On Thursday, 12 March, I was playing the violin in the streets of Fort-de-France, Martinique, when a stranger came up to me and said: “You’re playing Irish music? What are you doing here? You should be in Montserrat!” My first thought was “What’s Montserrat?” I went online to look up the island as fast as…
They came. With awe and wonder, our visitors took photos and videos as they arrived at Plymouth. They biked. The Guadeloupans came ready for adventure. They conquered our hilly terrain from Plymouth to Little Bay and back again! They discovered. At the Montserrat National Trust, they were given a historical tour through an exhibition of digitized photos of Old…
According to USA Today, Windstar Cruises will begin offering Caribbean cruises starting and ending in Montseratt later this year. The small-ship line says its 208-passenger Star Legend will operate seven-night voyages that include stops at Montserrat as well as St. Barts, St. Maarten and the British Virgin Islands starting on Dec. 8. Tourism to Montserrat…
USA Today Travel recently featured Montserrat as a Caribbean destination where you can don your green garb and celebrate the patron saint of Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick’s Day on Montserrat features a roster of spirited parades, jump-up breakfasts, pub crawls and cricket games leading up to a March 17 remembrance of the slave uprising that…
The island of Montserrat is on the rebound. A dynamic tourism marketing thrust driven by a new website, which has just gone live, is seeing the island creatively and meaningfully brought to life. The former capital Plymouth, now literally suspended in time, is a central feature of Montserrat’s new lease of life in its tourism brand…
I first heard about Montserrat in 2013 during my search for a PhD dissertation topic related to the connections between African and Irish cultures in the US and Caribbean. Montserrat was a mere footnote in many of the articles I was reading, and I decided I needed to check it out for myself. That…
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In a recent article, Caribbean Journal discuss Montserrat’s plans to harness geothermal energy. Montserrat has long been defined by the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano, whose 1995 eruption forever changed its future. But today, the island wants to use the teeming energy of the volcano to chart a new course for development: by harvesting geothermal energy. It’s part…