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SIPT lays out case against lawyers The trial of Tim O’Sullivan and Gordon Kerr began on Monday (June 1) with the selection of a seven-member jury and SIPT Special Prosecutor Andrew Mitchell delivering his opening address on the details of the Crown’s case against the two lawyers. PAGE 

Provo Water Company celebrates Drinking Water Week PAGE  17

Students from the top three high schools whose posters stood out for the PWC poster competition this year

Washy claims ‘passionate’ statements were misrepresented PAGE  4

PDM addresses downsizing at Beaches PAGE  9

Cosmetic surgery in the TCI 15

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Washy claims ‘passionate’ statements were misrepresented

– Wants to be judged on record and not outburst BY DELANA ISLES WITH elections just about a year away, and given that the PNP party is known to capture the Haitian votes primarily, Minister of Finance Washington Misick has done some fancy foot work around recent statements he made castigating foreign celebrations in the TCI. In a statement to the press titled ‘Minister’s response to the Turks and Caicos Sun newspaper’ on Wednesday the former chief minister made reference to the “swirling debate” regarding his statements during the House of Assembly’s last sitting. “My statements were made during a passionate debate in which I expressed my personal view. “It is unfortunate that this stand taken for Turks and Caicos Islanders, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, was taken out of context.” Misick claims that he has been painted in a light that is 100 degrees removed from all that he is and all that he has stood for and defended over the entirety of his professional, political and adult life. “I can only call these tactics malicious and rife with intent to cause discord among the people living within our shores. “I refute any notion that I am a xenophobe and, notwithstanding my utterances, wish to be judged by my record rather than by an impromptu bombast.”

The minister said he can say without fear of contradiction that the Progressive National Party in and out of Government is among the most inclusive and tolerant and liberal in the region. “To put my passionate if not stately remarks in context, TCI is home to some 45 different nationalities none of whom have ever been restricted in the celebration of their national festivals. “The Haitian and Jamaican in particular have been an integral part of the collage that is Turks and Caicos for as long as I can remember.” He added that generations of them have assimilated into the TCI society, with there being no distinction between their children and his. According to Misick, the country extends a warm and friendly welcome to all who come to TCI shores legally and with goodwill, in any category of activity required by the economy and social system. “We extend a hand of cooperation and friendship, and even a pathway to citizenship for those who meet the criteria and who have a genuine respect for our people, our way of life and our laws.” He stated that he is passionate about his duty to the country as a citizen and as a Member of Parliament and Cabinet, as well as to about the people of the Islands. “But to my immigrant friends, I have not turned my back on you; I

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have simply turned my face to the future; a future in which you are welcomed to share if you would stand with me to build this land, and so I stretch out my hand,” Misick ended his statement. The minister’s statements have spread far and wide around the Caribbean and in North American, with indications to this publication of some visitors taking their vacation dollars elsewhere.

Although the thrust of his statements is that the TCI’s culture needs to be respected, embraced and celebrated with the same enthusiasm as others within the Islands, many people have latched on to the minister’s words and their delivery. Most notably the following excerpt from his speech in the House: “We have something coming up called Haitian Flag Day, we have Haitian day, we got Jamaican day, we got Bahamas day, when the hell we gonna have Turks and Caicos day? “If these people want to be a part of us we cannot encourage, we can’t support them with all these days if we are going to be Singapore. If you are going to be in this country, be in this country and be a part of this country. “If you want to be in Haiti and Jamaica and the Bahamas, stay there; and that is part of the problem, it is encouraged by a lot of these different groups who are in senior positions in the private sector, who encourage this kind of stuff. “We have to send a strong message, while we as a people have to make sure that we do the right thing by our country and by the same token we have to make sure that

people who come here do the right thing by our country, we should not be supporting all of these different splinter groups with their different days. “You would never see me at any of them, I would not; this is Turks and Caicos, if you here, this is Rome, do as the Romans do.” Misick added that if people come to the TCI to live, they need to contribute to the TCI, and if they do not want to be in the Islands, then American Airlines, which flies to the TCI on a daily basis, can take them somewhere else. This speech was followed by audible banging of support on the tables of the House and some voices raised in agreement, but no one in Government, or the Opposition for that matter, has come out in the open in support of Misick’s views. The Premier has outright refused to address the issue when contacted. While Leader of the Opposition, Sharlene Cartwright Robinson has stated that the culture of the host country must be respected and that the Government has to put guidelines in place as to what other cultures are allowed to do in the country, as some will be diametrically opposed to the host country’s beliefs.

Lime marketing manager made redundant, GM departing soon BY DAISY HANDFIELD MARKETING manager for Lime TCI, Rachel Harvey confirmed to the Weekly News on Thursday (June 4) that her position with the company has become redundant and that she will be moving on to other things. She said: “I will be moving on. I am happy and very excited about the future… I am looking forward to what is next.” When Harvey was asked what she was going to branch off into, she said that she was still uncertain but there were some personal things that she wanted to work on. She wished the company all the best and wanted the general public to know that as she takes on a new road, she is looking forward to the change. “I just want everyone to know that I am genuinely happy and I honestly do not feel bitter or depressed about the transition, this is actually an opportunity for me to broaden my horizons.” Harvey has been working with Lime TCI for 18 years from the time the company was known as Cable and Wireless. The Weekly News also heard speculations about the new general manager for Lime TCI, James Pitt resigning but after this newspaper

Rachel Harvey, marketing manager for Lime TCI

James Pitt, general manager for Lime TCI

contacted Pitt on Thursday (June 4) he said that he has not resigned. When asked if he was planning on leaving the company, he confirmed that this will happen in the next two or three months. He said that for the ‘immediate future’ he is still serving the company as general manager. Pitt was introduced to the TCI as Lime TCI’s new general manager during a press conference in Providenciales a year ago, on June 5. Pitt holds a Bachelor of Science

(BSc) degree from City College of the City University of New York (Cum Laude Honours) in Electrical Engineering, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Georgetown University’s Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business in Washington DC, USA. Prior to being hired as general manager for Lime TCI, he had responsibility for Lime’s on-island technology and service operations in Carriacou and Petit Martinique, Grenada.

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SIPT lays out case against UK lawyers BY DELANA ISLES THE TRIAL of Tim O’Sullivan and Gordon Kerr began on Monday (June 1) with the selection of a seven-member jury and SIPT Special Prosecutor Andrew Mitchell delivering his opening address on the details of the Crown’s case against the two lawyers. According to court documents, over the four week trial the prosecution is expected to call 17 witnesses. These are Police Officer Hobbs; Police Inspector James; Police Inspector Cooper; Police Inspector Chambers; Police Officer (retired) Maclachlan; Police Inspector Noble; and Police Inspector Radford (only last names provided). Other witnesses are Marc Rawlins; Andrew Brian Gale; Athenee Juanquisha Harvey; Stuart Barrington Taylor; Arthur Allan Been; Mark Andrew Knighton; Shaaban Rajabu Musa Hoza; Steve Thompson; Ronald Albert Shaw and Andrew Edward Hawes. The Crown is accusing the two

of cheating the public revenue on or about August 14, 2006 of approximately $1.5 million in stamp duty by falsely representing the value of the property and land transaction in respect of the sale Emerald Cay. They allegedly represented the price as $11 million (including $1 million for chattels) when in fact real value of the transaction was approximately $28 million. Another charge alleges that between January 1, 2005, and March 31, 2007, the two lawyers conspired with Timothy Blixseth, Andrew Hawes, Angelica Morrone, Gary Di Silvestri and others to cheat the collector of stamp duty and the public revenue of stamp duty due and payable upon the sale by a company known as Worldwide Commercial Properties Limited to Emerald Cay Limited of land and real property known as Emerald Cay. They are alleged to have falsely represented the value of the transaction as mentioned in the first charge. The third count alleges that between January 1, 2005, and August

Tim O’Sullivan

Gordon Kerr

31, 2006, Kerr and O’Sullivan conspired with Blixseth, Hawes, Morrone, Di Silvestri and others to falsely represent documents required for accounting purposes by the collector of stamp duty with a view to cause loss to the public revenue and for the gain of Blixseth, Hawes, Morrone and Di Silvestri by a false declaration of the value of land and property known as Emerald Cay. The real people behind the companies and who were, in effect the sellers were Gary Di Silvestri

and Angelica Silvestri (nee Morrone) while the buyer was Timothy Blixseth through his companies. O’Sullivan of the law firm Miller Simons O’Sullivan represented the buyer of the property (Blixseth), while Kerr of Misick and Stanbrook represented the seller (Di Silvistris). In his opening arguments, Mitchell said that the case is one of a deliberate and dishonest attempt to suppress the price at which a property (Emerald Cay) was bought, in order to evade the payment of significant

stamp duty. Explaining how the fraud was committed, the prosecutor told the jurors that the defendants created various bogus agreements or contracts, which were made, or executed, at the same time that Emerald Cay was bought. Under these agreements, $17 million was payable by Blixseth to the Di Silvestris in addition to the $10 million paid for the property. He noted that on the face of these agreements, the money was paid for consultancy services, an option to buy the house, further work to be carried out to the house after the sale and for chattels (furniture and other belongings). He posited that these agreements were shams and this would have been obvious to the attorneys, as they were created to cover up the payment by Blixseth to the Di Silvestris of the further $17 million which was really for the property and upon which stamp duty should have been paid. The Silvestris owned the land at continued 

TCI Bank building to house Finance Ministry THE BUILDING that formerly housed TCI Bank Limited, located in Downtown Providenciales, will now be used as a centralised accommodation for departments that fall under the Ministry of Finance. At its July 3 meeting in Providenciales, Cabinet members advised Governor Peter Beckingham to enter into a lease agreement for the building, a statement from the Governor’s Office advised. The location will now house the various departments currently under the management of the Ministry of Finance, namely customs, revenue control unit and treasury. Meanwhile, Cabinet also advised the Governor to grant approval of a 99 year lease over approximately 0.46 acres of accreted land lying seaward of parcels 60905/214 and 60906/227 to Desarrollos Turks and Caicos Limited and a licence for use of the beach front jetty located adjacent to their development. Beckingham was further advised to grant approval for the survey and mutation of a number of Crown land parcels for the purpose of creating road reserves and/or road easements. One of which is for the survey

and mutation of Crown land parcel 60002/54 in order to create a road reserve/easement to provide access to parcels 60002/374-381 in Providenciales. Another for the survey and mutation of Crown land parcels 10506/94 and 114 in order to create a road reserve and to provide an alternative road access to parcel 10506/96 and other neighbouring parcels, situated in block 10506, South Suburbs, Grand Turk. And the final one for the survey and mutation of Crown land parcel 10506/114 in order to create a road reserve as an extension to the existing road parcel (parcel 10506/35), in order to provide direct access to the public road in the area to parcels 10506/31-34 and 36, situated at South Suburbs, Grand Turk. Additionally, Cabinet approved a report from the National Parks Committee setting out proposals for revisions to the National Parks Ordinance and revisions to protected areas. The proposals are to be released for public consultation in due course. Cabinet members also advised the Governor to grant approval to

The location will now house the various departments currently under the management of the Ministry of Finance, namely customs, revenue control unit and treasury.

negotiate a compensation settlement (subject to valuation) with the various proprietors, in respect of land acquired by Government for the development of a bypass from Kew Rural to Kew Township, following tropical storm Cristobal. He was also advised to approve several appointments. See below. To the Telecommunications Commission - for the period June 19, 2015 to March 31, 2016

appointments of Heather Allen, Chairman (Attorney-at-Law); Andre Garneau, Member (Attorney-atLaw); Shaveena Been, Member (Accountant); Terrance Robinson, Member (Business/Technical); Herbert Ingham, Deputy Chairman (Business/Technical); Pedro Ariza, Member (Business/Technical); Permanent Secretary (MHTC); Exofficio Member; Director General; and Secretary.

Other appointments are to be made to the Prison Visiting Committee, these are - Perry Missick, Chairman; Father Mark Kendall, Member; Jennifer Forbes, Member; Michael Robinson, Member; Leo Selver, Member; Belinda Lightbourne, Deputy Chairman; and Jennifer R Lightbourne, Member. Appointments to the Parole Board are - Montel Archibold, Chairperson; Bernadine Smith, Member; Carolyn Wilson, Member; Permanent Secretary (MHTC), Member; Prison Superintendent; Member; Director of Social Development; and another Member. Appointments to the Radio Turks and Caicos Board of Governors are - Vaughn Hinds (Business / Technical), Chair; Cheryl Ann Foreman, Member; Tijuana Rasheida Ewing, Member (Attorney At Law); Jermaine Fulford, Member (Business/Technical); Desiree James, Member (Accountant); Permanent Secretary, (MHTC); Member; Senior Government Press Officer and Member. All of the appointments are made in accordance with the relevant ordinances.

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What is in store for the TCI? EARLIER this year Providenciales was voted as TripAdvisor’s world’s top island for vacationers in 2015, sparking well wishes and congratulations. But there have also been some suggestions that if action is not taken soon, the vaunted ‘Beautiful by nature’ brand could be in peril, due to the increasing problem of littering, the building height hike and complacency on the part of the Government. What are your thoughts?

Fine the litterbugs!

Make littering an offence punishable by a fine.

Police need to enforce laws

If we do not get a handle on the litter problem soon we will have to change our title to: ‘Buried by garbage’. There is a provision in the law of a $500 fine for littering. If the police department would enforce this, it would be an incredibly good source of revenue for the Government until people actually caught on.

Dirty low cost destination soon

Anyone who regularly reads TripAdvisor knows that a lot of those reports are not very

realistic. Returning visitor statistics are perhaps a more effective way to gauge our success. And our success has been as a high end destination - luxurious vacation villas and four star small resorts - in a country that is as ecologically responsible as a poor, barely second world country can be. We are obviously turning away from that winning combination. High rise buildings, which will require much more foreign labour to build and to run, a dolphinarium - when the rest of the world is condemning them - inability to keep beaches and public areas clean, price gouging everywhere. We are well on our way to becoming a cheesy, dirty, low-cost destination. Give it five to 10 years before the elite, moneyed travellers call it quits. As a very long term resident, this path breaks my heart, but we have no effective leadership and the sensible, educated people

Government congratulates graduating class TWO hundred and seventy-nine students met the criteria to graduate from public high schools this year and will receive certificates and diplomas for their successful completion. The Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Library Services congratulated all the students and families of the graduating class of 2015 in a press release on Monday (June 1). Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Akierra Missick, said: “It is my pleasure to commend the principals and staff of the various schools for their work in helping to mould the lives of our young people. “Today will be the first of many proud moments for the graduating classes of 2015 throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands.

“We are proud of what our students have accomplished, and we are confident that the skills and education they obtained at our schools have given them the foundation they need to be successful in their career and in life.” She said that this year there was a slight improvement in the performance of students of the 2015 graduating class, however there is still room for improvement in many areas. “The Department of Education is now charged with making further recommendations to enhance results in the future.” Students will be rewarded and acknowledged for their hard work at each island’s valedictory service and prize giving ceremonies from June 28 to July 2.

who do care about the country are running their own businesses. The expatriate resources, of which there are many, are excluded from decision making, unless their suggestions/expertise come with some kind of sugar coating.

Environmental issues neglected

If the police would patrol the streets and beaches and give huge fines for littering (and speeding, for that matter) the island would be clean and they would make enough to hire additional policemen. Having a dolphinarium, building high rise buildings and other such nonsense kills the market niche we have so carefully created. If people wanted to go to Mexico with their polluted, loud, unsafe version of tourism, they’d go to Mexico. Let’s find that document that the party produced while vying for our votes and see how much they have actually accomplished when it comes to environmental (and other) issues.

Littering will ruin TCI

As never before the TCI’s economic future is very fragile. With a tax on the resort visitors up by 20 percent, a higher departure tax coming soon and a new US Obama tax law that may turn our international banks away from the US dollar, a world economic hiccup will cause trouble. We have committed all our high taxes to paying down the debts of the PNP. By March next year we are obliged to borrow $55 million or more and we must have reserves of millions more to qualify for the loan. During the 1995 to 2003 PDM administration, the TCIG had reserves and subsidised the US air carriers to reduce the fares and encourage tourists during a recession. Seeing this, developers flocked in. We cannot now put away reserves because of our PNP contracted massive health care obligations. We have had minimal development since 2003 with existing resorts and developers fined for paying alleged extortion by the PNP. We cannot bring in light manufacturing due to electrical rates five times the mainland. Banks and insurance companies are already going belly up. It is not a pretty picture. We have moved from a low tax eco destination encouraging new development to a selfish country forced to overtax. High rises will not be a problem, who would now build in the TCI? Littering will hasten any coming downturn.

Tougher penalties for offenders

When is the garbage message ever going to get through to the offenders? This country is populated by so many garbage-throwing slobs that the efforts of church groups, civic organisations and the hospitality industry cannot begin to keep it

clean. Even one day after one of the above groups has cleaned it up, the Leeward Highway median is again filled with trash! ‘Beautiful by nature, filthy by choice!’

Current downward spiral needs to halted

Hopefully the people and the Government of the TCI will try and hold onto 90 percent of Trip Advisor’s accolade of the Top Island in the World. Littering is in need of a culture change. Kids, kindergarten to university, need to be cultured on the evils of littering. Migrants and tourists need to be cultured as well. Height changes get the islands nowhere. There is no local labour that benefits from it. Seven Stars is an example of where it was built by foreign labour and operated now by mostly foreign labour. Any benefits the Government got in the form of revenue have gone into a sinking fund and other dubious forms of debt repayment. Temporary greed can destroy a country’s future. Public officers, customs and immigration officers need training in people, law, policy, procedure and how to do things efficiently. In their lack of knowledge and arrogance they do more harm than good. The Government needs to budget more for training, schools and education. In Grand Turk the residents there face a real nightmare where the Government has borrowed so much from Carnival. Carnival has destroyed the roads with its traffic, so there are no funds to fix the roads there. Yet we are all taxed to the hilt. The Islands will remain ‘Beautiful by nature,’ but if these trends continue that will not end well for the next generation.

Work together to keep the Islands clean

My thoughts are that there really should not be any more buildings over seven stories, and that was a bit much. As for cleanliness, it is totally up to us, the people who live in these Islands, to do our part in keeping the country in a state of ‘Beautiful by nature, clean by choice’ status. The Government has a part to play but is not solely responsible. We must all bear in mind that many other countries have sun, sand and beaches. Let’s all do our parts to keep our country one of good, warm and welcoming attraction.

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Emerald Cay for about seven years before it was sold to Blixseth. During that period, they built the house on the land, which took about four years to be built, the jury heard. They were also told that well over $16 million was spent building the house - an extravagant mansion with eight, bedrooms, a theatre, a library, a music room, a gym, a boathouse, a tennis court, a guard house and gate house and a swing bridge to allow to allow access to the property from the mainland which was adjacent. Mitchell stated that the house was designed and constructed with the assistance of a TCI architect called Ron Shaw, from whom the jury will hear testimony. He said that the construction work was principally carried out by construction managers Projetech, whose managing director Steve Thomson will also give testimony. Its grandeur might be indicated by the fact that at one point, after Emerald Cay was sold to Blixseth and when Michael Misick was Premier, there was a suggestion by the Premier that it might be sold on to the TCI Government in exchange for some Government land in Middle Caicos, to become the TCI’s White House, the prosecutor told the jurors. The agreements He noted that there are several agreements to consider throughout the trial, namely the sale agreement - $11m ($10m for the real property and $1m for “chattels”); the works agreement - $500,000; the option agreement - $4m; the installation agreement - $6m, the consultancy agreement - $6.5m and the share purchase - £10. He stated that all of the agreements were signed between August 8 and 14, 2006, and that the defendants were deeply involved in their preparation - O’Sullivan preparing the drafts and Kerr providing counter proposals and eventually agreeing to them after consulting with his clients, the Di Silvestris. He stated that all of the agreements were backdated to various dates, and one of the issues the jury will have to consider is why this was so. According to Mitchell, the defendants may say it is because the dates reflected when the substance of the agreement was entered into by the parties, and the date on the document therefore does not matter. He added that dating documents on one date but confirming the effective date sometime before, is a perfectly legitimate way to transact, but that is not what happened in this transaction. The Crown suggested that this was part of the dishonest plan to distance the monies being paid pursuant to the agreements from the property transaction itself. He added that this backdating gave the false impression that real services, goods or rights were being provided before the property was sold, and that this was done to justify payment of $17 million by Blixseth to the Di Silvestris, money which was really part of the consideration

for the house and would not have been paid but for the sale of the property. He presented to the jury that the issue for them to decide is whether they are satisfied that when the agreements were executed and the stamp duty was paid, O’Sullivan and Kerr knew that the agreements they were responsible for drawing up on behalf of their clients were bogus and just a pretence to disguise the full consideration for Emerald Cay. He further noted that it is clear that both attorneys were well aware of stamp duty obligations, and if the jury is satisfied that the agreements were bogus and the defendants knew it, then they will not find it difficult to conclude that the lawyers knowingly lent themselves to a scheme to evade it. Events following the transfer of Emerald Cay Mitchell advised the jury that they may be assisted in their determination of the defendant’s guilt by what happened after Emerald Cay was sold and the agreements executed. He said that as both defendants had represented, the stated consideration on the transfer form raised eyebrows when it was submitted to the Collector of Stamp Duty. He stated that the precise dates of events is at times unclear mainly because documents were lost in hurricane Ike, however, what happened was that Taylor (mentioned above) who was the assistant collector saw the transfer document as soon as it was submitted and he immediately thought the $10 million figure was very low. As such, he referred the matter to his boss, the Collector, Mr Been, who then contacted Mark Knighton who was the Assistant Superintendent in the Financial Investigation Unit of the TCI police at the time. Mitchell stated that Knighton made some preliminary inquiries and decided to speak to O’Sullivan by telephone on March 8, 2007, stating that the Government was concerned about the price paid for the property. The prosecutor said that this caused O’Sullivan to email Kerr warning him of the inquiry, to which Kerr’s response was that the consideration placed on the transfer document was irrelevant because the Government has a power to re-value. This is obvious nonsense, Mitchell told the jury, as all tax systems have a process for re-assessing the correctness of tax if it is thought there is an under-declaration. He added that this has nothing to do with the obligation placed on taxpayers and attorneys acting on their behalf to make correct declarations of tax and not knowingly misrepresent the true facts. He further presented that O’Sullivan emailed his (former) client Blixseth and Hawes the next day explaining that Knighton was concerned about the true price paid for the property, which they had just purchased. Within a week, the prosecutor continued 

‘Two eggs in a basket’

– Defence questions US lawyer on Emerald Cay pay outs A SUM of $15.5 million was paid for TCI real estate and another $12.5 million went towards a side agreement, during the purchase of Emerald Cay in Providenciales in 2006. These are two separate entities, as different as “two eggs in a basket,” suggested James Sturman QC during a trial before Justice Robert Shuster and a jury of seven in Providenciales Supreme Court this week. The assessment came as he questioned US real estate lawyer Andrew Edward Hawes via video link from Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday and Thursday (June 3 and 4). Hawes agreed that the transactions were separate, there was nothing “sinister” about them and there was absolutely no intention to commit a criminal offence. Sturman is representing Timothy Patrick O’Sullivan in a corruption case put forward by the UKled Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT). Lawyers O’Sullivan and Gordon William Kerr are accused of conspiracy to cheat public revenue, cheating public revenue and conspiracy to false account.

The charges are in relation to the mispayment of stamp duty to the value of $1.5 million due to the alleged misrepresentation of the value of the property as $11 million (including $1 million for chattels) rather than the true value of $28 million. On Monday and Tuesday the prosecution and defence put forward their opening statements and the first witness was called on Wednesday. During Hawes questioning he was asked to look at more than 100 pages of correspondence, mainly emails, relating to the purchase of multimillion dollar private island and estate Emerald Cay. The messages were mainly between Kerr, O’Sullivan, Hawes, US real estate developer Timothy Blixseth and seller Gary di Silvestri. The defence lawyer took him through the wording of the evidence and asked him to confirm or clarify several points. Numerous times he was asked to say whether he saw anything sinister in any of the communication, to which he relied to the negative. In his closing statement Sturman reiterated several statements which Hawes confirmed as accurate.

Under the tree

He said: “You have explained over the course of the last day and a half that you certainly never instructed anybody to create any sham, fake or bogus documents.” He added that Hawes never gave any instructions to anybody to “fiddle” stamp duty that was due. And his boss at the time, Timothy Blixseth, was an “extremely successful” businessman, Sturman said. He went on to explain that the cash handed over during the sale of the property was split into two entities. The first was to be dealt with within the TCI and the second was originally to be dealt with in the US but O’Sullivan was “lumbered” with it. “You certainly did not conspire with anybody to commit a criminal offence,” Sturman suggested, to which Hawes agreed. He did not “for one second” suggest that they could fiddle the tax by doing it this way, “it was all above board” the QC said. Hawes will be called upon again to give further evidence on Monday (June 8) via video link when Kerr’s representative will continue questioning. The case continued with other witnesses on Friday (June 5).

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Clinton foundation backs renewable energy in TCI THE TCI is set to benefit from a Clinton Foundation Climate Initiative and Rocky Mountain Institute partnership aimed at promoting green energy in the Caribbean. The partnership will combine the work of several initiatives: the Resilient Communities Programme of the Clinton Climate Initiative and the joint Ten Island Challenge of Rocky Mountain Institute and Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room. According to a statement from the Carbon War Room this past week, the partnership will work in select Caribbean islands to develop green energy projects, identify project-financing and investment opportunities to attract capital and develop best practices for collaboration between countries. The Rocky Mountain Institute and Carbon War Room have been working on the Ten Island Challenge, which includes Aruba, the Bahamas, Colombia (Providencia and San Andrés islands), Grenada, Saint Lucia, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, with four more slated to join this year. Carbon War Room, Rocky Mountain Institute, the US Department of Energy and representatives from the Canadian Energy Ministry will be meeting with the TCI Government again and holding stakeholder workshops in July, the statement said. “The Government of Saint Lucia welcomes the partnership of

Dexter Hanna

Drive-by shooting leaves man in critical condition

Former US president Bill Clinton

Clinton Climate Initiative and Rocky Mountain Institute-Carbon War Room,” Dr James Fletcher said. He is St Lucia’s Minister of Public Service, Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology. “Both organisations have provided meaningful contributions to our country’s energy transition. “We are confident their partnership will further accelerate our efforts and the efforts of other island governments towards a prosperous energy future,” he added. Former US president Bill Clinton, in a statement, commended the initiative.

“The world has a moral imperative to save island nations from disappearing or suffering irreversible damage, and an economic imperative to reduce their reliance on costly imported fossil fuels and build climate resilience to avoid catastrophic disasters. “Working in partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute and Carbon War Room, the Clinton Climate Initiative is bringing governments, businesses, and financial backers together to help design, implement, and scale up clean energy projects across the Caribbean and around the world.”

BAHAMIAN Dexter Hanna is currently in a critical state in a Jamaican hospital following a drive by shooting in Providenciales this week. Police reports state that the shooting took place in the vicinity of Millennium Heights on Monday (June 1). A statement from the police said that at about 9.07pm on Monday, police were called to Aquamarine Drive following reports of a shooting. Following investigations at the scene, detectives went to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre where they found a 35-year-old man suffering from a number of gun-shot wounds. He was subsequently flown out for surgery in Jamaica, where

he is believed to be in a critical condition. Police have since established a crime scene along Aquamarine Drive and are conducting a full investigation into what is believed to be a targeted attack. They are also appealing to the public for assistance and for those who may have information about the incident to come forward. As usual, people can use the untraceable and anonymous Crimestoppers Miami number at 1-800-(TIPS) or 1-800-8477 to report any information. No names or numbers are requested and only the information provided is passed on to the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force.

TCI wins Caribbean Tourism Organisation student symposium STUDENTS from the TCI Community College have emerged victorious from the annual student colloquium in New York during the Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s Caribbean week. The competition challenges students to present creative ideas for sustainable tourism projects or business initiatives in the Caribbean. This year’s competition saw four countries battling for the top prize with the TCI snagging the first place prize in the end. St. Lucia came in second, with the Bahamas and Jamaica with third and fourth places respectively. The local team presented on the lionfish and its effects on the tourism industry, particularly the coral reefs. Students proposed that a lionfish festival would be an ideal event, to

address the impact of these creatures. Judges were very impressed with the TCI’s performance stating: “Whilst the presentation was an original, it is one that should garner the attention of the Caribbean region.” Minister of Tourism, Environment, Heritage and Culture, Porsha Stubbs-Smith who travelled to New York City to attend Caribbean Week commented on the win. “All teams were creative, passionate and represented their countries well, however, I must express a huge congratulations to team TCI, I am immensely proud of the job they’ve done and continue to look forward to our future participation in events such as these as we continue to bring recognition to the TCI.” She also expressed her

Minister of Tourism, Porsha Stubbs-Smith (third from left) with local college students in New York

appreciation for the collaborative efforts between the Ministries of Tourism and Education, and the Tourist Board and the TCI Community College. “When we all work together as a team anything can be accomplished,”

she said. The minister was accompanied by Permanent Secretary, Desiree Lewis, and Director of Tourism, Ralph Higgs. The delegation returns to the TCI on Saturday (June 6).

Caribbean week is the largest and most effective event on the Caribbean/NYC calendar. It is a celebration of the sights, sounds and unique vacation experiences and business offerings that the region offers.

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said, it seemed a plan was hatched for Blixseth to speak to the then Premier, Michael Misick and tell him about some of the agreements, although not all of them. Mitchell noted that they decided to disclose the option agreement ($4m), the works agreement ($500,000) and the installation agreement ($6m), but not the consultancy agreement ($6.5m). The idea of this partial disclosure being made to Misick, it seems, was to see if they could “cut a deal with the Premier,” he added. On about March 16, 2007, Knighton rang O’Sullivan again, and in accordance with the plan, Knighton was told about the agreements, except the consultancy agreement, the lawyer said. He stated that this was reported back by O’Sullivan to Blixseth and Hawes, with O’Sullivan pressing Blixseth to speak to Misick and stating that he did not want anything in writing to Knighton until that had been done. On March 28, 2007, O’Sullivan prepared a letter to Misick which he delivered in person to his house the next day. This letter contained the partial disclosure, Mitchell explained. He added that O’Sullivan sought to maintain the false impression that the agreements are about “the value of the various improvements and installations done post transfer and the very expensive toys and amenities provided with the residence at this time. Mitchell however stated that they were not and that the direct appeal to the Premier did not work. He added that on January 22, 2008, the stamp duty officials Been and Taylor visited O’Sullivan, after which O’Sullivan later emailed the officials the same day saying that from his client’s perspective, the money paid for the land and building was $10 million. He said O’Sullivan followed this with an email to Blixseth and Hawes saying the Government are “aware that more than $10 million was paid in respect of the transaction” and seemed puzzled as to how this was known. The next day (January 23, 2008) O’Sullivan advised his client again to enlist the Premier’s help, suggesting a phone call from Blixseth to Misick in which Blixseth would say he is offended by the stamp duty issue being pursued by the Government and that he has done much to promote and commit to the TCI. The idea was that Blixseth might pay another $400,000 or $500,000 to conclude the matter, the prosecutor noted, and efforts to pressurise the Government through Misick were redoubled. He said that both O’Sullivan and Blixseth telephoned and or emailed Misick with Blixseth meeting with the former Premier on February 19, 2008. It seems a suggestion was made

that if the property was transferred to the TCIG in exchange for land in Middle Caicos, the stamp duty inquiry would be dropped, Mitchell posited, adding that this discreditable attempt to thwart the investigation through Michael Misick did not work. Interviews The Prosecutor also told the jury that Kerr was later interviewed as part of the case on January 11, 2012, at which time he gave a long prepared statement denying any wrongdoing, and asserting that he thought the agreements were valid and that he had no reason to suspect they were not. Kerr also told investigators that his client, Gary Di Silvestri had a habit of communicating directly with O’Sullivan, so that he (Kerr) was not aware of negotiations as they unfolded. He also told investigators that he was on holiday at the beginning of July 2006, just before the transaction was effected. In his interview on January 24, 2012, O’Sullivan, also in a prepared statement, denied any dishonesty in relation to the transaction, stating that it was driven by the Di Silvestris, that his fees were reasonable and that he had received no other payments in connection with it, the Prosecutor said. Mitchell is assisted in his prosecution by Kennedy Talbot. Witness testimony began on Wednesday afternoon, following brief submissions from the defence attorneys.

PDM addresses downsizing at Beaches LEADER of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson and other members of the PDM recently met the management of Beaches TCI to discuss the recent downsizing of their operations which left several people unemployed. In a statement to the press last week, the party leader outlined their meeting with the resort, but still questioned what will now happen to the vacant positions and what message is now being sent young Islanders seeking employment and those still employed with the resort. “We were told initially that there were 23 persons, four of whom were Islanders, two PRC [permanent resident certificate] holders and the rest were guest workers who were recruited from overseas. “Since receiving those figures, we are aware of additional TC Islanders who have ceased to be employed with Beaches,” Cartwright Robinson said. She added that since speaking with the management at Beaches, they provided further insight, including confirmation that an additional two Turks and Caicos Islanders were affected. She said they were told that the former employees have been compensated, and that the approach taken as to how those affected were informed and eventually let go was

Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson

thought to be in the best interest of all parties involved. “During the meeting, we were informed that the company had made the Government aware of its position in advance and had spoken to top officials in the Ministry of Border Control.” She noted that the PDM accepts that companies have the right to restructure or downsize but when the resort which has always claimed it has been operating on a severe

shortage of staff undertakes such an exercise, they felt it important to gain a better understanding of the situation. In light of the information received, the PDM raised the following concerns: Will the posts held by TC Islanders be filled or no longer needed? Will expatriate labour be imported to fill any of the vacancies? Was the resort concerned over the amount of management experience exiting at the same time? Is there any concern at the level of uneasiness among remaining staff as to the uncertainty of their jobs? What is the message sent to aspiring young Turks and Caicos Islanders aspiring to management positions? Is this the correct message they wanted to send? Did the company discharge its responsibility to ensure that the guest workers were repatriated to their home countries? Was there any truth to an additional 50 and 70 line staff being subjected to the same exercise? The party leader said that they were assured that the exercise was complete and that there would be no more restructuring of this sort. “We were told that several of the posts would be reviewed over the next few months and assessed as continued 

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This culture thing

THE TURKS and Caicos Weekly News carried a report of statements made by the Minister of Finance about foreign nationals celebrating their culture in the TCI. These statements caused some controversy, with some agreeing with the minister, and others feeling slighted by what they perceived as an attack against foreigners. This sentiment was also expressed by a report in the Jamaica Observer on the same issue, where the responses were also mixed. The minister is reported as saying: “We have something coming up called Haitian Flag Day, we have Haitian day, we got Jamaica day, we got Bahamas day, when the hell we gonna have Turks and Caicos day?” The issue progressed to the minister saying: “If you want to be in Haiti and Jamaica and the Bahamas, stay there,” but commended those who were making a contribution.

There is something beyond cultural nationalism here, which goes back to our history. The TCI remains a colony. Major decisions are not left to us, and our constitution is a nineteenth century document with patches of modernity. The checks outweigh the balances. We do not really have a country and so lack a real culture knitting us together. This is why we see other cultures as a threat, causing us to lash out. The fact that we are a culturally diverse country has not yet sunk in. What happens when a Haitian or Bahamian-TCI becomes Premier of the TCI? Wasn’t our first Chief Minister of Jamaican heritage? We have to be delicate with this culture thing and more politically open-minded to changes which impact our cultural make-up. Whatever happens here is known in seconds elsewhere, and this is how we sometimes get un-needed publicity. It behoves us then to be politically astute regarding how we operate

BY Oliver Mills

Oliver Mills was born in South Caicos, acquired a diploma in article writing from the Writer’s Digest School in the United States, and worked as training manager for the Turks and Caicos public service. He is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Business and Hospitality Departments at the Turks and Caicos Islands Community College.

or other countries will say we are prejudice against their people. Different cultures enrich ours. When we want discussions with Haiti, a Haitian TCI could be our interpreter. Diverse cultures also bring added businesses and widen consumer choice. Irrespective of the different cultures we have, ours dominates. There are certain enduring values we have which attract others, so we are not victims of diversity. The minister has to be more measured in what he says. For

example, when he is reported as saying that if people do not want to be in the Islands, then American Airlines can take them somewhere else. This rings back to when a certain Caribbean leader with a certain political philosophy, told those disagreeing with it, that there are five flights to Miami a day. The consequences were that many with substantial capital left. We must therefore govern with wisdom and cultural sensitivity, respecting differences.

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Hate is not the answer We will vacation

Dear Editor, In the spirit of political maturity, I will try a critique of the Government of the day and before and see what happens. The statements made by former Chief Minister Washington Misick in parliament is one that is in my view, xenophobic and hypocritical and must be taken in the context that it is in. A xenophobe is person who is fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or of people from different countries or cultures. This fear has no place in a modern society and should not be motivated or promoted by modern day political figures. The parliamentary statement is even hypocritical because it does not in any way reflect the views of the party on whose platform the same minister was elected. The Progressive National Party (PNP) is known for being one of the most progressive and culturally tolerant political parties in the history of the TCI and for a PNP minister to be on a national stage spewing this level of xenophobia is in my view extremely hypocritical. The TCI constitution protects the rights of persons to freely associate. In other words you can gather with anyone you want to gather with and celebrate whatever you want to celebrate as long as you do so within the confines of the laws. Now before I go too deeply into this, allow me to also add that the idea of the minister implying that

other nationals should be subjected to celebrating TCI culture is also primitive and actually crazy. Very few people in the TCI celebrate what is known and sold as TCI culture. This is because culture is at best a bit of history reenactments that date back only about 40 to 50 years. The main problem with TCI culture as it has been presented by the Government in modern years is that it is plastic and appears to be fabricated. The truth is that the TCI as a nation lacks the basics for the formation of the level of self-pride that is needed to build a true and lasting cultural heritage. The TCI is one of few countries in the region that has never had to unite and overcome any obstacles as a nation. Many will lash back and quip, JAGs McCartney and the Junkanoo Club incident, the Blackpower Movement. The Blackpower Movement of the 1970s remains on record as the most half-hearted struggle against British rule ever in the history of men. Allow me to explain why selfpride could not be built on it. Basically the British record reads like this - JAGS and his friends resented the idea of the Governor recruiting foreign police offices, they booed the officers and made some ‘rookery’. The police responded by firing some shots in the air, JAGs and his boys barricaded themselves in a rum bar, and made demands, and held

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hostages. Happy hostages I might add, because in actuality, those hostages may not have even known they were hostages. The story is that they were given unlimited liquor during the whole ordeal and the only tough choice they faced was choosing between rum and monkey bag. Now for the life of me, do you expect a Christian society to build their self-pride on a movement fuelled by rum? The only demand of the Junkanoo Club incident was that a commission be setup to investigate the Junkanoo Club incident. The whole struggle lasted a single night, and no animals were harmed during the operation. Now as we get back to the statement, everyone who knows Hon Washington Misick knows that he is not very xenophobic, in fact I don’t think he is in the least bit xenophobic. This man has a multitude of friends from Europe and Asia and North American and primarily spends his leisure times with them. The real problem is that this Government of the day is so busy on the unimportance that the important issues are going unnoticed. Since the minister is finding so much time in parliament to bash other nations for celebrating the fruits of their struggle, I would seize this opportunity to present a few struggles that are dear to the hearts of TC Islanders that should be on his tongue in parliament - 37.5 percent import duties on goods, 72.5 percent import duties on cars, CPF, payroll tax, property tax, $500 fee to register a Belonger child, the invisibility of elected officials, Government officials frequent flyer policy, bad roads, horrible internet and on and on and on. The bottom line is that the TCI has been built on help and assistance from other nations and if the TCI does not represent anything else it represents an opportunity for advancement and a fertile ground for ideas to take root and grow into something good. The jealousy of the crowds that other nations attract and the unity they display cannot pale the fact that this is where many people have decided to call home. The difference is that the celebrations are based on love, love for country, love for unity and love for a proud identity. No nation, pride, love nor culture can ever be built on hate. Desmond Williams TCI

elsewhere

Dear Editor and Washington Misick, I am an American that has owned property in the TCI for over 30 years. For the past eight years our family has gathered at our vacation home on Provo annually to celebrate the holiday of American Independence (4th of July). Our home sleeps 10 people and it is always full for that occasion and the overflow stay at local hotels. I estimate that during the ten days my family members and friends are here for that holiday they spend an estimated $35,000 to $40,000 locally at restaurants, hotels, watersports operators, IGA and on miscellaneous tours. I have just posted an email to my family and friends with recent quotes from you, our esteemed Finance Minister, the Honourable Washington C Misick.

My family and friends all agree and have decided to avoid distressing you with our July 4th celebration this year and we are now in the process of booking 10 days in Nassau, Bahamas, where the local population seems receptive to our celebration plans. The cost will probably be about the same to my family but we won’t be offended by giving our hard earned holiday dollars to those who do not appreciate our patronage. The local TCI newspapers tell us this week that the real estate market in the TCI has improved. Maybe this is a good time to relocate to another Caribbean destination where there is less government sponsored hate. Frank Morgan New York, USA

Electrical inspection finally done

Dear Editor, (Follow up to letter published in the May 9 to15 issue of the Weekly News titled ‘Waiting on electrical inspection’). The inspection was completed exactly three weeks after the request, and another two weeks and two days to get connected to the grid and I thank God for the humble and considerate spirit of the inspector. May God continue to help him overcome all his challenges. When we were discussing the possibility of this work, I told the owner it was somewhat challenging but we will make it happen with the help of God, and he sure helped us. Much anger had arisen when it came to dealing with Fortis to some extent and I thank and praise God for those moments; at the end I developed a relationship with someone from there my spirit had

never taken to. I consider this more important than any amount of money that I could’ve gained from that work. His respectable manner while carrying out his company policies and his now humble spirit have captured my heart. May God continue to help him in doing that which is right in his sight and men. Something else that I would like to share out of these experiences would be the unnecessary cost to certain property owners, but space would not allow me to do so. Until then may we not continue to frustrate the marvellous and wonderful grace of our God and saviour, but use it for the good of mankind and beast. Love, Jonathan (Johnnie) Gardiner, TCI

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Police trained Social media can in mental health crisis intervention lead to social decay REAL TALK

AN EXPERT in mental health taught police officers how to deal with offenders with mental illnesses recently. The Government’s Department of Mental Health put on the lectures on May 6 and 15 as part of an initiative that has been ongoing since last year. The latest lecture was conducted by Dr Diana Dizon, a psychiatrist within the department, and focused on mental health crisis intervention. Dr Dizon said: “Occasionally police officers are involved in responding to calls involving persons with a mental illness. “It is important that police

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to whether it will need to be filled. However, two would be filled with Turks and Caicos Islanders.” She added that they were also told that the company had discharged its obligation relating to the imported expatriate labour, that they would commit to more training and that staff members have already been advised that the exercise has been completed. “Nonetheless, we believe that the responsibility remains with the Labour Department and the Ministry of Border Control to ensure that Turks and Caicos Islanders are given first preference for employment in accordance with the law which protects and provides for this,” she said. The TCI is in a position where there is a single major resort that employs more people than the Government and while the PDM appreciates the investment, any development that takes place must be to the mutual benefit of the investor and the Islands with the provision of jobs taking priority, she stated. “No development must be allowed to leave our people behind or out.” The party leader also called on the Government take a stand on the issue, because even as companies have the right to downsize at will, the country needs to be certain that the Government is not aiding in the side lining of its own people by ignoring its policing of labour at all places of employment and also in the issuance of work permits. “We can assure the people of these Islands that we will continue to monitor this matter closely,” she added.

officers not only be able to recognise abnormal behaviour and mentally ill persons, but also must be prepared to guard, restrain, or take into custody people whose behaviour suggests the presence of a mental illness.” The 29 officers who attended the lecture were taught deescalation skills, how to effectively communicate with someone who is mentally ill, and how to respond to a behavioural crisis, including how to create a stable and respectful environment within which the emotional individual can take comfort and relief. Dr Dizon presented several dos and don’ts for engaging with someone with a mental illness and taught officers how to assess the potential of violence. A Government press release on Monday (June 1) said: “The department wishes to thank the police department for their help in facilitating these lectures and look forward to an ongoing collaboration to improve the way law enforcement and the community respond to people experiencing a mental health crisis.”

THE FIRST cell phone I owned only had two capabilities - making calls and text messaging. Today cell phones are now smart phones with unlimited apps and accessories. Imagine, a computer which once needed an entire room to operate can now fit into the palm of our hands. Adults and children alike are becoming consumed by technology especially social media to the point where we are losing our traditional social norms. What is even worse is that socialisation between family and friends is taking second place to social media. Additionally, many persons are using social media to say things about others they would never find the guts to say to their face. People are attacked and humiliated on social media

By Jas Walkin

BIOGRAPHY: Jas was born with a physical disability 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. With support from family, teachers and the community he graduated as valedictorian of Raymond Gardiner High School and has been a graduate teacher for the past last nine years.

far too often. Our children have become at risk as they are using it to post inappropriate pictures or view inappropriate material. The influence of social media on this generation is getting out of hand. From teens posting sex videos, recording bullying, to viewing demonic and occult demonstrations and then trying the practices; this is serious. I am not a person who loses sleep over things posted on social media but if the material is going to negatively affect the children I teach, then I am very concerned.

There was a period when television was seen as ‘devil eyes’ and viewed as the projection of violent insidious behaviour on our children. However, just about every teenager has a smaller version of a television in their hands with the internet available 24 hours a day. Adults need to be vigilant and not allow technology to replace parenting or socialisation to be replaced by social media. If that happens, our society could be lost.

COMMENTARY

Repair the damage, fix the mess COMMENTING negatively on the administrations of the last 12 years has been my thing. We all need to look at the terrible results of these dozen years. It is time to consider how to begin repairing the damage, to fix the mess. The huge loan payoff has been PNP’s top and only priority - they caused the debt. We need to go to London and insist that due to British lack of oversight of the 2003 to 2009 administration the loan must not be borne by the poor residents of TCI. However since we elected a Government related in blood and political connections to the most notorious group, we admit this number one item has little chance. Cut PNP tax rates back to what they were and inform InterHealth Canada we cannot afford purchased healthcare which in most serious cases is further farmed out. We cannot pay $1 billion

over the next 20 years. We have already paid $300 million in the last five years. That $300 mill could have bought a lot of Blue Cross Insurance and primary care. Investigate the Fortis deal with Mike’s 2006 government. We smell something wrong. Set up ownership by the people. Hire the Fortis technical staff and middle management. Every year we are shipping more than $10 million out of our economy. Therefore we have already lost $100 million. These millions came from poor widows and valued tourists. In the family islands use the long existing contract to finish the Middle Caicos Government building and convert it to a community college or technical trade school. This will allow the Middle Caicos community to maintain a quiet college town atmosphere, bringing families home. Properly modify the causeway with raised road beds and bridges

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

not narrow culverts and float away pavement. Give the National Trust their promised portion of the tourist income to manage the opening and proper development of Haul-Over Plantation and Armstrong Pond’s Stone Henge. Wardens will send proceeds of tourist visits to open the other historic plantations. Plant cotton and sell tourists TCI tailored cotton tourist shorts and shirts. Finish and publish again all the Crown land records on a computer database. Any thousand dollar computer can manage this. Publish all land applications

and open the right of dispute. Belongers get priority for all applications. Change the voting regulations. Provo and Grand Turk can keep six and two seats but candidates must submit to island wide votes. This will eliminate the temptation of bribing a few folks in a small district to gain seats and Government by a few votes. Ask DonHue, George and Akierra if we are not right. Thirty-one grand total votes gave PNP all their seats! These suggestions are only a beginning.

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Anglican Church celebrates 42nd men’s conference BY DAISY HANDFIELD ABOUT 60 delegates from the Bahamas flew into the Turks and Caicos Islands from May 28 to May 31 to participate in the 42nd annual Anglican Church Men (ACM) conference. According to Kenyatta Rigby, the ACM branch president for the Saint Monica Church in Providenciales, this was the first time in history that the conference has been held outside of the Bahamas. He said that the event was attended by roughly 150 people, including those who came down from the Bahamas. The theme song for the conference was, ‘make me a blessing’ and theme scripture was Titus 2:1-2, 6-8, ‘but as for you teach what befits sound doctrine’. The event commenced with an opening service at the Saint Monica Anglican Church on Leeward Highway on Thursday (May 28) and on Friday at Club Med Providenciales guest speakers spoke to the audience. This was followed by general elections and a picnic on Saturday, then a closing ceremony at the Anglican church on Sunday. A march was also conducted on Sunday from the First Caribbean Bank on the Leeward Highway down to the Saint Monica Anglican Church. Speakers for this year’s event were Jamell Robinson who spoke on mentorship and education, Commissioner of Police James Smith who spoke on crime and community policing and Gilbert Morris who spoke on finance and e-commerce. A mentoring workshop was conducted by Kevin Ryan past president of the ACM central council. After the general election there was an ACM men and boys encounter

where some boys from Clement Howell High School and the Turks and Caicos Institute of Professional Studies (TCIPS) were counselled by some of the youth leaders from the different churches in the Anglican diocese. All of these sessions and presentations were conducted at Club Med, Providenciales. Rigby told the Weekly News in an interview on Thursday (June 4) that in his opinion, everyone that attended enjoyed themselves. He said: “Everyone enjoyed themselves; 90 percent of the delegates who came in were from the Bahamas and being their first time in the Turks and Caicos they were very excited and enthused.” Among the elected members are president Dwight Gibson, vice president Trevor Bethel, secretary Kenric Major, assistant secretary Reina Predelus, treasurer Erold Thompson, assistant treasurer Ken O’Brien, Anthony Garland, ACM southern archdeaconry vice president, Esmond Weeks, ACM northern archdeaconry vice president and chaplain Theophilis Glinton. The ACM started under the patronage of the late Retired Reverend Michael H. Eldon in 1972 as a means of bringing Anglican men together to assist with the building and renovation of Church property. It was also to mirror the organisation of Anglican Church Women, established some nine years before. Over the years, the ACM has evolved into a brotherhood of men who seek to lift the name of Jesus in the diocese. Whether on church construction sites, patronal festivals, retreats, seminars and workshops to support one another and the church, the ACM has seen significant and committed growth over the years.

Roughly 60 delegates from the Bahamas were present in the Turks and Caicos Islands for the 42nd annual Anglican Church Men (ACM) conference

This is the first time that the event has ever been celebrated outside of the Bahamas, a historic event for Anglicans

Fisheries amendments delayed until September 1 THE TURKS and Caicos Islands Fisheries (Protection) Regulations 2015 has been postponed to September 1. The new regulations, previously scheduled to come into operation on June 1, have been delayed to allow for further focus group consultation on some points. Premier Rufus Ewing said in a press release on Friday (May 29): “As a Government, we

understand the importance of the regulations governing our waters and its protection, and we also understand and take seriously our role in hearing the voice of the people. “It is expected that this extended period of consultation will result in amendments to some provisions of the new fisheries regulations and will address many of the concerns submitted by members of the public.” The five daylong event entailed a list of fun activities for the participants

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Cosmetic surgery in the TCI BY DELANA ISLES IN TODAY’S society, undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery is not as taboo as it was in days past, and many people, particularly in the Caribbean region, travel to the Dominican Republic to have these corrective surgeries done. But in the Turks and Caicos Islands there is also a wide range of cosmetic operations offered at the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre which locals are being encouraged to take advantage of. Recently, the Weekly News sat down with Dr Nelson Goldberg, a USA-based plastic surgeon who performs reconstructive and cosmetic/aesthetic surgeries whenever needed, in the TCI. He and one other doctor – Dr Geoffrey Salomon, also of the USA – travel to the TCI every four months to perform operations. Dr Goldberg has been with the medical centre since shortly after it was opened. He told the Weekly News that prior to taking up the appointment, he travelled on medical missions around the world conducting plastic surgery. “The ophthalmologist who had been coming here doing missions for the hospital was from Baltimore where I am from and he and I had been on medical missions together in Thailand so he knew I was going to travel to do plastic surgery where I was needed. “So he asked me if I wanted to come down to Turks and Caicos because the place needed a plastic surgeon and I said why not.” Since that time, Dr Goldberg has been travelling to the Islands several times a year to work at clinics in Providenciales and Grand Turk doing the whole gamut of reconstructive surgeries- skin cancers, breast surgery, and hand surgery, among others. “When I initially came down here the money that I made was used for medical mission trips to third world countries including the DR, Guatemala, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and I have operated in lots of other places where we used to go mostly for kids with cleft lip and cleft palates. “There are poor kids everywhere, and even if they do have doctors, like

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Dr Nelson Goldberg, plastic surgeon attached to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre

in the DR, in the small towns they don’t have plastic surgeons. “And those plastic surgeons that are doing cosmetic surgeries won’t take care of the people with noncosmetic problems because they don’t have any money.” However, here in the TCI, Dr Goldberg said there are not that many kids who need reconstructive surgeries. Need for reconstructive surgery in TCI The need for reconstructive surgery in the TCI is somewhat moderate and Dr Goldberg now travels to the Islands every four months in each year to take care of patients in need. For patients who need immediate surgery, they are flown to other islands while Goldberg and his counterpart are away. But he said that three or four times a year seems to be enough to take care of the problems that are not emergencies. He noted that while breast reduction surgery was first considered non-cosmetic and was covered by the National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP), it no longer is and is now considered cosmetic. “So whether an operation is considered cosmetic or reconstructive is really decided by the insurance companies,” Dr Goldberg stated. Cosmetic surgery A few years ago a plan was devised for the hospital to offer cosmetic plastic surgery for which patients

would pay out of pocket, so as to help the hospital earn some more money. “We learned that a lot of patients from this island were going to the Dominican Republic and other islands, so we set up a programme where the costs were very similar so that they didn’t have to travel, they could get all the follow-up care at home and that is where we are now with the cosmetic programme,” Dr Goldberg said. He noted that of the 10 to 15 surgeries they perform during every visit, about four or five of them are for cosmetic operations, and for these operations they usually see more patients than they actually operate on. “We initially see them and decide if there is an operation that will help them and we give them the prices and then they decide if they want to do it here. Usually it is set up for the next trip which would be four months from the date of appointment.” Cosmetic surgeries offered and their prices are - breast augmentation $5,250, breast lift $3,000, breast reduction $4,600, face lift $5,100, mini-face life or neck lift $3,300, rhinoplasty (nose job) $4,400, abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) $5,200, brachioplasty (arm lift) $3,700, thighplasty (thigh lift) $3,700, liposuction for one site $2,400, liposuction for two sites $2,900, liposuction for three sites $3,400 and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) for the upper lid $1,800 and for lower lid $2,000. Dr Goldberg advised that these prices include the operating room, the anaesthesia, surgeon’s fee and the post operation visit. “So that is pretty much everything, as an example the breast reduction is $4,600, in the US the surgical fee alone is $6,500 and then the hospital’s is probably $3000 to $4000, anaesthesia is another couple thousands - so these prices are actually pretty good.” He said the prices are pretty similar to places within the Caribbean if the airfare is subtracted, adding that there is also the assurance that the surgery is done in a hospital and not in any unsanitary or unprofessional environment which can lead to infections. “I think that citizens need to be informed and know that there seems to be a higher rate of complications attached to some procedures; but we have never had an infection here in the Turks and Caicos.” He said one of the things that lead to infections is that of instruments not being properly sterilised. “There should never be a death from a cosmetic operation, although it still happens, occasionally in the US, but it is unusual.” Although the hospital is ready and capable of offering more cosmetic surgeries to the local market, they are not quite set up to take in people from other countries. However, Dr Goldberg said this is

an area they intend to expand into in the near future, with the possibility of an off-site location for outpatient surgeries. In the meantime, for the local population, the doctor assures that any of the procedures mentioned above are safe at the Cheshire Hall hospital. “There is always risk with any cosmetic surgery, but our record so far nobody has died, we don’t have any infections here, and we have

been doing cosmetic surgery in the United States for 33 years.” He noted that the problem with prospective patients going online and reading about operations in other countries is that there is no way to know for sure if the information provided is true. “We have actually taken care of a few patients who have had surgeries in the Dominican Republic and had continued 

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Dear Ava By Melinda Welch Dear Ava, Beauty isn’t enough to describe you From the day I knew of your existence I have been persistent in being different In ways to love you. I will admit It was not my intention To go into that situation And come out with a blessing You were not my plan. June 28, 2011 Was the one day I thanked that man I saw you and I saw the works of my God, A blessing You were mine. As you grow I placed you on a pedestal Because you are royalty My baby. Dear Ava, I apologise for not giving you a king my princess But if you look around God has blessed you with kings Asa and Gedeon who swore before God to love you and they do So you were not only blessed with one man in your life you were blessed with two. Love has let me down But I won’t let it hurt you He was supposed to be your father, the only man who truly loves you I’m sure that I didn’t need him but I can’t swear for you So here is my apology. I’m sorry you won’t ever know how it is to be daddy’s little girl I’m sorry he won’t be around to tell you how a man should treat you I’m sorry on Father’s Day when you bring your card home and no one to give it to I’m sorry for days you ask for him and I can’t tell you the truth I’m sorry that you love a man who doesn’t know you.

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Bahamas, TCI Diocese saddened by passing of Bishop Cornell Jerome Moss THE DIOCESE of The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands announced the sudden passing of the Retired Revered Cornell Jerome Moss, Bishop of the Diocese of Guyana, this week. Bishop Moss had what was considered successful open heart surgery in Miami about two weeks ago and had been released from the hospital. On Saturday (May 30) he started to feel ill and at about 1pm passed away. Bishop Moss was born in the Bahamas on December 31, 1959, and after graduating from St John’s College in 1978, went on to test his vocation for the sacred priesthood at Codrington College, Barbados, finishing his studies there on November 6, 1982. He was ordained Deacon on January 5, 1983, and was stationed at Christ the King Parish, New Providence. He was ordained priest the following year. He served as Rector of St John’s Parish, Marsh Harbour, Abaco from 1986 before assuming the post of Rector of the Parish of the Ascension in Lucaya, Grand Bahama in 1993. In 1998 he was appointed Archdeacon of the Northern Bahamas, a post he held until his election to the See of Guyana in 2009. When the Diocese of Guyana failed to elect a Bishop, the decision devolved to the House of Bishops of the eight dioceses of

Fitness expert Mario Rigby will embark on a journey through the African continent

Local fitness coach to embark on journey through Africa BY DAISY HANDFIELD Retired Revered Cornell Jerome Moss, Bishop of the Diocese of Guyana

the Province of the West Indies. Bishop Moss had served hitherto as Delegate from this Diocese to the Provincial Synod and was well known and respected as a competent person to assume the Bishopric of that diocese. He was consecrated on December 9, 2009. In this diocese, Bishop Moss’ ministry was characterized by devotion, dedication and the epitome of faithfulness. To his flock he was a pastor par excellence; to his fellow priests he was a respected, learned and articulate team player. In the Diocese of Guyana, he

will be remembered for introducing modern up-to-date administrative and fiscal measures that helped to boost the morale of the Anglicans in that ethnically diverse country. Under his leadership, Guyana was able to train and send for training, a number of ordinands for the priesthood, something that had not been done for many years. He was married to Carol (nee Thompson) on August 16, 1986. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs Susan Taylor-Hunt and several siblings. May he rest in peace.

PASSIONATE fitness expert from the Turks and Caicos Islands Mario Rigby plans to embark on a solo expedition traversing the African continent. Rigby’s journey will commence on his birthday, November 24, starting from Cape Town and ending in Cairo on foot, by sail and by paddle. In an interview with the Weekly News on Tuesday (June 2), he said that this is the first time he is undertaking such an exciting journey. The land and sea journey will take about one year and three months to complete and will cover over 10,000 kilometres of African terrain. Rigby said that his inspiration to take on the journey comes from his determination to seek out new and more extreme adventures that require the same fundamental skills acquired through his competitive experiences. “My training and preparation will be strenuous, tough and most of all it will be completely new to me.” He added that his goal is to inspire others to face their fears, take risks and follow their deepest passions. “I think this will make a

remarkable story that will affect a lot of people from across the globe. “Personally, for myself I want to test the boundaries of what I’m capable of, how far can I push myself and what experiences will I get from this.” Along the journey Rigby intends to visit several schools and charities where he will provide inspirational messages and hopefully give something tangible back with the help of his sponsors. “With the help of sponsors, news outlets and social media I hope to have my followers help donate to each school I visit.” Rigby said that this will also play an important role for modern explorers, that of combining technology of today with traditional style explorations. Rigby currently resides in Toronto, Canada, and is a passionate fitness expert and group training specialist. He is also a former semi-pro track and field athlete who has represented the TCI in international and professional level competitions. Besides his passion for fitness he seeks adventures wherever they come.

Students get free swimming lessons Digicel cinema on Providenciales

No date for Digicel cinema reopening AS THE summer months swing back around, there is still no update as to when the Digicel Cinema on Leeward Highway, Providenciales will finally reopen. Numerous unsuccessful attempts have been made to contact the managing director of the cinema, Derek Handfield, who told the Weekly News in February that he would make sure that the cinema

opened before summer of this year. At that time Handfield had said that the theatre, which has been closed since September 1, 2014, was scheduled to reopen a few months later. He said that the closure was to facilitate the cinema team upgrading to a digital projector system. Handfield also stated that the public will be informed, through the media, as to when the full upgrade is

completed. However since February there has been no word on the upgrade or any repair works at the country’s only movie theatre. This publication has learned, through reliable sources, that Handfield is currently out of the country in Cuba seeking medical assistance. (BY DAISY HANDFIELD)

YOUNGSTERS from the Edward C Gartland Youth Centre in Providenciales will be taught to swim next week as part of World Oceans Day celebrations. The Department of Environment and Maritime Affairs (DEMA), together with the Turks and Caicos Swimming Federation and shark conservationist Tina Randall are hosting the fun event. Amy Avenant, DEMA’s environment outreach coordinator, said: “This initiative hopes to grow and encourage more and more of TCI’s youth to get into the water, and appreciate our resources, the coral, that lies beneath. “We hope this will lead to an

interest and concern for this fragile ecosystem and an understanding as to why it is important to conserve and protect our most important natural and economic resource.” The ‘Learn to swim’ event will be held on June 8 at the Lower Bight Park from 4pm to 6pm, for registered students only. Attendees will be taught basic swimming skills to ensure that they can enjoy swimming in both the pool and the sea. If anyone would like more information on how to learn to swim, or why the ocean is in need of serious conservation, DEMA can be contacted on 338-4176 or environment@gov.tc.

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Dr Darren Hall has won a scholarship to study in the UK

Doctor receives a Commonwealth Scholarship DR DARREN Hall has been awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue studies leading to a Master’s Degree in Healthcare Management in the UK. Dr Hall, who is currently an attending physician at Family Care Medical Services, was one of four who submitted applications to the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Library Services for consideration. Deputy Premier and Minister of Education, Akierra Missick, said: “The Commonwealth awarded over 387 scholarships across the nations. “We are even more proud because this was the first year in many that a Turks and Caicos Islander was successful in winning an award. “We wish Dr Hall all the best as he takes up his studies in the upcoming year and the further contribution he will make to the development of health care, on

his return.” This year the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission offered the Turks and Caicos Islands the opportunity to gain at least one scholarship for a candidate to study for a masters or PhD in the United Kingdom. These awards are funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFIF). Areas of study for consideration of a Commonwealth Scholarship included education, health, economic growth and the private sector, governance and conflict, climate and environment, water and sanitation, food and nutrition, humanitarian disasters and emergencies. Notice for Commonwealth applications for 2016 will be advertised between August and December of this year. Further details including the application process and areas of priority will be announced in due course.

Roger Baldwin, owner and engineer for Blue Mountain Water, receives Blind Tasting Water challenge winning award from Fredrick Braithwaite, assistant laboratory technician for Provo Water Company (PWC)

Provo Water Company celebrates Drinking Water Week BY DAISY HANDFIELD PROVO Water Company (PWC) held a short ceremony on Tuesday (June 2) at their headquarters in Grace Bay, Providenciales, to acknowledge the winners of the annual high school poster competition and ‘Blind Tasting Water’ challenge. These two activities are part of the company’s annual Drinking Water Week celebration. Blue Mountain Water emerged as the winner beating out three other companies and was voted by the public as the best tasting water for this year. During the ceremony Roger Baldwin, owner and engineer of Blue Mountain Water, was presented a plaque by Fredrick Braithwaite, assistant laboratory technician at PWC. Baldwin said: “I appreciate Provo Water for making this all possible. We are very grateful for this, my wife and the people at the factory who put this all together for you, so thank you so much.” To judge the winner of the award,

employees from PWC stationed themselves at the IGA Graceway supermarket where the public had the opportunity to blindly taste water from a selection of water companies and vote for their favourite. The company that received the most votes from this exercise was Blue Mountain Water. Braithwaite thanked the general public for supporting PWC’s Drinking Water Week each year. He said: “Every year it [participation] varies, some years it’s a good turnout while some years the counts are smaller, but this year we had a very good turnout. “We would just like to thank the general public for coming out and participating and we hope to see you guys again next year.” In recognition and celebration of Drinking Water Week 2015, PWC sponsored its fifth annual high school poster contest, under the theme ‘Water for life’. The students were given the opportunity to demonstrate their artistic abilities while learning the importance of water in their lives.

The contest was open to all students in forms one to five. The first place winner, Yana Villanueve from Holy Family Academy, won an Apple iPad mini, second place winner, Thimato Samantha Carla from the Turks and Caicos Institute of Professional Studies (TCIPS), took home a Samsung Galaxy tablet and third place winner Micah Dean from Maranatha High School took home an Ematic Pro Tablet. Villanueve’s winning project was a display of how the water cycle worked from the state of being in the ocean to being consumed. She said: “When I was doing this project I was thinking about how we often take water for granted. “We have it in our hands but we actually don’t know where it comes from. “So I wanted to showcase how water is necessary for everything, for the fish, for the plants and so I decided to do almost like a cycle from the fish in the sea to into our hand so that’s why you can see the people here drinking water.”

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infections; we are not real happy about it, but they are people, but we tell them that next time they should think about spending here in the TCI. “It is true we leave after a week or two and go back to the US but the general surgeons are able to follow up with the patients and we often get emails from the patients with pictures about how they are doing. “So it’s really easy to give appropriate follow-up even though we’re not on island.” He observed that in the TCI there

is a high proportion of large breasted women, so there is a lot more need for reductions than augmentations. He also added that it is unusual for someone with dark skin to ever need a face lift as the facial skin ages much better and tighter, but there have been face lifts done on Belongers who are of Caucasian origins. “We have done eyelids; I don’t think we have done a rhinoplasty (nose job) since I’ve been here, at least not for cosmetic reasons. “We have done some noncosmetic reconstructive surgeries on the face, we have done some breast reconstruction after breast removal

from cancer and that too is noncosmetic. “We are hoping that we would have a website so that patients who are interested can get online and see what operations are offered, the prices and can have a direct line to get to us.” This website is expected to be up and running sometime in the near future. “We have to find a balance in taking care of the medical and surgical needs of real illnesses and then since we have operating rooms, why not do the cosmetic surgery because it helps support the hospital

and the patients can get it done at home. “The argument is that some people go for medical tourism in the DR or other Island areas so that they could go to a wonderful place and vacation, but I don’t think that’s the attraction for people living on this island.” He added that the hospital does some medical tourism aspects through knee and hip surgeries, but it is up to the Government to really push that initiative, as there is revenue for them in such a move. For every operation not covered

under the NHIP, the Government earns 50 percent of the cost. About Dr Goldberg The plastic surgeon completed his plastic surgery training in 1980 at Yale University, and is currently a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where he was chief of plastic surgery for 25 years until he stepped down some time ago. He has also done extensive research in his field and written a number of medical papers on plastic surgery. This is his fifteenth trip to the TCI.

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How does your garden grow 

BY DENIS Belanger - NATURE SPLENDOR

Denis is a passionate landscape architect who enjoys the creative process and his clients’ joy when projects come to life. Contact Denis at Nature Splendor for your landscaping, installation or garden maintenance needs. For more information call 332-3381 or email denis@naturesplendor.net.

Bridal bouquet THE WHITE Frangipani (Plumeria pudica) also known as bridal bouquet, this long time blooming plant is a gem for gardens in Turks and Caicos. Plumeria pudica displays beautiful clusters of luminous white flowers and unusually shaped evergreen leaves. Bridal bouquet is a semi-evergreen small tree native to Columbia, Panama, Venezuela and Curacao. The branches and stems are thin for a Frangipani, weak and tend to break in high winds. The multiple stems form close to the ground and have an upright

shape. The bark is tender and when cut or broken exudes sticky white sap which is an irritant. Leaves are not as large as the other Frangipani, fiddle or spoon-shaped, almost sessile, without a stalk and hold on the trunk for a full plant. The large flowers are held in branched clusters at the stem tips. Individual flowers are funnel-shaped ending in large, petal-like lobes which overlap to the left. The tubular part of the flower is long and attached to a thick flower stalk. Bridal bouquet flowers are waxy and unlike other frangipani are not

fragrant. The colour is pure white. The fruit is a two-part follicle with winged seeds inside. It grows best in well-drained, rich soil and regular watering except during winter when you can water less. Full sun or high, shifting shade is best for growth and flowering. Give it several hours of very bright light a day for flowering. Use bridal bouquet as an accent tree, a patio container tree and the blooms to make famous Hawaiian leis. Often considered the only evergreen frangipani, bridal bouquet will lose some foliage in winter time. For the most part, this plant requires little or no special care once it reaches maturity. Some gardeners prefer to keep it pruned and manicured, encouraging and exploiting its natural umbrella shape, but in fact pruning can be completely ignored once the tree reaches a decent height (maximum of approximately 15 feet). Although this plant is not commonly susceptible to disease there are a couple of pests that may find it too good to pass up. Mealy bugs may occasionally be a problem, the frangipani caterpillar (Pseudosphinx tetrio) is also an occasional visitor and will eat the leaves. About the size of an adult finger, these caterpillars are easily spotted and can be removed by hand before they do too much damage. I am sure that this plant, once it becomes better known, will take its place in your garden or as a street tree in many parts of the island.

POLICE SAFETY TIPS

Robbery prevention for businesses ROBBERY is the unlawful taking of property from someone by the use of force or the threat of violence. This is different from theft because the property is taken directly from a person and there is a threat directed toward the victim. The measures described may not be applicable for every business, however there are certain basic preventive measures that apply to all cash handling situations. It’s important to maintain visibility throughout the store. Keep all doors and windows clear of signs and posters that can hinder visibility. Maintaining a clear field of vision allows people outside to see

inside the store. This fact alone may deter some potential robbers. Also, keep aisles clear of signs and displays. Robbers don’t like to be observed and the elimination of hiding places help to ensure they stay away. Greet customers as they enter your store making direct eye contact. It improves customer relations. More importantly, it sends a message to any person entering the store that they have been recognised. Keep the facility well lit. Poor lighting can hamper visibility and can create an environment that may be inviting to a robber. Develop a cash control programme. There is no better way to help prevent a robbery than by keeping the smallest amount of cash

on the premises. No more than $100 should be kept in a cash register at any given time. Post a notice to that effect visible to the public. If money must be kept on the premises, store it in a locked safe and make frequent bank deposits. Vary routes to the bank and times of deposit. Take a second person along whenever possible. If an alarm system is in use, clearly post a warning on the outside door of the facility. Remain alert and watchful for suspicious activity. If a suspicious person is observed, notify the police. Be cautious about answering questions relating to the facility alarm system, how many employees are on duty etc, such questions should be a

By Audley Astwood Audley, a former police detective and broadcaster, is currently the press officer for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. His main focus is on crime prevention and community policing. For more information call 941-4448 or visit www.tcipolice.tc.

warning signal. Keep back doors locked to prevent undetected entry. The person in charge of the facility should have the only keys to these doors. Take precautions during opening and closing of the facility. When opening the facility, always have two people present. One person should enter the facility and conduct a visual check and then signal to the other using a

predetermined sign that all is okay or another sign that there is trouble. During closing check all restrooms etc, to ensure that no one remains in the facility. The Turks and Caicos Islands is still a relatively low crime country but preventive measures must not be taken for granted. For more information, please visit www.tcipolice.tc or www. facebook.com/rtcipf.

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Makeup and skin care 

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

By Dr Mark Osmond

How caring for your Basic makeup tips teeth saves you money! for everyday look Step one - Skincare

Moisturise skin to refresh and prep it for concealer and foundation. Allow moisturiser to absorb completely before applying makeup. Tip: When skin is especially dry, try layering moisturisers.

Start at the inner corner of the brow or where the brow is most sparse and end at the outer corner of the brow, applying shadow in light feathery strokes. Tame unruly brow hairs with brow shaper.

Step eight - Eye shadow

Start with corrector to brighten and neutralise under eye discoloration, beginning at the inner corner of eyes where skin tends to be darkest. Layer on creamy concealer - in a shade that’s slightly lighter than your skin tone - and gently pat to blend. Use a concealer brush for the most precise application and hard-to-reach spots.

To create the signature Bobbi Brown look, you’ll need three shadows: a light base shade, a medium lid shade and a dark liner shade. Apply the light shade from the lash line to brow bone to neutralise any redness or discoloration in the eyelid. Sweep the medium shade on the lower lid, up to the crease. If the shade looks muddy on the skin, it’s too dark. If it looks ashy on the skin, it’s too light.

Step three - Foundation

Step nine - Eyeliner

Step two - Corrector and concealer

Apply foundation beginning around the nose and mouth where there is often redness. Blend out to the rest of the face if needed. Foundation can be applied with fingers, a foundation brush or a makeup sponge. Tip: You know you’re using the correct shade of foundation if it disappears into your skin.

Step four - Powder and bronzer

For a longer-lasting look, set concealer and foundation with sheer face powder in your skin tone correct shade; use the eye blender brush under the eyes and the sheer power brush on the rest of the face. Follow with bronzer, applied where the sun normally hits your face forehead, cheeks, nose and chin. Finish with a touch on your neck and ears for the most natural effect.

Line the upper lash line with a dark eye shadow and the eye liner brush; for stronger definition, dampen brush before dipping into shadow. For a longer-lasting look, try longwear gel eyeliner. Tip: If you also line the lower lash line, make sure top and bottom liner meet at the outer corner of the eye.

Step ten - Mascara

Apply two to three coats of mascara, brushing from base to tips of lash line. Roll the wand as you go to separate lashes and avoid clumps. The finished look: Fresh, polished and beautiful.

Step six - Lips

A nude lip instantly makes you looked polished. To find your best nude, look at the natural colouring of your lips and choose a shade that matches or is one or two shades brighter or darker. To give lips natural-looking definition, line lips with lip pencil afterwards. Finish with gloss for a high-shine look.

Step seven - Brows

For the most natural look, fill in brows with powder shadow applied with an eye brow brush; use the eye definer brush for more definition.

Good dental care Brushing your teeth is the single most important thing you can do to care for your teeth and the investment of a tube of toothpaste and a toothbrush for you and each family member is not a big one. 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. Use a fluoride toothpaste as

Weekly Recipe Adele is a native of South Africa, currently living and working in the TCI. In addition to being a superb cook, Adele has the full time job of being a mom to four wonderful kids. Since migrating to the TCI, she has committed to making her family and fellow countrymen her favourite dishes from South Africa. Hopefully now everyone can get a taste of her extensive repertoire of delightful South African dishes. Happy cooking!

Step five - Cheeks

To add a natural glow, apply blush to the apples of the cheeks, blending up towards the hairline then downward to soften colour.

CAN good dental care save money? The short answer is yes! According to some estimates, regular preventive dental care can reduce overall treatment costs by as much as 10 times! Good oral hygiene and dental care, which includes daily brushing and flossing, and regular check-ups at the dentist, means less dental problems (and pain!), less chance of losing your natural teeth and over a lifetime can quite significantly reduce the money you spend on your teeth. Additionally good oral hygiene is proven to help in the prevention of some systemic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease thereby helping maintain good general health and potentially save you money on your general healthcare costs too.

Pecan pie muffins

Ingredients • • • • •

1 cup packed light brown sugar ½ cup all-purpose flour 2 cups chopped pecans 2/3 cup butter, softened 2 eggs, beaten

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease mini or regular muffin cups generously. Grease them well or they will stick.

• In medium bowl, stir together brown sugar, flour and pecans. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and eggs together. Stir in dry ingredients just until combined. • Spoon batter into muffin cups about two thirds full. Bake for 12 to 13 minutes for mini muffins or 15 to 17 minutes for regular size muffins. • Run a knife around the edge of each muffin and pop it out.

fluoride strengthens tooth enamel, can reverse early decay and help reduce sensitivity. In the case of younger children, it is often better that the adult does at least some of the brushing. Do not discourage children from brushing their own teeth but assist them to ensure that the teeth are properly cleaned. Flossing is also recommended for adults. Again floss is inexpensive and widely available. (It is estimated that up to 35 percent of plaque can be left behind if you only brush and do not floss.) It is recommended that adults floss once a day - I recommend flossing after you have brushed your teeth in the evening. My personal preference is PTFE dental tape rather than waxed or unwaxed floss as it is kinder on the gums and more effective. Watching your sugar intake in the

foods and drinks you consume. It is sugar left on the teeth that turns to acid and is the cause of dental decay. Regular visits to the dentist generally every six months - 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, complex and expensive treatment and less chance of losing teeth. At my practice an initial examination is only $35, probably less than the monthly cost of your cell phone!

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Haiti election council under fire for barring top presidential hopeful HAITI’S presidential campaign is barely under way and election officials are already under fire for barring the candidacy of former prime minister Laurent Lamothe, who hoped to succeed his former boss, President Michel Martelly. Lawyers for the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) on Wednesday ruled Lamothe lacked the required “discharge,” a routine investigation of government ministers into their use of public funds. “The CEP’s decision confirms the arbitrary nature of the electoral process in Haiti, a real threat to democracy,” Lamothe wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. Lamothe’s campaign accused Martelly of trying to manipulate election officials to prevent him from running. The campaign says its internal polling shows Lamothe is the clear front runner. “There is a clear political motivation of what is supposed to be an independent court - and it is being manipulated by those who do not want to see Lamothe as a candidate,” said an adviser to the Lamothe campaign. Lamothe and Martelly have been

Former PM Laurent Salvador Lamothe is a top candidate for the presidency.

at odds since the arrest of an accused drug trafficker and kidnapper, Woodly Ethéart, who has close ties to Martelly’s relatives. Candidates have three days to appeal the rulings. The first round of the presidential election is Oct 25. If no candidate wins outright there will be a runoff December 27. Of 70 candidates who registered to run, 23 were challenged on legal grounds by a board of lawyers for the CEP. The board rejected Lamothe and two others outright.

Political observers said the decision appeared to unfairly discriminate against Lamothe. “There are other candidates who were accepted who also didn’t have the discharge. They are in the exact same position as Lamothe,” said Pierre Espérance, the executive director of the National Human Rights Defense Network. Among those allowed to proceed were Thierry Mayard-Paul, a former interior minister and adviser to Martelly, Mario Andersol, the former chief of Haitian police, and Duly Brutus, Martelly’s foreign affairs minister. A discharge is usually conducted by legislators, but Haiti has not had a functioning parliament since Jan. 12, when the terms of the entire Chamber of Deputies and a third of the senators expired. Without a parliament, many former members of the government are left without a discharge. Martelly announced Friday he would not grant discharges for anyone by decree. Elections for a new parliament are to be held August 9 with more than 2,000 candidates. (Reuters)

Medical and spiritual aid sought as Caribbean children play Charlie Charlie Challenge CHILDREN have been hospitalised, pastors called in to schools, and at least one Ministry of Education in the Caribbean has launched an investigation into reports of strange behaviour by students who played the popular Charlie Charlie Challenge. The game, which has been described as a rudimentary form of the Ouija board, has been trending on social media where players have posted pictures and videos of themselves performing the challenge. It involves balancing pencils in a cross on a piece of paper with the words “yes” and “no” written on the paper, and summoning a visit from a demon by the name of Charlie, who then answers the players’ questions by moving the pencils in the direction of the words. The Barbados Today online newspaper quoted acting chief eduction officer Karen Best as saying an investigation would be carried out “to find out what is really going on” after police and several pastors from the Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies (PAWI) group were summoned to several schools where children were acting strangely. PAWI head Bishop Gerry Seale said “demonic activity has been manifested” at schools in Barbados

The game, which has been described as a rudimentary form of the Ouija board, has been trending on social media.

as a result of children playing the game, as well as in other Caribbean countries. “I spoke to a youth pastor in Guyana who has had to deal with 16 students so far needing deliverance from demonic activity as a result of this game,” Barbados Today quoted him as saying. St Lucia News Online reported that the Ministry of Education there

had banned the game. It said there had been strange occurrences in schools in that Caribbean island. In one instances, students reported seeing desks floating. According to media reports in Antigua and Barbuda, students at one secondary school where the game was being played were rushed to hospital after fainting.

The NOAA had predicted a 70-percent likelihood of six to 11 named storms, of which three to six could become hurricanes including zero to two major hurricanes for this season.

Experts predict quiet Atlantic hurricane season in 2015 THE 2015 Atlantic hurricane season began on Monday, with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting that it will be a quieter-than-normal one. The NOAA had predicted a 70-percent likelihood of six to 11 named storms, of which three to six could become hurricanes including zero to two major hurricanes for this season. The main reason of a quiet season this year is a strengthening El Nino, which is forecast to last throughout the hurricane season, according to the NOAA. However, Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) warned countries in the region not to become complacent despite the “below-normal” forecast, where the average was around 12 storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes. Addressing a pre-season press conference, CDEMA Executive

Director Ronald Jackson urged the Caribbean countries not to treat the prediction as a reason for complacency because previous evidence showed that the prediction might not reflect the reality. “We have to recognize that it only takes one tropical disturbance to cause significant damage to our already fragile ecosystems, our already fragile economies which are centered around coastlines and settlements that are very much based along waterways,” Jackson said. Jackson’s opinion was echoed by NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan. “A below-normal season doesn’t mean we’re off the hook. As we’ve seen before, below-normal seasons can still produce catastrophic impacts to communities.” The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30 with the peak period from early August through the end of October, which will impact areas including the entire Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. (Xinhug)

Bahamas and China sign MOU on air transportation IN what could be a major step for Bahamian tourism, the Bahamas and China have signed a memorandum of understanding for air service between the two countries. The move comes months after initial talks led by Prime Minister Perry Christie on the idea. The agreement was signed by Transport Minister Glenys Martin at Christie’s office in Nassau.

It provides the legal framework for air services between the two countries. Li Jiaxiang, administrator in China’s Civil Aviation Department, signed the agreement on behalf of the Chinese government. Eventual air service between the two countries could be a boon to the as-yet-unfinished Baha Mar resort, which is being constructed by China. (Caribjournal)

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Regional News Cayman Islands: Fidelity Bank to review transactions in FIFA probe CAYMAN’S Fidelity Bank has announced plans to conduct an internal review of transactions linked to the FIFA corruption probe. U.S. prosecutors allege bribery payments to Jeffrey Webb were routed through Fidelity Bank accounts in the Cayman Islands, controlled by Webb’s attaché Costas Takkas. The bank’s parent company, Fidelity Group, said in a statement Tuesday that it had drafted in external experts to assist with the review of the transactions referred to in the indictment. Fidelity Group CEO Anwer Sunderji added, “Licensed institutions are required to report suspicious activity and we are satisfied that the bank discharged its duty with respect to the specific transactions. “We will be embarking on a comprehensive independent review of our procedures and processes to confirm that our bank is indeed in line with regulatory requirements.” The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority said Monday it was aware of the content of the indictment and was looking into the matter. “The authority takes these matters very seriously and in respect of the allegations relating to one of our licensees, we will act

appropriately, dispassionately and in accordance with our obligations under the law,” the regulator said in a statement. The Fidelity statement said it took its role as a quality service provider within the financial services sector seriously and was cooperating fully with authorities. “Fidelity Group takes seriously the allegations surrounding Mr. Webb and the other individuals connected with the FIFA investigation. “The Bank is not aware of any allegations against it, but has been cooperating in full accordance with its responsibilities with regulators and other government authorities, and will continue to do so,” the statement added. As a regulated financial services group, the statement said, Fidelity has procedures for reporting suspicious activity, as per the Cayman Islands All Crimes Anti-Money Laundering Laws. Mr. Sunderji added, “The directors and executives consider the fight against money laundering to be a priority issue, and while we move through this process, we want to ensure that our valued customers and our staff understand that we will continue to operate as normal, providing our standard, high quality service”.

McCartney: I’m staying with the DNA DEMOCRATIC National Alliance leader Branville McCartney this week said he wanted to make it “absolutely clear” that his affiliation with the FNM was a “thing of the past” affirming that he was “already home with the DNA.” Mr McCartney was responding to what he labelled as “overtures” made by FNM supporters in recent weeks. He vowed that both he and his party are here to stay. He was contacted after former deputy prime minister Frank Watson told The Tribune that it was time that the former Bamboo Town MP “comes back home,” referring to the FNM. Mr Watson is also a senior member of the Free National Movement. Mr McCartney said despite “rumours” centred on the possibility that he may return to the FNM, he has no intentions of going back. “Bran is not going to the FNM, Bran is not folding up the DNA. The DNA is bigger than Bran. To make it absolutely clear - I, Branville McCartney will remain with the DNA and we are moving forward,” he said. McCartney launched the DNA in 2011, after resigning from the Ingraham Cabinet and the FNM because he was dissatisfied with the party’s policies and what he considered a lack of opportunity for members of the party to express their concerns about the direction of the nation.

Tributes pour in following the death of Dominica’s sixth president DOMINICA’S sixth president Dr Nicholas Liverpool has died. The 80-year-old passed away on Monday in Miami where he had been receiving medical treatment. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said Liverpool’s death has robbed the country of “a most revered ambassador for and of this country”. Liverpool served as president from October 2003 to September 2012. “Just over six months ago the nation gathered enmasse to salute and celebrate the life and times of Dr. Nicholas Liverpool. We recognised then, as we do now, that this was a Dominican of extraordinary talent and achievement; yet a

Dominica’s sixth president Dr Nicholas Liverpool died at the age of 80. (Photo: The Sun)

humble gentleman who had a moment and a listening ear for everyone with whom he came into contact,” Skerritt wrote

on his Facebook page. He said all flags in Dominica would be flown as half-mast from Tuesday until the day after Liverpool’s burial. The opposition United Workers Party (UWP) also paid tribute to Liverpool, saying that he “served Dominica with distinction on many fronts”. Expressing condolences to his family, the party said: “While the sense of loss and grief may be at times overwhelming, may they find solace in the fact that the name of their husband, father and friend has been indelibly marked in the history books of our island state.” (Caribbean360)

Branville McCartney said that despite “rumours” centred on the possibility that he may return to the FNM, he has no intentions of going back.

The DNA leader acknowledged that he and Mr Watson have enjoyed a “great working relationship” over the years, but said his decision goes beyond “friendship, popularity, public debates and even party colours.” “Instead of focusing on party allegiances, we should be focused on how we can improve the issues this country has with healthcare, crime, education, environment and unemployment. That is what the DNA is working to do. “If you took a long hard look at the Bahamas, you would have to admit that as a country the Bahamas is in a bad place. How we have progressed as a country in

the past 40 plus years, it is not good. We our suffering, the country is suffering,” he said. “We have persons from both sides of the political divide who came to the DNA because they understand that the PLP and the FNM aren’t truly working to move the Bahamas forward. There are those out there that want to keep up a two-party system but there is a larger percentage of people out there that are focused on moving away from that political way of thinking and they want to move the Bahamas forward. “The DNA is quickly becoming the party for those that want to see the Bahamas

move forward. In only 11 months we garnered ten per cent of the vote. Since the 2012 election, our base is three times larger than it was at that time. “We are becoming a huge party with a deep bench,” said Mr McCartney. Last week, Mr Watson said the DNA could be a spoiler in the next general election. “I don’t know who they will spoil it for, whether the FNM or the PLP this time,” Mr Watson said in a recent interview. “I think Bran ought to come back home. I don’t think he is (in) tune with the PLP’s philosophy. He’s got something going for him. He’d certainly be an asset to (the FNM).” His comments came as the FNM faces increasing criticism for its performance as an opposition, with some critics blasting Dr Hubert Minnis’ leadership style. The FNM has also faced criticism in some quarters for not being aggressive enough when dealing with the perceived missteps of the Christie administration. Mr McCartney said although it is “unfortunate” that his former party is going through reported leadership issues, his new party is “working to holding the government’s feet to the fire.”

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Entertainment Iglesias hand injury is ‘worse than expected’ ENRIQUE Iglesias’s hand injuries are worse than expected, his spokesperson has said. The 40-year-old sliced his fingers open when he tried to grab a drone camera, which was taking pictures of the audience, at a concert on Saturday. Following reconstructive surgery on Monday, it was announced he would need several weeks to recover. “The damage ended up being a bit worse than initially assessed,” said a statement on the star’s website. “He suffered a fracture that needed to be corrected in addition to the reconstructive surgery. “He will be recovering during the next few weeks, but a full recovery is anticipated.” Iglesias was performing in Tijuana, Mexico when he reached for the drone,

Enrique Iglesias appeared on stage with a bandaged hand and bloodstained t-shirt after the accident.

apparently in an attempt to give fans a point-of-view shot from the stage. He was “semi-treated” at the side of the stage to stop the bleeding, and was advised to end the show. However, he performed for another 30 minutes before seeking further treatment. “He was rushed to

the airport where an ambulance met him,” said a representative on Instagram. “He was then put on a plane to LA... to see a specialist.” Afterwards, fans posted photos and video on social media, showing the singer’s bandaged hand and bloodcovered T-shirt.

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THE DEPARTMENT OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCIES TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

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Hurricane Preparedness 2015 Message: HE Governor Peter Beckingham “President Obama was in Miami this week talking to officials, businesspeople and others about hurricane preparedness. There can be no clearer sign, if the head of one of the world’s most powerful States devotes time to preparing for natural disasters, that this is something our public service, business and Government leaders should do likewise: not least given our country’s place in the heart of hurricane zones. I am grateful to the hard work that has gone into TCI’s preparedness, led vigorously by the disaster management team. But I know that we could do more. The attitude of “it won’t happen here” is natural, but very mistaken. I will be working with the government, public service and business to try and ensure that our preparations for this season

are as sharp and efficient as they should be. We can never be too well prepared. I hope that everyone will take time to consider what more they should be doing, at work and at home.” Peter Beckingham, Governor Turks and Caicos Islands.

Message: Hon. George Lightbourne Minister of Home Affairs Transportation and Communications, with Responsibility for The Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies My fellow Turks and Caicos Islanders and residents alike, 1st June, marks the beginning of the 2015 Hurricane Season. In light of this, one of the most serious obligations we have as a Government is the protection of our people in the face of potential disasters. As Minister responsible for Disaster Management I have again placed preparation for 2015 Hurricane Season at the top of my agenda. I support the efforts of the Department of Disaster Management and Emergency to continue to lead the efforts ensuring that adequate preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery mechanisms are established

to counteract the impact of natural and man-man disasters. I therefore urge all residents to take action to minimize their risks and vulnerability by planning ahead to reduce the chances of injury to self and damage to property, business and the environment. The Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies, in keeping with its mandate and mission, will collaborate with local, regional, and international agencies to provide the highest standard of assistance in the event of a hazard or natural disaster. We will continue to work with our local and regional partners to support Disaster Risk Reduction for our residents and we will advise you on all

10 Questions: Is Your Business Ready? Your Answers Could Determine How You Handle Disasters 1. Are you concerned that your normal business operations might be interrupted by a natural or human-caused disaster? • YES • NO • UNSURE 2. Have you determined what parts of your business need to be operational as soon as possible following a disaster and planned how to resume? • YES • NO • UNSURE 3. Do you and your employees have a disaster-response plan in place to help assure your safety and take care of yourselves until help can arrive? • YES • NO • UNSURE

risks, impending storms and disaster preparedness through public radio and all available media outlets. I call on all residents to take the necessary measures to protect their homes and families in the event of a storm. These measures include, for example, updating insurance policies and developing a Family Disaster Plan. Preparations should also incorporate strategic planning for the safety of the elderly, infants, disabled, and also your pets. Please ensure that you have all necessary resources available including, but not limited to, food, water, medications, and shutters. Remove all debris and ensure that your property is free from any potential flying objects. Secure important documents

and keep important numbers readily available. I once again appeal to you to prepare, because preparing is not an option, it is a must; and it is the only thing we can do to reduce the impact of a disaster. Do not be caught offguard. Remember Disaster Preparedness is everybody’s business. God bless you and God bless the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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6. Are your vital records protected from the harm that could be caused by a disaster? • YES • NO • UNSURE 7. Are you prepared to stay open for business if your suppliers cannot deliver, your markets are inaccessible, or basic needs (e.g., water, sewer, electricity, transportation) are unavailable? • YES • NO • UNSURE 8. Do you have plans to stay open for business even if you cannot stay in or reach your place of business? • YES • NO • UNSURE

4. Could you communicate with your employees if a disaster happened during or after work hours? • YES • NO • UNSURE

9. Have you worked with your community, public officials, and other businesses to promote disaster preparedness and planning for community recovery? • YES • NO • UNSURE

5. Can your building withstand the impact of a natural disaster, and are your contents and inventory sufficiently protected? • YES • NO • UNSURE

10. Have you consulted with an insurance professional to determine if your insurance coverage is adequate to help you get back in business following a disaster? • YES • NO • UNSURE

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For Hurricane Preparedness Week 2015

The weather symbol for a hurricane is. The weather symbol for a tropical storm is .

Pledge to be Prepared As we are all aware, the Turks and Caicos Islands is a great place to live, work and play. Our location in the Atlantic Ocean makes us who we are, captured in the country’s tagline ‘beautiful by nature’. But that location can leave us geographically vulnerable to tropical systems that transverse through the Atlantic during the annual Hurricane Season. This is why DDME has planned a series of activities to commemorate Hurricane Preparedness Week 2015 (HPW 2015), under the theme, ‘Keep Calm and be Prepared’. HPW 2015 is envisaged as the vehicle to carry the message of preparedness to the people of TCI. The week is designed to ensure that residents of TCI jump start their preparations for the hurricane season. By

know how to prepare yourself, your home, your business and your family for a hurricane event will prevent you from sleepwalking into the next hurricane disaster event. The safety and quality of life of the residents of the TCI are our top priorities. It is, however the responsibility of residents to take action to be as prepared as possible in the event that a tropical storm makes landfall this hurricane season. Information and action are the two main ingredients in ensuring that residents become more resilient to disasters. History has shown that a lack of preparation has been at the heart of most devastating disaster events. Information leads to awareness but being aware is not being prepared. You must take action to become prepared. The information shared during HPW 2015 is to be used as tool to galvanize persons into

action, thereby inculcating a culture of preparedness in the people of TCI. HPW 2015 begins on Sunday, May 31st and extends through to Saturday June 6th. The week will highlight the importance of planning ahead to protect your families, homes, and communities in advance of the upcoming hurricane season, which traditionally runs from June 1st to November 30th. Parts of the TCI still bears the scars of the 2014 hurricane season, when the TCI was impacted by TS Cristobal, which caused major flooding on Providenciales and North Caicos. More than ever, it takes the whole community’s engagement to build resilient neighborhoods. Being prepared begins by knowing your risks and taking appropriate actions before, during and after a hurricane event. The effects of storms can be devastating to entire

communities and can have long-lasting consequences. With these risks in mind, you can join friends, neighbors, businesses and communities in pledging to be prepared for the hurricane season by knowing your risks and vulnerabilities, taking appropriate action and being an example/ inspiration to others by talking to your family, friends and neighbors about what they can do to prepare themselves. DDME stands ready to assist residents in getting ready for the hurricane season, however it is imperative that residents pledge to be prepared for disaster events that can have devastating impacts on their lives.

How to Track a Hurricane: To plot each location of the storm over time, do the following: 1. Determine the latitude of the storm, the first coordinate in the pair, and locate it on the map (usually followed by an N or S). Latitude measures how far north or south a location is from the Equator (on a map, lines of latitude run east and west). 2. Determine the longitude, the second coordinate in the pair (usually followed by a W or E), and locate it on the map. Longitude measures how far east or west a location is from the Prime Meridian (on a map, lines of longitude run north and south). 3. Draw a (for a hurricane) or a (for a tropical storm) on the weather map. 4. Repeat steps 1 to 3 using the next tracked location of the storm. 5. How to plot a particular hurricane's location: • To plot a hurricane located at the point (20ºN, 75ºW), do the following. • First locate the 20ºN latitude line on the map (it is highlighted in red). • Then locate the 75ºW longitude line on the map (it is highlighted in green).

The storm's location is the intersection of these two lines. Plot the storm's location on the map at that point (over eastern Cuba in this example

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Extensive: Large trees blown down and escape routes cut off by rising flood water. Smaller structures near the coast destroyed and larger structures destroyed by floating debris. Evacuation of low-lying areas may be required.

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Low: Damage is mostly to trees and shrubbery, with no real building damage. Moderate: Some roofing material, door and window damage to buildings.

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By The Start Of The Hurricane Season You Should: Have a Family Disaster Plan “Preventing the loss of life and minimizing the damage to property from hurricanes are responsibilities that are shared by all.” One of the ways you can prepare for and mitigate against disaster is by planning with your family. How many of us have a Family Disaster Plan? Your family Disaster Plan should be based on your vulnerability to the Hurricane Hazards. You should keep a written Plan and share your Plan with other friends or family.

Have I made appropriate arrangement?:

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Extreme: Extensive damage to windows, doors and houses, major damage to structures near the coast. Catastrophic: Complete roof failure, small buildings blown over, complete destruction of poorly constructed homes. Escape route cut off by flood waters. Massive evacuation of residents may be required.

Does my employer provide a special shelter for me and my family?: If the answer to the above question is yes, list the name, address, and telephone number of the shelter: Name and types of pets: What will I do with my pets if I stay home?: What will I do with my pets if I shelter elsewhere?: Do I have a boat?:

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Have important papers been copied and secured as well as valuables? If so, where are they located?:

If the answer is yes, list the location: Has a safe room been identified?:

Do I have a Survival Kit?:

Write down all important names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, policy numbers etc. of doctors, insurance agents (health, car, home), lawyers, family and friends:

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Entertainment Prominent Hollywood lawyer accused of turning actress into ‘virtual sex slave’: lawsuit A STEAMY new lawsuit claims Halle Berry’s prominent Hollywood attorney turned one of his fledgling actress clients into a “virtual sex slave” — but the lawyer insists the sordid tale is a shakedown. The accuser, identified as Jane Doe in her filing, claims lawyer Neil Meyer used his position of power over her career to force her to meet his kinky demands. “Meyer preyed upon (her) vulnerability and made her his virtual sex slave from on or about late 2009 through December 2013,” the lawsuit states. She claims Meyer, a graduate of the scandal-scarred Riverdale prep school Horace Mann, sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions in 2010 — including one time at the St. Regis hotel in New York. “If plaintiff would cry or not manifest pleasure during sexual relations, Meyer would become sexually violent, often physically injuring the plaintiff,” the complaint obtained by the Daily News states. “Meyer forced plaintiff to accede to sexual acts that plaintiff found repulsive, humiliating, dehumanising, painful and

R&B singer Akon hopes that the solar power project will also spur hope and change in Africa.

Akon’s aiming to help 600 million Africans get electricity Halle Berry’s lawyer Neil Meyer is accused of preying on one of his actress clients.

physically and mentally injurious,” said the lawsuit, which also listed Meyer’s law firm, Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson and Binder LLP, in the complaint. Meyer claims the woman is lying to get undeserved hush money. “The salacious allegations of the complaint are little more than an attempt to extort a settlement

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payment, which will never happen. This is not a ‘case,’ it is a sham, and it will be dismissed,” Meyer’s lawyer, Mark Baute, told The News. “Jane Doe’s allegations have been rejected by the state bar twice. In addition, my client obtained a TRO (temporary restraining order) against Jane Doe due to her erratic behaviour,” he said.

THIS isn’t just another charitable celebrity contribution. This might be the most ambitious charitable endeavor ever. R&B singer Akon has launched an initiative aiming to bring electricity to 600 million people in Africa. The Akon Lighting Africa initiative has started the Solar Academy, which will help African engineers harness the sun’s energy to produce electricity for the target of 600 million people. Considering that Africa gets an average of 320 sunny days in a

given calendar year, this plan more than makes sense. But to say it’s extensive and ambitious would be a giant understatement. The Academy will teach African residents how to install and maintain solar-powered electricity systems and micro grids to continually produce electricity. “We have the sun and innovative technologies to bring electricity to homes and communities. We now need to consolidate African expertise,” Samba Baithily, a co-founder of the project, told Reuters.

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Royal Mail stake to be sold off, George Osborne announces THE UK government’s remaining 30% stake in the Royal Mail is to be sold off to help pay down the deficit, George Osborne has said. The chancellor said the shares currently valued at £1.5bn - would be sold when ministers could be sure they would get value for money. He also announced £3bn in efficiency savings in the current financial year. Labour accused Mr Osborne of “ripping up” his long term economic plan by springing the announcement on MPs. The government is committed to clearing the deficit by 2018/19 without increasing income tax or VAT, something Mr Osborne said would not be “easy”. He needs to find a further £30bn of spending cuts in non-protected departments over the next three years, with £12bn to come out of welfare spending and £13bn from cuts to government departments. Former Labour leader Ed Miliband made his first Commons speech since losing the general election in the debate on the Queen’s Speech, urging the chancellor to ensure David Cameron followed through “on his one nation rhetoric”. Mr Miliband promised to hold Mr

Cameron’s government to account from the backbenches and said the Labour Party needed to do some “hard and painful thinking” about why it lost the election. The government holds a 30% stake in the Royal Mail, with the remaining 70% held by a combination of employees and private investors. Mr Osborne told MPs: “I am today announcing that the Government will begin selling the remaining 30% shareholding we have in the Royal Mail. “It is the right thing to do for the Royal Mail, the businesses and families who depend on it - and crucially for the taxpayer. “Further savings in departments this year - and selling our stake in the Royal Mail. “Getting on with what we promised. Reducing the deficit - that is how you deliver lasting economic security for working people. “For as everyone knows, when it comes to living within your means, the sooner you start the smoother the ride.” Mr Osborne said £3bn in efficiency savings had been achieved by belt-tightening in government departments and asset

sales, including publicly-owned land around King’s Cross station in London. He will set out details of the spending cuts in a Budget statement on 8 July. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has said public spending cuts of 1% a year in 201617 and 2017-18 will be more difficult to achieve than was suggested in the Conservative Party’s general election manifesto. In a statement, the IFS said: “The cuts that the government announces later this year in next month’s Budget and the following Spending Review may turn out to be deliverable. “But they certainly will not feel like just 1% being taken out of each area of spending, nor will it require merely “£13 billion from departmental savings” as the Conservative manifesto described. “While not inaccurate, these numbers give a misleading impression of what departmental spending in many areas will look like if the manifesto commitment to eliminate the deficit by 2018-19, largely through spending cuts, while not cutting spending in many areas, is to be met.” (BBC)

Ukraine’s president warns of ‘full-scale’ Russia invasion PRESIDENT Petro Poroshenko has told MPs the military must prepare to defend against a possible “full-scale invasion” from Russia, amid a surge of violence in eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied that its military is involved in Ukraine, but Mr Poroshenko said 9,000 of its troops were deployed. Clashes involving tanks took place in two areas west of Donetsk on Wednesday. There was a “colossal threat” that large-scale fighting would resume, the president told parliament in Kiev. The outbreak of violence, in the government-held towns of Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, was the worst since a ceasefire was signed in Minsk in February. International monitors from the OSCE said that in the hours before and during the fighting around Maryinka a large amount of heavy weapons was spotted moving towards the contact line in rebelcontrolled areas. Government troops fired shells at rebel-held areas on the outskirts of Donetsk. Ukraine said it had lost five

President Poroshenko said there were now 50,000 Ukrainian troops in the east.

soldiers in the past 24 hours, while the rebels said 15 people including civilians had been killed. The separatists denied Ukrainian claims that they launched a major offensive in violation of a truce. The OSCE said that for more than an hour on Wednesday they had tried to contact separatist leaders to halt the fighting, but they were either “unavailable or did not wish” to

speak to the monitors. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, however, accused the authorities in Kiev of jeopardising the Minsk agreement, by placing it “under the constant threat of disruption” and by refusing to engage in direct dialogue with separatist leaders. The Kremlin has consistently denied sending serving soldiers across the border, although it has acknowledged that “volunteers” have joined the rebels. In his annual address to parliament, Mr Poroshenko warned of a “colossal threat” from the rising violence. “Ukraine’s military should be ready for a new offensive by the enemy, as well as as full-scale invasion along the entire border with the Russian Federation,” he said. “We must be really prepared for this.” More than 6,400 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the conflict began in April 2014 when rebels seized large parts of the two eastern regions, following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea peninsula.

British PM David Cameron (left) is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain’s EU membership ahead of a referendum.

UK PM warned on German support for EU change FORMER German foreign minister Joschka Fischer has warned British PM David Cameron not to be too sure of German support in his bid to reform the EU. It comes a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to try to find a solution to the UK’s drive for reform. Mr Fischer, an architect of European foreign policy, told the BBC that the UK was not a priority for Mrs Merkel. Mr Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain’s EU membership ahead of a referendum. But Mr Fischer said his advice to David Cameron was: “Don’t lose yourself in wishful thinking. “Angela Merkel will do nothing which will endanger the basic principles of the common market, of the EU,” he told BBC Europe editor

Katya Adler. “And she has a much bigger problem to address - how to find a compromise in the currency union with Greece. That’s her priority number one now.” Mr Fischer said it would be an “illusion” to think the UK would get special treatment because it is a major contributor to the EU budget. He added: “What will the UK be without the EU? Go to Washington, ask them. The answer is very clear, very negative.” Last week, Mr Cameron made a whistle-stop tour of Europe trying to gather support for changes he wants before holding the UK’s EU membership referendum. After talks with the UK prime minister in Berlin, Mrs Merkel said she did not rule out future treaty changes in Europe.

Canada aboriginal schools were ‘cultural genocide’ - report A CANADIAN policy of forcibly separating aboriginal children from their families and sending them to residential schools amounted to “cultural genocide,” a six-year investigation into the now-defunct system found yesterday. The residential school system attempted to eradicate the aboriginal culture and assimilate children into mainstream Canada, said the long-awaited report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The commission was launched as part of a settlement with survivors, hundreds of whom gathered at a ballroom in downtown Ottawa to hear the report’s findings. In prepared remarks unveiling the report, Justice Murray Sinclair, who headed the panel, acknowledged “that what took place in residential schools amounts to nothing short of cultural genocide – a systematic and concerted attempt to

extinguish the spirit of Aboriginal peoples.” The report documented horrific physical abuse, rape, malnutrition and other atrocities suffered by many of the 150,000 children who attended the schools, typically run by Christian churches on behalf of Ottawa from the 1840s to the 1990s. Children as young as five years old were removed from their families and ancestral lands and sent to schools far away. Sinclair said between 5 percent and 7 percent of students who went to the schools died there, although the commission was only able to document about 3,200 of those deaths. Most were buried in unmarked graves on school property. Regarded as heathens and savages by the system’s architects, they were beaten for speaking their native language and often forced to accept the Christian faith.

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Irish broadcaster allowed to report speech accusing billionaire IRELAND’S state broadcaster aired a lawmaker’s speech accusing a billionaire of obtaining sweetheart bank loans, after a court ruled yesterday that the right to report on parliament trumped a court order to muzzle potentially libellous allegations. Billionaire press baron Denis O’Brien says accusations of financial wrongdoing against him contain falsehoods. He obtained a court order in May preventing state broadcaster RTE from running a report about his business affairs. But last week lawmaker Catherine Murphy repeated the allegations in parliament, a venue that normally provides “absolute privilege” – the right of the media to report what is said free of any restriction. RTE appealed yesterday for the right to report Murphy’s speech, and won the backing of Judge Donald Binchy. “It’s clear to me that the court

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can’t make restrictions on the fair reporting of utterances in Dail Eireann,” Binchy told a packed court room, referring to parliament’s lower house. Kevin Bakhurst, Managing Director for RTE News and Current Affairs told reporters that the clarity provided by the judge was “an incredibly important message to send out to members of the Dail and members of the press in Ireland.” Murphy told the Newstalk radio station: “I welcome the clarification, it’s very important. It vindicates the democratic function of the Oireachtas (houses of parliament).” O’Brien is one of Ireland’s most powerful press barons, owner of its biggest circulation newspaper, the Irish Independent, as well as four other national newspapers, 13 regional newspapers and two major national radio stations.

U.S. official: 10,000-plus ISIS fighters killed in 9-month campaign The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS has recorded more than 10,000 ISIS deaths since the campaign against the extremist group began nine months ago, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken told France Inter radio. Blinken’s remarks came in an interview given Tuesday after coalition members joined Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for a conference in Paris that assessed progress in the campaign. Asked whether Iraqi forces backed by the coalition were capable of standing up to ISIS, Blinken said they could. “Indeed, when you act against a force like Daesh, which is a terrorist force with a totalitarian ideology, and that does not fear death, we recorded an enormous loss for Daesh. More than 10,000 since this campaign started. And this will eventually have an effect.’’ (Daesh is another name for ISIS that is widely used by European and Arab allies and is despised by the terrorist group.) Still, the CIA’s estimate that there are between 20,000 and 32,000 total ISIS fighters holds, U.S. intelligence officials say. That’s because, according to the officials, ISIS is able to “adequately replace” slain fighters through a combination of conscription and recruitment both inside and outside of Syria and Iraq.

Iraqi’s bombing on Sunday last in the ISIS ceased-city of Falluja killed six persons and injured nine others.

U.S. authorities have been wary of stating publicly how many ISIS militants are thought to have been killed since the campaign began. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Stuart Jones told Al Arabiya television in January that an estimated 6,000 fighters had been killed. But speaking to reporters afterward, then-Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby was adamant that the United States was not keeping a “body count” and said it would be wrong to state that there is such a count. He called it a “tally” and said the notion of a body count suggests

Vietnam War-era statistics. In that war, the Pentagon offered body counts as a measure of its success against the Viet Cong. Kirby said the tally was not aimed at showing any metric of success against ISIS. Speaking to France Inter, Blinken also denied that the coalition’s strategy was failing, a concern heightened by the loss of the key city of Ramadi to ISIS fighters last month. “In fact, what we see, and what we saw today, is that there is an important progress but also the fact that Daesh remains extremely resilient and capable of taking initiatives,” he said.

Texas dad charged with murdering young son over potty training Narendra Modi led his BJP party to a massive win in Indian elections last summer.

Google sorry for India’s president images in ‘Top 10 criminals’ list INTERNET giant Google has apologised after Indian PM Narendra Modi’s photos started appearing in the image search results for “Top 10 criminals”. “We apologise for any confusion or misunderstanding this has caused,” a Google statement said. Mr Modi figures prominently in the search alongside images of terrorists, murderers and dictators. Other world leaders on the list include former US president George Bush and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Other prominent Indians who come up in the search include Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, lawyer Ram Jethmalani, fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt who is serving a jail term in connection with

deadly blasts in Mumbai in 1993. “These results trouble us and are not reflective of the opinions of Google,” the company said in its statement released on Wednesday night. “Sometimes, the way images are described on the internet can yield surprising results to specific queries... We’re continually working to improve our algorithms to prevent unexpected results like this,” the statement added. The internet firm said the result was due to a British daily which had published an image of Mr Modi with erroneous metadata. The Google apology came after many Indian politicians and commentators expressed concern on social media platforms. (BBC)

PROSECUTORS say a threeyear-old boy struggling with potty training was beaten to death by his own father. Now that Houston man could face a similar death sentence after being charged with capital murder Tuesday. Anthony Trakemon Powell, 24, who’s accused of cracking his toddler’s skull on a bathroom floor last week allegedly also beat and scalded his 2-year-old son for similar reasons, prosecutors said. “I’m tired of beating their ass and them not learning,” he reportedly told his sister, according to court documents obtained by KHOU. After picking his two sons up from their mother’s Jasper home on Mother’s Day, Powell brought them back to his sister’s apartment where the alleged abuse began. The boys’ aunt, 23-year-old Prosha Nicole Land, said the children were with their father in a bathroom when she heard him strike the oldest boy,Tristan, authorities said. “She even described in the interview the sound that Tristan

Anthony Trakemon Powell, who’s accused of cracking his 3-year-old son’s skull on a bathroom floor, was charged with capital murder Tuesday, facing him with death.

Powell’s head made when his head hit the floor of the bathroom,” Prosecutor Connie Spence said during a bond hearing, according to KHOU. It wasn’t until the following day that Land called an ambulance for help when the boy complained of being sleepy and having trouble breathing. In the back of the ambulance,

Powell was described by witnesses as “nonchalant” and occupying his time by counting his money, Spence said. At the hospital, an officer noticed the younger 2-year-old boy wrapped in a blanket and also appearing to be hurt. Upon further inspection authorities said that they discovered that he too had been abused.

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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

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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

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AGNES SWANN Is looking for a

ALBERT HIGGS NORTH CAICOS

is looking for a

Is looking for a

labourer labourer To work 6 days

per week salary $6.50 per hour

contact: 246-4769

contact: 243-7785

C & J EMPLOYMENT

MMK CONSULTANCY

11654

to work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

11650

ALTAGARCIA RESTAURANT

kitchen Helper To work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

contact: 3455305 or 343-3773

11620

J. WILLIAMS Seeks to employ a

Maintenance

Worker

To maintain home and rental complex salary $6.25 per hour contact: 649-442-2357 deadline for application is June 19th, 2015

ANN MARIE MAGNY NEAT Is looking for a

domestic worker

to clean, cook and wash must be willing to work 5 days per week from 8am4pm salary $6.25 per hour.

contact: 3415795 or 345-2652 11647

To work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

LABOURER To work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour

contact: 231-0670

contact: 332-5029

JOSE OVANDO CONSTRUCTION

MERANGEL ECOLOGICAL SERVICES

Is looking for the following:

Is looking for a

11652

contact: 649-347-2093

Domestic Worker/ Babysitter

Finishing Mechanics $12.00 per hour

Labourers $7.00 per hour

Contact: 331-9854

11503

– $5.00 per hour

TITLE NUMBER SECTION ISLAND 61106/3 LONG BAY HILLS PROVIDENCIALES Whereas, JEANNE M. SAVORY, Attorney at Law for DEWAYNE LEON BLACK and TANZANIA DAVIS BLACK of Savory & Co., P.O. Box 175, Town Centre Mall, Providenciales has declared that the Land Certificate for the above mentioned title number(s) registered in his/her/their name was inadvertently mislaid and cannot be found.

Dated this 20th day of May 2015 Acting on behalf of our client GILBERT AQUINO is looking for a

Labourer

NOTICE LOST LAND CERTIFICATE

Take notice that I, Brandie Anderson, Registrar of Lands, shall issue a new land certificate for the said title three week of the date of the first publication of this Notice in a local newspaper and the Gazette.

acting on behalf of our clients: Barefoot Café, C&P Welding is looking to fill the following positions:

Bartender – $5-$7 per hour

REGISTERED LAND ORDINANCE, CAP 9.05

Signed................................................................................................. Registrar of Lands Witnessed .......................................................................................... Kerisa Gardiner

11695

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!! the largest readership in the turks & caicos BLUE SKY PROJECTS

Mason Specialist

salary commensurate with experience. contact: 431-7030 11628

BEAUTY & THE BEACH TELEPHONE: 946-5093 Is seeking an exceptional

MASSAGE THERAPIST • Must have at least five years experience • Must be able to perform Swedish Massage, Stone Massage Body Scrubs & Rituals • Must possess a clean valid driver license • Must be available to work over 6 days per week showing flexibility of time • Must have managerial skills • We are a full service salon so Aesthetics, Manicures & Pedicures, Waxing skills would be an advantage

OWNER’S LIAISON

Requirements: • University degree in hospitality from one of the top ten schools • Master’s Degree in Management • 5+ years experience working with a top 5-star branded hotel • Trustworthy and college level understanding of banking and finance • High level of communication in English and at least two (2) other languages • Ten years experience in the fields of luxury hospitality and real estate portfolio management • High level of computer literacy including Word, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Project, and Google Business • Engaging and outgoing personality that enjoys working in a team and with the public • Must have a valid driver’s license • Salary $2,000-$2,500 per month plus bonuses and dependent on experience Please bring all applications with two letters of recommendation citing relevant experience in the same industry to Blue Sky Projects at #13 Donkey Lane, Lower Bight, Providenciales or email: ryanjonestci@gmail. com. Successful applicants will be notified by phone for an interview

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• Must have knowledge of American, Japanese and European vehicles • Must have at least 10 years work experience • Being multi-lingual will be an asset Salary $10.00 per hour

Contact: 649-941-8438 or email: dnbautoparts@ tciway.tc 11625

MICHELLE ROBINSON Is looking for a

labourer To work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

contact: 941-4739 11627

• Must have Bachelors degree in nursing qualification from a recognized university and at least 3 years post qualification experience • Be available to work parttime hours between 8am – 8pm daily plus weekends, holidays and overnight to meet the needs of the clinic • Eligible for registration with the local Health

Practitioners Board • Experience in operating theatres assisting with gynecology and urology cases • Willing to be flexible to meet the needs of the clinic • Must be highly computer literate experience with medical billing software and QuickBooks an advantage Salary commensurate with experience

NEW STYLE BARBER SHOP Is looking for a

PABLO BARBER SHOP Is looking for a

barber contact: 346-3918

contact: 247-0187

To work 6 days per week salary $7.00 per hour.

•

contact: 243-0948

To work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

Security Officers Contact: 442-6220

11628

PRICE CLUB

John Williams

Labourer – $6.25 per hour

Gardener

needed to work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour send resume to: Misick & Stanbrook, Leeward Highway, Providenciales Tel: 946-4732 Fax 9464734. Email info@ misickstanbrook.tc

11639

Minimum 15 yrs experience in Commercial Laundry industry. Minimum 6 yrs Laundry Production Management experience. Minimum 3 yrs Customer Rep or Sales experience. Must have 2 yrs experience operating Continuous Batch Washer. Able to operate and provide basic maintenance for all equipment, track parts inventory, order parts online for Jensen, Lavatec, Chicago, Uni-Mac, Cissell, Ipso & more. Responsible to manage all production and staff, scheduling, client communication & orders, set standards. Available to manage different work shifts as required, including nights. Must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Must have exceptional computer skills, manage all Linen specific programs (Laundry Trak & Linen Master) and create spreadsheets. Must be fluent in English.

Qualified applicants should email CV to info@ pioneertci.com or deliver to Pioneer office. Please fax/deliver copy to TCI Labour Office: 649-946-4164

SEAL SECURITY

Acting on behalf of our clients:

Ward Consultancy Acting on behalf of our clients: Wrightfully Fit, Complete Construction, TCI Mental Corp is looking to fill the following positions:

Carpenter – $8.00 per hour

Bookkeeper

Is looking for a

244-7337

cashier

Robert Ayer

Labourer – $6.25 per hour 232-0944

Wesner Liluce

Labourer – $6.25 per hour

346-1897

11655

WILLIAM’S LUNCH VAN

cook

Contact: 649-345-7212

contact: 345-6644

11616

contact: 442-2977

11653

WILLIAM’S LUNCH VAN

Is looking for a

Gym Instructor – $30.00 per hour

To work 6 days per week salary $6.50 per hour.

Is looking for a

To work 6 days per week salary $7.00 per hour.

– $7.50 per hour

11622

• •

to work 5 days per week salary $6.50 per hour

NATASHA CONSULTANCY

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR •

labourers

Is seeking highly trained, professional

nail technician

the largest readership in the turks & caicos

•

Is looking for a

Please send CV to amp@tciway.tc or fax: 649-946-4942 Closing date July 27th, 2013 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

• • • • •

JEREMIAH MISSICK

11621

Auto Mechanic

11624

Seeks an

REGISTERED NURSE REQUIRED

11626

D & B AUTO REPAIRS

11591

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LABOURER To work 6 days

per week salary $7.00 per hour contact: 3456644 or 343-2433 11623

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Sun & Fun Sea Sports Ltd

NOTICE

ADVERTISE

IN THIS SPACE!

is seeking a

LABOURER

The Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority would like to thank all persons that have expressed interest in securing limited retail space at the South Caicos Airport.

ONLY

$33

To work 6 days per week at a salary of $6.25 per hour.

The TCIAA will contact individuals to request additional information based on the provision of a proper business plan to facilitate fair review. Any other persons wishing to express interest may do so with full business and financial plans on or before June 30th, 2015.

PER WEEK

CALL 946-4664

Contact: 946-5724

Information may be delivered to the TCIAA main office or sent via email to info@tciairports.com. 11657

11635

RONALD SEYMOUR

RODNEY MUNNINGS is looking for 2

Is looking for

domestic worker To work 6 days per week salary $6.50 per hour.

contact: 241-8434

11649

11660

ROBEL CONSTRUCTION

REEF RESIDENCE Is looking for a

Is looking for a

labourer To work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

11648

contact: 244-3462

Is looking for a

SANDRA GARLAND Is looking for a

Cigar Rollers To work 6 days per week salary $325.00 per week contact: 946-4600

S & G CONTRACTING

Housekeeper To work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

contact: 432-1480

11656

PwC has opportunities available for Two (2):

TRAINEE ASSOCIATES Applicants are required to have a graduate degree or other qualification that will allow them to commence professional accounting examinations, the costs of which will be borne by PwC

labourer To work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

contact: 3331199 or 333-6020

Housekeeper To work 6 days per week salary $6.50 per hour. contact: 431-4022

11651

11654

PM - Gas (TCI) Ltd. PM Industrial Gas, a leading producer and distributor of industrial Medical, recreational, and specialty gases, as well as welding And medical products and related equipment, is seeking an experienced and proven leader. Applications are invited from suitably qualified Candidates for the following position:

Operation Supervisor

Duties of this position include: handling, filling and delivery of cylinders; general maintenance of premises and equipment; customer service and quality control; and safety compliance. Requirements include: at least 5 years relevant experience, a clean police record and driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license with a successful drug screen; excellent health mobility, allowing for the handling and delivery of heavy cylinders; at least a high school diploma; possess a good employment track record with demonstrated superior customer service skills, supervision of plant workers and delivery drivers; importing of cryogenics; knowledge of U.S. pharmacopeia standards. Salary: commensurate with experience. Applications comprising a letter, resume, references, Police record etc. should be sent no later than Friday, June 12th, 2015 to:

Apply to melissa.m.johnson@tc.pwc.com or Telefax: 649-946-4892, no later than, July 3, 2015. Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands 11634

The Manager PM - Gas (TCI) Ltd. C/o P.O.Box 127, Richmond House Leeward Highway, Providenciales Tel: (649) 946-4734 0r Fax (649) 946-4732 Email: marsha@misickstanbrook.tc 11640

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SANDRA WALKIN Is looking for a

JOB OPENINGS The Sands is now accepting applications/resume for the following positions. Only highly self-driven & motivated, personable and professional individuals, whom have the desire to serve others, need apply:

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities. • Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary language English used in the workplace. • Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written.

11552

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Most work tasks are performed in an outdoor and indoor environment. • Position requires walking and giving direction most of the working day. Must be able to stand and exert wellpaced mobility for up to 8 hours in length. Length of time of these tasks may vary from day to day and task to task. • Must be able to exert well-paced ability to reach other departments of the hotel on a timely basis. • Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs. occasionally. • Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, bending, climbing, listening and hearing ability and visual acuity. • Talking and hearing occur continuously in the process of communicating with guests, owners, staff and others. • Vision occurs continuously with the most common visual functions being those of near vision and depth perception. • Requires manual dexterity to use and operate all necessary equipment. • Must have finger dexterity to be able to operate office equipment such as computers, printers, 10-key adding machine, multi-line touch tone phone, filing cabinets, FAX machines, photocopiers, dolly and other equipment as needed.

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

Education: High school or equivalent education required. Some college or university preferred. Experience: Five years resort/hotel security experience required. Licenses or Certificates: Security certification preferred. Requires CPR and First Aid certifications. Grooming: All employees must maintain a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance per standards. This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that an employee in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.

LINE POSITIONS HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT HOUSEMAN LABOURER POOL & BEACH ATTENDANT GROUNDSMEN PBX OPERATOR

For the above line staff positions, resort experience is an asset but not a requirement. Applicants must have a willing, positive and personable attitude as well as be willing to work holidays and weekends. They should also enjoy serving people and be willing to learn. Only Turks & Caicos Islands citizens need to apply to the Assistant Human Resources Manager at The Sands Resort located on Grace Bay Road, Providenciales or e-mail: humanresource@thesandstc.com. Deadline is June 26, 2015.

MMK CONSULTANCY Acting on behalf of our clients: H & A SOVERIGNS

Is looking for a

Sales Clerk Salary $6.50 per hour.

Cosmetologist To work 6 days per week salary $250.00 per week.

Contact: 231-6991

contact: 244-0469

BAYSIDE CAR RENTAL

SRF CONSTRUCTION

11618

is looking for a

Is looking for a

Labourer Labourer To work 5 days to work 6 days

per week salary $6.25 per hour.

per week salary $6.25 per hour. contact: 649-941-9010

contact: 332-5029

KAREN ADAMS / ADAM’S BROKERAGE

PRICE CLUB

11663

Is looking for a

driver To work 5 days

per week salary $6.25 per hour. 11646

TOUCH OF CLASS

11598

RESPONSIBILITY: A security guard primary responsibility is to protect property, assets, or people. Patrolling is a large part of a security officer's duties. Patrols are logged by use of a guard tour patrol system, which requires regular patrols. • Maintaining a high visibility presence, take action and reports any incidents, calls and provides emergency services as appropriate. • Participates in security department objectives which are aligned with the overall objectives, vision, mission, values and operation strategies of the hotel and resort. • Monitors resort, hotel and department areas status regularly, reports and handles issues in accordance to hotel standards. • Reports maintenance, safety and security concerns; coordinates work orders and requests with Property Manager. • Creates a safe environment for guests and employees by ensuring that the hotel is maintained in working order and in accordance to hotel/resort security and safety standards. • Adheres to all regulatory and safety standards meeting government, and inspection guidelines taking corrective actions as needed. • Ensures up to date on certifications and training necessary and required of security guard position such as CPR, First Aid, and Security Certification. • Communicates to management on security and safety issues. • Reinforces security rules, policies and standards throughout the resort, hotel and with staff. • Provide genuine hospitality and teamwork on an ongoing basis. • Regularly attends and participates in training as required and requested by management to understand expectations and perform job responsibilities. • Due to the cyclical nature of the hospitality industry, employees may be required to work varying schedules to reflect the business needs of the hotel. In addition, attendance at all scheduled training sessions and meetings is required.

• Must possess basic computational ability. • Must possess basic computer skills.

To work 5 days per week salary $6.50 per hour. contact: 231-3342

contact: 244-8820

11668

SECURITY GUARD

housekeeper

Leeward Highway, Providenciales

Domestic Worker, Nanny Salary minimum wage.

Tel: 946-4677

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CAICOS MARINA & SHIPYARD

Part time Spa Receptionist/Retail

WANTED:

OUTBOARD MECHANIC REQUIREMENTS: Must have proven experience repairing outboard motors • Keen attention to detail • Ability to work some weekends and holidays • 10 years experience in marine engine repairs, formal training in mechanics and electrical 12V systems

DUTIES INCLUDE: Diagnosis and repair of marine gas engines and installation of new units. Analyzing defects and adjusting or repairing mechanical systems of outboard motors as well as replacing parts, such as gears, magneto points, piston rings, spark plugs etc, and reassembling motors. • WAGE RATE: $10.00 per hour

We are currently seeking a part time Receptionist for our Spa located on Club Med’s site. Ideal candidate: Professional manner and appearance, Excellent verbal and written skills, Excellent communication, customer service skills and work ethic , Ability to explain services and products to guests , Clientele service oriented, Self-motivated. Fluent in English and French preferred, Available to work up to 6 days/week, mostly mornings. Salary: $6.50 / hour

Send resume before June 20th 2015 to: turkoisemassage@gmail.com Must be 18 of age. ***BELONGERS ONLY*** 11645

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NOTICE OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION

Ocean Club Resorts Is looking for qualified applicants for the following positions:

• Gardener • LabOurer • Janitor • Gardening Supervisor

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.

All positions involve strenuous physical labour, which requires being able and willing to perform heavy lifting, and other physically demanding functions. Must be able to speak English fluently. Preference will be given to someone with previous resort experience. All applicants must be able to present a clean Police Record if offered a position. Wage commensurate with experience. Individuals must be willing to work holidays and weekends on a flexible schedule dictated by business demands.

Applications available at Ocean Club or Ocean Club West. Only those receiving an interview will be contacted.

1. Parcel 60501/64 Blue Hills & Stamers Run, Providenciales.

Single storey detached dwelling house providing three bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchens, living/dining area and laundry room on approx. 0.22 acre. Registered Proprietor: Thelma Adlaide Lightbourne

2. Parcel 60003/7 Northwest and North Central, Providenciales.

Single storey with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room and living/dining area on 0.22 acre. Registered Proprietor: Alina Luann Percy

3. Parcel 60503/145 Blue Hills and Stamers Run, Providenciales.

Single storey with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living/dining area and storage area with an attached two storey with 2-two bedroom apartments on 0.38 acre. Registered Proprietor: Sharon Elizabeth Rigby The Somerset Strata Management Co Ltd, is seeking a suitable qualified Belongers who possess the requirements listed are encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates should possess luxury resort experience, be professional in attitude and demeanor and must read and speak English fluently.

Property consists of a main house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room, living/dining room and an apartment unit with one bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen, and living/dining room on 0.36 acre. Registered Proprietors: Mark Andrew Knighton and Julie Margaret Knighton

5. Parcel 60900,112 Leeward Going Through, Providenciales.

GARDENER

Single storey with two bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen and living/dining on 0.72 acre. Registered Proprietor: Sherwin Deon Penn

Responsibilities:

• Complete ground work as directed by the Property Manager which may include picking up trash, sweeping curb and dumpster areas and maintaining landscaping beds and other ground areas • Must have the ability to lift heavy items weighing up to 150lbs • Must have the ability to maintain irrigation systems and provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, and other grounds features

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be a team player with a desire to deliver excellent customer service to our guest • Must have clear English communications skills (written or oral) • Previous experience in this area would be an asset Salary for this position will commensurate with qualifications and experience Qualified Belonger candidates are requested to submit a CV by e-mail to:

Joanna Ivasiuk The Somerset Resort on Grace Bay Jivasiuk@thesomerset.com Submissions for this job position should be received no later than July 1st, 2015

4. Parcel 60900/288 Leeward Going Through, Providenciales.

6. Parcel 10103/57 North East Suburbs, Grand Turk. Undeveloped land consisting of 0.44 acre. Registered Proprietor: Pedro Manuel Ariza

7. Parcel 10408/68 East Suburbs, Grand Turk.

Single storey with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living/dining area and laundry room on 0.20 acre. Registered Proprietor: Pedro Manuel Ariza

8. Parcel 60003/6 Northwest & North Central, Providenciales.

Single storey comprising of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living/dining room and laundry room on 0.32 acre. Registered Proprietor: Nicole Erin Moir

9. Parcel 60002/133 Northwest & North Central, Providenciales.

Single storey comprising of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living/dining room and laundry room on 0.31 acre. Registered Proprietors: Abailgail Adiza Ziba Malcolm Delancy and Terrence Hibbert The auction will be held at the office of Scotiabank (Turks and Caicos) Limited, Grace Bay Branch, Providenciales at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday the 19th day of June 2015. A reserved price will be fixed on all parcels and a deposit of 10% is due immediately upon all accepted bids.

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Learn and Lead Educational Center Seeks a

COCO BISTRO

Contact: yrobinson@ leaRnandleadec.com or 946-8513

ACE PLUMBING Is looking for a

PLUMBER

STONE MASON REQUIRED

Experienced stone mason required with particular skills and experience in dry staked indigenous stone veneers remuneration commensurate with skills.

Contact: 941-4394 ext 104

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Salary: Commensurate with Experience

domestic worker

Milestone Tci is looking to hire

skilled workers

contact: 245-8046

For the following specified works. All worker must be able to read drawings ;; Plumbing works ;; fire protecting system ;; pipe welders (copper & black steel) ;; Hvac system/ duct works ;; Hdpe pipe welder Salary $10.00 per hour.

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contact: 332- 3300 between the hours of 10am-3pm

SUN OIL LIMITED

MONTE RESTAURANT We are seeking suitable applicants to fill the following openings:

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

PROFESSIONAL TRACTOR TRAILER DRIVERS

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Is looking for a

Waitress To work 6 days per week and holidays must have experience salary $6.25 per hour must have a clean police record

contact: 946-5369 deadline for application is June 10th, 2015 11629

JOB VACANCY We are looking for energetic, motivated and creative individuals to fill the following positions.

The successful candidate(s) will assume the role of Driver/Operator. These responsibilities Include the safe receipt, storage and delivery of bulk petroleum products in accordance with strict industry and company standards. Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate a proven track record of safe driving. Successful experience in the petroleum industry would be a plus.

Core Responsibilities

• Daily inspection of assigned truck(s) and associated equipment. • Safe Truck loading and delivery of petroleum products throughout the island. • Provide exceptional customer service at all times. • Adhere to company driving polices and the Road Traffic Laws of the Turks & Caicos. • General fuel handling operations associated with the receipt, storage and re-distribution of petroleum products.

• Baker • Sales Clerk Belonger only need apply. Must be willing to work extended hours. Salary is negotiable.

Fax: 649-941-3888 Application deadline is June 15th, 2015 11633

Beauty & Beyond

Job Requirements

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• In depth Knowledge of the Road Traffic Laws of the Turks & Caicos Islands. • A strong safety record. Safety related training would be a plus. • Defensive driving training would be a strong plus. • A Mechanical aptitude with some experience with equipment maintenance and repairs. • Strong leadership skills with the ability to work as an effective team member. • The ability to work flexible hours and weekends. Benefits include: Competitive remuneration commensurate with work experience and qualifications.

Interested persons should apply no later than June 20th 2015 to: jrobinson@sunoilbahamas.com

contact: 94-5369 deadline for application is June 10th, 2015

COCO BISTRO

Milestone Tci

To work 6 days per week salary negotiable

to work 6 days per week salary $6.25 per hour must be able to do general cleaning and other duties assigned by management, must have a clean police record.

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Part-Time Teacher

Is looking for a

Looking for a

massage therapist and Beauty AdvisoR

Salary is commission

Call: 346-5064

Art/Production Coordinator Responsibilities ;; Lead creative sessions for project kick-offs ;; Manage multiple projects from concept through completion ;; Inspire creative team and help to generate multiple concepts for campaigns and projects ;; Research and produce journalistic PR releases for clients Required Skills ;; Must have at least 5 years experience in art room production work flow environment ;; Must be able to research and write news/feature releases for publishing in various mediums ;; Ability to lead projects from concept to completion ;; Must have experience and thorough understanding of visual arts concepts and developments ;; Must have advance knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, typography including limitations of the web ;; Experience with software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash ;; Must be able to work long hours including weekends to complete project deadlines ;; Must be self motivated and full of passion, integrity and energy Remuneration based on experience Please send written application and resume to

coralvisions.tci@gmail.com no later than June 30, 2015. Suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

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Science & Technology

Cooking skills may have emerged millions of years ago Not being able to control fire is one reason and another, according to Dr Warneken, is that cooking requires what he describes as “social skills” that chimps don’t possess. By social skills he is not alluding to their unremarkable table manners nor their lack of witty dinner party conversation. Rather, it is their inability to trust others in their social groups not to steal their food while they are preparing to cook it that he is referring and it is this he believes is one of the key factors holding them back from being able to cook. Gulping something down as soon as you have foraged it is the surest way of keeping it safe. According to Dr Warneken, his experiments show that that most of the mental skills needed to cook were there in human ancestors between 5 to 7 million years ago and so all it took for the first emergence of the culinary arts was the controlled use of fire and the ability to trust other people not to pinch our food while our back was turned. “Trust is another component for cooking to become a practice in a social

The controlled use of fire led to the emergence of cooking.

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group,” he said. “This is required in addition to the individual psychological capacities that we targeted in our experiments.” The motivation for the study was to investigate a controversial theory that cooking was necessary for human brains to become larger. The idea by the primatologist Prof Richard Wrangham, also at Harvard, is that cooking enabled our ancestors to eat more protein, which helped our ancestors develop their brains

Is looking for a

SRF CONSTRUCTION

Is looking for a

domestic worker

Labourer

contact: 343-6154

contact: 332-5029

To work 6 days per week salary $150 per week.

To work 5 days per week salary $6.25 per hour.

VACANCY

InterHealth Canada Construction & Services have pleasure in announcing the following vacancies within the Facilities Management Departments at Cheshire Hall Medical Centre, Providenciales.

Hospital Porter – Providenciales Hospital

40 hours per week. 5 Shifts per week. Shift patterns include weekends, late shift and night shifts.

Domestic Assistant – Providenciales Hospital

40 hours per week. 5 Shifts per week. Shift patterns include weekends. Appointments will be made based on successful interview, positive reference check, and clear Police check. Previous experience is preferred, but not essential. Training is provided. Excellent communications skills and previous customer service experience is necessary. Belongers only are invited to apply. Interested candidates please forward your resume to:

Dpinnock@interhealthcanada.tc For further information, please contact Donique Pinnock on Tel: 941-2800 Ext 71802

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and thinks of a nice meal when you should really be paying attention to something else, be assured that it is this foodie forethought that makes us human. So when did we first develop this ability? To find out, according to Dr Felix Warneken of Harvard University conducted a simian MasterChef contest in which he conducted a series of experiments on chimpanzees to see whether they had what it took to be cooks. Clearly chimps can’t cook and so there was no point in giving them a bag of shopping and letting them loose in a kitchen with assorted pots and pans, amusing though the spectacle might have been. Instead, Dr Warneken carried out a series of experiments to test the individual cognitive skills the chimps needed to be able to cook. He looked to see if they preferred cooked rather than raw food, whether they could wait until raw food could be cooked and if they would put raw food into a box that scientists switched for cooked food. He found that they passed all these tests and more. So why don’t chimps cook?

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NEW research suggests that chimps have most of the mental capabilities needed to cook food. This suggests that the ability to cook food is deep seated and may have arisen in human ancestors millions of years ago. The conclusions also indicate that humans may have developed the ability to cook very soon after they learned how to control fire. The study has been published in one of the journals of the Royal Society. Surprising as it may seem, even boiling an egg requires advanced mental skills. Whereas other animals tend to start eating whatever food they find or hunt straight away, humans can store and cook their food, even if we are fairly hungry, because we know that if we wait what we eventually eat will taste better. It seems that our ability to smack our lips at the prospect of a delicious, well prepared meal requires a similar inspired leap of the imagination as producing art, developing language and creating the technologies that make us uniquely human. So when your mind wanders

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JOB OPPORTUNITIES The Somerset Resort Management Ltd. is seeking for the positions listed below. Suitably qualified Belongers who possess the requirements listed are encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates should possess luxury resort experience, be professional in attitude and demeanor and must read and speak English fluently. Positions require a flexible schedule which includes holidays, weekends and evenings, and extended hours on occasion. Salaries are based on experience and qualifications.

Front Office Agent

Job Summary: • To assist in the efficient day to day functioning of the Front Office to the agreed standard • Main Duties & Responsibilities • Welcome guests using courteous and professional communication skills. • Register guest ensuring correct and accurate information is obtained at all times • Encourage the sale of other hotel related services. • Updates and maintains current and accurate guest information, with a detailed knowledge of hotel staff, services, and hours of operation. • Requirements: • High school diploma or equivalent vocational training. • Minimum of two years customer service experience preferred. • Computer literacy in: • Microsoft Word • Microsoft Excel • Microsoft Outlook • Excellent command of the English Language and second language preferred but not essential • Regular/Full Time position only. • Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language (English) used in the workplace. • Must be able to work weekends and holidays. • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work.

Public Area Attendant

Job Summary: • Cleans and maintains clean standards throughout the Public Areas. • Main Duties & Responsibilities • Cleans all public areas, corridors, employee and public bathrooms including artifacts, fans, vents and louvers daily according to establish standards. • Cleans all carpets/hard floors daily by vacuuming, sweeping and/or wet mopping and dust mopping. • Removes chewing gum from carpets, hard floors, walkways and pavements daily. • Cleans all Corporate, Executive and Administrative Offices daily. • Cleans all windows, mirrors and glass daily. • Cleans all doors and door frames and expansion joints daily. • Requirements: • Reporting for duty punctually wearing the correct uniform and/or appropriate attire and name badge at all times. • Providing courteous and professional service at all times. • Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language (English) used in the workplace. • Must work weekends and holidays. • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work. • Maintaining a high standard of conduct and good working relationship with all staff members inside and outside the department.

Room Attendant

Job Summary: • To ensure that all guestrooms are cleaned to the established standards. • Main Duties & Responsibilities • Provides courteous and professional service at all times. • Reports for duty punctually wearing the correct uniform

and name tag at all times. • Receives Room Attendant assignment sheet and section passkey for the days duties from Asst. Housekeeper and/or floor Supervisor • Stocks Room Attendant cart to the established standards • Requirements: • High school diploma or equivalent vocational training • Minimum 1 year experience as hotel cleaner or in janitorial / cleaning position preferred • Must be literate with above average verbal communication skills • Ability to work in a self motivated environment with little supervision • Ability to manage the administration of multiple tasks at one time • Regular/Full Time position only • Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language (English) used in the workplace • Must work weekends and holidays • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work

Houseman

Job Summary: • As a Houseman, you are responsible for cleaning guest rooms, carrying linen and replenishing amenities to deliver an excellent Guest and Member experience. A Houseman would also be required to manage guest requests. • Main Duties & Responsibilities: • Specifically, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards: • Carrying / removing linens from rooms • Change and replenish bed linen, towels and guest amenities in line with company guidelines • Undertake regular deep cleaning tasks • Restock and maintain trolley on daily basis • Be environmentally aware • Dispose of waste accordingly • Manage guest requests in a timely and efficient manner • Comply with hotel security, fire regulations and all health and safety legislation • Carry out lost property procedures • Assist other departments wherever necessary and maintain good working relationships • What are we looking for? • Requirements: • A Houseman is always working on behalf of our Owners, Guests and working with other Team Members • Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language (English) used in the workplace • Must work weekends and holidays • Must work PM shifts as business demands according to the operations policy • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work

Housekeeping Supervisor

Job Summary: As a Housekeeping Supervisor, you will support the Housekeeping Department by ensuring the upkeep and cleanliness of the entire hotel including guest rooms, public areas, back of house areas and Team Member facilities. Specifically, a Housekeeping Supervisor will perform the following tasks to the highest standards: Main Duties & Responsibilities: • Allocate work duties to Team Members and supervise

contractors • Perform routine inspections of all check out rooms and spot checks of all occupied rooms • Report and follow up on any maintenance defects or other issues • Inspect, routinely, service areas, store rooms and corridors • Schedule and supervise deep cleaning and any other projects • Manage and train Room Attendants, Housemen, Laundry Attendant, Public Area Attendants and Linen Room Clerk to ensure their performance is to the standards required • Manage, efficiently, stock control and the maintenance of equipment • Provide excellent Guest service, including Owners, VIP and other special requirements • Ensure the adherence to hotel standards at all times • Requirements: • Housekeeping Supervisors are always working on behalf of our Owners, Guests and working with other Team Members. To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude, behaviors, skills, and values that follow: • Previous experience in a Housekeeping supervisory role • A successful track record of managing a team • Strong organizational and analytic skills • A strong attention to details • Effective communication skills – must speak, read, write and understand the primary language (English) used in the workplace • A passion for delivering exceptional levels of guest service • Proficiency, preferred, with computers and computer programs, including Microsoft Office – Word, Excel and Outlook • Must work weekends and holidays • Must work PM shifts as business demands according to the operations policy. • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work.

WATERSPORTS/BEACH ATTENDANT

Job Summary: Assists guests with their service needs at the pool and beach to include chair, towel, and umbrella service. Outgoing, friendly and highly experienced swimmer. Must be energetic and enjoy working outdoors. Ability to lift heavy objects weighing up to 50 pounds is required. CPR/First Aid certification is required. Lifeguard and rescue experience desired. Must have previous watersports experience in a fivestar resort environment. Main Duties & Responsibilities: • Assist guests courteously and efficiently according to hotel, Mobil and Preferred Hotels standards. • Ensures that work station is clean at all the times. • Keep chairs and tables clean and clear of debris. • Adhere to all Micros procedures. • Anticipate guest needs. • Attend all training classes and departmental meetings. • Adhere to end of shift report procedures. • Adhere to all the opening and closing duties. • Attend daily pre- shift/communication meeting • Generate a good atmosphere • Ensure all pool and beach furniture is neatly arranged and cleaned. • Adhere to towel card standard operating procedures.

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Provide guests with towel and chair service. Open all umbrellas, clean table tops, and wipe off all chairs. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. The employee is expected to work in other areas of the hotel when needed to assist operations to perform job duties not necessarily contained in this job description. • Must work weekends and holidays • Must work PM shifts as business demands according to the operations policy. • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work.

Laundry Attendant

Job Summary: • Under general supervision of the Executive Housekeeper/ Housekeeping Manager, ensures Hotel linen is washed, dried, folded and ironed as scheduled. Maintain confidentiality of privileged information. • Duties & Responsibilities: • Refers guest problems or complaints to supervisor. • Sorts all soiled linen, weighs and loads into appropriate carts or machines. • Pre-treats laundry for stains. • Loads and unloads washers and dryers, operates machines and records poundage amounts, and amounts washed and dried. • Folds towels either by hand or towel folder, irons table linens, irons and folds sheets, hand folds pillow cases, blankets, bed pads, draw sheets, herbal wraps etc. • Sorts and separates damaged or stained linen, i.e., to be repaired or used as rags. • Observes safety rules and maintains a safe environment. • Cleans lint traps from dryers daily; checks and cleans drains as necessary. • Contributes to a team effort and accomplishes related results as required. • Performs other related duties as required or directed. • Physical Demands: • Must be able to stand for long period of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. • Must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. • Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. • Must work weekends and holidays • Must work PM shifts as business demands according to the operations policy. • Must have reliable transportation to get to and from work.

Resort General Manager

Job Summary: To oversee all aspects of Property Management in accordance with Company mission statement, including maximization of financial performance, guest satisfaction, and staff development within established quality standards, implementing strategies for meeting goals in the areas of revenue generation, market share performance, Guest satisfaction scores, associate opinion scores, and net operating income. Technical Skill Requirements: High ethical standards, analytical ability, excellent communicator, diverse experiences in sales, management and administration knowledgeable of all company policies and procedures included but not limited to accounting, human resources, operations and sales. Computer Literacy, decisive, educated facilitator experienced in resolving conflicts between different parties in a dispute.

Qualified Belonger candidates can complete an application form in person at The Somerset on Grace Bay or submit a resume by e-mail at somerset@ thesomerset.com. The closing date for applications is June 15th, 2015.

Sleep training ‘may reduce racism and sexism’ LEVELS of unconscious racist and sexist bias have been reduced by manipulating the way the brain learns during sleep. A team at Northwestern University, Chicago, played sounds while people slept to trigger and enforce memories of an exercise earlier in the day. The trial on 40 people, published in the journal Science, showed the changes lasted at least a week. Experts said the findings had potential in many situations, but also raised ethical questions. Sexual and racial prejudice are common but may often be unintentional, says the Northwestern team. They cite studies in computer games when people

The trial on 40 people, published in the journal Science, showed the sleep training changes lasted at least a week.

chose to shoot black characters more often than white ones or men being favoured over women despite having identical job applications. People’s prejudices were assessed with a series of publicly available tests at the

start of the study. They were then given “counter-bias training”. During the session, pictures of faces were paired with words that were the opposite of widely-held stereotypes. So female faces were paired

with words like “maths” or black faces with positive words like “sunshine”. Distinctive sounds were played during the counter-bias training and were played again at low volume during a 90-minute afternoon nap. The result was a reduction in sexual and racial bias scores, which persisted for at least a week. So could this really make someone less sexist or racist? Prof Ken Paller, the director of the cognitive neuroscience programme at Northwestern University, told the BBC News website: “We didn’t have people interact with or make decisions about other people, so that sort of experiment is needed to know the full effects of the methods we used.

Hubble studies Pluto’s wobbly moons HUBBLE has revealed fascinating new details about Pluto’s four smaller moons. At a distance of five billion km, the telescope only sees the satellites as faint pinpricks of light, and yet it has been able to discern information on their size, colour, and rotational and orbital characteristics. Hubble finds the little objects to be somewhat chaotic in their behaviour. They are very likely wobbling end over end as they move through their orbits. “If you can imagine what it would be like to live on [these moons], you would literally not know where the Sun was coming up tomorrow,” said Mark Showalter from the Seti Institute,

A computer model shows how the “rugby ball” Nix tumbles unpredictably.

US\”The Sun might rise in the west and set in the east. The Sun might rise in the west and set in the north for that matter. “In fact, if you had real estate on the north pole… you

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about 50km in their longest dimension. And that is actually one of the keys to the observed behaviour. These small satellites are very irregular in shape – more rugby ball and football. The Hubble scientists find that when you put this kind of object in the “lumpy” gravity field created by the dominant Pluto and Charon, you can get that object to tumble in unpredictable ways. This wobbling is evident to the space telescope from the way the light from Nix and Hydra changes over time. And although it is harder to see the much smaller Styx and Kerberos, it is assumed their behaviour is the same.

A-Z Contracting is looking for

CarpenterLabourer

$6.25 per hour. Must be willing to work 6 days per week Contact: 232-1113

might discover one day you’re on the south pole.” The assessment, published in Nature journal, will be verified in six weeks when the moons are passed by a probe. Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft is currently bearing down on the Pluto system and will execute a fly-through on 14 July. It will gather a mass of data on the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon, but should also get a decent view of the smaller bodies - Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra – as well. All were discovered by Hubble after New Horizons launched from Earth in 2006. Nix and Hydra are the bigger of the quartet at

Must be willing to work 5 days a week. Salary will be discussed according to skills

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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS GOVERNMENT VACANCIES The following vacancies currently exist within the Turks and Caicos Islands Public Service:

Risk Manager

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $49,900.00 per annum The Risk Manager will support the Director of Contracts and Corporate Performance Management in the discharge of his/her duties. He/she will be responsible for assisting Ministries, Departments, Statutory Bodies and other Public bodies in the delivery of TCIG services and protecting the delivery of TCIG programmes and projects. The incumbent will ensure that a process is in place to assist Ministries, Departments, the Audit Committee, the Chief Internal Auditor, Statutory Bodies and other Public bodies in matters relating to the assessment and management of procurement risk.

Facilities Manager

– Providenciales (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $26,000.00 per annum The Facility Manager is responsible for the coordination and supervision of all operations and maintenance of sporting facilities within the Turks and Caicos Islands. He/she ensures the safety and quality of all playing surfaces both on the inside and the outside of courts and fields and equipment are maintained. The job holder is responsible for ensuring the proper scheduling of all sporting and nonsporting events at facilities and ensures safety standards at all athletic and sporting competitions.

Training Officer

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $32,600.00 per annum The Training Officer will organize and coordinate training for the Turks and Caicos Islands Public Service, as well as assisting with design and delivery of some training programmes.

Vice Principal (Primary School)

– Providenciales (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $42,060.00 per annum This is a senior professional position which has responsibility for assisting the Principal with the administration of the daily operations of the primary school. The job holder is required to help the Principal manage school operations, supervise staff and students, ensure the appropriate instruction and discipline of the student body and manage the school’s finances and supply inventory.

Senior Project Economist

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $40,200.00 per annum This is senior professional position within the Strategic Planning and Policy Department, Ministry of Finance. The incumbent is expected to play a leadership role

in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of all activities related to the Development Budget. The incumbent is also expected to play a leadership role in evaluation the impact of development programs and devising strategies to build project appraisal capacity throughout the public sector.

Head of Secretariat

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $40,200.00 per annum This is a senior position responsible for coordinating the political and administrative interface between the Minister and Permanent Secretary in the allocated Ministry.

Assistant Immigration Officers

– Various Islands (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $21,400.00 per annum This is a first level position within the Border Control & Enforcement / Immigration Department. The responsibility includes examining persons on arrival to the Islands, performing shift duties at all ports of entry and assisting the General public with delivery of service.

Consular Officer/UK Representative

– Consular Services – United Kingdom (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $40,200.00 per annum The role of the Consular Officer/UK RepresentativeConsular Services is to promote the Political interests of Turks & Caicos Islands Government (TCIG) in the UK and to support Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) nationals residing in the United Kingdom (UK).

Head of Office and Resource Management/UK Representative

– United Kingdom (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $58,100.00 per annum The role of the Head of Office and Resource Management is to coordinate the activities of the Turks and Caicos Islands Home Office to promote inward investment and to identify and access funding from United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) donor agencies.

Director of Strategic Policy and Planning Department

– (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $71,400.00 per annum

The purpose of this position is to first provide economic policy direction to the central government in an effort to achieve sustainable economic growth and development, and to increase the level of employment. In addition, this position provides leadership direction to the Strategic Policy and Planning Unit for the purpose of strengthening the delivery capacity of the economic and statistics units.

National Pharmacist

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $40,200.00 per annum The incumbent in this position will work with the Ministry in the development and enforcement of pharmacy policies in relation to control of drugs, drug management including procurement, storage, prescribing, dispensing and monitoring of utilization and adverse drug reactions. The job holder will also be responsible for all aspects of the logistics cycle of drug management.

Graduate Teachers (Secondary School)

– Grand Turk, South Caicos, Providenciales (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $35,050.00 per annum • This is a specialist position which has unit level responsibility for the teaching of one or more of the school’s curriculum subjects to students. Graduate Teachers are needed for the following areas: • Chemistry/Physics • History/Social Studies • Geography/Social Studies • Business Studies

Graduate Teacher (Primary School)

– Providenciales (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $35,050.00 per annum • This is a professional position which has responsibility for the instruction and supervision of students in primary schools.

Guidance Counsellor (Primary School)

– Providenciales (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $35,050.00 per annum This is a professional position which has unit level responsibility to help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

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Science & Technology TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS GOVERNMENT VACANCIES Community Mental Health Nurse

– Providenciales (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $32,600.00 per annum To facilitate and deliver an effective and efficient Mental Health Care program that is consistent with current practices and acceptable by the Turks and Caicos Islands Health Services.

Street Cleaner

– Grand Turk/South Caicos (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $6.25 per hour The post holder is responsible for the cleaning of the streets, as assigned, of debris and any other waste and dispose of debris properly or as instructed. The incumbent in this position will be assigned to a particular area or street that he / she may be responsible for solely or as part of a small team and will be required to change areas or help with cleaning of additional areas as requested by the superior officers.

Plumber Assistant

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $16,300.00 per annum The post holder is responsible to provide support to the Plumber in dealing with all jobs associated with the pipe distribution network – fixing leaks, installation of service connections, disconnections and reconnections. This post will assist with the general maintenance of the entire distribution network.

Cleaners

– Various Islands (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $6.25 per hour The job holder is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the assigned building, office or areas. Required to perform various cleaning duties as delegated by the supervisor and is responsible for helping to create a pleasant environment for workers and customers.

Public Health Nurses

– Various Islands (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $40,200.00 per annum The successful candidate in this position will be required to deliver effective comprehensive primary health care services focused on disease prevention, health promotion and maintenance in the clinic, homes and communities through the utilization of the nursing process.

Senior Budget Analyst

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $40,200.00 per annum To provide rigorous analysis of expenditure proposals and make recommendations on

expenditure prioritization to support the preparation by the Ministry of Finance of policybased, medium-term budgets that contribute to the implementation of policy priorities in TCI.

Accountant General

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $71,400.00 per annum The job holder in this managerial position is responsible for overseeing the performance and service delivery standards in the Department. The job holder is the head of the Treasury Department and is responsible for its management; sets accounting standards for Government and prepares Government statutory statements for audit and periodic financial management reports. The job holder also provides impartial, accurate and timely advice; supervises Treasury Department staff; and represents the Ministry at meetings, conferences and seminars.

Medical Officer

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $49,900.00 per annum To provide a high standard of primary health care to patients in the Turks and Caicos Islands. To provide public health leadership within an island district. He/she will conduct Primary Health Clinics in assigned island clinics. Active participation in the daily clinical management of patients. Provide emergency care to clients in assigned health district.

Deputy Auditor General

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 11, 2015) Salary: $71,400.00per annum The role of Deputy Auditor General (DAG) is a significant leadership appointment with wideranging responsibility. As a member of the National Audit Office (NAO) management’s team, the Deputy Auditor General is responsible and accountable to the Auditor General for providing leadership and managing individual audits assigned from the annual audit work plan.

Exchange of Information Officer

– Grand Turk (Deadline: June 18, 2015) Salary: $49,900.00 per annum The incumbent in this position will report to the Director of Exchange of Information and will be responsible for assisting with the full range of competent authority functions, including the implementation of new agreements, the execution of requests, the making of judicial applications, and the handling of legal issues arising from any aspect of the competent authority’s work.

Interested persons are asked to visit www.gov.tc for job details and the application procedure.

In a new study published in the journal The Cryosphere, 70-99% of the glaciers in the Everest region in Nepal could melt with the continued rise of the planet’s temperature.

Mt. Everest’s to lose beauty as its glaciers are predicted to melt by 2100 study finds BY the turn of the 22nd century, the glacial landscape around Mount Everest may be completely different—or gone—as we know it today. In a new study published in the journal The Cryosphere, 70-99% of the glaciers in the Everest region in Nepal could melt with the continued rise of the planet’s temperature. Led by Dr. Joseph Shea, a glacial hydrologist at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, the study revealed that for the past 50 years, the model glacial area decreased by 20%. Should the pattern continue, the ice loss will be massive. “We did not expect to see glaciers reduced at such a large scale,” Dr. Shea said. “The numbers are quite frightening,” he added. Dr. Shea and his team applied a glacier mass balance and ice redistribution model to examine the sensitivity of glaciers in the region to

climate change, using data from the DudhKoshi basin from 1961-2007. The team used computer models of predicted change in the climate to assess the pattern of snowfall and seasonal melt in the region, which includes Mount Everest and several of many of the world’s other highest mountains. “Our results indicate that these glaciers may be highly sensitive to changes in temperature and that increases in precipitation are not enough to offset the increased melt,” Dr. Shea said. Even with moderately reduced greenhouse emissions, the study projected a loss of 70% of the glaciers while same-level emission rates could result to a 99% loss of the stored ice for the next 85 years. “The signal of future glacier change in the region is clear: continued and possibly accelerated mass loss from glaciers is likely, given the projected increase in temperatures,” said Dr. Shea.

Cancer drug combination ‘shrinks 60% of melanomas’

A PAIR of cancer drugs can shrink tumours in nearly 60% of people with advanced melanoma, a new trial has suggested. An international trial on 945 patients found treatment with ipilimumab and nivolumab stopped the cancer advancing for nearly a year in 58% of cases. UK doctors presented the data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Cancer Research UK said the drugs deliver a “powerful punch” against one of the most aggressive forms of cancer. Melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, is the sixth most common cancer in the UK it kills more than 2,000 people in Britain each year. Harnessing the immune system is a rapidly developing field in cancer research. The immune system is a powerful defence against

infection. However, there are many “brakes” built in to stop the system attacking our own tissues. Cancer - which is a corrupted version of healthy tissue - can take advantage of these brakes to evade assault from the immune system. Ipilimumab, which was approved as an advanced melanoma treatment by the UK’s health service last year, and nivolumab both take the brakes off. An international trial on 945 people showed that taking both drugs led to tumours shrinking by at least a third in 58% of patients - with the tumours stable or shrinking for an average of 11.5 months. The figures, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, for ipilimumab on its own were 19% and 2.5 months.

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FIFA ‘paid FAI to stop legal action over Henry’s World Cup handball’ FIFA paid the Football Association of Ireland 5m euros (£3.6m) to stop legal action after France controversially beat Ireland in a World Cup play-off. FAI chief executive John Delaney said he believed they had a case against Fifa after French striker Thierry Henry’s handball in the 2009 match. Delaney said a “legitimate agreement” was made to drop the claim after Ireland missed the 2010 World Cup. FIFA president Sepp Blatter is quitting with the organisation in crisis. Delaney’s claim comes after a turbulent nine days for football’s world governing body amid claims of “systemic and deep-rooted” corruption. FIFA is facing two criminal investigations by both the US for widespread bribery allegations and Swiss authorities over the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding processes. The Republic of Ireland were 16 minutes away from a penalty shootout for a place in the 2010 finals in South Africa before Henry handled in the build-up to William Gallas’s extra-time equaliser in the second leg of the play-off in Paris. The 2-1 aggregate win sent France

Sepp Blatter will remain in office until FIFA has chosen his successor in the coming months.

France striker Thierry Henry handled the ball in the buildup to his side’s extra-time equaliser in their World Cup play-off against the Republic of Ireland in 2009.

to the 2010 tournament, where they were knocked out of the group stages amid a player strike. A FIFA spokesman confirmed the payment, but said it was a $5m loan and was granted for “the construction of a stadium in Ireland”. The spokesman added that the FAI was to repay the money if Ireland qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which they failed to do. FIFA wrote off the loan on 31 December 2014. The Aviva Stadium was the only major ground redeveloped during that period.

On Thursday, the FAI said the settlement was made without any conditions and was reached “following strong legal advice”, with the money going towards the new Aviva Stadium - opened in May 2010 after the old Landsdowne Road ground was redeveloped. In a statement, the FAI said: “This is fully reflected in our financial statements, which are audited independently. The FAI accepted FIFA’s settlement offer to avoid a long, costly and protracted legal case.

Former FIFA and CONCACAF official admits taking bribe CHUCK Blazer, a former FIFA executive committee member and a key player in the ongoing corruption investigation into international soccer’s governing body, admitted that he and other officials took bribes ahead of the 1998 and 2010 World Cups, court records show. In a 40-page document that federal prosecutors released Wednesday, Blazer tells the court that he and other members of the FIFA executive committee took bribes between 2004 and 2011 and helped South Africa land the 2010 World Cup. Blazer, who was on FIFA’s executive committee from 1997 to 2013, also describes facilitating a bribe in connection with the 1998 World Cup bidding process. U.S. officials have said in another court document that the bribe that Blazer helped to negotiate was paid by Moroccan officials to an unnamed member of FIFA’s executive committee. Morocco’s bid for the Cup was unsuccessful. France was award the 1998 finals. “During my association with FIFA and CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football), among other things, I and others agreed that I or a co-conspirator would commit at least two acts of racketeering activity,” he says in the

Chuck Blazer told the court on Wednesday that he and other members of the FIFA executive committee took bribes between 2004 and 2011 and helped South Africa land the 2010 World Cup.

newly released court document. Blazer, who is now 70, pleaded guilty in 2013 to conspiracy to commit racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, income tax evasion and failure to report foreign bank accounts. The court document, from November of that year, is a transcript of Blazer’s appearance before a judge in the Eastern District of New York. As part of a plea agreement, he waives his indictment and pleads guilty to the 10 felonies. In the transcript he reveals he has rectal cancer, coronary artery disease

and diabetes, but says his cancer prognosis is good and he is holding up reasonably well even though he is wheelchair bound. His guilty plea was recently unsealed after 14 more people were indicted in the United States last week in connection with the massive scandal. Nine FIFA officials, as well as five sports media and marketing executives, were charged by U.S. prosecutors over alleged kickbacks of more than $150 million dating back over 20 years. Blazer has not yet been sentenced.

Outgoing FIFA president Blatter working on reforms OUTGOING FIFA president Sepp Blatter says he is moving forward with a “comprehensive programme of reform” for world football’s governing body. It comes after a tumultuous nine days for his organisation, amid claims of “systemic and deeprooted” corruption. Seven FIFA officials were held in a dawn raid last week in Zurich as they gathered for a congress which saw Mr Blatter re-elected for a fifth term. Four days later, Mr Blatter announced he would step down early from the post. He said he would remain at work until FIFA had chosen his successor in the coming months. As part of an indictment alleging widespread corruption within Fifa over a period exceeding two decades, the US Department of

Justice has charged 14 Fifa officials and associates, including the seven held in Zurich by Swiss police at the behest of US authorities. There are no charges against Mr Blatter himself. Thursday saw several developments in the story: Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, one of those indicted by the US justice department, said he would release an “avalanche” of evidence relating to Fifa’s financial transactions Police in South Africa launched a preliminary inquiry into allegations that officials paid bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup The Football Association of Ireland said Fifa had paid it 5m euros to stop legal action over Thierry Henry’s handball in Ireland’s World Cup play-off defeat by France in 2009

Justin Gatlin surged clear of the field to win in 9.75s.

Diamond League: Gatlin wins 100m in new Rome record AMERICAN Justin Gatlin beat Usain Bolt’s Rome Diamond League record with a superb performance in the 100m. The 33-year-old surged clear of the field to win in 9.75 seconds the seventh-fastest time in history eclipsing Bolt’s 9.76 set in 2012. Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, ran a 9.74 in the

opening Diamond League meeting of the year last month. Olympic champion Sally Pearson suffered a wrist injury as a result of a fall in the women’s 100m hurdles. The 28-year-old Australian was one of three fallers in the race, won by USA’s Sharika Nelvis in 12.52 seconds, with Briton Tiffany Porter third in 12.69.

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Djokovic gets past clay king Nadal Serena Williams will play Lucie Safarova on Saturday.

French Open: Serena Williams reaches final despite illness SERENA Williams fought back to beat Timea Bacsinszky and reach the French Open final despite struggling with illness. The top seed took 10 games in a row to win 4-6 6-3 6-0 and set up a final against Lucie Safarova on Saturday. Williams, 33, has been unwell throughout the tournament and struggled as temperatures soared in Paris. “I don’t think I’ve ever been this sick,” Williams told ESPN. “I didn’t expect to win that, I really didn’t.” She added: “I got the flu after my third-round match and I’ve been really struggling ever since then. Hopefully this is the worst and I’ll get better from here. “I thought, ‘If I’m going to lose, I’m going to go for winners.’ “The next thing I know it was a set all and I thought, ‘I really don’t feel like playing a third set.’ I was

so tired. I just fought for every point and here I am.” The American world number one, who pulled out of her post-match media commitments, is trying to win her third French Open and 20th Grand Slam singles title. Earlier on Court Philippe Chatrier, 13th seed Safarova fought back to beat Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic and become the first Czech woman to reach a Roland Garros final in 34 years. Williams claimed her fourth victory in this tournament from a set down, something she has never managed before at a Grand Slam. She looked down and out for the first set and a half against Bacsinszky, with the Swiss 23rd seed showing no nerves on her major semi-final debut. Williams, meanwhile, wrapped herself in ice towels at the changeovers, shuffled slowly between points and looked close to breaking down at times.

NOVAK Djokovic crushed the French Open’s history maker and now the Serb is moving ever closer to joining the record books himself. Djokovic powered past Rafael Nadal 7-5 6-3 6-1 in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros on Wednesday to hand the “King of Clay” only his second defeat in 72 matches in southwest Paris. If the world No. 1 wins his next two outings, he’ll become the eighth man to complete the career grand slam. “It’s definitely a big win,” Djokovic told reporters. “A match that I will remember for a long time.” On this form, Andy Murray will need to produce something extraordinary to oust Djokovic in the semifinals. Murray, who passed a significant test himself by topping 2013 finalist David Ferrer for the first time on clay, has lost seven in a row to his childhood pal. But for Nadal, it wasn’t the present he was looking for on his 29th birthday. Indeed in the titanic battle between the hottest player in tennis -- Djokovic carried a winning streak of 26 matches into the quarterfinal -and the French Open’s unprecedented nine-time champion, much of it was lopsided. “When you play against an opponent that is winning almost every match like Novak and you are not playing consistent during

Novak Djokovic will become the eighth man to complete the career grand slam if he wins his next two outings.

the whole match, then (losing) is an option,” Nadal told reporters. The hype greatly exceeded the drama, not that Djokovic will mind. Physically and mentally it seems Djokovic has never been better. That says something, since he began 2011 by winning 41 matches in succession. Attempting to overturn a 0-6 record against Nadal at Roland Garros, he came out swinging -- and connecting. Nadal, meanwhile, left many of his heavily-spun shots short in the court, allowing Djokovic to go on the offensive. It was soon 4-0, with the final

point of the fourth game providing the most exciting moment of the two-and-a-half-hour contest. Djokovic stretched at the net to reach a Nadal backhand and his forehand turned into an outstanding lob. Nadal chased back and his own defensive lob found the corner but Djokovic retrieved again. Three shots later, Nadal’s attempted forehand drop shot sailed into the net. Undaunted, Nadal rallied for 4-4. The match was on. But a missed smash when serving at 5-6, 30-15 proved costly, and Djokovic took the pivotal opener on his sixth set-point.

Cook feels England can regain the Ashes this summer

Ed Joyce scored 231 runs against the UAE this week.

Joyce hits Ireland’s highest individual score Ed Joyce broke Eoin Morgan’s record for the highest innings score by an Irish player as he hit 231 against the United Arab Emirates this week. In doing so, the 36-year-old Sussex batsman became the first Irish player to score a double century on home soil. Opener Paul Stirling posted his highest first class score with 146 as Ireland ended the opening day of the Intercontinental Cup match on 4203. They eventually 492 all out before restricting UAE to 213 and 251-9 at

stumps on day three. The game at Malahide is the first step in Ireland’s push to gain Test status. The eventual winners of the Intercontinental Cup, a competition for associate members of the International Cricket Council, will play the lowest-ranked Test nation in a four-match challenge. Ireland are the cup holders and have won it four times out of six. Morgan’s previous record was 209 - also against the UAE - in February 2002. (BBC)

ENGLAND captain Alastair Cook says he has seen enough potential in his side to believe they can regain the Ashes against Australia this summer. Cook’s side, including six players who had played 13 Tests or fewer, were beaten by 199 runs by New Zealand at Headingley to draw the series 1-1 - having been set 455 to win. “In our home conditions, we are comfortable,” said Cook. “But we have to make a step forward as a side and we have to do it quickly.” England, who have not lost a home series to Australia since 2001, were beaten 5-0 down under in 201314. Their bid to win the Ashes back begins on 8 July in Cardiff. Before then, they will want to see batsmen Ian Bell and Gary Ballance return to form. Bell has managed only 55 runs in his last eight innings, while Ballance has 36 in his last four. “They are fantastic players,” said Cook. “Clearly they haven’t scored the runs they would have liked and they have five weeks to get some form in county cricket.

Alastair Cook says that in English conditions the team is more comfortable.

“There will be concern because they haven’t scored the runs, but form comes and goes. Two games in isolation does not make you a bad player.” Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott said the form of Ballance and Bell is a concern because of the lack of alternatives, particularly with Kevin Pietersen being told he will not be considered.

“Who are you going to pick in their place? Does anybody stand out?” Boycott said on the BBC’s Test Match Special. “When people saw Joe Root and he wasn’t in the side, we said, ‘This kid will play for England.’ But other players, I don’t see England on them.” Cook also said that off-spinner Moeen Ali, who averages 41 with the ball in his last four Tests, must find some consistency before the Australians arrive. “Mo hasn’t bowled as well as he bowled last summer, so he’s got some work to do to get that consistency back,” said opener Cook. “He does spin the ball hard, so if he can get that control back we know he can be a threat.” Cook also highlighted England’s fielding as an area that needs improvement, with four catches dropped in New Zealand’s second innings at Headingley alone. “That’s disappointing,” said Cook, who led England to Ashes success in 2013. “We were taking wonderful catches last summer against India.

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Coventry University’s visit will help local football – States TCIFA’s Technical Director A THREE week visit by 17 members of UK’s Coventry University will do more than just spur on competition, TCIFA’s Technical Director Craig Harrington told the Weekly News this week.

The squad, which includes coaches, sports scientists and players, will impart their knowledge and the TCIFA will absorb as much as possible. “This is the first ever visit like this with the Team staying on site at the

The U-9 players who competed in the tournament.

Local footballers are benefitting from the visit.

TCIFA in the new dorm rooms. This tour is important for us as it helps us in the development of football in the islands.” Harrington added that under the TCIFA’s visiting coaches programme, “the University coaches and players who are all FA Level 1 qualified will be conducting coaching sessions with all our youth and senior players every day of the

week.” “TCI will benefit with all our own coaches watching and learning from the University as their knowledge and capability to educate our players will take them to the next level. This visit just adds to the country’s football credibility and outreach in world football.” Along with teaching, the visitors

defence, midfield and attack. “All the teams showed maturity in their use of the full pitch and worked the space much, which made the games exciting….” North Caicos opened with two losses, while it was South Caicos who took the early lead with two wins, but the eventual winners went on a rampage and won their next four games to claim the title. TCIFA’s agenda has been on

will compete in several friendlies: Saturday 6th June: v TCIFA Select XI – 19:00h Monday 8th June: v SWA Sharks FC - ``19:00h Wednesday 10th June: v Beaches F.C – 19:00h Saturday 13th June: v Cheshire Hall F.C – 19:00h

North Caicos’s captain collects the winning trophy from Doreen Quelch in the presence of coaches Benneth Williams (middle back) and Atto Heino.

“Team North Caicos” victorious in U9 competition TEAM North Caicos won the Under-9 Grassroot three-week football competition held during last month at the TCIFA pitches in Providenciales. The U-9 players were grouped into four five-a-side teams: North Caicos, South Caicos, Middle Caicos and West Caicos in an effort to localise the island names. Coach Benneth Williams said the teams were well organised in

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youth development for a number of years and Williams understands the process. “At this age at the TCIFA, we concentrate on continuing to build comfort with the ball which will provide the players with a variety of crucial tools they will need as they become older and the level of ball skill and athleticism rises.” The pre-teen coach said that during this year 2014 to 2015, the “under-9 grassroots players have

been exposed to and should be competent in all Individual Skills, a majority of the Partner Skills, and half of the Small Group Concepts.” At the presentation ceremony Jeffery Grandanii copped the MVP award, while Andreas Gibbs was named the Most Improved Player, Rohan Shearer was named the best goalkeeper, while Emmanuel Martin, who scored 11 times, was awarded for the most goals trophy.

Second Annual Inter-Primary Schools Cricket set for Saturday THE TCI Cricket Association (TCICA) will bowl off its cricket season with the second annual InterPrimary School Cricket competition this Saturday at the Downtown Ball Park in Providenciales. BWIC, Provo Primary School, Community Christian Academy, Oseta Jolly, Enid Capron and International School are billed to participate. A school from Grand Turk might also travel for the event. The competition which is sponsored by Scotiabank will start at 9:00h.

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Stallions’ coach looking for “at least eight championship titles” BROTHER Will, coach of club champions the GT Stallions, has his eyes set on total domination in the local basketball scene. After becoming the first team to three-peat in the Provo Amateur Basketball Association (PABA) Night League, Will (John Williams) is now looking way ahead. “Stallions looking to win at least eight,” the coach of the year told the Weekly News. He pointed out that winning the second championship last year was harder than this year, “but three-peat was sweeter—we made history.” The Stallions have a large support base and Will was encouraged by their turnout this year. “I would like to say thanks to the fans and the supporters.” At the Gus Lightbourne Sports

Complex court last Friday night, the Stallions did not allow the Police Badgers to carry the championship series to a deciding fifth game. Tamaurri Lightbourne delivered another star performance to lead the side. He powered his way to a game high 27 points, six boards, three assists and three steals and the Stallions to a 10-point win 88-78. For his dominance Lightbourne won another MVP title. In the playoffs (including finals) he tallied 132 point, 66 rebounds, 29 assists and 17 steals. In game four Lightbourne was assisted by cousin Marcus Lightbourne (who had a game high 16 rebounds to go with 10 points), Enrico Smith (13 points and six boards), Kino Williams (14 points) and L. Missick (11

Stan Hartling in action at the event in Barbados.

The GT Stallions won their third consecutive PABA Night League title this season.

points). Saundro Germain, (who had levelled the series 1-1 with 36 points

two Fridays ago), led the Badgers’ attack with 22 points and seven boards, while rookie Melvin Elsie

added 16 points and five boards. Also in double figures was Raymeko Smith (13 points and four steals).

The fans, who travelled to Barbados to support our local drivers, were thrilled with the rally.

Mechanical problems restrict TCI rally drivers in Barbados TCI’s most accomplished rally drivers fought with every spare part available, but their machines succumbed to the wear and tear of the intense 2015 Sol Rally Barbados, which forced them to clock out before cross the finish line. The dozens of enthusiastic TCI fans who travelled to the mega event were in full support of Stan Hartling and Paul Horton. The skilled drivers are popular in the rally circle and their class and love for the sport were evident with their efforts last weekend. Key sponsor Bambarra Rum also appreciated the effort and they have pledged to remain involved in the TCI racing programme in future years. It is typical for over 50% of the near 100 teams to be eliminated at some point during the rally either because of a mechanical failure or crashes. Crews can only assist drivers when they are outside of

the controlled stage zone, so drivers must always find a way to get the cars to a service zone in the event of difficulty to avoid disqualification.

ELECTRIC ISSUE Horton entered in the Modified 7 Division with his vintage Ford Mk1Escort. Horton was running first place in his class until late Saturday when an electrical related issue made the car inoperable. Horton’s resourcefulness was evident as he attempted to adapt an alternator from another vehicle, but ultimately he was forced to miss the start of a rally stage. As an illustration of the massive support for the rally by the local Bajans, an electrical repair shop opened up at 23:00h in order to rebuild the faulty alternator and had the car working for the first run Sunday morning. Horton ran well Sunday with impressive times, but further clutch damage rendered

the car inoperable by midday and despite all attempts, the car could not be fixed to finish the final stages. “We gave it everything we could and we were driving a strong rally. We have to accept that this event is very tough on the cars and things will happen that we can’t foresee. We gained a strong position against the other competitors and we plan on focusing on that, not the breakdown going forward” said Horton.

RACE AGAINST TIME Hartling ran his BMW M3 in the Super Modified 12 division. Friday and Saturday had Hartling holding third place in the division until excessive torque strain sheered two critical mounts under the BMW’s drivetrain. Hartling was able to gingerly transit through two stages before a midday lunch / service break. This avoided a disqualification but being forced to drive at slower speeds

meant taking time that moved him to fourth place. The team quickly got a mobile welding company to come and reinforce the suspension right in the pits and remarkably they had the car back at the next rally stage with less than one minute to spare before disqualification. Sunday had them starting in fourth place fighting hard to regain the third place podium position, but a major brake system failed, which left the team driving only with an emergency brake. Attempts to run the final three stages of the rally with only a handbrake proved too dangerous at high speeds, thus the team was forced to pull out and fix the problem so the car could have competed at the final side-byside races at Bushy Park Sunday evening. TCI DREAM In the TCI crowd was Hon. Galmo (Gilley) Williams and his family.

Hon. Williams expressed amazement at the sheer energy that the event creates for the residents and the participants and had a first-hand view of the benefits the sport can bring to the TCI. Hartling reiterated his hope of one day having the sport in these islands. He said that Hon. Williams’s presence in Barbados was a “tremendous lift” for the club and sport. He added that it was his and Horton’s vision of bringing rally racing to the TCI. “A TCI racing programme has the potential to benefit the country in so many ways, from skills development for local youth, to the economic impact that hosting racing events can have on the local economy, not to mention the sheer fun that participating or watching events like this can offer to local residents. Way to go Team TCI! Until Barbados 2016!”

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