By Alexander Britell

Range Developments, the company behind the hottest luxury developments in the Caribbean right now, is adding another new project in the region.

The island of Grenada will soon be home to a new Six Senses resort, part of a major new development in the La Sagesse area.

La Sagesse will be a master-planned development slated to open in 2022.

It’s the latest luxury project in the Caribbean for Range, which is behind luxury developments including the Park Hyatt St Kitts and the soon-to-debut Kempinski in Dominica.

La Sagesse Beach.

Range is also developing a Six Senses-branded resort on the island of St Kitts.

“We have been impressed by the welcome and the opportunities in Grenada,” said Mohammed Asaria, managing director and board member at Range Developments. “We look forward to working together on this exciting project.”

La Sagesse will include two luxury five-star hotels, along with oceanfront villas, spas, retail and watersports facilities, according to the company.

The project will be part of Grenada’s citizenship by investment program.

“We are extremely delighted to welcome such an experienced hospitality developer to Grenada,” Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell said in a statement. “Range Developments is well known for the high quality of its hotels and for the ability to deliver the results in our region.”

Six Senses, which is now part of the IHG portfolio, is one of the world’s leading luxury brands, with a focus on wellness.

“We are very excited about coming to Grenada, the legendary spice island of yore,” said Bernhard Bohnenberger, president of Six Senses. “The ease of access from the United States and from Europe is also a very positive factor as these markets represent our two most prominent markets who embrace the quintessence of Six Senses.”

The post A Six Senses Resort Is Coming to Grenada appeared first on Caribbean Journal.

Powered by WPeMatico

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Who is the greatest living artist in the Caribbean?

Every island would have its answer, but for the island of St Martin, there’s en easy choice: Sir Roland Richardson, the Marigot-based legend who has been depicting the beauty of the island for decades.

And now his art gallery, long one of the island’s signature spots before the 2017 hurricane, has completed its comeback.

The Roland Richardson Gallery Museum, set in the heart of the French Caribbean town, had been shuttered since Hurricane Irma in 2017.

The gallery relaunched last month with a show called “A Flotilla on Turquoise,” showcasing a collection of “regatta” paintings spanning the last decade of St Maarten’s Heineken Regatta.

Richardson, who paints his pictures “en plein air,” can often be found painting outdoors across the island.

Known as the “father of Caribbean impressionism,” Richardson’s work has celebrated St Martin’s beauty for more than forty decades.

— CJ

The post A Legendary Caribbean Art Gallery Reopens appeared first on Caribbean Journal.

Powered by WPeMatico

… and environmental sciences visited Puerto Rico during spring break to … , Chavez (MET) visited Puerto Rico to learn about the ways … to record-breaking levels.
“Puerto Rico is in an interesting … at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, …

Powered by WPeMatico

By Alexander Britell

It’s no secret that tourism in The Bahamas is hot — but what’s different right now is the sheer diversity of the growth.

The Bahamas posted a blistering 16.7 percent increase in stayover visitor arrivals last year, easily among the biggest numbers in the Caribbean region.

And that growth unsurprisingly was felt in the country’s primary tourism hub of Nassau and Paradise Island.

The lobby at the new Rosewood Baha Mar.

Indeed, the major hotels in Nassau and Paradise Island saw a 34 percent increase in room revenues last year, gains not seen in the last decade, according to new data from the Ministry of Tourism.

““This is welcomed, heart warming news, at a time when we are endeavoring to drive our nation’s economy into higher gear,” said Bahamas Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar.

But that growth also included a sizzling 9.1 percent increase in overall visitor arrivals to Grand Bahama — along with a 14.9 percent jump in land and sea arrivals in the Out Islands of The Bahamas.

The Baha Mar is coming into its own and making a massive impact.

It’s part of a coalescence across the destination, from a strong surge in new airlift, more strategic brand positioning and a coming of age of sorts for the Baha Mar megaresort on New Providence’s Cable Beach, each factor strengthening the other.

“Over the last eighteen months, we have had several top brand hotels come on stream, namely the full opening of Baha Mar with its signature brands, the Rosewood, the Grand Hyatt and SLS,” D’Aguilar said. “The increased room inventory has generated increased airlift.”

Greenwood Beach on Cat Island, one of many destinations beyond Nassau and Paradise Island that are seeing growth.

It’s growth that seems well positioned to continue, with development and buzz only strengthening across the destination.

That’s led, of course, by what’s happening in downtown Nassau, where the $250 million Margaritaville development (part of the larger The Pointe project) has accompanied a full-fledged renaissance of the area’s historic quarter buoyed in large part by the growing footprint of the Graycliff Hotel and its Heritage Village.

A “park” setting would be an integral part of a planned transformation of Nassau’s cruise port.

Paradise Island, too, continues to solidify its gains, from the entry several years ago of the Warwick adults-only all-inclusive to a revamped Riu hotel to a wave of redevelopment and upgrades at Atlantis Paradise Island, long the destination’s major center of gravity. Not to mention a huge redevelopment of the Hurricane Hole Marina already in the works.

The Warwick Bahamas.

And there’s more on the way, from a major new cruise port redevelopment in Nassau to a five-star project on the pristine shores of Long Island called Port St George — and Richard Branson’s plans to turn a stretch of beach in Bimini into a happening cruise port for his new Virgin Voyages brand.

Jose Andres last year opened his new Fish by Jose Andres at Atlantis, part of a surging culinary scene.

Indeed, Bimini, just 50 miles from the coast of Miami, has been seeing its own growth in recent years thanks to the Resorts World Bimini project and traditional properties like the Bimini Big Game Club).

Plainly, the Bahamas is hot — and it’s only getting hotter.

— CJ

The post The Bahamas Is Hot Right Now appeared first on Caribbean Journal.

Powered by WPeMatico

By the Caribbean Journal staff

A first-of-its kind Caribbean real estate conference is coming to Boca Raton, Fla.

The Caribbean Real Estate & Investment Summit, presented by The Agency Collective-Florida, The Agency Turks and Caicos and The PLS.com, will bring together some of the top-producing agents, developers, architects, bankers and lawyers from across the region.

“The Agency is delighted to host the first annual Caribbean Real Estate and Investment Summit,” the company said in a statement. “In the spirit of collaboration, these experts will share their networks, market assessments and experience for the benefit of all.”

The conference will be headlined by a pair of panels: “Regional Market Trends,” moderated by James V. Andrews of Integra Realty Resources; and “Selling the Caribbean,” moderated by Caribbean Journal editor-in-chief Alexander Britell.

The conference will be held at The Agency’s offices in Boca Raton on April 5 from 9 AM to 6PM.

For more, contact Gina De Varona at gina.devarona@theagencyre.com.

— CJ

The post A Major Caribbean Real Estate Conference appeared first on Caribbean Journal.

Powered by WPeMatico