Nevis Activities

Charlestown, Nevis (April 12, 2007)

Deputy Premier of Nevis the Hon Hensley Daniel, believes that great things could mushroom from a relationship between the American descendants of Nevisian born Mr. Alexander Hamilton and the people of Nevis.
 
Mr. Daniel made the comment while he welcomed two descendants of Mr. Hamilton during a brief visit to Nevis on April 06, 2007 at the Montpelier Plantation Inn. Mr. Phillip Skyler Hamilton and his son Mr. Douglas Hamilton (fourth and fifth generation respectively) and their wives, who were on vacation in St. Kitts, also met with Premier the Hon. Joseph Parry. They were hosted  on Nevis by Mr. John Guilbert Executive Director of the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society.
 
“We (Nevis Island Administration) have recently restarted the Alexander Hamilton Scholarship Fund and hope to work with them to strengthen the partnership and to be able to help many of our young people to access education at the high school level and also beyond that, to attend Hamilton College in New York, so that we might keep the connection between Nevis and Hamilton.
 
“We look forward to their continued collaboration and engagement with us and so, I offer them an invitation to join us on January 2008 for the next Alexandra Hamilton Scholarship Fund Tea Party”¦ We hope by their coming it will help to cement the relationship between the fund and the Hamilton descendants. We look forward to a long and productive relationship with the Hamilton Descendants and Hamilton College.  Working together with the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, we think that we can achieve great things for the people of Nevis,” he said.

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Andrew Miller
March 25, 2007

John Maynard now divides his time between net-bowling duties to visiting World Cup teams and
appearing as a guest summariser on Test Match Special At www.Stanford2020.com

To an English cricket fan of the early 1990s, John “The Dentist” Maynard was one of the most
evocative characters imaginable. One might even go so far as to suggest he is the most famous West
Indian (Nevis, West Indies) fast bowler never to have played a Test. Those who were not hooked on the coverage of England’s tour of the Caribbean in 1993-94 will probably have no idea who he is. Others, like
myself, could give chapter and verse on his marmalisation of England’s middle-order during their
build-up to that winter’s Test series.

Maynard, to this distant long-wave listener of Test Match Special, typified an era when a tour of
the West Indies was the ultimate examination of body and soul. The arrival of a Test team in the
Caribbean, particularly if it had come from England, was a call to arms for every aspiring
cricketer in the region. Long before Duncan Fletcher turned tour games into a 12-man-a-side
glorified net session, Maynard and his cronies were cranking up the pace and injecting the venom,
eager to advance their claims to Test selection, but equally determined to crush the tourists’
morale before they embarked on the main event.

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March 20, 2007
By John Mehaffey
Basseterre, St Kitts,(Reuters)

St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas defended World Cup ticket prices and predicted a sell-out crowd for Saturday’s Group A fixture between champions Australia and South Africa at Warner Park.

Douglas said the minimum price for a ticket was $25 U.S. while the per capita income in the tiny Caribbean nation was $8,000.

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Charlestown, Nevis (March 20, 2007)

Works are ongoing for the provision of a local craft display area in Charlestown. Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Robelto Hector made the disclosure on Friday March 16, 2007 at the Gingerland Primary School, at the end of Basketry and Pottery workshops for students hosted by the Cooperatives Division in Nevis.

“Shortly, with some help from the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, and the Cooperatives Division, I am trying to get an area, some of you know it as the old Cemetery, where we can make space available for you [students] or persons in craft to display their crafts. So persons who are a part of that industry to be able to make a dollar as we say, when we have tourists visiting our shores,” he said.

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