Deputy Premier plays key role in Commonwealth Women’s Parliamentary Conference

The Deputy Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands Hon, Akierra Missick is expected to play a leading role in the three day Commonwealth Women Parliamentarian’s Association International conference, which got underway in Nassau, Bahamas Tuesday 21…

Could it be that seeds of discourse are being sewn with G-SAT just around the corner?

A reliable source clarified to RTC News that neither the ministry nor department of Education, is responsible for giving students mock exams and further, that students did sit those mock exams. RTC News also understands that there are no major…

PDM challenges changes to GSAT exam papers

With just a mere couple of days before students sit the Grade Six Achievement Test (G-SAT), the People’s Democratic Movement has taken exception to what it refers to as major changes to this year’s G-SAT examination.  It has come to our attention…

Robust Growth in First Quarter Tourist Arrivals

The Turks and Caicos Islands Tourist Board has released its latest statistics, which indicate overall tourist arrivals to the Turks and Caicos Islands grew by 41% in the first quarter of this year, with robust growth recorded across all major source…

Finance Minister withdraws the Business Licensing Amendment Bill 2014 in the House of Assembly

Members of the Opposition Peoples Democratic Movement and other stakeholders in the business community, will get to make an input into how business is done here in the TCI. Minister of Finance Hon. C. Washington Missick made this known to members of…

National Hero’s Day, a celebration to be held on Monday 26th May

Plans are well under wayto observe National Hero’s Day, acelebrationin honor of the late JAGS McCartney, the country’s first Chief Minister and only named National Hero. The annual event will take place at the JAGS McCartney National Memorial Park…

International Day of Biodiversity to be celebrated in the TCI

May 22nd will be observed globally as “International Day of Biodiversity.”   According to a press release from the TCI National Trust, when one think about biological diversity and conservation, they're likely to quite accurately name eastern…

SHANICE WILLIAMS MISS UNIVERSE TCI 2014 TO SPARK CANADA’S LUXURY PIE MAGAZINE’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY SWIMSUIT EDITION

Crowned April 26th, an evening that saw grace, glamour and beauty personified, Shanice Williams, Miss Universe Turks and Caicos 2014, Digicel TCI’s newest Brand Ambassador and Saint George Fashion House Muse Model is garnering the attention of…

BRIELLE SWANN, TCI TOP MODEL 2014 GLORIOUS PHOTOSHOOT AT POINT GRACE

TCI’s newest Top Model, Brielle Swann, is set to hit the publishing world by storm this summer. Following on from being named the FACE of the Turks & Caicos, TCI Top Model 2014 on Friday, May 2nd at The Williams Auditorium and her celebratory…

Sunrise Airlines sets the record straight

Barring of Sunrise airline to the TCI by ICAO, had nothing to do with the Airlines standards   Earlier this week, we shared with listeners a TCI SUN Newspaper article that “Haiti’s Sunrise Airlines was barred from flying to the TCI, after the…