July 23, 2018
CIBC First Caribbean Wins Most Innovative Bank Award
Less than two months after releasing enhancements to its Mobile App and Online Banking, CIBC First Caribbean has been named the Most Innovative Bank in the region at the prestigious World Finance Banking Awards presented by UK-based World Finance…
July 23, 2018
CDB and Partners Kick off Project to Support Micro and Small Enterprises in Haiti
A project has been launched to give female and male entrepreneurs in Haiti better opportunities to grow their businesses. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Inter-American Development Bank, Global Affairs Canada and Desjardins International (DID)…
July 23, 2018
ScotiaBank Grace Bay closed Friday 20th July, 2018
Friday evening signaled the complete closure of the Scotia Bank Grace Bay branch in a controversial downsizing exercise with its Grand Turk Branch next. On June 7, 2018, ScotiaBank confirmed that a format that’s being implemented region wide by the…
July 23, 2018
Weather Forecast, July 23rd, 2018
FOR THE TURKS AND CAICOS & SOUTHEAST BAHAMAS WEATHER: VARIABLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT ADVISORY: BOATERS CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS AND HIGHER SEAS IN SHOWERS AND…
July 20, 2018
TCI makes Debut in Central American and Caribbean Games!!!
The Turks and Caicos Islands makes debut in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla Colombia. The Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championship event, held quadrennial (once every…
July 20, 2018
Rapper XXXTentacion had $50,000. Four men have been indicted for killing him to get it.
Before Pompano Beach rapper XXXTentacion swung by Deerfield Beach’s Riva Motorsports to look at motorcycles on June 18, he stopped at a Bank of America branch to take out $50,000 in stacks of $100 bills. That $50,000 was in the Louis Vuitton bag…
July 20, 2018
Weather Forecast July 20th, 2018
BAHAMAS AND TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS PUBLIC FORECAST GENERAL SITUATION: MID TO UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN USA AND TYPICAL DIURNAL PATTERN CONTINUE TO CREATE UNSTABLE CONDITION ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BAHAMAS WHILE THE REMAINDER OF THE ISLANDS…
July 20, 2018
Jamaica to Invite Thai boys and coach on free vacation
The Government will be inviting the 12 boys from a youth football team in Thailand and their coach who were recently rescued from a flooded cave to vacation in the island with all expenses paid. Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett said he “couldn’t…
July 20, 2018
More jail time for South Korea ex-leader
Disgraced former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been jailed for a further eight years for corruption, on top of the 24 she is already serving. A court in Seoul sentenced Park to six years for illegally accepting funds from the country's…
July 20, 2018
UK sets up Brexit battle over Irish border, rejecting ‘unworkable’ EU plan
British Prime Minister Theresa May has told the European Union that the UK will not accept its proposals to deal with one of the thorniest issues in Brexit talks -- the issue of the Irish border. In a speech in Belfast Friday, May criticized the…