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Anguillian Country Manager of FirstCaribbean Bank International, Marie Rey, has hailed the bank’s initiative of honouring residents across the region who by their work and example are being celebrated as “Unsung Heroes,” but who may not otherwise have been recognised.

Anguillian Lawyer, Chanelle Petty-Barrett, has returned to the Public Service and has taken up a new appointment as Legal Draftsperson/Crown Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers. She assumed her duties on Wednesday this week, June 14, in an area which until recently did not attract Anguillians.

Member of the Royal Anguilla Police Force, Constable Rayfield Roberts, who was seriously injured on April 9, 2006, when his fellowman Gerald Bardouille died in a collision, has returned to the island after some two months of treatment.

A number of leading persons in the public and private sectors sat in rapt attention and with much interest as they listened to the Fifth Annual Walter G. Hodge Memorial Lecture at the House of Chandeliers on Tuesday evening, June 6. The presenter was Justice Don Mitchell, CBE, QC, Chairman of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission.

Sirens on the vehicles of the Anguilla Police Force and Fire Services screamed a final salute to Governor Alan Huckle on Friday, June 2. He was at the time inside the small Trans Anguilla aircraft as it taxied down the runway for his flight to St. Maarten en-route to Miami.

Anguilla now has its own Deputy Governor in the person of Stanley Everton Reid, 37, son of former Minister of Social Services and now Senior Adviser in the Chief Minister’s Office, Eric Reid, and Mrs Reid of North Side.

The Royal Anguilla Police Force now has a state-of the-art vehicle to be used at crime scenes on the island. It was presented on Wednesday, May 31 by Governor Alan Huckle, in the run-up to his departure from the island.

A new Secondary Level Programme, created by the Caribbean Examinations Council, will give Anguillian students and others in the region an opportunity to obtain a National Certificate rather than leaving school with nothing in their hands after some five years of secondary education. It means that many of them will have a document of their schooling and ability to present in the job market if they have not gone on to earn the formal CXC Certificate, which is now being offered.

The Caribbean Commercial Bank’s team has recaptured the coveted trophy from the National Bank in the Battle of the Banks Yacht Race held here on May 13 as part of the Anguilla Regatta.

Two leading women in the Anguillian community have been presented with awards from Queen Elizabeth The Second, at Government House in Anguilla, by His Excellency Governor Alan Huckle.

The National Bank of Anguilla has donated US$5,200.00 to the Anguilla Football Association to sponsor four of the players who will be travelling to Germany on May 28 to witness the World Cup matches.

The National Bank of Anguilla and the Caribbean Commercial Bank which donated US$75,000 and US$85,000 to the Anguilla Tennis Academy to construct two courts last year, have gone a big step further. They have now agreed to provide a loan of US$1,000,000 each to the academy to help complete the project.

Government workers in Anguilla will be paid a ten percent increase on their salaries as from July 1, the second pay hike since last year.

Eighteen primary and secondary teachers in Anguilla have been awarded certificates by the School of Education at the University of the West Indies having completed their programme of studies. The courses were taught by a number of resource persons on the island, thus allowing the teachers to teach their own classes and afterwards regularly attend their training courses.

Top law enforcement officers from the police, customs, immigration and prison services of the United Kingdom Caribbean Overseas Territories and Bermuda held their annual meeting in Anguilla from Tuesday to Thursday this week, against the backdrop of escalating crime in the region. The conference had as its theme: “Ensuring capacity, capability and sustainability in the delivery of effective law enforcement services.”

The Adult Education Continuing Programme is going well in Anguilla with a number of persons succeeding in the training and getting prepared for employment in the various skilled jobs coming on stream.

The Anguilla House of Assembly is to meet on Monday, May 8 at 10.00 a.m. at the Atlin Harrigan OBE Parliamentary Building.

The National Bank of Anguilla has announced what it calls a Career Enhancer Loan Combo aimed especially at Forms 5 and 6 students desirous of furthering their academic studies abroad.

It seems only a very short time ago that Tara Kemmone Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pagette Carter of East End, was a bright student at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School. Now after a period of intensive academic study, she is a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme, Court Anguilla Circuit, a fine role model for Anguillian young people.

The members of the UK contingent serving with the Task Force set up in the Royal Anguilla Police Force to combat illegal firearms and drugs, have been welcomed to the island at a meeting at the Governor’s Office, followed by a press briefing in the Executive Council’s Chambers.