Mountaineer and entrepreneur Yvon Chouinard used to say that adventure starts when everything goes wrong. To understand that in a visceral way, stand atop a paddleboard, surrounded by uncharted mangrove islands and the wild, scenic Turks and Caicos cays, and scan the vast horizon. Out here, a slight shift in the wind can change everything,…
Coco Van – Providenciales’ newest foodie sensation – breaks away from the island’s culinary mainstream by invoking the carefree spirit of the classic Airstream. Coco Van is Provo’s stylish answer to America’s food truck craze, an island take on the street-side urban dining trend. Though the streamlined caravan stays parked next to its sister restaurant,…
Story and Image: Dominique Rolle/Caya Hico Media From Jennifer Lopez’s meticulous turn in The Wedding Planner to Father of the Bride’s hilariously eccentric Franck, wedding planners are often portrayed in the movies as being obsessive in their commitment to pulling off a couple’s big day. At 31, Providenciales native Joseph Timothy Lewis Jr. never imagined…
Life got a bit brighter recently for the students at Extraordinary Minds Ashley Learning Centre located in downtown Providenciales, thanks to a little help from the captains, crews, staff and management at Blue Haven Marina, an Island Global Yachting (IGY) destination. In just a few hours on Feb. 25, 18 volunteers berthed at the IGY marina —…
Most people celebrate Valentine’s Day with flowers, chocolates and romantic dinners. On the island of Middle Caicos, people also celebrate on the beach racing model sailboats built by hand—an ode to a local tradition that played an important role in the childhood of many Turks and Caicos Islanders. This Saturday, February 18, local residents and…
Poor, sweet Jenna Marshall! Tormented –then blinded! – by the jealous mean-girl clique of Rosewood, USA, while still just a teenager! But she’ll get her revenge. Or will she? That’s the Tammin Sursok known to fans of the hit Freeform network series Pretty Little Liars (once described as “Desperate Housewives for teenagers”). Think over-the-top tween/teen…
The sands of time have hidden from modern remembrances the storied remains of many bygone worlds. It was famed archaeologist Howard Carter who after an obsessive search in the 1920s finally unveiled to the world the nearly intact tomb of the 18th dynasty Kemetic boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamen. Here in the Turks and Caicos, Paul Farnsworth…
Like most sports-loving Canadians, Ryan Jones grew up playing hockey. At some point, though, he and his twin brother began gravitating toward American football. It became his great love. Today, Jones is a Providenciales resident and a devoted evangelist of the game he credits with sustaining him through the death of his father when he…
With six grown children and the prospect of a new generation looming large on their family horizon, Chicago-based Keith and Susan Hoogland wanted the house of their Turks & Caicos dreams to expand and contract between an intimate retreat and a bustling, sprawling clan destination. The resulting villa is a true family collaboration, including input…
Perfume ads tend to conjure up surreal empty fields filled with flowers that bloom aromatically, but at the end of Middle Caicos, at a place called Wild Cow Run, that dream really does exist. Following the single road that winds through sleepy villages like Conch Bar and Bambarra, places where friendly elders pass the time…
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