HEAD OF NEWS TO DEPART ON OVERSEAS TRAINING
5 January 2016SHG Press Office’s Head of News, Kerisha Stevens, departs the Island tomorrow, Wednesday 6 January 2016, to study for a Social Media for Business Diploma with the Pitman Training Group...
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HEALTH MATTERS
4 January 2016ALCOHOL AWARENESS What are the Recommended Safe Limits of Alcohol? Men should drink no more than 21 units of alcohol each week, no more than four units in any one...
BARNS ROAD CLOSURE
4 January 2016Barns Road (the footpath from Prince Andrew School to the Heart Shaped Waterfall) will be closed to the Public from Tuesday 5 January 2016 to Wednesday 6 January 2016. This...
HAWAII CANOE TO VISIT ST HELENA ON ROUND-THE-WORLD VOYAGE
4 January 2016A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe that is in the middle of its round-the-world journey set sail from Cape Town (on Thursday 24 December 2015), bound for Brazil on its first...
WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
4 January 2016Waste Management Services wishes to advise the public that with effect from today, Monday 4 January 2016 – until further notice – there will only be one Refuse Collection Vehicle...
NEW YEARS HONOURS 2016
4 January 2016I am pleased to announce the award of an MBE to Mrs Jacqueline Ellick, in recognition of her services to the environment and community on Ascension Island. For 17 years,...
APPOINTMENT TO GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
4 January 2016The Written Ministerial Statement which accompanied the recent publication of the Wass Inquiry report, contained a commitment from the UK Government to appoint a senior UK official to oversee the...
ST HELENA AIRPORT
23 December 2015YEAR IN REVIEW FILM ON LOCAL TV OVER HOLIDAY PERIOD A ‘Year in Review’ film will be shown on Local TV 2 in the last week of December – showcasing...
ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL APPOINTED
23 December 2015Angelo Berbotto has today been appointed as Acting Attorney General of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, while the substantive Attorney General, Nicola Moore, is absent from the...
EXCO REPORT – TUESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2015
22 December 2015Executive Council met today, Tuesday 22 December 2015, to discuss the following business. Executive Council was asked to consider making an order for duty-free diesel to be continued for all...
APPOINTMENT OF SHERIFF
22 December 2015Ethel Yon OBE today took the Prescribed Oaths for Sheriff of St Helena before Acting Governor Sean Burns, in the Governor’s Office at the Castle (see attached photo). Greta Pat...
BENEFITS OFFICE CLOSURE
18 December 2015The public is advised that the Benefits Office at the Post Office building will only open until 12 noon today, Friday 18 December 2015. The office will re-open to the...