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Airport land

row hits court

Land obtained by the Government for expansion to the public airport was used instead for a private commercial venture, it has been alleged.

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September now tentative date for corruption trial

BY DELANA ISLES QUEEN’S Counsel Malcolm Bishop and special prosecutor for the Special Investigations and Prosecution Team (SIPT), Andrew Mitchell have tentatively predicted September for the start of the trial involving Michael Misick and nine others.

On Tuesday (January 13), the Court of Appeal ruled that the trial should be stayed until the two appeals in the Privy Council are heard and determined.

The appeals relate to the independence of the judiciary and whether the correct standard of proof was applied by the judge, Paul Harrison in his decision to deny the defendants a trial by jury.

Speaking the media following the decision, Bishop who represents Thomas Chal Misick and who made substantive arguments for both appeals on Monday and back in October, was pleased at the outcome.

Monday’s arguments related to special leave on the standard of proof applied by Harrison for his decision.

Bishop: “The court has given leave to appeal to the Privy Council on this very important point of whether or not the trial should proceed without a jury.

“The Court of Appeal held that that is a matter of general public importance; that means that the trial cannot start until the Privy Council has given its ruling.”

He explained that a hearing of the council is unlikely to take place inside of three months.

“So let’s suppose that the hearing takes place in May, normally the Privy Council would take about six to 12 weeks to deliver their judgement.”

He added that therefore a realistic timeline for the trial to proceed, barring further difficulties, would not be before September and will last between four and six months.

STANDARD OF PROOF The issue in the case is what the standard of proof requires the judge to decide if there should not be a jury.

Bishop said: “Must he be satisfied so that he is sure the interests of justice require a trial without a jury, or must he be satisfied that it is probably the case that the interests of justice have that requirement.”

He noted that the argument for the appellant is that in a criminal matter all issues must be determined to the criminal standard and therefore the judge should be sure that the interest

of justice requires him to sit without a jury rather to take the view that that is probably the case that should happen.

However, in reaching his decision, Harrison applied the standard of proof as it regards to civil cases.

Meanwhile, Special Prosecutor Mitchell was not too concerned at the Court of Appeal decision to delay the start of the trial.

He stated: “I am very happy with the decision; the points have to be argued, we are not trying to stop the points from being argued, they are proper points and they should be argued.”

He said a fair, balanced and realistic start to the trial would be sometime in September.

However, the pre-trial hearing before Harrison is still going ahead on February 10.

Mitchell said there is no reason why Harrison should not go ahead with that hearing

Container scanning at seaports given green light CONTAINERISED scanning using new technology will soon be introduced at all seaports in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

At its first meeting for 2015, (January 7) Cabinet confirmed a decision last September to introduce facilities to scan containers entering

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and leaving the country via seaports for customs and security purposes.

A Cabinet statement from the Governor’s Office stated that Ports Authority officials have been advised to prepare technical specifications to enable publication of an invitation to tender.

Also at last Wednesday’s meeting, Governor Peter Beckingham was advised to approve the commencement of discussions with Hyundai Engineering and Construction Ltd on the potential for the development of a best-in-class container transhipment port within TCI. Attorney General Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles also provided Cabinet with an update on the country’s progress with the national money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment.

The body was advised that work has already commenced on the project, with a workshop last October.

Recommendations will be presented to policymakers in a further workshop facilitated by World Bank representatives and the final report will be completed by the end of June 2015, the statement read.

Cabinet also reviewed the legislative agenda for the first quarter of 2015, as well as the timetable for the sitting of the House of Assembly.

Meanwhile, congratulations were offered to the Attorney General on being named the 2014 Person of the Year by the Weekly News.

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Insurance company liquidation begins

By Rebecca Bird ONE of the TCI’s largest insurance companies is to be wound up following a decision in Providenciales Supreme Court on Friday (January 9).

Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale declared that British Atlantic Financial Services Ltd (BAFSL) should be dissolved after no rescue package was found for the insolvent firm.

Thousands of policyholders - some who invested more than $100,000 - look set to lose large chunks of their cash pots in the process.

Kevin Higgins, director of the TCI Financial Service Commission (FSC), told the Weekly News that it will be a quick process and the percentage of return will be announced next month.

However the company is a massive $6.2 million in the red so cash back looks likely to be minimal.

“People are going to lose a substantial portion of their savings, there’s no question about it,” Higgins said.

In 1981 British American Insurance Company Limited, a member of the Clico group, started operations in the TCI. At the end of 2009 the company went into administration and then in September 2010 the assets, liabilities and business were sold to BAFSL in an attempt to turn it around.

The sole shareholder of BAFSL was the Turks and Caicos Methodist Company Limited which contributed $180,000 as new capital.

The company specialised in life insurance, medical insurance and annuities – a continuing payment with a guaranteed return.

Unfortunately because US interest rates went down so low the company was not able to meet the guaranteed interest rate given to policy holders, Higgins said.

In 2014 BAFSL went into administration and Joseph Connolly and David Walker from PricewaterhouseCoopers tried hard to find ways to dig it out of debt.

But progress was lacking and in October last year, following advice from the administrators, the FSC declared the company insolvent and filed a petition with the Supreme Court for its winding up.

In November the case was presented in Providenciales Supreme Court before Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay Hale where representatives for the policyholders and the FSC made

their submissions.

Richard Savory QC from TCI law firm Savory and Co for the policyholders asked for a six week adjournment of the liquidation hearing.

Meanwhile Jonathan Katan from TCI law firm Miller, Simons, O’Sullivan for the FSC asked for a provisional liquidator to be appointed or the firm to be wound up.

Following the presentations Ramsay Hale said that appointing a provisional liquidator was a compromise and “doesn’t harm the company’s position”.

She said the hearing for liquidation of the company would be delayed for six weeks until January 9.

Former company administrators Connolly and Walker were appointed as the provisional liquidators.

The control of all assets, the conduct of any business and other affairs were transferred to them and the directors ceased to have any authority.

At the time the case was heard Premier Rufus Ewing said that the Government may be able to assist financially in helping to bail out the company.

He explained that the extent of this would be determined following thorough examination of the books and cash flow.

“We don’t have much money but this is a very important and critical issue and we will do everything in our powers, which is why we’re going to look at it very strategically from a financial perspective and we’ll see how we can help.”

Several options have already been put forward by interested parties, with regard to buying out the various books, he said.

However when the case was brought back to court Connolly explained that over the past six weeks no help was forthcoming.

Higgins told the Weekly News: “He had received nothing from the Government, he had received nothing from the policyholders or investors, and he had received nothing from the management.”

Ramsay-Hale had no alternative but to approve the liquidation in full, and she appointed Connolly and Walker as the liquidators.

Connolly will return to court on February 28 when he will explain how much money he has been able to collect, how many claims he has received and what the share per person will be.

The court will then decide to approve it or not before the cash is redistributed among the 2,600 TCI policyholders.

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Court to decide on review into Blue Heron Aviation land lease

BY DELANA ISLES LAND obtained by the Government for expansion to the public airport was used instead for a private commercial venture, it has been alleged.

A judicial review is being sought on decisions by the TCI Airport Authority (TCIAA) and/or the Government to lease certain Crown land to M Aviation for a fixed based operation (FBO) at Providenciales International Airport.

Provo Air Centre is the applicant in the case, which comes up before Chief Justice Margaret RamsayHale on Friday (January 16) in the Supreme Court.

The application for the review also questions the decision by the TCIAA and/or the Government to provide support and facilitation to M Aviation Ltd, Blue Heron Ltd and Signature Flight Support, who are listed as interested parties in the application.

This publication obtained a copy of the filed application for leave to apply for the judicial review, which sets out the grounds for the relief the company is seeking.

The company alleges that the TCIAA and/or the Government in, or about, 2011 identified a volume of land on the south side of Providenciales International Airport

for compulsory acquisition for the purpose of public use.

The land is said to have been acquired compulsorily on the basis that it was urgently needed for the airport extension.

However, the true intent for the compulsory acquisition, as has now been established, was for a commercial venture, that of a high-end FBO for private aircraft travellers and crew, and neither for public use nor as an urgent part of the airport expansion, the application reads.

It states that evidence recently obtained by the applicant shows that the commercial lease registered on January 3, 2012, and varied in March 2013, for public lands was procedurally improper and beyond the powers of the TCIAA under the Airport Authority Ordinance 2009 in that it was not granted on commercial terms and that it grants a substantial commercial discount to a private company which is owned and controlled outside of the TCI. The company alleges that there was an absence of TCIAA board approval; an absence of publication in the Gazette; non-compliance with section six of the TCIAA Ordinance 2009; an absence of commercial terms; failure to take into account relevant consideration or absence of proper inquiry; an absence of Belonger participation; improper

$110m in Gov’t revenue collected by December AS OF December last year, the Government received $110.3 million in revenue collections that ensure a relatively steady stream to Government’s treasury year after year.

This is according to the Minister of Finance, Investment and Trade, Washington Misick during the December sitting of the House of Assembly.

As of December 9 - import duty was $40,785,395; hotel and tourism tax $29,561,149; customs processing fee $19,694,783; work permits

and residency $12,428,676; communication tax $3,372,688; business licence renewal $2,992,268; and vehicle licences $1.4 million.

However, of the steady revenue streams, the Government is still considering getting rid of the business licence fees.

“It is this Government’s intention to significantly reduce business licences as a revenue generator because the last thing we want to do is to stand in the way of people starting new businesses,” the minister said.

purpose; and procedural unfairness.

The application further states that the decisions by TCIAA to dispose of some or all of the Crown land in quick fashion to a third party for the benefit of one or more of the listed interested parties, without notice to the applicant or the opportunity to be heard is procedurally improper and fails to comply with the principles of natural justice.

Additionally, the application states that the TCIAA’s and/or the Government’s rushed decisions without notice or enquiry constitute a failure no reasonable administrative authority would make.

The relief being sought included an extension of time for the review to be conducted.

The reason for this is that the facts regarding the acquisition of the land only became exposed recently on a local online media site and was only known within the past several weeks

since the initial filing of the application on November 26 last year.

This is set out in an affidavit to the court by Lyndon Gardiner, Chairman of the Provo Air Centre and InterCaribbean Airways.

Typically a judicial review has to be filed within three months of a decision being taken, and in this case, the decision to grant the land for the FBO was taken in 2011 and then varied in 2013.

The application states that the impropriety and lack of knowledge of this by the applicant, until recently, sets a “good reason” for leave to apply for a judicial review to be granted now.

Provo Air Centre is also seeking an order by way of interim relief that the TCIAA and or the Government take no further steps to facilitate the FBO’s development on the subject of Crown lands until a final determination of the claim or an

order by the court.

They are also seeking an order from the court to quash the decision by the TCIAA and or the Government to grant the land to the interested parties.

The company is also seeking an order requiring the TCIAA and or the Government to give proper and lawful consideration to the FBO development and the lease subject to Crown lands under the Airport Authority Ordinance 2009 so as to ensure that consideration should include an opportunity for the Provo Air Centre and all interested parties to make representation.

The company is seeking, alternatively, for the court to make a declaration that the commercial lease for land registered on January 2, 2012 and varied in March 2013 and the decision to support the FBO are illegal and beyond the power of the TCIAA in the use of public land from a compulsory acquisition.

Chief Justice defends travel across Islands THE CHIEF Justice, Margaret Ramsay-Hale has spoken out as to why she frequently travels between Providenciales and Grand Turk to hear cases, unlike her predecessors.

Ramsay-Hale, who also unlike her predecessors does not reside in the nation’s capital, made the statements in response to concerns raised.

She explained that as the civil and commercial judge of the court and because most of the civil work is generated in Providenciales, she continues to reside there.

She noted that the reason for this is that the demands for the civil and commercial Bar have grown exponentially since 2001 when there were 131 civil cases filed including divorce matters in contrast to the now 272 cases generated in 2014.

“Given the demands of the work, I made the decision after consulting with the former Chief Justice and the Governor that I would reside here on Providenciales.”

However, she stated that she will continue to split her time between the two islands, which she has been

Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale

doing since her appointment last year.

She added that the intention is for all judges of the court to preside over criminal trials in the originating island.

Currently and in times past, only the Chief Justice hears cases in the capital.

“We are of the view that in order to save costs and rationalise the system, Providenciales cases should be tried in Providenciales and Grand

Turk cases, in Grand Turk.

“Before I took office, Providenciales cases were tried in Grand Turk incurring extra expense for all parties for no other reason than that was where the Chief Justice sat.”

Ramsay-Hale noted that a difficulty with this set up arises when the witnesses are all in Providenciales and the defendant is in prison in Grand Turk.

“Currently, we are transporting prisoners on public aircraft back and forth daily, as there is no provision for those persons to remain in Providenciales until their trial is concluded,” she added.

Travelling on public aircraft is an obvious security risk and additionally it is an enormous financial burden to the state, the Chief Justice stated, adding that a solution must be found.

She advised that the matter of housing prisoners in Providenciales for the duration of their trial is currently under consideration by the responsible Government minister.

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

Fuel prices PETROL prices in the TCI remain high despite a plummet in crude oil prices across the globe.

This week the minimum cost of gas per gallon was about $5.45 while in the United States it sells for as little as $1.74.

Who do you think is responsible for the high fuel costs? And what should be done to reduce them?

Competition needed

I believe gas prices will gradually reduce as lower priced bulk fuel works its way through refineries and the delivery system.

It must be remembered that tax on gas is way less in the USA than the TCI, to the extent that the USA is now considering raising their tax rate to pay for infrastructure repairs.

Delivery to the TCI is also very expensive the USA retailers have way less cost.

The USA gas stations also work on minimum margins to attract persons to their convenience stores, where the real profit is.

Utility costs to power the pumps is much higher here.

However it is competition that affects prices the most; few gas stations here really compete on price.

With new stations being built it will provide more choice for the consumer and this will bring the price down.

More information

It would help if a breakdown of the pricing of fuel in the TCI was made available by the press.

The base rate can be provided and then the shipping costs plus taxes levied by TCIG and mark up by the gas suppliers should be detailed.

This will clearly show the discrepancies between falling oil prices globally and the high prices we still pay here in the TCI. That should determine who is mainly responsible for the high prices.

Once known, pressure can be applied to reduce taxes and/or profits to result in a more reasonable pricing structure, if possible.

Vendor’s responsibility

FortisTCI and gas stations should have lowered prices at the same time as the rest of the world.

Just like they always so happily raise prices immediately after the world does.

And we are all sitting quietly and giving them our money in bucket fulls.

Even higher

Gas in Grand Turk is almost $7 per gallon.

Gov’t waives royalties for Cooper Jack development THE GOVERNMENT has waived royalties associated with sand mining for the maintenance of dredging for the first phase of the Cooper Jack development.

The Cabinet decision was announced last week Thursday (January 8) in press statement from the Governor’s Office.

The approval was granted on the basis that it will kick start the development resulting in new employment, new recurring revenue for the Government and other related social and economic benefits.

Another stipulation of the waiver was that the dredging will be carried out within 12 months from the planning approval for that dredging, the statement read.

The development is set to be a full service world class marina resort and

residential community.

The marina development will include hotel villas, condos and residential homes.

The entrance channel is reportedly set to be about 80 feet wide, and is intended to provide easy access.

Information on Sun Realty’s website, the company managing the development, states that at present the marina has been dredged to its controlling depth of 8.5 feet with 2,200 feet of concrete bulk heading.

The entire site has Government approval for marina/hotel and tourism related uses and the owners are seeking a qualified developer to take the project forward or a sell out to an experienced marina investment company, the website reads.

Supplier or distributor

I was under the impression that fuel prices are not regulated by Government in the TCI. So if that is true, then gas prices are set by the supplier in the Bahamas and/or the distributor in the TCI. Simple to figure out who is responsible.

Up to us

Surely we the consumer are totally responsible for the higher fuel cost; because we continually subscribe and support the enablers by paying Fortis on time for fear of disconnections, or filling up at the pumps because we must, and do not trust or willpowers of boycott.

Reducing the cost is a direct Government regulatory effort. In the simplest terms, control and conduct a review of every released shipment with exact prices, to ensure that intended pump prices reflect import reductions.

The goal is not to have price control, but to control the prices. So, in the end, we the consumers, control the prices.

Price ceiling

Bottom line, it is still the TCI Government that is responsible for the continuous hike in fuel prices.

Why? There is no regulating body that restricts the prices of these particular resources in the Islands.

There is only one thing that the Government can do in order to reduce the cost of this fuel and that is to impose a ‘price ceiling’.

This way, even the low income individuals who cannot afford these resources will be protected.

Change suppliers

QUESTION: Who are your suppliers?

ANSWER: The price is high because you continue to use the same suppliers with too many middlemen.

SOLUTION: Change suppliers.

Political decisions

Former politicians agreed to tax the public to death with these fuel rates and they will hang on until we rid ourselves of the pox they have brought our way now continued by the same political relatives.

I stopped driving because of the cost of the licence and fuel. We are cutting our use of electricity and gave up boating.

A caring Government

In fairness to some of the merchants, the reduction in their prices although not sufficient, shows that some of them are passing on a little of the savings.

With the Government taking about 26 percent off the top ($1.42), the merchant is left with $4.03 from which to operate.

I am yet to see any reflection of this price drop on my electric bill.

With these two points in mind, I would suggest that a caring Government would represent its people to ensure the fuel surcharge on their electric bills reflects the lower oil

prices and reduce the Government fuel taxes to bring down the high prices.

Deep water port

So many factors play into high prices in the TCI. Merchants are free to do what they like and gouge the consumer.

The Government needs to bring into play the Trade Control of Supplies Ordinance, 1961 and create further regulations to control prices.

Again the Government should dialogue with the Opposition and the public.

The TCI is not a manufacturing economy where price controls are anathema. The Government should and can control prices.

All can unite to work together on these issues. If US prices are so low ours should follow closely and not remain double pre US price reductions.

Also we have a long-term shipping problem.

The Government needs to acquire land in the north west of Providenciales to take control of land there for the public benefit to build a deep water port.

There is private land, some 300 acres there, all the Government needs is about 50 acres to develop proper port facilities and deep water docks for bigger vessels.

The cost of doing business in the TCI would fall all around.

Not enough

While there has been a slight decline in retail prices offered by the independent service stations commencing only from December 2014 (who import on a weekly basis), this price drop was nowhere proportional with the rate of decline observed in the USA over the past three to four months.

Based on average market prices over the past month, retail prices for midgrade gasoline should not exceed $4.75 per gallon and diesel be no higher than $4.99 per gallon.

Any independent retailer arguing otherwise will lack a rational position (other than profit taking).

As it pertains to the branded retailers, the argument (the validity of which will be in question) will be that that their residual storage in the Bahamas and contract buying limits their ability to react rapidly.

Considering the time dilation and extent of the decline, this argument becomes less valid.

Based on the extent of the obscene profit taking that has occurred in recent months, and the effect on every aspect of our struggling economy, one can concede that there is a lack of basic market controls and it would be worthwhile for our Government to emulate the petroleum inspector’s office similar as to what exists in the Cayman Islands.

However, for this to be implemented there would have to be a true desire to action the same by our Government.

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Fuel prices to be investigated

THE HIGH cost of petrol is set to be investigated by the Government’s Energy and Utilities Commissioner.

Members of the Cabinet have asked that Malike Cummings look into why prices have not dropped in line with global crude oil figures.

Cabinet met on Wednesday, January 7, at the House of Assembly building on Grand Turk where they discussed the matter.

A press release the next day said that ministers “noted the reduction in fuel prices globally and that a corresponding reduction in prices at the fuel pumps across TCI has not been forthcoming.”

It added: “Cabinet requested that the matter be investigated further by the Energy Commissioner.”

It is welcome news to the public who are still paying premium costs for fuel in the TCI despite a plummet in prices across the globe.

In the TCI this week the cost of gas per gallon was a low of about $5.45 – still just a small reduction from about $6.50 in August.

Last week Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson said that the reductions are simply not enough considering that global crude oil prices have hit a five year low.

For five months the value of petroleum has plummeted all over the world and on Wednesday, January 7, it dropped from more than $85 a barrel to below $50 for the first time since May 2009.

Slowing global growth and increased supply of oil and gas have

pushed prices down in recent weeks.

In the United States unleaded petrol prices are still dropping - this week they were an average of $2.10 per gallon and as low as $1.74 in some states.

In the House of Assembly in November Premier Rufus Ewing assured the public that power bills would soon become smaller, and a decrease in the cost of petrol would not be far behind.

He said a delay in customers reaping the benefits was likely due to the logistics of getting the fuel from the US to the Bahamas where they offload it onto small ships to come to Turks and Caicos Islands for storage.

However last week CartwrightRobinson said that it has been too long and the consumers should be feeling the impact of the cut price fuel by now.

She urged local merchants to share their savings with the customers.

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geologic formations beneath the Earth’s surface, which is commonly refined into various types of fuels.

It is formed when large quantities of dead organisms, usually zooplankton and algae, are buried underneath sedimentary rock and subjected to intense heat and pressure.

The name petroleum covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that are made up of refined crude oil.

Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling and is refined and separated, most easily by distillation, into a large number of consumer products.

Premier unaware of spate of burglaries A TOTAL of 23 homes have been burgled along Grace Bay over the past six weeks – but the country’s leader is oblivious of these crimes.

Premier Rufus Ewing told press recently that he had only heard of one or two incidents and was not aware of any increase over the holiday period.

He was responding to a question about a hike in crime during a press conference at the Premier’s Office in Providenciales on January 8.

“I am not aware of that,” he said, “all I am aware of is that there have been one or two incidents.

“People may have anecdotally said there’s a hike but until I can get an official form of report of those kinds of those crimes, I can’t comment that is the case.”

He went on to say that there is often an increase in crimes of opportunity around the peak tourist season.

“We have to increase the patrol presence in the Grace Bay area and I’ve already spoken to the Commissioner of Police about that.

“I think they’re doing that now because they’re working in conjunction with a lot of the resorts

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–Beaches especially – in trying to combat those kinds of activities.”

Following a request for further information on the Grace Bay crimes Commissioner Colin Farquhar sent an email to the Weekly News.

He said that from December 1 to December 31, 2014, there were 15 burglaries in the greater Grace Bay area – 10 in Grace Bay, two in the Bight, and three in the Lower Bight.

From January 1 to January 13 there were eight further burglaries in the greater Grace Bay area – two in Grace Bay, three in the Bight, and three in the Lower Bight.

He said the crimes were not targeted home invasions, rather burglaries where, on occasion, the criminals were confronted.

“We have several ongoing investigations and charges have been laid in certain cases.

“Further operations and strategic patrols are ongoing in our efforts to stop these crimes.”

He added that a number of crimes of opportunity continue to take place including thefts of purses and backpacks containing identification and valuables left on the beach and in vehicles.

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Court of Appeal stays corruption trial – Jury trial still a possibility

BY DELANA ISLES THE TEN defendants charged with corruption during former Premier Michael Misick’s term in office may yet get a trial by jury.

On Tuesday (January 13), the Court of Appeal granted an application for a stay of the trial as well as an application for special leave to apply to the Privy Council on the issue of jury trial.

On Monday, the defence made submissions related to the basis of the standard of proof used by Justice Paul Harrison when he decided in June last year that the interest of justice requires that the trial be tried by a judge without a jury.

This decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal last August, and is now being challenged at the Privy Council.

The lawyers argued that the application of the civil standard of proof by the judge in reaching his decision is flawed.

Civil cases are proved by lower standards of proof such as “the preponderance of the evidence” (which basically means that it was more likely than not that something occurred in a certain way).

They stipulated that the criminal standard of proof should have been

applied.

The standard of proof in a criminal trial is beyond a reasonable doubt.

In its decision to grant special leave, the court ordered that section 7 (1) of the Trial Without a Jury (TWAJ) Ordinance is repugnant to the Judicial Committee Act 1833 or the 1844 and by virtue of the Colonial Laws Validity 1865 is, to the extent that it purports to prevent an appeal to the Judicial Committee, of no effect.

That section of the ordinance states that the Court of Appeal’s decision on the issue of jury trial is final.

The defence now has leave to argue before the Privy Council whether the Court of Appeal erred in law in failing to hold that Harrison misdirected himself in failing to hold that he was obliged to apply the criminal standard of proof when deciding under section 4 (3) of the TWAJ Ordinance whether the interest of justice require the trial to be conducted without a jury.

Meanwhile, the decision to stay the trial is until the Privy Council hears and makes a determination on the appeal.

The order by the Court of Appeal on the issue of stay reads: “The proceedings before Harrison J be

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stayed only to the extent of the opening by the prosecution and thereafter the taking of evidence for the purposes of the trial and that therefore and for the avoidance of doubt, Harrison J can continue to deal with all and any pre-trial management issues that he deems necessary and expedient to enable the trial to proceed immediately following the final decision of the Judicial Committee.”

In October last year, the defence was granted conditional leave to apply to the Privy Council on the question of whether Judge Harrison’s tenure in the case is independent and impartial.

He was first appointed to hear the case on July 10, 2010, to serve until June 30, 2014; it was subsequently extended until December last year, when the trial was supposed to start.

The application for conditional leave to petition the Privy Council is as follows – by dismissing the appeal in the Court of Appeal, the appellants’ fundamental rights under Section 6 (1) of the 2011 Constitution is being infringed, because Harrison’s security of tenure from July 10, 2012 to June 2014 and from June 2014 to December 1, is insufficient to secure a fair trial before an independent court.

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Multimillion dollar private air centre opens

By Rebecca Bird A LUXURIOUS multimillion dollar private air centre officially opened in Providenciales on Monday evening (January 12) before scores of guests.

Blue Heron Aviation, which is run by US aviation company Signature Flight Support, is located off South Dock Road opposite the newly revamped public terminal at Providenciales International Airport.

The $16 million contemporary facility features a large terminal with lounges and office space, 11 acres of aircraft parking and a hangar.

Celebrations began at about 5.30pm outside the brand new 6,800 square foot centre as guests gathered to watch Premier Rufus Ewing cut the ribbon across the front doors.

Afterwards attendees streamed

Blue Heron Aviation general manager Louis Jennings hopes to evoke a sense of luxury

inside to explore the building which features on-site customs and immigration, office space with a conference room, 24 hour security, ground power, lavatory, and potable water service and a crew rest area.

They then settled in the reception area where they listened to prayers and renditions of the national anthem and the TCI’s national song.

First to speak was master of ceremony Claudine Ewing who explained that Blue Heron Aviation was developed and financed entirely

by TCI residents and Belonger investors.

“This facility has been built and designed to cater to a strong growing trend of private aircraft users – the TCI’s main target market in terms of tourism,” she said.

“This facility enables Turks and Caicos to strengthen its infrastructure ready for a sound and solid future to the very upper end of the tourism market.

“Turks and Caicos has one of the premier aviation infrastructures in the Caribbean region.”

Blue Heron Aviation director Michael Neutelings then took to the microphone and said he was very pleased and honoured to open the fixed base operation (FBO).

He went on to thank the different parties that were involved in the development of the facility.

“Signature Flight Support’s Blue Heron Aviation FBO phase one was completed on time and

Premier Rufus Ewing cuts the ribbon as Blue Heron Aviation director Michel Neutelings looks on

Premier Rufus Ewing and Porsha Stubbs Smith, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Heritage

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Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson gets a tour of the centre from director Michel Neutelings

The interior of the building is kitted out to the highest standards

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Blue Heron Aviation general manager Louis Jennings with director Michel Neutelings and Premier Rufus Ewing continued 

to International Civil Aviation Organisation standards,” he said.

“The current design allows for extensive future expansion of its facilities to enable it to continue to cater to the private aviation market.

“With opening of this facility and the recently completed Providenciales International Airport expansion, this means that the Turks and Caicos Islands now have the aviation infrastructure in place to ensure future investment and growth in the TCI.” Premier Rufus Ewing took to the stand to congratulate the development team for their exceptional work on the world class facility.

He referenced a recent magazine report which revealed that Providenciales is the third most popular destination in the Caribbean for private jet passengers.

“I would hope and think that with the establishment of this facility, the opening of the airport and the new FBO coming on stream here in the Turks and Caicos Islands, we’ll see an even greater increase in the number of arrivals of both private jets as well as commercial flights – and that we’ll move to number one in the region.”

Blue Heron Aviation general manager Louis Jennings said that he and his staff will do everything they can to boost the TCI from third place to number one.

“This is a service based industry in one of the world’s premier luxury destinations. I think this building and our staff will continue to evoke that sense of luxury.”

Guests then went on to enjoy drinks and nibbles as they explored and discussed the new facility.

In March 2014 Signature Flight Support, a BBA Aviation company, signed an agreement with Blue Heron Aviation Ltd to licence the FBO. An FBO is a commercial business granted the right by an airport to operate on the airport and provide aeronautical services.

The facility will offer full ground handling, fuelling and the full portfolio of Signature’s services such as its loyalty programme Signature TailWins.

Signature Flight Support is the world’s largest FBO and distribution network for business aviation services.

Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, it currently operates at more than 100 locations in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa and Asia.

A ribbon crosses the doors to the new world class air centre

John Smith, CEO of the TCI Airports Authority (left), enjoys the cocktail party

The luxurious Blue Heron Aviation flight centre by Signature Flight Support

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‘The fall out will be far reaching and great’ – Cartwright Robinson reacts to insurance company collapse THE OPPOSITION party this week called on the country’s banks to help those who lost out in the recent insurance company bust.

British Atlantic Financial Services Ltd (BAFSL) went into liquidation on Friday (January 9) following a hearing at Providenciales Supreme Court.

Thousands of policyholders - some who invested more than $100,000 - look set to lose large chunks of their cash pots in the winding up process.

Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson said she was “extremely disappointed” at the loss of the firm.

Former company administrators Joseph Connolly and David Walker from PricewaterhouseCoopers have been appointed as the liquidators.

“We are now hoping for a quick liquidation process and are calling on the liquidators to not engage in a long drawn out, costly process that will only result in less monies being given to the policy holders,” the Opposition Leader said.

“And we encourage them further to expend all efforts to share

Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson

information with the policy holders in a clear and forthcoming manner.”

She said that it is a great loss for the TCI and said the party anticipates the liquidation process will be wearying.

“It is another sad period where hardworking policy holders after long periods spanning some decades have lost significant investment in their life, health and pension coverage as well as further education planning.”

She expressed her concern that

many people will have to seek new life insurance policies for mortgage coverage purposes and called on the banks to be cooperative.

“The loss to the Government will also be felt as persons who may have maintained their medical insurance may not be able to obtain further medical coverage due to the high costs or high risks.

“Therefore the Government will now through the National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP) have to provide care for these persons. The fall out will be far reaching and great.”

Last month Governor Peter Beckingham announced that an independent probe into the workings of the Financial Service Commission (FSC) is set to take place this month.

“We are pleased that the investigation of the FSC is forthcoming having had two great losses to our citizens within recent years with this coming on the heels of the closure of TCI Bank,” Cartwright Robinson said.

“Our country suffers another reputational blow. We maintain that the regulator has a fiduciary responsibility to protect consumers of financial service institutions and we must ensure that it is doing all it can.

“We welcome an independent review of the FSC and await the

Bids gathered on phase one of new high school BIDS were finally offered for the construction of the first phase of a new Government high school in Providenciales after an extension of the tender period.

The winning bidder will be announced later this month, according to Akierra Missick, Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Library Services.

She made the announcement during a press conference at the Premier’s Office in Providenciales last Thursday (January 8).

A lack of bids during the initial tender period prompted fears of long delays, but the vital project can now move forward.

“My latest report that I received form the Ministry of Government Support Services is that the Procurement Board met in their December meeting to view the tenders that were received,” Missick said.

“And during the course of this month after everyone has settled back into work and returned from vacation the Cabinet should be updated on whether or not a tender was selected and awarded.”

In November the Government announced that not one person had presented a bid for the construction of phase one of a new high school in Long Bay. The Ministry of Education issued a tender notice for the build on September 24 and the process closed on October 21 with no success.

At the time Missick said the lack of support for the project was “disheartening”.

“We, as a public, are continuously hitting out on the Government on what are they doing to tackle the overcrowding at the Clement Howell High School.

“We have made financial provisions to address this and it’s disheartening to see…that the tender period now has to be extended by a further two weeks to November 5 because not a single bid was received for the project.”

About $600,000 has been earmarked for phase one of the build which will include eight classrooms for first and second form students along with toilet and administrative facilities.

In addition the ministry has

requested another $400,000 or so in supplementary appropriations to take the total of the first phase up to about $1 million.

In June the Minister of Education announced that a 13 acre plot of land in Long Bay Hills had been earmarked for the development of the new Government high school.

“The country should note that one of the major challenges that we have to deal with is the situation regarding adequate school spaces on the island of Providenciales,” she said.

For years children of high school age have been packed into Clement Howell High School in Blue Hills leading to severe overcrowding.

According to Government figures there are currently more than 930 pupils being educated at the expanded facility which was originally built for about 300 students.

The cramped conditions have created a plethora of problems including accelerated wear and tear of the buildings and furniture, lack of resources and teachers, huge class sizes and increased student disruption.

findings.”

She stressed that the financial sector is capable of yielding more than it currently does and called for the introduction of new niche markets and supporting legislation, along with the updating of existing legislation.

The party leader stressed that there should be greater levels of productivity in growing the industry from the FSC, a mechanism to ensure that the country is not overregulated, a greater partnership between the Government and the sector, and greater Governmental support.

The politics of caring and compassion Dear Editor, In a recent issue of the Turks and Caicos Weekly News, the ‘Man on the street’ section asked about the outlook for 2015.

One person said: “I want to see people more caring for one another.” And another said, “More brotherly love, and more compassion.”

These statements point to the need for our institutions to create a better society through acts of caring and compassion.

Caring is the desire to relieve a condition by making it better.

Compassion is being sensitive to the need to do something, and remedying the situation by practical acts.

Politics is about values. It seeks to improve lives through acts of caring and compassion, so that citizens become conscious of their obligations to the society.

Politics that cares creates jobs, so that citizens can live with dignity. Compassion pushes politics to act in a caring way so that institutions create policies that impact the country positively.

Does TCI politics reflect the values of compassion and caring?

Our early period of politics was the Crown colony model.

Later, a number of officials who represented business interests was included, because of the property requirement.

The majority of the people remained on the periphery, and managed their lives as best they could. Caring and compassion did not have a place in this system.

Later, by contesting the system, a semi-ministerial, and then full ministerial authority were introduced, preceded by the emergence of political parties.

People, through their elected representatives were now determining the country’s affairs,

and creating a more caring and compassionate society.

Prior to the ministerial s y s t e m , politics was for the elite.

One representative of the old system said they went to meetings where everything was already decided by officialdom.

People eked out a living through some agricultural activity, but serious health, education, and infrastructure development were minimal.

One high school existed, and charged fees which few families could afford, and there was one hospital for the entire country.

In some islands, salt production provided seasonal employment, but the working conditions were unsatisfactory, so many migrated.

There was despair, and an absence of compassion and caring.

After the formation of political parties, the society became more compassionate and caring.

People were placed at the centre, development was encouraged, education became free, three new high schools were built, more jobs were created, and tourism provided modern infrastructure.

And a modern, healthcare system cemented the idea of politics as caring and compassionate.

But recently, certain aspects of our politics seem to be returning to a period where the values of compassion and caring were under stress, and the re-emergence of uncaring, elitist politics seems to be on the horizon.

Oliver Mills Wheeland, Providenciales

January 17 - 23, 2015

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REAL TALK

SWANN SAYS

Of good law and bad THE LAWS of a territory

By Willette Swann define how persons live Willette Swann works as a social together with each other. The citizens elect legislators and consultant at Knowledge-Based employ bureaucrats (without Consulting, offering education and pejorative connotations) support to assist clients complying with and technocrats to lead the employment, immigration and other development, interpretation social legislation. and administration of these definitions.

We refer to these persons officials, become established in case as ‘persons in public life’ and to these law or precedent. activities as the social dialogue or ‘the We saw precedent set in the conversation’.

Supreme Court at Providenciales The other members of society should recently. It could have easily been a continually engage in the conversation very bad precedent. regarding these definitions, honing and The short-term visitor who was fine tuning our understanding of how prosecuting wanted to establish, in the we would relate to each other. ordinance’s list of acts of corruption, Because of the job they do, certain the dictionary meaning of ‘interfere’ persons in public life and certain in - take part or intervene in an activity without invitation or necessity. private wield more influence on the All of our ordinances frown on conversation and resultant definitions than the average citizen could. interfering with a public officer’s duty. This interference has to mean That’s acceptable and is true all something bad – like hindering or, over the world. However, generally illegally influencing the officer’s Turks and Caicos Islanders don’t really decision or action. engage in the conversation.

It can’t be simply taking part or One might say there is a small, intervening without invitation or vocal, minority. More Turks and necessity. I may have information I Caicos Islanders should join that vocal consider useful to the officer but not minority. know that the officer already has that I trust that by engaging in the information. conversation I could support, encourage By unnecessarily telling the officer, and raise your level of engagement as my taking part and intervening without you do the same for mine. invitation would be a crime.

We are at particular heightened risk because many in public life have I’m grateful to the eminent counsel, who, in eloquent arguments showed the no right nor expectation to reside in utter ridiculousness of that definition. the Islands long term, thus, go about The court set a good precedent. developing definitions without concern Thank you very much, sir! I trust that, they would have to live with those that the rest of us would follow your definitions. example and fill the gap in our Islands’ The legal interpretations of defences that opens up where we work. magistrates, judges, and other court

New year resolutions HAPPY new year TCI. We say “Happy new year” so often until one has to wonder how meaningful the sentiments are when being expressed.

However, when someone we love or respect says “Happy new year” it simply reassures us that the individual mean us well.

Hence when I say “Happy new year TCI,” I mean it from the bottom of my heart because I love this country!

Moreover, if there was ever a country that needs a new year; it’s the Turks and Caicos Islands.

That being said, the new year not only constitutes a new beginning, but gives us an opportunity to outline a few resolutions for the year ahead.

I believe this country could benefit from a few new year resolutions as well.

1) Be more thankful to our creator. We need to start this year off giving thanks to God for his mercies towards us.

We have disappointed him time and time again; but yet he continues to prosper and protect this country.

While there might be a lot of things to fix, there are a lot of things that are fixed despite are ingratitude towards God. Therefore let us endeavour to become a more thankful people in 2015.

2) Reinstitute our moral standards in our society. Growing up in country; one of the characteristics that I considered as special to our indigenous people was the moral and values and Godly principles that were instilled in me.

Our culture was to put God

By Jas Walkin

Jas Walkin was born with a physical disability due to complications from birth and diagnosed with a mild form of muscular dystrophy.

His early childhood was characterised with trying to fit in in a regular school environment unequipped to cater to special needs students.

Through support from his family, teachers and the community he graduated as valedictorian of Raymond Gardiner High School and became a graduate teacher for the past last nine years.

first in most of our decisions and promote morality and good upbringing to our children. Where have these characteristics gone?

Our current society has become too accepting to immoral behaviour, dishonesty, bribery, law breaking and compromise.

In 2015, we need to rediscover our moral characteristics and make them apart of our societies immediately.

3) Take responsibility for our actions: past and present.

Too much people in this country want to see these Islands recover from past failures without taking responsibility for their role in the mess and problems we find ourselves in.

They want others or a few to bear the responsibility to correct the problems while they continue their lives unaffected by the realities of our situations.

The first step to turning this country around is our people taking responsibility for why it needs to be turned around.

4) Stop being gullible. Is it too harsh to say we are too gullible as a people?

We believe some things too easily and don’t stop and think about the truth of the matter.

I will discuss this resolution in a subsequent column. However, in 2015,

we need to read between the lines and question important decisions.

5) Be aware of hidden agendas. People do things for many reasons and every action has an agenda.

Be smart and look for the agenda. Hidden agendas are those goals that people don’t want you to discover before they are realised.

These are agendas you must be careful of.

6) We need to be more patriotic. The people of this country must learn to love it more, appreciate more and fight for it more.

I guarantee you this is a topic I will speak on in the upcoming weeks. In 2015, let us develop a sense of pride and love for this country.

7) Stay positive.

All through my life I have experience the benefits of positive thinking. If you dwell on negativity, you will expect negativity.

Positive thinking gives birth to positive actions and decisions.

Let’s stay positive in 2015.

If these resolutions are to be kept, I am confident that the new year will bring tremendous possibilities to these ‘Beautiful by Nature’ Turks and Caicos Islands.

COMMENTARY

Nothing new under the sun “WHATEVER has happened before will happen. Whatever has been done before will be done.

Nothing new under the sun,” are words from the good book.

Words all too true and playing out here in the TCI. Another young man lost his life in a night club. Others attacked and injured.

A failed police force responsible to a long list of Governors who seem to come and go with little affect.

It’s the system, they say. What system and under what local administration?

Underneath it all is one party’s culture of embracing drugs, too much alcohol joined with unfunded and unaddressed educational shortages.

Too little learning and too little work. Infrastructure built

by workers from Asia not local or regional workers.

A civil service who makes up rules to suit their own agenda as they go along because they have little to no management or supervision.

Ministers with the same ethic. The only difference being the rate of pay.

One group grossly underpaid and the other ripping off the public purse while escaping on expensive trips.

Hollywood anyone?

We heard unachievable dreams floated as trial campaign promises for an unannounced coming early election.

Open bars at 2014/2015 Christmas and new year parties dishing out free booze and music which encourages something less than hope.

We remember those past parties and the morning results. Hangovers were the least of the problems.

Valued people dead and injured, remember?

If we go back far enough, drug related embarrassments as then leaders were arrested on the tarmac in Miami with a briefcase full of drug cash.

People we continue to listen to and re-elect.

Now the 2014/2015 holidays saw a return to the alcoholic hazes of the past parties.

Has temporary feel good ethics again replaced common sense and honest financial policies? Is this what the doctor ordered?

It was someone else that called himself doctor who prior to the inquiry promoted the same feel good parties and spending. He ran trying to avoid facing the consequences.

Now true to form and just prior

By David Tapfer

David is a retired mobile hydraulic engineer and business executive. He has been married to Middle Caicos native Yvette Robinson Tapfer for 25 years and has lived in Conch Bar, Middle Caicos, since 2002. David formerly served as branch chairman of the PDM from 2008 to 2011

to the British takeover we saw numerous ministerial juggling.

One lady minister fired, rehired.

A change a minute or so it seemed.

Is George now better qualified than Amanda and Portia better than Rufus?

We already had juggled Portia and Amanda. Just what qualifies any of them?

How much more can the TCI take?

Is another need for an inquiry and

interim government already in the works after extreme northern cold weather and extreme taxation give us a tourist bonus and small surplus to squander?

Meanwhile in the other camp a professional loser group led by a former progressive is seen embracing the runaway progressive as this loser schemes another loss.

Nothing is new under the sun!

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The life and times of Dr Rosita Butterfield The following is taken from the House of Assembly year book with amendments by the Strategic Policy and Planning Department.

IT WAS in Kew, North Caicos, known as the ‘District of hospitality,’ on November 14, 1936, Isaiah V Missick and Savelitta A Higgs Missick, triumphed with the addition to their young but growing family, their third daughter, Rosita.

As a pre-school child, she was tutored at home by Mrs Inez Clarke, later enrolled as a student at the Kew Elementary School renamed the Hubert James Primary School and the Bottle Creek Elementary School renamed the Adlaide Oemler Primary School.

Her elementary school teachers were the late Violet Oseta Higgs Jolly, the late Raymond Gardiner, the late Charles Hubert James, Snr, and Mr Timothy Deane, now residing in Freeport, Grand Bahama.

All of whom are noted contributors to educational advancement in the Turks and Caicos Islands. She also attended the Grand Turk Secondary School, where she was tutored by the late Canon Clifford Jones, OBE, who became one of the Islands' education officers, and Miss Helena J Robinson, MBE, a veteran teacher and past education officer.

Rosita and her husband of 38 years, had an eight year courtship, when on March 22, 1961, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the religious faith of her mother, in Grand Turk, they were united in holy matrimony at 7.30pm, by Pastor Rudulph Daughmer.

She remembered this milestone in her life with great joy, and satisfaction. She produced three children from her marriage, one daughter and two sons.

After leaving high school in Grand Turk, Rosita, was employed as a teacher for a short period with the Turks and Caicos Government's Education Department at the Kew Elementary School.

In preparation for this, she completed a teachers’ workshop in Grand Turk, the prerequisite for a teaching career at that time.

She developed a love in caring for others, and soon applied for a job in nursing. She joined the staff of the Grand Turk Hospital on November 2, 1953.

After four years she obtained a scholarship to be trained as a professional nurse at the Kingston

Public Hospital in Jamaica and the University College Hospital. She became qualified as a registered general nurse (RGN).

Following a two year period at the hospital in Grand Turk, she returned to Jamaica to pursue another area of training in her nursing career at Victoria Jubilee Hospital, this time to become a state certified midwife (SCM).

Upon completion of her study at nursing school in Jamaica, Rosita made an impact graduating as the recipient of the Matron's (Chief Nursing Officer) Prize, for best overall student, and the Chief Surgeon's Prize for the most efficient operating theatre surgical student nurse.

She was awarded the Evelyn Pierce Medical Nursing Book for the most vigilant student on night duty.

Rosita also merited the Certificate of Competence to Practice Midwifery without Doctor's Supervision.

During her nursing career, she delivered 103 babies.

Rosita, was employed at the Wuesthoff Hospital, Rockledge, Florida, and at Sunny Pines Nursing

Home.

Other training completed were a nurses’ home training programme, operating theatre course and x-ray technician course.

Rosita was the first to operate the x-ray machine at the Grand Turk Hospital, which was donated by the Naval Base during their tenure of operation in Grand Turk.

She also completed psychiatric nursing training in 1968 at Daytona Beach Junior College, Florida; and studied business administration at Brevard Junior College.

On returning to the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1971, she took up a new appointment as nurse-in-charge at the clinic in Providenciales.

In 1978 she resigned to assist her husband fully in the family’s businesses.

MANY INTERESTS From 1984 to 1993, she served the Turks and Caicos Islands as an elected member of the Legislative Council, becoming the first elected woman to serve in the Legislative Council.

As Speaker, she brought order and decorum to the sittings; and was the first Speaker of the council who presided over the sittings dressed in ceremonial attire.

Mrs Butterfield served in a

number of distinguished positions: From 1982 to 1984, the Provo branch of the Immigration Committee, an advisory committee established to assist the Director of Immigration for the issuance of work permits for the island of Providenciales.

From 1983 to 1985, a member of the Health Practitioner’s Board, a social worker through the Welfare Department, voluntary work with the schools and clinics, contributions of kind, in time and other means to the aged, member of the Public Service Advisory Board, served on the Turks and Caicos Tourist Board.

Chairperson for the select committee on the Employment Bill from 1987 to 1988.

TCI Government member of the standing committees monitoring the Chief Minister and Minister of Social Services.

Appointed Member of Legislative Council from 1988 to 1991.

Appointed Deputy Speaker from 1986 to 1988.

Elected Speaker for the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1991 to 1993, and president of the Turks and Caicos branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. continued 

‘An icon, an institution, a pioneer’ – Community mourns death of Rosita Butterfield MBE FAMILY and friends mourned the death of Rosita Butterfield this week after she sadly passed away over the weekend.

Heralded as “an icon, an institution, a pioneer,” her good works in the community and her commitment to her family will live on for many years to come.

Dr Butterfield was a teacher, a nurse, a long standing member of parliament, a businesswoman, a preacher and a philanthropist.

Born in Kew, North Caicos, she touched the lives of many during her 78 years before passing away on Saturday (January 10).

Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson offered a tribute and condolences to her family the following day.

“Though we mourn her passing, we celebrate a life well spent and well lived,” she said.

“The late Dr Butterfield was an icon, an institution, a pioneer. She wore many hats in the years that God had loan her to these Islands and her family.”

She sponsored and supported many national events including the National Inter High School Spelling Bee, Carwright Robinson explained.

She also set up her very own foundation, the Albray and Rosita Butterfield Foundation to help those in need.

Dr Butterfield served on many national boards of influence including being a founding member of the TCI Community College.

“There were many things that distinguished her in her different walks of life but she will forever be celebrated as the first female ever elected to parliament and then later as the second female speaker of parliament but the first to wear the speaker’s ceremonial dress,” the Opposition Leader said.

“Though she walked with kings and queens and was widely travelled, if one would ask her or just chat with her for a brief moment, she reflected with a childlike excitement on her nursing career as the noblest thing she ever did,

next to serving and caring for her family.

“This was indeed her pride and joy and no matter how lofty a height she attained, she thought the greatest contribution she made was perhaps what too many might consider as the lowliest of the lot - nursing.

“This exemplified the type of lady she was. She never forgot her humble birth and beginnings in Kew, North Caicos nor how she began her life of public service – through a humble nursing career.

“As a female, her life is an inspiration to me and I will continue to cherish each of our exchanges and her words of encouragement which spanned from my first days on Providenciales as a banker to my current role as Leader of the Opposition.

“Indeed the life of the late Dr Rosita Butterfield is a life well spent and history, if recorded truly, will record her as one of the most outstanding Turks and Caicos Islanders ever, having left an indelible mark on all the paths she trod.

“She undeniably left this world better than she met it and she will certainly continue to be held in the highest esteem by many who knew and loved her.

“She ought to be celebrated and honoured by the people of this country whose lives she has touched in many ways.

“May she rest in peace after a lifetime labour of love.”

Kadean Cunningham, principal of Clement Howell High School in Blue Hills, also offered a tribute to Dr Butterfield.

“The management and staff of the Clement Howell High School wish to express sincere condolences to the family of Dr the Hon Rosita Butterfield,” she said.

“Her love for children and passion for education resonated throughout the school life.

“She has been instrumental to the development of many aspects of Clement Howell High School.

“She is gone but not forgotten.”

January 17 - 23, 2015 Mrs Butterfield also performed other ceremonial duties, from presiding over the Oath of Office for Governors to delivering the welcome address to His Royal Highness (HRH) the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, husband of Her Royal Highness (HRH) Queen Elizabeth the II, during one of his official visits to the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, the Rt Hon Sir Lynden Pindling, during his official visit to North Caicos.

In addition, she has also presided over the Oath of Office for members of the Legislative Council, and sponsored the banquet at the Erebus Inn for the first seminar on parliamentary practices and procedures, held in Grand Turk, for members of the Legislative Council.

Mrs Butterfield while fulfilling all these roles, continued to be fully involved in all aspects of the family’s business as director and secretary to the Butterfield Gold Group of Companies from 1978 to present.

Most recently, she served as the chief executive officer (CEO), for all of the companies.

Her involvement in public life gave her the opportunity to represent the Turks and Caicos Islands abroad not only on official occasions, but also as an ambassador of goodwill.

She has contributed immensely to all the national events, such as the Provo Summer Festival, the North Caicos Festival, and the Annual South Caicos Regatta on behalf of the companies.

She attended Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) seminars at the House of Commons in London and the Isle of Man in 1986 to 1989, she attended a conference in Bermuda as one of the Turks and Caicos official delegates.

There, she delivered an address on ‘Migration and immigration in the Turks and Caicos Islands’ and attended a banquet, where Princess Alexandria, was the official guest of honour.

In 1991, she was part of the official programme to pay tribute to the retiring Clerk of the Grenada House of Assembly, Sir Curtis Strachen, the longest serving Clerk in the Caribbean for a 35 year period.

In 1992, she attended the 11th Conference of Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers, hosted in Jamaica.

Mrs Butterfield was the Turks and Caicos Islands official representative to the funeral of the late Prime Minister Sir Errol Barrow of Barbados.

From 1991 to 1993, Mrs Butterfield, served as a Justice of the Peace in the Turks and Caicos Islands, by virtue of her office as Speaker, of the Legislative Council.

In 1992, Her Royal Highness (HRH), Her Majesty, The Queen, Elizabeth the II, as head of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded Mrs Butterfield the title of MBE (Member of the British Empire) for long and distinguished service to the Turks and Caicos Islands.

A HELPING HAND Mrs Butterfield along with her husband have always been advocates

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Dr Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield passed away this weekend

for better education for the people of the Islands.

In her love for supporting underprivileged people in giving them the chance for better education, she has given numerous scholarships to private schools at home and abroad.

She assisted in contributions for better church buildings in Providenciales and North Caicos.

She purchased street lights for the community of Kew, North Caicos, her birth place, and along with her husband paid for the construction of a medical clinic in Sandy Point, North Caicos.

She did fund raising programmes to assist underprivileged children in the Islands.

She assisted all the schools around the Turks and Caicos Islands when called upon for donations to worthy

causes.

Mrs Butterfield was the cosponsor for the Inter-Island High School Spelling Competition, a founding member of the Turks and Caicos Community College.

She served as a member of the Board of Governors to the Community College and was founder for the canteen at the Clement Howell High School.

She served as a founding member of the Soroptimist International Club of Providenciales and the local chapter of Women's Aglow International.

Mrs Butterfield also did a considerable amount of charitable work for the senior citizens of her country.

She held various positions in her church life. She served as a mission leader and worker,

public relations director, director for the Sunday school, assist the children’s choir and was an exhorter of the gospel at home and a guest speaker abroad.

Rosita's accomplishments are listed among her successful career in nursing, business, as a social worker, as a loving and supportive wife and mother, to her husband Albray V Butterfield Snr, and her three children, a leader and elected guardian of the peoples' goals as a member of LEGCO and a philanthropist.

Her grandchildren were among her prized possessions, and she spent a great deal of her time with them.

Rosita adopted her nephew, Royal Robinson, son of her sister Flossie (now deceased).

Rosita also helped to raise several of her nieces and nephews, among

whom are Lorna, Beatrice and Meshall Delancy, Rosita (Patsy), and Vernice Missick, Prince, Clarence, Gilbert, Orval and Oral Selver.

Mrs Butterfield helped to mother a large number of Godchildren, and developed relationships with many other children who found her to be a mother to them.

As for Albray V Butterfield Snr and his late wife Mrs Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield, continued their ministry with love and support for each other during her remarkable life time.

Charles Wesley's (1707-88), verse assured them the success of ministering to all of us: “Thy faithfulness Lord, each moment we find, so true to thy word, so loving and kind.”

May her soul rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Governor wishes peace and prosperity for all RETAINING the TCI’s reputation as a “haven of peace” and promoting the tourism product are some of Governor Peter Beckingham’s goals for 2015.

In his latest blog post on the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office website he spoke of a positive future for the country – as long as hard work is put in.

His article entitled ‘My two wishes for the new year – peace and prosperity for all’ spoke of his experiences in 2014 and his hopes for the coming year.

“Predictions and resolutions for a new year can often prove wildly wrong or optimistic,” he wrote in his blog published on Thursday (January 15).

“Sadly, one possibility I mentioned to a meeting of Permanent Secretaries just before Christmas – a terrorist outrage in Europe or the US – has already proved chillingly accurate, with the carnage on the streets of Paris in early January.

“No-one who heard the replay on the radio of the burst of gunfire by one of the terrorists killing a (Muslim) policeman will quickly forget its savagery.”

The Governor recently returned to the TCI after a ten day trip to London, England over the holidays.

He said that while the pavements of Paris now seem a million miles away from Providenciales, the events

in France still echo around.

“Canada and New York, much closer to us, have also had their share of violence recently.

“I’m sure the church services this month in Grand Turk and Provo to honour our law enforcement officers will also provide the opportunity to pay tribute to the bravery of their French and American counterparts.

“As I said to the Permanent Secretaries, although no-one predicted at the turn of the century that tourism to the idyllic south east Asian island of Bali would be decimated by bombings, there is nothing to suggest that the tranquil seas of TCI should be disturbed by international terrorism.

“Sadly the turn of our year was not marked by peace, with the senseless murder of a teenager, as well as shootings, in a Provo bar.”

But he stressed that compared to the 1,000 plus murders a year in other Caribbean countries the TCI still looks like a haven of peace.

“It is mine, and I’m sure the current and new Police Commissioners’ fervent wish for 2015, that we retain that reputation.”

The Governor explained that his other big hope for 2015 is growing prosperity at all levels in the TCI. He stressed that he intends to do his “level best” to see that secured by continuing to support the country’s tourism promotion whenever

possible.

“So long as the Government and people of TCI choose to remain an UK overseas territory it is important to underline the close UK-TCI cooperation across areas from security to international relations to our potential customers.

“We may be able to boast, as recent figures demonstrated, that we are now one of the top three destinations (ahead of Grand Cayman) for private jet arrivals.

“But that is a worthless claim if the spending of our affluent visitors doesn’t make an impact across society.”

He said that without all those tourists the TCI would have little hope of ever becoming a truly middle income nation.

“We all need to ensure that North American (and increasingly European) travellers continue to regard Turks and Caicos as not only a ‘Beautiful by nature’ destination – and we are going to have to be constantly on our guard to preserve that reputation - but also one where they can stay peacefully and without undue hassle from beach hawkers.

“If we can together succeed in fulfilling those aims I confidently predict that 2015 should be another big step towards making Turks and Caicos one of the most prosperous countries in the Caribbean and beyond.”

FSC publishes economic review of the TCI THE COUNTRY’s financial watchdogs have put together the first quarterly economic review of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The 23 page report by the TCI Financial Services Commission (FSC) was published in December 2014 and covers the quarter ending in June 2014.

Among the figures included are key banking indicators, domestic bank balances, profit and loss accounts and a business registry.

It also lists total employment, number of tourists, value of imported construction materials, work permit numbers, and the major occupation of the Government’s contract workers.

The report concludes by listing the Government’s operations and financing figures and outstanding national debt.

Kevin Higgins, FSC director, told the Weekly News on Monday (January 12) that the report was put together as a result of Standard and

Poor’s credit rating exercise last summer.

While the US financial services company gave the TCI a good rating of BBB+, it also offered many suggestions on how the country could improve it.

“During the Standard and Poor’s rating exercise they complained that there was no single source of economic and financial data and that the data that was available was very limited.

“Their view was that as the commission collected all the financial information and published it on our website we needed to also produce a regular quarterly review like all the other FSCs, monetary authorities and central banks.”

He added that since the 2008 financial crisis there is a new type of bank supervision called ‘macro prudential supervision’.

“This means essentially adjusting prudential rules to reflect the state

of the economy. To do this you need macro-economic data,” Higgins explained.

“Moreover since the crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) requires countries to publish twice yearly a ‘financial stability report.’

“This also requires macroeconomic data. So since we were going to have to get it for our own use we decided to share it.”

The FSC established an Economics and Statistics Unit to carry out the work and employed Dr Ubaldus Raymond to head the department.

Dr Raymond is formerly the Government’s chief economist and holds a Phd in economics.

Reports will cover the quarters ending March, June, September and December and will be available online at www.tcifsc.tc/publications.

The next report on the quarter ending September 2014 will be published later this month.

Former Chief Justice, Edwin Goldsbrough (extreme right) and fellow jurists back in 2011 when Judge Joan Joyner (second from left) was sworn in by former Governor Ric Todd (left) Also pictured is the current Chief Justice, Margaret Ramsay-Hale.

Goldsbrough lauded a fine jurist by current Chief Justice SITTING Supreme Court Chief Justice, Margaret Ramsay-Hale has hailed the former CJ, Edwin Goldsbrough as fine jurist with a wealth of administrative experience from which the administration has benefitted.

The special tribute to Goldsbrough was delivered at the now revived opening of the Supreme Court on January 5, in Providenciales.

The former TCI judge sits on the Bench as the President of the Court of Appeal for the Solomon Islands where he had served from 2006 as a High Court Judge before he was appointed CJ in the TCI. Ramsay-Hale expressed her thanks to Goldsbrough for his “calm stewardship” of the Islands’ judiciary during his tenure.

“He was well-regarded by the Bar for his unflappability in court and his clear and concise judgments,” she recalled.

Chief Justice Goldsbrough’s career took him from England to the Atlantic

to Africa and then to the Pacific before he came to TCI, she added.

She noted that in addition to his considerable experience as a judge, Goldsbrough brought with him a wealth of experience in training judicial officers.

This experience, she said, was gained while he worked in St Helena where he was tasked with devising and delivering training to Lay Magistrates, as well as from his time in Zimbabwe where he served as a legal training officer at that country’s judicial college.

“Not many people knew it, but Chief Justice Goldsbrough had an exceptional sense of humour characterised by a biting wit and a keen sense of the absurd.”

She added: “I am grateful to him for his many lessons in good administration and teaching about being a good judge and at the same time making me laugh while he was about it.”

The former Chief Justice left the TCI last September.

Education for childcare workers CARERS of young children were given an update on the importance of their roles when they took part in a workshop this week.

During the three day event they were taught how to design an effective screening and early intervention system for children at risk.

The educational session was hosted by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Turks and Caicos Islands Ministry of Education, Youth Sports and Library Services.

It took place from Monday (January 12) to Wednesday (January 14) at the Regent Palms in Providenciales.

Following completion of the workshop attendees were able to understand the importance of the early childhood period and its impact on later development.

They were taught to describe normal physical, cognitive, language, sensory and socio-emotional development in the early years, and deviations in normal development.

According to a Government press release on Thursday (January 15), further training allowed participants to “understand the importance of screening and early identification of children with developmental and behavioural disabilities and

disorders.”

And finally it gave them the tools to understand the differences between screening and diagnostic tests.

“The early childhood sector is one such area that the Ministry of Education has committed to strengthening both from a human capital development standpoint and infrastructure wise,” the release read.

“The Education Sector Plan, 2013-2017, Strategic Imperative Six, clearly outlined key pointers that the ministry has adopted.”

Among its aims are to review guidelines to allow all children an opportunity to enrol at ages two and three-years-old, and to register and supervise a sufficient number of schools to allow all children the opportunity to enrol.

The ministry also plans to review the curriculum guidelines to ensure that they are appropriate for use in the Turks and Caicos Islands and provide both pre-service and professional teacher development opportunities for early childhood teachers, Finally it aims to provide professional and technical assistance to the early childhood centres such as this week’s workshop.

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How does your garden grow 

BY DENIS Belanger - NATURE SPLENDOR

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For more information call 332-3381 or email denis@naturesplendor.net.

A pond in the garden - Part two WHEN you add rocks to your Koi pond, make sure they are safe for fish. Don’t use decorative, coloured

ones that are used for other purposes as they may kill your fish.

You will also need to use smoother rocks on the sides and bottoms, because Koi are curious and rooting

fish. They have a big risk of getting injured if you have sharp or pointy rocks.

Then fill the hole with fresh water.

Make sure pond retains water before putting in plants.

Start to add plants to the pond if wanted. Some people will argue that you must have plants in the pond because the plants are necessary to consume the nitrates that build up in the pond.

That would be true if it weren’t for all the algae that naturally forms in a pond.

A healthy pond will normally develop a three quarter inch layer of green algae on all the inside walls of the pond.

This algae, which feeds on nitrates just like pond plants do, is usually more than sufficient to keep the nitrates at a safe level.

Keep in mind plants can take a while before they start to take hold and look healthy.

Wait the proper time then add your Koi fish. If the pond is retaining water, you will need to wait for a few weeks before you put the Koi in. It’s important to let the water circulate and build up some sediment.

You can install a floating mesh on your pond, it is one of the best ways to protect your Koi fish.

The floating mesh is a way will prevent birds and land animals from snatching the fish on your Koi fish ponds - predators will not be able to reach through the mesh to eat your Koi. No one will also notice that there is a floating mesh on your Koi pond because it would be invisible from afar.

You can use ultrasonic gadgets that make noise whenever a predatory bird or land animal approach your garden pond.

The ultrasonic noise can only be heard by animals so the gadget will

not disturb anyone except those predators who are eyeing the fish on your Koi pond.

You can also install automatic water squirts around your Koi fish ponds to scare away cats and dogs that will try to fish on your garden fish pond.

By building underwater fish cages, it can create an underwater sanctuary where the Koi fish can hide if it detects danger.

These sanctuaries are usually called Koi houses and they are made from mesh cages.

The cages should have a large opening so that the Koi fish can

easily slide in to hide.

This anti-predator solution however may not be effective against wily and swift flying birds.

By creating natural barriers; plants, vegetation and rocks can serve as good protection against predators.

You have to use these natural barriers to make your Koi pond predator-proof.

Rocks and other solid decorative objects around your garden pond can deter land predators.

On the other hand, water plants and lilies in Koi fish ponds can shield your fish from predatory birds.

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Happy dental new year!

HAPPY new year to all my readers and patients! 2015 is already shaping up to be a great one!

I always like to start the year with a review of the basic steps in maintaining great, healthy teeth and

gums.

I like to remind my patients that it isn’t difficult, it isn’t time consuming and it isn’t expensive. Make the commitment today to really care for your teeth and those of your family!

Weekly Recipe Helen Barkworth-Knight is a teacher and qualified baker with a lifelong love for cooking for friends and family.

She is a mother to Owen, almost two, who has very particular tastes in all things, especially food.

Hence she has become an expert in hiding vegetables in all sorts of dishes!

Fruity thumbprint cookies

THE SUPER-easy recipe for these tasty cookies is wheat free, vegan and uses no added fat or sugar.

They are perfect for treating yourself and your family while also helping you keep those new year resolutions!

They are also lots of fun to make with kids.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 large bananas, mashed • 2 cups quick oats (use gluten free if necessary) • 3 tablespoons ground flax meal (optional) • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • A pinch of sea salt • 8 teaspoons raspberry jam/preserve (or any flavour you like)

METHOD

• Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

• Put the oats in a food processor or blender and whizz for a few seconds to grind into a coarse meal. You still want some larger pieces of oats.

• Alternatively you could use a pestle and mortar.

• Put the oats in a bowl and stir in the flax meal (if using), cinnamon and salt.

• Mix in the mashed banana to make a soft dough. It’s easiest to use your hands for this.

• Roll the dough into 16 balls and place an inch apart on the lined baking sheet.

• Flatten the balls gently with your hand then press your thumb into the centre of each cookie to make a little well.

• Spoon ½ teaspoon of jam into each well.

• Bake for 11 to 13 minutes until the cookies feel firm on top, but are still soft and doughy in the middle.

• They don’t brown very much.

The Dentist and you  Mark Osmond BDS (Lond) LDS RCS (Eng). Mark Osmond Dental Clinic - (649) 432 3777, drmosmond@gmail.com or Find us on Facebook

Brushing teeth This is the single most important thing you can do to care for your teeth.

You should brush at least twice a day, when you get up in the morning and the last thing before going to bed at night.

Use a toothbrush with a small head as this makes it easier to get into hard-to-reach places in the mouth.

I recommend a fluoride toothpaste as fluoride strengthens tooth enamel, can reverse early decay and help reduce sensitivity.

Gently brush the outside, inside and chewing surface of each tooth.

Two minutes is enough time to thoroughly brush an adult’s teeth.

Also, keep an eye on the ‘health’ of your tooth brush. If the bristles are splaying out and flattening it’s time to invest in a new one.

In the case of younger children, it is often better that the adult does at least some of the brushing.

I do not want to discourage children from brushing their own teeth but from experience with my own children I know that if I leave them to brush unassisted they generally just eat the toothpaste and then chew the toothbrush for a few seconds before announcing that they’ve finished!

Flossing It is recommended that adults floss once a day. I recommend flossing after you have brushed your teeth in the evening.

Diet Aim for a diet that is low in sugar and high in healthy, nutrient-rich foods such as vegetables and whole grains.

Particularly watch out for high-sugar drinks such as sodas, fruit juices and even smoothies.

Regular visits to the dentist Six monthly check-ups with the dentist will ensure that any problems are detected early and corrective action can be taken.

You can have cavities or gum disease without necessarily having pain; bad breath, bleeding gums, a white or light brown mark on the teeth can all be signs of potential problems or you may have no obvious symptoms at all.

Early detection and correction of dental problems will mean less chance of dental pain, less chance

of requiring emergency or complex treatment and less chance of losing teeth.

Professional cleaning will also ensure that teeth are given a thorough, deep cleaning and any calculus - which regular brushing at home cannot remove - is scaled

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away.

These simple steps will go a long way to keeping your teeth strong and healthy. Good luck with your resolutions and happy new year!

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Science & Technology

Inactivity ‘kills more than obesity’ A LACK of exercise could be killing twice as many people as obesity in Europe, a 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests.

University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 from carrying too much weight.

They concluded that getting everyone to do at least 20 minutes of brisk walking a day would have substantial benefits.

Experts said exercise was beneficial for people of any weight.

Obesity and inactivity often go hand in hand.

However, it is known that thin people have a higher risk of health problems if they are inactive. And obese people who exercise are in better health than those that do not.

The study, published in the

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, attempted to tease out the relative dangers of inactivity and obesity.

Researchers followed 334,161 Europeans for 12 years. They assessed exercise levels and waistlines and recorded every death.

“The greatest risk [of an early death] was in those classed inactive, and that was consistent in normal weight, overweight and obese people,” one of the researchers, Prof Ulf Ekelund told BBC News.

He said eliminating inactivity in Europe would cut mortality rates by nearly 7.5%, or 676,000 deaths, but eliminating obesity would cut rates by just 3.6%.

Prof Ekelund added: “But I don’t think it’s a case of one or the other. We should also strive to reduce obesity, but I do think physical activity needs to be recognised as a very important

University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 from carrying too much weight.

public health strategy.”

Prof Ekelund, who is based in Norway, is into cross country skiing and clocks up at least five hours of vigorous exercise each week.

However, he says all it would need to transform health, is brisk walking.

“I think people need to consider their 24-hour day.

“Twenty minutes of physical activity, equivalent to a brisk walk, should be possible for most people to include on their way to or from work, or on lunch breaks, or in the evening

instead of watching TV.” The diseases caused by inactivity and obesity were largely the same, such as cardiovascular disease.

However, type 2 diabetes was more common with obesity.

Commenting on the findings, Barbara Dinsdale, from the charity Heart Research UK, said: “This study once again reinforces the importance of being physically active, even when carrying excess weight.

“Changing your lifestyle is all good news for heart health, but

physical activity is always easier to achieve and maintain without carrying the extra ‘body baggage’ of too much weight.”

Prof John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said changes were needed to make exercise easier.

“We need substantial investment in cycling infrastructure to make our streets safer.

“If more people cycled or walked to work or school, it would make a big difference in raising levels of physical activity.” (BBC)

UK: Caps on fat, salt and sugar promised by Labour MAXIMUM limits would be set on levels of fat, salt and sugar in food marketed to children, under a Labour government, the shadow health secretary will say.

In a speech, Andy Burnham will say it is time for tough action to protect children and tackle obesity.

He will criticise the government’s approach to industry, which has been categorised by voluntary agreements.

The Conservatives said “real progress” had been made on public health under the current government.

Mr Burnham is also expected to call for more to be done on food labelling and for plain cigarette packaging to be introduced.

But it is the move on setting mandatory maximum limits that will attract most attention.

The levels of fat, salt and sugar in food has been reduced in recent years, but many people still consume above the recommended levels.

There are signs that the rise in obesity among children has started levelling off, but 15% of under 15s are still obese.

On food labelling, Mr Burnham wants to see a clearer traffic lightbased system. A front-of-pack

colour coding and nutritional information system is currently being used.

It is not clear how this will be done, as introducing food labelling has proved difficult because of industry opposition and the need for mandatory rules to be agreed at an EU level.

Meanwhile, the pledge of plain packaging comes after the government has carried out a consultation on the issue and said it is “minded” to introduce it, but has yet to confirm it will.

Targeted action on high-strength, cheap alcohol is also needed, Mr Burnham will say, with options on pricing and bottle size being explored.

“Labour has traditionally led the way on public health and this new approach will chart a new course towards a healthy nation in the 21st century.

“Children need better protection from the pressures of modern living and the harm caused by alcohol, sugar and smoke. and Labour will not flinch from taking the action needed to provide it.”

Professor John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said

The levels of fat, salt and sugar in food has been reduced in recent years, but many people still consume above the recommended levels.

the steps proposed were in line with the organisation’s “public health priorities”.

“We need an honest discussion about whether we can still have a

world-class health system without government intervening, where only it can, to improve and protect our health.”

A Conservative spokesman said:

“Labour are naive to think that just banning particular types of food will support people to make informed choices. The public deserve better.”

(BBC)

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Regular naps are ‘key to learning’ THE key to learning and memory in early life is a lengthy nap, say scientists.

Trials with 216 babies up to 12 months old indicated they were unable to remember new tasks if they did not have a lengthy sleep soon afterwards.

The University of Sheffield team suggested the best time to learn may be just before sleep and emphasised the importance of reading at bedtime.

Experts said sleep may be much more important in early years than at other ages.

People spend more of their time asleep as babies than at any other point in their lives.

Yet the researchers, in Sheffield and Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany, say “strikingly little is known” about the role of sleep in the first year of life.

They taught six- to 12-month-olds three new tasks involving playing with hand puppets.

Half the babies slept within four

hours of learning, while the rest either had no sleep or napped for fewer than 30 minutes.

The next day, the babies were encouraged to repeat what they had been taught.

The results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed “sleeping like a baby” was vital for learning.

On average one-and-a-half tasks could be repeated after having a substantial nap.

Yet zero tasks could be repeated if there was little sleep time.

Dr Jane Herbert, from the department of psychology at the University of Sheffield, told the BBC News website: “Those who sleep after learning learn well, those not sleeping don’t learn at all.”

She said it had been assumed that “wide-awake was best” for learning, but instead it “may be the events just before sleep that are most important”.

And that the findings showed “just how valuable” reading books with children before sleep could be.

Dr Herbert added: “Parents get loads of advice, some saying fixed sleep, some flexible, these findings suggest some flexibility would be useful, but they don’t say what parents should do.”

A study last year uncovered the mechanisms of memory in sleep.

It showed how new connections between brain cells formed during sleep.

Prof Derk-Jan Dijk, a sleep scientists at the University of Surrey, said: “It may be that sleep is much more important at some ages than others, but that remains to be firmly established.”

He said babies “should definitely get enough sleep” to encourage learning, but concentrating learning just before bedtime may not be best.

“What the data show is sleeping after training is positive, it does

Trials with 216 babies up to 12 months old indicated they were unable to remember new tasks if they did not have a lengthy sleep soon afterwards.

not show that being sleepy during training is positive.”

There is also growing interest in sleep and memory at the other end of life.

The two go hand in hand in

your twilight years, particularly with underlying neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia.

It is hoped that boosting sleep would “slow the rot” of memory function. (BBC)

EU changes rules on GM crop cultivation THE EU has given governments more power to decide whether to plant genetically modified (GM) crops, which are highly restricted in Europe.

The European Parliament has passed a new law giving states more flexibility by a big majority.

A type of maize - MON 810 - is the only GM crop grown commercially in the EU. Although Euro MPs and ministers have agreed to give states more flexibility, EU scientists will still play a key role in authorisations.

GM crops are used widely in the US and Asia, but many Europeans are wary of their impact on health and wildlife.

It is one of the toughest issues at the EU-US talks on a free trade deal, as farming patterns in Europe - including GM use - differ greatly from North America.

The new law only applies to crops

and does not cover GM used in animal feed, which can still enter the human food chain indirectly.

Last July the new EU Commission President, JeanClaude Juncker, said the legal changes were necessary because under current rules “the Commission is legally obliged to authorise the import and processing of new GMOs [genetically modified organisms], even in cases where a clear majority of member states are opposed to their use”.

Spain is by far the biggest grower of MON 810 in Europe, with 137,000 hectares (338,000 acres), the European Commission says.

Yet the EU total for MON 810 is just 1.56% of the EU’s total maizegrowing area.

MON 810 is marketed by US biotech giant Monsanto and is modified to be resistant to the European corn borer, a damaging

A type of maize - MON 810 - is the only GM crop grown commercially in the EU.

insect pest.

The maize variety is banned in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg.

Under the new law, the grounds for a ban on any GM variety will be expanded. National governments will in future be able to cite factors such as protection of a particular ecosystem or the high cost of GM contamination for conventional farmers.

But the Greenpeace environmental group says the legislation has shortcomings, as it “grants biotech companies the power to negotiate with elected governments” on GM crops, rather than with the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa), and forces national environmental risk assessments to comply with Efsa’s assessments.

The new law says states can only use environmental grounds

that are “complementary” to Efsa’s assessments of GM crops.

The UK government is among several countries, including Spain and Sweden, which have called for the EU’s GM rules to be eased.

But the UK Conservative group in Strasbourg has criticised the new law, saying it “allows member states to proceed directly to national bans, rather than first seeking a more legally sound ‘opt-out’”. (BBC)

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Haiti parliament dissolved, Western countries urge “consensus government” LAW makers failed to pass new legislation that would have resulted in long-delayed elections in Haiti leading to the legislature being dissolved.

The legislators had been expected to vote on an electoral law aimed at ending the political stand-off between President Michel Martelly and the opposition, but their failure to vote on the measure means that Martelly now effectively rules the country by decree.

Martelly had been trying to secure backing for a US-sanctioned plan to postpone elections but Fanmi Lavalas, the party that was once led by former president Jean Bertrand Aristide and which has been at the forefront of anti-government protests, said it was not part of the agreement.

The opposition parties have since announced plans for more street demonstrations to force Martelly out of office.

“Martelly will not be able to hold onto power. He is not going to be able to remain. We’re not going to stop until he leaves,” said attorney Andre Michel, an opposition member.

The opposition members have accused President Martelly of corruption and abuse of power and say he wanted to derail the election deal to rule by decree.

Mid-term Senate elections had been originally due in May 2012, while local polls are three years behind schedule.

The accord was expected to have resulted in the approval of a “consensus” government that could include Evans Paul, the president’s new choice for prime minister to replace Laurent Lamothe, who

The earthquake in Haiti “should have been the wakeup call for a fundamental shift in regional mechanisms for coping with seismic hazards”.

Due to the voting failure of an electoral law aimed at ending the political stand-off between President Michel Martelly and the opposition, Martelly now effectively rules the country by decree.

resigned in December.

The agreement would also extend the terms of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

Martelly has been meeting with several social and political groups in a bid to pave the way for the holding of the long-delayed election to renew two-thirds of the 30-member Senate, the entire Lower Chamber and hundreds of local government bodies.

Out of the 30 senate members, only 20 remain in office, and amendments to an existing electoral law are required to facilitate the vote.

The new agreement would have extended the terms of the deputies until April 24 and senators until September 9.

Meanwhile, the top United Nations official in Haiti joined the ambassadors of several countries in deploring the fact that the Haitian parliament became “dysfunctional” after failing to hold elections within its constitutional framework.

In a statement, Sandra Honoré, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Haiti, and

other members of the international community represented in the “Core Group” – Brazil, Canada, France, Spain, the United States and the European Union – urged all Haitian stakeholders to form a consensus government.

“The ‘Core Group’ is gravely concerned that the Haitian Parliament has become dysfunctional due to the fact that elections have not been held within the constitutional timeframe,” said a statement released by the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti MINUSTAH. As a result, the “Core Group” expressed its support to President Martelly in the exercise of his constitutional duty to ensure the regular functioning of institutions.

The “Core Group” said it trusted that the Executive and all the political actors will act with “responsibility and restraint” and that it welcomed the Political Accord recently concluded between President Martelly and several opposition parties and called on all parties to join in on consensus in the “best interest” of the nation.

Caribbean must “move expeditiously” to prepare for massive earthquake – UWI THE Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is warning the region to “move expeditiously” towards building resilience amid predictions the Caribbean could be hit with an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or greater.

“We must develop, legislate and enforce Building Codes using up-to-date seismic hazard maps based on the latest available science. Preparedness measures at the individual levels are insufficient and greater efforts are needed to facilitate selfresilience,” the SRC said in a statement as it marked the fifth anniversary of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti in 2010, killing an estimated 300,000 people.

The SRC said that the earthquake in Haiti “should have been the wakeup call for

a fundamental shift in regional mechanisms for coping with seismic hazards”.

It said major earthquake disasters around the world have stimulated similar shifts and resulted in greater resilience to seismic hazards in these regions.

“This has not happened in the Caribbean and the region continues to be extremely vulnerable to seismic events,” the SRC said, adding “research suggests that the region is capable of generating an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 or larger every 3-5 years.

“Of more concerns, we are long overdue for a magnitude 8.0 earthquake, which has 32 times more energy than the Haiti event.

In light of these sobering facts, it is imperative for the region to move expeditiously towards building resilience to such events,” it added.

Jamaica has highest proportion of women managers globally – study A NEW study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has found that Jamaica has the highest proportion of women managers, globally, ahead of countries like the United States and the United Kingdom The study also found that while women are still under-represented in top management, the number of women in senior and middle management positions has increased over the last 20 years.

The study entitled “Women in Business and Management, Gaining Momentum”, found that the proportion of women managers in Jamaica stood at 59.3 per cent, while Yemen has the least with 2.1 per cent.

The US is ranked 15th in the list

of 108 countries with 42.7 per cent women managers, while the United Kingdom is at 41st with 34.2 per cent and the Russian Federation holds the 25th place (39.1 per cent).

Colombia holds the second place at the global level and ranks first in Latin America, followed by Panama in fifth place.

The report presents the findings of a 2013 ILO survey of over 1,200 companies in Africa, Asia and Pacific, Eastern and Central Europe and Latin American and the Caribbean, focusing on measures and initiatives to advance women in management. The survey was carried out with the assistance of national employers’ organizations in 39 countries.

“Our research is showing

that women’s ever increasing participation in the labour market has been the biggest engine of global growth and competitiveness,” says Deborah France-Massin, Director of the ILO Bureau for Employers’ Activities.

“An increasing number of studies are also demonstrating positive links between women’s participation in top decision making teams and structures and business performance. But there is a long way to go before we achieve true gender equality in the workplace, especially when it comes to top management positions,” she added.

The study released here on Monday, showed that only five per cent or less of the chief executive officers of the world’s largest corporations are women.

The study entitled “Women in Business and Management, Gaining Momentum”, found that the proportion of women managers in Jamaica stood at 59.3 per cent, while Yemen has the least with 2.1 per cent.

It noted that the larger the company, the less likely the head will be a woman.

“All-male company boards are still common but are decreasing in number, with women attaining 20 per cent or more of all board seats

in a handful of countries. A global survey quoted in the study shows that Norway has the highest global proportion of companies (13.3 per cent) with a woman as company board chairperson, followed by Turkey (11.1 per cent). “

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Jamaicans affected by UK visa clamp down DESPITE a series of interventions by local authorities, Jamaicans, including students, applying for visas to enter the United Kingdom are likely to be barred by a Home Office visa clampdown in the United Kingdom.

“They (the UK) have been making changes to their immigration rules,” said Jamaica’s high commissioner to London, Aloun Assamba. “We have been meeting with the UK authorities on this matter.”

Home Secretary Theresa May said changes to the immigration rules would arrest visa abuse.

Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire said the UK government was building an immigration system that is fair to British citizens and legitimate migrants but tough on those who abuse the system and flout the law.

Even as a debate on the changes rages on the election platform, the Home Office has reduced the number of schools and colleges for which it will be offering student visas.

Assamba told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the changes are not confined to Jamaica and it is not only students who are being targeted.

She said the changes emanated from what she characterised as serious political concerns about immigration in the UK. “It has become an election issue,” she said. “We have been monitoring it and sharing the information as we obtain it.”

Assamba told The Gleaner that her office also monitors the UK immigration website that sets out the new rules.

“This began when they discovered that some institutions were complicit in granting student visas that were suspect,” she said.

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Added Assamba: “So now, they have reduced the number of schools and colleges that they will offer student visas for.”

Assamba said her office has been making interventions.

“Hence the meetings we have been having with UK Border Control,” she said. “We work very closely with them through our consular section … . I have been … to several of these meetings.”

She said her office also has a close working relationship with the British High Commission in Jamaica, which is very responsive.

“However, applicants have to bring themselves within the rules as stated on the website,” said Assamba.

Brokenshire also alluded to visa scams associated with students. His office last year produced documents on the reasons for the restrictions on the entrepreneur visa route that allows students to remain in the UK after studies.

Brokenshire said the entrepreneur route is intended to allow migrants to set up businesses in the UK in order to create jobs and growth, but it has been plagued by scams from individuals and organised criminal groups.

He said evidence from tax records shows that people on expiring student visas are transferring to entrepreneur status under the pretence of setting up a business when they are actually working in low-skilled jobs.

Visa statistics reportedly suggest that individuals and organised criminals began to target the entrepreneur option once the poststudy work visa, which allowed students to stay on after their studies, was axed in 2012.

Search continues for two still missing in deadly St Vincent crash GRIEF is giving way to anger among some residents of Fancy who gathered at Rock Gutter as the search continued Wednesday for two people still missing after a minivan carrying at least 14 students plunged into the sea in northwestern St. Vincent on Monday.

Officials have confirmed that five people died, and 10 others hospitalised as a result of the accident.

The Ministry of Health said seven people, including three children remained hospitalised at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, the nation’s main healthcare facility.

Chestlite Ballantyne, the younger brother of detective, Station Sergeant Hesron Ballantyne, was leading the search for his niece, Semonique Ballantyne, who, along with Chanstacia Stay, are still missing and feared dead.

The police officer was too emotional for an interview, but expressed appreciation that both of his daughters were not in the same bus on Monday.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Christopher Benjamin told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that the police would spare no effort in trying to recover the missing bodies.

He said that the Coastguard would put a specialist diver in the rough waters, but was not discrediting the importance of local knowledge in an area where the swells are high and the undercurrent strong.

“The water (is) dark; the waves [have] stirred up the water, so it is dirty, so you can’t see as much as you are supposed to see,” resident, Dillon Baptiste, told CMC after a four-hour stint in the water.

He said it is very difficult to

The minivan carrying at least 14 students plunged into the sea in northwestern St. Vincent on Monday.

swim in the rough sea, where large boulders line the shoreline.

“It is really difficult, because the current underneath (is) strong,” he said, and opined that the tide has already dragged the two missing person away.

Asked if he and another man, Oneal Thomas, were concerned for their own safety, Thomas replied, “well, we tried to assist.”

“We are in support of two parents who are still missing two girls — two of our school girls. So we are all here this morning to see if they can retrieve the bodies so that we can have a closure to this part of the tragedy at this location,” said another resident, Urna Michael.

Ballantyne, who was sitting with a group of residents, said that he and other men had been able to retrieve four bodies from the rough waters characteristic of the Atlantic side of St. Vincent. But they expressed

disappointment with the response of police.

“Me and my boy them alone took out the dead bodies from out of the water; the police never give us a strength (a helping hand), until we reach up in the road. Then the police still running us like dogs. And we deserve more respect than that,” he told the CMC. Okeino Bowens, one of the men who assisted in retrieving bodies, told CMC he lost two of his cousins in the tragedy — brothers Jamalie and Jamal Bowens.

“Right now, I know their father is in real pain because he right now behind the bars (in prison) in Martinique, so I know is real pain he feeling,” Bowens said, as he too criticised the police.

“Yesterday when I come here, no help from the police; no help from the police at all,” he said, adding that “the next thing I hear on the news, that police help.

Mortimer says government turning Bahamas into a beggar nation DNA Deputy Leader Chris Mortimer said on Tuesday that the government’s plans to request funds from China to help restructure the country’s national debt have turned the Bahamas into a “beggar nation.”

He said the decision could have “serious ramifications” for Bahamians.

Mr Mortimer made his statements during a DNA press conference yesterday morning.

Last week, Prime Minister Perry Christie, with Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell, Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe, and Aviation Minister Glenys Hanna Martin, travelled to the People’s Republic of China for the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) forum in Beijing, China.

During the trip, Mr Christie announced plans to seek funding

from China’s US $3 billion investment fund to support the national budget, refinance and restructure the country’s debt.

However, Mr Mortimer yesterday said the move was the government’s way of asking China for “help” in rescuing the country from “30-40 years of corruption” in government.

“When I say corruption I mean the fact that poor policies, poor planning, friends, families and lovers getting all the grits and the juiciness from the Public Treasury, to the point now where we have to go to China and say ‘please help us,’” he said.

“Once you understand that the Bahamas does trade with China, but in terms of trade with China, China is fifth on the list. The United States is our largest trading partner. The questions that I have, because I think they are serious questions, is if the government believes (in) supporting China, are

we now going to be supporting their position with respect to Russia over the US? Are we going to be supporting their position on Libya over the US? Or all the world nations when it comes to where they stand versus where the US stands?

“This is a serious issue, because 80 per cent of (our) trade is done with the US. And I would expect that before making some determination, just because you have made us a beggar nation, that you would take into consideration the ramifications of what that could possibly mean.”

While making his inaugural address as chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to delegates in China, Mr Christie said the $3 billion fund was a “commitment on China’s part for investment on concessional terms.”

He said the government proposes to use that funding for “budget

DNA Deputy Leader Christopher Mortimer does not agree with the Bahamian government’s decision to borrow money from China.

support, as well as debt restructuring and refinancing.”

Mr Christie said the government would also be promoting opportunities for investment in the energy sector, gas exploration,

mining, forestry, tourism, airline services, financial services, agriculture and fisheries. He also noted that China is a “significant source of investment capital” and has “established itself as a worthy economic partner.”

However, Mr Mortimer said it was “shameful” for the government to “put us in a position whereby our future and our lives can be dramatically altered.”

“I expect and I think the Bahamian people should expect, the government has some serious answers to give us,” Mr Mortimer said. “We want to know what they have promised, what they have given in order to secure this support.

It is absolutely important. We cannot have, again this secrecy, the distortions. We need the facts from this government. It cannot continue.”

(Tribune242)

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Miss Turks and Caicos prepares for Miss Universe pageant ISLAND beauty Shanice Williams is in the US preparing for an international beauty pageant which will be broadcast to close to a billion people across the globe.

The Miss Turks and Caicos 2014 winner will compete with 87 other girls for the title of Miss Universe on January 25.

The 63rd pageant is set to be a spectacular affair with competitions for swimsuit, evening gown and interview.

Twenty-one-year-old Williams, who was born and raised in Grand Turk, is excited to take part in the famous contest.

The slender 5’9” contestant, who wore the sash for Grand Turk, won Miss Turks and Caicos 2014 on April 26 last year.

She also walked away with the awards for Miss Intellect, Best in Swimsuit, Best Evening Gown, Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic.

Williams is the secretary for the Crown Land Unit, Lands Division, and this summer received a Bachelor’s Degree in financial management from the Turks and Caicos Islands Community College.

Her goal is to become a Certified Financial Planner.

Williams motto in life is ‘Pray more, fear less, live better’ and she enjoys reading, dancing, traveling, modelling and helping out with activities at her church.

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Miss Turks and Caicos Shanice Williams enjoys painting at Britto Central

Prepare to vote every day for Shanice at www.missuniverse.com

Miss Turks and Caicos Shanice Williams and Miss Great Britain Grace Levy

Miss Turks and Caicos Shanice Williams at the Britto Art Event

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Miss Bahamas Tomii Culmer, Miss Turks and Caicos Shanice Williams and Miss Angola in their Miami Heat jerseys

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Williams in her Miami Heat jersey meets the Miami Heat dancers continued 

behind her, but focuses on what lies ahead of her”.

“She tries to see the reality in every situation and always puts her best foot forward,” it reads.

“At the age of 21, she’s still in the midst of finding herself; learning more about how she can use the gifts and talents God has blessed her with.

“Always wearing a smile, she encourages everyone around her to reach and see their true potential.

“She is optimistic, a motivator and most importantly, a great friend.”

This January she spent several weeks in Florida meeting other contestants and taking part in marketing activities.

She most recently met the Miami Heat dancers who will be performing at the pageant, enjoyed some art at Britto Central and took part in some Zumba dancing in the city of Doral.

The 2014 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant will take place at 8pm on January 25 at the US Century Bank Arena at Florida International University in Doral, Florida.

Gabriela Isler, Miss Universe 2013 will crown her successor at the conclusion of the three hour telecast which will be hosted by Today’s Natalie Morales and MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts.

The pageant will be broadcast to about 190 countries and territories and is expected to attract up to a billion viewers.

Williams and others enjoying Zumba in the city of Doral

Miss Bahamas Tomii Culmer, Miss Australia Tegan Martin, Miss Georgia Ana Zubashvili and Miss Turks and Caicos Shanice Williams play golf

Miss Turks and Caicos meets pageant sponsor Donal Trump

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Polanski to cooperate in Poland over US extradition ROMAN Polanski has said he will cooperate with Polish authorities over an extradition request to the US, where he is wanted for a 1977 sex case.

The Oscar-winning director, who is currently working on a film in Krakow, served 42 days for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old before fleeing the country.

Polish prosecutors have confirmed they will question the 81-year-old, who has both Polish and French passports.

Polanski said he had “confidence in Poland’s justice system”.

“I will submit myself to the procedure and we will see,” he told a TV news channel, “I hope everything will be alright”.

Poland generally does not allow extradition of its citizens, but has an extradition agreement with the US who filed a request at the beginning of January.

Polanski was arrested in 2009 by Swiss authorities after travelling to Zurich to attend a film festival, but avoided extradition.

Musician Snoop Dogg, wife Shante Taylor and son Corde a few years ago.

Snoop Dogg becomes a grandfather Polanski was born in Paris but grew up in a Krakow ghetto during World War Two.

His movements are restricted by a warrant in effect in 188 countries, but he has avoided extradition by travelling between France, Poland and Switzerland.

The director is working on a new film, An Officer and A Spy, about a

19th Century French scandal dubbed “the Dreyfus affair”.

He won an Oscar in 2003 for directing The Pianist, a harrowing story set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw that mirrored his own childhood experiences. (BBC)

JUST call him Grandpa Snoop.

Rapper Snoop Dogg’s eldest son, Corde Broadus, 21, welcomed a baby boy to the world over the weekend and Snoop could not be happier.

The “Gin & Juice” singer took to Instagram to share his joy over the new addition to his family.

“Proud grandad. My son spank n

grandson Zion !! Jah bless,” Snoop captioned a video of the little bundle of joy.

“Zion. U have a lot of love WAitn on u grandson !!” he wrote along with a photo collage of snaps of Zion at the hospital.

This is the first grandson for Snoop, 43, who is father to three sons and a daughter. (NYDailynews)

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Italian director Francesco Rosi dies at 92 Sam Smith is up for six Grammys later this year.

Sam Smith returns to number one in UK POP star Sam Smith has taken his debut album, In The Lonely Hour, back to number one on the Official UK Chart.

The record, which recently passed the million sales mark in both the UK and the US, last topped the charts in September and, before that, in June.

It has now spent five nonconsecutive weeks at number one.

In the singles chart, Bruno

Mars and Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funkclaimed the top slot for a fourth week, while dance act Tchami had the highest new entry.

The French producer saw his sparse, soulful club track, Promesses, arrive at number seven.

James Bay, who was declared the runner-up in the BBC’s Sound Of 2015 last week, also scored a new entry with the ballad Hold Back The River.

ITALIAN director Francesco Rosi, one of the country’s most acclaimed and influential film-makers from the 1950s to the ‘90s, has died at the age of 92.

Rosi continued the Italian postwar neo-realist style, inspiring the likes of Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese.

His features often examined corruption and criminality.

His film Hands Over the City won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963, while The Mattei Affair won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 1972.

And in 2012, he was awarded an honorary Golden Lion for lifetime achievement for leaving “an indelible mark on the history of Italian filmmaking”.

Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino paid tribute to him, saying: “There are directors, and they are few and far between, who are capable of constructing worlds, and they do it by the invention of

Francesco Rosi received an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008.

methods and styles. Rosi was one of the very few.”

Film-maker Franco Zeffirelli, a long-time friend, said Rosi’s death was “like experiencing a mutilation”.

Some of Rosi’s best-known films told the stories of real events and real people in order to highlight the links between politics, crime and working class society in Italy.

Salvatore Giuliano, which won

a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1962, depicted the famous 1940s Sicilian outlaw of the same name.

The Mattei Affair used a mixture of dramatic scenes and real witnesses to examine the mysterious death of Italian businessman Enrico Mattei.

The Mafia often featured prominently in the Naples-born director’s films.

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Bill Cosby accuser Chloe Goins to seek criminal charges A MODEL who claims she was drugged and sexually abused by Bill Cosby has met with police in LA, to determine whether criminal charges could be filed.

The alleged incident happened at the Playboy Mansion six years ago, according to Chloe Goins, now 24.

She is the first woman to accuse Cosby of abuse whose case may fall within the US statute of limitations, meaning potentially he could be charged.

Cosby faces a number of allegations by women dating back to the ‘70s and ‘80s.

The comedian, who has not been charged, has denied previous claims, calling them “fantastical” and “uncorroborated”.

Spencer Kuvin, Ms Goins’ lawyer, said the model had decided to come forward after hearing other women’s accounts, which made her realise she may have a valid case against the 77-year-old

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman both had nine nominations.

Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead Oscars race LAPD will investigate Bill Cosby after accuser Chloe Goins filed a report against him.

comedian.

“Ms Goins and I are here for two reasons: For justice and accountability,” he said.

Ms Goins claims that when she was 18, she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Mr

Cosby while attending a party at Hugh Hefner’s mansion in Los Angeles in 2008.

She claims she passed out at the party and woke up in a bedroom, naked, with Mr Cosby standing over her.

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Mr Kuvin added: “We hope that the people that are paying to attend Mr Cosby’s shows understand that these victimised women have broken their silence now and they will not remain quiet any longer.”

Over the past three months, more than a dozen women have come forward alleging that Cosby had sexually abused them.

Many of those allegations are decades old and fall outside California’s eight-year statute of limitations for criminal or civil cases. There have been calls for Mr Cosby to waive the statute.

LA police commander Andrew Smith said he could not confirm any investigation into Mr Cosby and that sexual abuse cases were “extremely confidential.”

BIRDMAN and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead the race for this year’s Oscars with nine nominations each.

The Theory of Everything, Boyhood and American Sniper also have multiple nominations.

There was good news for British actors as Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Rosamund Pike Felicity Jones and Keira Knightley are all nominated.

Up against Cumberbatch and Redmayne for best actor are Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper and Michael Keaton.

There are eight films in the best film category: American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash Meryl Streep is nominated for her 19th acting Oscar, breaking her own Academy

Awards record. She is up for best supporting actress for Into the Woods alongside Knightley, Patricia Arquette, Laura Dern and Emma Stone.

Robert Duvall has broken the record for the oldest Oscar nominee at 84, he is up for best supporting actor for his role in The Judge.

Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel have nine nominations apiece, while The Imitation Game is up for eight and American Sniper and Boyhood are up for six each.

The Theory of Everything, Foxcatcher and Whiplash have five nominations each.

The nominations were announced in Hollywood by Alfonso Cuaron, who won best director for Gravity last year, alongside actor Chris Pine, Star Wars director JJ Abrams and Oscars boss Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

Television and film actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the ceremony in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on 22 February.

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First Miss Bermuda passes away at 67 DESCRIBED as a “bubbly” and “superb” person, the first holder of the Miss Bermuda title passed away on Christmas Day in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Elaine Simons won the crown in 1965 when she was just 17.

Wentworth Christopher, who was active in the Miss Bermuda competition from its earliest days, said that with her sunny personality and flawless complexion, she set the standard for every Miss Bermuda who came after her.

“She was superb,” he said.

“Future contestants started to observe her and emulate her because she was the benchmark.”

He said that Olive Trott, who ran the contest at the time, took the first young winner on to the Miss Universe competition in Florida.

“Hopes were very high,” he said. “But it was the first time a Bermudian had taken part in this competition. Many of the girls had competition experience in their native lands.”

Mr Christopher, who took over the running of the Miss Bermuda contest in 1972 as its executive director, a position he held for 30 years, said that while she did not place, she attracted the notice of the champion boxer Cassius Clay, who later became known as Muhammad Ali. He was training at the Miami Beach Convention Centre where the Miss Universe competition was being held.

“That was a massive facility and included the training facility for Cassius Clay,” he said. “The girls were rehearsing there and, although normally the rehearsals were restricted, an exception was made for the heavyweight champion of the world.”

While the boxer was watching the rehearsal, Miss Bermuda’s chaperon, Ms Trott, was able to convince him to come to Bermuda.

As a result, “he put on an exhibition bout of boxing at the tennis stadium”, Mr Christopher recalled.

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He said in winning the title, Miss Simons had laid the groundwork for future Miss Bermudas, including Margaret Hill, who won the Miss Photogenic title in 1970 at that year’s Miss Universe contest.

“Because of the international publicity, the Miss World people called Margaret to get her to come to the Miss World competition,” he said.

However, she could not because she was modelling in Australia.

Mr Christopher said it opened the door to Miss Bermuda contestants entering the Miss World contest and Miss Universe event. Just nine years later, in 1979, Gina Swainson placed as first runner-up in the Miss Universe competition and went on to win Miss World — one of only two contestants to accomplish the feat.

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Former Spanish King Juan Carlos faces paternity suit SPAIN’S supreme court has agreed to examine a Belgian woman’s claim to be the illegitimate daughter of exKing Juan Carlos, who abdicated last summer.

Ingrid Sartiau says her mother had an affair with him in the 1960s, while he was married and a crown prince.

Royal officials said they respected the independence of the court, but refused further comment.

The case can only be heard because the king lost his immunity from prosecution after his abdication.

The court rejected a separate claim

by Alberto Sola, born in Barcelona in 1956, who said his mother also had an affair with Juan Carlos.

But an official confirmed the case of Ms Sartiau, who was born in 1966 after Juan Carlos married, would be examined.

Juan Carlos, 77, will now have 20 days to respond to the suit.

Ultimately, the former king could be asked to take a paternity test and the case could go as far as a public hearing.

He stepped down last June to make way for his son, Felipe VI, saying it was time for a “new era”.

The two paternity cases had been rejected by the courts in 2012 while

An estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States.

Juan Carlos abdicated last year to make way for his son Felipe.

Juan Carlos still had immunity from prosecution.

Although parliament agreed to give the former him a level of immunity after abdication, it gave the supreme court the authority to prosecute him.

Juan Carlos was popular for much of his 39-year reign, and he was credited with helping his country’s transition to democracy after the death of General Franco in 1975.

But his popularity, and his health, declined in his later years as the

royal family was hit by a series of scandals.

He was dogged by numerous allegations of infidelities, and apologised after he was photographed hunting elephants at the height of Spain’s financial crisis.

One of his two daughters, Princess Cristina, is currently facing a tax fraud trial over alleged links to her husband’s business dealings.

Her husband Inaki Urdangarin is accused of embezzling millions in public funds with a former business partner. (BBC)

Charlie Hebdo journalist stares down terrorist to save hiding colleague A CHARLIE Hebdo journalist saved a colleague by staring into the troubled eyes of a terrorist, preventing him from seeing and killing a graphic artist hiding under a desk.

Sigolène Vinson, a legal reporter who was spared because the gunmen did not want to kill women, recalled gazing into the “big black eyes” of Said Kouachi in a vivid interview with Le Monde this week.

Vinson, pausing and tearing up, gave the most detailed first-hand account of the massacre yet.

The ordeal began when the staff met for its first editorial meeting of the year. Vinson had bought a marble cake to celebrate the birthday of cartoonist Luz, who was running late.

Michel Renaud, the former chief of staff for the mayor of ClermontFerrand, made a guest appearance at the meeting to return cartoons he had borrowed. He brought a ham as a gift, to the delight of the newsroom pet, a cocker spaniel named Lila.

As at any other editorial meeting, the staff joked around a rectangular table. Editor in Chief Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, doodled.

US House votes to block Obama migrant plan THE House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that would effectively roll back President Obama’s recent immigration initiatives.

The bill still needs to go to the Senate for approval and the White House has said the president will veto it.

Mr Obama announced in November that he would use his executive authorities to enact sweeping immigration changes.

Republicans in the House say that the president’s actions overreach his authority and are unconstitutional.

It is the Republican’s latest attempt to challenge the White House, after taking control of both chambers of Congress in November.

In the wake of the elections, President Obama announced he would unilaterally reform

immigration policies.

His executive order aimed at providing temporary relief from deportation to four million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.

Wednesday’s immigration votes were on two amendments attached to a broader bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security - the agency that oversees immigration enforcement.

“This executive overreach is an affront to the rule of law and to the Constitution itself,” Speaker of the House John Boehner said after the vote.

“The people made clear that they wanted more accountability from this president, and by our votes here today we will heed their will and we will keep our oath to protect and defend the Constitution.’’ (BBC)

US judge rules Haitians cannot sue UN for cholera epidemic

Reporter Sigolene Vinson revealed how she was spared by the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo because she is a woman.

“He was always drawing…his drawings translated instantly our exchanges around the table,” she said, according to a translation by the International Business Times.

Vinson headed to the office kitchen as her colleagues debated the current cover, which was based off writer Michel Houllebecq’s new book “Submission” about a future fictional French Muslim president.

The cartoon cover pictured the author saying, “In 2022, I’m going to observe Ramadan!”

In an ironic twist, the staff discussed Islamophobia and far-right politics before the jihadist gunmen opened fire.

Someone then made an oral sex joke, which is par for the course at the magazine.

“Even with all that racket, even with our debates, which were sometimes quite heated, I realised how lucky I was to belong to that newsroom, to be around those people who were so quirky, so smart, so nice,” Vinson said.

THOUSANDS of Haitians killed or sickened by a cholera epidemic that they blame on UN peacekeepers cannot sue the United Nations in a US court because the UN has legal immunity that only it can waive, a judge has ruled.

In a decision late on Friday, Judge J Paul Oetken of US District Court in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit filed by human rights lawyers seeking compensation for the cholera victims.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs said they would appeal the ruling. The outbreak has killed more than 8,600 people and infected over 707,000 since October 2010, according to the UN. Oetken wrote that the UN’s ability to block lawsuits was established by a 1946 international convention and was made clear again in a 2010 ruling from a US appeals court in a case

of alleged sex discrimination.

“The UN is immune from suit unless it expressly waives its immunity,” he wrote.

The UN did not expressly waive immunity for the Haitians and has not accepted responsibility for the outbreak, although it has tried to raise money for a cholera elimination campaign.

The plaintiffs plan to appeal Oetken’s ruling and show that their case is different from the 2010 case, said one of their lawyers, Brian Concannon, executive director of the Boston-based Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.

“We are disappointed in the ruling but not discouraged, and we have always assumed that this case was going to go to the appeals court,” Concannon said in a phone interview on Saturday.

(Reuters)

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China bans wearing burqa in biggest Muslim city

The public was never in danger and Mr Cornell never it made to Washington DC, US officials say.

FBI ‘foils IS-inspired plot to attack on US Capitol’ THE FBI has arrested a man in Ohio for allegedly planning to attack the US Capitol in Washington in an Islamic State-inspired attack.

Christopher Cornell, 20, is charged with attempting to kill a US government officer, according to court documents.

He came to the attention of the FBI after tweeting support for extremist groups like Islamic State.

The public was never in danger during this investigation, Cincinnati Special Agent in Charge John Barrios said.

Mr Cornell was arrested after purchasing firearms on Wednesday, but had long been tracked by an undercover agent.

He allegedly operated a Twitter account under the alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, which came to the attention of the FBI through a confidential source in August.

The source had been co-operating with the FBI in exchange for favourable treatment in an unrelated case, court documents said.

Mr Cornell allegedly told the source he had not been directly authorised

by Islamic State leaders overseas to undertake attacks but wanted to “wage jihad under our own orders”.

During a meeting in October, according to the criminal complaint, Mr Cornell told the source he needed weapons but did not want to share details of his plan.

LEGISLATORS in China’s farwestern Xinjiang province have passed a law to prohibit residents from wearing burqas in public, state media reported, in a continued campaign against what authorities view as religious extremism.

The new ban in Urumqi was approved by local legislators last month, and given the greenlight by the regional legislature at the weekend.

The ordinance name suggests it targets outer garments covering someone’s full body including the face, which is called a burqa in some Islamic traditions.

A spate of recent violent incidents has rocked Xinjiang, a resource-rich region long inhabited by the Turkicspeaking, largely Muslim Uyghurs.

The arrival of waves of Han Chinese, the country’s predominant ethnic group, over the past decades has fueled ethnic tensions.

Chinese officials have blamed the recent attacks on Uyghur separatists -- whom they also label “religious extremists” -- seeking to establish an independent state.

Last August, another city in Xinjiang banned people wearing Islamic-style clothing and large beards from riding public buses

A Uyghur woman wears a veil as she shops at a local market on August 2, 2014 in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

during a provincial sporting event, according to state media.

News reports at the time said Karamay city authorities targeted veils, large beards, as well as three types of Islamic dresses -- including those with the star and crescent symbol. Dozens of bus stations in the city were said to be manned by security personnel to conduct checks and report violators to the police.

While the measures in Karamay didn’t openly single out Uyghurs, exiled Uyghur rights groups have

condemned them, calling the ban a “green light” for racism and discrimination.

Those restrictions came shortly after authorities in Xinjiang banned students and civil servants from fasting during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.

Amnesty International has said Uyghurs face widespread discrimination in employment, housing and educational opportunities, as well as curtailed religious freedom and political marginalization.

71 dead after drinking poisonous home brew in Mozambique

A spokesman for Metro Transit said the agency loves that a dog appreciates public transit.

Seattle dog’s rush hour ride: on the bus, by herself, weekly PUBLIC transit in Seattle has gone to the dogs.

Commuters in Belltown report seeing a Black Labrador riding the bus alone in recent weeks. The 2-year old has been spotted roaming the aisles, hopping onto seats next to strangers, and even doing her part to clean the bus -- by licking her surroundings.

“All the bus drivers know her.

She sits here just like a person does,” said commuter Tiona Rainwater, as she rode the bus through downtown Monday. “She makes everybody happy. How could you not love this

thing?”

When the dog got off the bus - without an owner - at a dog park last week, it piqued the curiosity of local radio host Miles Montgomery of KISW-FM. “It doesn’t really appear to have an owner. The dog gets off at the dog park. I just look out the window and I’m like, ‘did that just happen?’” Montgomery asked. “She was most concerned about seeing out the window, and I couldn’t figure out what that was. It was really just about seeing where her stop was.”

A HOMEMADE alcoholic drink has reportedly killed 71 people and sickened nearly 200 others in a village in Mozambique.

The fatal victims ranged in ages from 18 to 60, state-run Mozambique Radio said. More than three dozen people remained hospitalised Tuesday, the outlet said.

A group of people returning from a funeral stopped off late Friday in an area where customers can buy a popular home brew -- made from sorghum, bran corn and sugar, and known as Phombe -- according to state-run Radio Mozambique.

By Saturday morning, dead bodies of those who drank the Phombe began arriving at a hospital, the radio station reported, citing Paula Bernardo, a health official in the district of Cahora Bassa.

“As we prepared to determine the cause of death, many more people began to arrive with diarrhea and other muscle aches,” Bernardo said.

“Then many dead bodies from several neighbourhoods were brought in, which aroused our attention.”

Authorities are still trying to figure out what contaminated the batch of Phombe that has poisoned so many

Authorities are still trying to figure out what contaminated the batch of Phombe that has poisoned so many people in the village of Chitima. Samples taken from a 210-liter (56-gallon) drum of the brew have been sent to a national laboratory for tests, Radio Mozambique reported.

people in the village of Chitima.

Samples taken from a 210-liter (56-gallon) drum of the brew have been sent to a national laboratory for tests, Radio Mozambique reported.

Most of the bodies have been buried in a cemetery in Chitima after a mass led by a bishop, the radio station said.

A mass funeral was carried out because the morgue of the

local hospital was too small to accommodate all the bodies and the situation was being made worse by the intense heat in the region, the report said.

Provincial officials have descended on the village and the national health minister was reported to be heading there with a group of doctors to bolster the medical teams already on the ground.

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Brama Kumaris

Raja Yoga Meditation Centre Turks and Caicos Islands

Telephone 946-4760 & 332-4101

www.bkwsu.com Email: bkpadma@bkwsutci.com

FOR SALE

January 17 - 23, 2015

946-4664 Fax: 946-4661

Email: tcnews@tciway.tc

Website: tcweeklynews.com

FLOWER GIRL

Wanted urgently

Floral Designer

Must have thorough knowledge in the floral business with 3-5 years experience.

Call: 231-3788

Construction scaffold and roof tiles for sale CONTACT: 431-1591 OR 231-3788

January 17 - 23, 2015

G SPOT BAR & GRILL

Marine Engineer/ Electrician

We are seeking suitable applicants to fill the following openings:

Domestic Worker Barmaid Belonger only need apply. Must be willing to work extended hours.

Salary $5.00 per hour.

Application deadline January 21st, 2015

10946

Fax: 649-941-8388

TO WORK 44 HOURS PER WEEK. SALARY $5.50 PER HOUR

CONTACT: 345-8450

Please forward current cv and copy certificates to: info@gsfishing.com

HOUSEMAN

Labourers Sales Clerk

Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour send resume to

Email: branditz@yahoo.com or Telephone: 649-246-1228

10944

BARMAIDS

• Must have a minimum of 5 years experience in diesel and petrol engines • The role involves weekly maintenance of 5 boats with inboard and outboard engines • The applicant will be responsible for implementing a preventative maintenance programme as well as complete engine repairs and rebuilds • Strong knowledge of electrical and electronic installation and repair Salary commensurate with experience Belonger preferred

Acting on behalf of our clients: Sam’s Shop, Grace Bay Car Rentals and F & N is looking to fill the following positions:

BAY BISTRO

E. GARLAND

Is looking for a

Is looking for a

AGNES SWANN Is looking for a

Required for inside and outside cleaning duties: some heavy lifting 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.

labourer Waitress labourer To work 6 days To work 6 days to work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

Email to alliedmanagement@ usa.net or 946-5866 10957

10939

per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 246-4769

10902

NOTICE OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION

EVENT CO-ORDINATOR/ FLORAL DESIGNER

TIDES INVESTMENTS LTD. c/o Saunders Management Ltd., Town Centre Mall, 23 Parade Avenue, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, hereby gives notice of its intention to sell by Public Auction the following property pursuant to its power of sale as registered Chargee under the Registered Land Ordinance of the Turks and Caicos Islands:

10950

Requirements: • Minimum 5 years experience as a floral designer with relevant certification • Extensive knowledge of different flowers, foliage and potted plants (names, seasonal availability, lifespan) • Up-to-date on current fashions and styles in floral design while at the same time understanding the traditional use of certain flowers for weddings, funerals etc.

• Willing to work outdoors and irregular hours • Comprehensive QuickBooks knowledge • Engaging and outgoing personality who enjoys working with the public Starting salary $3,250 per month Please bring all application to Flowers by Environmental Arts located at U102 Venture House, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales or email to: Natalie@ environmentalarts.tc Successful applicants will be notified by phone for an interview

contact: 241-5362

per week salary $6.00 per hour. contact: 946-5396

LANDSCAPE SUPERVISOR Requirements: • Minimum of 5 years gardening experience on large landscape installations, with knowledge on plants/ chemicals and fertilizer sprays and be able to work with minimum supervision • Proficient in the use of heavy machinery (backhoe, bobcat, skytrack, crane) • Effective communication skills both internally and externally • Ability to report on issues • Must be willing to work outdoors with irregular hours, may include weekends and holidays Starting salary $2,000.00 per month Please bring all applications to Flowers by Environmental Arts located at U102 Venture House, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales or email: admin@ environmentalarts.tc Successful applicants will be notified by phone for interview Please provide relevant reference from previous employer 10949

UNITS A3-7 and A4-7 SITUATED IN BUILDING “A” AT THE ATRIUM, LEEWARD, BEING PARCELS 60902/186/K29 & K39, LEEWARD GOING THROUGH, PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS (the “Property”) The Property consists of a two-storey two-bedroom penthouse apartment at The Atrium containing approximately 2,094 square feet (including large terrace on the second level), having 2 bedrooms, 2-1/2 bathrooms, combined living and dining area, kitchen and large terrace.

The registered proprietor is Riva Holdings Ltd. The Auction will be held at the offices of Saunders & Co., Second Floor, Town Centre Mall, 23 Parade Avenue at 10 o’clock in the morning on Monday January 27, 2015.

A reserve price will be fixed on the Property. A deposit of 10% of the amount of any accepted bid is due immediately upon the acceptance of a bid.

For more information, contact Laurence C. Caroe of Saunders & Co., Town Centre Mall, 23 Parade Avenue, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. Telephone: (649) 941-4500. E-mail: lc@saunders.tc.

10883

G SPOT BAR

IS SEEKING FOR

10934

10899

To work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour.

BCS/CS

Is seeking a Qualified

Is looking for a

Tire Man

GWENDOLYN LTD.

10948

BLACK BOY AND JEAN TRUCKING

contact: 242-3631

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CHEF/ SOUS CHEF

CLEARVIEW WINDOW CLEANERS

is looking for a

• Organizational skills a must • Solid references • At least 5 years as kitchen leader • Ability to train and lead is necessary • Salary $50k+ 10898

Call: 649-441-3466 Permanent status only

labourer To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 231-0001

10894

Needed for a restaurant on Grace Bay

BAYVIEW MOTORS is looking for a

Junior Automotive Service Advisor/ Customer Care Professional • No experience required… we will train • Must be friendly, enthusiastic, detail oriented with excellent communication skills, a positive attitude and some mechanical aptitude ( we are an Auto Service Facility after all) • Must enjoy a fast paced work environment and meeting people • This entry level position has amazing long-term career potential for the right candidate (male or female) in a very steady and stable profession • Receive service customers, prepare quotes, and provide outstanding service Serious minded individuals with a long term outlook need only apply Please send your resume to: syrmondg@bayviewmotors. com or drop off in person Monday – Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

Bayview Motors Ltd. P.O. Box 619 Leeward Highway Providenciales

Associate Attorney Local firm seeks an associate attorney with at least 5 years pqe with extensive experience in conveyancing , commercial, residential development work also corporate and commercial law. Experience in new condominium sales, re-sales, residential and commercial property and 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 Department of Labour, Providenciales

10908

PUBLIC NOTICE Chapter 8.03, Water and Sewerage Ordinance Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 August 2009 (Abstraction License) A License Application, REGISTRATION # 20141210-WP, by GRAND TURK CRUISE TERMINAL, LIMITED for the ABSTRACTION OF SALT WATER via an extraction and a discharge well on Grand Turk has been submitted to the Water and Sewerage Board for consideration on: BLOCK: 10507 PARCEL: 36 LOCATION: Grand Turk Cruise Center ISLAND: Grand Turk Anyone wishing to make representation(s) may do so in writing to the Energy & Utilities Commissioner Ministry Of Government Support Services, Turks & Caicos Islands Government, Church Folly, Grand Turk within twenty eight(28) days of publication of this Notice.

Notice Dated: 22 December, 2014

10889

10904

Proteus Investments Ltd

Consultant is looking for a Qualified

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D & B TILE

ALBERT’S CLEANING SERVICES

Is looking for a

GLOBAL TARDIF ELEVATOR SERVICES is looking for an

Is looking for a

to work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour contact: 10892

To work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 243-7785

10913

labourer

labourer

Elevator Technician

Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $20.00 per hour. contact: 231-7040 10910

To expand its advisory services to active or prospective real estate developers in the Caribbean.

Candidate must have: 1. Bachelor of Science and or other advanced degree (Master’s or Doctorate) from a Top US or European university.

2. Previous experience with or proven knowledge of the US tax code.

3. English native speaker and fluency in either Mandarin Chinese or Russian.

4. Advanced Microsoft user skills, including: a. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, with ability to create complex financial models. b. Type at a speed of more than 100WPM at 90% accuracy.

5. Real Estate Development or Hospitality experience in at least 2 major departments of a hotel a plus.

In addition, Candidate must be willing and able to work on a flexible schedule, including: 1. Travel for large periods of time to North America and across the Caribbean; 2. Work/travel during weekends as needed.

3. Have their own car for routine travel to meet clients on the Island.

Interested candidates that FULFILL ALL REQUIREMENTS above may send their resumes by email to vasco@proteusinv.com on or before December 31st, 2014 . Please, no calls or office visits.

10901

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Management Trainee Programme Come and join our award winning team!!!

Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort Villages and Spa, the only 6 Diamond all inclusive property in the Caribbean is looking to recruit a Trainee Manager. We are inviting applications from suitably qualified Turks and Caicos Islanders.

Applicants must have a clean police record and a good command of the English language both written and spoken. In addition candidates must be able to work nights, public holidays and week-ends.

The Trainee Manager Programme is designed to develop persons entering into a managerial position via an extensive training program; the individual will learn certain faucets of the Resort’s operation. While working directly with each department, the programme builds cross-functional expertise and allows time for skill development and adjustment to the company culture. Individuals learn directly from our Leaders through on-the-job experience. The Trainee Manager will enter each department with a view of learning the skills appropriate to that area, as well as make suggestions while having a meaningful impact on the department.

Applicants must have a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field or a minimum of five (5) years supervisory experience. Applicants are welcome from both the Hospitality Industry and from other types of institutional experience. Candidates must submit along with the application a copy of certifications held and one reference letter. Please ensure the cover letter specifies the Trainee Manager Programme.

Please forward your resumes by Friday January 26th 2015 to secure an interview date and time. Feel free to drop your resumes in our secure resume drop-box at the Service Gate, or email it to mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com, or fax to 649 946 4870.

There are also vacant positions available in the following departments and we are inviting Belonger applicants: • Accounts • Bars • Concierge • Cost Control • Dining Room • Engineering • Environmental Health and Safety • Entertainment • Front Office • Gift Shop • Grounds • Housekeeping

• Kids Kamp • Kitchen • Laundry • Photoshop • Public Relations • Projects • Security • Spa • Stewarding • Training • Travel and Loyalty Department • Watersports

Applicants will be contacted via text only to confirm your interview Applications giving full details of qualifications and experience should be sent to: mmvaughn@grp.sandals.com or Fax to: 941-4870 Attn: M McClean-Vaughn or dropped off in the “Resume Box” at the Service Gate. and should reach not later than January 26th 2015 .

PIZZA CHEF • Must have a minimum 10 years knowledge of Neapolitan and Roman style pizza making • Must have preparation with short and long rising dough’s • Must have experience with a high temperature refractory ovens • Must be willing to work weekends, evenings and holidays • Must be available 6 nights per week • Must speak, read and write English • Must have clean police record Salary $450.00 per week

P.O. Box 543 Belonger Only Need Apply 10893

Lamont's Take-Out seeks

One Assistant Manager

Must have at least 5 years experience and able to work with little or no supervision.

Salary is based on experience.

Deadline for application is January 22nd 2014 Interested persons should send application via fax to 649-9414034 c/o Alliance Realty Ltd. 10915

SANCHEZ AND WILLIAMS RESTAURANT

Ts looking for a kitchen helper to work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour. contact: 231-2397

10906

LEW & JAN CONSTRUCTION

Medicina Natural Afa Y Omega Is looking for the following positions:

Is looking for a

labourer To work 5 days

Salesperson Promoter Iridology

per week salary $6.00 per hour.

contact: 232-7317

Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $9.00 per hour.

contact: 343-2080

10909

GTC LIMITED

January 17 - 23, 2015

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GENERAL MANAGER VACANCIES PRECIOUS TREASURE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Our client is a luxury, full-service resort catering to a distinguished clientele.

Exceptional guest service, consistent guest satisfaction and financial profitability are vital to our client’s success. The General Manager will be responsible for leading all aspects of the resort’s day-to-day operations and meeting established performance goals and objectives.

The ideal candidate must be a strong leader with thorough knowledge of all aspects of hotel operations within a luxury market environment. Demonstrated business and financial acumen and the ability to deliver results is required. Must possess exceptional employee management, customer/owner relationship, and public relations skills.

Minimum Requirements • Bachelor’s Degree in Hotel Management or Business Administration. Master’s Degree essential • Strong operations background with a minimum 5 years’ experience as a GM within a 4 or 5 Diamond Luxury Caribbean Resort • Extensive knowledge of luxury hotel operations including front of house, F&B, Human Resources and guest security • Excellent financial acumen with experience managing budgets, revenue proposals, and forecasting results • Proven track record of success achieving revenue and service targets • Experience presenting to Residential Boards and/or Owners Associations • Demonstrated ability to lead, train, mentor and develop a team • Ability to develop and manage strong working relationships at all levels of the organization, as well as with resort owners, external vendors and suppliers, and business and community groups • Poised and professional, with a demonstrated ability to perform effectively in a fastpaced environment • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office and hotel management software

Interested candidates should forward by email credentials to GraceBayRecruitment@ gmail.com for immediate consideration.

Candidates must meet the minimum qualifications, possess a clean police record, and be fluent in the English language.

Professional references are required. Compensation for the above position is commensurate with level, experience and education.

CLOSING DATE: 19th January 2015 ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE CONTACTED. 10905

Invites applications from suitably qualified persons to fill the following positions: DAYCARE:

Trained Daycare Supervisor Experienced daycare assistant PRESCHOOL:

PRESCHOOL SUPERVISOR QUALIFICATION:

• A Teaching Diploma or Degree from a recognized institution with emphasis on Early Childhood education • At least five (5) years experience in a similar position • Must be able to train other staff under their control • Mature and posses a caring and loving disposition • Clean police record

PRESCHOOL TEACHERS PRESCHOOL TEACHER’S ASSISTANT PRIMARY: TRAINED PRIMARY TEACHERS GRADE 1-6

• Qualification must include but not limited to the following: • At least three years experience in a similar position • Appropriate Teacher Training qualifications • Possesses mature, caring and loving disposition • Clean police record • Willing to work long hours and on Public Holidays

CLEANER:

• Person to keep the classroom and bathrooms clean at all times • Be willing to work until late evenings and on non-school days if required

PLEASE APPLY IN WRITING WITH FULL RESUME TO: THE ADMINISTRATOR Precious Treasures School P.O. Box 293, Providenciales Applications should reach no later than February 15th, 2015

10903

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Thank You

The Developers of Signature’s Blue Heron Aviation Ltd would like to thank the following Government departments and companies that were involved with the development of the FBO facility.

• The Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands • The Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands • Turks and Caicos Islands Government, and all of the TCIG departments that made it possible to complete and operate the facility.

• The Attorney General’s Chambers.

• The Turks and Caicos Islands Airport Authority.

• The Civil Aviation Authority • Olympic Construction - Edwin Dickenson and Dave Doherty General Contractor.

• Provo Electric. Electrical and Plumbing contractor.

• Dove Security • CBMS • Ewart Chattel, and the 20 locally owned Heavy equipment and haulage companies used extensively.

• Herzog Caribbean Ltd • E&V Equipment • Cove Construction

• Air and Sea Agency • Business Solutions • ICT Solutions • Cargo Express Ltd and Tropical Shipping.

• Conservative Architects, Anthony Walkin • Misick and Stanbrook • J&R Landscaping • EY contractors • Sunshine Nursery • Engineering Design Services (EDS) Structural Engineer.

• Building Services Design (BSD) - MEP Engineer.

• CSE, Civil and Structural Engineering • Benchmark Survey • BCQS, Quantity Surveyors • Rubis Caribbean Ltd • M-Aviation Ltd, Project team and Architect, Lloyd Inwards, Michel Neutelings, Will Shoreman, Sandra Coalbrooke, Janice Kerr.

• Signature Flight Support.

10929

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MASSEUSE

To work 6 days per week salary $7.00 per hour.

Must have at least 5 years experience. Must be willing to work 6 days per week.

Salary $6.00 per hour.

Contact: 941-3512

9318

Wilfrey & Tony

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Is looking for

HOLIDAY VILLAGE IS CURRENTLY SEEKING

Landscape and Hardscape Supervisor • Must be able to work weekends and holidays • Provide their own vehicle for transportation to and from jobs • Experienced supervisory skills a MUST • Must be able to speak English and have knowledge of Excel/Word and QuickBooks • Must have the ability to work with chemicals and fertilizer • Job requires on site supervision of workers daily and use of machinery Salary $3,000.00 per month.

3 LABOURERS 4 DOMESTIC WORKERS WEEKLY SALARY $225/ $215. WORKING HOURS ARE. 6 DAYS PER WEEK

10916

Interested persons should send application via fax to 649-941-4034 c/o Alliance Realty Ltd.

10914

MARINA VIEW BEAUTY SALON NORTH CAICOS Is looking for a

CONTACT: 946-5500

10933

LINE COOK NEEDED Skill Requirements:

Cook eggs and other breakfast items to order to customer’s specification.

Cook lunch and dinner items to order to customer’s specification to include, but not limited to: • Cooking meats to temperature such as hamburgers and steaks • Produce salads, sandwiches, tacos, quesadillas, burritos, fajitas and other ;; Tex - Mex items that appear on the menu at Somewhere Café and Lounge. ;; Assist with prepping foods for service by following recipe standards, strong knife skills and ;; proper sanitation to produce high quality food that accurately represents the Café. ;; Work with other kitchen staff members to execute food, prioritize steps, and contribute to the overall ;; team atmosphere of the kitchen. ;; Participate in daily cleaning duties as per scheduled by the Chef to maintain a clean safe environment for all employees to work in. ;; Cook on the line, during service in a high pressure environment, executing food to order in an ala minute ;; kitchen according to the ticket in a timely manner. ;; Be able to stand on ones feet for 8 hours and be comfortable lifting 25 pounds or more without physical restrictions. ;; Be available to work holidays and weekends with a flexible schedule. ;; Belongers given preference Pay Commensurate with Experience

Submit resume, certifications and current police record in person to be considered to: chefamy@somewherecafeandlounge.com 10896

Salon helper To work 5 days per week. Salary $5.00 per hour

Contact: 231-0882

10888

10911

Send written resume to: bnaturesvisions@gmail.com or 232-2272

Must have at least 5 years experience and able to work with little or no supervision.

Salary start at $6.00 per hour and is based on experience.

Deadline for application is January 22nd 2015

Cosmetologist To work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour. contact: 649-243-1018

Franklin Aquino

RENTAL AGENT

Is looking for a

Duties include: • All aspects of customer service, car rental sales and dealing with email correspondence pertaining to care reservation • Must be willing to work 5 days per week including weekends and holidays • Salary commensurate with experience

Contact: 946-5300

10897

plumber

One Maintenance Personnel

Is looking for a

domestic worker To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

10918

Is looking for a

contact: 941-4667

Priton Development Ltd seeks

THE VENETIAN RESORT

THE TUSCANY RESORT

contact: 346-9102

10911

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BLUELOOS LTD Urgently needs a driver/operator. Must have experience driving a class 6 stick-shift truck, must be able to speak English. 40 hours a week $10/hour duties include driving, pumping septic tanks and cleaning portable toilets.

Must be prepared to work in confined spaces and handle human waste.

Email blueloosltd@gmail.com with resume including names of two previous employers.

Persons not requiring work permit preferred.

ISLAND FARMS LTD Urgently requires farm labourer. 40 hours a week, $6/hour.

Duties include feeding animals, weeding, harvesting. Must be prepared to work outside all day.Email nicholasturner50@gmail.com with previous experience.

Persons not requiring work permit preferred.

10947

10920

contact: 341-4221

Contact: 649-946-5300

Caretaker To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

ATTORNEY We seek a highly qualified Attorney-At-Law who has been called to the English Bar/and or a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales with ability to practice in the Turks and Caicos. Must possess a Bachelor of Laws Degree and hold 18 years of practical experience in litigation, commercial law, intellectual property law, corporate law, insolvency law, property and internet law. Candidate must have the ability to initiate, thoroughly advise on, prepare and plead litigious matters. Previous extensive experience within the Caribbean required and the applicant has to be a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Salary commensurate with experience.

ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY.

Send resumes to info@karammissick.com on or before January 30, 2014. Please no calls or unscheduled visits. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. You may also send a copy of your resume to the Department of Labour.

10928

The Windsong resort Is seeking suitable qualified applicants to fill the following positions:

• Dining Room Manager • Butler • Front Desk Agent • Reservation

• To work week days salary on commission basis • Must work weekends and holidays • Must have a minimum of 5 years lecture experience and must have an educational degree along with own transportation • Speak English and other language skills is a plus

contact: 244-0469

MICHAEL RIGBY is looking for 4

labourers To work 5 days

per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 246-1909

• Minimum of 3 years in the specialized field • Excellent written and communication skills • Must be willing to work holidays and weekends

Please drop your resume at the Windsong resort

Certified Welder - Lay out, fit and fabricate metal components and various metal alloys (aluminum, stainless, etc) to assemble structural forms using knowledge of welding techniques, metallurgy and engineering components - Operates drill presses, power saws, grinders, metal lathes and a variety of welding equipment and hand tools - Analyze sample parts, blueprints, engineering drawings and specifications to plan welding operations - Remain in a standing position for extended periods of time.

- Experienced in SMAW / GMAW / GTAW & oxy-fuel welding / cutting - Must have a valid trade specific certifications with at least 5 years working experience.

- Valid drivers license Wage: Based on applicants experience and qualifications

Interested applicants contact Linda on 941-5802 Tibor’s Machine Shop Ltd. 10919

S & G Contracting Providenciales Telephone: 333-1199

Labourers Salary $5.50 per hour

WARD CONSTRUCTION Is looking for a

labourer to work 5 days per week salary $6.00 per hour.

contact: 231-6601

T&C Refreshments Ltd. Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Is.

Agent • Housekeeper • Gardener • Houseman • Domestic Worker

Requirements:

Send written resume to: darhud5@yahoo.com

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To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

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Labourer

• To work around yard, washing vehicles and vehicle maintenance • Must be able to work 5 days per week including weekends and holidays • Salary commensurate with experience

ISLAND NEWTWORK 649-946-4736

Is looking for a

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JOYCE RIGBY

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Is looking for a

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KEVIN SWANN

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Is seeking candidates for the position of

Merchandiser FUNCTION

To ensure that all Coca-Cola Brands are properly displayed and merchandised in the market place.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To execute scheduled visits to all listed accounts, ensuring that the account is properly merchandised and point of sales material is in place.

• Monitoring & Servicing all branded coolers, racks and displays, ensuring that products are stocked and priced correctly.

• Organizing and setting up of all product sampling in the market.

• Assisting with market surveys, documentation of findings and reporting of the same.

• Preparing banners for display. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE • High School Diploma • A valid Driver’s License

SKILLS

• Good communication skills • Time management.

If you are interested in a challenging career, that will bring out the best in you, in an environment that is ever changing and evolving, then, send your Resume, on or before January 30th, 2015 by email to HRAdmin@cbcbahamas. com

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MATSON DELANCY

LUC ST. JEAN Is looking for a

is looking for a

Is looking for a

labourer Labourer labourer labourer To work 5 days To work 5 days Contact: 241-9730

Ports of Call Resorts

PRESTON HARRIS

RICHARD GIBBS

Housemaids Houseman Ground keepers Maintenance Person must be able to work holidays and weekends and be willing to work as a part of a team.

Resume can be email to info@portsofcallresort.com

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Is looking for a

labourer To work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 241-8830

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Job Vacancies

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contact: 345-5305

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contact: 232-7317

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Is seeking to employ

laboUrer Salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 247-1736

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NOTICE Regulation 7 of the Physical Planning (Development Permission) Regulations, 1990

An application REGISTERED PR 12047, by CANDLE THOMAS for the development of A Service Station/ Convenience Shop Restaurant & Ancillary Facilities has been submitted to the Department of Planning for consideration of Development Permission on 60707/183 Industrial Drive on Providenciales. The application as submitted seeks planning consideration for a service station/ convenience shop/ restaurant/ fuel dispatch canopy.

Anyone wishing to make representation(s) may do so in writing to the Director of Planning, South Base, Grand Turk or through the Department of Planning, Downtown, Town Center Mall, Providenciales, within twenty-eight (28) days of publication of this Notice.

30th, October 2014

ROXY BEAUTY SALON Is looking for the following persons:

is looking for a

labourer

barmaid

contact: 242-2604

contact: 241-6608

DISCOVERY TOURS

KATHLEEN JOLLY BAIN

To work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

Is looking for a

to work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

is looking for a

4 Nail Technicians

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

Date Posted:

contact: 241-7995

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per week salary $5.00 per hour.

4 Hair Stylist domestic Domestic Worker Must be willing worker To work 5 days to work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour

contact: 242-4006

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per week salary $6.00 per hour.

To do landscaping, farming etc. salary $5.50 per hour

To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour

MIRACLE BAR & RESTAURANT

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LOTIE HARVEY Is looking for a

to work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour. contact: 331-4892 10961

per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 244-0660

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Is looking for a

ALLIED MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD.

A NURSE

Is required for several managed properties Qualifications: • Required for property management company • Must have completed a degree course in Nursing and hold an internationally recognized registration • Fluent English written and spoken

Duties: • To give additional support services to elderly guests and disable and sometimes act as a babysitter • Irregular hours including night work and weekends • To assist housekeeping team when not performing nursing duties Salary $800.00 per month plus share of nursing fees

Send resumes to alliedmanagement@usa.net or to Labor Department

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LEW & JAN CONSTRUCTION

PELICAN DESIGNS LTD.

Graphic Designer Minimum requirements: • Two years of working experience in a lead position as a graphic designer • Experience in sign manufacturing • Advance knowledge in the following software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, estimate pricing software.

• Experience n project supervision and management • Must be willing to work outside normal business hours.

Salary: $400 per week Deadline for submission of applications is February 3rd, 2015 To: Manager, Pelican Designs Ltd. P.O. Box 579 21 Elite Plaza, Airport Road Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Email: info@pelicandesigns.tc Fax: (649) 941-8733 And copied to the Labour Department Butterfield Square, Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands

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CAICOS DREAM TOURS - HIRING

DOMESTIC WORKER REQUIRED

OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR diverse workplace • Excels at operating in a fast pace, community environment • Ability to challenge and debate issues of importance to the organization • Ability to look at situations from several points of view • Persuasive with details and facts • Delegate responsibilities effectively • High comfort level working in a diverse environment • Willing to work long hours and during holidays

Interested applicants can contact: 649-231-7274 or 649-231-7275

SOMEWHERE CAFÉ AND LOUNGE

Job duties to include the following: • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English.

• Excellent meal planning and preparation for large and small groups.

• Procure all groceries and cleaning supplies • Sufficient accounting skills and computer proficiency.

Salary is $1,350.00 a month. Required to work six days a week.

An experienced Belonger required for this position.

If you fit the above qualifications please address your application to: PO Box 560, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Closing date for applications is 26 January 2015.

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Qualifications: • Good verbal and written communication skills • Bachelor degree is definitely a must • Must have 5 years or more in water sports supervisory position • Must have 5 years experience in accounting management • Excellent computer skills and proficient in excel, word, outlook and access • Knowledge of tax and other compliance implications of non-profit status • A Demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards and a

Experienced Live in Domestic Worker needed for busy household.

Minimum of 10 years’ experience in domestic service for a large private family villa.

STEEL UNLIMITED CO. We are seeking suitable applicants to fill the following openings:

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

Is looking for a

Dishwasher To work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour apply in person Belongers only need apply

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January 17 - 23, 2015

Labourer • Belonger only need apply • Must be willing to work extended hours Salary is $6.00 per hour Fax: 649-941-8388 Application deadline January 21st, 2015

NOTICE OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION Scotiabank (Turks & Caicos) Ltd. of Cherokee Road, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands hereby gives notice of its intention to sell by Public Auction the following properties pursuant to its power of sale as registered Chargee under the Registered Land Ordinance of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

1. Parcel 60900/287 Leeward Going Through, Providenciales. Property consists of a main house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room, living/ dining room and a one bedroom, one bathroom guest house with kitchen, living/ dining room on 0.36 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Mark Andrew Knighton and Julie Margaret Knighton 2. Parcel 60002/139 Northwest and North Central, Providenciales. Single storey Priton home in Phase two with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, living/dining room, kitchen and laundry room on approx.. 0.40 acre .

Registered Proprietor: Lavardo Garland 3. Parcel 60804/45 The Bight and Thomas Stubbs, Providenciales. Single storey with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living/dining area, kitchen and laundry room on approx.. 0.40 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Janet Smith 4. Parcel 60715/191 Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill, Providenciales. Single storey situated on Butterfly Close with two bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen, living/ dining area, laundry on approx.. 0.56 acre.

Registered Proprietor: Vienna Thomas The auction will be held at the offices of Scotiabank (Turks and Caicos) Limited, Grace Bay Branch, Providenciales at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday the 30th day of January 2015.

A reserve price will be fixed on all parcels. A deposit of 10% is due immediately upon all accepted bids.

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VACANCIES 4 Store/Warehouse Supervisors:

- To take responsibility for specific areas of activity from day to day - To ensure that all areas of the shop floor are adequately staffed and that customers receive the highest standard of service - Maintaining a presence on the shop floor to assist staff in problem solving and motivating them for improved customer service - Perform the task of financial controller, managing all the books and records for the firm’s suppliers and clients - Manage all the accounting and sales aspects of the firm, including performing weekly auditing of the sales and expenses performed - Manage the inventory along the different locations and take control of transfers throughout - Must have at least 7 years experience in the retail industry and good management and leadership skills - Must be bilingual in English and Spanish, and any other language will be an asset to interact with customers - Must know how to operate Business Management System (BMS) - Must have sharp analytical skills and be willing to work at any point of any day to high quoted text responsibilities - Salary $1500.00 to $2000.00 as per qualifications

1 Purchasing Manager: - - - - -

8-9 years work experience in retail Computer savvy (POS/BMS) Work extended hours weekends and holidays Speak/write English. Other language is an asset Salary dependent on qualifications

6 Sales Assistants:

- Must be friendly and an outgoing person able to deal with customers on a one-to-one basis - Must be willing to cooperate and work as a joint team with other staff members - Must be computer savvy especially be able to opearate POS systems - Must be willing to learn new ideas - Must be willing to work extended hours, weekends and holidays - Knowledge of speaking and writing in different languages always an asset - Must have 3-5 years experience in retail trade - Salary $5.00 per hour

6 Labourers

- Must have 3-5 years experience - Salary $5.00 per hour

CONTACT: Ananda Ltd, P.O Box 1151, Providenciales Tel: 339-4663 e-mail: jobs@anandaltd.com

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is seeking a

LABOURER To work 6 days per week at a salary of $5.00 per hour.

Contact: 946-5724

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WARD’S CONSULTANCY Acting on behalf of our clients: Colin Chaffe, Villa Del Mar, Coyaba Restaurant Ltd. is looking to fill the following positions:

Live in nanny Laundry attendant Waitress Sous chef Manager

TURKS AND CAICOS TOURIST BOARD

Salary $5.50-$6.00 and $250.00 per week.

Contact: 649-345-7512

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Sun & Fun Sea Sports Ltd

January 17 - 23, 2015

Education and Training:

• Post secondary degree in Culinary Arts or 8 + years industry equivalent experience.

• Computer literate, functional on Excel, MS-Word and Quickbooks • Fluent in English both written and oral with a fundamental understanding of French and Spanish • First Aid Training

Skill Requirements:

Be able to assist the Executive Chef in all capacities to include: • Work in a high pressure environment with calm, effective leadership • Planning and execution of special events.

• Precise knife skills • Assist Chef in the preparation and execution of all desserts.

• Produce all breakfast, lunch and dinner items with expert precision.

• Cook entire menu on the line during service, including meats to temperature specifications.

• Execute a proper sanitation procedure to insure that high quality food is served that accurately represents the Café.

• Prepare and execute specials based on the Café’s Tex-Mex cuisine.

• Be versed in a large variety of cooking techniques to include: braising, sautéing, frying, steaming, poaching, and sauce making.

• Receive food orders from various vendors, checking for quality and pricing.

• Be able to stand on ones feet for 10 hours and be comfortable lifting 50 pounds without physical restrictions.

• Be available to work holidays and weekends with a flexible schedule.

Leadership and Managerial Requirements: • Assist Chef in the training of kitchen staff to encourage growth in a positive environment.

• Be sensitive to the needs of staff members and maintain a professional demeanor • Assist Chef in the ordering of food through a variety of vendors • Assist Chef with weekly and monthly inventory of items and work with the Chef to calculate food costs • Maintain a positive environment in the kitchen to encourage growth and diversity within the workplace The Sous Chef should be a natural leader who is seeking to assist others in improving their cooking ability, and also to develop strong people skills. An ambitious person who is a comfortable communicator with a confident skill set. The Sous Chef needs to be a self starter that can lead the kitchen in the Chefs absence. The right candidate should be able to open the kitchen in the morning, or be the last to leave the kitchen at night. Prioritizing and executing prep items based on the restaurants needs. He or She will assure that foods are properly labeled with the date and prep item name and consistently rotated, and stored for future use. Oversee and participate in daily cleaning duties as per scheduled by the Chef to maintain a clean safe environment for all employees to work in.

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT A rewarding career opportunity awaits you in the Country’s most important sector? Do you have outstanding communication, organization and administrative skills? Are you highly motivated and self-directed? The Turks & Caicos Tourist Board has an exciting opportunity for the ideal candidate. Reporting to the Director of Tourism, the successful candidate will coordinate: • Technical and Administrative Duties • Human Resource Administration • Office Administration • Employee Relations

ESSENTIAL DUTIES • Support the Director of Tourism with report writing, research, presentations and speeches; liaise with relevant tourism and tourism-related entities; participate in Tourist Board activities and projects.

• Perform administrative functions to include typing/word processing, filing, coordinating and answering mail/correspondence, taking and distributing meeting minutes, managing travel arrangements.

• Facilitate HR planning, recruitment, selection, placement and termination in collaboration with the HR Committee of the Board of Tourism.

• Coordinate employee relations activities; communicate with staff; address employee concerns, facilitate performance management, prepare employment/separation documents, liaise with Labour and Immigration Departments.

• Supervise and coordinate all front office activities including reception, purchasing, facilities management and maintenance, office services, and meeting planning/preparation.

• Support Accounts Department • Supervise assigned staff and delegate duties as appropriate

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE • Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism, Hospitality Studies, Business Management or related discipline from an accredited university • 3 years’ work experience, with at least one year of proven supervisory ability or minimum 5 years’ work experience at a senior level in a tourism or other business environment • Professional demeanor with excellent social and interpersonal skills; ability to engage at executive and senior management levels locally, regionally and internationally • Working knowledge of TCI Labour and Employment Laws • Able to maintain confidentiality; communicate sensitive information to management and employees, as required • Excellent typing skills with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office - Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Working knowledge of QuickBooks • • Ability to act as recording secretary for management/staff meetings • Excellent oral and written communication, presentation and organizational skills; strong attention to detail • Good health and high energy level

SALARY The salary scale for this position is $30,000 to $36,000 per annum. Starting salary is commensurate with qualifications, and experience.

For consideration, please submit the following documents to kbeentci@gmail.com addressed to The Chairman, Turks and Caicos Islands, Front Street, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands: • Covering Letter • Current Resume • Two (2) Reference Letters from previous employers • Current Police Record • Resident Status

Only persons shortlisted for an interview will be contacted in this regard.

CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 26, 2015

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contact: 341-4221

Contact: 649-946-5300

Caretaker To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

ATTORNEY We seek a highly qualified Attorney-At-Law who has been called to the English Bar/and or a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales with ability to practice in the Turks and Caicos. Must possess a Bachelor of Laws Degree and hold 18 years of practical experience in litigation, commercial law, intellectual property law, corporate law, insolvency law, property and internet law. Candidate must have the ability to initiate, thoroughly advise on, prepare and plead litigious matters. Previous extensive experience within the Caribbean required and the applicant has to be a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Salary commensurate with experience.

ONLY BELONGERS NEED APPLY.

Send resumes to info@karammissick.com on or before January 30, 2014. Please no calls or unscheduled visits. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. You may also send a copy of your resume to the Department of Labour.

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The Windsong resort Is seeking suitable qualified applicants to fill the following positions:

• Dining Room Manager • Butler • Front Desk Agent • Reservation

• To work week days salary on commission basis • Must work weekends and holidays • Must have a minimum of 5 years lecture experience and must have an educational degree along with own transportation • Speak English and other language skills is a plus

contact: 244-0469

MICHAEL RIGBY is looking for 4

labourers To work 5 days

per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 246-1909

• Minimum of 3 years in the specialized field • Excellent written and communication skills • Must be willing to work holidays and weekends

Please drop your resume at the Windsong resort

Certified Welder - Lay out, fit and fabricate metal components and various metal alloys (aluminum, stainless, etc) to assemble structural forms using knowledge of welding techniques, metallurgy and engineering components - Operates drill presses, power saws, grinders, metal lathes and a variety of welding equipment and hand tools - Analyze sample parts, blueprints, engineering drawings and specifications to plan welding operations - Remain in a standing position for extended periods of time.

- Experienced in SMAW / GMAW / GTAW & oxy-fuel welding / cutting - Must have a valid trade specific certifications with at least 5 years working experience.

- Valid drivers license Wage: Based on applicants experience and qualifications

Interested applicants contact Linda on 941-5802 Tibor’s Machine Shop Ltd. 10919

S & G Contracting Providenciales Telephone: 333-1199

Labourers Salary $5.50 per hour

WARD CONSTRUCTION Is looking for a

labourer to work 5 days per week salary $6.00 per hour.

contact: 231-6601

T&C Refreshments Ltd. Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Is.

Agent • Housekeeper • Gardener • Houseman • Domestic Worker

Requirements:

Send written resume to: darhud5@yahoo.com

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To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

Lecturer 10940

Labourer

• To work around yard, washing vehicles and vehicle maintenance • Must be able to work 5 days per week including weekends and holidays • Salary commensurate with experience

ISLAND NEWTWORK 649-946-4736

Is looking for a

Is seeking candidates for the position of

Merchandiser FUNCTION

To ensure that all Coca-Cola Brands are properly displayed and merchandised in the market place.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To execute scheduled visits to all listed accounts, ensuring that the account is properly merchandised and point of sales material is in place.

• Monitoring & Servicing all branded coolers, racks and displays, ensuring that products are stocked and priced correctly.

• Organizing and setting up of all product sampling in the market.

• Assisting with market surveys, documentation of findings and reporting of the same.

• Preparing banners for display. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE • High School Diploma • A valid Driver’s License

SKILLS

• Good communication skills • Time management.

If you are interested in a challenging career, that will bring out the best in you, in an environment that is ever changing and evolving, then, send your Resume, on or before January 30th, 2015 by email to HRAdmin@cbcbahamas. com

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LABOURER NEEDED

JOYCE RIGBY

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Is looking for a

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KEVIN SWANN

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January 17 - 23, 2015

Ronaldo wins Ballon d’Or CRISTIANO Ronaldo has beaten Lionel Messi to the Ballon d’Or for the second successive year.

The 29-year-old was voted best player in the world ahead of the Argentina and Barcelona forward and German international and Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer at a FIFA ceremony held in Zurich, Switzerland.

Ronaldo received the most votes from a panel made up of captains and coaches of national teams and a selection of the world’s media.

“I would like to thank all of those who voted for me,” Ronaldo said after receiving the award.

“It has been an incredible year. I would like to continue the work that I have done so far. I want to try to improve, to become better as each day goes by.

“I never thought that I would bring this trophy back home on three occasions. I want to become one of the greatest players of all time.”

Ronaldo, who picked up his first world player of the year award in 2008 and repeated the feat in 2013, was hotly tipped to scoop the title for the third time after completing another spectacular season at Real Madrid.

The Portuguese scored 56 goals in 51 appearances for Los Blancos in all competitions in 2014 and netted a total of 61 goals from 60 appearances during the calendar year.

He was instrumental in helping Carlo Ancelotti’s side lift a 10th UEFA Champions League title as well as winning the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Super Cup.

Ronaldo also broke the record for most La Liga hat-tricks in December last year. His three goals against Celta Vigo took him to a total of 23 hat-tricks, one more than La Liga legend Telmo Zarra and Real Madrid icon Alfredo di Stefano. In the same match he also notched up his 200th La Liga goal.

The Portuguese has enjoyed a remarkable La Liga season so far, scoring 26 times in 17 matches for table-topping Real Madrid this term.

Messi, who won the FIFA award for four consecutive years from 2009 to 2012, admitted in an interview at the weekend that it would be “difficult” to win this year when Ronaldo and Neuer had enjoyed such success in 2014 -- the German was a key member of country’s World Cup winning side in Brazil and conceded just 40 goals in 62 matches all year.

If nothing else, the trip to Zurich was a welcome distraction from speculation about his future at Barcelona.

Rumors have circulated recently that the Argentine is unhappy at the Nou Camp -- Messi was recently left out of the starting line up in a La Liga match against Real Sociedad and missed a training session the following day with “a stomach bug.”

Reports have suggested that he is unhappy with manager Luis Enrique’s coaching methods and is seeking suitors in the English Premier League. But he was quick to dismiss any idea of a move.

Speaking to Barcelona TV after the Catalan club’s 3-1 win against Atletico Madrid, Messi said

suggestions that he wanted to leave the Spanish giants were “lies.”

“I haven’t asked for anything to stay here because I have never wanted to go anywhere else. I have also heard that I have spoken to Chelsea and [Manchester] City...but it’s all lies,” Messi told the Spanish club’s TV channel.

Stories circulating that he had poor relationships with former coach Pep Guardiola, former star players including Samuel Eto’o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic and asked for them to be moved on were “in no way true,” he said.

“I am tired of hearing things about me. They say that I run the club when I am just another player. I don’t make those decisions, nor have I asked to make them.”

However, at the awards ceremony, Messi sent the rumor mill turning when he admitted: “I don’t know where I’ll be next year.”

He added: “I always said that I would finish my career at Barcelona and then at (his home town club in Argentina) Newell’s.

“As Cristiano (Ronaldo) said recently, football has many twists and anything can happen.”

LOW ON A HIGH A number of other awards were given out during the star-studded ceremony including the World Coach of the Year which went to the man who masterminded Germany’s World Cup win last July, Joachim Low. “It is the icing on the cake, the cake being the World Cup,” Low

Ronaldo, who picked up his first world player of the year award in 2008 and repeated the feat in 2013, was hotly tipped to scoop the title for the third time after completing another spectacular season at Real Madrid.

said.

“I know this award is not just for me, I am taking it here on behalf of all those who have assisted. We have had excellent conditions to produce what we have been able to produce.

“It’s a consequence of many years of hard work. I’d like to say thank you to all of the German coaches who do so much with the young players every day.”

The award for the Women’s World Player of the Year went to German midfielder Nadine Kessler who beat Brazil striker Marta and Abby Wambach, the U.S. team’s all-time leading goalscorer to the title.

Kessler succeeds her compatriot Nadine Angerer, who became the first goalkeeper to win the award 12

months ago.

James Rodriguez’s sensational volley at the 2014 World Cup won the FIFA Puskas Award for the best goal of 2014.

The 23-year-old netted his goal during Colombia’s 2-0 win against South American rivals Uruguay in the last 16.

It was one of six goals Rodriguez scored during the tournament -- a total that earned him the coveted Golden Boot award, given to the player who scores most goals at a World Cup Finals.

“I’d like to thank everybody who has voted for me. This was a very special moment for me and everyone in Colombia. I feel incredibly happy.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Murder and mayhem not what Islam is about

As someone who was in the public eye through sports, Abdul-Jabbar feels sports can play a role in bringing people from different backgrounds together.

AFTER the deadly shooting at Charlie Hebdo, the message from one of the most decorated athletes in U.S. sports history -- who is Muslim -- was clear.

“Most Muslims do not become Muslims to indulge in murder and mayhem,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the leading point scorer in NBA history, told CNN’s World Sport on Wednesday. “It’s not what Islam is about.

“We try to live lives of peace and harmony within ourselves and with our neighbours.”

Abdul-Jabbar -- also a bestselling author who was in London promoting a pair of new books including a fictional work about Sherlock Holmes’ brother -- was speaking a week after brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine.

French media reported that the

gunmen yelled, “We have avenged the Prophet” while carrying out the attack, referring to the Prophet Mohammed.

Amedy Coulibaly, who reportedly had ties to the brothers, killed four hostages at a kosher grocery store two days later.

Abdul-Jabbar, in a column for the website of Time magazine last week, said he was looking forward to the day when “these terrorists praising the Prophet (Mohammed) or Allah’s name as they debase their actual teachings are instantly recognised as thugs disguising themselves as Muslims.”

He added to CNN that poverty or lack of opportunities in education are factors in people committing such acts.

“They become radicalised by the lack of opportunity and anything in their future that has any promise,” he said. “They embrace violence.

They try to use religion as something to justify that. But nothing justifies that.”

As someone who was in the public eye through sports, AbdulJabbar feels sports can play a role in bringing people from different backgrounds together.

“Sport absolutely plays a part in that,” he said. “When you spend all of your time trying to develop the talent for a sport and you see people doing the same thing from a different culture and you have the same interests, there’s common ground there.

“And you can go from that to find more common ground. I think sport has gone a great way to doing that.

Look at the U.S.-China relationship -- ping-pong was the thing that opened the door. A sporting event.”

But Abdul-Jabbar also said it was down to the media to understand Islam better.

January 17 - 23, 2015

Sports Interational NFL player Josh McNary charged with rape An NFL player has been charged with rape by prosecutors in Indianapolis.

Josh McNary, an Indianapolis Colts linebacker, faces charges of rape, criminal confinement and battery. The 26-year-old denies all the charges.

Peg McLeish, a spokeswoman in the city prosecutor’s office, confirmed the charges but gave no details.

In 2013, the army graduate joined the Colts, who play New England in Sunday’s AFC Championship game.

In a statement, the Colts said they were trying to establish the facts in the case.

The NFL has faced criticism recently for its handling of serious allegations against players, and penalties have subsequently increased.

There was uproar when Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was initially given a twomatch suspension for attacking his girlfriend, now his wife.

That was increased to an indefinite suspension but the harsher penalty was overturned in arbitration.

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The Colts’ linebacker, Josh McNary, has denied all charge.

On Thursday morning, Mr McNary’s lawyer issued a statement on behalf of his client.

“Joshua McNary unhesitatingly denies all accusations made against him.

“Following the public release of these allegations, Joshua immediately reported to law enforcement officials in a respectful and peaceful manner.

“The charges and affidavit publicly disseminated on Wednesday afternoon are not evidence of wrongdoing, but simply one side’s story.” (BBC)

1,000th win for Roger Federer as he takes Brisbane title ROGER Federer reached the 1,000 ATP Tour wins milestone as he claimed the Brisbane title Sunday but was made to fight all the way by Canada’s Milos Raonic in a tense three-set final.

The 33-year-old Swiss joins Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl as the only players in the modern professional era to achieve that feat and was claiming his 83rd career title.

Federer led by a set and 2-0 until Raonic broke back and reeled off seven straight points in the tiebreaker to level at a set all.

The third set might have gone either way, with top seed Federer staving off five break points, but a single break of the Raonic service proved decisive and he completed victory in two hours 13 minutes.

It completed a fine week for the world number two as he prepares for a tilt at the upcoming Australian Open title in Melbourne.

By contrast, his arch-rivals Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal slipped to early round defeats at the ATP event in Doha to disrupt their preparations for the opening grand slam of the season.

Federer, who was surprisingly beaten in the final of the corresponding event by Lleyton Hewitt last year, was winning the Brisbane title for the first time.

He extended his career record over the emerging Raonic to 8-1 with his latest triumph, but still has ground to

The 33-year-old Swiss joins Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl as the only players in the modern professional era to achieve that feat and was claiming his 83rd career title.

make up on former greats Connors (1,253 wins) and Lendl (1,071).

At the presentation he was awarded the trophy by Roy Emerson and a special award for 1,000 wins by fellow Australian legend Rod Laver.

“To get to 1,000 wins in front of you two greats means a lot to me,” Federer said.

“I’ll never forget this moment.”

In other ATP final action Sunday, top seed Stanislas Wawrinka

successfully defended his title at the Chennai Open in India.

Federer’s compatriot Wawrinka, who is preparing for his defense of the Australian Open title, beat Slovenian qualifier Aljaz Bedene 6-3 6-4 in 69 minutes in the final.

The 29-year-old Wawrinka also won the title at the hard court event in 2011.

It was his eighth career tournament victory and earns him 250 ranking points. (CNN)

Eoin Morgan ‘surprised’ by Kevin Pietersen England claim Manny Pacquiao has reportedly agreed to terms for a May 2 match with Floyd Mayweather, according to promoter Bob Arum, in what would be an historic fight between the world’s top boxers.

Pacquiao agrees to fight Floyd Mayweather BOXING fans a long awaited Mayweather-Pacquiao is getting closer to happening. Yahoo Sports reported that Manny Pacquiao has agreed to terms for a May 2 match with Floyd Mayweather, according to promoter Bob Arum, in what would be an historic fight between the world’s top boxers.

Now it’s up to Mayweather to approve of the deal.

“I want to get some movement here, with bringing Mayweather to the table so we can go out and get everything signed and get the networks together and get the thing finished,” Arum told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday.

Sources told Yahoo Sports that the May 2 fight could take place at the MGM with a 60/40 purse split to favor Mayweather, who could potentially make $120 million.

However, an MGM spokesman told Yahoo Sports no deal has been made at the Grand Garden thus far.

“I’m not trying to force anybody’s hand, I’m just saying, ‘Hey, we’ve agreed to everything, period,’ “ Arum told Yahoo Sports. “The people we have talked to on Mayweather’s side have agreed to everything. Now we need Mayweather to step up and say, ‘Yeah, I’m on board. I agree.’”

(CNBC)

ENGLAND one-day captain Eoin Morgan is “pretty surprised” by batsman Kevin Pietersen’s claim that he wants him back in the side.

Pietersen’s international career was ended last February as the ECB sought to rebuild England’s “team ethic”.

“I’m very happy with the squad of players I have,” said Morgan, who took over from Alastair Cook in December.

“Kev’s an absolute entertainer with the bat and off the field. I get on with him really well.”

The 28-year-old insisted he and Pietersen could “separate business and pleasure”.

Pietersen, 34, is playing for the Melbourne Stars in the Australian Big Bash Twenty20 and has averaged 39 across five innings.

While co-commentating on the tournament, he said: “I know the current captain would love to have me in the England team.

While co-commentating on the tournament, Kevin Pietersen said: “I know the current captain would love to have me in the England team.

“I honestly believe I am batting as well as I have ever batted at the moment.”

Morgan was Pietersen’s captain in his last one-day international - a 49-run

defeat to Australia in September 2013.

England face Australia on Friday as part of a warm-up tri-series before their World Cup opener on 14 February. (BBC)

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The BCB Wahoos made light work of the Vix Tipsy Turtles in the Cup final.

Pizza Pizza Mixed Tag League:

Wahoos defend title

THE BCB Wahoos successfully defended their Pizza Pizza Mixed Tag League title with a 12-2 win over the Vix Tipsy Turtle in the Cup final in late March at the Meridian Ground.

Fifteen-year-old Olivia O’Connell scored three tries to lead the winners’ attack.

In the league, which ran from January to March, the CASL Seals of Doom defeated the BCQS Jolly Ranchers 15-5 in the Bowl final.

Cara Buddle led the winners with two tries.

The final playing day of the league also dictated the Plate winners. In that clash Meridian mauled the Blue Haven Dreams 22-2.

Hockey teams defend PHL Da Conch Shack titles

-Lightning make it three consecutive IN late March 2014 the Coco Bistro Lightning, the Gracebay Car Rentals and Sales Panthers and the Saunders and Company Owls successfully defended their Da Conch Shack Provo Hockey League titles in the Bantam, Midget and Mini divisions respectively.

Victory for the Lightning was sweeter since that team won three consecutive titles, having finished as runners up in 2011.

Provo High School Coed Sixes Volleyball Tournament:

CHHS beat BWIC to lift

The victorious Clement Howell High School team who won the 2014 Provo High School Co-ed Sixes Volleyball Tournament.

title

THE Clement Howell High School (CHHS) claimed victory in the TCI Volleyball Federation organised, Provo High School Co-ed Sixes Volleyball Tournament in early April.

In the four-team competition played on April 11 at the Gus Lightbourne Sports Complex, CHHS defeated the British West Indies Collegiate (BWIC) 2-0 in a best-inthree clash.

The winners were asked to defend their title this year (2015 on the last Friday before the Easter break) after it was announced that the tournament will become an annual one for schools in Providenciales.

Saved as: Delano W Caption:

Delano Williams launched the Delano Williams’s Sports Foundation in April of 2014 in the TCI.

Williams launches sports foundation in the TCI

The Coco Bistro Lightning celebrates their third consecutive victory in late March of 2014.

TCI’s fastest sprinter Delano Williams launched his sports foundation in mid-April with the aim of helping local athletes get into

sports.

“This foundation is to help athletes get into sports and provide them with opportunities I didn’t have,” said the then 20 year-old, who was already running for the UK at that time.

Prior to the launch Williams had garnered support from footwear giants Nike and Inter-Caribbean Airways.

Williams had said that he also aims to bring a number of coaches and sports personalities to the TCI to help young athletes and to create an environment where young sportsmen and sportswomen can be scouted for possible universities in Jamaica and further afield.

AFC Academy win Provo Premier League title

A HERBY Magny goal in the 82nd minute of play was all that was necessary to hand the AFC Academy the WIV Provo Premier League title in late April at the TCIFA Academy ground.

The bottom-of-the-table Teachers held their own for most of the game until Magny planted a shot into the top corner of the goal. If the Academy had lost or drawn the game defending champions Cheshire Hall had a chance of keeping the spoils.

CARIFTA 2014:

TCI athletes fall short of medals, but produced numerous PBs

TCI’s CARIFTA Games athletes produced numerous personal best times when they competed in the 43rd edition of the CARIFTA Games in Martinique from April 19th-21st last year.

Corvil Woodens made four personal bests (16.25s in the 110M hurdles, 51.27s in the 400M, 11.54s in the 100M and 41.52m in the javelin); Courtney Missick ran 22.07s in the 200M and 50.18s in the 200M; Dana Eyna Sean Sparks ran 4:24s in the 1500M and 2:05s in the 800M; Jean Wadley ran 50.84s in the 400M; Daleovaun Hardware threw a PB in the shot put (11.78m in the U-18 division); Darly Francois ran 23.03s in the 200M, and Lucien Robinson ran 2:01.15s in the U-20 Boys’ 800M. MULTIPLE EVENTS WINNERS There were several other outstanding performances on the track, but the effort that our youngsters put into the heptathlon and the Octathlon should be acknowledged.

In the Octathlon (eight events)

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Corvil Woodens finished seventh with 5018 points while Wadley Jean placed eighth (4950 points) out of 15 athletes. Woodens finished tied for second in the high jump and third in the 1000M. Jean finished second in the 100M, was tied for second in the long jump, and was tied for third in the 400M. The females were also spectacular in the pentathlon. Kadine Delphin finished 12th, with 2807 points and Sanadia Forbes finished 13th with 2674 points. Forbes looked good early, but faltered in the javelin.

in 2014, the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi freshman added the senior 400M outdoor record to his name in late April last year.

Garland broke Delano Williams’s 2013 record at a school meet. His first place run of 47.22s, which is also a new school record (he broke his own school record), edged out the 47.81s made by Williams prior to him switching allegiances to Great Britain mid-2013.

Two weeks later Garland delivered a sub 47s at the 2014 Southland Conference Outdoor Championships in the USA. His 46.82s was another record for his school and TCI. British Caribbean Bank/ Yoshi Sushi Road Circuit Race:

Pic, Macario, Jadot and Bullary claim victory

Angelo Garland’s outdoor feat made him the undisputed 400M champion in the TCI.

Garland breaks outdoor 400M record

ANGELO Garland is the undisputed 400M king in the TCI. After breaking the junior 400M record as a high school student at Munro College, and the 400M indoor record early

SEMI-PROFESSIONAL cyclist Chris Pic, Elriano Macario, iron woman Catherine Jadot and Lucy Bullard won individual races at TCI’s first official cycle road race.

The inaugural British Caribbean Bank/Yoshi Sushi Road Circuit Race, which according to one of the organisers, Yoshi Ono, will become an annual event, was held in late April in Providenciales.

Pic, who flew in from the USA for the race, was one of 45 riders on the circuit. He won the male road race (a 16.5-mile circuit on the Leeward Highway) with Adrian Enriquez finishing second and Freidise Registre, Ono and Luc Despins rounding off the top five.

Catherine Jadot was the top female mountain biker.

Macario finished as the top male mountain biker followed by Garry Perez, Orlando Vasaya, Florencio Fajardo and Albino Dayupay.

On the ladies side Jadot powered her way to first place in the Mountain Bike category (11 miles), with Line Allen in second and Ibis van Walleghem in third. Bullard was the lone female finisher in the road race.

Another outstanding achievement went to Doug Carbon who was the first senior (55-and-over category) to cross the finish line in the mountain bike division. Carbon also placed 10 overall in this category.

MAY Forbes signs with San Antonio Scorpions

IN MAY of 2014 national footballer Billy Forbes signed a year-and-ahalf contract with the San Antonio Scorpions to play in the North American Soccer League (NASL).

The talented 22-year-old, who would later explode for the Scorpions, had said he was humbled by the signing.

OWE EVERYTHING He acknowledged that he had only reached that position because of the hard work of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association

The GT Stallions retained their PABA Night League title with a 3-1 win over the Flyers in the championship series in May of 2014.

(TCIFA); he also singled out coach and executive member Oliver Smith as his mentor.

Stallions win three straight to keep PABA title

THE GT Stallions stamped their authority on basketball in the TCI

in May of 2014 when they romped to three straight wins to claim the PABA title.

The two-time champions lost game one against rivals the Five Cays Flyers, but bounced back to win the best-in-five series 4-1.

TCIRFU wins inaugural NACRA Award for Rugby Development in region

ALL the hard work of the Turks and Caicos Islands Rugby Football Union (TCIRFU) has not gone unnoticed.

The North American Caribbean Rugby Association presented the inaugural NACRA award for Rugby Development in North America and the Caribbean to the TCI during their NACRA Rugby Championships clash with the Bahamas at the Meridian Field.

The award recognises the TCIRFU as the team or individual that has done the most to grow and develop rugby in their community, country or region.

Billy Forbes was humbled after signing the yearand-a-half contract with the Scorpions.

TRULY MARVELLOUS Scott Harland, NACRA’s Regional Development Officer was elated with the progress the TCIRFU has made over the years: “When you consider that the entire country has less than 32 thousand people, spread across several islands, it is truly marvellous that they have managed to establish a vibrant schools programme, a men’s league, their own facility and successful national teams for each regional championship.”

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