December 29, 2014
Police Appeal for Information into Murder on Aviation Drive
The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (RTCIPF) are still appealing to members of the public for information into a murder which occurred in the down town area of Providenciales on Saturday Dec 27th,2014. At approximately 3AM (27 December…
December 29, 2014
Search On For Missing Plane In Guyana’s Interior
A search is being carried out by aviation officials here following reports that communication was lost with a plane that was flying in the interior of the country. Aviation personnel on Sunday reported that they lost communication with the Britten…
December 29, 2014
Air Asia Flight Believed to be ‘at the Bottom of the Sea’
The chief of the search effort for missing Indonesia AirAsia flight 8501, which vanished a day earlier, stated Monday that "the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea." Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency…
December 29, 2014
IS Executed Nearly 2,000 in Syria in 6 Months
The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organization said on Sunday. Islamic State militants also killed 120 of its own members,…
December 23, 2014
Middle Caicos Pine Yard Treated with Controlled Burning
Members of the Department of Environment & Maritime Affairs (DEMA) initiated the second controlled burn in the Middle Caicos pine yard on Tuesday, 9 December 2014. This is an on going part of the Caicos Pine Recovery Project. Various measures…
December 23, 2014
Lawyer claims Bravo, Sammy, Pollard ‘wronged’ by WICB
A prominent lawyer retained by some West Indies players during the recent strike impasse, has accused the West Indies Cricket Board of victimisation in the axing of the experienced trio of Dwayne Bravo, Darren Sammy and Kieron Pollard from the…
December 23, 2014
British singer Joe Cocker dies of lung cancer
British singer Joe Cocker, whose had hits that included You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong, and a contortionist style of performance memorably parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, has died. He was 70. His London-based agent,…
December 23, 2014
Haiti appoints Interim Prime Minister
Health Minister Florence Duperval Guillaume was named as Haiti's interim prime minister on Sunday following the resignation of her predecessor a week ago amid a stalemate over delayed legislative elections. Duperval Guillaume will hold the post for…
December 23, 2014
Ukraine’s Parliament Drops Non-aligned Status
Ukraine took a further step toward seeking NATO membership Tuesday, when the country's parliament passed a law abolishing Kyiv's neutral, non-aligned status. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly scrap the non-aligned status, which was adopted in 2010…
December 23, 2014
Digicel/Claro merger in order, court rules
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the merger of telecoms providers Digicel and Claro was in keeping with provisions of the Telecommunications Act and does not fall within the Fair Competition Act (FCA). The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) had, in…