SCHOOL SPRUCE UPDATE
13 November 2013‘School Spruce’, a community based project aiming to visually and physically improve St Helena’s three primary schools, started in August of this year. Since then St Paul’s, Harford and Pilling...
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SHG SEEKS COMMENTS ON NEW HOUSING POLICIES
13 November 2013St Helena Government is seeking comments from the public on a range of new housing policies. Among these new policies is an improvement in the way that SHG decides who...
POST OFFICE AND CSC IMPROVEMENTS
12 November 2013As part of our ongoing commitment to improving services within SHG, The Post Office & and Customer Service Centre (CSC) we will be introducing a number of changes that will...
REMEMBRANCE DAY ON ST HELENA AND IN LONDON
11 November 2013The traditional Remembrance Day Service was held at the Cenotaph on the seafront yesterday. Held to remember those who have fallen in the two World Wars and later conflicts, the...
OLYMPIC TROLLEYS
11 November 2013Twenty five luggage trolleys arrived on the RMS on 30 October 2013 and were used for the first time on 6 November, when passengers disembarked the RMS and proceeded through...
COUNCILLOR DOLLERY APPOINTED TO PAC
11 November 2013At this morning’s formal Legislative Council meeting, Councillor Nigel Dollery was elected to serve as a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Councillor Dollery’s appointment results from the resignation...
JOHN CRANFIELD APPOINTED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
11 November 2013John Cranfield of Jamestown has been appointed a Justice of the Peace (JP) in and for the Island of St Helena. John took the Oaths in the presence of...
SUPREME COURT ADJUDICATION – 8 November 2013
8 November 2013Today in St Helena’s Supreme Court, Jeromy Cairns Wicks pleaded guilty to downloading indecent images from the internet onto his computer. This is the first prosecution of this category on...
FORMAL LEGCO – MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2013
6 November 2013Legislative Council will meet formally on Monday 11 November, at 10am in the Council Chambers, the Castle, Jamestown – with the session expected to last approximately an hour. The...
DFID EDUCATION ADVISER ON-ISLAND
6 November 2013Currently on Island for an eight day visit is Education Adviser, Dr Don Taylor, from the Department for International Development (DfID). The purpose of Dr Taylor’s visit is to monitor...
GOVERNOR AND SENIOR OFFICIALS TO DEPART FOR OVERSEAS BUSINESS
5 November 2013His Excellency, Governor Capes will depart the Island on Thursday 7 November for his first official visit to Tristan da Cunha. During His Excellency’s three day visit to the Island...
EXCO REPORT: 4 NOVEMBER 2013
5 November 2013ExCo met today, Monday 4 November, to discuss one item on the open agenda. There were no members of the public present at the open session. The first item of...