People

A recent visitor to Anguilla was Judge Philip N. Gumbs who resides in Cliffwood, New Jersey, and whose parents were born in Anguilla. Now retired, he has been coming to Anguilla as often as possible and enjoying his stay at Nathan’s Cove at Meads Bay Beach. The two-storey building bearing that name is a family-owned property. Family members visiting from the United States occupy the top floor while the first floor provides excellent accommodation for tourists.

Russian pianist Irina Kaufman-Brooks will be performing as guest artiste in a recital at Bethel Methodist Church at 7.30 on Saturday May 1. The recital will be presented by the Music Teachers Association in collaboration with the Music Department of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School.

Irma, Vera and Bertha Richardson of Long Bay are part of a strong Anguillian Methodist family. The three sisters, who always appear together in public dressed alike, are generally admired for their great community spirit and in particular the type of unity and love they demonstrate which has long characterised the Anguillian traditional way of life.

Two professional trainers, who conducted a seminar for 32 middle managers of the Anguilla Public Service last week, said it provided a dual reward for them. An important contributing factor is that they are Anguillians.

Meet one of the faces behind the Superstar, NWO, Viking and The Main Event. Levette Proctor, of South Hill, is one of Anguilla’s young shipwrights who, in his own way, is keeping our national sport alive. You better remember this fact because Levette is not the type of guy to remind you about his famous associations.
Since 1991, Levette has been employed at Rebel Marine, North Hill, where he now specialises in fibreglass boat construction. His involvement with boat building, however, dates further back than 1991 - as far back as the days when he would build model boats to race in the ponds at Sandy Ground and at Rendezvous.

As part of the celebrations marking its 125th Anniversary, the Bethel Methodist Church honoured Teacher Eudora Hughes and the late Muriel Richardson for their Music Ministry in the church.

Retired Nurse Allison Yvonne Rey of Little Harbour, Anguilla, has been honoured on the Official Birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Second with the MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for community services.

Walter Griffith Hodge, though passed on to the Great Beyond 13 years ago, is one of those unforgettable Anguillian personalities many were fortunate to know. One of the things keeping his memory alive is the Walter G. Hodge Memorial Anguilla Day Lecture, now in its third year and sponsored annually by the Social Security Board.

Former Visitor Services Assistant with the Anguilla Tourist Board, Ms. Chrislyn Connor, has recently returned to the island after successfully completing studies leading to the award of an Associate Degree in Travel and Resort Marketing from the State University of New York at Cobleskill.

So, you have just boarded an airplane at Wall Blake International, and are all braced for take off. Just before you are airborne, your pilot checks in at the tower for instructions. Likely, the voice crackling over the radio, issuing what sounds like some secret code, belongs to Glen Boothe. He is one of several air traffic controllers who ensures that you get to your destination safely, and on schedule. If ever you chance to visit the tower, he is the tall, slim, bespectacled guy with the wide smile.

A proud Anguillian young woman has qualified as a Doctor of Pharmacy in the United States of America. She is Erica S. Fleming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walton Fleming of Lower South Hill was awarded her Doctorate degree on May 10th, 2003.

Christian Richardson, an Anguillian linguist with outstanding skills in French, Spanish and Latin, has been showered with praise for his sterling contribution to foreign language education in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

Marcia Hodge has always been an ambitious person and a fine example to aspiring young people. Today she is a successful individual and a teacher as a result of her commitment to hard work and excellence. The Anguillian met her on a busy morning a few minutes before she set out to one of the classrooms at Campus B at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School.

Two Anguillian women were honoured on Mother’s Day at the Maranatha Methodist Church at Blowing Point during a ceremony chaired by Mrs. Eudine Romney.

It has been one year now that Angёle H.Wilson (Aurjul), returned to Anguilla, and to quote her “it’s been an adjustment in more ways than one, however, despite the various challenges I am happy to be back home”. Some twenty years prior, Aurjul, her parents along with the rest of her siblings migrated to the US Virgin Islands. As a young adult she was a primary school teacher who started out at the Road Primary School where Dizzy (on his way to and from work in Blowing Point) dropped her off and picked her up until her transfer to Island Harbour Primary School and later at East End Primary school. She insists that her first love is teaching and in fact she never gave up teaching, and has taught at the University of the Virgin Islands as an adjunct instructor for little over a decade and later at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.

A 35-year-old Anguillian, greatly beloved by her family, is stationed in an area between Kuwait and Iraq where the sound of battle is just subsiding. She is Corporal Sharlene Hennis, daughter of Perpetua (Petty) Benjamin of The Quarter, and Joseph Hennis who resides in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. She is the mother of a 13-year daughter, Sinnara Hennis.

A much-respected freedom fighter in the Anguilla Revolution, Hyacinth Roberteen Carty, popularly known as ‘Miss Joseph’, was laid to rest at Sandy Hill Cemetery on Tuesday April 22nd, following the funeral service at St. Augustine’s Anglican Church. The service, presided over by Bishop Errol Brooks, was attended by a large number of persons from throughout the island, indicative of the high esteem in which she was held.

Praises Dental Unit In Anguilla

Anguillian Dental Surgeon, Dr. Lindell Brooks, a 1984 graduate of Maharry Medical College School of Dentistry in Nashville, Tennessee, and a staff member there from that year, is to further his studies in July this year. In addition to his work at the school, he has been operating a private practice over the years in general dentistry from implants to preventive care.

The following is an extract from the Slough Observer in the United Kingdom. Detective Constable Glenn Webster, featured in the story, is an Anguillian Police Officer serving in Slough. He is the son of the late Elbert and Edith Webster of Island Harbour.
By Rebecca Johnson

In a few months it will be 41 years since Anita Richardson and her husband Urban (Stephen) Richardson have been residing and working in Slough, England. They have two children - a daughter, Amanda a well known body builder on the island and a son Tyrone, a personal fitness instructor in England.