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A JAMAICAN woman who was tried and sentenced to jail for three counts of theft lost her appeal against conviction and is set to be retried in the Magistrates’ Court at a date to be set.

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stop litigation THE Weekly News has been informed that newly appointed chair of the National Insurance Board (NIB), Lillian Missick, has made moves to stop the litigation process aimed at protecting the fund’s $10m.

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Firefighters with TCIAA CEO John Smith and Permanent Secretary Susan Malcolm

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Missick moving to stop NIB litigation

By Vanessa Narine

THE Weekly News has been informed that newly appointed chair of the National Insurance Board (NIB), Lillian Missick, has made moves to stop the litigation process aimed at protecting the fund’s $10m.

Governor Ric Todd contends that the $10m is owed to the TCIG and the calculations made to arrive at that sum were transparent and done by experts, a position the NIB has challenged in TCI’s courts.

A source close to the NIB Board confirmed that Missick’s justification for halting the process is that the litigation cost, which could be $250,000 or more, is not justifiable.

When the Weekly News contacted her to shed light on this development, she declined to comment on the matter, saying she did not wish to speak to the media.

The source noted that over the last few weeks Missick and board members have been butting heads over the proposed move that will effectively give the Governor the

$10m.

On her appointment, there were many speculations that the new chair might hand over the $10m.

In an invited comment, former NIB chair, Mr Ervine Quelch, pointed out to the Weekly News that Missick alone could not make the decision.

He said in accordance with the regulations of proper corporate governance, any decision taken must be done so with the consensus of all the directors.

MAJOR CONSPIRACY Speaking to the Weekly News of Thursday, Quelch said that the movement of the $10m from the fund is a major conspiracy by the interim administration to defraud the fund.

“What the Governor is doing is a major conspiracy to not only defraud the fund, but misappropriate funds that could bring millions more in benefits to the contributors through a dishonest ploy that the NIB owes the government,” he said.

NIB Chairman Ms Lillian Missick

Quelch stressed that the assertion that the NIB owes this money is not justifiable by the government and the board would be breaching its fiduciary obligations to the contributors by not challenging the transfer.

He made it clear that the challenge is not a challenge only for the sake of opposing, but to meet the obligations the board has to its contributors.

The former chair noted too that this is an outright attack on the fund and pointed out that the NIB already lost $15m to the amnesty.

“This is not only about $10m since you have to consider also the opportunity you lose too…this is $10m plus the benefits from that amount, which would grow the fund,” Quelch said.

He noted that the move to take $10m from the NIB over an unsubstantiated claim of a debt, could never serve the interests of its contributors.

Quelch explained that the move to challenge the transfer through the courts was a decision made after the NIB received three legal opinions, including from legal practitioners in the United Kingdom.

“We made this decision after much thought...the board will be breaching its obligations if it did not move to protect the people’s money,” he said.

The Governor’s move to make the transfer mandatory through legislation has drawn the ire of a

cross section of TC Islanders.

A few weeks ago, Dr Rufus Ewing, was the most recent to speak out against it.

Ewing said, “Records will clearly demonstrate that following a reconciliation process between 2007 and 2009, amounts owed to TCIG by NIB were estimated at $800,000 and payment was indeed made by NIB to TCIG to service that debt.

“NIB is perhaps only indebted to a small number of persons who received work related injuries and who were not required to go overseas but either a) received treatment locally or b) who were self referred and self funded for overseas treatment.

“The indication by the interim government that an accrued liability of $10m still exists is grossly overstated and is without basis.”

He contended that the continued efforts by the administration to gain access to the funds despite lack of both justification and authority indicates reckless disregard for due process and blatant abuse of power.

Firefighters transferred to TCIAA – Emergency workers to benefit from better package SIXTY-five firefighters have been transferred to the Turks and Caicos Airport Authority (TCIAA), effective Tuesday.

And those who protested the move for some weeks have accepted the relocation in good nature.

In mid-March all category five flights were suspended until further notice due to TCIG firefighters abandoning their posts over that weekend.

The wildcat strike is estimated to have cost some $5m, not accounting for the reputational damage done by having tourists stranded.

Operations were restored after the TCIG came to an agreement with aerodrome firefighters.

The official transfer is expected to ensure that the industrial action that closed TCI’s airports on and off for three days, with its associated negative impacts of the visitor experience and tourism businesses, is never repeated.

More importantly, the move is expected to see the highest international aviation safety standards applied.

This will improve service for the firefighters themselves and the hundreds of thousands of airline passengers travelling to TCI and between its six domestic airports.

Commenting on the transfer, one firefighter Michael Taylor told the Weekly News that he loves being a firefighter so rather than leave he accepted the transfer.

“The way we are looking at it is that we love our job, we want to be firefighters, so we accepted the transfer,” Taylor said.

Another firefighter, Delano Gardiner, added that the transfer was accepted by the firefighters who saw it in their best interests to move.

Gardiner said, “Yes I was one of those who protested, but that is the past and we would like to move forward.”

Both men declined to comment on what was the factor that swayed them into accepting the transfer.

ULTIMATUM Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Home Affairs, Susan Malcolm, was asked whether an ultimatum was given to the firefighters?

She did not address whether or not an ultimatum was given either explicitly or not.

However, the PS made it clear that TCIG is of the opinion that TCIAA will be able to deliver better aerodrome services.

“The firefighters were given

information and the decided to move,” she said.

She stressed that the move will benefit firefighters on several fronts.

The terms of the transfer include: • TCIAA offering full-time permanent employment to all transferring fire fighters on terms no less favourable than those that they enjoyed when employed by TCIG – including salary, pension and annual leave.

• TCIG providing $600,000 for the upgrade and repair of all transferring fire fighting equipment. This includes: • Purchase of 100 sets of personal protective gear for fire fighters, plus new uniforms • Purchase of 50 radios to improve incident communications • Provide intensive three week training to transferring fire fighters to ensure that they are all properly qualified • First aid training • Purchase of 2,000 gallons of fire fighting foam to meet international standards • Upgrade of the training rig at Providenciales, and completion of the rigs at South Caicos and Salt Cay • Repair and maintenance of all vehicles • The transfer of all fire fighting lands to TCIAA also with ‘peppercorn’ rents paid by TCIG to TCIAA • TCIAA will now provide a community firefighting service on the islands of Grand Turk, Salt

Cay, South Caicos, North and Middle Caicos, with its costs in this regard reimbursed by TCIG. “TCIG has no expertise in providing these services…we did not see the need for it (the transfer) before, but now we have realised that the firefighters are not getting the support the need,” Malcolm said.

The PS maintained that the move is in the interest of a general improvement of TCI’s airports.

Malcolm said, “This is a sensible deal for everyone involved. It was an anomaly that the TCI Government provided aerodrome fire services, when the TCIAA as a statutory body exists for this very purpose.”

BETTER PACKAGE CEO of TCIAA, Mr John Smith, told the Weekly News that the firefighters will have a better package with the move, not just their net income, but better working conditions overall.

He said an important part of the package is risk allowance that reflects the high risks being taken by the firefighters.

“The whole package is better for the firefighters,” Smith said.

According to him, the firefighters resigned under TCIG, applied to TCIAA and were accepted.

The only exceptions, he said, were a few firefighters in senior positions under the TCIG, whose accommodation under a new structure with the TCIAA was a bit challenging.

Smith said these workers were

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given different options and they chose to leave the service.

“Severance is not for me to speak to…my understanding is that the matter was settled amicably with TCIG,” he said.

The CEO noted that with the transfer the TCIAA will now be able to meet one of its important mandates, which is to provide an aerodrome firefighter service.

Smith stated that after three months a general assessment will be made as to how well the move is working.

He said, “We very much welcome the transfer of these firefighters.

“It makes sense in so many ways – we can better integrate the firefighters with every aspect of our operations under a single management structure which is dedicated to the provision of excellent and safe airport services.”

TCIG CEO Patrick Boyle, added, “This completes the proposal which unfortunately saw an industrial dispute over the weekend of the 1012 Mar 2012.

“I very much regret the communications breakdown that occurred at that time between ourselves, the firefighters and their advisors.

“This is the right move at the right time. The firefighters will enjoy continuity of service and see significant investment in their abilities and competencies.

“Governments don’t know how to run specialist services like this – but the aviation experts at the TCIAA certainly do.”

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Registration process slow says elections supervisor

By Vanessa Narine ELECTIONS department supervisor Dudley Lewis told the Weekly News that the voter registration process is ongoing, but at a slow pace.

“I think the problem we have is that people are looking at the process as burdensome,” he said.

However, he made it clear that the production of documents, particularly birth certificates, is a norm around the world where countries are preparing to host elections.

Lewis said, “This should not be a problem.”

According to him, persons need only to go to the registration centres, present their documents to the Ministry of Labour and Border Control and be verified as Belongers.

“There are two forms that they need to fill out, one for the ministry and the other for us…the ministry verifies that you are a Belonger and we take information for our database.

“At the end of the process the ministry will issue a TCI Status Card, a form of national identification,” Lewis explained.

He added that the registration process ends in June, after which a preliminary list of elections will be provided.

Lewis said, “Last year we had about 7,000 voters, this year that

number we estimate may rise to between 8,000 and 9,000.”

Asked about the integrity of this list, the elections supervisor defended its accuracy saying that he is confident of the list’s integrity.

He said, “The list will be very accurate. We will have done cross checks with the Ministry of Border Control so I am confident that the list will be a true reflection of the eligible voters in TCI.” Lewis noted that once the preliminary list is available, there will be a claims and objections period of about two weeks, where persons will be able to look at the list and verify that their information is correct.

BOUNDARIES “At the end of the claims and objections period, the Boundaries Commission will be appointed and they have to set the boundaries.

“There is a change this year to reduce the 15 boundaries we had in previous elections to 10,” he said.

The elections supervisor noted that once their work is done, the Elections Department will have to put the electors into districts.

He said, “Once we have assigned the electors to their districts we will have the final voter register.”

Lewis explained that once this is done, other arrangements will be made by the department, including

the appointment of returning officers, polling clerks and presiding officers for the electoral process.

According to him, on election day itself there will be two ballots, one for the at large seats and one for the districts.

“These will be colour coded and for the two ballots there will be two ballot boxes to avoid any confusion,” he said.

Lewis noted that these materials are being sourced from the United States and United Kingdom.

He stated that a new feature in the TCI electoral process will be the introduction of ink that will be used to stain the finger of the voter as an easy way to identify that they have already voted.

This process, while new to the TCI, is common in many other countries and the ink is a special type of ink that stains the index finger of voters for some days.

On the issue of staff, Lewis stated that there is currently approximately 14 persons engaged with the department, with additional persons to be recruited once the elections process moves further along.

FUNDING “We provided a budget to TCIG so we are waiting for funding to be approved,” he said.

The elections supervisor added that at present there are no pressing

challenges that the department cannot overcome, but acknowledged that it is still early in the overall process.

Lewis pointed out that there has been some work ongoing in terms of voter education, but noted that

by June a more massive programme will be rolled out.

“We recognise the need to educate our voters and this is a responsibility we take seriously,” he said.

The elections supervisor acknowledged that the department will act in the interests of the electorate to ensure that no one in disenfranchised, particularly because of a lack of education.

Grand Turk possible water contamination being monitored THE Grand Turk water crisis, arising from the possible water contamination, is being monitored by the Environmental Health Department/Ministry of Environment and Home Affairs in conjunction with the Ministry of Health.

The water situation has caused many persons to transport water to their homes and or business in containers such as buckets, bottles or drums.

This increases the chance of water becoming contaminated.

As a precautionary measure, the public is hereby advised to follow the instructions listed below to ensure that the water that is being consumed is free from contamination: • All containers that are used

to transport water for drinking or domestic purposes must be clean and sanitized; and • All drinking water should be treated by boiling or chlorinating before consumption.

The following provides a guideline to treat water so that it is safe to drink and for domestic purposes: • Add eight (8) drops of bleach to one (1) gallon or five (5) litres of water; and • Add half (1/2) teaspoon of bleach to five (5) gallons or twenty (20) litres of water.

The Environmental Health Department and the Ministry of Health recommend that everyone observes and practices these safety tips to ensure a healthy TCI population.

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Elections ordinance talks are an example of good AC and CF relations – Boyle TCIG Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Patrick Boyle maintains that the engagement of the Advisory Council (AC) and the Consultative Forum (CF) on the draft elections ordinance is a key example of good working relations between the two bodies.

“This piece of consultation is a very fine example of how we would wish to work with the forum, going forward,” he said.

At the post Advisory Council press briefing on Wednesday, Boyle noted that the elections ordinance has been discussed by the AC. “The bill is better for the consultation we have had,” Boyle stressed.

According to him, the feedback from the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), which was here in March and the comments of the CF were taken on board.

“The Advisory Council focused very much on the

consultation on the elections ordinance, particularly on the comments made by the Consultative Forum…this fed into the work done by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy,” he said.

The document is now with the forum for further consultation.

The CEO said this legislation is key to the hosting of elections, which are expected at the end of the year, since they are a key part of the milestones – the benchmarks for the TCI’s return to democratic rule.

Boyle added that once the forum has reviewed the document the Governor is expected to sign it into law.

“We want to get this consultation concluded as quickly as possible…the feedback made by the AC is on its way back to the forum…we would hope that the Governor would be in a position to sign this into law very shortly,” Boyle said. (VANESSA NARINE)

Shelter Managers needed

THE Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies is seeking volunteers from persons living on Grand Turk to serve as Shelter Managers in the upcoming hurricane season.

The upcoming 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season will officially begin on June 1st and end on November 30th, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical

cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. However, the formation of tropical cyclones is possible at any time.

The Department maintains that it is not only seeking Turks and Caicos Islanders, but persons from the Creole and Spanish speaking communities as well.

Interested persons are asked to contact Ygerne Wilson at the DDME office on #649-946-2025.

Much work to be done before elections

TCIG Chief Executive Patrick Boyle made it clear that the fact that there is much work to do before the Turks and Caicos Islands can return to democratic rule does not mean that there will be no elections this year.

In an invited comment, he addressed concerns over comments made last week by United Kingdom (UK) Minister Henry Bellingham.

Bellingham, questioned by Conservative Andrew Rosindell MP, representative for Romford, in Parliament, stated that there is much work to be done in the TCI before elections can be held.

Boyle said that the minister is right, since there is much to be done, particularly with getting the right

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Chief Executive Patrick Boyle

processes established were elections to take place.

However, he maintains that this statement does not mean that there will not be an election in 2012.

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FCO to fund civil servant training exchange THE Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will be funding an exchange programme that will see senior civil servants trained in a move to boost their capacity and improve the efficiency in public service delivery.

The programme is designed to exchange knowledge and experience between TCIG’s civil servants and their counterparts from Norfolk County Council and key UK government departments.

TCIG’s Chief Executive Patrick Boyle, at a press conference on Wednesday, welcomed the move.

Kicking off the engagement, Norfolk County Council leader, Mr Derrick Murphy, arrived in the TCI on Sunday and has been on a factfinding mission.

During his seven-day visit, Murphy has been meting with each of the Permanent Secretaries and their deputies to identify a range of learning needs that will be addressed

by TCIG exchanging with their UKbased peers.

The training, which is expected to be a seven-day stint, will address administrative, organisation, budgetary, governance and policymaking processes – issues that will improve public service and support good governance in the TCI. SIMILAR CHALLENGES Murphy told the media that the challenges in Norfolk are similar to the ones facing the TCI public service, including downsizing.

Also, at Norfolk County Council there are five departments, akin to TCIG’s Ministries: Children’s Services; Community Services; Corporate Resources; Environment, Transport and Development; Fire and Community Safety.

In addition to the five departments, there is also one unit: Customer service and Communications.

Murphy said the engagement will allow Norfolk civil servants to share the experiences of lessons learned from overcoming challenges in Norfolk.

According to him, the Permanent Secretaries will be the first to go, two at time, for a packed seven-day training programme.

“We want to start from the top,” he said.

He noted that at the end of that stint, the civil servants will be in touch via teleconferencing.

When asked, Murphy stated that a follow up visit would be necessary.

According to him, Norfolk has a good reputation for efficient delivery of public services and ensuring value for money – features that the public service in the TCI could benefit from.

He added that Norfolk civil servants will benefit also from this engagement since the experience will be a new learning curve.

TCIG CEO Patrick Boyle with Norfolk County Council leader Derrick Murphy

Murphy said, “In return they would offer opportunities for the Norfolk County Council staff to mentor TCI staff and encounter rather different challenges to those that they normally face, and gain useful career-enhancing experiences.”

This programme recognises that

successful professional development is more difficult in country of about 30,000 people.

This public servant exchange follows on from the successful similar political level meetings held by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. (Vanessa Narine)

UK ministers complete budget review UNITED Kingdom ministers are expected to have completed their review of the draft 2012-2013 budget.

The document should be with the Advisory Council and Consultative Forum for review during the week commencing May 7.

The two bodies will debate and discuss the provisions made in the new budget, which is hoped to place TCI on the road to meeting a surplus in the new financial year.

According to Governor’s spokesman Neil Smith if the two bodies complete their review of the document by May 21, Governor

Ric Todd could be expected to sign off on the financial plan by May 23.

Much importance has been placed on this new plan, since implementation of budget measures to put the TCI Government on track to achieve a fiscal surplus in the financial year ending March 2013 is one of the milestones set for the return to democratic rule.

The new budget is targeting a $170m revenue base and priorities for expenditures in the new financial year are schools, employment and key capital and infrastructure works.

(VANESSA NARINE)

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

On political demagoguery ELECTION fever is in the air and the aspiring leaders are coming forward to make their bids to lead the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

However, along with these bids come concerns about the troubling trend of political demagoguery.

The TCI, expressly at this time, needs serious politicians to battle through these serious times.

The people need politicians whose concerns are honest and not a front for hidden agendas.

What are your thoughts?

Between a rock and a hard place

Looks like our choices boil down to either ‘between a rock and a hard place’ or ‘the devil and the deep blue sea’.

Both the PNP candidates seem to be living in a dream world.

Dr Ewing denying responsibility for the hospital scam and Carlos Simons promising to fire Garlick and co, both show a total disrespect for the intelligence of the voters.

If these two are the best the PNP has to offer, they are in trouble.

On the other side of the coin, the deafening silence from Derek Taylor on major issues is disturbing.

Oxymoron

Where in the whole world are you gong to find honest politicians with no hidden agenda?

You do not grow up to be a politician unless you are driven by greed or power.

‘Honest Politician’ is an oxymoron!

Honesty first

Talk Back, your statement says it all. We need honesty first and foremost.

We need to be wise enough to see though all the hyped-up bull and recognise the person who will be the best leader for the country, for the long term.

Someone who can unite us all, rather than divide us and spread hatred only in their own short term personal interests.

PNP loyalists should not align themselves with anyone who does not renounce their affiliation or respect for Mike Misick because if they do not they will be condoning him and his actions and what we will see is that Mike is still pulling the strings (from his spider hole in Venezuela).

It was NOT the PNP who behaved badly, it was Mike Misick and his lapdog followers so it’s okay to denounce him.

The majority of PNP supporters recognise that it was his misdeeds and his misogynistic, narcissist persona that ultimately landed us back in the suffocating and sweaty palms of our Johnny-come-lately big brother HMG. Despite the failings of this interim administration, we were truly lucky we had a big brother to fall back on.

Let us not be confused as to how we got here, let us not squander this opportunity by being swayed by those who wish to blame all our problems on the Brits or the ‘white man’.

Those people we must reject are those who will surely take us right back into the hands of the local hypocrites and international crooks.

Not well hidden

The agendas of those in the political arena are hidden but not very well.

In the PNP camp there is concern of so many being implicated and drawn into the web of prosecutions that while they talk about the prolonged take over by the British and the need for elections they really do not want elections until the air is clear.

They have been operating for two years without a deputy.

Their leader is caught in the web and their two contenders were Misick direct beneficiaries so the web may draw them in.

One leader will fix the economic mess by shutting down the tourist industry.

Their clarion call is independence and why, to get their folks off the Garlick hook.

Over at PDM suddenly its 1995 all over again those having risen to their level of incompetence want to have at in again.

Their watchword is silence. Silence from their leader, and silence from the previous vocal deputy - only the national chair is pushing his way back.

Back to the Beaches water sports contract.

They are going to show the country how to win with losers and ‘I told you so’s.

Their platform is the fix it and repair party mentality. No vision, no programme all we have heard is PNP has messed up again so we have to go in and fix it.

The challenges of 1995 were small compared to the massive mess left from team PNP and team FCO. What needs to happen is a provision for write in candidates or a third party alternative.

Better yet, hold off for two more years. By then it will be rank obvious the British cannot fix the economy so they will have to pay off the debts and cancel the health plan.

In the meantime, the prosecutions can play out, the PDM can come to their senses as senility and old age takes its toll.

No more fake leaders

The upcoming elections are going to be crucial to the future of the Turks and Caicos Islands and its people.

Coming out of the interim government is the problem of continued marginalisation and naked racism on the part of the advisors in the Governor’s office and the racist policies they are putting in place to hurt the ability of natives to advance in the TCI. Also important to this equation of leadership and to champion the cause of the people is the need to be real.

The people were undermined in the past because so-called leaders misled them, did all kinds of political tricks, used rhetoric and lies to get the country to follow them into what we can now look back and see as a ditch.

I can understand that persons like the Hon Derek Taylor and the Hon Carlos Simons are real and genuine men of conviction.

They say what they believe and believe what they say.

You cannot say the same for Dr Rufus Ewing and his actions as part of the Civil Service Association shows that he is a charlatan.

He never told the members that he was using them for political mileage and that he was planning to run for the leader of the PNP. Rufus Ewing is too smooth, does not fit the profile of a genuine leader who cares for the people even though he is good at pretending to be.

This country needs to move on from that kind of fake leadership and select persons who are real and genuine.

To get beyond the British and their mistakes we need honesty and not games.

More than meets the eye

This is a very serious and pertinent question and persons must engage in deep thought over the persons who are putting themselves forward for leader.

I know that everyone is consumed by the increasing taxes, unemployment, increasing lack of access to health care and shear deterioration of our country.

However, just some food for thought.

It is inconceivable how Dr Ewing could have operated the way he did for so long while holding the post of Director of Health Services.

Friends there is more here at play, than meets the eye here.

Sure and true leadership

The next election will determine the future of the Turks and Caicos Islands in a profound and dynamic way.

Of utmost concern is the stealth talk about premature independence for the islands from some of these would be leaders who are tied to the health care scam.

It is now clear that the former government by way of their rip-offs, the $60m per annum health care scam, the sale of thousands of acres of Crown land, refusal to properly fund the Community College, land flips etc have set these islands back another 25 years.

Owing to their corruption, their prompting and interim government - which has gone bad we have a massive brain drain of local decision makers from the public service.

The next round of leadership must address these problems and issues.

The interim government is taxing people to death to pay for the $350m in debt created by the former regime.

Therefore, it will not do to have people from the former regime who were connected as advisors and players form part of the next government.

Indeed if the elections were held in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Iran, Iraq, people from the former regime would no doubt be stoned and the PNP would be disbanded.

While not advocating any of these sizzling and tempting measures the people of the TCI should not be making the same mistake twice.

This is the time to recover our lands, build capacity in the public service but not over populate it with incompetents, enforce a sensible labour policy and empower our people.

This requires sure and true leadership.

In Carlos’ defence

I would like to come to the defence of Mr Carlos Simons who made some very bold statements about monies that our country is paying to the SIPT, and how he intends to stop it.

I agree with Carlos that we should not be paying one dime to the SIPT for this investigation and recovery of assets, because the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and their Governor were the ones sanctioning the actions and decisions of Cabinet and signing off on every piece of paper, and therefore, they should pay every dime to the ‘Garlick Bread Team’.

Sir Robin Auld agreed with this and so did Helen Garlick herself.

Also with regards to Michael Misick, if our country is paying any money to Interpol to catch and arrest our former Premier, then the British Government should also pay for this - not TCIG. Imagine, while our people are in dire financial straits, the British Government will spend upwards of $1m to convert the Myrtle Rigby Clinic building into a court house for the trials of those who have been charged.

Where is the money they have every provided for classrooms and infrastructure?

In Carlos’ case, nothing he said is demagoguery. I will be with him 110 per cent and I do believe that he will put the wheels in motion towards realising his and the country’s goals.

If Mike and his gang ruined the country, then HMG is sinking the remains.

Not on our time and not with our dime will they further humiliate us!

Fever gone to their heads

Yes, elections fever is in the air and it seems to have gone to some people’s heads.

In the current situation, after being misled by the former PNP administration, what the people need is not people full of hot air, but serious politicians to get us through the next years.

It is unfortunate that aspiring leaders, in making their bids for leadership, seek to resort to this trend of talking cheap talk.

Carlos Simons has gone on about how he will fire Helen Garlick, but what he failed to acknowledge was that if by some miracle he manages to become Premier he will still have no power to touch Helen Garlick.

This is not the time for political demagoguery or in simpler words, this is not time for shallow strategy that seeks to gain political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears, vanities and expectations of the public.

The TCI does not need politicians who pander to the public just to win their favour.

What the TCI needs are serious professionals who will be straight about the problems that exist and provide possible solutions that will be in the best interest of the TCI people, not people who just talk big.

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AC reviews badly drafted employment bill THE current employment bill being reviewed by the Advisory Council (AC) was badly drafted, according to TCIG Chief Executive Patrick Boyle.

On Wednesday’s post Advisory Council briefing, Boyle said the body is looking at having the extent of the consultations extended to take on board the concerns of small businesses, banks and law firms.

The CEO noted that this is a

hugely important bill for both the public and private sector, but it has been criticised by the judiciary, among other stakeholders, for its shortcomings.

Boyle pointed out that the final document will significantly impact the economy and as such it is important to ensure that the concerns of all stakeholders are considered.

According to him the review of the Employment Bill continues.

New regulation for animal imports THERE are now new regulations regarding the importation of animals into the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).

The Turks and Caicos Islands Government (TCIG), as a result of the level of animal diseases in TCI, have put the new regulations in place to address this in order to prevent the elevation of this problem, which could later become a major problem.

The import requirements are done to protect the human and animal population of the country.

According to TCIG, the process to import an animal is simple.

A person wishing to import an animal (e.g. dog, cat, fish, swine or bird) must first contact the Department of Agriculture to obtain an application for importation.

The Department will assist the person/s by providing the import requirements that are suitable based on the species of animal as well as the country from which it is being exported.

The person/s must ensure that he / she satisfies all the requirements as well as compiles all the necessary information for the importation of the animal/s.

This information must be sent to the Department via email, fax or hand delivery.

The Department of Agriculture will review the documents, upon receiving it and ensure that that there is compliance.

If all the documents conform to the requirements for importation, the Department will then issue an import permit that is signed and sealed thereby giving the person/s permission to import.

TCIG warns that this is the legal procedure that must be adhered to.

The Department of Agriculture has recorded many incidents where

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persons refused to follow the above procedure.

As a result of not following the requirements the population is exposed to serious diseases with the most serious one being Rabies.

Rabies is a very serious disease that affects mammals and is fatal once clinical signs develop. This practice also puts at risk the animals that are already in the TCI. Beautiful flamingoes, the brown pelicans as well as the Grand Turk donkeys and horses are all in danger when diseased animals come to our shores.

The Agriculture Department advises that non-adherence to the legislation will undoubtedly have a rippling devastating effect on the TCI. The import regulations are enforced to protect the population as well as the animals in the TCI. The Department of Agriculture seeks your cooperation and adherence to the rules so that it could protect and preserve wildlife and the people of this country.

Persons wishing to import animals are asked to visit the Department of Agriculture in Grand Turk or Providenciales to get more information. Or feel free to contact the department at: Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Services, Butterfield Square, Providenciales at 649.946.5801.

In Grand Turk persons can contact the Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Services, Dunscombe Alley at 649.946.2801, ext. 50308.

The Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial Code, states that, “International trade in animals and animal products depends on a combination of factors which should be taken into consideration to ensure unimpeded trade, without incurring unacceptable risks to human and animal health.”

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Governor’s quarterly milestone report expected on May 7 GOVERNOR Ric Todd is expected to make public his quarterly report on the progress of the eight milestones on Monday, May 7, according to his spokesman Neil Smith.

In April, Todd stressed that in the last few months the interim administration has made significant progress in meeting the milestones, a positive indication that elections will be held this year.

The milestones are: 1. Implementation of a new TCI Constitution Order, in support of recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry, which underpins good governance and sound public financial management.

2. Introduction of a number of new ordinances, including those making provision for: i) the electoral process and regulation of political parties, ii) integrity and accountability in public life, iii) public financial management.

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Establishment of robust and transparent public financial

management processes to provide a stable economic environment and a strengthening of the TCI Government’s capacity to manage its public finances.

4. Implementation of budget measures to put the TCI Government on track to achieve a fiscal surplus in the financial year ending March 2013.

5. Implementation of a transparent and fair process for acquisition of Turks and Caicos Islander status.

6. Significant progress with the civil and criminal process recommended by the Commission of Inquiry, and implementation of measures to enable these to continue unimpeded.

7. Implementation of a new Crown land policy.

8. Substantial progress in the reform of the public service.

Most recently, milestones three and seven have been met, and there has been significant progress with others.

Milestone one is expected to be

the last milestone met, since once the constitution is implemented elections will have to be called 30 days later.

Approximately a year ago, a TCI team travelled to London to work on the now completed Constitution Order. The new Constitution Order was laid before Parliament in July 2011.

For some others, primarily milestone six, United Kingdom ministers will have to make a decision as to whether they have been met or not.

The Governor’s spokesman maintains that the Governor is optimistic that the milestones will be met this year.

The Minister of State for International Development, Mr Alan Duncan, in January this year stated that good progress is being made thanks to the commitment and hard work of the interim TCI Government and the people of TCI. However, he maintains that there is much still to be done. (VANESSA NARINE)

The competitors

Raymond Gardiner High captures first prize in spelling bee RAYMOND Gardiner High School’s Kelcy-Ann Sauver captured the first prize in the Dr. Rosita Butterfield Annual Inter High Schools’ Spelling Bee on Tuesday.

The session held at the Gustarvus Lightbourne Sports Complex saw nine schools competition.

In second place was Rose Joseph from Basden High School and following in third place was Kandace Smith from British West Indies Collegiate.

The competitors exhausted both the initial spelling list and the reserve list and had to take words from a second reserve list.

The top spellers received trophies, as well as other awards that included a laptop, printer, reference books and a camera.

A section of the audience gathered to see the ‘spell off’

Fun begins on page 35 Mazes, crossword, kids educational features, word search, Sudoku, comics, your weekly horoscope and much much more!

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Guyanese man on Young man on trial for wounding trial for drugs A GUYANESE man is on trial for allegedly wounding another with a broken bottle even though the complainant did not see him commit the act.

Roy Pestano, who became infamously known nationwide as one of the men implicated in the Amanyara robbery on April 26, 2006, denied the charge.

Principal Crown Counsel JoAnn Meloche represented the Crown and defence attorney Kendle Williams represented Pestano.

It was alleged that on September 2, 2011, Pestano wounded Jamaican born Orce Butterfield at Morris Plaza on Airport Road over an unpaid jitney fare.

However, Butterfield testified before Chief Magistrate Clifton Warner that the story began before that date.

A chef at Beaches, Butterfield told the magistrate that one morning, prior to the incident, he hired the accused to take him to work.

He explained that Pestano used his personal car to run jitney but he never caught a ride with him before.

He claimed that he had seen Pestano around for five years but they were not friends.

On the morning he travelled to Beaches in the defendant’s car he was supposed to pay $2 for the ride.

However, upon reaching Beaches, he pulled out a $10 note but Pestano had no change. Butterfield knew he owed the $2 fare.

This was where the story became confusing, as Butterfield, determined to stick to his story but being prompted by persons sitting at the back of court during his evidence

and cross-examination, changed his story several times.

First he claimed, that he went into a barbershop at Morris Plaza for a haircut when Pestano approached him and asked for the money owed to him.

Then he said that he went into a nearby grocery shop to buy a bottle of water when Pestano approached him.

Then he attempted to blend the two stories by explaining that the grocery and barbershop are one entity.

He went into the barbershop but there were clients ahead of him so he bought a bottle of water and went outside to speak with some of his Jamaican friends.

Then he contradicted himself saying, he was not talking to friends he was waiting to have his hair cut.

The complainant said that while in the business place, the defendant demanded his money and with the use of indecent language, threatened him.

Even though he went for a haircut, he only had $5. He tried to give Pestano the $5 but the accused refused to take the money stating that Butterfield owed him for too long and the amount owed was now $9.

He tried to leave the shop but Pestano blocked his path and broke a glass bottle on the wall.

Then the story jumped a bit and Butterfield was now standing outside with his friends when he heard someone shout: “Mark look round.

You have a hole in your hand.”

Butterfield told the court that he did not know that he was wounded until the person alerted him. When he looked at his arm, there was a

piece of flesh missing.

He said he sustained 118 stitches and became utterly confused when the prosecutor asked him if he was sure about that.

He insisted that he remembered what he wrote in his statement but that only added to his confusion as he tried hard to remember the exact number of stitches he sustained.

Then he claimed he got 80 stitches and was absolutely certain that was correct until his supporters in the court, reminded him. He sustained 40 stitches.

During cross-examination, he said that he arrived at the plaza at 3.30pm. It took him 15 minutes to speak to the barber and purchase the water, but the incident happened at 3.30pm.

He denied embarrassing Pestano in front of others by flinging the $5 at him saying: “If you want it that bad pick it up.”

He also denied that the money was a loan that Pestano had given him.

He insisted that he did not speak one word to Pestano, then changed his story and admitted that he told the accused: “See your money here. I only have $5.”

He claimed that he did not see Pestano after he left the shop but later said that he saw when Pestano broke the glass bottle.

He said that he did not know if Pestano was with anyone but later admitted that the defendant was alone.

Two things he remained certain about, Pestano “was drunk” and he “did not see who wounded” him.

The case will continue.

Former Government worker to be retried for theft A JAMAICAN woman who was tried and sentenced to jail for three counts of theft lost her appeal against conviction and is set to be retried in the Magistrates’ Court at a date to be set.

Lorraine Kenlock was charged with obtaining property by deception in that between January 13, 2005, and November 23, 2006, she stole $254, 969.

It was said that she submitted invoices to be paid to her own Jamaican company while employed by the TCI Government as an IT personnel.

She hired a US firm to do the work but instead of paying the US company, she paid her own firm.

At the trial before former Magistrate Ryhs Bhurris in Grand Turk, Principal Crown Counsel JoAnn Meloche asked for a trial in the Supreme Court because of the quantity of money that was involved.

Kenlock opted for Magistrates’ Court trial and Magistrate Bhurris agreed to have the matter tried in the lower court.

The prosecution proved their case and Kenlock was convicted and sentenced to jail.

However, Magistrate Bhurris neglected to sign the section 17 enquiry, which stated that the defendant opted for trial in the Magistrates’ Court.

Defence attorney Noelle Skippings appealed to the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice agreed that document should have been signed.

He declared the trial annulled and order a new trial in the Magistrates’ Court.

But, Skippings was not satisfied and appealed to the Court of Appeal to dismiss the case altogether saying that the Chief Justice had no jurisdiction to order a retrial.

The appellate court disagreed with Skippings and disallowed the appeal.

They sent it back for trial in the Magistrates’ Court.

CALSON Williams faced trial in the Providenciales Magistrates’ Court this week for possession of cannabis with intent to supply.

It was alleged that on September 5, 2009, police officers caught the young man attempting to discard the drugs, whilst at his apartment in North Caicos.

Sergeant Aubrey Hope testified that on that date, he along with several other police ranks went to the apartment building to execute a search warrant on another apartment.

The officers went to the apartment where Williams resided with his then girlfriend Courtella Forbes to enquire the whereabouts of the neighbour.

Hope said that he saw Williams run to the back door and throw out a white plastic bag. He then returned to the front door to greet the officers.

Realising that something was amiss, the police officers went to the back of the building and saw the white plastic bag that Williams threw out.

In the bag, they found the illegal substance.

When the officers questioned Williams about their find, he replied: “How you see me through the window.”

On Wednesday, Forbes testified that she and Williams were at home together when the police car arrived.

Williams got up and ran to the back door and later returned.

During cross-examination, she admitted that there was a door to block the officers’ view but the door was open.

She also said that there was a screen on the window.

Then former police officer Denzel Delano Smith took the stand.

He testified that he was attached to the criminal investigation department in Providenciales and on September 8 he travelled to North Caicos with a camera and some finger print forms.

In North Caicos he took fingerprints from Williams, collected the cannabis in a clear plastic bag from Sgt Hope, and returned to

Providenciales. He then checked the bag for fingerprints.

He claimed that he wrote his signature on the envelope with the drugs and later handed it over to the then exhibit keeper Sergeant Grantley Williams.

However, when presented with the envelope in court, Smith search for about four minutes but did not find his signature on the envelope.

For the defence Courtenay Barnett submitted to Chief Magistrate Clifton Warner that the chain of custody of the alleged drugs was broken with Smith since he could not find his signature on the envelope.

Additionally, Smith spoke of a clear plastic bag, which is a direct contradiction to what the other police officer testified.

An inspection of the exhibits book revealed that the cannabis was moved some 11 times.

However, 10 of the movements clearly stated the purpose why the drug was being moved.

But, on September 10, 2009, the exhibit was uplifted by a Lavar Smith who bore the same force number 83 as Denzel Smith.

That date, no reason was given why the drug was uplifted. It was returned the same day.

On November 9, 2009, Officer Brandi Swann uplifted the exhibit and ferried it to Nassau for forensic testing.

She returned it four days later with a forensic report. That report is also being questioned.

Attorney Barnett, took issue with the fact that the report stated that the same amount of cannabis deposited for testing was the same amount that left the facility after testing.

He found that strange since some of it should have been lost during the analysis.

He inferred that according to the report, the substance was never tested.

The case will continue on April 23.

Paedophile to serve out four-year sentence A CHILD molester who was sentenced to four years for having sex with a girl under the age of 13 lost his appeal in the appellate court last week.

Deverine Simmons, aged 32, appealed the sentence before Justices Edward Zacca, Elliot Mottley and Richard Ground.

After reviewing the evidence against Simmons, the judges decided that the sentence was fair and denied the appeal.

On August 8, 2011, Simmons appeared in a Grand Turk Court and pled guilty to the offence.

He was originally charged with six counts of unlawful carnal knowledge but Crown Counsel Latisha Williams withdrew the first five counts and proceeded with the last one which happened just before the child’s thirteenth birthday.

The court heard that Simmons, a father of three girls, was caught redhanded in the child’s home by the police and her mother. He was hiding in the bathroom closet.

Simmons was taken back to Grand Turk prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.

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We welcome letters from all members of the public on a variety of topics Please note that all submissions are subject to editing in keeping with defamation laws and newspaper style. Letters should be accompanied by the author’s full name, location and phone number. Names will be withheld if requested.

Beaches agreement – setting the record straight Dear Editor, Readers, I am very perplexed about Mr Butch Stewart’s continued effort to undermine the intelligence of Turks and Caicos Islanders by publishing a statement in all of the media houses entitled ‘Building and sustaining Beaches TCI’.

Is he stating that it is only expatriate rather than TCIs that can sustain Beaches?

With the greatest respect for Mr Stewart’s many, many, many years of hands-on and leadership skill sets, I wish to disagree and opine.

Beaches (Sandals and Beaches Resort) is indeed a success in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

And as evidenced, we must not make any inference to the contrary!

Success and major accomplishments are the result of best and great leadership just as well as distinct and intentional disfranchisement and marginalisation, and not to mention alienation.

Those are attributes of a dark

leader and must be changed, redirected or simply in this instance case, challenged!

Mr Stewart, displaying the acumens of a pioneer hotelier here in the TCI does not give you a license to exercise disdain.

You are not to use the slights that the Mike Misick and previous other administrations have allowed, under the false disguise to intentionally exclude TCIs from meaningful employment.

TCIs deserve more, they deserve the best, and they all must be given a level field of opportunities, not only to compete for select jobs but to be included in directed programmes to excel in meaningful management positions.

As mentioned in a previous letter I want the general readership to be reassured that the acts or inacts of the leadership/management of Beaches appear to be decisive and acting with much resolve, and that there is authority (though questionable).

But what was quite disturbing

was that it appeared that the expat community had the upper hand in selection.

Mr Stewart, that act was wrong despite the fact that it is legal here in the TCI (a practice that I do not subscribe to) to intentionally give preference to TCI nationals.

In your statement to the country you succinctly pointed out some glaring marketing and may I say disparaging points and issues riddled with much deceit that I think in all fairness need to be ‘unspinned’ for the unsuspecting lay TCI. The CAPS bold are Beaches statements and the following response is restating the truth and real meaning of the statements: HOW WE RECRUIT: Working closely with the Ministry of Labour.

How can this be when the former Commissioner of Labour, in the media said she was not aware of the full agreement?

PROTECTING THE BRAND: In order not to jeopardise the Beaches brand.

This statement is quite disturbing.

Sir, are you saying that importation of expats is preferred to employing local TCIs protects Beaches brand?

Are we to assume that TCIs do not have worth?

BELONGERS FIRST: Our ratio of local employment is greater than any other hotel operation.

We must commend Beaches for performing as expected, that is part of the agreement (still questionable).

A CARIBBEAN BRAND: Our policy is to provide needed employment firstly to the host country.

We now ask, why is the TCI treated differently?

What is the ratio of TCIs vs expat as compared to other Caribbeans vs expats?

ANTI JAMAICAN SENTIMENTS: It is about successfully operating a high level hotel resort.

Yes, the full agreement is public knowledge but the requirement of local first is not being evident in Beaches hiring and recruiting

practices and again we ask why?

WHAT WE BROUGHT TO TCI: Additional uplift, at Beaches expense air routes, major airlines, Beaches family resorts experiences and international advertising.

Mr Stewart, being an experienced hotelier the above are mere vehicles and costs that are to ensure continuity, continuance and sustainability, and not attributes to be assigned and associated with the TCI product.

Hence, though it may not be intentional, the results are that the statements are deceitful to the general TCI public at large and can mislead and give the wrong message!

Again, not speaking for or on behalf of the government or the Labour Department, but for the undersigned and all the unemployed TCIs, with respect I humbly ask you, Mr Stewart, to invite a representative taskforce to a joint conciliatory forum, to reason.

Regards, Edward E Smith

My vision for the Turks & Caicos Dear Editor, Let me say that I love criticism for several reasons. The good ones make me feel like what I am doing is worthwhile and the not so good ones make me take a moment to reflect and calculate my actions, and in some cases take alternative approaches.

I wrote a poem the other day when I was feeling particularly discouraged entitled ‘I’m Tired,’ in which I complained about the current situation in the Turks and Caicos, to which I received come criticism that I always complain and have not expressed solutions or a way forward.

I didn’t realise that I was not as in depth as I could have been on what my vision is for the Turks and Caicos Islands when I spoke of freedom, justice, a true democracy and a united country.

To be more to the point about my vision for the TCI I find it necessary to try and express myself and hope that I can cover my vision in one letter. I have big dreams so I will have to word this in point form.

So here goes: • First of all I would like to see

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our people treated with respect and decency and to live under a government that respects their wishes.

I would like a true democracy where we are not ignored and changes that we want are implemented.

I would like a mature, accountable and transparent government that is serious about the country’s affairs.

I would like a constitution that is written for us, by us.

I would like to see our people put back to work so that they can take care of their families.

I would like to see inward investment return to the country.

I would like the scholarship fund to be re-implemented so that funds for this purpose do not go into the consolidated fund.

I would like to see affordable and proper medical care for all.

I would like to see the lease hold policy re-implemented so that people who cannot afford the land outright can own their own homes.

I would like to see true affordable housing.

• I would like welfare payments to be increased so that we can properly care for our children and the poor.

• I would like our teachers back in schools, proper facilities built to meet the demands and the introduction of special needs teachers to properly access and cater to children with special needs.

• I would like an accredited university to be established.

• I would like to renegotiate with commercial banks, PPC, Provo Water and with food stores so that the cost of home ownership, electricity, water, and food are affordable as they are basic human rights.

• I would like to see developments such as the Ritz Carlton, Dellis Cay, Royal Reef and others brought back to the table so that we can create jobs in the short term and increase tourist arrivals to this destination.

• I would like to see proper infrastructure in terms of roads and drainage systems put in place.

• I would like more efficient waste disposal.

• I would like to see better control of animals.

• I would like to see large scale agriculture being undertaken.

• I would like decreased taxes immediately to ease the burden on our people.

• I would like to see TC Invest re-established so that we can have more entrepreneurs when the commercial banks turn their backs.

• I would like the Tourist Board to remain under the government and not privately operated.

• I would like a decrease in crime and effective crime prevention.

• I would like the trial by judge alone and the Hearsay Evidence Bill to be thrown out so that we can have a fair judiciary.

• I would like civil servants to receive the pensions that they deserve.

• I would like workers in the hospitality industry to get 100 per cent of their gratuity, because they earned it.

• I would like qualified Turks and Caicos citizens to get the first opportunity at any job available in the country.

• I would like the development of trade schools for auto mechanics, electricians, plumbers, drafting, baking technology, designing, cosmetology and many other areas so that we can have locally grown entrepreneurs annually for increased productivity and to stimulate the economy.

The above points are some of the things I would like to see implemented in the short term.

However, being realistic the constitution that the FCO has given to us ties our hands and limits what we can do on behalf of our people, even when we have a return of elected government.

It is going to be a long and hard battle with care and unity of all our people to make change happen.

I believe that it is not impossible, but we need all hands on deck to accomplish the many things that this country needs.

I hope this answer sheds some light for some of my critics and others who wanted to know what I would like to see happen in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Euwonka Selver

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Open letter to the Governor Dear Your Excellency, This letter serves to bring to your attention a situation that is critical to the health and welfare of our people.

I am certain that you are aware of this situation as representation has been made by the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB) on several occasions.

The National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP) was established as an agent of government for the purpose of collecting and managing contributions from employers, employees and from the government in order to provide finances for the health of our people particularly those who are most vulnerable.

This plan was intended to be a social health insurance plan, where those who have, assist in paying for those who have not.

It was neither intended nor was it designed that the NHIP be solely funded by the people through direct taxation, but the government was required to make a significant contribution to the NHIP fund in order that provisions would be available for the care of its employees, the indigent, the elderly and the unemployed.

The NHIP makes provision that all persons who are legally resident in this country receive the stated health benefits, provided that their contributions are in good standing.

The government is currently the chief violator of payment of contributions to NHIP for persons for whom it is responsible.

The government must ensure that it pays its contribution for the pensioners as spelt out in the NHIP regulations.

It must ensure that it pays for the indigent and wards of the state, as well as it must ensure that it pays for the unemployed.

There are a large number of individuals who fall into the category of unemployed beyond 90 days and who are still legally resident in this country.

These individuals are now finding it difficult to receive any medical treatment because of an oversight in the legislation which removes these individuals from coverage under any category.

This situation has been brought to the attention of the administration on many occasions by the NHIB without resolution.

There were several opportunities to correct these anomalies, an example of such was during the recent revision of regulations to raise NHIP contributions among other amendments.

This situation was simply ignored because it required that the government commit to delinquent and outstanding payments for health care for those individuals for whom they are responsible.

I am calling on your office to make the matter of this anomaly and its correction an urgent priority in the legislation.

Please ensure that efforts are made to address this situation to protect to health of my people.

Dr Rufus W Ewing

Response to Dr Ewing’s letter Dear Editor, I thank Dr Rufus Ewing for his insightful and thoughtful reflections on the funding arrangements of the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB).

Dr Ewing is well placed to offer such a valuable perspective given his central role in developing the policy that led to the creation of the NHIB. He has perhaps given readers of his letter the wrong impression regarding payments to the plan made from the public purse.

I am pleased to confirm that the Turks and Caicos Government is fully up to date with its contributions to both the NHIP and, for that matter, the National Insurance Board also.

Dear Editor, I had the opportunity to read the Governor’s press statement today in response to my open letter to him on NHIP. If the government’s contributions to NHIP for the indigent, unemployed and ward of state was indeed made recently as stated by the Governor, I stand corrected and welcome that long overdue payment.

However, the issue of most importance is the issue of the

Error apparent

By David Tapfer The Misick government however was on a fast track to oblivion. Only a year later in came Sir John Stanley and the process taking us to the inquiry,

Specifically, TCIG transferred $25m to the NHIB in the last financial year to assist with its costs.

Of this $12m was transferred to meet the cost of the Treatment Abroad Programme and Contributions for Wards of State, $13m was cover the cost of Clinical Service payments and ICL Reconciliation Payments.

With regards to unemployment, Dr Ewing is correct that the current ordinance does not allow for unemployed persons to receive benefits after 90 days.

He is something of an expert in these matters having been a member of the NHIB Steering Committee, which implemented the NHIP, and, until only a few weeks ago, he was

a member of the NHIB Board of Directors in his capacity as Director of Health Services.

This important issue was discussed at the last NHIB board meeting and the organisation is currently examining various options.

While I understand that no formal decisions have been made, I believe that this includes the options of contributory payments by unemployed persons or an extension beyond the 90 day period.

I am sure that they will further inform the people of the TCI of these in due course.

Patrick Boyle Acting Governor

Response to Acting Governor’s letter

COMMENTARY

UNLESS some unforeseen event comes along it becomes clearer everyday that elections will take place this year.

Kitchen table discussions center on those who will obviously be a candidate, those who have walked away from politics, those waiting in the wings and two who have been chosen by elements within their parties to become the leadership heir apparents.

It has now been well over 5 years since we had an election, an unprecedented period.

The 2007 election was so one-sided some thought that administration would last forever.

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the grinding Wetherell years, SIPT and the beginnings of court actions finally began. July court news promises to make the inquiry revelations seem mild.

What we have learned in this is confirmation of what was rumored seven years ago, TCIG as a government is and was broke. The selling off of our most precious assets, the land itself, prolonged the agony.

It was what Sharlene Cartwright Robinson as National Chairwoman of the PDM called in her post 2008 convention speech “The Run”. In this period, it has become clear that lack of understanding by a trio of British governors and/or their disconnected

unemployed persons who were unemployed for more than 90 days who are currently not covered under the NHIP. As stated by the Governor, this issue has not been resolved and has been an area of concern for the NHIB for the sometime now and has been brought to the attention of the interim administration long ago without any efforts or interest to resolve the issue.

I am therefore pleased that it is

being given some attention and would hopefully be resolved soon.

The resolution of this issue is of critical importance as the lives of our unemployed population depends on it.

I thank the Governor for his attention to this matter.

bosses at the Foreign Office in London permitted the run and its continuing consequences.

The FCO wants TC Islanders to pay for “The Run” through the latest load of taxes and fees. The FCO is paying for the load of advisers who are having their own run. Its cold and dreary in London.

Now they will fund SIPT because the taxes “hurt but don’t work.”

Soon it will be VAT. None of this can overcome the basic stumbling block, something called NHIP; now known as “Ewing-care”.

NHIP alone is consuming 40 per cent of every government tax dollar spent and borrowed. Not only is it unaffordable it is also not working. Primary care the primary responsibility of Doctor Ewing is now poor, expensive, and no longer furnishes medications. You obtain needed medications after you make your NHIP contribution, your copy and take a trip to the pharmacies many

miles away.

In the illegally constructed PNP headquarters next month that party will likely elect their error apparent Ewing himself.

A man that does not make sense. In one interview alone, he denied his leading part in NHIP then said he would have done it different, but nevertheless it was wonderful. This is the fellow who as premier will save the country after he put his CSA leadership scalpel in the heart of our singular income source, tourism, stranding hundreds of our guests with needless airport strikes.

What I personally found extra strange is his statement that becoming a Medical Doctor was a planned step towards leading the country but his CSA service was not!

Selecting leaders for our country who are disconnected from reality seems to be our future error apparent.

Dr Rufus W Ewing

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Letters

continued

No need for more court rooms Changing landscape

Dear Editor, I was appalled by the Governor’s recent statement informing the public that the UK government is spending over $1m to develop a suitable courtroom for the upcoming trials.

The money will be used to renovate the former Myrtle Rigby Hospital into courtrooms, holding cells, media rooms, witness rooms etc.

Let me make it clear that we do not want a new court house. The initiative is basically to make an international circus out of this entire process.

This is clearly a demonstration of the priorities of the British government.

The government has recently informed all ministries, departments and statutory bodies to reduce their budgets for 2012/13 by 25 per cent.

They have further given notice that no new capital projects will be budgeted.

The British government finds it difficult to contribute to the construction of a school, or a road or invest in the small business programme.

However, they would quickly invest in prisons and courtrooms for the people in the overseas territories.

There is absolutely no

development taking place in any of the family islands. Furthermore, more than 300 people have been laid off from the government and private businesses are still closing down their operations in TCI, terminating their workforce and moving their businesses to other territories.

What is wrong with the present courtroom?

Yes, it is small and cannot accommodate all the spectators, however, do we really need to make this a spectacle?

More than 13 people have been charged with very serious crimes, and yes they can go to jail.

These people have brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.

Their children sit in schools being taught alongside our children, they have relatives in the workforce with us probably attending the same church that we attend.

Why do we need to make this a circus and cause even greater grief and distress to our brothers and sisters?

Yes, these people might have done wrong, much of which I am sure they had no idea of the gravity of their actions and certainly did not think they were doing anything amiss.

However, let us be honest with ourselves, those people charged are

as far from being criminals as I am from being the pope.

As a matter of fact, up until now I doubt any of them have ever sat in a court house as a respondent.

These are people who have never committed even the most minor offence.

I call on the government to desist from spending money on an additional courtroom, and use this money to help unemployed persons develop small business projects in the tourism industry.

Tourism is booming in Providenciales, but the tourism product is far from developed.

Rebuild the Ona Glinton Primary School, resurface the Millennium Highway in Providenciales or build a proper cemetery for Provo.

Do not make a circus out of these court cases and bring further disgrace on the people of TCI, 98 per cent of Turks and Caicos Islanders are innocent.

I call on the leaders of our country - Carlos Simons, Derek Taylor, Rufus Ewing and Sharlene CartwrightRobinson, Royal Robinson, Ewonka Selver and others to formally oppose this project.

Andrew Williams

Response to Carlos Simons statement

Dear Editor, I am a Turks and Caicos Islands citizen who has as of last week, reconfirmed my status as a TCI citizen and re-registered to vote in the upcoming 2012 general election.

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to express my opinion on various issues of the day affecting the Turks and Caicos Islands.

On April 24, 2012, a press released titled ‘Statement of Mr Carlos W Simons QC, Expressions Radio Talk Show, April 23, 2012’ was released into the public domain by Mr Simons via his public relations team.

As a Progressive National Party (PNP) supporter, I was totally shocked, surprised and taken aback as to the outright political posturing and duplicity being displayed by this man.

Mr Carlos Simons, QC must really believe that we the people of the TCI are complete fools and idiots, and that we are so blind, we can’t see through his flagrant hypocrisy.

Obviously, it must be his intention to get us and keep us all drunk again with grand illusions until the general election is over.

Well I would like to be the first to let him know: We have already been there, and done that, so he needs to

revisit his play book and come again, and in using a play on his words: That is how we TCI’s roll.

Mr Simons is of the conviction that all TCIs above the age of 30 have memory loss, and therefore his past is automatically expunged from the pages of history.

In his April 23, 2012, press statement, he said among other things the following: “I want to take this opportunity to tell those delegates who don’t quite understand the seriousness of the time we live in, what they ought to be looking for in the next leader of our party, and the next Premier of our country – experience, maturity, stability, standing and reputation, commitment and the ability to deliver.

“The ability to make the case for the TCI…” “I can say, without fear of contradiction, I have those qualities in greater measure than anyone who is currently in the leadership race or who might be thinking about it.”

Then he went on to list his record from 1985 to present, and summed it up by saying: “Like one party delegate put it in introducing me in North Caicos last Thursday night ‘he (Carlos Simons) is no small fry’.”

SPACE IS LIMITED!

Well, from Mr Simons’ abovementioned press statement, it is clearly evident who is the one that is suffering from memory loss, and it is not the people of the TCI. However, due to his memory loss he forgot to include in his record a list of personal offences against the people of the TCI. The reason why Special Prosecutor Ms Helen Garlic and her team of international attorneys and investigators are here in the Turks and Caicos Islands, is because of disingenuousness individuals.

And for those TCIs who do not know any better, Mr Simons or any other future Premier will not be able to stop this Special Investigation Prosecution Team from concluding its investigation and prosecution.

Therefore, do not be fooled.

People of the TCI, is this the kind of person that we want to lead the Turks and Caicos Islands into the future, and one day into independence?

I do not think so.

Again I would like to say thank you.

Arturo Missick A PNP supporter for change

of TCI Government Dear Editor, Permit me some space to enlighten the people of the TCI to what is taking place under the interim administration.

I also want to sensitise members of the Advisory Council and the Consultative Forum.

When the PDM administration left office in 2003, all key positions in the government were localised, and this continued under the PNP. Concerted efforts were made to train local people and build capacity among our people to ensure they are capable of doing their jobs.

This development has been drastically reversed by the British over the past three years.

Frankly speaking the actions of the British government is tantamount to naked modern day racism.

The above strong statement is supported by the following analysis from TCIG press releases and other well-placed sources: • Director of NIB, Trevor Cooke – replaced with Collin Heartwell • Director of TC Invest, Conrad Higgs – replaced with Rebecca Astwood • Director of Social Development, Adella Williams – replaced with Annette Joseph • Ambulance supervisor, Darren Hall – replaced with Pat Reil • Chief Economist, Kathleen Forbes – replaced with Stephen J Pollard • Director of Planning, Ian Astwood – proposed replacement Kathleen Wood • Director of DECR, Wesley Clerveaux – proposed replacement Mark Day • Director of Agriculture, Donald Elvery – replaced with Nicky Turner • Director of Health Services, Rufus Ewing – proposed replacement Dawn O’Sullivan • PS OPSM, Susan Malcolm – replaced with Mark Greenway • Budget Director, Anya Williams – replaced with Jenny St Clair • Governor’s press officer,

Christine Shearer – replaced with Neal Smith • Chief Environmental Health Officer- position being advertised abroad The results of these decisions are far reaching for any elected government and for the long term sustainable development of the TCI. This trend will also undermine any efforts towards independence.

Both PNP and PDM are now talking about nation building.

The PNP for certain is pledging to take the TCI independent. None of these proposals are feasible with the brain drain of TCI natives, the removal of local capacity and depriving the islands of an inner ability to run its own affairs.

What will happen to all of these replacements after elections are completed and there is a localised Turks and Caicos Government?

Can this be considered a longterm trend of replacing career civil servants with these replacements?

Mind you, some of the people going home were lazy and dysfunctional and probably should never have held such positions of responsibility in the first place.

They in some limited cases almost justify these incorrect steps being taken by the interim government.

By and large in all cases where bad apples are weeded out and the good ones going home, there are locals, natives, persons with huge experiences in government and education, who can replace the outgoing persons.

Mr Governor, CEO, CFO, the Public Service Commission, which is supposedly ‘local’ and has the final say, must know that these decisions cannot be justified on any level.

In 60 per cent of the cases here, you are all being totally racist.

Finally, one must ask the British government a serious question: Did you come to wipe out corruption of the former government or did you come to install a latter day apartheid system?

David Forbes

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Inspection of motor vehicles to start on Wednesday Inspection of motor vehicles will begin on Grand Turk and Provo on Wednesday.

Mechanical workshops located on Provo and Grand Turk will be open on Mondays, Wednesday s and Fridays during the hours of 10:00am and 3:00pm respectively.

Authorised staff from the Public Works Department will be conducting the inspections.

The authority to inspect motor vehicles is in accordance with the Road Traffic Regulations, Part

11 Section 3 clearly says, “Officers of the Road Traffic and Public Works Departments, approved respectively by the Director of Road Safety and Transportation and the Chief Engineer for the purpose, are exclusively authorized to conduct inspections of motor vehicles.”

The Department of Road Safety will conduct the inspection of motor vehicles on the islands of North Caicos, South Caicos, Middle Caicos and Salt Cay until further notice.

Good feedback on Green Paper – Anya Williams

By Vanessa Narine CONSULTATION on the Green Paper on Value Added Tax (VAT) is ongoing and Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary (PS), Ms Anya Williams, maintains that the feedback has been good so far.

“We are keeping track of feedback, both positive and negative so that when we are ready we can move forward to make decisions,” she said in an invited comment on Wednesday.

According to her, the official analysis of the feedback will be available at the end of the consultation period, which was extended to June 19.

World food prices eased in April, FAO (REUTERS) Record high food prices last February helped to fuel the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Prices receded in the second half of 2011 but the uptrend resumed in January.

The FAO Food Price Index, which measures monthly price changes for a food basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, averaged 214 points in April, down from revised 217 in March, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday.

Yet soybean prices - at their highest since July 2008 - are likely to rise further due to tight supplies, driving corn prices higher, the agency’s senior economist said.

The index drop reflected a 2.5 percent month-onmonth fall in maize prices, a 1 percent fall in wheat and a 5 percent drop in sugar prices, which offset a 2.2 percent rise in vegetable oils fuelled by soaring soybean prices.

“You would see prices most likely remaining under downward pressure in the next couple of months,” the FAO’s senior economist and grain analyst Abdolreza Abbassian told Reuters, adding that weather remained a critical factor.

The index seems to have stabilized at a relatively high level of around 214 points, the FAO said in a monthly update.

Last week, the World Bank said costlier oil, strong

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demand from Asia and bad weather had been pushing up global food prices, adding that if current production forecasts for 2012/2013 do not materialize, prices could reach higher levels.

U.S. soybean futures, one of the major drivers on international grain markets in the past few months, have been fuelled by continuous purchases from China, the world’s largest buyer.

“For the (FAO) index, the conditions associated with oilseeds especially have been supportive,” Rabobank senior commodity analyst Keith Flury said.

BIGGER CROPS, TIGHT MARKET While record total cereal crops are expected this year, strong demand coupled with low initial stocks are likely to lead to tight supplies of coarse grains and soybeans which would support prices, the FAO said in its Food Outlook.

The FAO has cut its outlook for the world new crop wheat output to 675 million metric tonnes (744 million tons) from an earlier forecast of 690 million, down 3.6 percent from last year, citing output falls in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Morocco and the European Union.

International wheat prices in 2012/13 are expected to average lower than in the previous crop year, despite

smaller crops and shrinking stocks, due to a fall in consumption and large export supplies, the FAO said.

World cereals output is expected to rise in 2012/13 crop year by 1.1 percent to a record 2.371 billion tonnes, boosting closely watched stocks by 1.7 percent to 524 million tonnes at the end of the 2012/13 seasons, the agency said in its first forecast of new grain crops.

Coarse grains production is seen rising 3.7 percent to 1.207 billion tonnes, driven by a 4.1 percent increase in maize (corn) output to 916 million tonnes, the agency said citing preliminary forecasts.

But the coarse grains market is set to remain tight due to very low level of stocks, providing further support to prices, it said.

World prices of oilcrops and their derived products, which have been rising since the start of this year, are likely to remain firm due to an increasingly tight supply and demand situation of the current season, it said.

World soybean output is estimated to fall 9.5 percent to 240 million tonnes in 2011/12 year and the likelihood that soybeans would have to compete for cropland with maize, especially in the United States, in 2012/13 adds further support to prices, it said.

(Editing by Keiron Henderson and David Holmes)

Williams added that the VAT Implementation Team is making progress with its public awareness programme and has been engaging different media entities.

The PS noted that the team is expected to meet with the Chamber of Commerce and tourism sector next week.

The Advisory Council and Consultative Forum have reviewed, debated and approved the Green Paper on VAT and the public is being asked to provide feedback on the: • VAT registration threshold • VAT rate • VAT zero rated imports and supplies • VAT exempted imports and supplies • VAT refunds

Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary, Ms Anya Williams

• VAT accounting records, returns and simplified systems • VAT sector considerations • VAT economic and social impact

• VAT transitional issues The 23-page document outlines government’s policies and proposals as contained in the VAT Bill that is required for a successful implementation and efficient operation of VAT in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

A White Paper is expected to be formulated based on the feedback of stakeholders at the end of the consultation sessions.

The main features of VAT are registration, taxable supplies, zero-rated supplies, exempt supplies, exempt imports, input tax credits, returns, payments, assessments, refunds, accounting records, objections and appeals, penalties and recoveries.

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Chamber addressing new government policies

The new District Constables in A Division (Grand Turk), back row in uniform, at their passing out parade with senior RTCI Police officers, including Commissioner Colin Farquhar, front row middle.

New police district constables pass out with flying colours IT WAS a proud day for 12 TCI residents last week when after three weeks of practical and academic studies they passed out from training school with flying colours.

The delighted dozen are new RTCI Police District Constables and will be posted as court officers, station orderlies, airport security and community policing officers.

Head of Police, Commissioner

Colin Farquhar, said: “We are delighted to welcome the new District Constables to the RTCI Police and congratulate them all on the successful completion of their training.

“They are all highly talented and committed individuals who will now doubt prove themselves to be great assets to both the police service and the community they serve.”

The 12 new District Constables, who will be split between A Division in Grand Turk and B Division in Provo, are Terrisha Wilson, Baythsaeda Wright, Brenton Murray, Kelly Missick , Michele Forbes, Maressa Colahar, Sinartra Handfield, Janefer Stubbs, Marla Smith, Felicia Robinson, Shavern Ingham and Ladigua Handfield.

A MYRIAD of strategic developments and maneuvers by the Provo Chamber are underway as a result of the organisation’s mounting concerns about the impact of new government policies on the business community, and other negative factors impacting local commerce.

Among the activities are regular meetings with the country’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr Hugh McGarel-Groves.

President of the Provo Chamber of Commerce, Tina Fenimore, said, “It is vital that we ensure the business community is not overlooked and while we have had to fight for some of the face-time we are getting with certain in country and visiting groups, our membership can rest assured that The Chamber is not resting on its laurels.

“The sweeping changes in some 50 ordinances demand vigorous attention; and we have been giving them just that with our executive team meeting more frequently and going above and beyond what has been required in previous years.”

Among the extra activities of the Provo Chamber has been the preparation of several positions papers.

One has already been dispatched to London for the review of Rt. Hon. Alan Duncan,

Minister of State for International Development.

Fenimore said, “During his visit to the country, Minister Duncan who is head of the Department for International Development (DFID) requested that we pointedly express our concerns as a business community. A special team from our membership and Executive put together a position paper. We await reaction to it.”

The Chamber Executive has agreed that while there have not been a series of press conferences to expose the numerous efforts being made by this legislated body of professionals and entrepreneurs, there have been over a dozen initiatives undertaken.

The Chamber President said, “Over the next few days, weeks and months the public will be excited at the ‘coming out’ of our behind the scenes work and what it means for business development and its future in the islands.”

Some of the initiatives the Chamber is currently working on include: Junior Achievement; Support for junior chefs; Synergy through partnerships; Meetings and reports on future of TCI; Social Networking; Membership Boom; Higher visibility, own publication; Business performance survey; and Global representation.

First Cases of HFMD reported in Grand Turk

LIME staff at the SNAP centre

LIME staff brings smiles to the SNAP Centre

SOME members of staff of LIME, made a special stop at the SNAP Centre, last Friday.

The students and teachers were excited to receive the group and the team was glad to share some moments there.

The SNAP Centre works with students who are developmentally and physically challenged and Teachers Paula Simmons and Shenika Morgan are up to the task of

caring for the children.

Simmons said, “We would like to thank LIME for coming to the SNAP Centre.” She continued, “This is the second visit from LIME and we are grateful for your presence.”

Bearing gifts of goodies to the students as well as supplies and food items to help in the day to day running of the Centre, Team LIME staff members were also able to tour the facilities to gain an appreciation

for the work done at the Centre.

LIME’s Acting General Manager, Mrs. Delleriece Hall said, “Team LIME chose SNAP because we wanted the students and teachers to be encouraged. We wanted to come and sing and interact with the students.

“LIME will continue to assist with the SNAP Centre in the future wherever we can because when the children win, we all win.”

The first Cases of Hand Foot and Mouth (HFMD) disease has been reported in Grand Turk, bringing the total number of reported cases of HFMD in the TCI to 53 cases.

To date, all cases were reported in children under the age of 8 years, the majority of whom (49 cases) resided in Providenciales and have completely recovered from the illness.

HFMD is a contagious disease that primarily affects children. It is transmitted by direct contact with nasal secretions (droplets produced by coughing or sneezing), saliva and stool of infected individuals. HFMD is commonest in child care settings due to frequent contact with soiled diapers and children putting their hands in their mouths.

HFMD occasionally occurs in adolescents and adults. Symptoms include some or all of the following: painful sores in the mouth, rashes on the hands and feet, which may be associated with blisters, fever, headache, feeling generally unwell or irritable, runny nose, and/or sore throat.

HFMD is mostly a mild and self-limiting illness lasting for a

few days. However, there are more severe, albeit uncommon, forms of the disease which are associated with neurological complications as a result of meningitis (associated with fever, headache, and neck stiffness) and encephalitis (resulting in paralysis).

The MOHE is continuing its ongoing HMFD Prevention and enhanced Surveillance Campaigns in collaboration with the Environmental Health Department (EHD), of the Ministry of Environment and Home Affairs.

There is no specific treatment for hand-foot-and-mouth disease.

Symptom control, such as the use of paracetamol (Panadol or Tylenol) for fever and pain relief, is often all that is necessary. In some cases HFMD can cause a sore mouth and throat, which makes it difficult to swallow. It is therefore important to maintain adequate fluid intake to avoid dehydration resulting in hospitalization. Symptoms usually resolve within ten days. Meanwhile, you are urged to kindly report to your healthcare provider if you suspect that you or your child may have HFMD.

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Region’s police join forces in fight against illegal drugs POLICE are stepping up their fight against illegal drugs in the TCI. Officers are now sharing more information and intelligence than ever before with forces throughout South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

The increased interaction comes after two RTCI Police officers attended a major conference organised by the Centre for Drug Intelligence.

Sgt Nigel Gilkes and Victor Jepson travelled to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic where they exchanged thoughts, ideas and strategies with other drug-busting experts.

“The conference was organised by the Centre for Drug Intelligence and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),” explained Sgt Gilkes, “and was designed for Caribbean, Central

and South American drug law enforcement officers to meet and get acquainted with each other.

“The reason for this was to improve our contact base, share information about new trends of drug trafficking and concealment, and to give the opportunity for each participant to speak about what the drug situations in their respective countries.

“By doing so, it has enabled us to pick up some very valuable intelligence and information which we shall now put into practice to further safeguard the TCI from the perils of illegal drugs and the problems associated with them.”

Fighting the import, sale and use of illegal drugs in the TCI remains extremely high on the list of priorities for the police.

Deputy Commissioner, Brad

Sullivan, added: “Illegal drugs are sadly a major issue all over the world and while it’s not a huge problem here in the TCI, we cannot afford to be complacent.

“Conferences such as these are valuable in terms of sharing information and ideas with fellow police forces in the region who, like us, are determined to stamp out the import, the dealing of and use of, illegal drugs and substances.

“The RTCI Police are totally committed to this and officers will be undertaking advanced training at every possible opportunity, thus allowing us to remain one step ahead of the criminals.

“When it comes to drugs, we operate a zero tolerance attitude and offenders will be severely dealt with.”

Models take a tour TCI’s ten top model contestants have been rewarded for all their hard work with a fun day out.

The trip, courtesy of Island Rhythms Tours, saw them take in the sights and history of the Cheshire Hall Loyalist Plantation.

The young women hopped on the musical Jumbie Bus to visit the national historic site operated by the TCI National Trust.

Much of Cheshire Hall is lush with the native plants such as guinea grass, cow bush, bull vine and torchwood trees.

The contestants took time to have a wander about and found interpretive signs, stone-lined nature trails and

plant identification markers.

They also participated in an impromptu photoshoot.

The trip came following weeks of workshops to prepare the ten for the upcoming 2012 TCI Top Model Contest.

On Saturday, April 14, Oneika Simons-Rigby, marketing executive for the Turks and Caicos Islands Tourist Board presented a workshop on ‘Being an Effective Spokesmodel and a Strong Brand Ambassador’.

“The way you present yourself, the way you are received by the market directly influences the perception, acceptance, loyalty and value that is shared with the brand

you represent,” she explained.

WIV Channel 4 news anchor Takara Bain and Cynclair Musgrove gave a presentation on ‘Life In The Media: Under the Public Gaze’.

They advised contestants on the dos and don’ts of being in the media.

Competition executive producer Courtney Robinson said: “The additional workshops were fundamentally important, as the winner of the 2012 TCI Top Model Contest will also be the Digicel TCI Brand Ambassador for a year.”

The 2012 TCI Top Model Contest and Fashion Extravaganza will take place at the Williams Auditorium in Providenciales on Saturday, May 12.

Ashcroft tots start add sunflowers to their Garden GRADE Three and Senior Kindergarten students at the Ashcroft School have set up their own Garden Centre, following an enjoyable field trip to Sunshine Nursery six weeks ago.

Engaging the children in the garden’s set up, the teachers coordinated a Sunflower Growing Competition where each child plated a sunflower seed in a small pot and had to take them home and care for them for one month.

Last Friday, the tots brought their sunflowers back to see who had the best flowers.

The competition was ties and there were two winners, four-yearold Rhyan Dillon and five-year-Amy Danics.

At 60cm, Rhyan’s sunflower was the tallest and when asked how he managed to grow it so tall, he said, “I gave it lots of love and water every

this week

Friday, May 4 to Sunday, May 13 Friday, May 4  Danny Buoy’s is Provo’s premier live music and sports destination, serving lunch and dinner daily from 11:30am.

It is the perfect place to escape from the heat and hang with friends, all in smoke free airconditioned comfort.

Happy Hour specials from 4-7pm Monday-Saturday  Get into the weekend mood with the intense and electrifying Tae-Bo class at Graceway Sports Centre from 6pm to 7pm. Free for fitness members, $12 for non-members.

Visit www.gracewaysports.com for more information or call 4426349.  Craig Archibold gets the party started at the Regent Palms from 7pm on Friday nights with the sound of classic Caribbean and Motown tunes. Call 946-8666 for details

Saturday, May 5  CINCO DE MAYO FIESTA! Great Food, Great Fun, Music, Giveaways PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL ON THE DOCK IN TURTLE COVE. ANY QUESTIONS CALL TONY 231-1645 OR JESUS 331-2238

 The Weekly Community and Farmers’ Market organized

by TCI Red Cross is on at the organization’s headquarters, opposite Lime on the Leeward Highway in Providenciales, from 10am to 2pm.

Persons will be able to purchase freshly grown produce and locally sourced items.

For more information on the Weekly Community and Farmers’ Market call (649) 247-8911. With regard to the TCI Red Cross’ services or how you can volunteer or donate, contact our Provo office on (649) 941-8056 or email redcrossprovo@tciway.tc OR for Grand Turk call (649) 946-2761 or Email:tciredcross@tciway.tc  If you’re looking for a serene

Rhyan Dillon’s had the tallest sunflower

day.”

Amy said she kept it outside on

her deck in the sunshine and watered it every day.

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and relaxed way of starting your weekend, bring your yoga mat at Graceway Sports Centre every Saturday at 9am and let David Bowen lead you into the wonderful world of yoga!

Amazing fees for an amazing class! More info at 442-6348”  Mums and Tots Dance Party classes are held every Saturday at Graceway Sports Centre for mothers and their little ones.

Mothers, bring your little ones to dance, jump, twist and shake! Children have fun learning movement basics to fun music and mums get a light exercise while spending quality time. Mums and Tots classes begin at 10am and cost just $10. Dads are welcome!

Call Shara Bowen on 244-1103 for more details.

Sunday, May 6  Rotary Bingo has a new home at CLUB PILLOWS in the Bight next to Smokey’s (Opposite Veranda Resort) EVERY SUNDAY! Doors open at 7:00 pm  Weekly Foreign a Fare night every Thursday at the Bohio Dive Resort (Grand Turk) from 6:30 p.m.

Each week different dishes from a different region in the world.

Previous nights have included Italian, Spanish, English, Indian, Chinese, Moroccan, South African and Thai.

For details, call 946-2135 or go to www.bohioresort.com946-2135

Saturday, May 12  Provo Primary’s Arabian Night Party @ Lemon from 7pm 11:30pm Party the night away at Provo Primary’s annual fundraiser, to be held this year at Lemon Cafe.

Tickets are $50/each, include buffet dinner, dessert, silent auction, fire show and belly dancing.

Sunday, May 13 HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY!!!

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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Calls for orderly behaviour during Bahamian elections – After Christie’s wife spat at POLITICIANS have renewed calls for civil and orderly behaviour during elections after a supporter spit at the wife of a party leader.

Progressive Liberal Party leader Perry Christie and his wife faced angry jeers from opposition supporters when they arrived at the advance poll on Tuesday for the May 7 General Elections.

Mr. Christie said the couple was bombarded with vulgar and provocative insults as they pulled up to the entrance of the College of The Bahamas’ hotel training institute.

The culprits reportedly called Mr. Christie a “sissy” and shouted at his wife to return to the United States.

Mr. Christie’s wife,

Bernadette Christie, was reportedly spit at by an elderly man in a Free National Movement shirt who approached the car.

“There was somebody out there in a lacefront weave, she was just spewing venom at me,” Mrs Christie added.

“We’re beyond this, I don’t know why people get so worked up. It’s just a political process, you vote for who you prefer, give me

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She added: “I told her it’s all love, I love you, and that’s how I deal with it.”

Mr Christie said: “Anyone who knows me, knows I ain’t no sissy. The point is that kind of talk is just so vulgar, unacceptable and inflammatory because you see on the other side were PLPs and when they heard that we had to calm them down and so that is what is wrong.”

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Belonger Status and Voter Registration NoticE BELONGER STATUS BY RESIDENCE, NATURALIZATION, BESTOWAL, BY VIRTUE OF BEING A DEPENDENT CHILD OF A BELONGER

BELONGERS STATUS BY BIRTH - BORN IN THE tURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

Residence – If you were a Commonwealth citizen and was ordinarily resident in the islands for seven (7) or more years prior to June 1, 1971, you are a Belonger.

Naturalization – If you were naturalized in the islands before September 19, 1990, you are a Belonger.

Bestowal – If you are granted a Certicate of Belonger Status under the provision of the Immigration Ordinance, at any time, you are a Belonger.

By virtue of being a dependent child You are a Belonger if (a) Before June 1, 1971 you were under the age of 16 and was a dependent child of a Belonger by being the biological child of a Belonger or by being adopted by a Belonger or through marriage of your mother or father to a Belonger

BELONGERS STATUS BY DESCENT - BORN OUTSIDE THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

(b) After September 18, 1990 you were under the age of 18 and was a dependent child of a Belonger by being the biological child of a Belonger or by being adopted by a Belonger or through marriage of your mother or father to a Belonger (c) Before November 1, 1992, you were a Commonwealth citizen and was the dependent child of a Belonger (d) After October 31st, 1992, you were the dependent child of a Belonger

Registration for verification of Belonger Status in the Turks and Caicos Islands and registration as an elector in the upcoming general election commenced on Monday, April 16, 2012.

The registration schedule for each island is as follows: PROVIDENCIALES Dates: APRIL 16 –MAY 25, 2012 Venue: Town Centre Mall Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Surname Beginning with A–H I–P General Q–T U–Z General

GRAND TURK Dates: APRIL 16 –MAY 11, 2012 Venue: Elections Office Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Surname Beginning with

April 16 - 20, 2012 April 23-27, 2012 April 30 – May 4, 2012 May 7 – 11, 2012 May 14 – 18, 2012 May 21 – May 25, 2012

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Dates: APRIL 18 –MAY 11, 2012 Venue: District Commissioner’s Office Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Dates: APRIL 23 –MAY 11, 2012 Venue: District Commissioner’s Office Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Dates: April 23- May 4, 2012 Venue: District Commissioner’s Office Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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For further information please contact the Elections Office at Telephone number 946-2801 extn 11701/2 or the the Ministry of Border Control and Labour at telephone number 946-2801 extn 81514 or 40711 or via email at

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Application forms with supporting information regarding photographs, the elections ordinance and other relevant information is available on line at the Turks and Caicos Islands Government website at

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Regional PMs pushing for switch to CCJ A GROWING number of political leaders in the English-speaking nations of the Caribbean are pushing to shed their islands’ colonial past and replace the Londonbased Privy Council with a regional appeals court.

Safiya Ali, general counsel of the 15-nation Caribbean Community, said last Thursday that recent moves by prime ministers to end a reliance on the colonial-era British court for appeals is providing momentum for the long-debated transition to the Caribbean Court of Justice.

The most recent public statement in support of the change came last week when T&T’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said her administration is preparing legislation that she hopes will allow the Caribbean court to hear all her country’s appeals in criminal cases.

“Time and again, we have heard comments to the effect that the (Privy Council) is out of sync with the times and our independence and should be replaced with a regional court of last resort,” Persad-Bissessar said. Leaders of former British colonies in the region complain the London court has stymied

Last week T&T’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said her administration is preparing legislation that she hopes will allow the Caribbean court to hear all her country’s appeals in criminal cases.

attempts to hang convicted murderers, frustrating what local governments say is a popular demand to crack down on criminals. They also say embracing the regional court is about sovereignty and severing outdated ties with the former colonial overlord.

Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said earlier this year that replacing the Privy Council would “end judicial surveillance from London.” The leaders of Grenada, Dominica and St Lucia also have voiced support recently for the regional court.

Ali said there is a “growing confidence” in the region for the Caribbean Court of Justice, which heard its first case in 2005. “This means that we will be well on the way to meeting the vision behind the court,” she said from Guyana, where the Caribbean Community has its secretariat.

So far, though, only Barbados, Guyana and Belize have officially made the switch from the Privy Council, which has served as the final appellate court for Caribbean locales for nearly 200 years. Both Simpson Miller and Persad-Bissessar said joining the switch would be an important milestone as both Jamaica and Trinidad will be marking 50 years of independence from Britain this year.

Both countries are also struggling to dismantle gangs and fight levels of violent crime that were unthinkable when they achieved independence.

In Grenada, Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said that the country is fully committed to the Caribbean court. Lawmakers are ironing out constitutional changes and expect to hold a referendum to decide the matter. “We are putting all the necessary measures in place,” Thomas said.

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Turks & Caicos Weekly News The world celebrates this Mother’s Day on May 13

Where it all began Contrary to popular belief, Mother’s Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark.

The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.

In the United States, Mother’s Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it “Mother’s Work Day.” Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet,

pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.

In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother.

Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, “I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother’s day.

There are many days for men, but none for mothers.”

Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna’s mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother’s favorite flower, the

white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother’s Day. In 1914 Anna’s hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday.

At first, people observed Mother’s Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the

increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day’s sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother’s Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother’s group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother’s day tradition.

Make mom’s day!

Washington Irving once said, “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

So this mother’s day we can give back to her, by making her day special.

Tips to make her day: • Favorite chocolates or treat • Clean her car, crumbs and all • Take her on a family outing that is completely planned • Make a framed photo of her and the kids

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10 top gift ideas to make her feel special If asked, the mom in your life will probably tell you she wants nothing more than a homemade card and a hug for Mother’s Day. While that’s true, wouldn’t it be fun to surprise her with a little something she’s not expecting?

We’ve come up with a gift list for Mother’s Day that has something for every kind of mother. Even those who insist they want nothing more than a homemade card!

1. Say it with Seeds

Instead of a bouquet that soon wilts, give her a garden that will keep growing flowers all summer long.

These seeds for a cutting flower garden come packaged in a handmade porcelain berry basket. We found the company, Hudson Valley Seed Library, at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Antique and Garden Fair. $34

2. Chic Jewelry for Moms Whether

her

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is hippie-casual, modern and sculptural, every mom wants a piece of jewelry that reminds her of her kids. Initials, birthstones, photos—lots of possibilities. To get you started, we have local jewelry makers on our Better List who’d love to help.

3. New Summer Tote

If she’s going to be running from pool to beach to camp with the kids this summer, she deserves a new bag to sling over her shoulder. When these bags from Flee in Winnetka were in our office for a photo shoot, we almost didn’t return them. (Kelly Konrad’s husband, take note!)

4. Mommy Membership

Yes, she loves going to Kohl Children’s Museum with the kids, but sometimes a mom needs to walk and talk with other grown-ups.

Gift her a membership to the Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Botanic Garden —

anywhere that she used to love to go pre-kid.

5. A Gift that Gives, Too

Northbrook Court has some amazing gift packages for moms.The best part is that everything was donated by the merchants at Northbrook Court, so 100% of the proceeds will go to charity.

6. Favorite Photos

Instead of a photo in a frame, take that picture of mom and the kids and turn into a piece of art. Easy, even for a total non-artist! We love Canvas on Demand, because of their two initiatives Hi Honey! and Hi Mom! that support the families of deployed troops.

7. Handmade with Help

We have a great article with handmade ideas for the little ones to make for mom. For older kids, print out this PDF of how to make silhouettes and then send them to

Paper Source for supplies. If that’s more than you can handle, bring your kids to Westfield Old Orchard on Saturday, May 5. Volunteers from District 39 will be helping children make crafts and cards for mom.

8. Handmade (but not by you)

Etsy has gorgeous gift guides with ideas for moms. Check out these curated lists. Just search Mother’s Day and then add a descriptor. When we searched for ideas for moms who cook, we got this great collection

9. Cooking Kids

Brunch out is lovely any day but Mother’s Day, when the lines are long and buffets abound. This year, let her lounge with the paper or go on a power walk, while you and the kids tackle brunch. Here’s a great coffee cake that kids can make for mother’s day (Just make sure

to clean the kitchen when you’re done!!)

10. Get Out On Town

Some years, the best gift you can give a mother is a night away from her kids. Check out our list of great theater ideas chosen with moms in mind. And if she’s more a movie gal, we’ve got you covered there too—just make sure no little ones are yelling “MOM!” while she’s watching.

Quote of the Week

All women become like their mothers; that is their tragedy.

No man does; that is his. (Oscar Wilde)

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps

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‘Avengers’ offers Edvard Munch’s iconic artwork a super adventure The Scream sold for $120m

When superspy Nick Fury first gathers four disparate superheroes — Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the Incredible Hulk — to do battle against a cosmic cataclysm in “The Avengers,” he is justifiably worried that their supersized egos will keep them from joining forces.

The same worry probably gripped movie fans when it was announced that a movie would be made of Marvel Comics’ mega-combo franchise, which has spawned five movies with the heroes separately.

Fear not, true believers! This supermerger comes together into a thrilling action movie with heart and brains, masterfully melded by the superhero you can’t see on the screen, director/screenwriter Joss Whedon. The summer movie season couldn’t start on a stronger note.

Whedon knows his way around a fanboy cult phenomenon, having created a couple with “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly”/”Serenity,” so he’s careful not to mess with what works.

Whedon (who shares a story credit with Zak Penn) spends the movie’s first hour reintroducing our heroes, neatly emulating the movies in which we met them: The scenes with industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) have the cagey humor of Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” movies; Mark Ruffalo’s debut as Dr.

Bruce Banner carries the melancholy of Louis Leterrier’s “The Incredible Hulk”; Chris Hemsworth’s late entrance as Thor has the same grandeur as Kenneth Branagh’s movie; and Chris Evans carries over the true-blue earnestness of Capt.

Steve Rogers in Joe Johnston’s rousing “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

In this first hour, we also meet the other two main heroes — combat-tough Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), nicknamed Black Widow; and master archer Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), aka Hawkeye, both agents of the superspy unit S.H.I.E.L.D., commanded

by Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and his right-hand agent, Maria Hill (“How I Met Your Mother’s” Cobie Smulders). (If you’re new to the Marvel universe, don’t worry — everything is explained economically so you can jump right in.)

Ashton Kutcher’s “Racist” Ad Controversy Continues: Sharon Osborne Rips “Lame” Impressions After its online Bollywood parody featuring the actor in brownface with an Indian accent sparked a public uproar and accusations of racism, Popchip’s head honcho wants the world to know no disrespect was intended.

“We are removing the individual Bollywood character from our out-of-home advertising campaign that launches May 7,” the company’s CEO Keith Belling tells E! News in a statement. “We received a lot feedback about the dating campaign parody we launched today and appreciate everyone who took the time to share their point of view.”

The spot, which is now back up on Popchips official YouTube channel after briefly disappearing (though not on its Facebook page), has Kutcher playing a multicultural parade of bachelors in a spoof of dating videos all in the aim of promoting the the chip brand.

Says Belling: “Our team worked hard to create a lighthearted parody featuring a variety of characters that was meant to provide a few laughs.

NORWEGIAN expressionist Edvard Munch’s The Scream has become the most expensive artwork sold at auction, after it fetched $119.9m (£74m).

The 1895 pastel was bought by an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s in New York. Bidding lasted 12 minutes.

The work is one of four in a series by the Norwegian expressionist artist and was the only one still owned privately.

Proceeds of the sale are to go towards founding a new museum, hotel and art centre in Norway.

Seven bidders were competing for the work, which had a starting price of $40m. The crowd broke into applause, following the sale on Wednesday.

The sale price includes the buyer’s premium.

The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was for Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust, which sold for $106.5m in 2010.

‘TREMBLING WITH ANXIETY’ The other three versions of The Scream are all owned by Norwegian museums, but Sotheby’s say the version they sold is the most colourful.

It is also the only one to include a poem by Munch on the frame, which talks of the inspiration behind the series of works.

It reads: “I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky

The scream by Edvard Munch became the most expensive artwork sold at an auction. It fetched $119.9m (£74m).

turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city.

“My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”

The piece was sold by businessman Petter Olsen, whose father was friendly with the Norwegian artist.

Earlier this year, Olsen spoke of his decision to sell The Scream.

“I have lived with this work all my life, and its power and energy have only increased with time,” he said.

“Now, however, I feel the moment

has come to offer the rest of the world a chance to own and appreciate this remarkable work.”

The Scream has become one of the famous works of art in popular culture.

“Together with the Mona Lisa, it’s the most famous and recognised image in art history,” Michael Frahm, an art adviser with Frahm Ltd, told the Associated Press news agency.

He added that it has been “used by everyone from Warhol to Hollywood to cartoons to teacups and T-shirts”.

Two of the other versions of The Scream were stolen, in 1994 and 2004 respectively. Both were later recovered. (BBC)

Pepsi to launch Michael Jackson marketing campaign

One of those who took offense was Sharon Osbourne, though not for its content so much as Kutcher’s comedic skills

We did not intend to offend anyone. I take full responsibility and apologize to anyone we offended.”

One of those who took offense was Sharon Osbourne, though not for its content so much as Kutcher’s comedic skills.

“The problem with Ashton Kutcher’s ad is that his impressions were so lame and weak and that’s why it’s offensive!,” tweeted the America’s Got Talent judge.

Michael Jackson is dead, but PepsiCo Inc. still plans to use his image to sell its soda.

The beverage brand, which has struggled to eclipse rival Coca Cola Co., is pairing with Sony Music and Jackson’s estate to roll out an exclusive campaign pegged to the 25th anniversary of the performer’s multi-platinum “Bad” album and tour.

One billion soda cans featuring Jackson’s image will be sold around the world, Pepsi said. China will get the first batch, launching Saturday.

Later this month, special-edition 16-ounce cans will be available in the U.S., followed by rollouts in other parts of Asia, South America and Europe.

The Pepsi campaign will also feature merchandise, such as jackets inspired by the original “Bad” tour, new mixes of music from the album and chances to win tickets to performances of Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” show.

The singer, who died in 2009, had a long history with Pepsi. He first starred in an ad campaign for the company with his brothers in 1983.

The next year, while on set filming a Pepsi commercial, Jackson was severely burned in a pyrotechnics accident.

Last month, Pepsi announced the launch of a massive global branding campaign that it’s calling “Live for Now.” The first round of ads, featuring pop celebrity Nicki Minaj, will start appearing Monday.

The company, which also owns brands such as Tropicana, Gatorade and Frito-Lay, said this year that it would lay off 8,700 employees through 2014. Beverage sales in the key North American market have been sliding.

Pepsi also said it plans to boost its advertising and marketing budget by as much as $600 million this year.

The company’s stock price has never managed to recoup its high from when Chief Executive Indra Nooyi first took leadership in 2007.

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2. Place in an ice cream maker.

Freeze thoroughly.

(Nutritional Information: Amount Per Serving Calories: 94 | Total Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 0mg)

begin with, it is important to identify what the individual’s specific needs and challenges are. For example, if a person has difficult with writing and spelling, a computer may be beneficial for him or her to use at school and at home. It is of equal importance to determine what the individual’s strengths are. If the individual has strong verbal skills then it would be beneficial to look for assistive technology that involves verbal language. Thirdly, we would want to consider the level of skill that the individual has in using technology. It would be pointless to purchase assistive technology that is too complicated to use. We also want to look at the setting in which the technology will be used. An IPod may improve the focus of a child who has AD/HD; but are they allowed at the child’s school? Lastly, it is also important to look at who will be supporting the use of the technology.

In other words, it is crucial to determine if the family understands and supports the technology.

Assistive Technology may be categorized on a scale from no technology to high technology. No

Joanne Gobeil

Registered Psychologist

technology is any gadget that is not electronic. For example, sticky notes, pencil grips, coloured notepads, contrast aids (e.g., colour overlay), highlighters, planners, and raised line paper. No technology aids can work well for helping individuals stay organized and improve time management skills. Items such as pencils grips assist individuals with fine motor problems; whereas items such as chewy tubes help individuals with sensory issues. Sticky dots can help individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder distinguish what is theirs and what belongs to others.

Low technology is electronic devices that do not consist of complex computer mechanisms.

Low technology includes timers, talking watches, calculators, and voice recording tools. Timers work

great in helping children with autism through periods of transitions. Voice recorders work great for individuals who cannot keep up when taking notes in school or in business meetings. Voice recorders can also be used to create a list of reminders.

Mid assistive technology is more elaborate and consists of dictated word processors, scanning pens that scan and capture text, reading pens that read text, dictionaries that include a grammar guide, thesaurus, personal word list, and phonetic spelling device, and recorders that are either digital or analog. Dragon Naturally Speaking can work wonders for a person who struggles with writing and/or typing.

High assistive technology tools are complex, multifunctional, and usually involve computers and software, such as word prediction software that reduces the number of keystrokes, mind mapping software that allows visual learners to develop ideas,

organize thoughts, and learn new concepts, and text speech software that reads printed or electronic text.

Overall, the research literature indicates an improvement in the academics and attitudes of individuals with learning disabilities who use assistive technology.

Assistive technology allows these individuals to use their strengths in working around areas of challenge. In order to achieve the best results, it is recommended that the intended user try out the device prior to purchasing it. Some of the barriers to assistive technology include cost, support services, and that the individual may stand out from others.

For assistance in setting up an effective and customized program for supporting your child’s growth contact Joanne at (649) 432-6956.

Caribbean Psychological Services; #114 Neptune Plaza, Sandcastle Road, Grace Bay, Providenciales; (649)432-6956

suffering from anemia.

• Mangoes is believed to be effective in relieving clogged pores of the skin.

• The Vitamin A (beta-carotene), Vitamin E and Selenium present

in mangoes helps hormonal system function more efficiently and thus, boosts sex life.

• The anti-inflammatory properties

health Tip 

Mango season This is the season when the mangoes are coming out, one would think that they are coming out too soon, after all July is not far where we would see them in abundance.

Mangoes were called ‘Bus Gut’ back in ‘da days’.

These days, research shows that the seasonal fruit, available during the hot summer season in abundance, has lots of health benefits which many are not aware of.

They are also cultivated in tropical regions and this pulp of this tasty fruit is a prebiotic dietary fiber, Vitamin C, diverse polyphenols, and Provitamin A, Carotenoids.

Generally women after menopause become very weak and they should take mangoes and other fruits rich in iron. Mangoes helps improves digestion, lowers cholesterol, improves concentration and memory power, treating acne,

By Phillip Simmons helps diabetics, prevent cancer and heart disease.

Mangoes additional benefits are:

• Mangoes being high in calories and carbohydrates, is good for those who are trying to gain weight.

• The phenolic compound found in mangoes has been found to have powerful antioxidants and anticancer properties.

• Being high in iron, mangoes is said to be very good for pregnant women as well as for people

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Lifestyle...

GARDENING 

How does your garden grow

How the heck do you get rid of ticks?

Spiders and mites are related to the small insects called ticks. Ticks can live near water or in areas with overgrown grass around the world.

• Ticks are more abundant in bush areas near bodies of water.

• Ticks primarily feed on the blood of mammals and birds.

• Ticks can transmit disease such as Lyme disease, Q fever, Colorado tick fever and babesiosis.

• Any bites from ticks should be inspected by a doctor.

If you have pets or live near a bush area, it is feasible that you will eventually have a tick control issue.

Ticks are more than just annoying blood-sucking pests. They are the second largest carrier of diseases, just one spot behind mosquitoes. Despite being arachnids, there are many insect repellents and pesticides that are adequate extermination tools for tick removal. These products, along with some do-it-yourself pest removal methods, will give you the tick control you need to keep your pets and family safe. If you believe you have a tick control problem in your yard, it helps to understand where the infestation came from. Living near an open field or being flanked by bushes will make it more likely that you will encounter a tick control problem. Here are some tips to keeping your family and yard tick-free: Mow your grass regularly and keep it short. Most ticks live in tall lawns and will hang onto the tips of long blades of grass patiently waiting for their next meal to brush by.

Dig a barrier between your property and the open field or wooded area. Creating a 3-foot wide by 3-inch deep trench filled with small stones will provide a tick

YOUR DIET

ASK TAMIKA

BY TAMIKA HANDFIELD

Tamika graduated from Florida International University in Miami with a Masters degree in Dietetics & Nutrition. She is a registered dietitian with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and licensed to practice medical nutrition therapy in the state of Florida.

Email Tamika via tcweeklynews@gmail.com or tamikahandfield@yahoo.com with your healthy eating questions.

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My son helping with Saturday morning breakfast

control solution that will last you several years.

Look into a generic pest removal product that is designed to exterminate ticks. Read the instructions carefully for proper application and safe usage. If leery about doing this yourself, simply contact a pest control service for this portion of your tick control process.

Tick-tubes are a common tick removal method. These are biodegradable tubes that can be purchased, or you can try do-ityourself pest removal and make your own tubes out of paper towel rolls. Inside the tubes are cotton balls soaked in the chemical permethrin.

The cotton balls are used by animals to build nests, and the ticks eventually attach themselves to the animals and ingest the chemical.

Along with permethrin, the chemical carbaryl is used to exterminate deer ticks as well as other ticks. Correctly timing the application of this chemical is critical to your tick control success.

Mango season

of mangoes might help alleviate asthma symptoms.

• Mangoes has also been found beneficial for people suffering from the following ailments: Bacterial Infections, Constipation, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Eye Disorders, Hair Loss, Heat Stroke, Leuccorhea, Liver Disorders, Menstrual Disorders, Morning Sickness, Piles, Prickly Heat, Scurvy, Senusitis, Spleen Enlargment, Vaginitis.

The ‘king of the fruits’, mango is one of the most popular,

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continued

nutritionally rich fruit with unique flavor, fragrance, taste, and heath promoting qualities making it a common ingredient in new functional foods often called ‘super fruits’.

Today there are over 1,000 different varieties of mangos throughout the world.

And, as usual in closing, I leave you with words of inspiration from Winston Churchill, who said, “Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.”

Early May into early June is the best date range for a carbaryl-containing tick removal product.

Individual Tick Removal

While you are waiting for your tick control efforts to take hold, it is possible that someone in your family (including pets) will bring home one of these pests. Understanding proper tick removal is an important first-aid topic that every adult should know.

Use fine-tipped tweezers and firmly, but gently, grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible. Your goal is to get at the tick’s head.

Gently pull the tick straight out, with slow but constant pressure. Be careful not to twist or jerk it, as this can leave the tick’s mouth in your skin. Be careful not to squeeze, crush or puncture the tick’s body, as doing so may cause it to release infected fluids into the wound.

Thoroughly disinfect the tick-bite wound, the tweezers, and the hands of the person removing it.

Drop the tick into a small amount of rubbing alcohol and throw the dead carcass away.

DO NOT use a hot match, petroleum jelly, soap, nail polish, etc. to smother the tick. This can cause it to release its fluids into the wound and transmit any disease it may be carrying.

Many of you who don’t like the idea of using chemicals in your garden, you might want to adopt some chickens and let them loose in the garden as they will eat most of the ticks around. According to my vet, this works very well, so I am incubating eggs right now in the hope that they will hatch and have chicks so I get rid of the ticks, but please don’t get a rooster, especially if you like your neighbor.

Involving children in nutrition

(Part 3) In the two previous articles, we talked about the importance of cooking with our children and how making safety a priority in the kitchen can make the cooking time a more fun experience.

This will be the last article in the series so, this week, I want to write about the awesome benefits cooking with your kids can have on you and your family.

Two of the most obvious benefits are: you are able to spend quality uninterrupted time with your child; also, you get to teach your child (and maybe even yourself) about choosing healthy foods to promote good nutrition and support optimal health.

There are many other benefits, however, space will only allow me to elaborate on a few.

1. Fosters responsibility and patience. Children like the feeling of being responsible for or in charge of something; it makes them feel very grown up. Assigning various tasks to your child can help with this.

For example, tell your child that he is responsible for washing all of the fruits you will be using in the smoothie or chopping all of the vegetables being used in the omelet. Being responsible for a particular task also teaches children how to develop patience and follow through with a project. They learn that some things take time to be completed (muffins need time to bake) and not everything has a quick fix—a very valuable life lesson.

2. Teaches new vocabulary. Chop, blend, sauté, puree, mince, and grate are all words that your child probably won’t hear anywhere else except in the kitchen. Children are naturally very curious so when they hear these words they will automatically ask what they mean. You can explain what new words mean but I feel the best way is to either show or have your child actively demonstrate what a word means. Ask your child to grate the carrots or puree the chickpeas.

3. Reinforces basic skills taught in school. Your kitchen can function as a science lab and double as a math class or a comprehension lesson.

Basic counting skills can be taught to your younger children such as counting the number of eggs needed for a recipe. Older kids may be interested in finding out why the muffin batter goes in the oven in one form but comes out in a totally different form or why we use so many teaspoons but just one tablespoon.

Who knew so many important life lessons could be taught just through cooking with your kids? You will be amazed at what you stumble upon when you ‘blend’ your child’s natural curiosity with your natural ability to love and nurture.

I do hope you have enjoyed this series as much as I have enjoyed writing them. Please submit any ideas or questions you would like addressed in this forum.

If you would like to have nutrition & cooking classes conducted at your school or child’s birthday parties, please contact me for more information.

ACCU Medical Nutrition is based in Graceway IGA Plaza, Providenciales.

Call 946 8308, 242 3978 or 442 3978.

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Woman convicted to two live sentences after allowing man to rape her infant A JUDGE sentenced a Missouri woman to consecutive life prison terms for sexually assaulting her infant daughter along with a California man she met online.

Attorneys for 22-year-old Tessa Vanvlerah, of Ballwin, failed to persuade St. Louis County Circuit Judge Colleen Dolan to sentence their client Monday only to probation, because they argue that a psychological disorder is largely to blame for her crimes, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Vanvlerah pleaded guilty in January to incest, statutory sodomy and statutory rape in the attacks against her daughter, who is 3 but who was 5 months old when the pair first attacked her. The woman who fostered and then adopted the girl said initially, the girl would scream when anyone bathed her or changed her diaper. She still has night terrors and asks at each bedtime to make sure nobody else comes into the home.

However, she said the girl is improving day by day and “is no longer Tessa’s plaything and she is

Tessa Vanvlerah was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting her baby along with a man she met online.

no longer Tessa’s child.”

Vanvlerah was arrested in 2010 following the arrest of 49-year-old Kenneth Kyle, a California State University East Bay professor, on child pornography charges. Along with hundreds of child porn images on Kyle’s computers, investigators found information that led them to the St. Louis area, where Kyle had visited Vanvlerah four times in five months since meeting online. During those visits, prosecutors say the pair

had sex with the girl and each other at various hotels.

Kyle pleaded guilty to a federal child sexual abuse charge and was sentenced in March to 37½ years in prison.

Forensic psychologist Dr. Brooke Kraushaar testified at Vanvlerah’s sentencing hearing that Vanvlerah’s dependent-personality disorder caused her to participate in Kyle’s sexual fantasies; even though she knew sex acts involving the baby were wrong.

Kraushaar, who was hired by defense lawyers Brent Labovitz and Kevin Whiteley, described Vanvlerah as “a passive offender.”

She said Vanvlerah was so afraid of being rejected by others that she also allowed Kyle to choke, burn and urinate on her.

But assistant prosecutor Kathi Alizadeh disputed the diagnosis, pointing out that Vanvlerah exercised free will in electronic communications with another man.

Vanvlerah carved her nickname for the man, “Lord Nikon,” into her skin at his request, the prosecutor said, but drew the line at one of his suggestions involving bestiality.

Rupert Murdoch does not have the support of the UK lawmakers.

Rupert Murdoch not fit to run business, UK lawmakers rule GLOBAL media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run a major international company, British lawmakers investigating phone hacking at his tabloid News of the World reported Tuesday.

The ruling could prompt British regulators to force him to sell his controlling stake in British Sky Broadcasting, a significant part of his media empire.

The damning report accused Murdoch and his son James of showing “willful blindness” to phone hacking at News of the

World, and said the newspaper “deliberately tried to thwart the police investigation” into the illegal activity.

The paper’s publisher, News Corp. subsidiary News International, “wished to buy silence in this affair and pay to make the problem go away,” the Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee found.

Ofcom, the British media regulator that could force Murdoch out of BSkyB, said it was “reading with interest” the report from Parliament.

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Sweet revenge: Dentist pulls all of ex-boyfriend’s teeth out after getting dumped REVENGE is a dish best served with novocaine A dentist in Poland, dumped by her boyfriend, got payback by removing all of her former lover’s teeth — leading his new lady to dump him, too. anna Mackowiak could face three years in jail after she agreed to treat her exboyfriend, Marek Olszewski, when he asked her to help with a toothache just days after he broke up with her.

“I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions,” Mackowiak, 34, told the Daily Mail. “But when I saw him lying there I just thought, ‘What a bastard.’”

Mackowiak then allegedly gave Olszewski, 45, a massive dose of anaesthetic and coldly plucked out his teeth one by one.

She then wrapped his jaw in bandages to prevent him from

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opening his mouth — and then simply walked away.

“I knew something was wrong because when I woke up I couldn’t feel any teeth and my jaw was strapped up with bandages,” Olszewski told the British newspaper.

But he did not realise the horror of what happened until he got back to his Wroclaw apartment.

“But when I got home I looked in the mirror and couldn’t f---ing believe it. The b---h had emptied my mouth.”

Olszewski, who will get implants, said his new girlfriend could not handle being with a man who did not have teeth — and dumped him.

Mackowiak is being investigated for medical malpractice. (Nydailynews. com)

Waterski Instructor Must be certified with USA, Canada or UK Waterski. Must have have 7 years experience teaching all levels. Multiple languages are beneficial. General knowledge of Boat Mechanical skiils required.

Must have certification of TCI Safety training.

Good communication skills must have ability to swim in all conditions and know how to drive, handle and dock an inboard and outboard vessel.

Resume or CV may be sent to nautiquesports@tciway.tc 6617

Two-bed house

for rent Phase one Priton Developments, Wheeland Fully furnished, beautifully maintained, substantially improved.

Fully fenced-in yard, hurricane shutters. $900 a month (1 month’s rent required for deposit) Professionals only please.

Also taking purchase offers over $155,000 Call 245 6620 or email gemmahandy@gmail.com

UN passes resolution threatening sanctions on the two Sudans THE UN Security Council has threatened to impose sanctions on Sudan and South Sudan if the two nations fail to halt the recent violence.

The unanimously backed resolution calls on Khartoum and Juba to resume negotiations on disputed issues within two weeks.

Fighting in recent weeks has raised fears of a return to all-out war.

South Sudan became independent last year, but disputes with the north over territorial issues remained unresolved.

Earlier, Sudan said it has restarted pumping oil from Heglig, following the recent withdrawal of Southern Sudanese troops.

The US-drafted resolution

backs an African Union roadmap which aims to settle the conflict and bring the two countries back to the negotiating table.

It calls for both countries to unconditionally withdraw troops to their own territory and “immediately cease all hostilities”. Both nations must give a written commitment to halt fighting within 48 hours.

It also demands a resumption of negotiations over outstanding issues within two weeks, with an agreement to be reached within three months.

If either side fails to abide by the terms, then “additional measures” under Article 41 of the UN Charter - which allows for non-military sanctions - will be considered, the

resolution says.

Both China, a major oil buyer, and Russia supported the move despite their traditional reservations about sanctions, diplomats said.

China’s UN Ambassador Li Baodong said Beijing was “was always cautious about the use of sanctions”, but that it was “deeply worried” about the deteriorating situation.

Ahead of the vote, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Moscow had some reservations over it, but that they would support it “because of the African Union”.

US Ambassador Susan Rice warned that both countries were “on the brink of returning to the horrors of the past and

taking the entire region with them”.

She welcomed the “strong and unanimous” support for the AU plan, adding: “This is ultimately the only way that further conflict can be avoided.”

Earlier, Sudanese officials said they had begun pumping oil again from the key Heglig oilfield that was occupied by forces from the south last month.

Disputes over the sharing of oil revenue is a major cause of conflict between Juba and Khartoum.

South Sudan took most of the former united Sudan’s oil reserves when it seceded in July 2011 but relies on pipelines to seaports in Sudan to export it.

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Job Listings Services Auto sales real estate

FAST SALE

Is looking for a

FOR RENT Tilesetter 3-bedroom apartment $1100.00 per month it will be available May 1st.

Contact :241-4188

6602

To work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

contact: 946-4664

POSITIONS AVAILABLE HOLE IN THE WALL RESTAURANT Domestic Worker

PROVO ELECTRIC

$225,000 o.n.o.

CONTACT: 231-3788

Contact: 231-3788

GORDON SUPPLY Labourer

FOR SALE

6600

alary must commensurate with qualifications

Resumes can be faxed to 941-3425 and the Labour Department, Providenciales as soon as possible

Six (6) One (1) Bedroom One (1) Bath. Located on Millinneum Highway.Contact Tel: 649 333 1723 or 649 246 6119 Email: capronis2005@ yahoo.com 6459

GRACE BAY SUITES Is looking to fill the following positions:

FLOWER GIRL Is looking for a

Flower CoOrdinatoR

• Cleaners • Maids • Life guard • Masseuse • Beach/ Pool Attendants • Bartenders • Front Desk Manager • Part-time & live-in positions available immediately Please deliver resume with salary expectations to Front Desk preference will be given to qualified Belongers

• Must know different kinds of flowers • Must know how to treat flowers • Must know how to arrange and take care of flowers

Contact: 231-3788

6373

CHEVETTE D. MCPHEE

BERKLEY MALCOM

is looking for a

Is looking for the following persons:

Domestic Worker Caregiver Contact: 231-0146

CHRIST IS THE ANSWER MINISTRY is looking for a

Domestic

Must be willing to work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

2 Electricians

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$650.00 per month Gated Community Furnished

Bartender Building full time for Sale

• Looking for an outgoing individual who has had previous bartending experience.

• A creative individual who can enhance the guest experience.

• Accepting resumes at the front desk. No phone calls please.

Fax: 946-4661

Email: tcnews@tciway.tc

1.3 Acres Of Land Ocean Drive, Turtle Tail Semi-Hilltop

Apartment

Comfort Suites Ports of Call Resort

946-4664

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Worker To work 6 days

6609

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May 5 - 11, 2012

per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact; 241-6206

6607

Musician

Salary $7.00 per hour contact: 649241-5563 or email: mauvette_2004@ hotmail.com 6545

Construction scaffold and roof tiles for sale CONTACT: 431-1591 OR 231-3788

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New Resort Opening Soon…..

Positions Available Chef de Cuisine

Will manage employee performance, through training, coaching, or corrective action as required.

Support a safe working environment by ensuring all staff are working in compliance with the health and safety regulations and practices. Support and promote environmental practices and programs to ensure the proper rotation of foods and red flag any items that need to be inserted into production to avoid any losses. Will be responsible for kitchen operation and maintaining departmental standards in accordance with Resorts standards .Ensure effective co-operation between outlets and the kitchen .Create memorable dining experiences for all guests. Assist with goal development and follow-up, departmental initiatives.

Create menu and daily specials so must have initiative and creative mind. Proven track record in a 5 star luxury property with multi out-let experience. Also required to have a 5 year min experience as Executive Sous Chef or Head Chef. Salary: $42,000

Chef De Partie

Prepares all food items, sauces, soups and hot entrees in accordance with recipes, menus, portions and presentation specifications. Prepares and properly garnishes all pantry items, including salads, sandwiches, desserts and specialty plates in accordance with menu specifications. Ensures the highest quality of food preparation and presentation. Coordinates completion of menu items with server. Coordinates all hot and cold food preparation for banquets when necessary. Works floor for special events, carving meats for guests, working pasta stations and doing omelet stations. Assists in overseeing all kitchen operational areas. Also required to have at least 3 year min experience in 5 star luxury property, knowledge of 5 star cuisine. Salary $9 hourly

Night Audit

Applicant should have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in accounting. Minimum 4 years post qualifications experience in auditing. Required to have an accounting degree, have excel/ word certification. Must be Quick book expert, flexible hours including weekends and nights, multilingual an asset.

Restaurant Maitre D’Hotel

To cater to our upscale restaurant clientele. The ideal candidate would have perfect English language skills and be fluent in French. Strong Food & Beverage and especially wine expertise is key as well as being able to manage a diverse service team.

Being able to work long hours, holidays and Sundays is essential, and a minimum of 5 years of management experience in a five star environment is required. Computer skills with POS systems,

QuickBooks, Inventory Management, P&L’s, Payroll systems and Menu Tracking back of the house experience are required.

Additional cleaning and restocking duties are integral to this position.

Salary: 22,000$ per annum

Servers & Bartenders

Seeking Waiters and Bartenders to cater to our upscale restaurant clientele. If you have at least 3 years of experience, believe that your intelligence comes through your curiosity, are willing to show your skills as well as learning new ones, can work split shifts, holidays, Sundays and are willing to work in a challenging, fast paced environment, this is your opportunity.

Computer skills and POS experience is a must. Ideal candidates have perfect English language skills and working knowledge of French or Spanish. You must also value punctuality and integrity, as well as understand that this type of work is sales oriented and requires you to perform your duties throughout the resort, including the beach. Additional cleaning and restocking duties are integral to this position. Wage: 6$ per hour plus a portion of hotel service charge.

For Bartenders - Mixology experience is essential, and service approach is key $6 per hour plus a portion of hotel service charge.

Food Runner

Seeking food runners to cater to our upscale restaurant clientele. You have always wanted to learn about Food & Beverage and believe that your intelligence comes through your curiosity? Then this is a great opportunity to learn. One of the key aspects of this position is to be physically fit and be able to take the pressure of handling high volume operations and pick up large trays filled with plates of food and carry them to a server station or the beach. Fluency in English is a must and the ability to work split shifts, holidays and Sundays is essential. Additional cleaning and restocking duties are integral to this position. Wage: 6.5$ per hour plus a portion of hotel service charge

Hostess

Seeking hostesses to cater to our upscale restaurant clientele.

A winning attitude and the ability to work well under pressure is key. 2 year Restaurant experience with guest interaction and communication is essential and fluency in English along with a second main language such as French or Spanish is required. Knowledge of computer based reservation software and reservation planning is an asset. Additional cleaning and restocking duties are integral to this position. Wage: 6$ per hour plus a portion of hotel service charge

All applicants must be prepared to work flexible hours and work during holidays when the Resorts’ occupancy is high

Qualified Belongers need only apply e-mail: turksjobs@gmail.com

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS REQUIRED AT NORTH CAICOS

CHIEF QUANTITY SURVEYOR

Air Conditioning Mechanic

Please forward your resumes TO P.O. Box 709, Providenciales

6594

• Degree qualified Chief Quantity Surveyor • 15 years experience in all facets of the quantity surveying practice • Ability to work under pressure with no supervision • Must be fully conversant with CSSP Ripac • Timberline Estimation and OST Software

An experienced Air conditioning Mechanic required for full time work at North Caicos • Must be willing to work six days a week • Must have 10 years experience sizing and construction duct work and installing and servicing complete central air conditioning systems • Must be proficient in MS Excel for inventory purposes • Must demonstrate ability to work unsupervised with excellent communication skills is essential for the position Salary is $12.00 per hour.

Please apply not later than May 18th, 2012 at ncc@ tciway.tc or contact telephone: 946-7437 Belongers only need apply 6620

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SALES Joseph Michael Hennebury as Chargee pursuant to the Registered Land Ordinance hereby gives Notice that he will cause to be sold by Public Auction the following property outside the offices of Miller Simons O’Sullivan, Upper Floor, East Wing, The Beatrice Butterfield Building, Butterfield Square, Providenciales at 10:00 a.m. on 11 May 2012.

1. Title 60506/116, Blue Hills & Stamers Run, Providenciales Registered Proprietor: Rory Ernest MacDowell

CUBAN CRAFTERS TCI Is looking to fill the following positions:

FLYER DISTRIBUTOR

• To work 5 days per week • Must clean the store • Fill up cigar boxes • Assist with sales Salary $5.50 per hour

STORE CLERK

• Must be fluent in Spanish and English • Must help in the distribution of flyers • Must have accounting skills • Must help in the up keep of the store Salary $6.00 per hour

Contact: 946-4600

6619

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Private Chef

A luxury villa is currently seeking a private chef to cater for high end guests.

The successful applicant should have the following at least 5 year’s experience running kitchens 2 of which should be in a 5 star hotel. They should also have full capability of food costing and controls, monthly inventory, knowledge of proper hygiene and safety, menu planning and costing and managing and scheduling staff. As a private villa expertise in catering such as weddings, cocktail parties and special events is crucial. Plus knowledge and experience of cuisine worldwide, pastries, desserts and chocolates is essential. Due to the nature of our guests the need to be fluent in English is required. This position requires working long hours, nights and days, public holidays and weekends. A clean driving license is also essential as the chef will be responsible for all shopping.

Salary - $3000 per month. All applications must be made in writing by the 15th of May 2012.

Comprising 0.82 acre parcel with bare land and can be accessed by turning onto Thompson Cove Road from Leeward Highway and taking a right on Heron Street.

6579

Please submit resumes, including a variety of proposed villa menu selections, addressed to Mark Pankhurst at PO BOX 196 Providenciales or email kimstargazervilla@hotmail. com. Successful applicants will be notified by email by the 15th of May 2012.

6604

VACANCY VACANCIES Applications are invited for the position of

Executive Chef, Food Service Manager

Responsibilities

Community Christian Academy Accepting applications for

Grade 3 Teacher Requirements • Must be a born again believer • Must have at least 5 years teaching experience with a Certificate or higher in Teacher Education from a recognized Educational Institution.

• Familiarization with Abeka teaching program would be an asset.

• Familiarization with Primary Education within the Caribbean

• Direct food preparation, production and control of all food restaurants, lounges and banquet facilities at multiple properties existing and projected.

• Ensure consistency in the quality and standards of food product and food delivery.

• Provide support as a member of the Executive Committee, particularly to the Food & Beverage Operations Manager.

• Assist management in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, and financial plans which support the overall objectives of the operation

Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Suitable applicants may forward resumes addressed to: The School Board Community Fellowship Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Tel: 649-941-3484 Fax: 649-941-3482. Email: comassem@tciway.tc

Requirements • Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Extensive knowledge of menu development, insight into marketing, cost and wage control.

• Thorough knowledge of food products, standard recipes and proper preparation.

• Ability to supervise a large international staff compliment and control performance objectives in multiple outlets.

• 15 years experience in an upscale fine dining restaurant and hotel environment. Michelin Star Rated Restaurant Experience Required Belongers need only apply.

Please Submit Application to:

P.O. Box 270 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands 6611

Community Fellowship Centre Accepting applications for:

Church Administrator Requirements: • Must be a born again believer • B.SC in Business Administration/Management studies or related field • At least 5 years in an administrative capacity • Strong leadership, organizational and administrative skills • Must possess experience and training in Business Administration or Church Administration • Must have effective budgeting and accounting skills Suitable applicants may forward resumes addressed to Church Board Community Fellowship Centre Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands Tel: 649-941-3484 Fax: 649-941-3482. Email: comassem@tciway.tc

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Turks and Caicos Rock Iguanas can be found in many Caribbean islands but the species found here in the Turks and Caicos Islands - Cyclura carinata, is a critically endangered type that can found nowhere else in the world.

While the Rock Iguana is the largest native land animal in the Turks and Caicos Islands, it is the smallest of rock iguanas and measures no more than 31 inches when fully grown.

These large lizards were once found on nearly all

Fast Facts @@Rock Iguanas are shy and gentle reptiles. @@All rock Iguanas are herbivores and thrive mainly on berries, leaves and fruits (sapodilla is a favourite).

the islands of the Turks and Caicos. Unfortunately, the iguanas no longer live on islands where domesticated animals, especially cats and dogs can be found, since they have become prey to these larger animals.

Nature reserves have been set up to help manage and protect these creatures which have now taken refuge mainly on small uninhabited cays away from human settlement.

Once a year, beginning about April or May, the adult females lay about 2 to 9 eggs in a burrow and seals it shut. About 80 days late the eggs hatch and the baby iguanas dig their way out.

There are approximately 50,000 Rock Iguanas remaining in the Turks and Caicos, the healthiest and

largest population in the Caribbean.

One of the most popular habitats for these creatures is Little Water Cay, also known as ‘Iguana Island’. This tiny island, which is a short boat ride or even kayaking trip from Providenciales’ eastern coastline is a nature reserve managed by the Turks and Caicos National Trust.

While walking along a boardwalk that runs through the island, visitors can see the iguanas in their natural environment.

@@They live and sleep in shallow burrows dug in sand or under rocks, @@Once iguanas find a partner, they stay together for the rest of their lifes. @@They can live up to 20 years.

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Answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex. All the other dinosaurs are herbivores (plant eaters) and the T-Rex is a carnivore (meat eaters)

Sand Crab Sailboats Sandals Sea Shells Sea Cratures Surfers

Sand Castle Surfboard Seagulls Starfish Shovel Sunglasses

Across 1. Big animal that has one horn 3. This animal has a very long neck 6. Man’s best friend 8. Lives in the cold and waddles 9. Slow moving and has a shell 12. Striped animal that looks like a horse 13. Can swim under water and walk on land and has a big bite Down 2. This animal has a long trunk 4. This animal likes to eat carrots and sugar cubes 5. This animal loves bananas 7. Some say this animal has nine lives 10. Has big ears and likes to hop 11. King of the jungle Answers Across: 1. Rhinoceros, 3. Giraffe, 6. Dog, 8.

Penguin, 9. Turtle, 12. Zebra, 13. Alligator Down: 2. Elephant, 4. Horse, 5.Monkey, 7.

Cat, 10. Rabbit, 11. Lion

The word 'dinosaur' means 'terrible lizard'.

It is a combination of two Greek words - deinos (which means terrible), and sauros (which means lizard).

However, dinosaurs are not lizards.

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CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Pottery material 5. Small firework 10. Possessed 11. Official language of Pakistan 12. Encounter 13. City in W Germany 14. Musical note 16. Noteworthy achievement 17. Idiot 20. Not high 23. Mountain Range 25. Dropsy 28. Pertaining to a particular place 29. Mature 30. Standard 31. Begin 32. More or less vertical 33. Old cloth measures

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4. Abominable snowman 6. Drink conspicuously 7. Exhort 8. Standard of perfection 9. Push with the horns 15. Sound of a cow 18. Admiration 19. Sag 20. South American ruminant 21. Juridical 22. Poles for snails 23. Bone of the forearm 24. Land measure 26. The day of the month 27. Blackbird Last week's word search solution

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Weekly Horoscope

Calvin and Hobbes

Aries (March 21 - April 19)

Ordinarily you’d deal with setbacks right away. Now, however, you’re better off gathering facts. Soon it’ll be clear that more serious investigation is in order. But don’t rush into things as it gets better next week.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20)

The recent Full Moon has aroused intense feelings. That being the case, seemingly overwhelming dilemmas could vanish within days. So listen a lot, but avoid promises. By midweek, others’ moods and circumstances will be much calmer.

Wizard of Id

Gemini (May 21- June 20)

What you learn when untangling problems proves so valuable your irritation with the resulting delays swiftly turns to gratitude. Better yet, certain individuals will introduce you to ideas that, otherwise, you’d never have encountered.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22)

easy

Several individuals are struggling with the intensified feelings triggered by Sunday’s Full Moon. Discuss these issues once, but no more, as others need time to reflect on those feelings, and you’ve various obligations to deal with.

Leo (July 23 - August 22)

You may already be experiencing powerful and overwhelming changes due to the encounter between your ruler the Sun and Jupiter. For now, refuse nothing. You could benefit from this cycle for years to come.

To complete the puzzle fill in each of the empty hexagon cells with numbers between 1 & 7 following the 3 rules below;

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION

1. No numbers in a horizontal line can be repeated.

2. No numbers in a diagonal line can be repeated.

3. No numbers in the 7 gray hexagons can be repeated.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22)

You’ll soon realise that what would be straightforward at any other time is subject to change. Unsettling as this is, remember that in the coming weeks, events and offers will often be unexpected but always worthwhile.

Libra (September 23- October 22)

* Note that each white hexagon belongs to a line of 7 that must contain each of the numbers between 1 and 7.

Right now tact would only confuse matters, especially when the pace of change is quite fast. Be forthright about both your feelings and your intentions, as this week’s mere possibilities could turn into life-changing decisions next week.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)

Sudoku

Things are moving swiftly, which means you cannot afford to fret. What’s needed is a straightforward approach. The lessons experience offers could alleviate even seemingly serious concerns, so act – with haste, if necessary.

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)

All the decisions that you take until June 4 will prepare you for the events that will take place then due to the powerful Sagittarius-eclipsed Full Moon. Plunge in, conscious that yet more changes are inevitable and that you’ll learn from everything.

Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9.

If you use logic you can solve the puzzle without guesswork.

Capricorn (December 21 - January 19)

The foundation on which certain decisions are based will shift dramatically and for the best. With powerful planetary activity altering arrangements and introducing new offers, keep your arrangements and your thinking flexible.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)

Last week's solution

The sooner you realise certain arrangements are meant to become a part of the past, the better. Doing so will change your view about developments you’ve dreaded and you’ll also realise their relevance.

Pisces (February 19 - March 20)

The unsettling events currently reshaping the lives of others begin a cycle of questioning, which will be heightened by eclipses in May and June. So keep things flexible so that you can cope with yet more changes.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION SALES

BETTY COX Is looking for a

FirstCaribbean International Bank (Bahamas) Ltd as Chargee pursuant to the Registered Land Ordinance hereby gives Notice that it will cause to be sold by Public Auction the following scheduled properties outside the offices of Miller Simons O’Sullivan, Second Floor, The Beatrice Butterfield Building, Butterfield Square, Providenciales at 10:00 a.m. on 11 May 2012.

Domestic Worker To work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

contact: 242-7753

driveway, car parking, limited landscaping, BBQ area and a surrounding security fence and wall. The property is located in the Major Hill district of Bottle Creek.

1. Title No. 60505/250, Blue Hills & Stamers Run, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Samuel Jules

Comprising 0.26 acre parcel with bare land containing indigenous bush and small trees.

The property is located between Blue Hills and the northern part of Kew Town and is accessed by turning on Bible Street, the second turning on Blue Hills Road, heading towards the T-junction and taking the northern hand turn to the end of the road and the property is the last lot on the left below the ridge land.

9. Title No. 50500/249 K8 Whitby, North Caicos

Registered Proprietor: Chal Misick

Comprising a two bedroom condominium unit on the second floor of the St Charles condominium development on Horsestable Beach with a floor area of 1,580 square feet and an oceanfront covered balcony extending top 272 square feet. The condominium consists of a master bedroom suite including closet space and master bathroom with the second en-suite bedroom designed as a lockout unit, entrance foyer, powder room, living/dining room and kitchen.

2. Title No. 60719/87 Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales

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HAIRDRESSER

NEEDED Must have experience as a hairdresser salary $250.00 per week email info@misickstanbrok. tc or fax: 649-946-4734

Registered Proprietor: Gregory Raymond Pinder and Lisa Phillips-Pinder

Comprising 0.74 acre vacant canal-front residential parcel. The property is located on Water View Street, previously Boggy Creek Drive, in Discovery Bay.

3. Title No. 60400/284, Norway & Five Cays, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: BNA Ltd.

Comprising 1 acre of primarily undeveloped waterfront parcel with dense mature native vegetation and small trees and a partially completed deteriorated block structure. The property is located on Chalk Sound Road, approximately half a mile beyond the Silly Creek Estate junction on the northern side of the road. The property has a view of the Chalk Sound National Park.

4. Title No. 60713/90/K9, Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Ivan Gregory Kennessey

Located in the Queen Angel Development comprising of studio, one, and two bedroom villas, which can be found in the Turtle Cove area. The property is Unit A201, a second floor one-bedroom corner unit in Building A. Unit A201 has a 1,275 unit entitlement and 1,275 square foot gross external area. The unit is fully furnished and has been recently renovated and upgraded. It comprises one bedroom, one bathroom, open kitchen/living/dining area, utility closet and storage space. The unit also has use of the resort facilities including the communal swimming pool and deck.

5. Title No. 60802/81, The Bight & Thomas Stubbs, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Manville Gardiner

Comprising 0.32 acre parcel containing a two-storey building with eight self-contained one and two bedroom apartments. The property is located on the Lower Bight Road.

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Thomas Handfield is looking for a

10. Title No. 60719/110 Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Finbar Grant

Comprising 0.59 acre parcel with a two-storey detached residence, a guest suite and a single-storey guesthouse and is located in the residential sub-division in Discovery Bay. The two-storey detached residence has four/five bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, library, a substantially complete cinema room, laundry room, kitchen, breakfast room, family room and a separate office. The guest suite contains a bedroom, bathroom and a kitchenette. The single-storey guesthouse contains a studio with a bedroom and bathroom and a separate efficiency unit with a bathroom, bedroom and kitchenette.

The property also contains a swimming pool and a concrete boat dock.

11. Title No. 10304/142, 143, 144, Central, Grand Turk

Registered Proprietor: Whale Watchers Ltd

Comprising 0.96 acre parcel containing a partially complete commercial development located on Front Street, Grand Turk with the potential to be used for office or residential units.

12. Title No. 61110/25, Long Bay Hills, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Hugh Williams and Kimberly Ewing Williams

Comprising 0.89 acre parcel with a partially complete residential building on a residential lot in the Long Bay area. Neighbourhood is residential although sparsely developed. Property is on the south side of an unpaved cul-de-sac in Long Bay Hills residential sub-division. The property is elevated at its roadside section and the land slopes down steeply in a south-easterly direction.

6. Title No. 60802/77, Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales

13. Title No. 60609/24, Norway & Five Cays, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Manville Gardiner

Registered Proprietor: Claudine Pratt

Comprising 0.32 acre parcel containing a partially complete two-storey apartment development. The lower level is completed and contains two self-contained one bedroom units and the upper level is completed to beam level. The property is located on the Lower Bight Road.

Located on the south-western tip of Providenciales, in the area known as Norway & Five Cays. A two story house on 1.03 Acres of land. The house is not yet completed with only snagging items, minor finishing items and some site works left to be completed.

Once completed the gross floor area of the residence will be 2,435 square feet. The property benefits from approximately 120 linear feet of iron shore frontage onto the Chalk Sound with impressive 180 degree views being enjoyed to the west.

7. Title No. 60900/217, Leeward Going Through, Providenciales

Waitress to work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact: 244-0710

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Registered Proprietor: Pelican Holdings Ltd.

Comprising 0.65 acre parcel containing a residential home with an adjoining one bedroom apartment. The residential home contains three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen and dining area, living room and a screened-in rear porch. The property is located within the Leeward Palms residential sub-division.

Registered Proprietor: James Rigby

This property is located in a prominent position on the Blue Hills Road close to the downtown area. The property comprises of 0.77 acre lot which supports a singlestorey commercial building. The property lies a short distance from Millennium Highway and within approximately one hundred yards of the north shore. The existing building on the site extends to approximately 2,400 square feet and it provides a range of retail, storage, and ancillary accommodation.

8. Title No. 51108/106, Bottle Creek North, North Caicos

Registered Proprietor: Garnett and Rosemary Jolly

Comprising 0.62 acre parcel with a gated townhouse development consisting of ten two-storey two bedroom townhouses, with a small swimming pool, deck, gazebo, marl

15. Title No. 60701/26 Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales

Registered Proprietor: Mara Rigby

This property comprises a two-storey commercial and residential apartment building which is positioned on the Blue Hills coastal road. The main building provides ground level commercial space with ancillary store rooms, offices and bathroom facilities. The upper level comprises a three bedroom apartment. In additional there is a detached single storey one bedroom apartment plus a detached storage building. The buildings have a gross floor area of approximately 4,632 square feet.

BACI RESTORANTE

Essco Ltd. as Chargee pursuant to the Registered Land Ordinance hereby gives Notice that it will cause to be sold by Public Auction the following properties outside the offices of Miller Simons O’Sullivan, Second Floor, The Beatrice Butterfield Building, Butterfield Square, Providenciales at 10:00 a.m. on 11 May 2012.

Is looking for a

Kitchen Helper 6605

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

contact: 941-3044

14. Title No. 60505/42 Blue Hills and Stamers Run, Providenciales

1. Title No. 10203/68 North West Suburbs, Grand Turk

Registered Proprietor: Otis Chuck Morris

3. Title No. 10203/198 North West Suburbs, Grand Turk

Registered Proprietor: Otis Chuck Morris

Comprising 0.45 acre parcel with bare land containing dense indigenous bush and trees in a cul de sac called Cactus Close. The property is accessed from North Wells Road or North Creek Road and is midway between the western ocean shore and North Creek.

Comprising 0.34 acre parcel with bare land containing low-lying dense indigenous vegetation. The property is accessed by North Wells Road and taking a western turn onto Quarry Lane and a subsequent left turn and the property is located on the left side of the road.

2. Title No. 10204/152 North West Suburbs, Grand Turk

Registered Proprietor: Otis Chuck Morris

4. Title No. 10302/21 Grand Turk Central, Grand Turk

Registered Proprietor: Otis Chuck Morris

Comprising 0.35 acre parcel with two single-storey detached buildings, each split into two apartments with an above-ground cistern, garden and parking area. The property is in a residential sub-division and is located on the land side of North Creek Road overlooking North Creek to the east. The gross external areas of the buildings (each inclusive of a porch) are 1,224 square feet and 2,400 square feet respectively.

Comprising 0.35 acre parcel with a partially complete two-storey apartment building with sixteen studio apartments and front and rear garden/parking areas. The property is located in a residential sub-division to the north-west of the Town Salina. The property can be accessed by heading north on Lighthouse Road and taking the left turn after Murphy Alley until the T-junction at the end of the road. The gross external area of the property is approximately 2,880 square feet and 1,820 square feet for the covered communal access decks and stairs.

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Labourer

Needed • Bonded Warehouse facility requires a labourer • for general cleaning, maintenance and operation of equipment.

• Salary: Starting $5:50 per hour for 40 hour work-week.

Contact: Cargo Express at 70 South Dock Road.

Fax: 941-5525 or leave application at front desk.

Application deadline: May 18, 2012

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ROYAL JEWELS Is looking to employ a

IS LOOKING TO EMPLOY

FOREMAN, OPERATORS, LABOURER, DRIVERS Sales Person AC MANAGER, QC TECHINICANS, MECHANICS To work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour. Contact: 649946-4699 between regular working hours 9:30am-5:30pm

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POSITION AVAILABLE Administrator Insurance Agents & Brokers

To work 5 days per week. Salary ranging from $7.00 to $12.00 per hour.

Applicants must be willing to work on weekends and holidays.

Perspective applicants must have experience in asphalt work.

Please submit applications to main office.

C5-6 Caribbean Place, Leeward Highway Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands

BAF General Insurance Brokers (TCI) Ltd. (a proud affiliate of the BAF Global Group) is searching for an Administrator. The ideal candidate must be detail-oriented and self-motivated with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The ability to work with limited supervision in a fast-paced, service-driven progressive culture is a must.

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LIME TURKS & CAICOS Is accepting application for

Technician

Responsibilities: • Perform administrative and clerical duties with efficiency • Greet and receive walk in and telephone clients in a professional manner • Handle Internal and external client queries • Receive applications for credit life and liaise with Financial Institutions.

• Liaise with Underwriting department on application issues and approvals • Prepare end of day reports • Provide Quality Customer Service to a diverse clientele • Complete and submit claims from policy owners • General reporting and administration of credit life and other insurance products.

• Applicant must be able to assist in developing operational procedures • Must be skilled in circuit-level and component-level troubleshooting • Must have ability to read and interpret schematics and diagnostic manuals • Utilization of a variety of test equipments, including oscilloscopes calibration units, OHM meters, capacitance checkers and splice fiber etc.

• Have excellent soldering and de-soldering skills • Must have knowledge of both home and industrials electronics • Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in technical operation, must be computer literate, must be punctual, responsible and have the ability to work on own initiative, willing to work weekends and holidays if needed

Core Competencies: • Ability to work with limited supervision and learn new skills quickly • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Ability to execute duties with accuracy and proficiency • Demonstrate a keen eye for details • Ability to work under pressure and follow company guidelines • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to maintain a harmonious relationship with co-workers • Ability to maintain confidentiality • Reliable, dependable and flexible team-player • Customer focused

Please submit resumes to: HR Department LIME Turks & Caicos islands Leeward Highway Providenciales

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JOB VACANCIES

Required Qualifications: • Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or related field or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years experience in an insurance operation or similar position • Excellent computer skills and proficiency in Excel required • ACS, FLMI Insurance designation a plus

Dive Instructors/Dive Masters

Looking for SCUBA Diving instructors and/or Divemaster with experience in the Turks and Caicos Islands dive industry to conduct dive courses, lead dives and snorkel trips and assist on other ecoadventure activities at Big Blue. Applicants must be a current PADI dive instructor and/or Divemaster and have the skills and personality for sales, reservations, & public relations. Starting salary of approximately $2000 per month.

Benefits: Salary commensurate with current salary scales, skills and experience.

Submit Resume to the General Manager by email to baftci@mybafsolutions.com BAF General Insurance Brokers (TCI) Ltd P.O. Box 252. 1229 Leeward Highway, Unit #4 Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands

Please drop resume and cover letter to Big Blue at the Leeward Marina between the hours of 8am to 5pm or e-mail to bigblue@tciway.tc. You will be contacted for an interview if successful and the deadline for applications is 18th May 2012. Positions start in June 2012.

Marine Biologists / Eco-Tour Guides

Applications must be received by May 10, 2012

Looking for persons with experience and qualifications in the field of Marine Biology to join Big Blue’s team of eco-tour guides and dive instructors. Applicants must have experience in tropical waters and be able to lead educational kayak, paddleboard, snorkel, scuba diving and sightseeing ecoadventures. Applicants must have a current first aid and CPR certificate and have the personality for sales, public relations and education. Applicants with boat driving experience, and STCW’95/TCI boat captain’s license preferred and will enjoy a better salary. Starting salary of $2000 per month.

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Please drop resume and cover letter to Big Blue at the Leeward Marina between the hours of 8am to 5pm or e-mail to bigblue@tciway.tc. You will be contacted for an interview if successful and 18th May 2012. Positions start in June 2012.

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Fenelon Empowerment Services

Accountant

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

• Applicants must have a Degree in Accounting and experience with QuickBooks and Microsoft Office. VAT Accounting experience is helpful but not necessary.

Business Coach

• Applicants must have an MBA. A concentration in Entrepreneurship would be helpful.

Please send applications to Managing Director at: fenelonempowerment@yahoo.com Phone: 649-231-2486

PROJECT MANAGER

VACANCY

Responsibilities • Manage all aspects of the Project, from programme planning to budget development and contract execution through work performance involving oversight of administration and production, • Communicate with the Design Team to optimize the resources by simplifying construction procedures and/or select alternative materials, • Understand and implement Energy Saving technologies wherever possible in the Project, • Fill the role of the highest-level Company representative with full time commitment to the Project and responsible for on-site A&E Client relations, • Manage all Project Staff directly assigned to the Project, • Negotiate Contract and Subcontract agreements and purchase orders where applicable, • Participate in system and procedure development for Company operations, • Aid and assist in future expansion and development within the Region • Review Drawings to locate issues with design or documentation • Negotiate and review possible construction contracts • Conduct value engineering to look for specification alternatives • Lead the development of and take responsibility for the implementation of the Program Management Plan • Manage the cost and financial disposition of the project

Applications are invited for the position of

Hotel Operations Manager

Responsibilities • Direct the room revenue management operations of multiple properties • Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure proper communication of company goals and objectives.

• Assist management in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, and financial plans which support the overall objectives of the operation • Assist in the selection, training and development of hotel personnel Requirements • Good communication skills, both verbal and written. Proficiency in other languages will be an asset • 15 years experience in an upscale hospitality environment • Ability to supervise a large international staff compliment and control performance objectives in multiple outlets.

• Must have worked for an internationally recognized Five Star Hotel Brand

Requirements • Must have at least 8 years experience as a Project Manager.

• Must have at least 5 years significant experience as it relates to surveying and construction management of different properties • Must have experience as lead project manager on a project in excess of $50 million & 150, 000 sq ft Turks Island citizens only need to apply in person to Tiersa Smith, Human Resources Manager at The Sands Resort and The Regent Palms located on Grace Bay Road, Providenciales, or e-mail careers@hartlinggroup.com. Applications must be in by May 18 2012.

Belongers need only apply.

Please Submit Application to:

P.O. Box 270 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands

POOL & BEACH ATTENDANT

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VACANCY

Responsibilities • Greet all guests and assist with towels, umbrellas, questions, and/or water sports equipment.

• Complete setting up and breaking down of all guest lounge areas as designated by management and to ensure that all pool chairs and tables are in a clean and orderly fashion.

• Constant walk-through of pool area and beach area to make certain it is clean (no trash on the grounds) and tidy. Inspect entire pool area replacing any missing items and/ or repairing (when possible) any items needing attention. (I.E. Umbrellas, Hobie Cat, Chairs, etc.)

• Pool & Hot Tub Cleaning (I.E. vacuuming, filtering, scrubbing, sifting, chemical testing, checking skimmers, etc.)

Applications are invited for the position of

Food and Beverage Manager Responsibilities • Direct day to day operations for all restaurant outlets, room service, culinary, stewarding, beverage, banquet, and purchasing operations • Produce forecasting and budgeting reports for all F&B outlets and work closely with the Executive Chef on optimizing business strategies • Market the Food and Beverage outlets; together with Executive Chef and manage the implementation of menus, package deals, promotions, displays, decorations and presentations within corporate guidelines • Assist management in the preparation of the annual departmental operating budget, and financial plans which support the overall objectives of the operation

Requirements • A secondary diploma is an asset • Experience as a Pool & Beach Attendant is preferred • Must be able to work long hours in all weather conditions • Must be able to be CPR certified, First Aid certified, and AED certified • Must be a good swimmer and perform rescue when needed • Must be able to operate rescue boat • Must be experienced in sailing, kayaking, and wind-surfing and operator all equipment • Must be able to clean and chlorinate pool • Must handle pool chemicals and equipment maintenance and functions • Life Guard experience a plus • Must speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) (English) used in the workplace.

• Must work weekends and holidays

Turks Island citizens only need to apply in person to Tiersa Smith, Human Resources Manager at The Sands Resort located on Grace Bay Road, Providenciales, the Turks and Caicos Labour Department, or e-mail: humanresource@thesandstc.com. Applications must be in by May 18 2012..

seeks

Requirements: • Good communication skills both written and verbal. Proficiency in other languages would be an asset.

• Ability to work flexible hours including days, evenings, weekends and holidays, as required • 15 years experience in an upscale, fine dining and Hotel environment required • Ability to manage a large international staff compliment and control performance objectives in multiple outlets.

• Experience as a Head Sommelier and/or beverage Manager required Belongers need only apply.

Please Submit Application to:

P.O. Box 270 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands 6628

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VIVIANNE LIGHTBOURNE - NORTH CAICOS IS LOOKING TO EMPLOY A

Career Opportunities

Veranda is currently seeking qualified candidates that have the requirements listed along with an outgoing professional manner. Our ideal candidates must love to work with different types of people, meet challenges with a positive attitude and live the standards of our organization.

Director of Finance Reports to the General Manager and the Chief Financial Officer. Supervises all members of the Accounting Department, provides functional guidance to Executive Committee and Department Heads, interact with hotel’s legal counsel, insurance companies, tax consultants, auditors, commercial and government banks to effectively control the assets of the business and to provide business support.

Requirements: • Bachelor of Business, Accounting, Finance or Commerce.

• Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) qualifications preferred.

• 5 – 10 years experience in hospitality accounting • Excellent knowledge of hotel accounting software(s).

• Knowledge of hotel reservations system(s).

• Knowledge of hotel point of sales system(s).

• Strong IT skills • Negotiation and effective presentation skills

Food & Beverage Manager The Food and Beverage Manager is responsible for the organization, coordination and administration of the Food and Beverage Department, to ensure compliance with Veranda’s standards, policies and procedures, maintaining the highest level of customer service.

Requirements: • 5 star Food & Beverage experience with at least 5 years as restaurant manager in a luxury resort.

• Caribbean experience considered an asset.

• Degree in hospitality desirable.

• International experience and multi-lingual to assist our International clientele would be an asset.

• Knowledge of fine wines.

• Must be competent with Microsoft Office and experience with Micros considered a plus.

• Energetic, positive visionary leader, dedicated to motivating and developing team members.

• Assists with strategy, budgeting, cost management and delivering on objectives.

• Exceptional communication and customer service skills and lives the standard of the organization.

Kids Club Coordinator Assume the overall responsibility for all aspects of the

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• To work 5 days per week. Salary ranging from $7.00 to $8.00 per hour.

• Applicants must be willing to work on weekends and holidays.

• Perspective applicants must have experience in asphalt work.

CONTACT: 649-244-4281

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BEEN MEP CO. Is looking for a

kid’s club program including both day and night time activities.

Requirements: • At least 3 years experience as a children’s program supervisor preferably in a hotel environment.

• Pleasant outgoing personality.

• Excellent communication, leadership and training skills required to develop confidence and initiative in young staff.

• The ability to work in a demanding environment that frequently requires 6 day work weeks.

• A background in child care would be an asset.

• Knowledge of educational programs and early learning instruments

Servers • Set tables according to resort standards, • Provide a warm welcome to all patrons, and seat guests to maximize efficiency; • Complete all assigned side duties and keep all storage areas clean and organized.

• Team oriented • Have good oral communications skills • Flexible to work 7 days a week - shifts from 2pm • Ability to work under pressure during busy periods

Houseman • Responds and delivers requests for towels, bathroom amenities, blankets, etc.

• Delivers clean linen/terry to floor closets and stock them properly • Picks up garbage, dirty linen/terry and place them in the designated areas • Cleans and maintains all public areas, fixtures, windows, storage areas, ledges, rails, elevators etc.

• Must be able to push and pull heavy carts and able to lift 50lbs.

• Must be willing to work shifts, weekends and public holidays

Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience

Interested persons may contact our Human Resource Manager No later than May 8, 2012 Email: deleria.simms@verandatci.com Or hand deliver to our office at Veranda Resort and Residences Princess Dr. Lower Bight, Providenciales

Is looking to employ a

Labourer To work for 5 days per week. Ealary $7.00 per hour.

Contact: 231-6920

ROYAL JEWELS

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Domestic Worker To work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour. contact: 649-946-4699 between regular working hours 9:30am-5:30pm

ADVERTISING DEADLINE FOR ALL ADS IS 5:00 PM WEDNESDAY CALL 946-4664 OR EMAIL tcnews@tciway.tc

LICENSED PROFESSIONAL TATTOO ARTIST WANTED The qualified candidate MUST: - Have at least 5 years professional experience - Provide proof of up-to-date hepatitis vaccinations - Provide proof of having passed an examination on sterile techniques and universal precautions against - infectious diseases - Be willing to work 6 days per week Remuneration will be commission based and preference will be given to Belongers Applications must contain a copy your portfolio with verifiable references and be addressed to P.O. Box 596 for attention of Dale A. Peters before May 8, 2012.

ONLY SUITABLE CANDIDATES WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED

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REQUIRED FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 12-13

FLAMINGO CAFÉ Is looking for 2

Commercial Manager

Graduate Teacher

ICCSCO is recruiting for the above position. Belongers are encouraged to apply.

To teach PHYSICS at IGCSE and Advanced Level.

LAB Technician Suitable candidates must have a Bachelor’s Degree and teaching qualifications, a minimum of five (5) years experience teaching the British National Curriculum and CIE Examination syllabi.

Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The Principal, British West Indies Collegiate PO Box 338, Providenciales or Email: bwicprincipal@tciway.tc

To work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

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contact: 242-7545

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Suitable candidates will be called for interview.

The successful candidate should:-

Domestic Workers

CV, letter of application and names of 2 referees to be sent in writing to:

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

Is seeking for a

Marketing and Business Manager

Who will also have responsibilities as a Gym Manager and Fitness Trainer Job requirements include: - University or Masters’ Degree in Business Administration - At least 10 years of experience in managing businesses - Qualifications and relevant experience as a Personal Trainer and Aerobics Instructor - Excellent communication, customer care, leadership and organization skills - Multi-tasking skills required and ability to manage stressful situations - Ability to work extensive hours, weekends and public holidays

Applications must be send to info@gracewaysports.com , only successful candidates will be contacted.

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SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION Pursuant to court order, British Caribbean Bank Limited, Governor’s Road, Leeward, Providenciales HEREBY GIVES NOTICE that it will cause to be sold by public auction the following properties: TITLE DESCRIPTION REGISTERED

PROPRIETOR 60902/111 1 residential luxury home and 1 guest house Henry Clark Leeward Going Through on Pinta Lane with canal frontage located Providenciales on 0.92 acres of land 7.65 acres of adjoining raw land located at the entrance of Leeward Development.

Zoned – Hotel/Tourism

@@ Possess a suitable qualification in building or quantity surveying @@ Have a minimum of 20 years experience at senior level within the construction industry of which at least 10 years in a management capacity. @@ Have a minimum of 10 years experience within the health care environment @@ Have worked on at least one public private partnership scheme @@ Have extensive knowledge of the common forms of building contract ( FIDIC, JCT , as a minimum) as well as the forms of project agreement used in public private partnerships and have worked in the international market in at least two differing locations for not less than 5 years. @@ Be prepared to travel to different locations at the discretion of the company both inside and outside the Caribbean. @@ Have extensive experience of building claims and be able to demonstrate their ability to deal with these with minimal supervision. @@ The ability to prepare extensive financial reports and present these to the main board @@ Have interpersonal skills of a level suitable to deal effectively with very senior executives both internally and externally. @@ Deal effectively and in a proactive manner with all contract communications.

The salary will be dependant on qualifications and experience.

Graceway Sports Centre

60904/216,217,218,221 222,351,352,514 Leeward Going Through Providenciales

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The auction will be held on Wednesday 9th May, 2012 at 10:00am at the offices of the British Caribbean Bank Limited, Governor’s Road, Leeward, Providenciales. Further inquiries may be directed to 1-649-941-5028 ext 302.

ALL SALES ARE SUBJECT TO RESERVE; 10% DEPOSIT REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY AFTER SUCCESSFUL BID. 6598

Please send a CV by email to pnicholson@ interhealthcanada.tc ensuring a contact email and telephone number is included.

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Under-15 Rugby:

Delancy stuns Storm

NEWCOMER Liam Delancy shocked the Scotiabank Storm by scoring two tries in the FCIB Lions 25-10 victory at the Meridian Field last Saturday in an U-15 rugby clash.

Having defended well from the opening kick off the Storm were first to take their chances as strong running

by Greshun Been put the Lions on their back foot. AJ Forbes made two defenders commit before Ismarck Saimphe grabbed a long pass and took off for the try line. The lead was to be a short one as Tyrese Thomas and Rocky Williams tore through the Storm’s defenders. In the blink of an eye Thomas darted through a gap and levelled the score. The Lions retained possession after the kick off and only the dogged Storm’s defence prevented them from doubling their

lead. Having recovered possession a great individual effort by AJ Forbes saw the sides levelled at halftime.

The second half belonged to the Lions and more specifically eventual man-of-the-match Delancy. Taking the ball at pace he sliced through the Storm’s defence leaving the defenders reaching for air and asking a lot of questions. Having given the Lions the lead, Delancy doubled it by working off a strong one-two punch with Rocky to slip past the Storm’s defence. With the Storm trying desperately to work their way back up the field risky passes were thrown and the Lions’ defender CJ Outten latched onto one errant pass and returned it for a try, putting the game out of reach.

Under 15s rugby continues

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President’s Cup

Pedagogue FC into final PEDAGOGUE Football Club would face league winners Cheshire Hall in the final of the President’s Cup at the AFC Academy ground this Saturday from 18:00h.

Owing to a 4-3 win against the AFC Academy in a must win game, the Pedagogue side finished on top of

the mini-league table with six points from two games. Their opponents Cheshire Hall FC were second with four points from two games while SWA Sharks also finished on four points (inferior goal difference) while the AFC Academy and the HAB FC finished without a point.

Provo Softball League:

Defending female champs open with win

Greshun Been on the attack for the Scotiabank Storm

Saturday at 10.00am at the Meridian Field.

DEFENDING female champions in the Provo Softball League, Silver Deep Cruisers opened with a 14-4 victory over KIA when the 2012 Provo Softball season got underway.

It was not all glorious for the male

defending champs since Silver Deep lost to Kishco 6-8 last Saturday.

On Sunday the Braves edged out the CBS Tigers 11-10 and the Sotheby’s Flamingo destroyed the HAB Predators 12-0.

Josh for Sports

What’s for you, the flood can’t wash it away

“Salute Ifeanyi Otuonye’ WE in the TCI are blessed with a multiplicity of unimaginable talent.

It’s only us natives who don’t recognise this glorious fact.

From the days back in 1978 when I took a 22-member team to the CARIFTA Games in Nassau, Bahamas the world was put on notice that this small island chain would not be taken lightly. We won a bronze.

On our way we stopped at the Florida Relays at the University of Florida in Gainesville where we won three medals: gold, silver and bronze at the high school level (Corina Capron-13 year-old in 100M; Dale Taylor, 14 year-old 800M; and Edith Been, 14-year-old 400M. They were all part of our CARIFTA team under-17 representing our country for the first time in an international competition.

AMAZING RUTH ADAMS [ARIZA] Ruth [now mother Ruth the evangelist] made history that I think, up to this time, has not been broken.

TEN-YEAR-OLD PRODIGY I believe that Ruth is the youngster competitor to have ever participated in the CARIFTA Games. She was rangy in built and tall for her age.

She was a student at HJ Robinson.

There was only 18-year-old Beatrice Delancy that could beat her in distance running, especially crosscountry.

U-20 DIVISION Ruth ran in the U-20 division in the 3000M (200M short of two miles) and gave good account of herself.

Actually these two stalwarts could

By Joshua Gardiner beat most of the male students in the TCI. They were committed and dedicated.

There was Daphnie Brooks (Penn) now at PPC. At age 12 she ran in the U-17 400M; actually all of our female athletes ranged in ages 10-14 except Beatrice.

DUWANNA FULFORD Duwanna Fulford was an international champion (age group) in the CAC at age 11-12. In 2007 the programme was killed to host the disastrous CARIFTA in Provo where we won no medals.

TYROID SMITH AND THE COX BROTHERS Tyroid became the IAAF poster kid when his blown up picture was posted at airports all around the world. The Cox brothers [twins] should have gone to university in the US instead of Jamaica.

THE OTUONYE STORY Now today we have a history making

all-round track and field star who made history when he won a bronze medal in the Junior Commonwealth Games (long jump), plus the year before he won a silver in the CARIFTA high jump. This young man is so diversified that he should be declared a national treasure so as to protect the potential enhancing, acclaim and international recognition and respect for our country.

His father is none other that the chairman of the Integrity Commission.

He is a belonger of African decent. He is a TCI.

Action is on at the Graceway Sports Centre this Saturday evening.

ENTER KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY A grave injustice was done to this extraordinary ambassador of an athlete when his accomplishment was not honoured and shown appreciation (national) for his famous international triumph. He did this at a forum which had 54 countries with a total population of at least 2.5 billion (not million); the result—instant recognition of the TCI. JUSTICE PREVAILS KSU recognised the value of this extraordinary species of an athlete and capitalised on their good fortune to acquire fame through the world.

They offered him a $30, 000 per year scholarship to represent their university—plus incentives. I foresee and predict that Otuonye, with his continuous dedication and focus would become a world champion.

DECATHLON His forte is the decathlon. My predication is that he would break

the world record within three years.

I feel that with the expert of the coaches at KSU he will master the shot put, 110 hurdles, pole vault, javelin and discus to further augment his potential to become the greatest overall champion track and field athlete in the world.

He’s already good in the 100M, 400M, high jump and long jump.

GOOD LUCK I and my faithful column readers

express our congratulation and best wishes to Otuonye for the future.

FINAL NOTE If Delano Williams ran for his school the 100M, 200M, 4X100M and 4X400M, tell me why he did not do the same for his country? Something is very much amiss. Goodbye for now and may god bless us, open our eyes, learn from our mistakes and prosper.

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PENN Relays:

Williams runs personal best 4X400M split in Munro’s victory OLYMPIC hopeful Delano Williams proved that he has what it takes to dominate all the sprint events. His latest record breaking feat propelled his school Munro College to gold in last week’s PENN Relays in Pennsylvania.

The Jamaican school, which was represented by the TCI national record holder in the (100M and 200M) Williams, Junior Commonwealth bronze medallist Ifeanyi Otuonyi and Angelo Garland (ran the heats), ran a season best of 3:11.93 minutes to take the gold.

Earlier the school dropped the baton in the 4X100M event.

Tina Hinds, seen here with Technical Director of the TCIFA Matthew Green, scored twice for the Blue Knights against the Red Devils and then scored a hat-trick against the Pink Panthers.

Bay Bistro Women’s League:

Blue Knights claim title WITH one week still remaining the Blue Knights have claimed the title as champions of the Bay Bistro Women’s Recreational League, however the runners-up spot is still to be determined as the Black Warriors and the Red Devils will fight it out during the last week of games.

The Blue Knights had two victories last Thursday as they overcame spirited resistance from the Red Devils (3-1) before registering a more comfortable 4-1 win against the Pink Panthers. Tina Hinds scored twice in the opening game and Simone Smith sealed the win with a goal in the closing minutes. Jessica Lange pounced on a defensive error to give the Devils a chance of a comeback, but the Knights’ defence remained resolute for the remainder of the game. Hinds helped herself to

a hat-trick and Smith scored again in their win over the Panthers who scored through Kadine Delphin. The trio of Yarielca De La Cruz, Hinds and Smith has been the backbone of their success this season, but they have been well supported by younger players such as: Trincy Reid and Melissa Jean Guy. In the remaining fixtures the Black Warriors moved into second place with wins against the Panthers and the Devils. Trailing by 2-0, Sarah Cenary scored three goals to defeat the Panthers, who had looked comfortable with goals coming from Delphin and Joan Gregg. Cenary also made the difference in the crucial game against the Devils as she scored in each half to secure the points and second place with just one week to go.

HAB Group/Gansevoort T-20 Cricket Competition:

Bruno overcomes finger injury to lead Police GARVIN Bruno showed no signs that he had dislocated his finger just a few weeks ago after clobbering the KB HOMES bowlers to all parts of the Downtown Ball Park last Sunday.

The result was the Lawmen’s second win after a slow start in the HAB Group/Gansevoort sponsored T-20 cricket competition. KB HOME won the toss and batted themselves to a solid total of 192-4 from their 20 overs. Vickram John led the attack with 51 (6X4s, 3X6s), while Mark Butler added 48 runs and Gareth Butler 44.

Damian Young was the pick of the bowlers with 2-40 from four overs.

Face with the daunting task of scoring at 9.65 runs per over the defending T-20 champions led by their skipper Bruno ensured a win after he smashed four sixes and nine fours in his score of 89. Ian Ganess added a quick 33 (2X4s, 3X6s).

Bruno had dislocated his finger while diving for a ball during an earlier match.

Neil Coles and Paul McKenzie picked up a wicket each for the rugby team.

ACCLIMATISING For Williams, who anchored, the victory was a great boost since he ran a best split of 45.4s (previous best was 45.7s last year) in a colder environment than he is accustomed.

“It felt great running fast in the cold, even though I was not planning to go that hard I did it, and it’s a new personal best for me in the 4X400M”.

The teenager who is hoping to qualify for the UK for this year’s

Munro College ahead during the second leg.

TCI’s Ifeanyi Otuonye who started the relay falls to the ground (right) after passing the baton.

Olympics still cramped up at times because of the coldness. He said it was something he managed to overcome.

Otuonye, who started the race, ran a time of 50.1s despite having a slight injury from the heats, while Garland ran the heats and propelled his school to the second fastest time

before the final.

Sprinting legend Michael Johnson is the only athlete to have split a 4X400M in under 43 seconds (42.94s).

Despite the good showing in the 4X400M, Williams would not run the 400M competitively. He just does not like the event.

TCIFA Women’s Beach Soccer League:

Purple Pirates record big win over Great White Sharks

THE TCIFA Women’s Beach Soccer League started last week as four teams fought it out on the sands of Grace Bay Beach entertaining a large crowd of spectators. The league sponsored by Captain Marvin’s will last for seven weeks and will see almost 50 female players represent four teams: the Great White Sharks, Blue Marlins, Pink Mermaids and the Purple Pirates.

The opening day’s games were high scoring affairs as the Purple Pirates defeated the Great White Sharks 10-4 and the Pink Mermaids edged a thrilling contest with a 9-8 win against the Blue Marlins.

The Purple Pirates started strongly as Tina Hinds and Yarielca De La Cruz scored six and four goals respectively. They were ably supported by the rest of their team, especially Sanardia Forbes who made some impressive saves in goal and had three assists. The Great White Sharks were unlucky in front of goal and the scoreline did not reflect the effort they put in.

Shinaydine Pluviose scored twice for the Sharks with Jessica Lange and Simone Smith also getting onto the score sheet.

The second game showed just how exciting beach soccer could be as the Pink Mermaids held a 7-3 lead going into the final period. Kadine Dephin (three goals) and Yarileny De La Cruz (two goals) had given the Mermaids a 5-1 lead before Coral Pratt and Jessica

Opening day action in the TCIFA Women’s Beach Soccer League

Foley brought their total up to seven.

Amelie Speer (two) and Waldine Pierre had scored to give the Marlins a chance of staging a comeback, but going into the final period it looked as if the team in Pink would win comfortably.

However, the game turned on its head as Pierre scored her second goal before Sarah Cenary scored four goals in quick succession to give her team an 8-7 lead with only three minutes remaining. The Mermaids tied the game through Trincy Reid and in the dying seconds of the game Yarileny De La Cruz completed her hat-trick to give the Mermaids a well earned victory.

Technical Director Matthew Green was very pleased with the opening day of competition. “It was

great to see the players enjoying themselves on the beach. They all worked hard and the crowd was treated to some great skills and plenty of goals. We are one of the few countries in this part of the world that takes Beach Soccer seriously and the players are keen to start training as part of a national team.” Green went on to explain the TCIFA’s aims for Beach Soccer. “Later in the year we will have our own facility at our Academy grounds which will allow us to set up organised sessions for our players. In a few weeks time the sixteam men’s league will start and we also will have Women’s International games in December. However, right now we just want to make sure that everyone is having fun”.

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