Turks and Caicos Islands News

A programme known Poverty Alleviation Citizens Empowerment or PACE was the dream child of the former Minister of Health and Human Services Lillian Boyce.

Cruise tourists taking refreshments at a bar in St Kitts BASSETERRE, St Kitts -- Cruise tourism pumped US$44 million or EC$118 million into the St Kitts and Nevis economy during the 2008/2009 cruise year.

The UKa s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have been told to improve standards of regulation, and find new methods of raising tax.

Offshore financial centers in the British Caribbean should consider introducing more taxes to shore up their increasingly shaky finances, according to a U.K. government-commissioned report published Thursday.

The McGregor Winery owners are planning a seven-day cruise through the eastern Caribbean with wine lovers.

Dear friends in Jesus, Our text for this week comes from 1 Timothy 6:9-11: But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Dellis Cay Developer Cem Kinay Blames Britain's Commission of Inquiry for Failure of Turks and Caicos Islands Resort Oct.

Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney attend the grand opening of Italian Village & Pirates Island Waterpark at Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort Villages & Spa on May 15, 2009 in Providenciales, Turks And Caicos Islands Access Hollywood 'Bachelor' couple Molly Malaney and Jason Mesnick are all smiles with Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos in Turks & Caicos ...

The Unit Trust Corporation last week pulled the plug on a US$1.5 billion development in the Turks & Caicos Islands, placing a five-star resort there into receivership because it had failed to meet payments on a loan from the local financial institution.

Wednesday, October 14 10:05:21 The Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Liechtenstein.

Cem Kinay of Miami said he is seeking new funding for the Dellis Cay project, which has been partially built on a 560-acre island he purchased from the local government in 2005.

For the most part, the sovereign nations of the Caribbean tend to look past their near neighbours in the non-independent Carib-bean. David Jessop Occasionally an issue arises, such as the recent decision by Britain to take direct control over the Turks and Caicos Islands, and there is a response; but for the most part, developments in the Dutch ...

Desperate times bring desperation Word is that there are several 'last-resort' burglars on the prowl in upscale neighbourhoods.

University of Exeter scientists from the Tremough Campus, Penryn, are part of the first team to monitor a sea turtlea s journey from the Turks and Caicos Islands.

A recent decision by Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines to drop Antigua and Barbuda from its seven-night Southern Caribbean cruise itinerary could cost the tourist-dependent nation more than $40 million, the country's tourism minister told The Miami Herald Tuesday.

A HAWICK sailor has helped launch a set of commemorative stamps to illustrate the different naval uniforms worn through the ages.

Emergency crews in Costa Rica found two more bodies in mountain villages hit by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake, raising the death toll to at least 18 people, the Red Cross reported.

Britain's overseas territories accused of being tax havens are progressing quickly towards G20 goals on fiscal transparency Britain's overseas territories are not often in the international political limelight but when world leaders meet in Pittsburgh for the G20 meeting, places as diverse as the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands, ...

The Turks and Caicos Islands is a self-governing overseas British territory. Turks and Caicos comprise a chain of 40 islands and cays sitting between the Bahamas and Cuba in the Caribbean, with Providenciales being the largest of the islands.

The Diocese of East Carolina has invited the Rt. Rev. Santosh K. Marray, former Bishop of Seychelles, to begin assist the Rt.