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Radio Anguilla
Radio Anguilla is a publicly owned radio station broadcasting to the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla from studios in The Valley on 95.5 FM. The station is owned and operated by the Government of Anguilla and is the oldest radio station broadcasting to Anguilla. History Radio Anguilla launched on April 6, 1969, and was the first radio station in Anguilla. The original transmitting equipment was provided by the British Government. Programming The daily schedule of Radio Anguilla consists of a mixture of music, talk and religious programming. Transmitters Radio Anguilla is broadcast from the Crocus Hill Crocus Hill is the highest point of Anguilla, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, with an elevation of . The hill is located near The Valley, Anguilla's capital. Crocus Bay (west of the hill) was named after Crocus Hill. See also * ... transmitting station on the island. The transmitter was upgraded in 2019 and radiates 3kw. References {{reflist External l ...
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The Valley, Anguilla
The Valley is the capital of Anguilla, one of its fourteen districts, and the main town on the island. , it had a population of 3,269. History Historical landmarks The Valley has few examples of colonial architecture due to the relocation of Anguilla's administration to St. Kitts in 1825, though Wallblake House, built in 1787, still stands and is used as a rectory by the adjacent church. New shops have opened in new buildings and renovated West Indian-style cottages. Old shops have been modernized and have enlarged their stocks as well as their space. The ruins of the Old Court House are located on Crocus Hill, the island's highest point. All that remains are the broken walls of a few basement jail cells. At Cross Roads at the western edge of The Valley is Wallblake House, a plantation home built around 1787 that is now owned by the Catholic Church (the parish priest lives there) and St. Gerard's Catholic Church, with its highly original façade of pebbles, stones, cement, wood a ...
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Government Of Anguilla
Politics of Anguilla takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Premier is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Anguilla, the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, is an internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes Anguilla on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories. The territory's constitution is Anguilla Constitutional Order 1 April 1982 (amended 1990 and 2019). Executive power is exercised by the Premier and the Executive Council. Legislative power is vested in both the Executive Council and the House of Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Military defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom. Executive branch , Monarch , Charles III , , 8 September 2022 , - , Governor , Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam , , 18 January 2021 , - , Premier , El ...
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Anguilla
Anguilla ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately long by wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The territory's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is , with a population of approximately (). Etymology The native Arawak name for the island was ''Malliouhana''. In reference to the island's shape, the Italian ', meaning "eel" (in turn, from the Latin diminutive of ''anguis'', "snake") was used as its name. History Anguilla was first settled by Indigenous Amerindian peoples who migrated from South America. The earliest Native American artefacts found on Anguilla have been dated to around 1300 BC; remains of settlement ...
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Crocus Hill
Crocus Hill is the highest point of Anguilla, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, with an elevation of . The hill is located near The Valley, Anguilla's capital. Crocus Bay (west of the hill) was named after Crocus Hill. See also *Geography of Anguilla Anguilla is an island in the Leeward Islands. It has numerous bays, including Barnes, Little, Rendezvous, Shoal, and Road Bays. Statistics Location: Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, east of Puerto Rico Geographic coordinates: 18°15� ... References External links *Crocus Hill Map — Satellite Images of Crocus Hill Maplandia Crocus Hill Hills of the Caribbean {{Anguilla-geo-stub ...
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