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WHITHER ANGUILLA?

February 27, 2003 passed without Anguillians attaching any significance to the date and forgetting that 36 years ago the island together with St. Kitts-Nevis became an Associated State with Britain with the Central Government in St. Kitts fully responsible for internal affairs. Anguillians not trusting that constitutional relationship tore down the Statehood Flag at dawn. Earlier in the month they broke up a Statehood Queen Pageant, at the then Valley Secondary School, staged largely by a visiting drama group from St.Kitts. This was followed by a series of violent incidents which eventually blossomed into the eviction of the St. Kitts Constabulary and the taking over of the island’s affairs on May 30, 1967 in what is commonly referred to as the Anguilla Revolution. Thirteen years later the island was granted the present separate status of a Dependent (Overseas) Territory.

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