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
Woman left in fear after home shot up
Though she said she is thankful to God, a South Florida grandmother now fears for her life after her Southwest Miami-Dade house was left riddled with bullets.
Seventy-two-year-old Martha Williams was reading her bible when the sound of gunfire filled the air.
The shooting occurred Tuesday morning, at around 1 a.m., at 14801 Fillmore St. Williams'
Williams has 23 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. However, it was her 29-year-old grandson who was the only other family member in the home, sleeping at the time.
Thankfully for the family, not all of the rooms were occupied. In one room, where 10-year-old Jordan normally sleeps, bullet holes were left next to her bed. Williams' told her sister, Janice Riggins, that was the first night that she ever slept face down. She usually sleeps on her side. So had she been at her side last night, she would've gotten five or six bullets very easily in her back or in her stomach.
The damage could also be seen outside the home, as windows were left with holes in them.
The family said they have no idea who could possibly do this to them.
Source: WSVN
Caribbean region could eliminate HIV by 2030
The Caribbean region could be the first in the world to eliminate HIV by the year 2030, according to the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne.
Dr. Etienne, who was on her first official visit to Dominica, said during a press conference last Tuesday 7 July 2015, that there are positive signs of the elimination of HIV in the region.
However, Dr. Etienne advised that it is critical that there are no new cases of the virus.
“To eliminate HIV we will have to improve prevention and promotions so we don’t get any new cases,” Dr. Etienne said.
The same sentiments were echoed by Premier the Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing as the TCI prepares itself for more promotions & preventions by 2020.
“We need to improve the diagnosis and we need to diagnose them early and we need to have access to treatment and monitoring of those and we believe that the region can be one of the first to achieve elimination of HIV certainly by then,” Premier Ewing said.
Last week PAHO and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Cuba as the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis from mother to child.
Annual Children’s Environmental and Cultural Summer Camp 2015 Turks & Caicos National Trust
The Turks & Caicos Islands National Trust is preparing to host its Annual Children’s Summer Camp 2015.
The five days of environmental and cultural camp for youngsters between the ages of 7-12, is scheduled to be held between July 27th-31st, 2015 at the Department of Youth Affairs multi-purpose room.
The cost for the week is $55.00 for non-members and $50.00 for members including lunch.
The Turks & Caicos National Trust annual children camp provides an opportunity for children to become engaged, and share their knowledge. We have many educational and exciting activities planned this year. The themes of the children’s environmental and cultural camp will be on the following topics:
• Shark Conservation Initiative
• Caicos Pine Recovery Project
• Literature/Storytelling (Auntie Fanny and the Talking Potato)
• Cultural Music/Dance (Rack & Scrap, Sha-Sha)
• Island Expedition (Field Trip)
• Mock Barn Fire (Social/Awards Day)
Children’s Summer Camp will run from 10:00 am-2:30 pm, Monday through Friday. Friday afternoon at 1:00pm there will be a closing programme for parents/guardians and friends.
The camp will be held at Department of Youth Affairs multi-purpose room. We’ll also make use of our heritage sites and other locations of cultural and environmental importance.
Staff from the Turks & Caicos National Trust will lead the programme, along with from key resource persons for each camp session.
The National Trust is encouraging persons interested in volunteering for its summer camp to please contact the coordinator.
Any child between the ages of 7-12 can register. He or she does not have to be a member of the National Trust but the Trust encourages all participants to join.
Parents looking to register their children can do so at the Turks & Caicos National Trust office in Towne Center Mall located Downtown Providenciales. If you would like additional information please contact Coordinator Winema Sanders by telephone 649-941-5710 or email her at wsanders@tcnationaltrust.org.
Fraud alert: Lourdes
THE FINANCIAL Intelligence Agency Turks and Caicos Islands (FIA-TCI) is warning the public to be on the alert for a female fraudster going by the name of Anna Casey Lourdes.
A printed example of the forged UK passport identification page, with the picture of Lourdes appears in the recent edition of the TC Weekly newspaper.
The article shares the public statement by the FIA-TCI, which notes that reports have revealed that the fraudster is using fictitious identification and other documents in an attempt to enter into business arrangements, particularly with law firms and real estate companies and may be ‘shopping’ until an unwitting person or entity falls victim to the fraud.
According to her modus operandi, the fraudster purports to be a wealthy investor looking to purchase real estate in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Once the entity shows interest in conducting business with the subject, the relevant customer’s due diligence documents requested, will be provided to show proof of ‘her’ identity; however these documents have been identified by relevant authorities as forgeries.
Once the entity accepts the documents and is ready to proceed with the transaction, a forged cheque is sent to them.
Shortly after that cheque is sent, the entity receives correspondence from the subject indicating that they no longer wish to proceed with the transaction and gives instructions for the return of the money. This may be in the form of an advance until the cheque has been cleared or a request for a loan against the amount.
The FINANCIAL Intelligence Agency Turks and Caicos Islands (FIA-TCI), cautions that the other side to the scam is that instead of sending a forged cheque, the subject may convince third parties to send money to the entity on her behalf. And once the money is sent she will provide excuses not to complete the transaction and request that the monies be sent to a different account.
The FIA-TCI cautions anyone who is in receipt of emails of this nature to carry out proper due diligence to avoid becoming victims of this fraud.
Email addresses that have been used by the subject are: anna.caseylour@aol.com, annacaseylourdes@yahoo.com, annacaseylourdes@gmail.com, and c.annalourdes@gmail.com.
Anyone who has been victim, or had their entity targeted by the fraudster is being advised to contact the Financial Crime Unit of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force on 941- 4448/4450.