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I am a very lucky man; I grew up in a safe home in a safe place in Trafalgar Village by the Bay, Limekiln Bay. You know they say it takes a village to raise a child? Well that was my experience.  Sometimes too much raising if you ask me, I had lots of surrogate…

From the perspective of an early teenage boy, the years after I came into myself, life in Nevis can only be described as pure joy.

Franklyn G. Musgrave was born to Inez Lucina Clarke and William Franklyn Musgrave in Basseterre, St. Kitts, Eastern Caribbean. He received his early education at the Newtown Infants’ and Basseterre Boys’ Schools. On completion of the then 7th standard at the early age of 13 he entered government service as a pupil teacher and subsequently…

“The young people today don’t know how to do anything! They have no respect! They can’t cook and all they want is technology stuff!”

Gone are the days when a proper afternoon game of cricket was played in the streets; when after the vehicles bearing the license plate numbers P97 and P118 passed, there was no further interruption of the game with the main road or the front yard as wickets.