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Andrew Cambran, one of three prisoners who escaped from Her Majesty’s Prison in Anguilla on Thursday, August 3, 2006, has been brought back to the island and returned to jail.

One year and nine months after the completion of Wallblake Airport Expansion Project, the Financing Agreement, which paves the way for European Union assistance to Anguilla’s Medium Term Air Transport Sector Plan, covering the period 2004 to 2008, was officially signed by the Territorial Authorizing Officer for Anguilla and Permanent Secretary, FEDICT Dr Aidan Harrigan.

The Road Primary School has been given a facelift with private sector assistance. The work substantially involved painting of the school and cleaning of the playground.

Cap Juluca’s 2005/2006 staff appreciation closeout activities peaked on Thursday, August 31st with a grand End of Season Gala and the staging of the Ms. Juluca Pageant. At the end of a packed programme in which seven contestants representing different departments vied for the coveted title, Cleone Romney, Miss Guest Services took home the crown of Ms. Juluca 2006. Shelder Lewis (PIMMS Service) was adjudged First Runner Up, and Jennifer Edwards from Kemia Kitchen was voted Second Runner Up.

Malliouhana Hotel and Spa closed on August 31, following the end of a successful and busy 2005/2006 tourism season.

The Fifth AGM of the Anguilla Animal Rescue Foundation was held on Wednesday August 30th at Roy’s Bayside.

The Health Authority of Anguilla (HAA) has undertaken to put measures in place to control risks in all areas of the health services to ensure the safety of patients and workers. A day and a half training workshop was held towards that end, at the Soroptimist Day Care Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, for senior managers and other staff in the various health care departments.

One of Anguilla’s most outspoken and passionate Clerics, the Reverend Dr. H. Clifton Niles, has set out four of the principles which have guided his ministry over the years and which he intends to carry forward in his homeland.

The community-spirited Soroptimist Club of Anguilla has made another contribution to its credit and for the assistance of the public. This time it is a donation of five attractive benches which are placed in the viewing area at Wallblake Airport where persons can sit while waiting to greet incoming passengers or wave goodbye to them.

“This is about you,” General Manager of Carimar Beach Club, Alfred Thompson, told staff members. He was at the time speaking at a luncheon for them in appreciation of their service to the property and its guests during the just-ended tourist season which lasted ten months.

The Red Dragon Disco was crowded with employees from CuisinArt Resort & Spa for some seven hours on Tuesday evening, September 5, the venue of a mass staff party which closed off the tourist season for the hotel.

Secondary and primary school teachers in Anguilla resumed their classroom work on Monday, September 4, stimulated by their own efforts and encouraged by the support of the Ministry of Education and the advice of one of the island’s top religious leaders, Bishop Errol Brooks of the Anglican Church.

On Sunday, September 3rd, Digicel’s Rising Stars Audition made its debut at the Teachers’ Resource Center for Anguilla’s first ever staging and production of Digicel’s Rising Stars.

The Anguilla Electricity Company (ANGLEC) has moved to address complaints by consumers that they are paying too much for their power supply. The company has come up with a just-published booklet entitled “An Electricity Guide for Anguilla” aimed at helping persons, through various invaluable tips, to conserve energy and thus save money.

A new three-phase Community Policing initiative has been taken in Anguilla to identify property of home-owners or residents stolen either for the use of the robbers themselves or for sale on the black market.

Annette Richardson, an Anguillian national, residing in New York, looked at her son and said with a feeling of relief and joy: “It is a miracle he is a live.”

A new reading programme for schools is being introduced at the Alwyn Allison Primary School at West End which has purchased the material and at the Island Harbour Primary School, where the suppliers are running a pilot project.

Caribbean Juris Chambers has donated five thousand East Caribbean dollars to JeLeCour Productions, organisers of the Calypso Competition, a prime event of the recently-ended Anguilla Summer Festival.

The Executive Council is now to study the final draft report of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission, thus beginning a new phase of discussions aimed at eventually arriving at a new Constitution for Anguilla.

A staff member of FirstCaribbean Bank, Anguilla, has been rewarded for her contribution to the development of the local financial institution.