St Helena Line (SHL) is pleased to announce that St Helenian Adam Williams (photo attached), currently Chief Officer on the RMS St Helena, will be promoted to Master of the...

CONSUMPTION RISING, RESERVOIR LEVELS DOWN SLIGHTLY St Helena continues to suffer the effects of a lack of rainfall throughout 2016 and, with only approximately 11% of reservoir capacity filled, the...

POLICE APPEAL Over the recent holiday period, there was a theft of a large number of flagstones from the ‘Sand Store’ at the Wharf (photo attached). These stones, belonging to...

‘YOU SAID, WE DID’  St Helena Police have been consulting with communities across the Island as part of their new Neighbourhood Policing programme. A series of meetings and surgeries were...

JANUARY 2017  The St Helena Police Service formally moved to a Neighbourhood Policing Model on 1 November 2016. As part of this move towards Neighbourhood Policing, Police Officers have been...

SHG notes with sadness the sudden passing of Captain Rodney Young. We wish to extend our condolences and sympathy to his family and friends at this time. Captain Young has...

‘I am pleased to announce that Her Majesty the Queen has conferred the award of an MBE to Mrs Ivy May Yon in recognition of her services to the voluntary...

Mrs Ethel Yon OBE was this morning reappointed as Sheriff of St Helena (photo attached). The Sheriff’s prescribed Oaths were taken before Governor’s Deputy, Mrs Judi Leon, in the Governor’s...

UPDATE – OPERATOR COMES FORWARD St Helena Government thanks the operator of the drone at the Festival of Lights parade for responding to its appeal for information and for agreeing...

Her Majesty The Queen has by Royal Warrant appointed St Helena’s Chief Magistrate John MacRitchie, as a Judge – in Scotland called a Sheriff – based in Edinburgh. He will...

APPEAL FOR INFORMATION St Helena Government is appealing for information in connection with the use of a Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA – or ‘drone’) in Jamestown above the Festival of...

OPEN TO SMALL VEHICLES ONLY The public is advised that Constitution Hill Road will reopen 24/7 for use by small vehicles, commencing at 4pm on Thursday 22 December 2016. There...