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President of the Anglican Church Women Association, Joyce Richardson, has given some helpful advice to men not only about how to be good fathers, but how to eat and live healthily.

A one-week course in Basic Control and Restraint for ten participants from the Prison, Police, Customs and Immigration departments, opened at the Soroptimist Club’s conference room on Monday, June 19.

Come Sunday, July 2, Anguillian clothing designer, Charla Connor, will be presenting her second runway excursion which she calls Another Dash of Panache at the Anguilla Great House.

Cable & Wireless in Anguilla is the platinum sponsor of the John T. Memorial Bicycle Race, which will be held on Sunday, July 2. The event will commence at 10 a.m. in front of the company’s premises.

Young people in church, community, school and family life have been warned to stay away from the dangers of drugs (including alcohol), violence and illicit sex. The admonition has come from Seventh-day Adventist Minister Pastor Jerry Languedoc.

The Amalia has become the newest vessel to join the fleet of Anguillian ferryboats. Owned by Alin Connor, the catamaran arrived on the island over the past weekend from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, where it had been in service in the tourism industry.

Aside from the academic studies, the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School in Anguilla is offering pre-vocational training for students in such subject areas like expressive arts, music, creative arts, arts and craft, industrial arts, home economics and hotel trades. The aim is to prepare the students for further training in technical and vocational areas in line with their career goals. The Ministry of Education is now busily preparing for the next stage and that is the establishment of a National Community College.

Anguillian Country Manager of FirstCaribbean Bank International, Marie Rey, has hailed the bank’s initiative of honouring residents across the region who by their work and example are being celebrated as “Unsung Heroes,” but who may not otherwise have been recognised.

Anguillian Lawyer, Chanelle Petty-Barrett, has returned to the Public Service and has taken up a new appointment as Legal Draftsperson/Crown Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers. She assumed her duties on Wednesday this week, June 14, in an area which until recently did not attract Anguillians.

Under the auspices of the Rotary Club, Anguilla will be represented for the first time ever at the annual World Affairs Seminar in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The Seminar, which is scheduled to take place from June 17 – 23, 2006, is sponsored by the non-partisan, non-profit Wisconsin World Affairs Council in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and service organizations across the USA and Canada.
Anguilla’s representative will be 16 year-old Régine Niles, an Honor-Roll student and past-president of the Student Council of the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School.

Girls Brigade Week is now in progress in Anguilla, having commenced the observance of International Day of Prayer on Saturday, June 10, with an evening service at Ebenezer Methodist Church in The Valley.

Starburst Innovations (Anguilla) Limited, (Starburst), in a letter to the Anguilla Government from its solicitors, Astaphans Chambers, dated May 9th, 2006, presented a proposal for the acquisition, improvement and further development of Cap Juluca Resort on behalf of all Anguillians.

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 at 5.30 pm in a small but significant ceremony beside the historic, quaint and picturesque St Gerard’s Roman Catholic Church on the Wallblake House grounds, the most Reverend Donald Reece, Bishop of the Diocese of St John’s Basseterre and Father Ed Herberger of the Divine Word Missionary, resident priest officiated at the turning of the sod of the proposed new St Gerard’s Roman Catholic Church in Anguilla.

At a brief ceremony on Wednesday, morning, June 14, Cable and Wireless Anguilla presented a cheque for US$4,550 to the Department of Disaster Preparedness. The money is to fund the purchase of 5,000 distress whistles/ flashlights.

Holders of awards and other invited guests turned up at Government House on Monday, June 12 for the observance of the 80th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Second.

Member of the Royal Anguilla Police Force, Constable Rayfield Roberts, who was seriously injured on April 9, 2006, when his fellowman Gerald Bardouille died in a collision, has returned to the island after some two months of treatment.

The Women’s Commission of the Leeward Islands District of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas held its annual meeting in Anguilla at the House of Chandeliers during the period June 1-4. One reason for holding the function in Anguilla is that it was the homeland of the late Reverend Sister Vera Marjorie Richardson, an early pioneer of MCCA Women.

A number of leading persons in the public and private sectors sat in rapt attention and with much interest as they listened to the Fifth Annual Walter G. Hodge Memorial Lecture at the House of Chandeliers on Tuesday evening, June 6. The presenter was Justice Don Mitchell, CBE, QC, Chairman of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission.

A stone-cutting project, producing high quality tiles for the construction industry, owned by Anguillian businessman, Cleophas Gumbs of Little Dix, has come in for high praise from Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming and Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Industry, Victor Banks.

The Hon. Attorney General in Anguilla, Ronald Scipio, has been appointed a Queen’s Counsel as he prepares to relinquish his public service post and enter the private sector later in the year. The honour was bestowed on him when Governor Alan Huckle presented instruments to him on behalf of Queen Elizabeth the Second on Thursday, June 1, the day prior to his departure for the Falkland Islands.