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More and more of Anguillas tourism businesses are staying open for the whole year. Here are the properties that remain open for business - followed by the closing and reopending dates for those that are just taking a breather....
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Executive Director Trudy Nixon
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Welcome to the Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association (AHTA) The AHTA is is Anguilla’s oldest and largest Membership Association and is a PRIVATE SECTOR organisation wholly funded by membership subscriptions and fundraising events. It’s motto is ‘strengthening Anguilla’s tourism through association' and it currently has over 170 active members - including all the major hotels, villa management companies, restaurants and tourism related services in Anguilla. It's primary purpose is to assist in the professional development of its members through marketing support, training, information provision and advocacy.
To learn more about the AHTA and the work we do please feel free to email one of our staff, or call on 1 264 497 2944. Executive Director: Trudy Nixon
ahta@anguillanet.com . Membership and Events Manager: Gilda Gumbs Samuels
ahtaadmin@anguillanet.com .
UPCOMING: September and October are traditionally quieter months in Anguilla - but we still have plenty of establishments open - to check out who is open for business or taking a breather
LINK HERE
November 29th - 6th December - Tourism Week featuring the Annual Tourism Awards and Gala.
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Twenty persons in Anguilla are now better equipped to practice First Aid and perform trainer training sessions following two concurrent workshops facilitated by British Red Cross official, Brian Harrison, who originally hails from Scotland. The participants were presented with certificates at a ceremony held at the Anguilla Cross Centre in The Valley on Monday this week.
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After much inquiry by the general public, the Anguilla Tennis Academy will begin its adult programmes starting next week on Monday, September 15. Although the ATA specializes in the teaching of children, it recognizes that in order for it to be truly a community effort, the adults and parents must also take part.
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A large number of young men from the Valley, one of the largest populated areas of Anguilla, have come together in a show of unity and peace to share in an Annual Football Tournament in memory of Orlando Johnson of North Side, who was a noted sportsman.
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The Anguilla Beautification Club, affectionately known as ‘ABC ‘across the island, began its life in 1992, the brainchild of a group of keen gardeners headed by Mrs. Lidia Shave, wife of the Governor of the time and including the late Lidia Gumbs, Peter Billington, Jeremy Brown, Avon Carty, Brenda Carty, Everette Clarke, the late Myrtle Connor, the late Rudolph Gumbs, Kenneth Harrigan, Kerry Knotts, Iris Lewis, Leslie Richardson, Muriel Schleifer, Debra Thomas and Eudoxie Wallace. They formed the ABC with the specific aim, still current today, to enhance the island by planting trees and shrubs. Their work is evident all over Anguilla.
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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 30th 2008. Sunset Homes, a Property Development firm in Anguilla, sponsored its sixth 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.
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One of the most innovative and necessary educational initiatives in Anguilla has seen 10 full years of success through the many children who have benefitted. Reading Recovery celebrates ten years in operation this year and in order to appreciate how monumental this programme is, a large and glorious celebration was held this past Monday, September 8. Dignitaries, educators and invitees gathered at the Teacher’s Resource Centre Auditorium to join together in jubilance in order to reflect on the huge impact Reading Recovery has had in Anguilla. The entire celebratory programme shined with facts, statistics and children who all proved that this programme shows results and gives children the tools necessary to make it in the school system.
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As readers will see in this week’s edition of The Anguillian, Reading Recovery celebrates ten years of success in Anguilla. When the celebratory event was announced, I promptly let Nat Hodge know that I would be happy to cover it. From the beginning of the ceremony until the end, the crowd and I were all awe-struck from the proceedings. Reading Recovery in Anguilla is obviously a strong programme that is working and paying dividends to many children who desperately need the extra attention. To say it bluntly, and without hesitation, teachers are the best people on the planet! They make the world go around. Behind every success, every person, every professional, there was a teacher who gave him or her the confidence and tools to make it. Moreover, can you actually imagine how it would feel in today’s world not knowing how to read? It would be tough to make it.
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A patriotic organisation, the St. Kitts-Nevis Association, has been formed in Anguilla, aimed at bringing greater solidarity among nationals and associates residing and working on the island.
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The Health Authority of Anguilla has announced that the Anguilla Emergency Medical Service (AEMS) at the Princes Alexandra Hospital now has a trained and certified Paramedic in the person of Steve McDowall, Senior Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).
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Residents in the western area of Blowing Point are still talking about the scare they had when a tornado ripped through the locality, with an explosive sound, and bounced in the open and bush areas some five times.
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September is being observed as Family Month by the Seventh-day Adventist Church which has embarked on a series of activities for the occasion.
A prime activity was a Men’s Convention, held at the Campus B Auditorium of the ALHCSon Saturday, September 6, under the theme: Men are Blessed. The sessions dealt with Man and his spirituality, Man passing on values to this troubled world, Man and his relationship with his daughter and the Man as a leader not as a boss.
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The following is an article from School Health Services.
School Health Services recognizes the seriousness of the growing pandemic of childhood obesity and the adverse impact this has on children’s health on into adulthood. In addition, the general trend toward unhealthy lifestyles is increasing at an alarming rate. Eating Healthy: Breakfast is a three part series emphasizing the importance of eating a healthy breakfast. Through this series of articles, School Health Services aims to reinforce healthy eating habits in children and adults alike.
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Scabies also referred to as the “seven-year itch” is a contagious disease that has been around for many years, but there has been a worldwide resurgence of this infection over the last 30 years.
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An important meeting took place in Trinidad and Tobago this week. It was a gathering, in Port of Spain, of Permanent Secretaries and high level officials from the Caribbean and Chile to analyse social protection strategies in the Caribbean. The meeting was convened to consider the results of “Network-Based Capacity Building on Social Protection Strategies in the Caribbean” to see how lessons learned from the Chilean Puente Programme could be transferred to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia. While Anguilla may not have the comprehensive institutional arrangements for social development that can be found in Jamaica and T & T, the fact of St. Lucia’s involvement is important as I believe that Chile Puente can be brought home to the member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). In his budget address on April 21, 2008, the Honourable Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Stephenson King, was optimistic that St. Lucia’s adaptation of the programme would improve the delivery of social protection services to indigent families in St. Lucia. The political commitment was endorsed in the budget. Anguilla may not have been able to benefit directly from the support given by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Government of Chile, and I am not sure if Anguilla found a way to be represented. However, the Caribbean social development scenario has so many factors in common that we too can benefit from the planned extension of the programme to other Caribbean nations. The wider goal of the programme is to bridge the cultural gap between the Caribbean and South America, in particular Chile, and once again, whether you like it or not, Rastafari leads the way.
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Anguilla’s Particular and Peculiar Circumstances
Anguilla takes the view that the exercise of her right to the devolution of full internal self government must be viewed not only by reference to resolution 1541 (xv), but by reference to the relevant fundamental principles of the UN Charter and other international covenants and protocols.
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Chief Minister, the Hon. Osbourne Fleming, says he is delighted over the Water Corporation which the Government is establishing following the recent passage of the enabling legislation by the Anguilla House of Assembly.
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Anguilla’s Chief Minister, the Hon. Osbourne Fleming, says the Government has been informed by a representative of the Flag/Temenos project that the developers are actively engaged in discussions with financial institutions to access some two hundred million dollars which they estimate will complete the development.
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A second Anguillian Forensic Scientist has been recruited to the Royal Anguilla Police Force, thus contributing to its development in crime detection and prosecution.
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