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The well-established and highly motivated Klassique Academy of Dance and Performing Arts unleashed its 2010 Grand Production under the theme “Universal Movements Unleashed: from pointe shoes to tap shoes”, on Saturday night, December 11, at the Rodney MacArthur Rey Auditorium.

Sitting next to his Permanent Secretary, Education, Mrs. Chanelle Petty Barrett, Minister of Social Development, the Hon. Edison Baird, expressed much pleasure on Wednesday that the Education Bill was now set for passage into law this week Friday, in the Anguilla House of Assembly.

Three members of the Anguilla House of Assembly are down to raise separate issues this week Friday morning, December 10. They are, in order of presentation, the Hon. Othlyn Vanterpool, Member for Island Harbour; the Hon. Evans Rogers, Member for Valley North and Leader of the Opposition; and the Hon. Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Economic Development, Investment, Commerce and Tourism, Hubert Hughes, Member for Road South.

Many persons, from throughout Anguilla, and across the political divide, had an opportunity to join Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, the Hon. Hubert Hughes, and technocrats in his Ministry, to discuss the 2011 budget and some of the concerns surrounding it.

Another, but now regional tourism awareness programme, aimed at school children, and the general public, has been launched in Anguilla, adding to the island’s several other and similar campaign initiatives.

A Tourism Master Plan project, which was announced earlier for Anguilla, with funding by the Caribbean Development Bank in the sum of US$150,000, was formally launched on Wednesday this week. Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, the Hon. Hubert Hughes, did the launching at the Temenos Golf Course clubhouse.

Four fifth-year students at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School in Anguilla are the winners of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Regional Quiz competition, which was held at the University Centre in Trinidad. They are Senegal Carty, Chelsea Hughes, Simone Greaves and Chaniece Lewis. They were accompanied by teacher Angele Richardson, who recently completed a degree, with First Class Honours, in Home Economics in Jamaica.

Anguilla’s Minister of Health, the Hon. Edison Baird, has expressed thanks to the Venezuelan authorities for assisting his Ministry, and the island’s Government, in flying out a severely injured national of that South American country back home for specialised treatment, not available locally.

Malliouhana Hotel & Spa, which has won a number of world-class accolades, is the venue for a Breakfast Forum for Leaders of the Tourism Sector in Anguilla. The two-day event, sponsored as part of the UKaid from the Department for International Development, was arranged for Thursday, November 18 from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon and on Friday, November 19 this week, from 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Students at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School, who may wish to study at colleges and universities in the Caribbean and further afield have been given an opportunity to meet representatives of a number of educational institutions. They also met with personnel from the National Bank of Anguilla, the Caribbean Commercial Bank, the Anguilla Development Board and the Anguilla Government’s Training Unit which, over the years, have provided various student loans and scholarships.

The protracted delay of the appointment of the Second Nominated Member to the Anguilla House of Assembly ended on Monday, November 8, when Governor Alistair Harrison appointed Mr. Leroy Rogers to the parliamentary post.

The people of Anguilla will have reason to demand better service from senior Government employees following two one-week Public Administration Law Workshops at Masara Resort, Katouche Bay, from November 8-19.

Some ten years have elapsed since the closure of the transshipment business, an arrangement whereby Anguilla, and other Overseas Territories, benefited from customs duties on commodities in-transit to European destinations through their territorial waters. Despite that passage of time, that defunct set up has resurrected to become a new issue for political conversation and battering in Anguilla.

The Anguilla Tranquility Jazz, Golf and Wine Festival, which can do very well with some much-needed funding, has received a welcomed donation of US$25,000, from Viceroy Hotel and Residences.

While the Primary Schools’ Third Annual Poetry Evening at the Rodney MacArthur Auditorium on Tuesday evening this week, covered various subject areas, the various presentations on “rubbish” was of much interest and value to Anguilla. The children’s rendition of the particular poem stressed in part the importance of a cleaner island environment.

The Government of Anguilla said in a press release on Tuesday this week that it was pleased to announce the selection of the firm, HALCROW, in association with CHL Consulting Limited, to prepare Anguilla’s first Sustainable Tourism Master Plan.

Students in the five houses at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School competed on Wednesday this week in the 5th Annual Health Authority-sponsored quiz, organised by the Nutrition and Health Promotion Department.

A large hall at Viceroy Hotel and Residences was filled to capacity on Monday and Tuesday, this week, when over 100 newly-employed workers underwent a day and a half of orientation in preparation for their immediate deployment in the various sections of the world class resort.

In a prepared statement, Governor Alistair Harrison, told reporters at his press conference on Tuesday, this week, that the Minister for the Overseas Territories, Henry Bellingham, was still waiting for a reply from Anguilla’s Chief Minister, Hubert Hughes, who authorised Social Security to borrow 200 million US dollars.

Excited and culturally-attired, young and adult nationals took to the stage in a series of splendid performances at the Rodney MacArthur Rey Auditorium on Monday evening, October 11, for the launching in grand style of the book, Anguilla’s Battle For Freedom 1967-1969. The informative and stimulating book was written by leading historian, Colville Petty, along with Nat Hodge.