Latin American Herald Tribune - Clinton Sends Best Wishes to Nevis and St. Kitts on 28 Years of Independence

Latin American Herald Tribune - Clinton Sends Best Wishes to Nevis and St. Kitts on 28 Years of Independence
Nice article on Clinton wishing a Happy Independence to the people of St. Kitts. St. Kitts is celebrating 28 years of Independence this coming Monday, Sept. 19.

St. Kitts, Gem of the Caribbean

Previously identified as Saint Christopher, many regard this particular tropical island as being the gem of the Caribbean. Founded by Christopher Columbus in 1493, during  Columbus's second trip to the new world. Columbus titled the island St. Joerges. As a consequence of mistakes within cartography back then, naming of the islands had been very difficult. The island evolved into St. Christobel, (named after Columbus's guardian saint ), and later it was altered to Saint Christopher, and then shortened in the modern day to St. Kitts.
Around 1623, Englishman Thomas Warner landed on the island and staked a claim for Britain. He then developed a colony on St. Christopher. One year later, it grew to become the very first British Territory within the West Indies.
In the year 1625, a French ship, in serious need of repair after running into the Spanish Armada, appeared in the harbour. After taking pity on them, Warner allowed them to land on St. Kitts. Thus, St. Christopher also became the first French colony in the West Indies.
Being one of the Leeward Islands, it is situated approximately 1300 miles southeast of Miami Florida. Having a population of approximately 35, 000, St. Kitts is only about eighteen miles long and five miles wide. As is true with many Caribbean Islands, St. Kitts was formed by volcanic eruptions. It is still possible to still discover remnants of it's creation in the community named Black Rocks.

Welcome to St. Kitts Life!

Here I hope to share with you some information about this beautiful island paradise I call home.  I'll be posting more soon but in the meantime here's a couple pictures of my island.

This is an image of Brimstone hill fortress.  One of the first fortresses built in the West Indies

This is one of my favorite beaches!

And this.... is one of our beautiful sunsets!
And...on that note I'm leaving to come back!