Published 06 November 2018
Buckie got it St Kitts and Nevis News Source
Gems from the Archives 85
By 1914, there was a small number of persons from Lebanon living in St. Kitts. The Colonial administration referred to them as Syrians. They had come to the Caribbean to escape the turmoil in the Middle East and with the hope of starting a better life. They were in fact citizens of the Ottoman Empire also sometimes referred to as Turkish Empire. When war broke out in 1914, the Ottoman Empire became an ally of Germany. This made the Colonial authorities in the Caribbean uneasy about the presence of the Lebanese community in the Caribbean.
