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See Serani on Sunday at Warner Park

Basseterre, St. Kitts - Nevis
December 31, 2009 (CUOPM)

Serani, one of Jamaica’s newest reggae artists will take St. Kitts and Nevis by storm Sunday when he appears at the Prime Minister’s New Year’s Extravaganza.

The event, which is absolutely free, takes place at the Warner Park Cricket Stadium on Sunday January 3rd 2010 from 7 P.M. and features another Jamaican entertainer, A.J. Brown and Trinidadian icon, Lord Relator. Relator and A.J. Brown are down to perform at the Prime Minister’s New Year’s Gala on January 2nd.

Other artistes on stage at the Prime Minister’s New Year’s Extravaganza include rising Kittitian star Cayon-born Kervin Benjamin aka Infamus, Modern Image, Ronnie Rascal and other local artistes.

Jamaica’s former Prime Minister and Caribbean statesman, P. J. Patterson and St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas will appear on stage.

Serani born in the mean streets of Kingston, Jamaica, decided at a young age with his two other best friends,  who also shared the same interest in music, to put together the infamous DASECA productions in 2001.

Three friends, David Anthony Harrisingh, Crag Serani Marsh and Craig Andrew Harrisingh had a goal to produce all the major Reggae artist in Jamaica.

Serani is quite a new artist on the Reggae Scene but he blew up faster than Movado.

Serani has co-produced the first two singles on Sean Paul’s new platinum album “Trinity,” including ‘We Be Burning,’ which was the first released single.

The ‘We be Burning’  track helped Trinity smash a Jamaican record of 107,000 copies sold in the first week. Serani continued and made the ‘Smash’ riddim which hosts the song ‘Dutty Wine’ by Tony Matterhorn.

Serani is also recording his own songs and promoting two new singles entitled “doh” featuring Bugle and “she loves me”, a groovy sensual song for the ladies.

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Nevis Premier - The Hon. Joseph Parry

Charlestown, Nevis
December 31, 2009

The Hon. Joseph Parry has been declared “Man of the Year 2009” by the Internet news media - Nevispages. The disclosure was made in an online article on December 31, 2009.

The news site described Premier Parry as a contemporary man of traditional values whose early years as a student at Charlestown Secondary School, led him to become Premier of the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis.

In a biography, his various career paths were detailed starting with his job as a school teacher at the Charlestown Secondary School.  Mr. Parry was quoted as saying that his best years were teaching the young people of Nevis. “Guiding their young minds and watching them grow mentally was truly rewarding”, he remarked.

It is important to note that at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Charlestown Secondary School,  Mr. Parry’s peers and former students voted him the “most outstanding male teacher.”

When the St. Christopher and Nevis Social Security Fund was established on February 1, 1978, a branch was opened in Nevis, with Mr. Parry as the first manager.

“Being Manager of the Social Security Department when it was nearly established was a very challenging position, yet very rewarding,” stated Premier Parry.

According to the article, this very dedicated Nevisian became the first Nevisian Permanent Secretary in 1980.  This post granted him the opportunity to become the architect of the Nevis Civil Service when he worked in government.

As an entrepreneur and as a non-executive member of several boards, including the well established Bank of Nevis, Mr. Parry’s private sector life also proven successful according to the article.

Nevispages said their criteria for selecting the “Man of the Year” was based on the person or persons who most affected the news and the lives of Nevisians. It also pointed out that the accolade was “not an endorsement!”

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Nathaniel Wells’ House in Chepstow - Piercefield House

Basseterre, St. Kitts - Nevis
December 31, 2009 (CUOPM)

A Conservative Member of the British Parliament is setting the record straight. Kittitian Nathaniel Wells was the First Black Sherriff.

According to Walesonline.co.uk, the installation of Peaches Golding as the next High Sheriff of Bristol was hailed a symbolic moment for racial equality in Britain.

Mrs. Golding, who will take up the ceremonial office of Bristol’s High Sheriff at a ceremony in March, was believed to be the first person of African descent to take up the post, which was created 1,000 years ago – until it emerged that Britain’s first black sheriff had been appointed in Monmouth nearly 200 years ago.

The error was pointed out by local MP David Davies, who intends to point out the facts to Mrs Golding.

The Conservative MP said: “Anyone who has any interest in these matters will know that Nathaniel Wells became Britain’s first black sheriff when he was appointed Sheriff of Monmouthshire and Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1818.

“Mr. Wells also served as a magistrate and moved easily in high society around the county, suggesting that in spite of the current obsession with ‘diversity’, Britain has always extended a welcome to talented people with something to contribute.

“I will be writing to Mrs. Golding to congratulate her on her new role, but will politely point out that Monmouthshire was actually 190 years ahead of Bristol in appointing a black High Sheriff.

“One would hope that historical accuracy is not going to be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness for the sake of a headline.”

Nathaniel Wells was born in 1779 in St. Kitts, the son of William Wells, a wealthy Cardiff-born merchant, and his black slave, Juggy. William Wells was a successful slave trader who became a plantation owner.

Nathaniel was sent by his father to Wales to be educated. After finishing his schooling he stayed in Britain and seems to have been accepted without comment by other members of his class in the area around Chepstow, where he became a landowner in his own right thanks to his father’s wealth.

Wells became a magistrate, sitting in judgement over white people at a time when most black people in Britain’s colonies would have had no right to a court hearing.

By 1801, Wells had property worth an estimated £200,000 and was married to the only daughter of Charles Este, a former chaplain to King George II.

In 1802, he bought Piercefield House, on the site of what is now Chepstow Racecourse.

He died in Bath, Somerset in 1852 at the age of 72. A memorial tablet to him is in St. Arvans Church, near Chepstow.

Mrs Golding, 56, is currently regional director of Business in the Community, one of the Prince of Wales’ charities.

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