Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) - Nevis Reformation Party (NRP)

THE NEVIS REFORMATION PARTY IS BORN

NRP STALWARTS, 1987: Carlton Parris, Ivor Stevens, Eustace Nisbett, Arthur Evelyn and Rolston Williams attending a Service of Thanksgiving.
After the Christena Disaster, August 1st, 1970 a group of men and women from around the island of Nevis came together and dedicated their lives to serve and improve the lives of all Nevisians.

Ivor Stevens, Uhral Swanston, Ralph Harris, Horace Liburd, Rohan Liburd, Carlton Parris, Gilbert Phillip, Eustace Nisbett, Eustace Hanley, William Challenger, Georgette Seabrookes, Edward Roper, Annie Mills, and Walton Parris are among the outstanding patriots who formed the Nevis Reformation Party.

Generally, they were men and women of humble origin who wished only peace, progress and prosperity for the people of Nevis. Herein lies the origin of N.R.P, a party from the grass roots and one for the ages.

These Nevisians chose Simeon Daniel, a young Nevisian lawyer, newly returned from England, to lead them. Mr. Daniel was soon joined by men like Miguel Mills, Levi Morton and Arthur Evelyn in the struggle to move the island of Nevis forward into the modern world.

The 1970's were tough years for N.R.P. The party controlled the Nevis Local Council, a local body introduced in the 1967 Statehood Constitution by the Premier, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw to appease the Nevisians' cry for a direct status with Britain.

The Local Council had little power. It was given a subvention of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) annually but it was only released to The Local Council in late November or early December every year. This was mainly the reason for the Nevis Reformation Party Government's push for direct status with Great Britain.

When the talk for independence was ongoing with the U.K, the NRP Government under the leadership of Dr. Simeon Daniel then formed the Federal Government and was instrumental in having the constitution structured, such that it still gave Nevis an option of independence when the island was ready and the majority of the people desired it.