The Anguilla Government is planning a big send-off for His Excellency Governor Tim Foy, OBE, and his wife, Dr. Dina Foy, on completion of three-and-a-half years of service to the island.
It will be the first time that an out-going Governor of Anguilla has been accorded such a warm goodbye. Governor Foy, who successfully took Anguilla through the ruins left by Hurricane Irma to a period of costly rebuilding, has been a source of excellent and dependable leadership – and a channel for British development funds for the island. His work included the obtaining of sixty million pounds in humanitarian aid following Hurricane Irma. This money is being used for various education, health and port projects, many of which are in at advanced stages of construction.
The disclosure of the Government’s plans, to say farewell to Governor Foy, was made to media representatives by Premier Dr. Ellis Webster on Tuesday, December 8. He spoke to The Anguillian and Radio Anguilla, following the handing-over ceremony for the Orealia Kelly Primary School extension, one of the Anguilla Programme projects.
“All of us know that His Excellency, Tim Foy, has done a great job for Anguilla from the time he came,” the Premier stated. “He was confronted within a couple weeks of getting here by the greatest disaster to hit Anguilla – Hurricane Irma. He has done a great job in helping us to get the funding for the Anguilla Programme. He helped us to get up to one hundred million dollars, this year, for Covid relief. He helped us to get the new laboratory to enhance and increase the hospital’s services, and lab personnel from England. We have oxygen generation services and new health clinics coming on board.
“I think that the Governor has done a great job. Looking at all the different Governors, who have been in Anguilla, he stands way up – head and shoulders above all of them.
“He is leaving on the 30th of December and we want to do something in his honour. What we are proposing is – and I guess I am letting the cat out of the bag because this is still secret – is to have a sitting of the House of Assembly in his honour. We are looking at doing that on the 21st or 22nd of December. We will have the Governor sitting in the House and there will be presentations in his honour. I think that is befitting because he has helped Anguilla tremendously. One of the first things done was to restore the House of Assembly, and I feel it is fitting for him to be there for us to show our appreciation in that House which is our House, the people’s House. We will welcome him there and will let him know that he has become part of us.”
