Outgoing Lt. Henderson Burgess of the Anguilla Cadet Corps has said goodbye to the Commanding Officer, Captain Neville Hamilton, and other ranks of the paramilitary organisation. He has relinquished his position and is returning to the United Kingdom to be with his family.
Lt. Burgess has given voluntary service to the Cadet Corps over the past five years (2016-2020). During his tenure he demonstrated valuable leadership and team-building qualities – and will be sorely missed, according to Captain Hamilton.
At a farewell ceremony, on December 1, at the Rodney MacArthur Rey Auditorium, Captain Hamilton expressed gratitude to Lt. Burgess for “his thoughtfulness, helpfulness, ambitiousness, skilfulness, ambitiousness and kind-heartedness.”
Among those present were a number of stakeholders: the Director of Youth and Culture, Ms. Avon Carty; and the Principal of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School, Mrs. Rita Celestine-Carty. Both Ms. Carty and Mrs. Celestine Carty expressed gratitude to Lt. Burgess for his years of service.
Responding, the outgoing Lieutenant and Training Officer said it was a pleasure serving with the Cadet Corps and working alongside Commandant Hamilton – and the other ranks of the youth organisation. He was delighted to have invested his time in the Cadet Corps, and to have received encouraging feed-back from a number of parents.
“The responsibility is now yours to keep the Cadet Corps alive – and to surpass what I may have done,” he added in his farewell address to the leadership of the uniformed young people.
