The Lady Boats were liners operated by the Canadian National Steamship Company. They were built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, on the Wirral in England and were named after the

Historical Background The idea of unification within the Caribbean region gained the interest of the British Colonial Office in the late nineteenth Century mostly as a colonial administrative device designed

Today, with the elections over, we were cataloging the various manifestos, party and personal, that we received. In one of the acid free boxes in which we keep them safe,

Original 1828 map This map produced by surveyor William McMahon and published in 1828 by Edward Stanford of Charing Cross, London, is the most detailed map of St. Kitts ever

The reaction we received last week to the post of the photograph of Wings was amazing. Thanks to everybody who wrote to tell us that Wings was run by Theophilus

This year marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.  It started in Europe on the 28 July 1914.  Although much of the fighting took place in Europe, large

At 11 am on 11 November 1918, “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”, a ceasefire was declared and negotiations were soon started to terminate the Great

By 1914, there was a small number of persons from Lebanon living in St. Kitts. The Colonial administration referred to them as Syrians. They had come to the Caribbean to

In 1939 Joseph  Ferara and  his sister Emily Dinzey, were willing to sell Fahie estate (approximately  320 acres) to government for land settlement of labourers.  They wanted to keep 16