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Dana Malcolm  Staff Writer    #TurksandCaicos, September 11, 2023 – Bahamian Police officers will join the Royal TCI Police Tactical Unit, brought in to specifically target gang related crime just as the country records its 14th murder for 2023. The National Security Council (NSC) made the announcement after a September 5th meeting. Royal TCI Police issued […]

InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up covers more countries than ever before, with a major expansion into nations of the Caribbean.

By Mohamed Foday Conteh Kissy Dock Yard community has called on authorities responsible to relocate the garbage dumpsite (bomeh) as they believe it poses serious health and environmental issues to the community. Located in the east end of Freetown, it is arguably the largest dumpsite in Freetown that admits huge tons of waste on a daily basis. The chairman of Dock Yard

The Bahamas ranked eighth on InSight Crime’s 2022 Homicide Round-Up of countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, though a few countries, including Haiti, were not ranked because there was no reliable data on the number of homicides last year. The Bahamas finished 2022 with 128 murders — that’s 32 per 100,000 people. Turks and

By Deandrea Hamilton and Dana Malcolm Editorial Staff   #TurksandCaicos, November 4, 2022 – Three weeks of relative quiet in the Turks and Caicos was on Wednesday October 26 shattered by another double shooting, which left one man murdered. Since then, at least six more shooting incidents across mainly Providenciales, with one unconfirmed report out […]

Turks and Caicos police are investigating a triple murder, including that of a 3-year-old boy, after discovering three bodies in Providenciales on Tuesday.

Mr Carter and his girlfriend Alonia Williams were celebrating his 40th birthday earlier this month and returning to the £850 a night five-star Ritz Carlton hotel when they were caught in the crossfire.

Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe yesterday announced a national security exercise between The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. “The Ministry of National Security and its regional partners recognized the emerging national security threats developing across borders throughout the Caribbean,” Munroe said. “However, the government of The Bahamas remains resolved in our strategic approach

A tourist who was killed in the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this week when the vehicle he was traveling in was ambushed by armed gunmen has been identified as an Air Force veteran and local NAACP leader from Virginia.

By Lalin Fernando This is a response to the media, the BASL and foreigners who never give up preaching on how ‘peaceful protesters’ were attacked ‘brutally’ by the Security Forces, especially at Galle Face Green on July. 22. With hundreds of thousands of protesters (Sunday Times Aug . 7) including non-nationals living on charity,, who […]