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A one-week Health Seminar, providing useful insights into a number of diseases and other conditions affecting the body, is in progress in Anguilla and is being well-followed by a number of interested persons.

With construction work around the main jetty at Road Bay, Sandy Ground, now well in hand, the Anguilla Port Development Project has moved to Blowing Point where an all inclusive passenger terminal is to be built.

Anguilla is the third of a number of regional islands included in a Macro Economic Damages Assessment Training Workshop aimed at preparing key persons to effectively handle any given situation in the aftermath of a hurricane. A chilling thought is that, according to Acting Governor Stanley Reid, given the tremendous level of infrastructural development taking place on the island, it is unlikely that the responses to hurricanes Luis and Lenny in 1995 and 1999 will be adequate in Anguilla today.

Participants and presenters of a two-day workshop, a Response to the feminine dimensions of HIV/AIDS, held in Anguilla on Monday and Tuesday this week, have took a long, hard look at the ravages of the disease and its impact on society and family-life.

The Health Authority of Anguilla (HAA) has undertaken to put measures in place to control risks in all areas of the health services to ensure the safety of patients and workers. A day and a half training workshop was held towards that end, at the Soroptimist Day Care Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, for senior managers and other staff in the various health care departments.

One of Anguilla’s most outspoken and passionate Clerics, the Reverend Dr. H. Clifton Niles, has set out four of the principles which have guided his ministry over the years and which he intends to carry forward in his homeland.

Secondary and primary school teachers in Anguilla resumed their classroom work on Monday, September 4, stimulated by their own efforts and encouraged by the support of the Ministry of Education and the advice of one of the island’s top religious leaders, Bishop Errol Brooks of the Anglican Church.

The Anguilla Electricity Company (ANGLEC) has moved to address complaints by consumers that they are paying too much for their power supply. The company has come up with a just-published booklet entitled “An Electricity Guide for Anguilla” aimed at helping persons, through various invaluable tips, to conserve energy and thus save money.

A new three-phase Community Policing initiative has been taken in Anguilla to identify property of home-owners or residents stolen either for the use of the robbers themselves or for sale on the black market.

Annette Richardson, an Anguillian national, residing in New York, looked at her son and said with a feeling of relief and joy: “It is a miracle he is a live.”

The Honourable Victor F. Banks and a delegation left Anguilla on Monday August 28th for Miami. They spent a significant part of their time with the Honourable Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming who is recovering from a kidney transplant operation.

The long-running ownership legal battle for Cap Juluca, Anguilla’s premier resort, between Charles Hickcox and Dion Freidland, has taken a new twist. The Government, which has been sitting on the fence as the wrangling continued about the luxury property, built on Crown Lands, and as its lapses into disrepair, has thrown its support behind an opposition motion calling for its acquisition.

There is still a good deal of public interest in the constitutional and electoral reform process, even as the seventh draft report is being taken around the island for discussion.

Anguilla’s Chief Minister, the Honourable Osbourne Fleming, who underwent a kidney transplant operation at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, on July 19, is hopeful that he will be in a position to return home and to resume his official duties in the near future.

The Publisher/Editor of The Anguillian writes to advise all of our online readers that due to the intervening holidays, The Anguillian will not be published on Friday, August 11.

As a result, our online service will not be available on that date.
Thanks for your continuing support and interest.

A. Nat Hodge MBE,
Publisher/Editor

Anguilla, which is striving to develop the offshore financial business as a second industry, is playing it safe by ensuring that all necessary steps are taken to keep the island’s reputation crime-free and above reproach. A number of specially-designed laws, some probably thought to be quite rigid, have already been put into place and there are other ongoing activities related to due diligence and compliance.

There is reason for considerable pride that another Anguillian has assumed the post of Senior Dental Surgeon on the island. He is Dr. Lindel Brooks, DDS, who has succeeded Dr. Collen Mussington, the first national and female dentist to hold the appointment. Dr. Brooks, who is already on the job, has expressed thanks to her for her kindness and cooperation in assisting him in taking charge of the Dental Unit. Dr. Mussington, daughter of Stanley and Loma Mussington, will now be furthering her studies.

Minister of Social Development, Evans Rogers, said on July 24, that the Anguilla Government was seeking to develop a National Plan to improve care and protection of children with particular focus on child abuse. He was at the time addressing a one-day workshop sponsored by the Anguilla Government in collaboration with the Child Protection Programme of the National Children’s Home in the United Kingdom, the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

Anguilla’s tourism representatives around the world held their annual meeting on the island this week to put forward their projections for 2007 and to evaluate their activities for the remainder of this year.

This year, the Children’s Parade, part of the Summer Festival activities, will have as its theme Just Say No. It is a call for persons in Anguilla to refrain from certain behavioural patterns which are not in the best interest of the island or their own wellbeing.