Short answers, pulled from the story.
English settlers led by Thomas Warner established a settlement at Old Road Town on the western coast of Saint Kitts in 1623. This event marked the beginning of the first British colony in the Caribbean and earned the islands the nickname The Mother Colony of the West Indies.
The Kalinago people were the indigenous inhabitants who called the island Liamuiga meaning fertile land before being displaced by European settlers. The conflict culminated in the 1626 massacre at Bloody Point where Anglo-French settlers joined forces to eliminate the native population.
Slavery was outlawed completely in 1834 following the termination of the African slave trade within the British Empire in 1807. On Nevis 8,815 slaves were freed while 19,780 were freed on Saint Kitts after a four-year apprenticeship period.
The constitution of 1983 granted Nevis the right to unilaterally secede if a referendum on independence resulted in a two-thirds majority in favor. The 1998 referendum resulted in a 62% vote to secede but fell short of the required two-thirds majority to be legally enacted.
The program allows individuals to obtain citizenship by making a minimum investment of US$400,000 in designated real estate or contributing at least US$250,000 to the Federal Consolidated Fund. Saint Kitts and Nevis became the first country in the world to establish this program in 1984.