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December 20, 2010

Appointment of new Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police

With early rumors flying around on Friday afternoon about the Commissioner & Deputy being sacked by HE Governor Gordon…

December 20, 2010

PDM LEADER CALLS FOR ROYAL HOLIDAY

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } TCI ISLANDERS can look forward to an extra day’s vacation…

December 20, 2010

NIB takes Rounder’s Ltd, Tucker’s Hill Nursery & Island Publishing Ltd to court

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The National Insurance Board continues on their quest to collect outstanding arrears owed to them.The following persons appeared in the Magistrate’s Courts in Providenciales on December 13th, 2010.   Providenciales Mr.…

December 20, 2010

TCI Governor signs International Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Portugal

On Friday H.E The Governor Gorgon Wetherill departed the Turks and Caicos Islands for consultations with Ministers and senior officials in London. He will also be signing an international Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) on behalf of the…

December 20, 2010

Building Civil Society Capacity for Conservation in the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Turks & Caicos National Trust executive director, Ms. Ethlyn Gibbs-Williams and president of the Providenciales Rotaract Club, Ms. Nicquell Garland recently returned to the islands after spending five days, December…

December 20, 2010

Residents of South Korean island fleeing ahead of military drills

Amid South Korean plans to hold live-fire military drills this week and North Korean threats of retaliation, many…

December 20, 2010

Australia to provide AU$63 million in assistance to CARICOM over next four years

Representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and Australia met at the Secretariat Headquarters, Turkeyen, Guyana, on Friday for the inaugural CARICOM-Australia high level meeting on the development assistance partnership.…

December 20, 2010

Trinidad billionaires win another stay of extradition

Two Trinidadian billionaires, who have been fighting extradition for the past three years, won their appeal in the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal when the court ordered a stay of the extradition order and ruled that the attorney general's…

December 20, 2010

Guyana loses all confidence in CARICOM trade negotiator

The government of Guyana has written to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) secretary general Sir Edwin Carrington affirming that it has lost all confidence in senior trade negotiator in the Office of Trade Negotiations Carl Greenidge and will not…

December 20, 2010

French manufacturer says its planes are safe after safety issues raised by Trinidad government

French aircraft manufacturer ATR says its planes are safe and that suggestions made by the People's Partnership government in Trinidad and Tobago that there may be safety issues with its aircraft have no basis in fact. The Trinidad Express…