January 29, 2024
House of Assembly passed two Gaming ‘Amendment’ Bills
A new methodology for calculating gaming machine taxes will be introduced in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The government will be moving away from tax collection based on the drop box recovery method and a new cabinet-approved Adjusted Gross…
January 29, 2024
Caribbean tax administrators to meet in St. Lucia
The annual general assembly and technical conference of the Caribbean Organization of Tax Administrators (COTA) is scheduled to take place here in July. The Director for Economic Policy and Development at the Guyana-based Caribbean Community…
January 29, 2024
Suits beats The Office’s pandemic record for top-watched streaming show in 2023
In a detailed analysis of what Americans were watching on streaming in 2023, Suits toppled a record previously held by The Office during the pandemic. According to Nielsen data quoted by Variety, U.S. viewers watched 57.7 billion total minutes of…
January 29, 2024
TCI 3-DAY PUBLIC WEATHER FORECAST
GENERAL SITUATION: A STRONG COLD FRONT LOCATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS IS PROGRESSING QUICKLY THROUGH THE ARCHIPELAGO AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS TONIGHT. WEATHER: PARTLY SUNNY WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS POSSIBLE…
January 29, 2024
RTC Scores
TCISS SOFTBALL 2024 Marjorie Basden Lady Knights defeats HJ Robinson High More on this story on RTC Sports & Sports Watch NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONDetroit 120, Oklahoma City 104 Indiana 116, Memphis 110 Atlanta 126, Toronto 125 Orlando…
January 29, 2024
Tesla calls for higher tariffs on Chinese EVs
Tesla remains the world’s global leader in EV sales, but such is the competitiveness of China’s EV industry that CEO Elon Musk has called for import tariffs to protect the remaining global car industry. “Chinese car companies are the most…
January 29, 2024
Deepfakes spark calls in Congress for new legislation
US politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift were viewed millions of times online. The images were posted on social media sites, including X and Telegram.US…
January 29, 2024
Police speaks on Grand Turk Incident
Officers of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force are currently investigating the shooting death of a 26-year-old male in Grand Turk and the wounding of three females. At 11:29 pm last evening (January 26th), the Police Control Room…
January 29, 2024
PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON INTEGRITY COMMISSION
In December 2023, HE Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam and the Chairperson of the Integrity Commission, Honourable Justice Tanya Lobban Jackson, announced an independent Effectiveness Review of the Turks and Caicos Islands Integrity Commission. The purpose…
January 29, 2024
Jury orders Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defaming her
Former President Donald Trump must pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a department store in the 1990s. The jury determined that Trump must pay $18.3 million in…