DIGICEL WELCOMES SUMMER INTERNS FROM THE TURKS AND CAICOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Thursday, July 16th, 2015 – Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands: With the long summer holiday ahead, tertiary and secondary students are actively searching for summer jobs. In line with this, telecommunications leader, DIGICEL, has partnered with the Turks and Caicos Community College to invite students into the organization to participate in a 6 week long internship Program.
For the past 5 years, DIGICEL has welcomed students of the Turks & Caicos Community College into the organization as part of the college’s internship program. The program provides promising students at the tertiary level with real world experience in the areas of Information Technology, Finance, Marketing, Customer Care and Distribution. Interns are given a chance to participate in carrying out administrative and clerical functions at the telecommunications company. In order to provide the students with personal and career development, each student is paired with a mentor who is a senior manager in the business. These mentors are responsible for showing their intern the ins and outs of DIGICEL as well as guiding them on a path to a successful and fulfilling internship with the company.
Intern, Amaano Kwatt, who aspires to be a Business Manager in the corporate world, described his experience in the Customer Care, Finance and Distribution departments as very beneficial. "I enjoyed my time here at DIGICEL and now have a better understanding of the telecommunications Industry. I have learnt so much from my rotation in the various departments and now understand how a business operates and how its departments functions.”
Donna Chapman, Human Resources Manager for DIGICEL stated that, “DIGICEL will continue to partner with the Turks & Caicos Community College and welcome interns into the organization. The program has been beneficial for both the company and students alike. We are happy to have the assistance of the interns and in turn provide them an opportunity to enhance their work experience and apply knowledge gain in the classroom into a real life work environment. Ms. Chapman further stated: “We also use the program as an opportunity to screen prospective employees. In fact, several past interns are currently working with us in permanent contract roles, so the program definitely opens the door to greater opportunities for them.”
The partnership with the Turks & Caicos Community College on this Internship Program is one way of demonstrating DIGICEL’s commitment to nation building, by providing students with their first entry into the work environment and allowing them to make their contribution to society.
DIGICEL wishes all five interns who participated in the program the best of luck in their future endeavors.
More flights to Florida tourist destination from JetBlue
This year has already seen JetBlue introduce flights from Fort Lauderdale to Albany, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Mexico City, Nashville, Philadelphia and Quito. These have quickly followed the launch of services to Jacksonville, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh late last year.
US carrier, JetBlue Airways, is continuing its rapid rise at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport with the introduction of two further routes during the final quarter of this year – a domestic connection to Charleston International Airport and an international link to the Turks and Caicos Islands. These will be the 7th and 8th new non-stop markets to be served by JetBlue from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International since the start of the year and 40th and 41st destinations to be served from the focus city.
The new link to Charleston continues the airline’s growth in the historic southern port city since it launched its first flights into South Carolina in February 2013 from New York. JetBlue will offer a daily flight from Fort Lauderdale from November 19, 2015 but will switch its schedule from January 6, 2016 to offer better early morning departures from and late evening returns to Charleston to better meet the needs of the local market. The route will be operated using a 100-seat Embraer E190.
"Our partnership with JetBlue continues to be mutually beneficial and exceed our expectations," said Fernando Harb, vice president tourism sales, Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau. "With the addition of direct service from Charleston, SC, we see great growth potential for meetings and conventions as well as business travel segments."
JetBlue also intends to launch the new link between Fort Lauderdale and Turks and Caicos in November 2015, again using Embraer E190 equipment. The flight remains subject to regulatory approval and the US carrier hopes to open reservations within weeks as it awaits the green light to start the international service.
"I am delighted by JetBlue's announcement of the intent to launch direct service from Fort Lauderdale to the Turks and Caicos Islands. This is a very critical and long awaited route for the Turks and Caicos Islands as the gateway to some of the main cities where our diaspora have settled," said The Honorable Dr. Rufus Ewing, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands. "The new route also signifies the strengthening d growth of our economy and the growing demand by travelers to visit the Turks and Caicos Islands, home of Providenciales, voted as Trip-Advisor's World's Best Island," he added.
This year has already seen JetBlue introduce flights from Fort Lauderdale to Albany, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Mexico City, Nashville, Philadelphia and Quito. These have quickly followed the launch of services to Jacksonville, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh late last year.
Its two new routes are into high yield markets, where South Florida is a key outbound leisure markets for travelers and average air fares are currently relatively high. There is already an established market between Florida and Charleston via the flights of American Airlines from Miami, while Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos is a notable Caribbean banking hub with traffic potential to and from South Florida for business, shopping and leisure.
Although JetBlue will be the sole carrier on these two routes, both destinations have previously been linked to Fort Lauderdale over the past ten years. Chautauqua Airlines operated a daily Embraer ERJ-135 connection for Delta Air Lines between Fort Lauderdale and Charleston up until January 2006, while ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines offered flights between Fort Lauderdale and Providenciales from February 2006 to July 2008 with a long summer flight programme.
Police release the name of 45 Year Old male found deceased – KEW TOWN
The Royal Turks & Caicos Islands Police were called to a property at Kew Town address in Providenciales at approximately 3:03PM Tuesday afternoon (July 14, 2015) after reports of a sudden death.
Police and an ambulance service were all in attendance and the body of one person, a 45 year old man was found in the property. A medical doctor later pronounced the man dead.
His next of kin have been informed and the deceased man is identified as 45 year old Sidney Stuart.
A Post Mortem will be carried out to determine the cause of death.
Police arrested and charged three suspects for various offences
Officers of the Royal Turks & Caicos Islands Police Force (RT&CIPF) on Wednesday 15th July arrested and charged three suspects for various offences.
1). 26 year old Tyrell Francis of Kew North Caicos was arrested and charged for Burglary in connection with a report that was made on Monday 22nd June 2015. He was later given police bail for his appearance to the North Caicos Magistrate’s Court today Thursday 16th June 2015.
2). 22 year old William Richard Penn Jr. of the Bight Providenciales was arrested and charged for Burglary and Motor Vehicle Interference. This arrest is in connection with a report made Wednesday 24th June 2015. He remains in Police Custody.
3). A 41year male of Blue Hills Providenciales was arrested on suspicion of Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm. The arrest is in connection with a report made on Sunday 12th July 2015. He too remains in Police Custody.
WATCHES AND A QUANTITY OF JEWELLERY – THE BIGHT
Police have arrested a 32 year old man, following a search warrant was executed at a Lower Bight address earlier this week.
At approximately 8:25PM on Tuesday 14 July 2015, police executed a search warrant at a home in The Bight.
During the search, police located and seized six watches and a quantity of jewelry.
The suspected stolen items were seized from the home for further forensic examination.
Meanwhile, the 32 year old man remains in police custody pending further investigations.
Anyone who may have information pertaining to this incident, is asked to call police on 941-8083 or Crime Stoppers in Miami on 1-800-8477.
CANNABIS AND SUSPECTED STOLEN ITEMS – THE BIGHT
A 21 year old male of The Bight was also arrested earlier this week for the offence of Possession of a Controlled Drug and Suspicion of Handling Stolen Goods.
At approximately 12:30pm (Monday 13 July 2015), police executed a search warrant at a home in The Bight. During a search of this home, police located and seized:
• 3 large flower pots containing suspected Cannabis plants
• 1 black and grey disc drive
• 1 grey Toshiba laptop
• 1 silver HP laptop
• 5 computer laptop drive
• 16 phones
• 3 Memory ram for computer laptop
• 2 wrist watches
• 1 keyboard
• 2 cameras
• 3 microphones
• 3 speakers and a quantity of chargers.
These items were seized from the home for further forensic examination.
Meanwhile, the 21 year old man remains in police custody pending further investigations.
CANNABIS AT AIRPORT – PROVIDENCIALES
Earlier this week, a 22 year old male was charged for the offence of Possession of a Controlled Drug.
Police say that at approximately7:05am (Monday 13 July 2015), officers attached to the Providenciales International Airport observed an unattended bag which drew their suspicion as to its contents.
A 22 year old male was identified as the owner of the said bag and officers conducted a search. During the search of that bag, police located and seized 155 grams of suspected Cannabis.
The charge of Possession of a Controlled Drug was laid on the 22 year old male after officers concluded their investigations into the suspected Cannabis found in his bag.
The 22 year old male has been given bail for his appearance before Chief Magistrate Clifton Warner in the Magistrate’s Court next week (Tuesday 21 July 2015).
ARREST SAME DAY BURGLARY WAS REPORTED
Officers of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force have been pretty busy recently, including being able to apprehend burglars the same day.
Police have arrested a 20 year old man for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods in relation to a report that was made Wednesday.
At approximately 12:21pm yesterday (Wednesday 15th July 2015) police officers attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) responded to a Burglary at the Clement Howell High School (CHHS) in Blue Hills. A number of tools from the Woodwork shop were reported stolen and officers immediately commenced investigations.
Acting on intelligence, Police officers visited a Pawn Shop on Providenciales around 3:15PM, same day - Wednesday.
A 20 year old male of Blue Hills was found in possession of tools that matched the description of those reported stolen from CHHS attempting to pawn them. The suspect was arrested and taken to Chalk Sound Police station. He remains in Police custody and is expected to be formally charged later yesterday.
Shooting at Chattanooga Left Four Marines Dead
Four Marines have been killed in shootings at two US Navy buildings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, officials say. City police said they were investigating the two incidents as an "act of domestic terrorism". Shots were fired at a US Navy reserve centre and at a recruitment office about six miles (10 km) away.
Chattanooga city police said it was the same gunman at both locations and confirmed that the "active shooter" had been killed. Local media reports said Amnicola Highway - where the reserve centre is located - was cordoned off by police.
The nearby Chattanooga State University's campus was also in a precautionary lockdown. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a gunman firing from inside a car outside the recruitment centre.Gina Mule, who works at a local restaurant, said the gunman was driving a convertible silver Mustang car. "A lot of shots were fired," she added.
Source:BBC
Delay in faster chips from Intel
Intel has delayed changes to its factories that would have made its chips faster and more powerful.
It said it had hit problems upgrading its fabrication systems so they could manufacture components that were only 10nm (nanometres) in size.
Instead, Intel said, it would seek to boost processor performance by different means.
The news comes days after IBM said it had solved problems that would have stopped it using smaller components.On the current generation of chips emerging from Intel factories, the smallest parts are about 14 nm in size.
Originally, Intel said these would be phased out in favour of the 10nm chips this year. Now, it said, 10nm chips may not appear before 2017.
The delay will derail the two-step "tick tock" system it has been using for years to steadily improve processor power.
This process alternates changes to the gross layout of a chip (tock) with refinements to fabrication of individual components (tick).When first formulated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore 50 years ago, this suggested that chip power could double every 12 months.
Often, this improvement comes about by shrinking the millions of transistors on a chip.
Since then, the law's estimate of how long it would take to refine production systems to make it economic to produce faster chips has stretched.
Now, improvements are expected approximately every 24 months.
Last week, IBM announced that it had found ways to reliably produce chips that had 7nm components.
However, it said, these techniques had so far only been shown to work in the laboratory and not in large-scale chip fabrication plants.
Source: BBC