Anguilla has a colourful new building in a tropical style, and it serves food in a Caribe Mediterranean style. . . .
March 15, 1999 - Site Map - Click to enlarge pictures

The prices are low for Anguilla and the quality is high. Even though chef Didier is a trained French chef and has worked at Malliouhana and Cinammon Reef, this is not nouveau cuisine -- the portions are generous. From personal experience I can recommend the Mango Gazpacho Soup $6, and the Curry Chicken Pot Pie $16, which has a light French Provencal crust and assorted condiments for dipping. They also have my favorite dessert, Creme Brulee $7, rich and creamy with a nice ginger flavor.

The setting itself creates a unique ambience, with open dining verandas on all four sides and a high pitched center roof enclosing a Tapas bar/lounge area. The surrounding gardens are already lush and green -- every table has a view over the balcony into the garden. The lounge has congenial sitting areas and comfortable seating, with an antique glass chandelier from St Kitts.

La Veranda is a family venture. Stacey is the hostess, Didier is the chef, mother Denise organizes the back office, and Jerry Brown (Denise's husband, who runs the Anguilla Garden Center next door) does the landscaping Even the children helped out, working furiously to get La Veranda opened before the tourist high season is over.

Telephone: 1-264-497-2225. Open every day. Future plans include lunch, and breakfast.

Directions: From the airport parking lot, take the only exit and turn left, then left again and drive back past the airport. Go straight through the roundabout and west down the main road. Turn right at the next roundabout and drive down toward Sandy Ground. Partway down the hill, turn right at the sign for La Veranda restaurant.

Please call Sam Mason at 497-5217 if you have any information which would help him find his way home!

Existing Government Re-elected. The incumbents were re-elected in all seven districts and reformed the same coalition government with Hubert Hughes as Chief Minister. Read all about the voting on the elections.ai web site, created by Griffin Webster and Wycliffe Richardson.

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Appropriate topics are tourism, beaches, local culture, nature, sports, schools, clubs, shopping, boating, fishing, events, music, art and, of course, food.

Bob Green
Anguilla Local News
Box 931
The Valley
Fax: 1-264-497-3295
Email: [email protected]

The weather has been warm, clear, and dry for the last two weeks. Although the tourists love this, the gardens are drying up and looking unhappy!

The Anguilla Local News has an Calendar for the year showing events, holidays, and activities.

Saturday, March 20, 1999 from 5:30 to 7:30pm, the Devonish Gallery is having an opening reception for "Essential Anguilla", an exhibition of oil paintings by Shari Erickson. The work here is Not Yet Noon, Copyright Shari Erickson.

Other events in the next two weeks include: Mar 21. 11am. Second annual Optimists Triathalon Relay Extravaganza. Swim, run, bicycle. Call 497-2369 to enter a 3-person team. There are both serious and fun categories.

Mar 25-28. Moonsplash 99. The Bacon Brothers headline The Dune. Rendezvous Bay. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the gate for each night, or $30 in advance for both Friday and Saturday. Sunday admission is free for everyone. For more information, email [email protected] or telephone 616-785-8383.

Mar 31. Deadline to register for Summer Art Festival Competition and Workshops. Web Site.

Update on Allamanda Beach Club. This small popular resort on upper Shoal Bay now has a beach cafe: Zara's Beach Bar, which is located next to Shoal Bay Scuba & Watersports (they have a new dive boat, but more on that in a later issue). The low season is just about upon us and Allamanda's rates for April 15th to December 14, 1999 drop significantly, and if you stay 6 nights, the 7th is free. Apartments, all with kitchen, range from $85 to $162, but Allamanda's summer special includes the 18% service and tax, so the actual rates are $72 to $137. And they have installed air conditioning. Telephone: 1-264-497-5217. Email to Ava in the office at [email protected] or [email protected] in the USA. Web site: www.allamanda.ai

Update on Roadwell Cafe. This gallery, coffee bar and cafe now serves lunch. As usual, I volunteered to investigate. Two very nice bageutte sandwiches, with a glass of wine and iced tea were US $12.50.

Feedback on Fishing.

From:	        Randy Graham   [email protected]
Sent:	        Monday, March 08, 1999 5:19 PM
To:	        [email protected]
Subject:	Bonefishing at Corito Bay

From:      [email protected]
Sent:      Tuesday, March 02, 1999 9:23 AM
To:        [email protected]
Subject:   Fishing with Johnno

Splash Villa is very private and very quiet, down a long windy road in South Hill, behind Rendezvous Bay, with spacious and unobstructed views. It has an open design with entry (8' door), kitchen and dining area overlooking sunken living room, and pool deck with St Martin beyond. On the left up a half flight of stairs is a master suite and on the right, separated for privacy, are two more bedrooms and another bathroom.

This is an ambitious venture for a local builder, even doing landscaping and trying to grow grass. Ian and his fiance Janine have furnished Splash Villa, including some antiques, and are ready to start renting it to holiday guests. They already have one booking, for the Millenium week. Phone/fax 1-264-497-2262. Cellular 235-7667. Email: [email protected] and web page at splash.ai

Reader Lee Ann Cox (email: [email protected] ) starts the process by sending us some information on using ocean freight shipping to Anguilla:

Tropical shipping in Miami - 1-800-638-8767
Tropical shipping in Houston - 1-281-272-0185

If you don't have enough to fill an entire container, you can send Less Than Container Load (LTC). The basic rate from Miami is 4$ per cubic foot, (from San Juan, $2 per c.f and from St. Thomas, $2.75), but there is a minimum of $80 and other factors may modify the charge (weight, type of goods).

Schedule from Miami - Ship leaves Miami Friday and arrives Anguilla the following Wednesday. v Schedule from San Juan - Ship leaves Thursday and arrives Anguilla the following Wednesday.

Schedule from St. Martin - Ship leaves Tuesday and arrives Anguilla the next day (Wednesday).

Tropical shipping Website - www.tropical.com

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My Class. The name of my class is Grade 4. My teacher is Teacher Vivienne Vanterpool. My class is rectangular in shape. The colour of my class is cream and yellow. The blackboards are black. There are twenty two pupils in my class. In class at mornings we have Maths, Composition, and Reading. In the afternoon until school finishes we have Social Studies, General Knowledge, Science and Comprehension. At the end of the day we have homework. When school is finished we put up the chairs, close the windows, say our prayers, put on our bags and go home.

By Lesandra Morton

By Kerlyn Hughes

By Teshana Brooks

Thanks The staff and pupils of the Valley Primary School wish to say a big THANK YOU to La Serena for the lovely plants which decorate our school yard. We really like them very much. We will take good care of them. Thanks also to Wilmoth Richardson Backhoe Services and Terry for digging the holes for us.

By Kenville Hall

By Malone Richardson and Genrick Reid

Here is Roger�s easy reference table arranged in order of distance from Anguilla. Submit any corrections or additional info to [email protected]

* Located in the Valley, long news also at noon and 7:00 p.m. plus many special local programs

**Located on Crocus Hill, truly local music with Mello Sello, otherwise satellite programs, rebroadcasts on 91.9 St. Martin and 92.1 Statia

***Located near Sandy Hill, this other local station on Anguilla also has a short wave transmitter