Month: February 2011

February 3, 2011

PDM Leader calls for no property tax and calls for £175M of UK financial assistance

The Peoples Democratic Movement is today calling for the early announcement from the…

February 3, 2011

New Ambulances for Providenciales

  TWO brand new ambulances are set to hit the streets of Providenciales.…

February 3, 2011

Ministry of Finance announces strengthening of Payroll process

PS of Finance, Delton Jones has issued a press release in support of the Turks and Caicos Island’s Government’s commitment to strengthen public financial management review which is now being undertaken of the public sector payroll system for waged…

February 3, 2011

TCI marks World Wetlands Day 2011

On February 2nd of each year the world celebrates its wetlands. This day marks the signing of the Convention on Wetlands that took place in the Iranian City of Ramsar in 1971. However, Wetlands Day was not celebrated until 1997. The purpose of…

February 3, 2011

Contractor poised to sue government for $13 million

Herzog Caribbean Construction is threatening to file a law suit to collect millions owed the company for pavement they provided to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) government during the period 2006 through 2008. This appears to be the hot…

February 3, 2011

Grand Turk John Glenn Exhibit opens

Grand Turk, which hosts the deep water Carnival Cruise ship facility, recently celebrated the opening of a new exhibit pertaining to the February 21, 1962 return to earth of astronaut John Glenn. Following the first full orbit space flight by a…

February 3, 2011

Chavez financed Bouterse’s election campaign in Suriname, claims leaked cable

According to documents recently published on the WikiLeaks website, United States…

February 3, 2011

St Vincent PM criticises Trinidad on LIAT

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says he is concerned that officials of Trinidad and Tobago and that country's Caribbean Airlines have been talking as though they own the regional airline, LIAT.LIAT's three shareholder…

February 3, 2011

St Kitts-Nevis to host climate change conference

Issues relating to climate change and ethical principles in the Caribbean will be discussed in St Kitts and Nevis on March 8-9, 2011, when experts across the region meet for a conference. Science, ethics and policies will be at the forefront of…

February 3, 2011

Calls to end world’s longest running banana trade dispute

The International Trade Committee (ITC) is recommending that Europe should help put an end to the world’s longest running trade dispute, by giving its final consent to the 2009 Geneva deal on banana trade tariffs. According to a CMC report from…