St Helena Government

St Helena Government

  • SCHOOL SPRUCE UPDATE

    13 November 2013

    ‘School Spruce’, a community based project aiming to visually and physically improve St Helena’s three primary schools, started in August of this year. Since then St Paul’s, Harford and Pilling Primary Schools, along with St Helena Government, the private sector, St Helena National Trust, Enterprise St Helena, civil society, parents, teachers and the children themselves […]

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  • SHG SEEKS COMMENTS ON NEW HOUSING POLICIES

    13 November 2013

    St Helena Government is seeking comments from the public on a range of new housing policies. Among these new policies is an improvement in the way that SHG decides who to house. Housing Executive, Andy Crowe explained: “At the moment, we have a complicated points system and we want to simplify it and limit it […]

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  • POST OFFICE AND CSC IMPROVEMENTS

    12 November 2013

     As part of our ongoing commitment to improving services within SHG, The Post Office & and Customer Service Centre (CSC) we will be introducing a number of changes that will be both visible to the public and behind the scenes.  Customers will are informed that from 1 November 2013, the Post Office & Customer Service […]

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  • REMEMBRANCE DAY ON ST HELENA AND IN LONDON

    11 November 2013

    The traditional Remembrance Day Service was held at the Cenotaph on the seafront yesterday. Held to remember those who have fallen in the two World Wars and later conflicts, the service drew a large congregation of people to pay their respects to those who had lost their lives fighting for their country. Led by the […]

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  • OLYMPIC TROLLEYS

    11 November 2013

    Twenty five luggage trolleys arrived on the RMS on 30 October 2013 and were used for the first time on 6 November, when passengers disembarked the RMS and proceeded through Immigration and Customs control. The luggage trolleys were requested by Peter Henderson (former Director General HM Revenue and Customs) as part of the finishing touches […]

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  • COUNCILLOR DOLLERY APPOINTED TO PAC

    11 November 2013

    At this morning’s formal Legislative Council meeting, Councillor Nigel Dollery was elected to serve as a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Councillor Dollery’s appointment results from the resignation of previous PAC Member, Councillor Les Baldwin, who was recently appointed to Executive Council and as Chairman of the Social and Community Development Committee (following […]

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  • JOHN CRANFIELD APPOINTED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE

    11 November 2013

      John Cranfield of Jamestown has been appointed a Justice of the Peace (JP) in and for the Island of St Helena. John took the Oaths in the presence of the Governor’s Deputy, Owen O’Sullivan, on Friday 8 November in the Governor’s Office at the Castle (photo attached). The main role of a JP is […]

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  • SUPREME COURT ADJUDICATION – 8 November 2013

    8 November 2013

    Today in St Helena’s Supreme Court, Jeromy Cairns Wicks pleaded guilty to downloading indecent images from the internet onto his computer. This is the first prosecution of this category on St Helena and follows an investigation in which computer materials were seized during the execution of a warrant earlier this year at Mr Cairns Wicks’ […]

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  • FORMAL LEGCO – MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2013

    6 November 2013

    Legislative Council will meet formally on Monday 11 November, at 10am in the Council Chambers, the Castle, Jamestown – with the session expected to last approximately an hour.    The change of venue is due to the Court House being occupied for court proceedings. The purpose of this Legislative Council meeting is for Elected Members […]

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  • DFID EDUCATION ADVISER ON-ISLAND

    6 November 2013

    Currently on Island for an eight day visit is Education Adviser, Dr Don Taylor, from the Department for International Development (DfID). The purpose of Dr Taylor’s visit is to monitor progress in education, training, and skills development on the Island. Dr Taylor has been visiting the four Island schools, meeting teachers, specialist staff, SHG officials […]

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