Local News

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.

Anguillian resident and member of Sunshine Theatre Productions, Ginette Benjamin has recently completed a four week-course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Summer School in London. Disciplines covered in the course included Voice, Speech, Action, Movement, Stage and unarmed combat, Sonnets, Period dance, Rehearsal and Alexander – a technique that employs posture and breathing to command greater voice control.

Five young and dynamic young persons recently returned from the Commonwealth Youth Exchange held in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. They were Kerith Kentish (Delegation Head) Leah Hughes (Assistant Head of Delegation), Josef Hughes-Caines, Eduardo Samuels and Dennica Lake. The exchange which was held from August 10 -21 was from all indications, an enjoyable and learning experience.

The Digicel Rising Stars programme is a great opportunity for all singers in Anguilla to become known throughout the Caribbean. This is the first time that the programme has been brought to Anguilla and all singers are invited to the Teachers’ Resource Centre on Sunday September 3 at 9.00 a.m. to compete in the first round. Soloists or singing groups up to five in number are being encouraged to come and sing without any back up music except what they provide themselves. All types of music are being encouraged, including reggae, hip hop, calypso, country and western, blues, gospel and more.

A more organised and official role has been determined for media houses in Anguilla in the delivery of the island’s disaster management activities. The plans also take into account the interest of the international press in any given emergency situation which may occur and how the dissemination of information can be carried out in a coordinated and general manner in both cases. The aim is to have the media as key partners in a controlled communication system to ensure that the correct information gets out.

The waters in and outside Road Bay, Anguilla, are frequented by yachts sailing from neighbouring St. Martin/St. Maarten and this is even more pronounced at times of cruises or at the annual yacht regatta. One of the facilities lacking at the port was a radio to provide information on pending arrivals, departures and other necessary contact services.

When the schools in Anguilla reopen in September, students in the lower grades of the eight primary schools will have a quantity of learning material available to them – thanks to the National Bank of Anguilla.

Former Deputy Governor in Anguilla, Mark Capes, left Anguilla on Thursday this week after what he described as a superb four-year appointment.

The Honourable Victor F. Banks and a delegation left Anguilla on Monday August 28th for Miami. They spent a significant part of their time with the Honourable Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming who is recovering from a kidney transplant operation.

The long-running ownership legal battle for Cap Juluca, Anguilla’s premier resort, between Charles Hickcox and Dion Freidland, has taken a new twist. The Government, which has been sitting on the fence as the wrangling continued about the luxury property, built on Crown Lands, and as its lapses into disrepair, has thrown its support behind an opposition motion calling for its acquisition.

There is still a good deal of public interest in the constitutional and electoral reform process, even as the seventh draft report is being taken around the island for discussion.

Police in Anguilla chased a 47-year-old man (ES) of Rey Hill, on Tuesday evening, August 22, in the area of Wallblake Road and Rey Hill, when he drove off at high speed. The lawmen, from the Drugs & Firearms Task Force, were on patrol when their attention was drawn to the vehicle as it sped off.

The contestants for the Miss Anguilla Pageant, a main activity of the recently-held Summer Festival, were presented with cellular phones by Cable and Wireless.

Celina Fleming has won an award for winning the “Text your Queen” contest sponsored by Cable and Wireless recently.

The 2006 Anguilla Tennis Academy Summer Tennis Camp ended on July 28 with a total of 140 participants with 14 national and international coaches. The final week of the camp was held at the tennis courts at Malliouhana Hotel, Temenos Villas, and Carimar Beach Club.