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The most active part of the hurricane season is still weeks away, but experts’ predictions for a busy season appear to be holding true as Tropical Depression Seven strengthened into Tropical Storm Gonzalo.
TS Gonzalo is expected to become the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season east of the Lesser Antilles, but its forecast once it reaches the Windward Islands this weekend is highly uncertain.
Gonzalo is located over 1,000 miles east of the southern Windward Islands, moving west.
A Hurricane Watch has been issued for Barbados, where hurricane conditions are possible on Saturday. This means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area.
Cayman’s National Weather Service has also been monitoring Gonzalo’s progress. Chief Meteorologist Kerry Powery said, at this stage, the tropical storm poses no immediate threat to Cayman, and it is still too early to tell if it will.
“It’s a rather compacted system, and so a lot of environmental factors could either suppress it or strengthen it,” said Powery.
Only about eight percent of hurricanes form in July with a majority (over 85%) occurring after mid-August. On average, the seventh named storm in a season is on September 16.
Tropical Storm Gonzalo is now the earliest “G” in a record-setting hurricane season.
Gonzalo has also made history as the first tropical storm this season to form in the so-called “main development region” of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Lesser Antilles.
The storm’s early strengthening breaks a record set by Tropical Storm Gert on July 24, 2005, the busiest hurricane season on record.
Jamaican front-line workers hailed
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The all-inclusive BodyHoliday wellness resort in Saint Lucia is reopening on Sept. 1, Caribbean Journal has learned.
The property is the most recent to announce a relaunch in Saint Lucia, which first reopened its tourism sector on June 4.
The 154-room property is set on Cariblue Beach on the northwestern coast of Saint Lucia.
Long one of the Caribbean’s leading wellness-focused destination resorts, it’s famous for its inclusion of a free therapy and spa treatment every day of a guests’s stay.
You can find more on Saint Lucia’s reopening here.
For more, visit the BodyHoliday.
— CJ
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More and more buyers are looking to leave crowded cities like New York and move to the Caribbean, broker Robert Greenwood tells Caribbean Journal Invest.
For many, particularly high-net-worth buyers, it’s all about social distancing and lifestyle, Greenwood says.
And there are two Caribbean destinations of particular interest now: the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands.
The two destinations, both of which are British Overseas Territories, have been leading the way in the regional real estate market in recent years — both with surging sales volume and a growing pipeline of new developments.
The latest CJI Webinar (register here) takes a look at how — and why — to buy real estate in Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands.
The webinar, presented in partnership with Regency-Christie’s International Realty in Turks and Caicos and Provenance Properties Cayman Islands, will address both markets’ favorable market conditions, their largely unmatched quality of life in the region, and answer questions about financing options, buying remotely and more.
The roundtable panel will include:
Sue Nickason, VP Marketing and Sales at Provenance Properties in the Cayman Islands
Robert Greenwood, Director & Senior Broker at Regency-Christie’s International Real Estate in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Latoya Curry, Private Banker, Private Wealth Management at CIBC FirstCaribbean
— CJI
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