Local News

Reported crimes in Anguilla remained in double digits this week with 19 recorded by the Police.
Burglaries topped the list totalling eight. They occurred in South Valley, North Hill, West End, Old Ta, Roaches Hill, East End and two in the Valley. There was one attempted burglary at West End.

Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming at his weekly press conference stressed that he and his colleagues were concerned about the number of marriages of convenience on the island and that they were rising. He said as recently as yesterday (Monday Aug 24) a young man married a 16 year old girl from Dominica just to facilitate her staying in Anguilla.

The Anguilla Electricity Company (ANGLEC) has admitted to being “severely challenged” with the price of oil in these harsh economic times and is expecting to adjust its prices for electricity in the next few weeks.

LIME’s ‘U R it’ Summer Promotion shows no sign of cooling down as customers continue to win numerous fantastic instant and weekly prizes! In the six weeks of the nine-week promotion, customers have won cash, BlackBerry devices, digital cameras and vouchers for spa treatment at Cuisinart’s world famous Venus Spa and groceries at J.W. Proctors. There are also opportunities to win vouchers for gasoline (petrol) and school supplies which will be available just in time for the new school year.

Local irrigation and landscaping company, Island Irrigation, has contributed to the beautification of Anguilla by donating its time and resources to enhancing the Sandy Hill Roundabout.

Recently I attended two weddings that made me feel like a proud mother of the Groom, even though in neither instance had I given birth to the young man in question. In the first instance, the ceremony was a Christian one held in the Anglican Church. I had promised not to cry but the Bride was so beautiful and the Groom seemed so ready, while I was having all these flashbacks of seeing him grow into the proud, serious Rastaman he had become – so much like his father.

The organizers of the Classic Ole Timers Carnival Troupe wish to THANK all its Revelers, Supporters, and Sponsors, in assisting in the delivery of such a beautiful and colorful troupe at the Parade of Troupe 2009 in such a short time.

In 2009, a twenty sixth year old inspiring young man by the name of Trevor Smith graduated from Andrews University in Michigan with a bachelors of arts with a concentration in Religion.

The cannons from a known archaeological site (a shipwreck) in White House Bay, St. Kitts, have been stolen. The site, recorded in 2003 by the Anglo-Danish Maritime Archaeology Team (ADMAT), was initially discovered with 13 cannons. The vessel, a British troopship sunk during the Battle for Frigate Bay in 1782, was uncovered during a hurricane in the 1990s.

As the spate of burglaries and robberies continue in Anguilla, another renowned business establishment has fallen victim.

Situated on the private enclave of Maundays Bay Beach, Cap Juluca has undergone the first phase of its $80 million enhancement program and has recently been recognized in the 2009 Travel + Leisure “World's Best Awards” as No. 1 in Anguilla and in the top 10 among the “Top 25 Resorts in the Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Bahamas” category.

The week of activities marking the Anguilla Development Board's 30th Anniversary culminated on Saturday afternoon in a family Fun Day in a most picturesque and relaxed setting at the Airport lawn. Surrounded by tents and bouncing castles on the perimeter there were numerous activities for children and adults within the demarcated activity zone.

The children of the Stoney Ground, Caul's Bottom and The Quarter area were treated to a day of fun and friendly sporting competition on Saturday August 22nd 2009. Sunset Homes, a Property Development firm in Anguilla, sponsored its seventh annual event of this kind on its office grounds located in Stoney Ground. Races for each age category included sack races, lime and spoon race, flat races, relays, tug-of-war and more.

The Church of God of Holiness Annual Vacation Bible School reached a climax on Saturday August 22 with a ‘March for Jesus’ from the Gazebo on the grounds of the Scouts and Guides Headquarters to the Church on the Princess Alexandra Road.

Two giants in their respective fields of business National Bank of Anguilla Ltd (NBA) and Lime have teamed up to further ease top up services to their customers.

HIV/AIDS Specialist in the International Labour Organization (ILO) Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean in Trinidad, Madhuri Supersad, was on Anguilla during the past week conducting a workshop on Formulating and Implementing an HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy.

One of Anguilla’s leading banking institutions, the Caribbean Commercial Bank (CCB) has contributed heavily to the Environmental Health Unit’s Vector Awareness Programme which is now in its tenth year. On Wednesday August 26, CCB handed over a check for EC$29,000 to the Programme during a ceremony held at the local bank.

The American Government recently officially pardoned a Foot Soldier of the Famed American Civil Rights Movement who is now living in Anguilla. The pardon was for activities in which she participated in 1963 when she was only 18 years old.

The Anguilla Development Board is this week celebrating thirty years of operation during which period it has demonstrated itself to be a vehicle and financier of national growth and prosperity.
According to a Radio Anguilla broadcast by Minister of Finance, Victor Banks, since the inception of the statutory institution it has financed approximately 2,400 projects in excess of EC$141 million. The projects included fishing, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, housing and student loans.

The Anguilla Government has signed up its permanent establishment of some nine hundred civil servants and their immediate families into an air ambulance evacuation plan, an initial step in the provision of an eventual island-wide service for the population.