Featured Articles
Men in the Ground
Christmas hog potato and Devil’s potato vines dress up the bush. Story & Photos By B Naqqi Manco, TCI Naturalist I drew trees like every other six-year-old drew trees—green lollipops on straight brown sticks dotted quite regularly with disproportionately large, bright red flowers or fruit or something. Who knows what they were—probably ... Keep Reading »
The Rest of the Story
Documenting civilian Loyalists’ influence on Caicos Islands history. By Dr. Charlene Kozy The influx of Loyalists to the Bahamas shaped the political and cultural behavior not only of the Bahamas but of Turks & Caicos Islands. Why did they come, who were they, and what contributions did they make? In a previous article ... Keep Reading »
A Voyage into Reading
Hands Across the Sea spreads its blessing to Turks & Caicos. Courtesy Hands Across the Sea For sailors Tom “T.L.” Linskey and his wife Harriet, Caribbean cruising at its best is half challenge, half discovery. The challenges involve everything from ocean sailing from New England to the Caribbean and the often boisterous ... Keep Reading »Articles Latest Edition
Views, views, views
The Venetian holds court over the eastern end of Grace Bay. By Kathy Borsuk ~ Photos By Steve Passmore, Provo Pictures I was touring the TCI’s newest condominium resort, The Venetian on Grace Bay. We were standing on the crescent-shaped screened balcony that fronts each suite, taking in the glorious scenes of ivory sand, turquoise [...]
Continue »
Waving a Blue Flag
TCI’s “Beautiful by Nature” beaches are now certified. By Don Stark, Chairman, Turks & Caicos Reef Fund (www.TCReef.org) Everyone who spends any time in the Turks & Caicos, and especially on Grace Bay, knows that these islands have some of the best beaches in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean. And that’s not just local bragging. [...]
Continue »
The People Who Discovered Columbus Version 2.0
By Dr. Peter T. Sinelli and Dr. William Keegan “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein In our last contribution to Times of the Islands, we described the “conventional wisdom” concerning the colonization of the Caribbean Islands—namely, that the Island Arawaks efficiently [...]
Continue »
Service and Value Breed Success
“The Best Little Car Rental Agency” in Grace Bay just got a whole lot bigger. By Kathy Borsuk Since opening in 2005, Grace Bay Car Rentals and Sales has operated from a tiny office in Grace Bay Plaza, with their fleet of rental and for-sale cars packed into the gravelly lot at its side. In [...]
Continue »
Ancient Discoveries in the Caicos Caves
Sometimes it takes a new pair of eyes . . . nearly 100 years later! By Mark Parrish, BSc Ocean Sciences I have been exploring caves and sinkholes in the Turks & Caicos Islands for almost 15 years. It was not something I was particularly interested in before moving to these islands, but I’ve always [...]
Continue »What's Inside The Latest Edition?
Kim Mortimer photographed this incredible scene of a sunlit room in the back of a cave on East Caicos.This photo involved transporting all the equipment across the Caicos Islands and through the thick native bush to the entrance of the cave in the middle of uninhabited East Caicos. Then the gear was floated on a raft and swum up the canyon-like waterway to the end of the cave. The shot was actually taken in six feet of water using a remote control shutter release, and required the tripod, Nikon D200 camera and Kim to be precariously balanced on some underwater rocks.
