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The Caribbean sub-regional office of the ILO will be carrying out a diagnostic study of the Labour Department in Anguilla next month.

Plans are well in hand for the staging of the second annual Miss Digicel Caribbean Talented Teen Pageant in Anguilla on May 26 at the Landsome Bowl Cultural Centre, commencing at 8p.m.

The first ever Anguilla Golf Classic, benefiting the Health Authority of Anguilla (HAA), which was launched on March 28, 2007, has confirmed a new sponsor – GemStar Group Anguilla.

Civil servants drawn from various ministries and departments are attending the first of two week-long workshops on Pathways to Legendary Customer Care which began on Monday, May 7. The other workshop next week will continue until May 18.

The Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School has re-launched its newsletter, The Journal.

Caribbean Cable Communications (CCC) has donated US$1,500 towards the Anguilla Regatta which will take place from Friday May 11 to Sunday May 13.

The Service of Thanksgiving celebrating the life of Joseph Maxwell Webster at the Mount Fortune Seventh-day Adventist Church on May 6 had four features among the large crowd in attendance.

The Organising Committee of the Central Christian School First Annual Golf Charity Tournament was delighted to hand over a check for over US$57,000 to The Central Christian School. This amount represents the net proceeds of the first major fundraising golf event held on April 21st 2007 at the Temenos Golf Club.

Anguilla’s Minister of Tourism, Victor Banks, has had preliminary talks with representatives of Windward Islands Airways (WINAIR) in an effort to retain the services of the St. Maarten-based airline.

In their now weekly press briefings Deputy Commissioner of Police, Illidge Richardson, and Superintendent, Rudolph Proctor, reported on Wednesday, May 2nd, on various criminal matters which have spread alarm in the Anguillian community.

The Anguilla Amateur Athletic Association was presented with two donations from the National Bank of Anguilla and Social Security. The presentations were made on Wednesday, May 2, to President of the athletic body, Kenn Banks, and young sprinter, Jonicia Richardson, but the cheque she received also goes to the Association.

Shimei Tabernacle of Seventh-day Adventists at Long Bay was the venue of a very large funeral on Sunday, April 29, at which persons from throughout Anguilla and various places outside the island paid their last respects to Beryl St. Clare Hodge-Fleming.

An Anguillian family is benefiting from the Heal a child Programme, run by the International Hospital for Children in Richmond, Virginia.

On April 18, a group of delegates representing Anguilla and the Anguilla Tennis Academy left for Nashville, Tennessee, to play in the Music City Tennis Invitational. The tournament was held on April 20-21 at the Vanderbilt University Tennis Complex that consists of six pristine indoor courts and nine top quality outdoor courts. The MCTI is a charity tennis tournament in which all the proceeds went to the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. This was the 34th time the tournament has taken place and consequently the second time that delegates from the Anguilla Tennis Academy have gone. This year, ATA Director Jason Allen decided to take the four top junior females in the ATA’s programs. Katie Hawkins, Olivia Geyer, Yasminn Ebner and Teresa Brooks were chosen, and they represented Anguilla well.

In one of the most absorbing human interest stories in Anguilla in recent times, Aubrey A. Gumbs and his wife, Gladys, sold their comfortable and spacious residence in The Valley to serve as a home for the elderly including themselves.

Heads of Department and Middle Managers serving with the Health Authority of Anguilla have benefited from a training course aimed at making them more efficient on the job.

Unlike some of the other islands, where there are Labour Parties and active labour unions, which hold parades and other related activities, Anguilla held its usual annual fun day at the Ronald Webster Park on Tuesday, May 1, for public and private sector workers.

The Annual General Meeting of the Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association (AHTA) was held at Frangipani Beach Resort on April 26. It was attended by a good cross section of the 148 members and special invited guests Terry Alloway, Head of the Governor’s Office and Superintendent Proctor from the Royal Anguilla Police Force.

St Regis Temenos Villas recently completed a service culture training program designed to develop the customer service skills of the staff. The training focused on the value of the associate to a corporation and the responsibility of the associate to deliver exceptional customer service.

A new chapter was written in the history of the calypso art form in Anguilla when a number of calypsonians met on Thursday 26th April to formally establish the Anguilla Calypsonians Association.