People: 

Population: 40,100

Most of the residents have African descent, however some are Lebanese, European, or East Indian

 CHILDREN FROM SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

Language:

  • Official Language: English
    • Many residents speak a combination of African and English words
  • Greetings:
    • Meeting:
Good morning
Good afternoon
Good night
Howdy
How you do?
Hey, wha' happ'nin'?
    • Leaving:
Good-bye
See you
Take care then till next
Religion:
  • Mostly Christians
    • Traditional Christian Religions
      • Anglican
      • Methodist
      • Moravian
  • Growing Religions
    • Pentecostal
    • Seventh-day Adventist Church
    • Baha'is
    • Rastafarians
  • Attend church services a lot
  • Participate in church related activities
  • Major family events include weddings, christenings, and funerals  

Diet:

People in Saint Kitts and Nevis eat a lot of fish and chicken.  They also eat lots of vegetables such as eggplants, cabbage, carrots, and sweet potatoes.

Traditional Dishes:

  • goat water: a spicy stew with dumplings, breadfruit, and goat
  • salt fish and dumplings: salted codfish with dumplings with a stew
  • chicken and rice with pigeon peas and red beans
  • black pudding: rice, stuffing, and pigs' blood
  • souse: cucumbers, pickled pigs' trotters, and hot peppers
  • guava cheese: dessert with boiled guavas with sugar

SALT FISH AND DUMPLINGS 

Favorite Pastimes: 

going to the beach

shopping

picnics

going to night clubs and dances

playing cards or dominoes

going on hikes

traveling:

  • Britain
  • United States
  • Canada

Holidays:

  • New Year's Day: January 1st
  • National Carnival Day: January 2nd
  • Good Friday: Friday before Easter Sunday
  • Easter Monday: Day after Easter Sunday
  • Labor Day: First Monday in May
  • Whitmonday: Seven weeks after Easter Monday
  • Emancipation Day: First Monday in August
  • Culturama Day: August
  • Independence Day: September 19th
  • Christmas Day: December 25th
  • Boxing Day: December 26th
  • Carnival Season: December 26th through January 2nd

Recreation:

 Men:

  • soccer
  • cricket
  • basketball
  • volleyball
  • track
  • tennis

Women:

  • netball
  • volleyball
  • track
  • tennis

NETBALL BASKET AND BALL 

CRICKET BALL AND BAT 

 
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