Immigration Minister leads delegation to South Caicos; promises temporary structure for travellers

#TurksandCaicos, May 9, 2021 – Hon Arlington Musgrove, Minister of Immigration and Border Services, accompanied by Hon Otis Morris, Minister of Home Affairs, Energy and Utilities and Transportation, All Island Elected Member of Parliament – Hon Shaun Malcolm; Desmond Wilson, Permanent Secretary within the Ministry; Mr. Floyd Ingham, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority and Mr. Emmanuel Rigby, Acting Chief Operations Officer visited South Caicos on Tuesday, 4^th May 2021.

Upon arrival at South Caicos Airport, the team was met by Mrs. Yvette Cox, District Commissioner and Hon John Malcolm, Member of Parliament for South Caicos.

The team toured the current construction works for the new terminal; the new fire hall and maintenance site, as well as identified a new location for a temporary terminal, to be erected for use by the traveling public.

Hon Musgrove in his comments stated, “while I am pleased to be in South Caicos, I am not pleased with the progression of this multimillion-dollar project and as such, we need to take the necessary steps to ensure that we obtain value for money.”

Hon Musgrove added, “it is very disappointing that a temporary structure was not erected to accommodate the traveling public to and from South Caicos. This is unacceptable and will be rectified immediately.”

Prior to their departure, the team visited their staff at Customs and Immigration departments in South Caicos.