Politics

Elections were held in Anguilla on Monday, February 21, 2005. Here are the unofficial results.
District 1 Island Harbour -Kenneth Harrigan
District 2 - Sandy Hill - Osbourne Flemming
District 3 - Valley North - Evans Rogers
District 4 - Valley South - Victor F. Banks
District 5 - Road North - Edison Baird
District 6 - Road South - Hubert B Hughes
District 7 - West End - Albert Hughes

For complete results and totals visit Gov.ai, click here.

ANNE JENNIFER EDWARDS
District #5
The Woman with the Key to a Brighter Future

EDUCATION
BA - History and Economics - 1972-1975 Barbados.
Dip. Ed. - Diploma in Education, Edgehill College of Higher Education, 1985-1986 England.
M. Ed. - Masters in Educational Management - 1997-1998 Bristol, U.K.

Does executive authority for the affairs of Anguilla lie with Executive Council, which comprises the four Ministers of Government, the Governor, the Deputy Governor and the Attorney General?

St. Maarten’s political leader, Sarah Wescott-Williams, who has close family connections in Anguilla, has extended her current re-election campaign to this island. She met at Nico’s Restaurant at the Caribbean Commercial Centre on Saturday May 3 with some thirty Dutch nationals and Anguillians and spoke on proposals related to the future of St. Maarten as well as voter-registration.

The Anguillian has obtained the following letter written to the Hon. Edison Baird, Elected Member for Road North, by H. E. Governor Peter Johnstone.

Fellow Anguillians at home and abroad, residents, visitors and my brothers and sisters in our neighbouring islands. It gives me great joy to bring you greetings this Christmas season. Why do I have this joy? I have this joy because the Christ of Christmas has been good to us individually and collectively. In the midst of a global economic recession God has enabled us as a nation to stand firm.

Anguilla’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Victor Banks, on Tuesday December 10, introduced into the House of Assembly a Recurrent Expenditure budget of 89 million East Caribbean dollars to finance the Government’ services for 2003. The Recurrent Revenue budget has been established at $92.1m, showing a revenue surplus of $3.1m.

The Executive

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to welcome you to another session in the continuing discussion of our existing Constitution. As you are aware it is our hope that after these discussions, we will all be in a better position to evaluate and understand our Constitutional provisions and to determine whether or not they need to be amended, and if so in what way.

The preliminary draft of the Government’s Budget to finance the public services for the year ending December 2003, has been completed, discussed and made ready for approval by Executive Council. It indicates a figure of EC$88 million for recurrent expenditure and revenue.

Fundamental Rights and Freedoms - Part three
The following is a presentation made by Miss Bernice Lake, QC, as part of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform discussions now taking place in Anguilla.