The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance - John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
10 DAYS OF FUN IN ANGUILLA
Published: 01.08.2008 12:06

Miss Anguilla 2008 Contestants in Costume segment
It will be ten days of frolic and merriment in Anguilla following the grand opening ceremony and fireworks display of the 2008 Summer Festival at the Landsome Bowl Cultural Centre in the Valley township on Thursday, July 31.

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Accident Stresses Need For Road Disaster Preparedness
Published: 01.08.2008 11:58
Damaged vehicle being removed by crane
For several hours the flow of traffic was severely hampered on Friday afternoon, July 25, causing much congestion at the western end of the island. It resulted when a concrete truck carrying a load of a ready-mixed concrete, to one of the tourism projects, overturned in the Lower South Hill area after colliding with a utility pole.

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THE ANGUILLIAN IS GOING ONLINE!
Published: 04.07.2008 15:20
The Anguillian is working to provide subscribers with an online version of the weekly newspaper. For a reasonable subscription fee, the entire paper in color will be available each week for download using adobe Acrobat.
We are providing a download in this article as a trial version. Please give it a try and send your comments on to The Anguillian.
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"NO DEAL," SAYS HUGHES CM: "The Man Deserves It"
Published: 04.07.2008 10:28
Mr. Hughes accepts keys from CM Fleming
Senior Opposition Member in the Anguilla House of Assembly, Hubert Hughes, proudly accepted the keys to a top-of-the-line US$46,000 V8 Sequoia Jeep, from Chief Minister, Osbourne Fleming, on Monday afternoon, June 23. Just minutes earlier at a press briefing at Mr. Fleming’s office, Mr. Hughes, responding to public criticism, issued a statement denouncing suggestions that the vehicle was a deal in which he was “bought and silenced by the Government.”

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New Birthing Facilty At Hospital
Published: 04.07.2008 10:26
The C-Section Room
The womenfolk in Anguilla now have a new facility for giving birth at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Long in coming over the years, it is an addition to the maternity wing providing, in one area, bedding space and equipment to enable deliveries by C-section and, in another part of the building, two well-equipped maternity suites for normal deliveries.

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Celebration Of Life: TEACHER ART EGEL Wife: "I Cried & Laughed As I Carried 'Him' On My Arm"
Published: 04.07.2008 10:13
The late Teacher Art
Red heart-shaped balloons popped in the hot afternoon sun on Friday, June 20, in the packed courtyard at the Alwyn Allison Primary School at West End, where Government officials, educators, students and others gathered to celebrate the life of Teacher Art Egel, the beloved Principal.

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VISITORS MARVEL AT TEMENOS ANGUILLA
Published: 30.06.2008 13:19
Some of the estate residences virtually completed
Several hundred Anguillians and others on the island took the opportunity of the second open house function at the Flag Temenos Anguilla development to spend most of the holiday marking the Official Birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Second on Monday, June 16.
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Queen's Birthday Celebrated At Government House
Published: 30.06.2008 13:07
Flag Ceremony at Government House
Invited guests from various parts of Anguilla, including a number of them honoured over the years for their service to the island, were in attendance at the celebration held at on the grounds of Government House on Monday, June 16, to mark the Official Birthday of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth The Second.

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BACK TO WELL WATER
Published: 30.06.2008 11:23
L-R: Kenn Banks, Larry Franklin, Daniel Cummings and Vanroy Hodge
After having an island-wide system of desalinated water from the sea at Crocus Bay for a number of years, Anguilla is to commission a series of boreholes in the well field in the Valley Bottom area where the streams are plentiful and have virtually being going to waste.

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NEW EDUCATION COMPLEX COMING
Published: 30.06.2008 11:20
The Education Department in The Valley
The building constructed in 1953 to serve as the Official Residence of the Principal of the then Valley Secondary School, later as the Department of Lands and Surveys and eventually as the Education Department until recently, is being dismantled.

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ANGUILLA DAY 2008 18 Get Awards
Published: 30.06.2008 09:43
CM Fleming with Police Commissioner
Anguillians turned out in large numbers on Friday, Anguilla Day, May 30, at the Ronald Webster for an Official Parade to celebrate the 41st Anniversary of their 1967 Revolution which eventually led to the formal separation of the island from St. Kitts-Nevis.

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DETERRENT AGAINST GUNS Fines Now Up to $200,000
Published: 06.06.2008 11:56
The Government side of the House with CM (standing)
The Anguilla House of Assembly has amended Section 50 (a) of the Firearms Act which now provides a penalty of $200,000 or 5 years imprisonment for persons found in possession of such weapons and ammunition on the island.

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Constitutional Meeting: ORDERS IN COUNCIL...Main Talking Point
Published: 06.06.2008 11:47
L-R: Dame Bernice Lake QC, Lawyer Lolita R’dson and CM Fleming
For some reason, a press release from the Chief Minister’s Office stated that this week Monday’s second round of discussions in the current series of meet-the-people constitutional meetings at the Ronald Webster Park would focus on a string of matters. These were said to include the possible re-organisation of electoral boundaries, increasing the number of Government and Elected Members, the Public Service Commission and the Teachers Service Commission.
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Deputy Governor's Meeting: PUBLIC SERVICE MAIN TALKING POINT CM Calls For Support For Government
Published: 02.06.2008 11:53
L-R: Hon. Stanley Reid, Rev. Weekes, Governor George, CM Fleming and Deputy Governor Mark Capes (Bermuda)
Deputy Governors from the five Caribbean British Overseas Territories and Bermuda began a three-day meeting in Anguilla on Wednesday, May 21, at Paradise Cove Resort, with the main discussion matter being the Public Service in the respective islands.
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SDA Church Awards Nurses, Sanitary Personnel
Published: 02.06.2008 11:48
Pastors Philip and Hastings (centre) and other platform personnel
The three congregations of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Anguilla held a combined Appreciation Day Service at the Mount Fortune Church at East End on May 17, at which Nurses, Nursing Aids, Sanitation Workers and Solid Waste Companies were honoured for their contribution to the island’s health and environment services.
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