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Cannons Stolen From St. Kitts
This single cannon is all that remains from a group of cannons and artefacts remembered by Raymon Haskins as a boy. Photo courtesy author
 

The cannons from a known archaeological site (a shipwreck) in White House Bay, St. Kitts, have been stolen. The site, recorded in 2003 by the Anglo-Danish Maritime Archaeology Team (ADMAT), was initially discovered with 13 cannons. The vessel, a British troopship sunk during the Battle for Frigate Bay in 1782, was uncovered during a hurricane in the 1990s.

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Tackle Box Burglarised
Tackle Box Sports Centre (entry)
 

As the spate of burglaries and robberies continue in Anguilla, another renowned business establishment has fallen victim.

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Coveted A-List-Escape: Cap Juluca On Anguilla Ranked Number One In Anguilla By Travel And Leisure
Under the Dome in the Main House
 

Situated on the private enclave of Maundays Bay Beach, Cap Juluca has undergone the first phase of its $80 million enhancement program and has recently been recognized in the 2009 Travel + Leisure “World's Best Awards” as No. 1 in Anguilla and in the top 10 among the “Top 25 Resorts in the Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Bahamas” category.

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Anguilla Development Board's Thirtieth Anniversary Family Fun Day
Three-legged race takes off
 

The week of activities marking the Anguilla Development Board's 30th Anniversary culminated on Saturday afternoon in a family Fun Day in a most picturesque and relaxed setting at the Airport lawn. Surrounded by tents and bouncing castles on the perimeter there were numerous activities for children and adults within the demarcated activity zone.

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Sunset Homes Annual Fun Day For The Stoney Ground/Caul’s Bottom Community
The Sunset Homes Cauls Pond, Stoney Ground Family
 

The children of the Stoney Ground, Caul's Bottom and The Quarter area were treated to a day of fun and friendly sporting competition on Saturday August 22nd 2009. Sunset Homes, a Property Development firm in Anguilla, sponsored its seventh annual event of this kind on its office grounds located in Stoney Ground. Races for each age category included sack races, lime and spoon race, flat races, relays, tug-of-war and more.

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Vacation Bible School Marches For Jesus
March particicpants
 

The Church of God of Holiness Annual Vacation Bible School reached a climax on Saturday August 22 with a ‘March for Jesus’ from the Gazebo on the grounds of the Scouts and Guides Headquarters to the Church on the Princess Alexandra Road.

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NBA And LIME Team Up To Bring New Service
NBA and LIME's staff
 

Two giants in their respective fields of business National Bank of Anguilla Ltd (NBA) and Lime have teamed up to further ease top up services to their customers.

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ILO Conducts HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy Workshop In Anguilla
Workshop participants
 

HIV/AIDS Specialist in the International Labour Organization (ILO) Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean in Trinidad, Madhuri Supersad, was on Anguilla during the past week conducting a workshop on Formulating and Implementing an HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy.

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CCB Donates To Vector Awareness Month
Jaine Rogers receives cheque from Cherecia Lewis-Rogers
 

One of Anguilla’s leading banking institutions, the Caribbean Commercial Bank (CCB) has contributed heavily to the Environmental Health Unit’s Vector Awareness Programme which is now in its tenth year. On Wednesday August 26, CCB handed over a check for EC$29,000 to the Programme during a ceremony held at the local bank.

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Civil Rights Protestor Pardoned
Wilma Vanterpool
 

The American Government recently officially pardoned a Foot Soldier of the Famed American Civil Rights Movement who is now living in Anguilla. The pardon was for activities in which she participated in 1963 when she was only 18 years old.

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VEHICLE OF GROWTH IN ANGUILLA Development Board 30 Years Old
Ministry of Finance, Development Board Directors and Staff outside Central Baptist Church. Pastor Cecil Richardson at left
 

The Anguilla Development Board is this week celebrating thirty years of operation during which period it has demonstrated itself to be a vehicle and financier of national growth and prosperity.
According to a Radio Anguilla broadcast by Minister of Finance, Victor Banks, since the inception of the statutory institution it has financed approximately 2,400 projects in excess of EC$141 million. The projects included fishing, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, housing and student loans.

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Air Ambulance Service For Civil Servants
CM Fleming addressing Civil Service Unions
 

The Anguilla Government has signed up its permanent establishment of some nine hundred civil servants and their immediate families into an air ambulance evacuation plan, an initial step in the provision of an eventual island-wide service for the population.

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Police Report: Crime Climbs To Twenty-One
 

Crime in Anguilla has risen to an alarming 21 incidents for the week, up from 13 last week. The main crime for the period August 12 to 19 was theft with a total of six.
The thefts occurred at George Hill, The Valley, Blowing Point, Rey Hill, The Farrington, and Deep Waters. Items stolen were two pallets of blocks, one bicycle, one goat, one 2000-gallon water tank, one laptop computer, one Olympus camera, one Blackberry phone and US$5970.

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REPORT ON AIRPORT DISRUPTS JET SERVICE TO ANGUILLA - Feverish Efforts To Provide Runway Safety End
Mr. Victor Banks
 

A just-published report on Wallblake Airport in Anguilla, by the UK-based regulators of the Aviation Security Services for the Overseas Territories, has disrupted the flying into the island of such private jets as the Gulf 4s, 5s, 6s and Global Express. As a result one of these jets, bringing a client to Anguilla, has had to land at Juliana Airport in St. Maarten and the client continued his journey here by a shuttle service provided either by air or sea.

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Chief Minister’s Weekly Press Conference (Hon. Osbourne Fleming and Hon. Victor Banks) - Anguillians
Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming and Hon. Victor Banks
 

In addition to matters regarding Wallblake Airport and jet aircraft flying to Anguilla, as well as the air ambulance and health insurance services for civil servants and other persons, the Chief Minister’s Press Conference on Tuesday, dealt with a number of other matters as indicated above.

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Inspector Sinclair Firm Against Assaults On Police
Inspector Paul Sinclair
 

Head of the Drugs and Firearms Unit in the Royal Anguilla Police Force, Inspector Paul Sinclair, has spoken out sternly against assaults on Police Officers. This followed an incident where Armand Hennis attacked a Police Constable during the Summer Festival.

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Administrator Appointed For The Anugilla Branch Of British American Insurance Company
 

Anguilla has joined insurance regulators in the OECS in intervening in British American Insurance Company (BAICO) in an effort to safeguard the interest of policyholders and investors.

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Anguilla Represented At Two Recent Regional Fisheries Forums In St. Lucia
 

Anguilla was recently represented at two regional fisheries forums in St. Lucia. The first event was a two-day Caribbean workshop on international fisheries management hosted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO); where participants were exposed to the Canadian approach to fisheries management. Canada has a long history of fishing and fisheries management and its system is recognised as one of if not, the best in the world. Goals of the workshop included:

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Valley Community Grateful For Winning Positions
L-R: Jason Brooks, Tom Montvel-Cohen and Roy Carty
 

The Valley Community Troupe, which showcased its high level of cultural performance as “The Kings and Queens of Cultivation,” during the Parade of Troupes for the Summer Festival, is grateful for being adjudged first place winner.

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ADB Manager Gives Overview Of Board's Functioning
L-R: Carl Harrigan, Althea Hodge, John Rogers and Calvet Carty
 

Manager of the Anguilla Development (ADB), Althea Hodge, has given a comprehensive overview of the functioning of the organisation over the past thirty years. The overview (published elsewhere in The Anguillian), was delivered at a press conference on Tuesday this week.

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