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By Caribbean News Now contributor BASSETERRE, St Kitts — The opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) has filed a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris. The motion, in the name of leader of the opposition, Dr Denzil Douglas, has been submitted to the Clerk of the St. Kitts and Nevis National […]

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KATOWICE, Poland — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Pacific, as a collection of small island developing states, are forging closer collaboration at COP24 to combat climate change. OECS director general, Dr Didacus Jules, met with his counterpart in the Pacific, Kosi Latu, director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional […]

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By Alexander Britell

You spot David Feherty’s mug the moment you reach the baggage claim in Providenciales, urging you to try the Provo Golf Club.

Feherty, the affable former pro golfer and current Golf Channel personality and commentator, who was named a few years ago as the ambassador for Turks and Caicos’ Provo Golf Club, was an inspired choice for the role — funny, knowledgeable and entirely unique. 

David Feherty.

And it’s the latter that’s particularly apt. 

Because when you get to the Provo Golf Club, just across from the end of Grace Bay Beach, you realize you’ve reached a unique golf experience in the Caribbean.

While Turks and Caicos is renowned for its beaches, its luxury hotels, its food – the perception of its golf experience ranges anywhere from an afterthought to an unknown.

Nearby destinations like the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are far more visible in the space, with golf resorts and signature courses from designers like Pete Dye and the like.

But it’s time for that to change — because the Karl Litten-designed Provo Golf Club is as beautiful, challenging and charming a course as you’ll find in the region.

It begins with the pink colonial-style clubhouse, home to a terrific pro shop and and even better upstairs British-style pub, Fairways.

The golf staff are warm, friendly and attentive, and, happily, there’s almost always a quick pace of play.

While there’s no driving range, there’s a handy, functional practice area with a net that will warm you up just as well. 

And then there’s the course. 

The 18-hole track, which debuted in 1992, is a colorful, rugged course, with water on six of nine holes on the front and another five in the back.

But perhaps more impressive is the condition of the course — it’s excellently manicured and just brilliantly green, something that’s rather rare on courses in the region these days — and the greens and fairways were just resurfaced, to boot.

The clubhouse at Provo Golf Club.

It all adds up to a layout that moves around from the fair to the challenging to, well, the par-five third hole, which presents a quandary for just about every golfer — and what amounts to the best-kept secret in Caribbean golf.

This Feherty fellow may be on to something.

For more, visit the Provo Golf Club.

— CJ

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

Royal Caribbean is expanding its cruise network out of the greater New York City area, the company said on Wednesday.

The cruise line will be adding new cruises in 2020-2021 on the Oasis of the Seas, which will become the world’s largest ship sailing from the Northeast.

Oasis will sail out of Cape Liberty in Bayonne, N.J. starting May 2020, with a series of seven-day cruises to The Bahamas over the summer.

Royal’s Adventure of the Seas will also be returning to Cape Liberty, with five and nine-night summer and fall itineraries that include the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

Oasis will be the first of Royal Caribbean’s Oasis class to cruise from the Northeast.

The announcement comes as another large cruise line, Carnival, is planning new cruises from New York, with sailings to Cuba beginning in 2020.

— CJ

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