The St. Kitts and Nevis gov­ern­ment Fri­day said it is in the fi­nal stages of ne­go­ti­a­tions for the re­pur­pos­ing of the his­toric Fort Thomas Ho­tel prop­er­ty at Fort­lands, Bas­seterre, in­to a world-class Mu­se­um of Caribbean His­to­ry.

It said that this land­mark fa­cil­i­ty will be com­ple­ment­ed by restau­rants, pub­lic spaces, and mon­u­ments that “cel­e­brate our shared re­gion­al her­itage” and that an En­vi­ron­men­tal Im­pact As­sess­ment (EIA) has been com­plet­ed.

The gov­ern­ment said that ar­chae­ol­o­gist will be as­signed to the project to en­sure that any items of ar­chae­o­log­i­cal val­ue are iden­ti­fied, pre­served, and, where ap­pro­pri­ate, in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the Mu­se­um.