Fake News again; people making up stories and seems no one is spared 

By Deandrea Hamilton & Dana Malcolm

Editorial Staff 

#TurksandCaicos, October 13, 2022 – Another resident of the Turks and Caicos has been wrongly fingered by mischief makers in a potential character damaging rumor.

On Tuesday rumors began to circulate about the arrest of a local pastor, Bishop Branford Dean after a reported ‘police raid’ on one of his rented residences turned up loads of drugs belonging to a tenant to whom he had rented.

It was all untrue.  Fabricated at a time when residents are prone to believe widely circulated information.  The Turks and Caicos is, right now, battling a deadly drugs and guns fueled wave of deadly violence.

Police, on Monday moved to debunk a weekend rumor about one of the Bahamian officers who had been deployed and sworn into the TCI police force.  That officer had been wrongly branded as a potential murderer earlier this week.

So far nothing has been said in regards to the situation surrounding Dean.

Relatives of the pastor and members of his church were the ones who quickly dispelled the rumors alerting Magnetic Media to the fact that he was out of the country, far from where the mischievous story tried to place him.

It’ is not clear whether the rumor was a case of mistaken identity or just plain malicious intent; Police Commissioner Trevor Botting had reminded residents to be cautious with unverifiable information just days before.

“I am asking that people think about what they are sending out on social media before they hit the send button and consider the impact on others,” he’d said.

The pastor is expected to address the rumors directly, in short order.