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1st Update to Revised Edition of the Laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands

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#Providenciales, January 22, 2019 – Turks and Caicos – The 1st update to the 2014 Revised Edition of the Laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands will came into force on 18th January 2019.  This 1st update to the Revised Edition will show the law as at 31 March 2018 for those booklets affected.

The 1st update to the Revised Edition is published in electronic form on a CD-ROM and also in printed form comprising 97 booklets of the Ordinances and Regulations of Turks and Caicos Islands.  The purchase price is US$500 per set and CD-ROM. Ordinances and Regulations booklets are available for sale separately as well.

The Hon Attorney General Rhondalee Braithwaite Knowles, OBE expresses sincere thanks and appreciation to Ms. Myrtle Bryant OBE, Legislative Drafting Consultant, who advised on the material in this first update.

Special thanks and appreciation also to the Legislative Publisher, Ms. Yolande Dash and the Regional Law Revision Centre, who consolidated the update to the Revised Laws, offered advice on the preparation and typeset, printed the booklets and prepared the CD-ROM.

Practitioners and other persons are invited to purchase the update to the Revised Edition of the Laws by contacting Ms. Simeka Boyce, Legislative Systems Administrator onsboyce@gov.tc or by calling 338-3273.

 

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New President for Court of Appeal, Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon

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The public is advised of the appointment of the new President of the Court of Appeal which takes effect from April 27 2024.

Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago, was admitted to the Bar in 1982 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2008.

Prior to her appointment to the High Court Bench in 1997, Justice Yorke-Soo Hon had over 15 years practice at the Bar, more notably in Criminal Law. She obtained her LL.B from the University of the West Indies in 1980 and her L.E.C at the Hugh Wooding Law School where she serves today as an Associate Tutor in Criminal Practice and Procedure. From 2013 – 2016 she also tutored in Ethics, Rights & Obligations of the Legal Profession.

Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon is a member of the Board of the Judicial Education Institute of Trinidad and Tobago and a fellow of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. She also holds a diploma in ‘Training Judicial Trainers’ from the University College of London. Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon has chaired a number of Committees, including the Bench Book Committee responsible for the publication of the Criminal Bench Book in Trinidad and Tobago in 2015, the Sentencing Update Handbook (2016) and the implementation of the Criminal Procedure Rules (2017). She was also a member of the Criminal Justice Reform Committee (JURIST Project), and the Chairperson of the Magistrates’ Benchbook Committee, which was tasked with the publication of the Handbook for Magistrates in the English-speaking Caribbean (2021). Presently the Honourable Madame Justice Yorke-Soo Hon serves as a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Advisory Committee for the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and co-chairs the Monitoring, Evaluating and Facilitating Committee of the Needham’s Point Declaration on Criminal Justice Reform in the Caribbean.

She has done extensive training in Criminal Practice and Procedure with both Attorneys and Judicial Officers in Trinidad and Tobago and in the region.

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Men who had Murdered Man, Marley Higgs’ cell phone face Court

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Wilkie Arthur

Freelance Court Correspondent

The prosecution intends to try two young North Caicos men, both age 21 for the offense of possession of property of a murdered man, property that was stolen and landed in their possession.

The phone belonged to Peureton ‘Marley’ Higgs, who is believed to have been an innocent gunned down at his apartment complex in the Glass Shack area in a spray of bullets on February 2 that killed another man and wounded two others, including a ten-year-old little girl.

The cell phone was described as white in colour, an iPhone, in a hard black case. 

On Monday, March 18th, JEFFVANO HANDFIELD of North Caicos pleaded not guilty to the offense, and the matter was adjourned to April 2024. He was granted bail in the matter.

A second North Caicos man was charged similarly.  

SARENO CAPELLAN aka, Kino Williams is the second individual brought before the court pertaining to the said cellphone. He appeared in court a week after JEFFVANO HANDFIELD, the date being Monday March 25th 2024.

The case for the Crown is that both men sometime in February of this year possessed the cellphone knowing or suspecting it to be stolen property.

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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS DELEGATION ATTENDANCE AT THE NORTH CARIBBEAN SECURITY SUMMIT 21-22 MARCH 2024

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Her Excellency the Governor, Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam, is in Nassau this week, leading a delegation from the Turks and Caicos Islands to the Third Annual Northern Caribbean Security Summit. The forum brings together security leads from the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, the US and the UK to focus collective critical efforts against shared threats in the region.

The delegation from the Turks and Caicos Islands includes the Hon. Minister of Immigration Arlington Musgrove, the Hon. Attorney General, Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles OBE KC and senior leaders from Border Force, the Department of Rehabilitation and Community Supervision, the Financial Intelligence Agency, the National Security Secretariat, the Regiment and the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force. Additionally, the UK delegation includes the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Deputy Director, the Head of the UK Joint Maritime Security Centre and regional leads from the Ministry of Defence and the National Crime Agency.

Her Excellency the Governor opened the Turks and Caicos Islands’ contribution with a strategic overview of the security situation and growing capabilities. Presentations were given by members of the delegation on the Turks and Caicos Islands’ security posture to tackle transnational organised crime, coordinated efforts in developing the intelligence picture, cyber security, border security, financial crimes and wider impacts from the deterioration of Haiti.

Her Excellency the Governor held meetings with partners to discuss and prioritise areas of tactical focus and joint operations around irregular migration and securing maritime borders, including with the Commissioner of the Royal Bahamian Police Force (with his senior leadership team), the Commodore of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, senior leaders of the US Coast Guard and the US Customs and Border Protection. Outcomes of which, underpin increased operational coordination and information sharing. 

While in Nassau, Her Excellency also made courtesy visits to Her Excellency the Governor-General Cynthia A Pratt, Hon. Speaker of the House of Assembly Patrcia Deveaux, the Rt Rev Bishop Laish Boyd, the British High Commissioner to the Bahamas Tom Hartley, and the Turks and Caicos Islands Diaspora Office.

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