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Four charities in Anguilla have benefited from the proceeds of the Jimmy Buffet concert that was held in March at the Dune Preserve. The cheques totaling US$75,000.00 were handed over on Wednesday August 8 to the Stingray Music Programme, the Anguilla Tennis Academy (ATA), the Anguilla Community Foundation (ACF) and the Bob and Melinda Blanchard charity.

In an indirect contrast to their recent demonstrations and demands for higher wages from Carillion Construction at the Viceroy Project, some 500 Indian workers crowded the Western Union Office at Lake’s World Supermarket on Wednesday, sending money to their relatives at home.

The ports of entry are buzzing with activity as returning Anguillians and visitors are arriving on the island from various parts of the world for the Summer Festivities, family reunions and the renewal of acquaintances.

Minister of Social Development, Evans M. Rogers, says there will be changes in the way the Anguilla Health Authority is carrying out its duties.
He made the statement as he addressed the Second Quarterly Review meeting for 2007, held at Paradise Cove Resort on July 27, at which the members of a new Board of Directors, under the chairmanship of former Director of Health Services, Dr. Franklin Lloyd, was announced.

Police in Anguilla are busy investigating two separate shooting incidents on the island which left one young man dead and three others hospitalised; and a senior investigating officer is saying that there is some frustration in the investigations in that members of the public who may have information are not cooperating sufficiently.
The latest of the two incidents occurred on Monday night after ten o’clock when, according to a police report, there was a drive-by shooting when shots were fired at a group of youngsters near a telephone booth in close proximity to Blues & Blues Gas Station at Blowing Point.

Over two hundred children and adults from Anguilla, other parts of the Leeward Islands, the British and US Virgin Islands and as far as Curacao and Florida, are camping at the premises of the Stoney Ground School.

It appears that as Anguilla develops, becoming a changing society on all fronts, religion, which has been a long-time contributor to the spiritual lives of the island’s people, is also becoming more aggressive in its companionship role.

Lately it seems that at every street corner there is talk of what happened to the Indians at Viceroy. Everyone has an opinion and some are blaming the Chief Minister and asking for his resignation. I applaud the Anguillians for recognizing that we have a crisis on our hands and for making an effort to do something about it. Seeing what has happened to the Indians and knowing Anguillians don’t want that for themselves, I think it’s high time we take a look at the issues that we as Anguillians need to be concerned with.

Police Commissioner, Keithly Benjamin, has made available to The Anguillian the text of the address he will deliver at the upcoming opening ceremony of the Summer Festivities at the Landsome Bowl Cultural Centre.

The nine contestants of the CCB Talented Teen show recently took part in an Interview Session hosted by Ms. Lisa Rey, Sales & Marketing Officer at Radio Anguilla. The session served to educate contestants on the techniques that can be used to answer questions being broadcasted live on radio.

The organisers of the Champion of Champions Boat Race are all set for the big knockout competition following the week-long series of races.

Coming off an impressive win for Best Project from a Chamber of a Developing Country and being a finalist in the Best New Membership Recruitment Project at the 5th World Chambers Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, Mr. Calvin Bartlett is now off to Sacramento, California.

On Saturday, July 28, Miss Anguilla Amber Woodley came out on top as the 2007 Miss Ecstasy. In a pageant held at the Landsome Bowl Cultural Centre, the MC’s were Oluwakemi Linda Banks and Iwandi and the band for the event was Gossip and the Boys. Representatives from Anguilla, Grenada, Barbados, Antigua, BVI, Curaçao, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Cable & Wireless announces the winners in week four of Summer Festival Promotion
The luck of the ladies continue this week with Ms Tamasha Connor and Ms Elesia Piper winning in week four (4) of the Cable & Wireless Summer Festival Promotion!

The Talented Teen Committee is of the firm belief that the experiences gained from participation in the CCB Talented Teen should continue after the event. To this end, the Talented Teen Committee, in consultation with the Department of Youth and Culture, has decided on a number of projects to be undertaken by the Mr. and Miss CCB Talented Teen 2007 throughout their reign. The proposed list of activities is outlined below. The committee would like to thank Mr. Joash Proctor, Director of Youth and Culture for his contribution of ideas.

Police in Anguilla are investigating a case in which a young woman, said to be 19, was raped by an intruder at her home in South Valley on Monday, July 23, at around 2.00 pm.

The Anguilla Police destroyed by fire a quantity of illegal drugs which were being held as evidence by The Court.

Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming says that charges by certain persons in Anguilla that he and his Ministers are corrupt were a matter that was bothering all of them.

A second investigating officer from the Royal Tortola Police Force has joined his colleague, Inspector Samuel McSheene, in the inquiry into complaints of police brutality in Anguilla against Dwayne Duncan.

Over the past several days there have been a few serious road accidents which have resulted in injury and death but in one case, a driver was fortunate to walk away unharmed.