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Both the nations of Antigua and Anguilla endeavoured to honour and remember Dame Bernice at her official funeral in Antigua on Friday, September 16, 2011. As the proceedings were broadcast live via television in some islands, and radio in Anguilla, this is likewise a humble summary highlighting the proceedings for those who may have missed them at the time. The Two State Solution describes, of course, the additional local Memorial Service held here in Anguilla, on Monday, at Saint Mary’s Church in The Valley, as reported elsewhere in this edition of The Anguillian.

The winning schools in the Anguilla Beautification Club Flower Garden Show were announced at a presentation ceremony held on the grounds of the Orealia Kelly Primary School.

As a young student, listening in rapt wonder to a visiting storyteller, Cassilda Thomas was hooked on the spoken word. On leaving school her job as a library assistant offered opportunites for sharing stories with children, sometimes on Saturdays, during summer programmes and visits to pre-schools. As a result of networking between the Anguilla Library Service and the Philipsburg Jubilee Library another window of opportunity opened for Cassilda.

This Friday, September 16, 2011, the late prominent Anguillian Lawyer, and distinguished Caribbean legal scholar, Dame Dr. Bernice Lake, DGCN, Q.C., B.A. Hons., LLB (Lond.) Hon. LLD (UWI), will be laid to rest in Antigua. The official funeral service, in which the Government of Antigua and Barbuda will be involved, will be held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church at Parham, beginning at 1.30 p.m. The Rt. Rev. Errol Brooks, Bishop of the Diocese of the Northeastern Caribbean and Aruba, will officiate at the funeral.

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (William Hague): In my statement to the House of 10 March I set out this Government’s overall vision for our Overseas Territories and explained that we were working with Departments across Government on a new strategy to deliver this. The National Security Council (NSC) agreed the main principles of a new strategy in July.

Retired High Court Judge, Don Mitchell, of Anguilla, has returned to the Bench having been appointed as an Acting Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal for two years in the first instance.

Mr. Lonnie Hobson is the newly-appointed Deputy Registrar of Commercial Activities in Anguilla, in succession to Mr. Perin Bradley who now serves as Trade and Investment Officer in the Ministry of Economic Development.

The body of Anguillian pilot, Cardigan “Cardy” Hodge, was flown home at the Clayton Lloyd Airport on Wednesday for the funeral on a date to be announced later.

Sea turtles have inhabited the earth for millennia, roaming the planet’s waters and coming onto shore only to nest. While sea turtles spend much of their time in the open ocean, often following their food supply, they also spend much time in the nearshore ecosystems – the coral reefs and seagrass beds which provide them with an important source of food and protection.

General Manager of LIME Anguilla, Mark Romney, has announced a week of activities, and other side events, to observe the 40th Anniversary of Cable & Wireless/LIME on the island.

There is an increasing interest in backyard farming, as well as in extended plots in Anguilla, by a growing number of persons at all levels of society. The one common motive, for the most part, is to supplement imported products with local produce where possible and reduce the high cost of living.

The Optimist Club of Anguilla held its 16th annual handing over ceremony on Sunday, September 11th 2011. The event which signifies the end of one Optimist year and the beginning of the next was held at the Ambiance Jazz Lounge and Night Club under the Optimist International Caribbean District theme: “The Power of One”.

No draft piece of legislation has undergone so much public scrutiny and debate in recent times in Anguilla than the Education Bill. Its latest discussion was at the Teachers’ Resource Centre on Monday night, September 5.

Many persons in Anguilla have been registered in a pilot project whereby they will be receiving special monitoring by health personnel in the fight against diabetes, one of a number of chronic non-communicable diseases which include cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke and cancer.

RENDEVOUS BAY, Anguilla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Self-made businessman, Leandro P. Rizzuto, owner of CuisinArt Resort & Spa has signed an agreement with the Bank and the Receiver for the purchase of Temenos, a luxury development project composed of beachfront estate homes, luxury villas, an approximate $35 million Greg Norman designed 18-hole golf course and a hotel.

Radio Anguilla was part of an effort this week to assist in the dissemination of information regarding the reduction of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Anguilla.

Cap Juluca’s Villa Manager, Gwendolyn Fleming, and Public Area Supervisor, Alma Gumbs, are the two latest Julucans to benefit from the Resort’s Staff Exchange Programme with Curtain Bluff Resort in Antigua. Gwendolyn and Alma spent two weeks observing Curtain Bluff’s Housekeeping Operations and sharing Cap Juluca’s operating procedures. In exchange, Curtain Bluff’s Head Bartender, Carlos Harrigan, and Line Chef, Clinton Williams, were exposed to the Food and Beverage operations and standards at Cap Juluca during their internship.

For two hours from 5 to 7pm on Tuesday 30 August, the Teachers’ Resource Centre Auditorium was filled with more than 65 eager and largely attentive children and a several parents as they enjoyed the culmination of one week of internet training made possible by LIME, Anguilla’s first full service telecommunications services provider.

The Housekeeping Department at Cap Juluca is this year’s winner of the Resort’s Hospitality Team of the Year Award. Represented by Kishma T. Hodge, Lena Woodley, Joslyn Snagg and Lynval Richardson, the Housekeeping Team edged out last year’s winners, Food & Beverage, to claim the coveted Juluca Hospitality Trophy and other prizes.

With the planting season continuing in Anguilla, personnel from the Department of Agriculture, and the Farmers’ Association, have come together to demonstrate their mechanized farming and soil preparation techniques.