Topic: Turks and Caicos Islands
Cayman police helicopter crew helps fight crime wave in Turks and Caicos
A Cayman police helicopter has been deployed to a sister overseas territory amid a crime wave and 24 murders so far this year.
Cayman ‘container farm’ could be transplanted to Turks and Caicos
A Cayman business is taking its plans for a solar-powered container farm to Turks and Caicos amid regulatory hold-ups which it says are hampering progress at home.
Police chopper to be deployed to Turks and Caicos after spike in gang killings
Cayman is set to deploy one of its two police helicopters to the Turks and Caicos Islands to assist with overnight aerial surveillance after a significant spike in gang-related violence there.
Cayman police helicopter aids Turks and Caicos in migrant crisis
The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has sent one of its helicopters and crew to the Turks and Caicos Islands, after at least seven Haitian migrants died when their boat capsized following a collision with a police vessel earlier this week.
Turks and Caicos makes COVID vaccines mandatory for work-permit holders
Covid-19 vaccinations have been made mandatory for work permit holders in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Cayman agrees to take two Turks and Caicos prisoners
Government has agreed to the temporary transfer of two convicted male prisoners from the Turks and Caicos Islands to Cayman, after parts of the prison in Grand Turk were damaged and crime rates in the islands increased significantly in recent years.
Change in aid rules could help disaster relief
British Overseas Territories that suffer serious economic decline after a natural disaster could qualify for official development assistance under new international aid rules.
UK to flout OECD to aid storm-hit territories
The United Kingdom is prepared to flout international aid guidelines and change its own legislation in order to use its foreign aid budget to assist hurricane-hit territories in the Caribbean, according to reports in the U.K.
RCIPS helicopter, UK Navy head off Haitian migration
The Royal Cayman Islands Police air operations unit, along with the British Royal Navy, was called to the Turks and Caicos Islands last week for an emergency response to a sudden spike in Haitian immigrants coming to the small eastern Caribbean island territory.
Financial services industry: Cayman’s ‘invisible’ giant
In 1960, the Cayman Islands could not have been further removed from its status today as a small but prominent global financial center. At the time, the Cayman economy still largely relied on seamen’s remittances, fishing, agriculture, shipbuilding and hand crafts. Airline services were limited and the tourism sector in its infancy.
Interim prisons director chosen
Cayman’s new prisons director hails from the Turks and Caicos Islands where he has served in the same position for the past two years.
Cayman officers probe police shooting in Turks and Caicos
Two Royal Cayman Islands Police officers have been dispatched to help investigate a deadly police shooting that occurred Jan. 1 in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
RCIPS helicopter returns from Turks and Caicos aid mission
Royal Cayman Islands Police Service officers described resilience in the face of devastation in Cayman’s fellow overseas territory, the Turks and Caicos Islands. Four RCIPS helicopter crew deployed to the northern Caribbean islands on Sept. 8, as the tail end of Hurricane Irma passed over the territory.
‘Devastating’ Matthew maintains strength as it pounds Haiti
The powerful Hurricane Matthew made landfall in near Les Anglais, western Haiti, as the storm batters the country with life-threatening rain, wind and storm surge.
Problems persist in Turks years after UK intervention
Several years after the U.K. seized control of the Turks and Caicos Islands administration amid a criminal investigation into high-level members of the former government, problems persist in the administration of day-to-day justice in the islands, the Cayman Compass has learned.
