Business

What is red, white and black and has four legs? The Digicel beach chair, of course. This lovely beach chair is just one of four items included in the Digicel Beach Pack that can be won daily by new Digicel customers.

With 32 years residing in Anguilla, multi-faceted businessman, Scott Hauser, has been able to monitor the island’s growth and to see various suitable niches in which he can make a contribution to that development and he has succeeded very well.

Robin and Sue Ricketts are household names in Anguilla and for good reason. For some 30 years they have intimately being involved in the island’s tourism development with great success and over that period have moved on to other projects despite the attendant challenges.

Digicel, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean continues to bring the best promotions to its customers.

After having direct influence over the provision of telecommunications services in the Caribbean for many years as the parent company, Cable and Wireless International is taking a major “right hand turn” in reshaping its operations across the region. The company is doing so by creating a single Pan-Caribbean provider, grouping the 13 regional territories, including Anguilla, in which it does business.

The National Bank of Anguilla officially opened its sixth ATM on the island on Wednesday, May 28, this time on the premises of the Tomac Plaza in the busy Water Swamp area.

On Tuesday and Thursday last week, a total of 28 members of the business community attended Customer Satisfaction Leadership seminars presented at the National Bank of Anguilla training facilities by Melinda Goddard, principal of ClienTell® Consulting, LLC.

The people and businesses in the western end of Anguilla will have full banking services there in the latter half of the year when National Bank of Anguilla opens its new branch at the end of Lower South Hill in the approach to the island’s bustling tourism belt.

Mount Fortune resident, Emmanuel Webster, has been a hardworking entrepreneur in Anguilla trying his fortunes at various enterprises but this time, with the help of his family and others working with him, he has finally made a tangible business mark on the landscape of his island home.

The Anguilla Social Security System has been ramping up its efforts at engaging the public with a view to improved transparency and accountability. Director of Social Security Mr. Timothy Hodge was the guest on Mr. Elkins Richardson’s radio talk show “To The Point” last week when he discussed the System’s 2008 Business Plan.

On February 26, 2008, Ms. Marisa Gumbs, Market Research & Business Development Officer at National Bank of Anguilla Ltd., announced that in December 2007 the Bank conducted its first Customer Satisfaction Survey which elicited many suggestions. Ms. Gumbs continued by saying that “one of the objectives of the survey was to provide the Bank with the opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from our customers as to the level and the quality of service they receive at the Bank, the products and services we provide and those which they may wish us to provide.”

On January 22nd, 2008 Mrs. Gillian Richardson-Bradshaw traveled to Tides South Beach as part of her continued training and development program with the Kor Hotel Group. During an interview with Mrs. Richardson-Bradshaw in August of 2007, she spoke of the extensive training program embarked upon by the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills and the Viceroy in Santa Monica, California.

Caribbean Cable Communications officially launched a prepaid worldwide calling card on Monday, February 18, in Anguilla. The card makes it easier and cheaper for persons to call from and to the island on land lines.

The National Bank of Anguilla Ltd has acknowledged that it is the proud recipient of the 2007 Anguilla Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ltd Best Anguilla Business Award. The award was presented by the Chamber at its annual General Meeting held at the Overlook Restaurant on Thursday January 31st, 2008.

Many members of the Anguilla Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACOCI) met on Thursday January 31 at Deon’s Overlook for the Annual General Meeting and the results of the Business Survey.

Cable & Wireless in Anguilla is revamping its residential fixed line service with new Home plans.

Well into the third week of the ‘Everyone’s a Winner’ Christmas promotion, another happy Cable & Wireless customer is celebrating!
The most recent winner is Dr Page Edgar, Head Physician at Hotel de Health in Sea Feathers. Dr Page, as she is fondly called, is from Canada and has been residing and working in Anguilla for over 12 years.

“Cards Plus” is the latest store to open at the upper level of the Tomac Plaza. It was officially opened on Friday December 14 in front of a large crowd of family, friends and well-wishers. It is a family owned store that has lots of cards for all occasions as well as quality chocolates, dinner sets, crystal ware and many gift items.

All this time, the wholly Anguillian-owned and delightful Rendezvous Bay Hotel would have been opened to its many new and repeated guests. But the enterprising Gumbs’ family have opted to close operations and to embark on a new and largely expanded project which they are now marketing as “The Best is Yet To Come.”

The Anguilla Chamber of Commerce and Industry is pleased to announce that its annual Christmas Shopping Fair is to be held on Saturday 8 December and will run from 10 am until 10 pm.