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Whether it was in the great ballrooms of the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Long Island, New York, or at the marketplace, Anguillian nationals were seen everywhere at the Anguilla, Nevis and St. Kitts Associations Reunion (ANSAR) during the period June 30 to July 2. They are all a group of role models and doing very well.
Marketplace was where all the nationals crowded to sell and buy craft items, food and drink reminiscent of home life.

This year, six highly-motivated young ladies are vying for the coveted Miss CCB Teen Pageant title. Five of them were presented to the local media on Tuesday, July 4, at the English Rose Restaurant.

Two nationals of Anguilla, Dr. Oluwakemi M. Linda Banks and Nathaniel (Nat) Hodge, MBE, were among eight persons honoured at the Long Island Marriott Hotel and Conference Center at Uniondale, New York. The awardees were recognised for having “rendered immeasurable contribution, service and credit to the cause of country and humanity by their personal efforts, commitment, dedication and achievements.”

On Wednesday morning, June 28, the National Culinary Team of Anguilla topped the list of winners of the Silver Medal in the 2006 Taste of the Caribbean competition held at the Hyatt Regency in Miami the evening before.

The commissioning of a special Chemistry Analyser at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Anguilla on Tuesday, June 20, has given the institution the capacity to perform tests and treatment never possible before in its history.

The National Bank of Anguilla will again be hosting its Peter Perkins Memorial Boat Race and Fun Day Village Games.

Aside from the academic studies, the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School in Anguilla is offering pre-vocational training for students in such subject areas like expressive arts, music, creative arts, arts and craft, industrial arts, home economics and hotel trades. The aim is to prepare the students for further training in technical and vocational areas in line with their career goals. The Ministry of Education is now busily preparing for the next stage and that is the establishment of a National Community College.

Anguillian Country Manager of FirstCaribbean Bank International, Marie Rey, has hailed the bank’s initiative of honouring residents across the region who by their work and example are being celebrated as “Unsung Heroes,” but who may not otherwise have been recognised.

Anguillian Lawyer, Chanelle Petty-Barrett, has returned to the Public Service and has taken up a new appointment as Legal Draftsperson/Crown Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers. She assumed her duties on Wednesday this week, June 14, in an area which until recently did not attract Anguillians.

Member of the Royal Anguilla Police Force, Constable Rayfield Roberts, who was seriously injured on April 9, 2006, when his fellowman Gerald Bardouille died in a collision, has returned to the island after some two months of treatment.

A number of leading persons in the public and private sectors sat in rapt attention and with much interest as they listened to the Fifth Annual Walter G. Hodge Memorial Lecture at the House of Chandeliers on Tuesday evening, June 6. The presenter was Justice Don Mitchell, CBE, QC, Chairman of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission.

Sirens on the vehicles of the Anguilla Police Force and Fire Services screamed a final salute to Governor Alan Huckle on Friday, June 2. He was at the time inside the small Trans Anguilla aircraft as it taxied down the runway for his flight to St. Maarten en-route to Miami.

Anguilla now has its own Deputy Governor in the person of Stanley Everton Reid, 37, son of former Minister of Social Services and now Senior Adviser in the Chief Minister’s Office, Eric Reid, and Mrs Reid of North Side.

The Royal Anguilla Police Force now has a state-of the-art vehicle to be used at crime scenes on the island. It was presented on Wednesday, May 31 by Governor Alan Huckle, in the run-up to his departure from the island.

A new Secondary Level Programme, created by the Caribbean Examinations Council, will give Anguillian students and others in the region an opportunity to obtain a National Certificate rather than leaving school with nothing in their hands after some five years of secondary education. It means that many of them will have a document of their schooling and ability to present in the job market if they have not gone on to earn the formal CXC Certificate, which is now being offered.

The Caribbean Commercial Bank’s team has recaptured the coveted trophy from the National Bank in the Battle of the Banks Yacht Race held here on May 13 as part of the Anguilla Regatta.

Two leading women in the Anguillian community have been presented with awards from Queen Elizabeth The Second, at Government House in Anguilla, by His Excellency Governor Alan Huckle.

The National Bank of Anguilla has donated US$5,200.00 to the Anguilla Football Association to sponsor four of the players who will be travelling to Germany on May 28 to witness the World Cup matches.

The National Bank of Anguilla and the Caribbean Commercial Bank which donated US$75,000 and US$85,000 to the Anguilla Tennis Academy to construct two courts last year, have gone a big step further. They have now agreed to provide a loan of US$1,000,000 each to the academy to help complete the project.

Government workers in Anguilla will be paid a ten percent increase on their salaries as from July 1, the second pay hike since last year.