This weekend Christophe Harbour welcomed over 20 elite poker players to The Pavilion beach club for a two day, world-class event. The WPT Alpha8 event - an exclusive series of high-stakes poker tournaments held at the most prestigious gaming resorts around the world - was action packed as many of the game's top players made the trip to our beachside private club to play in the $100,000 buy-in tournament. The tournament consisted of a few friendly faces as two of our very own founding members, Bill Perkins and Greg Whalley participated in the event.

After two days of strong play from the competitors, it was none other than recent Alpha8 London winner Philipp Gruissem who captured the title and top prize worth $1,086,400US.<...

The St. Kitts Ministry of Tourism has announced the opening of a 1.0-megawatt solar powered energy grid. Created to provide operational power to the St. Christopher Air, Sea and Ports Authority (SCASPA), the airport-located solar farm is the most recent green energy partnership between Taiwan and St. Kitts. Other partnership initiatives include solar and LED highway lighting, the installation of solar panels at the island’s government headquarters and the development of an agro-tourism farm.

The solar farm is a joint venture of the Governments of St. Kitts & Nevis and the Republic of China (Taiwan), SCASPA, the Sugar Industry Diversification Fund, and The St. Kitts Electricity Corporation. The US $2.5 million solar farm is expected to save SCASPA more than EC $1...

Christophe Harbour is pleased to announce our partnership with the Monaco Yacht Show 2013 and our sponsorship of the Darse Sud Lounge and Press Centre. If you plan to attend this year's show, held September 25-28, stop by and enjoy our hospitality area at the Darse Sud Lounge. Christophe Harbour representatives and business partners will be in attendance to showcase the marina and share our latest offerings. We look forward to seeing you there. For more information, contact the Christophe Harbour sales team. 

The following is a recent birding report written by Kittitian birder Michael Ryan.

Bird watchers and curious onlookers were fascinated to observe a massive influx to St. Kitts of one of the majestic birds of prey, the Osprey.

While driving on the South East Peninsula road, directly opposite the construction of the Christophe Harbour project by the Great Salt Pond, eighteen Ospreys were counted in the trees on both sides of the road in a distance of no longer than a half a mile, and one was flying for a total of nineteen. This ad hoc count occurred during a heavy drizzle, just prior to the heavy rainstorm that subsequently closed schools and some business establishments.

Over the...

It’s a bird, It’s a Plane, It’s…… Amphibex.  We are all enjoying watching from the office windows as this excavator works its little heart out in the harbour. Not only does it operate in the water, it also has these super cool stabilizers and buckets that allow it to walk about on land too. Amphibex is making swift work of the remaining dredge area in the marina.

Despite its reputation as a lean, mean excavating machine, it's also quite gentle. The propeller can be raised if working in shallow waters to protect marine life and vegetation and also to avoid kicking up sediment on the seabed. 

And perhaps best...