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  • EXCO REPORT – TUESDAY 28 MAY 2019

    29 May 2019

    Governor Rushbrook presided over his first meeting of Executive Council yesterday, Tuesday 28 May 2019. There were three memoranda to consider; the first sought approval of the Medical, Dentistry and Pharmacy (Amendment) Regulations (2019), the second sought approval to implement the draft Building Regulations (2019) under the Building Control Ordinance 2013 and the third asked […]

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  • SAFEGUARDING DIRECTORATE ‘CARE’ CAMPAIGN

    28 May 2019

    Safeguarding Director, Tracy Poole-Nandy, would like to inform the public that the Directorate has relaunched its ‘CARE’: Caring And Respecting Everyone Campaign. The Safeguarding Directorate has various vacancies across the service, including in all residential services supporting older people and adults with additional needs, and sheltered housing services. This campaign aims to recruit local carers […]

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  • ST HELENA POLICE REMAINING PRESENTATIONS ON CONDUCTED ENERGY DEVICES POSTPONED

    28 May 2019

    The following is a Public Announcement from the Police Directorate: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the presentations by St Helena Police on Conducted Energy Devices (Tasers), due to be held at Kingshurst, Harford, Levelwood and Jamestown Community Centres have been postponed. St Helena Police would like to apologise to the public for the short notice. Rearranged […]

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  • FOLLOW-UP CONSTITUENCY MEETINGS TAKING PLACE IN JUNE 2019 REMINDER

    28 May 2019

    Councillors will be holding follow-up Constituency meetings in the following districts in June to provide updates on questions that could not be answered during the meetings held in April. Each meeting will start at 7pm. Venue Date Blue Hill Community Centre Monday, 3 June Harford Community Centre Wednesday, 5 June Jamestown Community Centre Tuesday, 11 […]

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  • HM CUSTOMS & EXCISE CLOSURE

    27 May 2019

    HM Customs & Excise would like to advise the public that their office at the Jamestown Wharf will be closed for business on Wednesday, 29 May 2019. This closure is due to Customs staff needing to undertake training on this day. The HM Customs & Excise office will reopen as normal at 8.30am on Thursday, […]

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  • ST HELENA SCHOOLS JOIN THE RACE ACROSS THE SOUTH ATLANTIC CHALLENGE

    27 May 2019

    All schools on St Helena – Harford Primary, Pilling Primary, St Paul’s Primary, and Prince Andrew School – are joining the schools on Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands to participate in the ‘Race Across The South Atlantic Challenge’. The challenge, which will begin for St Helena today, Monday 27 May, will see participants […]

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  • NEW RETAINED FIREFIGHTER FOR ST HELENA FIRE & RESCUE SERVICE

    24 May 2019

    Yordie Constantine, of Jamestown, has recently become a newly trained Retained Firefighter within the St Helena Fire & Rescue Service (SHF&RS). Yordie recently completed an intensive Fire Fighter Development Training Programme which began in February 2019 to become a Retained Firefighter. He then undertook a six-week course covering many aspects of firefighting including Road Traffic […]

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  • ROADS SECTION SLURRY TRIALS

    24 May 2019

    UPDATE The Roads Section of the Infrastructure & Transport Directorate (ITD) has, over the past few weeks, conducted various different slurry trial mixes on the road from White Gate to Lemon Tree Gut (via Knollcombes), as they seek to find alternative patching/surfacing methods for the Island’s road network. Slurry is a micro-surfacing method used to […]

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  • RELOCATION OF ROADSIDE TRAFFIC MIRROR

    24 May 2019

    The Infrastructure & Transport Directorate (ITD) would like to advise the public that the Roads Section will be relocating the roadside traffic mirror currently situated at the top corner of W-road to Sunnyside Junction, St Paul’s. This is due to the stolen traffic mirror from Sunnyside Junction still not being found and needing to be […]

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  • ROCK STABILITY INSPECTION

    24 May 2019

    UPDATE The final phase of the work programme – building the buttress wall near Sundale – to further secure the section of rock in the upper Jamestown area is nearing completion, with the masonry crew of the Roads Section, assisted by the Rock Guards, now in the final stages of construction on the wall. Works […]

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