Nevis Activities

A list of water sports, events, and other items of interest to do while in Nevis

Olympians To Compete In National Games

Olympic Athletes To Compete In Saint Kitts – Nevis Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis May 28, 2008 (SKNIS) Special athletes from St. Kitts and Nevis will compete in various sporting disciplines at the National Games slated for Sunday, June 1 …

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Nevis Minister Speaks About Education With Young Cricketers

Young St. Kitts - Nevis Cricket Players

Young  Nevis Cricket Players Listen Closely

Charlestown, Nevis
May 27, 2008

Junior Minister with responsibility for Communications, Works, Public Utilities, Physical Planning, Posts, Natural Resources and Environment in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Carlisle Powell, impressed on a team of U13 cricketers the importance of education in their quest to attain supremacy in the sport.
 
Mr. Powell, a former cricket administrator and an avid cricket fan, spoke to a group of budding cricketers at Grove Park on Friday May 23, 2008, ahead of a practice session with their coach Mr. Ronald Powell, at a programme entitled “Helping our boys grow gracefully” which was designed to assist the youths simultaneously in their cricket and personal development.
 
“You are not here just for your cricket you are here because we want to help you with your education as well”¦
 
“I want to say to you that there are schools all over the world where they are offering scholarships especially for sport in schools but you are not going to get a scholarship easily, if your education is not of a certain level. They will not take you because you are an excellent cricketer but you can’t read, write and comprehend. They will not want you in the school because you will not pass and in the final analysis, you might be a good sportsman but if you don’t pass the subjects, you will be helping the school to fail you will not help their academic pass rate,” he said.
 
Mr. Powell pointed to his son Mr. Kieron Powell as one who had benefited from a sports scholarship to study in England who had since been selected as a member of the West Indies U-19 World Cup 2008 squad.
 
“My younger son Kieron Powell who most of you would know or would have seen play cricket, he went to school in England for two years and he got a [part] scholarship to go to school in England”¦any one of you would love to go to school in England,” he said.
 
The Minister urged the participants to be smart in their school work and to pay attention to their teachers.

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Nevis Students Urged To Prepare For The Future

Nevis Education Advisor - Mrs. Christine Springette

Nevis Education Advisor – Christine Springette

Charlestown, Nevis
May 26, 2008

Education Advisor in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Mrs. Christine Springette appealed to students of the Charlestown Secondary School (CSS) to prepare themselves for the many opportunities that would become available in a developing Nevis. 

 She gave the advice when she stood in for Premier of Nevis and Minister of Education Hon. Joseph Parry at a celebratory church service on May 23, 2008, at the Charlestown Methodist Church, to mark the school’s 58th anniversary. The event was held under the theme “Augmenting the past to impact the future”.
 
“Do not sell yourself cheap. You may never have proof of how important you are even now. You are more important than you think and so I am hoping that each students delicate himself or herself to the opportunities which are open to you”¦some of you are passing many subjects but the future that some of you have chosen, is one of delinquency and disobedience and non performance.
 
“The country is developing and there is going to be great opportunities for jobs and for self employment for entrepreneurship. I am appealing to you to get ready for what is in store or else positions will be filled by persons from abroad because the country must develop and positions must be filled,” she said.
 
Mrs. Springette who was a former student and Head Mistress of the school congratulated the teachers for their hard work and acknowledged that teaching today was much more difficult  today then in her time.
 
“I want to congratulate the teachers because I really do believe they try very hard and I don’t try to measure myself with them because when I was a teacher teaching was so much [easier]. There were no drugs, when I left 20 years ago drugs was just creeping into the school system. There was no drinking, there was no great fascination with sex because there is a great fascination with sex “¦and children stood up when teacher entered the classroom,” she said.
 
Notwithstanding, Mrs. Springette also asked the students to reflect on their contribution to the school and to reflect on the relationships with persons who may have made a difference in their lives but did not take hold of the opportunities they presented.
 
She said the CSS had served Nevis well and had produced students that had gone on to hold major positions in and out of Nevis. She pointed to Hon. Hugh Rawlins who was recently appointed to serve as Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.

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Nevis Cultural Drummers Visit Antigua

IAfricana Cultural Drummers Group Charlestown, Nevis May 23, 2008 Members of two cultural groups on Nevis will benefit from a number of workshops in Antigua at the bi annual Antigua Dance, Drum and Drama Festival hosted by the Antigua Dance …

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