Interim President of TCICC Mrs. Clara Gardiner echoed the Minister’s comments by stating that these results are indicative of the tremendous possibilities that exist to certify and situate the TCI as having a skilled and certified workforce to strategically contribute to our economic productivity.

TVET Dean Mr. Kevin Baxter was keen to point out that this is just the beginning as we intend to impact all the sister islands and saturate the TCI with world class training opportunities to meet the demand of an evolving global landscape.

The TVET@TCICC is currently recruiting persons from Providenciales and Grand Turk to participate in the second cohort of participants to sit another PLAR TVET Challenge Exam in November 2022.

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“Find your eternity in each moment”. An island funeral brings the Salt Cay community together.

(Photo: Titus de Boer)

World class diving in the waters around Salt Cay; one of the many attractions of the ‘Charmed Isle’.

(Photo: Christopher Clark)

Salt Cay. An island advances confidently in the direction of its dreams. (Photo: Titus de Boer)

Standing on the ‘Island of opportunities’ Salt Cay advances confidently in the direction of its dreams Why do people write? Silly question, you might say, and yet in the course of any given week, I am asked exactly that; often while standing in line at some government office or at a counter of a Grand Turk grocery store. The Greek philosopher, Epictetus, said quite simply, “If you wish to be a writer, write.” And yes, there is that, but in order to do the readers to whom I chat any justice, allow me to expand. One massive motivation for writing, at least for me, is that I live on Salt Cay, and while that may sound rather mundane, I still find it enormously rewarding to share the ‘Salt Cay Story’, thereby hopefully encouraging those who have never been here before to perhaps consider making a visit to the ‘charmed isle’. Then there are the readers. Their interaction with me is probably the best part of this exercise. From the Alaskabased reader who recently referred to me as a ‘Dude’….”Dude you’ve written some good ones but you outdid yourself on that one,” to the harshest of all critics, who repeatedly accuses me of producing ‘self-indulgent crap’, every week people from all walks of life, can be relied upon to comment,

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

After a formal education in Germany and subsequent training as a journalist, he moved to the TCI in 1989. These days he works as a residency consultant for Titan Services. (www.titanservices.biz). Readers wishing to contact Titus with ideas and/or suggestions for columns, can to so on tdbtci@aol.com.

critique and make suggestions and for that, I thank them once again.

But enough on that.

“Yes,” says Ms Netty, as we sit together one morning this week, at Salt Cay’s Deane’s Dock, “this is definitely June weather.” It is quiet, very quiet - and not just in the literal sense. With all of the ‘winter residents’ now departed, and without a single tourist on the island, Salt Cay is firmly back in that part of the year when it is quite possible to see a mere handful of people on any given day - or indeed no one at all! And while we look back at a reasonably good season, one that brought not only visitors to the island but also its share of newsworthy events, from a successful bridge re-construction to the first on-island funeral in many years; with the coming of

the month of June, it almost seems as if someone’s proclaimed, “OK, show’s over!”

And yet, this year, the arrival of the quiet part of the year, when the changeless daily routine of living on the “Island that time forgot” is perhaps broken up by a morning chat at the dock, a game of chess or dominoes, a cold beer in the afternoon or uniquely - a funeral, there now appears to be less of the pervading hopelessness that defined each summer since the hurricanes of 2017. “I think the difference this year,” observes my good friend and Salt Cay Ferry Captain, Allan Dickenson, “is that a few of us, on island, have laid the foundation for good things to happen here soon and not just sat back and waited for outside events to dictate the narrative.” Very soon

he and I are back to our favourite Saturday morning subject: the power of self-management and helping small communities, such as ours, to help themselves.

There is an African proverb which, at least as I see it, describes the situation on Salt Cay perfectly, “Looking is one thing, seeing is another. Some only see with their eyes while others see with their minds also. However, inability to see with the mind is the worst kind of blindness.” During the past few years, Salt Cay has experienced its share of ‘hearing’ about proposals that excited some on the island and worried others; the cruise port project of 2019/2020 is a good example of that, as was the 2018 Six Senses proposal. Through it all, some valuable lessons were learned. Firstly, that from a Salt

Cay perspective, the more we can be in control of any proposal and subsequently its narrative, then the better it is and, secondly, that we have finally understood that Salt Cay’s eventual success will rely just as much on what’s in front of our eyes as what is not.

For while we have here an island with a breathtaking, ‘mini-Grace Bay’, called North Beach, dive sites that are ranked as some of the best around the world and a wealth of historical sites and nature sanctuaries that can rival many worldwide destinations, we are equally grateful for all the things we do not have here, twelve-storey buildings, four-lane highways, morning rush hour traffic, crime statistics - to name but a few.

The American naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” The time has come for Salt Cay to do just that, to focus on what we’ve got and run with it. Something tells me, we ARE about to do just that…!

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CDB continues its push for a Recovery Duration Adjuster

BY DELANA ISLES Caribbean nations are extremely vulnerable to external shocks, facing a unique challenge on the global stage.

As small coastal states, the countries of the region are extremely exposed to the effects of external shocks such as natural disasters, economic crises and pandemics, with the impacts of these lingering on longer than it would in larger countries with more resources and more diverse economies.

This past week, delegates from borrowing countries of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) gathered in the Turks and Caicos Islands for the bank’s 52nd Annual Meeting.

As part of the series of events a seminar titled ‘Measuring Vulnerability and Resilience for Small States: The Recovery Duration Adjuster’ was held at Beaches Resort and Spa on Wednesday, following the opening of the Board of Governors meeting.

In attendance were the current Chairman of the Board of Governors, TCI’s Premier, Hon Charles Washington Misick; other governors on the CDB’s Board, HE Governor Nigel Dakin, among others.

The seminar updated participants on CDB's progress in developing the Recovery Duration Adjuster (RDA) as an advanced tool for measuring vulnerability and resilience, and for marshalling finance for small states.

It also highlighted the results from the RDA analysis and supplied insight on how it can be applied to expand access to financial resources for regional countries.

On the panel were Professor Eric Strobl, Professor of Climate and Environmental Economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland; Dr Walton A. Webson, chair of the alliance of small island states; Jason Cotton, Economist with the CDB and Dr Keith Nurse, member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

The discussion was moderated

by Ian Durant, Director of Economics, CDB. The bank contends that while several development agencies and academics have undertaken the design of vulnerability indexes, there still is tremendous scope to develop policy consensus on the choice of a universal vulnerability and resilience index, the operationalisation of such an index, and the agreement on

Panel discussion during the CDB’s annual meeting on the development of a Recovery Duration Adjuster weighting and aggregation.

The CDB is as such proposing an upgraded measure of vulnerability that better reflects the changing economic, environmental and resilience conditions of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean region.

The Bank is developing a Recovery Duration Adjuster (RDA) which considers a 360-degree perspective, and assesses the economic, social and environmental dimensions of vulnerability.

Ian Durant, moderator of the interactive session – which saw online and in-person discussions – gave a breakdown of how the bank is going about devising the RDA. He said there are three things to consider when assessing a shock on a country, namely: the probability, extent and duration of a shock such as a natural disaster which Caribbean countries are prone to.

“Using today’s gross national income (GNI) to determine a country’s access to resources for the next 10 years, we are pretty much ignoring probability, extent and duration of a shock that could occur during that ten-year period,” Durant explained.

“This is very critical, because what it means is that a country that looks extremely wealthy today… because of a shock over the next ten years… it’s growth is affected, and it has to access debt at commercial rates, let’s say six, seven or eight per cent, and it’s experiencing growth on average of two per cent; what that does is that it builds an explosiveness into the

debt, the gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of the country.

“So, you’re pretty much forcing, pushing a country, potentially into a debt overhang situation, or a worsening a debt overhang situation by cutting off access to concessional resources by judging it on today’s GNI.” President of the CDB, Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon explained how GNI is applied.

He said the GNI method of distributing concessional finance can be summarised in two categories: “If your GNI is less than US$1,200 you qualify for concessional finance; if it is twice that number, US$2,400 per capita, you graduate, you do not qualify; that’s the bottom line.”

He added: “The fundamental problem is that our countries, in principle, have all graduated and

therefore they don’t have access to concessional finance.

“So, what we are looking for is a fairer method of channelling, of allocating that concessional finance.

“In principle, we want something that says let’s replace GNI by something else and that something else would-be Internal Resilience Capacity (IRC).”

He explained that the same principle will be applied with IRC as with GNI, namely if the IRC is less than point three, countries qualify, if it is more than point six, they do not.

CDB Economist Jason Cotton said the bank intends to pilot a prototype of its Recovery Duration Adjuster.

He said developing and refining the methodology will require collaboration with strategic partners to ensure that small states are given a vulnerability and resilience measurement system that considers all factors impacting the welfare of their citizens.

“A key outcome of this is for others to come on board with us, in what we see as an exciting journey as we seek to provide what we see as a more appropriate measure to access concessional financing.”

He added: “So join with us on this journey #recoverydurationadjuster.”

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Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS 21); Ms Francine Baron, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica and Mr Richard S. Sammy, Group Vice PresidentDesignate, Republic Bank Financial Limited.

During the session, panellists shared insights with the Bank’s Board of Directors and stakeholders on the elements required to strengthen reporting and budgeting in Borrowing Member Countries to better reflect their respective development commitments and progress.

The role of law-making, budgeting, oversight, and stakeholder buy-in, achieving allocative efficiency, and building on existing models and best practices in the public and private sectors was also

highlighted.

Honourable Pennelope Beckles-Robinson said: “We recognise that more must be done… the government understands the importance of data and statistics whether accurate, timely, sufficiently disaggregated and accessible and easy to use particularly for decision-makers.”

She added that strengthening the statistical system would improve development by facilitating improved decisionmaking and an increase in evidence-based policies and that these actions, once complemented by cross-sectoral partnerships and engagements, can build a more resilient region.

Mr Richard Sammy, Vice President-Elect of Designate, Republic Bank Financial Limited, whose organisation is the first indigenous bank to formalise an

environmental sustainability office and sign on to the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Principles of Responsible Banking, said the Bank is leading on identifying territory-specific SDGs and including these in the institution’s governance.

He emphasised that datadriven environmental, social, and governance reforms will inform decision-making throughout the group’s operations, including its investment portfolios.

Experts also agreed that identifying relevant strategies including the adoption of a results-based budgeting framework with SDG alignment will harmonise targets to improve the lives and livelihoods of populations in a sustainable, inclusive, and equitable manner and is also an important step in the process of improving the region’s development landscape.

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Regional News Cayman using BVI corruption report to strengthen internal controls

Cayman has commenced an exercise to review and, where necessary, implement recommendations from the British Virgin Islands’ Commission of Inquiry corruption report to strengthen local systems, Governor Martyn Roper has said.

It comes as the UK gave the BVI government a reprieve on Wednesday last, staving off any imposition of direct rule through a governor-led administration on the basis that it follows through on urgent reforms to address corruption concerns.

Roper, speaking on the Cayman Compass Facebook talkshow ‘The Resh Hour’ on Wednesday evening, said Cabinet Secretary Samuel Rose, at the request of Premier Wayne Panton, has been looking at all the recommendations in the report to see if there are recommendations which are relevant to the jurisdiction.

He suggested the way people are appointed to boards might be one such relevant area.

“We could strengthen our system for how people are appointed, the transparency, and the criteria by which they’re appointed. So absolutely there are lessons for us,” Roper said.

Good governance, Roper said, really matters and Cayman has a strong reputation for that.

However, he said, it is beholden on those who are in power to maintain that reputation.

“We should be very mindful of what has happened in BVI and absolutely make sure that we are doing everything possible in Cayman to follow proper proper processes, proper policies, in line with our good governance standards,” Roper explained.

Roper stressed the importance of maintaining the separation of powers, as he referenced the recent action by the premier removing the Home Affairs Ministry from Minister Bernie Bush’s portfolio after interference in civil service matters, including “trying to place somebody into a position in the port and that shouldn’t happen”.

“I think the premier took decisive action and I hope we can all move on from that, but the personal relationships remain very good. I think it’s important that a stand was taken on that,” Roper said.

UK BVI DECISION A GOOD OUTCOME On Wednesday last Britain’s foreign minister Liz Truss announced that the UK will hold off on a governor-led administration in BVI and instead allow BVI Premier Natalio D. Wheatley and his Unity government to implement reforms

The Cayman Islands aims to strengthen its system. within set timelines.

Roper addressed that decision on the show saying it was a “good outcome” for not only BVI but all Overseas Territories.

“Some really bad governance, corruption and a lot of cronyism, some really, really bad things have been happening to BVIs’ governments over many years, but despite all that, the UK has left the overall responsibility for putting that right with the elected government in BVI. So I think that’s a positive for the region and I think premiers here and in other territories have welcomed it,” he said.

Roper welcomed the decision to allow Wheatley to lead this process of change

“The UK doesn’t want to have to impose… we’ll call it direct rule,” he said.

He added that the BVI situation and its fallout, including the arrest of its former premier Andrew Fahie is “a very salutary reminder to everybody that we need to protect our good governance institutions” so that elected officials can be “honest and implement the programme of the government of the day,” he said.

Cayman must be ‘ever vigilant’ Premier Wayne Panton, speaking in Parliament Thursday, updated legislators on the BVI decision and shared that he had joined a call with UK OT minister Amanda Milling on the matter.

He welcomed the decision to allow the new government to work

on fixing the issues flagged by the Commission of Inquiry report and said he is willing to assist his fellow OT leader in the process.

“I have passed on our thanks for the positive, constructive, and carefully considered approach taken by the UK during this process. In closing, we extend to the government and people of our sister Overseas Territory, the British Virgin Islands, our support and sincere best wishes, as they embark on a difficult but necessary journey. We also take this opportunity to remind ourselves that we must remain ever vigilant, take nothing for granted and renew our own commitment to the highest standards of governance,” he added. (Cayman Compass)

The Bahamas to eliminate its travel health visa requirement The Government of The Bahamas is removing another COVID requirement for international travellers. Effective at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, 19 June 2022, travellers will no longer need to apply for a Bahamas Travel Health Visa in order to enter the country.

Travellers will, however, still be required to present a negative COVID-19 test taken no more than three days (72 hours) prior to travel to The Bahamas.

“The discontinuation of the Travel Health Visa is yet another signal to the international community that we are open for business,” said the Honourable I. Chester Cooper, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments & Aviation.

“Throughout the pandemic, we have remained committed to evaluating protocols and adjusting requirements to reflect the current environment. We acknowledge

Travellers will, however, still be required to present a negative COVID-19 test taken no more than three days (72 hours) prior to travel to The Bahamas.

that the Travel Health Visa was a burden for travellers, and we are pleased to be able to eliminate it.”

While the streamlined entry protocols are a welcome change, the health and safety of all citizens, residents and visitors remain the priority. Besides having to test negative before flying to The Bahamas, travellers must also follow on-island guidelines for mask wearing and social distancing.

Testing requirements are as follows: Vaccinated travellers, as well as children ages 2-11, may present either a negative RT-PCR test or a Rapid Antigen test taken no more than three days (72 hours) prior to travel.

Unvaccinated travellers ages 12 and older must submit a negative RT-PCR test taken no more than three days (72 hours) prior to travel.

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Haiti’s gangs use TikTok, Instagram, Twitter to recruit and terrorise THE man wears a balaclava with a wide, toothy grin on the front — a stark contrast to the angry, threatladen rant he’s delivering.

If anyone in territory controlled by his 5 Segonn gang is killed, the amateur rapper known as “Izo” warns, he’ll slaughter 30 people in revenge. He repeats the message for his “soldiers.”

“You don’t have to wait for my orders,” Izo says in a video posted this month to tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram. He won’t show his gun on camera, he says — or his video might be reported to the platforms’ moderators.

The violent armed gangs that control much of Haiti are using social media to expand their reach and tighten their grip on the beleaguered Caribbean nation.

Posts aimed at energizing recruits, intimidating rivals and terrorisng the population are challenging the ability of the platforms to police the problematic content. Some here are calling for tighter controls.

“The bandits would never have been as powerful as they are in Haiti without social media,” said Yvens Rumbold of Policité, a policy think tank here. “We always had bandits in Haiti, but without these platforms, they would not be as famous.”

Jimmy Cherizier is a former police officer on whom the United States has imposed sanctions for allegedly leading armed groups in “coordinated, brutal attacks in Port-au-Prince neighborhoods,” the U.S. Treasury said in a release, including a five-day attack in May 2020 in which civilians were slain and houses burned.

When Cherizier united warring

gangs here into the G9 Family and Allies, he announced the alliance on YouTube. In a Twitter post, an account purporting to belong to him urged backers to “ransack everything.”

As violence between gangs in Port-au-Prince escalated in recent months, gang members posted photos of corpses on WhatsApp, human rights groups say. Izo uses several platforms to threaten and mock rivals, police officers and journalists.

Gangs use social media to promote themselves, push narratives, show their strength, delegitimize state institutions and recruit members. In some posts, gang leaders flash cash, gold chains and blinged-out watches, signifiers of a lifestyle that is far out of reach for the great majority in this impoverished nation.

“Social media is responsible for a lot of the insecurity climate that we have here,” said James Boyard, a political scientist at the State University of Haiti. “Social media has a huge responsibility … to vet their users, to analyze the images on the accounts and to censure them in some instances. They need to do more, frankly.”

Cherizier, in an interview with a sympathizer on YouTube, is asked specifically about the utility of social media.

“I’m thanking those who create these technologies,” he says. “Tech today gives us an opportunity to sell ourselves to the public. I’m not selling lies. I’m who I say I am. I do not do 99 percent of what they said I’ve done. … Technologies gave me an opportunity to defend myself.” (Washington Post) In October, Frantz Louis

Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the leader of the G9 Family and Allies coalition of gangs, stands atop a garbage pile to call attention to the conditions in which many Haitians live.

Juste, then Port-au-Prince’s top prosecutor, wrote a letter asking several platforms to “block or delete” the accounts of several individuals, including Cherizier, who he claimed were associated with criminal groups.

“These gangs instill a reign of terror in society,” he told The Washington Post. “They need less widespread publicity.”

The letter was made public but wasn’t sent to the companies that it named.

TikTok’s rules bar terrorist and criminal organizations from using the app. The company removed Izo’s account after The Post asked about it. It said it was reviewing others.

“There’s no place for violent extremism or promotion of violence on TikTok,” a spokesperson wrote in an email. “We will remove content and ban accounts that

violate our policies as we work to foster a safe and welcoming environment.”

Twitter said it was reviewing accounts and tweets “in line with our rules.” The company has reported receiving one legal request from Haiti to remove content. That was in 2016.

After being questioned by The Post, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, removed from Izo’s Facebook and Instagram accounts the video in which he threatens to kill 30 people. It did not remove his profiles, and the same video appeared on another Instagram account with his name.

“We regularly review organisations to determine if they violate our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy and ban them from our platforms if they do,” the company said in a

statement. “We use technology to detect violations and deploy global teams, which include native Creole speakers, to review content.”

YouTube did not respond to a request for comment.

Gangs have long had a presence in Haiti, but their power has grown in recent years amid a broader deterioration of democratic institutions and security conditions.

Analysts estimate that they control 60 percent of the country and are on the brink of becoming, collectively, a “proto state.”

In recent years, gang kidnappings for ransom have skyrocketed. No one has been immune — victims have included American missionaries, French clergy and Haitians of all ages and backgrounds.

Haiti’s Center for Analysis and Research on Human Rights counted 225 kidnappings in the first quarter of 2022 — up nearly 60 percent from the same period last year.

Since April, armed violence in the capital between 400 Mawozo, the gang implicated in the kidnapping last year of 17 American and Canadian missionaries with an Ohio-based charity, and Chen Mechan, a rival gang, has escalated. The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has called the level of violence “unimaginable and intolerable.”

Nearly 17,000 Haitians have been displaced by the clashes, according to the United Nations, and at least 200 have been killed — almost half of them civilians.

Deepening insecurity is one factor fueling an exodus of Haitians on rickety boats bound for the United States and elsewhere on sometimes deadly voyages. (Washington Post)

PM Davis: I told US Caribbean nations feel neglected PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis says he told the United States that Caribbean countries in the Americas have felt neglected by the US, compounded by a view that “we are only known when we’re needed”.

Mr Davis said he felt gratified by the response from both President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

He met with them both on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas, held between June 6 to June 10 in Los Angeles, California.

“Those talks were about the fact that we in the Caribbean felt truly neglected by the leader of the world, the United States,” Mr Davis said yesterday following an event at the Aqualina development

Prime Minister Philip Davis said he felt gratified by the response from both President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

at Cable Beach, “and that we felt as though, as I indicated to the vice president, that sometimes we are only known when we’re needed and also that the approach to us, or about us, is always without us and we needed to be having conversations.

“I was truly gratified by the responses we got, both from the Vice President and the President of the United States. They acknowledged that they have to reset our relationships and there has been a commitment to do so.”

Mr Davis said there were a number of outcomes from the Summit that inspired and gave him the optimism that both The Bahamas and US are back in the relationship that ought to be in

place.

This followed meetings with the US President in respect to climate change and what the US can do to assist when The Bahamas moves to adapt to the consequences of climate change and seeks technical assistance and grant funding to aid the country in adaptation measures, Mr Davis added.

“There’s also ways and means, and grant concessions for our litigation issues and so, yes, we had a very fruitful Summit of the Americas with our Caribbean counterparts.

“Of course, there were some geopolitical issues being discussed.

Again we think our voice was heard on these matters.”

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Canadian flight crew held in Dominican Republic appeals to prime minister for help THE Canadian airline crew that is being held in the Dominican Republic released a video appealing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for help.

The crew of a Pivot Airlines flight said they reported suspected drugs on board their aircraft and, after reporting them to local authorities, they were detained.

Pivot Airlines is based in Mississauga, Ont., operating from Toronto Pearson International Airport.

The drugs were found on April 6 at Punta Cana International Airport, according to the Dominican Republic’s National Directorate for Drug Control.

“Two months ago we discovered suspected contraband on board our aircraft destined for Canada,” a pilot with the crew who identified himself as Rob said in a video shared by the airline on Twitter.

“We reported it immediately to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Dominican authorities. The Dominicans threw us in jail.”

The crew was initially imprisoned before being released on bail.

In May, Dominican Republic prosecutors sought to return the crew to jail for up to 12 months, according to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), a union representing the crew.

A report by the National Post said Dominican Republic prosecutors are alleging the airliner was a drugsmuggling front, despite offering little actual evidence.

“It is entirely unacceptable that our members have been thrown in jail for doing their jobs, and dutifully reporting a crime,” Tim Perry, the president of ALPA Canada said.

The crew described gruesome conditions during their incarceration and pleaded with the Canadian government to help.

“We have been threatened with death by narco criminals, extorted by inmates and have lived in inhumane and humiliating conditions,” the pilot said.

He described the situation as a

The crew described gruesome conditions during their incarceration and pleaded with the Canadian government to help. “nightmare,” saying the crew could be sent back to jail “at a moment’s notice.”

Another member of the crew, who did not identify herself when she spoke, said the Dominican Republic authorities had not “questioned, interviewed or interrogated” the crew at any point since they were detained.

Global Affairs Canada has previously said it was aware of the crew and continues to “monitor the situation closely.”

Parliamentary Secretary Maninder Sidhu also travelled to the Dominican Republic and met with local government officials, where he raised the incident involving Pivot Airlines, the federal government said.

Global Affairs Canada reiterated its previous statements on Tuesday.

Trudeau met with the president

St Vincent: Hand, foot and mouth disease found in some schools THE Ministry of Wellbeing in St Vincent and the Grenadines is intently monitoring the present scenario of Hand, Foot and Mouth illness as there have been confirmed instances in academic establishments within the nation.

Hand, Foot and Mouth illness (HFMD) is a typical viral sickness amongst infants and youngsters below the age of 5, however may also happen in adults.

The virus can unfold from individual to individual by way of shut private contact similar to hugging an contaminated individual; the air when an contaminated individual coughs or sneezes; contact with faeces similar to altering the diapers of an contaminated individual or touching contaminated surfaces like door knobs then touching your eyes, nostril or mouth earlier than washing your palms.

HFMD often begins with fever, sore throat, diminished urge for food and a sense of being unwell.

Hand, Foot and Mouth illness (HFMD) is a typical viral sickness amongst infants and youngsters below the age of 5, however may also happen in adults.

One or two days after the fever begins, painful sores can develop within the mouth. They often start as small purple spots, usually behind the mouth that blister and may grow to be painful.

A pores and skin rash on the

palms of the palms and soles of the ft might also develop over one or two days as flat, purple spots, generally with blisters.

It might additionally seem on the knees, elbows, buttocks or genital space.

of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, on the margins of the Summit of the Americas on June 10, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

“The leaders recognized the many ties between their countries in trade and investment, as well as in the tourism sector,” a public statement said.

The statement also said Trudeau “raised the case of the Canadian air crew in the Dominican Republic” and that he was given “assurances that the authorities will address the matter according to the rule of law.”

The crew is currently out on bail but cannot leave the Dominican Republic. (Globalnews.ca)

Narrative Research Bermuda said results from its study showed that most people were “feeling the pinch”.

Bermuda: Residents cut back on food spending as rising cost of living impacts island ABOUT a third of residents feel forced to buy less food and almost a fifth are choosing less healthy options owing to rising prices, a new survey has found.

Narrative Research Bermuda said results from its study showed that most people were “feeling the pinch”.

A spokesman explained: “Inflation, linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and global supplychain issues, has left its mark on Bermuda over the past six months.

“As with many other countries worldwide experiencing rising price tags, the cost of food in Bermuda has been impacted as well.

“The impact of rising food prices on grocery shopping is keenly felt, with six in ten (62 per

cent) residents stating that they now must budget for food more closely.

“Another four in ten (42 per cent) indicate that they must change what food they are purchasing, while one third (34 per cent) are obliged to purchase less food as a result of the higher costs.”

He added that 17 per cent of respondents said that they buy less healthy options.

The spokesman highlighted: “Most notably, only a small minority of residents (17 per cent) say that they have not had to take any of the actions previously mentioned.

“Females are more likely than males to report having to purchase less food and purchase less healthy options.” (Royal Gazette)

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Suspect admits shooting missing Amazon pair, Brazil police say

Smoke rises above the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk which is now believed to be mostly under Russian control.

Ukraine war: Thousands of civilians trapped in Severodonetsk THOUSANDS of civilians are trapped in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk with essential supplies running out, the United Nations is warning.

Many of them are sheltering in bunkers beneath the city’s Azot chemical plant.

The last bridge leading out of the city was destroyed in fighting earlier this week - effectively trapping its 12,000 remaining residents inside.

For weeks capturing Severodonetsk has been a top military goal for Russia, which now controls most of the city.

“The lack of water and sanitation is a big worry. It’s a huge concern for us because people cannot survive for long without water,” spokesperson for the UN’s Humanitarian Affairs office Saviano Abreu told the BBC. Mr Abreu added that food supplies and health provisions were also running out in Severodonetsk, which is in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region.

The UN is hoping to provide aid to those trapped in the city, but continued fighting means its agencies cannot get access or assurances to safely reach the civilians still there, including women, children and the elderly.

The warning followed Russian promises to open a humanitarian corridor earlier on Wednesday to evacuate civilians trapped beneath the Azot plant.

But so far there has been no confirmation that the planned safe route - which would have evacuated civilians into Russiancontrolled territory to the city’s

north - had actually gone ahead.

On Wednesday a pro-Russian separatist official accused Ukrainian forces of “completely thwarting” the evacuation of civilians trapped in the chemical plant.

“At Azot, militants are trying to disrupt the evacuation! From the territory of the plant, the militants have begun firing from a mortar and a tank,” Rodion Miroshnik, the “ambassador” to Moscow of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, said on Telegram.

The BBC has not been able to verify this claim.

Russian media outlets also blamed Ukrainian forces for the fact that civilians were trapped alongside its fighters in the plant - accusing them of using local residents as “human shields”.

Gazprom-owned NTV suggested there may be as many as 1,200 people, including children, trapped underneath the plant.

While civilians took shelter below the Azot complex, Russian and Ukrainian forces battled for control of the city above ground.

Capturing Severodonetsk would give Moscow command over almost all the Luhansk region, much of which is controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

In an update posted on Telegram the city’s mayor said that Ukraine was still in control of Severodonetsk’s eastern district.

“Efforts are being made to push the enemy back towards the city centre. It’s a permanent situation with partial success and tactical retreat in places,” Oleksandr Stryuk said. (BBC)

BRAZILIAN police say a suspect has confessed to shooting British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

Detective Eduardo Fontes said the man, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains were dug up.

He said police would work with Interpol to confirm the bodies’ identities.

Two suspects, brothers Amarildo and Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, have been arrested in connection with the case.

Detective Fontes told journalists the “first suspect” - Amarildo had “recounted in detail the crime that was committed and indicated the place where he buried the bodies”. His brother denies any involvement.

Police said they expect to carry out further arrests, and the motive for the killings is under investigation.

Mr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, went missing in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru on 5 June.

Mr Phillips’ wife, Alessandra Sampaio, said in a statement: “Although we are still awaiting definitive confirmations, this tragic outcome puts an end to the anguish of not knowing Dom and Bruno’s whereabouts. Now we can bring them home and say goodbye with love.

Federal police officers escorted a man accused of being involved in Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira’s disappearance.

“Today, we also begin our quest for justice. I hope that the investigations exhaust all possibilities and bring definitive answers on all relevant details as soon as possible.”

She expressed her thanks to everyone involved in the search for her husband and Mr Pereira, “especially the indigenous peoples and Univaja”.

Univaja, the region’s indigenous association, was the first to alert authorities when the pair went missing.

The group expressed its “deep sadness” following the news conference.

It said of the men’s deaths: “Univaja understands their murder is a political crime, they were

both human rights defenders and died doing work to look after us indigenous people from Vale do Javari.”

Briton Mr Phillips had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper. He was working on a book about the Amazon.

Mr Pereira, a Brazilian who was on leave from his post with the government’s indigenous affairs agency Funai, was an expert on isolated tribes.

Days before Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira went missing, indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing in the area.

Toronto police use more force against people of colour – report BLACK people are two times as likely to have an interaction with Toronto police, and 1.6 times as likely to have force used on them, a report has found.

The report from Canada’s largest municipal force confirmed longstanding concerns that people of colour are disproportionately targeted by police.

Police Chief James Ramer apologised on Wednesday for the “pain” caused by the evidence of biased policing.

“There is systemic discrimination in our policing,” he said.

The expansive statistics released today were drawn from 949 useof-force incidents and 7,114 strip searches by Toronto police in 2020.

The report found that black, indigenous, Middle Eastern and Asian Torontonians were overrepresented in both use-of-force incidents and strip searches

Chief Ramer apologised as he revaled the new data. relative to their total population in the Canadian city.

The racial disparities remain regardless of the reason for calls or what the main offence turned out to be. Race was the only major observable variable.

Police also tended to use a higher degree of force against those residents compared to white

people, especially when it came to drawing firearms.

Black, South Asian and East/ South Asian people were much more likely - 1.5 times, 1.6 times and two times, respectively - to have an officer point a firearm at them during a police interaction, whether they were perceived as armed or unarmed.

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US makes biggest interest rate rise in almost 30 years THE US central bank has announced its biggest interest rate rise in nearly 30 years as it ramps up its fight to rein in soaring consumer prices.

The Federal Reserve said it would increase its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.

The rise, the third since March, comes after inflation in the US surged unexpectedly last month.

More hikes are expected, adding to the uncertainty facing the economy.

Forecasts released after the meeting showed officials expect the rate the Fed charges banks to borrow could reach 3.4% by the end of the year, the moves rippling out to the public in the form of higher borrowing costs for mortgages, credit cards and other loans.

As central banks around the world take similar steps, it marks a massive change for the global economy, where businesses and households have enjoyed years of low borrowing costs.

“Most advanced economy central banks and some emerging market central banks are tightening

policy in sync,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at strategy consulting firm EY-Parthenon.

“That is a global environment that we’ve not been accustomed to in the past few decades, and that will represent ramifications for the business sector and for consumers throughout the world.”

INFLATION ‘SURPRISE’ In the UK, where consumer prices jumped 9% in April, the Bank of England is expected to announce its fifth rate rise since December on Thursday, pushing its benchmark rate above 1% for the first time since 2009.

Brazil, Canada and Australia have also raised rates, while the European Central Bank has outlined plans to do so later this summer.

In the US, which slashed rates to support the economy when the pandemic hit in 2020, the Fed has already raised rates twice this year, by 0.25 percentage points in March and another half point in May. At the time, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said officials were not considering

The head of the Federal Reserve is under pressure as price rises accelerate. sharper rises.

But figures on Friday, which showed US inflation rising to 8.6% in May - the fastest pace since 1981 - pushed officials to move more aggressively, Mr Powell said at a press conference following this week’s meeting.

“It is essential that we bring inflation down,” he said, acknowledging that a 0.75 percentage point rise was “unusually large”.

“Inflation has obviously

surprised to the upside over the past year and further surprises could be in store,” he said. “We therefore will need to be nimble.”

PLAYING CATCH UP Many analysts say the Fed is struggling to catch up, after Mr Powell and others last year dismissed price rises as a temporary problem related to supply chain issues.

Since then, inflation has sharpened due to factors like

the war in Ukraine and ongoing Covid-19 shutdowns in China.

Recent surveys suggest the public expects the problem will continue to worsen, despite the Fed’s vows to act.

“The Fed is under the gun and facing an inflation credibility test,” said economist David Beckworth, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

The last time the Fed announced a rate hike of this size was 1994.

The move, which makes borrowing more expensive, is expected to cool demand and slow economic activity - in theory, easing price pressures.

But by acting late, and now moving more aggressively to compensate, policymakers face a greater chance that their actions will induce an economic downturn, Mr Daco said.

“I’m increasingly worried,” he added. “I wouldn’t be surprised that around the turn of the year we face an environment where growth is stalling and we’re pretty close to a recessionary environment, with the unemployment rate on the rise and no longer declining.” (BBC)

Lord Geidt quits: Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser resigns THE PM’s ethics adviser has quit a day after saying there was a “legitimate question” about whether Boris Johnson broke ministerial rules over Partygate.

Lord Geidt did not give a reason for leaving the role he took in April, but said it was the “right thing” to do.

His predecessor, Sir Alex Allan, quit in 2020 after Mr Johnson overruled him over a report into alleged bullying by Home Secretary Priti Patel.

The government said it was “surprised” by Lord Geidt’s decision.

“Whilst we are disappointed, we thank Lord Geidt for his public service,” a spokesperson added.

The spokesperson gave no reason for the resignation but said Lord Geidt had been asked this week “to provide advice on a commercially sensitive matter in the national interest, which has previously had cross-party support.

No decision had been taken pending that advice”.

No 10 did not make it clear what these comments referred to.

A Downing Street source told the BBC that Lord Geidt’s resignation had been a “total surprise and a mystery” to the prime minister, adding: “Only on Monday Lord

Lord Geidt did not give a reason for leaving the role he took in April, but said it was the “right thing” to do.

Geidt asked if he could stay on for six months.”

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “The prime minister has now driven both of his own handpicked ethics advisers to resign in despair.

“If even they can’t defend his conduct in office, how can anyone believe he is fit to govern?”

Liberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said: “When both of Boris Johnson’s own ethics advisers have quit, it is obvious that he is the one who needs to go.”

Former cabinet secretary Lord

Turnbull said of Mr Johnson: “The pattern of behaviour is that anyone who has the power to criticise, obstruct or force him to change, he will try to reduce their power, suborn them or in the last resort wave them aside.”

But he told BBC Newsnight that “the charge sheet of Boris Johnson’s conduct is now so long that one accusation isn’t going to make any difference”, adding the prime minister would only leave office if he was removed as Tory leader by MPs. It was reported that Lord Geidt

had threatened to quit last month after the publication of the Sue Gray report into lockdown breaches in Downing Street unless Mr Johnson issued a public explanation for his conduct.

Appearing before a committee of MPs on Tuesday, Lord Geidt said: “Resignation is one of the rather blunt but few tools available to the adviser. I am glad that my frustrations were addressed in the way that they were.”

But, in a brief written statement on Wednesday, he said: “With regret, I feel that it is right that I

am resigning from my post as independent adviser on ministers’ interests.”

Mr Johnson was fined in April over a surprise birthday party in his honour that he attended in Downing Street in June 2020.

Writing to Lord Geidt afterwards, he said there had been “no intent” to break Covid regulations”, and that he had been “fully accountable to Parliament and the British people”.

The ministerial code, which outlines the rules government ministers must follow, says there is an “overarching duty” on them to comply with the law.

If the code is broken, the convention in Westminster is for a minister to resign.

In his annual report on ministers’ interests, published on 1 June, Lord Geidt said questions around Mr Johnson’s behaviour had led to an “impression... the prime minister may be unwilling to have his own conduct judged against” the ministerial code.

He said that, when it came to the Partygate fine, “a legitimate question has arisen as to whether those facts alone might have constituted a breach of the overarching duty within the ministerial code of complying with the law”.

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China will support Russia on security, Xi tells Putin in birthday call CHINESE leader Xi Jinping reiterated his support for Moscow on “sovereignty and security” matters in a call with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, upholding his backing for the countries’ partnership despite the global backlash against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking on his 69th birthday, Xi also pledged to deepen strategic coordination between the two countries, according to China’s Foreign Ministry.

A separate readout from the Kremlin said the two leaders stressed their countries’ relations were “were at an all-time high” and reaffirmed their commitment to “consistently deepen the comprehensive partnership.”

The call is thought to be the second time the two leaders have spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine. They also spoke just days after Moscow launched what it insists on calling a “special military operation.”

China, too, has refrained from referring to Russia’s actions as an invasion and has walked a fine line on the issue. It has portrayed itself as calling for peace and upholding the global order, while refusing to denounce Russia’s actions. It has also used its state media apparatus to mimic Kremlin lines blaming the United States and NATO for the crisis.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 5, 2019.

During Wednesday’s call, Xi stressed China had always “independently assessed the situation” in Ukraine and called for “all parties” to push for a “proper settlement of the Ukraine crisis” -- echoing language he used in a March call with US President Joe Biden.

China is “willing to continue to play its role” in promoting a “proper solution” to Ukraine, he

said.

The Kremlin’s summary of the call took this position a step further, saying: “the President of China noted the legitimacy of Russia’s actions to protect fundamental national interests in the face of challenges to its security created by external forces.”

TRADE TIES Wednesday’s call was also a chance

for the two leaders to check in on a growing trade relationship.

Earlier this year, weeks before the Russian invasion, the two leaders in a face-to-face meeting said their countries had a “no limits” partnership and pledged to boost trade.

“Since the beginning of this year, bilateral relations have maintained a sound development momentum in the face of global

turbulence and transformations,” Xi said in the Wednesday call.

“The Chinese side stands ready to work with the Russian side to push for steady and long-term development of practical bilateral cooperation,” Xi said, pointing to the “steady progress” of their trade ties and the opening last week of the first cross-border highway bridge over the Amur River.

The two agreed to expand cooperation in energy, finance, manufacturing and other areas, “taking into account the global economic situation that has become more complicated due to the illegitimate sanctions policy pursued by the West,” the Kremlin readout said.

The two countries also pledged to work together to strengthen communication and coordination in international bodies such as the United Nations -- where the two often vote as a bloc.

“China is also willing to work with Russia to promote solidarity and cooperation among emerging market countries ... and push for the development of the international order and global governance towards a more just and reasonable direction,” Xi said, in a comment that hit on the countries’ shared aim of pushing back against what they view as the global hegemony of the United States. (CNN)

Buffalo shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes THE gunman accused of killing 10 people in an upstate New York supermarket has been charged with hate crimes by the US justice department.

Authorities believe that suspect Payton Gendron, 18, was motivated by racial hatred. Almost all the victims in the shooting were black.

He now faces 26 federal hate crime and firearms charges, some of which carry the possibility of the death penalty.

Mr Gendron has pleaded not guilty to separate state charges.

According to the federal criminal complaint released on Wednesday, Mr Gendron’s “motive for the mass shooting was to prevent black people from replacing white people”.

The complaint also alleges that he hoped to “inspire others to commit similar attacks”.

A total of 13 people were shot in the 14 May shooting. Three of them survived.

“No one in this country should have to live in fear that they will go to work or shop at a grocery store

Accused Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron in court on 19 May. and will be attacked by someone who hates them because of the colour of their skin,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference in Buffalo on Wednesday.

Following the incident, authorities said the accused gunman drove more than 320km

(200 miles) to a predominantly black neighbourhood in Buffalo - New York’s second-largest city - with the specific intention of ending “as many black lives as possible”.

A manifesto believed to be written by the alleged attacker, in which he describes himself as both

a fascist and a white supremacist, also emerged in the wake of the shooting.

The new charges against Mr Gendron include 10 counts of hate crime resulting in death, three counts involving bodily injury, and 10 counts of use of a firearm to commit murder and in relation to a

violent crime.

He also faces three counts of use and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime.

While a moratorium was placed on federal executions in July 2021, Mr Garland said that the Department of Justice would follow existing procedures to determine whether it will seek the death penalty for Mr Gendron.

He added that “families and the survivors will be consulted” as the government makes that assessment.

The suspected gunman faces separate domestic terrorism and murder charges filed by New York State. He has remained in custody since the shooting.

It is believed to be the first time that a New York domestic terrorism law enacted in 2020 is being used against a defendant.

The Buffalo shooting, together with another recent mass shooting at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas that left 21 people dead, has led to renewed calls for stricter gun control measures in the US. (BBC)

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS TURKS WAVE CAFE 21 ridge Road, Turtle Cove Is seeking to employ a

KITCHEN HELPER

JOB ADVERTISEMENT Wymara Resort and Villas is a contemporary luxury full-service boutique resort on Grace Bay Beach. We are looking for driven and energetic professionals with Five Star experience and who are committed to achieving excellence by ensuring Five Star standards and services are continuously delivered.

*ROOM ATTENDANT:

Report directly to the Assist Director of Housekeeping.

Responsible for the overall cleanliness of assigned rooms/suites and provide a pleasant, comfortable experience for guest. Reports maintenance deficiencies in order to maintain rooms/suites in compliance with standards. Compensation: $6.25 per hour

*DOMESTIC WORKER:

Report directly to the Assist Director of Housekeeping.

To clean and maintain all public areas (i.e. hotel lobby, restrooms) in impeccable condition in accordance Conrad Miami standards and they promote a positive image of the property to guests for a better hotel rating score. Compensation: $6.25 per hour

*SPA THERAPIST:

The Spa Therapist professional massage and body treatments to our guests. They must have a thorough knowledge of numerous massage modalities, possess a general understanding of body treatments and be willing to train in our spa’s specific massage and body treatment offerings. They must possess excellent communication skills and be able to learn the product and service knowledge necessary to effectively provide wellness solutions to meet the needs of our guests. Salary Commission Based.

RESERVATIONS AGENT:

Oversee the efficient operation of the reservations department in selling of guest rooms to accommodate guest needs and maximize revenue.

The Reservations Agent is the first point of contact for the resort for all inbound inquires. He/she will be responsible for taking all future reservations for the resort and managing all client inquiries and requests. Will work with the Revenue Manager and Sales Team. The Reservations Agent is energetic, personable, independent, and accustomed to fast paced environment. He/she is flexible and, always maintain their professional composure.

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inquiries and requests and promptly provide accurate information regarding availability, accommodation types, transportation to and from hotel, rate, etc.

Promote Wymara Resort and Villas marketing programs and assign reservations based on guest preferences and availability.

Coordinate the input of all Group rooming lists and the posting of their deposits, as well as any subsequent revisions to group reservations.

Periodically meet with General and Revenue managers to handle group requirements.

Coordinate and maintain all VIP, Leisure & IT market allotments and Tour blocks in accordance with contractual obligations in the Central Reservations System.

Assist the Revenue Manager in the processing of daily reports, as well as group and individual reservations data utilizing systems, spreadsheet software & basic mathematical skills.

Attend meetings (Staff, Revenue Management, Pre-convention, departmental meetings and others) as needed.

Assist other departments as required.

Salary range: 25K per annum

*HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR

Works with Room Attendants to ensure guest rooms and public areas are maintained to luxury standards.

Assisting staff with daily tasks according to occupancy.

Inspects work and coaches to develop consistent skills, assists in inventory and reporting. At least 4 years’ experience as luxury resort room attendant and supervisory experience preferred. PC skills required, Opera preferred, must have exceptional attention to detail and consistency in adhering to luxury standards. Salary Range: $20k-$ 25k

*EXECUTIVE CHEF:

LABOURER

Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times.

Salary: $12.00 hourly CONTACT: 649-347-4782

CONTACT: 231-6089

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30917

OLWICK NEAT Rigby Hill, Five Cays 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: 331-2251

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30245

MAUDELINE BARREAU-ADAMS Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

TECHNICIAN

Install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems.

Salary: $300.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 343-6418 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30903

CONRAD EWING

BOOKKEEPING CLERK

DOMESTIC WORKER

24 Chandelle Drive Is seeking to employ a

Responsible for maintaining an organization’s key accounting records etc.

Salary: Based on qualifications

Interested applicants can contact our Human Resources Department, Monday through Friday 9am to 5pm on (649)941-7555. E- Mail cover letter outlining your interest and supporting experience in a particular position along with your Resume or C.V. to Hr@wymararesortandvillas.com

CONTACT: 241-6698

Answer the telephone (or respond to written communication) and greet prospective guests in a friendly manner using clear English communication. Listen to callers to understand

Belongers are encouraged to submit a copy of their resume to the Labor Department 30910

DIGITS & DOCS

CONTACT: 345-4689

•

#4AB COOPER JACK ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a

Duties: Cleaning up on premises, doing minor repairs Buildings.

Salary $7.00 per hour

The Executive Chef will train and manage kitchen personnel and supervise/coordinate all related culinary activities; estimate food consumption and requisition or purchase food; select and develop recipes; standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality; establish presentation technique and quality standards; plan and price menus; ensure proper equipment operation/maintenance; and ensure proper safety and sanitation in the kitchen. The Chef must have the ability to manage in a diverse environment with focus on client and customer services is essential to success in this role.

Previous experience with control food and labor cost, demonstration cooking, menu development, and pricing and development of culinary team preferred.

The ideal candidates will possess three to five years in the culinary industry with management experience.

Compensation: $85k - $95k per annum.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

STANCH CONSTRUCTION LTD.

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30906

UNIVERSAL TCHEKE Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

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

Salary: $300.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 649-247-1722 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30915

THE TERRACE LTD. Grace Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

MUSICIAN Perform music in front of crowd.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30945

Cleaning property, pick up yard waste, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. $6.25 Hourly

COOK

Setting up workstations.

Preparing ingredients, chopping and peeling vegetables, cutting meat etc. Cooking food in various utensils or grillers. $7.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 432-1025 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL 30919

June 11-17, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

NAOMIE JEAN AGENOR Millennium Highway, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 346-5152 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30937

MYLANDIE WILLIAMS Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 241-6698

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30946

JOSE LOUIS

JOHN ROBINSON

LABOURER

LABOURER

Chandelle Dr., Venetian Road Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $7.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 232-3261 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30947

JEAN BAPTISTE ISENOR Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Hospital Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

LOUIS MARY FRANCOIS

Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

KITCHEN HELPER

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: 348-8587 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30942

CONTACT: 232-1762

Belongers are to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30933

JACKIE’S CLEANING SERVICES

Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

CONTACT: 649-232-3266

JOSEPH SALIFERE CHARLES The Bight Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Provide assistance to the cook and dishwasher and stock workers, Ensure the line is set up and all foods are held and served at a proper temperature.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

BELONGERS ONLY RENEWAL

LEVELT JULIEN

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

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: 341-0900

CONTACT: 344-8551

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30922

30941

30943

JODEL PIERRE

JEAN LAURENT

JEAN CLAUDE AGUSTE

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

DOMESTIC WORKER

BABYSITTER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

MAINTENANCE WORKER Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines.

Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 343-2165

CONTACT: 243-4639

CONTACT: 649-341-9945

CONTACT: 342-0275/241-5071

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

JOHN PETER RELIS

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

Manual labor, minor maintenance and repairs.

Must be willing to work 5 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

LIZ’S BAKERY AND FOODS

Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

CLASSIFIEDS 25

LABOURER

30921

VIP BEAUTY SALON & BARBER

Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

#2 Grace Plaza, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CLEANER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

30930

Front Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

30923

30929

SAMUEL STUBBS

SAMUEL BELIZAIRE

RENANDE A. PINDER

Kew Town, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

South Dock, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Leeward Highway, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

CLEANER

Clean the yard, trim down the trees in the yard, Sweep and remove debris from outside, and assist with other labor work around the property.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 341-0900

CONTACT: 343-2852

CONTACT: 333-5032

CONTACT: 333-5032

CONTACT: 342-9699

CONTACT: 342-4425

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

ANNE-ROSE TIREMAR

30938

30928

P&C DELIVERY A. SERVICES

DORCE HEROD OCCIUS

HELPER

CLEANER

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Pick up merchandise from different locations. Upload and offload goods Assisting during delivery. Clean the delivery truck.

Salary: $6.25 per hour

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

To clean the yard, trim down the trees, remove debris, and assist with other cleaner work around the property.

Salary: $6.25 per hour.

Sweep and mop, clean and maintain the salon's appearance, clean equipment, and wash salon towels.

SALARY: 6.25 per hour.

30962

DELUXE BAR & RESTAURANT New Airport Road, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

WAITRESS

Greet customers and present menus. Take and serve food/drinks orders. Keep tables clean. Deliver checks and collect payments.

Salary: 6.25 per hour

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean the bathroom and replace tissue.

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

Salary: $6.25 per hour

30966

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean the bathroom and replace tissue.

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

Salary: $6.25 per hour

30959

COME TO SEE STORE

CARLINE CHARITE

Residence Yard, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

STORE HELPER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Clean the store every morning, Clean the bathroom. Assist owner when needed.

Remove trash from the store Salary: $6.25 per hour

30964

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CARETAKER

Sweep the house.

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

Wash & iron.

Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

Help the patient get dressed, eat, bathe and complete light housekeeping duties, monitor meals, and medication, run errands, Salary: 6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 346-9699

CONTACT: 342-9699

CONTACT: 348-6953

CONTACT: 342-7810

CONTACT: 333-5032

CONTACT: 241-6273

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

RENEWAL. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

FIRST TIME. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE

FIRST TIME, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

FIRST TIME, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

30960

30968

30965

30967

30961

30963

26 CLASSIFIEDS ALL SERVICES TCI acting on behalf of:

NEKO N. RIGBY

DOMESTIC WORKER

General cleaning duties. $6.75 Hourly HERMON FORBES

DOMESTIC WORKER

General cleaning duties. $6.75 Hourly. Renewal 31132

ALL STARS BAR & RESTAURANT

UNIT #6 GRANT’S GAS STATION, DOWN TOWN Is seeking

CASHIER – $7.00 HOURLY

ANOUZE JEAN WILLIAMS BLUE HILLS, MIRACLE CL. BLD #45 Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Greets customers, receive payment, Issue receipts, and change due to customers.

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Cleaning property, pick up yard waste, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

CONTACT: 344-0775 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY

CONTACT: 347-8803

LABOURER – $6.50 HOURLY

31154

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 31156

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS FLAMINGO PHARMACY requires a

LICENSED PHARMACY TECHNICIAN

• Must have pharmacy technician qualification from recognized college including at least 1 year of classroom-based learning.

• At least 4 years post qualification experience.

• Will be required to pass a pharmacy technician exam paper as part of interview process.

• Duties will include accurate

dispensing, use of dispensary software, maintenance of pharmacy stock, NHIP billing and OTC advice.

• Recent experience with extemporaneous preparations of liquids and creams desired.

• Willing to work long shifts, weekends and holidays.

• $12-$17 per hour depending on experience and qualifications.

PLEASE SEND COVER LETTER, RESUME AND COPIES OF QUALIFICATIONS TO JOBS@ FLAMINGOPHARMACY.COM OR IN PERSON AT FLAMINGO PHARMACY, CABOT HOUSE, GRACEWAY PLAZA, LEEWARD HIGHWAY. ONLY SHORT-LISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED. APPLICANTS ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AT THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT. THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER. QUALIFIED TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO LODGE AN APPLICATION WITH THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT.

CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT DESIGN SUPERVISOR ROLE TO INCLUDE

June 11-17, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

• Supervising all aspects of Development (design, budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) • Prepare master-planning and feasibility studies for new development sites, locally / internationally • Lead project team on architectural design, planning, & construction • Produce detailed scheduling and cost analysis • Liaise with commercial / residential clients, and government authorities • Oversee financial administration, cashflow, budget proformas, P&L • Manage detailed design, and advanced technical drawings, and sign-off • Undertake project reviews and provide

BLUE HERON VACATIONS 2 Queens Landing Plaza, Allegro Road, is seeking a

BUTLER

BARMAID

Applicants must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience at a local resort or hotel. Must speak perfect English, be willing to work weekends and evenings and have a strong work ethic. Salary: $2500 per month QUALIFIED APPLICANTS MUST SEND RESUME’S TO CLAUDIUS@BLUEHERONTCI.COM | PHONE: 649-232-3901

31125

D’ROJAS BEAUTY SALON

Lightbourne’s Bargain Center, Down Town, Providenciales Is seeking to employ

HAIRDRESSER

Cutting, trimming, and shaping clients’ hair as well as wigs, hair extensions, hairpieces, and toupees based on clients’ preferences and specifications.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 341-2506

Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board 31134

CAMILLE SLATTERY Long Bay Hills

DOMESTIC WORKER Dusting, sweeping, mopping, Windows, cleaning bathrooms,kitchen, living room, laundry, etc. $8. hourly

BOTTOMS UP BAR

Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ - $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: 245-8350

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31146

DARD’S GROCERY

Bottle Creek, North Caicos. 649-331-8136

ONE (1) STORE CLERK Is needed to work on a shift system during hours of operation. Must be able to work overtime; receive price and stock goods; have a working knowledge of how to operate a computer and have knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Salary: $7 per hour.

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. RENEWAL AND BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31127

SAMANTHA ELCIUS GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

CARETAKER

D&B TILE

SOUTH DOCK Is seeking to employ a

MASON

Duties: To care for two children after School, sometimes at evenings, be reliable. SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

Laying block and plastering. Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 331-1979

CONTACT: 232-3465

Belongers are to apply to Labour Board. Work permit renewal 31131

Belongers please Send a copy of your resume to the Labour office. This is a first time work permit application.

31168

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board.

A work permit holder currently holds this position 31174

RAPHAEL JOSUE

ANTHONY L. FORBES

Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

South Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

TELUCIEN TELLUS

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

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

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-331-8821

CONTACT: 241-8969

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD WORK PERMIT RENEWAL 30911

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

CALL 245-7869

progress reports

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• RIBA or AIA Masters Degree in Architecture • Min. 8 years in design construction • Min. 5 years working in luxury residential developments in a senior management role • Proficient in CoConstruct / Buildertrend / Bluebeam / Excel / Adobe / AutoCAD / REVIT • Project Management Certification preferred (PMP / PMI-ACP) Annual salary beginning from $60,000, commensurate with experience.

PLEASE SEND RESUMES TO CONTACT@SPCARIBBEAN.COM WINDWARD CONSTRUCTION LTD.

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 341-5882

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30939

Granny Hill, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

30920

June 11-17, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS DUSSE MOISE OF ARCHIE

Civil & Structural Engineering Ltd

P.O. Box 158, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, BWI. Tel: (649) 941 4437 Fax: (649) 946 4670 E-mail: cse@tciway.tc

CSE LIMITED Seeks

A SITE / ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT MUST POSSESS:

• University degree in Civil or Structural Engineering • Over 10 years of relevant project experience as a Resident Engineer or Site Supervisor • Knowledge of site health & safety, materials testing and quality control • Structural engineering design experience and AutoCAD skills • Computer literate, with excellent Word and Excel skills • Must be fluent in English and Spanish and be able to communicate effectively in both languages, including report writing

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE AND CANDIDATES SHOULD HAVE EXPERIENCE

IN:

• Site inspections and surveys • Materials testing on site and in laboratory • Reporting writing and shop drawing review • Structural design calculations and technical drawing work

Morley Yard Five Cays is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Perform domestic duties around the home on all interior and exterior surfaces - must be able to work weekends Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour.

CONTACT: (649) 344-693231124

CLASSIFIEDS 27 DALE ROBINSON GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Duties: Regular household Chores and some cooking. SALARY: $6.50 per hour.

CONTACT: 346-9101 Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time work Permit application.

31169

ER CLEANING SERVICES

28 Oyster Lane, The Bight Is seeking to employ a

4 DOMESTIC WORKERS

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-333-1246

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board31021

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

Salary will be $36,000.00 per annum.

The suitable candidate will be able to work under their own initiative, and be able to see through the projects from start to completion.

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

WE ARE HIRING!!

This position is available immediately and closing date for application is 1st July 2022.

COOKS

Qualified Turks And Caicos Islanders Preferred.

• Set up and stock stations with all necessary supplies • Prepare food for service (e.g., chopping vegetables, butchering meat, or preparing sauces • Cook menu items in cooperation with the rest of the kitchen staff.

• Answer, report, and follow executive or sous chef instructions.

• Clean up station and stock inventory appropriately.

APPLY IN WRITING TO CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING LTD. LIMITED, P. O. BOX 158, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS. CONTACT: CHRIS CONWAY ON INFO@CSECARIBBEAN.COM OR FAX TO LABOUR OFFICE, PROVIDENCIALES ON 946-7184.

31143

DUTIES

REQUIREMENTS

CAICOS EXPRESS AIRWAYS LTD

CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENT KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Customer Service Agent is responsible for all customer travel reservations.

• Greet and assist all customers in a prompt, friendly, and courteous manner • Provide information over the phone, and electronically regarding routes, schedules and fares • Process passenger flight reservations and compute fares • Keep accurate customer records • Provide answers to general customer inquires • Keep up to date with knowledge of phone systems.

• Handle all Customer special requests professionally.

• Activate the manual system in the event of system downtime.

• Resolving customer complaints and other duties as delegated • Maintain thorough knowledge and handling of unaccompanied minors, • Communicating clearly and

accurately with customers as well as the Station Customer Service Representatives.

• Performing other tasks as assigned by the Supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• A high school diploma 5 CXC’s or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Related experience in clerical, sales, or other public contact positions, • the ability to speak two or more languages is beneficial and good knowledge of geography, • Previous airline experience is beneficial • Good Command • Be at least 18 years of age • Must possess the knowledge of computer programs i.e. Microsoft Suite etc • Ability to lift to 70lbs Salary: $15,600.00 per annum

INTERESTED PERSONS MUST SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATIONS ON OR BEFORE JUNE 30, 2022 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER, CAICOS EXPRESS AIRWAYS PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS TELEPHONE# 649-941-5730/EMAIL: HR@CXEAIR.COM

• Proven cooking experience, including experience as a line chef, restaurant cook or prep cook.

• Excellent understanding of various cooking methods, ingredients, equipment, and procedures.

• Accuracy and speed in executing assigned tasks.

• Familiar with industry’s best practices.

Salary: $7-$10 per hour + Service Charge

TEPPANYAKI CHEFS DUTIES

• Set up and stock stations with all necessary supplies • Prepare food for service (e.g., chopping vegetables, butchering meat, or preparing sauces • Cook menu items in cooperation with the rest of the kitchen staff.

• Answer, report, and follow executive or sous chef instructions.

• Clean up station and stock inventory appropriately.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role within a luxury resort or hotel.

• Strong knowledge of Teppanyaki style cooking philosophies and principles including but not limited to Chinese, Thai, and Japanese is required.

• Willing to work on shift duties.

• Ability to captivate guests by cooking on stage is required.

• Ideal candidates should have an outgoing, energetic, cheerful, and positive personality.

SALARY: $22,800 -$38,400 per annum

SOLANA RESTAURANT OCEAN CLUB WEST 54 BONAVENTURE CRESCENT, GRACE BAY TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS (649)333-3343 PLEASE SEND YOUR CV TO SOLANATCI@GMAIL.COM

31163

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June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ becomes highest-grossing movie of 2022 “TOP Gun: Maverick” is on top.

The high-flying action sequel starring Tom Cruise on Tuesday became the year’s highest-grossing movie in North America, where it has made more than $400 million.

Its domestic total stood at $401 million as of Wednesday morning, and the film has grossed more than $755 million worldwide.

“Top Gun: Maverick” moved past Marvel’s superhero sorcerer spectacular “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which has made $398 million in North America. “Doctor Strange” remains ahead at the global box office, having made more than $931 million worldwide.

Serving as a long-awaited follow up to 1986’s classic “Top Gun,” the sequel features the return of Cruise’s hotshot Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, who must now train a new generation of aviators.

“Top Gun: Maverick” boasts a 97% approval rating among critics included on the Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews website, while 99% of audience members viewed the film favourably.

The movie, which came out May 27, also stars Miles Teller,

Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber have both deal with health scares.

Bieber ‘getting better every single day’ after partial facial paralysis

Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro and Lewis Pullman as the new pilots.

“Top Gun: Maverick” won the domestic box office during its first two weekends in theatres. It came in second last weekend behind “Jurassic World Dominion,” which was new to theatres.

The only movie to make more domestically than “Top Gun” Maverick” since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is

“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which made more than $804 million after its release last December.

High-profile upcoming releases include the “Toy Story” spinoff “Lightyear,” out Friday; the Elvis Presley biopic “Elvis,” out June 24; the animated “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” out July 1; and Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” out July 8. (NYDailynews)

JUSTIN Bieber is on the road to recovery.

The pop star’s wife, model Hailey Bieber, says her husband is “doing really well” after experiencing partial facial paralysis due to Ramsay Hunt syndrome.

“He is getting better every single day,” Hailey said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday. “He’s feeling a lot better, and obviously it was just a very scary and random situation to happen.”

Hailey, known as Hailey Baldwin before marrying Bieber, said it’s been “really amazing” to see an outpouring of support for Justin after he announced his health issue last week.

“He’s gonna be totally OK, and I’m just grateful that he’s fine,” she said.

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is caused by a shingles virus that impacts a facial nerve. Justin, 28, spoke about the condition in an Instagram video last week.

June 18-24, 2022

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June 18-24, 2022

BTS hiatus ‘not as severe’ as One Direction POP fans might feel like they’ve been here before.

The biggest boy band in the world, announcing they’re going on hiatus - anyone who remembers One Direction’s decision, in January 2016, might have feared the worst when BTS said it was time to take a break.

But things work a little differently in the K-pop world than they do for Western bands - as entertainment journalist and BTS super-fan Lucy Ford explains.

“In K-pop, it’s really not uncommon for groups that have seven, eight or nine members for the individuals in that group to have thriving solo careers but still very much be in their groups,” she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

And this might explain why, shortly after news broke of BTS’s plans, its management stepped in to say it’s not a hiatus - at least not

as fans in the west might think.

“Many of us experienced One Direction, we experienced N*Sync - both who are all still on hiatus,” Lucy adds.

“I think they just wanted to clarify that it’s not as severe as that.”

BTS’s management had good reason to comment. After the news went public, it’s estimated that shares in the company dropped so much it wiped $1.8 billion of its worth.

This should come as some comfort to 22-year-old Naomi Cairns, who says she was “shocked and upset” when she first heard the news.

Naomi’s dad broke the news.

“I couldn’t actually believe what I was reading,” she tells Newsbeat.

Her friends threw her a BTSthemed party, and she has cutouts of their faces hanging in her bedroom.

BTS made history by becoming the first Korean musicians to perform in a US stadium.

In the group’s statement, which was made during a televised dinner to mark their anniversary, BTS acknowledged they had been going through a “rough patch” and said that trying to find their identity had been “exhausting.”

Lucy says it’s “massively rare” for a K-pop group, who are often tightly micro-managed to portray a certain image to fans, to speak openly about the pressures of a global pop career.

“In many ways across their career, BTS have been sort-of industry leaders,” she says.

She believes speaking honestly

shows the groups “bravery” but also their “power” in the K-pop scene.

“You don’t often hear people talking about burnout, or artists talking about like, feeling lost in their identity.”

The seven members of BTS Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook - are aged between 24 and 29, and Lucy says one of the key points made in the announcement was that the K-pop industry “doesn’t really create space for maturity.”

In South Korea all men must serve in the military for about 20

months, between the ages of 18 and 28.

In 2020, special exceptions were made for BTS members to delay their service until they are 30.

But members of BTS have already been releasing solo material. J-Hope, Suga and RM have released solo mixtapes of original material, V, Jin and Jimin have contributed music to soundtracks.

Earlier this year Jungkook released solo track Stay Alive, which was produced by Suga. It’s been streamed more than 115m times on Spotify alone. (BBC)

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Lil Wayne denied UK entry for Strawberries and Creem festival, organisers say

Rap artist Lil Wayne has not performed in the UK for more than 10 years.

AMERICAN rapper Lil Wayne will no longer play at the Strawberries and Creem festival after being denied entry to the UK, organisers have said.

Saturday’s performance was due to be his first in the UK in several years.

The 39-year-old’s 2011 UK tour was cancelled after his visa application was reportedly rejected by UK border authorities due to prior convictions.

The Home Office said applications were refused for people sentenced to a year or more in custody.

Lil Wayne has been contacted for comment.

In a statement on their website, festival organisers said: “Due to extreme circumstances beyond our control or influence, we are very sorry to inform you that Lil Wayne is now unable to perform at the festival...

“Lil Wayne has been refused entry to the UK directly by the Home Office in a last-minute decision. We are deeply disappointed by this sudden and negative ruling.”

They said Grammywinning rapper Ludacris would play a “UK exclusive” set on Saturday instead.

The Home Office said it did not routinely comment on individual cases.

However, it said: “Any individual who has been sentenced to a custodial sentence of 12 months or more must have their application refused.”

In 2010, the rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to gun possession.

The charges were linked to his arrest in 2007 when a gun was found on his tour bus.

He was also found to be carrying a gun and bullets when police searched a private plane in Miami in December 2019 and could have faced up to 10 years in prison.

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June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

JOB LISTINGS SERVICES AUTO SALES REAL ESTATE JODESTI FRANCOIS South Dock Rd. Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Weed Grass, Wash Windows.

Perform minor painting and must be able to handle hand power tools.

Basic Salary: $6.50 per hour CONTACT: (649) 346-9113

30987

DAVIS CONSTRUCTION Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

CONSTRUCTION LABOURER

Set up equipment, run lines for power tools, erect scaffolding, lay out tools, set up forms for the pouring of concrete foundations.

Salary: $7.00 hourly

CONTACT: 232-5420

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30944 RENEWAL

JEAN JUNIOR PIERRE Phase II Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Perform basic labourer duties around the home.

Wash windows, porch etc.

Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour CONTACT: (649) 348-9465 30975 D FRANCIA BAKERY RESTAURANT Behind Mara, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

EMLIN CHARLES

Hospital Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Perform domestic duties around the home on all interior and exterior surfaces.

Must be able to work weekends.

Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: (649) 347-2660 30984 ANTHONY TATEM Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER

KITCHEN HELPER

Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 245-1985 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30924

GODFREY DINSDALE WILLIAMS

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Follow blueprints and building plans. Install structures and fixtures.

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials.

Salary: $10.00 Hourly CONTACT: 649-346-4579 Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30918

IS URGENTLY LOOKING FOR A

FLORIST 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.

CONTACT: 231-3788

Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. $6.25 Hourly

HELPER

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc. $6.25 Hourly

ENOLD FRANCOIS

DOMESTIC WORKER

LABOURER

Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. $300.00 Weekly

LABOURER

Cleaning property, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. $300.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 242-3823 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY

30932

30926

CYLIANE VARIETY STORE

AMINTHE PROSPERE AFTER NELL'S, THE BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

Down Town Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER

Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers. $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 331-3874 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY

30936

Website: tcweeklynews.com

38 Yellow Elder St., Leeward Palms Is seeking to employ a

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

CLEANER

Fax: 946-4661

Email: tcnews@tciway.tc

EXECUTIVE CLEANING COMPANY LTD.

CONTACT: 332-5107

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc. $6.50 Hourly

946-4664

BABYSITTER

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and disciplining children when necessary.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 649-348-7631

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30927

Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 231-5109 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30940

ALL SERVICES TCI Acting on behalf of

HYNETTA FORBES

2 DOMESTIC WORKER $6.75

DOS CONSTRUCTION

1 LABOUR $7.00 1 CARPENTER $8.00

CONTACT: 649-346-6466 ALL RENEWALS

30978

NOTICE OF RECOMMENDATION FOR GRANT OF ISLANDER STATUS

In accordance with section 6(3) of the Turks and Caicos Islander Status Ordinance, notice is hereby given that the Turks and Caicos Islander Status Commission having considered all applications for the year 2016 in accordance with section 4 of the Ordinance, hereby make a recommendation in terms of section 13(1)(b) of the Turks and Caicos Islands Ordinance as read with section 4(3)(b) of the Turks and Caicos Islander Status (Amendment) Ordinance 2021, for the following persons to be granted Turks and Caicos Islander Status: Stuart Michael Haynes Nicola Christine Haynes Ashley Joy Greenwood Julian Matthew Petrucci Alison Jane Williams Sian Elizabeth Tovell Jones Maureen Elaine Jones Dieringer Lee Longmire 31027

June 18-24, 2022

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

A EMS LTD.

Wheeland, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

ARNOLD ALTES BARON Blue Mountain, Leeward Highway, Provo Is seeking to employ a

PLUMBER

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

• Applicant must be honest, reliable and hard working.

• Plumbing work on all jobs.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 431-2367

CONTACT: 343-8488

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30950

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30956

CAICOS CAFÉ

CHEF DE PARTIE • Must work nights, holidays, split shift, 6 days per week.

• Good experience in fine dining.

• Good knowledge of general cooking, sautéed, pasta grill station, Meat-seafood butchery.

• Good knowledge of Italian and Mediterranean Cuisine.

• Must Speak English.

• Salary $13.00 Hourly Dishwasher • Cleaning floors, equipment, washing pots, pans, tools and silverware.

• Salary $7.00 Hourly BELONGER ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD. A RENEWAL WORK PERMIT HOLDER CURRENTLY HOLDS THESE POSITIONS CAICOSCAFERESTAURANT@GMAIL.COM 31016

VENEL & WILLIAM'S VARIETY STORE

DONALD MICHAEL RAY LIGHTBOURNE

CASHIER

LABOURER Cleaning outside the

OF BLUE HILLS RD, is seeking to employ a

- receive payment from customers by credit card or cash - balance cash draw and end of day Basic Salary: $7.00 per hour.

CONTACT: (649) 347-1700

31025

GRAND TURK, OVER BACK Is seeking to employ a

property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 243-7980

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 31009

ARSENE LIMPREVIL APTS

BACK ROAD, BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. Salary: $6.50 Hourly.

CONTACT: 348-3797

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

30954

DAMARA LAVILETTE Phase 2, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 348-2212

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

31008

DUSSE MOISE

ARCHIE MORLEY YARD, FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

3 LABOURERS 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: 344-6932 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

30991

BRUTUS GARDINER FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

GENERAL WORKER

Cleaning outside the property, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 232-4352

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

30988

SOMMELIER • Must have great wines and cocktails knowledge.

• Coordinates all service beverages.

• Must have a good knowledge of Italian cuisine for food paring.

• Must be able to train the waiters and bartenders.

• Require working nights, holidays, split shift, and closings, up to 6 days per week.

• Must have experience in fine dining.

• Must speak English.

Salary: $9.00 Hourly

caicoscaferestaurant@gmail.com

Belonger are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board.

A renewal work permit holder currently holds these positions

30955

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

POSITIONS AVAILABLE The Turks and Caicos Islands oldest and leading publishing house is in need of additional staff to fill the following posts:

WRITERS/ PHOTO JOURNALIST

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.

FOR MAGAZINES AND OTHER PERIODICALS GRAPHICS PRODUCTION DESIGNER/ PAGINATOR

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.

COURT REPORTER FLORISE JOSEPH

FRANK CARLOS DUVERGE

LABOURER Cleaning outside the

2 LABOURERS

Back Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

Granny Hill, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

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: 247-7513

CONTACT: 342-4655

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30990

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30992

GEORGIE CHAMBERS Back Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 244-3319

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

30958

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.

ADVERTISING SPACE SALES PERSON

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.

FORWARD APPLICATIONS TO: THE PUBLISHER DUNCANSON PUBLICATIONS LTD. EMAIL: TCNEWS@TCIWAY.TC NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Preferences will be given to Belonger and Legal Residents

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June 18-24, 2022

NATHOU’S VARIETY STORE

Duck Yard, Kew Town, Providenciales, TCI (649) 343-6127 SEEKING:

STORE SUPERVISOR

RATE OF PAY: $350.00 PER WEEK DUTIES: overseeing cashiers, shelf stockers and other employees, managing finances, keeping records of expenditure, sale figures and employee performances. This application is for a First-Time Work Permit. Belongers with the qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply at the Labour Department, Providenciales, TCI.

MYRNA-LISA’S DISPOSABLES AND CLEANING SERVICES 29 Parade Avenue, Downtown, Providenciales, TCI (649) 246-4882 SEEKING:

IS INTERVIEWING FOR:

DUTY SUPERVISOR Responsible for Assisting and Overseeing Front Desk and Handling Office Administration Duties.

CARPENTER

RATE OF PAY: $308.00 PER WEEK DUTIES: Construct, repair, and install building frameworks and structures made from wood and other materials These applications are for a Renewal Work Permits. Belongers with the qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply at the Labour Department, Providenciales, TCI.

BRUTUS LANDSCAPING

#61 Seaside Road, Long Bay Road, Providenciales, TCI (649) 343-1420 SEEKING:

TWO LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS

RATE OF PAY: $308.00 PER WEEK DUTIES: Design attractive and functional public parks, gardens, playgrounds, residential areas and commercial spaces.

These applications are for First-Time Work Permits. Belongers with the qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply at the Labour Department, Providenciales, TCI.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE A MINIMUM OF: • 3 years hotel related exp • related college or higher degree • supervisory experience • office admin experience • a friendly, customer service oriented personality • strong English (verbal and written) communication skills.

Salary and Bonus Package determined by qualifications and experience RESUMES SHOULD BE EMAILED TO ABARNETT@PORTSOFCALLRESORT.COM 30972

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

ABIGAELLE BARBER & SALON

Sam Harvey’s Building, Downtown, Providenciales, TCI (649) 246-6125 SEEKING:

BEAUTICIAN

RATE OF PAY: $300.00 PER WEEK DUTIES: Curls, cuts and colors hair, make-up application, eye brows tinting, manicures and pedicures.

These applications are for First-Time Work Permits. Belongers with the qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply at the Labour Department, Providenciales, TCI.

F & S QUALITY CLEANING SERVICES Oasis Road, Long Bay, Providenciales, TCI (649) 341-7375 SEEKING:

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS PELICAN BAY RESTAURANT AND BAR IS SITUATED ON GRACE BAY BEACH AT THE LUXURY ALL-SUITE ROYAL WEST INDIES RESORT. Pelican Bay delights guests with exceptional all-day dining; an outstanding variety dinner menu; and the most delectable breakfast and Sunday Brunch

ASSISTANT CHEF

CLEANING SUPERVISOR

RATE OF PAY: $308.00 PER WEEK DUTIES: Scheduling and coordinating staff, performing specialized services to ensure all areas and equipment are clean. This application is for a FirstTime Work Permit. Belongers with the qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply at the Labour Department, Providenciales, TCI.

VALERI STORE

Duck Yard, Kew Town, Providenciales, TCI (649) 341-1406 SEEKING:

• 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

CHEF DE PARTIE

BUTCHER

RATE OF PAY: $308.00 PER WEEK DUTIES: cut and trim meat from larger, wholesale portions into steaks, chops, roasts and other cuts. This application is for a First-Time Work Permit.

Belongers with the qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply at the Labour Department, Providenciales, TCI. 30977

• Successful applicant should have at least 6 years of kitchen and restaurant experience including

• Knowledge of Mexican & South American cuisine • 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 All the positions above requires working long hours nights and days public holidays and weekends Salary range based on experience

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON JOB DESCRIPTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT INFO@PELICANBAYTCI.COM OR 431-1689 Please call for an appointment, bring along your resume and resident status

30971

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On Behalf of our Client

On Behalf of our Client

TABOO BAR & GRILL

TROPICAL BAR & GRILL

WAITRESS

KITCHEN HELPER

We are seeking to employ an:

We are seeking to employ an:

TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Greeting guests and taking drink and food orders • Staying attentive to the needs of guests in the dining area • Delivering food from the kitchen to the guests • Ensuring the food order is made correctly by kitchen staff and looks presentable for guests • Following health code standards with regards to the handling of food

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Minimum age requirements: In some states, Waiter/Waitresses must meet a minimum age requirement to serve alcohol in an eating establishment.

• Customer service skills: Before

anything else, Waiter/Waitresses are customer service professionals.

People entering this field should develop skills that help them work with the public.

• Physical ability: Due to the demands of the job, Waiter/Waitresses should have the physical ability to stand for long periods of time and lift trays of food, racks of cups and other objects that might be a part of daily duties.

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum 3-5 years of progressive Restaurant experience with 1-2 years being in a supervisory capacity.

Salary $ 7.00 per hour 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 17TH JUNE 2022. ONLY SHORT-LISTED PERSONS WILL BE CONTACTED.

30981

TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • • • • •

Assist in basic food preparation.

Clean kitchen equipment.

Load and unload dishwasher.

Scrub pots and pans.

Clean food preparation and storage areas.

• Receive and store goods.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• The ability to safely use kitchen equipment and appliances.

• Sound knowledge of food safety standards and procedures.

• Strong communication skills

EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or GED and or Proven experience helping in kitchen settings.

Salary is $1,200.00 monthly 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 17th June 2022. Only short-listed persons will be contacted.

30979

ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT

WARATAH CONSTRUCTION We are seeking to employ:

TWO (2) CABINET MAKERS TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

IS INTERVIEWING FOR:

RESERVATIONS AGENT Candidates must enjoy a fast paced environment, be personable, customer service oriented and have strong math and English(verbal and written) communication skills.

Experience with computers (typing/Word/ Excel). is mandatory.

Hotel Front Desk or Concierge experience beneficial.

Salary and Bonus Package determined by qualifications and experience RESUMES SHOULD BE EMAILED TO JPAPKE@PORTSOFCALLRESORT.COM

• Using hand tools and woodworking machinery for cutting, trimming, and shaping wood • Making use of adhesives for fitting different cabinet components • Applying polish or stain to ready furniture • Sanding surfaces to remove any unevenness • Repairing old furniture • Reading and interpreting blueprints • Outlining and cutting wood as per the dimensions • Developing work completion timeline • Assembling cabinet components using screws and hammers • Ensuring all dimensions are correct

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• High school diploma or equivalent • Training program in cabinet making preferred

• Proven work experience in cabinet making or the construction industry • Familiarity with woodworking machineries like Bandsaw, drill press, and bench grinder • Basic knowledge of different types of materials • Know-how of the latest trends and styles in cabinet making • Good analytical skills • Good communication skills • Strong technical skills • Ability to lift heavy items • Ability to work for long and flexible hours

EXPERIENCE: At least five (5) years of experience.

Must have extensive knowledge and experience working with wood such as Teak, Ipe, Cumaru, Oak and Mahogany.

Salary $ 12.00 per hour 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 17th June 2022. Only short-listed persons will be contacted.

30980

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OPEN JOB POSITION DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

LINE COOK (2) PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club

JOB OVERVIEW: A Line Cook’s major responsibility is to prepare food, help the kitchen workers in the preparation of food items and set up allocated stations for menu, as instructed by Chef and compliant with standards. They also arrange, prepare and break down the stations while maintaining the uppermost hygienic standards. Shifts vary. Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $13.75 – 14.75 per hour DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

JUNIOR SOUS CHEF PROPERTY: Grace Bay Resorts

JOB OVERVIEW: The junior sous chef reports to the executive and sous chefs and will quickly amass an in-depth familiarity with the kitchen’s operations so that they may fill in for the sous chefs when needed and assist them in resolving any problems that may arise on the job. A junior sous chef must possess the ability to quickly and authoritatively delegate job tasks to a large staff.

They must also be able to draw upon their considerable experience as a culinary chef who has worked in many different roles and settings in order to effectively coach and mentor junior chefs. Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $30,000 - $33,000 per annum DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

SENIOR A/C TECHNICIAN PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club

JOB OVERVIEW: Air-conditioning and Cooler Technician or A/C Technician is responsible in conducting maintenance check and repairs for air-con and other cooling or heating system.

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Conduct maintenance check for air-con, heaters and coolers • Install Air-con and heaters.

• Repair damage and dysfunctional air-con, heaters and coolers • Check its functions and status • Change spare parts • Document the reported damage of the air-con, heaters or cooler • Check the its major parts • Conduct daily routine for inspections • Check leakage Requirements:

• Must have at least 5 years’ experience as a A/C Technician Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $9.50 - $10.25 per hour DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 DATE: ASAP

KITCHEN STEWARD PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club

JOB OVERVIEW: Transport and clean cooking utensils and service ware in order to provide cooks, bus persons and food and food servers with appropriate equipment for guests’ dining experience, also clean physical surroundings while caring enough to do it well by adhering to the hotel standards, A few of their duties would entail promptly and carefully sorting soiled ware so that it can be put through the dish or pot machine properly; quickly washing ware and replacing them in storage areas as designated and ensuring the dish machine is properly cleaned and filled with water per hotel standards.

Shifts varies. Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $7.00 - $7.75 per hour DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

HOUSEMAN (2) PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: A houseman's primary job duties include cleaning and maintaining guest rooms, bathrooms, work areas, furnishings and carpets. Cleaning rooms includes duties such as changing bed linens and emptying trash as well as vacuuming carpets and dusting furniture. You will also replenish guest supplies, such as hand soap and shampoo. Your duties do not end with guest rooms, however, because you are responsible for cleaning common areas, such as banquet and meeting rooms. Secondary duties may include shoveling snow from walkways, assisting bellmen, answering guest questions and helping the front desk person.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $6.75 - $7.25 per hour DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club

REQUIREMENTS: • Minimum 3 years’ experience in a supervisor role or higher • Ability to work on own initiative etc.

• Ability to work under pressure and resolve problems • Excellent attention to detail CONTINUED U

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OPEN JOB POSITION • Committed to providing exceptional customer service • Ability to motivate a team.

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Assigns housekeepers and housemen their duties and inspects work to ensure that it is done to the standards of cleanliness.

• Investigates complaints regarding housekeeping service and equipment, and takes corrective action.

• Obtains list of rooms to be cleaned immediately and list of prospective checkouts or discharges to prepare work assignments.

• Assists with coordinating work activities among departments.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $20,000 - $25,000 per annum DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

SERVER

PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club

JOB OVERVIEW: Prepare tables with special attention to sanitation and order. Attend to customers upon entrance. Present menus and help customers select food/beverages. Take/serve orders and answer questions or make recommendations for other products. Deal with complaints or problems with a positive attitude. Issue bills and accept payment. The individual must be well groomed, clean and polite. Previous experience is a must and should be able to speak and write English. Shifts varies. Full time.

Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $6.25 - $7.00 per hour DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

COCKTAIL SERVER (1)

The responsibilities of the hostess include monitoring the open dining sections of the restaurant for empty and cleaned tables, estimating wait times for guests, monitoring the guest waiting list, and ensuring that the needs of the guests are met while they are waiting.

They may also responsible for answering the telephone, booking reservations and moving tables together to accommodate large parties.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: • Resort/hotel experience desired • High School Diploma or the Equivalent • Good communication skills in English both written & oral • Self-motivated, driven, honest & dependable • Must be a team player • Must be available to work evenings, weekends and/or holidays as required • Must be able to work in a team environment • Must have a polite and helpful manner when dealing with guests Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $ 7.25 - 7.75 per hour DATE OPEN: June 8th 2022 START DATE: ASAP

LINE COOK

PROPERTY: Point Grace

JOB OVERVIEW: A Line Cook’s major responsibility is to prepare food, help the kitchen workers in the preparation of food items and set up allocated stations for menu, as instructed by Chef and compliant with standards. They also arrange, prepare and break down the stations while maintaining the uppermost hygienic standards. Shifts vary.

Full time. Weekend and holiday work may be required.

This position is currently held by an expatriate worker Qualified Islanders need only to apply copying applications to the Commissioner of Labour & Work Permit Board Zone 2 Salary Range: $13.75 – 14.75 per hour

PROPERTY: Grace Bay Club Interested persons can contact our Human Resources Department no later than June 24th 2022

@ (649) 946-5050 EXT. 1081 EMAIL: HUMANRESOURCES@GRACEBAYCLUB.COM FAX: (649) 946-5758 P.O. BOX 128 PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, BRITISH WEST INDIES

CLASSIFIEDS 39 ROSELEE MISICK

Suite A-3, Windsor Place, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

PATIENCE HAIR BOUTIQUE Airport Road, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CASHIER

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 231-5170

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30912

ELIE’S LANDSCAPING CLEANING SERVICES #10 Bay Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

MAINTENANCE WORKER

Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers.

Salary: $800.00 Weekly CONTACT: 649-243-4298

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board Renewal 30914

EDINA ONE Wheeland, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

HOUSEKEEPING

Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines.

Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing.

Ensuring all rooms inspected according to standards.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 232-7124

CONTACT: 242-1212

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD WORK PERMIT RENEWAL 30904

3J’S ENTERPRISE The Bight, Alliance Business Center Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30916

WALTER GARDINER #1 Season Plaza, Grace Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

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

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 232-5144 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

Cleaning and maintenance of outdoor of apartment complex and other properties Including removal of yard waste, cleaning windows, doors, cleaning pool, Sweeping the premises and ensuring the properties are rid of trash at all times. $6.25 hourly rate CONTACT: WALTER@TCIBROKERS.COM 30970

30907

JAMEL HAWKINS

NEXT SALON & SPA

LABOURER

3 NAIL TECHNICIANS

The Bight, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands Is seeking to employ a

Duties: To clean and maintain and maintain premises, remove all trash and debris by disposing it.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour 5 days per week CONTACT: (649) 243-4309 EMAIL: JADYHAWKINS121@GMAIL.COM Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Employment Services.

30982

38 Yellow Elder Is seeking to employ a

Basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, hand massages, nail fills, nail repair, and nail polishing.

Salary: Based on commission

CONTACT: 242-3823

Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30925

GIZELE FOI ANTENOR #41 LOWER BIGHT Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 331-0289

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position

31005

CABINETMAKER 10 years+ experience, valid driver’s license.

Duties: Make, repair, install various types of high-grade cabinet, furniture and fixtures; read drawings. Salary $6.50 - $10 per hour.

APPLY TO: SOUTHWIND MILLWORK, INDUSTRIAL DRIVE, PROVIDENCIALES SOUTHWIND@TCIWAY.TC BY JUNE 21, 2022. POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY A WORK PERMIT HOLDER.

30953

June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

IRVCO/M&A SERVICES LTD.

#489 Leeward Highway Is seeking

MAINTENANCE WORKER

Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines.

Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly

ISMAY SEYMOUR SOUTH CAICOS Is seeking to employ a

CARETAKER

Help the patient get dressed, eat, bathe and complete light housekeeping duties, such as dishes or folding laundry. Plan, prepare and monitor meals. Run errands, remind patients of medications. Salary: $7.00 Hourly

J&C BEAUTY SALON KEW TOWN Is seeking to employ a

COSMETOLOGIST

Shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. Makeup, dress wigs, perform hair removal, nail and skin care services. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 341-1021

CONTACT: 242-6987

CONTACT: 343-1576

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31013

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31002

SOLUTION EXPERTS LTD.

SOLON CLEANING SERVICES

SHINING STAR PREPARATORY SCHOOL

CABINET MAKER

CLEANER

KINDERGARTEN ASSISTANT

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. Renewal 30952

538 Bay Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

Create and draw up sketches or renderings of furniture pieces and other home furnishing that meet the client’s need and specifications. Salary: $1,200.00 Monthly.

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 331-8833

CONTACT: 344-9209

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30995

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30986

#11 ACADEMY WAY, DOWN TOWN Is seeking

JACQUELIN REMY BELDEN GARDEN, PHASE 1 BLD. #58 Is seeking to employ a

GARDENER Soil cultivation, digging, and forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting. Salary: $6.25 Hourly.

CONTACT: 347-3388

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30993

CONTACT: 243-1358

CONTACT: 431-2093

EMAIL: SELMASTORM@YAHOO.COM

Belongers only apply Renewal 31001

T AND C SECRETARIAL SERVICES

Five Cays Road, Providenciales, TCI Is Looking For:

FROZEN STOCKERS

• Physically able to reach, stretch, bend, and walk during work hours • Ability to stand for long periods of time in the Freezer Environment (minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit or minus 23 degree Celsius ) • Ability to lift 50 pounds • Availability on work nights, weekends, and holidays • Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently • Wages start at $6.25 per hour • Held by the work permit holders and for first time work permit.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

• Gathering and entering data into multiple computer programs.

• Maintaining and updating records files and system data.

• Scanning bar codes, invoices, and

other information into POS system.

• Processing customer cash, check and credit-card payments.

• Responsible for counting contents of cash registers and safe.

• Processing end of day sale deposit • Receiving domestic and export customer orders • Implement employee schedules • Will perform as a substitute relief for other supervisors • Preparing and coordinating schedules in accordance to operational necessity.

• 4-5 years experience in related field of work • Must be honest, meticulous, work independently or in a team • Must be able to follow direction/ instructions.

• Must possess knowledge of computer programs e.i Quick Books and Microsoft Programs.

• Salary for this position will commensurate with qualification & experience.

• This position is for first time work permit application.

Interested applicants can email their resume to invoices@sunnyfoodstci.com or send resume to the Labour Board. Belongers need only to apply.

- $10.00 Hourly Cleaning the property

31015

LOUDWIGE NARCISSE

- $10.00 Hourly Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework.

MAINTENANCE WORKER

- $10.00 Hourly Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines.

VINCY HONOR

LABOURER

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31004

DOMESTIC WORKER

Help the Kindergarten Teacher with children, give meals, prepare materials for teachers and help keep the area tidy at all times; etc.

DOMESTIC WORKER

CONTACT: 245-3160

DOMESTIC WORKER

Sweeping the house, mopping the floor, clean bathrooms, toilets, kitchen, living room, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $280 weekly.

PETER LIN FILS

property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

S&G CONTRACTING CO.

Wilson Circle, Blue Hills. 649-331-2251. Acting on behalf of

SUNNY FOODS RETAIL & WHOLESALE LTD.

LABOURER Cleaning outside the

SELMA STORM

Leeward Gates, Leeward Is seeking to employ a

- $1,500.00 per month

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31003

JEAN CLAUDE

RALPH CL., BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

BELONGERS ONLY

31006

Mark Close, Cooper Jack Is seeking to employ a

Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly CONTACT: 2311199/331-0792

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31007

TREES R US

Beach St., Thompson Cove Is seeking to employ a

2 FARMERS Cleaning, tractor driving, general handiwork, tending to livestock, ploughing, planting and harvesting crops.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 341-0690 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

30996

TROPITECH LTD.

VACANCIES Acting on behalf

CHARLIE VARIETY STORE LTD.

LABOURER:

$6.25 Hourly Loading off container, stocking.

27 Aviation Musgrove Building Tel: 649-332-0004

WMW CONSTRUCTION

PAINTER/MASON:

$7-$10 Hourly Painting walls, doors, drywall, etc.

Put blocks, plaster, etc. #354 Bay Rd., Blue Hills Tel: 649-345-6297 ONLY BELONGER APPLY/ RENEWAL WORK PERMIT

30999

Providenciales. Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER – NEW VACANCY

• Must be able to move heavy furniture and equipment • Must be available for long hours at short notice including weekends and holidays • Must have proper etiquette when working with high net worth clients and high-end properties • Must speak fluent English • Salary: $6.50 Hourly TCI ISLANDERS INVITED TO APPLY TO GARY@ PROVOPICTURES.COM OR 432-9453 WITH A COPY TO THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT. CLOSING DATE 30TH JUNE 2022

31014

40 CLASSIFIEDS

June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

JEANNE MARIE TALBOT Millennium Highway Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly.

CONTACT: 241-0531

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30948

RONALD TERVILUS ESTINE Airport Road. Is seeking

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.

LETISHA PARKER

Crawfish Cl, Discovery Bay Is seeking to employ a

GARDENER Soil cultivation, digging,

M&E RESTAURANT & BAR FIVE CAYS Is seeking to employ a

KITCHEN HELPER

and forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting. Salary: $6.25 hourly.

Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times. Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 348-5640

CONTACT: 345-5113

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Renewal 31011

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30789

COOK

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. Salary: $10.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 346-8381

Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 247-2267

31010

Leeward Palms Is seeking to employ a

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 342-2962

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 30905

30949

Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a

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

Salary: $310.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 347-1876 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30913

ISLAND BUS & MASS TRANSPORTATION

JEANNE MARIE TALBOT

SONNY FORBES #554 Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Keeps equipment available for use by inspecting and testing vehicles; completing preventive maintenance such as, engine tune-ups, oil changes, tire rotation and changes, wheel balancing, replacing filters.

Salary: $600 per week

MECHANIC

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $300.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 1-649-333-3999

CONTACT: 231-0658

CONTACT: 343-3599

30909

- $10.00 Hourly Maintaining equipment, buildings, and machines.

PURCHASING

- $10.00 Hourly Keep inventory and place orders to keep stocks at adequate levels.

ELECTRONIC DIRECT 342-5329

MAINTENANCE MAN - $10.00 Hourly Maintaining equipment and machines.

Belongers only

30997

DOMESTIC WORKER

Setting up workstations.

Preparing ingredients, chopping and peeling vegetables, cutting meat etc. Cooking food in various utensils or grillers.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

333-2014

MAINTENANCE

3 PLANT WORKERS

DOMESTIC WORKER

LIMITLESS

ACESTAR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

HANDYMAN

DOMESTIC WORKER

Turtle Cove Marina, Yatch Club Is seeking to employ a

- $10.00 Hourly Cleaning the property.

DOMESTIC WORKER

LIVE-IN CARETAKER

30957

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 30994

347-6233

LABOURER

CARPENTER

SHAQUITA WILLIAM

Belongers only apply

CONTACT: 344-1553

DANVANO COX

NATHAN WILLIAMS

SHENISHA JENNINGS

CONTACT: 231-6060

property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames. Salary: $6.25 Hourly.

Acting on behalf of

PROVO SEAFOOD LTD.

VALMA VIRGIL

Help two elderly people get dressed, eat, bathe and complete light housekeeping duties, such as dishes or folding laundry. Plan, prepare and monitor meals. Run errands, remind patients of medications. Salary: $1,200.00 monthly.

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board. A work permit holder currently holds this position 31012

LABOURER Cleaning outside the

NATASHAS CONSULTANCY

RED CONSTRUCTION

Behind Mara, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

Belongers only apply

LEEWARD PALMS Is seeking a

CONTACT: 649-245-8948

Kew Town Bld. #22 Is seeking to employ a

ROBERT PIERRE VICTOR

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

30998

BABYSITTER

• Applicant must be honest, reliable and hard working.

• Taking care of my child, washing, ironing and cleaning.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

MARIE ROSE PIERRE

RODRIGUEZ CABINETS

#8 Morris Plaza, Blue Hills Is seeking

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board Work Permit Renewal

CONTACT: 244-2327

MARIE MATHE LORDEUS

Kew Town, Providenciales Is seeking to employ

CLASSIFIEDS 41

EMAIL: SON@TCIWAY.TC BELONGERS ONLY 30908 RENEWAL

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30902

KEW TOWN, PROVO Is seeking

Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

• Applicant must be honest, reliable and willing to work.

• Cleaning of tools and job areas, keeping them clean at all times and passing of tools to the work men.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

• Must be able and willing to clean marine products, Conch, Lobster and Scale Fish.

• Must be willing to work after normal hours and holidays if needed.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 243-5512

CONTACT: 649-231-0293

Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board 30787

Belongers only Work Permit Renewal

31000

THE BIGHT, PROVIDENCIALES

Duties: clean, wash, take care of children.

Must work 6 days per week. Salary $6.25 per hour THIS POSITION IS FOR WORK PERMIT RENEWAL BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGE TO SUBMIT THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT

30951

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS

RETAIL AND OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE TWO SPACES AVAILABLE

Both Recently Renovated GROUND FLOOR RETAIL 600 SQ FT 2ND FLOOR OFFICE’S 800 SQ FT

FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR TO ARRANGE A TOUR CALL TAIWAYNE OR AGGIE ON 946-8888

31024

42 CLASSIFIEDS SEAFOOD HAVEN RESTAURANT #12 Musgrove Cl., Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

KITCHEN HELPER / CLEANER

Preparing the workstation for the cook. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 346-3791

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31039

ALLAN PARKER Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Duties: Regular household Chores and some cooking.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour CONTACT: 243-1139

June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

SERGE PIERRE

STAY COOL

TARAN HANDFIELD

Glass Shack Is seeking to employ a

#12 Musgrove Cl., Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

Hospital Road, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

MAINTENANCE

LABOURER

Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines. Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 331-3172

CONTACT: 342-2511

CONTACT: 649-247-2633

31043

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31040

CARLANDE ENTERPRISES / ROHAN PARKER

CLAUDINA MALCOLM

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Down Town Is seeking to employ a

BARBER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

UNION BARBER SHOP

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31034

Cutting, trimming, shampooing, and styling hair, trimming beards, or giving shaves.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 242-2824

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31056

VALERIE FRANCOIS 24 Sailfish Lane, Venetian Rd. Is seeking to employ a

NANNY Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and etc.

Salary: $600.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 332-8787 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31053

CLINTON SIMMONS

ENRIQUE DICKENSON

ERIC SKIPPINGS

LABOURER

LABOURER

LABOURER

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Duties: Regular household Chores and some cooking.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour

Duties: Regular household Chores and some cooking.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour

Duties: To assist skilled Worker and keep job Sites clean.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour

CONTACT: 243-1139

CONTACT: 347-4807

CONTACT: 232-0926

Salt Cay Is seeking to employ a

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Duties: To assist skilled Worker and keep job Sites clean.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour

Duties: To assist skilled Worker and keep job Sites clean.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour

CONTACT: 232-6059

CONTACT: 247-2025

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time Work Permit application. 31060

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. ThIs Position is held by a Work Permit holder. 31065

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time work Permit application. 31068

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time Work Permit application. 31069

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time Work Permit application. 31064

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time Work Permit application. 31063

GQ CONSTRUCTION

KINGSLEY LABORDE

MARK GARLAND

ROHAN PARKER

STEPHENSON GRANT

TOMEILA’S SALES & RENTALS

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Duties: To employ carpentry Skills on various jobs.

Salary: $8.00 per hour CONTACT: 231-0188

Belongers are asked to send a copy of their resume to The Labour Board.

This position is Currently held by a work permit 31059

VEKYNIA ELCIUS

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

LABOURER

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

STORE CLERK

CONTACT: 231-6584

Duties: Regular household Chores and some cooking.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour

Duties: To assist skilled Worker and keep job Sites clean.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour

Duties: To assist skilled Worker and keep job Sites clean.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour

CONTACT: 243-1139

CONTACT: 245-9352

CONTACT: 241-8060

CONTACT: 242-2406

Belongers kindly submit a copy of their resume To the Labour Board. ThIs is a first time Work Permit application. 31067

WILLIAM L. MILLS Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

This position is filled by a Work Permit holder.

31071

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

This is a first Work Permit Application.

31073

JOYCE AND V VARIETY STORE

VERSACE BAR AND LOUNGE

Winsor Plaza, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

BARTENDER

Duties: Taking care of a infant which.

Must be willing to work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.50 per hour.

Duties: Regular household Chores and some cooking.

SALARY: $6.50 per hour

Uphold customer service.

Maintain Bar. Mix and serve drinks.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 245-7272

CONTACT: 234-7798

CONTACT: 245-3231

Belongers are encouraged to Send a copy of their resume To the Labour Board.

ThIs position is held by a Work Permit holder.

31061

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

This is a first Work Permit Application.

31070

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

31076

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Duties: To clean and maintain premises and any Other chores as assigned.

SALARY: $7.50 per hour.

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Belongers submit a copy of your resume to the Labour Board.

This is first time Work Permit application.

31066

Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

Providenciales

LABOURER

Clean outside property, collect & dispose of waste, and lift a minimum of 25 pounds.

Salary: $6.50 per hour.

IF YOU WISH TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE APPLY IN CONFIDENCE BY SENDING DETAILS OF YOUR EXPERIENCE TO: THE LABOUR COMMISSIONER, LABOUR OFFICE, PROVIDENCIALES

CONTACT: 344-2636

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO 31074 THE LABOUR BOARD. THIS IS A FIRST-TIME WORK PERMIT.

Duties: Greet customers, Handle cash sales, Assist Customers, Dust and stock Shelves.

Salary: $7.00 per hour

Belongers send a copy of your resume to The Labour Board. This position is held by a Work Permit holder. 31062

AISHA THOMAS Breezy Brae, Grand Turk 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: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-432-2435 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31103

June 18-24, 2022

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ALVEJES DESIR 266 Gypsum Circle, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

AMITTE SAINT CLAIRE-MATHURIN

ANGELINE SERGILLES

BABYSITTER

HELPER

Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

Applicant must be honest, reliable and hard working.

Household chores and laundry.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-442-3363

CONTACT: 346-2996

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31107

C.H. VARIETY STORE South Dock Road, Provo Is seeking to employ a

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31101

CONTACT: 649-245-0703

Snake Hill, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

2 DOMESTIC WORKERS

Belongers are encouraged to send copy of their resumes to Labour Department 31110

31083

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31115

BELONGERS ONLY APPLY WORK PERMIT RENEWAL 31096

MECHANIC HELPER

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

CONTACT: 341-4915

CONTACT: 241-4488

LABOURER

CONTACT: 348-7288

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron.

Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

Responsible for installing wallboards to ceilings or to interior walls of buildings and applying plaster. Smooths out imperfections with trowels and shackle.

Salary: $8 hourly

Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

31085

LUCNISE ISRAEL

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 245-2773

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31098

EBEN-EZEN Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

CARPENTER

Cleaning property, pick up yard waste, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes. $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 347-9345 31084

UNETTIE GARDINER

Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines. Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc.

Salary: $450.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 341-6493

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31105

Duties: To carry out maintenance work: painting, plumbing; Assisting with renovations, laying tiles, Removing furnishings and debris off properties, etc.

CONTACT: 232-5222 RENEWAL BELONGERS ONLY

31106

LABOURER

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly CONTACT: 649-346-0002 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31089

EDJ TOUCH OF CLASS CAR RENTAL

ELIZANDA LOUIS

DRIVER

2 DOMESTIC WORKERS

The ability to work with minimal supervision while maintaining high energy.

To assist in delivery and pick up of car rentals.

Basic Salary: $7.50 Hourly

CONTACT: (649) 241-0778 / 241-9907

Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 241-8368 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

31111

31092

LABOURER

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Kew Town, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

The Bight, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

To pick up yard waste and collect leaves and tree limbs. Clean the yard with a sweeper, and pick up yard waste.

Pay: 6.25 per hour

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows.

Wash & iron.

Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron.

Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: 344-3275

CONTACT: 331-8812

CONTACT: 245-1567

RENEWAL. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31116

ISPARKLE THE SALON

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

COSMETOLOGIST

RENEWAL. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31118

KLEAN AND KUTE KNAILS Indian Bazaar, Airport Road Is seeking to employ a

3 NAIL TECHNICIANS

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron.

Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

3 years of experience in the beauty industry.

Provide beauty services, such as shampooing, and massaging and treating scalp. Apply makeup, dress wigs, and provide nail and skin care services.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

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: 344-8698

CONTACT: 341-0363

CONTACT: 332-6772

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31114

Back Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

JERARD BROWN

#13 Kishco Plaza, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31113

(1) LABOURER

BLUE HILLS CONSTRUCTION

JAXON CHARLES

The Bight, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CONTACT: 347-7813

of Robinson’s Apartment Complex and Robinson’s Residence & Apartments 41 Wilson Circle & 3 Fresh Water Avenue Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CARLTON THOMAS

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron.

Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

BEATRICE LOUISE ROBINSON

Sunny Food Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Leeward Palms, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Inspecting and testing vehicles; completing preventive maintenance such as, engine tune-ups, oil changes, tire rotation and changes, wheel balancing, replacing filters. $6.50 Hourly

BELONGERS ONLY

DOMESTIC WORKER

MAINTENANCE

GEORGE GLINTON

CONTACT: 242-2548

DOMESTIC WORKER

#57 Plantation Dr. Long Bay Is seeking to employ a

Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

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

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

31104

FRANCAIUS PHILISTIN

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $300.00 Weekly

LUC OCTELLUS

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

DRYWALL FINISHER

CONTACT: 345-2165

F.M.M MAINTENANCE SERVICES

CONTACT: 343-2034

MASON

Duties: maintaining tools and workspaces, Lifting, carrying and placing prepared blocks, Restoring old and worn masonry.

Salary: $8.50 Hourly

BELONGERS ARE TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31091

Cleaning, dusting, sweeping, mopping, clean ceiling vents, restroom cleaning.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION

Applicant must be honest, reliable and hardworking.

Keeping the store clean at all times, disposing of debris, lifting the heavy boxes and offloading goods for the store.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

ASSOCIATION RETAIL & WHOLESALE STORE Industrial Park Is seeking to employ a

DESIGN 4 YOU CONSTRUCTION Five Cays, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

HANDYMAN

Over Back, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWALS

31102

ONLY BELONGER APPLY/ RENEWAL WORK PERMIT 31095

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31117

LAVARDO CLOUDDELL BASSETT Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-348-8509 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31099

44 CLASSIFIEDS MAGIC CUSTODIANS CLEANING SERVICES

MANGOES BAR AND LOUNGE

MEP SOLUTIONS TCI LTD

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

#22 Morris Plaza, Airport Road Is seeking to employ a

3 CLEANERS

HOSTESS

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 241-3403 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31090

• Interacting with customers, taking orders and serving snacks and drinks.

• Check customers’ identification and confirm it meets legal drinking age.

• Prepare alcohol or non-alcoholic beverages for bar and restaurant patrons.

Salary: $400.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 241-3845 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY

31108

NURSERY SHINE

OCEAN OUTBACK

8 Infinity Lane, Unit A206, Leeward Highway, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Oleander Circle, Off Chalk Sound Drive, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

CHILDREN DAY CARE WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

• General Skills required are: • Strong verbal communication Skills • A Sensitive and caring nature • Good at understanding other people feelings and reactions • Great listening skills • Willing to work flexibly hours • Physically capable • Good Team work and Cooperation Salary: $1,200.00 Monthly

CONTACT: +1(649) 348-6943 OR EMAIL: CHILOUNE_29@YAHOO.COM BELONGERS ONLY 31022

June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

Must have at least 5 years of experience.

Duties: Cleaning boat and accommodation.

Must have a clean driver’s license and own transportation.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-231-0824 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY FOR A WORK PERMIT HOLDER

31109

999 Leeward Highway, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

TILE LAYER

Install materials on floors, walls, ceilings, countertops. Level the surface with a layer of mortar or plywood.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 946-5901

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31087

PEDRO BARBER SHOP Morris Plaza, Airport Road Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 344-4801 BELONGERS ARE TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31097

MJ’S VARIETY STORE Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

MOISE FINEL Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

Norway, Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

3 CASHIERS

2 MASONS

Greets customers, receive payment by cash, checks and credit cards, Issue receipts, and change due to customers.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/ or concrete sidewalks; makes and repairs steps and plasters.

Salary: $475.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 649-341-5407

CONTACT: 232-3007

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

31086

PRINCESS TAKEOUT RESTAURANT & BAR Major Hill, North Caicos Is seeking to employ a

Stocking and supplying designated areas, dusting, sweeping, mopping, restroom cleaning. Keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy at all times.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 241-4838 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY

COSMETOLOGIST

31078

PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY #14 behind Mara, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

UPHOLSTERER

DOMESTIC WORKER

31050

NEW STYLE BEAUTY SALON AND BOUTIQUE

Examine furniture frames, upholstery, springs and webbing to repair furniture and frames. $7.00 hourly

CARPENTER

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. $9.00 hourly

Shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp.

Makeup, dress wigs, perform hair removal, nail and skin care services.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

CONTACT: 331-8154 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY

RICHECOVE PIERRE Kew Town 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: 346-8381

CONTACT: 649-348-2377

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31082 RENEWAL

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31081

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

WENSHELL OCCIUS

TRANQUILITY CLEANING SERVICES

BABYSITTER

FIRST TIME WORK PERMIT APPLICATIONS

SKYLINE DISTRIBUTORS LTD. /SKY INDUSTRIES

CONTACT: 332-9354

Front Road, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

THE LARGEST READERSHIP IN THE TURKS & CAICOS Providenciales

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

IS LOOKING FOR QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED APPLICANTS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITION.

31088

MARKETING & SALES SUPERVISOR

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, assumes the most senior responsibility for all aspects of the Marketing & Sales Operations, including sales and costs analysis to comply with budgets, maximizing revenues through effective sales techniques, successful product sourcing and intelligent pricing structures, inventory control, inventory and account reconciliations, website design and update, customer interaction, vendor relationships. Must

have a vehicle, valid drivers’ license and be willing to work holidays and weekends. College degree with background in marketing/finance or related fields, 3+ years’ experience in operations control or sales. Strong computer/POS organizational and analytical skills. Detail oriented, excellent communication skills, cooperative attitude, hands on work ethic.

Salary: $39,000 + per annum, depending on experience.

ALL INTERESTED APPLICANTS, PLEASE SEND RESUMES TO PO BOX 762.

PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO EXPERIENCED AND QUALIFIED BELONGERS. ONLY THOSE RECEIVING AN INTERVIEW WILL BE CONTACTED

31049

S&G CONSTRUCTION Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

MASON

Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/or concrete sidewalks; makes and repairs steps and plasters.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 242-0952

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31093

31100

Juba Sound, Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

LABOURERS

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Perform routine landscaping, painting, undertake light repairs, maintain trash and recycling receptacle. Re-arranging furnitures, lifting heavy loads, stone floors cleaning windows and treating pool.

Salary Range: $6.25 QUALIFIED ISLANDERS CAN EMAIL THEIR RESUME TO TRANQUILITYCLEANING.TC@GMAIL.COM: OR CONTACT: 649-242-8434 HOWEVER; CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE COMMISSIONER OF LABOUR & WORK PERMIT BOARD ZONE 2 31145

SHEREEN VANESSA PROSPERE

TABOO BAR AND GRILL

BABYSITTER

WAITRESS

Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Leeward Highway Is seeking to employ a

Ensuring a safe environment, preparing and giving meals, bathing and dressing children, administering medicine, doing housework, and etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Take orders and serve food and beverages.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-244-5197

CONTACT: 246-2700

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31094

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board 31080

June 18-24, 2022 ACE PLUMBING #21 BLACK CROW ROAD Is seeking to employ a

PLUMBER RENEWAL

CLASSIFIEDS 45

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS ALMODA BOUTIQUE & BEAUTY BAR Eddy Laporte Plaza, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

NAIL TECHNICIAN

ANDRE JEAN

ANTHONY L. FORBES

Residence, Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

South Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

AC TECHNICIAN

DOMESTIC WORKER

BELIEVE BARBER & SALON South Dock Road #28 Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

DUTIES: INSTALLING, FITTING, CUTTING PLUMBING PIPES MUST BE WILLING TO WORK 6 DAYS PER WEEK SALARY $15.00 PER HOUR

Basic manicures, artificial nails, gel nails, hand massages, nail fills, nail repair, and nail polishing.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Installation of Ductless A/C Systems, Central A/C Systems, Fabrication of Air Condition duct, trouble shooting.

Salary: $7.00 Hourly

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-245-8046

CONTACT: 342-2951

CONTACT: 346-1243

CONTACT: 649-331-8821

CONTACT: 649-346-4078

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD WORK PERMIT RENEWAL 30911

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

CLAUDETTE CLARE

D AND D RELIABLE CLEANING SERVICES

QUALIFIED BELONGERS ARE ASKED TO SUBMIT A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT 31038

CARIBBEAN BUILDERS Chalk Sound Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

31054

214 Palm Circle East Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

31044

81 Palm Circle, Leeward Palms Is seeking to employ a

Close to Lapels, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

CLEANER

HOUSEKEEPING

Cleaning outside the property with sweeper, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly

Cleaning property, pick up yard waste and collect leaves, dispose of trash, clean windows, and door frames.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 244-0065

CONTACT: 245-6827

CONTACT: 649-241-5563

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31031

HANS EYMA

Rock Plaza, Millennium Highway, Blue Hills Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 241-2078

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31036

NORIS BAR & RESTAURANT #18 Old Airport Road Is seeking to employ a

BARMAID

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31052

JAMES E. BEEN Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31057

JOHN LENARD WILLIAMS Kew Town Is seeking to employ a

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

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: 241-8969

CONTACT: 244-7337

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

31046

Five Cays Is seeking to employ a

HANDYMAN

31077

ORKIN (TURKS & CAICOS) PEST CONTROL #8 La Petite Place Grace Bay, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

Taking food orders, serving customers.

Taking beverage orders from customers or wait staff and serving drinks as requested, paying extreme attention to detail.

Salary: $6.50 hourly

Fix and maintain mechanical equipment, buildings, and machines.

Plumbing work, painting, flooring repair and upkeep, electrical repairs, etc.

Salary: $6.75 Hourly

GENERAL WORKER

CONTACT: 348-1654

CONTACT: 242-1744

CONTACT: 649-231-0770

BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL 31058

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 30284

• Assisting with making commercial products i.e soaps/cleaning; • Maintain inventory of products and chemicals; • Office and commercial cleaning; Salary: $8 hourly

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31037

EXAMPLE OF CHRIST CHURCH South Dock Rd. Is seeking to employ a

Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing.

Ensuring all rooms inspected according to standards.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 342-0049 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31075

KATHY LIGHTBOURNE - IMAFIDON Princess Building, Down Town Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

OLWICK NEAT

DANNERIS DEL CARMEN CUETO D HALL

31032

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 241-5099

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31042

PHILLIPE VIXAMAR 56 Mary Jane Lane, Millennium Highway Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 242-8111

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31079

GODEANO MISSICK South Back Salina, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

TILE LAYER

ASSISTANT PASTOR Preaching to church and attending bible studies.

Salary: $1,200.00 Monthly CONTACT: 346-4624 / 252-5459

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

Install materials on floors, walls, ceilings, countertops. Level the surface with a layer of mortar or plywood.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly CONTACT: 649-346-0705 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30704

KIVARNOS CONTRACTING

31035

MELVERNE HALL

The Bight, Provo Is seeking to employ a

25 Omega Lane, Juba Sound Is seeking to employ a

2 MASONS

HOUSEKEEPER

Repairs and alters buildings, retaining walls and other brick or stone edifices. Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/or concrete sidewalks. $8.50 Hourly

CARPENTER

Follow building plans.

Measure, cut, or shape wood, plastic, and other materials. $10.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 345-9117 ONLY BELONGER APPLY / RENEWAL 31045

PIERRE AMOS JEAN #5 Yellow Elder, The Bight Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Cleaning the property, pick up yard waste, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 341-1373

CONTACT: 241-2983

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD WORK PERMIT RENEWAL 31055

CAMILE GREENE

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31033

Performing a variety of cleaning activities such as sweeping, mopping, dusting and polishing.

Ensuring all rooms are cared for and inspected according to standards.

To work 6 days a week.

Salary: $6.25 hourly

CONTACT: 241-7698 BELONGERS ONLY APPLY RENEWAL 31041

RUTHE BARTON Breezy Brae, Grand Turk Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

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

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 343-8396 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31030

46 CLASSIFIEDS EVERGREEN LANDSCAPING

MILLENNIUM HIGHWAY Is seeking to employ a

3 GARDENERS

Soil cultivation, digging, and forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting.

Salary: $300.00 Weekly.

CONTACT: 331-7188

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31176

ALIYAH J. JOSEPH

ERB CONSTRUCTION

KEW TOWN #88 Is seeking to employ a

GRANT CONSTRUCTION

HO2 CONSTRUCTION LTD.

Black Crow Road, Kew Plaza Unit #5, Kew Town. Is seeking

SALES CLERK

DRYWALL FINISHER

PLUMBER NANNY MASON

FISH & THINGS

Assisting customers, give change, keeping inventory of goods and ensuring the store is clean at all times.

Salary: $300.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 344-3858

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31173

- $8.00 HOURLY • Responsible for installing wallboards to ceilings or to interior walls of buildings and applying plaster.

• Renewal

PLUMBER

- $10.00 hourly Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for pipes, equipment, etc.

CONTACT: 649-441-0237 Belongers only

31120

#101 Suite Court, Grace Bay Is seeking to employ a

Kew Town, Providenciales 241-7032

Blue Hills Close, Providenciales. 331-1067

Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for pipes, equipment, etc.

Salary: $10.00 Hourly

Cares for my children, maintain the house clean, wash dishes, clean bedroom, bathroom, wash & iron. Salary $6.25 per hour.

Smooth out concrete in segments to ensure the concrete is poured in level.

Rub cement in with sponge-rubber float or burlap. SALARY: 8.00 per hour.

FIRST TIME, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

RENEWAL. BELONGERS WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

CONTACT: 649-431-2971

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

31017

EXPRESS EQUIPMENT LTD

FRANKLIN LIGHTBOURNE

HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC

DOMESTIC WORKER

P.O. Box 1125, South Dock Road, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands

NATURE OF POSITION: • Driving to the job site.

• Inspecting trucks, cranes, bulldozers, and other heavy equipment for proper performance.

• Diagnosing faults using computerized testing equipment.

• Adjusting equipment and replacing faulty parts.

• Repairing damaged equipment parts.

• Cleaning, lubricating, and conducting routine services on heavy-duty vehicles.

• Cleaning and servicing of machine attachments like winches, blades, and side booms.

• Performing major repair work when necessary.

• Consulting with other mechanics on smaller jobs.

• Reporting damaged or faulty equipment to management.

Must possess suitable mechanic background (Degree preferred) as well of experience with in all aspects of automotive movil services/ repaired industry.

SALARY: With experience and qualifications salary range $15-$30 per hour. Must have own tools

DROP OFF RESUMES/CV AT THE OFFICE LOCATED ON P.O BOX 1125 SOUTH DOCK RD. OR AT LABOUR DEPARTMENT IN PROVIDENCIALES OR EMAIL: ADMIN@ EXPRESEQUIPMENTJCB.COM | PHONE: (649) 946-5919/ (649) 245-2897 Belongers only need apply 31170

EASYWAY EMPLOYEMENT SERVICS ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT

FRANDY ANTOINE

341-1377 Ti Remy 85 Five Cays

ELIE LANDSCAPING CLEANING SERVICES

DOMESTIC WORKER

232-7124 47 June Hills

NAUJIK MAINTENANCE & CLEANING

- $300.00 Weekly Soil cultivation, digging, and forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting.

- $290.00 Weekly Caring for my children, monitoring and feeding them, prepare their meal, wash, iron, cook and clean.

331-5822 Leeward Palms #52

JANITOR

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- $290.00 weekly Perform general maintenance, vacuum, mopping, dusting, and ceiling, counter top and furniture, must be able to use hand tools.

GARDENER

ELYSEE ANGELO 341-0199 The Bight #44

LABOUR

- $300.00 Weekly Pick up waste, clean the property and keep the yard clean.

BELONGER ARE ENCOURAGE TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO LABOR BOARD. THESE POSITION ARE NEW OR HELD BY WORK PERMIT HIOLDER 31135

Providenciales, 342-5914

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron. Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

31062

JOCELYN HAMILTON

Kew Town, Providenciales, 342-5914

31139

LERRY WILLIAMS

Blue Hills, Providenciales, 341-6855

DOMESTIC WORKER

DOMESTIC WORKER

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron. Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron. Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE. 31141

31142

31140

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LUNIA SHOP 348-2289

LABOURER

- $300.00 Weekly Unloading container, assist with transporting goods, assist customers in out of the store with merchandise & ensure the place is clean at all time.

PASSION BEAUTY SALON 333-1236 203 Alice & Alice, Airport Road

LOCTICIAN

- $300.00 weekly Style men and women locs, locs starter, treating and maintaining locs.

BOOKKEEPING CLERK

-$500.00 Weekly Keeping inventory of store and salon products, sales and attend to customers, received and give change, monitor and care for my daughter after school.

GESNER GUERRIER

241-6565 Five Cays Road #86

DOMESTIC WORKER

- $300.00 Weekly Cleaning the house, wash dishes, wash, cook and iron.

URGENT HOUSEKEEPING 341-1748 Kew Town #980

MAID

- $6.25 Hourly Sweeping, mopping, dusting, and vacuuming to remove dirt, debris, and dust from floors and other surfaces.

ISLAND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES 342-0275 Blue Hills, #70 Bay Road

HELPER

- $7.00 Hourly Cleaning worksite and residential from debris and equipment, digging trenches.

BELONGER ARE ENCOURAGE TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO LABOR BOARD. THESE POSITION ARE NEW OR HELD BY WORK PERMIT HIOLDER

31171

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SOREL GERMAIN

Blue Hills, Providenciales, 241-4995

DOMESTIC WORKER Sweep the house.

Mop the floor. Clean bathroom, doors, and windows. Wash & iron. Salary starts at $6.25 per hour

RENEWAL, BELONGER WILL BE GIVEN FIRST PREFERENCE.31138

KENNETH M. HALL

North Caicos, Bottle Creek Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER

Cleaning the house, iron, wash and cook. Salary: $275.00 Weekly

CONTACT: 243-6860

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31175

JESSICA JOSEPH SOUTH DOCK ROAD Is seeking a

KECHIE

JOHN STORE AND DRY GOODS

Acting on behalf of

PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ a

BABYSITTER CLEANER

JOB DESCRIPTION: • Observe, monitor and supervise baby closely and consistently.

• Under take light household duties • Bath and dress the baby • Must be flexible to work some holidays and weekends.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Cleaning, moping, sweeping and any other chores as needed. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Belongers only apply

L AND S EATS RESTAURANT

M AND E CLEANING SERVICES

31129

Down Town, Airport Road Is seeking to employ a

WAITRESS Take orders and serve food and beverages.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly.

CONTACT: 649-242-0311

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

31018

31159

Blue Hills, Providenciales Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 649-342-0726

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31019

GARDENER items • Must have the ability to maintain irrigation systems and provide proper upkeep of sidewalk and walkway.

Salary for this position is $10.00 per hr.

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

CONTACT: 649-231-1664

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

31160

ROBERTS AGENCY Acting on behalf of

ESTEL PLUMBING

Providenciales. 241-2043

PLUMBER - $7.50 Hourly

Installs pipes and fixtures, installs supports for pipes, equipment, etc.

Renewal BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD 31151

- $8.00 hourly Smoothing out laying tiles etc.

surfaces,

DRYWALL FINISHER

31120

Address: GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ:

TILE LAYER WORKING 5 DAYS A WEEK. Salary: $6.

50per hourly

CONTACT: 1649 344 53 23

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This position is currently held by a work permit holder. 31122

LABOURER

- $7.00 hourly Cleaning up construction site daily.

Contact: 232-2208 #10 Techia Street, Shore Club

HANDYMAN

- $6.50 hourly Maintaining of yard cleaning, small painting, fixing of small furniture ect.

Contact: 246-3402

J A C Q U E L I N DESRONVIL

Snake Hill, Blue Hills

HOME HELP/CARETAKER

- $7.00 hourly Helping with getting dressed, eating, bathing and completing light housekeeping duties.

Contact: 244-9696

Only Belonger Apply/Renewal work permit

MANPOWER SERVICES 3 Hope Street, Grace Bay, Providenciales. Is seeking

5 HELPERS

- $6.25 HOURLY Cleaning property, pick up yard waste, dispose of trash, clean windows, and doorframes.

- $10.00 HOURLY Repairs, maintains and alters buildings. Mixes mortar; lays bricks and stones and/or concrete sidewalks.

Salary: $10.00 Hourly

MARIE SERVILIA ST. JUSTE-HALL SOUTH DOCK Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Cleaning the house, laundering sheets, towels and personal clothing and other housework. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 348-8927

31161

NC BROKERAGE SERVICES Reo Dr, Juba Sound, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Is seeking to employ a

DOMESTIC WORKER Perform task involving Cleaning the office, bathroom, kitchen, etc.

Salary: $8.00 Hourly.

CONTACT: (1649) 244-7498

CONTACT: 241-4976 BELONGERS ONLY

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board31148

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. 31047

NEW STYLE BEAUTY SALON & BOUTIQUE

P&D EMPLOYMENT

P&D EMPLOYMENT

POOL SOLUTIONS

URY CONSTUCTION

31152

CONTACT: 331-8154

JROCK CONSTRUCTION

#204 Regent Village

DELBERT D. MISSICK

and styling hair, provide hair treatments, deep conditioning, permanents, coloring, and weaving. Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Qualified Belonger candidates are requested to submit a CV by e-mail to:

RASHENA FORBES

TILE LAYER

HAIR DRESSER Shampooing, cutting,

This position is held by a work permit holder.

SOUTH BACK SALINA, GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

DESIGN BUILDERS ASSOCIATION LTD

- $6.50 hourly Maintaining of yard cleaning, small painting, fixing of small furniture ect.

Airport Road Bld. #90 Is seeking to employ a

is needed for a private residence on Provo.

MARSHA BLANCHE, MISICK & STANBROOK EMAIL: MARSHA@MISICKSTANBROOK.TC | TEL: (649) 946-4732 SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS JOB POSITION SHOULD BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN JULY 30TH, 2022.

HANDYMAN

5 MASONS

JOB POSITION FOR A

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Complete ground work as directed by the property Owner which may include picking up trash, and maintaining landscaping other ground areas • Must have the ability to lift heavy

Contact: 341-4752

- $7.50 hourly Installing of wallboards and ceilings in buildings etc.

CONTACT: 341-3323 Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board

CONTACT: 342-9076

TEN & SANCHEZ LTD

12 Bronze Lane, Long Bay

Acting on behalf of

Millennium Highway, Blue Hills

Acting on behalf of

Apt. #9, Bible Street, Blue Hills

2 LABOURERS LABOURER Cleaning and maintain pool daily, sweep and wash pool areas.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

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.

CONTACT: 341-1900

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31157

CONTACT: 345-5250 31150

Belongers only apply Renewal 31149

MARCIANO WILLIAMS

SCHMID MICHEL

SELVIN MCROY GARDINER

LABOURERS

STEELMAN

Address: GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ two:

CLEANING. Salary: $7 per hourly.

CONTACT: 1(649)342 9381

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

31123

Belongers only apply

The Bight, Provo Is seeking to employ a

• Applicant must be honest, reliable and hard working.

• Laying steel on all my apartments.

Salary: $12.00 Hourly

CONTACT: 346-6803

Belongers are encouraged to apply to the Labour Board 31155

Glass Shack. Is seeking

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: 342-2411

Belongers are to apply to the Labour Board A work permit holder currently holds this position 31153

48 CLASSIFIEDS SIP N TASTE BAR BLUE HILLS Is seeking to employ a

3 HOSTESS

• Interacting with customers, taking orders and serving snacks and drinks.

• Check customers’ identification and confirm it meets legal drinking age.

• Prepare alcohol or nonalcoholic beverages for bar and restaurant patrons.

Salary: $7.75 Hourly

CONTACT: 345-9275 Belongers only

31158

SPRINKLER DRIP IRRIGATION SOUTH DOCK ROAD Is seeking to employ a

IRRIGATION TECHNICIAN Install and maintain irrigation systems. Salary: $9.00 Hourly CONTACT: 341-3168

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. Work Permit Renewal 31147

June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS TCI DISTRIBUTORS 45 Universal Road

DELIVERY DRIVER

Drive delivery truck Capable of lifting 50 lbs Load and off load stock Warehouse assistance Foodservice experience, a plus Valid driver’s license, at least class C, E Proof of status. Salary: $10.00 / hour

(649) 232-8243 / HR@ TCIDIST.COM BELONGERS & PRC HOLDERS ONLY 30036

NOTICE OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION MEETING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT EMERALD AND PELICAN BEACH NORISHMENT PROJECT

THE SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES, SOUTH CAICOS

SEVERAL NEW OPENINGS WATERFRONT ASSISTANTS, PROGRAM ASSISTANT, PROGRAM COORDINATOR Job Summaries and Qualifications: Assistants – coordinates all SCUBA activities, BS degree or higher in marine science, $10K annually; Program Coordinator – experience overseeing college students at a marine field station and supporting

academic program, WAFA trained ($15K annually) All positions required to live on-site, 6 day work week, minimum Divemaster Scuba Diver unless otherwise stated, prior experience living/working at a field station and boat handling is preferred.

TO APPLY: PLEASE SEND YOUR CV TO HHERTLER@FIELDSTUDIES.ORG – TC ISLANDERS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. START DATE: IMMEDIATELY

31133

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SUNNY FOODS RETAIL & WHOLESALE LTD.

LEEWARD, PROVIDENCIALES, TURS & CAICOS ISLANDS

Five Cays Road, Providenciales, TCI Is Looking For:

The Environmental Impact Assessment ("EIA11) for Planning Application PR.15234 for the Emerald and Pelican Beach Nourishment Project, Leeward, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands which has been submitted in accordance with Section 44 (1) b of the Physical Planning Ordinance and Condition #3 of the Grant of Outline Development Permission dated July 1, 2021, has been finalized and is available online for public review at the Turks and Caicos Islands Government Website at the following: https://www.gov.tc/planning/pr-15234

P U R C H A S E R Sunny foods is aiming to be the country’s premier cash and carry operation. This now requires technical analysis of sourcing and supply chain management, especially in this post-covid era of supply shortages.

• Must have prior experience purchasing Asian & American Products.

• Must be able to research and source products affordably given world-wide supply chain shortages • Supporting the continuous improvement of existing supply chain processes and procedures • Must be have prior experience with Quick Books 2022 • Performing inventory analysis and preparing inventory reports • Liaising with various vendor partners and seeking new distributors/ partnership agreements (MUST have existing contacts in the industry) • Analyzing supply chain risks and developing strategies to resolve the issues • Must have strong data analysis skills • Ensures orders are placed in a timely manner, customer request are met quickly and efficiently while looking to source ways to fill orders • Must have extensive knowledge on NCR 7456 or similar POS System • Setting up training programs for employees on proper merchandising, inventory and supply chain management • 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.

• Must be available to work on Holiday, Nights and weekends. Both Saturday and Sunday nights are required with a day off during the middle of the week.

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

• Salary $35,000 per annum plus benefits. Remuneration based on experience.

This position is for first time work permit application.

Hard copies of the EIA Report are also available at the Department of Planning offices in Providenciales and Grand Turk for public review.

Comments on the EIA report can be sent to the Department of Planning at planningconsultation@gov.tc or to the Department of Planning, Emily House, Leeward Highway, Providenciales or at South Base, Grand Turk

by July 9, 2022.

A public consultation meeting on the EIA will be held on Monday, July 18, 2022 at the Department of Planning, Conference Room, Providenciales at 5:00 p.m.

31137

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INTERESTED APPLICANTS CAN EMAIL THEIR RESUME TO SUNNY@SUNNYFOODSTCI.COM OR SEND RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. Belongers need only to apply.

31130

June 18-24, 2022

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TJAY BEEN

GERMAN CIGAR PUB

ALBERT CHARLES STUBBS

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ a

The Bight Is seeking to employ a

LABOURER

1. BARTENDER 1. WAITRESS

Belongers please Send a copy of your resume to the Labour Board. These positions are held by work Permit holders. 31166

#8 LEEWARD DRIVE, LONG BAY, PROVIDENCIALES Is seeking to employ

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc.

Salary: $6.50 Hourly

CONTACT: 245-7228

CONTACT: 348-4906

Belongers are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board. This is a first work permit application.

CONTACT: 242-4548 BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

31165

17 Sailfish Lane | Providenciales PO Box 433 | Turks and Caicos Islands

GARDERNER

INTERESTED APPLICANTS INCLUDING ISLANDERS/BELONGERS CAN SEND APPLICATIONS TO EA GROUP BY E- MAIL TO ALEX@EAGROUPTCI.COM. SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY PHONE FOR AN INTERVIEW. THIS POSITION IS CURRENTLY HELD BY WORK PERMIT HOLDERS. Alex Cosme Services By EA 231-5579

31126

AARON LIGHTBOURNE

WAYPOINT YACHTS LTD. (232-3000): c/o 1276 Leeward Hwy, Providenciales

GRAND TURK Is seeking to employ

SEEKING TO FILL 2 POSITIONS FOR

KITCHEN HELPER/WAIT STAFF HOUSEKEEPER

Duties: Performing a variety of housekeeping chores. SALARY: $6.50 per hour

CONTACT: 242-8981

31124

CONTACT: DIVEUKUSA@HOTMAIL.COM OR 232-3000.

THESE ARE NEW POSITIONS. PREFERENCE TO TCISLANDERS.

Belongers are asked to submit a copy of their resume to The employment Services Office. This is a first time Work Permit appliction.

30167

WARD’S CONSULTANCY ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT

ALICE’S KITCHEN

KALOOKI’S

S. dock rd. providenciales

5 Academy Ave. dowtowm

- $6.25p/h tel: 649-246-5644 clean kitchen areas and wash dishes.

- $6.25p/h clean kitchen areas and wash dishes.

Tel: 399-9000

KITCHEN HELPER

TCI DRINKING WATER

KITCHEN HELPER

ALICE L. MORLEY

Five Cays Tel: 244-5050

S. Dock rd. providenciales

- 6.25 p/h Deliver water

-$6.25p/h tel:649-246-5644 clean kitchen areas and wash dishes.

TRUCK DRIVER

2 KITCHEN HELPER

• Must have previous gardening experience and be familiar with landscaping equipment such as lawn mowers, trimmers etc.

• Must be willing to carry out work such as heavy lifting, digging, weeding, trimming and plant waste removal • Must be willing to work weekends and holidays • Must have a clean police record and provide employers references on request • Pay - $6.50 - $7.00/hr depending on experience TO ARRANGE AN INTERVIEW CONTACT: 649-332-4280 OR EMAIL: TURQUOISELANDSCAPING@TCIWAY.TC BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEND A COPY OF THEIR RESUME TO THE LABOUR BOARD. THESE POSITIONS ARE FOR WORK PERMIT RENEWALS

30931

OLYMPIC CONSTRUCTION LTD. WATERLOO PLAZA COMPLEX, GRAND TURK, TCI is looking for

HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANICS

Evening and weekend availability is a must English and Spanish is required • Driver’s License Required Salary: $6.50 per Hour

Must be available various days per week on short notice to perform kitchen helper & waitressing duties. Must have own transportation and appropriate training and experience. Will be held to a high standard relative to team involvement, employee relations, guest services and professionalism.

Salary $500/wk.

1 GARDENER & 1 LABOURER

30935

TRANQUILITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LTD.

• Cleaning the yard, Septic • Cistern and gutter systems cleaned and disinfected Maintain cleanliness of properties • Keep all properties running smoothly

TURQUOISE LANDSCAPING

CLEANER

Duties: To assist skilled.

Worker and keep job.

Sites clean. SALARY: $7.50 per hour

Duties: To take client orders. Mix and Serve drinks. Salary: $8.00 per hour

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NEPTUNE VILLAS

533chalk sound Providenciales

DOMESTIC WORKER

-$7.00p/h Ensuring that all villas are clean and organized.

STEWARD

$7.00 p/h Assists in keeping restaurant & bar clean and sanitary.

Tel: 649-332-4320

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

Repair, troubleshoot, adjust, overhaul and maintain heavy-duty equipments, etc. Salary: $1600-$2400 monthly

CARPENTERS / FINISHING CARPENTERS

Prepare drawings for cabinetry, framing and other construction projects onsite. Build cabinets, vanities, tub and shower surrounds, Install cabinets, counters and molding, etc. Reads and follow blueprints.

Salary: $9.00 per hour

PROCUREMENT OFFICER

Dip. / BS in Purchasing & Supply Management and Project Management.

Handle and manage Project RFQ’s, commercial evaluations, PO award and PO administration to final delivery and PO close out. Manage procurement processes in construction Company’s ERP/SAP systems. Must have at least 10 years experience in construction environment, etc. Remuneration: Commensurate with Skill/experience

CONSTRUCTION / PROJECT SUPERVISORS

BS Civil Engineering Graduate, Must have at least 10 years experience in construction industry. Responsible in construction management and implementation, organizing & co-facilitating sessions, dealing project planning and scheduling, including time impact analysis, etc. Salary Range: $30K $36K per annum

HVAC TECHNICIAN

Trade certification as an HVAC Technician. Have at least 7yrs experience in HVAC. Installing, maintaining and repairing ventilation and air conditioning systems and equipment. Diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults for HVAC systems. Proficient in reading schematics and work plans. Working knowledge of boiler systems.

Salary: $9.00 per hour

TILE SETTERS

Cutting and laying tiles. form tile beds using concrete, plaster, mastic, cement, glue or mortar, etc. Salary: $9.00 per hour

DRIVERS / OPERATORS

Applicant MUST have a minimum of 5 years operate and maintain construction heavy equipment, monitor all activities relating to heavy equipment, assembling, installing and setting equipment such as air compressors, motors etc.

Remuneration: Commensurate with Skill/experience

MASONS

Plastering, mixes mortar, lays bricks and stones, able to mix cement. Reads and follow blueprints, etc. Salary: $9.00 per hour

CONTACT: Tel: 649-946-1278 / 1275 Fax:649-946-1101 / Email: info@olympic.tc BELONGERS are encouraged to send a copy of their resume to the Labour Board

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PUBLIC NOTICE 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 Alki Ivelisse Gonzales Peralto Guareno by virtue of marriage to a Turks and Caicos Islander.

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SOUTH BANK MARINA LTD ADVERTISEMENT FOR

FINANCE ACCOUNTANT South Bank Marina Ltd , located in 1 Long Bay Hills, Providenciales, invites applications to fill the position of FINANCE ACCOUNTANT.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in a financial analysis/ financial reporting position.

• Managing a team of bookkeepers, ensuring that job responsibilities are being performed in a complete and timely manner as well as employee performance reviews being undertaken on a regular basis.

• Responsible for reviewing, correcting and posting all journal entries to the general ledger prepared by members of the Financial Accounting team.

• Detailed review and reconciliation of general ledger accounts on a daily basis to ensure accuracy of accounting records.

• Comprehensive knowledge of general ledger accounting and the function of financial accounting systems is essential.

• Implementing and improving accounting processes and procedures to improve team efficiency and drive profitability of the business.

• Weekly reporting of KPIs to senior management and stakeholders.

• Ad-hoc finance related projects as required.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

• Attention to detail and flexibility to manage multiple tasks.

• Knowledge of Quickbooks accounting software is beneficial.

Salary commensurate with experience

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL (CONTACT@SOUTHBANK.TC)OR DELIVERED TO SOUTH BANK MARINA, 1 LONG BAY HIGHWAY, PROVIDENCIALES. This is Not a work Permit Renewal

June 18-24, 2022

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Hibiscus Plaza, South Dock Rd. Is seeking to employ a

STOCKER

Stock goods on shelf.

Assist customers with locating items.

Assist with stock inventory.

Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour CONTACT: (649) 347-2268 30986

MORE FOR LESS

KETTLY D. PARKER

CASHIER

LABOURER

Hibiscus Plaza, South Dock Rd. Is seeking to employ a

Receive payment from customers by credit card or cash.

Balance cash draw and end of day Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour CONTACT: (649) 347-2268 30983

Five Cays Road Is seeking to employ a

Weed Grass, Wash Windows.

Perform minor painting and must be able to handle hand power tools.

Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour CONTACT: (649) 345-2174

30969

SAMANTHA S. CHARLES

DIEUVILIEN MARCEL

DIEUVILIEN MARCEL

LABOURER

CLEANER

CLEANER

Five Cays Rd Is seeking to employ a

Weed grass, minor painting and wash building windows.

Must be knowledgeable in operating a hand power tool.

Basic Salary: $6.25 per hour

CONTACT: (649) 242-2545 30985

The Bight Is seeking to employ a

The Bight Is seeking to employ a

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

Stocking and supplying designated facility areas, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, restroom cleaning etc.

Salary: $6.25 Hourly

CONTACT: 347-8694

CONTACT: 347-8694

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

30934

BELONGERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY TO THE LABOUR BOARD

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PUBLIC NOTICE 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 Euniciva Brown Wood by virtue of marriage to a Turks and Caicos Islander.

30934

June 18-24, 2022

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

CLASSIFIEDS 51

MYSTIQUE CAR RENTAL & TOURS LTD. UNIT #

CLASS YEAR MODEL

COLOR

PRICE

UNIT #

CLASS YEAR MODEL

#72 Old Airport Road

COLOR

Car Sales are between the hours 8.30am - 11am

PRICE

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Science & Technology

June 18-24, 2022

China detects possible ‘extraterrestrial civilizations;’ state media reports CHINESE state media is reporting that the nation’s Five-hundredmetre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) has detected what could be signals sent from ‘extraterrestrial civilizations‘. FAST is a radio telescope capable of picking up signals from space.

Researchers from Beijing Normal University published their findings in a report Tuesday. In the report, translated using Google Translate, the team claims to have discovered “several cases of possible technological traces of extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the Earth.”

Those traces include narrowband signals, which are used for shortrange transmissions.

According to the report,

“electromagnetic waves are the most suitable carrier or messenger for interstellar communication.

Regardless of wind or rain, (the waves) can penetrate the earth’s atmosphere regardless of weather.”

Peng Bo, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory, said that the signals are likely alien civilizations, but they are currently unable to identify them.

The researchers on the team say that the possibility of the signal just being interference is “very high.”

They plan to repeat the observations of the signals to discover if this is the case or if they are in fact from aliens.

WHAT IS THE FAST TELESCOPE?

Researchers from Beijing Normal University published their findings in a report Tuesday.

FAST is the world’s largest filledaperture telescope and second largest single-dish radio telescope on Earth, following Russia’s RATAN-600.

FAST is 500 meters in diameter. It has been nicknamed “China’s Sky Eye”. It is located in southwest China in the Guizhou province.

FAST’s chief scientist, Li Di, said that the telescope will focus on three things in the future, including the discovery of new planets and alien

species.

The researchers on the team say that the possibility of the signal just being interference is “very high.”

They plan to repeat the observations of the signals to discover if this is the case or if they are in fact from aliens.

WHAT IS THE FAST TELESCOPE? FAST is the world’s largest filledaperture telescope and second largest

single-dish radio telescope on Earth, following Russia’s RATAN-600.

FAST is 500 meters in diameter. It has been nicknamed “China’s Sky Eye”. It is located in southwest China in the Guizhou province.

FAST’s chief scientist, Li Di, said that the telescope will focus on three things in the future, including the discovery of new planets and alien species. (Kxan.com)

Exercise pill could curb food cravings for couch potatoes, study reveals AN “anti-hunger” pill could be on the horizon, according to a new study. Researchers from Stanford Medicine and Baylor University have identified a molecule that keeps people from getting hungry after working out.

In experiments, the compound dramatically reduced food intake and obesity in mice. Study authors hope to turn it into a medication that may even replace the need to go to the gym.

“Regular exercise has been proven to help weight loss, regulate appetite and improve the metabolic profile, especially for people who are overweight and obese,” says lead author Professor Yong Xu from the Baylor College of Medicine in a statement, according to SWNS. “If we can understand the mechanism by which exercise triggers these benefits, then we are closer to helping many people improve their health.”

The findings in the journal Nature shed fresh light on the links between exercise and hunger. Physical activity protects against obesity and a host of diseases.

“We’re all generally aware that exercise is beneficial. It’s good for body weight and glucose control,” says Jonathan Long, PhD, a Standford Medicine assistant professor of pathology, in a university release.

In experiments, the compound dramatically reduced food intake and obesity.

“But we wanted to take a look at that concept in more detail — we wanted to see if we could dissect exercise in terms of molecules and pathways.”

The team conducted comprehensive analyses of blood plasma from mice following intense treadmill running. They identified a

modified amino acid called Lac-Phe as the most significantly induced molecule.

It is synthesised from lactate, a byproduct of strenuous exercise responsible for the burning sensation in muscles, and phenylalanine, a building block of proteins. In lab

rodents fed a high-fat diet, a high dose of Lac-Phe halved food intake over a period of 12 hours compared to a control group. It also didn’t affect their movement or energy expenditure. When administered to the mice for 10 days, Lac-Phe reduced consumption and body fat

and improved glucose tolerance.

The researchers also identified an enzyme called CNDP2 that is involved in the production of LacPhe. They showed mice lacking the enzyme did not lose as much weight on an exercise regime as a control group on the same plan.

Interestingly, the team also found robust elevations in plasma Lac-Phe levels following physical activity in racehorses and humans. Data from a human exercise group showed that sprint exercise induced the most dramatic increase in plasma LacPhe – followed by resistance and endurance training.

“This suggests Lac-Phe is an ancient and conserved system that regulates feeding and is associated with physical activity in many animal species,” Dr. Long says, according to SWNS. The metabolic effects of Lac-Phe were not investigated in the human participants. Further studies will be necessary to provide more insights into new therapeutic opportunities for human health.

“Our next steps include finding more details about how Lac-Phe mediates its effects in the body – including the brain,” Prof. Xu concludes. “Our goal is to learn to modulate this exercise pathway for therapeutic interventions.”

(Studyfinds.org)

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Dog health: Don’t buy a bulldog until breed is reshaped, vets plead THE flat faces bred into bulldogs can cause a “lifetime of suffering” and vets are urging people not to buy one.

The bulldog has twice the health risks of other dogs, a study has found.

Urgent action is needed to reshape the breed and stop the UK joining the list of countries where the dog is banned, say Royal Veterinary College experts.

They want people to stop buying English bulldogs and two other popular breeds - the French bulldog and the pug - until breeding issues are addressed.

They’re also calling on the public to stop “promoting” the dog on social media by posting and liking pictures.

The bulldog has soared in popularity over the past decade.

The breed, also known as the English or British bulldog, earned comparisons with Winston Churchill for its jowly face, and was historically seen as a symbol of courage and endurance.

A fashion for ever more extreme features, such as a flat face, wrinkled skin and squat body, has made the breed prone to health complaints, raising welfare concerns.

With their large bulging eyes and flat face, the dogs are undeniably “cute”, said Dr Dan O’Neill of the

Bulldogs are also more likely to develop heatstroke than other dogs.

Royal Veterinary College, one of the authors of the study, but their extreme body shape after years of selective breeding has become their downfall.

“For breeds such as English bulldogs where many dogs still have extreme conformations (a dog’s structure and appearance) with poor innate health, the public have a huge role to play by demanding dogs with moderate and healthier conformations,” he said.

“Until then, prospective owners should stop and think before buying

a flat-faced dog.”

The English bulldog was once a muscular and athletic breed, but over the years has become a popular pet, with a trend towards a short skull, protruding jaw, skin folds and a squat build.

The public has an important role to play in driving change by not posting pictures of the dogs on social media or liking posts, thereby “inadvertently advertising” them, Dr O’Neill said.

But he admitted the “phenomenal” popularity of the

bulldog is understandable, given the psychological effect they have on us.

With their large heads, big eyes and docile temperament, they remind us of babies, triggering our nurturing instincts.

“We interpret this as the dogs being cute, and this is totally understandable and, in fact, very hard to fight against as a human,” he said.

“What we deem is cute from the outside, if you’re living the life as that dog, is anything but cute. It is, in many cases, a lifetime of suffering.”

The breeding of the bulldog is already banned in several countries, and, according to an expert working group of vets and welfare groups, including the Royal Veterinary College, the same could happen here if nothing is done.

Owners who already have one should look out for health issues such as eye problems, difficulty breathing and skin fold infections, and seek veterinary advice if concerned, they say.

Veterinary historian, Dr Alison Skipper, of King’s College London, said many of the diseases linked to body shape had been known by breeders for more than a century.

Responsible breeding, prioritising health, could “improve the welfare

of this popular and iconic breed,” she said.

And The Kennel Club said a ban risked driving the problem underground.

“We urgently want to see people choosing dogs not just because they like the way they look, which is often driven by celebrity and social media, and instead find breeders who use the health tools available and breed a non-exaggerated dog, where health comes first, as described in the breed standard,” said spokesperson, Bill Lambert.

The study, published in the journal of Canine Medicine and Genetics, compared the health of thousands of English bulldogs kept as pets with that of other dog breeds. It found English bulldogs were twice as likely to have one or more disorders in a single year than other dogs.

The commonest health complaints were infections in skin folds (38 times more likely than in other dogs), an eye disorder known as cherry eye (26 times more likely), protrusion of the lower jaw (24 times more likely) and breathing problems (19 times more likely).

A recent study by the same team found pugs were also at high risk of health complaints. (BBC)

Climate change: Rich nations accused of ‘betrayal’ at Bonn talks CLIMATE talks in Bonn headed into their final day with rich nations accused of betraying the developing world.

Poorer countries say that at COP26 they were promised that their key demand on loss and damage would be honoured this year.

They believed that a new finance facility to pay for the impacts of climate change that they can’t adapt to, would be set up.

But in Bonn, they say the issue has been side-lined by the US and Europe.

For many participants, loss and damage has become the key issue in the global climate negotiations.

Developing country participants say climate impacts on their countries are more severe than on the richer nations and they have less financial capacity to cope.

“We are already living with loss and damages for the last 25 years,” said Adriana Vasquez Rodriquez from the Association La Ruta del Clima, a Costa Rican environmental group.

“We have families who have lost their houses, their crops, their lives, and no-one is paying for that, we are running out of resources, and at

People being rescued from floods in China.

the same time, we are depending on debt.”

The developing nations argue that the climate change they are experiencing has been caused by historic carbon emissions that originated in richer countries. They say that Europe and the US have a responsibility now to pay for these losses and damages.

The US and Europe don’t agree.

They fear that if they pay for historic emissions it could put their countries on the hook for billions of dollars for decades or even centuries to come.

The issue came to a head at COP26 in Glasgow where what’s been termed a “delicate compromise” was reached.

The island states and developing

countries would agree to the Glasgow climate pact with a big focus on cutting carbon, if the richer nations would finally set up a process that would fund loss and damage.

“The compromise was based on an understanding that countries would be willing to start talking and taking decisions on dealing with how to get that finance flowing for loss

and damage,” said Alex Scott from E3G, an environmental think tank.

“And we haven’t seen that come to fruition here. Instead, we’ve seen a workshop set up to talk about how we can fix some of the problems.”

The compromise involved the setting up of the Glasgow dialogue on loss and damage, which had its first workshop meeting here in Bonn.

Poorer nations hoped that this mainly technical meeting would formally put loss and damage on the agenda for political leaders due to meet at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh in November.

But, as yet, that hasn’t happened as several countries are opposed.

If no progress is made, many participants say this would be a significant blow to unity ahead of COP27.

“It would be tragic,” said ambassador Conrod Hunte, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).

“What has been achieved here?

Not much, I would say, there’s still a lot more to achieve. Am I happy?

No, I’m not happy.”

Climate campaigners went much further than the diplomats.

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Mbappe must have changed dream - Real Madrid president Perez REAL Madrid president Florentino Perez says Kylian Mbappe “must have changed his dream” after the France striker rejected a move to the Spanish club.

Mbappe, 23, signed a new lucrative three-year contract at Paris St-Germain instead of moving to the La Liga club.

“His dream was to play at Real Madrid,” Perez told El Chiringuito.

“We wanted to do it last August and they didn’t let him leave, he kept saying he wanted to play at Madrid and 15 days before changed the situation.”

According to Spanish football expert Guillem Balague, Mbappe had agreed a financial package with Real months ago for a potential switch to Spain prior to opting to stay with PSG. Spain’s La Liga reacted angrily to the news, calling the deal “scandalous” and has since filed a complaint to Uefa about what it believes to be Financial Fair Play breaches by PSG and Manchester City.

“This is not the Mbappe I wanted to bring, he is another one, who must have changed his dream,” Perez was quoted as saying in Marca from the interview with El Chiringuito.

“He changes, he is offered other things, he is pressured and he is already another footballer.

“There is no-one at Real Madrid above the club. He is a great player, he can win more than others, but it is a collective sport and we have values and principles that we cannot change.”

Mbappe has not ruled out moving to Real Madrid in the future, saying it is “never over” when asked about joining the Spanish champions.

Perez added: “The Mbappe who was going to come here is not this one. If it is, I prefer him to stay at PSG. I want the one with the dream.”

Real Madrid won La Liga and the Champions League last season with France striker Karim Benzema scoring 44 goals in 46

PSG and Mbappe were knocked out of the Champions League by eventual 2021-22 winners Real Madrid.

games.

He is one of the favourites to win the Ballon d’Or and Perez suggested the 34-year-old’s exploits were behind them not signing striker Erling Haaland, who has joined Manchester City.

“We have the best nine in the world and we weren’t going to bring in Haaland to have him on the bench, right?” said Perez.

“We have no interest now other than to build the new team with the youngsters we have and some reinforcement.”

In the interview, Perez also said the formation of a European Super

Ex-Russia captain Igor Denisov says ‘maybe they’ll kill me’ for opposing invasion FORMER Russia captain Igor Denisov has become one of the highest-profile athletes still living in the country to speak out against the war in Ukraine.

Denisov, who earned 54 caps between 2008 and 2016, called the invasion a “catastrophe” and a “complete horror”.

The ex-midfielder made the comments in an interview with sports journalist Nobel Arustamyan published on YouTube.

“Maybe they’ll put me in jail or kill me for these words, but I’m telling it like it is,” said the 38-year-old.

Denisov, who played more than 300 games for Zenit St Petersburg before ending his playing career with Lokomotiv Moscow in 2019, said that he “loved his country” and did not want to leave Russia.

He has also written to President Vladimir Putin to express his opposition to the invasion, which started on 24 February.

“I am a proud guy. This was

League “is still alive”.

Real Madrid were one of 12 clubs in a proposed European Super League when plans for the competition were announced last year.

All of the sides, except for Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona, pulled out after widespread protests from fans, politicians and governing bodies.

(BBC)

Tamas Ajan joined the International Weightlifting Federation in 1976 and has served as president for the past 20 years.

Weightlifting: Two former senior IWF officials get lifetime bans for anti-doping rule violations

Igor Denisov ended his playing career with Lokomotiv Moscow in 2019.

after three or four days,” Denisov added. “I even said to him that I am ready to go on my knees before you so that he would stop it all.”

Very few public figures still living in Russia have openly opposed the “special military operation”, as Moscow terms it.

However, Nadya Karpova, a striker for the women’s national team who now lives in Spain, has

recently spoken out against the war.

Russian media outlets can even be fined or blocked for using the words “war” or “invasion” to describe what is happening in Ukraine.

During Denisov’s interview with Arustamyan, certain words used by him to refer to Russian actions in Ukraine appear to have been blanked out, with a crackling sound played instead.

TWO former senior officials of the International Weightlifting Federation have been given lifetime bans for anti-doping rule violations.

Former IWF president Tamas Ajan, of Hungary, and Romania’s Nicu Vlad were handed the punishments after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing.

Vlad is a former head coach of the Romanian Weightlifting Federation and former vicepresident of the IWF anti-doping commission.

Ajan left the IWF in April 2020.

He joined the organisation in 1976, serving 24 years as the general secretary and 20 as president before resigning.

A Cas statement said it received

requests for arbitration of antidoping rule violations (ADRVs) against Ajan and Vlad in December 2021 “in relation to their alleged involvement in tampering with the doping control process and complicity in anti-doping rule violations involving multiple weightlifting athletes over a period of many years since 2012”.

It added: “The ADRVs asserted against both former IWF officials were proven to the comfortable satisfaction of the Cas anti-doping division sole arbitrator.

“Given the seriousness of the ADRVs and the length of time over which they were committed, the sole arbitrator found lifetime ineligibility to be the appropriate sanction.”

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The 40-year-old American, who is a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, has not played since injuring herself in the first round at SW19 last year.

Williams will play Wimbledon after being given a singles wildcard SERENA Williams will make her return to Grand Slam tennis at Wimbledon this month after being given a wildcard entry to the singles.

The 40-year-old American, who is a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, has not played since injuring herself in the first round at SW19 last year.

She will make her return to tennis playing doubles at Eastbourne alongside Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in the week before Wimbledon then compete at the All England Club,

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where she is a seven-time singles champion.

Williams’ elder sister Venus, who has won the singles at Wimbledon five times and the doubles six times alongside Serena, was not in the initial batch of singles wildcards announced on Tuesday.

However, the 41-year-old, who has not played on the WTA Tour since August, could still be given one of the remaining two spots for the tournament, which begins on 27 June.

Lukaku scored eight goals in 26 Premier League appearances for Chelsea last season.

Inter Milan hopeful of securing return of Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku

INTER Milan are hoping to secure the return of Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea.

Lukaku is so keen to go back to Inter after a difficult season with the Blues that he would take a hefty wage cut.

Chelsea still want a loan fee for the 29-year-old, who they signed for £97.5m from the Serie A side in August 2021.

Inter are trying to limit their outgoings as they get their finances under control and there is no agreement yet on the size of the

loan fee.

It is thought a deal will eventually be struck given Lukaku’s eagerness to get back to Italy.

Lukaku, who left Chelsea to join Everton for £28m in 2014, returned to the Stamford Bridge side on a fiveyear deal from Inter last summer.

The fee for him was just short of the British transfer record of £100m paid by Manchester City for Jack Grealish.

But Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel never gave the impression that Lukaku - who moved having

helped the Italian club win the Serie A title in 2020-21 - suited his preferred style of play.

The forward scored 15 goals in all competitions for the Blues, with eight in 26 Premier League appearances.

He scored only three times in his final 15 top-flight outings of the season as Chelsea’s season fizzled out.

The Blues finished third in the Premier League, while they were beaten by Liverpool on penalties in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals. (BBC)

Morgan will decide when to quit as England white-ball captain, says coach ENGLAND’S new white-ball coach Matthew Mott has said Eoin Morgan will decide when to step down as captain, but thinks that is “a long way off”.

Morgan has just one halfcentury in his past 24 white-ball innings for England and will turn 36 years old before the T20 World Cup in Australia this autumn.

He led England to 50-over World Cup glory in 2019 and they reached the T20 World Cup semis last year.

“He always wants to be picked as a batter on form and merit,” said Mott.

“When he feels that’s not the case he will step aside.”

Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali have been tipped to take over from Morgan but Mott, who begins his tenure with the first of three ODIs against the Netherlands in Amstelveen on Friday, does not plan to push Morgan towards the exit.

Morgan has a close relationship with England managing director

influence he has on this group.

He’s got a lot of great cricket ahead of him.”

Eoin Morgan has just one half-century in his past 24 white-ball innings for England and will turn 36 years old before the T20 World Cup in Australia this autumn.

Rob Key, as well as Test coach Brendon McCullum, and will be allowed to determine when he bows out.

“I think that’s a long way off being at that point,” he added.

“Great players go through runs and

sometimes you flick a switch and it turns - then you wonder what the fuss is about.

“Definitely watching him bat in the nets he’s in pretty good positions and going well. You can already tell what a profound

‘MOTT WON’T HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL’ Mott left his role as head coach of Australia’s women’s team after back-to-back T20 World Cup titles in 2018 and 2020, having won the 50-over equivalent this year.

Mott acknowledged he will not have to “reinvent the wheel” with the side given that England are ranked second in the world in oneday internationals, top in Twenty20 internationals and have a large pool of players.

However, Key has currently placed a greater emphasis on redball cricket, and the side have started brightly under McCullum.

Mott, 48, accepted that with England’s coaching set-up now a split role there are times when difficult conversations will be had with Key and McCullum over selection of multi-format players such as Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow - instrumental in

Mott, who was also previously head coach at Glamorgan and New South Wales.

“We are all going to want what is best for our team. I think that’s where Rob [Key] plays a key role with managing the expectations of both coaches.

“For me, the clarity is that at some point there is always going to have to be a greater emphasis on one of the formats. Whether you are leading into a World Cup or leading into a Test series, that clarity on who has priority will be important.

“Being really honest about that and managing expectations for the other team is important. It can’t be equal all the time. The Test series is at the moment. It’s a big Test series in the context where England is at with the red ball.

“As England get closer to the T20 World Cup I am sure the white-ball team will probably get a greater say in the picking of the players. You just have to park your ego sometimes and look at the bigger picture. I think between the

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Russian Daniil Medvedev -- the reigning US Open men’s champion -- will be able to defend his title.

Manchester City and Paris St-Germain have been attacked by La Liga president Javier Tebas.

Man City and Paris St-Germain putting European football in danger, says La Liga boss EUROPEAN football is in “danger” unless “state-owned” clubs such as Manchester City and Paris St-Germain can be controlled, the president of Spain’s top league says.

La Liga has filed a complaint to Uefa about what it believes to be Financial Fair Play breaches by the two clubs.

It believes they are effectively run by wealthy countries and circumvent rules designed to keep spending sustainable.

Both clubs have vigorously denied the complaints.

Premier League winners Manchester City are majorityowned by Sheikh Mansour of the United Arab Emirates, while the Emir of Qatar owns French champions PSG. “We’re doing it to defend the

football eco-system in Europe,” said La Liga president Javier Tebas.

“We think European football is in danger. [We have] not been able to design a system to control the state-owned clubs.”

He has strongly criticised PSG over the new multi-million pound contract they gave star striker Kylian Mbappe.

Speaking at a European Leagues meeting in Amsterdam, he added: “We’ve made official complaints about PSG for financial doping.

“Uefa have allowed losses because clubs reduced their turnover, but PSG increased their wage bill by an incredible amount during Covid.

“Their wages for 2021-22 were 600m euros. It is impossible. That is without including Mbappe. It

is obvious they are not applying FFP [Financial Fair Play] rules. It is endangering the entire financial eco-system in Europe.”

The complaint against PSG was made last week and the one against City in April, although La Liga says it reserves the right to extend these complaints.

In July 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned a two-year Champions League ban imposed on City by Uefa for FFP breaches.

Tebas added: “At one point, Man City had 68% of their revenue from commercial income. Real Madrid was 54%. That is impossible. Man City as a brand is not worth that much. They were sanctioned but it was reversed. PSG is even more obvious. It is totally impossible.

Contracts were inflated.

Russian and Belarusian players allowed to compete at the US Open RUSSIAN and Belarusian players will be allowed to compete at the 2022 US Open, the US Tennis Association (USTA) announced on Tuesday, despite Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

The USTA’s decision comes after Wimbledon became the first elite tennis event to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes. The men’s ATP and women’s WTA Tours later stripped the grand slam of its ranking points in response to the move.

Instead of following Wimbledon’s lead, the US Open will adopt the approach used by the ATP and the WTA since the invasion where Russian and Belarusian players compete under a neutral flag.

As a result, the current world No. 1 and reigning men’s singles champion, Daniil Medvedev, will be able to defend his title.

He defeated Novak Djokovic in straight sets in the final last year to

claim his maiden grand slam.

Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, who reached the women’s semifinals last year, will also be allowed to compete.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the USTA’s CEO Lew Sherr said the decision had been made because of “concern about holding the individual athletes accountable for the actions and decisions of their governments.”

A statement released by the USTA condemned the invasion of Ukraine and recognized that “each organization has had to deal with unique circumstances that affect their decisions.”

“Based on our own circumstances, the USTA will allow all eligible players, regardless of nationality, to compete at the 2022 US Open.”

The USTA committed itself to providing “significant financial support” to the humanitarian effort in Ukraine.

Scotland women’s team to turn professional this year SCOTLAND’S national women’s rugby team will turn professional later this year, with a minimum of 30 players to be offered contracts.

The Scottish Rugby Union also confirmed it is planning to have two semi-professional women’s sides.

The two clubs will compete in a semi-pro league with teams from “other unions”, although the SRU declined to reveal which nations will be involved.

Women and girls funding will increase from £1.6m to £4.1m over the next year.

SRU chief executive Mark Dodson said: “We are fully committed to this important and comprehensive strategy.

“As a core pillar of our business strategy, the breadth and depth of our ambition to grow the women and girls’ game is evident and I

The SRU plans to increase funding for women and girls from £1.6m to £4.1m over the next year.

believe there are exciting times ahead for our sport in this area.”

The 30 contracted players could be announced before the women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

in October, although their deals will not start until after the tournament.

The SRU, which this week announced a financial package to allow a 36-strong squad to prepare

full-time for 11 weeks for the finals, stressed that any player can refuse a contract but will still be eligible for Scotland selection and receive appearance payments.

The system will allow players to continue their education or careers if they choose to.

Targets set by the SRU for the national team over the next four years include: § A top-four finish by the 2024 Women’s Six Nations § A top-eight finish at the 2025 World Cup § Attendance at Scotland women’s games to increase to 7,000 by 2026.

Pressure has been growing on unions to invest in their women’s sides since England’s went professional in 2019 after the creation of the Premier 15s league two years earlier.

The Welsh Rugby Union responded in 2022 with their international side now on a combination of professional and semi-professional contracts.

Scotland finished sixth in the 2022 Women’s Six Nations, losing all five games, despite qualifying for the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup the month before it started.

The move to turn professional comes as the SRU publishes its “women’s and girls strategy 2022-26” with hopes to grow the women’s game from grassroots to international.

Gemma Fay, head of women and girls, said the announcements went deeper than just increasing funding at international level.

Money will also be invested in new participation strategies, including a targeted women’s state school programme.

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ECB charges club and ‘number of individuals’ with bringing game into disrepute CHARGES have been brought against “a number of individuals”

by English cricket’s governing body in relation to allegations of racism at Yorkshire.

The accused could be banned or fined by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

They have not been named but it is understood ex-England captain Michael Vaughan and former Yorkshire players Matthew Hoggard, Tim Bresnan and Andrew Gale are among the individuals charged.

Yorkshire itself has also been charged with breaching the antiracism rules.

BBC Sport has approached the individuals for comment.

Details of abuse first surfaced in September 2020 when former player Azeem Rafiq said discrimination left him feeling suicidal.

“In matters of this nature, our normal practice is not to identify individuals charged at this stage,” said the ECB. Yorkshire said the “allegations relate to charges as far back as 2004, up until 2021”.

After being named in Yorkshire’s report into Rafiq’s claims, Vaughan, who now works as a pundit for BBC Sport and others, was stood down from presenting his BBC Radio 5 Live show in November.

The 47-year-old was then not involved in the BBC’s coverage of the Ashes but returned to the BBC’s cricket coverage in March.

The BBC declined to comment.

In a statement, Yorkshire added: “The club will need the cooperation

Headingley - Yorkshire’s home ground - will host next week’s third Test between England and New Zealand.

of those in position during this time in order to fully consider and respond to the matters raised.”

Since Rafiq’s accusations became public, 16 members of staff have left Yorkshire in a widespread overhaul of its senior leadership.

The ECB said it had carried out a “thorough and complex” investigation to establish the grounds for the charges against both the county and the individuals involved.

It said the charges arose from alleged breaches of a directive regarding “conduct which is improper or which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any cricketer into disrepute”, and the ECB’s anti-discrimination code.

The governing body expects hearings to take place in September or October and for the outcome of each case to be published after decisions are reached.

“It is standard practice for the cricket discipline commission disciplinary panel to publish its decisions and written reasons in full following the hearing,” the ECB added.

“I welcome today’s announcement by the ECB and hope we can move to the hearing quickly,” said Rafiq on Wednesday.

“This has been another gruelling but unfortunately necessary process. It has been a long two years since I went public about my experiences, but I hope this all means that no young player ever goes through such pain and alienation again.

“My preference would be for this hearing to take place publicly, but I am hopeful that we are at least nearing a point where there will be some sense of closure for my family and me.”

BBC Sport understands Rafiq is himself likely to be charged at a later date over historical anti-

Semitic posts on social media.

Rafiq apologised and said he was “deeply ashamed” for using the language in Facebook messages in 2011, which emerged after his appearance in front of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.

How did we get here?

Rafiq gave an interview to ESPN Cricinfo in September 2020 alleging “institutional racism” at Yorkshire had left him close to taking his own life.

Yorkshire launched “a formal investigation” in response and, a year later, an independent panel upheld seven of the 43 allegations made by Rafiq.

However, the panel’s report was not published and no player, employee or executive faced disciplinary action as a result of its findings.

The outcome sparked widespread criticism and in November 2021 the ECB suspended Yorkshire from hosting international matches at Headingley “until it has clearly demonstrated that it can meet the standards expected”.

Club chairman Roger Hutton stepped down, as did chief executive Mark Arthur.

When approached by BBC Sport, the ECB declined to name any individuals charged.

Former Yorkshire and England captain Vaughan revealed he had been accused of making racist comments to Rafiq and others players, but has repeatedly denied the claims.

Vaughan told the BBC he never made racist comments while at the county. He admitted regret at some

tweets he had sent in the past.

Later in November, Rafiq gave details of the racist abuse he suffered to a committee of MPs, claiming captain Gary Ballance and bowler Jack Brooks had used racist nicknames for team-mates.

Ballance admitted using racist language, adding that he “deeply regretted” doing so.

Rafiq also mentioned the attitudes of Bresnan, Gale and Hoggard towards him at the club.

Bresnan has denied “frequently making racist comments”, saying it is “absolutely not true.”

Rafiq’s testimony has been backed by others.

Ex-Pakistan seamer Rana Naved-ul-Hasan said he had encountered the same prejudice during his two stints with the county while former Yorkshire academy players Irfan Amjad and Tabassum Bhatti have also shared their experiences of racism.

England bowler Adil Rashid said he, like Rana Naved and Rafiq, had heard Vaughan make a racist comment.

In December, head coach Gale and director of cricket Martyn Moxon were among 16 people to leave the club.

Gale won a claim for unfair dismissal - alongside secondteam coach Ian Dews, bowling coach Rich Pyrah, academy lead Richard Damms and strength and conditioning coaches Ian Fisher and Peter Sim. The ECB announced a wideranging review into racism in the sport and appointed a Muslim inclusion advisory body to help their reforms on Tuesday. (BBC)

Premier League fixtures: Man City away to West Ham, Liverpool at Fulham CHAMPIONS Manchester City face West Ham away on the opening weekend of a 2022-23 Premier League campaign that will include a mid-season break for the World Cup in Qatar.

There will be no top-flight games after the weekend of 1213 November until 26 December because of the World Cup. The first fixture takes place on Friday, 5 August when Crystal Palace host Arsenal.

Liverpool play at promoted Fulham, with Nottingham Forest at Newcastle.

Forest are back in the Premier League for the first time since 1998-99.

The World Cup, which will

feature both England and Wales, starts on 21 November. The final is on 18 December, eight days before the Premier League season resumes.

There are no meetings between the Premier League’s so-called ‘big six’ on weekend of 12-13 November - the one before the World Cup - following a request by the Football Association.

England will meet up on 14 November before flying to Qatar the following day.

Special arrangements have been made to allow more time between games played across the three festive match rounds.

This will allow squads greater time to recover. Previously clubs

Manchester City came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at West Ham in their penultimate game of the 2021-22 season.

were given a minimum of 48 hours between matches.

After fixtures on 26-27 December, the following match

round will be played across 29, 30 and 31 December. The New Year match round will be played on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 January.

The 2022-23 season has been adjusted to accommodate the 2022 World Cup, which takes place in the middle of the domestic calendar.

It starts a week earlier than normal - 75 days after the final day of the 2021-22 campaign - and finishes a week later than usual on 28 May. Fifa, world football’s governing body, has already stipulated that players must be released on 14 November for the World Cup. It means the mid-season break will last more than six weeks.

There will be 16 matchdays before Qatar - five in August, three in September, six in October and two in November. (BBC)

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Gardiner and Talbot lead TCI’s charge at 46th Annual Miami NW Classic

– Dominant display in throws by older boys

TALENTED youngsters Tanesia Gardiner and Rasheed Talbot led the charge with two gold medals each over the weekend’s 46 Annual Miami Northwest Track and Field Classic, which was held at the Blanche Ely High School.

The USA Track and Field sanctioned event, saw participation by numerous clubs in the USA and from representatives from several Caribbean islands, including Jamaica.

TCI athletes proved their might in the middle distance and throw events.

Gardiner, competing in the 1718 age division, won the 800M in a time of 2:30.29, almost 13 seconds faster than second-place finisher Tranasia Missick from Hollywood Track. The Turks Islander also soared to victory in the 1500M in a time of 5:24.58, which was considerably faster than the second-place finisher, who clocked 5:59.61.

For her exploits, Gardiner was able to propel TCI to 10 points, which placed the side in third place in the 17-18 girls overall division.

The points were tabulated using 16 events. She also shared the MVP award with an athlete from Miami North West Track Club.

Meanwhile, Talbot was also impressive as he surged to victory in the 1500M in a time of 4:38.24 and the 3000M in a time of 10:28.43.

THROW DOMINANCE TCI’s throwing duo of Tayjo Oppong-Adjei and Darvoun Rigby impressed in the discus and shot put events.

In the 2kg 17-18-year-old boys’ discus event, Oppong-Adjei finished with a gold medal with a throw of 40.14M, while Rigby finished second with 31.83M. The two boys reversed in the shot put, with Rigby winning gold with a 14.80M throw and OppongAdjei finishing second with 14.31M. The other gold medal was won

Tanesia Gardiner finished joint MVP for her age division.

Melique Evans placed seventh in the 400M and won high jump gold.

by Melique Evans with a leap of 1.72M in the 15-16 age division high jump.

The youngster also competed in the 400M and placed seventh.

TCI had two other podium performances. Ronisha Johnson proved her might in the 200M final in the girls’ 15-16 age group to finish second place overall in a time of 26.29. In the preliminaries, she had also placed second in 26.19s.

In the 400M final, she placed fifth in 1:01.25.

The other medal was won by seasoned sprinter Courtney

Missick.

The senior national athlete, who competed in the 100M Male Open sprint, finished third in 10.86s. He had improved from his preliminary time of 10.98s.

The event was won by Titans International Darion Skerritt in 10.73s, with Mikkel Bassue from Top Notch finishing in 10.79.

Aleandio Durham missed the podium with two fourth-place finishes in the 100M and 200M in the 17-18 age division with times of 11.60s and 23.03s respectively.

Daisy McIntosh (17-18 division) and Rayvon Black (13-14 division) also registered top 10 finishes.

In the 2kg 17-18-year-old boys’ discus event, Oppong-Adjei finished with a gold medal.

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Junior Paul was named man of the match. He scored both goals, made four overall shots and had an 86% pass accuracy.

TCI Senior National Team proved stronger in defence than in their away game.

TCI bounce back with Nations League win against Sint Maarten – PAUL SCORES TWICE The Turks and Caicos Islands senior national football team had to improvise in their home game against Sint Maarten on Tuesday last—the end result was a 2-0 win.

Technical Director of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) Dane Ritchie called the win a boost of confidence.

He said that it took some improvising, commitment and belief by players and the coaching staff to bounce back from the previous loss.

In their away game, on Saturday, TCI were whipped by Sint Maarten 8-2. In that clash, Gerwin Lake had wrecked the defence to score four goals (second, 18th, 44th and 65th minute of play).

National captain Billy Forbes had pulled two goals back in the first half (37th and 45th +3) as TCI entered the break at 2-4.

But Lake, Sergio Hughes, Kay Gerritsen and Kymani Jhamall Jacobs had all scored in the second.

The defeat last weekend was TCI’s third in a row and their worst to date in the competition.

Their previous clashes against Bonaire and the US Virgin Islands were closer at 4-1 and 3-2 respectively.

So bad was TCI’s loss to Sint Maarten that numerous online entities predicted another trashing.

Thestatszone.com noted that Sint Maarten would have registered “another high-scoring” victory when they travelled for Tuesday’s

return leg—but it was not to be.

Ritchie said that there was a plan in place and it was well executed.

“Was a tremendous feeling for the team, coaching staff, TCIFA leadership, the fans and Turks and Caicos Islands on a whole to turn around an 8-2 loss three days before to register a 2-0 victory.

It gave us cause to celebrate and build the players’ confidence.”

HOW WAS IT DONE Junior Paul was the goals scorer and deserves the credit for finding the back of the net, which Ritchie noted was accomplished with “a lot more composure and confidence in this game”.

What Paul did however great it was, was reflective of an overall game plan, which saw the defence falling in line and restricting the haemorrhaging that happened over the weekend.

“The coaching staff switched to a 5-4-1 formation and asked the players to remain disciplined and to follow the game plan,” Ritchie added.

On Saturday, they had played with a 4-5-1 formation.

Although TCI’s chances of advancing to the next round have long been forgotten, this win would hopefully prove that we have the talent to be competitive.

TCI Senior National Football team claimed their first win in the 2022 CONCACAF Nations League this week.

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