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unusual facts about Saint Kitts


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.


1766 in Great Britain

20 February - The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a British sloop outside of Wilmington, North Carolina seized one sloop sailing from Philadelphia and one sloop sailing from Saint Christopher on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.

Bloody River

Bloody River or Stone Fort River is a river or ghaut (locally called) in Saint Kitts (an island in the Caribbean) which starts from the South East Range, flows west of the village of Challengers and exits at Bloody Point.

James Montgomerie

From 1796 to 1798 he was civil and military commander of Saint Kitts, with the 31st Light Dragoons.

Måns Nilsson Kling

However, Minuit left the colony on June 15, 1638 and sailed to the Caribbean Island of St. Christopher to barter a ship's cargo of wine and aquavit for tobacco.


see also

Aaron Moses-Garvey

His father, Lincoln Moses, who was born in Saint Kitts, manages non-League side Continental Star, where he used to play.

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.

Mannings, Saint Kitts and Nevis

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

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.

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.

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.

Saint Peter Basseterre Parish

The parish is home to the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport, which serves the island of Saint Kitts, and is often credited as being the finest mid-sized airport in the Caribbean.

The Scout Association of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Presently, five Scout groups are in operation on Saint Kitts-the Saint Georges Scout Group, Sandy Point Scout Group, Newton Ground Scout Group, Verchild's Scout Group and the newest Irishtown Primary School Scout Group.

Tim Harris

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

UMHS

University of Medicine and Health Sciences, a for-profit medical school in Basseterre, Saint Kitts