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We need regular contributors of 400 word articles on a variety of topics for our Lifestyle pages. Get in touch with us at the Turks and Caicos Weekly News and pitch your idea for a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly column. You will have your name in print along with your business contact details if requested. It’s a great way to share your knowledge and promote your business or start-up. secured and that residents are safe.

To this end, an allocation of $3.3m (0.8% of the budgeted expenditure) will be spent on security and defence.

This will fund the National Security Secretariat and the contingent forces, patrol vessels and motor vehicles for the Defence Forces and Disaster Management.

Environmental Protection

Public health, solid waste, and sewerage management will also be given priority in the 2023/2024 budget.

Saunders said: “The world just celebrated Earth Day – an annual event with the aim to preserve and conserve planet Earth and its biodiversity – on the 22nd of April 2023, and I am proud to say that our government is continuing to do its part with $2.8m in funding (0.7% of the budgeted expenditure) for Environmental Protection. Funds will also go towards fisheries and marine resource management.

Culture And Religion

To preserve and promote culture and religion in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the government is also allocating $1.4 million (0.3% of the budgeted expenditure) towards “broadcasting and printing, youth development, development and promotion of culture, and religion, partnerships with churches to support community upliftment and crime reduction”, he added.