2017 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleNO 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...
View ArticleTRIBUTE 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...
View ArticleLATE 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...
View ArticleJETS 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleCHIEF 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...
View ArticleNAGICO SAY GOOD-BYE TO JOHN LAWRENCE
Mr. Lawernce (centre) with staff members A presentation was made to Mr. John Lawrence at the Anguilla Office of NAGICO Insurance Company Ltd to celebrate Mr. Lawrence’s retirement on the 31st...
View ArticleDIGICEL REWARDS THE 7TH WINNER IN THEIR #GETGIFTED PROMOTION!
Ms. Roxanne Webster & Ms. Shreeka Gumbs Tuesday January 10TH 2017: The Valley, Anguilla: – From November 9th 2016 to December January 31st 2017 (“the Promotion Period”) customers have been...
View ArticleBARONESS ANELAY OP ED VISIT TO ANGUILLA
Baroness Anelay On my first visit to Anguilla as Minister for the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I have been delighted to receive such a warm welcome from the people of this...
View ArticleLetter To The Editor: Drug Problem At ALHCS
Drug Problem At ALHCS Dear Editor, The issue of marijuana use, particularly among male students, continues to be a problem at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School. This school year has seen...
View ArticleAsk Your Doctor: CANCER OF THE CERVIX
Cancer of the cervix (womb) is one of the leading cancers affecting women in Anguilla. Almost all of us know of a mother, grandmother, aunt or sister who is affected by this cancer. Recent...
View ArticleMINISTER SPEAKS ON NCBA, JOBS, WORK PERMITS
Mrs. Cora Richardson-Hodge Anguilla’s Minister of Home Affairs, Mrs. Cora Hodge-Richardson, has delivered a radio address in which she spoke on a number of crucial matters aimed at enlightening the...
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