Tag: Lisa Phillips

• Thursday, May 4th 2017 - 05:10 UTC

  St Helena celebrates: charter plane lands with 60 passengers; RMS scheduled to depart Friday

  

  British Overseas Territory of St Helena, an island in the middle of the south Atlantic, celebrated on Wednesday 3 May 2017, when a charter plane carrying 60 passengers landed at St Helena Airport at 1.55pm, helping to reestablish links with South Africa. Another good piece of news was that RMS St Helena, the regular connection with St Helena is scheduled to depart Cape Town on Friday.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 17:00 UTC

  St Helena airport “too dangerous to use” opens prospect of £285m compensation claim

  

  Britain faces the prospect of compensation claims over a disastrous overseas aid project to build an airport on the remote island of St Helena, according to reports in the UK media. The £285million flop became a symbol of Britain’s aid waste this year after experts warned it might never open because of severe problems with wind conditions on the British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.

• Saturday, June 11th 2016 - 06:53 UTC

  St Helena airport certified and open, with challenges for larger planes in one runway

  

  St Helena governor Lisa Phillips has rejected recent news in the British media referred to the BOT's airport alleged “indefinite postponement” condition, arguing the terminal has been certified and is open, as demonstrated by a recent medivac flight a week ago.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2016 - 08:52 UTC

  St Helena celebrates the new airport on her 514th discovery anniversary

  

  2016 St Helena’s Day celebrations were this year held on Friday 20 May 2016, and were reckoned by all to be a great success. Once again organized by New Horizons and held in lower Jamestown, traditional activities and stalls were arranged in both the Mule Yard and along the Seafront area.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 07:32 UTC

  New governor for St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

  

  Lisa Phillips is to succeed Mark Capes as Governor of St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in April 2016.