Resort Report

The TCI Whale Project uses research to protect these leviathans of the sea. By Katharine Hart MSc. and Cathy Bacon MSc., Turks & Caicos Islands Whale Project, Marine Environmental Institute of the Turks & Caicos Islands ~ Photos by Katharine Hart, Deep Blue Charters, under SRP# 2025-01-01-02 From January to April each year, the waters of the Turks ...

Thirteen voices, one planet. Story & Photos By Oshin Whyte In April 2025, I attended the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum with a simple intention: to connect with like-minded young people who care about climate action, marine conservation, and most importantly, nation-building. What I did not expect was to meet the Director of ...

How TCI’s Financial Services Commission is shaping the future. By Dr. Courtney S. Robinson, FSC Communications Advisor At the heart of the Turks & Caicos Islands’ evolving economy is the Turks & Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission (FSC), the statutory regulator charged with protecting market integrity, enabling legitimate business activity, and safeguarding the public interest. For a ...

The autobiography of a National Museum. By Donald H. Keith ~ Images Courtesy Turks & Caicos National Museum Hi! I’m the Turks & Caicos National Museum, and I have a story to tell. Actually, a lot of stories, but this time I just want to tell you my own story, because it’s important right now and I’ve ...

Sisal production on East Caicos. By Jeff Dodge The last two issues of Astrolabe (Fall 2025 and Winter 2025/26) included articles detailing sisal production on the Caicos Islands. Although perhaps not as dramatic a story as the saga of West Caicos, the vesatile Agave fibre plant was also cultivated and processed on East Caicos. Unfortunately, the lifespan ...

Investigating the Turks & Caicos Rock Iguana. By Sally C. Dowd As the heat thickens and the wind subsides, biologist Jimmy Wehsener carefully steps around dozens of cacti on the southern reaches of Big Ambergris Cay, one of hundreds of remote islands scattered in the Atlantic that together form the Turks & Caicos. The flat turquoise sea ...

Watching what octopus do all day and night. Story & Photos By C.E. O’Brien, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Tropical Marine Ecology, School for Field Studies Center for Marine Resource Studies South Caicos How does an octopus spend its time at home? That’s what I and two researchers from Brazil teamed up to determine in a recent study ...

Yolande Robinson. By Alejandra Parnell ~ Photos By Renau Destine Photography Learn and Lead Ltd. is more than just an educational centre. It is a beacon for hopeful students and their parents, looking to grow and develop not only as pupils, but as individuals. As an educator for over two decades, Yolande Robinson has made a significant ...

A new study has the answer. By Jade Prévost-Manuel, Visit Turks and Caicos Islands Flamingos have a long history as an emblem of the Turks & Caicos Islands, but until recently, little was known about how many of these birds call the country home. Now, new research suggests that more than 5,300 American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) inhabit ...

The Corn Snake ~ By Bill Rhodes Snakes. A lot of people simply do not like them. Unless you are my 8-year-old granddaughter. For her last birthday she begged her parents to buy her a Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus). They are beautifully colored in shades of red and orange, growing to lengths of 5 feet when ...

Returning to wildness, one backyard at a time. Story & Photos By Kathleen McNary, BSc., ALM, PhD “It is not the Land that is broken but our relationship to it” ~ Robin Kimmerer, 2013 Habitat and biodiversity losses ravage the planet. In fact, a group of researchers and the Nature Conservancy (Freedman, 2019) now estimate that as much ...

For three decades, the name SWA Architects has quietly threaded its way through the story of the Turks & Caicos Islands. Ask anyone involved in building, planning, or development on Providenciales and odds are, the initials “SWA” will draw a nod of recognition—not because the firm has ever shouted the loudest, but because its work ...

The story of the West Caicos Fibre (Sisal) Company Ltd. By Jeff Dodge A species of the agave fibre plant was introduced to the Caicos Islands in the mid 1800s. At first it was hoped fibre production would replace the cultivation of cotton, which ended around 1813 due to pests, diseases, and worn out soil. The cultivation ...

The Caribbean Giant Centipede. By Bill Rhodes ~ Photos By Marta Morton My two young sons were doing what they always do when we visited the Islands. They were outside our villa sneaking up on unsuspecting lizards, mostly small anoles, to see if they could catch one. In this game of hide and seek, though, the lizards ...

Kevin Swann By Jody Rathgeb ~ Photos By Tom Rathgeb To check out Kevin Swann of North Caicos is to check all the ways in which he is a Renaissance Man. His areas of expertise run wide: Construction? Check. Security? Check. Import-export logistics? Check. Auto mechanics? Check. Hospitality? Check. It’s no surprise, then, that this Renaissance Man is ...