The St Helena Government Benefits Office is currently reviewing and updating Claims for Basic Island Pension, in accordance with the Social Security Ordinance 2010. All recipients who were awarded Basic...

Residents of Jamestown reported to Police a rockfall on Side Path Road at around midnight on Saturday, 7 January 2017. Emergency Services and relevant agencies and partners responded, and in...

Viral Gastroenteritis, known locally as ‘the bug’, is currently doing the rounds on St Helena. It commonly causes diarrhoea and nausea/vomiting and can cause cramping, stomach pain, fever, and headache....

The St Helena Sea Rescue Service recently welcomed back Graeme Harding from the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), who returns to the Island to work with the Sea Rescue team...

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...