This week Temenos Anguilla, which includes Temenos Golf Club and Flag Luxury Properties Anguilla, made two presentations in aid of youth and community development. Media representatives were invited by Director of Public Relations, Arnie Hodge, to the handing over ceremonies.

L-R: Sharon Richardson Lloyd, Arnie Hodge, Ras Bucket and Ornette Edwards-Gumbs

The first presentation was made to the Director of Youth and Culture, Lennox Proctor, at the department in the Caribbean Commercial Complex on Tuesday. It was a cheque in the amount of US$3,000 to finance lunches and other necessities for the participants of the Inaugural National Youth Conference on Thursday and Friday. The conference has as its theme: ‘Promoting Youth Involvement in Governance. The Future is now.’

Speaking on behalf of the hotel project, Mr. Hodge said: “We are always very excited when opportunities to partner in these types of community building activities arise. The whole aspect of ‘promoting youth involvement in governance [and] the future is now’ is a very positive step.”

He stated that with all the events on the island the youth still had a positive direction that they could take. He commended the initiatives taken by the Ministry and Department of Youth and Culture to organise the conference from which there could be a number of positive results.

Dana Schmid, Manager of the Temenos Golf Club, said Temenos Anguilla took the initiative to work with the community and the youth and she congratulated Proctor for the great initiative undertaken by the Ministry and his department. She said the goal of Temenos was not just in promoting sportsmanship among the youth, but building character and helping them to make a difference and to move in the right direction.

Proctor said it was an excellent gesture of Temenos to have provided funding for the conference and to allow two of its employees to be participants. “We must commend Temenos Anguilla for that,” he added. “That is the kind of partnership we like – taking responsibility for the young people of Anguilla.”

L-R: Arnie Hodge, Dana Schmid and Lennox Proctor

The second presentation by the project was a quantity of sporting gear for the students at the Road Primary School. The supply included items for table tennis, football, volleyball, softball, baseball, basketball and other forms of general fitness equipment, as described by Mr. Hodge, the Public Relations Director.

He said that the sporting equipment was part of the ongoing partnership between the project and the Road Primary School and the community. “We are continuing to be committed to the development of the young people of Anguilla,” he added. “Charity begins at home. We are having our project here in the west and so we took on the Road School in a partnership and that partnership has seen quite some changes in recent times.”

The changes of which he spoke included a complete refurbishing of the school buildings, a general improvement of the grounds and the ongoing provision of an extended play ground where a considerable amount of earth-moving and levelling work is in progress.

Principal of the School, Ornette Edwards-Gumbs, responded: “On behalf of the staff and pupils of Road Primary School, I wish to thank our partners for their contribution made to the life of the school. I can assure you that these sporting facilities will be put to good use.”

Physical Educator, Trevor Davis (Ras Bucket) expressed similar sentiments on behalf of the school.

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