Education

Tyrone Webster-Reid, a young Anguillian student in St. Thomas, has been named a United States National Award Winner, having excelled in Mathematics and placed on the Honour roll.

The final round of a Health Authority-sponsored Quiz Competition was held on Monday, May 29.

The Alwyn Allison Primary School is the beneficiary of a new state-of-the-art computer system, thanks to the generosity of a long-time guest of Cap Juluca.
Mr. William Sagan, who has visited Anguilla with his family and has stayed at Cap Juluca many times over the past few years, requested that Cap Juluca arrange to purchase a fully-featured desktop computer on his behalf during his most recent visit in March.

SUNY Cobleskill college recently held its annual 2006 Awards Convocation at Bouck Hall Auditorium. Among those receiving awards and recognition were four Anguillian students.

Algernon and Cleone Boston of Hopscotch Enterprises, Ltd., the locally owed company that brought you Spongebob in Paradise, donated a much needed water dispenser and digital camera to the Island Harbour Primary School.

A number of students at Campus A of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School have submitted various food preparations for their practical work in the upcoming CXC exams.

The producers of the Cable and Wireless-sponsored Manhattan show at the Lansome Bowl Cultural Centre in Anguilla on December 3, 2005, have made donations to two schools as part of an agreement to give something back to the community.

Ninety-two students from the Comprehensive Learning Centre at North Hill graduated on Sunday, February 12, at a ceremony held at the Next Level upstairs the English Rose Restaurant in The Valley.

The Anguilla Development Board (ADB) through the Small Enterprise Development Unit (SEDU) has just ended a four-week course in Small Business Development Skills for the fifth formers at the ALHCS.

Four students at Campus A of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School were among others from various islands who participated in the Annual Caribbean Food and Nutrition Quiz Competition. The event was conducted here on November 9 and 10 by the Nutrition and Health Promotion Unit, using the teleconference facilities of the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre.

In West End there is a small but thriving outdoor private school doing a great deal of successful teaching of children and adults. So effective is the work there that students are attending from as far as Stoney Ground some eight miles away.

Students at Campus A at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School have launched a Graphics, Audio and Visual Association (GAVA) thus giving themselves an opportunity to explore an exciting and growing activity on the island.

Linford Richardson and Brenda Rogers are the proud parents of a daughter with high aspirations and abilities. Reigning Miss Anguilla, Twyla Richardson, has earned the distinction of being named to The National Dean’s List®, 2004- 2005, an honor bestowed on high achieving college students within the United States.

Ministry and Education Department officials thought a Virtues Workshop was so important that they postponed the re-opening of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School by a week to allow its teachers to attend the training sessions conducted by two visiting facilitators. Next time, a similar workshop will be held for teachers at the primary schools.

Football coaches and players at the Valley Primary School will be further able to develop the sport there as a result of some well-needed gifts from Tennis Academy Founder and President, Mitchelle Lake.

The Career Development Institute at North Hill, Anguilla, has awarded certificates to a number of students who attended and completed a Computer Crash Course, Information Technology Level 1 and Level 2 Computer courses.

Anguillian Shawne Bryan was recently elected President of the International Club at SUNY Cobleskill. He has been a club member for two years and will graduate in May with an AAS in Occupational Studies in Culinary Arts.

A peer helper programme developed by the Anguilla Family Planning Association, in conjunction with the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation, is going well with young people assisting others in various aspects of sexual reproductive health. The project, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency, has been undertaken in a number of regional islands.

As part of a wider program of community service and charitable work, Kamique Properties (Anguilla) Ltd. has donated a Computer Laboratory to the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School.

A former pupil at the Morris Vanterpool Primary School, now a student at Campus B at the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School, is the recipient of a scholarship from the Optimist Club of Anguilla.