TCIG Announces National Honours & Awards Recipients

#TurksandCaicos, April 21, 2023 – The National Honors and Awards Recipients for 2022 have been selected and published in the March 2023 Gazette. The National Honors and Awards Ceremony is set for Saturday, 20th May 2023 at Yellowman and Sons Auditorium in Grand Turk and the general public is invited to attend. The nominees and the prizes they will receive are highlighted.

For the Order of Turks and Caicos Islands for service with distinction in any field of discipline, there is one recipient, the Hon. J. Rita O.B.E, Gardiner.

Under the Patriotic Awards Cayos Medal for demonstration of a keen sense of national consciousness and for rendering exceptional sacrificial service to the islands and the people you have:

• Lindsay M. Butterfield,
• Alexander Freites
• Ms Valerie Beatrice Jennings
• Lois Taylor

For the Long Service Medal for outstanding and exemplary public service to the islands and its people for a minimum period of twenty years, you have:

• Mr Leroy Alexander Adams
• Nancy Henrietta Delancy
• Pastor Marilyn Forbes
• Miss Kayla Gardiner
• Valeda Gardiner
• Almima Gibson
• Leonard Glasglow
• Rev Derek Richardson Hamilton
• Noyal R. Hamilton
• Hamutal I. Handfield
• Brendalee Harvey
• Irene Higgs
• Gary C. Lightbourne
• Susan Malcolm
• Miss Lois McIntosh
• Pastor Courtney Missick
• Susan Musgrove
• Mrs Jasmine Parker-Thomas
• Claudina Gertrude Phillips
• Adelphine Pitter
• Romaine Pratt
• Angelo Lorne Robinson
• F. Maurice Simmons
• Wilda Smith
• Pastor Anthonet Talbot
• L. Lionel Talbot
• Dr. Julia Elizabeth Williams

For the National Young Achiever’s Medal – For Turks and Caicos

Islanders between the ages of twelve and twenty-five years who have performed exceptionally well on a national, regional or international level in the areas of culture, academics, performing arts and sports among others.

• Chyenne Astwood
• Jamal Aaron Garland
• Andy Missick

The categories, this year, which had no awardees are: The Order of National Hero for extraordinary and outstanding achievement and merit in service to the Turks and Caicos Islands or to humanity at large;  The Patriotic Award Mouchoir Bank Medal, an honorary award for demonstrating a very high regard for national integration and philanthropic contribution to the development of the islands; and The Meritorious Service Medal for sacrificial and meritorious service in a field of service that is inherently challenging or for a brave or humane act in the islands or abroad.