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TCI mom arrested over daughter’s murder A TCI woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her sixyear-old daughter in the Cayman Islands after she was found near the crime scene. Tamara Butler, 37, has not been charged with any crimes but remains in police custody, according to the Cayman Compass. Little Bethany Butler’s body was found early on Monday morning (October 27) inside an SUV along a dirt track near Barefoot Beach in Grand Cayman’s East End district. The young girl had what appeared to be stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) Chief Superintendent Kurt Walton said police have opened a murder inquiry into the girl’s death. Tamara Butler, the wife of Cayman police officer Sergeant Lenford Butler, was arrested when she was found near to the car. Local police later searched the couple’s home in the SavannahNewlands area. According to an RCIPS statement about the incident: “At approximately 4.59am Monday…a police patrol came across a parked SUV on the road side along the Queens Highway, East End. “Upon further investigation the police officers discovered the body of a six-year-old girl inside the vehicle. “A subsequent search of the area utilising the RCIPS helicopter and other ground units found a 37-yearold female resident of Newlands not far from the parked vehicle. “She was subsequently connected

Little Bethany Butler’s body was found early on Monday morning (October 27)

to the vehicle and was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody while the investigation continues.” Butler’s mother Claudette Munroe-Clare, chair of the Community College Foundation

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Board, and her stepfather William Clare live in the TCI. On Tuesday (October 28) the Cayman Compass reported that members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Bodden Town gathered the previous night for a special service. Pastor Shian O’Connor, who presided over the service, spent a part of Monday with Sgt Butler following news of his daughter’s death. “This is a real tragedy; it is not foreseeable,” O’Connor said. “We’ve heard of these things happening and in watching the television, but when it strikes home, it’s terrible. “It’s an extremely difficult time. It affects all of us. It sends shock waves through the Cayman Islands and beyond.” Sgt Butler served for a while on the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. He posted a picture on his Facebook page of Bethany on Monday which prompted a flood of messages of sympathy. Bathany’s death is the third homicide in the Cayman Islands so far this year. The killing comes nearly five years after the February 2010 murder of four-year-old Jeremiah Barnes. Jeremiah was shot in his parents’ vehicle outside the Hell Esso gas station in what police said was a gang-related retaliatory shooting.

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Settlement reached with former Attorney General BY DELANA ISLES THE GOVERNMENT of the Turks and Caicos Islands has settled the dismissal claim with former Attorney General Huw Shepheard, the Weekly News has learned. In a recent interview with this publication, Premier Rufus Ewing confirmed that the Government has settled with Shepheard with regard to his million-dollar claim for constructive dismissal. When asked what sum was paid out, Ewing said he could not disclose how much it was settled for, but did indicate it was not what Shepheard was asking for. Asked if it was less, Ewing said: “It was way less.” The former AG was seeking some $1 million from the Government, a figure that took into account his loss of income and the damages to his reputation suffered because of the alleged attacks on him by the Government and the TCI community during his tumultuous tenure. The suit was filed last year, shortly after Shepheard handed in his resignation on October 31, 2013, amid repeated calls for his resignation. In his letter to newly arrived Governor Peter Beckingham, the former legal advisor stated his intention to sue the Government. An arbitration hearing was subsequently convened to settle the matter out of court and reach an agreement between the parties. However, earlier this year, the new Attorney General, Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles indicated that no agreement was reached. Before his resignation, Shepheard was bombarded with claims of incompetence and was accused of refusing to answer queries of the Government. These questions related to the financial activities of the Government, the expenditure of the Civil Recovery Team and

Former Attorney General, Huw Shepheard

the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT), the manner in which monies are paid to the two bodies, the work they do, travel and accommodations, among others. The friction between the Government and its former legal advisor intensified when former Governor Ric Todd, in an apparent parting shot to the TCI, extended Shepheard’s contract until 2016 despite loud calls for his recall to the UK. Ewing at the time called Todd’s move as “a total disregard for the people of these Islands and the Office of the Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands.” An undaunted Shepheard said he had held no grudges when Ewing later announced a possible boycott of any dealings with him. However, on October 31, the same day that Dr Peter Hayes, Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for overseas territories, visited the TCI, Shepheard handed in his resignation and expressed his intention to sue the TCIG for constructive dismissal.

Clocks go back this Sunday ALL clocks should be set back one hour on Sunday morning as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end. In line with US Eastern Standard Time the Islands’ clocks need to be changed before residents go to bed on Saturday evening. A former Cabinet decision to remain on Daylight Saving Time throughout the year has been deferred until next year to allow industry officials to plan for the change. Members had a change of

heart during a Cabinet meeting in September. A press release from the Governor’s Office following the meeting stated that members “agreed to defer by one year Cabinet’s decision of August 13 to maintain Daylight Savings Time as the standard time of the Islands. “This is to allow sufficient notice for implementation to be provided to key stakeholders in the aviation and tourism sectors. “This means that the Islands will remain on USA Eastern Standard Time.”

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Gov’t seeks approval for $5.4 million excess expenditure

BY DELANA ISLES

The Government is seeking an additional $5.4 million to fund its upcoming programs. A supplementary appropriations request has been forwarded to the United Kingdom government for approval. Last week, Cabinet agreed to the document which listed additional funds requested by various ministries of the Government. Premier Rufus Ewing discussed the amounts on Friday (October 24) during a press briefing at the Hilly Ewing building. A request of $1.6 million has been made for new projects such as the proposed new school in Long Bay,

he said. The Ministry of Education has requested $602,000; while $366,000 will be going to the Deputy Governor’s office. Ewing said that the majority of the allocation to the Deputy Governor’s office will be going to the House of Assembly and is inclusive of transfers of accounts that were under ministries like the Ministry of Government Support Services, into the House. The Ministry of Health has requested an additional $576,000 which will go towards to the Turks and Caicos Islands’ response to and preparedness for Ebola, and for combatting chikungunya and dengue fever. The finance ministry seeks an

additional $488,000; the Ministry of Home Affairs and Environment requested $377,000 and an additional $990,000 has been requested by the Office of the Premier. Ewing noted that the sum for his office is a transfer subvention to the Tourist Board to help support additional marketing of Turks and Caicos Islands as well as marketing of airlifts into Providenciales and Grand Turk. Meanwhile, $660,000 will be going to the Immigration Department; $700,000 will be allocated to statutory charges and to the development fund; while $990,000 will be going towards dealing with the aftermath of Cristobal for recovery works and

over time payment to staff, the Premier said. He added: “The Government is able to approve these supplementary requests because of the strong fiscal performance we experienced over the first half of this year in terms of revenue where we saw almost $19 million in excess of what we expected.” The Supplementary Appropriations Bill will be tabled at the next meeting of the House on November 17 when it will be discussed by members and the Appropriations Committee will examine it in detail. Supplementary appropriations provide additional funds to appropriations (money devoted to a special purpose) already divided into the budget.

They are added while the fiscal year is already in progress, and are generally used for needs that were not anticipated - emergencies like recession, disaster, or defence. Supplementary appropriations are requested by different Government agencies and sent to the House of Assembly as appropriation bills for approval. Once approved the cash is distributed from Government’s consolidated fund. In March 2013 the House of Assembly approved $2.7 million for supplementary appropriations for fiscal year 2012/2013. And in November 2013 an additional $945,000 was requested and approved.

No Ebola travel ban for TCI – Premier stands by his decision in the face of criticism BY DELANA ISLES PREMIER Rufus Ewing recently stood by a Government decision not to impose a travel ban on people travelling from Ebola affected West African countries. Ewing’s defence comes in the face of criticism on locally managed social media pages and other public platforms that while countries around the TCI are going this route, the Government is refusing to implement what some see as the sensible approach. At a press briefing on Friday (October 24) the Premier spoke on the topic before Government ministers and Dr Gerry Eijkemans, a Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to the TCI and the Bahamas. He said his decision is in line with sound public health approaches to

Premier, Rufus Ewing

Dr Gerry Eijkemans, PAHO/WHO representative to the TCI and the Bahamas

disease prevention and control. “Travel bans as a public health approach to disease prevention and control is not the right approach to safeguard a country and it does not prevent you from getting Ebola. “So we thought it necessary to do first and foremost good public health practice, like countries like the Bahamas and other countries are doing as a first step. “If we find that we are having challenges with that approach then we will continue to keep under

evaluation the decision with regards to absolute travel ban,” the Premier, a medical doctor by training, stated. He noted that travel bans have their own implications, but that he will never say never to imposing one. “But I would have to put on my political hat to do so, because it’s more of a political approach and play to the minds of people more so than a public health approach. “And we need to consider the political implications, the economic implications of placing a travel

ban or not as part of our decision making,” he added. Ewing also stated that the TCI will be handing out questionnaires to travellers to the Islands to fill out at points of entry. The form will contain Ebola specific questions relating to travel, degree of contact with affected persons, fever and other symptoms. As part of the screening exercise, everyone who enters the TCI is getting their temperature tested and are being asked Ebola specific questions. On the question of a quarantine zone, the Premier answered that specific rooms in the hospital are being prepared as isolation rooms and that the Ministry of Health is contracting modified containers to be used as isolation zones to be placed in the hospital compound. The Government has engaged the support of PAHO for assistance with its Ebola preparedness and response plan. The Premier said that the international organisation has committed to supporting the Government for the various elements under that plan especially if a case of Ebola was to be diagnosed in TCI. The public is therefore being

assured that the TCI is continuing to prepare itself to respond to the threat of Ebola and to deal with any case. STAY CALM Ewing called on all residents to remain calm as Government uses good public health sense, public health knowledge and also good policy to deal with the threat of Ebola. “We will continue to keep on our radar, other interventions that may be necessary based on our on-going evaluation of our performance with the various measures that are in place. “These may include looking at how we can enforce the issue of those persons who might have travelled to Ebola affected countries and might have come into contact with Ebola patients, how we can enforce them staying out of TCI for at least 21 days.” The Premier stated that the Government is confident at this point that there are sufficient mechanisms in place to detect Ebola at borders and to manage any case. However, he added: “But we are not fully prepared in terms of dealing continued 

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

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

Immigration Bill

EARLIER this month the highly contested Immigration Bill was voted down in parliament. The bill describes, among other things, rules on the acquisition of Belonger status, the control of entry to the TCI, employment of foreign workers and provision of asylum to refugees. Leader of the Opposition Sharlene Cartwright Robinson said the bill needs a lot more consultation with the public before it is signed into law. What are your thoughts? Do you think the public has been adequately involved in the creation of the bill?

People must know

The public needs to know. That is our problem - a group of Government officials meets and makes the decisions for everyone before taking the initial plans to the public for input. That's the Michael Misick autocratic way of doing things. The people must know the plan before it is implemented.

A national issue

The bill was never consulted on before. The problem is that the bill has gone contrary in

many instances to the peoples’ views shared over the past ten years. This makes fresh consultation necessary. It was just the other night that former Premier Mike said that this Government does not like to talk to or listen to the people of this country and this is another example. There are people who have to enforce this bill who have problems with it, as many sections are impractical, costly and they haven’t spoken to immigration officers. Persons who are trying to politicise this bill and make it all about grant of status to foreign nationals should be ashamed of themselves.

Overseas investors no longer need work permits BY DELANA ISLES AS PART of its continuing efforts to market the Turks and Caicos Islands as being “open for business” the Government has scrapped the requirement that new overseas investors need work permits. This was announced by Premier Rufus Ewing at a recent press briefing. He stated: “The Government in its efforts to enforce the laws of the land that are currently enacted continues to encounter a number of challenges with some of these laws and we know that some of them that were not implemented or enforced before are counterproductive to business development.” One such situation falls under the section 30 of the Business Licensing Regulations which requires all persons investing in a business in the TCI to obtain a work permit. Ewing said that the Government finds this provision to be counter-productive to investment; as such Cabinet at it October 22 meeting agreed to amend the law to make the provision applicable only to persons who are ordinarily resident in the TCI. Resident business operators still need work permits to do business in the Islands. “You can’t say open for business but

then you’re putting blockage in investors’ way,” Minster of Finance, Washington Misick later told this publication. He explained: “If I’m in Dakota and investing in Turks and Caicos, I’m not living here, I may be an agent putting money into a small business owned by a local person; under the way the law is written I would need a work permit. “It creates a barrier for people to invest… it makes no sense.” This is just the latest in a number of steps being taken by the TCIG to spur investment in the Islands. Last year, the Government announced its intention to offer Permanent Residence Certificates (PRCs) to new investors. Its aim was mainly to boost the construction sector, with special focus on the family islands. An initial cap of 200 was offered last September, with the option to increase based on the uptake. Investments of $1.5 million in a home or business on Providenciales and the developed cays and $500,000 in North and Middle Caicos and other less developed islands are major qualifiers for the limited offer PRCs.

This bill is bigger than status and covers way more than status. This isn’t the Government and Opposition’s bill to debate or agree - this is a national issue! The people said something and the Government is doing something else. I agree. There should be no debate until the people have spoken to the new changes brought by this Government.

New system needed

The entire Immigration Department here is a disaster. They can’t process regular work permits in any kind of reasonable time, rules for Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC) are shifting constantly, there is zero motivation to grow the population base to a point where independence might be a possibility, Belongers complain because expats do not ‘blend’ with the community, but at every turn the expats are being told they are not wanted here. The entire ministry, especially the work permit board, needs to be trashed and start all over again with a comprehensive and cohesive system.

Outdated practice

When one fills in all the papers and moves to Canada, one gets a card and a right to vote straight away and for $500. We need Belongers and expats here the same. Give PRC or Belonger status on merit and stop charging ridiculous amounts of money. You have tonnes of people who have lived here for a long time. They keep the environment clean, take care of ill animals, donate to charities, establish charities, bring music and arts and dancing to local children’s lives, they invest, employ people, send local kids to schools by donating to their tuition, they adopt kids from the home and many, many other good things.

We can fix it

The Turks and Caicos Islands needs a new Immigration Bill but not that one, not in its present form and definitely not one that the people were not in advance privy to, seen, read or approved. We all must agree that the country has an immigration problem, but is it an issue that we really cannot fix? I say, definitely, not. The legislatures did not see it fit to consult the people and from all indications failed to provide adequate note to the people’s representative-in-Opposition. If true, a very sad state of affairs, in this 21st century. But very sad to say though, is that the bill is the product of a few ill-intended leaders who lack the proactive foresight and have a profound disregard for TC Islanders - the very people they and the bill were intended to protect. All of this for sake of greed. The bill should be and is intended to be a control document. Yes, there are indeed some good parts that we must preserve, but again, there are some not so good parts that insult country’s common sense; and must, must be sufficiently addressed and or corrected.

Good advice?

The immigration minister who sponsored the

bill is the nephew of Mike Misick who wasted the money causing the deep debt we now struggle to pay back. The debt not used to build needed schools for Don Hue’s cousin, the education minister, to administer. On the pages of this paper was printed a Government list of those paid by Uncle Mike to advise him. Don Hue was receiving $90,000 a year to advise his Uncle Mike. When the mess was revealed over five years ago in the inquiry Uncle Mike was represented by Akierra our now education Minister. Uncle Mike took off and hid in Brazil. Was this good advice?

Lack of trust

This minister Don Hue Gardiner often walks out of parliament, he does not represent the people who elected him. How can we trust anything he does? We need to grow the population but first we need to resume honest development which stopped 10 years ago. What qualifies this minster for immigration reform after he revealed in parliament his disdain for poor people trying to become workers of our country?

Threat to security

In its present state, the bill is an affront and a total neglect of representation of the people. Not only is the bill a disservice to kit and kin, it is an instrument that betrays national security, gives rise to conspiracy and corrupt efforts, empowers the very select persons the bill is intended to control, diminishes in-place working controls, disenfranchises the TCI working sector, intentionally or unintentionally advantaged UK territories, concessions for felons and the mentally ill, as well as encourages marriages for gain, and erstwhile, provides the Governor with unfettered discretionary power, under the disguise of governance. In the end the bill is a direct threat to national security and in every way, opens the airport doors and the shores to all uninvited guests, the illegal immigrants.

Shame on Gardiner

Ask the people of Bottle Creek why they voted for this representative who does not now represent them. Shame on them and shame on him. Don Hue Gardiner started his term as immigration minister planning to make immigrants lives “unbearable”. The immigrants are the hard working people because they are willing to do the low paid jobs. This immigration minister is the least qualified person to revise immigration laws.

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Premier hopes to save failing insurance company THE GOVERNMENT will do everything in its power to save the country’s largest life insurance company from liquidation, Premier Rufus Ewing announced this week. In a statement to press on Wednesday (October 29) he revealed that he has asked Governor Beckingham to assist in preventing drastic court action. Other means must be found to help safeguard the investments of the firm’s 2,600 policyholders, he said. For six months British Atlantic Financial Services Limited (BAFSL) has been in administration while financial experts have tried hard to dig it out of debt. But progress has been lacking and on October 22 the Financial Services Commission (FSC) declared the company insolvent and filed a petition with the Supreme Court for its winding up. Thousands of TCI policyholders some who have invested more than

$100,000 in insurance plans - are at risk of losing large chunks of their cash pots in the process. Last week FSC managing director Kevin Higgins hit out at the Government saying that a lack of regulations led to this dire situation. But in a press statement on Wednesday (October 29) Ewing said that all efforts have been made to introduce relevant laws. “It is indeed unfortunate that Mr Higgins stated in his interview with the TC Weekly News that this failure of BAFSL or his actions could have been avoided if the necessary regulations were in place and if the Insurance Legislation was passed,” the Premier said. “It must be clearly stated, that since the start of this administration the Government, in the House of Assembly, has supported the presentation of all proposals recommended by the FSC to strengthen the regulatory framework

No Ebola travel ban ... continued from 

with all aspects of it, but we are continuing to prepare ourselves.” He said the TCI is prepared to deal with any case of Ebola for at least three days, by which time the support and assistance pledged by PAHO and others will kick in to beef up the response. This position was reiterated by Dr Eijkemans. She also pointed out that the fear surrounding Ebola is entirely disproportionate with the threat it poses, except for those countries in West Africa where the threat is real. Those three countries with active cases of Ebola are Liberia, New Guinea and Sierra Leone. “What I think is really important is that two countries in Africa - Nigeria and Senegal – by taking the right public health measures have controlled Ebola there, and these are not rich countries. “These are countries that have used what they have with the intelligence they have to control Ebola,” the PAHO rep stated. She said this is good news for countries in the Caribbean, “it means if they do the right thing we can control Ebola.” Dr Eijkemans further assured that there is no need for panic in the TCI when it comes to Ebola as the current health systems and the country’s state of preparedness will protect the Islands from an outbreak. However, she noted that it is important for people to realise that it is always possible that a case of Ebola can or will enter any country as long as there are active transmissions in West Africa.

“[If] we do not control that as an international community there is always a chance that a case of Ebola will enter the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe etcetera,” she added. For the WHO, Dr Eijkemans continued, the main priority is to reduce and control the outbreak at the source. As part of this effort they have called on a group of international experts and on countries in the world not to impose general travel bans nor general trade bans because they could seriously hamper the efforts for the world to intervene appropriately in West Africa. She said: “I do want to congratulate the TCI that so far they have not implemented the travel ban because it is very important that we keep our focus on sound public health.” The PAHO rep and her team were in the TCI for a week, visiting the hospital and working along with Ministry of Health staff. She said she is very pleased with what she saw in terms of preparedness. She also stated that that the media in the US have been very irresponsible in their reportage of Ebola, and called on the local press to show more responsibility in educating the public. Meanwhile, Minister of Health Portia Stubbs-Smith said that a draft Ebola preparedness and response plan has been developed for the TCI. She said this will be used to guide further planning including broader stakeholder consultations so that TCI can meet the challenge faced by so many other countries in the region and the world.

within the financial services industry. “These efforts have been recognized locally and internationally.” He added that the Government presented to the House of Assembly a Domestic Insurance Bill drafted by external drafters who were instructed by the FSC, but later withdrew it in order to address several substantive issues. That bill is currently in the late stage of extensive but necessary redrafting by the Attorney General’s Chambers on instructions from the FSC, he said, and will be reintroduced to the House of Assembly as soon as completed. “The Government will continue do all in its powers to ensure proper management of this situation by the FSC, to avoid the liquidation of BAFSL and to minimise loss to its many policy holders.” The press statement revealed that the Government first heard of the liquidation petition in local media and added that it “regrets” the course of action. The Premier, upon receiving details of the actions of the FSC, met with the management of BAFSL to gather further details. He also wrote to Governor Peter Beckingham who under section 37(1)c of the TCI Constitution has responsibility for the regulation of the financial services. Ewing asked him for his intervention in the matter that is before the courts, in order to prevent liquidation of the company. Other positive avenues must be explored that will minimise financial loss to the many policy holders, the statement read.

HISTORY OF BAFSL In 2009 British American Insurance went into liquidation but the Methodist Church bought the company and changed the name to BAFSL. “When they took over the company it already had problems,” Higgins said, “they were attempting to do a turnaround of a company that was already in trouble and they weren’t able to do that.” The company specialises in life insurance, medical insurance and annuities – a continuing payment with a guaranteed return. Unfortunately because US interest rates went down so low the company was not able to meet the guaranteed interest rate given to policy holders, Higgins told the Weekly News last week. “So they just keep getting deeper and deeper into the hole.” Administrators Joseph Connolly and David Walker from PricewaterhouseCoopers were appointed by the court at request of the FSC in March to try and turn the company around. But the petition for liquidation caused them to close the offices for collection of premiums on October 24 until the outcome is heard. The case is scheduled to be before Supreme Court on Thursday, November 6. Higgins said that all is not lost for policyholders as the FSC is still seeking a large insurance company to take over the policies. “In which case there will be minimal losses,” he said, “and that would be the ideal situation.” However he said that if a buyer is not found there is likely to be significant

Under the tree

losses for TCI policy holders. All of this could have been avoided if certain regulation were in place, the managing director added. After the collapse of British American and Clico insurance companies in 2009 it was widely acknowledged that new TCI insurance laws were needed. Under the new laws companies would be required to have funds certified in a trust to protect policyholders. “But we haven’t been able to get those new laws passed,” Higgins said. The only thing currently protecting policyholders is a restrictive deposit – money the company places with a local bank - but some banks are refusing to release the deposit. “We really need the new modern insurance laws.” The administrators propose to hold meetings of policy holders at 6pm on Monday, November 3, at the Tropicana Plaza in Providenciales and at 6pm on Tuesday, November 4, at Yellowman and Sons in Grand Turk in order to address questions in person regarding the liquidation petition. Those wishing to attend will be required to email joseph.p.connolly@ tc.pwc.com or confirm by phone 946-4373 by 4pm on Friday, October 31. There will be a limit of one attendee per policyholder and on entrance to the meeting attendees will be required to provide proof of identity. For those policyholders unable to attend a copy of the presentation to policyholders from the meetings will be available by email on Tuesday, November 4.

By Benneth Williams

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Grandmother and father arrested following near death of baby NEARLY three months after a Grand Turk-born mother attempted to drown her three-month-old baby in a Florida lake, the baby’s grandmother and father have been arrested for failing to protect him. Inakesha Armour (ne Brooks), 33, is currently in police custody facing two counts of attempted murder following the recent incident and another earlier this year in which she tried to smother her baby with a pillow. According to the Miami Herald, Conlan Armour, 30, and Grace Ann Brooks, 56, have both since been charged with failure to report child abuse and child neglect. Any individual who suspects or knows that a child has been abused by any person is required by legislation to report the abuse to the Florida Abuse Hotline, according to the Department of Children and Families website. Armour was arrested October 22 and released the next day on $4,500 bond. Brooks was arrested October 23 and released on the same day, also on a $4,500 bond. If convicted on both counts, Armour and Brooks could face up to 20 years in prison. Armour’s arraignment is set for November 12 and Brooks’ has yet to be scheduled.

Baby Cayden Armour is fighting for his life

Father Conlan Armour and mother Inakesha Armour

“Based on information gathered in the near drowning incident Ms Brooks and Mr Armour were charged with child neglect in the form of culpable negligence,” Miramar police spokeswoman Tania Rues told Herald reporters. “Their actions or lack thereof resulted in great bodily harm to the infant.” On July 1, baby Cayden Armour was rushed to Joe DiMaggio

baby adult cough syrup and tried to smother him with a pillow. The woman was charged with two counts of attempted murder. On August 1 she was released on a $50,000 bond. The family of Inakesha Armour said she was suffering from postpartum depression – a debilitating mental illness brought on by the birth of a child – and she could not help what she did. After Armour was arrested Jamillah Smith set up a donation page on fundraising website youcaring.com. She hopes to raise $60,000 in order to pay medical costs for both baby Cayden and to support his mother through her condition. On the site Smith explained that she wants to bring awareness to both postpartum depression and the more

Hospital after his mother threw him in their Riviera Isles community lake and then fished him out several minutes later. A passer-by noticed the wet baby on the grass and got out of her car to perform CPR. He remains in the hospital, unconscious and on a ventilator, according to police. A month before, Armour told police at the time, she had fed the

Planning proposals submitted for 12 storey development BY DELANA ISLES THE PHYSICAL Planning Board has received an application from Sunset Point Development Company for the construction of a 12 storey hotel condominium in Grace Bay, Providenciales. The planning application was published in the Gazette on October 24, and invites anyone wishing to make representation in relation to the application to do so in writing. Confirmed reports from reliable sources have indicated that the condominium development is a venture by the developer of sister hotels the Venetian and the Tuscany in Grace Bay. Law firm Saunders and Co is handling the application process for the company. As published in the Gazette, the resort hotel is intended to have 250 bedrooms, reception and conference building, spa building, gym and retail stores, three restaurants, associated parking, two pools, rooftop patio and lounge, and landscaping. Sunset is seeking the Department of Planning’s permission for consideration block #60900,

parcel #258, Leeward through Providenciales for the facility. However, the Physical Planning Regulations are yet to be updated to come in line with Government’s recent decision to allow 12 storey buildings. Last September 24 Cabinet instructed that the development manual of the Turks and Caicos Islands be amended, with immediate effect, to increase the maximum height of buildings on Providenciales to 12 storeys on no less than five acre parcels of land. The increase came after open consultations through the Ministry of Home Affairs in June with contractors, engineers, hoteliers, environmentalists and other stakeholders. At time, the Premier had stated that a number of expressions of interests had been made but were strained due to the seven storey limit. The move is in line with the Government’s push to boost the construction sector and drive the economy forward. There are a number of developers interested in constructing European plan resorts along Grace Bay beach, but for most their needs

are not met by current planning regulations, particularly the number of bedrooms that are required cannot be accommodated under the current regulations, and by the Physical Planning Board, the Weekly News has learned. In 2012 a proposed 28 storey development by Skyline Development Company met with strong opposition from some sections of the public, and was eventually refused by the Planning Department. That proposal was for a 28-storey European Plan (EP) Hotel and Conference Centre with retail and professional offices, consisting of three high rise buildings. The first being a 28 storey tower housing 200 rooms and 96 condo units on the top floors. The second and third would have consisted of a 20 storey condominium tower with 156 units each, for a total of 512 rooms. Representation from the public on the development proposal can be forwarded to the Director of Planning, South Base, Grand Turk or through the Department of Planning, Downtown, Town Centre Mall, Providenciales within 28 days.

serious illness postpartum psychosis. “There is a very severe illness that causes a woman to lose herself in the critical stages of the most vital and elated time in her life,” she wrote. Smith went on to say that Cayden has been the unfortunate victim of the distressing illness and he needs financial assistance for his treatment. She described him as the “sweetest little three month old boy” and said “he would light up your life with his happy and joyful spirit”. “He is without a doubt, a fighter and an angel sent from God.” Smith added that his mother also needs assistance in getting the necessary professional treatment “that will allow her to be the wonderful, loving mom she is”. Fundraisers have gathered more than $8,000.

More than $130k to be repaid in overpaid business licence fees GOVERNMENT is set to repay $131,000 to business people whose licence fees have been reduced but paid the old charge before the reduction came into force in July. The stated amount is according to the records so far, Premier Rufus Ewing told the press last week Friday (October 24). He said the amount owing to the Government is about $16,000 from people whose fees increased but had paid on the previous lower rate. At the beginning of October, business owners were advised to seek refunds by the end of the month from the revenue

department. Minister of Finance Washington Misick told the House of Assembly that the revenue department has undertaken an exercise to identify people who are due for refunds and will be processing these refunds at the end of the renewal period. For those with outstanding balances, the department has identified these people and will be contacting them to make the necessary arrangements to cover the difference. The refund process should be completed by the end of October.

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Projetech owner and employees testify about finding murdered colleague Opposition Leader Sharlene Cartwright Robinson

PDM outraged at liquidation proposal “WE ARE livid that persons who have been medical, life and annuity policy holders stand to lose in many cases decades of investment.” Those were the words of Opposition Leader Sharlene Cartwright Robinson who was this week commenting on the possible winding up of a TCI insurance company. For six months British Atlantic Financial Services Limited (BAFSL) has been in administration while financial experts have tried hard to dig it out of debt. But progress has been lacking and on October 22 the Financial Services Commission (FSC) declared the company insolvent and filed a petition with the Supreme Court for its winding up. In a statement to press on Thursday (October 30) Cartwright Robinson said that the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) is outraged over the recent announcement. “We have met with the managing director of BAFSL and have heard statements made by him and are deeply concerned about the circumstances leading up to this announcement,” she wrote. “We have since made representation to the Governor and have also written to the Premier and Minister of Finance as to the possibility of whether the Opposition can meet with them to discuss this, given the impact such a liquidation could have on a significant number of citizens and residents of the TCI.” She said that about 2,600 policyholders, many who live in Grand Turk, stand to lose greatly from the winding up of the company. “We wish to stress that this closure will have consequences of catastrophic effect,” the Opposition Leader said. She suggested that many of the life insurance policies are old accounts held for several decades and are in many respects tied to mortgages and educational plans. Many medical and life insurance policyholders are at risk

of having to remain uncovered, Cartwright Robinson said, or they may be reinsured at unaffordable rates due the increase in age and the fact that many have suffered a decline in health. “These are serious concerns and policyholders must be satisfied that all efforts have been made to allow BAFSL to trade into solvency. “The FSC has a serious duty of care to the policyholders and ought to have sought ways to protect them who also ought to have a voice.” The Opposition made representation on Tuesday (October 28) in reference to the times of the meetings for policyholders and venue identified for Providenciales and the meetings were subsequently altered. “We are therefore calling on policy holders to attend and air their concerns in this setting and to be prepared to participate in possible measures that will be launched to fight this process to liquidation. “The policyholders must be satisfied that all efforts to save their investment were made and that there is absolutely no chance of the company trading into solvency.” Cartwright Robinson blamed the FSC for not allowing the business to grow and create new sources of revenue. “Implicit to the role of regulator is the obligation to protect investors and the public at large,” the PDM leader said. “If it is that a company was allowed to be formed with an insolvent book of business and not allowed to trade its way to solvency one would have to question whether the duty of care was exercised by regulators in this circumstance.” She said the Governor has been contacted to look into the FSC’s handling of the problem. “Under his directorship [Kevin Higgins] this country is seeing another potential catastrophe for not only hardworking citizens of this country but also again serious reputational damage to these Islands.”

THE TRIAL of two young men accused of the brutal murder of former Projetech employee, Anthony Quinn continued before Supreme Court Judge Joan Joyner and the jury this past week. The defendants are Stanford Forbes Jr and Misael Castillo. The court heard testimony from a number of Projetech employees who were involved in the desperate search for Quinn on May 12, 2012. Manager director Steven Thompson, construction director Desmond Quant and Projetech owner and principal David Hartshorn all gave testimony on their frantic search for the murdered man two years ago. During his testimony, Quant told the court how he came to find Quinn’s body, clad only in underpants, floating face down in the canal in the Technology Drive area. He testified that after being called by Hartshorn to go check Long Bay he followed a trail of blood and discarded clothing to find Quinn submerged and apparently lifeless in the water. Hartshorn told the court how he drove around the Grace Bay area and checked several hotels and business establishments looking for Quinn – who he told the court was a “first class employee”. This was on the morning of May 13, after Hartshorn received a call from Thompson telling of a phone

A memorial to the murdered British national has been erected by loved ones at the site where his body was discovered on Technology Drive

call he received from a stranger using the murdered man’s cellular phone, demanding the passcode to his bank card and threatening to kill Quinn if it was not provided. Evidence was also heard from officers of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, on the discovery of the body, the investigation which led to the questioning of the two suspects and video surveillance of the night of the murder. Detective Constable William Lightbourne gave extensive testimony with regard to the video surveillance tape obtained from a private residence in the area where Quinn’s body was discovered. In the video, which he walked the court through, Quinn’s vehicle was seen, along with two moving objects which were suspected to be humans,

and another vehicle which rendered aid to the occupants of the stalled Jeep Liberty which belonged to the victim. Director of Public Prosecution JoAnn Meloche presented the court with the written evidence of the medical doctor who pronounced Quinn as dead on arrival at the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre on May 13. The case continues in the Providenciales Supreme Court into the new week, and the defence will likely present their evidence to the jury by Wednesday (November 5). Defence lawyer Ashwood Forbes has confirmed that he will be calling one witness to the stand. That witness is not his client, Stanford Forbes Jr, he assured. Castillo is being represented by attorney at law Clayton Greene. (DELANA ISLES)

No bids on phase one of new high school NOT one person presented a bid for the construction of phase one of a new high school in Long Bay, Providenciales, it was recently announced. The Ministry of Education issued a tender notice for the build on September 24 and the process closed on October 21 with no success. Akierra Missick, Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture, said the lack of support for the project was “disheartening”. “Unfortunately the tender closed on Tuesday and not a single bid was received from any contractor in this country,” she told press during a post Cabinet briefing on Friday (October 24). “We, as a public, are continuously hitting out on the Government on what are they doing to tackle the overcrowding at the Clement Howell High School. “We have made financial provisions to address this and it’s disheartening to see…that the tender period now has to be extended by a further two weeks to November 5 because not a single bid was received for the project.” About $600,000 has been earmarked for phase one of the build

which will include eight classrooms for first and second form students along with toilet and administrative facilities. In addition the ministry has requested another $400,000 or so in supplementary appropriations to take the total of the first phase up to about $1 million. Missick said she is concerned that the money will end up not getting spent which will be a loss to the people of the TCI. “…especially the children who are housed at the Clement Howell High School and are in desperate need of space and facilitates,” she said. The minister appealed for anyone with an appropriate business licence to visit the Public Works Department or see their local District Commissioner for further information She stressed that if there is any further delay in awarding a contract for phase one, there will be no new school in September. “So we have to put the onus on those persons who can bring about this development because the Government does not have the capabilities to do so, and we will end

up losing the funding that we fought so vigorously to secure.” Missick added that this project is just one of six or seven within the Ministry of Education which has received no initial bids. In June the Minister of Education announced that a 13 acre plot of land in Long Bay Hills had been earmarked for the development of the new Government high school. “The country should note that one of the major challenges that we have to deal with is the situation regarding adequate school spaces on the island of Providenciales,” she said in the House of Assembly. For years children of high school age have been packed into Clement Howell High School in Blue Hills leading to severe overcrowding. According to Government figures there are currently more than 930 pupils being educated at the facility which was originally built for about 300 students before being expanded. The cramped conditions have created a plethora of problems including accelerated wear and tear of the buildings and furniture, lack of resources and teachers, huge class sizes and increased student disruption.

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Timeshare has come a long Merit list congratulations way – again

Dear Editor, As TCI National Youth Ambassador, I would like to congratulate Mr Kirschan Cox of the Marjorie Basden High School and Ms Natalia Williams the HJ Robinson High School for their hard work and dedication which resulted in them both being named to the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Merit List. Mr Cox for Building Technology (Woods) and Ms. Williams for Food and Nutrition. Achieving these results is something to be proud, as one has to finish in the top ten of a subject area while competing with over 12,000 regional students. Therefore we must applaud them for their excellence. They both have done tremendously well on their achievements. It is evident that our country is full of academic potential. The country has registered at least one student on the merit list since the year 2010 meaning that for four consecutive years we have demonstrated tremendous excellence. We Turks and Caicos Islanders should be proud that we possess these abilities. We must never be scared or hindered to compete with the rest of the Caribbean because we have our very own unique ways of contributing to our society’s intellectual capacity.

I see a country of success, and these students are evident to that. As Turks and Caicos Islanders we must continue to encourage our students in their achievements. It is us who has the ability to

succeed and it is us who achieve these results. Remember that God has us Turks and Caicos - never forget that. Once again I would like to congratulate Kirschan and Natalia and I hope that many more from the TCI will be added to the merit list in the years to come. Donte Francis, National Youth Ambassador

Justice for the poor and oppressed? Dear Editor, Are there any rights for the little person who is trying to live a peaceful life? They make it so difficult. When I try to make a report to the police in a case of harassment, instead of the police helping they haul abuse at me. This is consistent. When I am on the streets cleaning up the garbage - working for the Government and trying to keep my island clean - the police when they pass throw garbage out of their windows at me. On several occasion while I was working on the street, cutting bush, police took away my machete calling me a crazy person. What must I do to get justice and who can I appeal to? Some time ago I had to pay

thousands in court charges after someone came onto my private property and destroyed my property. Is this justice? The ministers do not listen, those in power and those in the Opposition won’t help me in this situation and the police are abusing me. Is it because I am poor and look like I do, with no one to represent me? I need someone to help me, please! Daniel Adams, Five Cays, Providenciales

By Beryn Duncanson AFTER the ‘Crash of 2008’ what was then a $10.6 billion a year industry in new income fell over 40 percent. But shared ownership is back up again to over $7 billion last year, and rising. It appears to be once again part of the present and future of tourism in the Caribbean. That is the net message from the industry at one of its leading events at the 16th annual Shared Ownership Conference in South Beach, Miami held last week. Sponsor of the annual event was Interval International, operators of one of the top two global exchanges in the industry. Shared ownership is an umbrella term that includes not only the old-fashioned time-share product but also fractional ownership and variations on club and shared pools of investors into vacation real estate. Total attendance at the event in South Beach on Monday and Tuesday, October 13 and 14, was somewhere between 500 and 1,000 people. Among them was president of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation, Hugh Riley, who came especially up from the Barbados head office.

He said to the Weekly News: “Interval is a very consistent and loyal supporter of Caribbean tourism.” While Aruba and St Maarten are by far the leaders in the Caribbean in terms of volume of timeshare product represented in the industry, Interval is closely monitoring prospects in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere. Countries like the Bahamas and Barbados have various shared ownership products in much lesser volumes. In the Turks and Caicos Islands the first major timeshare product on the block was the Alexandria Resort. They did it in a limited way with a mixed product of normal freehold title condos mixed with just one dedicated timeshare building, the Chelsea. Now the TCI has entered a new dimension in this way with the new Fractional Ownership Ordinance now just a few months old. As the local Century21 principal realtor Floyd Seymour put it: “Fractional ownership and timeshare allow affordability of ownership and it creates some diversity [in the TCI] and fractional ownership gives them a lower entry level.”

Back....to the future COMMENTARY

SOMETIMES what worked in the past is a better plan for the future. The basic unit of society is marriage. Today heterosexuals avoid marriage while homosexuals fight for marriage rights! Do we need to go back in history to encourage marriage? Some say for a successful marriage just give your spouse a fat credit card and a set of car keys. Others say separate bathrooms is the key. How about love, responsibility, partnership and respect? My mentally challenged brother James lived with us in Conch Bar. One day Jim was suffering from congestive heart failure and we took him to Myrtle Rigby. The qualified staff there

reduced his trauma stabilising Jim. Yvette, a retired nurse, took Jim to the USA on a commercial flight where he received good care extending his life by several years. In the past Conch Bar clinic checked our blood pressure and dispensed medications. Then one day we received a little booklet promising in depth healthcare in new hospitals. The booklet showed a smiling person serving ice-cream treats. What ice-cream had to do with healthcare is a mystery. We still have a copy of that booklet but the overly optimistic plan described never materialised. Instead we began building pretty buildings with Chinese workers living in shipping containers. The labour protests grew stronger. Honorariums later paid to the man who avoided the protests.

The contractor filed bankruptcy after construction costing two or three times the pre 2003 estimates. Like the TCI Bank somehow our Integrity Commission cannot audit bankrupt private corporations using millions of the public funds. In 2010 the plan to provide comprehensive healthcare on the ground in Provo and Grand Turk began, outsourced to another Canadian outfit. More honorariums paid. What is a honorarium? Is it a bonus for work done on someone’s behalf. The first few months under the interim government two acquaintances of ours accessed the new hospital and received adequate treatment. Now under the elected Government real healthcare is missing in the TCI. Numerous acquaintances and

By David Tapfer

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

relatives lacking primary care have paid emergency visits to the hospitals. Sent home untreated they returned, sometimes twice. Eventually they were shipped to Nassau, Jamaica or the Dominican Republic. Too many kept in the pretty buildings and many shipped off too late just did not make it. Recently a relative had to wait hours for an ambulance plane to fly

1,200 round trip miles to carry the patient 100 miles to the Dominican Republic. Is this logical? The haunting question now looms: Has our health minster or physician Premier checked into why his system is not working? It has become obvious, we need to cancel the failed contract, audit the builder and go back....to the future.

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Gov’t attends public service commission conference BEATRICE Fulford, Chairman of the Government’s Public Service Commission, attended the third Regional Conference of Public Service Commissions in Trinidad and Tobago this week. The conference is in collaboration with CARICAD, under the theme ‘Public Service Commissions: Promoting a Public Service Renewal Agenda for the 21st Century’. The two day event was held on Thursday (October 30) and Friday (October 31). Other countries that were represented include Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Canada, and the United Kingdom Before leaving for the event

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Fulford said: “I am very excited to have the opportunity to represent Turks and Caicos at this conference. “My goal is to absorb knowledge and find ways to apply what I’ve learned to our public service.” One of the main objectives of the conference was to rethink the role and functions of the public service commission in building a 21st century public service. It also aimed to identify and discuss systems, processes and instruments that can be used to promote effective governance. Fulford also learn about identifying and discussing best practices internationally, and across the region. The conference brought regional commissions together to network and share experiences and lessons.

Carnival Cruise Lines exempted from new tourism services tax AS THE new 12 percent tax on tourism services comes into effect on November 1, Government has announced that Carnival Cruise has been exempted. On October 22, Cabinet agreed to an amendment being made to the Hotel and Restaurant (Taxation) Ordinance 2014 to comply with the terms of Carnival’s existing development agreement. The exemption relates to the cruise line’s operations on Grand Turk. At a post-Cabinet briefing Premier Rufus Ewing explained that no new taxes implemented after the date of the agreement will apply to Carnival, their service providers or passengers on Grand Turk. “Since it was a new taxation measure, their development agreement exempts them from any new taxation,” Ewing said. As it relates to the tax on other tourism services providers, the Premier stated that the Government intends to ensure its collection of

the new tax and will be keeping its application and impact under review. The amendments to the Hotel and Restaurant (Taxation) Bill impose a 12 percent tax on tourism related services provided by independent service providers. Tourism services providers whose proceeds do not exceed $50,000 in any year or $4,000 in any one month can apply for exemption from collecting this tax. The new law also requires all restaurants to register to collect restaurant tax. Restaurants whose proceeds do not exceed $200,000 in any year or $16,000 in any month may apply to be exempted from collecting the tax. Meanwhile, another change was agreed to by Cabinet, this time to the current business licence fee structure on commercial space rental. The fee is being reduced from $0.50 per square foot to $0.25 per square foot; and the minimum amount payable will be $300, and

the maximum $5,000. This will have the effect of making rental spaces more affordable and preventing significantly high business licence fees without a cap for large square footage for commercial space. And as the Government moves forward with its tax rationalisations, a multi-agency revenue compliance programme has been established to help step up on the collection of Government revenue. The programme, which draws from the customs, police, and revenue departments, is already underway, Minister of Finance Washington Misick told the press. He said: “They have had a couple of field trips already, so it’s actually in operation, and so now it is just a question of making sure that they can expand it and keep the focus on making sure that people are not trading illegally without licence and also making sure that the illegal street vending does not get out of control.” (DELANA ISLES)

Caterpillar outbreak threatens health of flame trees AN “UNUSUALLY high” number of public complaints from all over Providenciales have led the Government to issue a warning about destructive bugs. On Tuesday (October 28) the Department of Agriculture, Plant Health Services Division sent out a press release describing an outbreak of royal poinciana caterpillars. They are feeding on the leaves of the TCI’s stunning royal poinciana trees in large numbers, killing them in the process. “Over the past two weeks the Department of Agriculture has received unusually high numbers of public complaints from almost every community/settlement of the island about the sudden destruction of lush poinciana trees by the bugs,” the statement said. “In response, the department has conducted several investigations and discovered that in every instance the royal poinciana caterpillar (Melipotis acontioides) aka flame tree loopers are responsible.” According to the release research indicates that outbreaks of this kind occur in Florida, USA infrequently at periods spanning 10 to 15 years apart. However, there is no available data to determine if there has been any previous occurrence/s of this outbreak in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The poinciana caterpillar is the larval stage of a lepidotera, the poinciana looper moth (Pericyma cruegeri).

Royal poinciana caterpillar is a night-feeder, racing up the trunk shortly after sunset in great numbers

The caterpillar is one of the few climbing cutworms that climbs and defoliates the trees. It is a night-feeder, racing up the trunk shortly after sunset in great numbers. During the day, the larvae hide in debris at the soil surface near the base of trees. They pupate in plant debris or piled up grass near the soil surface. The full-grown caterpillar is about one to 5/8 inches long with highly variable markings, mottled, lateral black-brown longitudinal stripes

with a brownish pink, mid-dorsal stripe that bears four to five diamond shaped spots. The moth is brown in colour, with complex pattern of lines and patches. The adult has an average wingspan of 40 mm. Adult moths are attracted to window lights. The most common hosts for the poinciana caterpillars are plants such as royal poinciana, poeppigia procera, and parkinsonia species of trees. Early detection and treatment are essential since a single tree can be completely defoliated within one to

The caterpillars are feeding on the leaves of the TCI’s stunning royal poinciana trees

two days of infestation. Some trees may recover from the infestation while others may die. Hence treatment of healthy trees is extremely useful to interrupt potential metamorphosis. Insecticides such as bacillus thuringiensis, and pyrethroids are known to be effective against poinciana caterpillars. These products can be sourced from any local pesticide retailer in Providenciales. Owing to the caterpillars feeding process the trunk can be wrapped

with a layered cloth or floppy burlap band that they hide in. This can be changed daily and the larvae placed in a soapy water solution. The base of the tree can be sprayed with any of the abovementioned insecticides. People who are interested in treating their trees using pesticide applications should consult the Department of Agriculture on 9465801, email agriculture@gov.tc or a licensed pesticide operator for expert advice on the use of synthetic chemicals.

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Construction on 41 acre Middle Caicos resort to start soon A 41-ACRE luxury development on Middle Caicos, branded Aniyana Grand Caicos, is set to commence construction before March 1 next year. Cabinet set the date on October 22 after granting an extension to the development agreement with the developers, Grand Caicos Holdings (GCH). The development is set to boost employment opportunities for residents of Middle and North Caicos. The company first had a development order with the Turks and Caicos Islands Government and the Crown in

September 2009. Aniyana is proposed as a boutique resort and luxury beachfront property development in Middle Caicos, historically known as Grand Caicos. In 2012, Walter Zephirin, founder of 7th Heaven Properties (a London-based property development company) stated that the development represents a game-changing project for the TCI and a truly unique investment opportunity. “The location is simply breath-taking and the vision for Aniyana will provide the

Artist impression of what the development will look like

perfect complement to the surroundings. “For a very privileged few, Aniyana will offer understated luxury and tranquillity, surrounded by unspoilt nature.” He added that the group is confident that it will be one of the most sought-after investment opportunities in the Caribbean. On its Facebook page and website, 7th Heaven Properties has been promoting the beachfront lots on Middle Caicos for £147,500 ($236,000).

On the resort’s website it outlines that Aniyana is intended to comprise of a limited number of exclusive beach and lagoon front luxury residences, nestled in private and romantic, lush landscaped gardens. It will include a world-class boutique hotel, destination restaurant and spa, all of which will exude understated luxury and offer spectacular views of the sea. It will be a low-density eco-sensitive resort and will include a stunning nature preserve, which will be a

sanctuary for Grand Caicos’ indigenous flora and fauna. The hotel at Aniyana is intended as a world-class facility, located on the highest part of Lighthouse Point while the entire complex will be nestled in heavy tropical landscaping. Saltwater waterfalls will ﬂow through the main house, the gardens, into a series of inter-connected, multi-level swimming pools and ﬁnally into the sea. A small and intimate destination restaurant, cantilevered over the water looking due west, forms part

of the development, along with an intimate bar lounge, with private booths facing the sea. According to the website, the group (GCH) has so far invested in purchasing initial parcels, securing all contracts and approvals from the Government, creating a foundation of local selfsufficiency, surveys and land registration, early stage infrastructure construction, master plan designed by McBains Cooper and Global Sales and marketing by 7th Heaven Properties. (DELANA ISLES)

Tourism strategy survey now online

The hotel and restaurant

Web-based university opens Provo campus AN ONLINE university has launched on-campus business degree programmes in Providenciales. Charisma University, which previously only offered web based courses, has now opened a facility for teacher led learning in Neptune Court, Grace Bay. The first set of students will begin their lessons on November 30, and classes will continue throughout the 16 week semester. Guy Langvardt, dean at the School of Business, said: “This has always been my goal to see some of our students take classes with us in a traditional setting.” University president John Beyer praised the hard work of Dr Langvardt and his faculty members and said he is thankful to the university board governance for

approving his plan. Programmes to be offered on-campus are associate’s degrees in business administration, bachelor’s degrees in accounting, finance, tourism and hospitality management and master’s degrees in accounting and finance among others. These courses will also be available online for those unable to attend the university campus. Class hours are Monday to Friday 7pm to 10pm and Saturday and Sunday 7am to 10pm. Undergraduate tuition is $1,900 per semester (maximum of four classes or 12 credits) and graduate (Master’s) tuition is $2,050 per semester (maximum of four classes or 12 credits). Edward Smith serves as the

faculty lead and the director of the on-campus programmes. Charisma University is Turks and Caicos Islands Ministry of Education recognised, ASIC accredited, a candidate for accreditation with ACBSP and a member of American Council on Education. The university has committed to provide online and on-campus education that are flexible, on-demand, innovative, and use sound education technologies and techniques. Charisma degrees are structured to allow students the flexibility to schedule their course work around their other responsibilities. The university currently offers 45 degree programmes and three graduate certificates in its eight schools. During a presentation

ceremony earlier this year founder of the school Peterchris Okpala said that the school was founded in the Philippines in 2011. It relocated to Grace Bay, Providenciales, in February this year when it was approved by the Government. The school consists of close to 100 professional teachers from the United States, Philippines and Nigeria, with most of them holding a Master’s Degree in their areas of teaching. Okpala told the Weekly News that they are still looking for students from the Turks and Caicos Islands to register with their programme. People who are interested in registering can visit the Providenciales location or register online at www. charismauniversity.org.

CITIZENS, ex-pats and tourists of all ages are invited to help mould the future of the TCI by taking part in an online questionnaire. The survey can be found at www.research. net/s/tcitourism and includes questions about the country’s tourism and future hopes. Over the past few months, financial experts from KPMG have been busy accumulating data, reviewing and critiquing past reports and benchmarking the TCI against other jurisdictions. And it is all in order to create a national tourism strategy which will guide the future of the industry. Now it is the turn of the country’s residents and visitors to play a part in shaping the document. They are being encouraged to give their views and advice on a range of topics such as culture, heritage, the environment, medical and sports tourism before the end of November. As well as a questionnaire the public can also present their views in person at a series of town hall meetings.

Gary Brough, managing director of KPMG in the TCI, said: “On Wednesday and Thursday [last week] we had two excellent town hall meetings in Grand Turk and South Caicos, respectively, and we would like to express our gratitude once again to everyone who participated in these events.” More meetings will take place at the Salt Shed in Salt Cay on Friday (October 31) at 11am and at Gustarvus Lightbourne Sports Centre at 6pm on Monday (November 3). Then there will be a national symposium on Tuesday (November 4) and Wednesday (November 5) in Providenciales where international guests will speak on the topic of tourism Bough said: “Tourism is everyone’s business, it affects all of us, and we strongly encourage as many people as possible to attend these events to share your personal views on TCI’s tourism industry.” Those wishing to supplement their completed questionnaire with additional submissions can email KPMG at info@ kpmg.tc.

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Giant sinkholes cause fear in Wheeland estate A WHEELAND homeowner is scared for her life and her property after three huge sinkholes appeared in her garden following heavy rain. Azizi Parker told the Weekly News that she is seeking her money back for her two bedroom home of three years which she says is currently showing signs of strain. Cracks have appeared in the walls and Parker said she is worried that the building may collapse, leaving her homeless. She no longer stays for long periods in the house in Millennium Heights and instead resides with nearby family members. The holes appeared in Parker’s back yard after tropical storm Cristobal struck the TCI at the end of August dumping several inches of rain on the country. She explained that on the following Tuesday at about 7am she went outside about 15ft from her back door to plant some seeds. “I was digging in the dirt planting the seeds and in the side of my eye I glanced and saw a dark shadow and when I looked over it was a hole so I jumped up. “I got up and ran over to my neighbour and said: ‘I have a sinkhole in my yard.’” Parker immediately contacted the construction company Priton Home Development about the holes and they came to assist. The company assessed the situation then later returned to excavate the earth and explore further. “When they came and dug inside of the middle of it the earth just went ‘whoosh!’ Everything just dropped in,” Parker said. A few days after the appearance of the three new holes, acting Director of Planning Ogail Awad wrote to Parker. He said that the Department of Planning carried out a site visit on her premises on August 27 following the storm “and based on a visual assessment there is no immediate structural failure”.

Azizi Parker is grateful no one was hurt when the sinkholes appeared

However he strongly recommended that a structural assessment and geotechnical study be carried out by qualified and experienced structural engineer and geotechnical engineer with the relevant and valid TCI business licence. Parker’s lawyer Stanfield Greene then wrote the developers a letter in which he asked for a geotechnical engineering expert to determine if the property is safe. He added that in the event that the property is deemed unfit for habitation, the company should permanently relocate Parker to suitable accommodation. On September 17 Priton contracted Civil and Structural Engineering (CSE) to conduct a structural survey of the site. A subsequent report described “linear voids” in the limestone bedrock which are common in parts of the Caribbean. It said that at sufficient depth the voids have negligible effect on ground level structures. However shallower voids can

impact the surface conditions by collapsing under load or due to erosion. “The sinkholes will develop over time and events such as heavy rainfall, seismic activity, ground excavation or imposed loading can trigger sudden movement,” the report read. It described the main hole as 10 to 12ft wide and eight to 13ft deep. The report went on to say that the holes were too far from the house to have an influence on the stability of the structure. However: “Due to the unknown extent and unpredictable behaviour of these natural geological features there always remains a risk to any adjacent property.” Parker bought her home from Priton Home Development in August 2012. The mother-of-two said that the back yard is often a hub of family activity and she is thankful no one was injured when the holes appeared. Following a request for comment a representative for Priton Home Development responded: “To recap

The largest hole is about 10 to 12ft wide and eight to 13ft deep

Cracks have appeared in the walls of the Millennium Heights home

the natural cave. Priton reviewed it and opened it up further (which is why it appears bigger than it was) to verify the extent of the cave and found that it did not affect the home and did not extend further. “Planning reviewed it and came up with the same conclusion. In addition, planning reviewed the

home and found it sound and unaffected. “Finally we brought in a structural engineering expert who came up with the same conclusion regarding the cave and house and suggested that the hole be filled in. “Priton has offered to fill in the hole as recommended by the expert.”

No Gov’t tax on ATM withdrawals or mortgage fees – But two percent increase on money transfer fees THE IMPOSITION of the domestic financial services and sales tax in the Turks and Caicos Islands has been limited to money transfer fees only, with a corresponding increase of two percent. The decision was announced by Premier Rufus Ewing at a

press briefing on October 24, after Cabinet had approved the decision two days prior. The increase – from 10 to 12 percent - is being charged on the fee people pay for the transfer service provided by money transfer agencies and banks, and not on the amount of money being transferred.

The Premier said that the Government in its continued efforts to get rid of nuisance taxes has decided to eliminate the imposition of Government tax on the various bank charges such as ATM withdrawal fees, mortgage fees, and other bank fees related to documentation. He said as a result of the elimination of these charges Government revenue will fall by some $250,000. “In removing the nuisance tax we actually forego $250,000 in revenue,

but if we did not increase it (money transfer fees) from 10 to 12 percent we probably would have lost about $650,000 to $700,000 in revenue,” Ewing stated. He was quick to point out that the increase on money being sent out of the country has no relationship whatsoever to the report from the Financial Services Commission (FSC) on the millions of dollars being remitted by the various nationalities who reside in the Islands.

According to that report $74 million was sent out of the TCI in 2013 and some $19.4 million between January and March this year. The Premier said the decision is an effort to move to a stable tax rate across the board and to reduce the deficit Government will have in revenue. The increase and tax breaks are expected to come on stream at the beginning of November. (DELANA ISLES)

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Taylor presents Governor Peter Beckingham with a painting of the lighthouse in Grand Turk

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Artist Jean Taylor (centre) with children from HJ Robinson High School

Art exhibition promotes country’s vibrant culture TCI artist Jean Taylor displayed more than 40 pieces of her colourful artwork at an exhibition in Grand Turk this autumn. Score of tourists, local school children, Governor Peter Beckingham and several Government representatives attended the five day showcase at Bruno Fine Art in the Grand Turk Cruise Centre. “I am thrilled to have my work displayed in a prestige corporate art collection” she said in a recent press release. “I love to paint the beauty of the

Islands. It is rewarding to work with the Bruno Art Group who appreciate the power of magnificence of art.” Taylor, who began sketching at the tender age of six, prides herself in capturing the magnificence and radiance of the TCI. Her paintings include underwater life, old houses, iguanas, the Turks head cactus and the country’s tranquil beaches. Several magazines have featured her work including Times of the Island and Baller Magazine and she took part in a television interview which aired on BET.

Taylor’s paintings grace the walls of numerous homes including the Governor’s residence Waterloo. She explained that the Grand Turk exhibition was the biggest and most attended of any TCI artist to date. During the event from September 15 to September 19 Taylor described the inspiration she derives from the beauty of the Islands to the many cruise ship passengers that stopped by. Also visiting the gallery were students from the HJ Robinson High School who asked the artist questions

about her work and career. “The exhibition was a success,” she said, “I am thrilled and even more motivated as this is another milestone in accomplishing my goal which is to market my name to the world, to motivate and inspire others and to give back to my community.” Taylor partnered with the Ministry of Finance, the Tourist Board and Bruno Fine Art to put on the showcase. Owner of Bruno Fine Art Motti Abramowitz said: “In keeping with our dedication to collecting,

exhibiting and researching work by acclaimed artists, the Bruno Art Group is proud to support the excellence of Jean Taylor’s work. “Celebrating its seventh year in Grand Turk, Bruno Art Group is happy to deepen its involvement in the artistic environment in the Turks and Caicos Islands.” The Bruno Art Group is the leading art house for presenting quality Israeli art worldwide. It represents acclaimed international artists such as Marc Chagall, Itzak Tarkey and Yaacov Agam.

Talking travel docs and IDs at Canada conference GOVERNMENT representatives jetted to Montreal in Canada earlier this month to learn about standards and specifications on travel and identification documents. Clara Gardiner, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Border Control and Labour, and Registrar General Sigrid Lightbourne attended the 10th symposium and exhibition of the held by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). The topic of the event was machine readable travel documents, biometrics and border security. Gardiner said: “The conference focused on the importance of the Traveller Identification Programme strategy which was adopted in the

38th session of assembly in order to establish the goals and objectives of traveller identification management. “The objective of this effort is to lead and reinforce a global approach, and to provide direction for action to ICAO, states and the many international, regional and industry partners in identification management.” She said that ICAO’s leadership in pursuing the strategic objectives is an event from which all other travel documents and border management activities will more effectively flow. “Attendance at this conference was timely; fraud remains a live issue in the registration and citizenship and border enforcement departments.

Registrar general Sigrid Lightbourne and Clara Gardiner, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Border Control and Labour

“To enable the department to identify abuse and illegal activity there are several trained officers, sophisticated forgery and detection equipment and regional contacts with UK and USA Intelligence Agencies to assist them with their work.” The Turks and Caicos Islands is compliant with the mandate of the Chicago Convention - the main international law instrument

regulating civil aviation matters globally. It talks of a deadline for the introduction of machine readable passports by November 24, 2015. “The TCI commenced issuance of machine readable passports in 2004,” Gardiner stated. “The new Turks and Caicos passports that will be issued after the repatriation of printing to the UK

next year will, in addition to being machine readable, be an ePassport, however, the eligibility of many residents to acquire full British passports means that many citizens are currently in possession of an ePassport.” The Ministry of Border Control and Labour is presently exploring opportunities to transform its visa and civil registration system.

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Conch Fest celebration set for November 29 PLANS for the 11th annual Turks and Caicos Conch Festival are well underway with a weekend full of activities scheduled. The popular family friendly beachside event attracts tourists and locals alike to celebrate the Islands’ most famous delicacy, historical icon, and number one export - conch. On Friday (November 28) the weekend will kick off with the first annual calypso event. More details will be released soon. And the main event will take place on Saturday afternoon (November 29) in Blue Hills, Providenciales, outside of the Three Queens Bar and Restaurant. The marquee event is the ‘conch-

etition’ which pits the TCI’s best chefs against each other in a hotlycontested tasting competition judged by a panel of experts as well as the festival attendees. Categories include Best Conch Salad, Best Conch Chowder, Best Specialty Conch and Best in Show. More than 25 restaurants are expected to compete for the cash prizes and bragging rights this year. Tasting begins at 12pm and runs until 5pm. For an entry fee of $25 festival-goers can sample all the dishes entered and cast a vote for best in show. Home cooks will also be able to show off their favourite conch recipe and earn a chance to win a cash prize

and more. A separate vote will be held in this category and best in show will again be decided by the general public. Participants will receive each receive $75 to help offset the cost of their ingredients. They are urged to bring a big pot of their conch recipe so everyone can get a chance to sample what they have prepared. Augmenting the always delectable restaurant competition is the annual mojito-making contest sponsored by Bacardi. The Islands’ best bartenders will display their creative twists on this classic Cuban cocktail. Special conch competitions for

conch blowing and other conch skills will assure that chefs and bartenders are not the only ones who can win prizes. Plus the biggest prize of all will be the cash prize of $10,000 drawn at 5.30pm on the day of the festival by the Rotary Club of Providenciales as part of its annual Pot-of-Gold raffle. Tickets are currently on sale from local Rotarians and at Three Queens Bar and Restaurant and will be available on the day of the event. This year’s festival will also feature the Turks and Caicos Islands’

own junkanoo plus other local performers. There will be special appearances by Henry the Conch and Santa Claus who will be on hand to pass out goodies to the kids. A children’s area will be set up with games, face painting and more. The day’s events will culminate with an after party at Zanzi Bar featuring music by TCI Most Wanted, DJ Shakes and Unstoppable and DJ Vernam. Admission will be $10 for ladies and $20 for men.

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Vice principals receive their certificates for completion of the course

Deputy heads complete training course SEVENTEEN vice principals from public and private schools across the country have passed a training course updating them on the latest rules and techniques in education. The course is a spin off from the four day long ‘21st Century Principal’ training for head teachers that took place earlier this autumn and was named ‘21st Century Vice Principal’ training. The graduation ceremony took place at the Department of Environment and Maritime Resources training facility in Providenciales on October 23. Deputy Governor Anya Williams presented training certificates to the

group of school leaders. She said: “I’d like to firstly congratulate the vice principals that took part in this course. “This course is indicative of TCIG’s continued efforts to ensure that its resources have all the tools necessary to perform at the highest level.” Rodney Cox, vice principal at the Majorie Basden High School in South Caicos was the class valedictorian. He said: “It was a delight and pleasure to be a part of this exercise. TCIG continues to show a clear confidence in its civil servants through programmes like these. “And to be recognised for your

hard work and effort during the course is an added bonus that I greatly appreciate.” Christine Ramoutar, human resources manager in training and development, created and facilitated the course. It was patterned after current trends in school leadership, administration and modern behavioural science principles. Topics included school leadership and administration, positively shaping school culture, contemporary management models, emotional and social intelligence principles, the ego mind and self-empowerment, and reducing school and cyber bullying.

I can still see your smile, Hear your daunting voice And feel your warmth, It's like you are always here; My candle in the wind, Shining through my darkest hour The heartache you left behind, Is unbearable at times I always saw you as forever However, forever came too soon The journey before us was unmarked There were no signs, No road blocks! I wished I could have held you A little bit closer, Be a little bit bolder, But I was too afraid; Now it is too late I have to send you on your way It does not feel right But this is how it's supposed to be The inevitable! I am left speechless by the slightest mention of your name I wished you had cheated once more, You should not have left me without a word, Now I have nothing to say, I felt bested! These tears shall stream to an ocean floor Never will your memories be neglected, One day I trust to see you again, My candle in the wind; It is no fault of your own, He was loyal in the path he chose for you Although, it may seem unfair! I know that I have to let you go However, we shall remain strong in your legacy, From dusk until dawn For you I will mourn As heaven’s gate open to welcome you home, just smile Because from this you came. I know you will return.

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How does your garden grow

Lemongrass A NATIVE of India, lemongrass can grow to between three and six feet high. There are two kinds of lemongrass: East Indian and West Indian but there is little difference between them in terms of culinary use and growing. It’s a very nondescript plant, looking much like a very tall patch of grass that doesn’t often produce flowers. At the base of each group of leaves there is a fat stalk, similar to a spring onion bulb. The overall plant is made up a big cluster of these individual stalks. The bulb or bottom part of each stalk is used for most cooking purposes, but the rest of the leaves

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can be used as well. Teas are usually brewed with the leaves. Not only is the tea very zesty in flavour, it can also help settle upset stomachs and ease a cough. The oils in lemongrass have a number of homeopathic health uses, though most home-growers do not extract the essential oils from their plants. It’s mostly used as a flavouring.

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You can start a new lemongrass plant from fresh stalks as long as they are still firm and green, you should be able to get them to root. Snip off an inch or two from the end of the leaves, and put the base end in a glass of water. Leave somewhere sunny, and you should start to see roots sprouting from the bottom of the stalk in about a week or two. Once your stalk has roots at least an inch long, you can either plant it in a container for indoor growing or take it right out into the garden. Keep your lemongrass plants at least three feet apart, and allow for

a height of six feet (though you can trim it lower than that). When you dig the holes for the plants, mix in some compost or wellaged manure to help enrich the soil. The soil shouldn’t be too thick though, the water still has to drain to keep your plants healthy. Lemongrass will need a lot of nitrogen, so you should fertilise at least monthly with either a standard or high-nitrogen formula. Water your plant regularly and don’t let it completely dry out, especially when the weather is very hot. Once your plant gets to three feet or so in height, you may want to keep the tops of the leaves cut down even more than what you are taking for an actual harvest. This can help keep the size of the

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Sitting on the job Jack-o-lantern pumpkin pancakes INGREDIENTS • 1 cup all-purpose flour • 1 cup quick cooking oats • 1/4 cup brown sugar • 2 teaspoons baking powder • 2 teaspoons baking powder • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1 cup milk • 1 egg, beaten • 3/4 cup canned pumpkin • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil • 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips METHOD • Stir together flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon,

cloves, and salt in a large bowl. • In a separate large bowl, lightly beat together the milk, egg, pumpkin, and oil. • Stir flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture, blending just until moistened. • Heat a lightly greased griddle over medium high heat. • Pour batter, 1/3 cup at a time, onto the prepared griddle. • Make a jack-o-lantern face in each pancake with the chocolate chips. • Cook until bubbles appear on the surface, then flip and cook until golden brown on the other side, about five minutes per side.

DOES your job find you sitting most of the day? While sitting can seem restful, keep in mind that staying in any one position for long periods of time can cause strain and injury to your muscles, joints, tendons and ligaments. Sustained sitting can take a toll on your neck and lower back - steady compression on the spinal discs hinders their nutrition and can contribute to premature degeneration. So, if you have to sit at work, what can you do to stay pain-free? Here are some tips. Take frequent breaks First, ensure that you take regular breaks from sitting. Get up, take a walk outside around the office and stretch. Posture perfect Next, pay attention to your posture. Sitting incorrectly puts strain on your lower back, decreases blood flow to your working muscles and

accelerates fatigue. Practice ‘active sitting’ with your feet flat on the ground in front of you, your back straight, your shoulders squared and your chin parallel with the floor. This posture will strengthen the core muscles of your abdomen, sides and back to reduce the strain on other areas. The stronger your core muscles, the easier it will be to maintain good posture. Choose a good office chair What’s most important in preventing injury and strain is to be able to easily vary your sitting positions throughout the day. An investment in a good office chair can help a lot. The right chair for you should be easily adjustable to suit your size, adapt to support your spine in various working positions, have a backrest that supports your lower back, have armrests, if they are appropriate to your work and have a front edge that

plant down. Lemongrass doesn’t grow branches so no other pruning is necessary. The lemon-scented oils in lemongrass are frequently used to make natural insect repellent, so you really won’t have much to worry about when it comes to those kinds of pests. Cats have also been known to have a fondness for lemongrass and may chew on your plants if given the chance. Lemongrass has a strong flavour of lemon citrus and it can be brewed in tea as well as used as a herb for seasoning. The most common dishes that use lemongrass are Asian cuisine, but whether you use it to add flavour to meat or fish, or just to brew tea, remember that it can be quite strong.

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curves downward to promote proper posture. Stability balls One recent trend is to use a stability ball at the office. While a ball is a great tool to help you tone your abs at home or at the gym, it should not replace a good chair at your work station. If you do bring the ball to work use the ball only for short periods, use your abdominal, back and side muscles to maintain straight posture and stop when your muscles feel tired. Sitting on a ball instead of a chair can actually increase the pressure on your back, especially if your core muscles aren’t strong. So, sitting a long time on the ball may lead to greater discomfort in your lower back. Do not use a ball if you have osteoporosis, balance or low back problems. Remember, stability balls are not for everyone; consult a chiropractor if you have any pre-existing injury or health problems that could impact your balance or stability. Dr Zavitz is in Providenciales from November 5 to 7 and 9 to 12 and Grand Turk on November 8.

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Easy DIY Halloween costume ideas SO IT’S that time of year again where we all get to dress up and take part in Halloween parties and events. If you are one of those last minute people without a costume or you just didn’t have any luck finding one, then keep on reading. Ghost – To accomplish this look, grab an old white or printed sheet (one you won’t regret damaging), cut holes for eyes. You can get creative by decorating your ghostly sheet with lots of holes or even applying blush on your ghostly cheeks and lipstick where your mouth should be. M&M – Pick the colour of the M&M you want to be and dress from head to toe in that colour. With a marker, write ‘M&M’ on the back and front of your top. Big kid – Grab your pyjamas, furry slippers and a teddy bear or blanket. Girls can tie their hair up in two ponytails with ribbons. Athlete – Depending on what sportswear you’ve got, go all out and complete the look by adding caps, wristbands and headbands. You can even take along a tennis racket, basketball or baseball bat depending on what kind of athlete you want to be. Stick figure boy/girl – For this easy costume you’ll need some electrical tape and a paper plate. Wear the same coloured long pants and a long sleeved tee for a uniform look. Guys: Beginning at the neck of the tee, stick tape down to just below the belly button, then attach one strip each from the stomach at an angle down to the hips. From there, attach long strips of tape down each leg and arm. Girls: Take the electrical tape and stick it beginning just at the neck of the tee and stop by the belly button. Make a triangle (to mimic a skirt) from the belly button to the hips and then apply a strip of tape down each leg and arm. For the head, outline the circle of the plate with a black marker and in the centre draw a smiley, sad or angry face. Jelly fish – Wear all white clothing and grab a white or clear umbrella. Attach white strings, ribbons, bubble wrap or pieces of white fabric to the umbrella to represent the stingers. Men In Black/secret agent/body guard – Dress in a white shirt with a black suit and tie; wear dark sunglasses. You can take the secret agent/Body Guard look a step further by wearing one headphone in your ear. Musician – Depending on your instrument and the type of musician you want to be, dress the part. You can take along a guitar, banjo, flute, saxophone or whatever your heart desires as long as you can hold it without a struggle.

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What’s your mouth really saying? Part one THE CONDITION of your mouth is reflective of much more than just the health of your teeth and gums - it can be indicative of more general, and possibly serious, health problems. In this and my next column I am going to briefly outline some of the ‘watch-out’ symptoms you might be experiencing in your mouth and what they could potentially mean for the rest of your body.

Bad breath: Liver disease/kidney disease/ diabetes

If brushing your teeth (and tongue), flossing regularly and using breath fresheners are still not eliminating bad breath, it may be a symptom of something more serious and indicate a disease elsewhere in the body. The type of smell can actually help in identifying the potential problem. An acrid, ammonia-type smell could indicate kidney disease. Other accompanying symptoms of kidney

disease include changes in urination, a metallic taste in the mouth, or nausea, fatigue or dizziness. A rotten egg-type smell could indicate liver damage and as cirrhosis of the liver often shows no other symptoms in the early stages, it’s worth getting it checked out, particularly if you drink a lot of alcohol. A sweet smell to the breath could indicate diabetes. In all these cases it is definitely worth a trip to the doctor.

Yellow teeth: Medication

Teeth discolour for a number of reasons including the food and drink we consume, aging and smoking. However, a number of medications have been linked to causing yellow teeth. These include antibiotics such as tetracycline - often used for acne mouth rinses containing chlorhexidine specifically used to treat gum disease, and medicines for high blood pressure. The best way to treat yellow teeth is to consult with your dentist on

professional cleaning and whitening. Toothpastes which claim to ‘whiten’ teeth will only remove superficial stains and not have any impact on the colour of the existing surface of the teeth.

Dry mouth: Diabetes

Although a dry mouth can often be attributed to dehydration and other factors such as alcohol consumption, some medications and smoking, a lack of sufficient saliva is one of the earliest symptoms of diabetes. The condition causes blood vessels in the salivary glands to thicken and slows down the natural production of saliva. This can make the gums more prone to infections. Other symptoms include excessive thirst, tingling in the hands and feet, frequent urination and blurred vision. If you have concerns in any of these areas, mention it to your dentist at your next dental check-up or consult with your doctor.

POLICE SAFETY TIPS

How to prevent a residential burglary TO PREVENT your home from becoming burglarised, there’re several steps you can take to deter burglars from breaking into your home. You can alter the appearance of the outside of your home or hide valuables in secure locations inside your home to prevent burglars from stealing your personal property. Always clean up the outside of your property to show you’re occupying your home and pick up discarded trash that has landed in your yard. Install timed lights or leave a radio playing if you’ll be absent from your home for long periods of time. You may want to enlist a trusted friend to keep an eye on your property while you’re travelling away from home. It’s always a good idea to lock all your doors, windows and sheds when you leave your home to make it difficult for burglars to enter without attracting the attention of others. Make periodic checks on all of your locks for their durability by trying to open your doors and windows from the outside. Install sturdy deadbolt locks on your doors to prevent thieves from

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breaking in easily. Every effort must be made to make your doors and windows visible to the neighbourhood and to the street. Cut away tree branches that can hide burglars when they’re breaking into your home. Store your valuables away from windows or doors where they can easily be seen from the outside. You may want to hang privacy curtains over windows to make it difficult for others to see inside. Hide or destroy any outside trash that may advertise your personal belongings to the rest of your neighbourhood. Don’t leave spare house keys under your front door mat, leave them with trusted friends. Burglars may be familiar with common hiding places for spare keys. Park your vehicles inside a closed garage if you have one to make it difficult for burglars to determine if you’re home or not. Install a home alarm system to

deter burglars if there’s a break-in. Stray away from routine schedules to make it more difficult for burglars to predict when you’ll be absent from your home. Alter your outside landscaping to make it difficult for burglars to navigate your property without being seen or heard. You may want to surround your windows or home with loose gravel, stones, or rocks that will make noise when stepped on. You may want to consider purchasing a dog that will bark when burglars enter the property and deter potential burglars. This weekly column is written as part of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force’s crime prevention initiative. For more crime prevention tips, security awareness tips and home safety reminders, please log on to www.tcipolice.tc or www.facebook. com/RTCIPF.

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CDB president reveals inherent risk to economic turnaround in the Caribbean PRESIDENT of the Barbadosbased Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Warren Smith, has warned that high debt poses an inherent risk to the success of structural adjustment programmes being undertaken by some regional countries in their bid to turn around their ailing economies. Addressing the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) 2014 High Level Caribbean Forum here, Smith said large debt overhangs represent a drag on economic growth, and “failure to tackle this problem in a substantive way, early in the adjustment process, is likely to heighten the risk of premature abandonment of the adjustment programme. “In short, the slow burn approach to whittling down large debt overhangs is fraught with danger and cries out for an urgent solution. This is especially so for countries which have demonstrated great resolve in adopting most of the appropriate adjustment measures,” Smith told delegates. He noted however, that the bank, the region’s premier financial institution, has been providing some assistance to countries in that area. “The Caribbean Development Bank, working with some of the small island states of the Eastern Caribbean, has deployed its balance sheet creatively to assist St Kitts/ Nevis and is now working with Grenada to reduce their debt overhang. “In both instances these initiatives were pursued under

Dr. Warren Smith, President of CDB has warned that high debt poses an inherent risk to the success of structural adjustment programmes being undertaken by some regional countries in their bid to turn around their ailing economies. (Credit: CDB/Flickr)

the cover of home-grown IMF supported adjustment programmes; if the substantially stronger and larger balance sheets of the international financial institutions are also deployed creatively, similar outcomes are possible for the larger Caribbean countries with sizeable debt overhangs and somewhat different circumstances,” Smith said. The two-day event, which has brought together regional finance ministers, central bank governors and various stakeholders in the financial sector, is being held under

the theme “Unlocking Economic Growth,” and focuses on energy costs, tax competition and financial sector vulnerabilities. In his address, the CDB president said that another section of the region’s economy that needs urgent attention is the high cost of energy as “a fundamental root cause of the Caribbean’s non-competitiveness. “The Caribbean is not energy poor. We might not have an abundance of fossil fuels all across our region but we have enough alternatives to be able to make a reasonable dent into the cost of our import bill,” he said. Smith also called on Caribbean government officials present to address the problem of youth unemployment, which, according to him, data shows stands at upwards of 35 per cent in many countries. “Our young people are very creative and dynamic. They demonstrate these characteristics across the Caribbean mainly in the field of the arts, music, dance and sports. But that’s not all they have a capacity for,” Smith said. “A recent initiative by the World Bank to take advantage of the aptitude of our youth in the field of animation is only one illustration of the possibilities for unleashing the dynamism of our young people in a sector where they can build small businesses, earn foreign exchange, and integrate themselves meaningfully into the international value chain,” he added. Smith also noted that the private sector must be part of programmes to improve the region’s economy.

Angry voters showed their identification cards in protest at the vote which was cancelled.

Haitian protests over delayed elections in Port-au-Prince THOUSANDS of Haitians marched in the capital Port-auPrince on Sunday in protest at a delay in the country’s legislative and municipal elections. The polls are already years overdue and were scheduled for Sunday. They were postponed because of an ongoing stalemate between the government and a group of opposition senators over an electoral law. Haiti is the poorest country in the region and is still struggling to recover from a 2010 earthquake. Protesters lit piles of wood in the central neighbourhood of Bel Aire before marching to a wealthy hillside neighbourhood, where riot police guarded hotels, shops and Haiti’s elections office. Some demanded President

Michel Martelly’s resignation for his “inability to organise elections in the country”. Two opposition activists who had organised the protest were arrested by police for “public unrest and inciting violence”. Mid-term senate elections in Haiti had been due in May 2012, while the municipal poll is three years behind schedule as Haiti slowly emerges from the earthquake which left much of the country devastated in 2010. In June, President Michel Martelly decreed that the elections be held on 26 October. The date was set after lengthy talks mediated by the president of Haiti’s Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Chibly Langlois, intended to overcome the political deadlock between the opposition and the government.

Ship denied entry to St Vincent following report of crew exhibiting Ebola symptoms ST. VINCENT and the Grenadines earlier this month denied an oil tanker entry into its territorial waters after being informed that two crewmembers were exhibiting symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has said. Gonsalves told Parliament that on October 14, he had received a call from the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Godfred Pompey, indicating that the oil tanker, the Noble Spirit, had also been denied entry into Jamaica because two Pilipino nationals, who boarded the tanker at Houston, Texas on October 10, had high fever and vomiting. Health authorities warn that high fever and vomiting are among the symptoms of the Ebola virus which has killed nearly 5,000 people in West Africa. There is no known cure.

Gonsalves who is also Minister of National Security, said the tanker was scheduled to call at the port here at 11.p.m. (local time) on October 14, and that he had instructed the Coastguard, the Signal Station and all the relevant agencies that the vessel would not be permitted to enter St. Vincent and the Grenadines territorial waters. “It turns out that when it came down from St. Lucia, we allowed it innocent passage, it changed its course and went to Barbados, and was not allowed to land in Barbados.” Gonsalves told lawmakers that he didn’t consider it “necessary and desirable to talk to the people about that — certainly not at that time.” He said that from the outside the waters of Barbados, the vessel went to Equatorial Guinea. “Mr. Speaker, Honourable

Members, you see the potential for harm. It (Ebola virus) would be on any vessel, which comes in at any place in our archipelago of islands. “So, I can’t start to talk about complete readiness until I have that sorted out in every respect. I am at a particular level of readiness, but not as yet at a level which I could say we are fully prepared; I can’t say that. No place in the region, and the great United States of America, it is for you to judge, not me, with all their resources, as to whether they were prepared.” Gonsalves said he was informed by the communication department of the Office of the Prime Minister that because he told the ALBA Ebola summit in Cuba last week that St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the rest of the Caribbean were unprepared for Ebola, it has been

The ship was also denied entry into Jamaica because two Pilipino nationals, who boarded the tanker at Houston, Texas had high fever and vomiting.

taken “as something that we are not doing anything. “But we are doing far more than other countries in the region, certainly in the OECS. That is why what we have done, the OECS conference recently has adopted what we have done as the template in going forward with Ebola,” Gonsalves said. “But, Mr. Speaker, if I go to a

conference, an ALBA conference on Ebola, am I going to go there with any false pride and say ‘We have been doing remarkably well, we don’t need any assistance, we can handle things on our own’? “Well, I would be a complete and utter fool and I would also be dishonest,” Gonsalves said, noting that the island has 25 points of entry, which have to be monitored.

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Christie: Security of the Bahamas is threatened by Ebola PRIME Minister Perry Christie this week warned ship owners of the “deleterious” effect a report or confirmed case of the Ebola virus would have on the country’s economy. Mr. Christie underscored the importance of strict adherence to national protocols given the country’s transshipment linkages between the west coast of Africa and Grand Bahama. He restated the Ebola Task Force’s commitment to ensuring prompt and effective response to real or suspected cases during his welcome remarks at the annual general meeting of the Bahamas Shipowners Association. “We are acutely aware that the security of our nation is threatened by the Ebola virus disease,” he said. “The Bahamas is a nation that has that shipping coming in from the west coast of Africa into Grand Bahama. It is so necessary to have this open dialogue and wonderful working relationship with partners that exist in our country and who have responded magnificently.” Mr Christie said: “We know that any report or incidence of this virus can have a deleterious effect on our economic lifelines; for this reason the government of the Bahamas has

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Mr. Christie underscored the importance of strict adherence to national protocols given the country’s transshipment linkages between the west coast of Africa and Grand Bahama.

established an Ebola Task Force. The primary concern of this task force is to be able to respond at a moment’s notice to any real or suspected cases of Ebola virus from a public health and medical standpoint and to put in place all of the necessary protections that a country ought to have aligned with this.” Mr Christie said that the technical alert issued by the Bahamas Maritime Authority should be adopted as a “matter of emergency” on all Bahamian ships in a bid to collectively reduce the risk of exposure to crews and citizens.

Barbados not seeking IMF assistance for economic turnaround – Sinckler THE Barbados government Monday said it would not seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help turn around an ailing economy, insisting that the fiscal programme it has embarked upon is working, despite having laid off thousands of public workers. “What we have to do is to do the things that would help us achieve the (economic) growth,” Finance and Economic Minister Chris Sinckler told a news conference. “Based on what we are seeing we know growth will return,” he said, telling reporters that the government was working to achieve the two per cent economic growth as predicted by the Central Bank of Barbados. Sinckler said that in relation to the discussion pushed by the private sector for the Freundel Stuart government to contemplate a programme with the IMF, “we have said what our position is. “We are not contemplating any IMF programme at this stage, we do not think it is necessary, we believe that Barbadians can achieve the objectives of the programme that we have set ourselves. “It is not going to be easy or painless, but I know the alternatives which some people are clamouring for will be far worse than they may suspect,” he told reporters. “We are measuring the situation and we feel at this stage that (IMF programme) is not required at this stage,” he added. Last year, the government announced the plan to cut public

Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler giving an update on the state of the local economy at Government Headquarters (C.Pitt/BGIS).

service jobs in a bid to save BDS$143 million (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents). Government said it would also institute a “strict programme of attrition” across the central public service, filling posts only where it is absolutely unavoidable, over the next five years, ending 2018-2019. “This attrition is expected to reduce central government employment levels from approximately 16,970 to 14,612 jobs – a projected loss of 2,358 posts; and savings of BDS$121 million. Over the current 19-month adjustment period public sector employment will be reduced by an additional 501 jobs with a projected savings of BDS$26 million,” Sinckler said then. On Monday he told reporters that the government was also looking at ways of reducing the burden of taxes on citizens and was exploring the possibility of broadening the tax base.

“It is not our contemplation for any major increases in taxes…in fact we may very well be looking over the short to medium term, if we could broaden the bases to reduce some of the incidences of tax on Barbadians. “That’s really where our goal is, but of course as you know we have a fiscal programme in place, we want to achieve certain targets and therefore we have to stick to what we have for the time being,” he said. Sinckler said the government would maintain its fiscal programme including “some restrictions and discipline on the amount of supplementaries, some additional smaller cuts in the government’s budget in non-critical progarmmes, the tax reform process would begin and there are some short term measures we will introduce in terms of broadening the tax base… and again the tax administration efficiencies….”

Caribbean survey finds complex web of sexual identity among gays and bisexuals Arthur Alleyne and Sharon Went-Alleyne were on their way to Barbados in their yacht.

Missing Caribbean yacht couple found, daughter confirms A COUPLE who were reported missing on a yacht in the Caribbean on Saturday have been found. Arthur Alleyne and Sharon Went-Alleyne, who is from Telford, Shropshire, were sailing between St Lucia and Barbados when all contact was lost. Air and sea searches were looking for the pair, but daughter Tao Alleyene, from Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, confirmed they have been found. She had feared the 47ft (14m) yacht called Serenity may have lost power. The Barbados coastguard

confirmed they carried out a search for the couple. Ms Alleyne said she had last spoken to her mother on Friday. The last contact was with the boat was on Saturday. She said her father, 63, known as Captain Sam, was an experienced sailor and boat captain who was brought up in the Caribbean. In a Facebook post, Ms Alleyne said although the last contact with the boat was at 2pm local time on Saturday, a “strange voicemail” came in to one of the dock’s phones on Sunday.

A STUDY of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, has found that there “is a complex web of sexual identity expressed and experienced by men across the Caribbean”. The study -The Caribbean Men’s Internet Survey (CARIMIS) – was done by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) Caribbean Regional Support Team in collaboration with Sigma Research of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It was partly supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The data was collected during the period November 2011 to June 2012 and targeted men who were 18 or older, lived in the Caribbean and were either attracted to men, had sex with men, or thought they might do so in the future.

The sample comprised 3,567 men living in 33 Dutch, English, French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries and territories. Almost half of CARIMIS respondents (47 per cent) were university graduates, while 50 per cent attained secondary or post-secondary education. A statement issued by the organsiers said that while the results are not representative of all men who have sex with men in the Caribbean, they offer insight into the experiences of people who do not typically participate in traditional behavioural surveys. “Now that we have called attention to the issue, how do we really begin to have the conversations in our homes, churches, mosques, temples and parliaments? How do we translate a lot of these findings to inform policy?” asked Dereck Springer, Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV

and AIDS (PANCAP). “At the level of PANCAP the current focus is to reduce stigma, eliminate discrimination and uphold human rights for everyone. But the real work has to be done at the level of the family and community,” he added. The study found that 52 per cent of the CARIMIS respondents had not come out to many of their family members, friends, work or school colleagues. The survey found that while those who were out tended to have more positive self-perception and exhibit better health-seeking behaviour, those who were not were less vulnerable to homophobic abuse. “This is the paradox of stigma. Fear and secrecy may make a man less likely to experience harassment or violence, but also less likely to have safer sex,” said UNAIDS Caribbean Director, Dr. Ernest Massiah.

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Roman Polanski: US extradition attempt fails in Poland

Roman Polanski was attending the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

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US authorities contacted Polish officials as Polanski attended the opening of a Jewish museum in Warsaw. The director of The Pianist and Chinatown was questioned in Krakow. “Roman Polanski said he would comply with all requests made by prosecutors in this case and provided his address,” Police justice ministry spokesman Mateusz Martyniuk told AFP. “Prosecutors therefore decided not to arrest him in connection with a possible US extradition request.” The Polish government confirmed that the US had contacted authorities asking them to arrest Polanski after he travelled to Warsaw for the opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Mr Martyniuk said Polanski’s extradition was still possible, but as the US had not yet forwarded an extradition request, Polanski “is a free citizen and is free to travel”.

“I’ve never gotten a black eye or a busted lip, but I’ve felt abused in one way or another: mentally, emotionally, verbally,” Jennifer Lopez writes in the book, titled “True Love.”

Lopez: I’ve felt abused in the past NOT all abuse leaves physical scars, and that’s a reality Jennifer Lopez is exploring in a new memoir. The actress and singer has written a book about a period of self-discovery that occurred around the time of her first world tour in 2012. While she intended for the project “to be a fan book, a diary of the years I went on tour,” what resulted was a book that helped the star “face a lot,” as she tells People

magazine. One of the things she faces in her memoir are her experiences in past relationships. “I’ve never gotten a black eye or a busted lip, but I’ve felt abused in one way or another: mentally, emotionally, verbally,” Lopez writes in the book, titled “True Love.” People magazine notes that the 45-year-old doesn’t name her abuser, nor does she say she was physically abused.

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SNP’s Sturgeon says UK withdrawal from EU ‘must have’ four nation backing A REFERENDUM in favour of leaving the European Union would need to have the clear support of the UK nations, the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon has insisted. She said England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should each deliver a majority vote to make withdrawal legal. David Cameron has promised a referendum on EU membership if the Conservatives win next May’s General Election. At prime minister’s questions, Mr Cameron insisted any vote would be decided by a UK-wide majority. In response to a question from Conservative MP Bill Cash on Ms Sturgeon’s comments, he told MPs: “We are one United Kingdom. There’ll be one in/out referendum.” UKIP MEP for Scotland David Coburn said Ms Sturgeon’s idea was “ridiculous”. Ms Sturgeon plans to write to other political parties seeking support for her idea. She suggested that if a referendum Bill came before the House of Commons her party would table an amendment. It would require that, for the UK to leave the EU, it would need “not just a majority across the whole UK but a majority in each one of the four nations - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland”. In an interview with BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said: “If you look at states like Australia and Canada there are some circumstances where changes

Nicola Sturgeon believes a vote to leave the EU should have clear backing from the UK’s four nations.

to their constitution requires not just a majority across the country but in each of the provinces as well. “The UK is not a unitary state it is a family of nations, it is made up of the four home nations. “We were told during the referendum that each of these nations had equal status, that our voices mattered. “If that is the case I think it is right that something that would have such significant consequences for jobs, for the economy, for our standing in the world, it should require the consent of not just the UK as a whole but that

family of nations.” Mr Coburn told Good Morning Scotland: “Our country is Great Britain. I don’t hold a Scottish passport I hold a British passport. “We are one country. That was decided once and for all at the referendum. “What part of no does she [Nicola Sturgeon] not get? No, neigh, naw. We are all British voters. That was decided at the referendum.” Scottish Labour’s interim leader, Anas Sarwar, commented: “Nicola Sturgeon has today proposed that major constitutional change for the UK requires the agreement of the four nations of the UK. “This presumably is also her position on any future independence referendum, or is she again trying to face different ways at the same time?” Mr Cameron said he was keen to renegotiate the UK’s relationship with Brussels ahead of a possible 2017 in/out referendum on EU membership. But the prime minister has so far declined to say whether he would back a British exit if he did not get the concessions he wanted. The Tory leader insisted he was confident of success in the negotiations. Ms Sturgeon believes a referendum is inevitable “regardless of who wins the next election”. She added that the anti-European politics of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) was on the rise given its recent win at the Clacton byelection.

Detroit man owes $30,000 in support for child he did not father FOR the past 28 years, a Detroit man has owed child support for a child he never fathered. Paternity tests confirm Carnell Alexander is not the father of a child born in 1987, even though paperwork initially filed for welfare assistance by his ex-girlfriend declared him the baby daddy. “I had to turn to welfare to get assistance to take care of them and I had to put him down as the father. That was the only way I could get into the system,” the child’s unnamed mother told WXYZ-TV. That paperwork followed Alexander for two decades, racking up more than $69,000 in child support debt. He didn’t learn of the child until 1991, when a police officer called him a “deadbeat dad” during a traffic stop. “I knew I didn’t have a child, so I was blown back,” Alexander told the

Carnell Alexander didn’t learn of the child until 1991 when a police officer called him a ‘deadbeat dad’ during a traffic stop.

TV station. “I feel like I’m standing in front of a brick wall with nowhere to go.”

He could have learned of the child sooner, but a summons failed to reach Alexander. He was in jail for an unrelated charge when a process server stopped by his home with a summons. But the process server reported back that Alexander refused to sign it, according to WXYZ-TV. The child’s mother admits “everything is my fault,” she told the TV station. “He shouldn’t have to pay it at all. I want everything to go away for him so he can get on with his life.” The judge eventually forgave the debt owed the child’s mother, but not half of the original sum owed to the state of Michigan. If Alexander does not pay back $30,000 in welfare support the state provided, he faces legal consequences unless he fights it in court, the TV station added. (NYdailynews)

Health workers have been collecting fewer bodies in Liberia.

Ebola crisis: Infections ‘slowing in Liberia’ THE World Health Organization (WHO) says there has been a decline in the spread of Ebola in Liberia, the country hardest hit in the outbreak. The WHO’s Bruce Aylward said it was confident the response to the virus was now gaining the upper hand. But he warned against any suggestion that the crisis was over. The WHO later said the number of cases globally had risen more than 3,000 to 13,703 since its last report, but that this was due to reporting reasons. The number of deaths was put at 4,920, roughly the same as the last report four days ago. All but 10 of the deaths have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The latest WHO figure of 13,703 cases is a significant leap on its previous situation report on Saturday, which showed cases rising

above 10,000 for the first time - to 10,141. But Dr Aylward, the WHO’s assistant director general, said that this increase was due to data being updated with old cases, rather than new cases being reported. Saturday’s situation report put the death toll at 4,922. The similar death toll in the latest report was mainly a result of a revision of the Liberian statistics. Cases there rose from 4,655 to 6,535 but reported deaths dropped from 2,705 to 2,413. Deaths in Guinea rose from 926 to 997 and in Sierra Leone from 1,281 to 1,500. Liberia’s Red Cross said its teams collected 117 bodies last week, down from a high of 315 in September. Treatment centres also have empty beds available for patients.

Zambian President Sata death: White interim leader appointed ZAMBIAN Vice-President Guy Scott has been named acting leader following the death of President Michael Sata. Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, Defence Minister Edgar Lungu said. Mr Scott, who is of Scottish descent, becomes Africa’s first white head of state for many years. Mr Sata died in the UK aged 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. He was being treated at London’s King Edward VII hospital where he died on Tuesday night. Mr Scott regularly stood in for the president at official events, but was never appointed acting president when Mr Sata was abroad - so this is his first time to officially lead the country. In a brief televised address Mr Scott confirmed his appointment. “The period of national mourning will start today. We will miss our beloved president and comrade,” Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.

It is unclear if Guy Scott will be able to run for president because he is not a third generation Zambian.

The president’s death comes just days after Zambia celebrated the 50th anniversary of independence from the UK. Cabinet secretary Roland Msiska said on national TV that President Sata’s wife and son were at his bedside He is the second Zambian leader to die in office after Levy Mwanawasa in 2008. (BBC)

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Son decapitates mother then commits suicide Ms Rousseff thanked her political mentor and predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Brazil elections: Rousseff promises reform after poll win PRESIDENT Dilma Rousseff has promised to re-unite Brazil after narrowly winning re-election to a second term in office with 51.6% of the vote. She said “dialogue” would be her top priority after a bitterly fought campaign against centre-right candidate Aecio Neves, who got 48.4% of the vote. The left-wing leader said she wanted to be “a much better president than I have been until now”. She faced mass protests last year against corruption and poor services. But Ms Rousseff, who has been in power since 2010, remains popular with poor Brazilians thanks to her government’s welfare programmes. The vote split Latin America’s biggest country almost evenly in

two, along lines of social class and geography. Whereas Dilma Rousseff did well in the poorer northern states, her opponent from the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) took many of the wealthier and more developed southern parts of Brazil. “Sometimes in history, close outcomes trigger results more quickly than ample victories,” she said. “It is my hope, or even better, my certainty that the clash of ideas can create room for consensus, and my first words are going to be a call for peace and unity,” she told a cheering crowd in the capital, Brasilia. “Instead of widening differences and creating a rift, I have the strong hope that we can use this energy to build bridges.”

Buildings in the planned buffer zone are being demolished by the military.

Egypt demolishes Sinai homes for Gaza border buffer EGYPT has begun demolishing homes along its border with the Gaza Strip as part of a planned 500m buffer zone that is intended to prevent weapons smuggling. Residents living along the border with the Palestinian territory have been given 48 hours - and promised compensation - to leave their homes. The buffer will include waterfilled trenches to prevent tunnelling. Egyptian media accuses Gaza’s Hamas administration of aiding militants in Sinai. Hamas denies the charge.

Last week, more than 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a militant bomb attack on an army post in Sinai. After the bombing, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi passed a law authorising the military to protect state facilities - including power plants, main roads and bridges. He also declared a three-month state of emergency in Sinai. Critics of the move said it allows the army to return to the streets and brings back military trials for civilians.

A PSYCHOTIC killer decapitated his college professor mom and dumped her corpse in the street before stepping in front of a Long Island Rail Road train to end a grisly murder-suicide. Patricia Ward, 66, was savagely killed inside the family’s gorespattered Farmingdale, L.I., apartment by her chronically unemployed son Derek, Nassau County police Det. Lt. John Azzata said Wednesday. Derek Ward, 35, had a psychiatric record dating back a decade and a brief rap sheet, and was carrying a Smith & Wesson pistol and 100 valiums when he died Tuesday night, Azzata said. Ward used a knife to kill and behead his mother, a former professor at State University of New York-Farmingdale. He then dragged her body and head outside, leaving each on either side of the street. Cops said the murder weapon was recovered, and the slain woman suffered multiple stab wounds and other signs of trauma — including broken ribs. Passing drivers initially thought the corpse was some kind of Halloween prank until discovering the bloody truth.

Patricia Ward was found decapitated Tuesday in Farmingdale, Long Island.

Patricia Ward “was a member of the campus for 28 years,” SUNYFarmingdale announced in a statement. “She was well-known, well-liked and well-respected. The campus is a very sad place today.” The veteran teacher’s headless remains were found less than a mile away and mere minutes before her son stepped into the path of an LIRR train, authorities said. A worker assigned to clean up the dead woman’s luxury apartment on Secatogue Ave., where the killing

occurred, described a macabre scene. Blood still stained the entranceway and street Wednesday afternoon “It’s kind of a mess,” the worker said. “There’s blood in the apartment, and some spots in the hallway and the stairs.” Dale Silverman, 59, said she thought it was some sort of Halloween display when she spied the woman’s body lying on one side of the street and her head lying on the other. “I saw the head first — long black straight hair and a partial face,” said Silverman. “I did a doubletake, thinking it was a stupid little shrunken head you would hang as a Halloween thing.” The body was discovered about 7:55 p.m. Just 20 minutes after the body was found, MTA police confirmed Derek Ward stepped in front of a Ronkonkoma-bound train near the Clinton St. crossing. That train had left Penn Station shortly after 7 p.m., an LIRR spokesman said. Derek Ward walked to the station after dumping his mother’s body and took his own life. Cops said the killer’s already unstable mental health took a turn for the worse last year after his paternal grandfather died. (NYdailynews)

Sri Lanka landslide: ‘100 feared dead’ ABOUT 100 people are feared dead following a landslide in central Sri Lanka, the government says. The landslide, which came after heavy monsoon rains, engulfed about 140 houses in Badulla district. Ten bodies have so far been found but the rescue efforts have been suspended for the night. Bad weather is also hampering the rescue operations. Heavy rain has hit much of the country over the past few weeks. Mudslide warnings had been issued for many areas, The deadly mudslide hit the Meeriyabedda tea plantation near the town of Haldummulla, about 200 km (120 miles) east of the capital Colombo, on Wednesday at 07:30 local time (02:30 GMT). “More than 100 people are believed to have died,” Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera told Reuters news agency. “We have suspended the rescue operations because of darkness and inclement weather. There is also a threat of further landslides.” About 500 military personnel are said to be involved in the rescue operation. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa tweeted that heavy machinery had been deployed to

Officials say an area of about two kilometres has been affected by the landslide.

speed up the efforts. Local MP Udith Lokubandara told the BBC that many parents had returned home after leaving their children at school when the landslip happened. “It is a very sorry situation because there are many children who have become orphans,” he said. Maj Gen Mano Perera, the top military official in the area, told the AFP news agency that “some houses have been buried in 30 ft (9m) of mud”. A driver who works on the plantation, P Arumugam, told Reuters: “Everything that I saw yesterday I could not see today -

buildings, the temple and shops had all disappeared. I could only see mud everywhere.” One woman who survived told local media: “I was under the rubble and some people took me out... my mother and aunt have died.” Officials say an area of about two kilometres (one mile) has been affected by the landslide, Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror reports. Sections of several national highways have been washed away by the rains, reports say. In June, monsoon rains triggered landslides in Sri Lanka that killed at least 22 people and forced thousands from their homes.

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Alive and Well Resorts are looking for candidates that have the requirements listed along with an outstanding professional manner. They love to work with different types of people, meet challenges with a positive attitude and live the standards of our organization. Their style is must be one that balances a commitment to people which will provide an extraordinary guest experience. Must be prepared to be accountable for responsibilities and the quality of their performance.

Vacation Club Manager (VCM) Job Description: • Daily management of all aspects of the Vacation Clubs products and services for the Company. • Daily management of Sales and Marketing Departments. • VCM will be responsible for recruiting, training, coaching, and performance management of the sales and marketing staff towards the attainment of the budgeted annual sales goals as defined in the annual budget. • VCM is to provide overall leadership to sales and marketing teams. Including scheduling and leading weekly, and monthly meeting with the Marketing Supervisor, Sales Supervisor and VLC. • In order to achieve the budget VCM will develop and deliver customized market specific training programs for the sales and marketing teams, including all support staff. • VCM will also develop compensation plans to attract the top sales and marketing talent in the VO industry. • VCM will also be responsible for the performance of Company’s VO sales and marketing staff, including the attainment of tour volume, sales revenue, referral harvesting, and profitability objectives as defined and agreed between VCM and the Company. Each year in collaboration with the Company VCM will reivew past years proformance, and develop new annual sales and marketing budgets. Minimun Job Requirements: • 10 years or more experience in Vacation Ownership Sales and Marketing management • Experience in Fractional Sales and Marketing management • Proven ability to create and train site specific Sales and Marketing processes • Multiple site experience • Must have experience with Sales and Marketing of both “Points” and “Weeks”

MR. BIGGS CAR WASH

practices needed to reach monthly budget.

Minimun Job Requirements:

• 5 years or more experience in Vacation Ownership marketing supervision • Must have experience starting new projects, developing new marketing programs • Multiple site experience • Proven ability to train site specific marketing processes • Must have proven record of reaching budget tour and sales goals • Must have experience in hiring and training new marketing representatives

is looking for a

Car Washer

Verification and Loan Clerk (VLC)

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

Job Description:

• Daily responsible for the greeting, check in and assignment of all guest touring the Club • Daily cordination with the Marketing and Sales Supervisors to coordinate guest gift certificates • VLC will be responsible for the creation of and verification of all contract for purchase by guests • VLC will be responsible to assist VCM in training an assistant VLC trainee • In order to achieve the budget VLC will daily monittor the tour results and report the results to the VCM. • VLC will attend weekly and monthly staff meetings with VCM to maintain best practices needed to reach monthly budget

contact: 3422663 or 341-9570 10580

Superior Laundromat Five Cays Road, Providenciales. Telephone: 231-6318

Minimun Job Requirements:

• 8 years or more experience in Vacation Ownership contract processing and Verification • Must have record of customer service pre and post sale • Must have record of good follow up skills, customer relations and collections • Must have record of excellent computer skills with VO contract programs • Multiple site experience • Proven ability to train Assistant VLC

Inside Sales Representatives (ISR)

1 Laundry Repairman, 1 Technician

Job Description:

Job Description: • Daily supervision of the Vacation Club Sales Staff. • Daily cordination with the Marketing Supervisor to meet the budgeted tour flow and sales volume. • VCSS will be responsible for assisting VCM in recruiting, coaching, training, and performance management of the sales staff towards the attainment of the budgeted annual sales goals as defined in the annual budget. • VCSS is to provide daily leadership and motivation in the Sales Room. • VCSS will be responsible to assist VCM in training and mentoring of the sales staff. • In order to achieve the budget VCSS will daily monittor the sales results and report the results to the VCM. • VCSS will attend weekly and monthly staff meetings with VCM to maintain best practices needed to reach monthly budget Minimun Job Requirements: • 5 years or more experience in Vacation Ownership Sales supervision • Must have experience with Sales of both “Points” and “Weeks” • Proven ability to train site specific Sales processes • Multiple site experience • Must have proven record of reaching budget sales goals • Must have experience in hiring and training new sales representatives • Must be a graduate of the Levitin “Sales Academy”, “Boatwright Boot Camp” or equivalent Vacation Ownership specific sales training courses

Vacation Club Marketing Supervisor (VCMS) Job Description: • Daily supervision of the Vacation Club Marketing Staff. • Daily cordination with the Sales Supervisor to meet the budgeted tour flow and sales volume. • VCMS will be responsible for assisting VCM in recruiting, coaching, training, and performance management of the marketing staff towards the attainment of the budgeted annual tour and sales goals as defined in the annual budget. • VCMS is to provide daily leadership and motivation for the marketing staff. • VCMS will be responsible to assist VCM in training and mentoring of the marketing staff. • In order to achieve the budget VCMS will daily monittor the tour results and report the results to the VCM. • VCMS will attend weekly and monthly staff meetings with VCM to maintain best

Salary based on skill and experience 10585 T HOLDINGS LTD. is looking for a

Minimun Job Requirements:

• 5 years or more experience in Vacation Ownership Front to Back sales • 5 years or more experience in Vacation Ownership Closing back end of Liners sales • Must have experience with Sales of both “Points” and “Weeks” • Multiple site experience • Must have proven record of reaching company established goals in sales volume efficiency and closing percentage • Must be a graduate of the Levitin “Sales Academy”, “Boatwright Boot Camp” or equivalent Vacation Ownership specific sales training courses

Civil Engineer to work 6 days per week must have at least 10 years experience salary negotiable.

Outside Sales Representatives (OSR)

contact: 232-4336

Job Description:

• Daily responsible for inviting guests to sales presentations of resort VO program • Responsible to meet the company standards for tour volume and closing percentage • OSR will be responsible for attending all coaching, training, and performance management meetings scheduled by VCM and VCMS • OSR is to contribute daily to a positive, exciting work atmosphere within their location, the sales room and resort property • OSR will be required to complete the “ALIVE & Well Sales Academy” training during their first year of employment

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WARD’S CONSULTANCY Acting on behalf of our clients: E Y Contractor, Yoshi Sushi Bar, Brid M. Benjamin, Villa Del Mar, Platinum Security, Dreadz Beauty Salon, PJ’s Barber Shop is looking to fill the following positions:

Minimun Job Requirements:

Seamstress Dining Room Supervisor Assistant Manager Mason Kitchen Helper Bartender Security Officer Cosmetologist Barbers

• 3 years or more experience as Vacation Ownership Outside Sales • Multiple site experience • Must have proven record of reaching company established goals in tour volume per month and closing percentage • Must be a graduate of the Levitin “Sales Academy”, “Boatwright Boot Camp” or equivalent Vacation Ownership specific marketing training courses

Contact: Omar McKenzie Alive and Well Resorts Phone 649 – 433-0040 or 649 941-3121 OMckenzie@aliveandwellresorts.com

Salary $5.50-$8.00 per hour. 10579

Vacation Club Sales Supervisor (VCSS)

• Daily responsible for sales presentations of resort VO program to invited guest tours • Daily responsible for closing the back end of Liner sales presentations of resort VO program to invited guest tours • Responsible to meet the company standards for sales volume effeciency and closing percentage • VCSR will be responsible for attending all coaching, training, and performance management meetings scheduled by VCM and VCSS • VCSR is to contribute daily to a positive, exciting work atmosphere within the sales room and resort property • VCSR will be responsible to assist VCSS in training and mentoring of the VCSA and VCST

Contact: 649-345-7512

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GENEVA JOAZIL

LORRAINE BORGELLA

CARIBBEAN CRUSIN Is looking for the following full and part-time positions:

Is looking for a

Domestic Worker/

Housekeeper Applicant must be able to carry 200lbs or more to work 6 days per week salary $5 per hour.

Babysitter/ Domestic Worker to work 5 days per week salary $6.00 per hour.

RHONDDA’S BEAUTY SALON

contact: 342-4317

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Contact: 247-5036 or email: dtaylor@swannlaw.tc 10545

Captains North & Middle Tour Guides First Mates Contact: 231-4191 or drop off resumes and cover letters at the Blue Haven Boathouse

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CLASSIFIEDS 33 DOLPHINS SPORTS BAR CARIBBEAN CAFÉ INDIAN PLAZA Is seeking applicants to fill the following positions:

• Bartenders $6.00 per hour • Barmaids/ Waitresses $5.00 per hour Must be willing to work 6 days per week

KPW CONSTRUCTION • Labourers • Carpenters • Gardeners

Must be willing to work 5 days per week salary negotiable

Contact: 331-6364

TOURISM/HOSPITALITY-RELATED COMPANY IS SEEKING

is seeking to employ a

QUALIFIED SENIOR MANAGER

Nail

Technician applicant must possess qualifications and four years experience salary will commensurate with qualifications fax your resumes to:

649-946-4445

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• Must have twenty-five years experience in the tourism/ travel industry to manage relationships with tour operators/ wholesalers, online travel agents and the like. • The candidate must have extensive experience managing hotels and hospitality related businesses such as a destination management company, property management systems, accounting, creative advertising, and public relations. • Applicant must speak fluent English with knowledge of two other languages preferable Italian and French • First degree in tourism related courses

Interested candidates should send their resumes and covering letter to: McKnights email: peter@mcknights.tc 10554

ISLAND DREAM WORKS – A MILLWORK COMPANY Is looking for the following applicants:

2 C & C OPERATORS

• Applicant must have a minimum of 8 years experience in the technical application and programming of different C&C routers • Must have a vast experience with manufacture construction and installation of high end wood work products • Must be able to read auto cad drawings

2 WOOD CARVERS

• Applicant must have a minimum of 8 years experience in the preparation of all types of hard wood • Must be able to perform various styles of wood carvings

CABINET CARPENTER

• Applicant must have a minimum of 8 years experience in high end woodworking, joinery, cabinet making, furniture and stairway making

FURNITURE PAINTER SPECIALIST

• Applicant must have minimum of 8 years experience in preparation and painting furniture, cabinets, doors, windows and other wood work materials. • Must be able to perform various styles of painting and texturing to produce existing formulas and carry quality control procedures

LABOURER

• Applicant must have the ability to work around wood work machinery will be responsible for the daily maintenance of the building, stocking of shelves and other duties that may be assigned

Contact: 649-241-2750

SALES!!!

Due to change of season we are selling lots of items at discount prices. Towels, curtains, bathroom sets, bathroom coordinates, napkins, cups and glasses, canisters, mixing bowls, serving trays and much more for your house.

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November 1 - 7, 2014

MAGIC SCISSORS AND PRESSINGS Is looking for a

November 1 - 7, 2014

TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

HERMAN HANDFIELD

NORTHWEST POINT RESORT

HOLE IN THE WALL

NORTH CAICOS Is looking for a

Waitress

is looking to fill the following positions:

PROVO ELECTRIC

To work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

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contact: 342-5450

LaboUrer

labourer

Kitchen Helper

LaboUrer

To clean property must be willing to work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour. contact: 231-0998

– $6.00 per hour

SUNSHINE EQUIPMENT

Must be willing to work 6 days per week including weekends and public holidays.

LaboUrer

Salary will commensurate with qualifications Resume can be faxed to: 649-941-3425 and the Labour Department, Providenciales as soon as possible

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HARTMAN HANDFIELD

– $8.00 per hour

MAX’S MINI MART

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Domestic Worker

Front Desk Clerk/ Supervisor

Is looking for a

TDMG CONCORDIA

Domestic Worker

REQUIRED AT NORTH CAICOS

is seeking applicants to fill the following position:

To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

Contact: 241-4061

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Floral Designer/Manager Needed • Applicants must possess a minimum of 5 years experience on Floral Design with proper certification • Must have extensive knowledge on different flowers, foliage and potted plants • Must be able to know the names, seasonal availability and how long the plants will stay fresh • Must also be up-to-date on the current fashions and styles in floral design while at the same time understand the traditions of using certain flowers for weddings, funerals and other occasions • Applicants must have a comprehensive knowledge of QuickBooks Enterprise and have an outgoing personality who enjoys working with the public • Applicants must be willing to work outdoors for set ups and weddings with irregular hours in doing so Starting salary $1,500.00 per month

Please drop all applications to Environmental Arts located at Unit 102 Venture House, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales or e-mail to: Natalie@environmentalarts.tc Successful applicants will be notified by phone for interview

1 Labourer 1 CARPENTER

• Belongers only need apply • Must be willing to work extended hours Salary is negotiable

Fax: 649-941-8388 Application deadline is November 1st, 2014

Contact: 432-0221

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EXPERIENCED CARPENTER/ LABOURER

Experienced carpenter/labourer required for full time work at, North Caicos. Must be willing to work six days a week. A demonstrated ability to work unsupervised with excellent communication skills is essential for the position. Salary is $7.00 per hour. Please apply no later than 14th November, 2014 at royann_30@hotmail.com or contact on telephone No. 231 3967/946 7761. Belongers only need apply.

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OVANDO CONSTRUCTION Is looking for the following persons:

2 green keepers 2 laboUrers

Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $7.00 per hour

Contact: 649-331-9854

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HORIZON CONSTRUCTION LTD. is looking for 2

Finishing Mechanics

Duties: Drywall, framing, door installing, finishing carpentry, painting Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $10.00 per hour.

contact: 649-946-5414

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EXPERIENCED SENIOR LITIGATION PARALEGAL WANTED Experienced Senior Litigation Paralegal required to act as Paralegal/Professional Support Executive to a commercial litigation team. At least 5 years prior experience working in a commercial litigation environment is required. Candidates must also have a Law Degree or Graduate Diploma in Law as well as having passed the Legal Professional Course or equivalent. A Master’s Degree in law will be a distinct advantage. Must demonstrate experience and knowledge of having dealt independently with all matters relating to contentious practice, litigation, employment law dispute resolution and alternative dispute resolution. Must have excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Must have vehicle and clean driving record. The applicant must be able to work overtime when required due to case urgency. References will be required. Remuneration based on experience – commencing $40k per annum. Belongers only need apply.

Apply to the HR Manager Email: bdw@gtclaw.com Fax: 242-328-1069

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

H & C CONSTRUCTION Is looking for a

CABANA BAR AT OCEAN CLUB Is currently interviewing for the position of:

labourer 10521

To work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Job requirements and responsibilities: • Must have 5 years experience in supervising and managing kitchen and wait personnel • Excellent communication, organizational, people management and customer service skills Absolutely Required • Menu planning, inventory and scheduling experience is a must • Must be willing to work evenings, weekends and holidays • POS proficient Salary based at $45,000 with possible performance incentives Please submit CV to Ocean Club East Front Desk

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RESTAURANT MANAGER

contact: 244-1821

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GREATFUL LEPER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC. Is seeking a full time

Evangelist

Must have a minimum of 3 years experience application can be emailed to: greatfulleperministries@hotmail.com or im.macula@hotmail.com 10562

Job Opportunity Senior Litigation Solicitor

A senior litigation solicitor is required for a busy firm based in Providenciales. The successful candidate will be a qualified solicitor with at least ten years pqe in appropriate litigation disciplines - commercial, corporate, construction, insolvency, negligence, property, admiralty/marine and related matters. Excellent communication skills and ability to manage files and work independently is essential, together with the requisite experience in preparation of cases to instruct counsel and direct client relationships. Experience in mediation/A.D.R. will be considered an advantage as will experience as MLRO / MLCO. Knowledge of legal IT systems and networks is desirable.

Please send application in writing by email to the HR manager at bdw@gtclaw.com or fax to 242-328-1069

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THE PHYSICAL PLANNING ORDINANCE (CAP. 73)

THE PHYSICAL PLANNING ORDINANCE (CAP. 73) REGULATION 7 OF THE PHYSICAL PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION) REGULATIONS, 1990

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR OUTLINE DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION An application, PR #12031, by SUNSET POINT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD. for the development of a two hundred and fifty (250) key hotel/ condominium building with two hundred and fifty (250) bedrooms, reception and conference building, spa building, gym and retail stores, three restaurants, associated parking, two pools, rooftop patio and lounge, and landscaping, has been submitted to the Department of Planning for consideration of Development Permission on Block #60900, Parcel #258, Leeward going through, Providenciales. Anyone wishing to make representations concerning this application may do so in writing to the Director of Planning, South Base, Grand Turk or through the Department of Planning, Downtown, Town Center Mall, Providenciales within 28 days of publication of this notice. 10532

Food and Beverage Manager The food and beverage manager (F&B Manager) must possess a broad range of skills and be multifaceted. The ideal candidate will execute a variety of duties including but not limited to placing orders, receiving deliveries, accounting, maintaining inventory, and assisting with the execution of the Café’s wine program. Candidate must be a selfstarter, responsible, trust-worthy, mature, and strong-willed; a forward thinker, and capable of utilizing operational guidelines as preventative measures for maintaining the infrastructure of the Café. The F&B Manager will handle daily cash sales and receipts. They will work to promote daily food specials created by the kitchen; work closely with bar team members to market specialty cocktails, and implement wine service. The F&B Manager will have knowledge/ sommelier training in oenology as it pertains to the Café, i.e., service, pairings and training of team members. He/she will be attentive to resolve guests’ complaints about food and/or service. The F&B Manager will be charged with implementing the employee handbook and procedural guidelines making sure they are adhered to by team members and disciplining if not. They will oversee the training of team members to ensure all service standards are met, and that they remain adhered to by team members. The candidate will possess certification in Quick Book accounting, Microsoft Office programs and have extensive knowledge of Micros POS systems and will be required to utilize these skills on a daily basis. The F&B Manager will be technically knowledgeable. They will be apprise of the latest software and be able to implement and problem solve technical challenges when they arise. The candidate will demonstrate strong accounting skills through daily analysis of trade. The F&B manager will possess problem-solving abilities and be quick to respond in a fast paced-high pressure environment. They will be proficient and have demonstrated through previous experiences leadership and mentoring skills of team members to maintain the Café’s impeccable reputation. Candidate must be able to climb stairs and have ability to lift heavy boxes that are inherent in the local and type of business. Responsibilities: • Work with management to estimate beverage consumption, place orders with suppliers and schedule delivery of beverage and non-food related items. • Resolve customer complaints regarding service or food. • Direct cleaning of the café, maintain sanitation standards and keep appropriate records. • Monitor actions of team members and guests • Perform and maintain inventory for presentation and accounting analysis • Proficiently operate computer software to assist with the implementation of inventories, track staffing requirements and record keeping tasks as they are instructed by the Management Team or Ownership • Maintain stock of supplies such as table ware, paper goods and cleaning supplies as deemed applicable • Direct weekly and monthly maintenance and repair of equipment and other services • Ensure total receipts and balance against sales are accounted for at closing • Recruit, hire, oversee team members, implement continuous training • Schedule work hours for all team members • Opening and/ or closing of the establishment ensuring all areas are ready for daily trade or securing the premises for closing Other Duties: • Maintain relationships with guests and team members • Update and use job related knowledge • Schedule team members work hours and activities • Evaluate health and safety practices against standards • Organize, plan, and prioritize • Make decisions and problem solve quickly and efficiently concerning team members and guests • Process and analyze information when scheduling and budgeting • Record information and health practices • Implement creative promotional ideas working with vendors and team members • Guide, direct, and train team members • Coordinate the work and activities of team members • Communicate with guests, sales representatives, and suppliers Requirements: Candidate must possess a four-year degree in Food/Beverage, Hospitality Industry, or equivalent degree associate with the Restaurant Industry, have a minimum of five years experience in a management position, and food handler’s certificate or equivalent.

Submit resume, references, certifications and status to: luis@somewherecafeandlounge.com to be considered. Belongers given preference.

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Executive Chef

SHERLOCK WALKIN Is looking for a

Reporting to the General Manager, responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following: • Consistently offers professional, engaging and friendly service • Plans menus for all food outlets in the Hotel. • Schedules and coordinates the work of chefs, cooks and other kitchen employees to assure that food preparation is economical and technically correct and within budgeted labor cost goals. • Approves the requisition of products and other necessary food supplies. • Ensures that high standards of sanitation, cleanliness and safety are maintained throughout all kitchen areas at all times. • Establishes controls to minimize food and supply waste and theft. • Safeguards all food preparation employees by implementing training to increase their knowledge about safety, sanitation and accident prevention principles. • Develops standard recipes and techniques for food preparation and presentation which help to assure consistently high quality and to minimize food costs; exercises portion control for all items served and assists in establishing menu selling prices. • Prepares necessary data for applicable parts of the budget; projects annual food, labor and other costs and monitors actual financial results; takes corrective action as necessary to help assure that financial goals are met. • Attends food and beverage staff and management meetings. • Consults with the Food & Beverage Director about food production aspects of special events being planned. • Cooks or directly supervises the cooking of items that require skillful preparation. • Ensures proper staffing for maximum productivity and high standards of quality; controls food and payroll costs to achieve maximum profitability. • Evaluates food products to assure that quality standards are consistently attained. • Interacts with food and beverage management to assure that food production consistently exceeds the expectations of members and guests. • In conjunction with F&B management team, assist in maintaining a high level of service principles in accordance with established standards. • Evaluates products to assure that quality, price and related goods are consistently met. • Develops policies and procedures to enhance and measure quality; continually updates written policies and procedures to reflect state-of-the-art techniques, equipment and terminology. • Establishes and maintains a regular cleaning and maintenance schedule for all kitchen areas and equipment. • Provides training and professional development opportunities for all kitchen staff.

Qualifications:

• Culinary degree from recognized culinary institution • Previous remote island, and international experience • Minimum of ten years of industry and culinary management at a senior level in 5 star hotels • Previous experience with control of food and labor cost, menu development, and pricing and development of culinary team preferred. • Ability to communicate in a second European language is an asset.

Chief Financial Officer

contact: 946-4411

WALKIN FUEL Is looking for a

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

contact: 941-4411 AGNES SWANN is looking for a

Experience in strategic planning and execution. Knowledge of contracting, negotiating and change management. Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections. Working knowledge of short and long term budgeting and forecasting, rolling budgets and profitability analysis. Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects. Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings. Knowledge of Quickbooks or other accounting software Language skills: English, French, Spanish and Dutch

per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 246-4769

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Masters Degree in Finance or Accounting, ten years of experience in a senior-level finance or accounting position.

CHARLES FULFORD STUBBS Is looking for a

domestic domestic worker Toworker work 6 days To work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Requirements:

contact: 247-9433

BAY BISTRO RESTAURANT is looking for the following positions:

Labourer Dishwasher

Must be willing to work 6 days per week including nights, weekends and holidays. Salary $6.00 per hour.

Please submit CV to:

TRAIL ENTERPRISES Unit J101, The Regent Village Gracebay Road, Providenciales Turks and Caicos Islands Telephone: 649-941-7886 Email: infor@trail.tc

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

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Summary of Responsibilities:

Gardener

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As Executive Chef, you will be responsible for all food production including those used for restaurants, banquet, and wedding functions. You will oversee the development of menus, food purchase specifications and recipes. The Executive Chef will develop and monitor food and labor budget for the department, maintain highest professional food quality and sanitation standards.

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10552

contact: 432-2355 10522

November 1 - 7, 2014

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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS

C & J CONSULTANCY SERVICES Acting on behalf of our clients:

Union Barber Shop

The Turks and Caicos Islands Community College

CARIBBEAN BUILDERS PROS Is looking for a

Sales Person New Hope Baptist Church

Maison Creole/ Lucy M. Lee

Sales Clerk 10531

Contact: 347-6642

WARD CONSTRUCTION Is looking for a

Carpenter To work 5 days per week salary based on commission.

contact: 244-0065

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Music Teacher

The Turks and Caicos Islands Community College is seeking bids for Janitorial Services to Clean and Maintain the Exterior of the Grand Turk Campus, Lighthouse Road BIDS SHOULD BE SENT TO THE TCI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, LIGHTHOUSE ROAD AND SHOULD REACH NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 TERM

STAVANO A. ROPER

The contract shall be for one (1) calendar year from the commencement date, excluding the month of August when the campus will be closed for Summer holidays.

OBLIGATIONS OF THE CONTRACTOR

1. The Contractor shall diligently and thoroughly perform all cleaning services in the exterior of the Turks & Caicos Islands Community College as specified on this contract. is looking for a

Electrician To work 5 days

laboUrer

contact: 231-4845

contact: 241-3077

ER CONSTRUCTION LTD Providenciales Telephone 333-1199

SUPPLY OF MATERIALS

SPOTLESS CLEANING SERVICE

Is looking for a

gardener Salary starts at $8.00 per hour.

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To work 6 days per week including some holidays must have skills in irrigation, fumigation and landscaping.

contact: 331-0818

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CARPENTER/ FINISH CARPENTER

CABANA BAR AT OCEAN CLUB is looking for a qualified, experience applicants for the position of:

KITCHEN SUPERVISOR DISHWASHER AND BUS PERSON essential • Physically able to carry/ handle heavy items • Must have clean police record Preference will be given to experienced and qualified Belongers Wage commensurate with experience

Please contact: 649-441-3466 for an appointment or interview

The Contractor agrees to provide all cleaning materials including lawn mowers, rakes, cutlasses, garbage bags, and any other material as are necessary to keep the compound clean. a) Clean and keeping continuously clean the entire compound including the car parks and gate areas. b) Ensure that the compound is free from overgrown bush and debris at all times. c) Ensure that all grass; bush and all trees and plants are kept trimmed and tidy at all times on the entire compound. d) Ensure that refuse is regularly deposited at the collection points on the compound or taken to the public dump site. e) Provide all materials for cleaning including lawn mowers, cutlasses, rakes, garbage bags, and any other sundry material as are necessary to keep the outside meticulously clean and tidy.

Description: Network Administrator

Network Administrator Job Purpose: The Network Administrator maintains computing environment by identifying network requirements; installing upgrades; monitoring network performance, advising the President on needs of the institution and assisting the Administration, Faculty, Staff and Students with network and technological uses where necessary.

Network Administrator Job Duties:

• Establishes network specifications by conferring with and advising all users; analyzing workflow, access, information, and security requirements; designing router administration, including interface configuration and routing protocols. • Establishes network by evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; defining network policies and procedures; establishing connections and firewalls. • Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; referring network problems to outside vendors where and when necessary. • Secures network by developing network access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; maintaining documentation. Prepares users by designing and conducting training programs; providing references and support. • Upgrades network by conferring with vendors; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements. • Meets financial requirements by submitting information for budgets to the CFO. • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations. • Protects the institution’s by keeping all information confidential. • Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. • Skills/Qualifications: Network Performance Tuning, LAN Knowledge, Network Design and Implementation, Problem Solving, Strategic Planning, Multi-tasking, Coordination, Technical Understanding and zeal. Salary starts at $36,708.00 - $ 39,192.00 Per Year

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The successful applicant must possess the following skills and experience: • Must have 5 years experience • Food Safety Certificate or equivalent • Must be willing to work holidays and weekends on a flexible schedule • Ability to speak English is

3. The contractor shall agree to indemnity the TCICC against all liability for accidents and injuries to workers which may occur on its premises in carrying out regular cleaning duties 4. The contractor shell provide cleaning services from Monday to Friday at TCICC and shall diligently and thoroughly perform all cleaning services on a daily basis as follows:

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per week salary $10.00 per hour.

To work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

2. The contractor shall take all reasonable precaution to ensure that all persons employed by it shall be efficient, sober and honest.

All Resumes must be addressed to the Human Resource Officer.

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TCMillwork ltd.

Architectural woodworking, Cabinetry and Design South dock road, P.O. box 238, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands

SANCHEZ & WILLIAMS CAFÉ Is looking for a

• 5 years work experience in woodworking, joinery and cabinet making. • Trained to manufacture and finish furniture. Salary at $8.00 per hour Skills required for position: • Individual must have previous experience with manufacture, construction, and installation of high end cabinetry.

• Must be familiar with operation of all current woodworking machinery and tools with proper safety practices. • Must be able to read Auto-Cad drawings. • English speaking, bilingual preferred.

Duties:

Manufacture and finish furniture and cabinets, refinishing, and installation. Assist other employees in general millshop operations and maintenance. Must be professional and courteous.

Please send applications to: tcmillwork@tciway.tc contact person: Stephan 231-4537

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School For Field Studies, South Caicos

Site Manager

HIGH PROFILE BARBER SHOP Is looking for 6 barbers

Furniture Finisher-Cabinet MakerFurniture Carpenter-Machinery Technician Skills Required:

November 1 - 7, 2014

waitress

To work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour. contact: 231-2397 10573

2 Indians 4 Turks and Caicos Islanders Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $6.00 per hour. Contact: 241-5678

GILBERT AQUINO is looking for a

Domestic Worker

– Center for Marine Resource Studies

Job Summary: Repair and maintain facilities, vehicles and vessels at the South Caicos field station. Qualifications: BS Degree or equivalent. Electrical, plumbing, automobile and marine repair experience required. Certified scuba diver, boating experience, prior field station experience preferred. Must live on site.

To Apply: Please send your CV to HHERTLER@ FIELDSTUDIES.ORG by Nov 15, 2014. Start Date: Jan 2015

The Meridian Club On Pine Cay

Turks & Caicos Islands British West Indies Email: manager@meridianclub.com Ph:649-941-7011 Fax: 649-941-7010

To work 5 days per week salary $5.50 per hour

contact: 231-0670

Qualified Pharmacy Technician - Must have pharmacy technician qualification from a recognized college, including 1 year of classroom based learning. - 3 years post qualification experience in a busy pharmacy. - CXC grade 1 or 2 or equivalent in maths, English and science. - Will be required to pass a pharmacy technician exam paper as part of interview process. - Duties will include accurate dispensing, use of dispensary software, maintenance of pharmacy stock, NHIP billing, handling OTC enquiries. - Must have recent experience with extemporaneous preparations of liquids and creams. - Willing to work long shifts, weekends and holidays. - $12-$15 per hour depending on experience and qualifications

Please send cover letter, resume and copies of qualifications to jobs@ flamingopharmacy.com. Closing date November 10th 2014 . Belongers only need apply.

Executive Pastry Chef

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at The Meridian Club on Pine Cay Salary: $10-12/hr or more depending upon training, experience, work record and capability. Duties: must be able to create a large variety of tasty desserts, breads and pastries from scratch (4-5 different dessert offerings must be available each day for lunch and dinner and pastries for breakfast). Must be able to do other food preparations and assist in meal preparation. Must assist Executive Chef in overseeing and training kitchen staff, as needed. Qualifications Required: - Must have degree in culinary arts from an accredited college or university - Minimum of 3 years experience as Pastry Chef in 5 star restaurant. (or equivalent) - Must be skilled in handling all duties specified. - Must be willing to reside on Pine Cay, a small private island on a full time basis. - Must furnish health certificate or be willing to undergo medical examination to ensure freedom from communicable disease. - Must be willing to work weekends, nights and holidays Starting Date: January 2015 Contact Person and Contact Information:

ACCOUNTING SUPERVISOR

Island Escapes TCI Ltd. is looking for an accounts supervisor & office manager. Successful applicants will be responsible for: - Daily accounting including the administration of accounts receivable and accounts payable - Tracking and reconciling bank accounts - Maintenance of accurate office files - Tracking and purchasing office supplies - Answering phones - Generating monthly client account statements - General office Administration

Beverly Plachta, Resort Manager. Fax to 649-941-7010 or email to manager@meridianclub.com a copy of resume with your contact information (mailing address, e-mail address, phone number) Resume must include min. of 3 references with contact information and how you knows these people. Also include copy of passport, police report. All qualified applicants will be interviewed within 2 weeks. Please submit applications no later than November 20, 2014 10570

Qualified applicants should contact Claudius Williams at Email: claudius@islandescapestci.com or Phone: 649-941-4006

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Qualifications & Experience: - Working knowledge of QuickBooks - Working knowledge of the full Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel & Outlook - 5 years’ experience accounting for a Real Estate firm - Associates degree in accounting or finance recommended Compensation will be based on experience.

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THE WINE CELLAR is seeking to hire a

SALES CLERK/ INVENTORY SPECIALIST

GOVERNMENT VACANCIES

The Sales Clerk/ Inventory Specialist is responsible for receiving and selling merchandise, verifying and tracking inventory, investigating variances and discrepancies and ensuring data is accurately captured in the POS and Counterpoint respectively

The following vacancies currently exists within the Turks and Caicos Islands Public Service

Duties include: • Proficiency with MS Office software with emphasis on Word, Excel and Outlook • Knowledgeable of counterpoint inventory system • Ability to work in a deadline driven environment with minimal supervision • Create excel spreadsheets and word for inventory purposes • Post and maintain all records of transfers for wine and non alcoholic products from wholesale and retail • Maintain accurate inventory levels as defined by management • Enter data into counterpoint on a daily basis and transferred between wholesale and retail • Upload, post and reconcile inventory counts into Counterpoint daily • Perform physical recounts and maintain accurate knowledge of inventory counts • Must have at least 3-4 years experience and excellent knowledge about wine and spirits • Salary range based on qualifications and experience

Send resume to: discount@tciway.tc

ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE Deadline: Salary:

5th November, 2014 T37 $48,600.00 per annum

JOB SUMMARY:

The incumbent in this position is required to assist the Commissioner of Revenue, to implement current Revenue policies of Government through the efficient and effective operations of the Revenue Unit.

INTERPRETER

LOCATION: Providenciales Deadline: 5th November, 2014 Salary: T1-T9 $15,720-18,600.00 per annum

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JOB SUMMARY:

The Interpreter (Spanish/ Creole), functions as a multifaceted, multi lingual bridge, and is a strong part of the National AIDS Programme’s progressive HIV/AIDS and STI combat strategy. The officer will be responsible for field/ community prevention and mobilization activities with emphasis on the Spanish/ Creole population as it relates to the plans and programs of the National AIDS Program.

Porter

LOCATION: Providenciales Deadline: 5th November, 2014 Salary: $7.65 per hour or $ 596.70 fortnightly

The Windsong resort is seeking a suitable qualified applicant to fill the following position:

Housekeeping Supervisor Job Responsibilities:

Porter

LOCATION: Providenciales Deadline: 5th November, 2014 Salary: $7.65 per hour or $ 596.70 fortnightly

• Supervise the daily cleaning of assigned rooms, bathrooms, corridor areas and public areas to the highest standards. • Investigate complaints regarding housekeeping service and equipment, and takes corrective action • Conduct orientation training and in-service training to explain policies, work procedures, and to demonstrate use and maintenance of equipment. • Analyze inventory stock to ensure adequate supplies • Evaluate records to forecast department personnel requirements • Make recommendations to improve service and ensure more efficient operation • Prepare reports concerning room occupancy, payroll, and department expenses • Manage a stock control and ordering system to ensure availability of stock and cost control to maintain costs to a minimum • Note: This position will require cleaning and preparing owner and VIP suites as needed and instructed

JOB SUMMARY:

The successful candidate will provide support services to the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) personnel to maintain the cleanliness of buildings, and transferring supplies and materials.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER (TEMPORARY) LOCATION: Deadline: DURATION: Salary:

Grand Turk and Providenciales 5th November, 2014 Five (5) Months T22 $2,245.00 per month plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

Requirements:

The incumbent will be responsible for the enforcement of Public and Environmental Health regulations and sanitation standards concerned with the residential and work environment, food-handling and hygiene, solid and liquid waste management and port health.

• Minimum of 5 years in a housekeeping role with at least 3 years in a supervisory role • Ability to work under pressure and resolve problems • Knowledge of housekeeping software application is a plus • Excellent attention to detail • Effective in motivating a team to meet the expected standard of the resort • Must be efficient in Microsoft office • Excellent written and communication skills • A well-defined sense of diplomacy, including solid negotiation, conflict resolution, and people management skills • Strong morals and ethics • Clean police record Other Positions Available: • Housekeeper • Houseman • Pool and Beach Attendant • Butler

Public Health Nurse (Temporary) LOCATION: Deadline: DURATION: SALARY:

Turks and Caicos Islands 5th November, 2014 Five (5) months TNF 14 – TNF 19 $25,200.00 - $27,060.00 per annum plus allowances

JOB SUMMARY:

The successful candidate in this position will be required to deliver effective comprehensive primary health care services focused on disease prevention, health promotion and maintenance in the clinic, homes and communities through the utilization of the nursing process.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER – TRAINING

- Grand Turk (Deadline: November 5th, 2014) T54 $51,300.00 per annum The incumbent in this position will be responsible for organizing and conducting training for the Public Sector. Also the role will manage the training process from design to evaluation to ensure that the necessary skills are developed among staff in order to drive productivity and to achieve organizational goals.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years in the specialized field • Excellent written and communication skills • Must be willing to work holidays and weekends • Only qualified applicant will be called in for an interview

Please drop your resume at the Windsong resort

JOB SUMMARY: The successful candidate will provide support services to the Mortuary Department personnel. The job holder will be responsible to maintain the cleanliness of buildings, and the transferring of supplies.

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

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Lew 1 Shipping

is looking for the following positions:

seeks the following persons:

Is looking for a

Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

Contact: 342-3605 10569

WORKER NEEDED

To work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Two (2) Labourers

contact: 241-3077

Must be willing to work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour.

Contact 649-941-5707

contact: 347-5626

worker / maid

Salary negotiable

– salary $5.00 per hour

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Sales Clerk

domestic

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Domestic Worker

One Boat Mechanic One Deckhand

DOMESTIC

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Coxco Construction Leeward, Providenciales. Fax: 946-5166

FINISHING CARPENTERS • Sound knowledge of commercial construction tools and materials • Profound knowledge of carpentry tools and equipment for finishes • Exceptional ability to interpret construction and fabrication drawings • Supervise Application of Coatings to Finished Products • Analyze carpentry work and carryout on site altercation work. • Establish appropriate dimensions of wood stock required for finished products • Proven experience of working in a high energy team of technicians.

Legal Executive required with a minimum of 5 years experience and with the following additional qualifications: - Law degree from a Commonwealth Jurisdiction - International experience in complex legal matters and Banking laws; - Fluency in French is a must. - Ability to work in a team, including liaising with fellow professionals from

• Extensive knowledge and work experience with exotic woods such as Teak, Ipe, Mahogany, Balau, Kapur, Bankirai • 20 years minimum experience • Fabrication and Installation of Windows, doors, flooring & cabinetry • Prepare Schedules and take offs for processing material orders • Inventory analysis of stock • Quality control of high end finished materials Salary commensurate with experience and skill level. 10577

All applicant must send resume to Labour Department or fax to the listed number.

courts, legal practices, banks and accountancy firms; - STEP member or willingness to sit requisite exams; - Must have proven willingness to work long and sometimes late hours at short notice as needed in a pressured environment subject to inflexible deadlines; - Proven ability in, and willingness to train junior colleagues;

Belongers are particularly encouraged to apply. Apply in writing, with CV and cover letter to fax at (649) 941-5094 with a copy to the Labour Office, Providenciales.

Equinox Villas and Apartments are looking for candidates that have the requirements listed along with an outstanding professional manner. They love to work with different types of people, meet challenges with a positive attitude and live the standards of our organization. Their style is must be one that balances a commitment to people which will provide an extraordinary guest experience. Must be prepared to be accountable for responsibilities and the quality of their performance.

BUTLER/SERVANT x 3 Applicant must have: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Degree with hospitality focus preferred. Minimum 2 years previous front desk experience required. Must have housekeeping experience working in a resort/hotel environment Willing to be on call 24/7 to cater to guests needs and requests Experience with Property Management System. Ability to work in a fast pace environment. Outstanding flexibility; must be able to work under stress and pressure and reflect at all times, even under difficult conditions, a positive can-do attitude and the best image of the hotel. Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy to defuse anger, collect accurate information and resolve conflicts. Experience in a luxury property of comparable size preferred. Must be able to deal correctly with confidential information and must be discrete Must be well groomed and maintain impeccable hygiene standards Extensive walking required and ability to stand on feet for a long time Hours may vary based upon organizational needs and operational demands. Strong leadership skills Able to fulfill all required tasks required to perform the required duties of his/her shift Excellent oral and written communication skills in English Fluency in a second language an asset Willingness to work any shift as needed, and on the spur of the moment

Contact: Omar McKenzie Equinox Villas and Apartments Phone 649 – 433-0040 or 649 941-3121 Send applications to: OMckenzie@aliveandwellresorts.com

GOVERNMENT VACANCIES The following vacancies currently exists within the Turks and Caicos Islands Public Service

PERMANENT SECRETARY – MINISTRY OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT SERVICES

Deadline: Salary:

Midnight, Wednesday November 12th, 2014 US$93,000 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The role of Permanent Secretary is a significant leadership appointment with wide-ranging responsibility for the effectiveness, efficiency and proper governance of the Ministry.

Deadline: Salary:

DEPUTY SECRETARY

Midnight, Wednesday November 12th, 2014 US$68,000 per annum

JOB SUMMARY: The role of Deputy Secretary is a significant leadership appointment with wideranging responsibility for the policies and the delivery of services within their area of responsibility (‘their Command’).

Interested persons are asked to visit www.gov.tc for additional job details and application procedures. 10578

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Notice Of Sale By Public Auction Meridian Mortgage Corporation Ltd. as Chargee, pursuant to its charge and the Registered Land Ordinance, hereby gives notice that it will cause to be sold the property listed below by Public Auction, to be held at the office of Meridian Financial Group, Le Vele Plaza, Grace Bay and Providenciales at 10.00 a.m. on Monday, 3rd of November, 2014. Location

Title No. 10508/19, South Suburbs, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property comprises a total land area of approximately 0.54 acres.

Proprietor

Royal Sephenson Robinson

Approximate Area

15.00 Acres (653,400 sq. ft.)

The subject property comprises vacant ocean front land located on the south coast of the Island of Grand Turk.

Location

Title No. 60604/106 Norway & Five Cays, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property comprises a two-storey commercial building of approximately 5,928 sq. ft. The first floor space can be fitted as desired. The second floor is currently setup to be a bar, restaurant or shop.

Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Club Nowhere Ltd.

Approximate Area

5,928 sq.ft.

Parcel 19 comprises 0.54 acres. The land has good elevation with a ridge midway through the lots North to South. Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Andrew J. Newlands

Approximate Area

0.54 acres

Location

Title No. 10508/16, 17 & 20, South Suburbs, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property comprises three adjoining ocean view lots. The lots are regular shaped, slight undulating topography with a total registered area of 1.78 acres.

Location

The subject property comprises vacant ocean front land located on the south coast of the Island of Grand Turk.

Title No. 60610/292 Norway & Five Cays, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property is an undeveloped beach lot zoned for residential and commercial ventures.

Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Provo Construction Supplies Ltd.

Parcel 16 & 17 are adjacent to each other and parcel 20 is two lots to the north, Parcel 16 comprises 0.74 acres, Parcel 17 comprises approximately 0.64 acres and Parcel 20 comprises approximately 0.40 acres. The land has good elevation with a ridge midway through the lots North to South.

Approximate Area

1.71 acres

Location

Title No. 60702/188K3 Cheshire Hall & Richmond Hill, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property forms part of the established Plantation Hills residential estate positioned close to the downtown area, a short distance to the north of the Leeward Highway. The Property comprises of a one bedroom, one bathroom, open living/dining/kitchen area and a walk-in closet.

All Parcels can be sold separately. Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Border Holdings Limited

Approximate Area

0.74, 0.64, and 0.40 acres respectively

Title

Absolute

Location

Title No. 10709/39, Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property comprises a total land area of approximately 2.42 acres.

Proprietor

Derrick D. Hall

Approximate Area

1,100 sq.ft.

Location

Title No. 60602/434 & 436, Norway & Five Cays, Providenciales, comprising 0.27 acres. The subject property is located in the Norway and Five Cays Section of Providenciales, located on Walter Cox Drive in the Kewtown Sub-division.

The property comprises vacant land. Parcel 10709/39 is located on the south end of Salt Cay is ocean front with an approximate ocean frontage of 215 linear feet based on the block plan provided. Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Wayne Newton Garland

Approximate Area

2.42 acres

Location

Title No. 10709/38, Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject property comprises a total land area of approximately 2.40 acres.

The subject property now supports two residential buildings. The total floor area is approximately 4,770 square feet. The development comprises the following accommodations. Main House: The main house comprises three bedrooms with kitchen, living/ dining area and two bathrooms. The house is currently occupied by the owners. The gross floor area of the subject building is approximately 1,770 square feet.

The property comprises vacant land. Parcel 10709/38 is located on the south end of Salt Cay is ocean front with an approximate ocean frontage of 215 linear feet. Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Russel Alexander Garland

Approximate Area

2.40 acres

Location

Title No. 60900/245/K64, Leeward Going Through, Turks & Caicos Islands. Unit 7302 Ocean Club, The subject property comprises a third floor unit of approximately 1,570 square feet base on information taken from the resort plan within the established Ocean Club condominium resort located on Grace Bay Beach on the Island of Providenciales.

Title

Absolute

Proprietor

Turquoise Investment Holdings Ltd.

Approximate Area

1,570 sq.ft.

Location

Title No. 50305/34, Kew Rural, North Caicos, Turks & Caicos Islands. The subject land is located to the southwestern limits of North Caicos, close to the settlement of Kew and on the road to Bellfield Landing which lies a mile or so to the west. Bellfield Landing historically provided the principle port for loading harvests of Island cotton off the Island. More recently (2006/2007) a deep water channel was partially dredged through the Dellis Cay/Parrot Cay channel to the west. It was intended that a deep water dock would be developed so sea freight could dock directly. The works however were not completed and the ongoing maintenance of the channel has since been intermittent, as such only shallow draft boats are able to access this area. It does however continue to provide the main port of entry for containers and materials into North Caicos. The topography of the land rise to its central portion and slope down steadily to its water frontage. This land therefore enjoys some views out over the turquoise waters and surrounding coastline.

Title

Absolute

Building 2: Six units: there are six identical one bedroom apartments with open kitchen/living area and bathroom. The gross floor area of the subject building is approximately 3,000 square feet. Externally, there are plants and mature trees to the front perimeter of the site surrounding the main house. Title

Absolute

Proprietor

George Washington Hinson & Denise Jacqueline Hinson

Approximate Area

0.27 acres

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION ARE AVAILABLE BY REQUEST, FROM MERIDIAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION LTD. Meridian Financial Group P.O. Box 599, Le Vele Plaza, Grace Bay Road, Providenciales Turks & Caicos Islands, B.W.I Tel. (649) 941-3082 Fax (649) 941-3223 10486

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For WI tour of SA, Samuels only player from ill-fated India tour contacted and only Samuels of the 15-member squad which abandoned the tour in India, has been contacted. The source also noted that veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, has also been speaking with the selectors. Among the other players being

FLOWER GIRL

Wanted urgently

PENN DRYWALL & DESIGN is looking for a

Floral Designer

Call: 231-3788

labourer To work 6 days per week salary $5.50 per hour.

contact: 346-5588

Marlon Samuels was against abandoning the tour to India.

led team visited for the first official series following the end of the apartheid system. Lara and his team-mates were involved in stand-off with the WICB over salaries, with several players being dropped, before a final plea from South Africa president Nelson Mandela, allowed good sense to prevail and the selected group made what

TURQUOISE LANDSCAPING Is looking to fill the following positions:

GARDENERS/ LABOURERS

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Must have thorough knowledge in the floral business with 3-5 years experience.

invited to make themselves available are: Sheldon Cottrell, Tino Best, Johnson Charles, Devon Smith, Kraigg Brathwaite, Keiran Powell, Shane Shillingford, Nkrumah Bonner, Asad Fudadin, Jonathan Carter, Sunil Ambris, Andre Fletcher, Jermaine Blackwood, Chadwick Walton, Devon Thomas, Jason Holder, Carlos Brathwaite, Devendra Bishoo, Ashley Nurse and Miguel Cummins. South African cricket authorities may be faced with a weakened West Indies team, something they rejected in 1998 when a Brian Lara-

• Starting pay $5.50 per hour • Must have previous gardening experience and be familiar with landscaping equipment such as lawnmowers, trimmers etc. • Must be willing to carry out work such as heavy lifting, digging, weeding, trimming and plant waste removal • Must be willing to work weekends and holidays • Must have a clean police record

Contact: 332-4280 to arrange and interview

turned out to be an ill-fated trip that saw the West Indies being swept aside in five Test matches. On Sunday, the WICB represented by president Dave Cameron, director Don Wehby and attorney Luke Hamel-Smith met with the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) represented by president and Chief Executive Officer Wavell Hinds, secretary Wayne Lewis and attorney Patrick Foster QC at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. Representing the players who were on the West Indies squad to India (with the exception of Marlon Samuels) was attorney Ralph Thorne QC. Thorne also represented the interests of Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine and Lendl Simmons. Also in attendance were players Andre Russell and Jason Holder. The WICB sent out a statement which said: “The meeting was cordial, positive and fruitful and discussions will continue in an effort to find a way forward following the premature end of the tour of India.”

Misick & Stanbrook

Is Seeking to hire a qualified person to fill the position of

Receptionist/ General

Duties and Responsibilities: • Disabling answering service • Receiving and directing all incoming calls • Assisting in setting up conference calls • Receiving all clients/visitors to reception area • Receiving and distributing all incoming mail • Receiving and distributing all incoming fax transmissions • Assisting with labeling and preparing packages for distribution locally/interisland/ internationally • Photocopying documents when requested • Assisting with preparing

documents for court/meetings • Preparing boardrooms for meetings and insuring that clients are comfortable • Client/staff billing for photocopies • Client/staff billing for phone • Client/staff billing for fax charges • Ordering office supplies as required • Liaise with carrier to ensure packages are delivered in a timely manner • Any other duties requested by Management Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Deadline for Submission: November 7th 2014

Applicants should please send detailed Resume/CV with the names of two referees to Deveraux C. Malcolm, Misick and Stanbrook, e-mail to info@misickstanbrook.tc.

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play three Tests, five limited overs internationals and three T20 matches. Sources told the Guardian that the selectors have already contacted several players about the possibility of being part of the team,

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MARLON Samuels is the only player from the ill-fated tour of India whom the West Indies selectors are likely to pick for the upcoming tour to South Africa in December. The West Indies are due to

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Sports Interational

Giants win World Series with game 7 victory over Royals MADISON Bumgarner punctuated his World Series performance for the ages by pitching the San Francisco Giants to their third championship in five years with a 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. The big left-hander came out of the bullpen to throw five scoreless innings on two days’ rest, saving a Series pushed to the limit. And by winning Game 7 on the road, Bumgarner and the Giants succeeded where no team had in 3 1/2 decades. “I wasn’t thinking about innings or pitch count. I was just thinking about getting outs, getting outs, until I couldn’t get them anymore and we needed someone else,” Bumgarner said in a monotone that made it sound as though he was talking about batting practice. A two-out misplay in the ninth almost wrecked it for him. Bumgarner had retired 14 in a row when Alex Gordon sent a drive to center field. The pitcher pointed his glove in the air, thinking it could be the final out, but the ball fell in front of Gregor Blanco for a single. Blanco allowed it to skip past him to the wall, and left fielder Juan Perez kicked the ball before throwing to shortstop Brandon Crawford in short left, holding Gordon at third. “When it got by him, I had a smile on my face. I thought maybe I could score, but he got to it quickly enough,” Gordon said. “I just put my

head down and ran, almost fell around second base, was just waiting for Jirsch (third base coach Mike Jirschele) to give me the signal. It was a good hold. He had the ball in plenty of time.” From there, Blanco hoped

for the best. “We just need one more out. We got this. Let’s do it,” he thought to himself. Bumgarner, the Series MVP, retired Salvador Perez on a foulout to third baseman Pablo Sandoval near the

embraced by catcher Buster Posey, and the rest of the

Giants rushed to the mound to join the victory party.

ROYAL TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS POLICE

JOB ADVERTISEMENT Continued Airworthiness Manager

San Francisco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval celebrates after catching the final out in the ninth inning of Game 7 of baseball’s World Series against the Kansas City Royals.

Produce Trainer

Produce Trainer to train personnel in the Produce Department to ensures quality and freshness of all produce, suggests changes to inventory and pricing, and purchases supplies when needed. Monitors, quality of goods and service. Trainer must be Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Must be able to train in planning and assist the employees to accomplish goals. Leads and directs the work of others. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.

Telephone 9465715 Email norma@norwani.com

GOVERNMENT VACANCY HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER

LOCATION: Deadline: SALARY:

Giants’ dugout. The 25-yearold ace was immediately

Grand Turk 14th November, 2014 T 30 $ 33,360.00 per annum plus allowances

DEPARTMENT: LOCATION: POSTING DATE: POSTING EXPIRY DATE:

Police Air Services . Grand Turk, Police Air Wing November 3, 2014 November 14, 2014

JOB PURPOSE: The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police are seeking interested persons to fill the position of Continued Airworthiness Manager at Police Air-Wing Grand Turk. Under the general direction of the Commissioner of Police, the post holder is responsible for overall maintenance of the Police Aircraft to ensure continued airworthiness required for flight operations.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

1. At least Ten (10) years Experience in the Aircraft Maintenance Field desired, with five (5) years on the PA 3l-350 Aircraft. 2. At least three (3) years working experience at an Approved Aircraft Maintenance Organization as the Continued Airworthiness Manager or Chief Engineer or Quality Manager Level. 3. A Turks and Caicos Islands Civil Aviation Authority (TCICAA) OTAR Part 66 Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Licence or any of the other OTAAs OTAR Part 66 Licence, Category A and C or a Current Licence issued by an ICAO Contracting State with Type Rating on the PA 31-350 Aircraft 4. Knowledge of TCI Civil Aviation regulations (The Civil Aviation Act, Air Navigation Overseas Territories Order, OTARs and OTACs etc). 5. Manufacturer's Approved Training Course on PA 31-350 Aircraft and Lycoming Trouble Shooting Training Course on Engines. 6. Quality Management Experience. 7. Knowledge of Auditing and Administration. 8. Experience with the Safety Management System in Approved Maintenance Organisations. 9. Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance Training. 10. Able to fulfil duties and responsibilities in accordance with a. Part 39 Maintenance Control Manual 0.3.6; b. Maintenance Controller Manual 0.3.6.2; c. Part 145 Maintenance Organisation Exposition Manual section 1.3; d. Management Personnel 1.3.2 Chief Engineer.

COMPETENCIES: The position will require the incumbent to: • • • • •

Demonstrate exceptional Aircraft Engineering repair and Maintenance Skills Have strong oral and written communication skills. Display a high level of confidence, integrity and professionalism. Be available for on-call duty due to possibility of spontaneous activity. Display good interpersonal skills.

SALARY attached to this position is $48,225.00 per Annum plus Applicable Allowances. Salary MAY be negotiable depending on education and experience.

JOB SUMMARY:

The job holder will be responsible to advise Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Departments on the implementation of policies relating to the effective use of personnel throughout the Public Service in accordance with the Public Service Ordinance, the Employee Handbook and the Financial Regulations.

The successful candidate will be assigned to a number of departments and will have responsibility for coordinating a wide range of human resource functions required by those departments.

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APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Resumes must be accompanied by a Cover Letter and two letters of reference (one preferably from a current and/or former employer) as well as copies of educational / training certificates and a copy of their Passport photo page. Shortlisted candidates must submit a Police Certificate. Mailed applications should be addressed to Mr. Rex Swann Human Resource Manager, Police Headquarters, Old Airport Road Grand Turk; Emailed to: Rex.swann@tcipolice.tc or Faxed to: 946-2099 10591

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Josh for Sports

The need for a national chess and backgammon association IT might be quite fair to assume that the majority of TC Islanders have no concept of what the game of chess is all about. On the contrary most might have a basic understanding of the game of backgammon. MY VISION FOR NATIONAL CHESS As a teenager, I was very intrigued about the fanfare that surrounded the game of chess. Growing up in the Bahamas, my interest was captivated by the excitement that was generated by the Bahamas Chess Federation. At that time, the president of the national federation was Mr. Warren Seymour. He, as far as my knowledge went he was an ex-pat to the Bahamas, hailing from a country in the West Indies.

very young children the game. These children were so sharp because of their motivated interest that they eventually outplayed their parents to claim the national title. A prime example was Ms. Antoinette Seymour.

By Joshua Gardiner

The majority of the players at the national level were expats, but they stimulated the interest of the nation. I remembered Oswald Moore, my volleyball mentor. Both Messers Seymour and Moore were teachers in the government education system. What they did was to teach their

THE REALISTIC VISION As is necessary for the development of any national sport the schools (both primary and secondary) became involved. They held regular competitions at inter-school levels to the point where they held national scholastic championships. These kids travelled all over the region, the USA and other international countries to broaden their horizons.

INTERNATIONAL GRAND MASTERS Chess represents international intellectual warfare—where the most profound minds play the game. At stake are national pride, international integrity and honour. The most memorable competition that I witnessed was between Bobby Fischer (America) and defending champion Boris Spassky (Soviet Union) in 1972. The icons of the sport battled for hours to complete one game in the series. Most of the world followed these games (which were called the “Match of the Century”). They were grand masters that played against computers. THE TCI EXPERIENCE I learned the game in Canada. There

are many persons in the TCI who played the game. There are persons such as Dr. Rao, Llewellen (Blow Basden), Stanly Been among others, including myself. THE WAY FORWARD I’m calling on persons such as “Bone-Yard” to form/create the aforementioned national associations. Take these board games into the primary, high schools and community levels. The next move is to compete in regional and international competitions. Chess is a game that develops the intellect of a person. Finally “Bone-Yard” please stepup to the plate and deliver. Love Josh

TCI to compete in CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in 2015

The two teams with their coaches.

U9s continue to impress local coaches – GT dominate latest fixtures THE TCI Football Association’s hard work at the junior level continues to produce rewards, especially with the U9s, and coaches are taking notice. Providenciales coaches Benneth Williams and Neil Coles were gracious in their remarks for both the visiting Provo and home team Grand Turk who competed last weekend in three 25 minutes 8 vs. 8 games at

a Parade Ground in friendly interisland fixtures. Grand Turk won 3-0, 3-2 and 1-0. “In my opinion team Grand Turk won on fitness and better passing decision. Team Provo played better on ball control technique. Team spirit remained high, it was another good event for the TCIFA,” Williams pointed out.

Coles called the clashes “competitive” and lauded the home coach. “The games were extremely well organised and officiated by the Grand Turk faithful lead by Head Coach Ed Smith.” The Grand Turk side would visit Provo next March for another series of clashes.

FOR the first time ever the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) will enter a team to compete in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in the hope of qualifying for the FIFA 2015 Beach Soccer World Cup (male) which is scheduled to take place in Portugal in mid-July. The CONCACAF competition will be held in April in El Salvador. At the moment the local association is running off its fourth annual Beach Soccer League. Six teams are currently competing in the Men’s League. These include the U16 Boys (an Academy team), the Teachers, two teams from the Men’s national side and two teams made up of players from football clubs in the TCI. Speaking on the series of games played by our local beach soccer teams TCIFA Technical Director Craig Harrington said: “The quality by all involved was excellent to witness and under the lights added a real intensity to the games which is needed as we approach the qualifier in 2015”. Harrington said that the sport has a “fantastic buzz about it” in the TCI. Leading up to this year’s league, TCIFA held a startup camp in early September as well as a Beach Soccer training course in late September which was

hosted by visiting coach Betto Lima, who is the CONCACAF Manager for Beach Soccer Development. The course was a success with approximately 32 persons in attendance which was made up of players and coaches. The course was held over three days and included informative class sessions and outdoor interaction and games. Special attention was paid to the technical and tactical aspects of the game. FEMALE INTEREST Concerning women’s teams for the Beach Soccer League Mr. Harrington went on to say: “There is not a big spark for this game amongst the women teams; but we are formulating ideas to trigger interest…we have had in the past vibrant games played in this league by the women. We are looking to re-establish this interest in the very near future. So stay tuned.” MOVING FORWARD The TCIFA is looking to make the TCI one of the top beach soccer nations in the Caribbean region. The association sees the sport which was introduced in 2011 as one of its strengths going forward. The Beach Soccer League which started on October 11 will run until November 30 with games from 16:30h every Saturday afternoon.

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Bien-Aime feels more interaction needed to develop female football

Billy Forbes was nominated for the Young Player of the Year award.

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Forbes calls nomination “great honour” NATIONAL footballer Billy Forbes said he is humbled to be nominated by the North American Soccer League (NASL) as “Young Player of the Year”. The 22-year-old, who made his professional debut this season for the San Antonio Scorpions, is one of 16 players who were nominated. Forbes, who has made seven assists (the most this season in the NASL) and four goals, is one of seven forwards to make the list. “It’s a great honour and a great accomplishment because I only became a pro athlete this year.” Forbes added that: “being nominated alone is enough for me”. Earlier this season the prolific player was voted NASL Player of the Week. Voting is set to end on Sunday. To vote for Forbes visit: http:// www.nasl.com/article/uuid/10vbhqd0ezbwe1vx8qrvzmllcw/vote-naslyoung-player-of-the-year#.VFJbARbUgRw.

PRESIDENT of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association Sonia Bien-Aime called on regional sports ambassadors to try harder to promote and develop female football. Bien-Aime, who is also a FIFA and CONCACAF Executive Committee member, has been an inspiration to females in the sport since she hit the spotlight. Speaking to a packed audience at the Let’s Develop Women’s Football conference in Philadelphia the TCI official said that football ambassadors need to act as mentors for young players. “I think if we want to give hope to the young girl that’s coming up, we need to get intimate with them, we need to talk to them one-on-one,” Bien-Aime said. “Not only share our story on a medium such as this but hear their stories as well, offer solutions. We need to exchange contacts and answer the phone when they call us. That’s the true definition of an ambassador.” Up the press time the busy

Turning back the years: Sonia Bien-Aime recently took part in a seven-a-side game at Colovray Sports Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

Bien-Aime was in Switzerland on a leadership course after playing a

Jaguars, Police win cricket openers THE Sunny Foods Jaguars and Police recorded opening victories when the Turks and Caicos Cricket Association T20 competition began last weekend at the Downtown Ball Park in Providenciales. The opener on Saturday saw Police getting the better of Jam Turk after veteran national player Ira Baptiste hammered an unbeaten 77. Batting first, after losing the toss, Jam Turk climbed to a respectable 177 in 18.1 overs owing to 51 runs from Alston Byfield (3x4s and 4x6s) and cameos from Kevin Hinds (26 runs 1X4 and 3x6s) and Robert Johnson (19 runs 4x4s).

Damian St. Ange led the attack with 3-23 from 3.3 overs while Vaurice Jervis and Godwin Charles nabbed two wickets each. In their chase Baptiste led the Lawmen to 178-6 in 19 overs. The hard hitter smashed seven fours and five sixes in his innings. Kareem Jack, who looked good with the bat earlier this year and Ian Ganness, supported with 26 (2X4s and 1X6) and 23 (2X4s and 2X6s) respectively. Bowling for Jam Turk Danar Lewis claimed 2-26 from his four overs. On Sunday the Jaguars, now sponsored by Sunny Foods,

The CHHS ‘A’ team have jumped to the top of the points table.

PABA High School Development League:

CHHS ‘A’ remain undefeated DEFENDING champions of the Provo Amateur Basketball Association (PABA) High School Development League, Clement Howell High School (CHHS) “A” team remain undefeated after a thrilling win over rivals the Turks and Caicos Institute of Professional Studies (TCIPS) Lions. In what was the clash of the league so far at the Gus Lightbourne Sports Complex, CHHS ‘A’ Eagles led by Fledlor Somera with 12 points and

10 boards edged the Lions 40-39. Duddlee Lightbourne added six points and six boards while Preki Joseph finished with six points. Francios Darly led all scorers with 17 points and seven steals for the Lions while Galvin Hall added 11 points and seven steals. The Maranatha Blizzards, who were whipped 53-14 in their first game (by the Lions) bounced back on Wednesday with a 28-18 win over the CHHS ‘B’ team.

seven-a-side friendly earlier in the week.

The Sunny Foods Jaguars won their opening encounter.

returned to the game after skipping a competition in convincing fashion. KB Homes batted first, but could only muster 122 from their allotted overs despite a half century from Marlon Graham. Graham scored 71 runs after hitting eight fours and two sixes. The Jaguars were led by Sheldon Henry with 2-32. In reply Henry scored an unbeaten 41 (6X4s and 2X6s) while national wicket keeper Nuwan Bodhinayake added 39 runs (5X4s and 2X6s) and Odane Ewart chipped in with 27 (4X4s and 1X6) as Jaguars reached the needed total in the 15th over.

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