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Governor Alan Huckle has come to the end of his tour of service to Anguilla and is off to a new posting in the Falkland Islands, accompanied by Mrs. Huckle.

In Anguilla is Jim Wetterer, a Professor at Atlantic University, who has been studying ants around the world in most of the Pacific and Atlantic islands and for the next couple of years he will be studying the creatures in the Caribbean area.

Anguilla’s reggae singer and musician, Bankie Banx, has fulfilled a dream which he conceived in partnership with Ijahnya Christian, relating to a positive youth development programme called the Anguilla Stingray Project. Under that programme, guitars have been secured for a number of youngsters who will be taught to play the string music as a means of occupying their time and developing their musical ability.

McLean Webster of Island Pub Grocery in Anguilla, in cooperation with Leeward Islands Helicopter Service based in St. Marrten, arranged a farewell flight tour of the island for Governor Alan Huckle on Anguilla Day.

Some 35 contractors and construction workers in Anguilla were awarded Certificates of Achievement after completing a one-week workshop in Management Techniques.

Governor Alan Huckle was presented with two gifts on Wednesday, May 31, two days before his departure from Anguilla.

The Anguilla Football Association has acknowledged the receipt of US$500 from the Social Security Board to assist with the travelling expenses of the senior players who are attending the World Cup Games in Germany.

A new Secondary Level Programme, created by the Caribbean Examinations Council, will give Anguillian students and others in the region an opportunity to obtain a National Certificate rather than leaving school with nothing in their hands after some five years of secondary education. It means that many of them will have a document of their schooling and ability to present in the job market if they have not gone on to earn the formal CXC Certificate, which is now being offered.

The Caribbean Commercial Bank’s team has recaptured the coveted trophy from the National Bank in the Battle of the Banks Yacht Race held here on May 13 as part of the Anguilla Regatta.

Two leading women in the Anguillian community have been presented with awards from Queen Elizabeth The Second, at Government House in Anguilla, by His Excellency Governor Alan Huckle.

The National Bank of Anguilla has donated US$5,200.00 to the Anguilla Football Association to sponsor four of the players who will be travelling to Germany on May 28 to witness the World Cup matches.

Opposition Member in the House of Assembly, Hubert Hughes, says it is time to have far-reaching amendments to the Anguilla Belonger Commission Act to provide more rights for the people of the island.

Afew years ago, the Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association, backed by the Tourist Board, came up with a suggestion that all AHTA members should volunteer to collect a dollar a day from visitors to contribute to the marketing of Anguilla as a tourist destination and the development of the industry. That undertaking was not as successful as planned and now Government has legislated to make the levy mandatory.

Cable and Wireless, which has undertaken to donate US$100,000 to the Anguilla Tennis Academy over a five-year period, has carried its generosity a step further. On Tuesday, May 16, the telecommunications company launched its 2006-2007 bulky Services Directory featuring on the cover a panoramic scene of the academy’s planned Grand Slam Stadium which the company is financing. The publication also carries a lead article entitled “The Power of A Dream” telling about the conception and benefits of the project.

If Dr. Hollis Liverpool had his way, the calypso art form and its rich attendant cultural heritage would be taught in schools in the Caribbean region.

Deputy Chairman of the Anguilla Financial Services Commission, Ralph Hodge, told delegates attending the 9th Annual Meeting of the Offshore Group of Collective Investment Scheme Supervisors (OGCISS) that the main issue facing small international financial centres was their smallness.

Mrs Elizabeth Klute arrived in Anguilla on 1 May ‘06 to take up an appointment as Director, Disaster Management (Consultant) in charge of the Disaster Management Department. She has been appointed on consultancy terms for a period of two years in the first instance to develop Anguilla’s disaster preparedness capability and to co-ordinate the preparation and testing of a comprehensive set of contingency plans against all forms of disaster.

Churches and community organisations throughout Anguilla joined their colleagues in other parts of the world in observing Mother’s Day on May 8.

The Turks and Caicos Islands Sun, a weekly newspaper in that Caribbean British Overseas Territory, has reported that an Anguillian, Hubert Hughes, has been promoted to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police there.

The National Bank of Anguilla and the Caribbean Commercial Bank which donated US$75,000 and US$85,000 to the Anguilla Tennis Academy to construct two courts last year, have gone a big step further. They have now agreed to provide a loan of US$1,000,000 each to the academy to help complete the project.