Talk:Nevis

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First comment, 20:29 4 December 2005

Nevis is one of the Lesser Antillies islands. Nevis is 36 square miles. The famous Alexander Hamilton was born in Nevis. The place of his birth currently holds the Nevis Island Assembly Chambers and the Museum of Nevis History. Lord Nelson and his wife fanny got married in Nevis there is a copy of the marriage certificate that currently is located at the St.John's anglican church.

Sections to be reinserted

During the expansion of the history section of this article, the following sections were not reinserted (yet) because of a lack of sources confirming them:

"In 1620 Captain Anthony Chester visited the island in the vessel Margaret and John and was attacked by two Spanish warships." According to the records at University of Virgina, it appears the attack happened between Dominica and Guadeloupe. See Two Tragical Events: The Seafight of Capt. Anthony Chester, 1621 and The Indian Massacre, 1622. Perhaps there was a second attack in Nevis waters?
"both the Thirteen Colonies and Nevis were British provinces at the time of the American Revolutionary War." Unsure about whether or not the Caribbean colonies were called "provinces". Please advise.
I'm reinserting the section about the comparison between Nevis and the 13 colonies now, even though a source is still lacking to confirm the claim that the actual numbers representing export from Nevis was worth more than all 13 mainland colonies combined. Please give a reference in regards to this section: "Nevis, due to sugar production, was once a dominant source of wealth for Great Britain, so much that the exports from West Indian islands like Nevis were worth more than all of those from the 13 mainland colonies of North America at the time of the American Revolution. The great wealth of the West Indies led to wars between Spain, Britain, and France, and the formation of the United States can be said to be a partial byproduct of these wars whose strategic trade aims often ignored North America." Pia 00:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FA?

Just wondering... —Nightst a llion (?) 20:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Images

I have replaced the images of Cicely Tyson and Melanie Brown in this article, because I do not believe that the previous images fell under the terms of fair use, the Cicely Tyson image because it was a still from a film not being used to illustrate the film itself, and the Melanie Tyson image because it was an album cover not being used to illustrate the album itself. --David Mestel^(Talk) 18:11, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About having Lord Cam's resumé in the article under "Famous Nevisians"

Wikipedia is not a space for personal promotion. Even Calypsonians who have won many Calypso competitions in Nevis, year after year, such as Dis N Dat and Meeko, are probably not that famous outside Nevis, unfortunately. That doesn't mean, of course, that Ginger, Joe Joe, Binghi, Lord Cam and all the others are not fine Calypsonians--it just means that they are "famous" only locally. Please contribute to Music of Saint Kitts and Nevis instead so that the topic "Nevisian calypso" can be fruitfully explored, or create a music section under the headline "Culture" in this article that explores the topic "Music of Nevis" (with proper references), without giving undue weight to any particular musician. See Wikipedia's advise on How not to be a spammer. - Afv2006 20:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are missing what we call "The Great Migration", that happens in the beginning of the decade of 1900 up to 1949, where it was a lot of Nivisian being transported to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico to work in the sugar cane industries —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.249.19.83 (talk) 21:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ecology

I changed the statement that sugar cane farming made "irreversible damage" to the ecology of the island, to one that said it "greatly changed" the islands ecology.

However, these islands are volcanic, and as Montserrat has recently demonstrated, they periodically blow up and complete wipe the island clean of life. It then re-colonizes and the ecology regrows. Nothing humans have done on the islands has come close to the total devastation of an explosive volcanic eruption.

So to say the human caused damage is "permanent" is not supported unless a species actually become extinct, worldwide, because of human action on the island. If there are some citations of species extinctions caused by the sugar cane farming, then I would support the language "irreversible damage". Cadwallader (talk) 14:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One third is not a majority

"should a one-third majority of the island's population vote for independence in a local referendum."

Two thirds? GeneCallahan (talk) 19:28, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It would appear so: [1]. TDL (talk) 19:41, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Emancipation section

It seems the story of the 1706 attack on Nevis by d'Iberville is drawn from the book Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis by Vincent K. Hubbard, including the sections that currently lack citations. However, as I am unable to track down the text of the book online, I was not able to confirm any of the citations.

There's another book, Lemoyne d'Iberville: Soldier of New France by Nellis M. Crouse that seems to have a different version of the story, although I wasn't able to track down the full text of that book either.

I would also question the use of the term "emancipation" since the island was only going from French to English hands and was still a European colonial possession. Chucklehammer (talk) 23:27, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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up to date / outdated?

After reading the whole article, it left me with a lot of questions regarding the time it was written. There are lot of "today", "current", "recently" which eem to refer to dates around 2005 or even earlier. This is quite confusing. I added several ^[when?]-Templates, please make it precise in case you know more. 47.71.19.206 (talk) 18:03, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Nevisian Heroes" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Nevisian Heroes. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 30#Nevisian Heroes until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Lennart97 (talk) 09:20, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

possible reference sources

Howard from NYC (talk) 16:17, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

lengthy article focused upon Nevis involvement in issues of money laundering and tax evasion... one of several recent possible reference sources

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/12/nevis-how-the-worlds-most-secretive-offshore-haven-refuses-to-clean-up

Potential source for the economy section

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a publication regarding the The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), of which Nevis is a member, that references their shared standard currency. Link to the publication: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/nft/op/195/index.htm

The ECCU wiki page includes an external link to the IMF publication above, and cites the following article regarding the East Caribbean Dollar: https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/business/eccu-commemorates-34th-anniversary-of-ec-dollar-peg-to-the-us-dollar/ TarotSpreads (talk) 05:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]