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Press Release Archive

  • CONSTITUENCY MEETINGS IN NOVEMBER

    19 November 2013

    Legislative Councillors are holding a series of public meetings in November.  During each meeting there will be a minimum of three Members present.  Agenda items planned to be discussed in the meetings include benefits and the Sainsbury Report, The Lucy Faithful Report and a communications strategy for Councillors.  Members of the public are also encouraged […]

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  • MAGISTRATES’ COURT

    19 November 2013

    From Trevor Botting, Director of Policing: ‘As a result of an ongoing investigation, this morning a 50 year old man of Jamestown, St Helena, was today charged with a number of offences that allegedly took place between 1990 and 2006. These charges relate to allegations of sexual offences against a single victim, who was aged […]

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  • CHANGES TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT

    19 November 2013

    One of the objectives of St Helena’s Sustainable Development Plan is to facilitate private, public, tourist and business development across the Island through an improved public transport system. To meet this objective a review of the public transport system was carried out in 2012 and an expanded trial system incorporating home to duty transport for […]

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  • GIS DAY 2013

    18 November 2013

    The work of GIS, or ‘Geographical Information Systems’, has been celebrated on St Helena since 2007 in a special, earmarked GIS Day. Held every year on the third Wednesday in November, GIS Day is also recognised in the UK and United States – with the aim of demonstrating to the public how important GIS is […]

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  • EXCO MEETING – TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2013

    15 November 2013

    Open to the Public from 9.30am Executive Council will meet on Tuesday 19 November 2013, in the Council Chamber.  Commencing at 9.30am, the meeting will open to the public for the first agenda item, Revoking of Customs Exemption.   Executive Council Members are: Ian Rummery, Cyril George, Christine Scipio O’Dean, Leslie Baldwin and Derek Thomas […]

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  • COMMONWEALTH ESSAY GOLD WINNER

    13 November 2013

    Every year, the Commonwealth Essay Competition encourages and inspires young writers to submit their stories from all over the world.  This year was a record breaking year for the competition with entries exceeding 11,000 and over 70 judges involved in selection. The competition, free and open to Commonwealth citizens worldwide aged 18 or under, offers […]

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  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING, 7 NOVEMBER 2013 – SUMMARY

    13 November 2013

     An Economic Development Committee meeting was held on 7 November 2013 in the Council Chamber at the Castle. Present at the meeting  was Deputy Chairman, Derek Thomas, Councillors Bernice Olsson, Gavin Ellick and Les Baldwin along with Interim Director of Environment and Natural Resources, Paul McGinnety, Financial Secretary, Colin Owen, Michielle Yon from Enterprise St […]

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  • 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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  • Closing Date for 2014 Birthday Honours

    30 October 2013

    The public are reminded that the closing date for submitting nominations for the Queen’s 2014 Birthday Honours is Friday, 8 November 2013. Nomination forms are available from Corporate Services at the Castle and completed forms should be returned to Mrs Carol George, Executive Secretary, Honours Committee, in a sealed envelope, marked ‘Confidential’, by close of […]

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