On a more social and cultural plain we attended the Golden Elite Seniors Club’s special observance of May, as the country’s Heritage Month.

The Golden Elites seized the opportunity to focus on the connection between Bermuda and the independent, two island nation of St Christopher and Nevis.

Elites’ President Venita Caesar-Smith described the Bermuda-St Kitts-Nevis connection as being so tremendously rich that it craved acknowledgment.

She added: “As we check Bermuda’s cosmopolitan structure nowadays descendants of Kittitians and Nevisians have taken rightful places as ‘Proud Bermudians,’ making significant roles in the development of Bermuda.

In sphere of education, the contribution of Sinclair Richards was cited.

There was the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Randolph Horton; current longest serving MP Dennis Lister, a veteran of more than 25 years; former Deputy Speaker Walter Lister who amassed a record of 35 years before retiring; there was former Minister Michael Scott; the late Dame Lois Browne-Evans.

Also there was former Commissioner of Prisons Milton Pringle; and late FW Yearwood, who is named on Bermuda Monetary Bank notes.

In business there was entrepreneur John Caesar who owned and operated the Caesars Meat Market and Grocery on Main Road, in Somerset, not far from, where his direct descendant Cheryl Martin owns and operates Caesars Pharmacy.

President Caesar-Smith also noted that when the late Alvin Guishard migrated to Bermuda from St Kitts in the 1920, becoming the distinguished principal of East End Primary School, it could not have been known he would be father of seven children who would become prominent in their chosen fields.

She highlighted Phyllis Guishard Basden who was a trailblazer in breaking the colour bar against blacks in the Post Office.

Guest speaker at the Elites’ Luncheon was Walter Lister, whose grandfather James Alfred Lister in 1902 left his homeland in St Kitts for Bermuda.

Accompanied by his wife and five children, they embarked on a journey much longer than the geographical one between the two Islands.

James was employed in the Walker Works, modernising the old Dockyard.

Significantly Walter became a Member of Parliament in 1976, serving as Minister of Transportation, Deputy Speaker and represented Bermuda abroad on many occasions.

He later was appointed chairman of the West End Development Corporation (Wedco), the civilian organisation responsible for running the Dockyard.