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Methodists in Anguilla and the general community on the island will be saying goodbye to Reverend Lindsay Richardson and family on Sunday evening, August 20, at a farewell service at Bethel Methodist Church, South Hill.

A number of Anguillian children have attended the 16th HIV/AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, from August 13-18. It was sponsored by the International Aids Society which invited young people from all over the world.

Digicel showed its true colors on J’ouvert morning with a red and white Digicel branded truck that led the jam to Sandy Ground.

The Publisher/Editor of The Anguillian writes to advise all of our online readers that due to the intervening holidays, The Anguillian will not be published on Friday, August 11.

As a result, our online service will not be available on that date.
Thanks for your continuing support and interest.

A. Nat Hodge MBE,
Publisher/Editor

Anguilla, which is striving to develop the offshore financial business as a second industry, is playing it safe by ensuring that all necessary steps are taken to keep the island’s reputation crime-free and above reproach. A number of specially-designed laws, some probably thought to be quite rigid, have already been put into place and there are other ongoing activities related to due diligence and compliance.

There is reason for considerable pride that another Anguillian has assumed the post of Senior Dental Surgeon on the island. He is Dr. Lindel Brooks, DDS, who has succeeded Dr. Collen Mussington, the first national and female dentist to hold the appointment. Dr. Brooks, who is already on the job, has expressed thanks to her for her kindness and cooperation in assisting him in taking charge of the Dental Unit. Dr. Mussington, daughter of Stanley and Loma Mussington, will now be furthering her studies.

Cobra II, the Department and Fisheries and Marine Resources boat, was officially re-commissioned at Road Bay after being out of service for almost a year.

Newly-appointed Governor, His Excellency Andrew George, says “Anguilla is still a very safe place to live and to visit, but there is hard work to be done to keep it that way.”

After almost 29 years of outstanding work in the echelons of the Anguilla Public Service, Fabian Marcel Fahie has gone into retirement. Now that he retired at the age of 55, on Monday, July 31, he has left a legacy of commitment, hard work, vision, motivation and leadership which commentators and admirers say will be difficult to match.

A two-day workshop for owners of small indigenous tourism properties grouped together as “the Charming Escapes Collection,” has been praised by Special Adviser in the Ministry of Tourism, Donna Banks.

Minister of Social Development, Evans Rogers, said on July 24, that the Anguilla Government was seeking to develop a National Plan to improve care and protection of children with particular focus on child abuse. He was at the time addressing a one-day workshop sponsored by the Anguilla Government in collaboration with the Child Protection Programme of the National Children’s Home in the United Kingdom, the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

Anguilla’s tourism representatives around the world held their annual meeting on the island this week to put forward their projections for 2007 and to evaluate their activities for the remainder of this year.

This year, the Children’s Parade, part of the Summer Festival activities, will have as its theme Just Say No. It is a call for persons in Anguilla to refrain from certain behavioural patterns which are not in the best interest of the island or their own wellbeing.

Ms. Arjul Wilson has been selected to succeed Mr. Stanley Reid as Permanent Secretary, Public Administration. Ms. Wilson took up her appointment on Monday July 24. She is the second woman in Anguilla’s history to be appointed to the post of Permanent Secretary.

A week-long workshop under the auspices of the Anguilla Vibes Foundation (formerly Anguilla Vibes.com) was conducted on Anguilla this week. The workshop was a combined partnership between Anguilla Vibes Foundation and The Creative Youth Theater Foundation of Middleburg, Virginia.

University of the West Indies consultant at Cave Hill, Barbados, Dr. Bevis Peters, has presented the master plan for the proposed National Community College to the Executive Council in Anguilla.

Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department and Beat Patrol of the Royal Anguilla Police Force have found and confiscated a number of grown cannabis plants at Long Ground.

It is three weeks since the newly-appointed Governor, His Excellency Andrew George, arrived on Anguilla to assume his appointment and it is early yet for him to settle in and get down to what he hopes will be his pleasant task of governing the island. But he is fully cognisant of the way forward and what his responsibilities are, as a tea-time interview with him, on Tuesday this week, clearly revealed.

Donkeys were once among the many animals in Anguilla and as part of traditional Caribbean peasant life they served as ‘beasts of burden’ providing varied forms of transport.