Sir Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds, KCMG (born 12 April 1936), is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician who served as the first prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1983 to 1995.
Honours
In 2004, Simmonds was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.[1] In 2015, Simmonds became the fifth person to be named as a National Hero by the National Assembly. He is the first living person to receive this honour.[2] In 2021, Simmonds received an honorary DSc from the University of the West Indies.[3]
Simmonds published an autobiography in 2019 entitled The Making of a National Hero.[4]