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The Health Authority in Anguilla has embarked on a programme to train nurses and community health aides to assist in assessing and caring persons with diabetic feet. Medical Air Services Association (MASA) in Anguilla has been the largest contributor in funding the purchase of the necessary equipment. The other sponsors are the Diabetes Association and the Ministry of Social Development.

With the new tourist season approaching, the Anguilla Community College has initiated a Food & Beverage Leadership Course aimed at Restaurant Managers, Food & Beverage Supervisors and Department Heads.

The consultants from Halcrow/CHL, of the United Kingdom, engaged by the Anguilla Government to undertake a Sustainable Tourism Master Plan for the island, with financing from the Caribbean Development Bank, have formally presented their recommendations.

Following the presentation of the recommendations contained in the Sustainable Tourism Master Plan, representatives of a number of funding agencies met in Anguilla to hear how they may be able to assist in providing needed finance for the further development of the industry.

Members of the Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association (AHTA) have rejected outright a proposed 10% tax on restaurants and car rentals with effect from January 2012.

The British Minister for the Overseas Territories, Henry Bellingham MP, has written Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Hubert Hughes, expressing concern over the state of Anguilla’s public finances.

After some ten years of building, using personal and other financing, Anguillian businessman, Managing Director of Fair Play Group of Companies, Quincy Gumbs, has signed a 65 million US dollar loan agreement which is expected to complete phase one of his dream project in the near future. That phase includes 80 rooms, an elaborate conference/conventioncentre facility and a spa. The money will also finance other areas for the expansion of the project.

Lawyers and Judicial Officials in Anguilla have been admonished to pay special attention to truth in the practice of their professions and in upholding the principles of law.

This Friday, September 16, 2011, the late prominent Anguillian Lawyer, and distinguished Caribbean legal scholar, Dame Dr. Bernice Lake, DGCN, Q.C., B.A. Hons., LLB (Lond.) Hon. LLD (UWI), will be laid to rest in Antigua. The official funeral service, in which the Government of Antigua and Barbuda will be involved, will be held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church at Parham, beginning at 1.30 p.m. The Rt. Rev. Errol Brooks, Bishop of the Diocese of the Northeastern Caribbean and Aruba, will officiate at the funeral.

No draft piece of legislation has undergone so much public scrutiny and debate in recent times in Anguilla than the Education Bill. Its latest discussion was at the Teachers’ Resource Centre on Monday night, September 5.

Many persons in Anguilla have been registered in a pilot project whereby they will be receiving special monitoring by health personnel in the fight against diabetes, one of a number of chronic non-communicable diseases which include cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke and cancer.

RENDEVOUS BAY, Anguilla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Self-made businessman, Leandro P. Rizzuto, owner of CuisinArt Resort & Spa has signed an agreement with the Bank and the Receiver for the purchase of Temenos, a luxury development project composed of beachfront estate homes, luxury villas, an approximate $35 million Greg Norman designed 18-hole golf course and a hotel.

The Ministry of Education is pleased with the performance of students who sat examinations for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC). This year 78% of the subject entries achieved grades I to III, and 52% ofthe students passed four or more subjects. There was improved performance in approximately half of the subject areas examined. Additionally, in more than two thirds of the subjects examined, more than 75% of the students achieved passing grades. This is indeed commendable.

A Goods and Services Tax (GST) or VAT (Value Added Tax) has been recommended for Anguilla as a Working Group, set up by the Ministry of Finance, continues to examine the need for tax reform.

There has been a new development in the negotiations which have been going on between the owners and potential purchasers of Anguilla’s first luxury tourism property, Malliouhana Hotel and Spa.

A new approach to the quality of teaching and learning in the school system,aimed at achieving better positive behaviour, was made this week, in two of the six primary schools in Anguilla, as a pilot project.

A campus ribbon-cutting ceremony and a gala cocktail reception and dinner at Viceroy Hotel were the combined grand events which marked the official opening of the Saint James School of Medicine in Anguilla last weekend, August 12 and 13. The occasions came a year-and-a-half into the operations of the institution which placed the introduction of its teaching programmes, enrollment, accreditation, and even its first graduation of students, well ahead of its formal opening.

Two tertiary educational institutions in Anguilla are coming together in a linkage that will benefit each other and, in the final analysis, the people of the island. They are the Anguilla Community College, headed by Professor Delroy Louden, and St. James School of Medicine, whose President and CEO is Dr. KallolGuha.

At a press conference on Friday, August 12, Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Hubert Hughes, was asked to comment on a letter from the Anguilla Civil Service Association (ACSA) requesting the Government to restore salaries to the pre-cut position, now that a substantial windfall was being realised from the Viceroy public auction sale. (See ACSA’s letter inside.)

The findings of the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Anguilla, headed by Hunter Monroe, Senior Economist in the Western Hemisphere Department, have given the island’s Government much needed information for consideration and action.