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Anguilla's Chief Minister Hubert Hughes and his Cabinet colleagues met for nearly two hours on Monday, May 31, with a six-member delegation from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) on the French-speaking Caribbean island of Gaudeloupe.  The meeting, which was held at the Ministry of Home Affairs, centred on forging closer bilateral links between Anguilla and Gaudeloupe. 

A group of prisoners at HM Prison have completed a 20-week Men’s Health Programme at HM Prison. The programme was initiated in January 2010, and consisted of a weekly seminar on a significant health topic delivered by a variety of health professionals. The purpose of the programme was for the prisoners to be educated about the holistic meaning of health and become more conscious of health issues as they relate to their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing.

A curfew is a condition that the Court may impose on anyone sentenced to Probation thereby restricting movements. It requires one to remain indoors for a specified period of time for example from 6:30 pm to 6:30 am.

The Regional Law Revision Centre in Anguilla has again successfully conducted another training course on the Consolidation of Laws. During the past week, the five trainees comprised two from the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the Law Revision Commission in Trinidad and Tobago; one each from the Law Reform Commission and the Legislative Drafting Unit in the Attorney General’s Chambers in the British Virgin Islands; and the other from the Drafting Unit in the Attorney General’s Chambers in Anguilla.

Children in the kindergarten classes at the Adrian T. Hazell Primary School are excited over a newly-introduced Reading & Language Arts Programme, known as Starfall.com, which has been developed in thirty school districts across the United States over the past five years.

Anyone visiting Island Harbour and its environs may immediately see a difference if they knew what the situation was like before a comprehensive clean-up campaign which is continuing.

The development of a cataract can occur early in life or during adulthood from nutritional, inflammatory, traumatic, systemic, or a genetic predisposition. The usual characteristics of a painless advanced cataract can appear as a dense cloudiness or a dark defect in the line of sight. Although the loss of vision from cataracts can be restored through an operation, other painless vision loss as in the case of glaucoma becomes permanent.

Anguilla's Chief Minister and Minister of Tourism  Hubert Hughes  is in New York for the annual Caribbean Tourism Week - which officially opened on Sunday, June 6.

Also visiting the  popular American state is the Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Tourism Haydn Hughes, Chairman of the Anguilla Tourist Board Eustace Guishard and the acting Tourist Board Director Merlyn Rogers.

Staff at the Department of Probation are this week observing their 5th anniversary with a week of activities under the theme 'United We Strive - The Department of Probation reaches 5."

A new Executive Director, in the person of Arlene Bailey-Franklin, has assumed responsibility for the Anguilla Community Foundation.

Mrs. Bailey-Franklin, whose parents and other relatives are from the East End area and Blowing Point, has a background in community foundations and non-profit organisations. She has also taught and done research work at several universities in the United States and West Africa.

June 2010 marks 10 years of operations for Altamer. Altamer held a celebration for staff and spouses at the Russian Amethyst Villa on Tuesday marking this occasion.

Mr. William Tacon, the receiver of the Temenos project, and Mr. Adam Aaron, the Chief Executive of Cap Juluca, have announced that an agreement has been reached whereby the Temenos golf course will continue to be run by Cap Juluca after the expiry of the previous agreement on 30 June 2010.

Superintendent of the Anguilla Methodist Circuit, Rev. Dr. H. Clifton Niles, will be conducting training sessions for Local Preachers in the Methodist Church in the South Caribbean District next week. The sub-region comprises Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and Barbados.

While all of its Caribbean neighbours followed their normal work and way of life routine on Monday, May 31, Anguilla celebrated in grand style the 43rd Anniversary of its 1967 revolution in which it broke its political and constitutional links with St. Kitts-Nevis and set out on a long journey to self-determination and separation.

There continues to be much relief among the Police in that the number of crimes committed during the period May 26 to June 2, is again very low, according to figures released by Inspector Emris Rogers. There were only three crimes recorded for that period.

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate this year’s Anguilla Day Honorees for the recognition they received for their service to our island. I am also moved to offer special thanks and appreciation to the uniformed bodies and organizations who had to endure almost four hours on their feet to participate in what I believe was an unnecessarily lengthy ceremony. Even from my more comfortable position seated under a tent on a humid day it was an ordeal indeed.

Anguilla’s Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Social Development, Edison Baird, and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Development, Dr. Aidan Harrigan, are representing the island at a preliminary Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC) meeting in Bermuda this week. They left the island on Wednesday and will be returning on Sunday, June 6.

On Wednesday May 26, 2010 Pastor Virgil Sams together with some members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church visited Mrs. Angela Turvides who’s house got burnt down and lost basically all her household goods was given a check of EC$ 3,500 to assist in the recovery process.

Malliouhana Hotel and Spa, and Anguilla in general, in the context of an up-market destination, are to get some much-needed valuable publicity in the travel trade press. The writer is Jacqueline Johnson, a frontline tourism consultant who has been on the island as a guest at Malliouhana and has been struck by the cleanliness and attractiveness of the hotel, the beach it overlooks, and the beauty of Anguilla on a whole. She writes for some five travel agent magazines and other up-scale publications as well as her various websites.

In a general meeting of the Anguilla Evangelical Association held on the evening of Tuesday May 25th, a new executive body of the Association was elected. The Anguilla Evangelical Association is the vigilant arm which represents the evangelical churches on the island and brings to the attention of the churches issues in the society which warrant the need for redress. In essence, the Association acts as a moral and spiritual “watch-dog” for the island’s evangelical churches.