Turquoise Morning Season 7 EPISODE 266 Government Farm North Caicos
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Message to Gov. Peter Beckingham of the Turks & Caicos Islands
Message of Philippine Ambassador Jose L. Cuisa, Jr. to Gov. Peter Beckingham of the Turks & Caicos Islands on the occasion of the 116th anniversary of Philippine Independnce.
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Anti-government demonstration downtown
Anti-government demonstration downtown
Jamal's Modeling Show in North Caicos
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Message from L&I Secretary Oleksiak
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Turks and Caicos civil recovery update
Laurence Harris, deputy managing partner, Edwards Wildman, provides an update on the scale of the programme, outlines progress on recoveries and lays out the likely timetable going forward:
We have now opened 62 case files, an increase on last year's figure of 51. Our work covers a wide range of matters, some well known from the Commission of Inquiry Report; others not identified by the Commission of Inquiry and some which have only come to light since then. These claims cover the recovery of land, damages, or both. As well as claims for corruption and fraud, we have claims for breach of contract, for unjust enrichment, for recovery of unpaid Stamp Duty and for other civil causes of action.
This time last year we had recovered nearly $2.4m in cash and around 900 acres of land. Both of those figures have risen very substantially over the last twelve months. The cash already paid to the Government, or agreed to be paid, has now risen to $19.5m and land recoveries are now 2,508 acres.
And there is still much to do. Although several claims have concluded, we are awaiting judgments on two significant cases, and several more are still yet to go to trial. We have claims for many millions of dollars in damages and for well over a thousand of acres of land, all still to be heard by the TCI Courts.
Inevitably we understand that much of the short term focus on the programme is on how much cash has come in, particularly given the difficult financial circumstances the TCI finds itself in. We appreciate that short term cash helps with the immediate issue of balancing the books and we are doing our very best to collect as much as we can. However, the much more valuable long term asset is the land that has been recovered.
This land holds the key to help TCI generate long term revenues through sharing profits with developers. As well as giving the Government an opportunity for a higher degree of ongoing control over how land is used this approach allows the people of the TCI to share in the long term value of the land. Used this way, the land recovered is worth a very large amount of money -- quite possibly over $100m -- assuming it is used for long term partnerships. Of course, the job of the civil recovery programme is just to get the land back into the Government's hands -- it is for the Government to decide what to do with it. But we hope that the very substantial value that is intrinsic to the land we have recovered will be understood as bringing real long term opportunity to TCI.
We remain on course to complete many of our cases by the end of the summer 2013. This year has seen our most intensive period of activity as many of our cases come to trial. We have had trials and hearings every month but one so far this year, often more than one a month, and that pace will continue. So far this year we have been involved in seven major hearings or trials since January and after this week, we have four more trials before the end of July. By the time we get to that point we will have completed the majority of our cases -- subject of course to any appeals.
After July, we will still have a smaller number of cases which we will be progressing forward and which will probably not reach trial until 2014, unless they settle earlier. We continue to encourage settlement as a way of bringing matters to an end more quickly, provided the settlement looks to be sensible and appropriate, bearing in mind the size of the claim, and the settlement is consistent with the Government's approach in other cases.
We have also been assisting Chambers with non-civil recovery cases for the Government, most notably the Trade Winds claim brought by the owners of the Conch Farm against the Government and the Governor last year. We were delighted that the Court of Appeal agreed with us that the claim should be stayed for arbitration which had been our position all along. We now wait to see whether the Plaintiff decides to bring arbitration proceedings or not. Hopefully they have decided to abandon the claims since those claims are without any legal merit. Certainly so far since the Court of Appeal's decision the Conch Farm owners have not started any arbitration proceedings. If they do so, those proceedings will be very strongly defended.
So, in summary: the civil recovery programme continues to make good progress. We have made a substantial number of recoveries of cash and land; and we expect to make more recoveries over the next few months. Many of our cases will be completed by the end of the summer of this year, whilst a smaller number of cases will continue into next year, as well appeals on the completed cases.
Turquoise Morning Season 7 EPISODE 267 North Caicos Caves
Magnetic Media is a three time Telly Award winning media Production Company which was established in 2008, now with offices in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos and Nassau, Bahamas with a branch soon to be established in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
Turquoise Morning is our flagship magazine-styled TV morning show. The 30-minute production is aired in 25 destinations across North America, the Caribbean and Europe on four TV channels, namely: People's Television (Turks and Caicos); TropikTV (US, Caribbean and France); Cable Bahamas (Bahamas) and One Caribbean Television (US, Caribbean and Canada).
Our show producers and editors are: Corey Hamilton, The Bahamas and Rodney Rigby, The Turks and Caicos Islands.
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PDM RATES GOVERNMENT AFTER YEAR TWO
Magnetic Media is a three time Telly Award winning media Production Company which was established in 2008, now with offices in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos and Nassau, Bahamas with a branch soon to be established in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
Turquoise Morning is our flagship magazine-styled TV morning show. The 30-minute production is aired in 25 destinations across North America, the Caribbean and Europe on four TV channels, namely: People's Television (Turks and Caicos); TropikTV (US, Caribbean and France); Cable Bahamas (Bahamas) and One Caribbean Television (US, Caribbean and Canada).
Our show producers and editors are: Corey Hamilton, The Bahamas and Rodney Rigby, The Turks and Caicos Islands.
Find out more at MagneticMediaTV.com
Three-part Restoration Documentary
See the story of how FortisTCI worked tirelessly to restore power to the entire country in record time after being hit by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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Rum Cay
RUM CAY:
Rum Cay is an island and district of the Bahamas. Lat.: N23 42' 30 - Long.: W 74 50' 00 - Size: 30 Sq. mls
Rum Cay is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of San Salvador Island, has many rolling hills that rises to about 120 feet (37 m). Christopher Columbus called it Santa Maria de la Concepción. The island is believed to have acquired its modern name from a shipwrecked cargo of rum. The main settlement is Port Nelson.
First known as Mamana by the Lucayan Indians, the cay was later renamed Santa María de la Concepción by Columbus. Spanish explorers once found a lone rum keg washed up on a shore and changed the name again to Rum Cay (pop: 53 1990 census). In the north there is an cave containing Lucayan drawings and carvings. Various artifacts from the Arawak period have been found by farmers in the fertile soil, which the Indians enriched with bat guano. In common with other islands, Rum Cay has gone through a series of industry specific economic peaks. Pineapple, salt and sisal have all been important industries, but competition and natural disasters, such as the 1926 hurricane, have all taken their toll and today tourism is the main source of employment. Plantation boundaries known as 'margins' can be seen all over the island, which date from the beginning of the 19th century when Loyalists settled here. Nearly everybody lives in Port Nelson where cottages can be rented. Settlements such as Port Boyd, Black Rock and Gin Hill are now deserted and overgrown.
Deep reefs and drop-offs surround this former pirates' haven. There is staghorn coral at Summer Point Reef and diving at Pinder's Point. At the Grand Canyon, 60-foot coral walls almost reach the surface. Sumner Point Marina has dockage, fuel, moorings, WiFi, bar and restaurant. There is a small guesthouse available from former Constable Ted Bain. The Last Chance Yacht Supply has groceries. Batelco office for phone calls closes at lunchtime. Yachts wait here before sailing to Mayaguana or the Turks and Caicos Islands, or before returning to Georgetown and points north.
Adventuresome divers can still find the shaft, anchor chains and hawser holes of HMS Conqueror. It sank in 1861 and can still be found in 30 feet of water in a staghorn gully near the breaking reef.
HMS CONQUEROR
The wreck of the 101-gun man of war HMS Conqueror, built in Devon in 1855 and which served in the Crimean War, lies in 30 feet of water off Rum Cay where it sank in 1861, is preserved as the Underwater Museum of the Bahamas. It is the property of The Bahamas Government and none of the contents of the ship may be removed.
She was lost on Sumner Point Reef, Rum Cay, on December 13, 1861. All 1,400 aboard survived.
She was 20 nm out in estimating her position and, after making her landfall, cut rounding the southeast point of Rum Cay too fine and went hard on the reef. Her captain, fearing that his crew (most of whom could not swim in those days) would drink themselves insensible when it became obvious the ship was lost, ordered all ale, wine, and spirit casks to be broken and their contents ditched. He then sent the two largest ship's company unloaded everything they could salvage, and set about making a camp on the island. The captain remained on board with one midshipman and ten seamen until the ship broke up. Then all of them, less the boat parties, were marooned on Rum Cay. They were rescued soon after the news of the disaster was known.
HMS Conqueror is still there. You can dive her, in some 30 feet of water. (The Bahamas Cruising Guide)
Before 1996 the island was part of a combined district of San Salvador and Rum Cay.
Judge Margaret Ramsey-Hale sworn in as Acting Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos 15 Dec 2012.
+4:3 Hurricane Irene brushes northern coasts of DomRep, Haiti
(24 Aug 2011)
Providenciales island, Turks and Caicos
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1. Zoom out waves hitting coast as hurricane Irene passes through islands
2. Zoom out rough sea, trees blowing in foreground
3. Pan of trees blowing, zoom in on sea
4. Zoom out street sign moving in wind
5. Various of waves hitting land
Providenciales island, Turks and Caicos
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6. Zoom out cars queuing at petrol station
7. Mid of man putting petrol in vehicle
8. Various of workers putting up wooden panels by road
9. Zoom out man securing boat
10. Zoom out marina, strong winds blowing
Nagua, Dominican Republic
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11. Mid of damaged buildings
12. Various of men clearing logs and pieces of wood, washed ashore during hurricane
13. Wide of flooded area near sea
14. Zoom in on van driving around fallen tree on road
Gonaives, Haiti
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15. Various of tent camp
16. Mid of woman sitting in front of tent, child next to her
17. Mid of tents
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Irene passed over the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday evening, moving towards the Bahamas where it is expected to arrive on Wednesday morning.
The government had urged those living along the coast to seek higher ground and moved the elderly and sick to shelters and hospitals.
The Category 1 hurricane arrived at the south of Grand Turk island with maximum winds of 90 mph (150 kph).
The government assured people it has enough emergency supplies available, and that a Royal Navy ship is on standby in Curacao.
Irene was still lashing the northern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where crews have begun cleaning up debris and the government warned of flooding.
In neighbouring Haiti, central authorities said there had been some evacuations in vulnerable areas.
But no major preparations were carried out for the 60-thousand people still living in tent camps.
In towns like Gonaives, residents of those camps complained that authorities had done nothing to protect against possible flooding.
Meanwhile, from Florida to Maine, residents were told to brace for flash flooding and power outages.
The storm was likely to strengthen into a Category 4 monster by the time it makes a landfall in the US this weekend, most likely hitting North Carolina.
Irene could crawl up the coast on Sunday toward the Northeast region, where residents are not accustomed to such storms.
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The Bahamas Agricultural Marine Science Institute
The proposed Agricultural and Marine Science Institute at The College of The Bahamas will help to promote food security in The Bahamas, with the establishment of a 'tutorial commercial' farm. The institute, slated to open in August 2014, will be located at the North Andros Campus of the institution and will provide teaching, skills training, professional development, research and extension work in the fields of agriculture and marine science; it is one of several Centres of Excellence that will mark the coming University of The Bahamas in 2015.
The institute will provide strong academic training and extensive hands on orientation in crop and livestock production, farm management, environment conservation and agri-business. It would offer certificate, diploma and Associate degrees in collaboration with additional partners including The Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC).
College of The Bahamas Professor Olivia Saunders, Team Leader, University Transition Secretariat (UTS), said The Bahamas imports over $1 billion worth of food each year, and it is time for us as Bahamians to reduce our reliance on others to feed us.
The vision for The Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute is to significantly improve the capacity of Bahamians to feed themselves and manage their own resources. In addition to deepening the capacity of a people to become more self-reliant, national development also means a broader economic base and local ownership of the wealth generating engines of the economy. This Institute embodies these ideals and there is no more appropriate place for it to be situated than the national university. Also there is no better time than now, she said.
President of The College of The Bahamas Betsy Vogel-Boze pointed out that the institute has the potential to protect the marine environment, lessen the country's dependence on imported food and develop a strategic advantage in the production of select crops.
This institute will be an impetus for economic prosperity in North Andros and a better quality of life in The Bahamas. It has the potential to develop new plant species and create real solutions to real problems. Beyond production, the institute will provide students, researchers, farmers and fishermen from the Caribbean and beyond expertise in nutrition, food processing and handling and health and safety, said Dr. Boze.
Three working groups: agriculture and research, marine science and research and logistics, have been formed to develop and refine the curriculum, and identify research opportunities to provide the Ministry of Works with a written brief that speaks to facility needs; and to ensure the opening of the institute to students, faculty and researchers by Fall 2014.
Area Dive Teams Ready for Hurrican Joaquin
Chesterfield dive teams have their gear and boats ready to go in preparation for Hurricane Joaquin.
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