St. Kitts Landmark Demolished

By Cherisse Sutton-Jeffers
Reporter SKNVibes.com

(Basseterre, St. Kitts): A piece of St. Kitts’ history is no more after a building once owned by the late Premier Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was demolished yesterday April 6th.

The wood and wall structure had been standing on North Independence Square Street for over 20 years and had served as different business entities over its long history. The structure was remembered for its most recent housing of Bradshaw’s daughter, the late Isis Bradshaw’s ‘Faux Real’ floral arrangement business.

According to Inspector Cromwell Henry, Police Public Relations Officer, a report was made on Friday indicating that some “cracking noises” appeared to be coming from the vacant building which had already begun to lean.

Upon investigation, Henry said that police officers discovered a collapsed roof and subsequently issued a public safety announcement as the collapsing building posed a safety hazard.  They quickly cordoned off the area around the building where persons and cars trafficked and which was used for parking.

SKNVibes.com understands that the building was willed to Isis Bradshaw by her father and instructions for demolition had to be given by attorneys overseeing her estate.

The demolition began at about 9 a.m. yesterday and the process continued today with heavy machines doing mostly excavation work to remove the rubble.