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The renowned Heritage Collection Museum, under the curatorship of Colville Petty, OBE, an authority on Anguilla’s history, will reopen for business on Monday1st November after its annual two-month break. Located in East End, next to the East End Pond Bird Sanctuary, the Museum’s operating hours are: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm – Monday to Saturday.

St. Augustine’s Anglican Church at East End has added a steel orchestra to its music systems to enhance its worship. This is in addition to the organ and a drum set there.
The silver-painted steel pans were consecrated towards the end of the service on Sunday, October 24, by Bishop Errol Brooks, following which the young players rendered some melodious music directed by Dumpa Martin.

The three congregations of the Anglican Church, St. Mary’s, The Valley, St. Augustine’s, East End, and St. Andrew’s, Island Harbour, met in a joint service on Sunday, October 24, in Celebration of a New Ministry.

A large hall at Viceroy Hotel and Residences was filled to capacity on Monday and Tuesday, this week, when over 100 newly-employed workers underwent a day and a half of orientation in preparation for their immediate deployment in the various sections of the world class resort.

In a prepared statement, Governor Alistair Harrison, told reporters at his press conference on Tuesday, this week, that the Minister for the Overseas Territories, Henry Bellingham, was still waiting for a reply from Anguilla’s Chief Minister, Hubert Hughes, who authorised Social Security to borrow 200 million US dollars.

Police: We are making progress

During the period October 13th to October 20th, three thefts were reported in West End, The Farrington and North Side. The items stolen included a stereo amplifier, a 100 lb gas cylinder and a Blackberry cell phone. There were two robberies reported, one in North Hill and the other in Wallblake.

The Hon. Chief Minister and Minister of Finance and Tourism of Anguilla, has received correspondence from the principal of Cap Juluca and it reads as follows:

A directed drumming session, which resounded across the Central Valley, from the courtyard of Her Majesty’s Prison on Thursday, last week, was an exhilarating experience for the inmates who participated in the fun day event.

Viceroy Anguilla today announced that Starwood Capital Group has completed the purchase of the loan originally made to the developer of the property, Barnes Bay Development. Viceroy Hotel Group will continue to manage and operate the property as Viceroy Anguilla.

The arts and crafts sector in Anguilla, and the other eight member islands of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, is under review by the OECS Export Development Unit. The aim is to see what technical assistance it can provide to the sub-region with sponsorship from the European Union.

On Monday October 18th, at the Blue Ridge Hotel in South Hill, the Anguilla Government hosted a training workshop on Human Rights. With Chief Minister, the Hon. Hubert Hughes in attendance, the ceremony was chaired by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr. Foster Rogers. Mr. Rogers observed, “While we in Anguilla take our human rights for granted because we were born in a free society, there are however people in this world whose human rights are trampled on daily”.

On Monday, October 18, a number of staff members of Caribbean Cable Communications (CCC) staged a protest at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Labour at which they made various complaints relating to matters affecting their employment. Media houses were issued with releases by the workers, the Ministry of Labour and CCC about the industrial dispute.

Last week Anguilla delegates from Anglec and the Anguilla Renewable Energy Office (AREO) attended the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) at Paradise Island’s Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas.

Participants from various Government Departments attended a one-day workshop on Friday, October 15, which launched Statistics Week.

Parliamentary Secretary, Haydn Hughes and Director of Tourism, Candis Niles, to attend the first Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Leadership strategic conference in Barbados last week.

On Saturday, 16th October 2010, the Anguilla Lions Club welcomed Lions from Saba, St Maarten and St Eustatius to the first Zone 2B meeting for the Lionistic year 2010-2011. Lion members were also graced with the presence of the District Governor for Sub-district 60B, Lion June Mccatty, who was travelling from her home town of Jamaica to audit the clubs in the Zone.

Economic woes suck. It doesn’t take an economist to figure out that when we are in deep recession we can feel it in our pockets. The chronically unemployed have said it just feels like another day, but for almost all Anguillians there has been a definite loss. We had it good.

Separate workshops for doctors and other health personnel, called medical coders, were arranged for this week, as part of an initiative by the Pan American Health Organisation. The sessions were aimed at classifying all diseases in Anguilla using a standardised system known as the “International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision.”

Anguilla’s British-appointed Governor, His Excellency Alistair Harrison, observed the first eighteen months of his three-year appointment to the island on Tuesday this week.

Very few people are neutral where black cats are concerned. Some fear them - a throwback to old superstitions and lore, and others that own black cats adore them plain and simple. Black cats have been found to have lower odds of adoption in many rescue shelters, including Anguilla, compared to other colors, but people who have adopted them find they are excellent companions and also great hunters.