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| Mr Carl Nisbett (right) presenting two of the titles to Ms Vertille Perkins-Weeks. |
Charlestown Nevis (November 24, 2005) -- Pupils and teachers at the St. James Primary School, Thursday morning benefited from the generosity of Manhattan-based Nevisian lawyer, Mr Carl Nisbett, who is currently holidaying in Nevis.
Presenting a set of books, National Geographic magazines and an assortment of stationery to the school's principal, Ms Vertille Perkins-Weeks, Mr Nisbett, thanked her and the entire staff for allowing him to work with the school.
He first presented a set of books and stationery to the same school in August last year, and commented that since then he had been communicating with Ms Perkins-Weeks to find out what would be needed by the pupils and their teachers. In that sense we work together in terms of getting whatever supplies that she suggests and I might decide to add an item or two to it, he noted.
He told Ms Perkins-Weekes that he attended the Whitehall School (also in St. James Parish) during the late 50s and early 60s, before he moved to St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. His old school was later amalgamated with another school and moved to the present site in Butlers and assumed the name St. James Primary School.
"So in that sense the St. James area holds a great deal of not only history but of grounding in terms of who I am today," commented Mr Nisbett. "In that regard the connection between that school (Whitehall) and this one continues as far as I am concerned because they are doing a great job in educating the children and the experience they are going to have coming out of here is what is going to give them the footing and the groundwork for their future.
Books presented included Ms Maya Angelou's "Hallelujah! The welcome table " A lifetime of memories with recipes", and US Senator Barack Obama's New York bestseller (non-fiction) "Dreams from my Father".
Upon receiving the supplies, the principal said: "It has always been a pleasure working with Carl and I look forward to working with you in the near future. Thank you very much for your lovely gifts and I can assure you that the students, and teachers as well, will benefit greatly from what you have brought here to us today."
Meanwhile, Mr Nisbett announced that he was organising a reunion to be held in Nevis, called the Brick Kiln Reunion for Culturama 2006, which will help bring together Nevisians from the Brick Kiln and other surrounding villages in the St. James Parish.
"We have sent out an email through the SKN Yahoo-newsgroup on the Internet, hosted by Mr Charles Mitcham, which serves as a notice to all out there who are from Brick Kiln Village, and we are going to expand it because Maddens and Butlers villages should be included because of the connection so close," he explained.
He said that the whole idea is to get Nevisians who have been away for so long and have not returned to their place of birth, to come back and to see it.
"They are going to be pleasantly surprised to see the development and to see how things are progressing and if they have been away for quite a while we would like to have them back for this entire reunion," adding that they have not seen some since childhood, "because we all left and went to different places, whether is to England, or to America as children/teenagers."
According to Mr Nisbett, the reunion committee will work with the local administration, the Nevis Island Administration, "and different representatives in terms of bringing this forward and in terms of pulling this off, but we think we are going to be successful in doing so."
