October 20, 2014
Government Support Services Ministerial Delegation returns from Conferences
Minister of Government Support Services, Hon. George Lightbourne, has returned to the islands after attending the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) in Miami, Florida and the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Conference in Nassau, Bahamas. CREF,…
October 20, 2014
Turks & Caicos Islands Government (TCIG) Issues Ebola Travel Advisory
The Government of the Turks & Caicos Islands Disaster Policy Group Co-Chaired by the Governor and the Premier met on Thursday, October 16, 2014, and issued the following travel advisory on the advice of the Public and Environmental Health Board…
October 20, 2014
TCI receives support from the World Bank for National Risk Assessment
The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is undertaking a National Risk Assessment (NRA) this year in line with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations that each country assesses its own money laundering and terrorist financing risks.The…
October 15, 2014
Grand Turk celebrates Commonwealth Games Beach Olympics
Organizers of the 10th Annual Commonwealth Games Beach Olympics were not disappointed this weekend as their event saw hundreds of children accompanied by their parents gathered at Governor’s Beach for a day of fun, sports and competition. There…
October 14, 2014
DEPUTY GOVERNOR SPOTLIGHTS PUBLIC SERVICE FOR OCTOBER
In the October edition of the Deputy Governor’s regular articles that mark and celebrate the contribution of public servants to the Turks and Caicos Islands, the head of the civil service this month turns the attention of the 'spotlight’ programme…
October 14, 2014
NATIONAL YOUTH AMBASSADOR 1ST NATIONAL HERITAGE DAY ADDRESS
To all Turks and Caicos Islanders, residents and visitors, today we celebrate our 1st National Heritage Day. Today is the day in which we celebrate all that was inherited from past generations, maintained in the present, and bestowed to future…
October 14, 2014
GONZALO TO BECOME A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE BY THURSDAY
NEWS ITEM ON HURRICANE GONZALO ISSUED BY THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY FORECAST OFFICE SECTION, AT 11 AM TUESDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2014. …GONZALO IS MOVING NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE OPEN ATLANTIC OCEAN…STRENGTHENING IS EXPECTED TO RESUME LATER…
October 14, 2014
JP Morgan Chase posts $5.6bn profit
US banking giant JP Morgan Chase has reported a $5.6bn (£3.5bn) profit for the three months to 30 September. The quarterly results represent a marked improvement on a year earlier, when the bank made a $380m loss. This was the result of setting…
October 14, 2014
Shillingford, Miller rescue Windies A
A defiant unbroken eighth-wicket stand of 92 between Shane Shillingford and Nikita Miller saved West Indies A from a possible innings defeat on the third day of their opening four-day 'Test' against Sri Lanka here yesterday. Asked to follow on after…
October 14, 2014
Obama Urges More ‘Robust Commitments’ to Combat Ebola
President Barack Obama spoke with world leaders and was briefed by his public health and national security teams Monday on international and domestic efforts to confront the Ebola epidemic. U.S. public health officials are “rethinking” the way they…