Public Announcements

  • Voting in the Bye-election 2015

    Voting in the Bye-election 2015

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  • OFFICIAL LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR BYE- ELECTION 2015

    The Elections Ordinance 2009 provides for Nominations to be delivered to the Returning Officer by no later than noon on the last day appointed for the Nomination of Candidates. The closing date for nominations for the 2015 Bye-election (to be held on Wednesday 4 March 2015) was today, Wednesday 18 February 2015. Returning Officer, Gillian […]

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  • SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

    As you will be aware, St Helena has attracted considerable negative publicity recently, depicting our Island as a place where child abuse is tolerated and not properly addressed by Government agencies. This is simply not true! As Chairman of the Social and Community Development Committee I have seen first-hand the impressive improvements in Safeguarding arrangements […]

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  • ORGANISATIONAL CHANGES IN PORT CONTROL SECTION

    The public is advised that due to organisational changes within the Port Control Section (Office of the Harbourmaster) St Helena, the following personnel can be contacted via their new email addresses, detailed below. Assistant Harbourmaster, Steve Kirk, has been promoted to Deputy Harbourmaster and can be contacted via email address Deputy.Harbourmaster@hmrc.gov.sh Assistant Harbourmaster, Brian Greentree, […]

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  • ELECTED MEMBERS AND SENIOR SHG OFFICIALS VISIT AIRPORT SITE

    Elected Members visited the St Helena Airport site on Friday, 13 February 2015, following their quarterly Airport Project progress presentation by the SHG Access Office. Elected Members were joined by Senior SHG Officials on the site visit, hosted by Basil Read, Halcrow and the Access Office.  Together they visited Prosperous Bay Plain, Bradleys, the Airport […]

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  • BYE-ELECTION – DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS – WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2015

    The public is reminded that the last day and time for receiving Nominations to elect a Member to fill the vacant seat on Legislative Council is 12 noon on Wednesday, 18 February 2015. All nominations should be delivered within this time to the Returning Officer, Mrs Gillian Francis, at the Castle, Jamestown. Don’t leave it […]

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  • COUNCILLORS’ CONSTITUENCY MEETINGS IN FEBRUARY/MARCH

    Councillors are holding a series of constituency meetings during February and early March 2015. Topics for discussion are Health and Water, but members of the public are encouraged to attend the meetings in their districts to raise any issues they might have. The schedule for the remaining meetings is displayed below. All meetings will begin […]

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  • CONTROLLED ROCK REMOVAL – WEST ROCKS

    On Wednesday morning, 18 February 2015, Rock Guards, from the Environment and Natural Resources Directorate (ENRD), will conduct a controlled rock removal operation in the West Rocks area. As a precautionary measure, the area from the Sand Yard will be cordoned off to pedestrians and traffic with immediate effect. The public is advised to please […]

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  • MAJOR INCIDENT TRAINING EXERCISE COMPLETED

    The public is advised that the major incident training exercise, which took place this morning, has been completed. The Wharf is now open to the public and Hospital Services have resumed as normal. Today’s exercise was organised to allow the Island’s Emergency Services to practice their processes for dealing with someone who arrives on-Island with […]

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  • CALL FOR INFORMATION – VANDALISED BOAT AT THE WHARF

    During the weekend of Saturday 7 Feb & Sunday 8 Feb 2015, vandal/s sprayed graffiti over a local fisherman’s boat, located in the Coal Yard at the Wharf. The graffiti has caused significant damage to the boat’s paintwork, resulting in an extra two days work for the owner and additional personal costs of £250.00. This […]

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