JAMES MEETS...
In each issue of the Standpipe, our editor James Henderson interviews a prominent Caribbean personality. For this issue, James chats with Ross Stevenson, who after five years in Barbados has just returned to St Lucia to open the five-star Cap Maison on July 21st. He talks of the challenges of opening a new hotel and how he finds St Lucia.
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ISLAND CHAT
Barbados Concorde Experience
Step aboard a British Airways Concorde in Barbados' dedicated Concorde hangar
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Hunte's Gardens, Barbados
Secret garden blossoms within a lush, tropical gully landscaped by dedicated plant nursery owner, Anthony Hunte. Read Deana Bellamy's review following a visit in May 2008.
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Records tumble at the Tobago International Game Fishing Tournament
A local Trinidadian boy lands several regional records and a world record with an 890lb Atlantic Blue Marlin
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Barbados Road Tennis
Is it Compact Tennis? Is it Highway Ping Pong? Rock Squash? No, it's...
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WHAT'S NEW
NEW! Caribbean Maps... Definitive Caribbean is very excited to introduce new interactive island maps. Definitive Caribbean's island guides and reviews can now be searched, at the brush of a mouse, on our new interactive maps.
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Cap Juluca, Anguilla... New owners announce major refurbishment for one of the Caribbean's best loved hotels.
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Blue Waters Inn, Tobago... top diving and birding hotel given new look restaurant and bar, plus sea kayaking and mountain bike trips
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New Spa at Jakes, Jamaica, Island Outpost open a new hotel in Port Antonio... Tone up, Wind down at Driftwood, Jake's, Wind up, Skin out* at Geejam, the new Island Outpost Hotel
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Limegrove Lifestyle Centre, Barbados... new 10 acre mixed use lifestyle and residential development for the West Coast
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RUM 'N RECIPES
Jamaican Jerk seasoning and marinades are widely used around the Caribbean and are available in most of the major supermarkets in North America and the UK. It is said that jerk actually owes its origins to the Taino Indians (Arawaks) who once inhabited Jamaica.
This month Deana Bellamy of Definitive Caribbean shows us how to make her version of Jamaica Jerk Seasoning
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QUIRKY CARIBBEAN
The Curious Life of Sand
Next time you settle down to perfect the tan on your back, and pass your fingers lazily through the sand, you might come to wonder how it was that the sand got there in the first place?
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PICK OF THE CROP
Horizon Yacht Charters (Antigua)
Horizon offers Day Spa package for sailors at Carlisle Bay's Blue Spa
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SPECIAL INTEREST
Caribbean with Weddings & Honeymoons
In this issue we look at some of the Caribbean's best properties for weddings and honeymoons this summer

Anguilla    - Altamer
                   Cap Juluca
                   Cove Castles
Antigua    - Blue Waters
                   Curtain Bluff
Barbados - Little Arches
                   Little Good Harbour
                   Settlers Beach
                   Treasure Beach
BVI           - Biras Creek
                   Fort Recovery Villas
                   Surfsong Villa Resort
                   Sugar Mill Hotel
Grenada   - Spice Island Beach                    Resort
                   The Calabash Hotel
                   The Flamboyant Hotel
                   Maca Bana Villas
Jamaica    - Coyaba Beach Resort
                   Half Moon
                   Jake's
                   Jamaica Inn
                   Rockhouse Hotel
                   Round Hill Hotel & Villas
                   Silent Waters
                   Tensing Pen
                   The Caves
Nevis        - Montpelier Plantation Inn
                   Nisbet Plantation Beach                    Club
                   The Hermitage Plantation                    Inn
St Barths  - Eden Rock
St Kitts     - Ottley's Plantation Inn
St Lucia    - East Winds Inn
                    Rendezvous
                    Royal St Lucia
                    Stonefield Estate
                    The BodyHoliday at                     LeSPORT
                    The Jalousie Plantation
St Vincent - Bequia Beachfront Villas                     Petit St Vincent Resort
                    Raffles Resort
Tobago      - Plantation Beach Villas                     Villas at Stonehaven

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Art and Culture
11 Jul - 1 Aug - 21st Tobago Heritage Festival
5 Jul - 7 Aug - Barbados, Crop Over Festival and Grand Kadooment
13 - 19 Jul - Jamaica, 16th Reggae Sumfest
4 - 6 Jul - 4 Jamaica, 9th Portland Jerk Festival
Sports & Activities
23 Aug - Trinidad to Tobago, Carib Great Race 40th Anniversary
5 - 29 Aug - Barbados Sports Camp
25 Jul - 4 Aug - Grenada and Carriacou, 43rd Carriacou Regatta Festival
11 - 14 Sep - St Lucia, 18th International Billfish Tournament

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