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Chief Minister and Minister of Tourism, Osbourne Fleming, says the matter relating to the building of a Reverse Osmosis Plant on the golf course project has now been resolved.

Four lucky Scotiabank customers who used their Scotiabank Card, between February 15th and March 31, 2004 were notified today that they each won a prize under the ScotiaCard Miami Getaway contest.

A move is afoot in the member territories of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, including Anguilla, to explore the possibility of the establishment of an economic union in the sub-region.

The Anguilla Red Cross has launched a transportation programme for the elderly with the commissioning of a mini van. The vehicle, obtained with the assistance of the British Red Cross, was commissioned at a ceremony in the courtyard of the General Post Office on May 8, Red Cross Day.

Chairman of the Anguilla Tourist Board, John Benjamin, is just back from a CTO conference in Cuba. There the meeting looked at balancing development between land and sea for greater harmony in future growth, particularly with regard to how coastal areas are developed.

The eastern end of Wallblake Airport has already been graded off and the top soil salvaged as clearance and other earth works proceeded from early in the week.

Just under 20 religious singers and other performers staged a Gospel Jamboree at Campus B of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School on May 8. It was a fund-raising effort towards the purchase of a public address system for the school.

The Seventh-day Adventist community, with congregations at Mount Fortune, South Hill and Long Bay, has just completed a week-long series of revival services conducted by Pastor Winfield Ambrose.

Mother’s Day was observed throughout Anguilla on Sunday, May 9, with various programmes and other activities particularly in churches.

Anguilla, where tourism plays a major role in the economy, has joined other Caribbean islands in expanding airport facilities to meet the demands for larger aircraft and to accommodate increasing numbers of travellers. Preliminary work has now commenced on the expansion of Wallblake Airport to 5400 feet with extensions both to the east and to the west. The US$20.7 million project falls short of 600 feet to the east, following the failure of Government so far to acquire the needed land.

Josephine Webster Vanterpool of Deep Waters, now a client at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, has become the latest centenarian in Anguilla and is still holding out well. The other is Rose Hughes, formerly of West End and now an inmate at the Miriam Gumbs Senior Citizen’s Home. She recently made 101 years.

A number of persons drawn from the public and private sectors in Anguilla have been told about the importance of the medical laboratory in diagnosing the condition of patients and determining treatment.

World Health Day will be observed in Anguilla and around the globe on Monday May 10 under the theme Active Youth.

The second certificate course under the Caribbean Culinary Federation has been completed at Flavours Restaurant. The training, delivered over a four-day period by Master Chef William Moore last week, was an intermediate course in cakes, pastries and desserts.

A leatherback turtle, estimated to be 1000 pounds, sneaked up on the beach just in front of the main building at Cap Juluca Resort in the early hours of Wednesday morning to the astonishment of a few workers still on the compound.

More and more visitors are choosing Anguilla for their marriage ceremonies because of their love for the island and the charm it offers.

Members of the Anguilla House of Assembly, other Government officials, the police and members of the public, including representatives of a number of organisation, said farewell to Governor and Mrs. Peter Johnstone on April 29.

Five privately-owned buildings were demolished this week as preliminary work on the expansion of Wallblake Airport continued. Two of the buildings were owned by Leslie Brooks and Conrad Bradley in the Long Ground area. They will now be replaced elsewhere by Government.

Anguilla’s restaurants have long been praised for their outstanding cuisine and now a number of chefs have undergone some useful training which will boost their skills.

It is out of these efforts and more that the Tranguillity Jazz Festival, an annual production of BET Jazz and the Anguilla Tourist Board, along with local sponsors, has had its beginnings.