GONZALO TO BECOME A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE BY THURSDAY

NEWS ITEM ON HURRICANE GONZALO ISSUED BY THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY FORECAST OFFICE SECTION, AT 11 AM TUESDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2014. …GONZALO IS MOVING NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE OPEN ATLANTIC OCEAN…STRENGTHENING IS EXPECTED TO RESUME LATER…

JP Morgan Chase posts $5.6bn profit

US banking giant JP Morgan Chase has reported a $5.6bn (£3.5bn) profit for the three months to 30 September. The quarterly results represent a marked improvement on a year earlier, when the bank made a $380m loss. This was the result of setting…

Shillingford, Miller rescue Windies A

A defiant unbroken eighth-wicket stand of 92 between Shane Shillingford and Nikita Miller saved West Indies A from a possible innings defeat on the third day of their opening four-day 'Test' against Sri Lanka here yesterday. Asked to follow on after…

Obama Urges More ‘Robust Commitments’ to Combat Ebola

President Barack Obama spoke with world leaders and was briefed by his public health and national security teams Monday on international and domestic efforts to confront the Ebola epidemic. U.S. public health officials are “rethinking” the way they…

Haitians banned from UN Ebola mission in Africa

After news appeared on social networks that the United Nations was recruiting volunteers to respond to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, authorities in Haiti sprang into action. A statement released last week, signed by the ministers of health,…

Statement from the Hon Vaden Delroy Williams (October 2014)

Whilst we are hoping to see some level of repairs for the 14 Government Schools around the Islands, focus has also been turned to the state of the Department of Education in Grand Turk where the administrators of our Schools are to operate and where…

Shadow Minister of Foreign Trade House Motion (October 2014)

There is an increasing and long term problem of children being born in the Turks and Caicos Islands to parents who are not Turks and Caicos Islanders and those children who may have not been born in the Islands but have been here all of their lives.…

Suarez scored his first Uruguay goals since the World Cup

Ex-Liverpool striker Luis Suarez scored his first Uruguay goals since the World Cup finals and his suspension for biting in a 3-0 friendly win over Oman. Suarez, 27, is serving a nine-match international ban from competitive games after biting…

Nicki Minaj fails to snatch solo UK number one single

Nicki Minaj has failed to capture the first UK solo number one single in her own right as her song Anaconda was beaten into third place in the chart. The US singer was routed by Meghan Trainor, who galvanised pole position with All About That Bass.…

Oil prices see further declines

Global oil prices have fallen again amid worries about slow global growth and reports that key oil producers want to maintain current output levels. Brent crude fell to a near four-year low of $87.74 a barrel earlier, before recovering some ground…