Before this spring, they were just two unknown local teenagers. But after a chance encounter in mid-April, Turks and Caicos sea turtles – Wayne and Gerald – are off to see the world as scientific celebrities, with fans around the world watching their every move. The two “sub-adult” green turtles were picked up on the…
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…
Given his Turks and Caicos track record for successful innovation, when developer Mark Durliat starts talking about a new idea, residents tend to sit up and take notice. Then again, it isn’t every year that Durliat proposes an entirely novel sector in the Turks and Caicos luxury tourism market. That makes this winter’s sales launch…
It took the better part of a decade to bring it to fruition, but one of South Caicos’ most ambitious dreams closed in on reality this fall when the Sailrock Resort began taking reservations and preparing to host its first guests on “The Big South” this winter. This “barefoot luxury” resort officially broke ground more…
The Turks and Caicos’ tastiest invasive species gets the nation’s full attention — both under the water and on the plate — starting on Saturday, Oct. 29. TCI’s first Lionfish Festival comprises two separate events: A Provo festival on Oct. 29 at Turtle Cove Marina, and a Grand Turk festival at the library the following week on Saturday,…
U.S.-based singer-songwriter Wyatt Easterling had so much fun at Provo’s first Sundowner Music Festival last winter that the well-traveled troubadour has booked a four-day return engagement with his friends at Blue Haven Resort and The Somerset on Grace Bay, from Thursday, Oct. 20, through Sunday, Oct. 23. Joining Easterling for the festival’s second lineup: Nashville…
Jill Beckingham, wife of Gov. Peter Beckingham, will step off on her third and final fund-raising hike across the TCI’s six Family Islands on Friday, Sept. 23. The annual Footsteps4Good charity walk raised tens of thousands of dollars for local causes in 2014 and 2015. Beckingham will cover a total of 100 kilometers in this month’s…
Congratulations to Provo’s Nikheel Advani, one of five nominees for Hotelier of the Year chosen from around the world for the 10th annual Best of the Best Awards, held during Virtuoso Travel Week earlier this month in Las Vegas, Nevada. “We’re tremendously proud that our partners at Virtuoso have chosen to nominate Nikheel for the honor of…
Island Time is supposed to run a little slow, but the same has never been said about 22-year-old Grand Turk sprinter Delano Williams. With the Turks and Caicos “Golden Boy” set to burst onto the global stage tonight in Rio during the second heat of the first round in the Olympic 4×400 meters relay (local TV/cable…
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