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Contractors in Anguilla have been advised to build with integrity in order to stave off the effects of devastating hurricanes and earthquakes as well as quick corrosive penetration from the salt marine environment through the poured concrete down to the steel bars.

Members of the public will have an opportunity during the observance of the upcoming Traffic Week in Anguilla to attend special written test classes in driving outside the normal times, Sergeant Marva Brooks, who is in charge of the Traffic Department of the Royal Anguilla Police Force, has announced.

The first ever historical and cultural film on Anguilla, climaxing with the much celebrated 1967 revolution, is to be the island’s highlight presentation at the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) which will be held in Guyana from August 22-31. A premiere of the short film entitled Our Anguilla was shown at the Soroptomist Club Centre late last week with a capacity crowd in attendance.

On Tuesday, August 12, 2008, the Honourable Kenneth Harrigan, Minister of Infrastructure, Communications, Utilities, Housing, Agriculture and Fisheries, in the Government of Anguilla, pleaded guilty to two Summary Charges of being in possession of unlicensed firearms. The weapons were described in the Magistrate’s Court as being a Titan Tiger special .38 Revolver and a Remington Shotgun. Mr. Harrigan, who had been licensed previously to hold the firearms, had failed to renew the licences for a number of years.

J’ouvert Morning, a highlight of the Anguilla Summer Festival is usually a bustling event as hundreds of Anguillians and visitors make their way to Sandy Ground in a street jam session. As was the case this year, as in previous years, the musical and dancing trek mushroomed into a big fete on the beach as the milling throng awaited the start of a week of exciting boat races.

It will be ten days of frolic and merriment in Anguilla following the grand opening ceremony and fireworks display of the 2008 Summer Festival at the Landsome Bowl Cultural Centre in the Valley township on Thursday, July 31.

For several hours the flow of traffic was severely hampered on Friday afternoon, July 25, causing much congestion at the western end of the island. It resulted when a concrete truck carrying a load of a ready-mixed concrete, to one of the tourism projects, overturned in the Lower South Hill area after colliding with a utility pole.

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Senior Opposition Member in the Anguilla House of Assembly, Hubert Hughes, proudly accepted the keys to a top-of-the-line US$46,000 V8 Sequoia Jeep, from Chief Minister, Osbourne Fleming, on Monday afternoon, June 23. Just minutes earlier at a press briefing at Mr. Fleming’s office, Mr. Hughes, responding to public criticism, issued a statement denouncing suggestions that the vehicle was a deal in which he was “bought and silenced by the Government.”

The womenfolk in Anguilla now have a new facility for giving birth at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Long in coming over the years, it is an addition to the maternity wing providing, in one area, bedding space and equipment to enable deliveries by C-section and, in another part of the building, two well-equipped maternity suites for normal deliveries.

Red heart-shaped balloons popped in the hot afternoon sun on Friday, June 20, in the packed courtyard at the Alwyn Allison Primary School at West End, where Government officials, educators, students and others gathered to celebrate the life of Teacher Art Egel, the beloved Principal.

Several hundred Anguillians and others on the island took the opportunity of the second open house function at the Flag Temenos Anguilla development to spend most of the holiday marking the Official Birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Second on Monday, June 16.

Invited guests from various parts of Anguilla, including a number of them honoured over the years for their service to the island, were in attendance at the celebration held at on the grounds of Government House on Monday, June 16, to mark the Official Birthday of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth The Second.

After having an island-wide system of desalinated water from the sea at Crocus Bay for a number of years, Anguilla is to commission a series of boreholes in the well field in the Valley Bottom area where the streams are plentiful and have virtually being going to waste.

The building constructed in 1953 to serve as the Official Residence of the Principal of the then Valley Secondary School, later as the Department of Lands and Surveys and eventually as the Education Department until recently, is being dismantled.

Anguillians turned out in large numbers on Friday, Anguilla Day, May 30, at the Ronald Webster for an Official Parade to celebrate the 41st Anniversary of their 1967 Revolution which eventually led to the formal separation of the island from St. Kitts-Nevis.

The Anguilla House of Assembly has amended Section 50 (a) of the Firearms Act which now provides a penalty of $200,000 or 5 years imprisonment for persons found in possession of such weapons and ammunition on the island.

For some reason, a press release from the Chief Minister’s Office stated that this week Monday’s second round of discussions in the current series of meet-the-people constitutional meetings at the Ronald Webster Park would focus on a string of matters. These were said to include the possible re-organisation of electoral boundaries, increasing the number of Government and Elected Members, the Public Service Commission and the Teachers Service Commission.

Deputy Governors from the five Caribbean British Overseas Territories and Bermuda began a three-day meeting in Anguilla on Wednesday, May 21, at Paradise Cove Resort, with the main discussion matter being the Public Service in the respective islands.

The three congregations of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Anguilla held a combined Appreciation Day Service at the Mount Fortune Church at East End on May 17, at which Nurses, Nursing Aids, Sanitation Workers and Solid Waste Companies were honoured for their contribution to the island’s health and environment services.