Stories of Saint Lucia
The previously seen renderings of the revamping of the iconic Castries Market have now become a reality in Saint Lucia’s capital city. The Market Redevelopment Project which commenced in May 2019 have just seen a partial completion of Phase 1 and it has already added [...]
Award Winning travel writers and broadcasters Jon Holmes and Antonia Windsor have made a funny, entertaining and informative podcast guide to all things Saint Lucia. Here, presenter and producer Jon shares how the podcast came to be made. When I was nine, my Grandmother went [...]
Story & Photos by Stan Bishop Like many other Saint Lucian villages and towns, Laborie is filled with a colourful history and a promising future. Nicknamed “The Lab” by especially those who have close ties to the community, Laborie is a beautiful blend of the [...]
Story & Photos by Stan Bishop Located almost split in the middle of Saint Lucia’s eastern coastline, Dennery has earned the enviable reputation of being one of the island’s most cultural, economic, captivating and fertile regions. Known formerly as Lance Canot and Le Grand Mabouya, [...]
Story & Photos by Stan Bishop The southernmost part of Saint Lucia, Vieux Fort, has been of great importance for centuries. Vieux Fort was a major producer of sugar in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the Americans even built an airfield there – Beane [...]
By Stan Bishop A 25-minute drive from Saint Lucia’s capital city, Castries, lands you right into Anse La Raye, located on the island’s west coast. Here, the hustle and bustle of the city give way to never-ending expanses of undulating vegetation and snaking roads that [...]
Story & Photos by Stan Bishop Castries is the capital city of Saint Lucia. Formerly referred to as Carenage, the area was renamed Castries in 1785, after Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, Marquis de Castries (1727-1801), the French Minister of the Navy and Colonies. [...]
Story & Photos by Stan Bishop The west coast town of Soufriere is famous to movie buffs as being the location for most of the filming of the 1985 movie, Water, based on a fictional colony called Cascara, and starring acclaimed British actor, Michael Caine. [...]
Meet Kenya James, Tourism Information Officer at the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, based at the Hewanorra International Airport. A recent graduate with honors from the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor of Science degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management, she brings to the [...]