St. Kitts and Nevis Fact of the Week!

Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Nevis; he spent his childhood there and on St. Croix.  Thomas Jefferson came from a St. Kitts family; his grandfather worked an estate here and is buried on St. Kitts.
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This is the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis.  The green stripe represents agriculture and fertility of the country. The red stripe represents the nation's difficulty in trying to end slavery and colonialism and to achieve independence. The black represents the African heritage of the islands and yellow stands for the consistent sunshine in the Caribbean. The stars represent the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis and symbolize their liberty and hope.


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St. Kitts was the first island settled by the British in the Caribbean.  The island was settled by Sir Thomas Warner in 1623. The following year, the French also settled part of St Kitts. After they massacred the Carib Amerindians, the British and French turned on each other and St. Kitts changed hands between the two several times before the Treaty of Paris gave the island to Britain in 1783. It became independent in 1983.