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HMS Portland, one of the most advanced ships in the Royal Navy will anchor off Road Bay at 0700 on 24 September 2007.

The twelve students from the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School in Anguilla, appearing here, were the top candidates in the May/June 2007, CAPE and CSEC Examinations.

There were a number of criminal incidents in Anguilla between last weekend and early this week, according to the police briefing on Wednesday, September 12, by Superintendent Rudolph Proctor and Detective Sergeant Yearwood.

The Honourable Victor F. Banks led a delegation to Russia for the International Social Security Association (ISSA) Forum in Moscow, Russia, held at the World Trade Center Building there. The Conference commenced on Monday, September 10th and is scheduled to conclude on Saturday September 15th, 2007. Banks’ delegation includes the Director of Social Security Mr. Timothy Hodge and Board Member Mr. Curtis Richardson.

On September 27-28 at the House of Chandeliers, Anguilla will see its very first National Conference on Youth and Development. The slogan for this important event is “Promoting Youth Involvement in Governance – The Future is Now.” This youth conference is being conducting by the Department of Youth and Culture under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Development and is being spear-headed by its Director, Mr. Lenox J. Proctor.

What’s in a name? Invariably there is a meaning or story behind it as is the case with a small fishing boat owned by Melvin Connor of Blowing Point.

The Environmental Health Unit is now in a position to carry forward its 2007 Vector Awareness Programme in Anguilla, thanks to a donation of EC$7,000 from the Caribbean Commercial Bank (CCB).

Anguilla, which has already made a name for itself as a paradise island with classy hotels and a leading destination in the region, is soon to have what has been described as “the Caribbean’s most exclusive residential resort.”

Anguilla Masonry Products (AMP), a fast-developing company owned by Rayme Lake, has made the biggest private sector contribution so far to a Ministry and Department of Education programme to provide all the public schools on the island with computers in the classrooms.

Students at both campuses of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School came face to face with the Speaker, Elected Representatives, Nominated Members and Ex-Officio Members of the Anguilla House of Assembly on Monday, September 3, at the grounds of the school.

Evalie Bradley, who served as an Anguillian public servant for some 35 years, spanning the early days of modernising the service and its current much-developed system, was showered with praise at a retirement ceremony on Saturday night, September 1. The grand event was held on the grounds of the Chief Minister’s residence at Sea Feathers and attended by many invited guests.

Jamaican-born Reverend Carleen White was welcomed to serve as the new Minister in the Anguilla Methodist Circuit on Sunday, September 2, at Bethel Church.

As Anguilla was struck by the third armed robbery in recent days, the Police told a press briefing on Wednesday this week that all of the robberies were similar in nature and that the descriptions of the masked men were all alike.

Speaker of the Anguilla House of Assembly, the Hon. David Carty, delivered a statement on Monday, September 3, in which he informed members about a planned new and revised Rules of Procedure now being edited and to be circulated to them in draft form in due course.

In a gesture of goodwill and care for a few selected students of the Stoney Ground Primary School, the recently founded No-Walls Church of Hope, last Friday evening, made presentations of school supplies to some twenty-two children, just in time for the opening of the new school year.

The Optimist Club of Anguilla has pulled off another wonderfully successful Youth Weekend Retreat. This year’s retreat was held for the second consecutive year in the village of Island Harbour at Kent Webster’s apartments from 17 – 19 August 2007.

The newly-appointed Resort Manager at Malliouhana Hotel and Spa, Steve Shotsberger, says the outgoing tourism season was an exciting period for the property because it received more accolades in the past year than in any other year.

The sprawling Santoroni Restaurant and pool area at CuisinArt Resort and Spa, normally crowded by dining and relaxing tourists, were swarmed by exciting and partying employees instead, on Tuesday night, September 4, the day the upmarket property closed for the slow season.

The 17-year-old certified private pilot from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Granville T. Smith Jr. (Theo), has added a letter from the four Ministers of the Government of Anguilla to his collections with respect to his flight to ten Caribbean Islands last month.

The 26th Anniversary of Soroptimist International of Anguilla was celebrated on Saturday August 25 with a dinner and dance at Flavours Restaurant. It was attended by His Excellency the Governor Andrew George and Mrs George, who is the patron of the Club, the Deputy Governor Stanley Reid and Mrs Reid who is the patron of the Day Care Centre, Chief Minister Osbourne Fleming, and Speaker of the House, David Carty, as well as Soroptimist members and their friends.