September 1 - 7, 2012
NEWS
TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
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Career mentors get support from Young Enterprise Career mentors in Provo and Grand Turk, this week, benefited from training that will see them playing a better role in advising youths on career options. The workshops focused in particular on the option of selfemployment and were facilitated by Ken and Sue Longster, two volunteers from the UK education charity, Young Enterprise. Youth Enterprise, founded in the United Kingdom in 1963, forges links between schools and businesses. The organisation’s
mission is to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise and help students develop the attitudes and skills for enterprise, personal success, lifelong learning and employability. The organisation also provides real support for young entrepreneurs with programmes designed to assist in market research, developing business plans and managing company finance, among others. The participants of the workshop included advisors and LINK teachers
Weekend incident report PROVIDENCIALES TWO grey desktop computers were stolen during a burglary at the Turks and Caicos Institute Professional Studies behind Butterfield Square in Downtown, Providenciales. The break-in occurred sometime between 9.30am on Wednesday and 5.40pm on Friday. • POLICE are appealing for witnesses after thieves broke into a silver Dodge Dakota truck and stole two cell phones. The incident happened outside Handfield Variety Store in Discovery Bay Road at about midnight on Saturday. • A MAN was taken to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre after being struck by a bottle on the Millennium Highway. The victim was driving his car when a green vehicle overtook him at about 2pm on Friday. An occupant in the overtaking vehicle threw the bottle which struck him on the back of the head. He received minor injuries and was released from hospital after treatment. • BURGLARS ransacked an unoccupied house in Belglade Garden, Blue Hills. The culprits gained entry to the property sometime between Saturday, August 5, and Saturday, August 25. It is unclear if anything was taken during the break-in. • VANDALS smashed the rear windshield of a Toyota Corolla car that was parked near the Government Housing Scheme in Blue Hills. A tyre was also removed from the vehicle and the front door locks damaged. The incident happened between 5am and 2pm on Saturday. • AIRPORT security staff seized and destroyed a small quantity of cannabis after searching the bags of a New York-bound passenger at Provo International Airport on Saturday. • A PORTABLE DVD player was stolen from a truck parked outside a property in Tampa Avenue, Blue Hills, sometime on Sunday. A rear window on Ford Taurus SE was smashed to gain entry. • TWO laptops were stolen during a break-in at a property in Blue Hills. The incident happened between 10pm Saturday and 9am on Sunday. • TWO pit bull terriers were stolen from the yard of a property in Bay Road Blue Hills, on Sunday. The dogs, a brown and while male and a black and white female, were last seen at about 4.20pm. Anyone with information is asked to call the police on 911 or Crimestoppers on1-800-8477. Tips can also be left in English, French or Spanish at www. crimestoppers.tc or by becoming a friend of Crimestoppers TCI on Facebook. GRAND TURK A THIRTY-year-old Grand Turk man was fined $1,500 after being found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by magistrates. Chabo Capron was also ordered to pay $500 compensation to his victim. • A MARINE battery, a cell phone and a quantity of cash were stolen from a white Ford F150 truck parked near the Harbour House on Front Street. The vehicle was broken into sometime between 9pm on Saturday and 2.45am on Sunday. • A MOTORIST escaped unhurt after losing control of his vehicle in the early hours of Saturday. The vehicle left the road and ran into the canal on Pond Street just after 4am.
who work in four schools: Raymond Gardiner High, Clement Howell High, HJ Robinson and Champions for Christ. The four schools have 10 groups of 10 students and each group has the support of two advisors and a LINK Teacher. The LINK teachers are those who are with the students regularly and provide the ‘link’ between the business world and the business advisors. Ken Longster told the Weekly News that similar trainings have been done in other British Overseas Territories and provides critical support for students who are thinking about becoming entrepreneurs.
He said, “Once the children have the support they need they have more confidence and the skills we help to give their mentors will help to boost their confidence.” According to him, he approached the Provo Chamber of Commerce about undertaking the workshops after speaking to several young persons on a previous visit to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). “What we found was that there are students who study abroad, but when they come home the opportunities they want are not always there,” Longster said. He explained that the training being given to the career mentors will
help equip students to explore other ventures by becoming entrepreneurs. The facilitators added his appreciation for the Chamber’s support in getting the workshops organised. The Chamber collaborated with the Ministry of Education’s Youth Department to host the workshops. National Youth Director, Ms. Angela Musgrove, told the Weekly News that the training is essential since they equip mentors to better equip the youth of today and tomorrow’s leaders not only in business, but also in other arenas. Scotiabank sponsored the workshops. (VANESSA NARINE)
A section of the workshop’s participants with facilitator Ken Longster, right.
The penthouse at the Gansevoort
The penthouse at the Gansevoort will go up for auction this September TWO stunning high-end properties will go up for auction this September and are expected to receive scores of bids. Diliberto Real Estate Services and partner Coldwell Banker Real Estate Turks and Caicos have just announced the forthcoming September 21 auction.
Up for offer is the luxurious 3,700sqft penthouse at the Gansevoort, originally priced at $4m. And a magnificent residential land site at Turks and Caicos Sporting Club on Ambergris Cay will also be under the hammer. Theland, originally priced
at $800,000 is located close to preserved archaeological ruins and natural landscape. Frank Diliberto, president of Diliberto, said:“The Turks and Caicos has become one of the Caribbean’s most sought-after destinations for second home buyers.”