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  • FOLLOW-UP CONSTITUENCY MEETINGS TAKING PLACE IN JUNE 2019 REMINDER

    28 May 2019

    Councillors will be holding follow-up Constituency meetings in the following districts in June to provide updates on questions that could not be answered during the meetings held in April. Each meeting will start at 7pm. Venue Date Blue Hill Community Centre Monday, 3 June Harford Community Centre Wednesday, 5 June Jamestown Community Centre Tuesday, 11 […]

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  • HM CUSTOMS & EXCISE CLOSURE

    27 May 2019

    HM Customs & Excise would like to advise the public that their office at the Jamestown Wharf will be closed for business on Wednesday, 29 May 2019. This closure is due to Customs staff needing to undertake training on this day. The HM Customs & Excise office will reopen as normal at 8.30am on Thursday, […]

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  • ST HELENA SCHOOLS JOIN THE RACE ACROSS THE SOUTH ATLANTIC CHALLENGE

    27 May 2019

    All schools on St Helena – Harford Primary, Pilling Primary, St Paul’s Primary, and Prince Andrew School – are joining the schools on Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands to participate in the ‘Race Across The South Atlantic Challenge’. The challenge, which will begin for St Helena today, Monday 27 May, will see participants […]

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  • NEW RETAINED FIREFIGHTER FOR ST HELENA FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE

    24 May 2019

    Yordie Constantine, of Jamestown, has recently become a newly trained Retained Firefighter within the St Helena Fire & Rescue Service (SHF&RS). Yordie recently completed an intensive Fire Fighter Development Training Programme which began in February 2019 to become a Retained Firefighter. He then undertook a six-week course covering many aspects of firefighting including Road Traffic […]

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  • ROADS SECTION SLURRY TRIALS

    24 May 2019

    UPDATE The Roads Section of the Infrastructure & Transport Directorate (ITD) has, over the past few weeks, conducted various different slurry trial mixes on the road from White Gate to Lemon Tree Gut (via Knollcombes), as they seek to find alternative patching/surfacing methods for the Island’s road network. Slurry is a micro-surfacing method used to […]

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  • RELOCATION OF ROADSIDE TRAFFIC MIRROR

    24 May 2019

    The Infrastructure & Transport Directorate (ITD) would like to advise the public that the Roads Section will be relocating the roadside traffic mirror currently situated at the top corner of W-road to Sunnyside Junction, St Paul’s. This is due to the stolen traffic mirror from Sunnyside Junction still not being found and needing to be […]

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  • ROCK STABILITY INSPECTION

    24 May 2019

    UPDATE The final phase of the work programme – building the buttress wall near Sundale – to further secure the section of rock in the upper Jamestown area is nearing completion, with the masonry crew of the Roads Section, assisted by the Rock Guards, now in the final stages of construction on the wall. Works […]

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  • WELCOME RECEPTION FOR GOVERNOR AND MRS RUSHBROOK

    24 May 2019

    A welcome reception for Governor Dr Philip Rushbrook and Mrs Rushbrook was held at Plantation House on Friday evening, 17 May 2019. The evening was well attended by invited guests from a selection of organisations and businesses across the Island. Guests were able to meet and greet the new Governor and Mrs Rushbrook. Governor Rushbrook […]

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  • PRIMARY SECTOR EMAIL ACCESS

    23 May 2019

    The following is a Public Announcement from the Education & Employment Directorate: The Primary Sector of the Education & Employment Directorate would like to advise the public that they are currently experiencing difficulties in sending and receiving emails on a regular basis. This issue is currently being addressed, however, until fully resolved, the public might […]

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  • NEW SENIOR ECONOMIST FOR ST HELENA

    23 May 2019

    St Helena Government’s (SHG) new Senior Economist, Amanda Curry Brown, (photo attached), took up her post on St Helena on Monday, 20 May 2019. Amanda has been appointed on a two-year contract and will work alongside the Chief Economist Nicole Shamier. Amanda’s main duties will include developing a revised Labour Market Strategy and providing analytical […]

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