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The contents of Montserrat’s Chief Minister’s Labour Day address detailed some of the current Coalition Government’s achievements and mandatory adjustments.
Chief Minister, Dr. Lowell Lewis says, “When I first came into Government in 2001, I made several confident predictions about economic recovery and population growth. We set a target of 8,000 by 2010, but this [...]

According to the Montserrat Tourist Board (MTB), Mr. Elliot Bastien is appointed as the Development Manager.
The MTB says, “Mr. Bastien’s appointment is one of the components of the three-year National Tourism strategy & Plan 2008 - 2010, which seeks to strengthen the human resource capacity at the tourist board and in turn boost Montserrat’s Tourism [...]

His Excellency, Mr. Peter Waterworth, the current governor of Montserrat met with local media representatives on June 3, 2008. The video below is a record of this encounter.
Governor’s Press Conference with Local Media on June 3, 2008

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Residents of Montserrat witnessed the first signs of progress for the project that addresses the most vulnerable of its population. A ground-breaking ceremony, at the beginning of June, marked the start of construction on the project.
The project’s manager, Kay Jardine, described this project as, “part of a much larger project that offers different housing solutions [...]

The University Centre in Montserrat has teamed up with Mr. Colin Riley to address two initiatives this month, a workshop on grant writing and a public lecture on real estate business that revealed the perception that small investors can find investment opportunity in Montserrat.
On June 4th, Mr. Riley conducted a public lecture entitled, ‘Montserrat, the [...]

Mrs. Cathy Buffonge, a representative of the Ministry of Health in Montserrat says, “The Ministry of Health has received a thousand female condoms, donated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).”
Residents of Montserrat can access these condoms at the district clinics and the Glendon Hospital’s pharmacy.
Some medical personnel have described female condoms as a liberating [...]

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The Montserrat Reporter published the contents of an anonymous writer proclaiming to have been troubled by the Governor’s established position of not assenting to the legislative matter.
The published correspondence states that HE Mr. Peter Waterworth defended his position in what is described as, “…a Bill that was duly passed in Montserrat’s Legislature by our democratically [...]