Bicentenary Of Napoleon’s Burial – Sunday’s Event To Be Broadcast Live

Sunday, 9 May 2021, marks 200 years since the burial of Napoleon, Emperor of the French, at The Tomb, Sane Valley. To commemorate the Bicentenary of the burial of Napoleon, a ceremony will take place at The Tomb, starting at 2.50pm. The ceremony will include readings, various pieces of music and songs from Island musicians […]

ExCo Meeting – Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Executive Council will meet on Tuesday, 11 May 2021, at 9.30am, in the Council Chamber, to discuss the following items on the Open Agenda: · Exempting Better Life Allowance Payments from Income Tax · Excision of National Forest Land from the Government Forest Estate These papers (ExCo Memos) are available online at the following link:                                                             http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/councils/executive-council/. Members […]

Crime Prevention Advice – Burglary

St Helena Police have recently received two reports of burglary at unoccupied houses where the residents are away for an extended period of time. Police offer the following advice to prevent these types of incidents from happening or reoccurring in future: Tips: Make your home look occupied, and install timer lights for night time Lock […]

Chief Justice Charles Ekins Esq to Retire

After 14 years of service, The Chief Justice, Charles Ekins Esq, will retire later this year as Chief Justice of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha. The Chief Justice announced the intention of his retirement at the close of this week’s Supreme Court sitting, which due to current travel restrictions was conducted virtually. […]

Draft Public Access to Government Information Bill, 2021

The Public Access to Government Information Bill would put access to Government Information on a statutory basis.  At present access to such information is only considered through an SHG Code. A draft Bill was considered by the Social Community and Development Committee and then Executive Council last year.  Executive Council advised that the draft Bill […]

Governance Reform – Update 1

On 26 March 2021, Legislative Council passed a resolution endorsing theresult of the Consultative Poll conducted on St Helena on 17 March 2021.The resolution further recommended that the Constitution be amended tochange the governance system of St Helena to a ministerial system ofgovernment. A Governance Reform Implementation Group has representation from theGovernor’s Office, Attorney General’s […]

School Nurse Service Drop-In Session – Friday, 7 May 2021

6 May 2021

The School Nurse Service will be holding a drop-in session between 12pm and 1.30pm at the conference room on the second floor of the Post Office building, Jamestown, on Friday, 7 May 2021. The drop-in session is to allow all parents on-Island with school-aged children (5 to 19 year olds) to gain support and advice […]

Preliminary data from the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme

St Helena’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme drew to a close on Saturday, 24 April 2021.  Work is now being undertaken to analyse the data collected.  At this stage, preliminary figures show that 3,528 members of the population of St Helena received both the first and second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Data emerging from the initial […]

Bicentenary Of Napoleon’s Death – Today’s Event To Be Broadcast Live

Today, Wednesday 5 May 2021, marks 200 years since the death of Napoleon, Emperor of the French. To commemorate the Bicentenary of Napoleon’s death, the gardens at Longwood House will be open from 5pm and a ceremony will take place at 5.30pm to include a two-minute silence, at 5.48pm, the playing of the Last Post […]

First Flight Operation Under the Travel Corridor

The flight planned for Tuesday, 11 May 2021, will be the first one operating under the travel corridor between St Helena and Ascension Island.  Persons who have been resident on St Helena and Ascension for 14 days or more prior to the flight will be able to travel freely between the two islands, without the […]