Woman, Grand Turk Restaurant Manager is first murder of 2022

By Deandrea Hamilton

Editor

#TurksandCaicos, January 15, 2022 – The country’s first murder is a 60-year-old long time resident of Grand Turk, a woman who police say was found early the morning of January 3 on the floor of her home with a wound to the head. 

The police report also said by the time they arrived, at the house located on the ridge, she was dead.

No identity is yet provided of the woman to date by Police, however she is described as a manager of the Bahari restaurant and she called them to report that someone was trying to forcefully enter her home.  The police got that call at 1:07am however, they do no state what time they got to the house.

Questions were raised about the time it took for police to respond to the woman’s distress call.

No motive for the murder was given.

This homicide, though the first for the year was the third murder in the Turks and Caicos in a week.