Turks and Caicos Weekly News - Issue 34

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Fortis TCI bids to hike rates to gov’t and businesses

POWER provider Fortis TCI is seeking to increase its basic rates to government and commercial customers by more than five per cent.

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Water tax plans shelved

Fortis workers works hard to replace fallen lamp pole at IGA roundabout after accident

UNDER-fire plans to tax householders on water consumption have been shelved following vociferous opposition from the consultative forum.

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Fourteenyear-old remanded to HMP at parents’ request A FOURTEEN-year-old delinquent was remanded to jail when both his parents refused to sign his bail after he allegedly burgled his father’s home.

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Water tax plans shelved

By Gemma Handy

UNDER-fire plans to tax householders on water consumption have been shelved following vociferous opposition from the consultative forum.

The news will be welcomed by many residents already struggling amid soaring gas and electricity prices, plus recent taxation measures which prompted a hike in the cost of living.

Finance chiefs had hoped to place a 10 per cent levy on water bills in a bid to boost dismal public finances.

But acting Governor Martin Stanley said on Thursday that he had accepted the forum’s advice not to

surge ahead.

“The forum was strongly opposed to the introduction of the Water Sale Consumption Tax,” he said. “This legislation will not be enacted at the present time.”

Previous proposals for a similar toll on electricity bills were also ditched earlier this year following a public outcry.

Forum members did back plans to install a tax on insurance premiums.

This will apply to all domestic insurance premiums other than those on life and medical insurance.

It will be stumped up by customers, and charged, collected and remitted to government by the

insurance providers or brokers.

It will come into force on September 12 and is expected to yield $1.2m in much needed revenue this financial year.

There was also some lively debate about the Financial Services Sales Tax Bill. This is a toll on service fees charged by financial service providers including banks, trust companies, corporate management companies, money transfer companies, mutual funds, and credit associations.

The forum also rejected this levy, by a small margin.

However, Mr Stanley said the $1.5m it would raise was “vital” to help balance the budget.

Some tweaking of the legislation

SIPT puts TCI lawyers under the magnifier Legal profession scrutinised over aiding stamp duty evasion

By Gemma Handy BRITISH investigators probing corruption have widened their net to scrutinise the oft-criticised local legal profession.

The move follows the recent ruling in the Emerald Cay case in which two lawyers were accused of helping facilitate a massive stamp duty underpayment.

The SIPT team has now been tasked with inquiring into any other similar evasions aided by TCI law firms.

It is not the first time the profession’s integrity has been brought into question with substantial dubious allegations made about their operations during the Commission of Inquiry in 2009.

In June, Mr Justice Martin ruled that $1.25m should be returned to the

Attorney General Huw Shepheard described the issue as one of “considerable public concern”.

treasury after declaring the Emerald Cay case a “carefully crafted scheme” to defraud TCIG. Justice Martin called on Attorney General Huw Shepheard to conduct further investigation.

Mr Shepheard said on Thursday that he had considered both the judgement and the accompanying evidence “with care”.

He described the issue as one of

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“considerable public concern”.

“The payment of stamp duty is one of the principal sources of revenue for the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

The AG said it was therefore vital to establish whether deliberate underpayment was common practice in the islands.

“And if so, whether there is evidence of the commission of criminal offences. If there is evidence of such conduct, it will be evaluated and a decision made in each case as to the appropriate course of action to be taken.”

Mr Shepheard said the probe would require specialist resources, over and above those provided by the TCI police force.

“I have therefore asked the SIPT to undertake it. This will require only a relatively small increase in their staffing numbers, since issues concerning stamp duty have already arisen in the course of their work and is not expected to lead to any increase in cost above budget.

“Most importantly, I am confident that it will not affect the progress of the main investigation.”

He added: “I expect and have no doubt that all members of the TCI Bar will co-operate fully and in accordance with their professional obligations.”

Former billionaire and timber tycoon Tim Blixseth bought the sprawling private island estate of Emerald Cay in August 2006.

The $28m sale should have seen $2,730,000 in duty paid to the government. Instead the sale was recorded on land documents as just $10m so Blixseth paid only $975,000.

Justice Martin found that papers relating to the deal were “fraudulent devices to hide the true consideration being paid”.

He said at the time: “On any assessment of the facts this was a carefully crafted scheme of tax evasion. It would not have been possible without the assistance of attorneys.”

will take place, to reflect forum members’ concerns, before it also comes into effect on September 12.

The introduction of a new structure and increased fees for work permits, which recently sparked a ruckus among local employers, was temporarily postponed.

All of the revenue measures were outlined in April’s fiscal blueprint aimed at closing the budget gap, a key milestone towards the return of elected government.

Those already enacted include a four per cent customs processing fee on all imported goods, an extra 25 cents on gas taking total fuel tax to 75 cents a gallon, a 35 per cent increase on business licensing fees,

hikes to driver’s and car licence fees, plus massively escalated penalties for motoring offences.

The tough hikes were initially estimated to raise $160m by the end of the financial year, rising to $190m in the year after.

They are largely temporary measures to pave the way for the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) in 2013.

Permanent secretary for finance, Delton Jones, previously said VAT would help safeguard the country’s economic future by removing current market distortions, increasing competitiveness, strengthening the investment climate, and boosting revenue.

‘Angel’ is youngest baby born at new Provo hospital LITTLE Angel Missick is an 810gram miracle.

The tiny bundle of joy became the most premature baby to be born at Provo hospital.

And at just 27 weeks and 12 inches in height, she is one of the youngest and smallest arrivals on record in the TCI. Angel was delivered by emergency department staff after mum Collene was admitted on Monday morning with stomach pains.

InterHealth Canada pediatrician, Dr Lorena Soler, explained: “A 27-week-old baby is very young but she was delivered naturally and both mum and Angel were in good health.

“Angel was immediately put on a ventilator and placed under observation in an incubator in our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). But fortunately she was very active and all the signs were very encouraging.

“Angel is a beautiful little girl and despite weighing just 810 grams (1lb 8ozs) she has a high chance of living a perfectly normal and healthy life, thanks to both the expertise of InterHealth Canada staff and the fantastic medical facilities here in the TCI.” After spending her first few hours in the NICU, Angel was flown with mum to Nassau for further treatment.

“Angel will now undergo an extensive period of care in the Bahamas,” added Dr Soler, “after which she will be allowed to return with Collene to Cheshire Hall.

“It is likely she’ll be in Nassau for five weeks and she will only be allowed back to Provo once she is breathing unaided and eating by mouth.

“In total she will probably spend about 10 weeks in hospital between the Bahamas and here.”

Angel weighed just a pound and a half at birth

Once back at Cheshire Hall, Collene will be taught the revolutionary Kangeroo Care procedure that was introduced to the TCI by InterHealth Canada earlier this year.

Dr Soler explained: “Kangaroo Care is a way of teaching parents to bond with their babies through touching skin to skin.

“Collene and Angel won’t have had that opportunity to bond in that way and so it will be absolutely perfect for them both.

“Already we have seen it help bond many other parents and their babies, and in some cases it’s definitely greatly helped improve the health and wellness of infants.”

She added: “Angel is a special little baby and we shall be doing all we can to support her and her family over the coming months.”

Meanwhile Dr Soler paid tribute to InterHealth’s emergency staff for their “brilliant work”.

She said: “I am so proud of our emergency team, who worked so hard during Angel’s first few minutes of life.

“Those first minutes are part of the ‘golden hour’, which has a direct impact on the baby’s quality of life.

“They are unsung heroes and heroines in and I would like to thank all the team, especially nurse Sergio Azevedo, Mara Sanderson, Sue Howe and Dr Bridget Freeman.”

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Budget gap narrows

Public finances look healthier in first report of the financial year

By Gemma Handy PUBLIC finances showed tentative signs of recovery in the first quarterly report released since the new budget.

The deficit has now closed to just over $4m – less than one quarter of the gaping hole present this time last year – although it’s still $700,000 less than finance chiefs had predicted.

Eradicating the gap between revenue and expenditure – and achieving a fiscal surplus by March 2013 – is a crucial milestone on the road back to elected rule.

Recurrent revenue from April 1 to June 30 was $40.2m, while spending was shaved down to $44.3m compared to more than $50m for the same period last year.

The bulk of income continues to be from import duty which accounts

for more than one in every four dollars of revenue. Between April and June it generated almost $11m but still falls short of the $12.4m expected.

Financiers suspect underdeclarations and under-collections may be to blame and vowed to take action against identified culprits.

Accommodation tax was the next biggest source of income, bringing in $10.6m. A longer and healthier tourist season pushed it to 25.4 per cent above budget, and 33.6 per cent up on last year.

Stamp duty receipts soared to almost $6m, aided by ongoing civil recovery work. That figure is $1.9m above budget and $2m more than last year.

Dwindling numbers of foreign workers may be the reason money from work permits and residency

fees shrunk to $2.5m. This is $435,000 down on both budget and last year.

Business licence fees brought in a further $2.3m while customs processing fees (CPF) accounted for $2.2m.

The new CPF was introduced in April among a medley of temporary tolls to bridge the budget gap prior to VAT being introduced in 2013.

A Ministry of Finance spokesman said the most significant overspends for the last three months were for rents which exceeded budget by 25 per cent, totalling $1.3m.

Also, payments to creditors for old liabilities, including $1.9m paid to power firm PPC for past electricity bills and subsidies.

Capital revenue for the year to date amounted to $4m. This is $2.4m above budget due to proceeds from the sale of land.

Capital expenditure forecasts are in line with the original year to date budget of $6.3m. The top three priorities are restoring fire-ravaged Ona Glinton Primary School, fixing

the South Caicos airport control tower, and repairs to the North to Middle Caicos causeway.

The spokesman continued that “significant challenges” to balance the books remained, but that the first quarter’s results represented a “firm foundation” for the future.

“We will continue to monitor the state of public finances closely, and take well-informed decisions about both revenue and expenditure in order to stay on track to achieve a surplus by March 2013 while supporting economic growth and prosperity in the islands,” he said.

The UK-backed $260m rescue package allowed the government to refinance existing debts at lower interest rates, repay outstanding creditors and finance deficits until March 2013.

The spokesman said the government was committed to supporting the economy.

“In addition to the new runway at Providenciales International Airport, which has opened the islands to more

visitors from further afield, we are working with the thriving tourism sector to ensure that government action supports its continued growth in the future.

“We are also keen to support new initiatives in the agricultural and other sectors of the economy to stimulate greater diversity for the future.”

Preparations ahead of VAT are ongoing with consultations due to start shortly.

“This will provide a chance to get the views of businesses and the public on how VAT will work, and to fine tune our proposals before draft legislation is introduced.”

The spokesman added that work was ongoing to slash “unnecessary expenditure” while investing in the services required to help build a prosperous future.

The next quarterly report will be released after September 30.

Facts and figures can be read in their entirety by logging onto www. gov.tc and following the relevant links.

Fortis TCI bids to hike rates to gov’t and businesses

By Gemma Handy POWER provider Fortis TCI is seeking to increase its basic rates to government and commercial customers by more than five per cent.

The move comes weeks after the firm cut off electricity supply to all public sector outlets amid a debt row – and just four months after threatening that the proposed ‘carbon tax’ would lead to a hike in bills.

It also comes hot on the heels of a controversial request by its Grand Turk/Salt Cay counterpart TCU to increase its own per kilowatt hour (KWH) rate to all customers by five cents.

Government now has 30 days to consider Fortis TCI’s request. If it turns it down, it could spark the latest in a series of spats between the interim administration and the provider.

Refusing the rate review application – which would not affect residential customers – may also see another independent inquiry launched. Fortis

TCI has the right to a second opinion under the Electricity Ordinance.

A similar inquiry has just been completed into TCU’s application with a decision due to be announced next week.

Residents in Grand Turk attended a public meeting last week to submit their thoughts. Stormy weather saw the Salt Cay meeting cancelled with Islanders asked to email comments instead.

Expert consultant Dr Virendra Ajodhia was enlisted to head the probe. His ensuing report was sent to government and TCU on Monday.

A government spokesman described the report as “honest and incisive” and said it would be up to new Governor Ric Todd to decide whether or not to release it publicly.

Fortis TCI’s application for an increase is likely to cause dismay among its commercial clients who already pay a whopping 27 cents KWH – around three times the average amount in the US and Canada.

Fortis TCI chief Eddinton Powell said there would be no change to residential rates.

Spiralling power bills of recent years, exacerbated by the loathed ‘fuel factor’, have threatened to put many small firms out of business.

Fortis TCI boss Eddinton Powell said the main objectives were to end

government subsidies on service to South Caicos; to levelise rates across the islands; and to boost electricity infrastructure.

He stressed that the review would see no change to residential rates, which currently stand at 26 cents per KWH. It seeks to hike basic rates for government and business entities by 5.5 per cent, change the rate structure to a declining block structure, and also facilitate the take over of all street lights by the company.

In June, government buildings across the TCI were forced to close after the company disconnected electricity claiming TCIG owed $3m in unpaid bills.

It saw hundreds of pupils sent home from school and civil servants unable to work.

The firm’s bosses said they had waited “patiently” for payment for two years, to no avail.

The government reacted furiously, claiming PPC had failed to provide relevant information requested.

The carbon tax - initially set to come into force this month – remains under consideration.

Fortis TCI previously dubbed the ‘green’ levy on electricity generators “grossly unfair”.

Bosses said they were never consulted before the proposals were announced publicly and warned the extra costs could be passed onto customers.

Meanwhile, a separate inquiry announced in July into the way power services in the Islands are regulated generally, continues.

The Regulation of Electricity Services Review began on August 1 and is being undertaken by European consultants Oxera.

It was set up by the government following widespread concerns about ever-increasing power bills, aggravated by high fuel charges.

Fortis TCI’s ‘fuel factor’ reached a whopping 24 cents per KWH in this month’s bills, causing widespread dismay among consumers.

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

Governor’s priorities

WITH the new Governor’s arrival expected to be announced within days, we asked you for your thoughts on what he should tackle as a priority.

What do you see as the main challenges for the country right now – and what changes and action are needed first?

Drink drivers

“When the new Governor arrives he’ll need to take some time to be brought up to speed on the situation as it is today.

“Then I hope he encourages the prosecution of those who put us in this position in the first place, and that he lets us all know what he’s doing on a daily basis.

“The Brits are sometimes poor at communicating and that creates resentment.

“I think one of the most important tasks of this interim government is to find ways to make the people here understand that ‘Rome was not built in a day’ and that the economic destruction which Mike Misick and gang accomplished in a few short years will take many years to fix.

“But it can be fixed and we have to do our part to help fix it. That means paying the darn four per cent customs tax, and paying the new fees and paying the old fees that many people have ‘avoided’ paying in the past.

“And I think the Governor should initiate legislation to heavily fine drunk drivers and those who drive while talking on their cell phones.

“If everyone who did either/both were caught, fined and made to pay up, our deficit would disappear in no time at all.”

School places

“There is one main thing on the minds of many people right now: education. There are no spaces in the public schools so the education department has resorted to discrimination to guarantee space for students.

“Priority is given to those who have Belonger status, PRCs and naturalisation.

Those on work permits are on a waiting list.

That is absolutely ridiculous!

“And even if a child is born in the Turks & Caicos, once the parents only have work permits, that child is not guaranteed entry into school.

“All children should have equal opportunities for education but right now, that is not the case. That should be the new Governor’s focus.”

British agenda

“The previous Governor left a bad taste in our mouths by being absentee, non-transparent

and a dictator (even passing the budget solely).

“I think this new Governor is coming into a world of frustration under the circumstances.

“In my opinion though, it doesn’t matter who the messenger is, the British agenda will prevail, so they could have sent Mother Teresa, she would still be a villain depending on what the Crown’s agenda is.”

Overcrowded schools

“The number one issue is education. No new schools and the population has grown. The condition of Clement Howell and its crowding is a crime.

“We need to direct more scholarships and Community College students towards teaching.

“The cost of electricity, no matter what the people from Brussels say, is killing the economy. Five times rates on the mainland is way too much and it shows in the way Fortis spends it.

“Training of civil servants has never been tackled. It still takes a year to get a renewed work permit which is a rubber stamp process once the fee is paid and the medical reports are submitted. Immigration has long been a problem.

“A shake up in the land registry to get all the land on the database is a must.

“Infrastructure: It is obvious that drainage of the Provo streets is a mess and poorly planned. It did not take the hurricane to show this flaw.

“The port director and Provo Stevedoring operations need addressing.

“How about the cost benefit analysis of InterHealth and NHIP, along with the hospital mortgage and construction costs? They were never checked into.

“We have never straightened out the outdoor track land ownership.

“The election system and voter registration cards are long overdue.

“The budget is questionable at best and we need to get costs in line, not more taxes.

“How about the causeway? First we need the financing. It has been a mess for three whole years. Let us apply to the Caribbean Development Bank and do it right this time with a contractor who will build only if the specifications make sense.

“We don’t envy Governor Todd or Martin

Stanley’s job. They are left with these challenges and many more.”

Belonger jobs

“May we say welcome, Governor Ric Todd.

You are young, able and capable. We have a few things for you to do with a TCI-inspired agenda.

“The Governor is defacto Chief Minister, my preference as Premier has become such a dirty word.

“He is to issue policies from Waterloo, from his advisors on the advisory council and not from London.

“These taxes must be the result of academics who do not know about island life and are just reading economics text books and taxing us to death. I am sure the advisory council is thinking otherwise and want no taxes.

“There is a major presence of malaise and destructive behaviour in these islands amongst public officers.

“It is hoped that the new Governor will motivate many of these senior officers to do their jobs and stop the libel and slander they engage in.

“The time for petty tribal behaviour is over and we have all seen how worship of silly politicians, 2003 to 2006, can lead to the destruction of a would be prosperous country.

“A whole generation is lost and the future of our youth is at risk. The idea of things native, things Turks & Caicos, things our own, is at threat and immediate risk.

“Our youth are displaced out of the job market and there are no funds for education.

The new Governor needs to look into all of this and work a plan to rescue the youth and the generation.

“Our country was given away and we need the Governor to help us take it back.

“Threatening our country, future and youth is petty thinking and behaviour like the public officers who refuse to work in public offices but spend time destroying, lying and running an anti-TCI agenda on the website TCI Post.

“It is imperative that the new Governor work with the energetic CEO to identify and terminate the civil servants in the Ministry of Finance and OPSM who are operating the Post website.

“These lazy, idle, xenophobic people are destructive to the public service and TCI at large.

“He must tell Helen Garlick to get on with it and to season the meat. Hopefully by the time he arrives the meat would have been in the frying pan and the arrests would have commenced. What is taking her so long?

“We must see a shake-up at government departments where it is reported that inward investment is being stalled because persons at heads of department level of government refuse to comment on proposals, prefer to stall, prefer to be negative and little happens.

“Asset recovery needs to be sped up and a decision made to place funds recovered as revenue so that taxes may be reduced and removed.

“The stevedoring scam at South Dock needs to be removed, and the gasoline tax, and pressure needs to be placed on reducing the cost of fuel.

“We are suffering and cannot save because of these taxes. The new Governor must investigate InterHealth Canada, the fact that the hospitals are worth 10 times what they are really worth and the public is being ripped off.

“Place the agreement on line for all to see; if we have to pay then we should see what we are paying for.

“Let us speed up inward investment and grow the economy.

“Something must be done with PPC, now Fortis TCI, and these attempts to get higher rates.

“Governor, advisory council and electrical commissioner, please, so no! Force them to install generators that will not pollute before they start killing people with higher rates.

“One must be pleased to have persons like Clayton Thomas and Bradley Coalbrooke join the interim government. Somebody must be advising the Governor right.

“Pressure needs to be mounted so that the new Governor would look in to why TCI Bank failed and millions of National Insurance Board funds went there to be taken in unsecured loans.

“The Governor, three governments in one, Chief Minister, God forbid Premier, doesn’t matter. We need move the economy and take these islands to a new level.

“Let us protect Belonger jobs and place Belongers back to work.”

Popular support vital

“The biggest challenge is not in the Governor’s hands. It is for TC Islanders to finally accept the fact that the period of ‘prosperity’ under the former administration, fuelled by unrealistic developments and sales of government land, was but an illusion.

“The country can, and ultimately should, recover from its current malaise, but only by dint of hard work and perseverance. There are no shortcuts, no free lunches.

“It would be a mistake to expect the new Governor to solve all of the country’s present ills.

“There are things that he and the FCO can do to assist, but it will be a slow process requiring patience, diligence and cooperative effort.

“It is time for the politicians and rabble rousers to stop ranting against the British and those TC Islanders who have worked cooperatively with them and face the future together.

“The British have clearly made some mistakes, particularly in terms of communication, and should learn from them, but they have been undermined and villainised by people with ulterior motives.

“Many islanders have bought into the deception, thinking that the British are the cause of their present misfortunes and that the days of wine and roses will return as soon as local rule is restored. That’s a pipe dream.

“The Governor cannot possibly succeed in establishing a framework for progress without popular support and progress will never be achieved without genuine effort.”

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Security guards at Provo dump Help enlisted to curb bonfire pollution

By Gemma Handy SECURITY guards are keeping a daytime vigil at Provo’s dump site in a bid to curb bonfires which cause choking pollution to linger over nearby homes.

Public health staff are also visiting the dump twice daily on the look out for surreptitious ‘fire lighters’ – and to ensure the 17-acre site is properly managed.

The measures are interim steps to abate dangerous fumes prior to the onset of the long delayed clean-up scheme, currently on ice until next spring.

It’s likely to be welcomed by the hundreds of families living in Wheeland and Blue Hills who have been subjected to suffocating smoke for years.

A government spokesman said “every effort” was being made to keep blazes at bay.

Most are started by the hundreds of illegal immigrants living at, or near, the site who light fires for cooking or to get rid of flies as they rummage through the garbage for salvageable items.

Other infernos erupt due to spontaneous combustion caused by naturally occurring gases.

A contractor is currently employed seven days a week to oversee the site.

Workers dig daily trenches in which to deposit waste, before covering the ditches with several inches of topsoil each night.

The spokesman said this would help minimise the risk of fires.

The environmental health department is responsible for putting dump blazes out as the Fire Service does not have the equipment to do so.

“Where a fire does occur, early action is taken to resolve the situation and the fire is extinguished,” the spokesman added.

Security staff are employed on a shift system between 6am and 7pm.

Earlier this month it was announced that the transferral of the dump to private firm TCEM had again been postponed for a further eight months due to budgetary restraints.

In February, an international consultant from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), who carried out a study into emissions, demanded the fires be halted immediately amid health concerns.

Doctors have long maintained that smoke and dust from endless bonfires and indiscriminate shifting

Nurofen Plus recall AN URGENT recall is in place for a popular British painkiller sold over the counter in the TCI. Manufacturers of Nurofen Plus have recalled all stock, saying sabotage is suspected in some packets.

A handful in the UK were found to contain an antipsychotic drug, sparking alarm.

Consumers are advised to return any packs of Nurofen Plus to a pharmacy.

Rachel Ramdin, of Flamingo Pharmacy, told the Weekly News: “This is a ‘class one’ recall in the UK which means potential harm to patient and immediate action.

“We have removed all stock from our shelves as requested and asked patients to return any they have purchased recently,” she added.

An investigation is underway to identify the culprits.

Stab victim in critical condition A FILIPINO man was left seriously injured after attackers broke into his Five Cays home and stabbed him.

The victim, in his early forties, was rushed to Provo hospital at 6am on Monday morning suffering severe knife wounds.

A hospital spokesman said: “The

man suffered very serious stabs wounds to his upper body and chest.

The chest injuries were particularly serious and described by doctors as ‘life threatening’.

“Following emergency treatment, the man then underwent a surgical procedure and is now on the ward in a critical but stable condition.”

Most blazes are started by illegal immigrants living in makeshift shelters on the fringes of the dump site.

of garbage may trigger cancer and respiratory illnesses in people living nearby.

Repeated requests by the Weekly News for a copy of Dr Auger’s report have been consistently brushed off.

New Governor Ric Todd is expected to make a decision on whether to release it into the public domain after next Tuesday’s advisory council meeting.

The north-west of the island is now one of Provo’s most densely populated areas, home to two

affordable homes estates housing hundreds of young families.

Residents have described the smoke as “insufferable”.

TCEM chief Tim Hodge previously urged the government to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

“This is an immediate health risk. The smoke may cause serious respiratory and other issues for anyone living nearby,” he told the Weekly News.

A government statement on

August 9 described the clean-up of both Provo’s and Grand Turk’s dump sites as the “highest priority to maintain public and environmental protection”.

Management and reconstruction of the Wheeland site is now scheduled to begin in April 2012, followed by an upgrade to the capital island counterpart.

People living in the north-west of Provo say the smog has been so thick at times they can barely see 10 metres in front of them.

Caroline Gardner exits top financial post LONDON-appointed chief financial officer Caroline Gardner is preparing to leave the TCI after the completion of her one-year contract.

She said she was satisfied that she was leaving the country’s finances on a more stable footing, and that the foundation has been laid for sustainable growth.

Ms Gardner was appointed in September last year to help stabilise the islands’ woeful public finances, beef up relevant management systems, and get the nation on track towards a fiscal surplus by March 2013.

Ms Gardner said: “The $260m UK-guaranteed refinancing package has enabled us to restore stability to the government’s finances by reducing the cost of borrowing, repaying our creditors, and funding the deficits that will continue until we can balance the budget.

“This means raising revenues and cutting expenditure, while modernising the tax system to provide a sound basis for the future.”

She said while a good start had been made, there was still “a long way” to go.

“The next two years will be critical

New CFO Hugh McGarel-Groves is a former Finance Director to British dependency Jersey.

in bringing revenue and expenditure into line. Once we’ve achieved a budget surplus then we can start to build the reserves we need to repay the TCI’s high levels of debt, and invest in building a prosperous and vibrant future for the people of these islands.

“Some additional measures are due to come on stream from September, and we’re on track to introduce VAT in 2013. All of this will help us to create an environment for sustained growth in future.”

Ms Gardner, who is returning to

the UK, added: “There will continue to be challenges ahead but we must stay the course.

“Like any household we cannot live beyond our means. We have to remain focused on the goal of achieving a fiscal surplus by the end of fiscal year 2012/13, which is a key milestone towards setting a date for elections.”

Ms Gardner’s successor, Hugh McGarel-Groves, took up the position on Thursday.

He said he looked forward to continuing with the progress achieved to date.

“And to getting to know the people of the TCI and helping to implement improved financial stability and growth for the islands,” he added.

Mr McGarel-Groves is a chartered accountant and engineering/law graduate of Cambridge University, who spent the first 15 years of his career in various senior financial roles with major multi-national companies including BP, Guinness and Sedgwick.

He is described as having significant private and public sector experience.

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Hurricane Irene – counting the cost

By Gemma Handy ISLANDERS have been counting the cost of the damage left in Hurricane Irene’s wake – while keeping fingers

crossed that rapidly increasing Katia stays away from the TCI. With raging winds topping 100mph – and extending outwards by more than 200 miles – Irene

packed a punch as it tore through the TCI on August 23 and 24.

But the TCI was spared the full continued 

9 Fuel shortages earlier in the week caused long queues for gas as people prepared for the storm

Hurricane Irene caused widespread flooding across Providenciales, most notably in the downtown area and along poorly-drained Leeward Highway.

Irene-hit Beaches to close for a month ONE of Provo’s largest resorts is to close for one month to enable urgent repairs to take place following Hurricane Irene.

Beaches boss Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart said the vast family-friendly complex would shut temporarily due to structural damage from last week’s category one storm.

He said every effort would be made to complete the works as speedily as possible.

The award-winning, all-inclusive resort took a battering from the raging winds and rain which tore through the Islands on August 23 and 24.

Irene caused widespread flooding across the country, damaged roofs, and left many people without power for several days.

Mr Stewart thanked Islanders and the TCI government for their support to the Islands’ recovery.

He said, instead of having to confront a trail of disaster, people could take much satisfaction from their preparedness and effective teamwork which, in what he described as “true Caribbean style”, helped to mitigate the effects of the disaster.

The events of the past week, he said, had proven that any calamity

could be made into a triumph when a nation worked together in that “indomitable spirit”.

Mr Stewart said a great debt of gratitude was owed to Beaches staff, many of whom volunteered to remain on property to ensure the protection and comfort of the hotel’s valued guests, knowing that their own homes were under threat of flooding or structural damage.

He commended their selfless efforts which made it possible for guests to weather the storm with minimal dislocation and to stabilise and protect the operations at Beaches Turks & Caicos.

The Sandals chairman said no effort would be spared to ensure that all the resort’s facilities were restored to their world-class standard.

In the meantime, he added, the Sandals Foundation will be reaching out and helping local communities which suffered damage.

The beach-front resort previously suffered damage in the wake of 2008’s devastating Hurricane Ike. Heavy winds fired torrents of water and sand into bedrooms and restaurants and tore trees straight out of the ground.

The family-friendly all-inclusive resort suffered structural damage during last week’s storm.

More than 75 per cent of rooms were ravaged during the category

four storm that September. Beaches was forced to close for two months

to restore the resort to its former glory.

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NATIONAL force of nature’s fury with the winds slowing to category one strength directly over the Islands, before regaining momentum as Irene accelerated on north-west.

Storm surge of up to 13 feet and battering waves pounded the country as terrified residents sat huddled indoors for what felt like an endless wait for calm to return.

Miraculously, in the midst of the chaos came celebration, with three babies born in Provo hospital as the raging winds and rain roared outside.

Two boys and a girl arrived, two of them delivered by caesarean section. One mother was brought in from a Blue Hills shelter, another battled through the storm while in labour to reach the emergency room.

Both of TCI’s 16-month-old hospitals remained open throughout the hurricane, with bosses paying tribute to staff’s “momentous show of commitment”.

Facilities director Fiona McDonnell said: “It was a fairly quiet night in terms of patient numbers but obviously extremely hectic in other ways. Both centres remained open and fully functional throughout and that is simply down to the amazing efforts of our staff.”

Ms McDonnell praised theatre staff for the successful delivery, against the odds, of the three infants.

Nineteen people were admitted to hospital during the storm. An additional nine visited the walk-in clinic. Hurricane-related injuries included six lacerations, three falls and a fracture.

Irene’s sluggish nine miles per hour pace meant it was more than 24 hours before the wind and rain finally showed signs of abatement.

Islanders were ordered to stay indoors as water levels continued to rise, resulting in widespread flooding.

For many, the storm was a painful reminder of hurricanes Hanna and

Ike which ripped through the TCI back-to-back in September 2008, destroying 90 per cent of buildings in Grand Turk, Salt Cay and South Caicos.

A handful of restaurants and other outlets valiantly reopened for business within hours of Irene’s passing, as Islanders began to venture outside to appraise the damage.

PDM leader Doug Parnell credited divine intervention with the storm’s weakening – “against the predictions and projections of man” – as it passed the Islands.

“Though we are grateful that the system was not as strong as predicted, there are those among us who have suffered damage and loss,” he said.

Mr Parnell urged able residents to help out with the clean-up and restoration.

“I am encouraging all our people, churches and other institutions who can assist, please do make yourselves and donations available when and where possible.”

He added: “I wish for us all a speedy return to normalcy and I urge us all in this season to continue to heed to the warnings and make preparations when advised to.”

Irene wreaked a trail of devastation as it barrelled on through the Bahamas and US, claiming almost 50 lives and causing millions of dollars worth of damage.

Meanwhile, Hurricane Katia is forecast to become a major hurricane by the weekend as it continues to make its way west.

At time of press, forecasters said it was travelling on a path that could take it near the TCI. A government spokeswoman said: “Residents are reminded to stay alert and continue to monitor the progress of this storm.

“Listen to your local radio and television stations and adhere to the hurricane tips and information that is being shared.”

High winds downed electricity poles

Cars brave the floods in downtown Providenciales

Heavy rain brought many businesses to a standstill

Very Serious People John Hartley is a retired CEO. He was educated in economics and econometrics at Manchester University and Harvard Business School. He is an occasional contributor at invitational economics seminars at Brazenose College, Oxford.

Economics Column BEFORE the summer break the US Congress was on the point of engineering a default on the good faith of the USA, and the Greek crisis in the EU sovereign and bank credit markets was reaching its initial peak.

Here in the TCI we now have the quarterly report from TCIG which is mostly good news. It shows that the new team seems to be on top of the stupendous incompetence that they inherited.

There are worrying aspects on the macroeconomic side: if the disappointing duty collection reflects weak imports rather than under collection, that would imply lower than expected GDP. More analysis is needed.

The US deficit crisis has been deferred until November and the Eurozone horror is grumbling in the background as the ECB manfully shoulders the burden whilst inventing new tricks to shift the load, eventually, to north European taxpayers.

VSP is an acronym coined by Paul Krugman.

They are a collection of idiots, many of them rather nasty, but who take themselves seriously whilst steadily driving the USA and Europe into a deeper and deeper mess.

Alternatively, they are similar cheerleaders of the actual policy and decision makers. They wear suits, earn big salaries, appear regularly on TV shows and write columns for the WSJ or the London or NY Times. Very occasionally, and shamefully, they get space in the FT. They think they are intellectual leaders who should be taken seriously.

Actually they are not all serious. For example there is a US politician called Paul Ryan. It is

worth looking at Fox News occasionally just to see this bungler make a hilarious fool of himself. His ignorance is astonishing.

This week we have a potential new entrant to the ranks of the VSP. Madame Lagarde, formerly French Finance Minister, competently running her department and doing her politics. Now she is boss of the IMF. Her first speech in that job, which requires some basic knowledge of economics and monetary policy, has left the global banking community stunned by its basic ignorance; even Brussels and the ECB have been forced to reject her proposals out of hand.

What about our own VSP? Wetherell has gone, thank goodness. Nemesis Bellingham remains behind his desk in London ready to spring out and inflict more harm on us.

Others, from the Belonger community, include the independence advocates.

Only a couple of weeks ago we had Euwonka Selver writing that Mau Mau is a place (it was an African freedom movement) and Kenya (independent in 1963) is still a British colony.

Surely if you want to comment on post imperial geo politics and advocate independence for little TCI, how about checking your facts first?

More recently Royal Robinson said that TCI government debt stands at 95 per cent of GDP. Scandal, horror! Except it isn’t.

Even on the crude numbers to hand it is unlikely to be higher than 70 per cent of GDP. This VSP should consider using a calculator. And the new report from TCIG shows that, at least on the deficit front, things are improving.

VSP use this technique: they mention the Mau Mau, misquote an unchecked GDP statistic, or make some other inaccurate assertion and hope that voters will think that you are a Very Serious Person to be trusted with high policy decisions.

For this generation of young people in the West, the VSP have got it seriously wrong. Let us hope that the electors in TCI will be less gullible than those in the US, France or UK.

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

Questions left in Wetherell’s wake Can we cut electricity Dear Editor, We have witnessed the departure of the last Governor, Gordon Wetherell, from the Islands and his welldeserved emotional farewell.

In his absence the taxpayers of the TCI are left with the result of his cleanup and the huge debts the last PNP regime left in place for the people.

Life is hard for most persons in this international recession which for the TCI cannot end.

Hard working, poor people, people like you and me, are paying through our noses for monies we did not spend, for loans we did not run up and for politicians who do not care one iota about the people.

They only care about themselves, their pockets and the monies their investor friends can give them.

Left to mourn is this generation and future generations of persons who live here and especially those who can’t afford to live anywhere else in the world.

There is also the attitude of the former regime to blame the British for what they have done to the TCI, for how they have bankrupted the TCI. The attitude is that ‘this is our country, meaning only us who happen to be part the Government’s country and we do not care what we have done to bankrupt this country because this is our small personal country’.

They reason like ‘the PDM had no right to call the British in and the British should never have come in.

As far as we are concerned we had a right to rape the economy, destroy the

economy, take hundreds of millions from the treasury, divert millions to Belize Bank, lose millions of National Insurance funds in TCI Bank, run TCI Bank into the ground and no one in the world should criticise these stupid acts on our part’.

Their mentality is like ‘we had a right to destroy the environment with Star Island and wipe out the Grace Bay shoreline, we had a right to place a $7.5m dollar mortgage on 2,500 acres of Middle Caicos beach land, that we had a right to sell land on Salt Cay for $1 an acre but no one has a right to say anything about it. We had a right to sell 1,000 Belongerships and Permanent Residency Certificates and widen the franchise ourselves but no one has a right to say anything about it’.

The reality is that civil servants who can least afford it were the first to pay with the 10 per cent salary cut and now they want to tax water.

Thank God for the consultative forum.

The sad fact is that TC Islanders who formed the last government gave this country away and caused the innocent, poor, hardworking people of the TCI to be in the mess we find ourselves in today.

In the Governor’s sad departure there are still a lot of questions left behind and people wondering what to do today.

Ironically Governor Gordon Wetherell was far better for these Islands than any PNP corrupt, evil, spiteful, selfish, ignorant, petty, backward regime would ever be.

In one word, he suspended the constitution and stopped them from destroying what was left of this country.

Now to the questions: Will Helen Garlick ever do anything and/or was she marking her time?

Does she have the power, the right, the gumption, the idea to investigate Belize Bank because so many roads lead there?

Will the former Ministers of the PNP regime ever be apprehended so that this attitude of ‘I can do what I like and no one can say anything about it’ will be destroyed and removed from the political culture of the TCI? Gordon Wetherell is gone and the new Governor is coming. He is said to be a businessman, young at the age of 51, higher in profile and respect because of his ambassadorships around the world, like Wetherell.

A parallel is drawn to former Governor Turner who was also young and he did a clean-up up job.

Will the Islands finally see justice?

Will the taxes be reduced, will asset recovery efforts finally focus on former ministers, developers, Belize Bank so that taxes will be reduced, civil servants get their monies back and normalcy returned to these Islands?

These are some of the many questions which Governor Gordon Wetherell left behind and hopefully the new Governor is sent here to get the job done.

Samsune Taylor

Fond memories of yesteryear Dear Editor, I read the Weekly News articles about the origins of the Third Turtle Inn and wondered if you would like some first person information.

I hired on with Provident Limited in 1969 and flew co-pilot to Fritz in the D.C.-3 that he leased from the manager of Lantana Airport and lived in the home all us guys lived in above the Third Turtle Inn. Bobby Allen, Bill and Rita Dodson, Jessy Dees, Ray Ward and Bob Kellogg who was the airport manager at Providenciales and Fritz’s investors were Kip and Dick DuPont, Delaware Governor and ambassador to Haiti I think, and Frank Fairchild of Fairchild Funeral Homes.

Emery Rucker was the original

pilot there, married Finbar Dempsey’s daughter. They (DuPonts, Fairchilds) really let their hair down there at the Third Turtle Inn, along with Ed Hagner who made regular trips in his Beech 18, to trade cars and parts for land.

Sometimes we all flew to Haiti in DuPont’s Lear Jet. Their land salesman was Ford Carter of Delray Beach.

There was an ‘insider’ saying and if you did not know it you were not considered part of the gang.

All through the Bahamas and from Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale as well as the Turks and Caicos Islands, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, you may be asked, ‘Are you a turtle?’. The only answer was, ‘You bet I am!’

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Fritz and Tommy Coleman went to Providenciales from the Two Turtles Inn in the Bahamas. Tommy the Tramp eventually settled in Pine Cay with Countess Helen.

I lived through what were probably the best times on Providenciales and then went to work for Axford & Associates out of Oakville, Ontario, on North Caicos and their advance man.

I respected Fritz and remember when he died of cancer, about the same time Sanders of Axford & Associates had a heart attack in the water just off where the Prospect of Whitby is now.

It sure brings back memories of a free-wheeling and innocent time.

Neil McBurnie

costs in TCI? Dear Editor, In a programme sponsored by Florida Power and Light (FP and L) and government, one FP and L customer has reduced his electrical bills from a monthly cost of $350 to a monthly average under $5.

According to the article by staff writer Julie Patel, published on the front page of this week’s Sunday Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), the installation of 51 solar panels and a solar water heater have been the basis for the drastic reduction.

F P and L, which currently has electrical rates less than one fifth that of Fortis and TCU, offers programmes which permit customers willing to invest in the panels to sell the Florida-based utility their excess electricity which offsets the cost of their personal use.

The solar heaters replace expensive electric-powered water heaters. The customer also installed thick insulation in their overhead crawl space to keep air conditioned cool air contained within their premises.

The three installations cost the customer an initial investment of $100,000 but this was seriously reduced by $40,250 in federal tax credits and rebates. The contractor also provided an interest free loan.

By reducing costs from over $4,000 per year to approximately $60, the investment will pay itself off in 15 years.

A similar scenario in TCI would pay off the investment in three years. However TCI local utilities and the British FCO do not offer

similar programmes. The $350 monthly Florida bill would cost TCI customers $1,750.

Fortis lays the blame for their high bills on the cost of diesel fuel.

Without the fuel factor add-on, the Fortis basic rate is over three times the Florida rate. Costs for food, household furnishings and building materials in TCI are usually approximately twice Florida costs.

In TCI, savings from solar water heaters and insulation will save power and air conditioning costs without help from utilities or government. Customers here are not allowed to produce power by solar panels or any other means.

FP and L, which has a basic electrical rate of eight cents per kilowatt hour (KWH), also has a massive programme underway to reduce their costs of producing power.

Their West Palm Beach generation station is being replaced, switching from diesel generation to natural gas as a fuel.

FP and L is but one of several electrical utilities based in the state of Florida. Each utility is assigned a specific area where they are guaranteed all the business.

Florida, as do all states, has a Utility Commission which audits utilities for their costs, proper purchasing procedures and the amortisation of the costs of major capital purchases over the life of the equipment or buildings.

Dave Tapfer

Being eaten alive

Dear Editor, We have become the ‘mosquito republic’ of the Caribbean following the recent Hurricane Irene. This is very troubling given two factors.

Firstly, the recent dengue fever outbreak makes this infestation and public fears increasingly worse.

Secondly, the Government has decreased spending in vector control and laid off many of the workers responsible for keeping the critters at a manageable level.

Although the entire country is currently under attack, the government only saw fit to spray Grace Bay road the day following the storm while the rest of us suffer.

This is not only going to negatively impact our tourism industry but has the potential for a full blown pandemic to develop which would put increased pressure on our health services which are already strained.

The interim administration, which is currently viewed very poorly on its management of our country’s affairs, seems to be on a slippery slope and is not improving as islanders try to cope with 10 per cent increases in taxes on fuel, electricity, water and a similar cut in salaries.

Increases in import duties, increased unemployment and no job creation. Cuts to education and welfare, a constitution that is not beneficial to indigenous islanders and a non-workable budget that was passed by a sole Governor under this very non-transparent and nonaccountable government.

To add to this hellish reality, with all the costs of goods and services rapidly increasing daily and VAT on the horizon, we are now at risk of being eaten alive!

God help us!

Euwonka Selver

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Same ole, same ole?

Dear Editor, During his most recent visit to the TCI, Minister Henry Bellingham asserted that he could not say definitely whether or not there will be elections next year, that would restore democratic, representative government and the termination of British direct rule.

His primary reason for this ambiguous assertion is that the British-imposed milestones, even though progressing, have not yet all been achieved.

Given the fact that the British interim government has been in control of the country for the past three years, and this very same government has been and still is responsible for achieving the objectives, I am left to wonder if one may not logically conclude that either the interim government seriously miscalculated its ability to achieve its own stated objectives or that it’s dragging its feet to prolong

its hegemony in the country.

But despite the disjunctive conclusion that may be drawn, unfortunately some locals have begun to mimic Minister Bellingham by casting doubt on the prospect for holding elections next year.

I have said before and I will continue to say that we need to have an elected, representative government in the TCI. And as far as I am concerned, those elections should be held no later than next year.

I do not say this because I think that having an elected, representative government will eventuate in a panacea. Obviously, there will be too many problems confronting the next government for there to be naive thinking about quick fixes for these significant problems in the immediate future.

However, in spite of the fact that the interim government might have instituted needed and important

Where’s Miss TCI’s chaperone?

Dear Editor, Please allow me some place to express my feeling in regards to the Miss Turks & Caicos Pageant and pageant committee.

It amazes me that we as a people can decide to send a queen off to represent our county with little or no preparation and no chaperone. Where in the world is this acceptable?

We have a beautiful queen and I have no doubt that Easher will do her best to represent but Easher has not been a queen before.

There are a lot of variables when it comes to an international pageant like Miss Universe. Other countries train their queen for months in things like walk, poise, etiquette, public speaking, make-up, dress coordination etc.

Whose bright idea was it to have a pageant a month before the Miss Universe Pageant to select a queen?

It is a wonder that we haven’t had the Miss Universe licence taken from us yet.

I could imagine Miss TCI arriving in Brazil and registering and the organisers looking at her sideeyed because first off she has no chaperone and secondly she just won a month before!

After the debacle with our last queen I would have thought that the committee would have sent a chaperone if not for anything else but to make sure that the queen arrived safely and was checked in OK. This whole idea of sending a queen with no chaperone thousands

of miles away to a strange country unaccompanied does not sit well with me.

If I were Easher’s parents I would have seriously objected to this. This practice that the committee has of doing this needs to be seriously looked at.

It’s like the Delano situation where the Amateur Athletic Association wanted him to compete in the IAAF world championship. The boy has been home for weeks vacationing, he hasn’t been training; why would you want to send him all the way to Korea to compete and he hasn’t trained for it? I have no doubt that he has the talent to compete but I am sure mentally he is in vacation mode.

So why try to force him to do that?

We need to start putting ourselves in the mindset that in order for us to participate in anything, whether it be here, at home or internationally, we must plan and prepare. We must stop this half way of doing things just to say we were there.

Everyone please go to the Miss Universe website http://www.missuniverse.com/ members/contestants and vote for Easher.

She needs our support, even if she doesn’t have the support of the committee because I don’t understand how they haven’t sent out e-blasts telling the public to go and vote for our queen. Ridiculous.

Respectfully, Mr Concerned

policies and procedures, especially those relating to the purse, I think that we should have our representative, democratically elected government because it seems clear to me that the interim government has drastically failed our people.

Furthermore, it is our TC Islanders who must take responsibility for our country and, to a large extent, the interim government is not affording us that opportunity.

Consequently, it is high time for our people to have persons to whom they can turn for redress to their concerns.

As it stands now, they have none except perhaps Robert Hall’s Expressions radio show. And while Mr Hall has been a very good sounding board for some people (his ‘on the road’ show from Middle Caicos shamefully made the country aware of some of the problems facing the people, especially the elderly, who live in that area), he is very limited in his capacity and having access to the levers of power in the country.

Now if my memory serves me correctly, one of the recommendations of Sir Robin Auld’s Commission

Part one

of Inquiry was that two bodies be formed to assist the Governor in governing the country.

These two bodies came to fruition in the advisory council and consultative forum. As described in Sir Robin’s report, the advisory council was supposed to be a body that would advise the Governor and the consultative forum would be more representative of the people.

From where I sit, except for the communiqués through press statements and pronouncements from the Governor, the CEO and the CFO, little is known about the work or deliberations of the council.

Clearly, the council is the body which deliberates on important issues and recommends to the forum. But not much is known publicly about the deliberations of the council.

Whether this is a condition for membership on the council or is an agreed upon professional code of conduct, except for a few public statements from Ms Quelch Missick - primarily defending herself against criticism - there definitely seems to be a code of silence in the council.

Needless to say, this reticence on the part of council members is

baffling. To be charitable, one can accept that the council members – all TC Islanders – must be convinced that the policies and procedures which they are instituting are best for the future growth and development of the country.

And since they serve primarily as an advisory body, the advice that they provide the Governor may or may not be accepted and/or followed.

Moreover, if the members of the council were not comfortable with the actions of the Governor and felt that their advice was being totally disregarded, it does not seem that they would have remained.

And because they have remained as a member of the body, it is amazing and confounding at the same time that the council members – a very small group acting on behalf of the country – seem not to be convinced that they, at least, owe the people of the country an explanation or an argument for the advice that they offered and how that advice has been used by the Governor to make decisions and policies that affect the lives of the people.

For example, the imposition of new taxes, layoffs, arbitrarily filling positions, a poorly run healthcare system etc. And the people have no recourse!

Lee Ingham

COMMENTARY

Lying eyes and the name game PEOPLE rarely read poetry these days. Too bad, as the child’s poem containing ‘your pants are on fire’ comes to mind. Lyrics have replaced poetry because we hear the refrains on our radios.

This Sunday driving to church we listened to the Eagles hit ‘Lying Eyes’.

Our pastor read Matthew 16:13 reminding us Jesus asked Peter who the people believed He was!

We need to ask ourselves who all the players are. By their fruits you will know who comes to mind.

Reviewing the recent diatribe from a fellow well known to us all, we have to face facts.

The devil is always at work and he is known by many fictitious names carrying his fiery torch for evil.

What we find most discouraging at the present time is that not much has been learned and very little has changed in the TCI. The British are here and they think they are making a difference.

Aside from enforcing policies, which are reducing the population and contracting the economy,

By David Tapfer they have left intact the entire cause of the Commission of Inquiry.

No surprise as the earlier FCO who ignored the need for the Inquiry also hired the earlier Governors and interim government leaders. I doubt Helen Garlick, who they also hired, will stir that pot.

Recently certain people, one well known and one anonymous sniper, have done their best to drag down two people who the country identifies as patriots. First a respected attorney and now the principle voice representing all the people.

The song says ‘You can’t hide your lying eyes’. We know who controls certain media and who was close to another devil. Those here who call themselves righteous

have ignored the admitted orgies, gambling and avarice because they fed from the same table. Some feasted, some got bread and others just crumbs.

There are certain truths we must all accept. We are all sinners and only after we all see the light can this country be truly unified.

Manipulating facts to drag the names of good people down forgoes unity and is darkness, not torch light.

Realising certain people are destined to win next year has caused manipulators to attempt guiding people backwards to old school, slow civil service style management which prevailed prior to late 2003. Management which can once again be easily intimidated and set aside for the purposes of picking the rest of the TCI clean.

Untruth is the principle tool of the devil. He even tempted Christ, promising the whole world in exchange for a vote of loyalty.

Until this entire country unifies by returning to God, and refusing to support wrong, TCI could be doomed to more of the same.

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Lime staff brave storm to TCI Bar Council represented in Toronto keep 911 calls running LIME chiefs have praised the dedication of two workers who braved Hurricane Irene to ensure emergency calls could be made by Islanders in need.

Ronald Gardiner and Manford Seymour ventured out in the midst of the raging storm to start the generator to ensure 911 calls remained up and running.

The pair had been informed lines were down, meaning residents phoning for assistance would have been unable to reach emergency personnel.

Lime spokesman Audley Gibbs said: “There was no hesitation from Ronald and Manford. They put country and fellowmen before themselves.

“They went out and did what needed to be done to ensure that anyone calling 911 during Hurricane Irene would have heard a voice on the other line.”

Meanwhile, Lime customers came forward this week to praise the firm for keeping the network operating for the duration of the lengthy hurricane.

People were able to communicate via BBM, text, phone calls and social networking sites.

A spokeswoman said: “In 2008, Lime’s mobile network stood up during Hurricane Ike. “Our network once again stood up in 2011 in the midst of Hurricane Irene and allowed families to keep

Answering the call of duty: Ronald Gardiner

Manford Seymour put “country above self”

connected throughout the Turks & Caicos Islands and beyond.

“Lime has been tested and proven to be the strongest network throughout the region especially in the times when hurricanes visit our shores.

“Because our network stood up, we were able to work in conjunction with the Department of Disaster Management to keep customers abreast of status of the hurricane via text messages.”

Lime TCI received a number of testimonials from customers.

One said: “Thanks to Lime, I was able to keep in contact with my family and friends during the hurricane.”

Another said: “Congratulations for being the only telecommunication network in the TCI to remain up the entire storm.”

And one person emailed to say: “I just would like to thank you and your team at Lime for keeping the services up almost 99 per cent during Hurricane Irene. It exceeded my expectations.”

Lime’s general manager Drexwell Seymour said: “We know the investment that Lime has placed in our network and the continued maintenance to that network for stability and reliability and Team Lime TCI is happy that our customers were able to communicate throughout the hurricane.”

TCI’s Bar Council president George Missick took part in a prestigious legal event in Toronto recently.

He attended the American Bar Association’s (ABA) annual meeting at the invitation of its chief Stephen Zack, along with other Bar leaders around the world.

The event offered a rich array of programmes in which the USA’s leading lawyers exchanged views on current legal and policy issues.

There were substantive law sections too, offering outstanding legal education programmes where top notch brains addressed key issues.

An estimated 7,000 lawyers and judges were in attendance, including the first female US Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, now retired.

Mr Missick also attended a Bar leaders breakfast and orientation followed by a summit where participants led discussions on various aspects of international law. Mr Missick shared some of the challenges and concerns facing the Turks and Caicos Bar. He also attended the opening assembly where addresses were

George Missick shared some of the challenges and concerns facing the Turks and Caicos Bar Council.

made by Canada’s Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and US Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer who called for civility, better education and respect for the rule of law.

On the final night, Mr Missick and other Bar leaders attended the President’s reception at the Fairmont Royal York hosted by the outgoing ABA chief.

Hospital staff and Red Cross volunteers joined forces.

Hospital staff come to aid of hurricane victims TCI police met with Carnival Cruise bosses

New police officers get on board

TCI POLICE force’s newest recruits enjoyed a visit on board a cruise ship which docked in Grand Turk recently.

The fourth graduating class of the police training school, along with Commissioner Colin Farquhar, were invited onto Carnival liner Pride by

captain Vito Giacalone.

They were treated to a buffet lunch and an information session during which the ship’s chief security officer Loui John Kalappurakal described his role as the “Police Commissioner” of the hulking vessel.

The cruise ship with 2,600 passengers and more than 900 crew members represents a community the size of Grand Turk.

Commissioner Farquhar and the graduating class expressed their appreciation by presenting a plaque from the training school.

A GROUP of InterHealth Canada workers have been helping with the clear-up effort following Hurricane Irene.

Doctors, nurses, facilities and administration staff gave up their weekend to volunteer with the TCI Red Cross.

The big-hearted bunch headed to Five Cays to assess damage to people’s homes and hand out aid where needed and offer medical advice.

Engineering assistant, Stephen McDonnell, said: “Having got

through the hurricane unscathed, I think many of us just wanted to help those less fortunate than ourselves.

“Doing volunteer work for the Red Cross was just one small way we could assist and I think we were all very humbled by what we saw.

“People’s lives have been turned upside down by Hurricane Irene and it certainly makes you appreciate what you have. But it was no surprise to see so many InterHealth Canada staff out there helping because hospital people are caring people.”

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& CrimeCourt

WITH Samantha Dash-RIGBY

Fourteen-year-old remanded to HMP at parents’ request A FOURTEEN-year-old delinquent was remanded to jail when both his parents refused to sign his bail after he allegedly burgled his father’s home.

The teen, who turned 14 on August 29, appeared before Magistrate Clifton Warner charged with burglary.

It was said that he entered his father’s house through the kitchen window and stole a computer and a watch.

The teen then took the stolen goods to a man named Carlos Sanchez who was charged with handling stolen goods.

The court learnt that the young defendant’s parents are separated and he does not live with either of

them.

The mother told the magistrate that her son used to live with her but that he would disappear for days at a time.

She claimed he even broke into her house and car and stole from her several times but she could not do anything about it.

At first when he behaved badly she used to discipline him but the father accused her of child abuse and called social services.

The frustrated mother said that she has four children and he is the only one giving problems.

The father expressed concerned that the child would enter the wrong house and someone would chop off his hands or shoot him.

He wanted the boy to be taught a lesson as he appeared to be determined to lead a life of crime.

The mother, however, wanted him to go to school in the Dominican Republic, her native land.

This was met with strong objection from the father who insisted that that was only an opportunistic move to glean money from him.

The father bluntly refused “to invest” in his son’s schooling.

Magistrate Warner was left with a hard decision to make and lamented the fact that there are no institutions here in the TCI to send such youngsters to.

He dreaded sending the teen to HMP as he was far too young for such an environment.

David Smith back in TCI jail TWO TIMES convicted Ponzischemer David Smith arrived in the TCI from the US earlier this week to continue his six and a half year prison sentence in Grand Turk Prison.

The 42-year-old Belonger arrived onboard a US Airways flight escorted by two US marshals.

Media personnel gathered at Providenciales International Airport to capture pictures of the man who conned thousands of investors out of their life savings.

But much to reporters’ dismay, Smith was taken off the aircraft and immediately shuffled aboard another and taken to Grand Turk.

One year ago, Smith was sentenced in TCI’s Supreme Court after striking a deal with prosecutors.

Charges were dropped against his wife Tracey Anne in exchange for

his admitting to four of a string of financial crime charges.

However, he was handed over to US authorities just weeks later to face prosecutions for collecting millions from investors under false pretences and using much of it to fund his own lavish lifestyle.

With the knowledge that he was facing a life sentence, Smith pleaded guilty to 23 fraud and money laundering charges in Florida.

After three hours of legal arguments, he was sentenced to 30 years in the US which will run concurrently with the sentence here in the TCI. After his sentence expires at HMP, Smith will be taken back to the US to serve out the remainder of his 30 year sentence.

His attorney Oliver Smith

previously remained tight-lipped on whether they would appeal the US sentence but disclosed that Smith was finding “comfort through his faith”.

Originally from Jamaica, Smith was said to have ripped off more than 6,000 people – including many in the TCI – in an elaborate $220m Ponzi scheme.

He admitted in the US courtroom his actions had been “inexcusable” but that he was “not a terrible person”.

Detective Assistant Superintendent Mark Knighton, head of TCI’s FCU, disclosed that there were still proceedings ongoing against Smith.

These may involve other jurisdictions as well as the TCI. “We are still looking for assets and further court proceedings may occur in 2012,” Knighton revealed.

Police launches new website NO MORE travelling back and forth to the police station for police records and job application forms thanks to the launch of the new TCI police website.

Instead, members of the public can now log on to http://www. tcipolice.tc and download these forms, fill them out and then take them to the station.

The police record form is available in English, Spanish and Creole.

In addition, the public can now access telephone numbers, locations and email addresses of all police stations, organisational charts and biographies of the leaders within the RTCIP force and as-they-arepublished police press releases and news.

The website was launched on

Thursday by Commissioner of Police Colin Farquhar.

Designed by the information technology department of the police force, the site serves as a demonstration of its commitment to deliver quality service in all the activities of policing to ensure the safety and security of the citizens and visitors to the TCI, and to strengthen police-community relations.

This website is also indicative of the commitment to using technology to share information with the public about what the force is doing and how.

Moreover, this new website is user friendly and will undoubtedly play a critical role in the reduction of crime.

The launch of this website is

the end result of the insight of the Commissioner of Police (retired) Edward Hall who believed that such a tool could be invaluable in enhancing service to our communities.

Former Governor Gordon Wetherell said he hoped that the site would help bring the police force and the community closer together and that the public would find it informative and useful.

Commissioner Farquhar said: “The Royal Turks and Caicos Police Force is excited about using this new site to communicate with the public as we strive to provide superior customer service to our citizens, both online and in the community.

“Your comments will be important to us as we continue to develop this site,” he added.

There were discussions on sending the young defendant to an institution in Jamaica but that will be decided after the magistrate receives a comprehensive probation report.

Meanwhile, the child will spend 28 days in jail and return to court on September 27.

Sanchez was also told to return to court on that date.

this week

Friday, September 2 to Thursday, September 8 Friday, September 2

or email info@graceway.com

 Get into the weekend mood with the intense and electrifying Tae-Bo class at Graceway Sports Centre from 6pm to 7pm. Free for gym members, $12 for non-members.

For more information call 442-6349 or email info@graceway.com

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

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

For more information call 331-7176.

 Craig Archibold gets the party started at the Regent Palms from 7pm on Friday nights with the sound of classic Caribbean and Motown tunes. Call 9468666 for details.

Tuesday, September 6

 Kids can enjoy a Friday night camp out each week at Grace Bay Club from 5pm to 9pm. For $45 per child, youngsters can tuck into dinner under the stars and s’mores, take part in activities and watch a movie.

Email morgan@gracebayclub.com or call 231-KIDS (5437) to reserve a space.

Saturday, September 3  Revel in the sound of smooth jazz by talented performer Perry Delancey on Saturday nights from 7pm at the Regent Palms. Call 946-8666 for details.  Mums and Tots Dance Party classes are held every Saturday at The Athletic Club in Saltmills Plaza for mothers and their little ones.

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

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

Call Shara Bowen on 244-1103 for more details.

Sunday, September 4  Feeling lucky? Win cash at the Rotary Club’s weekly bingo night every Sunday from 7pm at Club Pillows opposite the Veranda resort in Grace Bay.

Monday, September 5  Start your week with a fun and calorie-burning Tae-Bo class at Graceway Sports Centre from 6pm to 7 pm. Free for gym members, $12 for non-members.

For more information call 442-6349

 Come and hear the Island Boys duo play at Opus restaurant in Ocean Club East this Tuesday from 7.30pm to 10pm.

Wednesday, September 7  Correy Forbes and DJ Cliff will be providing entertainment at Mango Reef Restaurant at the Alexandra Resort this evening.

Come along between 6.30pm and 9pm for some great island tunes.  Enjoy the easy listening sounds of live duo NaDa at the Regent Palms on Wednesdays from 7pm. Call 946-8666 for details.  Are you in need of inner peace?

Interested in a healthy lifestyle and a toned and flexible body?

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

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

Call 941-8686 for more details.

Thursday, September 8  Celebrate good health with wellness coach Benneth Williams every Thursday evening.

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

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

For more details call Benneth at 2460300 or email hls_com@yahoo.com

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fitness Tip 

Understand your body type ( PART TWO ) THIS week we will focus on the mesomorph body type – or the so called ‘genetically gifted’ people.

They are lean, muscular and naturally athletic. Mesomorphs lose fat and gain muscle with ease.

These are the people who don’t

Breadfruit porridge

START the day off right with a good breakfast. Try this Jamaican twist on your morning porridge.

seem to train or diet hard at all, yet their body responds like crazy.

They are the ones we all ‘love to hate’.

However, as I said last week, pure body types are very rare, and mesomorphs are no exception.

Usually we are a mix of two or even all three types, although most people tend to gravitate towards one type predominantly.

Mesomorph types can usually be seen in bodybuilders and athletes.

So as far as training goes for mesomorphs, it really depends on your goals and I’m speaking about the average person who is not intending to compete in a bodybuilding/figure/ fitness show, but just wants to shape up and get a good-looking, healthy body.

A mix of resistance training routines are probably the best way to go, using free weights, machines, body weight and bands.

Because mesomorphs gain muscle easily, you have to be careful. You don’t want to do too much weightlifting if you’re trying to get that lean look because you will pack on the muscle and bulk up.

So you want to start working on your cardio and incorporate that into your workout also.

Cardio also really depends on

FITNESS EXPERT Anca Vasile

what your goals are. If you are trying to bulk up and gain size then you should watch your cardio time and intensity. Go high intensity but for a maximum of 30 minutes to emphasise fat burning and save muscle.

Interval training is a great method in this case. If you looking into leaning up, a combination of high intensity cardio sessions for a longer time and distance at a slower pace will work best, considering that you have to do more cardio to reach your goal. But at the same time you should avoid putting stress on your joints every day by doing only high intensity.

From a nutritional point of view, with mesomorphs it depends a little bit on their body type combinations.

For example, if you are a mesomorph and you have more of an endomorphic tendency then you will be looking at watching your fat intake, and watching the carbs a little bit more, but if you are more

Most people are a combination of body types.

ectomorphic then you can get away with a little ‘dirtier’ diet.

The five to six meals a day plan applies to all types but for each one is adapted according to individual characteristics and goals.

There is not really much to say about mesomorphs as they are fortunate to look good naturally and with a little effort they can go a long way.

But next week I will have a lot more to say about the ectomorph type.

For questions about body types and fitness write to ancafitness@live. com, allowing a few days for me to answer.

Have a great and active week everyone!

Ingredients:

• Half medium breadfruit • Quarter tsp salt • 2 pints water • 2oz sweetened condensed milk • 3oz evaporated milk • 1 pinch ground nutmeg • Quarter tsp vanilla flavouring • Half ounce flour

Method:

• Put water on stove and turn heat high. In the meantime remove the skin and heart from the breadfruit and cut the vegetable into small pieces.

Add pieces to an electric blender with a little water, and puree.

• Add pureed ingredients to boiling water and then add salt. Allow the vegetable to boil, occasionally stirring the pot.

• To thicken the porridge, add the flour to one cup of cold water and mix into a liquid paste. When the breadfruit is cooked, add other ingredients and sweeten to taste.

• You may also omit the flour and thicken the porridge by evaporation; cook until it thickens naturally.

• Serve in small soup bowls with ground nutmeg.

health Tip 

The brilliance of breadfruit THANKS again to Almighty God for his goodness towards me and likewise to you, my readers, for using just a few minutes of your time to read my researched information.

Let’s talk about breadfruit. Not only is breadfruit a rich source of energy, it also contains significantly high amounts of fibre.

According to the American Heart Association, fibre decreases bad cholesterol and triglycerides which increase heart attack risks.

An increased intake of fibre lowers LDL (bad) cholesterol levels in the body, while maintaining HDL (good) cholesterol levels in the body.

Additionally, the fibre found in breadfruit can help those with diabetes to control the disease.

Research shows that fibre can control diabetes by reducing the absorption of glucose from the

By Phillip Simmons food we eat.

Another health benefit of breadfruit is it helps to make our intestines and bowels work properly.

Fibre regulates bowel movements and clears out the build-up of junk from our intestines; eating breadfruit on a regular basis can reduce the risk of colon cancer.

Breadfruit benefits the body as it contains favourable amounts of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids which help the body and mind to develop normally.

Fatty acids also stimulate skin and hair growth, regulate our

TIGHTWAD

Tip

Make your own play dough

WITH a week left to go until school restarts, keep the kids entertained by making your own play dough.

Younger children will enjoy the squishiness of it all and will be entertained by rolling it out, making shapes with cookie cutters etc.

Older kids can use uncoloured play dough to make sculptures (which will last, if you let it dry for a few days) that they can paint as they like.

Here’s how to make it:

The fibre found in breadfruit can help control diabetes.

metabolism, promote reproduction and stimulate bone health.

Breadfruit also contains vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, iron and phosphorus.

Combine one cup all purpose flour, quarter cup salt, two tablespoons cream of tartar, one cup water, one tablespoon vegetable oil, one to two teaspoons food colouring (if desired), in a saucepan over a medium heat.

Stir for three to five minutes until mixture forms a ball.

Remove from heat and gently knead on a floured surface.

Store in a resealable plastic bag.

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GARDENING 

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YOUR DIET

ASK TAMIKA

BY TAMIKA HANDFIELD

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

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

Are you ready for a new school year?

The tree is becoming more and more popular in the TCI.

Barbados cherry THE BARBADOS cherry is a large, bushy shrub or small tree attaining up to 20 feet in height and an equal breadth, with more or less erect or spreading and drooping, minutely hairy branches, and a short trunk to four inches diameter.

Its evergreen leaves are elliptic, oblong, obovate, or narrowly oblanceolate, somewhat wavy. The flowers, in sessile or short-peduncled cymes, have five pink or lavender, spoon-shaped, fringed petals.

The fruits, borne singly or in twos or three in the leaf axils, are oblate to round, cherry-like but more or less obviously three-lobed; half to an inch wide; bright-red, with thin, glossy skin and orangecoloured, very juicy, acid to sub acid, pulp.

The three small, rounded seeds each have two large and one small fluted wings, thus forming what are generally conceived to be three triangular, yellowish, leatherycoated, corrugated inedible ‘stones’.

The Barbados cherry is native to the Lesser Antilles from St Croix to Trinidad, also Curacao and Margarita and neighbouring northern South America as far

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south as Brazil.

It has become naturalised in Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico after cultivation, and is commonly grown in dooryards in the Bahamas and Bermuda, and is becoming more and more popular in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The tree does well on limestone, marl and clay, as long as they are well drained. The Barbados cherry tree will grow and fruit fairly well with little care. For best performance, a fertilizer formula of 8-8-13 twice a year.

In the TCI, limestone soil, sprays of minor elements copper, zinc, and sometimes manganese, will enhance growth and productivity.

Young trees need regular irrigation until well established; older trees require watering only during droughts. Mature plants will bear better if thinned out by judicious

pruning after the late crop and then fertilised once more.

Barbados cherries are eaten outof-hand, mainly by children. For dessert use, they are delicious merely stewed with whatever amount of sugar is desired to modify the acidity of the particular type available.

The seeds must be separated from the pulp in the mouth and returned by spoon to the dish.

Many may feel that the nuisance is compensated for by the pleasure of enjoying the flavourful pulp and juice. Otherwise, the cooked fruits must be strained to remove the seeds and the resulting sauce or puree can be utilised as a topping on cake, pudding, ice cream or sliced bananas, or used in other culinary products.

Wine made from Barbados cherries in Hawaii was found to retain 60 per cent of the ascorbic acid.

SUMMER is a time when many of us become a bit more relaxed with our daily routine. There are no school bells to beat, kids get to stay up a little later and we sometimes indulge a bit more in foods that are not so healthy.

But in a few short days, summer break will be over and kids will be heading back to school. So this week we are going to focus on some tips to help you ensure your children’s nutrition and physical activity habits are ready for the new school year.

1. Breakfast—this is the most important meal of the day. Research shows that children who eat breakfast regularly perform better socially and academically. Never allow your children to leave the house without having a balanced breakfast. A balanced breakfast is one that has foods from at least three of the five food groups. This can be as simple as high fibre cereal with milk and a piece of fruit or as complex as grits, scrambled eggs and a glass of 100 per cent orange juice.

2. Lunch—if you choose to pack your children’s lunch, ensure it contains wholegrains, fruits, vegetables and low-fat or fat-free dairy.

However, be cautious with some of the convenience foods such as the ‘Lunchables’ because these can be very high in sodium. A good rule of thumb is to always check the nutrition fact labels before purchasing any packaged foods.

3. Physical activity—this doesn’t mean you must run to the nearest gym and sign your child up or enroll him/her in every extra-curricular activity there is. It does mean, though, that you should monitor the amount of screen time (television, computer, video games) your child has and find creative ways where you can become more active as a family. To say it in island terms, you will be ‘killing two birds with one stone’ because you will be exercising together and spending quality time with your children.

‘Like’ my page, ACCU Medical Nutrition—Nutrition in Demand, on Facebook and receive up to date nutrition information.

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

Call 946 8308, 242 3978 or 442 3978.

Banish stinky sneakers

RUNNING shoes can sometimes get a bit ripe, especially in hot weather.

Stamp out smells by pouring a little bicarbonate of soda inside your sneakers in the evening and shaking it out the next day.

The baking powder will absorb odours overnight.

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‘Bleeding’ dengue fever cases confirmed in the Bahamas THE Bahamian public was advised to keep vigilant against mosquito breeding grounds as health officials confirmed cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever this week on the island chain.

Addressing fears that there was now a new and deadlier strain of dengue fever in the Bahamas, Delon Brennen, deputy chief medical officer for the Ministry of Health, explained that each strain has the potential to develop into dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF).

Dr Brennon explained that there was still only one strain - out of four possible strains - on the island, dengue type 1, and that there was no way to prevent the illness from developing into DHF. “Just make sure you’re in constant contact with healthcare providers,” he said. “In the course of the disease, even if it doesn’t go to dengue haemorrhagic fever, there will be drop in platelet count which helps in clotting. So when you’re brushing your teeth, or if you’re prone to nosebleeds, you will see some bleeding.”

“We’ve seen patients with drops in blood count,” he said, “but they are

not marked cases or large numbers of people having major complications from the bleeding.”

Dengue haemorrhagic fever, according to the World Health Organisation, is a potentially deadly complication that is characterised by high fever, often with enlargement of the liver, and in severe cases circulatory failure. Victims of DHF have described their ordeal as a “hellish” experience, marked by constant bleeding and severe pain and fatigue.

Data on the number of persons to experience DHF was unavailable up to press time; however, Dr Brennen said that there had been only “a very few” cases.

“Most people recover from that without incident and don’t need medical intervention, it’s just when you have massive spontaneous bleeds - then we may need to intervene medically,” he said.

Health officials also noted a slight decrease in the number of cases; however, the number of persons arriving at the clinics were said to be influenced by hurricane activities.

Last week, it was feared that Hurricane Irene could destroy the

government’s efforts to contain the dengue fever outbreak.

High winds held the potential of both preventing mosquitos from breeding, and disrupting fogging efforts.

The Department of Environmental Health has confirmed that it will continue heavy fogging schedules, specifically targeting densely populated areas and schools throughout New Providence.

“We still have to be vigilant, even once we see decreases in numbers,” he said, “it doesn’t take away from the fact that we still have a lot of work to do.

“We still need to be vigilant, so we’re going to continue to have town meetings, go into communities to distribute insecticides.”

The country has seen a record number of clinical cases - more than 1,500 - this year while public health officials are investigating three suspected fever related deaths.

Three to 15 days after a mosquito bite, an infected person will feel chills, a headache, a high fever and pain behind the eyes. Lower back pain and achy joints are also early symptoms. (tribune242.com)

T&T’s state of emergency could be extended for three months TRINIDAD and Tobago’s nightly curfew to curtail a recent space of violent crime which authorities are said to have emerged from drug trafficking will continue if the government is given the green light.

Once the extension is approved by a simple majority in the House of Representatives it would make the curfew legal until November 6, until government sees it fit to stop such before.

Two weeks ago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in a nationally televised announced what she called a “limited” state of emergency. It includes a 9 p.m.to-5 a.m. curfew in major cities and towns and broader powers for the police to make searches and issue arrests, with 5,000 members of the military assisting them. Her speech followed a weekend of mayhem that left 11 people dead.

The measures have slowed the pace of drug-related killings and led to the arrest of over 100 gang leaders information later revealed.

“It’s a limited intervention to deal with gangs and get guns off the streets,” foreign minister, Surujrattan Rambachan said.

The operation, he said, has not

affected the airport or resorts in a country that is heavily dependent on foreign tourism.

Drug smugglers shipping cocaine from South America to North America and Europe have long used Caribbean islands as way stations, though much of the traffic has shifted to Central America and Mexico.

A United States Congressional report in May said that 95 percent of the drugs destined for the United States flowed through Mexico, with about 60 percent of that first crossing Central America.

Still, officials in the Caribbean have raised the alarm at what they believe to be an increase in smuggling by sea after law enforcement agencies increased the use of radar to clamp down on trafficking by plane.

Several islands have complained of a spike in violent crime that they associate with drug gangs, either established ones or new groups, as smugglers seek to exploit weaknesses in law enforcement.

Lawmakers in St. Kitts and Nevis, a small nation east of Puerto Rico that has experienced a spike in murders and gang crime in recent weeks, urged Prime Minister Denzil Douglas to follow Trinidad’s

example and declare a state of emergency.

In Trinidad, Dr. Rambachan said the seizure two weeks ago of $22 million worth of cocaine set off the violence as gangs sought retribution for the losses. He said 262 people had been killed this year, compared with 325 at this point last year, but he called the rate unacceptable and noted that the prime minister took office last year with a promise to get the problem under control.

Residents seemed supportive.

“I feel very safe for the first time in a long while,” said Dolarlchan Hanomansingh, 51, a schoolteacher in Chaguanas, one of the largest cities in the country. “I can now walk in my yard when I want without having to look over my shoulder, and don’t have to worry too much about whether I have closed the backdoor.”

But an opposition leader, Keith Rowley, has called the emergency declaration a sign of desperation.

“Our initial thought is that this is a panic response which has not been the product of any serious deliberations,” he told a local radio programme. (Extracts from the New York Times)

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Hurricane Irene did not trigger Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility THE CARIBBEAN Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility was not triggered by Hurricane Irene despite losses being experienced in six of its member countries.

The 16-member risk pooling facility, which offers catastrophe insurance coverage to Caribbean governments, said that while Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Haiti, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the Turks and Caicos Islands had experienced damage, none of the insurance policies it underwrites had been triggered.

“Early damage reports indicate low to moderate impacts except for some southern and eastern islands in the Bahamas, which lay directly in Irene’s path,” the CCRIF said in a statement.

The CCRIF said that “significant damage” had been sustained in some of the smaller islands of the Bahamas, and added that it had contacted the government to see if there are ways it can assist the recovery.

It noted that critical tourism infrastructure had not been badly affected by the storm.

DAMAGE ESTIMATES Last week, Boston-based catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide Corp. said Hurricane Irene likely caused between $500 million and $1.1 billion in insured losses in the Caribbean.

Hurricane Irene passed through the Caribbean last week and made landfall in the United States on Saturday. (Businessinsurance.com)

Bill aims to push search for oil in Dominican Republic “PETROLEUM awaits us” was the deputy Pelegrin Castillo’s (FNP National District) battle cry to declare the search for oil in marine and land areas a top national priority, for which Mining Agency director Octavio Lopez and Energy Commission president Enrique Ramirez urged Congress to pass the bill for the Hydrocarbon Exploration Law. He said the legislation would create a legal, institutional and fiscal framework necessary to stimulate the search for and exploit crude and natural gas on land and the sea, for

in their view the current law isn’t adequate.

To stress their point, the officials delivered a symbolic petroleum sample from the zone of Azua (south), and affirmed that similar samplings would be given to business and media leaders.

They noted however that they don’t want to create false expectations, but to stir interest in the search for oil in the Azua and Higüey zones instead, and determine if it’s feasible to refine it and cover part of the country’s demand.

Claims of Cat Island gas price rise to be investigated GOVERNMENT will investigate claims that gas stations on Cat Island have raised fuel prices by nearly $2 a gallon in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.

According to a businessman on that island, some residents are afraid to drive long distances to help those whose homes were damaged in the storm because of high fuel prices.

State Minister for the Environment Phenton Neymour told The Tribune he would advise the relevant agency to look into the claims.

“I heard some gas stations have hiked their prices up to $8 a gallon which is a shame because they are taking advantage of the people down there,” said Chris Illing, owner of the Greenwood Beach Resort on Cat Island.

“They are afraid to run from A to B to help out because they have to buy the expensive gas and fear the island might run out of gas. An official statement (from government) on that regard would be helpful,” said the expatriate.

The Tribune was told that a gallon of gasoline was sold for approximately $6.40 before Irene hit Cat Island last week.

When contacted for comment, Mr Neymour said he had not been informed of the claims but would look into the matter.

He said gasoline was designated a strictly regulated sector in the Bahamas, precisely in an effort to mitigate against price gouging. (tribune242.com)

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Duty free concessions for hardest hit victims on Cat Island

When White Pox disease infects coral, as in this case from the Upper Keys in Florida, it causes white blotches by killing the overlying coral tissue and revealing the coral’s white limestone skeleton underneath. (Photo: James W. Porter, University of Georgia)

Human waste killing Caribbean coral IN THE first documented case of a human pathogen infecting a marine species, U.S. scientists say a bacterium in untreated human sewage is killing coral along the Florida coast and in the Caribbean Sea. The finding was reported recently in the Journal PloS One. Over the past decade, the onceabundant elkhorn coral in Floridian and Caribbean waters has declined by nearly 90 percent. Rollins College coral reef ecologist and report coauthor Kathryn Sutherlandand says in 2003 her group identified the culprit, a bacterium in White Pox disease, known as Serratia marcescens.

“We knew when we discovered the pathogen that it was common in terrestrial environments, in human guts, in human sewage and that it is a pathogen that causes disease in humans.”

But researchers could only speculate that human waste was the source of the pathogen because the same microbes are found in the solid waste of other animals.

Finding the source In order to determine the source of the pathogen, scientists collected and analyzed human samples from a waste water treatment facility in Key West and from other animals such as key deer and seagulls.

And, while they found the pathogen Serratia marcescens in these other animals, the genetic analysis showed that only the strain from human sewage matched the strain found in white pox diseased corals on the reef.

In a laboratory experiment, Sutherland and colleagues took small fragments of Elkhorn reef

coral and inoculated them with the pathogen found in human sewage.

“We watched them for a month’s time to see if disease signs would develop. The strain that came from diseased corals and human waste water, we saw disease signs in four to five days.”

Sutherland says the study reveals a new disease pathway, from humans to wildlife rather than the reverse model seen in outbreaks such as bird flu or HIV/AIDS. “This is the first time that a human disease has been shown to cause population declines of Marine invertebrates.”

Waste water treatment One obvious solution, says Sutherland, is better wastewater treatment. “A decade ago the people of Key West upgraded their sewage treatment from septic systems to advanced waste water treatment and today the entire Florida Keys is in the process of upgrading their waste water treatment.”

Sutherland says the new systems keep deadly microbes from the coast where water-related revenues contribute more than $3 billion a year to Florida and the local region.

She says the study is a call for action all across the Caribbean - where many island nations still lack sewage treatment systems.

Healthy elkhorn can provide habitat for reef fish and protect the coast from severe storms. Yet despite efforts to protect it, elkhorn populations have not grown.

Sutherland says that while her team studies the White Pox menace, numerous other threats - including warming sea temperatures and other marine diseases - continue to put the coral community at risk.

THE BAHAMAS government will allow eligible residents of hard hit Cat Island to import building materials, electrical material and agriculture supplies duty free in the wake of Hurricane Irene, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announced this week.

Government plans to import generators from the US to provide temporary power for Cat Island’s reverse osmosis water plant, Mr Ingraham told the media before flying to Abaco to inspect damage there.

“Cat Island seems to be the most affected so they will have the longest period of duty exemption,” said Mr Ingraham. “A case could also be made for Acklins and Mayaguana we think Acklins and Cat Island are at the top of the pile.”

A team of Defence Force officers left for Cat Island yesterday to deliver much needed food and water to residents who lost homes and possessions after the category three storm ripped through the island.

Drinking water is reportedly running low on the island because the water plant has no power.

Cat Islanders have been without power for nearly a week and this is expected to remain the case for some time.

Mr Ingraham flew to Abaco Monday night and plans to tour the southern Bahamas before returning to the capital by Thursday.

Private donors have bought $25,000 worth of building materials, canned goods and water to aid residents affected by Hurricane Irene.

One of many severely damaged homes on Cat Island. Photo: Edward Russell III

According to Chris Illing, owner of the Greenwood Beach Resort, who helped co-ordinate the relief efforts, the canned food and drinking water was expected to reach Cat Island on Wednesday.

“The drinking water is running low since there is no electricity on the entire island to generate power for the small reverse osmosis plant there. The local food stores are cleared out (but) a boat will arrive on Wednesday with fresh supplies.

“If they don’t drink water there’s always a can of soda and most stores are still intact but (drinking) water is running out,” said Mr Illing, who will return to Cat Island from New Providence later this week.

Roofing materials donated by the group of concerned citizens in the capital and second-home owners based in Florida should be in Cat Island by the weekend, he added.

Government has agreed to pay the

cost of the freight, Mr Illing said.

“We started a private relief fund and with the help of the government we are able to bring the freight from Miami to Cat Island free of charge.

We’re able to bring in $25,000 in roofing materials through privately raised money and government is picking up the cost of the freight.

“We have a good mix of plywood, nails, shingles as well as some cement coming that should be on the island by Sunday.”

Irene ripped through Cat Island between Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

The storm snapped power lines, uprooted utility poles and trees, and left dozens of homes damaged or uninhabitable.

When The Tribune visited the island last Friday, residents were already repairing roofs and sifting through water-soaked debris to salvage what they could.

Bahamas not as excited about REDjet Caribbean travel The Bahamas may buck the trend of neighboring nations in welcoming the region’s first low-cost carrier REDjet, with tourism executives asserting there is only limited potential attached to inter-Caribbean travel.

Director General David Johnson argues that while opportunities may be there, there wasn’t enough indication for an aggressive pursuit of those routes.

“I think the Kingston, Jamaica to?Nassau route is probably the strongest demanded route,” he told Guardian Business.

“Caribbean people don’t travel in the Caribbean as a rule. They prefer the U.S. or Europe as a pattern.

“Yes there is potential, but jet loads on a consistent basis to and from The Bahamas [is] very dubious.

There is limited potential.”

Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago recently approved operational commercial licences for the airline.

Saint Lucia is next in line to

benefit from the new air service, with officials in talks with Copa Airlines over interline and code-share agreements. It’s anticipated that the move would allow South American travelers to seamlessly connect at Panama City and visit the Caribbean.

Johnson said there would be more advantage for The Bahamas in the formation of one regional airline — something Caribbean leaders have been talking about for years.

“If we can find a formula for co-operation to focus on inbound travel to the Caribbean,” he said.

“I think it’s a niche there that is not happening.

“But that requires all of us working together for one Caribbean work space.”

Tourism officials have indeed been lobbying for just that, arguing it would make flying to and around the region more affordable for all.

The situation is especially important for the region now, given many countries are now just

beginning to see visitor arrivals creep to pre-recession levels.

With skyrocketing oil prices threatening to have a similar effect on tickets to the region, tourism leaders are now rolling out all possible measures to counter its influence on arrivals.

Earlier this year, Tourism Minister Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace confirmed that The Bahamas is now on its way to regaining control of its airspace. He also asserts that transportation linkages with neighbouring countries could be better facilitated by the establishment of one regional airspace.

Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association President, Josef Forstmayr, said it needed to be a priority for all CARICOM countries.

“Once you have approval to land in one CARICOM land, that is of the highest standard, we should be able to get the same [approval] very simple, very straightforward in another,” Forstmayr said.

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Former St Lucia PM visits TCI FORMER St Lucia Prime Minister and opposition leader of the SLP Dr Kenny Anthony and his wife were spotted in the TCI relaxing and visiting with friends.

Dr Anthony and his wife Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine visited friends in Grand Turk and paused a moment to speak with reporters at Providenciales International Airport. “Turks and Caicos is a Caribbean secret,� Dr Anthony said marvelling at the beautiful beaches and blend of different nationalities.

Dr Kenny Anthony and wife Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine

His wife, an award-winning author, has just made history as the first Caribbean woman

to be elected to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (ICHR).

Woman suffers broken leg in accident AN ACCIDENT at the IGA roundabout on Wednesday left one woman in hospital with a broken leg and a man in police custody.

An eyewitness said the car was travelling eastward and crashed into a light pole. He apparently then drove away and was apprehended by police shortly after.

He said that the driver did not suffer any injuries but he thought the female passenger was badly hurt.

Police are investigating.

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Hurricane Irene leaves US trail of destruction 1,100 miles long AS THE remnants of hurricane Irene began to dissipate over Canada, the death toll from the storm continued to rise and widespread flooding affected states across the US northeast.

The huge, slow-moving storm travelled along 1,100 miles of US coastline leaving a trail of destruction reaching far inland. At least 44 deaths have so far been attributed to Irene with about 3 million people left without power along its path.

People have struggled to get back to work as officials tried to remove fallen trees from roads and train tracks and clear flooded tunnels.

Airports across the region have started to operate again but had to deal with around 9,000 flights cancelled as Irene struck.

More than 250 roads were closed in Vermont as the state experienced its worst floods for 75 years.

Governor Peter Shumlin declared the state a federal disaster area as hundreds were told to leave their homes.

“We prepared for the worst and we got the worst in central and southern Vermont,” Shumlin said. “We have extraordinary infrastructure damage.”

On Sunday, up to 13 inches (33cm) of rain fell on states across the east coast, with more than 10 inches falling in parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and upstate New York.

Irene followed record rainfalls earlier this month, bursting the banks of already swollen rivers in several states. On 14 August, nearly eight inches of rain fell in New York city, the most since the National Weather Service began keeping records 116 years ago.

Hurricane Irene leaves New York residents to cope with floods and power cuts (Photograph: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty)

New York city was spared from the predicted flooding. Most of the city’s subway lines were running

by Monday morning. The New York Stock Exchange opened as normal, though many employees faced problems getting into work.

But flooding was reported in all five boroughs, with the suburbs hardest hit and roads washed out in the Hudson river valley.

In New Jersey, officials were expecting flooding along the Passaic and Ramapo rivers until Tuesday.

“The inland flooding … has been almost as much of a concern of mine as the coastal flooding,” said New Jersey governor Chris Christie. The ocean surge and rainfall has caused severe flooding in the state. Christie said the damage could reach tens of

billions of dollars.

More than 1 million people lost power in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as Irene swept through.

Hundreds of thousands were still without power on Monday. In Rhode Island, half the state’s 1 million residents were without electricity on Sunday but most had it restored by Monday.

North Carolina suffered the biggest blow, with at least seven people killed in the state and 444,000 households left without power.

“Overall, the destruction is not as severe as I was worried it might be,” said North Carolina governor Bev Perdu. “But there’s still lots and lots of destruction, and people’s lives have been turned upside down.”

(Guardian.co.uk)

German city of Bonn taxes prostitutes with meter THE GERMAN city of Bonn has installed a meter to tax prostitutes for soliciting on its streets at a rate of six euros (£5.30; $8.70) per night.

Those who fail to pay face fines or even a ban, and 264 euros were found in the meter when it was first emptied, according to AFP news agency.

Tax has been levied on prostitutes elsewhere but Bonn is the first city to use a meter, a spokeswoman said.

But a prostitutes’ rights activist said the scheme amounted to double taxation.

Prostitutes are expected to pay the flat rate, regardless of earnings.

The machine, which looks like

an ordinary parking meter, has been installed in an industrial area near the city centre which favoured by prostitutes and their clients.

‘CONSUMMATION AREAS’ Isabelle Klotz, a spokeswoman for the city, said they expected to get about 200,000 euros per year from the meter.

“Women who work in brothels also pay the tax but until now it had been difficult to get women on the street to pay,” she added.

“Thanks to this new method we will be able to tax them in all fairness with the others.”

There are believed to be about

200 prostitutes in Bonn.

Juanita Rosina Henning, from the Dona Carmen prostitute support group, demanded the meter’s removal, saying prostitutes already paid income tax.

“This has nothing to do with fiscal equality,” she said.

City officials have restricted the prostitutes’ areas of operation to specific quarters but critics say this has made it easier for prostitutes to ply their trade, Reuters news agency reports.

Bonn has also erected “consummation areas”, or wooden garages clients may use to visit prostitutes. (BBC)

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Youngest London rioter – boy aged 11 – given youth rehabilitation order AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy has been given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order for stealing a bin during the recent riots.

The boy from Romford in northeast London is the youngest rioter in the capital to be prosecuted, according to Scotland Yard.

He committed the offence five days after being given a referral order for arson, criminal damage and carrying a pointed instrument in an unrelated incident.

The boy took the bin, worth £50, from Debenhams in Romford on 8 August.

Rioters had smashed the windows of the store, causing £6,000 of damage, when the boy was seen by a police officer reaching in to take a bin from a display.

He was sentenced at Havering magistrates court in Essex on Wednesday after previously admitting burglary.

Passing sentence, district judge John Woollard said: “You seem to think that nobody can stop the way you behave.”

The boy was told that his local authority will dictate where he lives for the next six months. He was already under a referral order, imposed at the same court on 3 August, for an incident on 18 July when he cut the seats of a bus with a Stanley knife and tried to light the exposed foam.

When the driver refused to let him off the 174 bus, the boy threw a stone at its exit door then kicked a hole in the shattered glass and jumped out of the moving vehicle.

The judge said the boy, who sat in court with his mother, had been

involved in “major disorder”.

He said: “My view is that the offence is a very serious one. If you were a little older you would be ending up in prison, you would be looked after there rather than elsewhere.

“You need to understand very clearly that you can’t get away with committing offences of this nature.”

After the sentencing, children’s charity Barnardo’s criticised courts for punishing children of this age for “minor offences”.

Chief executive Anne Marie Carrie said: “It is both counterproductive and costly to hand out disproportionately punitive sentences for minor offences such as petty theft, particularly to younger children of 10 or 11.

“The evidence shows that after a year, half of boys and girls at this age who are sentenced in court will have reoffended and their experience within the criminal justice system increases the likelihood that they will go on to commit further crimes.

“We are calling on the government to reconsider treatment of the youngest children in trouble within the criminal justice system.

“We would urge them to spend money more wisely on more effective ways to stop youth crime, such as whole family approaches like family intervention projects.

“This is not a soft option – rather it challenges and supports parents and their children to face up to their actions and accept responsibility for them, helping to reduce antisocial behaviour, truancy and school exclusions.” (guardian.co.uk)

RAF flies £950m unfrozen cash assets to Libya THE Royal Air Force is flying £950m of Libyan cash to Libya after an assets freeze aimed at Col Muammar Gaddafi was lifted.

Notes, amounting to 1.86 billion Libyan dinars that were printed in the UK, will be handed to Libya’s Central Bank.

A Whitehall official said the money should be available to load into cash machines and distribute to banks in Libya very quickly.

The currency was released following a decision by the United Nations sanctions committee in New York.

The official said the cash delivery, worth $1.55bn, should make it possible to pay many public sector workers over the Eid holiday.

Many of those dependent on government salaries have not been

paid for many weeks.

The move comes on the eve of a major international conference on the future of Libya to be held in Paris on Thursday, chaired jointly by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

The funds were frozen in February when the uprising in Libya started.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said this latest move represented another “major step forward” in getting necessary assistance to the Libyan people.

Mr Hague said: “These banknotes, which were frozen in the UK under UN sanctions, will help address urgent humanitarian needs, instil confidence in the banking sector, pay salaries of key public sector workers and free up liquidity in the economy.”

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US Father charged after throwing crying son overboard on tour boat

The government’s work to reduce the budget deficit has sparked public protests

Spain moves closer to constitutional budget deficit cap SPANISH politicians have overwhelmingly backed holding a vote on introducing a constitutional cap on budget deficits.

The move all but guarantees that the change will be adopted.

Members of the lower house of Spain’s parliament voted 319 in favour and only 17 against holding the debate and vote later this week.

The reform would then go to the upper house next week.

To change Spain’s constitution requires three-fifths support in both houses.

The proposed reform calls for the broad principles of a balanced long-term budget to be enshrined in Spain’s constitution.

It adds that the deficit limit could only be breached in times of natural disaster, recession, or extraordinary emergencies - and then only with approval of the lower house.

PUBLIC PROTESTS “We have to take a coherent and forceful decision to strengthen our country’s solvency,” said Jose Antonio Alonso, spokesman for the ruling Socialist Party.

“There is no better way to dispel uncertainties than to elevate the principle of budget stability to the level of constitutional mandate so as to consolidate in the world a clear reality - we are a reliable country in the payment of our debts and there should be no doubt about it.”

In 2010 Spain had a budget deficit equivalent to 9.2% of its annual economic output or GDP. It is now continuing with costcutting measures to reduce this to 6% this year, and aims to reach the European Union target of 3% by 2013.

The government’s work to lower the budget has come in the face of widespread public protests.

It the reform is based by both houses of the Spanish parliament it would only be the second time that Spain’s constitution has been amended since it was first drawn up in 1978.

Germany already has a legal limit on its budget deficit level, and France is exploring the idea.

At the beginning of August, US politicians agreed to increase the country’s prescribed debt level in an 11th hour deal.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned last month that the Spanish economy still faced “considerable” risks.

It said the Spanish government had to continue work to reduce public spending and increase efforts to liberalise its jobs market.

Spain currently has an unemployment rate of 21% - the highest in Europe.

There have been concerns that Spain may have to follow Greece, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal in needing a bailout fund from the European Union and IMF. (BBC)

Gardener survives being impaled in eye with shears AN 86-YEAR-OLD US man impaled through the eye socket with pruning shears in a freak gardening accident is expected to make a full recovery, doctors say.

Leroy Luetscher said he had been trimming plants in his yard in Arizona last month when he lost his balance and fell on the tool.

One handle of the shears went into his right eye socket and down to his neck, leaving the other resting on

his face.

Surgeons were able to remove the shears and save Mr Luetscher’s eye.

He dropped the tool, which landed point downward, while working in his backyard on 30 July.

When the Wisconsin native bent down to pick up the shears, he fell face first and one handle impaled his right eye socket underneath his eyeball.

A SOUTHERN California man allegedly hit his crying 7-year-old son and then threw him off on a tour boat in busy Newport Harbour, Orange County, authorities said Tuesday.

Sloane Briles, 35, of Irvine, California, has been charged with felony child endangerment and resisting arrest, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. He was released Monday in lieu of a $100,000 bond.

Briles, who’s divorced, was on the tour boat Sunday afternoon with his two sons, ages 6 and 7, when he got into an argument with his current girlfriend, said sheriff’s office spokesman Jim Amormino.

The boat takes passengers past Newport Beach houses that are or were occupied by celebrities, including the home where the late John Wayne lived, Amormino said.

His 7-year-old son became upset about the argument and started crying, Amormino said.

The father took the boy to the bow of the boat and told him, “ ‘If you don’t stop crying, I’m going to throw you overboard,’ “ Amormino said.

“And he hits the kid a couple of

Sloane Briles, 35, has been charged with felony child endangerment and resisting arrest, police said.

times,” Amormino said. “The boy is crying. He picks him up and throws him overboard. They are in the middle of a harbour, and there is a lot of boat traffic.”

The boy’s life was endangered several ways, authorities said.

“The main one was throwing him off the front of the boat because the boat could run over him. There was the danger of him being hit by the

prop. And the other danger is that because there are so many boats out there, it’s no place to swim, and because he’s so small, the other boats wouldn’t have seen him,” Amormino said.

The boy was also “only a fair swimmer,” Amormino said.

“But luckily, three boats saw the kid and converged on him, and plucked him from the water,” Amormino said.

“The father did jump in (after his son), but the crowd on the boat became angry when he was hitting the kid and became more angry when he threw him overboard,” Amormino said.

There were 85 people on the tour boat.

A sheriff’s patrol boat responded to a call about the incident. After deputies boarded the tour boat, one of them suffered minor injuries to the hand and elbow during Briles’ arrest, authorities said.

Deputies took the two boys to their harbour station and later turned them over to their mother, Amormino said.

Briles couldn’t be reached for comment, and an attorney for him couldn’t be immediately located, the sheriff’s office said. (CNN)

Guatemalan child kidnapped, adopted in US THE US government is caught up in an emotional legal battle over a six-year-old girl said to have been kidnapped from Guatemala in 2006 and later adopted by an American couple.

A Guatemalan court has ordered that Anyelí Liseth Hernández Rodríguez should be returned to the country, after a lengthy fight by the woman who claims to be her birth mother. A judge ruled that if she were not returned within two months Interpol would be asked to intervene.

But the American couple, Timothy and Jennifer Monahan, of Kansas City, Missouri, said that, in 2008, they had legally adopted the girl, now known as Karen Abigal Monahan.

In an interview with the Guardian, the Guatemalan woman, Loyda Rodríguez Morales, 26, said she did not feel anger towards the American family. “I don’t know if they knew she was stolen. All I would like to say to them is that they return my little girl,” she said.

Morales said that in 2006 she had been returning from a supermarket with her three children, two sons and a daughter. “I went into the building with my kids behind me. I went into my flat and then straight away I realised my little girl wasn’t there,” she said. “We looked everywhere but there was no sign of her. People who had seen what happened told us that a woman took her and went off in a taxi that was waiting.”

She said she and her husband, a construction worker, went to the police, put up posters round the neighbourhood and visited orphanages, but without success.

With the help of the human rights group Survivors Foundation, Morales found her daughter on the files of an adoption agency, listed as being in an orphanage in March 2009. But it was too late: according to court records, Anyelí had left the country in December the previous year.

Morales said: “All I want is to be with my daughter again. It has been almost five years and that is what I want. It has been very hard, like very hard blows to the heart.” She rejected some people’s suggestions that her daughter would be “better off” in the US. “I can give my children a good life with the affection and love that they need. We live off what my husband earns and are OK. I will do all I can to see they have a good life.”

The Monahans have issued a statement through a Washingtonbased public relations firm, Peter Mirijanian Public Affairs, which indicated that they would not give the child up without a fight. It said they would continue to seek the safety and best interests of “their legally adopted child”, adding: “They remain committed to protecting their daughter from additional trauma as they pursue the truth of her past through appropriate legal channels.”

The couple taped a message to their door asking reporters to respect

their privacy at a “difficult and confusing time”.

The case has provoked strong opinions within Guatemala and the US, with sympathies split, some saying that any “kidnapped child” should be returned, and others thinking that the child, after a period of four years and knowing little of life other than that in the US, would be harmed by being wrenched from her adoptive family. The situation poses a dilemma for the US government, caught between its international legal obligations to comply with the Guatemalan court order and its concern for the American couple and child, who is now a US citizen.

Morales is reported have taken a DNA test, which established her as the biological mother, but the US could ask for that to be repeated and also challenge other aspects of the case, in court in Guatemala. The US government is likely to ask the child herself if she wants to return to Guatemala; it would be reluctant to force a US citizen to leave.

Agencies dealing with adoption cases, such as the US-based National Council for Adoption, said they could not recall an incident where the government faced such an order from a foreign court.

Chuck Johnson, president of the National Council for Adoption, expressed sympathy for the biological mother, the adoptive parents and Anyelí. “This is a no-win situation,” he said.

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• 5-7 years F&B management experience overseeing multiple outlets in a five-star Caribbean resort • Relevant degree or combination of experience and education, with a strong background in food service • Thorough knowledge of F&B standards and practices within a luxury resort environment • Excellent knowledge of fine dining, wines and wine service • Proven leader with exceptional supervisory skills, including the ability to motivate, train and develop staff • Sales, marketing and budgeting expertise, including scheduling and food/labour costing • Working knowledge of Visual One preferred • References required

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Hardworking individuals needed to fill restaurant openings at all levels. Candidates must have a passion for hospitality, strong work ethic and enjoy serving guests in a five-star environment. Must possess excellent communication and customer service skills. Fine dining experience essential. Current openings: • • • • •

Contact: The Publisher

Restaurant Manager Chef Assistants Kitchen Stewards/Helpers Servers Bussers

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SPA THERAPIST

We are currently seeking a male Spa Therapist to perform treatment procedures at the highest standard of service in a full-service spa. Treatments will include facials, full body treatments, massages, physiotherapy, manicures and pedicures. The ideal candidate will provide treatments in accordance with industry standards and practices and will maintain guest comfort at all times. The following requirements must be met: • • • • • • • • • •

@@ Attractive incentive @@ Great part-time job for school kids or adults looking for an extra income

5-7 years experience in the Spa and Beauty Industry Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of experience and education Specialized training in physical therapy and/or treatment of sports injuries Exceptional knowledge of current spa trends and products Knowledge of holistic concepts and treatments Professional appearance and business-friendly demeanor Exceptionally clean with a strong attention to detail Ability to stand performing treatments for up to 8 consecutive hours Ability to manage time and keep appointments punctual Strong communication skills with a good command of the English language

POOL AND BEACH ATTENDANT

Exceptional candidate with excellent customer service skills needed to assist guests with towels, seating, beach equipment and activities. Courteous and outgoing personality required. Must be efficient, organized and dependable. Certification in First Aid and/or CPR. Previous experience as a pool/beach attendant or lifeguard is desired. Ability to regularly perform duties in sun/extreme heat is required.

Qualified candidates should contact Bridgette Thomas at 332-2565 for immediate consideration. Candidates must possess relevant skills, experience, and a clean police record. Salaries for the above positions are commensurate with level, experience and education.

Call: 946-4664

WARDS CONSULTANCY ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT IS LOOKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITION A busy fine dining restaurant in one of Providenciales’ resorts is inviting applications for the following position

SOMMELIER • Must be willing to work public holidays, nights and weekends, you will be responsible for organizing and training of wait staff to ensure effortless and seamless service each night and upgrading their skills and knowledge on wines and fine dining services.

• The candidate will be responsible for managing and rotating liquor and wine inventory and is expected to work within established beverage costs whilst taking monthly liquor and wine stock taking.

• Working closely with the Chef, you will be expected to develop good working knowledge on the menus to explain in great detail to guests, extensive wine knowledge is required to contribute to the ever changing wine list and the ability to pair both New World and Old World wines with the menus is essential, good “soft sell” techniques are essential computer literacy in MS Word and Excel is mandatory • Graduation from a recognized hospitality institution along with a Sommelier Certification or at least 5 years experience in a similar capacity in a fine dining restaurant is required.

Based salary $400 per week Qualified Belongers Only

Please submit resumes to P.O. Box 459, Providenciales

September 3 - 12, 2011 PHONE: (649) 946-4664

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

FOR SALE

FINANCE MANAGER Applications are invited for the post of Finance Manager at the Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital. The position becomes vacant at the end of September 2011.

Real estate opportunity

The Post The post holder will report to the CEO and be responsible for the management of staff and operations of the Finance unit provided within the Medical Centres of Cheshire Hall and Cockburn Town. The post holder will also be responsible for overseeing the financial planning, accounting, and internal audit functions for the Hospitals.

Beautifully maintained, substantially improved, fully furnished.

Situated on 0.25 acre lot, it’s close to Blue Hills and has interior open plan living/kitchen/dining room, and central air throughout.

Offers over $155,000. Motivated seller.

The Post Holder The successful candidate will be a qualified with CPA or an equivalent qualification with five year’s post qualification experience of which at least the last two years must have been in the position of running/auditing a finance department at a hospital, preferably a for profit USA hospital. It is essential that the post holder knowledgeable of, and experienced in dealing with, Visual Dolphin a Middle East purchasing system. In addition the following are considered to be essential for the role:-

Two-bedroom, one bath home in the centre of phase one of Priton Developments in Wheeland.

Call 245 6620 or email gemmahandy@gmail.com

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FAX: (649) 946-4661

• Must be a proactive self-starter, with a strong work

ethic, who understands the details within a much larger context and demonstrates good judgment.

• Must demonstrate a client-service orientation and the ability to maintain strict confidentiality of the organization’s internal affairs • Must exhibit high energy, enthusiasm, positive attitude, poise, and confidence • Must be knowledgeable of and experienced in dealing with Insurers and revenue cycle management • Must be able to work effectively in a culturally and educationally diverse environment • Must have expert computer skills • Must have experience in managing at least three staff members • Dynamic individual who is extremely comfortable interacting with all levels of personnel, including management, clinical, and other support staff within the organization.

Salary circa U$50,000 dependant on qualifications and experience.

Closing date is Friday 8th September

Applications with an up to date CV to include contact details are to be sent to pnicholson@interhealthcanada.tc Suitably qualified and experienced Belongers are encouraged to apply.

REGISTERD LAND ORDINANCE, CAP 72

REGISTERD LAND ORDINANCE, CAP 72

TITLE NUMBER SECTION ISLAND 61101/42 LONG BAY HILLS PROVIDENCIALES

TITLE NUMBER SECTION ISLAND 60713/191 CHESHIRE HALL PROVIDENCIALES

& RICHMOND HILL

NOTICE LOST LAND NOTICE LOST LAND CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATE Whereas OLE BARRY GERDIN of PL 2864, Tyringe 28291, Sweden has declared that the Land Certificate for the above mentioned title number(s) registered in his/her/their name was inadvertently mislaid and cannot be found.

Take notice that I, Andrew Gale Registrar of Lands, shall issue a new land certificate for the said title within six weeks of the date of the first publication of this Notice in a local newspaper and the Gazette.

Dated this 15 day of August 2011

Whereas NICHOLAS R. GIANOULIS and DOLORES M. GIANOULIS of Turtle Cove Providenciales has declared that the Land Certificate for the above mentioned title number(s) registered in his/her/their name was inadvertently mislaid and cannot be found.

Take notice that I, Grisilda Carol Smith, Deputy Registrar of Lands, shall issue a new land certificate for the said title within six weeks of the date of the first publication on this Notice in a local newspaper and the Gazette.

Dated this 9th day of June 2011

............................................................

Signed Andrew Gale Registrar of Lands

Signed……............................……………………….

............................................................

Witnessed Kerietta Simpson

Witnessed………..............…………………………..

5484

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September 3 - 12, 2011 FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

NOTICE Vacancy

FLOWERGIRL

Mango Reef

Is looking for a

Female Driver With own transportation must be able to work from 9am – 3pm

Resumes can be faxed to the Labour Department of 946-8201

contact 231-3788

5486

Is looking for a suitably qualified candidate will be responsible for the general daily operations of the restaurant, possess a certificate/ degree in Restaurant Management, previous employment in a similar position and a pleasant personality.

Salary will commensurate with qualifications.

I Reuben Missick is not responsible for any debts incurred

by Tameka Solomon Missick

Turks and Caicos

Weekly News the national newspaper of the turks and caicos islands

ON THE WEB tcweeklynews.com

POSITIONS AVAILABLE The Turks and Caicos Islands’ oldest and leading publishing house is in need of additional staff to fill the following posts:

WRITERS / PHOTO JOURNALISTS Candidates must have at least five (5) years experience working full-time for daily newspapers and/or news/features magazines, reporting on hard news, features and parliamentary/court proceedings. Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

Position available March 1, 2010

FOR MAGAZINES AND OTHER PERIODICALS GRAPHICS PRODUCTION DESIGNER/PAGINATOR This position requires someone with at least five (5) years experience working with Macintosh or PC computers. Must be skilled in the make-up of advertising and pagination. Proficiency using InDesign, Illustrator and PhotoShop software for print is essential. Some technical, networking and web design knowledge an asset. Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

Position available March 1, 2010

REPORTER TRAINEE Preferably a High School graduate or someone with an extremely good command of the English language for court and community reporting.

Ability to drive and use a camera a desirable asset.

Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

Position available March 1, 2010

ADVERTISING SPACE SALES PERSON Candidates must have had actual hands-on experience selling advertising space for newspapers and magazines. Ability to assist clients with the writing of copy for ads and gathering of collateral an asset. Salary is commission based.

Position available June 30, 2011 Forward applications to: The Publisher Duncanson Publications Ltd. P.O. Box 52, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Email: tcnews@tciway.tc NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Preference will be given to Belongers and Legal Residents Closing date for applications is November 14, 2008

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

LABOURER General labour Able to work with little or no supervision, be physically fit, dependable and hardworking Must be self motivated and able to understand, read, write and speak English fluently Sent inquires to:

Norstar Group Ltd. P.O. Box 532, Suite 2-C, Courtyard Plaza Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands Telephone: 649-941-3600/3500 or Fax: 649-941-3608

Seven Stars Resort, Grace Bay

JOB OPPORTUNITIES Is recruiting for the following positions. Suitably qualified Belongers who possess the requirements listed are encouraged to apply. Salary is based on experience and qualifications.

Housekeeping Manager • Suitable candidates must have a minimum of 5 to 10 years experience working at a 5 Star Resort in a similar role • Must have strong attention to detail and exceptional ability to maintain the highest standards of quality • Must have the ability to manage a group of persons with multi-ethnic and multicultural backgrounds • Must be able to prepare and maintain a budget for employees as well as inventory supplies • Ability to keep and maintain a stock record of amenities and linens is required • Willingness to perform tasks or project as directed by the Managing Director or Director of Finance • This position requires flexibility of hours and ability to work on weekends and Government holidays

Dive Concierge/Activities Manager • Suitable candidates must have a minimum of 5 years experience working at a 5 Star Resort in a similar role • Must have strong attention to detail and exceptional ability to maintain the highest standards of quality • Ability to negotiate pricing and sales in the Resort’s best interest • Develop contracts and ensure completion • Source and hire outside vendors and contractors where needed • Plan the logistics of activity itineraries • Follow up with clients to ensure fulfillment of contractual obligations • Invoice clients as required and track payments • Ensure total guest satisfaction with services provided • Work closely with Reservations, Water Sports, F&B, and other departments as required • Implementing programs for the Kids Camp and activities for Groups • Coordinate and organize on Resort events, banquets, conferences and weddings • Coordinate incentive travels and weddings with our International cliental

Closing Date : September 15, 2011

Suitably qualified candidates should submit your resume in person at Seven Stars Resort security gate, Monday – Friday 9am-5pm or by e-mail to hr@sevenstarsgracebay.com. Due to the volume of applicants, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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TURKS AND CAICOS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONS INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR:

Telecommunication Engineer CORE FUNCTION – Under the general direction of the Director of Technology – provide support to the Telecommunications Commission in technical regulation of the telecommunications sector.

Position Overview

A person that is well-rounded in, radio and communications systems. Have experience developing, implementing and maintaining a variety of communications networks, to National and International standards. The candidate must be familiar with the TCI Telecommunications Ordinances, ITU-R, and other regional and international telecommunications body’s recommendations. Excellent oral and writing skills are essential, and the individual must be able to work in teams and train others.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide Support to the Director of Technology • Ensure that all communicating entities are radiating on their prescribed frequencies in accordance with the TCI Telecommunication Commission Regulations.

• Responsible for testing and verification, approval of installers, Marking, and Registering of apparatus, equipment and systems • Perform Quality of Service measurement on the Telco’s and other Radio Systems.

• Supervise and train subordinates.

Requirements

• B. Sc in Engineering, Telecommunications, or Networking degree.

• Candidate shall be a mature, qualified engineer with a minimum of 3 years telecommunications and radio communication experience.

• Highly competent, self motivated, self-managed.

• Able to carry out the responsibilities in the administration & management of a statutory body.

• Proficient in the use of spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, network analyzers, Power Meters and other testing equipment.

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office software, including Access Database • Knowledge of the information communication technology industry would be an asset.

• Applicants must not have a direct or indirect involvement in any local communications company.

Provisional Terms of Employment

• Period of Service: A minimum of two years with a six month probationary period.

• Salary: Base on qualification and experience.

• Hours: Shall be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday with one hour for lunch.

Please summit resume by September 15, 2011 to TCI Telecommunications Board, Business Solutions Building, Leeward Highway, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.

Telephone: 946-1900, Fax: 946-1119 and Email: infor@tcitelecommission.tc.

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ALBERT MUSGROVE Seeks a

GILLEY’S ENTERPRISES Is looking for a

To do general labor work around the dwelling home salary $5.00 per hour Monday – Friday 7am-3pm.

contact: 231-0271 5497

C & J EMPLOYMENT seeks to fill the following positions on behalf of our clients: Barefoot Café, Charles Harris

Domestic Worker Kitchen Helper

Contact:941-8382

5496

Must be willing to work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour

DISHWASHER • Must be willing to work six (6) days per week • Must be trustworthy and reliable Salary $6.00 per hour Hours are from 8:00am – 6:00pm

Contact – Finance Department @ telephone/fax: 941-4871 or email: discountfinance@tciway.tc 5498

BIEN AIME EDDY Is looking for a

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

contact: 343-3913

LABOURER

• Working hours: 8 hrs per day • Wages: $5.50 • Must be prepared to work extra hours and on weekends • Duties: include yard cleaning, washing windows small maintenance around the property

Contact: Neon Holding Ltd. 5491

LABOURER

FAX: (649) 946-4661

EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

Tel: (649) 941-7923

During working hours 5503

WANTED

Sales and Marketing Administrator The candidate will be expected to run a busy sales office while keeping accurate records of all transactions and daily sales.

The successful candidate’s responsibilities will be to keep all company books and accounts up to date and be able to produce accurate and timely sales figures and accounts.

Qualifications: • Bachelor Degree in Business Management & Accounting or equivalent.

• Ten years experience in a similar

environment.

• At least five years extensive usage/ experience of QuickBooks.

This job is based in the tourism industry and therefore the applicant must be willing to work unsociable hours, weekends and holidays.

Please only apply if you meet the minimum requirements for qualifications and experience as stated above, all applications not meeting these requirements will not be considered.

Please fax resume to 941-4664

SEA GARDENERS & LABOURERS

The job requires working in seawater everyday, lifting heavy baskets of conch, feeding conch and cleaning conch wastes from ponds on land. Persons applying must be willing to clean conch shells and meat. Wages begin at 5.50 per hour and increase with experience, person must speak and understand English and be physically fit the job requires working long hours, weekends and holidays.

Contact: Check Hesse 232-5119 between 9am-5m Monday – Friday for an interview appointment.

Belonger preferred but will consider others with experience Position available: Providenciales at TWI, Ltd. 5502

5499

PHONE: (649) 946-4664

September 3 - 12, 2011

Triple S Construction Is looking for a

PAINTER To work 6 days per week. Salary $6.00 per hour.

Contact: 231-0209

5360

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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION

VACANCY The Financial Services Commission, a statutory body of the Turks and Caicos Islands Government responsible for the licensing and regulation of financial services businesses, is seeking qualified applicants for the post of

Senior Bank and Trust Officer DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES The holder of this position will carry out the following duties: • Manage a portfolio of licensees with the responsibility of all offsite duties as they pertain to the respective institution, including corporate governance reviews, financial analysis and ensuring compliance with the regulatory laws.

• Assist in planning and co-ordinating on-site inspection as a senior member of the examination team.

• Review policies, procedures and the practices of institutions to determine whether institutions are operating in a prudent manner in compliance with the laws and regulations of the TCI. • Examine banks and other supervised financial institutions from a group perspective to ensure conformity with rules and regulations governing established relationships between parent, subsidiaries and other related companies and assessing risk and management thereof on a consolidated basis.

• Keep abreast of economic and political events (both locally and internationally), in order to liaise with the industry at an informed level as necessary. Identify and bring to the attention of the Head, Bank and Trust emerging trends and problems as they affect financial institutions, which will require enhancement/establishment of supervisory policy, methodology, legislation or guidelines as appropriate • Assist in the review of market risk sensitivities and IT systems framework.

• Process applications for mergers and acquisitions, branch openings and consolidation and new products/services of supervised entities.

• Oversee the work of the Bank and Trust Officers and Junior Bank and Trust Analyst and provide guidance, supervision and training as necessary to achieve desired results.

• Perform other functions as set out in the job description in relation to the post or as may be assigned by the Head of Banking and Trust or the Managing Director.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED • Sound knowledge of banking law, trust law and AML regulations; • Sound knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS) and or US GAAP; • Sound knowledge of the workings of the Basle Committee on Bank Supervision and the related Core Principles; • Sound knowledge of international banking operations and practices and current developments in the financial sector. A very good appreciation of economics and asset valuations would be an asset; • Sound understanding of IT systems and their use in the financial services industry.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE • Master’s Degree in Finance or other related discipline.

• Five (5) years relevant experience.

OTHER INFORMATION APPLICABLE TO THE POST This position falls within Grade 4 of the Commission’s pay scale. Actual salary payable will be determined by reference to the degree of qualification, experience, knowledge base and other criteria that the Commission may assess.

The duties for the above post may be carried out at either of the Commission’s offices in Grand Turk or Providenciales.

Applications should be received no later than August 31, 2011 and may be emailed to dmorrison@tcifsc.tc or faxed to 1-649-941-8379

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WARD CONSULTANCY Acting on behalf of our clients: Villa Del Ma, Coyaba, Coral Destination, Faces & Fingers

GARDENER:

responsible for keeping the soil in good condition, plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees, must be able to water, feed, transplant and prune them, should be able to use chemicals to control insects, disease, and weeds, must be able to put down mulch, woodchips and peat moss, to control weeds and maintain soil moisture, groundskeepers, cut, fertilize, water and renovate lawns 7am-5pm Monday – Friday $6.00 per hour

HOUSEKEEPING:

making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls and vacuuming, laundry facilities for cleaning towels, linen, bedding

and workers’ uniform etc.

7am-5pm Monday – Friday $7.00 per hour

HOUSEKEEPER

to work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour

DOMESTIC WORKER

to work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour

ASTHETICIAN

must have experience in facials, waxing salary $200 per week

KITCHEN HELPER

to work 6 days salary $5.00 per hour

Contact: 649-332-5533

VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY!!

the largest readership in the turks & caicos

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES Is looking for a

Qualifications:

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

Contact: 241-7185

IRUNDA BEAUTY SALON & SPA Is looking for a

Salary offered commensurate with experience Qualified Belongers Only

Contact: 242-5052

5468

CONTACT: 243-1358

WARD CONSULTANCY

SUSAN CAPRON

Labourer

MAITRE D

• Must be willing to work split shifts, public holidays, nights and weekends • You will be responsible for ensuring the table setting and general condition of the restaurant is up to standards • Scheduling, organizing and training of Wait Staff to ensure effortless and seamless service, implement ongoing programs to upgrade FOH skills and knowledge on bar, wine and fine dining service • The ideal candidate will ensure and personally supervise the highest level of hygiene standards are maintained at the bar and dining room as the liaison between the Kitchen and FOH you will ensure the wait staff is properly briefed of daily specials to be able to sell more menu items, possessing an exceedingly pleasant personality, readily able to assist with all guest complaints to a positive resolution for each incident • The candidate will assist the Assistant Manager in managing established Labour and beverage costs, cocktail mixology and wine knowledge is required to work closely with the chef for interesting and “Avant Garde” pairing for food to beverage titillating the feedback with regards guests comments on all food menus, wine lists, cocktail list and meeting service expectations, good “soft sell” techniques are essential, computer literate in MS Word and Excel is mandatory Salary $500 per week Qualified Belongers Only

Please submit resumes to P.O. Box 459, Providenciales

Is seeking a

Domestic Worker/

Caregiver

Must be able to load, unload and identify building materials, machinery and tools and distribute them to the appropriate locations according to projects plans and specifications Hours: 7am-5pm Monday – Friday Salary $5.00 per hour

To mind an elderly lady

Carpenter

Must be willing to sleep in 5 days per week and sometimes on weekends salary negotiable please apply via

Contact: 649-332-5533

email: capronis2005@yahoo.com

Must be able to measure accurately and calculate dimensions as well as read blueprints etc.

Hours: 7am-5pm Monday – Friday Salary $7.00 per hour 5482

A busy fine dining restaurant in one of Providenciales’ resorts is inviting applications for the following position

per week salary $100.00 per week Contact: 345-3438

FOR SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2011. SALARY $5.00 PER HOUR.

Acting on behalf of our clients: Complete Construction

WARDS CONSULTANCY ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT IS LOOKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITION

Worker To work 5 days

LABOURER WANTED

5473

Cashier

To work 6 days per week salary $5.00 per hour. contact: 347-1493

To work 5 days per week. Salary $400 per month.

SHINING STARS PREPARATORY SCHOOL

City and Guilds or diploma for an internationally recognized institution

Please submit resumes to P.O. Box 459, Providenciales

Mason

Domestic

Is looking

5467

Domestic

5416

• The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, self-motivated, energetic and creative with good people and organizational skills must be will to work all public holidays and weekends • Knowledge in the following areas is necessity: mother sauces, basic vegetable cuts, Garde manger and mis en place, cutting and dressing of meat cuts, fish and shellfish, kitchen management, food costing, safety and sanitation.

• Computer literacy in MS Excel absolutely essential • Qualified applicant must have classical training with exposure to Modern Caribbean Fusion and a broad range of European cookery styles~ French~Mediterranean~Asian with at least 6 years experience in a similar capacity

CLIFTON BLACK

Is looking for a

A busy fine dining restaurant in one of Providenciales’ resorts is inviting applications for the following position

SOUS CHEF

SYLVIA MISICk

5478

WARDS CONSULTANCY ACTING ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENTS IS LOOKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITION

Huguette Jean Baptiste

5487

PHONE: (649) 946-4664

September 3 - 12, 2011

TCMillwork ltd.

Architectural woodworking, Cabinetry and Design Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands

Position: Millshop Foreman • Supervision of workforce.

• Prepare and provide work, supplies, drawings to employees.

• Prepare orders for materials necessary for ongoing millshop operations in a timely and prudent manner.

• Delegation of work. Quality control.

Ensuring the facilities at the millshop operate safely, efficiently and profitably, and are kept in clean working condition.

• Overseeing production schedules.

• Liaise with Owners, Purchasers, and consultants, site personnel, staff,

employees, subcontractors and suppliers of TCMillwork in a professional and courteous manner.

• Certificate required: Carpentry-Cabinet making-Joinery • Working knowledge of AutoCad • High-end technical woodworking skills • Must have excellent leadership and communication skills, multi-lingual preferred • Professional, disciplined, punctual, reliable and affable Salary at $15.00 per hour

Please send applications to: tcmillwork@tciway.tc contact person: Mario 941-4907

5504

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES

NEW STYLE CONSTRUCTION

MARCO ZANUCCOLI

5287

Salary $250.00 Per Week

Labourer

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

Is looking for a

Please contact us by Tel: 941-7432 Or Fax 941-7431

Salary $5.00 per hour

WILLY’S BARBER SHOP

BARBER Is looking for a

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

WORKERS

Primary objectives of the Job Duties: A good communicator (both written and oral), technical knowledge in journalism, posses a broad knowledge of broadcasting and journalism general rules, regulations and policies, understanding editing equipment and tools where relevant, skills to guide and counsel trainees.

LABOURERS CARPENTER SECURITY GUARD DOMESTIC, WORKERS, BARBER DIVER Must have experience and able to work on call and holidays Belonger will be given first preference Salary starting $5.00 per hour

Send resume to P.O. Box 954

Is seeking a

LABOURER

5491

Belongers will be given first preference

Roles and Responsibilities: • Understand and follow all company safety standard and practices.

• Supervise and training staff of all levels • Identifying and remedying missing skill sets • Able to review the trainee’s ability and match it against the current operational requirements observe and evaluate • Must prepare an accurate and precise documentation of the training outcome and future needs of each trainee • Must be willing and able to handle special projects • Perform all job functions with the appropriate safety measures • Must be able to work flexible hours, including weekends and holidays • Liaise with other management as required • Perform other duties in keeping with the position Qualifications and requirements: • Bachelor degree or certificates in Journalism, Filming and Communication courses • A minimum of fifteen years experience in broadcast television including but not limited to Anchoring, Broadcasting, Producing and News Editing.

• Must have extensive knowledge of equipment characteristics, capabilities and limitations

TCI HOSPITALITY SUPPLIES

To work 5 days per week salary $5.00 per hour must have experience send application to P.O. Box 954.

5512

Channel 4 Training Manager

(MOTIVATING, STRATEGIC PLANNING, COMMUNICATING SKILLS, MONITORING AND EVALUATION, FACILITATING ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE)

5490

5474

Labourer

vacancy

Interested person should

Contact 245-6060

NEEDED

WANTED

5472

Contact: 331-2206

Worker

FRANKLIN ROBINSON

contact: 341-2509 or 345-7832

One (1) Labourer

To work 6 days per week salary $300.00 per week.

1 Domestic

Contact: 231-6889

Contact: 231-0824

Seeks to fill the following position

Seeks

Is looking for a

To work 6 days per week. Salary $6.00 per hour.

Contact: 244-5702

TCI Paint & Supply Ltd.

Dee’s Fashion

SAG CONSTRUCTION

• Must have own transportation • Must be fluent in English • Must be willing to work 6 days per week • Must be able to do boat maintenance Salary $6.00 per hour

FAX: (649) 946-4661

Interested person must be willing to work hard, must be responsible, reliable & trustworthy. Must be willing to work with little or no supervision. Schedule work hours are 7am to 5pm Applicant must be willing to work on holidays and weekends.

Salary US$5.00 per hour

5510

LABOURER CONTACT 241-7185

NANNY Is looking for a

IS LOOKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

DIVE MASTER

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Skills and workings conditions • Excellent communications skills with external and internal customers • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where on limited to standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.

Salary: $60,000.00 -$75,000.00 per annum plus additional benefits. Based on experience.

Contact: WIV Cable P.O. Box 679, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands administrator@wiv.tc or fax 946-4866

No telephone calls please

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EMPLOYMENT / SERVICES / NOTICES CORNER STONE HEALING CENTER Is seeking

VACANCIES Gansevoort Turks + Caicos is a contemporary luxury full service boutique resort on Grace Bay Beach. We are looking for driven and energetic professionals with Five Star experience and who are committed to achieving excellence by ensuring Five Star standards and services are continuously delivered.

Engineering Technician

Report directly to the Chief Engineering. This position is responsible for the day to day maintenance of the hotel. This position demands attention to detail, technical expertise and understanding of the preventive maintenance process.

Minimum Requirements:

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Laundry Supervisor

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Venus’ tennis future in question after withdrawing from US Open

Venus Williams’s tennis future looks bleak after she opted out of the US Open. (John Angelillo/LANDOV)

HER RANKING now sits in the triple digits, floating in the low 100s alongside notso-households name such as Misaki Doi, Edina GallovitsHall and Varvara Lepchenko.

This is the area code where Venus Williams now lives after a bittersweet day in her remarkable tennis career.

Shortly before 4 p.m.

Wednesday afternoon, word broke at the National Tennis Center that the 31-year-old Williams had withdrawn from her second-round match against 22nd-seeded German Sabine Lisicki, a painful coda to an annus horribilis for the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion.

This is how 2011 has been for the older Williams sister: After retiring in the third round of the Australian Open against Andrea Petkovic -her first-ever retirement in a Grand Slam match -- Williams missed six months with knee and hip injuries before

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Salary paid weekly will commensurate with experience.

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returning at Eastborune, a warmup to Wimbledon. At the All England Club, she lost to No. 32-seeded Tsvetana Pironkova in the fourth round. She then disappeared again, missing the summer U.S. hardcourt season with a viral infection, which she called “energy-sucking” on Monday but refused to name specifically. That ailment has a name now, according to the player.

“I have been recently diagnosed with Sjögren’s Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain,” Williams said in a statement. “I enjoyed playing my first match here and wish I could continue but right now I am unable to.

I am thankful I finally have a diagnosis and am now focused on getting better and returning to the court soon.”

According to the Sjögren’s

syndrome foundation website, the syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disease in which people’s white blood cells attack their moisture-producing glands.

The site says as many as four million Americans are living with this disease and that nine out of ten are women. There is no cure for Sjögren’s syndrome, but it can be treated and controlled.

It was the strangest -and saddest -- of Venus’s 13 appearances at the Open, a

title she captured in 2000 and 2001. She had previously reached the fourth round or better every time in New York, and given she was defending 900 points here because of last year’s semifinals appearance, her ranking now tumbles.

Williams falls out of the top 100 for the first time since 1996, when she was 16. She entered this tournament as the world’s 36th-ranked player after playing just 11 matches this year. (Sportsillustrated. com)

Teenager gives Grenada first medal at World Championships EIGHTEEN-year-old Kirani James stunned defending champion LaShawn Merritt to win the 400m gold and secure Grenada’s first medal at the World Championships.

James, who has run just a handful of senior races after

many junior titles, surged past Merritt just before the line for a personal best of 44.60.

David Rudisha, unbeaten since the 2009 Championships, won the 800m in one minute 43.91, Abubaker Kaki second.

Fabiana Murer won the

Kirani James sent Grenadians into celebration with their first medal at the World Championships.

women’s pole vault, with Yelena Isinbayeva sixth.

Two-time Olympic and double world champion Isinbayeva had looked in good form in the heats, albeit landing just one vault at 4.55m to qualify.

The 29-year-old, whose world record stands at 5.06m, came in at 4.65m and sailed over. Passing at 4.70m, she then bumped the bar off at 4.75, but rather than retrying at that height went up to 4.80.

Her first attempt at 4.80 was no better, brushing the bar with her stomach, and a final attempt at the same height saw the livid Russian not even get close to the bar and she left the stadium muttering angrily to herself.

Brazilian Murer, who was fifth at the World Championships in Berlin two years ago, managed a best of 4.85m, with Germany’s Martina Strutz taking silver and Russian Svetlana Feofanova winning the bronze.

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Messi takes over as Read and Thomson to miss All Argentina captain for friendly Blacks’ opening game against Tonga

LIONEL Messi will captain Argentina for the first time as they take on Venezuela in a friendly in cricket-mad India Friday.

Messi has been handed the responsibility by new Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella after their disappointing Copa America campaign.

They went out in the quarterfinals to eventual winners Uruguay, costing then coach Sergio Batista his job.

“He is the captain from now on,” Sabella told gathered reporters Wednesday ahead of the match in the 120,000 capacity Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata.

“We are looking to build a

couple of options, looking for one or two players to build up a combination with him.”

The arrival of World Footballer of the Year Messi in India has been greeted with much excitement and a big crowd gathered at Kolkata airport as he flew in.

Barcelona star Messi and his teammates will be looking for a morale-boosting win over their South American rivals in the biggest football match ever played in India.

They will then go to Bangladesh for a friendly against Nigeria’s Super Eagles on September 6 as they prepare for 2014 World Cup qualifiers which begin in October.

NEW ZEALAND number eight Kieran Read will miss the opening weeks of the Rugby World Cup with an ankle sprain.

All Blacks loose forward Adam Thomson is also set to miss the opening match against Tonga with an injured elbow.

The pair had scans after picking up the injuries in Saturday’s Tri-Nations defeat

by Australia.

“We’re positive on Kieran, the doctor thinks he’ll be able to play in the World Cup,” said coach Graham Henry.

“I don’t think Adam’s injured his arm before but it

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doesn’t look good.”

All Blacks doctor Deb Robinson said: “Kieran has torn the ligament between the tibia and fibula at the front of his left ankle. While it’s still early days in his recovery, with aggressive rehabilitation we are aiming to have him available to play near the end of the round robin.

“Adam’s MRI scan shows some swelling around the inside of his elbow, which should settle quickly.”

Read has 32 international caps and was New Zealand’s

BANGED UP: Kieran Read’s ankle injury will see him probably miss the All Blacks’ first two World Cup matches (Getty image)

player of the year in 2010, while Thomson has 17 caps

and can play on both sides of the backrow. (Irishtime.com)

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One IT Specialist

The Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority invites applications from suitably qualified individuals for the position of

The successful applicant will be responsible for the deployment, configuration and maintenance of all the computer hardware and software utilized throughout the organization.

The position holder will be required to: • Provide the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors with appropriate, timely and accurate financial statements on a monthly basis or when requested • Co-ordinate and prepare the annual and revised budgets in conjunction with the executive management team • Maintain the company’s fixed asset register • Prepare annual financial statements for auditing • Advise the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors on financial matters.

In addition, the Financial Controller will be responsible for the management of the Authority’s information Technology and networking systems.

Responsibilities: • Design, install, configure and administer domain controllers, file servers, mail servers workstations, network devices and web-page hosting/maintenance • Set up and administer security groups, user accounts, group policies and security restrictions; Maintain network connectivity, telephone equipment, and other network appliances.

• Install and configure surveillance equipment and surveillance management software Maintain Point-Of-Sale (POS) operating on Microsoft SQL platform, and attached paraphernalia, including scales and hand held • Provide support, analyse data, run macros/scripts for P.O.S using SQL platform Requirements: • B.Sc., Computer Information Systems • Minimum of 3-4 years experience carrying out responsibilities listed • Experience with Active Directory and Microsoft Server 2003/2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft XP/Vista • A detailed understanding of TCP/IP is essential • Excellent written and oral communication skills; highly self-motivated, able to work without supervision with keen attention to detail • Proven analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Only applicants selected for interview will be notified.

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Salary: Commensurate with qualifications in the range $60,000 - $78,000 per annum with additional allowances.

Applications must be submitted before September 20, 2011 to:

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Scott Hastings, who was a guest of the TCIRFU President’s Dinner, also had training sessions with the young rugby players.

Hastings sees bright future for TCI – After training sessions with young rugby players IN HIS final training session with the Turks and Caicos Islands Rugby Football Union former international star Scott Hastings took a selection of the junior players through their paces and was impressed with what he saw.

Hastings began by taking part in a few warm-up games and was quickly outpaced by the junior players. He then moved on to ball handling and positional skills and was impressed with the dexterity and commitment of the players. Hastings said that: “The guys who are out this morning are very confident throwing the ball around and are having a good time.

Rugby is as much about camaraderie as it is the results on the pitch.”

GOOD FUTURE Hastings added that the TCI should have a good future in rugby if the

current youngsters continue playing the game: “A few of the lads said they had only just started playing rugby and already they have a good handle on what they should be doing.

They are attentive and learn from any mistakes they make. If they keep it up the game should continue to grow and the players you produce will be top class.”

In Hastings’s honour the session finished with a Scotland select team taking on a TCI select team. The Scottish team began stronger with Cardashio Williams and Sebastian Turbyfield slipping past the TCI’s defence. Jaebets Jean took a long run down the middle of the pitch and threw a long pass to Franco Mompremier who offloaded to LJ Outten to score in the corner. Off the kick-off Greg Louis sped past Outten setting up

Ritchie Agenor to level the match. The Scottish team were straight back into the TCI half with Tristan Granshire making two strong runs for the try line before Jean barrelled over. The TCI side refused to drop their heads and Louis again showed his speed racing for the line. Tackled just short of the line Luis Turbyfield threw a long pass to Preston Burant who rounded two defenders and levelled the match.

The TCI side remained camped in the Scottish half and with two players being deemed offside Edison Alexander dove over the line to secure a 3-2 win for the TCI select side. The Junior Rugby Autumn Season will begin on Saturday 17th September at the Meridian Field in Grace Bay with skills’ sessions, registration day and a BBQ. New players, both boys and girls, are invited to participate.

PABA pre-season action final this Saturday HURRICANE Irene slightly affected the Provo Amateur Basketball Association’s (PABA) opening activity as action in the pre-season competition tipped off on Thursday at the Gustarvus Lightbourne Sports Complex.

The double elimination competition, originally billed for last week, had initially targeted seven teams, but to press time only TC Crystal Lions, Flyers, Knights, Predators and Harbor Boys had officially confirmed.

Grand Turk and North Caicos were also expected to compete.

The opening competition was a collaborative effort between K & G Entertainment and the PABA. Information from the association indicates that teams will be using this competition to gear up for a nightly league billed for October.

The 2011-2012 season is officially scheduled to start on October 14th. The PABA is asking that players and coaches get their teams ready for the event.

Secretary Mr. Sydwell Glasgow can be reached on telephone numbers: 244-9508 or 332-9508 for further details.

Josh for Sports

Moving forward – Promises and deliveries ON THE Easter weekend of 2011 during the month of April, the perennial CARIFTA Games were held in Montego Bay, Jamaica. These particular Games would produce the most successful results in the history of the championships as it relates to TCI’s participation.

Our national team was successful in winning not one, but two gold medals in those Games.

The most extraordinary fact about the results was that our two gold medallists were in the under-20 category.

I am not sure that the consequences of what this means has yet sunken in the mentality or analytical minds of our citizens.

What this in fact means is that in the U-20 category we are number one in the Caribbean in these two events.

When one considers that we are the

By Joshua Gardiner

best in the 200M and the high jump beating countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Bahamas and the rest of the regional it shows that we are moving apace.

Should Delano Williams (200M gold) continue on track, fully focused over the next four years or so he should indeed become the

world and Olympic champion by the year 2016. For Delano, by that time he would only be 23 years old.

A mitigating factor to sustain my hypothesis is the fact that Master Williams on the way to his colossal achievement over the past athletic year literally broke Usain Bolt’s record [age group] at the Western Champs in Jamaica.

The second most outstanding achievement was executed by Dominique Missick in the high jump and when one considers that he beat the rest of the Caribbean it indicates that he too has the potential to reach the top of the world with the right guidance over the next few years.

THE MAMMOTH STUMBLING BLOCK Be it known that a ton of accolades,

deservingly so, were showered on these two “Golden Boys”.

SCHOLARSHIPS One of the bestowments heaped upon the two stalwarts by the governor, his Excellency Gordon Wetherell, was that of a full academic scholarship to a university/higher institute of learning to complete their education while at the same time pursue their athletic dreams.

ONE STEP FORWARD, THREE STEPS BACKWARDS I am aware that Delano Williams graduated from Munro College this year. I am also aware that he optioned to return there to study for ‘A’ levels; this was a very wise decision in my opinion. However, I advise him not to join Bolt’s track club.

His coach, who has brought him thus far, needs to fulfill his optimum objective—that is to coach him to become a world champion.

In the case of Domanique Missick, there is something very much amiss.

Seeing that the past governor publicly offered him a scholarship to continue his endeavours there is no reasoning as to why Mr. Missick is not set to go to school this month.

According to information reaching me there was a lack of timely assistance with the presentation of Missick’s academic documents to facilitate him entering school this term. Is this not a national issue? Should this young man not be given the utmost help in every possible way? We need to think big to achieve big because without vision the people perish.

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Marco Fenelus (second left, top row) has already scored twice for his new school, Western Texas College.

Fenelus scores in Western Texas College opener

DeAngelo Germain wants to prove himself again

ONE of the TCI Men’s Football League’s most aggressive scorers, Marco Fenelus, has already made his mark for new school Western Texas College.

The youngster who is in Snyder, Texas because of a football scholarship scored twice on the opening day of action. “I am really enjoying myself. Western Texas

College is a good school with a lot of respect and love.”

Fenelus said that his dream is to play pro football, but before that happens he wants to make it to a senior college. He also hopes to give back to the sport by helping youngsters with similar dreams.

In the opening games last

Germain ready to bounce Giving back back at Munro College

Saturday Fenelus’s team whipped Northeastern University 8-1 and registered a commanding 9-0 win against Dodge City. “In the two games I scored twice and made three assists.”

This Friday the team travels to Dallas to play Johnson Community College while on Sunday they will be on the road again.

– Aims for better times as injuries heal HE MIGHT not be fully fit, but national athlete DeAngelo Germain is ready to prove to fans and skeptics alike that he is back and willing to give his all.

The 17-year-old, who will return to do ‘A’ Levels at Munro College in Jamaica, wants to put his fifth form year behind him, which was filled with injuries.

“I had a back and a knee injury which don’t only hurt physically, but emotionally knowing the fact that I have the potential to execute and to make the Turks and Caicos more proud.”

The Haitian born athlete who has represented the TCI in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic said at the moment he is about 80% fit.

“Well I am not 100%, but it feels way better than how it use to be. I would say that I am about 80% [fit] already.”

Germain who passed the eight subjects he wrote at CSEC said that his injuries occurred because he lacked the proper training shoes coupled with a zest to compete in too many events.

His coach Mr. Harrison has since given him the proper advice and he is focused on the 800M and to a lesser extent the 400M. For the 800M he has a personal best of 2:00 minutes while in the 400M he has clocked a flat 50 seconds.

Germain already has new numbers in mind. He aims to clock 1:55 in the longer event and 48s in the 400M. An emotional Germain explained: “Injury or no injury I am really to try my best in spite of what people might want to say about me; that cannot stop me from trying to do the best I can to make the Turks and Caicos Islands proud.”

CARIFTA gold medallists Domanique Missick (second from left in front row) and Delano Williams (second from right front row) with some of TCI’s future athletes in a recent island hopping exercise to foster national unity organised by the Sports Commission. Williams won the 200M title and Missick took the top high jump medal.

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