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1841 Apr 3 |
From Nassau, Bahamas, a British magistrate wrote that 193 shipwrecked African slaves from the ship Trouvadore were found naked on the shores of the East Caicos Island. The slaves were then quarantined in a jail and given food and clothing. The accident set free the slaves who became ancestors of many later residents of the islands. In 2004 the wreck was found and in 2008 marine archaeologists identified it as the remains of the slave ship. Links: Bahamas, Britain, Black History, Turks and Caicos, Slavery 
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1852 |
The Grand Turk Lighthouse was built at the tip of Grand Turk island, at the bottom of the Bahamas chain, as the area thrived from the salt trade. Links: Turks and Caicos
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1986 |
The constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands was suspended following an inquiry into arson and alleged corruption. Links: Turks and Caicos, Corruption
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1998 Jun 9 |
Some 30 Haitians drowned when police in the British Turks and Caicos Islands fired on a boat jammed with about 100 refugees. Links: Haiti, Turks and Caicos
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2003 Apr 24 |
In the Turks and Caicos Islands the governing party narrowly held on to power in elections, giving Chief Minister Derek Taylor an unprecedented third term. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2003 Aug 7 |
An opposition party in the Turks and Caicos, a British territory, won legislative elections and will return to power after eight years out of office. Links: Britain, Turks and Caicos
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2003 2009 |
The gross domestic product of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a U.K. territory of 22,000 people, more than doubled during this period to $750 million, largely through a resort-building boom under Premier Michael Misick. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2007 May 4 |
A boat loaded with Haitian migrants capsized while being towed by a police boat from the Turks and Caicos Islands. 78 of some 160 people survived. Haitian migrants later claimed a Turks and Caicos naval vessel rammed their crowded sailboat twice before it capsized. Links: Haiti, Turks and Caicos, Migrant
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2008 Apr |
The Nikki Beach Resort & Spa opened In the Turks and Caicos Islands. In 2009 the exclusive resort that catered to celebrities and offered personal butlers and a pillow menu closed after less than two years of operation. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2008 Sep 6 |
Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm, prompting an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain. Links: Turks and Caicos, Hurricane
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2008 Sep 7 |
In Haiti at least 58 people died as Ike's winds and rain swept the impoverished Caribbean nation. Officials also found three more bodies from a previous storm, raising Haiti's death toll from four tropical storms in less than a month to 319. A Dominican man was crushed by a falling tree. Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm. Links: Haiti, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Hurricane
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2008 Dec 15 |
A plane from the Dominican Rep. went missing near the Turks and Caicos Islands that reportedly had 12 people, including 11 migrant workers, on board. Several days after the disappearance, Dominican authorities said Adriano Jimenez, the pilot, was allowed to take off even though he had only a US student pilot's license. Links: Air Crash, Dominican Rep., Turks and Caicos
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2009 Feb 13 |
Turks and Caicos Islands jet-setting PM Michael Misick said he will step down as leader the at the end of March, citing a lack of support for his scandal-plagued government. Premier Misick reportedly paid himself more than Britain’s Gordon Brown for running the territory of 36,000 people. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2009 Mar 23 |
Michael Misick, the jet-setting premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, resigned, a week earlier than expected, following an investigation that found "clear signs" of corruption in the eight-island British dependency. His successor as premier, Galmo Williams, won a 3-way fight to lead the ruling Progressive National Party at a convention in early March. Links: Turks and Caicos, Corruption
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2009 Aug 14 |
Britain removed Michael Misick, the elected premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as the cabinet and assembly due to systemic corruption. The constitution was suspended for 2 years and the population of 38,000 would be run for the next 2 years by a governor representing Queen Elizabeth. Links: Britain, Turks and Caicos, Corruption
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2012 Nov |
Rufus Ewing was elected as the new premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Gov. Rick Todd returned the islands to self rule following three years of direct administration. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2012 Dec 7 |
In Brazil Michael Misick, the former jet-setting premier of the Turks and Caicos islands, was arrested after having disappeared a couple years ago. Links: Brazil, Turks and Caicos
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2012 |
The population of the Turks and Caicos Islands was about 31,500. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2013 May 23 |
Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands said they have recovered $19.5 million and over 2,500 acres of real estate as they continued to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians. Links: Turks and Caicos
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2013 Jun 15 |
Britain clinched a deal with its major offshore tax havens on Saturday that will see 10 British overseas territories and crown dependencies sign up to international protocols on information sharing. Those included were Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Anguilla, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Links: Britain, Taxes, Anguilla, Montserrat, Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey, British Virgin Islands
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2013 Dec 25 |
A boat capsized off the Turks and Caicos islands and 17 Haitian suspected illegal migrants died. 33 people were rescued. Links: Haiti, Turks and Caicos
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2017 Jan 24 |
At least 15 Haitian migrants drowned in the Turks & Caicos Islands after their small and crowded boat capsized near the British Caribbean territory. 69 people were on the boat. Links: Haiti, Tragedy, Turks and Caicos
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2017 Sep 7 |
Hurricane Irma flooded parts of the Dominican Republic as it roared by just off the northern coast of the island it shares with Haiti. The hurricane was headed for the Turks and Caicos Islands. Irma has cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 11 dead and thousands homeless. Links: Dominican Rep., Turks and Caicos, Hurricane, Major Event
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2017 Sep 21 |
Category three Hurricane Maria lashed the northeastern Dominican Republic and was expected to pass near the Turks and Caicos later in the day. Links: Dominican Rep., Turks and Caicos, Hurricane
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2017 Sep 22 |
Puerto Rican officials said at least six people have died in connection with Hurricane Maria. Hurricane Maria lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands after destroying homes, causing widespread flooding, crippling economies and killing at least 25 people on Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Links: Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos, Hurricane
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2017 Dec 23 |
In the Turks and Caicos Islands a small plane crash killed two people after taking off from the island of Providenciales. Links: Air Crash, Turks and Caicos
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2019 Feb 9 |
It was reported that shantytowns across the Turks and Caicos grow every day as thousands of young Haitians try to escape the poorest economy in the Caribbean, where 60 percent of the population of 11 million people live on less than $2 a day. Links: Haiti, Turks and Caicos
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2022 Sep 20 |
Hurricane Fiona intensified to a Category 3 storm as it neared the Turks and Caicos Islands, days after it knocked out Puerto Rico’s power grid and lashed parts of the Dominican Republic with heavy rain. Links: Turks and Caicos, Hurricane
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