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There is a new youth organisation in Anguilla dedicated to help with the promotion of tourism. It is called the Hello Tourist Club which has recently been formed at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School.

The St Augustine’s Anglican Church, East End, was the venue of another tremendous and well-talked about performance by the highly regarded – widely renowned – St Augustine’s Chorale on Sunday 26th December, the day after Christmas. The large and most appreciative audience was truly delighted with the beautiful singing – with the wonderful music – and had nothing but praise for a memorable performance which the Chorale is always expected to deliver. This it did – last Sunday. It did not disappoint. And it will not disappoint with a repeat presentation, at the same venue, on Sunday 2nd January 2011.

Chief Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Hubert Hughes, said he was in agreement for his Government to pay US$1.1 million to Rev. John A. Gumbs, which he stated would be a reduction of some $400,000 in settlement of an eight-year-old land case which the superannuated Methodist Minister won.

Acting Deputy Governor, Foster Rogers, speaking in the House of Assembly on December 23, underscored the important role of the civil service in the running of the affairs of Anguilla.

Kindergarten Teacher, Itasha Webster, sent a note to The Anguillian entitled “What better way to end the year?” It was a report about a Christmas gift presentation she made at the Miriam Gumbs Senior Citizens Home on December 23.

In his budget address, on December 13, Chief Minister and Minister of Economic Development, Investment, Commerce and Tourism, the Hon. Hubert Hughes, provided, to some extent, a guide of what he hopes his 10-month-old Government will accomplish for the people of Anguilla in 2011. He said in part:

Following the presentation and debate of the 2011 budget in Anguilla late last week, the various revenue and expenditure figures making up the totals, were given by Permanent Secretary, Finance, Mrs. Kathleen Rogers, as follows:

With the 2010 Appropriation Bill, embodying the 2011 budget having been passed in the Anguilla House of Assembly on Thursday, December 13, it was agreed by vote that the Ports, Harbours & Piers Bill, 2010, should be put on the agenda for debate and passage.

The staff at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Miriam Gumbs’ Senior Citizens’ Home along with some residents of the latter, and the Christian Assembly Church, joined in holding the Christmas Service at the hospital on Monday, December 27.

Secretary of the Anguilla Christian Council, Ursil Webster-Brooks, and Hyacinth E. Hughes of the Methodist Church, were guests at the Governor’s Office on 22 December. They were presented with Christmas gifts donated by the Governor’s Office, businesses and people of Anguilla for distribution to deserving children and families in Anguilla.

Some 50 primary school children in Anguilla were the recipients of Christmas Food Baskets and toys at an event hosted by LIME and the Anguilla Tourist Board on December 23.

Standing at the highly visible decorated roundabout at the entrance of the Anguilla Tennis Academy, his dream project, CEO, Mitchell Lake, expressed gratitude to the Anguilla Beautification Club (ABC) for its beautifying work using various ornamental plants.

Now that the partying and indulging from soup to nuts to all things sweet will soon be over, there is but one question to ponder…..

Following are two of the resolutions passed at the National Conference on Youth Development (NCYD) held on Tuesday, December 21st in the Anguilla House of Assembly Chambers:

The state-of-the-art Anguilla Tennis Academy, brainchild of Mitchell Lake, unveiled a gallery of exquisite photographs on canvas on the walls of the unique building on Tuesday this week.

On Monday, December 20, the Community Services Department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church undertook a large-scale food and toiletries distribution programme. The Miriam Gumbs Senior Citizens Home, Rosewood Centre, Tender Loving Care and Just Tender Care, were presented with a quantity of items such as listerine mouthwash, powder, skin lotion, soap, toilet paper and laundry detergent. Zenada Haven was also included in the goodwill gesture.

Twenty-year-old Kumal Smith, of Island Harbour, and a member of the Mount Fortune Seventh-day Adventist Church, has enrolled at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad where he will be studying Pastoral Ministry.

On Friday December 3rd at the Orealia Kelly Primary School Hands across the Sea donated twelve boxes of books to the Orealia Kelly and Valley Primary Schools. Hands across the Sea, is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to raising the literacy levels of Caribbean children by assisting schools and libraries in Caribbean communities.

School children and several organisations in Anguilla are the recipients of gift items and money from US nationals David Small and family for the sixth year. The Christmas donations were made at a presentation ceremony at Aleta Restaurant at Viceroy Resort.

Caribbean Cable Communications is helping to make the season brighter for one Anguilla charity that is making a difference in the community through its work with special needs children.