Turks and Caicos Weekly News - Issue 3

Weekly News Volume 25 | No. 03 | January 22 - 28, 2011

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Signs of life in

construction Could the lucrative industry be back on the road to recovery?

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Haiti – 12 months on The Weekly News visits Port-au-Prince a year after the devastating earthquake

PNP protocol

officer arrested FORMER chief protocol officer to the PNP, Jan Messam, was arrested on Tuesday ...

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Running water installed and new roofs but there’s little sign of the tent cities clearing. Inset: Hands clasped in prayer as Haitians congregate outside the presidential palace in memorial.

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NATIONAL

PNP protocol officer arrested

Editorial

Effects of the occupation IT SHOULD be clear to all by now that the TCI is suffering less from the effects of the recession and more from the effects of the occupation.

This is not an attempt here, by any means, to downplay the disaster caused by the previous administration or to gloss over the consequences we are suffering as a result of their foolishness. There is no doubt that our problems from the recent recession were compounded by the greed and corruption of the former administration - and, of course, the benign or willful neglect of the British Government.

But it is heartening to note that experts in the field of economics are now declaring that the recession is over and economic recovery and growth is once again on the horizon.

In a CNN interview last Sunday, former US Treasury secretary and national economic director, Lawrence Summers, said he expects growth in the US economy to reach between three and four per cent annually over the next several years.

Summers admitted that some of the jobs lost during the recession won’t come back, but he said new jobs will rise in other fields.

And according to local economist John Hartley: “The latest regional outlook data from the IMF shows the Caribbean region recovering sharply from the world recession. Private capital inflows to the Caribbean are back to pre-recession levels and rising,” he wrote.

So jubilant was our next door neighbour, the Bahamas, at the news that the recession was over that Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has also predicted a three to four per cent growth in their economy. But what is happening to us in the TCI? Stevie Wonder can see that our continued stagnation is caused by the fiddling of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the dawdling of Helen Garlick and company.

John Hartley wrote in his column August 28 – September 3: “Business in the TCI is really hurting. Now this may be a statement of the obvious.”

He continued: “Today the major destructive forces in the TCI economy are: Depopulation, overregulation, and the meltdown of part of the banking and credit system. HMG is doing nothing to deal with any of them.”

We don’t know what plans the UK have in mind for the Turks & Caicos Islands, or if they have any plans at all. But whatever they have in mind, we would like to know. And investors on the outside looking in would certainly like to know. The whole process of the investigations is taking too long, and we have not seen anything substantial enough to convince us it is going anywhere.

PNP Leader Clayton Greene was right the other day when he said investors do not invest under “transient” administrations. Esteemed QC Carlos Simons, in his address to the Consultative Forum last week, said the same thing another way. He urged Britain to speed up the process of returning the TCI to local rule because it was critical to the development of the country and doing so would ease the uncertainty of prospective investors.

We’re not calling for the Brits to leave right now; they have a lot more work to do. We’re saying: Hurry up – and then leave!

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By Gemma Handy and Samantha Dash FORMER chief protocol officer to the PNP, Jan Messam, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of involvement with the Olint scam.

Bahamian-born Mrs Messam was held for 12 hours after police linked to the corruption probe executed a dawn search warrant on her Leeward Highway home.

Mrs Messam was released without charge after several hours’interrogation around 6pm that evening although she remains under scrutiny.

Husband Rex Messam, who flew in to Providenciales from the Bahamas the day his wife was arrested, said he had been denied contact with her for the duration of her detention.

He told the Weekly News: “My wife wouldn’t run a red light, she wouldn’t take any chances or violate any laws so I can guarantee this is just an exercise.

“I have no clue why she was detained but I know one thing, my wife wouldn’t do anything wrong.”

Mr Messam, a salesman for realtors Prestigious Properties, added: “I know her. I been married to her for 26 years and I guarantee you, at the end of the day, she’s gonna be vindicated.”

Sources close to the pair said Mrs Messam had initially been denied the opportunity to call a lawyer by the team of officers who swamped her home.

It is also alleged she was given

Jan Messam seen being escorted to a downstairs holding cell.

nothing but coffee and water for the entire 12 hours while food brought for her by her husband was refused.

After hours of cross-examination – to which she did not respond upon legal advice – Mrs Messam apparently spent two and a half hours in a cell without a seat.

She is suspected of bribery and other offences linked to the Olint investment fraud.

Her and her husband have been frequent worshippers at the Community Fellowship Ministry in Leeward Highway, the same church as Olint boss David Smith. A large home they built in Chalk Sound they later sold to Smith.

Jamaican national and TCI resident Smith was sentenced to six and a half years in Grand Turk Prison

in September. He is said to have ripped off 6,000 people in a complex Ponzi scheme.

He was handed over to US authorities in November where he faces life behind bars for 23 charges including wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. It follows an indictment in August by the Florida Middle District Court.

Prosecutors say he collected more than $220m from clients under false pretences, some of which he deposited in his personal bank accounts.

Olint was originally started by Smith in Jamaica before being closed down by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) in March 2006.

He launched operations in the TCI shortly afterwards.

Laverne lives for free thanks to Lime THIS year lucky Laverne Ingham does not have to worry about paying her mortgage, shopping for groceries or topping up her phone.

Ms Ingham was the grand prize winner of Lime’s Christmas campaign and the company has promised to pay up to $24,000 to support her costs.

And all she did to win the prize was to send a single text message.

An emotional Ms Ingham said: “I have never won anything in my life.

Thanks Lime. This will be a great help.”

On Friday, January 14, Lime surprised the top three winners of the Christmas campaign with their prizes.

General manager Drexwell Seymour and head of corporate sales Delleriece Hall along with the television media greeted each winner at their work place and home.

Yohlean Smith, Henry Harvey and Lavern Ingham were bundled into a limousine and police escorted them back to the Lime office where their prizes were announced.

As well as the grand prize of ‘Live free for a year’, there were also other prizes of a family vacation and an entertainment pack to hand out.

At the office the three winners received a cool drink in a personalised Lime champagne flute along with

ASTOUNDED: Laverne is shocked and delighted to receive her prize

flowers and wine.

Marketing manager Rachel Harvey welcomed everyone and gave a brief overview of the campaign.

She said: “Lime is so pleased to be here today to conclude our Christmas promotion on a high note.

“All three customers won by using the text method of entry into the competition.”

Meanwhile three staff members Angell Gardiner, Darcia Ingham and Joanne Missick – donned t-shirts with the names of each three winners.

One by one they revealed the

names on the t-shirts so that the winners could find out their prizes.

A delighted Henry Harvey won the 3D entertainment package which included a flat screen television, surround sound speakers and 3D glasses.

He told media: “I said that I would enter by texting but I had no idea that I would win. I am in shock.”

Yohlean Smith, who won the family vacation, said: “This is wonderful.

I’m going to be able to relax and enjoy a vacation, compliments of Lime. I am so grateful.”

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Signs of life in construction Could the lucrative industry be back on the road to recovery?

By Gemma Handy TCI’s once booming construction industry – one of the country’s economic linchpins – is on the road to recovery.

That’s the word from leading Provo architects who have reported a “dramatic” upsurge in enquiries from developers.

The sector has long been one of the largest employers in the Islands but took a nosedive amid the recession and political upheaval.

Architects, who are the first to be approached about forthcoming schemes, told the Weekly News they were now experiencing a hike in work.

Simon Wood, of SWA Architects in Grace Bay, said: “We feel the move a year or two before the construction industry and things are certainly picking up.

Lucky escape for road smash victims A MAN was cut free from a vehicle by firefighters following a crash on Leeward Highway that brought rush-hour traffic to a standstill on Thursday morning.

The driver, Chetan Masters, was rushed to hospital by ambulance following the incident, which occurred on the Suzie Turn roundabout just after 8.15am.

Two vehicles were involved in the collision, with Mr Masters’ green Honda Accord careering down an embankment close to Napa.

An InterHealth Canada spokesman said: “A man was brought in to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre by ambulance at about 8.35am on Thursday.

“The patient had suffered minor injuries as a result of a road traffic accident and was discharged following treatment by emergency department staff.”

Press liaison officer Sergeant Calvin Chase said the driver of the other vehicle, a blue Chrysler Pacifica jeep, Marjorie Genou, suffered minor back injuries.

He added that investigations into the cause of the collision were in progress.

“In the last few months, the phone has started ringing again.

“We have had a lot of enquiries for residences and started a few new projects.

“We have been working on a number of leads for larger projects too, including condos and a hotel.”

Mr Wood said he anticipated construction would start to pick up by the middle of the year.

It’s a welcome shift from the deadly quiet which, he said, began in 2007.

“As architects we had two years of nothing, which means two years of nothing in the construction industry.

“It’s not by any means back where it was and I don’t think it ever will be but development was happening too fast before. We are now getting about 40 per cent the number of enquiries we were receiving in recent years.”

He added: “We are very hopeful and looking forward to a positive 2011.”

SWA, in operation since 1995, is currently working on a handful of private residential developments in Providenciales and North Caicos and is in discussions regarding the forthcoming Hyatt hotel.

In June last year the hotel giant

Architect Simon Wood anticipates construction will pick up by the middle of the year.

Architect Ron Shaw said enquiries have increased 10-fold in recent months.

announced it had signed a deal to manage a vast 170-unit resort on Cooper Jack Bay. The 21-acre site will include restaurants, pool, spa and fitness centre when it throws open its doors in 2014, bringing with it much needed revenue and jobs.

Ron Shaw, of RA Shaw Designs in Leeward Highway, said his company had seen a 10-fold jump in enquiries compared to January 2010.

“It’s dramatic.

“A lot of it is still conceptual work but if it turns into drawings then it will certainly be a welcome relief.

“The last 24 months have been a struggle. If half the work we have

on the table now comes to fruition we will be busy through 2011. If it all comes through, it will be out of control.”

RA Shaw Designs has been operating in the Islands since 1998 with a niche market in single family residences.

In the fiscal heyday of recent years, he said the firm was forced to turn work away.

Mr Shaw continued that he expected to soon see an upswing in employment opportunities.

He revealed that the firm is currently working on designs for two small resorts.

“It will be a slow start over the

The collision saw traffic backed up along Leeward Highway on Thursday.

next three months but we hope by late spring, early summer, we will see things moving into the ground.”

Fellow architect Oliver Stubbs also predicted “major improvements” were ahead.

“Things are picking up, I have a couple of projects on the table right now,” he told the Weekly News.

Mr Stubbs said political instability and the seemingly lackadaisical pace of administering justice to corruption-accused former Ministers were prompting some scepticism among potential developers.

“Once the prosecutions start and they start doing what they have to do, we will see more things happen.”

At a Chamber of Commerce meeting in December, members spoke of a “very challenging” year and offered ideas to revitalise and reform the lucrative construction industry.

Among those making headway is lawyer turned developer Beryn Duncanson, behind the recently completed $30m Flamingo Crossing affordable condo scheme. Mr Duncanson spotted a niche in rentto-own contracts, a lure for cashstrapped buyers.

Other members said it was vital to reestablish the Contractors Association to help regulate the sector.

We reported in November that the TCI’s real estate market was also starting to see an upturn.

ReMax Elite broker Simon Padgett said “green roots of a recovery” were starting to sprout, in part due to the strength of the Canadian dollar.

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January 22 - 28, 2011

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

Tourism talk WE ASKED readers for their views on how revenue could be generated to promote tourism in the TCI. Proposals to redirect a portion of accommodation tax to fund a new tourism authority recently placed Government and business people at loggerheads.

Should tourism – as the country’s largest industry – take priority for public spending?

Please explain

“If my information is correct the former board accounted for $200,000 per month to operate. Stanbrook’s working group requires more than that figure to do the same job (two per cent of accommodation tax collected per month).

“If the working group realised that funding needed to be injected to put our best foot forward, why are we sending home 18 hard-working Turks and Caicos Islanders from the previous board?

“Someone please help me to understand the logics.”

Real estate tax

“Eventually we will have to endure a real estate tax based on property values. It will be very difficult to implement and enforce so it will take a long time to get it right.

“The bulk of that money should fund infrastructure and schools, but tourism can get a part of it as well.”

Silver lining

“This one is a no-brainer. While stamp duties and import duties have decreased dramatically, tourism numbers are relatively buoyant.

“TCIG cannot expect to skim 11 per cent off resorts/restaurants (not to mention a huge airport departure tax) and not contribute in a meaningful way to the promotion of

tourism.

“Tourism is the silver lining to the TCI’s black-cloud economy. For Capes and Co to not get creative in the promotion of the TCI tourist industry is the height of incompetence.

“A typical bureaucratic ‘tax and spend’ approach to management.

“Anyone remember the transparency/ accountability mantra carted out by the Wetherell administration just two years ago?”

Silence speaks volumes

“Aren’t all tourist destinations seeking finances to bolster their images? The money’s not going to fall in a rainstorm, so perhaps a new tourism authority is the answer.

“When I’m back in the States, all I learn about TCI is what I see on TV and in the papers: nothing!

“Lots of promotion for the Bahamas, Cayman etc and this is the winter to advertise. We have about 100 feet of snow on the ground and nothing but more snow and freezing temperatures predicted for the remainder of the season.

“A TV spot featuring a turquoise beach, scuba diving, windsurfing, fishing, etc would work wonders in attracting more winter-beaten New Englanders.

“New thinking and fresh marketing is the answer. There’s the old saying: “If you want to keep having what you have, keep doing what you’re doing.”

“Doesn’t this speak volumes about additional spending for the tourist industry?!”

Strategic personnel

“This same question keeps popping up; we need visitors a plenty to come and spend their money.

“There is no point in throwing money at promoting the Islands in this depressed global market unless the flights and accommodation costs are competitive with other destinations which they are not.

“Service has improved but still not satisfactory in many tourist outlets.

“I also see that airlines that fly here do not promote TCI as a vacation package (fly and stay). They also seem to have deals online or in their magazines at other destinations and never us.

“It seems there should be talks with airlines to see what it takes to encourage them to promote here. Could they partner with resorts? Would that be expensive?

“I hear popular places such as Mexico have become no go areas and tourists are accidentally discovering TCI as an alternative.

“You need strategic, innovative marketing personnel who know how to negotiate and promote places, as economically as possible, to make it work here.”

Sky high airfares

“I am in the restaurant business directly related to hotels. The biggest complaint from a good per cent of the visitors is the cost of airfare.

“I was here when American Airlines made the community raise $150,000 to buy seats in order to guarantee service. We got nothing back for our efforts except sky high rates and three flights a day.

“I just flew to Dallas with hotel for exactly what it costs to fly to Miami. The hotels can be flexible with their rates, why can’t the airlines be flexible?

“Perhaps the Government should fund some of the landing fees so that airlines can

Time for some romance THIS February take your sweetheart out for an evening of romantic music under the stars.

The latest fundraising event by the Turks and Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation (TCFAF) will see a host of local artists taking to the stage at the exquisite Stargazer Villa.

Guests will be treated to champagne cocktails, culinary

delights cooked up by talented island chefs and membership to the foundation.

Among the performers are Candy Barrotti, David Been, Tanikko Clarke, Titus De Boer, Wilma Dietsche, Julian Garland, Wendy Hayward, Marvin Henfield, Brusnite Jean Louis, Barbara Johnson, Janardo La Porte, Allan Lenathan, Cora Malcolm, Josie

Smith, Addison Stoddard and Cristina Zaccheo.

The ‘Hopelessly Romantic’ event takes place on Saturday, February 12, from 7pm to 11pm and tickets cost $35 or $65 per couple.

Tickets are on sale at Unicorn Bookstore and Saltmills Diner from Saturday, January 29.

If you are interested in participating call Wendy Hayward on 331-7176.

lower their rate.

“If tourism is the only industry then, as a premier destination, we should put pressure on the people who charge exorbitant rates to get here.

“We don’t need a new ‘authority’; we just need a common sense approach to market our wonderful product.”

Plundered assets

“This may sound obvious and flippant, but recovering misappropriated assets from former Ministers and others would be a good start.

“The recovery numbers I’ve seen - $15m at the moment - don’t begin to make the country whole on its lost wealth.”

Fender benders

“Tourists arrive here with reservations at a specific resort. They don’t come because the Government advertised the TCI. “Beaches is a prime example. They flew in 14 plane loads of travel agents and are booked solid.

“It is all right in our view to provide some general promotion. Then when potential tourists go to their travel agent they will recognise where we are.

“Those pictures on I-95 of LisaRaye’s backside brought no one to TCI but may have caused a few fender benders on that interstate highway.

“They cost a lot and gained us nothing.”

Action needed

“Replace the Tourist Board with what?

Another group from TCI, who will think and act like the others? Child please, empower and properly fund that same group and let them get themselves to work!”

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January 22 - 28, 2011

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Flights offer better links within Caribbean

DAILY flights between Puerto Plata and Puerto Rico will be a reality from April thanks to Air Turks and Caicos (ATC).

The airline will start the new route from the popular Dominican Republic city to San Juan on April 15, subject to final regulatory approvals.

The announcement was made at a lavish reception hosted for the airline by the Dominican tourism authorities at the upscale Hemingway’s Cafe in Puerto Plata on Monday. It was attended by

Deputy Minister of Tourism, César José de los Santos, along with Chamber of Commerce representatives, local hotels and tourism organisations.

ATC was represented by its top executives, chairman Lyndon Gardiner, CEO Darrell Richardson, VP business development Deborah Aharon and VP of flight standards Captain Harold Williams.

Deputy Minister De los Santos thanked the airline for choosing Puerto Plata as its

new gateway to San Juan and assured the firm the initiative would have the full support of the Ministry.

President of the Puerto Plata Chamber of Commerce, Amaurys Plá, also welcomed the company and noted that with the opening of the new route would also come new business opportunities for trading of goods and services as well as tourism, and reiterated his organisation’s support.

Max Iglesias, president of

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the Northern HotelAssociation, said he was pleased the route would open up many potential connections with other Caribbean islands. President of the Hotel Association for the popular Playa Dorada region, Roberto Casoni, said that the daily flights would offer more flexibility and convenience that he expected would result in longer stays by visitors.

ATC chairman Lyndon Gardiner surprised the crowd by addressing them in their native Spanish, explaining the history of the airline, which started with a single piston aircraft in 1992 as InterIsland Airways.

After changing the name to Air Turks and Caicos to better reflect the country’s identity and national pride, the airline continued to grow and now

ATC boss Lyndon Gardiner spoke about the long history of trade between the TCI and DR.

has a fleet of 15 mainly turbine aircraft, ranging in size from nine to 30 passengers.

He also spoke about the long history of friendship and trade between the two

countries, recalling the days of old when folks often sailed from North Caicos to the Dominican Republic in fishing boats to trade dried conch for produce and rum.

Mr Gardiner told the crowd to much applause that this new route was an important step in realising his dream to unite the Caribbean islands through more convenient and expanded connections that promoted trade and tourism.

He expressed his wish that the separate Caribbean nations would focus more closely on cooperative marketing for the benefit of the entire region.

The new flights will all originate in Providenciales, thereby offering connections between Turks and Caicos, Puerto Rico and the Eastern Caribbean.

BRIC inflation UPS LAUNCHES Pressure rises on food and energy

THE BRENT Crude contract has just passed $97 towards over $100 a barrel and the corn futures contract in Chicago is now over $635 or $6.35 a bushel.

Inflation may be coming again, at least for the BRIC economies. This is a serious threat.

Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China.

It is all good news that these countries are growing and, in the case of China, Brazil and somewhat India, have lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty, measured as income of less than a dollar a day.

One of these challenges is price increases which come in two types. There is monetary inflation as the currency loses value relative to all goods and services in the market.

Brazil has had a constant struggle against inflation and China is now in the middle of widespread asset inflation which is leaking out to the economy.

The Bank of China has been campaigning against this recently but there is a real chance they will fail, bringing terrible risks of political instability as the rural poor are priced out of the market for basic goods.

The second type of price increase in the growing BRIC economies stems from straightforward demand and supply pressures.

The large BRIC populations, as they grow richer, are increasing world demand for some foodstuffs, proteins and energy faster than supply is rising. This is not

the same as inflation; it is normal market adjustment. Some prices rise, others fall.

Other upward pressures on commodity prices are causing volatility on top of the rising trend. For example, oil supplies in N. America are being reduced by a leak in the Alaskan pipeline, and the extreme flooding in Queensland will hit coal mining and the wheat crop, for both of which Australia is a major global supplier.

On top of all this, wealthy countries like S Korea and China are stockpiling food and lowering tariffs to shelter domestic consumers.

For our own tiny and fragile economy, the rising price of energy and food is clearly bad news.

If a good estimate of our population is 32,000, then GDP per head could have sunk as low as $14,000 a year (do you remember that man from the FCO telling us that TCI per capita income exceeded the UK’s?).

It is also likely that corruption and land flipping have concentrated Belonger wealth in a few hands. The distribution of income is also skewed by prosperous expatriates.

So, as we can see from just driving around, there are plenty of poor people living amongst us and even more who are on the margin.

They are the ones least able to carry the burden of rising energy and food prices and HMG should ready itself for yet another challenge as 2011 progresses.

EXPORT SERVICE UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, will begin offering export service to over 220 countries and territories worldwide from January 10, 2011.

We have provided small package import services for 5 years and have now reduced our brokerage fee’s We have recently added new Air/Sea Freight Services to our portfolio. Freight shipments can be shipped and cleared through customs without ever having to step outside your door.

For more information contact UPS at:

Customer Care Center (old skybase), Old Airport Road, Providenciales.

Tel: 339-4114 or email: ups@provoaircenter.com

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

January 22 - 28, 2011

WITH Samantha Dash

Attempted murderer’s Confidence trickster life sentence reduced set to appear in A GRAND Turk man convicted to spend the rest of his life in prison for attempting to murder a Dominican prostitute took his case to the Court of Appeal and got favourable results.

Elvethan Handfield appeared before Court of Appeal panel Justices Edward Zacca, Elliot Mottley and Richard Ground on Monday.

He appealed the convictions and sentences entered against him in the Grand Turk Supreme Court last year.

He was represented by defence counsel Clinton Clarke and Glenda Clarke stood for the Crown in the Court of Appeal.

During his trial last year, Handfield was found guilty and convicted to 15 years each for rape and buggery along with the life sentence for attempted murder.

Evidence from the trial said that as a result of the June 14 2008 attack, the woman suffered about 50 stab wounds and cuts, a fractured skull and a punctured abdominal area among other serious injuries.

The doctor, who attended to the woman in the emergency room, testified that her injuries were serious and could end fatally.

She had to be rushed overseas for urgent medical attention.

Handfield’s attorney however felt that his client’s sentences were manifestly excessive and explained why.

“The woman was never in danger of her life and did not travel to the Dominican Republic to receive medical attention,” he told the Court of Appeal judges.

It was his opinion that contrary to the medical report, the woman was not stabbed but instead her injuries were cut wounds.

Mr Clarke maintained that the victim did not know who attacked her and did not identify his client as her attacker.

He reminded the panel that Handfield’s DNA was not found

POLICE REMINDERS WITH CALVIN CHASE DETECTIVE POLICE SERGEANT

PERSONS transporting construction materials such as gravel and cement are reminded to cover the load in order to prevent spillage.

Failing to cover the load is a ticketable offence under the Road Traffic Ordinance with a fine of $500.

In addition, construction material spillage is messy and creates a hazard for other road users.

appeal court NEXT in the Court of Appeal on Friday January 21, Stevenson Morris will be challenging his conviction and three-year sentence for two counts of obtaining property by deception and one count of attempting to obtain property by deception.

It was said that between July and September 2007, Morris posed as Steve Moore and deceived Mrs Sandy Jagger out of $800 by pretending that he was a real estate agent and that he had property to sell.

He then received another $800

Elvethan Handfield

anywhere near the crime scene to link him to the crime.

But the prosecutor informed the judges that the Crown did not rely on identification to prove their case but on the appellant’s statement of admission he gave to the police shortly after the crime.

The court heard that in an interview with police two days later, Handfield related all that happened.

He confirmed that he did drive the truck in which the crime took place even though his DNA was not found inside the vehicle.

From her hospital bed, the victim said that Handfield was driving a green truck and described all the things that occurred in the truck.

Yet, when police officers went to the appellant’s house and searched his green truck many times over, they did not find his DNA inside.

Then the court learnt that the appellant had a history of sexually violating women.

A few years ago, he was tried and convicted to seven years for rape.

He appealed and won and was granted bail pending a retrial.

He was then tried and convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to jail while on bail for the pending rape case.

The retrial resulted in another conviction and seven-year sentence.

After serving sometime he was

granted parole and, just six weeks after, committed this offence.

The judges listened to submissions from both sides and reiterated that Handfield was “obviously a danger to women”.

They told Ms Clarke that had she assisted the trial judge with all Handfield’s sexual crimes and the aggravating circumstances that may have been sufficient to affect the 15year sentences.

They were of the view that the parole board needed to be informed of Handfield’s past in case he applies for parole again.

After hearing this, Mr Clarke quickly abandoned the appeal against the convictions and sentences for rape and buggery.

In mitigation, he informed the judges that his client was still a young man and had been away from society since his arrest a few days after the crime.

He encouraged the panel to abandon the life sentence and impose a fixed prison term.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and affirmed the conviction but reduced the life sentence to one of 20 years.

Hadfield showed no emotion as the judges announced the reduction and headed back to prison to finish his sentences, which will run concurrently.

Two Bahamians arrested for smuggling drugs from TCI TWO men have been arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine from the TCI to the Bahamas.

Sixteen packages of the class A drug were uncovered by drug authorities in Nassau on Sunday.

The Bahamian nationals, aged 38 and 45, arrived on a private jet

shortly before 10am.

The men were apprehended at Lynden Pindling International Airport after a suitcase one of them was carrying was searched.

Bahamian and TCI police are investigating.

from her husband by deception and made plans to collect an additional $1,200.

However, the couple suspected something was amiss and called in the police who organised a sting operation.

They photocopied 12 $100 bills and Mr Jagger handed the money over to Morris.

The police then moved in and seized Morris with the fake money in his possession as he was leaving the man’s Ports of Call office in Grace Bay.

Jamaican national jailed for three months A JAMAICAN national who is reportedly wanted in his homeland by the police appeared before Magistrate Clifton Warner in shackles for unlawful entry into the TCI. Romano Richards pleaded guilty to the offence and was sentenced to jail.

It was said that on January 6, police received information and went to the Miniature Golf Course on Leeward Highway.

They met a male in the parking lot and after identifying themselves they asked the man for papers proving his status in the TCI. He claimed that he was a visitor to the country and had been here for three months.

He gave his name as Richard but became mute when the officers asked for him where he lived.

The man then launched into Creole and told the officers that his name was Jean Claude and that he was trying to provide for his family in Haiti.

However, when he refused to show any identification the officers threatened him with detention because they did not believe his story.

The man insisted that he was legal in the TCI but when he was asked to take the police to see his passport he came up with several different stories.

First, he said that he did not want to wake up his neighbours in Blue Hills then he told the officers that he was living in the bushes and the other

Haitians would think that he brought the police for them.

He elaborated that things were hard for him in Haiti and that was why he came to the TCI. Not believing a word he said, the officers took him to the police station and later charged him.

Then the man gave his name as Romano Richards aka ‘Papa’.

The court heard that TCI police received certain information from authorities in Jamaica and so were requesting immediate deportation after he served whatever sentence the Magistrate imposed.

Richards told magistrate Warner that he entered the TCI illegally in 2008 to find work to support his kids and family.

He claimed that he lied to the police because he had been drinking and was drunk but as soon as he came to his senses, he gave them the right information.

“I am willing to go home to Jamaica and face the allegations against me,” he told the Magistrate.

“I am scared to stay here,” he said and requested immediate deportation.

He even offered to pay for his own ticket back to Jamaica so that he could go and prove his innocence.

“Not in these circumstances,” the Magistrate replied and sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment.

Richards will be deported immediately after serving his sentence.

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Haitian national’s jail term reduced A HAITIAN national jailed for having sex with a nineyear-old girl had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal judges on Wednesday.

Samson Auguste appeared in the Providenciales court room and challenged his conviction and sentence of four and a half years.

During his trial in the Grand Turk Supreme Court, the court heard that the offence occurred in November of 2008.

Auguste and another Haitian man named ‘Daniel’ had befriended the girl’s mother in 2008 and the men used to spend a lot of time at the victim’s house.

Then one day, the landlady removed the door and windows from the house and later disconnected the electricity in an effort to evict the family.

This forced the family, along with the two men, to move to the roof of a partly constructed house in the same yard, where they slept on bedding made up into two separate sleeping places.

The victim slept on one with the two males and the others slept on the other.

She testified that she always went to bed first because she had school the next day then the two men would later sleep beside her.

Some nights, in an effort to deal with the changing winds and weather, they would use two pieces of plywood covered with a sheet to form a tent.

According to the child, it was her mother who suggested that she sleep next to the two men.

One night, Auguste pulled the child to his side of the sleeping pad, put his arm around her and forced himself on her.

She recounted how she tilted her head because she did not want to look at him in the face.

She remembered the pain she felt when he penetrated her and although she was upset she did not cry out fearing that her sister would think that she had done something bad.

Instead, she left the makeshift tent, went to another part of the roof, and cried quietly.

If that was not bad enough, two days later, the other man Daniel, did the same thing to her.

For two years, the minor told no one about her ordeal because she felt ashamed and that it was somehow her fault.

She testified that after her first assault she suffered a lot of bleeding for two days.

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locate Daniel to this day.

The girl and her family moved away and she did not see the accused until sometime later when he approached her as she was about to have a shower.

She threw rocks at him and he ran away.

Sometime in August 2009, a man approached her at a beach party and asked her for sex.

He threatened to kill her when she refused and she decided to break her silence and confide in her elder sister.

She was afraid that what Auguste and Daniel did to her would be repeated and she would end up being raped by every man she met over and over again.

The court heard that the accused also sodomised the child.

The appeal panel allowed the appeal against sentence and reduced his sentence by six months.

Paedophile’s appeal denied HAITIAN national Rolin Charles appeared before the Court of Appeal on Wednesday but his appeal against a fouryear sentence for unlawful carnal knowledge was denied.

Charles, aged 33, was tried in the Grand Turk Supreme Court before Chief Justice Gordon Ward last year April and was found guilty and convicted by a jury.

It was said that Charles had penetrative sex with a nine-yearold girl several times between April 2008 and April 2009.

The child’s parents had travelled to Haiti to attend a funeral and had left their children in Charles’ care for some months.

The minor testified that the first time she was assaulted, she was asleep in bed with her older siblings when Charles got into the bed, undressed her and got on top of her.

Clifford Gibson Junior... posing for the camera

Young man to face appeal court for the third time CLIFFORD Gibson Junior will have to wait yet again for the next sitting of the Court of Appeal to challenge his life sentence for the murder of a teenager because his lawyer was unprepared this time.

This was the second attempt made by the young Gibson to have his conviction and life sentence reviewed by the three-member panel.

He appeared before Justices Edward Zacca, Elliot Mottley and Richard Ground on Thursday along with his defence attorney Kendle Williams but the appeal did not go on.

Williams explained to the judges that he had a family emergency that occupied most

of the time he should have spent preparing for the hearing.

However, he made a valiant attempt to start the case and deal with the various grounds of appeal but it soon became clear to the judges that he was unprepared.

After consulting with the appellant, Williams conceded to an adjournment until the next session.

The adjournment was grant with a word of advice that he produce to the court all laws that he intends to rely on before the next sitting in the next six months.

Gibson faces life in jail for the murder of Wensley Joseph on January 1 2008 who was knifed to death.

She recounted that it was painful and she tried to push him off.

“He moved back and forward so I looked up and I was crying telling him to stop, get off of me,” she said.

“He did not want to stop and he continued.”

The court heard that the child contracted condylomata, a disease commonly known as genital warts.

The crime was exposed when the child went to the doctor for the warts and was questioned.

During the trial however, Charles maintained he never had the disease and that he never had sex with the girl.

For the Crown, Principal Crown Counsel Jo’Ann Meloche reiterated that Charles

allowed the girl to go through the whole trial and relive the sordid episode.

At the appeal he was represented by Richard Savory who submitted that, because his client did not plead guilty and allowed the case to go to trial, the judge treated that as an aggravating factor when it was not.

He thought that the appeal panel should reduce the sentence a little and have the appellant leave the country earlier.

Charles then changed his mind and indicated to the court that he wished to abandon his appeal against conviction and only appeal the sentence.

Ms Meloche informed the court that Charles was sentenced under the old law,

which allowed a maximum penalty of five years for that offence as opposed to the amendment which stipulates 14 years.

She asked the judges to consider that, had it been under the new legislation, Charles may have gotten more time.

After consideration, the panel decided that the sentence was not manifestly excessive and denied the appeal.

The appellant will serve the remainder of his sentence and will be deported immediately upon his release.

Under the new law, the maximum penalty is now life imprisonment and for having sex with a child between the ages of 14 and 16 years old, the maximum jail time is now 14 years.

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We welcome letters from all members of the public on a variety of topics.

New year, new rule Get a move on SIPT team Dear Editor, I was flabbergasted to learn that we are paying for the SIPT investigation.

We have already spent in excess of $10m; this is money we do not even have.

Please get a move on with the recovery of the monies out there.

The longer you wait the more money we will have to spend.

Look deep and complete the work. So far you have only served judgement on a few land flips; what about the others?

We know there were in excess of 12 lots swapped in Long Bay and what about the South Caicos land flipping deal. Come on do your homework, you are costing us a lot of money.

It makes me upset to know that we are being raped all over again.

First they wasted, squandered and used the people’s money as though it was their own, now we are having to foot the bill to get our money back.

We are talking about civil servants’ cuts and taxes; if we are able to get back our money that was pillaged we would not have to endure these hardships.

For those who are a part of this all, please go to the SIPT and cut a deal then sing like a canary; do not wait for them to come to you.

The longer we draw this thing out the more costlier it will become.

Jeremiah Williams

Dear Editor, Now that more than a year has passed and we have yet to see any semblance of improvement in our lives owing to the intrusion subjected upon us by the Wetherell administration.

Imperatively, it is more than high time that we begin to expose them for the dictators that they are, and expeditiously too.

First and foremost, Mark Capes, Wetherell’s eminent CEO, has no standing even under the suspended parts of our constitution!

The constitution provides for the Attorney General, then Permanent Secretary for Finance – in that order to act during the absence of the Governor.

The Deputy Governor would have been first in line, but since that post has been suspended, it does not come into play now.

On many occasions during the Governor’s absence, Mark Cape has acted, even though the Attorney General and/or the PS/Finance were

COMMENTARY

Painting with a broad brush MICHELANGELO in creating his masterpieces did not use a broad brush except to provide the background.

However this broad brush stuff is what we see, read, and hear in the TCI everyday.

Whenever someone from the Progressive National Party speaks out ignoring the principles and mistakes which brought two inquiries down on the TCI they include ALL the politicians, then they call for unity.

However they want the public to ignore that these same unifiers talked a different game when the PNP ruled.

They engaged in an obeah like ceremony during the 2007 campaign to bury the PDM. Yet those eight plus years of the last PDM Government produced a surplus budget.

PDM produced developments that succeeded in building the economy.

What happened later the ‘now unifiers’ destroyed much of what was already built up.

It took six years for the yellow party to wake up to the reality that the ‘boom’ was no boom at all.

By David Tapfer Borrowed millions and a quarter billion dollars of people’s land sold, with millions more filling certain people’s pockets.

No schools built and millions nay billions in debt built up. But here I go painting with the broad brush, shame on me.

Now we hear from people either British or foreign that every TC Islander is either incompetent or corrupt.

Then one local voice says we can’t abide with people with light coloured skin. Dangerous stuff.

Each person must be taken on their own merits. Look out for someone who preaches right and wrong but does not practice it. I know a few in the TCI. Unfortunately they really are guilty of either gross rationalisation

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or what is known as outright hypocrisy. We and they must stand for something, not expect something.

Who is enjoying the fruits of corruption while TCI is broke?

Remember he who exalts himself will be humbled!

I hear the cry for employment but remember Premier number two who said on two occasions: “Turks and Caicos Islanders are lazy”.

As Immigration Minister he loaded the private sector with nonnationals. Look at the results.

The same people who stood by and let the last internal government run wild ignoring the opposition now try to demonise the entire interim government.

The British interim government did not have to be here so we must own up to why they are here.

Be specific and ask yourself which group caused both inquiries.

The first inquiry was small now we have ‘Bigger and Better’!

Yes, London shared in the mess by ignoring their oversight responsibilities. However that is not a pass to paint the British with a broad brush either.

in the country.

That is certainly illegal under the constitution, partially suspended or not. This goes to show that anything that Capes did or is doing as Acting Governor must perforce be illegal.

The record would show that under his name, Capes inflicted many atrocities, both known and unknown - that were, and are harmful to Turks and Caicos Islanders!

The interim administration’s other negative impact relates to the chief financial officer Caroline Gardiner and her deputy Stephanie Murray both leaving the country on Christmas holidays.

In so doing, they effectively locked down our Treasury until they returned January 4/6. It has been noted that only cheques Gardiner and her deputy processed prior to their leaving these shores could be distributed and, that no matter how urgent the need it was to provide companies or individuals with payment for legitimate bills, those were not to be accommodated!

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It may not be known fact but the PS/Finance is the person with overall responsibility for the Treasury.

Therefore, I cannot comprehend by what legal authority Gardiner had to do what she did!

Oh! But I forgot, these people have no respect for our laws, our culture and our people!

The only time that they rely on the law is when they want to oppress us further!

It sends a clear message to all Turks and Caicos Islanders that she and her cohorts think of us as nothing more than thieves and robbers and cannot be trusted with the money that we have raised without any help from them. This, my people, is appalling and condemnable.

I say before and I dare say again: these people have no clue as to how to run and manage a small growing economy such as ours!

We have a saying, ‘When thieves fall out, righteous men get their due’!

Royal Robinson

Potcake Place finds a new home ANIMAL lovers now have a base to make donations, find out about adoptions and meet adorable potcake puppies.

Potcake Place has set up shop in Salt Mills Plaza in Grace Bay, conveniently located in the heart of the tourist district.

The non-profit organisation, which is made up of a group of volunteers, is now able to offer holidaymakers a first hand look at what they do.

Director Jane Parker-Rauw said the team are “very excited” to move to the Grace Bay location, adding that it will increase their exposure immensely.

Potcake Place was first established in Providenciales a number of years ago as a foster group for unwanted pups.

Volunteers give up their time to look after the dogs until a permanent home can be found, take them to the vet, and give them all the vaccinations, wormers and other treatments they need.

Members of the organisation also socialise the pups with beach trips, organise dog training and meet potential adoptive families for play sessions with the pups.

If an adoption goes ahead they take the pup to the vet to arrange a health certificate, book the pup on to the plane, and meet the families at the airport.

The new shop, which will open to the public on Monday, will sell pet supplies and Potcake Place merchandise – a percentage of which will go directly to the organisation.

And there will also be a section where people can meet some of the puppies up for adoption.

Jane explained: “This will be the face of Potcake Place where people who are interested in adoption, making a donation or learning a bit more can come. It’s a great convenient location.”

Potcake Place will take up just half of the shop while the other half will be dedicated to Mark Woodring’s Animal House, a veterinary surgery.

“We are very grateful to Mark and could not have done this without him,” Jane said.

“He offered us the other half of the facility at a very low cost.”

The shop will be open from 10am until 4.30pm from Monday to Saturday.

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TCI’s Garvin writes multi-million dollar movie – ‘Sanctum’ released this February EXCLUSIVE

By Rebecca Bird

A FORMER Providenciales resident has fulfilled a long held dream after writing and acting in a multimillion dollar feature film inspired by real cave diving adventures.

The $30m 3D epic ‘Sanctum’, produced by the legendary James Cameron, is set to hit movie theatres next month.

John Garvin spoke exclusively to the Weekly News this week from Sydney, Australia, about the highlights of his journey to the top.

Born in England, John spent 10 years of his early life as a professional theatre actor and writer.

He enjoyed enormous success particularly during the four years he spent as the lead in West End hit Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.

Another of John’s great passions was diving and during his career in the arts he also worked as a British freelance scuba instructor.

In 1998 John visited the Turks and Caicos Islands for a dive holiday and fell in love with the place.

“I spent many years diving and teaching in British waters and the TCI was my first taste of tropical, clear, warm water, and visibility.

“It was incredible, it blew me away and that was it, I knew I wanted to spend longer diving there.”

He saw that there was no advanced level technical diving taking place in the country despite the “incredible wall systems”, and immediately saw a business opportunity.

In 1999 he came to the Turks and Caicos Islands to set up ‘O2 Technical Diving’ to provide support to technical divers visiting the islands.

Soon after he arrived John’s sense of adventure was tweaked when he was given a book called ‘Deeper into Blue Holes’ by Rob Palmer.

“It’s an incredible book that details all of the underwater cave systems in the Bahamas,” he said, “and I immediately knew after reading the book that there were similar underwater cave systems in the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

So John and Mark Parrish, co-owner of Big Blue eco tours, went to explore one of the more well known caves in North Caicos - Cottage Pond.

“We turned up to Cottage Pond and we really didn’t know what we were doing.

“We knew that it’s an inland sinkhole about two miles away from the ocean and the water levels rise and fall with the tide, but there’s a lot of superstition surrounding the hole.

“A lot of the Belongers won’t go

WRITER AND ACTOR: John played the part of Jim Sergeant in the film - “a bossy British dive instructor who walks around shouting orders at everybody”.

near the hole after dark. It’s reputed to be haunted with bad spirits.”

John and Mark had never been cave diving before so they took a few safety precautions including a reel, flash lights and a back up cylinder.

“We basically swam out to the middle of Cottage Pond and I remember looking down.

“Beneath our feet was the most hellish, thick, bacterial soup – it was just a red cloud and it looked like the most uninviting thing to dive down into.”

The pair began reeling off line and started their descent into the water which soon began to get very hot visibility became zero.

“The bacteria inside this layer generated this incredible heat which actually burnt the skin and tarnished our dive equipment, and just made our skin itch really badly.

“We couldn’t see what the hell we were doing, I remember shining the torch in front of my face and still not being able to see any light but I knew we were descending because I could feel the pressure building on my ears and I could hear the ‘tick tick tick’ of the reel letting out line.

“After a minute or so it was basically like being punched in the stomach by this cold water.

“Suddenly I could see my light and everything started swirling around and I realised we’d reached the depth at which the fresh water lens and the salt water of the deep cave mix.

“It was the most incredible moment – I felt like a freefall parachutist emerging from cloud.”

The pair broke out of the mixing zone into a huge cavern of 90 metres

OUT SOON: The $30m 3D epic ‘Sanctum’, produced by the legendary James Cameron, is set to hit movie theatres next month

deep filled with crystal clear water.

“I remember shining the light around and my light would barely touch the sides of the walls – it was like falling into something the size of St Paul’s Cathedral,” he said.

“I was utterly hooked after that.”

After investigating Cottage Pond, John and Mark realised that there were dozens, if not hundreds, of these caves scattered throughout the TCI, many of which had not been explored at all.

In 2001 the pair were joined by a very experienced cave diver from Florida called James Hurley and formed the Caicos Cave Project.

The three divers, in conjunction with the DECR, began to systematically document, map and film more than a dozen underwater cave systems and published their findings.

“We soon learned that underwater caves in the Turks and Caicos can be extremely tight, silty and hazardous.

“They should only ever be dived by experienced and qualified cavedivers. To dive these caves without the proper equipment and training is suicidal.”

During his experiences with the Caicos Cave Project, John thought up the concept of a screenplay called ‘Sunless Sea’.

It was a horror film which told the tale of half a dozen cave divers who get trapped and one by one they get picked off by a monster.

The screenplay did very well and got picked up and optioned by a producer in Los Angeles but by a twist of fate a movie called ‘The Cave’ was released with exactly the same concept.

John’s film was never to be made, but the script had been passed around LA and landed in the laps of producer Andrew Wight and legendary

director James Cameron of Titanic and Avatar fame.

Cameron happened to be looking for a screen writer who had a diving background and could write good action sequences for a new film.

In 2005 John was flown to LA where he met with Cameron and Wight who pitched the basic idea of ‘Sanctum’ to him.

The film was inspired by Wight’s near-death experience when he was leading a diving expedition miles into a system of underwater caves in the middle of the Nullarbor Plain in Australia back in the 1980s.

A freak storm came and collapsed the cave trapping 12 divers underground for 24 hours.

“In that particular incident everybody got out safely. Sanctum explores a darker alternate,” John said.

John described his involvement in the film as “surreal” and said he learnt a lot during the writing and filming process.

He said his most incredible experience was to see the complete set at the Warner Brothers studio for the first time.

He described “walking into this massive aircraft hanger of a studio set and seeing this multimillion dollar cave system that had been specially built complete with running water and tanks and realising that’s something you’ve created”.

“I was walking round in a daze for a couple of days after that.”

John said James Cameron was “very, very supportive” of the script and the writing process and was a “fantastic person” to collaborate with.

“Ultimately he’s a very enthusiastic and avid scuba diver so it was more like talking to a diving buddy than one of the world’s leading directors.

“James Cameron is first and foremost a diver who happens to

make big films in order to fund his diving passions,” he laughed.

John also played the part of Jim Sergeant in the film - “a bossy British dive instructor who walks around shouting orders at everybody”.

“Sanctum was my first film role so it was a pretty intimidating experience,” he said.

“My scenes were shot on the very first day of filming so I suddenly had 160 cast and crew members all around me with 3D cameras pointed at us.

“I can remember thinking on the first day of shooting: ‘Oh my God what have I got myself into’.”

As well as writing and acting in the movie John was also the dive coordinator and was responsible for training all of the other actors how to dive, including Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield and Ioan Gruffudd.

They dove not only in the studio but also on location at the real underwater cave systems in Mount Gambier, Australia.

“We put them through some pretty hard core training and I’m very proud that the actors were able to do a lot of these incredible underwater stunts themselves.”

John got his first glimpse of the completed movie when it was previewed before 400 people, including the cast, crew and executive producer James Cameron, last week in Sydney.

“It was fantastic to finally watch it in 3D on the big screen – what I wasn’t expecting and what was great was to hear the audience reacting to the film.

“Several times throughout the film there were huge gasps as something happened on the screen and that was very satisfying.

“The caves looked incredible in 3D and one of the things that this film will create is this incredible sense of claustrophobia. It’s quite a white knuckle ride for most of the audience members.”

John said the film has been a great launch for his career, and he has gone on to write several other screen plays – three of which have been optioned.

“It’s been an incredible break really to get into what is a very difficult industry.”

He offered up some advice to young people wishing to break into the film industry.

“If you want to write, the best advice I ever got given is that you need to write every day, even if it’s just for 20 minutes.”

And for budding film makers he said that the best thing they can do is “get hold of a camera and get out there and start shooting”.

Universal Pictures’ Sanctum is released in the US on February 4, 2011. For more information visit www.sanctummovie.com

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Haiti 12 months on

By Gemma Handy Photos by Sarah Jones

TODAY there’s singing in Port-auPrince. Music is blaring from inside a ramshackle Delmas church, its congregation clapping and swaying to a jubilant beat.

It’s a buoyant scene which the casual onlooker may feel belies the backdrop outside.

Set in the heart of one of the ruined capital city’s largest tent cities, it’s one of numerous ceremonies taking place to commemorate the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake.

Twelve months to the day, Haitians are uniting to mark the disaster which struck at 16.53 on January 12 2010, claiming 230,000 lives and rendering over a million more homeless.

Across the city, the piles of rubble

may have shrunk but there’s little sign of the ubiquitous camps abating just yet.

Throw in election unrest and a cholera epidemic and one can only marvel at the tremendous spirit of these most resilient people.

A handful of camps has been cleared completely but this particular one has bloated by 4,000 to an estimated 20,000 inhabitants.

Haitians gather in white to pay respect to their fallen compatriots.

The Weekly News visits Port-au-Prince a year after the devastating earthquake

A year after it was hastily constructed, all shacks have been fitted with new tarp roofs to keep the rain out, taps for running water have been installed and gravel laid on the ground to prevent flooding.

Filthy shoeless kids, with beams as big as Baltimore, flock to greet us. Their tiny hands grasp handmade kites created from plastic shopping bags. A gaggle of bigger kids kick a

football around a terrace overlooking the sprawling shanty town.

The place is undoubtedly cleaner and more orderly than my last visit in August. It’s as if the initial shock has passed and people are becoming resigned to their fate.

The danger is, of course, the more infrastructure and facilities that are put in place, the more interminable their plight.

Twelve months to the day, Haitians are uniting to mark the disaster which struck at 16.53 on January 12 2010, claiming 230,000 lives and rendering over a million more homeless.

As we dodge washing lines and weave our way around groups of residents playing cards, we come across one man with his face covered in flour, a wide grin etched across his cheeks.

In broken English he explains it was a joke on the part of his opponents to whom he lost one particularly boisterous game of dominoes.

Food may be scarce but laughs are plenty.

At the junction of two muddy alleys, a hut bedecked with film posters and handmade signs is bathed in a ray of sunlight.

Inside this makeshift ‘cinema’ sits a small TV set, faced by rows of crafted wooden benches, erected in ascending order in imitation of a theatre. At one side sits a plastic box continued 

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NATIONAL full of salvaged DVDs. The flour-faced man whose name, he tells us, is Alfred Luckner, says the venue was built by his friend to lift the spirits of the camp’s innumerable inhabitants.

“Last year, he got the idea to let people have a little fun,” he imparts.

“People come here every day to take the stress out.”

Tonight ‘The Passion of the Christ’ will be screened before eager cinema-goers who will gain entry for the price of five Haitian gourdes – US15c.

One can’t help but wonder what Jesus himself might think of this poignant little scene.

I am told the cinema’s name is ‘Femszi’ – local slang meaning ‘to make people happy’. Here, strength comes in numbers.

Questioned about the recent general election, Alfred’s face is suddenly serious. Politics, it appears, is of little consequence to the homeless.

“The Government don’t come to us, they say nothing to us,” he says.

“We just pray to God, we don’t expect from nobody, we can’t do nothing. We just accept the new Government – if we fight, we die.”

Whether Jean-Claude Duvalier’s shock return to power will be the band-aid Haiti badly needs remains to be seen.

If the slogans which adorn numerous collapsed walls are to be believed, his comeback will be largely a welcomed one.

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Shacks have been fitted with new tarp roofs and gravel laid to keep flooding at bay.

A shy child peers around the door of one ramshackle residence.

The Iron Market is currently functioning under sweltering tarpaulin, behind the reconstructed building.

Film lovers flock nightly to this tiny cinema in the heart of a Delmas camp.

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Reconstruction of the historic Iron Market with its iconic clock tower was completed last week.

Residents of this Delmas camp, seen with reporter Gemma Handy, congregate outside a makeshift ‘cinema’.

And at 16.53, as the sun begins to set behind the decimated presidential palace, as shattered today as on that fateful afternoon, crowds line the street outside. continued FROM 

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potential benefactors. ‘We need help, food, medicine, water,’ it reads.

A mile away, a token of the help which did arrive is evident in the recently completed Iron Market, or ‘Marche en Fer’.

The historic building with its iconic clock tower is the first public building to be totally restored since the quake.

Its $12m redevelopment was personally funded by Digicel chairman Denis O’Brien.

Construction alone provided jobs for a mammoth 750 people. Within its lofty wrought iron surrounds, up to 1,000 sellers will be free to sell their wares, ranging from locally grown fruit and veg to handmade arts and crafts.

Former Provo resident Bill Minto presided over the last few months of the scheme as construction manager.

His passion for the venture is immediately tangible as he describes it as “like watching a baby grow”.

Years ago the Iron Market was a huge draw for the cruise passengers who used to flock to this fallen city.

Behind the new majestic structure, it is currently functioning under sweltering tarpaulin, its vendors counting down the days until it reopens.

A short walk away, an audience of

tiny kids is seated in front of a man with a megaphone who entreats God for his mercy.

A brass band with sombre faces and black arm bands marches by, a doleful tune accompanying the musicians’ rueful stride.

And at 16.53, as the sun begins to set behind the decimated presidential palace, as shattered today as on that fateful afternoon, crowds line the street outside.

Haitian flags fly proudly atop the adjacent shanty houses as throngs of journalists jostle for position.

A group of people dressed in white, the colour of mourning, gather together, their heads bowed in prayer to commemorate the worst natural disaster in modern history.

And then, amid the flurry, the sound of a lone trumpet cuts through the air like a knife. Its resonance is at once mournful and proud, anguished and sanguine.

One lone voice repeats the word ‘Hallelujah’. Voices join in unison to form a heart wrenching ballad, an ode to tragedy and despair, pride and patriotism, courage and loved ones lost.

They may be gone but they’ll never be forgotten, as Haiti comes together in solidarity, remembering the past with sorrow, looking to the future with hope.

Children come together to mark the first anniversary of the quake with a special ceremony.

Special thanks to Tortug Air for generously providing flights to make the Weekly News’ trip possible.

Taps for running water have now been installed inside one vast tent city.

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Prize for prompt payments PUNCTUALITY paid off for one lucky resident who walked away with a huge cash prize for paying her phone bill on time.

Jessica Fox, from Chalk Sound, received $3,000 from Digicel as part of their Postpaid Rewards scheme.

She was just one of the finalists who consistently paid their telephone bills on time and in full for the entire past quarter.

Ms Fox was presented with her

cheque during the grand opening of Digicel’s new flagship store on December 23.

After the handover she revealed: “The cash could not have come at a better time. It will be used towards Christmas gifts for family and friends.”

Digicel’s head of marketing Ava Kerr said the company appreciates “each and every one of our customers”.

“We are delighted when we get the

chance to show our loyal customers our appreciation through rewards.”

To be eligible for a monthly cash prize of $1,000 and quarterly cash prizes of $3,000, customers are encouraged to pay their bills on time and in full before the 22nd of each month.

The Postpaid Rewards promotion runs until April 2011.

During the store opening country manager E Jay Saunders described the new shop as the “first of its kind” in the TCI. He said that one of its main features is an interactive touch screen monitor which allows customers to choose which handset to purchase.

There is also a section where live BlackBerry handsets are located, ready to make calls, to test the capabilities of the devices, and the store also offers workshop experience on how to use BlackBerry handsets.

The new shop is based in Graceway House next to IGA where the previous store was housed, but is now “chic and modern with high tech features”.

DELIGHTED: Jessica Fox with Digicel CEO E Jay Saunders at the company’s new store

MAD ABOUT BLOOMS: Flower Girl is the brainchild of designer Stephanie Duncanson who has a passion for blossoms

Flower Girl opens new shop IN THE 23 years that it has been in business the ‘Flower Girl’ shop has catered to scores of A-list celebrities, top government officials, and VIPs. Tourists and locals also love the array of blooms and flock to the Downtown store to select bouquets for weddings, special occasions and just to brighten up their home.

Now, due to increasing demand, Flower Girl is expanding and opening up a shop in the Regent Village in Grace Bay at the end of this month.

The new store, which is conveniently located close to Provo’s major resorts, will specialise in wedding arrangements.

And it’s all the brainchild of designer Stephanie Duncanson who has a passion for blossoms.

Stephanie worked as an interior designer in the Bahamas for 15 years before moving to Miami and onto Providenciales in 1986.

After a few years on the island working in advertising she sought a new direction, something that would satisfy her creative drive.

In 1988 she decided to open the country’s first flower shop, which she ran from the Weekly News offices in Central Plaza.

Her first customer was Galmo Williams, who eventually became a government minister, then Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

“He called me ‘the flower girl’ and when I was searching for a name for the business, that’s what came to me,” Stephanie said.

“For a number of years it was just me doing everything but soon I was able to take on staff to help.”

Over the years Stephanie provided flowers for a number of celebrities including Paul McCartney, Donna Karan, Bruce Willis, and for the much publicised Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck wedding.

The shop has also featured in Bride Magazine, and on CNN and NBC. Stephanie has worked with designers such as Preston Bailey and Martha Stewart to plan wedding arrangements, and has even created her own line.

The concept includes a line of bride and bridesmaid dresses made from natural Caribbean materials with painted bougainvillea flowers.

Stephanie is also set to begin selling a liquid flower food that will allow cut bougainvillea to survive for a week rather than a day.

MISSING CAT: Piggy is black and white with green eyes and a pink nose

Have you seen Piggy?

DISTRAUGHT pet owners are offering a reward of $200 to anyone who knows the whereabouts of a missing cat.

The one-year-old male went missing from an apartment in Richmond Commons (across the highway from Venetian

Road) on Monday, January 3.

He has short black and white fur, green eyes and a pink nose.

He was not wearing a collar when he went missing.

Anyone with any information can call Rebecca on 344-8542.

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January 22 - 28, 2011

WITH Deandrea Hamilton

TCI Sunday Best ready for round one

By Deandrea Hamilton TWENTY contenders have been confirmed for the first ever TCI Sunday Best, a gospel talent show challenge to culminate with the rewarding of a recording contract and a cash prize of $1,000.

President of the Sunday Best committee, Pastor Pedro Williams said this is a chance for Christians to display their talent in music and another way to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Organisers say the general public will be able to see for themselves what the judges already know: “that we have some very gifted singers in this country who can become music ministers or more if they want to and

we want to encourage that.”

On January 30 at the Tropicana Show and Supper Club there will be the official debut of TCI Sunday Best, which mimics the format of Kirk Franklin’s Sunday Best which airs on BET. Auditions were held over two weekends. Hilton McCarthy, head of the marketing and public relations team and one of the founders of TCI Sunday Best explained that there was nervousness, but ultimately 20 finalists were selected.

“In the foyer before entering the judge’s room, people were nervous and jittery.

“We gave them some water and allowed them to sit in the meanwhile, and we have people who know they

can sing but when they went into the judges, with cameras all over the place, it was different.”

Judges of the show have strong musical backgrounds and include: Rev Dr Conrad Howell, author of the Turks and Caicos National song, Nicole Cox, music minister at Harvest Bible Church, Craig Archibold, celebrated singer and musician, and Dr Darren Hall, musician and choir director.

“We have judges who can sing, judges who can play, judges who can identify good talent and that is why when they give their final tally, we will be confident in their choices.”

The concept of the TCI Sunday Best was inspired by the US-based programme, but inspiration came from an earnest desire to see believers

spread the word of God in music.

It is also thrilling, shared Mr McCarthy who is a singer and musician himself, to see family and friends cheering for their favourite participant.

Auditions were held in two islands in the hunt for who will be TCI’s Sunday Best, and it is a collaboration which has brought music lovers from all denominations together to give someone an opportunity to fulfil their dream.

“The audition was very good, we had about 26 persons and out of that we chose 20 – 16 ladies and four young men - good contestants and those will go on January 30 for the first round and from there we will eliminate three persons each month,” explained McCarthy.

Women dominated the entries and the contestants are young people who are both gifted and eager.

“In Grand Turk we had five contestants, and four of them made it through.”

TCI Sunday Best will culminate in June with the awarding of the cash prize and a local recording contract.

“We want to invite everyone to come because I believe it is gonna be great and people are just gonna explode.

“It is the first time for this here in the Turks and Caicos and everybody will be excited to see the twenty contestants and then who will be eliminated from there.”

Tickets are available at a cost of $20 for adults and $10 for children.

Methodist church holds 199th meeting in TCI

By Deandrea Hamilton ONE hundred and twenty Methodists convened in Providenciales for the ‘199th Annual Session of the Conference of the Methodist Church in the Bahamas’ under the theme: ‘Pursuing our mission through committed and responsible service.’

“What we actually do is discuss matters of interest to the church and the nation as it relates to the present time; and of course we have reports from the various churches on the progress they are making,” said Rev Dr J Emmett Weir, retired Methodist minister who has held many senior roles in Methodist churches in the Caribbean and the Americas.

While there is business to be done in the progress of the Methodist church, there is also motivation on the greater call of the believer, which is fulfilment of the great commission of Jesus Christ.

“We started on January 13 with our ministerial session, when the ministers had a retreat and then it continued with trial services for those who want to become candidates for the ministry.”

Weir, author of books which have focused largely on nation building with politics and the purpose of the church working symbiotically, said the opening night message on Monday was stirring with more brainstorming to come on how the church can contend with the myriad of social ills plaguing modern societies.

“I am sure one of the concerns that will be raised at some point will be how the church can assist in bringing about a better situation; not just with the economy but with morality and we hope that our presence here will contribute to making the Turks and Caicos Islands a better place for everyone,” said Weir, speaking with four days left in the week long caucus.

Presiding over the conference which is being held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Blue Hills, is Rev Derek C O Browne; his vice president was equally optimistic.

“I think it’s good that we are here in Providenciales; it is an interesting time in the Turks and Caicos Islands for more reasons than one and I think with a new administration we are hoping to charge and ask

199th CONFERENCE - Methodists from the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos convened for an annual caucus to determine the way forward for their denomination

for additional commitment from the members of the church and from the delegates that are here,” said Judy Munroe, vice president of the Bahamas/Turks and Caicos Methodist Conference.

Another area of significant focus for the Methodist Church is the rebuilding effort in Blue Hills of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

The sanctuary was, in 2010, bulldozed to make way for a more spacious, multi-purposed, modern and structurally sound facility.

“Actually, it is quite an ambitious programme we have and it is going to be a huge multi-purpose building.

“At this point we are having some financial challenges, but we are getting over those and I understand

the steel has been ordered and we are going ahead with the foundation.”

The business sessions have also broached ideas for financial growth and sustenance of Wesley Methodist School.

“This is a recession time, and so we discuss how can the church survive and provide.

“In the area of education, we are talking about how we can provide scholarships for our very large school here because we see that our students are doing quite well and doing their part, and taking up their roles in life here in the Turks and Caicos.”

The daytime sessions are all business, and during the evenings, members of the Methodist and Christian community are welcomed

to church services as the conference progresses.

Nearly 50 delegates from the Bahamas were here for the conference which culminates Sunday January 23, with a service at the church where presiding Bishop and former pastor of Wesleyan, Rev Derek Browne, will issue his charge.

“For 200 years we have been coming together; that’s right, the first conference was held in 1812 in Rock Sound, Eleuthera.”

Next year, the 200th session will be a huge event and held in Freeport, Grand Bahama.

That conference marks two decades of Methodists uniting for a sharing of ideas for the broadening and survival of the church.

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this week

‘I aim for the stars’

Bishop’s zeal for learning scoops him another honour

Saturday, January 22 to Thursday, January 27 Saturday, January 22

By Gemma Handy A PROVO pastor with a passion for education is celebrating after receiving his latest qualification.

And this time he didn’t even have to study.

Bishop Usril Morris’s lust for learning has seen him garner a fistful of accolades in recent years.

Tutors at the Spirit of Truth Institute in Richmond, Virginia, were so impressed by the silver-haired student’s accomplishments, they decided to award him another.

The 66-year-old was recently made an honorary doctor of divinity on account of his lengthy service and contribution to the church, benevolent leadership and ministerial achievements.

Pastor Morris, of the Bible Church of God in Airport Road, had been invited to a graduation ceremony as guest speaker when he was presented with the award.

It’s his fourth qualification after successfully completing a diploma in theology in 2007, a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and counselling in 2008 and

 Young people who want to learn more about relationships can come along to a free counselling session hosted by Rapport - the youth arm of the National AIDS Programme.

The talk will take place at the Edward C Gartland Youth Centre in Providenciales between 2pm and 3pm.

“I am a firm believer in higher learning” – Bishop Usril Morris.

a Masters degree, majoring in religious education, in 2009, proof that you’re never too old to study.

Pastor Morris told the Weekly News: “I always aim for the stars.

I am a firm believer and have a serious conviction for pursuing higher learning but I never dreamt that this accolade bestowed on me would come from an honorary point of view.

“After I did my Masters, I was going to do some more study to get a PhD but when the school looked at what I had accomplished they told

me not to put my brain into any more overdrive,” he laughed.

“I was 65 then and they said they thought I had accomplished enough to warrant this honorary degree.”

The Bishop is now looking forward to taking a well-earned break but he won’t be resting on his laurels for long.

The self-proclaimed workaholic is busy building a technical school to teach trades to Islanders.

“As long as I live in this world and feel healthy there will always be some venture to pursue.”

Seeking journalists LOCAL journalists looking for a sabbatical in their career have the opportunity to study in Canada thanks to a competition run by Scotiabank.

The bank has joined forces with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) to provide a one-year Journalism Fellowship at Massey College at the University of Toronto.

The contest is open to mid-career journalists from South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico.

Wendy Hannam, executive vice president of international banking, said: “As a multi-national organisation, we interact with media around the globe every day and recognise the courage and commitment of international journalists who often face significant risks to bring their stories to the public.

“We are honoured to continue supporting the CJFE in their work and proud to bring another Latin American journalist to study in Canada through the Scotiabank/ CJFE Fellowship.”

The successful candidate will audit courses of their choice at the University of Toronto and make connections with the Canadian media.

They will also be able to expand their work related to a significant issue, with a view to applying this experience to ongoing work upon return to their home country.

Master of Massey College John Fraser said: “We see this fellowship as one that is essential to helping increase, as Canadians, our knowledge of a huge region that has largely been ignored by North America for too long.

“With our fine collaboration with Scotiabank and CJFE, this can only

succeed.”

In 2009 the fellowship introduced collaborators to an “exceptional” journalist - Eric Lemus from El Salvador.

President of CJFE Annie Game said: “He was a dynamic representative of journalists in the region who are working in incredibly challenging environments just trying to report the news.

“We expect that similarly the 2011/12 new Fellow will further increase our understanding of the situation facing journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

Applications must be sent to: Canadian Journalists For Free Expression, Attn: Ms. Julie Payne, re: Scotiabank/CJFE Fellowship, 1101 555 Richmond St West, PO Box 407, Toronto ON M5V 3B1 Canada, or by email to jpayne@cjfe.org The deadline for applications is March 1, 2011.

 Shape those muscle groups you never knew you had during an early morning resistance training session at IGA Sports Centre.

The session begins at 8.30am and costs $12 for one or $100 for 11.  Mums and Tots Dance Party classes are held every Saturday at The Athletic Club in Saltmills Plaza for mothers and their little ones.

Mothers, bring your little ones to dance, jump, twist and shake! Children have fun learning movement basics to fun music and mums get a light exercise while spending quality time.

Mums and Tots classes begin at 10am and cost just $10. Dads are welcome!

Call Shara Bowen on 2441103 for more details.

Monday, January 24  Girls and boys aged 11 to 19 years old are invited to take part in a fun singing group.

The TCI Youth Chorale rehearses every Monday at 6pm at the Edward C Gartland Youth Centre, downtown, Providenciales.

For more information call 331-7176.  Get rid of the Monday blues with an intense non-traditional aerobic routine with Anca Vasile.

The exciting class takes place 7pm at IGA Sports Centre and includes fun and interesting choreography.

Classes cost $12 for one or $100 for 11.

Tuesday, January 25

 Step it up this Tuesday evening with a fun fitness class at IGA Sports Centre.

From 6.30pm you will be taken through a number of step combinations mixed with conditioning exercises like squats, push ups and triceps dips.

Classes cost $12 for one or $100 for 11.

Wednesday, January 26  Are you in need of inner peace? Interested in a healthy lifestyle and a toned and flexible body?

Then you need David Bowen’s yoga classes at The Athletic Club in the Saltmills Plaza.

Come along on Monday, Wednesday or Friday at 7am, Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm or Saturday at 9am.

Call 941-8686 for more details.

Thursday, January 27  Young people can learn how to use male and female condoms correctly during a demonstration in Creole and English at Freddiez Yard opposite IGA today.

Members of Rapport - the youth arm of the National AIDS Programme – will be explaining how to use the contraception method between 4.30pm and 5.30pm.  Burn off your week’s excesses with an energetic kickboxing class at IGA Sports Centre.

The class begins at 7pm and includes 45 minutes of kickboxing drills followed by 15 minutes of conditioning exercises.

Classes cost $12 for one or $100 for 11.  Celebrate good health with wellness coach Benneth Williams every Thursday evening.

Come along to Williams Block, suite number six, on Lower Bight Road, Providenciales, from 7pm.

There you will get a free wellness consultation and an hour of fun.

For more details call Benneth at 246-0300 or email hls_com@yahoo.com

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Lifestyle... fitness Tip 

Tomato frittata

A QUICK, nutritious and low calorie dish you can make for breakfast, brunch or even a weeknight dinner.

Serves two.

Ingredients: • Half cup finely chopped onion • Half cup finely chopped green bell pepper • 2 tsps olive oil or canola oil • Salt and pepper to taste • 2 large eggs • Half cup egg substitute • Half cup shredded reduced fat Swiss or sharp cheddar • Canola or olive oil cooking spray • 1 large vine-ripened tomato, cut in half and then sliced (or 2 medium tomatoes) • Half tsp Italian seasoning (or any herb blend you like) Method: • In a nine-inch nonstick skillet, cook the onion and bell pepper with salt and pepper to taste in two teaspoons of oil over medium heat, stirring often, until the bell pepper is tender (about three minutes).

In a mixing bowl, beat or whisk together the eggs, egg substitute and cheese. Add the bell pepper mixture and beat or whisk until well combined.

Start heating the nineinch skillet again over medium heat until hot.

Coat the pan generously with canola cooking spray and quickly pour in the egg mixture, distributing the bell pepper evenly.

• While it begins to cook, arrange tomato slices decoratively on top, then sprinkle half teaspoon of Italian seasoning on top.

Cover the skillet and cook (without stirring) for about six minutes, or until the frittata is set and bottom is nicely brown.

If desired, broil the frittata under a preheated broiler, about four inches from the heat, for two minutes, to lightly brown the top.

• Let cool in the skillet for five minutes. Slide the frittata onto a serving plate, cut into wedges and serve it warm or at room temperature.

Instilling the habit OUR lives are punctuated by dozens, if not hundreds, of daily habits that change very little from week to week.

From the alarm going off in the morning, to our meals, breaks and general movements, our activities are generally based on what we are comfortable doing.

Sadly, for most people, exercise is not one of these habits.

The following tips include some useful advice for incorporating exercise into your daily routine.

Slow and steady Many exercise regimes emerge from a sense of urgency such as a forthcoming beach holiday, a wedding or a party. But often the results we want to achieve take months to safely attain, not weeks.

The key is to be patient. Gradually introduce change into your daily life.

Start off slow. Add a few sets of crunches several times a week or a lunchtime walk. After a few weeks of success, add another small change.

The benefits of exercise are based on a lifestyle, not a few weeks worth of effort.

Proper form trumps quantity

Many of us focus on the number of repetitions rather than the quality or form of the exercise. For example, it’s far better to do 10 slow pushups where your chest is lowered all the way to the floor as you inhale and you push your arms to their full extension on the exhale than it is to do 50 super-fast push-ups where you barely bend your elbow.

It’s better to spend the time on form than it is to focus on quantity. You’ll see much better results in the long run.

Same time, same place Habits are easy to form, both good and bad ones. If you want to make exercise a habit in your life, carve out a small time slot and start doing it.

We all have times in the day that are more convenient than others to fit in some exercise. Some may find cycling to work instead of driving is a great way to see results. Go with whatever change you can fit into your daily routine.

Measure it Most of us want to exercise for the health benefits – the weight loss, the improved mood etc.

These are noble goals but there will be times when your motivation will dwindle and you’ll need a goal

Focus on form rather than the number of repetitions for optimum results.

of substance to shoot for.

Create an exercise log or write your goal weight down. Record your daily workout and weight and chart your progress.

Simple measurements can motivate us to keep going. No one likes leaving a blank line in their workout log or missing a goal that’s on paper, so go ahead and measure your hard work in writing.

Strength equals stress and rest Without rest, our bodies will never grow stronger. They need to be

stressed through exercise and then rested, in order to gain the physical improvements we desire.

If we look to accelerate the process and skip the ‘rest’ part, we risk fatigue, burn-out and possibly even injury. Rest does not have to consist of lying on the couch; it can be a scaled-down version of exercise (walking instead of running), light cross-training, or another opportunity for our bodies to recoup and rebuild.

So don’t feel any guilt for taking a day off, here and there. Rest should be a part of any good fitness and exercise plan.

health Tip 

The benefits of breakfast THERE’S a reason why breakfast is commonly dubbed the most important meal of the day.

Starting the day right helps you perform better whether at work or school.

And far from adding calories, it can also help battle the bulge.

Eating breakfast reduces your hunger later in the day, making it easier to avoid overeating. When you skip breakfast, you may feel ravenous later and be tempted to reach for a quick fix, such as candy.

In addition, prolonged fasting — which occurs when you skip breakfast — can increase your body’s insulin response, which in turn increases fat storage and weight gain. In fact, skipping breakfast actually increases your risk of obesity.

Eating breakfast gets you on track to make healthy choices all

day. People who eat breakfast regularly tend to eat a healthier diet — one that is more nutritious and lower in fat. When you skip breakfast, you’re more likely to skip fruit and vegetables the rest of the day too.

Eating breakfast gives you energy, increasing your physical activity during the day. A healthy breakfast refuels your body and replenishes the glycogen stores that supply blood sugar (glucose). Skipping breakfast is associated with decreased physical activity.

Try these healthy breakfast ideas to give you the fuel you need to take on your day.

• High-fibre, multi-grain cereal with strawberries and low-fat milk.

• A cereal bar, an apple and a glass of cold milk.

• Fat-free yogurt with fresh blueberries mixed in, and a slice of whole-wheat toast with a fruit spread.

• A mini whole-wheat bagel, spread lightly with cream cheese and jam, and a peach with a bowl of yogurt.

Want other bagel topping options?

Try one heaped teaspoon of peanut or almond butter, a mashed banana, or one tablespoon of cottage cheese topped with a thin slice of smoked salmon.

• Scrambled egg, a whole-wheat roll, fresh-fruit salad and a cup of low-fat milk.

• A bowl of muesli or oatmeal with chopped banana or dried fruit.

• Scrambled tofu with onions, green peppers and other veggies, served with whole-grain toast.

• Grapefruit with whole-wheat toast and almond butter.

Fat-free yogurt with fresh blueberries is a healthy and low calorie start to the day.

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How does your garden grow With our green-fingered guru Denis Belanger

GARDENING 

NATURE SPLENDOR

For all your landscaping, installation or garden maintenance needs, please call or write for a free estimate: 332-3381 or naturesplendor@yahoo.com

The cattley guava THE CATTLEY guava or strawberry guava (psidium littorale) is believed to be native to the lowlands of eastern Brazil, especially near the coast.

A fairly slow-growing shrub or small tree, it generally ranges from 6.5ft to 14 ft tall but the yellowfruited may attain 40ft. Both have slender, smooth, brown-barked stems and branches and alternate, evergreen, obovate, dark, smooth, glossy, somewhat leathery leaves.

The fragrant flowers are white with prominent stamens and the edible fruits are about the size of a golf ball; thin-skinned, dark-red, purple-red or lemon-yellow.

Red-skinned fruits have white flesh, more or less reddish near the skin. Yellow-skinned fruits have faintly yellowish flesh. Free of the muskiness of the common guava, the flavour is somewhat strawberry-like, spicy, subacid.

Cattley guavas are eaten out-ofhand without preparation except the removal of the calyx. A delicious puree or tart filling can be made. In Hawaii, either half-ripe or full-ripe cattleys are cut in half, boiled, and the juice strained to make ade or punch.

The tree is often used as an ornamental hedge rather than as a fruit tree.

The cattley guava does well in limestone and poor soils that would barely support other fruit trees. It is shallow-rooted but the red type is fairly drought tolerant. The yellow is able to endure flooding for short periods.

The tree is not easily multiplied by budding or grafting because of its thin bark. It can be propagated by layering or rooting of soft tip cuttings or root cuttings, but is usually grown from seed even though seedlings of the red type vary in habit of growth, fruit size and seediness, also bearing season.

The yellow comes fairly true from seed.

Cultural information is scant except that irrigation is necessary to obtain full-size fruits on poor soil, and the tree benefits from mulching when grown in limestone.

The cattley guava is usually reported as disease and pest free. But in the Caribbean, the fruit fly can attack the fruits.

Money Tip

With Mary Hamilton of Meridian Trust

Which type of investor are you?

Different investors INVESTING means different things to different people. Some people invest in large families.

A large extended family is one way to (hopefully) ensure care for parents in their old age. Some people invest in a good education, job security and benefits.

Other people invest in businesses – private or public – which they hope will pay for their retirement. Under the banner of investing there are people who are really: dreamers, savers, speculators, traders, gamblers or losers.

Different vehicles

The tree is often used as an ornamental hedge.

In addition to the many types of investor, there are many different investment products: stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, precious metals, commodities, hedge funds etc., which is why the subject of investing can seem even more confusing.

To make matters more confusing, each one of these groups can be broken down into different subgroups. For example, stocks can be subdivided into: common stock, preferred stock, small cap stocks, blue chip stocks, technical stocks, industrial stocks, etc.

Real estate can be subdivided into: single family, commercial office, commercial retail, multi family, industrial, raw land, etc.

Insurance can be subdivided into: whole, term, variable life, universal, variable universal, blended (whole and term in one policy), first, second or last to die, executive bonus and deferred compensation plans and so on.

Different procedures

All-purpose cleaner

MAKE your own mild all-purpose cleaner to remove dirt, food spills, stains and build up on most surfaces.

Mix four tablespoons of baking soda with five cups of water and use it to wipe surfaces with a soft cloth.

The deodorising properties make it an ideal solution for cleaning fridges, microwaves, tiles, even children’s toys.

There are also many procedures or formulas for buying, selling or holding these investment products.

The following are some types of investment procedures: buy, hold and pray (long), buy and sell (trade), sell then buy (short).

Many investors are classified by their procedures and their products. For example: I am a stock trader. I speculate in real

estate. I collect rare coins. These are all examples of different types of investors, their product specialities and their investing procedure.

Making sense of it all Many of us think investing is an exciting process where there is a lot of drama. We imagine Hollywood scenes of traders placing buy and sell orders on the trading floor, or tycoons making millions of dollars in one deal.

A few of us accept that we know very little about this mysterious subject of investing and have no plans to learn about it, so we entrust our faith and money to someone we hope knows more than we do.

Others amongst us do our best to prepare for the future by investing in one or more vehicles but never fully understand what it is we are trying to achieve.

To make sense of the investing world, you need to view investing as a plan, not a product or a procedure. It is a very personal plan.

Consider the reason why there are so many types of car and truck in the world. A single person does not necessarily want or need a large eight-seat people carrier, whereas a family of six probably does.

Similarly a person hoping to save $500,000 for retirement at age 65 does not want or need the same types of investment vehicle as someone planning to increase their net worth to $10m by age 45.

Once you have determined your personal plan, you need select only those investment vehicles that will get you from point A, which is where you are now, to point B which is where you want to get to in your plan.

Remember: investing is a plan, often a dull, boring, and almost mechanical process of increasing your wealth.

Someone working on such a plan is a serious investor.

Next week we shall look at how to find the plan that is right for you.

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

VACANCY NOTICE Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands

The Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands invites suitably qualified persons to apply for the post of

Temporary Projects Manager – Capacity Building (Courts of Law).

This job presents an opportunity to work in a unique environment in a British Overseas Territory.

Main responsibilities: • Manage the recruitment, appointment and training of extra court service staff required for the TCI judicial system • Liaison with all persons and/or departments involved to ensure that all building work for the expansion of the Courts is completed on time for the efficient and timely conduct of trials • Co-ordination of the timely ordering, supply and fitting of furniture in the courtrooms, chambers and office accommodation • Ensure that all necessary equipments for the administering and conduct of trials are provided • Manage logistical arrangements for the visiting judges

LAMONT’S RESTAURANT Is looking for a

E Z CLEAN LAUNDRYMAT Is looking for a

Cashier

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To work 3 days per week. Salary $5.00 per hour.

To work 6 days per week.

Salary $5.00 per hour.

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Spa Therapist We are seeking a qualified Spa Therapist with a minimum of five years’ experience for our Thalasso Spa. The successful candidate will be qualified to provide our spa clientele with high quality therapeutic treatments, including a full range of body massages, ear candling, lymphatic drainage, and pregnancy massages, as well as providing manicures and pedicures. This position will also assist the Spa Manager with day-to-day administrative duties, including inventory management, appointments, etc.

Salary: $1000 per month and 10% commission on treatments provided, (both salary and commission commensurate with experience) plus service charge.

Closing date: Monday January 31 2011 Belongers only need apply

Personal Qualifications: The successful candidate must possess: • At least 10 years experience as a Clerk of Court, or similar, in a common law jurisdiction • Practical experience and strong competency in the administration and management of works programmes • Practical knowledge of the security, administration and management requirements of court facilities • Good negotiating skills, especially with contractors and suppliers • Demonstrable budget management skills • Proven track record of strong leadership and management skills.

Please submit CV to: Beverly Williams Point Grace PO Box 700 Grace Bay Providenciales Email: manager@pointgrace.com

The successful candidate will be highly experienced, flexible, able to form relationships quickly and able to demonstrate good judgement and strategic thinking in the execution of their duties.

Experience in the public service of a British Overseas Territory or a small independent common law jurisdiction would be a distinct advantage.

Salary: A basic salary of US$90,000 pro rata per annum, plus appropriate allowances.

The package will be negotiable based on the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits Include: Housing, telephone and travel allowances. A 15% gratuity will be paid on satisfactory completion of the contract.

Appointment: Will be subject to medical fitness and will be for a contract period of six months (with the possibility of a short extension). The successful candidate should be prepared to commence their duties before the end of February 2011.

Application Procedure: Persons interested in this position may obtain terms of reference from the Office of Public Service Management, Turks and Caicos Islands Government, Grand Turk.

Tel: +1 649 946 2801 Fax: +1 649 946 1582 E-mail: smalcolm@gov.tc

Dishwashers Dishwashers required for our food and beverage operations.

Weekend, holiday and shift work. late hours.

Wages range $5.00 to $5.50 per hour, plus service charge and tips Belongers only need apply Closing date: 31 January 2011

Kitchen Helper Point Grace is currently seeking a kitchen helper for our food and beverage operations.

Applicants wishing to apply for the kitchen helper position must have at least 2 years previous experience in a full service restaurant and be willing to work days, nights, and weekends.

Wages range $5.00 to $5.50 per hour, plus service charge and tips Belongers only need apply Closing date: 31 January 2011

Application letters along with supporting documentation should be returned on or before 14 January 2011 by email to both the following addresses:

Please apply in writing to:

smalcolm@gov.tc dave.morgan@fco.gov.uk

Beverly Williams, Managing Director, Point Grace, P.O. Box 700, Providenciales, or by email to: manager@pointgrace.com

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PHONE: (649) 946-4664 S & G CONSTRUCTION is looking to fill the following positions:

Wellancia Salon

The Sands at Grace Bay

Labourer Nail Domestic Worker

Technician

Trevor Musgrove Seeks a

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To work Monday – Saturday. Salary $5.00 per hour.

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Painter Pay- $5.00 per hour Deadline- Jan 21 ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY Interested applicants should apply by delivering, faxing (946-5198) or emailing (tsmith@thesandstc. com) a current resume to The Sands, HR Department. Deadline is January 21st 2011

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Labourer To work MondayFriday 7am-2pm.

Salary $5.00 per hour.

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LABOURER Salary starts at $5.00 per hour. Only Turks Islanders need apply

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• Require standing for long period.

• Must have basic knowledge on kitchen • Motivated individual to keep high level clean • Must be able to speak and write English clearly

Bussy

• Must have knowledge of customer service principles • Must be fluent in oral and written English • Previous experience in similar position of 3 months or longer • Must be flexible, able to work weekends, holidays and shifts

To work 6 days per week. Salary $150.00 per week.

Only Belongers or Permanent Residence need to apply Please no phone call Sunny Reef Ltd Po Box 811, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Island B.W.I

Turks & Caicos Sotheby’s International Realty

The Somerset on Grace Bay

Seeking Real Estate Sales Associate

Is currently seeking a suitably qualified individual who possess the requirements listed. The ideal candidate should possess luxury resort experience, be professional in attitude and demeanor. and must read, speak and write English fluently.

Restaurant Manager

Proven management experience in a full-service, upscale dining atmosphere required. Must be sharp, polished and professional in appearance and demeanor. Extensive wine knowledge required. Must be energetic and have the ability to anticipate and respond to the needs of guests. Strong organization skills essential. Must be very hands on with day-to-day operations, and flexible to work long hours, including nights Weekends and holidays . Strong computer skills and working knowledge of Visual One required.

Salary - $35,000 - $50,000 per annum, commensurate with education and experience.

Interested persons are requested to complete an application in person at The Somerset on Grace Bay or submit a CV by email to somersethr@thesomerset.com The closing date for applications is January 26th 2011

THE SOMERSET ON GRACE BAY

Position Available Sales Associate

Applicant must: - Have excellent customer service skills (Minimum of five years customer service experience) - Possess a positive attitude and disciplined work ethics - Be trustworthy, punctual and reliable - Be able to work with minimal supervision - Ability to achieve goals as outlined by management - Be available to work flexible hours, weekends and holidays - Be familiar with counterpoint system Applicants may submit responses to: Lelieth’s Ltd. Town Center Mall, Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands Telephone: 649-231-1729

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Salary $ 5.00 per hour.

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Sunny Reef Ltd.

UNITED CONSULTANT IMMIGRATION SERVICES On behalf of our client Benson Jackson. Is looking to hire a

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Responsibilities Include • Assist clients in the sale , purchase, letting or leasing of real estate • Introducing new clients and promoting real estate sales and new listings • Promptly notifying the Employer of the particulars of any new listing secured by the Employee, and of any potential listing or potential buyer coming to his/her attention • Performing such administrative functions as the Manager or acting Manager for the time being of the Employer (“the Manager”) may from time to time assign to the Employee • Participating in such meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences, events and functions connected with real estate • Assisting in the preparation and publication or promotional material and media • Fostering good relations with companies in the real estate business and their employees and agents • Participate as a practicing member of the Turks & Caicos Real Estate Association (TCREA) • Keeping proper and organized records of activities and of the properties with which you are associated with • Sales and listing reports • Required to work after hours and weekends as necessary Applicant Requirements • A minimum of 6 years in Real Estate Sales • Business Degree from a recognized University • Sales Training Courses • Multi Language Skills an asset • Microsoft Computer application knowledge Commission Based Remuneration.

Application Closing Date, January 31st, 2011 Please submit CV to

Joe Zahm, Turks & Caicos Sotheby’s International Realty, P.O. BOX 279 Telephone: 649-946-4474 or Fax: 649-946-4433

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Lawyer: “Baby Doc” plans to remain in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former Haitian dictator plans to remain in his Caribbean homeland even though authorities want him to leave the crisis-staggered country, one of Jean-Claude Duvalier’s lawyers said Wednesday.

Defense attorney Reynold Georges told reporters that it is Duvalier’s right to remain in Haiti, but that he is free to go. He stressed that Haiti’s government has not ordered Duvalier to return to France following his surprise return on Sunday.

“He is free to do whatever he wants, go wherever he wants,” Georges said of the once-feared strongman, known as “Baby Doc.” ‘’It is his right to live in his country ... He is going to stay.

It is his country.”

Georges said a Haitian judge who met with the 59-year-old former leader, who apparently does not have a valid Haitian passport, asked him when he planned to leave. “They want him to leave,” he insisted.

Duvalier, who assumed power in 1971 at age 19 following the death of his notorious father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, faces accusations of corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster. He returned to Haiti on Sunday evening after being exiled for nearly 25 years.

Alice Blanchet, a special adviser to Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, refused to speculate about Duvalier’s plans to remain in Haiti as it struggles to work through a dire political crisis following the problematic Nov. 28 first-round presidential election, as well as a cholera epidemic and a troubled recovery from the last year’s devastating earthquake.

“Let justice do its job, run its course. He is a citizen and no one is above the law,” she said in a Wednesday e-mail.

Haitian authorities moved toward trying Duvalier for alleged corruption and embezzlement during his brutal 15year rule by opening an investigation on Tuesday. Judges questioned him for hours behind closed doors in a court in Haiti’s capital, defense attorney Gervais Charles said.

A judge of instruction will decide whether there is enough evidence to go to trial, Charles said. The process that can take up to three months.

Haiti’s system allows for pretrial detention, but Duvalier was allowed to remain free and returned to his hotel room under police escort following the questioning. His longtime companion Veronique Roy had earlier said Duvalier expected his trip from France, where he has lived in exile, would last three days.

“If he has to leave (the country), he will ask and he will leave,” Charles said. “As of now, he doesn’t even have a passport.”

There are no signs of widespread support for Duvalier, who has spent most of his time in a high-end hotel. Demonstrations on his behalf have been relatively small by Haiti standards. More than half the nation’s

Jean-Claude Duvalier “Baby Doc” plans to remain in Haiti.

people are too young to have lived through his government.

Duvalier has been accused in the past in Haiti of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in public money and overseeing the torture and killing of political enemies. He was not in handcuffs as he arrived at a courthouse Tuesday, nor was he handcuffed when he left.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others have urged the Haitian government to arrest Duvalier for widespread abuses.

Amnesty International issued a statement praising what it called “the arrest” of Duvalier but said it was just a start.

“If true justice is to be done in Haiti, the Haitian authorities need to open a criminal investigation into Duvalier’s responsibility for the multitude of human rights abuses that were committed under his rule including torture, arbitrary detentions, rape, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions,” the group said.

Fifty-six-year-old Chal Christen, waved a flag of Duvalier’s political party — one he said he’d had stored away since the one-time “president for life” was deposed in a popular uprising and forced into exile nearly 25 years ago.

“We don’t have food, our houses collapsed; our children can’t go to school.

It’s Preval that is the dictator,” Christen said. “We want Duvalier for president.

Under him we ate well, we were safe.”

Fenel Alexi, a 31-year-old mechanic, watched the scene and denounced both Duvalier and Preval, a former anti-Duvalier activist.

“The citizens of this country have endured so much crime,” Alexi said.

“We haven’t had a president who hasn’t committed crimes.”

Robert Sterlin, a former ambassador under Duvalier who has said in recent days that he was speaking as a spokesman for the former dictator, told reporters at the scene he was shocked by the developments. “Let’s see if they put him in prison,” he said.

Duvalier assumed power in 1971 at age 19 following the death of his father, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier. The father and son presided

over one of the most brutal chapters in Haitian history, a period when a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute tortured and killed opponents. The private militia of sunglass-wearing thugs enforced the Duvalier dynasty’s absolute power and lived off extortion.

At Fort Dimanche, a fortress prison, Haitians were executed or died of malnutrition during the 19571986 Duvalier dictatorships. Ripples of pain and violence stemming from the Duvalier family’s dictatorship over 29 years still deeply scar many Haitians, including those who were forced into exile abroad.

Duvalier has also been accused of pilfering millions of dollars from public funds and spiriting them out of the country to Swiss banks, though he denies stealing from Haiti.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesman Rupert Colville said Tuesday that Duvalier’s return increases the chance that he could be charged with atrocities committed during his 15-year rule because it will be easier to bring charges in the country where the crimes occurred.

He cautioned, though, that Haiti’s fragile judicial system may be in no position to mount a case.

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a California congresswoman with long-standing interest in Haiti, said she was worried that wealthy Haitians may have promoted the return of the former dictator, hoping to benefit if he returns to power. A power vacuum is possible when Preval leaves office on Feb. 7, she said.

“Duvalier’s return raises serious questions about who in Haiti facilitated his return and what his supporters expect to gain by bringing him back,” Waters said in a statement from Washington. “It is important that we determine what role U.S. officials played, if any, in facilitating Duvalier’s return.”

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that the U.S. was surprised by Duvalier’s return. He said that the State Department was informed about Duvalier’s return about an hour before he landed at Port-au-Prince’s airport.

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BAHAMAS:

Report: Baptist minister faces trial for allegedly molesting girl NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — A Baptist minister in the Bahamas is facing charges of unlawful sexual contact with a teenage girl whose family attended his church.

A Sunday report from the Nassau Guardian says Bishop Earl Randolph Fraser has denied allegations that he carried on an unlawful sexual relationship between July 2005 and February 2006 with a 16-year-old girl he was counselling.

The newspaper says the girl alleged that she had sexual encounters dozens of times with the married minister at his church office in Nassau.

Prosecutors alleged Friday they found evidence of Fraser’s semen on his office’s carpet and assert it was from his unlawful sexual contact with the girl.

Fraser insists the accusations are false and called his accuser a “troubled young lady.”

Jamaica warns about increases in ackee poisoning KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s health minister is warning the public to take care when they prepare the popular but potentially deadly ackee fruit following an increase in poisoning cases.

Minister Rudyard Spencer says 35 people have fallen ill since last month after eating unripened ackees, the country’s national fruit.

The red-skinned fruit with golden flesh produces a compound known as

hypoglycin that can reach dangerous levels when it is picked too early and is not ripe. The toxin can cause a drop in blood sugar and vomiting, and, in rare cases, convulsions, coma and death.

Spencer said in a statement Friday that all of the poisoning cases involved ackees cooked at home. He said that the ministry will bolster a public-education campaign on ackee poisoning.

Lawyer: Haiti mum on Aristide passport request SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former lawyer for ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says the ousted leader has applied for a Haitian passport but has never heard back from his homeland’s government.

The head of the Boston-based Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti says Aristide has repeatedly requested a Haitian passport.

Brian Concannon said Wednesday

that President Rene Preval’s government “simply refuses to respond” to Aristide’s requests.

Aristide’s current Miami attorney Ira Kurzban says Aristide wants to come back to Haiti.

Aristide’s office in South Africa has not responded to requests for comment.

After being ousted in 2004, Aristide was flown into African exile aboard a U.S. plane.

JAMAICA:

PM says he is determined to revitalise long-neglected downtown of seaside capital KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s prime minister is pledging to clean up the long-neglected heart of the seaside capital.

Bruce Golding cites initiatives such as the bulldozing of thousands of makeshift vending stalls as evidence that his administration is determined to fix downtown Kingston.

On Saturday, the government opened a new bus hub that aims to ease traffic.

In a statement Sunday, Golding promised further efforts to upgrade the central market district, where thousands sell produce, clothing and other goods.

Once a bustling economic center, downtown Kingston has fallen into disrepair over the years.

Business owners say the government has not done enough to improve infrastructure, control traffic and crack down on illegal vendors.

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Regional News The officers were charged in early November with malicious wounding after they allegedly blindfolded Twyon Thomas, doused him with alcohol and set him on fire while he was in custody. Authorities said his genitals and thighs were terribly burned.

The case renewed international criticism of apparently unchecked police brutality in this South American country.

Thomas had been in custody with two other youths accused of beating to death a former governing-party official in an area just west of the capital, Georgetown.

PRico doctor charged with killing son’s friend on a $140,000 bond. He pleaded not guilty.

The doctor’s son, Alan, was shot and killed in June 2010 as he left a bar after arguing with a man about a woman, Beltran said.

Diaz and other friends had been with Torres’ son, but said they were unable to identify the suspect when he was shown to them in a police lineup, so no one was charged in the killing, Beltran said. The suspect was later killed in an unrelated shooting.

“It is a terrible situation for all those involved,” defense attorney Ramon Garay said.

“The doctor is severely emotionally affected.”

Venezuela, Ecuador mull ALBA development fund CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela and Ecuador are proposing to strengthen economic ties through the creation of a joint development fund under the aegis of a leftist regional economic bloc, Venezuela’s top diplomat said Monday.

Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said the South American countries are looking to define the fund’s objectives within the framework of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Nations of Our America, or ALBA, which Venezuela and Cuba started as a socialistoriented trade alliance in 2004.

Maduro said the fund would

be used to finance ALBA goals, including strengthening regional trade. He did not give other details such as how much money would be committed or how the fund would work.

Maduro told state-run ABN news agency he would discuss the fund with Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino on Monday in Caracas.

Meanwhile Patino said Venezuela and Ecuador should increase use of the Sucre, a virtual currency used among ALBA nations. The bloc began using the currency, which was designed to manage debts, facilitate trade and reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar, last year.

PM seeks to enforce death penalty for convicted killers amid crime wave PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The prime minister is seeking to step up Trinidad’s enforcement of the death penalty for certain types of murder as the island battles an ongoing crime wave.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar told Parliament late Friday that she believes some convicted murderers take advantage of loopholes in the current laws to avoid the death penalty.

Cuba says travel changes not enough HAVANA (AP) — Cuba said Sunday that the Obama Administration’s decision to lift some travel restrictions on students, academics and religious groups and make it easier for Americans to send money were positive steps, but not nearly enough while Washington maintains its 48-year trade embargo on the island.

The changes announced last week mean that students seeking academic credit and churches and synagogues traveling for religious purposes will be able to go to Cuba. Any U.S. international airport with proper customs and immigration facilities will be able to offer charter services to the island.

The plan will also let any American send as much as $2,000 a year to Cuban citizens who are not part of the Castro administration and are not members of the Communist Party.

Previously, only relatives could send money.

“Though the measures are positive,” Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday, “they are well below what was hoped for, have a limited reach and do not change (U.S.) policy against Cuba.”

The ministry said most of the changes simply bring U.S. policy back to where it was during the Clinton Administration, before President George W. Bush toughened restrictions. They do not alter Washington’s trade embargo, which Cuba refers to as a “blockade.”

The laws mandate that all convicted killers must be hanged within five years of their sentencing dates. The dates often expire because of the number of appeals filed.

Persad-Bissessar said she supports a bill that would close the loopholes while still guaranteeing the rights of those convicted.

The bill also proposes limiting the death penalty to defendants who have been convicted of at least two murders or of killing certain types of victims, such as trial witnesses or government officials.

A date has not been set for legislators to vote on the bill.

Opposition leader Keith Rowley told reporters his party would review the measure in upcoming days.

In 2008, legislators proposed a similar bill after

the Privy Council in London — the highest court of appeal — commuted death sentences for 52 convicted killers.

It is unclear how many people

are on death row in Trinidad, an island of 1.2 million people that reported 472 killings last year. A record 547 killings were reported in 2008.

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Police accused of torturing teen suspect released after absence of witnesses

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A pediatrician in mourning over the death of his son has been charged with murdering a young man who failed to identify a suspect in the slaying, authorities said Tuesday.

Police said Dr. Antoliano Torres Rodriguez shot 24year-old Emanuel Diaz — who had been one of his son’s best friends — as he was washing a car in their neighborhood. A friend of the victim also was shot but is expected to recover, Sgt. Higinio Beltran said.

Dr. Torres, 63, was charged late Monday with murder and attempted murder and released

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Three police officers accused of torturing a 15-yearold murder suspect by setting him on fire were released after not a single witness, including the victim, appeared in court to testify, an attorney said Saturday.

Khemraj Ramgattan, who is representing the teen on the murder charges, said that the officers were released late Friday. He said his investigative team has not been able to find the boy or his mother.

Ramgattan added that a civil lawsuit he filed against the officers is still pending.

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Hungarian PM warns EU to Cameron calls for back off, stop meddling ‘open’ Iraq inquiry

STRASBOURG, France – The Hungarian prime minister told European Union politicians Wednesday not to meddle in Hungarian politics while his country holds the EU’s presidency, warning that the entire EU would suffer.

But many legislators at the European Parliament did exactly that, accusing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of undermining democratic ideals in an EU nation and starting to become, as one lawmaker put it, a “European Chavez” — a reference to Venezuela’s mercurial leader Hugo Chavez.

“How does it feel to lead a country away from democracy and toward a dictatorship?” asked Austrian Socialist Joerg Leichtfried, making the kind of remark Orban called “a slap in the face of the Hungarian people.”

It was a raucous and rather unpromising start to the eastern European nation’s six-month EU presidency. Coming in for particular criticism were Hungary’s new media law, which was criticised as stifling free expression, and Orban himself, who was accused of trying to undermine democratic ideals in a European Union nation.

“This debate in the plenary was almost like holding it on Mars,” Orban said after a caustic confrontation in parliament centering on the media law.

At the start of Orban’s speech to kick off the six-month presidency, some EU legislators covered their mouths with duct tape and held banners reading “Censored.”

In a debate marked by raised voices and finger-pointing, Socialist lawmakers demanded that Orban immediately withdraw the media law, while the Greens questioned his democratic credentials.

Under the EU’s Byzantine institutional rules, each state gets a sixmonth stint leading the EU presidency, often giving it unmatched exposure on the world stage. The nation at the helm also has a huge impact on deciding the EU’s political agenda.

Hungary’s turn began Jan. 1, and many fear it will be weighed down by domestic issues. Liberal ALDE leader Guy Verhofstadt called the media law “the elephant in the room.”

Orban said Hungary would live up to the EU challenge if domestic politics, where he wields a two-thirds majority through his conservative Fidesz party, were left to him.

“If you mix up the two, obviously I am ready to fight,” he told the European Parliament’s plenary session. “It won’t just be detrimental or damaging to Hungary alone but detrimental and damaging to the EU as a whole.”

He said his electoral success was now working against him. “I should have thought about that earlier.

We should have maybe avoided a landslide victory but I could not stop

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that lawmakers unhappy about the decision to withhold Iraqrelated documents from the public should write to their author, former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The documents are notes between Blair and former U.S. President George W. Bush made during the runup to the Iraq war. Britain’s top civil servant has ruled that the documents cannot be declassified even though the chief of an inquiry into the Iraq war wants them made public.

Cameron told Parliament that it would be improper for a sitting prime minister to get involved in the decision to release a predecessor’s papers but he called for the Iraq Inquiry to be as open and comprehensive as possible.

Blair was due to testify before the Iraq Inquiry on Friday.

On Wednesday, the inquiry released evidence from Blair’s then private secretary, Matthew Rycroft, who said that Blair’s private letters to Bush on Iraq were considered so sensitive that he had to remove reference to them from the official record.

Rising rivers swamp another Australian town MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities told townspeople in Australia’s southeast to flee homes with three days of supplies Wednesday as a surging river threatened another community in a flooding crisis that has devastated the country’s mining industry.

Up to 1,500 homes in Kerang, in the north of Victoria State, could be affected if the Lodden River rises any further. The flooding in Victoria

follows weeks of massive flooding in northeastern Queensland, which swamped two-thirds of the giant state, paralysed several mines and left 30 people dead.

One of the victims, a 13-year-old boy, was buried alongside his mother Wednesday after becoming a national hero for insisting that rescuers first save his younger brother when their family car was gripped by a raging torrent of water.

European parliament members protest as Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, unseen, delivers his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Jan. 19 2011.

the people.”

The EU’s Executive Commission has said Hungary’s media law might not meet all of its standards for a free and fair press. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the law could undermine pluralism.

The law, passed last month, greatly expands the state’s power to monitor and penalise private news outlets. It allows a hand-picked authority to fine newspapers and broadcast outlets up to nearly $1 million (euro760,000) for reports it considers unbalanced or harmful to minors.

Indian PM announces government reshuffle

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s embattled prime minister shuffled his Cabinet on Wednesday, juggling portfolios and replacing the sports minister after a corruption scandal involving last year’s Commonwealth Games.

While some had speculated that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would use the shake-up to restore confidence in a government rocked by a string of scandals, the changes were seen as relatively minor.

Singh left the top ministries untouched, including finance, defense, external affairs and home affairs, while shifting some lower-level ministers and filling several vacancies.

M.S. Gill was moved from

the sports ministry to the statistics ministry, while Kapil Sibal remained in charge of the telecommunications ministry that he has led since his predecessor, Andimuthu Raja, resigned in November.

Raja has been accused of causing the government to lose as much as $36 billion in potential revenue in the 2008 sale of cellular phone spectrum.

Praful Patel — a rising star in the ruling Congress party — was made a full Cabinet minister, as were Sriprakash Jaiswal and Salman Khurshid, boosting the number of Cabinet ministers to 36.

Several junior ministers were also given small promotions.

A group of students from the Royal College of Art pose for photographs wearing Kate Middleton style engagement outfits they made themselves and engagement rings outside Buckingham Palace in London, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011.

13 Kate Middleton wannabes gather at palace LONDON (AP) — Call it a royal art project. With 100 days to go before the royal wedding, 13 young women have decided to mark the occasion by dressing as Kate Middleton and gathering at the gates outside Buckingham Palace.

The unannounced arrival of the wannabes wearing identical copies of the dark blue dress Middleton wore when her engagement to Prince

William was revealed gave tourists a jolt Wednesday. Their “Kate look” included replicas of her diamond and sapphire engagement ring.

The women are students at the Royal College of Art in London who clearly enjoy making a splash.

The 29-year-old Briony Clarke, remaining in character as Middleton says “I thought it was time I got with my people.”

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World News

Russian president backs modern Palestinian state

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday pledged his nation’s continued support in helping the Palestinians acquire a modern, unified and sovereign state.

Medvedev, who was in Amman for talks with King Abdullah II, also found time on the final day of his twoday trip to the region to take a dip in the Jordan River in commemoration of Jesus’ baptism.

In a statement released by the royal palace after his meeting with Abdullah,

Medvedev was quoted as telling the king that Moscow “will do its utmost to achieve a permanent peace in the Middle East.”

The Russian leader’s visit comes during a time of deadlock in the U.S.-led Mideast peace efforts.

Moscow is a member of the so-called Quartet of Mideast peace makers — along with the U.S., the EU and the U.N. Medvedev met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday in the West Bank, where he gave Palestinian aspirations a boost.

Sri Lankan children look out of their house submerged in Kartivu, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. The United Nations said it will launch an emergency appeal for funds to help those affected by floods that have ravaged Sri Lanka’s east for days. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

UN seeks $51M to help Sri Lanka recover from flood COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) —The United Nations plans to seek $51M to help Sri Lankans recover from deadly floods that affected up to 1 million people.

U.N. Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg will launch the appeal during a three-day visit to the island that started Wednesday.

The U.N. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs said in a report Tuesday that the world body and the Sri Lankan government have identified agriculture and livelihood, shelter, nutrition, sanitation and education as priority needs.

The assistance will be channeled to U.N. agencies and to local and international aid groups to help those affected, the U.N. office said.

The disaster killed 43

people and left four missing.

More than 300,000 people were displaced at the peak of the flooding, and many others face food shortages and the threat of waterborne diseases.

More than 5,700 homes were destroyed and 23,000 others damaged, the country’s Disaster Management Centre says. Vast rice fields ready for harvesting were inundated and thousands of cattle, goats and poultry were lost, severely affecting livelihoods.

The report said the World Food Programme estimates about 500,000 people are in need of help to prevent hunger and in making a long-term recovery.

It said 67,000 wells are contaminated and 11,000 are destroyed, putting an estimated half million people at risk of waterborne diseases.

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Obama hosts Hu as world powers seek common ground WASHINGTON – Touching on a key source of tension between the U.S. and China, President Barack Obama greeted Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday by stressing the need for nations to observe universal human rights. Hu responded with a call for both countries to respect each other’s core interests.

Obama welcomed Hu to the White House with full honours and a red-carpet greeting, marking the start of daylong meetings to address trade, security and human rights issues that have been the cause of past strain between the two powers.

“History shows that societies are more harmonious, nations are more successful and the world is more just when the rights and responsibilities of all nations and all peoples are upheld including the universal rights of every human being,” Obama said in his remarks.

China’s human rights policies have caused strains between the rival powers, with the U.S. calling on China to release jailed dissidents, including Nobel peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who was prevented from attending the Dec. 10 prize ceremony in the Norwegian capital.

Obama’s tone was nonetheless friendly, welcoming China’s rise as a

global economic force. “We have an enormous stake in each other’s success,” he said.

Hu said the relationship between the two counties has grown to one of “strategic significance and global influence.”

But he pointedly added: “China and the United States should respect each other’s choice of development paths and each other’s core interests.”

By “core interests” Hu was referring to issues on which China will brook no challenge, such as its claim to the currently self-governing island of Taiwan, which split from the mainland amid civil war in 1949, and to Tibet, which is already under China’s control. U.S. leaders, including Obama, have irked China repeatedly by meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

The state visit marked Hu’s first trip to the U.S. since 2006, when his arrival ceremony was marred by protocol blunders including an outburst from a protester from the Falun Gong spiritual sect. No such missteps occurred Wednesday.

It follows an up and down two years in which an assertive China initially coldshouldered the U.S. on climate change, did little to reel in

President Barack Obama welcomes China’s President Hu Jintao during a state arrival on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.

its unpredictable ally North Korea and responded limply to U.S. pleas to mitigate trade imbalances. For its part, the U.S. riled China by selling

arms to Taiwan and inviting the Dalai Lama to the White House.

Both sides are now setting a more positive tone.

Portugal sees high demand, lower cost in debt sale LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Debt-stressed Portugal raised €750 million ($1 billion) in a Treasury bill sale on Wednesday, with a lower interest rate and high demand reflecting an easing in tension about the country’s financial woes.

Many analysts expect Portugal to eventually seek a bailout like Greece and Ireland, though the government insists it can restore fiscal health without help.

The government debt agency said the yield on the 12-month bills was 4.03 percent, down sharply from 5.28 percent on the same bills last month. Demand was three times the amount on offer.

The country has experienced no difficulty raising money so far, despite concern about its debt load and meager growth.

Portugal needs to raise up to €20 billion from financial markets this year.

The fall in the cost of

Portugal’s funding was more good news for the minority government, which is scrambling to get the country’s finances back on an even keel amid nervousness about the wider eurozone’s fiscal soundness.

European leaders are keen to prevent market contagion, especially preventing jitters about Portugal spreading to much bigger Spain, which would be much more expensive to rescue.

Ministers from the 17 euro nations meeting in Brussels

earlier this week discussed boosting the size and powers of the region’s bailout fund as the bloc tries to come up with a more comprehensive solution to the debt crisis.

Final decisions are expected over the coming months.

UK watchdog: Coke’s Vitaminwater claims misleading LONDON (AP) — Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be accurately described as nutritious, Britain’s ad regulator ruled Wednesday, ordering brand owner Coca-Cola to stop running publicity carrying the claim.

The Advertising Standards Authority said Coca-Cola broke ad rules when it described its popular line of flavored water products as “delicious and nutritious” in an ad last summer, explaining that consumers wouldn’t

expect a drink marketed as nutritious to have between four and five teaspoons of added sugar.

The Coca-Cola Co. said Wednesday that it was disappointed by the ruling, although it won’t face any further action as long as it doesn’t run the ad again.

The ruling is little more than a regulatory rap on the knuckles, but it underlines trans-Atlantic concerns about the way in which Vitaminwater is marketed.

In the United States,

consumers and health advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest are suing over claims that Coca-Cola is using deceptive labeling to sell the drinks. In July, a district court judge wrote that Vitaminwater’s use of the word “healthy” violated Food and Drug Administration labeling rules.

Vitaminwater is made by New York-based Glaceau, which was bought by CocaCola in a $4.1 billion deal in 2007.

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Contact 941-3212

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ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY

Local firm seeks an associate attorney with at least 5 years with extensive experience in conveying commercial residential development work also corporate and commercial law experience in new condominium sales, re-sales, residential and commercial property an advantage applicant must be an excellent communicator willing to work long hours including weekends and holidays subject to experience salary commencing at US$55K Please submit applications to the Manager, P.O. Box 97, Caribbean Place, Providenciales, Fax: 649-946-4564 with a copy to the Department of Labour, Providenciales

ACA/ACCA/CA An opportunity exists for a fully qualified accountant who possesses a minimum of three years professional experience gained within a “Big Four” public accounting firm.

Salary ranges from US$40,000.00 to US$65,000.00 per annum.

If you wish to be considered for this opportunity please apply in confidence by sending details of your experience and qualifications to either:

KPMG Ltd. or P.O. Box 357 The Village at Grace Bay Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

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The Labour Commissioner, Labour Office Butterfield Square Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

Or fax your particulars to 946-4619

FAX: (649) 946-4661

Is seeking an applicant to fill the position of

Martial Arts / Fitness Instructor Specializing in weaponless defensive tactics and general fitness techniques.

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing high quality martial arts training to clients with a specific focus in self defense and general fitness programs both on and offsite including: • Weaponless Defensive tactics for Law Enforcement • Self – Defense • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Required qualification and experience: • 10 years instructor experience with Gracie Jiu- Jitsu • 5 years of Electronics Maintenance, repair and installation • 15 years Martial Arts Experience • 10 years of Law Enforcement Instructor • 10 years in Women’s Self-Defense Instructor Salary compensation: Subject to experience Deadline for submission of applicants is January 28th 2011 Submit to:

Graceway IGA Supermarket main office complex or email: hr@gracewayiga.com Please Note: Only short-listed applicants will be contacted to attend interviews.

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January 22 - 28, 2011 FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Cook PARALEGAL

Arthur Delancy seeks

OFFICE MANAGER/

Part-time position for a Cook/ Housekeeper. Twenty hours per week must be able to work weekends, nights and holidays salary $10.00 per hour must have own transportation.

Cleaner Needed to work 8 hours per week salary $7.00 per hour.

Contact 331-1809 Closing date for applications is January 21st, 2011 Belongers only need apply

Required for law office in Providenciales.

Candidate must be able to do all accounting functions to trial balance and be experienced in real estate, corporate, commercial and security work. A minimum of 10 years experience in a fast paced professional environment is required. All replies held in strictest confidence.

Apply to Skippings Rutley, P.O. Box 796, Providenciales

6262

3 Domestic

Workers 2 Labourers

needed To work 5 days

per week. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 243-4272 6344

To work Monday – Saturday 8am5pm. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 244-5200

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TURKS AND CAICOS NATIONAL INSURANCE BOARD (TCINIB)

JOB VACANCY

The Turks and Caicos Islands National Insurance Board wishes to invite suitably qualified individuals for consideration for appointment to the post of Director CEO at its Grand Turk Head Office.

DIRECTOR – TCINIB

Duties and Responsibilities

The Director of the Turks and Caicos Islands National Insurance Board has primary responsibility for the achievement of the strategic goals and objectives of the Turks and Caicos Islands National Insurance Board. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the successful candidate will lead a team of senior managers in executing pre-determined strategies designed to consolidate and grow the assets of the TCINIB. The incumbent will be specifically accountable for, among other things, the effective execution of investment decisions, the efficient overseeing of the core national insurance sub-functions, the marketing and branding of the TCINIB, the broad human resource management challenges and the financial management and financial reporting requirements of the TCINIB. Requirements The successful candidate must be a strategic thinker capable of leading a multidisciplinary team of dedicated senior managers operating in the disciplines of insurance operations, finance, investment, marketing, finance and accounting and human resources management. He/She must have a sound knowledge of national insurance and social security operations and must be capable of combining this with an excellent understanding of financial management and investment management principles, practices and challenges. The Turks and Caicos Islands National Insurance Board will consider applicants who possess no less than a Master’s Degree preferably in Business and at least ten (10) years related experience at a senior management level.

The successful candidate will be appointed on a contractual basis for an initial period of two (2) years, the renewal of which will be subject to demonstrable performance during the initial contract period. The compensation and benefits which attend this position will be commensurate with the qualifications, experience and potential of the successful applicant. Salary will be in the Salary Range of Executive VIII $95,551 to $110,000.00 per annum.

Your application along with detailed curriculum vitae must be addressed in a sealed envelope to reach no later than February 15, 2011 to:

The Secretary Turks and Caicos Islands National Insurance Board Misick Building Church Folly Grand Turk Turks and Caicos BWI.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for the position of

TERMINAL MANAGER At the Providenciales International Airport.

Principle Function The Providenciales International Airport Terminal Manager reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and is accountable for ensuring that a proactive and integrated approach is adopted towards leading and managing the Terminal so as to ensure compliance with customer, safety, regulatory and economic objectives of the Airports Authority. This includes but is not limited to landside, curbside and car parks.

Core Competencies: This position requires understanding and knowledge of ICAO standard and recommended practices with emphasis on Annex 9 – Facilitation, and IATA, Tourism Marketing and or Accommodation Management.

The successful candidate is expected to possess the following skills and expertise: • Be proficient and conversant in airport operations and procedures • Ability to provide vision and leadership in a changing environment • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Excellent interpersonal and conflict management skills • Ability to work under pressure, independently and in a team.

• Be proficient and conversant with marketing and tourism promotions Qualifications: Either: (a) a Degree or equivalent in Management from a recognized institution with a minimum three (3) years appropriate management experience or (b) a Diploma or equivalent in Management from a recognized institution with a minimum five (5) years appropriate management experience.

Preference will be given to degrees, certifications and experience in Aviation related, and Tourism and Hospitality fields.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications in the range $38,400 - $48,000 per annum with additional allowances Full details of duties and responsibilities can be obtained from the TCIAA offices or via email request.

All resumes should be sent to

Mrs. Claudia Munnings Executive Manager - Human Resources, Training & Development Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority Aviation House, Providenciales Email: claudiamunnings@tciairports.com

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

BUTTERFIELD GOLD GROUP OF COMPANIES

POSITIONS AVAILABLE Island Pride Supermarket Two (2) Butchers

Individual must have a minimum of 14 years experience in high volume self service meat department with a full knowledge of all cuts of beef, pork, veal, lamb, poultry and deli meats.

Must also be self motivated with high productivity being able to work with little supervision and must work well with others. Be willing to supervise and train others; also be able to take inventory and assist with ordering levels Wages: commensurate with experience starting from $7.50 per hour

One (1) Supervisor Duties includes

• Assist in supervision of inventory received • Verification of quality, condition • Set up and maintain product rotation • Assist in computer data entry • Inventory related matters • Assist in Supervision of staff within department Job involves substantial manual labour related work.

Individual must posse’s minimum of 5 (five) CXC subjects or equivalent, have at least 8 (eight) previous years experience in quality control and be able to work with little supervision.

Salary: commensurate with experience starting from $2,000.00 per month

Danny’s Restaurant One (1) Cook

The applicant must be able to cook native and Jamaican dishes.

Must be willing to work long hours including Saturdays Wages: commensurate with experience starting from $7.00 per hour

One (1) Waitress

All aspects of waitressing Wages: commensurate with experience starting from $7.00 per hour

Island Pride Fuel One (1) Domestic Worker

For general cleaning & other domestic duties

Requirements for all Applicants: • Hardworking team player with excellent people skills.

• Willingness to work, weekends and holidays as required.

• In addition to the performance of the essential functions employees may able required to perform supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the supervisor.

Only Belongers apply for these positions. Application forms available from Butterfield Gold Human Resource Department. Only applicants selected for interview will be notified.

Submit applications to by January 15, 2011 to: Butterfield Gold Ltd., Human Resource Department Town Center Mall Providenciales Tel: 649-946-4211

FAX: (649) 946-4661

ALCHEMY LIMITED is seeking an experienced

Private Contract Chef

Requirements: • 8 years fine dining restaurant and in house catering experience • Culinary Arts Degree • Face to face client interaction • Must be versed in multi-cultural fine dining cuisine • Through knowledge of food safety health requirements a must • Through knowledge of food costing and purchasing • Menu development skills • Through understanding of food allergies and dietary restrictions • All applicants must be hardworking self motivated employees able to work standing up to 10 hours at a time • Must also be willing to work varied shifts, nights, weekends and holidays as required by booking Starting salary $1,600.00 per month plus gratuity All interested applicants should email resume or C.V. to alchemylimited@gmail.com only qualified applicants will be considered for this position

IMMEDIATE OPENING THE SANDS/ HARTLING GROUP

VICE PRESIDENT OF RESORT ASSETS Requirements: • University degree in business administration or related discipline • Proven track record of managing and overseeing existing resort and property development group • Excellent leadership and public speaking skills • Must have at least 5 years in Condo Resort Management • Strong analytic abilities with capacity to conceptualize, design and implement initiatives • Ability to motivate management team and others to meet and exceed company goals Duties Include: • Overseeing all operations, marketing, quality assurance, initiatives, profitability, asset management and general performance for the group • Ensuring that management, marketing and financial strategies and procedures are consistent with and achieve group goals • Assisting with development and implementation of group business plan • Providing strategic direction and management of group interests, long range planning and new business development • Consistently delivering accurate forecasting projections for area of responsibility and implementing effective adjustments as required to ensure profit integrity ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY

Interested applicants should apply by delivering, faxing (946-5198) or emailing (tsmith@ thesandstc.com) a current resume to The Sands, HR Department. Deadline is January 24th 2011.

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DSR Builders Ltd Is looking for a

Painter To work MondayFriday 8am-5pm and Saturday’s 7am-12pm. Salary $6.00per hour

Sharmaine Malcolm

ERB CONSTRUCTION

live in housekeeper

Providenciales Telephone: 946-8386

Wanted Salary $800.00 per month.

Contact 242-5334 or 9413442 Closing Date January 23 ,2011

FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Please Contact

6319

SENIOR TRUST & ESTATE ATTORNEY/COMPLIANCE OFFICER CONTINENTAL TRUST CORPORATION (TCI) LTD. is seeking to employ a qualified senior Trust & Estate Lawyer to serve as Managing Director of the Company as well as Group Compliance Officer of the MORRIS, COTTINGHAM Group of Financial Services Companies.

The successful applicant must have a Bachelor of Laws Degree, a minimum of ten (10) years professional experience in and fully versant in all relevant aspects of international Trust Law and practice. The candidate must also be a self-motivated achiever with good leadership skills and the ability to supervise and communicate effectively. Exposure to and extensive experience in Anti-Money Laundering compliance and reporting issues is essential.

The successful candidate will report directly to the Directors of the Company and the Managing Director of the MORRIS, COTTINGHAM Group and will be expected to undertake such duties and responsibilities, including advising clients on domestic and international Trust and Estate Planning matters, assisting in the marketing and promotion of the Group’s professional services generally and development of the Group’s Professional Trustee business. A considerable amount of client contact and exposure to a wide variety of offshore financial services, as well as challenging ad hoc project and business consultancy work would be encountered. Overseas, as well as some domestic, travel will from time to time be required.

A three year contract will initially be offered with an imminent to immediate starting date that may be extended in satisfactory circumstances. The salary level on commencement will be negotiable CONTINENTAL TRUST CORPORATION (TCI) LTD. BRIEF PROFILE CONTINENTAL TRUST CORPORATION (TCI) LTD. is a Licenced Professional Trustee, based on the Capital Island of Grand Turk, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, that specializes in the provision of professional trustee services to a wide range of private international clients. It is also part of the MORRIS, COTTINGHAM Group of financial services companies, in affiliation with a network of associate firms worldwide in all aspects of international financial services.

Interested persons must address their application in writing to the following:

The Managing Director Morris, Cottingham Wilma House Hibiscus Square, Pond Street P.O. Box 156, Grand Turk Turks and Caicos Islands E-mail: mcal-gdt@tciway.tc or Fax: 649-946-2503 Suitably qualified Belongers need only apply

242-5448

6311

PHONE: (649) 946-4664

January 22 - 28, 2011

Helicopter pilot required Must be FAA Part 135 certified, must be current on AS355F2 multi engine turbine helicopter.

Must be commercial instrument rated with min 10000hrsT/T.

Contact Mark @ 2468989 or email resume to mkemp@ewheli.com.

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MASON Salary starts at $10 - 12.00 per hour. Only Turks Islanders need apply

6342

HAIRDRESSER

NEEDED Must have experience as a hairdresser. Salary $250.00 per week.

Email info@misickstanbrok. tc or

Fax: 649-946-4734

HELP WANTED For New Cafe ASAP 1 Cafe Operator 1 Waitress/Assistant

required for a food and beverage operation.

Weekend, holidays. Must be able to work with little or no supervision.

Minimum of 5 years experience in the first instance and 2 years in the second, in related industry is required.

Belongers only need apply.

Salary Negotiable.

Career Opportunities Grace Bay Club is looking for candidates that have most of the requirements listed along with an outgoing professional manner. They love to work with different types of people, meet challenges with a positive attitude and live the standards of our organization.

Their leadership style balances a commitment to people and their development with business/financial accountability and delivers a consistently exceptional guest experience.

Food & Beverage Manager Requirements: • At least 5 years of 5 star Food & Beverage experience. Caribbean experience considered an asset.

• At least 5 years five star restaurant management experience.

• Degree in hospitality desirable.

• International experience and multi-lingual to assist our International clientele would be an asset.

• Knowledge of fine wines.

• Energetic, positive visionary leader, dedicated to motivating and developing team members.

• Must be competent with a PC and Micros experience is an asset.

• Assists with strategy, budgeting, cost management and delivering on objectives.

• Exceptional communication and customer service skills and lives the standard of the organization.

Salary Range: Commensurate based on qualification and experience Interested persons can contact our Human Resources Department no later than January 31, 2011

@ (649) 946-5050 Ext. 1050 Email: veronica.clare@gracebayclub.com Fax: (649) 946-5758 P.O. Box 128 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Is looking for a

Labourer To work 5 days per week salary $125.00 per week.

Contact 231-0121

KENNETH HALL

HOUSEMAN

Is looking to employ a

LABOURER DOMESTIC

Required for inside and outside cleaning duties: some heavy lifting

Domestic

Hours will vary depending on occupancy levels evening and weekend shifts will be part of the schedule applicants must be able to speak, read and write English to a level that will enable communication with guests police clearance required for all applicants. Salary $6.00 per hour.

Email to alliedmanagement@usa.net or 946-5866

Worker To work 6 days per week. Salary $150.00 per week.

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GRETLE DEAN

LAWRENCE CAMPBELL

SPLASH ADVENTURES Is seeking a

Is looking for a

Domestic

Scuba Diving Instructor/ Kayak Guide Applicant Requirements: • 2 years experience as a kayak guide • PADI Scuba Instructor (teaching status) • PADI EFR Instructor (teaching status) • Must be willing to work weekends and holidays • Current STCW 95 • Must be able to work 6 days per week Salary starts at $100.00 per day Forward resumes to splash@express.tc Belongers need only apply

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MAGASANI ATELIER

Worker To work 2 days per week. Salary $5.50 per hour.

Contact 231-6285

Contact 341-0451 or 244-4306 6298

Needed should be able to work 5 days per week including holidays if needed.

Salary $250.00 – 275.00 per week. Must have experience in house cleaning services and labour work.

Send resumes to P.O. Box 954

Lecturers Needed

Turks and Caicos Institute of Professional Studies is seeking full time and part-time Lecturers in the following areas:

• Intro to HR • Intro to Business • Hospitality • Principles of Mgt. • English as a Second

Language • Psychology • Business Communications • Computer Application

Please submit applications no later than Tuesday January 27th, 2011 to info@tcips.com

Leon Williams

Live In

& UPHOLSTERY

WORKER

Interested applicants must posses at least a Bachelors in the related area graduate degree preferred, 2 years experience teaching at College level and experience with online learning.

Salary commensurate with experience.

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6313

January 22 - 28, 2011

Seeks one

Domestic Domestic worker/assistant Is looking for a

Worker Contact 241-9105

6338

To work 5 days per week. Salary $5.50 per hour.

Kindly respond to: A. Chan Jon Chu Town Center Mall, Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands. Telephone (649) 231-1729

Contact 243-3443

6320

Is looking to fill the following positions:

Is looking for a

To work 3 days per week.

Salary $150.00 per week.

6304

To work Monday –Friday 8am5pm. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 241-7557

P Y H BEAUTY SALON

MANDY THOMPSON

Labourer

Gardener

@@Must be very trust worthy and reliable @@Applicant must be of excellent character and work ethics. @@Be able to work independently. @@Be willing to work flexible hours @@Must be the holder of a current Turks & Caicos drivers licence

1 Domestic Worker

To work 5 days per week.

Salary $5.00 per hour

MASON needed Must be able to work 6 days per week.

Including holidays if needed. Salary $350.00 0 $400.00 per week. Must have 3 years experience in masonry. Belongers preferred.

Send resume to P.O. Box 954

6314

2 Barber

To work 6 days per week.

Salary $6.00 per hour

1 Labourer

To work 5 days per week.

Salary $5.50 per hour.

1 Security Officer

To work 6 days per week.

Salary $7.00 per hour

Contact 245-7282

LABOURER

NEEDED To do maintenance.

Must be able to work 5 days per week. Salary $7.00 per hour.

Email info@misickstanbrok.tc or fax: 649-946-4734

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES BELINDA CARTER

Is currently looking to employ the following person:

Is seeking to employ a

Skilled Worker/

Labourer

To work 5 days per week salary $6.00 per hour

Contact 241-8432 6272

WANTED

DOMESTIC WORKER $200.00 PER WEEK, Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm CALL: 231-2972

One Labourer

Labourer

Who will be responsible for the daily maintenance of the building and its surrounding and any other duty assigned must be able to drive and work with little or no supervision.

Must be able to work weekend.

Salary $5.50 per hour.

Contact 244-9508

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Location

Title No. 50500/98, Whitby, North Caicos, comprising 4.87 acres. The subject property is beach front, raw land appropriate for commercial development. The property is accessed via the main asphalt paved road running East-West across North Caicos. This commercial beach front property is adjacent to the St. Charles, a Condominium Development located on the popular commercial beach stretch in Whitby, North Caicos, with stunning views over the coral reef.

Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Ashwood Leon Forbes

Approximate Area

4.87 acres jointly

Deadline for application is January 28th, 2011.

Salary is negotiable

Tile Layer

Truck Driver

To drive a garbage truck from Monday thru Saturday 8am5pm salary $7.00 per hour

Mechanic

To work on company’s car from 8am-5pm Monday thru Saturday salary $8.00 per hour.

contact 241-9474

contact 244-8584 CARIBBEAN BEER & SPIRITS

Labourer Is looking for a

To work Monday thru Saturday from 8am-5pm salary $5.00 per hour

Meridian Mortgage Corporation Ltd. as Chargee, pursuant to its charge and the Registered Land Ordinance, hereby gives notice that it will cause to be sold the property listed below by Private Treaty.

Salary $6.00 per hour

Must be able to work 5 days per week.

Contact 243-4688

Labourer

Notice Of Sale

By Private Treaty

Painter Salary $10.00 per hour

Is looking for a

CALL 946-4664 OR EMAIL tcnews@tciway.tc

Is looking to fill the following positions:

Mechanic

Needed to engage in general duties around the yard. To work from 7am3pm Monday thru Friday.

KENDAL THOMAS

ADVERTISING DEADLINE FOR ALL ADS IS 5:00 PM WEDNESDAY

CASTILLO CONSTRUCTION

Salary $6.00 per hour

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ARCHITECTURE WOODWORK

FAX: (649) 946-4661

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PHONE: (649) 946-4664

January 22 - 28, 2011

Must be willing to work six (6) days per week must be trustworthy and reliable salary $6.00 per hour hours are from 8:00am – 4:00pm some extra hours maybe required.

Contact Anthony between the hours of 9:00am – 3:00pm at telephone #946-4536 or Fax: 946-4871

Carib Glass & Supplies Ltd Is seeking an

Accounts Manger/ Stock Controller To work at their premises on Leeward Highway.

@@ The suitable applicant will have a strong background in the use of Quick Books Accounting, as well as Microsoft and Excel, specific glass calculation software applications. @@ We need a person who can implement and oversee the upkeep of a stock control system, specifically for glass, and who has extensive knowledge o the glass industry with a minimum of 5 years experience in a similar position. @@ Duties will include but are not specific to, handling customer and contractor enquiries, dealing with shipping/importation of goods Liaising between client and workshop to install products onsite, dealing with purchase and sale orders, keeping accounting software updated on a daily basis and issuing month and year end figures to trial balance as well as all other accounting aspects as required. @@ The commencing salary will be $10 .00 per hour, depending upon experience and the successful applicant will be expected to work through holidays and weekends as required.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION ARE AVAILABLE BY REQUEST, FROM MERIDIAN TRUST COMPANY LTD.

Closing date applications, including a full resume and at least 3 trade references, to be presented to

Meridian House P.O. Box 599 Caribbean Place Leeward Highway Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands, B.W.I

The Manager, Carib Glass & Supplies limited, Glass Shack Building, Leeward Highway, by no later than 31st January 2011.

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Tel. (649) 941-3082 Fax (649) 941-3223 6344

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

General Manager/ Managing Director

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Domestic Worker

$5.50 per hour Contact Martha- 243-4393

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS INVESTMENT AGENCY (TCInvest)

6391

Send Applications Ms. Trevanna Cooke

is looking for…

Contact 946-4694

The Turks and Caicos Islands Investment Agency (TCInvest) wishes to invite suitably qualified individuals for consideration for appointment to the post of Financial Controller at its Grand Turk Head Office.

To work out of the Companies Grand Turk Operation.

• She is require to have 3 years janitorial cleaning experience.

• Wage starts at $5.00 per hour.

• The successful applicant will be required to work morning and nights, but no more than 40 hrs per week.

3 Queens Restaurant

Contact 241-2886

Duties include: washing utensils, cleaning and any other duties that may be assigned. Must be willing to work with no supervision, must be able to work holidays and weekends 5:30am-3pm. Salary $5.50 per hour.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Domestic worker

$5.50 per hour Contact 941-4100 or Email- hortonrealty@tciway.tc

per week. Salary $6.00 per hour

6394

Contact 946-8550

Is seeking to employ a

Domestic Worker

Is looking for a

Cosmetologist Worker Receptionist To work 5 days To work 6 days

Executive Cleaning Services, Ltd.

is looking for…

TOP OF THE COVE DELI

Domestic

per week. Salary $8.00 per hour.

Contact 431-4022

Horton Realty

Is looking for a

Is looking for a

Required for complex tour operations. Candidate must reside in Grand Turk and have the following experience and expertise: at least seven (7) years experience in cruise ship and shore excursion operations; ability to generate and interpret financial reports; QuickBooks, Excel, Word, Publisher and Power Point; excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience in negotiating with vendors, government agencies and cruise lines; possess a keen understanding of margins, managerial accounting and budgeting; tour product development; tour guide training and human resources. Salary commensurate with experience.

POB 366, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Willy’s Barber Shop

West Bay Club

6374

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direct supervision of the Chief Executive Officer, the Financial Controller is responsible for managing the accounting, finance, personnel, administration and information systems of the Agency and performing the necessary functions as related to these areas. This position is a critical part of the Executive Management Team and the incumbent must: • Participate in the strategic planning process of the Agency by developing a proactive manner the financial strategy of the Agency.

• Manages the accounting functions of the Agency.

• Provide support to the Banking Division to ensure that the loan management system is operating effectively and efficiently.

• Manages the information system.

• Ensures that adequate systems are in place for maintaining effective human resources management functions such as staff performance appraisal and reward systems, human resource development programs and effective communication systems.

• Ensure that adequate systems are developed and maintained to ensure that office administrative procedures are executed efficiently and cost effectively.

• Performs other related duties as required, including such things as business plans for use by management in raising new lines of credit for the Agency from private and public sources. The functions of Finance and Accounting, Personnel, Administration and Information systems are all expected to make significant demands on the managerial capabilities of the successful candidate.

REQUIREMENTS

The successful candidate must have a CMA/CGA/ACCA/CPA or any other internationally recognized professional accounting qualification. A minimum of five (5) years working experience as an Accountant or related field and at least three (3) years of management experience and should have a sound knowledge of computerized accounting software and electronic data processing especially as it relates to the operations of a financial institution. Knowledge of the CLARETI Banking systems will be an asset.

The successful candidate will be appointed on a contractual basis for an initial period of 2 years. The compensation of benefits which attend this position will be commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Your application along with detailed curriculum vitae must be addressed in a sealed envelope to reach no later than February 15, 2011 to:

The Chief Executive Officer Turks & Caicos Island Investment Agency (TCInvest) Hon. L. Headley Durham Bldg., P.O. Box 105 Church Folly, Grand Turk Turks and Caicos Islands or email acooper-grant@tcinvest.tc.

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January 22 - 28, 2011

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

FINBAR GRANT Is looking for a

To work Monday thru Friday salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 245-4161

Martinez Auto Repairs

Kevin Taylor

HARTMAN HANDFIELD

Is currently looking to employ 2 experienced certified

Is looking for a

Is looking for a

Labourer

FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Landscaper To work 5 days

Labourer

per week salary $5.00 per hour

To work 5 days per week. Salary $6.00 per hour.

Contact 241-4061

Contact 331-4417

6354

6365

TECHNICIAN Company Requires

Technician To work on office & financial equipment

Financial Controller

Main Purpose of Job: To develop and maintain all necessary financial controls, systems and processes to ensure the efficient and effective management of the company's finances and compliance as per standard, company and statutory requirements.

Main responsibilities • Production of financial budgets and forecasts incorporating profit and loss projections, cash flow analysis and capital expenditure estimates.

• Direct and control Finance staff to ensure that they are appropriately motivated and trained and carry out their responsibilities to the required standards • Prepare and present financial presentations to the Board of Directors to support investment decisions.

• Produce accurate and timely financial information concerning the company's financial status and performance to enable decisions to be taken relating to the company's financial strength and security • Produce all necessary financial statements and reports to enable the accurate measurement of cash flow, profit and loss, stock and debtors.

• Develop and oversee all financial controls, specifically relating to cash and inventory control • Coordinate with bankers, auditors, insurance brokers and attorneys as required • Act as the main point of contact with external auditors and coordinate the production of financial statements in preparation for annual audit.

• Carry out any necessary internal audit reviews and monitor the financial effectiveness of systems and controls • Recommend any changes necessary to improve the company's financial performance and financial controls

Knowledge, skills and experience required • Must be a professional qualified accountant (ACA or CPA) with a minimum of 8 years of post qualification financial management experience.

• Must have advanced knowledge and experience of analyzing day-to day retail and wholesale financial accounting and system processes and controls • Experience managing computerized accounting systems, and analyzing financial data is a must • Must have sound managerial experience • Excellent communication skills are required Salary compensation: Subject to experience Deadline for submission of applicants is January 29th 2010 Submit to:

Graceway IGA Supermarket main office complex or email: hr@gracewayiga.com Please Note: Only short-listed applicants will be contacted to attend interviews.

RECEPTIONIST SALES PERSON To sell office equipment and supplies salary and benefits commensurate with experience.

Please email resumes

techjobtci@gmail.com or mail to Tech Job TCI, C/O Chalmers & Co. P.O. Box 620, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands 6353

Coral Gardens Resort

Is looking for a

Labourer

To work 6 days per week. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 941-5497

6395

Graceway Trading is looking for an experienced highly goal driven individual to manage a Finance Team of eight people, delivering the efficient and effective management of the company finances across multiple locations.

John Wood Is looking for a

6308

PHONE: (649) 946-4664

January 22 - 28, 2011

Automotive

Technician/ Mechanic

Salary commensurate with experience This individual must possess the following: • Adequate tools to perform his duties • Must be able to work with little or no supervision • Must be experience in body and mechanical work with vehicle electrical a plus • Must possess a valid drivers license • Must be a holder of automotive repair certification ASE or equipment Salary ranges from $16.00-$30.00/ flat rate hours

Contact 241-3297

6372

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Established high volume restaurant requires

Kitchen Helper

Qualifications: • At least 10 years experience in the restaurant industry • Ability to work on line and prep all type of food • Ideal applicant will have experience in high-pressure situations with the ability to work independently and as part of a team • All applicants must be willing to work 7 days per week including weekends and holidays Salary $5.50 per hour

Please send detailed resume and cover letter to bistroshannon@yahoo.com only applicants that send a resume will be considered

Kitchen Helper Needed in Grand Turk, familiarity with food preparation and European deli foods a necessity.

Starting Salary $5.00.

Available 7 days a week.

Flexible hours. Own transportation necessary.

Call 946-1234

LABOURER

needed Labourer To do general labour work. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 941-3609

To work 3 days per week.

Salary $150.00 per week.

Contact 345-9986

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MAXWELL WALKIN

April’s Place

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PAUL LEWIS

PAULA BROOKS

Is looking for a

Is looking for a

Domestic

Full Service Salon

Is looking for a

Domestic

Worker

To work 5 days per week. Salary $5.50 per hour.

Contact 247-4089 6366

FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Hairstylist / Nail Tech/ Massage Therapist Must be trained in all of thee above and have

At least 3 years experience. Belongers only.

• Must be able to do general cleaning • Must be trust worthy and reliable • Must be willing to work flexible hours • Must have own vehicle and drivers license Salary $6.00 per hour

Send resume to P.O. Box 584 / closing date Feb. 4th

Professional Cleaning Company is looking for a professional

Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner

To work 6 days per week. Salary negotiable.

Contact 941-5291

Security

Guard

Experienced only for hotel. Must be able to speak and read English. Full time evenings.

Fax resume to Turks & Caicos Club at 946-5858.

SENIOR SOLICITOR Needed Technician, Receptionist & Sales Person

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Corporate/ Commercial Solicitor who has extensive real estate and development experience. The applicant must have been qualified for at least ten (10) years. Salary profit share will be commensurate with experience.

Application with CV and cover letter should be forwarded to: The Labour Department and to the Office Manager at Skippings Rutley, P.O. Box 796, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands

Company requires technician to work on office & financial equipment, Sales Person to sell office equipment and supplies and Receptionist . Salary and benefits commensurate with experience.

Please email resume TECHJOBTCI@GMAIL.COM or mail to TECH JOB TCI, C/O Chalmers & Co, P.O. Box 620, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands.

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EXPERIENCED SKILLED AND COMMITTED CONSTRUCTION

PROJECT MANAGER REQUIRED FOR LOCAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

Candidate must have: • A degree in Civil Engineering from an accredited University • More than ten (10) years experience of management of construction and civil engineering projects • Should have at least five (5) years “on island” construction experience at a professional level and be committed to the Turks & Caicos Islands • Must have excellent communication skills both written and oral must

be fluent with MS Word, Excel and AutoCAD • Must be familiar with the operation of surveying and scientific monitoring equipment • Must have ability and experience in producing cost spreadsheets and tender bids and following up on the same Salary commensurate with qualifications experience and ability Applications should be addressed to:

Lew & Jan Construction Ltd. Tel: 232-7317

Worker

Mason

To work 5 days per week. Salary $100 per week.

Contact 232-8680

To work 5 days per week. Salary $8.00 per hour

Contact 331-0319

Labourer Needed for Warehouse Facility

A busy warehouse facility requires the service of a labourer.

The successful applicant will be required to work five (5) days weekly between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Duties include but are not limited to: • General cleaning and maintenance of warehouse and surrounding area • Loading and unloading of refrigerated and dry cargo • Assisting customers with wrapping and conveyance of cargo • Movement of cargo from one location to another, manually and mechanically Requirements: • Ability to walk or stand for extended periods of time.

• Ability to twist, bend, lift and carry at least 80-100 lbs on a daily basis • Be able to withstand working 8 hours or more in a non climate controlled environment • Literate and numerate with minimum High School Diploma Salary: Starting $5.00 per hour

Please contact Cargo Express Services on South Dock Road or by telephone at 941-5006 Application deadline February 4, 2011

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the largest readership in the turks & caicos LEEWARD WATER SERVICES Is seeking to employ one person as a

Part-Time Labourer $5.50 per hour

Duties: Daily work duties include but are not limited to daily cleaning of raw sewage treatment, screens of debris, filters, pipes, valves, submersible pumps, etc., under supervision of plant manager OSHA, approved PPD (personal protection device) safety equipment (breathing and splash protection face mask and body suit) will be provided at no cost to the employee, inoculation

shots required for working safely on or near sewage treatment system will be paid by the company. This is a parttime job with hours estimated at 2-6 hour per day depending on varying plant operational requirements must be available for emergencies that require additional hours during evenings and weekends must be able to communicate in English. Cut off date for applications is February 4th, 2011.

Please contact Narada Robinson @ 649-232-8684

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Is looking for a

Pool

Freight Services/ Super Kyle Max Services

The job requires working in Seawater every day, lifting Heavy baskets of conch, Feeding conchs and Cleaning conch wastes from Ponds on land. Person applying Must be willing to clean conch Shells and meat. Wages begin at $5.50/hr and Increase with experience. Person must speak & understand English and be physically fit. The job requires working long Hours, weekends and holidays.

1 Labourer 1 Mechanic

Cleaner

Hole in the Wall Restaurant

Contact: Chuck Hesse 232-5119

Chef

Between 9 am - 5pm Mon-Fri for an interview appointment. Belonger preferred, but will Consider others with experience.

Positions available on Grand Turk And/or Providenciales. CVF, Ltd and TWI, Ltd

Salary must commensurate with qualifications

6243

To work 3 days per week.

Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 244-7088

Sea Gardeners & Labours

PROVO ELECTRIC 2 Electricians

FORBES POOL SERVICE

Resumes can be faxed to 941-3425 and the Labour Department, Providenciales as soon as possible

TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

Financial Services Commission

Tender Request for Construction Services-Interior Redesign The Financial Services Commission invites proposals from suitably qualified contractors to undertake a remodeling of the Commission’s offices. The brief scope of the works is as described below: • Remove existing partitions; • Supply of new partitions, fixtures and fittings according to the design specifications; • Installation of new partitions, fixtures, fittings and furniture according to design specifications; • Replace existing flooring with new raised surface and installation of carpeting as indicated; • Upgrading and improvement of plumbing, electrical and air conditioning systems; • The installation of permanent hurricane shutters; • Repainting of finished surfaces and the removal of debris.

Interested parties may pick up a copy of the design drawings and specifications, which will be provided at a cost, between the hours 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm Mondays to Fridays.

Interested parties are required to submit their bids in writing to the Commission at its office at Caribbean Place, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos no later than 2:00 pm February 4, 2011. Late tenders will NOT be considered under any circumstance.

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January 22 - 28, 2011

6368

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(Exclusive Distributors for Slimor + Acai, Slimor, Slimax, FenuMor, Colonex Nutricin, Mas Xtreme and Passion Power)

AVAILABLE AT THESE STORES Providenciales Graceway IGA Supermarket (Leeward Highway) Purilun’s Enterprises Ltd (Leeward Highway) Best 4 Less Liquor Store Discovery Land (Lower Bight Road) Flamingo Pharmacy (Graceway Plaza) Island Pharmacy (Menzies Building) Sunset Pharmacy (Royal Palm Plaza Airport Road) Executive Tours Ltd-New Era Petroleum (Airport Road) Mojito’s Bar (Blue Hill’s Round About) Imperial Supplies (Old Airport Road) Five Cays 7-11 (Five Cays Road) Pumpy’s Bar (Five Cays Road)

941-5000 941-2409 343-6433 941-4527 946-4150 941-3751 946-5564 242-0268 246-1111 941-3650 242-8509

Grand Turk J & J Supermarket (West Road) Bridging The Gap Professional Services (Moxey Folly) Faye Forbes (Breezy Bay) Dots Food Fair (Pond Street) Ruth’s Beauty Salon (Back Salina)

241-2513 946-2899 241-2029 946-2324 946-2294

South Caicos Kisa Services (Stubbs Road) Sunset Café & Grill (Opposite Dock Landing) North Caicos T’s Grocery Store (Bottle Creek) Charmaine Clarke (Sandy Point)

946-7284 231-3919

REGISTERED LAND ORDINANCE, CAP 72

NOTICE LOST LAND CERTIFICATE

Tenders must be accompanied by the following: i. Valid business licence; ii. Certificate of Good-standing from the Companies Registry (for companies) or Business Names Registration for partnerships and individuals; iii. List of personnel who will be involved in the execution of the works and their qualification and or experience; iv. Details of at least two (2) references for which similar works have been carried and v. Reference from the bankers of the interested parties.

TITLE NUMBER 10404/63

Tenders should be submitted in ordinary form to include detailed description of the service provider and setting out the timeframe for carrying out the works. The original and one copy of the Tender proposal should be placed in a sealed envelope and delivered to the Commission’s office at Caribbean Place. The envelope should be addressed to the Managing Director of the Commission and clearly marked “Tender for Construction Works”.

Take notice that I, Grisilda Carol Smith, Acting Registrar of Lands, shall issue a new land certificate for the said title within six weeks of the date of the first publication of this Notice in a local newspaper and the Gazette.

SECTION EAST SUBURBS

ISLAND GRAND TURK

Whereas NORMAN PARKER as Personal Representative of Enid Patience Parker deceased has declared that the Land Certificate for the above mentioned title number(s) registered in his/her/their name was inadvertently mislaid and cannot be found.

Dated this 10th day of December 2010

The tender will be opened after the expiry of the deadline by a panel comprising the Managing Director, the Financial Controller and the Office Manager. The Commission does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any other tender.

Signed………......................................……………………

Financial Services Commission: 01/2011 January 18, 2011

Witnessed…………………......................................……..

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES THE TURTLE COVE INN HOTEL

COX LABOUR SERVICES Cox House, Cherokee Road, Providenciales.

Telephone: 946-5754/Fax: 946-5166

LABOURERS

NEEDED

Is looking for a

Café Gardener Manager To keep the hotel ground clean must be able to work weekends and holidays salary $5.00 per hour.

ONLY TURKS ISLANDERS NEED TO APPLY

Contact Sandra MacLeod

@ 946-420

Only Belongers need apply

To work 6 days per week must have experience in running a restaurant salary negotiable.

Contact 331-2122 6386

• Hotel Staff Welfare and Development Manager • Hotel Information and Technology Manager

• Hotel Estates Manager • Hotel Food & Beverage Cost Controller • Hotel Resort Nurse

Job Requirement: Candidates interested in the above positions will be required to work long hours, live on property and are expected to work during the night, weekends and Public Holidays.

LINE POSITIONS • Spa Therapist Specialized in Acupuncture & Shiatsu • Night Spa Receptionist • Chef de Partie • Line Chef

• Two Carpenters • One Electrician • One Boat Crew • One Boat Captain

Candidates applying for the Boat Captain position must: - operate a 30ft high speed vessel with guests aboard.

- Certificate in shipboard safety, STCW 95.

- Candidate must speak English clearly and be able to converse with the Guests.

- Live on Parrot Cay 5 nights a week to be able to carry out a medivac from either Parrot Cay or North Caicos in the event of an emergency.

Salaries for these positions will be paid base on qualification and experience. Please note that all application must be submitted with a valid Police Record, two reference letters from previous employers or a notary public and current educational certificates.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Forward your resume to the Human Resources Department at the following address:

Parrot Cay Resort and COMO Shambhala P.O. Box 164 Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Ph: (649) 946 7788, Fax: (649) 946 7749 Email: joel.richards@parrotcay.como.bz

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the largest readership in the turks & caicos

To work 6 days per week. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 442-6220 or 431-2364

6301

Seeks a

DOMESTIC WORKER

To work 6 days per week. Salary $150.00 per week.

Contact 441-4838

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Dog Caretaker JEROME BROWN

VACANCIES

Parrot Cay Resort and COMO Shambhala have vacancies for the following positions:

DONTE & ROCHELLE WILLIAMS Is looking to hire a

Is looking for a

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WINDSONG RESORT

FAX: (649) 946-4661

Labourer To work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 242-3858

COXCO CONSTRUCTION LTD COX HOUSE, CHEROKEE ROAD, PROVIDENCIALES TEL: 946-5754/FAX: 946-5166. EMAIL COXCO@TCIWAY.TC

VACANCIES Have the following positions available for suitably qualified Belongers with building experience on high end commercial and resort hotel and villa building projects.

• Mechanical & Plumbing Building Services Supervisor who should have a minimum of 20 years experience working on large scale construction projects with all round plumbing and HVAC experience. Qualification to in Class B Gas Fitter, Plumbing and Domestic Water Safety. Also require to be fully proficient in dealing with Special Waste Management, Fire Protection and Direct Digital Controls. The successful applicant must have recognised trade qualification. Salary range 80k to 90k.

• Building Supervisors who have a minimum of 10 years supervisory experience on large scale commercial projects including high end resort hotels with the highest standards of finishing and be able to effectively manage labour of different nationalities to meet time, quality and safety objectives. Should be able to interpret drawings, take off material requirements and set out work. The candidate should be able to speak Creole and probably Spanish in addition to English.

A proven time served trades background or engineering background is required. Salary range 60k to 80k.

• Finishing Carpenters who should be time served joiners with at least 5 years experience working with tropical hardwoods to achieve the very highest standards of finish. Must be willing to undertake a test to ascertain ability to work to the highest standards. Hourly rate $14/hour • Formwork Carpenters who should have at least 5 years working on large commercial building projects constructing reinforced concrete structures. Must be knowledgeable of system formwork and additionally be able to fix reinforcement and willing to place concrete. Hourly rate circa $12/hour • Masons who must be able to produce blockwork and render to true line and level with a high standard of finish. Must also be willing to lay screed and concrete and work in a labouring capacity if required. Hourly rate $10/hour • Driver who should have a proven clean driving record and have worked for at least two years driving mobile construction wheeled vehicles. Must be willing to carry out daily maintenance procedures on vehicles. Hourly rate $7 to $8 • Labourers who must be responsive and committed to hard work Hourly rate $6.50 All salaried persons must be ‘hands on’ and be willing to work long hours, weekends and public holidays to meet project objectives.

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

McDonald Stubbs

SULPHIDA HARVEY

is looking for a

Is looking for a

Domestic Worker

Boat Helper/ Handyman

To work onboard a boat and to do maintenance.

Salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 231-0622

To work Monday thru Friday. Salary $5.00 per hour.

Deadline for applications is February 4th, 2011

Contact 342-5529

POSITIONS AVAILABLE A busy fine dining restaurant in one of Providenciales’s applications for the following positions:-

resorts is inviting

Sommelier

Working public holidays and weekends, you will be responsible for organizing and training of waitstaff to ensure effortless and seemless service each night and upgrading their skills and knowledge on wines and fine dining service.

The Candidate will be responsible for managing and rotating Liquor and Wine Inventory and expected to work within established beverage costs whilst taking monthly liquor and wine stocktaking.

Working closely with the Chef, you will be expected to develop good working knowledge on the menus to explain in great detail to guests. Extensive wine

knowledge is required to contribute to ever changing Wine list and an ability to pair both New World and Old World Wines with the menus is essential. Good ‘soft sell’ techniques are essential. Computer literacy in MS Word and Excel is mandatory.

Graduation for a recognized hospitality institution along with Sommelier Certification or at least 5 years in a similar capacity in a fine dining restaurant is required.

Base Salary $400 per week Qualified Belongers Only.

Please submit resumes to PO Box 459, Providenciales.

Notice Of Sale By

Public Auction Meridian Mortgage Corporation Ltd. as Chargee, pursuant to its charge and the Registered Land Ordinance, hereby gives notice that it will cause to be sold the property listed below by Public Auction, to be held at the office of Meridian Trust Company, Caribbean Place, and Providenciales at 10.00 a.m. on Friday 4th of February, 2011.

Location

50500/72, Whitby, North Caicos. 6.99 acres of beachfront land approximately ¾ mile west of the St Charles resort on Whitby Beach, North Caicos. The subject property enjoys approximately 305 linear foot of beachfront.

Suitable for commercial development. A reserve price will be fixed for the auction.

Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Sail Rock Point Ltd.

Approximate Area

6.99 acres

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION ARE AVAILABLE BY REQUEST, FROM MERIDIAN TRUST COMPANY LTD. Meridian House P.O. Box 599, Caribbean Place Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, B.W.I Tel. (649) 941-3082 Fax (649) 941-3223

SHERRI SMITH

Tyson’s Take-Away Ltd.

Is looking for a

Is looking to fill the following positions:

Labourer

Baker

To work from Monday thru Friday 7am-3pm. To do general labour work.

Salary $5.00 per hour.

contact 231-1710

Dining Room Manager

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Salary $7.00 per hour.

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COMPUTER PLUS NET Wanted for two locations (two shifts)

5 Cashiers salary $5.00 per hour 2 Sales Clerks salary $5.00 per hour

Must speak English and Spanish

Experienced Assistant Manager

Belonger or PRC only need apply salary $7.00 per hour Must have drivers license and own transportation

Two Account Executives

Belongers or PRC only need apply Salary paid by commission Must have drivers license and own transportation

Email resumes to computerplusnet@hotmail.com 6324

DISCOUNT LIQUORS AND WINE CELLAR IS LOOKING FOR A:

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Description of position: • Promote all the products carried at our wholesale and retail operation • Maintain a complete sales history and purchase pattern of our wholesale customers • Visit our wholesale customers in the trade on a regular basis in an effort to increase sales and awareness of our products • Help grow retail sales by doing in store promotions and assisting customers • Assist in streamlining inventory in an effort to maximize inventory turnover ratio while maintaining adequate products to service the trade efficiently • Assist Operations Manager in setting up proper inventory purchasing cycles in an effort to maximize the use of the business’s cash flows • Assist the financial controller in devising an appropriate inventory control system for the safe custody and control of the company’s inventory • Any other duties within your abilities as delegated by management • Salary in the range of US$36,000 per annum Closing date for application is Monday, February 07th, 2011

Applications must be submitted to: Mr. Anthony Garland Operations Manager Discount Liquors & Wine Cellar Email: discount@tciway.tc or fax: 946-4871

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Bahamas gains exempt Lara: South Africa favourite status from NCAA for cricket World Cup The NCAA has given the Bahamas exempt status, clearing the way for the island nation to host a new holiday tournament that organizers hope will become the East Coast version of the Maui Invitational.

The NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors approved the Bahamas’ proposal without discussion over the weekend and the legislation goes into effect on Aug. 1. Organisers already have preliminary plans in place to hold an eight-team tournament of Division I schools over Thanksgiving weekend.

“We, of course, are very delighted the vote went in favor of the Bahamas,” said George Markantonis, president and managing director of Kerzner International Bahamas, which spearheaded the tournament.

“That enables entities in this country and certainly in our case, Atlantis, to go ahead with their plans for a monster preseason tournament.”

Under NCAA rules, a country must have exempt status to host a tournament or the teams playing there will be limited to 27 regularseason games instead of 30.

The Bahamas had a trial run of sorts in December by hosting the

Battle at Atlantis, a doubleheader held in a converted ballroom that featured Virginia Tech, Richmond, Georgia Tech and Mississippi State.

Now that the Bahamas has joined Mexico and Canada as countries with exempt status, tournament organisers have started sending out contracts to five schools that had already given verbal commitments to playing in next season’s inaugural event, which will be called the Battle 4 Atlantis.

Three other schools will be added, with tentative plans to play the tournament from Nov. 23-27.

“Basketball is the most popular sport in the Bahamas and we’d like to think it’s going to stimulate more interest in the country, and that people will come and make a week of it on a long vacation and take in some quality basketball,” Markantonis said.

The tournament will limit participation to one team per conference each year and require teams to wait four years before returning. Games will be played in an ornate ballroom that can hold up to 5,000 spectators and was the site of the 2009 Miss Universe Pageant.

Ex-Dominican Olympics chief and IOC member, dies at 83 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Roque Napoleon Munoz, a former Olympic committee chief for the Dominican Republic and IOC member, has died. He was 83.

The Dominican committee announced Sunday that Munoz died Saturday after a long battle with prostate cancer.

Munoz was president of the Dominican Olympic Committee from 1974 to 1982 and then a member of the International

Olympic Committee from 1983 to 2008.

A former member of the Dominican Republic’s chess team, Munoz was best known for helping to introduce baseball as a medal sport at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Current Dominican Olympic committee president Luis Mejia said Sunday that Munoz “always fought to promote Dominican sport” and was a strong supporter of the nation’s athletes.

NBA owners, union to meet during All-Star weekend NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA and its players’ association will meet next month during the All-Star break as they try to make progress on a new collective bargaining agreement.

NBA spokesman Tim Frank says that the sides will have a negotiating session during the Feb. 18-20 weekend in Los Angeles.

Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said last week during a visit to Houston that no meeting had

been scheduled, and the hectic All-Star weekend might not be conducive to serious negotiations.

But he added the owners would be open to sitting down if the players wanted to.

The CBA expires June 30, and though leadership from the sides have continued to meet, there has been little progress toward a deal, creating fears of a work stoppage.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Brian Lara favours South Africa to win the cricket World Cup but says it needs to ignore the bad luck which has plagued its five previous campaigns.

The West Indies great who has become Zimbabwe’s batting coach says South Africa “is capable of playing consistent cricket as is required in a long tournament like the World Cup,” but he would probably not bet on it because it has a World Cup “bogey,” limiting the Proteas to three semifinals.

Lara named defending champion Australia, England and India as other teams to watch out for in the 14team tournament to be hosted jointly

by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh from Feb. 19.

Lara was on the sidelines of a cricket clinic at Ferozeshah Kotla ground on Tuesday.

“The team that builds momentum is likely to win the tournament,” Lara said. “Starting slowly and getting on top is what you need and that is where physical and mental strength become important.”

Of host India, Lara said its biggest challenge would be to handle the pressure of public expectations. He knows the feeling, having captained West Indies at its home World Cup in 2007, and lasting only to the Super Eights.

“India is definitely one of the teams to beat but it will have to play very good cricket,” Lara said.

“In 1996, Sri Lanka was not the best of teams but came out on top because of the conditions on the subcontinent, so India surely has a chance.”

On other issues: — Dynasties: Lara felt the game had become more competitive, and increasingly more difficult for teams

West Indian cricketer Brian Lara, centre, conducts a cricket clinic for budding talents in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

to win continuously. West Indies dominated from the 1970s into the 1990s, then Australia became the premier team until recently.

“The days of invincibility are over and I believe cricket will become very competitive,” he said.

“West Indies had their time in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. It’s a sports cycle, somebody will come up like Australia did. But no one expected Australia to slide down to the fourth or fifth position in the rankings.

“Every country will have its time, if it has a structure in place. England are being very enterprising nowadays and India are doing well abroad.”

— 400 not out: Lara believed his test record score will be broken with the aggressive batting on display

nowadays.

“It will be broken,” he said. “Maybe age is against (Sachin) Tendulkar but someone like (Virender) Sehwag or (Chris) Gayle could do it since they are both attacking players. Or maybe some new talent will emerge and do it.

The shape of the game has changed.”

— Tendulkar: On being compared with the India great, Lara said it was an honour that his “name was taken in the same breath” as Tendulkar’s.

“Whether or not Sachin wins the World Cup for India, his achievements will remain enormous,” he said.

— Snubbed by the IPL: Lara wasn’t fussed that he wasn’t picked up in the Indian Premier League auction this month, saying his job was to improve the performance of Zimbabwe.

Davis Love III picked as US Ryder Cup captain MEDINAH, Illinois (AP) — An emotional Davis Love III was introduced Thursday as the next American captain of the Ryder Cup, pledging not to get in the way of the 12 players who will be responsible for winning the cup back from Europe.

“I’m a players’ captain,” Love said at Medinah Country Club, where the 2012 matches will be held.

“I’ll try to get them what they need to be successful. I’m not going to tell the best players in the world how to play golf. I’m not going to read their putts. A good leader knows he’s got a great team.”

The announcement wraps up a week that put the Ryder Cup in the news about 18 months before the next shot is struck. Europe, which won the gold trophy in Wales last October, appointed two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal as the captain this week.

It was the second time Love has been showcased by the PGA of

America, and both times he fought tears. The other occasion was in 1997 at Winged Foot, when he won the PGA Championship and broke down thinking about his father, Davis Love Jr., a longtime PGA professional who died in a plane crash early in Love’s career.

“Now to be named Ryder Cup captain is a thrill I never thought I would have,” said Love, his voice choking and eyes filling with tears.

“I’d love to share that with my father.

I know somehow I am. ... There’s not a tour player out there that plays one tour event or six Ryder Cups that doesn’t have a PGA professional that led them to that position.”

Love, a 20-time winner on the PGA Tour, played on six Ryder Cup teams. His first three matches, with Tom Kite as his partner, were against Olazabal and Seve Ballesteros, the “Spanish Armada” that formed one of the most daunting teams in Ryder Cup history. Love won that

Davis Love III smiles as he is introduced as captain of the United States Ryder Cup golf team during a news conference at the Medinah Country Club.

first match, but never beat Olazabal again. They never played each other in singles.

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Sports National Provo Hockey League:

Shearer’s late goal lifts Owls to victory JAVED Shearer ensured that his team, the Grace Bay Car Rentals and Sales Owls, remain on course for an over-all victory in the Mini Division of the Provo Hockey League (PHL).

He scored the winning shot in the dying seconds of their latest game.

Shearer tallied three strikes to assist Sebastian Turbyfield, who scorched in six for the winners in the 9-8 triumph at the Graceway Sports Centre last Saturday.

For the Gansevoort Gators Bradley Ayer had an equally impressive six goals while his brother Dylan had two.

Joe Canham finished with two assists.

The Gators went on to draw a game (3-3) against the Coco Bistro Dragons later in the day. Owing to a lack of players the Dragons were allowed to use Shearer and he did the damage with the stick. The Ayer

Sebastian Turbyfield scored six goals in the Owls’ 9-8 win over the Gators.

Luis Turbyfield finished with eight goals for the Flames in a losing cause.

brothers also did the scoring for their team. Dylan finished with two while Bradley made the other.

In the Bantam Division the Star Foundation Lightning whipped the Saunders and Co Hurricanes 10-2, but could not do the same to the undefeated Sands/Palms Sharks.

That game ended in a 3-3 draw.

Ricardo Valcin scored five goals including two assists against the Hurricanes while his Lightning teammates Livingston Ferdinand and Cole Nickson scored two each. One of the high points for the side was Kendle Williams’s first PHL goal.

In the second game of the day, the drawn clash against the Sharks, the Lightning shared their goals as Nickson, Ferdinand and Liam Delancy scored one each.

Gabriel Diotte-Joly scored three times for the Sharks, but he was ably supported by goalie Senga Brubaker, who made some commendable saves.

In the TCBC Division the Pirates defeated their nemesis the Flames 1410 after Jeremy Lemonie scored six goals and made two assists. Gabriel Saunders supported with four goals and one assist while Patrick Lemonie had two goals and Serena Delancy and Miguel Malcolm one each.

Luis Turbyfield led the Flames with eight goals while Peter Esper and Quinn Higgs had one each.

President’s Cup:

Sharks and AFC Academy draw opener THE SWA Sharks, who have lost seven of their eight Men’s Football League games this season, opened the President’s Cup with a confidence-boosting 4-4 draw against the AFC Academy.

The competition began last Tuesday evening at the TCIFA Academy ground in Providenciales.

John Beckford scored twice for the Sharks while Basil McGregor and Jordon Bolton added the other

goals. For the AFC Academy Fred Dorvil found the back of the net two times. Assists came from Winzoy Rigby and Jumyson Francis.

The President’s Cup, which also includes Provopool Football Club and the AFC National, will run until March 19th.

Action continues this Tuesday with Provopool FC going up against the AFC National from 19:00h (7PM).

Women’s Football League:

Net Rockers frontrunners for title WITH only a few weeks left in the Women’s Football League (WFL) the Net Rockers Football Club have positioned themselves as front-runners for the title.

In the first game of 2011 the side showed their intent with a late one-goal win over their closest rivals the AFC Hurricanes.

Both teams had chances to score, but despite having more possessions Net Rockers FC could not break through the Hurricanes’ determined defence until the game was almost over.

Kayla Gardiner managed to slot the ball home in the 88th minute.

Technical Director, of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA), Matthew Green said that: “The TCIFA’s decision to balance their Provo Academy players into two equal teams has made the league more competitive this year and Net Rockers are certainly reaping the benefits. With so many young players from both the TCIFA Academies in Provo and Grand Turk playing in the league, this should certainly help the national teams develop in years to come”.

Net Rockers FC have tallied 11 points after five games (three wins and two draws), while the

Hurricanes have eight points from six games (two wins and two draws) and the Revolution FC six points in five games (one win and three draws). The defending champions of the league, the AFC Strikers, are out of contention after having failed to secure a win. Three draws have however ensured their names are on the points table.

Their latest draw was against the Revolution FC who came from behind in the 2-2 finish. The Strikers took the lead when Sarah Cenary slotted home Pekiera Brook’s exquisite through-ball.

Gillian Vernice powered through to tie the game at 1-1 before Christina Hinds gave the Strikers a 2-1 halftime lead as she converted from the penalty spot. The game remained very open with both teams creating many chances, but it was Jancilia Cox who scored the last goal as she dribbled past two defenders.

Heroes of the match for both teams were the goal keepers.

Lilli Bien-Aime made a great reflex save from Cox’s header in the last minute, but the real star of the show was Revolution’s replacement goalkeeper Carrie Philip who pulled off a series of great saves including five “oneon- ones”.

Josh for Sports

Nationals and other related issues THE time is ripe for us Turks and Caicos Islanders. It is time for us to get to the Olympics also. 2012 is the year for us to reach for the stars in London.

There are certain steps to international competitions and our National Track and Field School Championships is one of them.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES I was riding with Director of Sports Alvin Parker recently and he asked me to remind you parents about the School Championships which will take place in under three months.

You should put aside at least $50 for the Nationals to go forward without a hitch.

We are living in a tough and dire economic time so it is only in national interest that we help out the sporting programme.

PERSONAL HELP Onlyseriousmindedathletescancontact me through joshuagardiner1951@ yahoo.com to solicit my assistance to begin a three-month championship programme. I coach only champions.

TRACK AND FIELD A SPORT TO EMBRACE In 1936, a black American track star became a world hero. His name was Jesse Owens and he won four gold medals in the Olympics which was held in Berlin, Germany. The host country was at the time under the leadership of the world’s most destructive dictator, Adolph Hitler.

Among other things Hitler’s Nazi regime said that blacks were inferior.

Because of this, Owens was under a great deal of pressure to compete at the event. But he defied the odds and won gold medals in the 100 and 200 metres dash, the long jump and the

By Joshua Gardiner 400 metres relay. Needless to say, Hitler did not like that.

To many, track and field is the showpiece of the Olympic Games.

But many records have been broken apart from the Olympics. In 1954 a British runner name Roger Bannister did something many people thought impossible. For the first time in

history he broke the four –minute barrier on the mile. Bannister ran it in 3:59.4 minutes. Today the subfour-minute mile is very common, showing how track records have moved forward in modern times.

The Olympics remains a world showcase, although it has taken some political whipping in the past.

Different nations, including the United States have at one time or another refuse to participate in the Games. Many fine athletes have lost chances at medals because of this.

Yet the great track stars have become as well known as famous athletes in other sports. Bob Mathias and Rafer Johnson were both Olympic Decathlon winners, who later made motion pictures.

Mathias was also elected to congress. Olympic sprint champion Bob Haynes became a star receiver for the Dallas Cowboys in the

National Football League (NFL).

Sprinter Wilma Rudolph became a national heroine after three gold medals in the 1960 Games.

Hurdler Edwin Moses has become a world famous celebrity for his more-than-a-decade stint at the helm of the event.

Even in the 1988 Olympics track and field stars made the news.

Sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis was a standout performer, as well as women stars Florence GriffithJoyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Like all the champions before them they reached the top through hard work and dedication.

Track and field is a sport for everyone boy and girl, man and woman, young and old. You are never too young to start or too old to continue. It is a sport that keeps people trim and fit and it is well worth learning.

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Men’s Football League:

Provopool one win away from title The Great White Sharks’ Dean Griffith leads the field in the tryscoring department.

Winter Touch Rugby League:

Great White Sharks suffer two losses CURRENT leaders the Great White Sharks suffered two losses in roundseven—their worst performance since the Winter Touch Rugby League started in November last year.

The round belonged to the Red Arrows who won all of their games and climbed up to 38 points.

Red Arrows defeated the Blue Buccaneers 2-1, the Great White Sharks 3-1 and the Black Mambas 5-3. The Mambas, for the first time in the league, defeated the Great White Sharks 4-2, but suffered a 3-7 loss to the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers did not get past the Great White Sharks in their match up and lost 1-2.

The Great White Sharks have 49 points while the Red Arrows have 38, Black Mambas 29 and Blue Buccaneers 12.

Dean Griffith (White Sharks) leads the try-scoring department with 30 while team Red Arrows’ Mark Parrish has 28 and the Black Mambas’ Gareth Butler has 27.

Lenford Singh has scored nine goals for Provopool.

PROVOPOOL Football Club’s unbeaten run in the Men’s Football League has propelled them one win away from overall victory.

The unstoppable team has so far won all eight of their games and could walk away with the championship trophy this Saturday, over a month-and-a-half before the league concludes.

The only team that mathematically could stand in their way is the AFC Academy, but for

the defending champions to emerge victorious they must win their four remaining games and hope that Provopool FC lose theirs (also four games).

The first test for the Academy boys will be this Saturday against the current leaders. Provopool FC, with victories of 2-1 and 2-0 over the side in previous games, will again look to dominate.

Last Saturday the leaders whipped the Sharks 5-2.

Monster Twenty20 Cricket League:

Jamaican All-Stars book semi-final spot JAMAICAN All-Stars defeated their Jamaican counterparts by nine runs to book a place in the semi-finals of the Monster Energy Drink sponsored Provo Twenty20 Cricket League.

The All-Stars join Beaches (predominately Jamaicans) in the final four.

In the first game of the New Year, the All-Stars elected to bat and posted 154-9 from their allotted overs against Jam Turk.

Gareth Butler led the charge with 43 runs (5X4s) while Robert Johnson and Calvin Aaron assisted

with 15 each.

Spinner Glen Campbell nabbed 3-17 from three overs while Damian Williams took 2-48 from four overs.

Despite a score of 42 runs from the hard-hitting Douglas Brown Jam Turk did not reach the winning total and were left on 145-8 when the overs expired. Brown smacked three sixes and four fours while Campbell assisted with 21 runs.

Tyrone Wright led the bowling attack for the Jamaican All-Stars with 3-19 from four overs.

Gareth Butler led Jamaican All-Stars into the semi-finals with 43 runs.

2011: The year of junior football

IF the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) had a theme for 2011 it might be the “year of continued junior development” given that youth advancement is the core of this year’s plans.

The association, which is by far the most pro-active in sports development in the TCI, closely followed by the ever improving Turks and Caicos Islands Rugby Football Union, recently outlined its 2011 plans that includes nine months of youth programmes and youth leagues.

The leagues will run concurrently with regional academies throughout

the islands and only break for the school holidays. The academies will target players from the age of 5-20.

The leagues, which will target both boys and girls, will be for U-7, U-9, U-11, U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-20 players.

The junior initiative is by no means new, it is a long term plan to enhance the performance of the TCI national male and female teams on the world stage, and it has achieved results.

Technical Director of the TCIFA Matthew Green said: “We now run multiple leagues at all age groups for boys and girls as well as organise

school competitions in Provo and Grand Turk. We also have put together national youth teams that have been competitive at [the] international level”.

Green said that the association is keen to develop: “Young people of all ages, abilities and nationalities.

We take a keen interest in our players’ welfare off the field and we aim to give them opportunities to develop socially, academically and physically”.

The Technical Director added that the association: “Wants to include more young people, so that they can benefit from the programmes that we run throughout the year. He said

that the standards of organisation and discipline in the TCIFA’s programmes, is one of the highest in the Caribbean and that the association is: “Only too happy to facilitate the development of young people in our country”.

The calendar of events will also include programmes for both senior males and females with the high point in September at the FIFA/ CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers.

There will be three festivals in the TCI this year. The first is scheduled for April with visiting U-13 boys’ and girls’ teams, followed by an U-13 boys’ tournament in October and the Women’s Football Festival

in December.

There will also be school competitions which includes beach soccer. The seniors will benefit from beach soccer leagues while there will be a special football league and a seven-a-side competition for Grand Turk.

None playing enthusiasts can also benefit since four courses will be offered in 2011: a beach soccer referees and coaching clinic in March followed by a youth coaching licence’s course (March/April) and a referee licence’s course (May).

The last event on the list would be an intermediate coaching licence’s course in November.

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