India in command against the West Indies in the opening Test
Centuries by Dhruv Jurel, Ravendra Jadeja and KL Rahul, have left West Indies with a herculean task if they are to avoid a heavy defeat against India in the opening Test match at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Jurel scored an impressive 125, Jadeja…
MSF says Haiti sinks deeper into a crisis as health facilities close
The non-government organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Friday said that as the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, sinks deeper into a crisis marked by violent clashes between armed groups and police forces, there has been an increase in the…
Earthquake rattles three Caribbean islands
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 rattled several cities in the Caribbean on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage of injuries. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St. Augistine campus of the Universty of the…
U.S Government shutdown continues
The federal government on Thursday entered its second day of a shutdown amid an impasse on Capitol Hill over competing congressional spending bills. The Senate floor was open Thursday, but the chamber was not voting due to Yom Kippur. The Senate is,…
White House hasn’t received Hamas response as deadline looms
The White House has not received Hamas' response to the peace plan they put out on Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday. They still “expect” Hamas to accept the plan, Leavitt said. In the meantime, Gaza's Hamas-run…
Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend says she was never sex trafficked
One day before Sean "Diddy" Combs' sentencing, the rap mogul’s former girlfriend is pushing back on prosecutors’ claims that she was sex trafficked or involved in prostitution. Virginia Huynh — the ex-girlfriend identified as "Victim 3" in the…
Grand Turk gets Youth Media Expo
Grand Turk was recently buzzing with creativity as students at H. J. Robinson High got a closer look at careers in the media and communications industry. The Youth Media Expo connected them with professionals in areas like podcasting, filmmaking,…
TCI ELECTED CHAIR OF THE CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION OF PROBATION AND PAROLE
The Turks and Caicos Islands has been elected as the new Chair of the Caribbean Association of Probation and Parole (CAPP), following the Association’s 2nd Annual Conference held in Saint Lucia on September 4–6, 2025. Director of Rehabilitation and…
Federal government shuts down after Senate fails to pass funding measures
Both Republican and Democratic proposals that would have funded the government past Tuesday failed in the Senate during the eleventh hour, effectively shutting down the government at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday. The federal government ran out of money…
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, dead at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old. "The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane…