November 2nd, 2016 -- The goal was simple! We set out to marry the SPBS signature Awards Banquet with the 50th Anniversary celebration for CEMSS. It is truly a home coming! We are excited to bring our very best alumni, family and friends to join this celebration. We are proud to have the Honourable Shawn Kenneth Richards, class of 1989, serve as our patron for this event.
The Honourable Shawn Kenneth Richards, our Federation’s Deputy Prime Minister was born to Kenneth and Marilyn Richards of Downing Street, Sandy Point. He was educated at the Sandy Point Primary and Sandy Point High Schools. In 1989 when he graduated from high school, Shawn was an outstanding student. In 1990, he travelled to St. Thomas with his parents and there, at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Shawn returned to his beloved country and worked for a short while. It is worthy of note that when there was need for a teacher of Business at his High School, Shawn voluntarily taught the areas at the school and faithfully reported to the classes. Subsequently, he travelled to Cleveland, Ohio to pursue further studies. Shortly after, he graduated with a Master’s degree from Cleveland State University.
After working for a short time in St. Thomas USVI, Shawn again returned home to make a contribution to the land of his birth as auditor to the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis and later served as Internal Auditor for the St. Kitts Nevis Trading Development Corporation (TDC).
Shawn has always been actively involved in the service and development of people. This is evident in his assistance for many years of the Sandy Point High School’s debating team. Over the years, he enjoyed mentoring many students who sat the Caribbean Examinations, devoting much of his time to assisting with the editing and guidance of students while they completed their SBAs towards final exams. His home has the venue for many compilation and printing of quite a many SBAs.
Shawn’s was an athlete for Orange House during his years at high school. He has, from the commencement of his working sojourn in St. Kitts and Nevis ardently sponsored many sporting competitions and has been fortunate to serve on many sports committee in his home town of Sandy Point. Even after his entire family decided to migrate to the United States Virgin Islands, Shawn decided to stay in St. Kitts and Nevis to make what he felt was an important contribution to his community and country. Within his community, Shawn was meaningfully involved in different ways. At his church, Shawn was involved in the Sandy Point Methodist Church Youth Fellowship, where he served a short but impactful stint as President of that group.
Equal to his personal life, is Shawn’s dedication to his political life, the nucleus of which is the real and tangible advancement of the life for the people of his electoral constituency of St. Christopher # 5, Sandy Point and Fig Tree.
In the 2004 Shawn contested the General Elections and was successful and has been successful at every election since.
In 2009 when the matter of dual citizenship was raised leading up to the next General Election, Shawn, against the advice of many, renounced his United States Citizenship in order to contest the 2010 General Elections. Since then, he has advanced further to become the political leader of the P.A.M in 2012, and now the nation’s Deputy Prime Minister.
Shawn is the first past student of the Sandy Point High School to rise to the post of Deputy Prime Minister in our nation. SPBS is proud to have an Alumus of SPHS, Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Mr. Shawn K. Richards to be the Patron of our 6th Annual Banquet held at the St. Kitts Marriot on December 26, 2016, on this the 50th Anniversary of the Sandy Point High School/Charles E. Mills Secondary School.
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