Obituary: PASTOR CYRIL GUMBS LAID TO REST
One of Anguilla’s beloved church leaders, Pastor Cyril Anthony Gumbs, was laid to rest at the Sandy Hill Cemetery on Friday evening, January 6, following a thanksgiving service at the First...
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ANGUILLA’S CHIEF MINISTER AT SIR DWIGHT VENNER’S FUNERAL
The Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Mr. Victor Banks, was among regional and international government officials and representatives of financial institutions at the funeral of Sir Dwight...
View ArticleNEW YEAR’S GREETINGS FROM DR. ELLIS LORENZO WEBSTER
Fellow Anguillians, I greet you on this dawn of a New Year and wish you and your families a blessed, healthy and prosperous 2017. It is difficult to celebrate when we have lost loved ones and 2016...
View ArticleZIKA UPDATE – MINISTRY OF HEALTH REPORTS TOTAL OF EIGHTEEN (18) CONFIRMED...
The Ministry of Health, through the Caribbean Public Health Agency, has now confirmed a total of eighteen (18) cases of locally-acquired Zika infection to date. These reflect samples sent from...
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GROWING BANANAS A DELIGHT OF BACKYARD FARMER
Mr. Glenville Hodge, a resident at Island Harbour, is a well-known local building contractor but he is also a backyard farmer with a delight for producing bananas. Originally from Stoney Ground,...
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CROCUS BAY EVOLVING AS A POPULAR ATTRACTION
Overlooked by CeBlue Villas & Beach Resort, on part of the highest peak in Anguilla, and lower down by daVida Restaurant and daVida Bayside Grill, and served by a yacht pier, Crocus Bay is...
View Article2017 NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE
Fellow Anguillians. Let us all together welcome 2017: a New Year offering hope for the future. We give thanks for the lives of our loved ones, heroes and leaders who left us last year. And we...
View ArticleCM BANKS ISSUES STATEMENT ON PASSING OF “BELTO” HUGHES
Chief Minister of Anguilla, Mr. Victor Banks, issued the following expressions of regret and condolences on the passing of former Elected Representative of West End, Mr. Albert (Belto) Emmanuel...
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A TIME OF CELEBRATION AS HUGO E. REY SR TURNS 80
Anguilla’s visionary and long-established architect, building contractor, and mortician, Mr. Hugo E. Rey Sr, was enthusiastically celebrated on Friday evening, December 30, 2016, having turned 80...
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NO MORE FLOWERS ON CASKETS by Colville L. Petty
(Below is a brief commentary, on Albert Hughes, which was extracted from the above article published in The Anguillian newspaper in 2001.) “A major item on the House of Assembly’s Order of...
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TRIBUTE TO “BELTO” FROM FRIEND, RALPH HODGE
L-R: Belto’s brother, Studley; Mr. Ralph Hodge and Mr. Stephen Hughes, Captain of Light & Peace Mr. Ralph Hodge, a longstanding friend of the late Albert “Belto” Hughes, was among a number of...
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LATE BELTO HUGHES PRAISED IN HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
Mr. Belto Hughes (far right) with former Chief Minister Hubert Hughes and Minister Edison Baird in the House of Assembly some years ago. (The Anguillian Archives) With 27 years in active...
View ArticlePERSONS UNABLE TO PAY PROPERTY TAX TO GET RELIEF
There has been an amendment to the Property Tax Act in Anguilla whereby persons on fixed incomes and indigent persons are to get relief from the payment of the house tax. The Property Tax...
View ArticleNCBA PRESS RELEASE
To Our Valued Customers, The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of NCBA take this opportunity to wish all of you a successful, healthy and joyous 2017. We appreciate your support over the...
View ArticleNCBA NOW FUNCTIONING AT ONE LOCATION
The Government-owned National Commercial Bank of Anguilla (NCBA) is now operating from one location, having vacated one of its two branches in The Valley area – a stone’s throw from each other....
View ArticleEDITORIAL: LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN
We have entered a New Year when there is an overlapping of many of the challenges we faced in the Old Year. No time in our modern history seems so important to us like 2017. For us, as a people,...
View ArticleCHIEF MINISTER SAYS 2016 WAS A VERY EVENTFUL YEAR
Anguilla’s Chief Minister and Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Mr. Victor Banks, has described 2016 as having been a very eventual year. He was at the time speaking in the House of...
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JETS RETURNED TO ANGUILLA
Just when a number of persons, excited about the executive jets thought that many of them were not coming to Anguilla for the Christmas holiday season, they were relieved by a considerable number...
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“LAST RACE” FOR BOAT RACER, PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATIVE
In a cultural act of honour and symbolism, the late Mr. Albert Emanuel Hughes of West End, whose name has become synonymous with Anguilla’s national sport of boat-racing, was given his last...
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CHIEF MINISTER SAYS IGNORE IRRESPONSIBLE ADVICE
In his most passionate comments since the banking sector resolution in Anguilla, Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, Mr. Victor Banks, told Anguillians to ignore irresponsible persons urging...
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