May 13, 2013
Red Cross Visits Schools
The TCI Red Cross President & her team visited the schools in Grand Turk during their morning devotions. The volunteers spoke to the students on the role of the Red Cross and how the organization was formed and how they could assist the…
May 13, 2013
Appeal Court finds in Turks and Caicos Islands Government’s favour in Trade Winds case.
The Court of Appeal has today found in TCI Government’s favour, sending Trade Winds’ Court claim to be decided in arbitration. The judgment overturns Judge Ramsey Hale’s earlier decision that the claim which had been brought against the Government…
May 12, 2013
Provo Chamber Elects New Officers
The Providenciales Chamber of Commerce has elected new officers to head up the Commerce for 2013-2015 term: The incoming President is CEO of Digicel Mr. E. Jay Saunders. Mr. Saunders told RTC News that " he would like to see growth in the Chambers…
May 12, 2013
First Caribbean bank shuts down rumor of closing
RTC News understands from residents in the community that customers affiliated with the First Caribbean Bank were rushing yesterday to close their accounts in relations to rumor that was generated within the public domain. Since that occurrence,…
May 12, 2013
TCIG Cracks Down on the Illegal Occupancy of Crown Land
The Turks and Caicos Government has restarted its Informal Settlement Containment Programme which aims to minimise squatting on public lands. On Tuesday May 7, 2013 the Joint-Law Enforcement Committee resumed government’s initiative to curtail the…
May 12, 2013
PDM does not support Gun Amnesty
Leader of the Opposition Hon. Sharlene Cartwright Robinson states that the “PDM does not support Gun Amnesty”. Mrs. Robinson says that the PDM supports Gun Amnesty Programs but cannot support the Gun Amnesty Program under the terms set out…
April 30, 2013
Crown Land Unit publishes names of applicants for residential scheme
The Crown Land Unit in the Attorney General’s Chambers today (Monday 29th April), published the names of 88 applicants for Crown Land within the Residential Scheme No. PLS001, North West & North Central in Providenciales. The publication of the…
April 30, 2013
2 persons Charged in separate incidents for Carrying Ammunition
The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force have laid a charge of carrying ammunition against a Cathy Sulledge-Davis of the United States in an incident which took place on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at the Providenciales International Airport.…
April 30, 2013
Pine Cay Project Announces Sciences Grant to H. J. Robinson High School, Grand Turk
The oldest and the only government high school on Grand Turk, the H. J. Robinson High School, with a student body of 415 students from forms 1-5, is the recipient of $11,171 (eleven thousand, one hundred and seventy-one dollars), thanks to the Pine…
April 30, 2013
Cholera Awareness Campaign gets underway today
The Ministries of Health and Human Services and Education, Youth, Culture and Sports will be launch its Cholera Awareness Campaign, while at the same time Announce the of Winners in the Primary Schools' Public Service Announcement Competition. The…