July 27, 2016
Camp Build a Boss” – Boys Camp
In an effort to continue to fulfil its mandate to develop policies and plans of action for intervention, as well as strategies that empower young boys and girls throughout the Turks & Caicos Islands; the Department of Gender Affairs under the…
July 27, 2016
Reagan would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr to be released
John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years. Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March…
July 27, 2016
Freddie Gray case: Last charges dropped against police
Gray, 25, died a week after sustaining a spinal injury while in the back of a police van in April 2015. Garrett Miller, William Porter and Alicia White were due to face charges including assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. The…
July 27, 2016
Japan knife attack: Suspect’s home searched by police
Police have searched the home of a man accused of carrying out Japan's worst mass killing in decades, at a care home for people with mental disabilities. Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the facility in Sagamihara west of Tokyo, stabbed 19…
July 27, 2016
Inside Tesla’s gigantic Gigafactory
The chief executive of Tesla is, in a post-Steve-Jobs world, the stand-out visionary voice in Silicon Valley. There's no question about that. But with each product launch - or, in this case, a building launch - it seems he needs both more time and…
July 27, 2016
Apple sees iPhone sales drop again but beats forecasts
Apple has reported a second consecutive quarter of falling iPhone sales, but the 15% drop was not as bad as analysts had feared. The US tech giant sold 40.4 million iPhones in its third quarter, slightly above forecasts of 40.02 million. Apple chief…
July 27, 2016
Kendall Dean Sentenced to three years
On Tuesday 27th July 2016, 20-year-old Kendall Dean of Blue Hills Providenciales was sentenced to three (3) years imprisonment by the Supreme Court after he plead guilty to two (2) counts of Handling Stolen goods. It was on the evening of Thursday…
July 27, 2016
Man got stabbed by Jitney Driver
Investigators of the Royal Turks and Caicos Police are investigating the report of a stabbing that occurred on Tuesday 26 July 2016. The complainant reported that around 6:13PM on that date, he caught a jitney from Gracebay to Down-Town,…
July 27, 2016
US election: Trump ‘encouraged foreign hack of Clinton emails’
The Wikileaks group last week released emails from the Democratic National Committee. Russia is accused of carrying out the hack. Some 30,000 of the stolen emails are yet to be released. On Wednesday, Mr Trump urged Russia to find them. "Russia, if…
July 27, 2016
Double winner J M Coetzee on Man Booker longlist
The Australian author, who was born in South Africa, previously won in 1983 and 1999 and could become the first author to win the prize three times. He faces competition from 12 authors, including 2012 nominee Deborah Levy and A L Kennedy, who was a…