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Eighteen primary and secondary teachers in Anguilla have been awarded certificates by the School of Education at the University of the West Indies having completed their programme of studies. The courses were taught by a number of resource persons on the island, thus allowing the teachers to teach their own classes and afterwards regularly attend their training courses.

Top law enforcement officers from the police, customs, immigration and prison services of the United Kingdom Caribbean Overseas Territories and Bermuda held their annual meeting in Anguilla from Tuesday to Thursday this week, against the backdrop of escalating crime in the region. The conference had as its theme: “Ensuring capacity, capability and sustainability in the delivery of effective law enforcement services.”

The Adult Education Continuing Programme is going well in Anguilla with a number of persons succeeding in the training and getting prepared for employment in the various skilled jobs coming on stream.

The Anguilla House of Assembly is to meet on Monday, May 8 at 10.00 a.m. at the Atlin Harrigan OBE Parliamentary Building.

The National Bank of Anguilla has announced what it calls a Career Enhancer Loan Combo aimed especially at Forms 5 and 6 students desirous of furthering their academic studies abroad.

It seems only a very short time ago that Tara Kemmone Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pagette Carter of East End, was a bright student at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School. Now after a period of intensive academic study, she is a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme, Court Anguilla Circuit, a fine role model for Anguillian young people.

The members of the UK contingent serving with the Task Force set up in the Royal Anguilla Police Force to combat illegal firearms and drugs, have been welcomed to the island at a meeting at the Governor’s Office, followed by a press briefing in the Executive Council’s Chambers.

The National Bank of Anguilla has financed twenty table tennis boards for community use on the island to the tune of EC$15,633.00. A symbolic cheque in that amount was presented to Minister of Social Development, Evans Rogers, by NBA’s Chief Executive Officer E. Valentine Banks on Wednesday, April 5.

For the first time, the inter-house athletic competition at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School has spanned two days – Wednesday and Thursday April 5 and 6. Cable and Wireless has been the overall sponsor of the athletic meet for the past seven years and this year has contributed US$5,500 in sponsorship money.

The Anguilla Electricity Company (ANGLEC) is substantially upgrading its power plant with the addition of two massive state-of-the-art generators to meet the growing needs of the island.

The Caribbean Commercial Bank has donate EC$5000 to assist the All Ah Wee Young Theatre players to travel to and perform in New York. The cheque was presented to Miguel Franklin, one of the performers, on Tuesday, March 28, by Talitha Webster, Treasurer of CCB’s Trendsetters Social Club and Debit Card Officer.

The Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission in Anguilla, has tasked itself with completing the initial draft of its recommendations by April 4, beginning village consultative meetings on April 8 and submitting its final report to Executive Council by June 2.

A group of prison inmates in Anguilla posed with delight for a press photograph this week as they prepared for a Small Business Basic Skills workshop being delivered under the auspices of the Anguilla Development Board (ADB).

Digicel has become the new platinum sponsor of the Caribbean Talented Teen Pageant, which has been established by a group of organisers in Anguilla who formerly produced the Miss Leeward Islands Talented Teen Pageant.

In her Commonwealth Day Message, on March 13, Queen Elizabeth delivered a message on health and vitality, saying that good health was a precious gift although many people did not share in it.

Cleophus Gumbs of Little Dix is a well-known figure on the local political scene and an advocate for steering Anguilla in the right course. He is also making another name for himself by revolutionalising the stone-cutting business for the construction industry in a big way.

As Anguillians seek constitutional and electoral reform, they have been advised to put their case well and to place the tough issues at the forefront. The advice has come from Gerard Farara QC of Tortola, a noted legal luminary in the region. He was one of three highly-distinguished gentlemen who were invited to Anguilla to speak at the first public meeting of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission held at the Teachers’ Resource Centre on Saturday night, March 4. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Chairman Claudel Romney in the absence of the Chairman, Justice Don Mitchell, CBE, QC.

Revolutionary Leader, Ronald Webster, says Anguilla is in a superior economic position when compared with other Caribbean territories, but notes that like the pattern of the world, the island is rapidly changing.

The Anguilla Police issued a release on Wednesday, expressing concern over the disappearance of Anguillian Louvan Rathburn Webster Jr. (Lu Lu) aged 22, of White Hill, Mount Fortune.

As a fitting tribute to the success of the National Bank of Anguilla over the past 21 years of its existence, a painting of the Group of Promoters was unveiled in the Bank’s Board Room on Wednesday, March 8.