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Raising Pan-African Consciousness is the theme of a public lecture and slide presentation to be held in Anguilla and St. Martin during the month of August 2011.

The Anguilla Government, which has responsibility for the administrative functions of Her Majesty’s Prison, is to embark on a substantial amount of expenditure to provide accommodation for more prisoners.

In what is believed to have been the first such marriage in Anguilla, Methodist Minister, Careen White, a native of Jamaica, and Baeeson A. Richardson, an Anguillian Surveyor, exchanged matrimonial vows at Zion Methodist Church at North Hill, on Wednesday, July 27.

With recent increases to the fuel surcharge, people in Anguilla are wondering how they’ll manage to pay their electricity bills. Everyone is operating on tighter budgets these days, while the cost of our basic needs keeps going up.

The Anguilla Amateur Bodybuilding and Body Fitness Federation held their 10th annual competition at the Rodney MacArthur Rey Auditorium on Saturday, July 23. The categories for the men were Juniors, Lightweights and Open Class. The only category for the Women Figure Fitness was Open Class.

Following the special sitting of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and tributes there in celebration of her outstanding contribution to the legal profession and her retirement, Dame Dr. Bernice Lake was guest of honour at a gala diner at DaVida Restaurant at Crocus Bay, on Friday, July 22.

With the approach of the Anguilla Summer Festival, several community groups on the island, supported by the Royal Anguilla Police Force, held amarch and rally against crime and violence on Friday evening, July 22.

Reconstruction work is in progress on a section of the Queen Elizabeth Avenue aimed at controlling the flooding there which sometimes makes the area impassable. The re-profiling work commenced on Monday this week and should be completed by the end of August.

Anguilla’s longstanding Local Preacher, Mrs. Candis Niles, who was formally recognised as a Methodist Minister since in May this year, following the Connexional Conference, is now continuing her ministerial training.
“It is not the final part of the step,” she told The Anguillian on Wednesday. “This is now the commencement of another four years of training. I will be going off from time to time on short study periods like during the summer and so on, and I will also be doing courses on the island.”

Two chefs from Anguilla represented the island at the premiere culinary event – Chefs and Champayne – the James Beard Foundation’s annual summer party in the Hamptons, New York.
They were Chef George Reid, Anguilla’s most highly-decorated Executive Chef and Chef de Partie, Jordel Gumbs, a silver medal finalist of Anguilla’s 2011 Culinary Team. Both are employees at Aleta Restaurant, Viceroy Resort Anguilla.

My heart raced, as the sun kissed me and the water reached to welcome me to its shores. Yes! I was finally here, in yet another gem of the Caribbean - the British Virgin Islands.

President of Howard University in Washington DC, Dr Ribeau, visited Anguilla to set up a relationship with the Anguilla Community College. On Monday July 25 a cocktail reception was held at the Anguilla Great House to welcome Dr Ribeau and his wife.

Digicel has embarked on a community service effort whereby the company is giving financial assistance to groups in the seven districts to promote a spirit of unity and social interaction.

The Anguilla Tourist Board’s new cultural and social activity, called The ValleyStreet Festival, has turned out to be an event that has caught the attention, and involvement, of many people including visitors. It is the second such function to be held on the busy main road across from St. Mary’s Anglican Church.

Now that the Anguilla Community College, led by Professor Delroy Louden, has been fully established, it is attracting various offers from several institutions of higher learning abroad.

A five-member team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) began a ten-day fact-finding mission in Anguilla on Wednesday, this week.

School children, now on their summer vacation,were given an opportunity to learn about the environment in Anguilla. The Student Stewardship Activity, as it was called, led by the Environmental Department, and supported by the Agricultural Department, and teachers, included a number of camp sessions and tours.

For years, Dawne Richardson of North Hill has dreamed of creating a programme that would help build positive self esteem in young girls. On 18 July, 2011, Dawne launched her first 9-day Beautiful Girl programme at the Alvin Alison Primary School in West End.

What has been described as an extraordinary event was held at St. Augustine’s Anglican Church Hall for one week. It was a “Shake-it-Up Café” Vacation Bible School, fashioned on the 2011 programme made available by Cokesbury Vacation Bible School in the United States.

Three colleagues at Viceroy Anguilla have just been presented with awards for outstanding performance during the month of May.