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A tourism promotion hard cover book entitled: Anguilla: Tranquility Wrapped in Blue has been launched in Anguilla and at World Travel Market in London. The 160-page beautiful and informative book was published by Hansib Publications and edited by Arif Ali, a noted Gyanese publisher in the United Kingdom, who has produced a dozen similar books for regional and international countries.

The well-renowned Heritage Collection Museum, under the curatorship of Colville Petty, OBE, an authority on Anguilla’s history, has moved to new premises. It is now located in East End, next to the East End Pond Bird Sanctuary. Its opening hours are: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm – Monday to Saturday.

The Government proceeded with two motions, in the House of Assembly on Tuesday and Thursday this week, relating to the expansion of Wallblake Airport, brushing aside objections from Leader of the Opposition Hubert Hughes and his colleague Edison Baird.

Second Nominated Member and Deputy Speaker in the Anguilla House of Assembly, Claudel Romney, was in the hot seat on Tuesday and Thursday this week. He presided over the sitting of the House for the first time in the absence of the Speaker, Leroy Rogers, who left the island some days before.

The Anguilla Government is well on its way to establishing an autonomous Health Authority to run the island’s health services with effect from January 2004.

ANGUILLA’S CULINARY TEAM, BARTENDER DID WELL

The National Culinary Team and the Bartender from Anguilla did very well at the “Taste of the Caribbean 2003” competition at the Renaissance Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios from October 2-5.

Who’ll Get The US$21m Project?

The race is on for the contract for the construction of the Wallblake Airport project in Anguilla which will cost an overall 21 million US dollars. The works will include lengthening the existing 3,600-foot runway by an additional 2,400 feet and improvements to security areas of the terminal building and lighting facilities.

Politics an Option for Former PS

Julian Harrigan, who has been in the Anguilla Public Service for 34 years of which he served as a Permanent Secretary for 22 years, has gone into full retirement with effect from Monday, September 29. He retired one year and four months before reaching the age of 55 at which public servants normally retire.

A contract which officially launched Anguilla’s first eco-tourism project was signed on Tuesday, September 30, at a ceremony at the Teachers’ Resource Centre. The undertaking is a combination of the Amerindian Big Spring Heritage site at Island Harbour and the East End Pond Conservation project which will feature bird-watching.

Fear Not “Just Because You are a Woman”

High Court Judge Madam Justice Janice George-Creque, of Tortola, was welcomed to the Bench in Anguilla on Monday September 15 at the opening of the Law Year of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court jurisdictions. First to welcome her as one of a number of female Judges to be appointed to Anguilla, was Attorney General Ronald Scipio. He told the Judge that she would find that the quality of work produced in this jurisdiction could be second to none.

Computer and internet users in Anguilla are being warned to exercise caution when opening emails and entering chat rooms. The warning has come as various types of dangerous viruses are being released throughout the world, putting computer equipment, software programmes and vital information in jeopardy.

The 28 members of St. Augustine’s Chorale are back in Anguilla after having what has been described as a “wonderful experience” in Aruba. The weekend trip was planned by Bishop Errol Brooks of the Northeastern Caribbean and Aruba and the Reverend Sydney Jacobs, Parish Priest of Holy Cross Anglican Church in the Netherlands Antilles island.

The Hurricane Lenny Road Project which calls for the redesign and development if six stretches of road at separate locations on the island has moved to the Quarter area.

Sections 2 to 15 of the Constitution establishes our fundamental rights and freedoms. Section 16 provides the mechanism by which our fundamental rights and freedoms are protected.

Cap Juluca Resort in Anguilla has been voted top hotel in the Caribbean, Bermuda and The Bahamas by Travel & Leisure magazine’s subscribers in its Eighth Annual World’s Best Awards Survey. The hotels surveyed were judged in the categories of rooms and facilities, location, service, restaurants, food and value. The respondents were asked to rate hotels, islands, spas, cities, cruise lines and tour operators. There were almost 200,000 evaluations on the questionnaire. The results of the poll were published in the August 2003 issue of the magazine.

A well-attended awards ceremony at the Anguilla Great House on August 2, 2003, brought an end to the week-long celebration of Fifty Years of Secondary Education in Anguilla. It was jointly delivered by the Valley Secondary School which came into being in September 1953 and the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School which took over in September 1986.

Anguilla received unprecedented coverage in its major markets with the release of an advertising video for the 2003 Tranquility Jazz Festival.

Accident victims will be more quickly extracted now that the Police Department possesses its own Jaws for Life, equipment used to cut through cars wrecked in accidents.

Residents at Sandy Ground, one of the areas where a Police/Community Consultative Committee is to be established, are calling for the police station there to be opened 24 hours a day.

Hats off to the four boats who went to race Sunday in the race kept by the Light and Peace. It was not for any monetary gain, but for points. The Superstar won.