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The following is a Press Release from Webster Dyrud Mitchell, a law firm in Anguilla

The follwoing Press Release is from Mr. Dion Friedland who signed it as Owner of Cap Juluca Hotel, Maundays Bay

Rudolph Carty, a longstanding senior employee of American Eagle in Anguilla, has been given a new job in Nevis. His transfer comes as the airline prepares to commence a scheduled service at the recently-improved Newcastle Airport on May 15. He will be serving as the Operations Supervisor at the Eagle’s station.

The Committee for the Interdenominational DAY OF PRAYER extends an invitation to all Anguillians and Christians in particular to be part of the Prayer Assembly on Thursday May 8 at 7:30pm.

The Anguilla Association of Office Professionals will be celebrating Administrative Professionals Week, along with its regional and international counterparts, from Sunday April 20 to Saturday April 26, 2003. This year the Caribbean Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals (CASAP) has chosen ‘Networking to Embrace the Region’ as itstheme for the week.
Administrative Professionals Day will be celebrated on Wednesday April 23.

The Anguilla National Trust has again broken ground with a first publication on The Reptiles and Amphibians of Anguilla, British West Indies. The book is the product of a collaborative effort by its authors, Karim Hodge, former Associated Director of the Trust who is now the Environmental Officer in the Physical Planning Department; Ellen J. Censky of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Robert Powell of the Avila University Department of Biology.

Some thirty (30) members of the First and Second Anguilla Boys Brigade Companies participated in the clean-up of Cove Bay this past weekend. The beach clean-up was part of their community service programme. Cap Juluca assisted the efforts of the Brigaders by providing the bags, rakes and gloves and the removal of the debris. The five-star Resort also donated US$1,000.00 to the youth organisation and treated them to lunch after the clean-up.

“You are our hope. We look to you to succeed where we have failed or are failing. Anguilla is at a time when as a people we are crying out for some ray of hope, You are that ray of hope. I ask you to let your ray shine brightly and demonstrate to us that there is hope for Anguilla as a country and a community,” said the Minister of Social Development, Eric Reid at the opening of the 70th Anniversary of Girlguiding in Anguilla.

For the first time the people of the island are being given an opportunity to join the Government in reviewing a set of labour legislation which has been consolidated into one document called The Anguilla Labour Code.

Ten million Eastern Caribbean dollars, the equivalent of 2, 500,000 pounds sterling, has been allocated by the Department For International Development (DFID), an arm of the British Government, to support development programmes in Anguilla over the next two years.

The Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources (DFMR) would like to inform the general public about the upcoming sea turtle nesting season and the revival of the Anguilla Sea Turtle Project.

A plaque presented by the Principal of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School, Darwin Hazell, to Kent Webster and Iris Hughes of Island Harbour in honour of their daughter, Jamida Webster, has added to the precious mementos of her which they are now cherishing. Mr. Hazell described Jamida as “a fine example of a model student.” The plaque was presented to her parents at the funeral on March 28 at the Mount Fortune Seventh-day Adventist Church in recognition of her “exemplary dedication and active participation” in the life of the school during the years 1999-2003.

The 70th Anniversary of Girlguiding in Anguilla will be celebrated with a week of activities from April 9-13. The occasion was to have been observed last year which in fact was the anniversary date, but this was not possible as the present Commissioner Dr O. M. Linda Banks only took up her appointment in April that year.

Some 60 of Cap Juluca’s 380 staff members were the recipients of the Resort’s Annual Achievement Awards at a grand Luncheon at Pimms Restaurant last week. The 98 room Resort, which has been capturing some of the industry’s best awards, paid tribute to a number of its outstanding team members, including Employee of the Year, Travis Simpson, its Guest Choice and Perfect Attendance Award Winners, as well as its monthly Employees of the Month.

On 1st April 2003, Cable & Wireless commenced installing ‘Master Jacks’ at the premises of all residential and business customers. This move forms part of the company’s ongoing response to the demands of customers and the changing local, regional and global telecommunications environment in which the company operates.

Registrar of Companies in Anguilla, Lanston Connor, has announced his intention to reduce the efforts of the Government of Anguilla to market the island as a financial services centre due to the current military conflict in Iraq and the spread of the Asian flu in parts of South East Asia. 

Officials of the British and Anguilla Governments met for talks on March 25 and 26 at Paradise Cove for the annual review of the Strategic Country Programme extending from 2000/01 to 2004/05. The financial arrangement is the outcome of discussions aimed at establishing a mutually-agreed medium term action plan to guide achievement of the Government’s objectives for economic and social development and for democratic and accountable administration.

Several hundred school children in Anguilla, joined by teachers, representatives of various community groups and churches, staged a protest street march from outside the National Trust Building around the Caribbean Commercial Bank and Mahogany Tree Road area and back, on Tuesday afternoon, against recent acts of violence on the island.

A two-man delegation from Anguilla will be spending several days in Monte Carlo at the invitation of officials there. They are Minister of Finance Victor Banks who will be representing Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming and Chairman of the Tourist Board, John Benjamin. Their travel to Europe was arranged from Friday March 28 to Tuesday of next week when they are expected to return to Anguilla.

In an ongoing bid to deliver high-quality service at the most affordable prices, Cable and Wireless will very shortly be introducing its most recent cost saving initiative for mobile customers.