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…
April 30, 2013
Works on the North to Middle Caicos Causeway cause a traffic diversion
Works on the North to Middle Caicos Causeway, has necessitated a detour for persons traversing that stretch of road. Public Works Department in the Ministry of Support Services is advising the general public to be on the look-out for temporary…
April 24, 2013
RPT-Fitch Downgrades Turks & Caicos Islands’ UK Government Guaranteed USD Bond to ‘AA+’
A report carried by Reuters News Agency, has noted that Fitch Ratings, one of three "Big Three credit rating agencies" has downgraded the UK Government Guaranteed USD170m to the Turks and Caicos Islands.' The report released Monday 22nd April,…
April 24, 2013
CTO extends Total Visitor Satisfaction Logo Competition to its member country – the TCI
As a member of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), residents of the Turks and Caicos Islands can enter a logo competition and have their winning design unveiled during Caribbean Week in New York this June. The Caribbean Tourism Organization…
April 24, 2013
Minister of health and Human Services, Portia Stubbs-Smith encourages persons entering health, to consider Medical Laboratory
The Minister of health and Human Services, Portia Stubbs-Smith has expressed her ministry’s delight in joining the rest of the world in celebrating Medical Laboratory Professionals, especially those in the Turks and Caicos Islands who perform and…
April 24, 2013
USVI governor asks federal government for energy assistance
Governor John de Jongh has requested the US Department of Health and Human Services provide additional assistance to US Virgin Islanders struggling to pay their electricity bills.In a recent letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen…
April 24, 2013
UN lowers 2013 Latin America growth forecast
The economy of Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to grow by 3.5 per cent this year, less than previously forecast, because of uncertainty about the future of the world economy and slower growth in developed nations, the United Nations said…
April 24, 2013
TCI to work with Haiti to prevent illegal migration
The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) says it wants to work better with Haitian authorities to prevent the flow of illegal migrants into the British Overseas Territory. Governor Ric Todd has held talks with the TCI-based Haitian Consul General, Karlo…
April 24, 2013
Cuban opposition group Ladies in White collect prize
Members of the Cuban opposition group Ladies in White have collected the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in Brussels. They were awarded the prize by the European Parliament in 2005, but Cuba barred them from leaving the communist-run island…
April 24, 2013
Trinidad’s Jack Warner resigns amid fraud inquiry
A former top figure in international football, Jack Warner, has resigned as Trinidad and Tobago's minister of security amid an inquiry into fraud. Investigators at the Caribbean, North and Central American international football body, Concacaf,…