St Helena Government

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Press Releases

  • Draft Waste Management Policy – Your Feedback Needed

    29 October 2019

    St Helena’s draft Waste Management Policy is currently out for public consultation until 4pm on Friday, 8 November 2019.  The draft Policy plans for short, medium and long term environmental changes that are likely to impact on the quality of Island life if waste is left unmanaged including taking up valuable and limited landfill space […]

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  • Teaching Assistant Loretta Henry Completes Level 3 Teaching & Learning Course

    28 October 2019

    Teaching Assistant, Loretta Henry, has successfully completed the Level 3 Teaching & Learning Course with Stonebridge College following a year of online study. The course consisted of five assignments – Communication and Professional Relationships with Children, Young People and Adults; Schools as Organisations; Understand Child, and Young Person Development; and Understand How to Safeguard the […]

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  • Seed Sown for Future Research and Collaboration on St Helena

    28 October 2019

    Dr Hanno Schaefer, Professor of Plant Biodiversity at the Technische Universität München (Munich), touched down on St Helena with 10 Master’s Degree students on Saturday, 28 September 2019. Their arrival on the Island was a week late, having been unable to board at Johannesburg due to an error by German airline staff, shortening their planned […]

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  • St Helena Research Policies

    28 October 2019

    Two policies that set out how St Helena will manage and oversee research on the Island have been approved by the Education Committee. The first, the St Helena Research Policy, sets out the principles under which research on St Helena may be conducted and establishes the St Helena Research Council to authorise and oversee research […]

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  • Remembrance Sunday 2019

    24 October 2019

    Remembrance Sunday falls on 10 November 2019 and on that day The Right Reverend Lord Bishop of St Helena, Dale Bowers, will conduct a Divine Service at the Cenotaph, in Jamestown. His Excellency the Governor will attend. All persons wishing to take part in the Divine Service are asked to assemble at the Cenotaph by […]

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  • The Summer Weather is here

    22 October 2019

    Over the past week, St Helena has been experiencing hot sunny weather conditions with no rainfall. This, along with little surface flows and increased consumption rates, mean that the stored water volume across all Island reservoirs has decreased and is currently at 40%. Connect continues to pump water from Chubb’s Spring and Hutt’s Gate to […]

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  • Rockfall Protection Measures to commence in 2020

    22 October 2019

    St Helena Government (SHG) has recently signed a contract with ‘CAN SA’ from Mirmande, France, to install rockfall protection measures in support of SHG’s Rockfall Protection Strategy 2017. The Contract will see rockfall protection measures installed in Upper and Lower Ruperts Valley and James Valley, with specific emphasis on cliffs above the General Hospital, Cambrian […]

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  • SHG Future Leaders Graduation Ceremony

    21 October 2019

    A graduation ceremony to celebrate the first cohort of the SHG Future Leaders Programme took place at the St Helena Community College on Thursday, 17 October 2019. Chief Secretary, Susan O’Bey, welcomed invited guests and said: “The Future Leaders Programme is an internal SHG programme designed to give a group of motivated and ambitious young […]

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  • Minimum Wage Public Consultation

    21 October 2019

    St Helena Government (SHG) is consulting on an increase to the Minimum Wage from 1 April 2020. Minimum Wage The Minimum Wage per hour is currently £3.13 (for persons over 18) and £2.18 (for persons aged 16 or 17). The Employment Rights Ordinance, 2010, prescribes that the Minimum Wage must be reviewed on an annual […]

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  • Governor Issues Writ of Election for 2019 Bye-Election

    21 October 2019

    Governor Dr Philip Rushbrook has today issued the Writ of Election for the upcoming Bye-election to be held on Wednesday, 27 November 2019. The Writ confirms the last day and time for receiving Nominations to elect a new Member to fill the vacant seat on Legislative Council. The last day and time for receiving nominations […]

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