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Anguilla Masonry Products (AMP), a fast-developing company owned by Rayme Lake, has made the biggest private sector contribution so far to a Ministry and Department of Education programme to provide all the public schools on the island with computers in the classrooms.

Students at both campuses of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School came face to face with the Speaker, Elected Representatives, Nominated Members and Ex-Officio Members of the Anguilla House of Assembly on Monday, September 3, at the grounds of the school.

Evalie Bradley, who served as an Anguillian public servant for some 35 years, spanning the early days of modernising the service and its current much-developed system, was showered with praise at a retirement ceremony on Saturday night, September 1. The grand event was held on the grounds of the Chief Minister’s residence at Sea Feathers and attended by many invited guests.

Jamaican-born Reverend Carleen White was welcomed to serve as the new Minister in the Anguilla Methodist Circuit on Sunday, September 2, at Bethel Church.

As Anguilla was struck by the third armed robbery in recent days, the Police told a press briefing on Wednesday this week that all of the robberies were similar in nature and that the descriptions of the masked men were all alike.

Speaker of the Anguilla House of Assembly, the Hon. David Carty, delivered a statement on Monday, September 3, in which he informed members about a planned new and revised Rules of Procedure now being edited and to be circulated to them in draft form in due course.

In a gesture of goodwill and care for a few selected students of the Stoney Ground Primary School, the recently founded No-Walls Church of Hope, last Friday evening, made presentations of school supplies to some twenty-two children, just in time for the opening of the new school year.

The Optimist Club of Anguilla has pulled off another wonderfully successful Youth Weekend Retreat. This year’s retreat was held for the second consecutive year in the village of Island Harbour at Kent Webster’s apartments from 17 – 19 August 2007.

The newly-appointed Resort Manager at Malliouhana Hotel and Spa, Steve Shotsberger, says the outgoing tourism season was an exciting period for the property because it received more accolades in the past year than in any other year.

The sprawling Santoroni Restaurant and pool area at CuisinArt Resort and Spa, normally crowded by dining and relaxing tourists, were swarmed by exciting and partying employees instead, on Tuesday night, September 4, the day the upmarket property closed for the slow season.

The 17-year-old certified private pilot from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Granville T. Smith Jr. (Theo), has added a letter from the four Ministers of the Government of Anguilla to his collections with respect to his flight to ten Caribbean Islands last month.

The 26th Anniversary of Soroptimist International of Anguilla was celebrated on Saturday August 25 with a dinner and dance at Flavours Restaurant. It was attended by His Excellency the Governor Andrew George and Mrs George, who is the patron of the Club, the Deputy Governor Stanley Reid and Mrs Reid who is the patron of the Day Care Centre, Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming, and Speaker of the House, David Carty, as well as Soroptimist members and their friends.

Government officials and many health care providers gathered at the Teachers’ Resource Centre on Tuesday, September 4, for the soft launching of the National Health Fund. The event, chaired by Mrs. Rhonda Connor, consisted of an opening prayer by Pastor James Harrigan, welcoming remarks by the Director of Social Security Mr. Timothy Hodge and remarks by the Hon. Mr. Evans Rogers, Hon. Mr. Victor Banks and Dr. Bonnie Richardson-Lake.

The Stoney Ground Primary School is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this month – September.

On Thursday 30 August 2007, His Excellency the Governor, Mr Andrew George, presided over a Citizenship Ceremony at which eleven new British Citizens were created.

Cap Juluca’s 2006/2007 staff appreciation closeout activities peaked on Friday, August 31st with the annual End of Season Gala and the staging of the Ms. Juluca Pageant and Talent Show. The night’s festivities got underway with a buffet dinner at PIMMS/Kemia for the Resort’s 400 member staff, friends and other invited guests and were capped by the annual pageant and talent show, which saw Cap Juluca Staff members displaying their many talents.

On August 18 a chapter in Anguillian history closed and another opened as the island’s first beachfront resort, Rendezvous Bay Hotel and Villas, bid farewell to its last hotel guest after 45 years in the hospitality business.

Anguillians have been warned that they cannot afford to sit back while Pandemic Influenza ravishes some countries and not to prepare for the day when the disease may strike the island.

At the weekly Wednesday press briefing by the Royal Anguilla Police Force, media representatives were told that two firearms were seized from two young men believed to be St. Kitts nationals.

Enterprising young Anguillians may be encouraged into flying when a 17-year-old certified pilot from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, touches down his private aircraft at Wallblake Airport on Friday morning, August 31.