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The kindergarten section of the Valley Primary School is the recipient of one dozen 5-gallon bottles of water and a fountain from ARONEL suppliers on the Stoney Ground Road.

A Tourism Master Plan project, which was announced earlier for Anguilla, with funding by the Caribbean Development Bank in the sum of US$150,000, was formally launched on Wednesday this week. Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, the Hon. Hubert Hughes, did the launching at the Temenos Golf Course clubhouse.

Four fifth-year students at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School in Anguilla are the winners of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Regional Quiz competition, which was held at the University Centre in Trinidad. They are Senegal Carty, Chelsea Hughes, Simone Greaves and Chaniece Lewis. They were accompanied by teacher Angele Richardson, who recently completed a degree, with First Class Honours, in Home Economics in Jamaica.

Anguilla’s Minister of Health, the Hon. Edison Baird, has expressed thanks to the Venezuelan authorities for assisting his Ministry, and the island’s Government, in flying out a severely injured national of that South American country back home for specialised treatment, not available locally.

Police: Thefts continue and burglaries continue

During the period November 17th to November 24th ten thefts were reported in The Valley, East End, Stoney Ground, Island Harbour, Blowing Point, South Hill, North Valley and George Hill. The items stolen included a gold chain, blackberry cell phones, car battery, car tires, t-shirts, goats and cash. Three burglaries were reported in Blowing Point, North Side and Stoney Ground.

The Anguilla Music Production & Publishing Co. (AMPP), including its record label West Indie’ Records, is hosting its the first annual West Indie’ Music Festival on Saturday November 27th, at 5pm, at the Dune Preserve. This musical gala features music from the various Caribbean Islands with Artists such as British Dependency, Omalie, Nyne, Drak, Masud Sadiki, Jazzique, Karma, Donahue Jarrett, Mecca, Hodgie & Bankie Banks are scheduled to perform the admission fee is US$5.00.

The Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association (AHTA) has come away from its Annual General Meeting much encouraged by words of commendation and advice from one of Barbados’ leading hoteliers, Sue Springer. The expert hotelier, with 30 years in the industry, was the keynote speaker at the gathering at Cap Juluca on November 18.

Owners/Proprietors of Anguilla’s Paradise Cove Resort, Dr Frankie and Mrs Sherille Hughes, announced recently that their charming small hotel has recently joined the InnSuites Boutique Hotel Collection. This move will give Paradise Cove an enormous amount of exposure and additional marketing credibility through its website and other franchise services.

The Anguilla Amateur Athletic Federation would like to announce that our highest performing athlete to date, Miss Shara Proctor, will, with immediate effect, be joining the English Athletics Federation (EAF) as a first step in her preparation to compete in the 2012 Olympics.

Arts and crafts producers and Chamber of Commerce and Industry officials in Anguilla have received what has been dubbed “The Diagnostic Review and Analysis of the OECS/EDU Clients in the Arts and Craft Sector”.

For the first time, a forum has been held in Anguilla aimed at working towards a workplace health and wellness programme for the tourism sector. The subject was addressed at a breakfast forum at the conference room at Malliouhana Hotel and Spa on November 18 and 19.

Students at the six Government Primary Schools, and the Central Christian School, are the proud recipients of awards for good performance in various subjects, sponsored by the Anguilla Electricity Company (ANGLEC) for the fourth year.

The spectacular parade of motorcyclists throughout Anguilla on Saturday, November 13, dubbed “Bike ride of the Year”, had two objectives. One was a charitable undertaking to raise funds for the Arijah Children Foundation in Anguilla. The second was simply for the love of the sport of motor-cycle riding on many bikes of the highest standard and attractiveness.

The following report was prepared by Mr. Jerome Roberts, Assistant in the Ministry of Finance who attended the workshop.

Malliouhana Hotel & Spa, which has won a number of world-class accolades, is the venue for a Breakfast Forum for Leaders of the Tourism Sector in Anguilla. The two-day event, sponsored as part of the UKaid from the Department for International Development, was arranged for Thursday, November 18 from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon and on Friday, November 19 this week, from 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Students at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School, who may wish to study at colleges and universities in the Caribbean and further afield have been given an opportunity to meet representatives of a number of educational institutions. They also met with personnel from the National Bank of Anguilla, the Caribbean Commercial Bank, the Anguilla Development Board and the Anguilla Government’s Training Unit which, over the years, have provided various student loans and scholarships.

The Police reported a number of cases dealt with in the Magistrate’s in which the total fines payable by offenders amounted to EC$81,600 during the period November 9-16.

As mentioned elsewhere in this edition of The Anguillian, two of the persons with whom the CARICOM delegation met during its fact-finding mission to Anguilla, were Barrister-at-Law Pam Webster and Sutcliffe Hodge, a former Manager of Cable & Wireless in Anguilla. The meeting took place on Saturday, November 13.

An Anguillian delegation is in London for the Overseas Territories and Countries Consultative Conference which opened on Monday, this week.

A three-member, all female, delegation was in Anguilla for two days at the invitation of Chief Minister, Hubert Hughes, to examine, what he described, at the reception at Viceroy Hotel, as “hiccups” being experienced by his 10-month-old Government.