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Grenada will be featured on ITV 1's "A Secret Caribbean" next Sunday 12th July 2009 at 8pm (BST). The program hosted by Sir Trevor Mc Donald is a 3 part series insight into the good, the bad, the interesting and the down right strange of the Caribbean. |
The first 2 episodes have covered life in Cuba, Richard Bransons BV Island, Carnival on Trinidad, David Copperfield's Island in the Bahamas, all the bad bits of Jamaica and Sir Charles Williams on Barbados.
The next Sunday's program features the devastation caused by the Volcanic eruption on Montserrat, Harbour Island and of course GRENADA!!
The feature on Grenada whilst giving general background mainly covers the Chocolate Factory and the Leatherback Turtles.
ITV's Press pack states:
In Grenada Trevor meets the eccentric American man living and working in the smallest chocolate factory in the world. Mott Green, from New York, started his business a decade ago and now employs 13 people to make the award-winning chocolate from his own crop of cocoa beans.
The beans are picked then roasted into cocoa butter before being made into bars of chocolate which are sold around the world.
Mott’s whole life is dedicated to his chocolate factory - he even sleeps above it.
He says: “It’s nothing to write home about, but I sleep here, it’s rather comfortable. Although it does get a little isolating.”
While in Grenada, Trevor also meets the volunteers working to save the leatherback turtles which, with a remaining population of just 125,000 worldwide, are just one step away from extinction.
Trevor travels with the volunteers to a remote beach on the island where every March/April ***** this is not spring in the Caribbean***the turtles come during the night to lay their eggs. The volunteers have tagged the turtles and reveal they travel from as far as Canada and America to make the journey back to Grenada to lay their eggs.
They can lay up to 100 eggs at a time, but because only one out of every thousand will make it to adulthood, the turtles come back night after night to lay more. Using night-vision cameras so as not to startle these sensitive creatures, Trevor and the volunteers wait on the beach for over four hours, until eventually a turtle comes out of the water.
Trevor watches in amazement as it digs a hole to lay her eggs in. The volunteers then take the eggs and move them to a safer place on the beach.
Trevor says: “I can’t believe the effort that she has to make to do this; it’s astonishing watching the whole process.”
EXTERNAL LINK TO PROGRAM: "THE SECRET CARIBBEAN" |