SHG is pleased to announce that recipients of Basic Island Pension (BIP) and Income Related Benefits (IRB) will receive an increase in their weekly allowance from 1 December 2013. This...

Legislative Councillors are holding a series of public meetings in November.  During each meeting there will be a minimum of three Members present.  Agenda items planned to be discussed in...

From Trevor Botting, Director of Policing: ‘As a result of an ongoing investigation, this morning a 50 year old man of Jamestown, St Helena, was today charged with a number...

One of the objectives of St Helena’s Sustainable Development Plan is to facilitate private, public, tourist and business development across the Island through an improved public transport system. To meet...

The work of GIS, or ‘Geographical Information Systems’, has been celebrated on St Helena since 2007 in a special, earmarked GIS Day. Held every year on the third Wednesday in...

Open to the Public from 9.30am Executive Council will meet on Tuesday 19 November 2013, in the Council Chamber.  Commencing at 9.30am, the meeting will open to the public for...

Every year, the Commonwealth Essay Competition encourages and inspires young writers to submit their stories from all over the world.  This year was a record breaking year for the competition...

 An Economic Development Committee meeting was held on 7 November 2013 in the Council Chamber at the Castle. Present at the meeting  was Deputy Chairman, Derek Thomas, Councillors Bernice Olsson,...

‘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...

St 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...

 As 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...

The 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...