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This year, Runway Anguilla, a “charity for community” grouping, held its third annual fashion show on Sunday, April 10, at Coba Restaurant, Viceroy, at which there was a large attendance.

The Anguilla Department of Disaster Management, on behalf of the National Disaster Management Committee, would like to thank Mr. Thomas Bryan (Tall Boy) for his generous donation of life vests to the national disaster programme.

A Seventh-day Adventist Church-associated group of young people, from various parts of St. Martin/St. Maarten, gave a concert performance in Anguilla over the weekend as part of their ministry.
Many of them are either students or former students of the Seventh-day Adventist School there.

Thanks to a grant from the Governor’s Office, as well as financial help from building owner Ms ‘Babs’ Carty, a brand new deck has been constructed around the Anguilla Sailing Association’s school in Sandy Ground, along with much needed roof repairs and painting. Fred Porter, chair of the Anguilla Youth Sailing Club’s committee, explained: ‘The deck is used as a classroom for teaching sailing theory to our students.

The 85th birthday on Tuesday, April 12, of Anguilla’s leading businessman and real estate developer, Albert A. R. Lake, OBE, was celebrated on Sunday, April 10, with aService of Thanksgiving at St. Mary’s Anglican Church.

With the increasing number of motor vehicles in Anguilla, a new auto business has opened in the Mega Depot Building, a sprawling rental and commercial complex, in The Farrington. The enterprise, Anguilla Auto Paints and Supplies Limited, had its grand opening on Friday April 8. It is a joint undertaken by Anguillian Melissa Bryan and Jonah Nelson, who is originally from St. Lucia.

Two young Anguillians 12-year-old Jordia Hodge and 14-year-old Jahvez Hamilton, walked away with the third place prize at the Optimist Club’s District Oratorical Contest held in Kingston, Jamaica, at the Norman Manley School of Law on Saturday 9th April, 2011. Both Jordia and Jahvez represented the Optimist Club of Anguilla in the prestigious competition which is held annually to afford young people an opportunity to voice their concerns on issues that are of regional and international importance.

Thirteen scientists, including an official from the French Rail Transportation Authority, were in Anguilla for a tour of the Blowing Point and Sandy Ground seaports as well as the Clayton Lloyd International Airport.

More details have become available about Radio Anguilla’s new public information programme, ZONE, now in its third episode this week.

Chief Information Officer and creator of the programme, Ivor Hodge, spoke to The Anguillian about its purpose and scope.

Another Anguilla “first” was announced today at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Annual General Meeting and simultaneously in London, New York, Toronto and Amsterdam.

President of the Anguilla Chamber of Commerce, Keithley Lake, says that direct foreign investment, financial services and the construction industry were continuing to underperform on the island. He was at the time delivering an overview of the territory’s economic situation and the functioning of the Chamber in a report to the organisation’s Annual General Meeting at the Anguilla Community College on Tuesday this week.

The sleepy fishing village of Island Harbour comes alive on Easter weekend, April 23rd and 24th, 2011, to the rhythms and flavours of the 4th annual Festival del Mar .

Located at the eastern tip of Anguilla’s undulating shoreline, the village’s rich history dates back to the early 1600s when it is said a boat carrying a group of missionaries from Ireland was shipwrecked just off the northern coast.

Diaspora youth representatives at the recently concluded African Youth Forum are calling on the Member States of the African Union (AU) to create the social and professional infrastructure in an enabling and welcoming environment that would support their reintegration. The meeting’s outcomes are to be presented for consideration by the next AU Summit in Equatorial Guinea in July 2011. The theme of the Summit is: “Accelerating Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development.”

The Ministry of Social Development presently has several pieces of legislation that have been gazetted and are awaiting their first reading in the House of Assembly. These Bills, which include the Parole of Prisoners Bill and its regulations, the Probation Bill, the Domestic Violence Bill and the Importation of Cadavers Bill, can be found on the government website www.gov.ai. Alternatively copies can be obtained from the Ministry of Social Development.

The burnt-out and sunken yacht in Road Bay is the subject of investigation in Anguilla following its complete destruction when it caught fire late Wednesday evening, April 6.
Superintendent of Ports, Edwin Harris, told The Anguillian that the wreck of the catamaran was lying 10-15 feet at the bottom of the bay and posed no hazard to vessels operating there. He said, however, that within days of the investigation the wreck would be removed and taken ashore.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States is using Anguilla and St. Kitts as pilot locations for the development of community-based risk reduction projects, and began a two-day workshop towards that end on Monday this week.
The workshop, attended by participants from Anguilla and St. Kitts, and held at the Soroptimist Centre, targeted emergency management, environmental planning and social development agencies.

With the world lost in a flurry of conflicting strife, troubles continue to loom on every hand, and we with mortal vulnerability pause to question: “What’s next?” The nature of this series of articles is mildly prophetic. They take into consideration world events conducive to scriptural predictions and aim to inform and remind readers that certainly there is a great day coming when the God of all creation shall intervene to bring all this end-time trouble to an imminent end.

Lying in a forgotten corner of bush next to Bonjour Café (formerly Roadwell Café) in Sandy Ground are the lost markers of a forgotten heritage. Several years ago the area was ‘mined’ for cut stone and today all that remains of a dozen or more broken tombs and headstones are three: Rebecca Hughes (d. February 1, 1775), Margaret Richardson (d.December 24, 1773) and Ruth Romney (d. September 29, 1779).

Tourists visiting Anguilla now have an additional opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty and environment of the island, by traversing and relaxing at the just-opened Pelican Trail and Water Sports facility cascading 400 steps down to the sea.

On Wednesday April 13 Alliance Insurance of George Hill, presented the Annual Recognition Award for the Advancement of Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation, to Aubrey Smith of Island Harbour. The award was presented by Acting Deputy Governor, Arjul Wilson and Sandra Lovell, Manager of Alliance Insurances Services Limited.