SAFER PESTICIDE PRACTICES
15 October 2013In August, the four main importers of pesticides to the island, Queen Mary Stores, Solomons, St Helena Growers Co-operative Society and WA Thorpe and Sons signed a voluntary code of...
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CONSTITUENCY MEETINGS
15 October 2013Legislative Councillors will be holding a series of public meetings in November. During the Constituency meetings there will be a minimum of three Legislative Council representatives present at each meeting....
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES – PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS
15 October 2013The Environmental Management Division currently has three draft environmental policies out for public consultation; these are Underwater Blasting, Peaks National Park Management Development Plan and Environmental Research Permitting. Underwater Blasting...
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR 2011-12 SIGNED OFF
15 October 2013At the most recent open session of Executive Council the first ever set of Financial Statements for St Helena Government (SHG), on an accruals basis, under the International Public Sector...
ROAD CLOSURE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT
14 October 2013To reduce the impact of the Briars to Gordon’s Post road closure on members of the public, it has been agreed that there will not be any increase in...
HM LAND REGISTRY REPRESENTATIVES ARRIVING SOON
11 October 2013Four representatives from HM Land Registry in the UK will arrive on 17 October 2013, for a period of two weeks to assist St Helena Government in the modernisation of...
Child Protection on St Helena and Ascension Island: Report by the Lucy Faithful Foundation
11 October 2013The governments of St Helena and Ascension Island recognise their responsibility to protect the vulnerable in society, especially children. Following the improvements that flowed from the ‘Safeguarding Children in the...
ROLLING PROCUREMENT PLAN
11 October 2013As part of St Helena Government’s (SHG) commitment to increase transparency in the Procurement process, SHG has today, for the first time, made available to the public a Rolling Procurement...
ST HELENA POLICE SERVICE: REVIEWING PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
11 October 2013Mr Chris Thomson and Mr Paul Foggin arrived on St Helena this week. They are visiting on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to follow up on the recent...
BIOSECURITY FILM TO BE SHOW ON LOCAL TV
9 October 2013A short five minute film displaying the biosecurity process will be shown on local TV 1 from Wednesday 9 October to Saturday 12 October at 8.pm. In 1998, the inspection...
ExCo Report: 8 Oct 2013
8 October 2013Good Afternoon, Executive Council met today, Tuesday 8 October to discuss a full agenda. The first item on the open agenda was the information paper on revised fuel prices. The...
PRIMARY ADVISOR THREE MONTHS ON
8 October 2013Primary Advisor for Primary Education, Victoria Stapleton, has been on Island for the last three months. Victoria’s role as a Primary Advisor on Island is to work closely with the...