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#TurksandCaicos, November 16, 2017 – Providenciales – HAPPENING NOW, PDM Administration press conference.   Full Cabinet representation.   Education Minister Karen Malcolm said the cost to rebuild public schools at $4.5m not including furniture.

Youth Listening tour resumes next week and Cabinet yesterday approved scholarship monies; recipient names to be published.
Health Minister Edwin Astwood announces aggressive approach to taking out Cancer.  The ‘killer’ as he labelled it has seen 47 new cases in the past 12 months.
Dr. Amado Sardi of Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore is with five star ratings as an Oncology specialists. The MD is invited into TCI Dec 7-11, 2017.
Rainy weather anticipated to result in mosquito boom; Minister says plan in place and new officer and truck headed to the twin islands to help curtail the situation.
No Zika. No ChikV.
Tourism Minister Ralph Higgs says the message of Turks and Caicos being ‘Open for Business’ is working.   Said the near $200,000 special marketing money granted by Government is helping to send that message to the wider world.   Some Tourism and Culture plans deraiked by hurricanes in September.   Among them ‘Back to our Roots’.
Legislation on Gaming and Maritime progressing and on their way to be revamped, revised and modernised.
#more to come

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