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26 unusual facts about Nevis


Almeda University

Legally, Almeda University is a corporation registered on the Caribbean island of Nevis.

Bath, Saint Kitts and Nevis

it is located on the west or Caribbean coast of the island, just south of Charlestown, near the southernmost end of Gallows Bay.

Brick Kiln

Brick Kiln is a settlement in the east of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

It is located inland from the coast in America, to the north of Butlers.

Butlers, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Butlers is a settlement in the east of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

It is located inland from the coast, to the north of Mannings and south of Brick Kiln.

Calotrophon carnicolor

This specie sis distributed in the Lesser Antilles along Nevis and Barbados.

Church Ground, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Church Ground is a village on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Dolphin Flag

The Dolphin Flag of Anguilla was adopted on September 29, 1967, after the colony (then part of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla) unilaterally declared independence from Great Britain as the Republic of Anguilla.

Goodbody Stockbrokers

A whistleblower revealed that the broker illegally traded AIB Shares, through offshore blacklisted tax havens Nevis and Vanuatu.

Keith Walwyn

Kenford Keith Ian Walwyn (17 February 1956 – 15 April 2003), more commonly known as Keith Walwyn, was a Kittitian footballer who played as a striker.

Mannings, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Mannings, Saint Kitts and Nevis is a small town on the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

NEVIS

NEVIS, or New Exhaust Valve & Intake System, is a type of internal combustion engine developed by Cesare Bortone in cooperation with the University of Perugia which utilizes a unique annular piston design on a sinusoidal cam to produce power.

Nevis Laboratories

James Hamilton built his mansion on this estate and named it Nevis in honor of the birthplace of his father.

Nevis Premier Division

Nevis Premier Division, is the Nevis top division, created in 2006 and organized by the St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association.

Nevis, Minnesota

The muskie fish is native to the waterways in the area, and is celebrated in Nevis.

Robert G. Renner, a U.S. federal judge, was born in Nevis in 1923.

Newcastle, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Newcastle is a village on the northern coast of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

People's Action Movement

In the 1980 elections they won three seats, and were able to form a coalition government with the Nevis Reformation Party to oust the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party from power for the first time since 1952.

Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

This is now RBTT Bank Caribbean, with branches in St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and Bequia, and owns RBTT Bank (SKN) in Nevis and RBTT Bank Grenada.

University of the Southern Caribbean

Malcolm Guishard – 1975 – Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Deputy Premier Nevis.

West Indies Power

It has geothermal power development activities in Nevis, Saba and Dominica.

These projects, if completed, will make Saint Kitts and Nevis the first country in the Caribbean to utilize large-scale geothermal energy, and one of the least dependent nations in the world on fossil-fuels.

West Indies Power is a geothermal power company registered in the Netherlands Antilles and with the head office in Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Zion, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Zion is a settlement in the southeast of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

It is located inland from the coast, to the northwest of Market Shop.


Bilzerian

Adam Bilzerian (born 1983), Saint Kitts and Nevis poker player and writer

Charles E. Mills Secondary School

The Charles E. Mills Secondary School (formerly Sandy Point High School) is a public high school in Sandy Point Town, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Dennis Byron

In 2000, Judge Byron was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and he was appointed a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in 2004, making him only the second national of St. Kitts and Nevis to be appointed, following the appointment of the country's first Prime Minister Dr. Kennedy Simmonds in 1984.

Frederick Seymour

For the next twenty years, he served in various positions in a series of colonies mired in political and economic difficulties: Van Diemen's Land, Antigua, Nevis, British Honduras, and the Bay Islands.

Kaleth Morales

Kaleth Miguel Morales Troya was born in Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia to singers Miguel Morales and Nevis Troya.

Music of Saint Kitts and Nevis

There is Inner City Fest in February in Molineaux Green Valley Festival usually around Whit Monday in village of Cayon, Easterama around Easter (April) in village of Sandy Point, Fest-Tab, around July-August in the village of Tabernacle, and La festival de Capisterre, around Independence Day in Saint Kitts and Nevis (19 September), in the Capisterre region.

Nevis Express

Nevis Express was an airline which operated from St Kitts and Nevis, West Indies.

Outline of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest nation on Earth to ever host a World Cup event; it was one of the host venues of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Paul A. Russo

He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan.

Pero's Bridge

The bridge is named after Pero, also known as Pero Jones, who lived from around 1753 to 1798, arriving in Bristol probably from the Caribbean Island of Nevis in 1783, as the slave of the merchant John Pinney (1740–1818) at 5 Great George Street.

Robert Bradshaw

Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw (1916–1978), former Premier and Chief Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, labor activist

Saddler

Saddlers, a town in Saint John Capesterre Parish, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Paul Capisterre

Saint Paul's is home to the current prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas, and was also home to former premier, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, who is the first national hero of Saint Kitts.

The Lairig Club

It is interesting to note that other than the first ascent of Raven’s Gully in Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes and Chris Bonington in 1953 all the grade V routes in Scotland were confined to the Lairig’s stomping ground of the Eastern Cairngorms in the early 1950s and it is ironic that it was Lairig members Patey and Nicol who teamed up with Hamish MacInnes to climb the first grade V on Ben Nevis, this came in the form of the much prized first ascent of Zero Gully.

Tim Harris

Timothy Harris (born 1964), foreign minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis