Island Buzz

If you haven’t started the Caribbean Regatta Season in Grenada, here is another great opportunity to do so. Scotiabank, in conjunction with the Grenada Sailing Festival present the 19th Annual Work Boat Regatta. The festival will be held on February 4th and February 5th with lots of fun-filled activities. Although there are vessels designed solely to compete in these types of events, as tradition, the crewmen uses fishing boats (work boats) to compete which adds…

ST. GEORGES, GRENADA – The Grenada Board of Tourism(GBT) and the Grenada Hotel & Tourism Association (GHTA) have jointly launched a new, and improved, booking engine on their respective websites www.grenadagrenadines.com and www.gogrenada.gd which, it is expected, will bolster the island’s tourism industry. The implementation of Regatta allows hotels, villas and other activity providers in Grenada to use the websites of the tourism board and hotel association to exhibit control as to exactly how they…

Many of our readers will know that Grenada’s other name is “The Spice Isle”. Here you’ll find cinnamon, clove, ginger, allspice, bay leaf, turmeric, saffron and of course the national symbol of Grenada, the nutmeg. It is impossible to go to Grenada and avoid the nutmeg. It is sprinkled on your rum punch, mixed in sauces, an ingredient of pastries, used for pain relief and (most tastily in my opinion) used to flavour ice cream.…

The pint sized impresario will be visiting Grenada’s sunny shores over the festive period to play Santa. He’s selected a rather luxurious sleigh for his gift deliveries – a 12 berth/43metre super yacht called ‘Slipstream’. Apparently it will set him and his shipmate, Sir Philip Green, back to the tune of £625,00 per week. We’re pretty sure they can afford it. A source said “Simon wanted a change of scenery rather than spend another Christmas…