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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 00:45 UTC

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  • Monday, March 14th 2022 - 08:35 UTC

    St Helena/South Africa flights will resume March 26, Jamestown

    South Africa's Airlink will also have a monthly flight St Helena/Ascension Island

    The St Helena government has announced the resumption of Airlink flights between Johannesburg, South Africa, and St Helena island commending 26 March. The Airlink service has been discontinued since March 20 because of the pandemic. The resumption also means a monthly inter-island service to Ascension Island.

  • Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 14:41 UTC

    Two centuries since Napoleon's death in St. Helena Island

    Napoleon's graveyard in St Helena Island

    By Gwynne Dyer - Apart from Britain and Scandinavia, there was hardly a country in Europe that didn’t get a visit from Napoleon’s armies. The campaign that made Napoleon famous in France was his short-lived conquest of Egypt. At one time, he even contemplated following in Alexander the Great’s footsteps and invading India.

  • Saturday, January 16th 2016 - 10:05 UTC

    St Helena and its new airport get ready for tourism take-off

    A view of Jamestown and the St Helena in the bay

    The Guardian Weekly has published a piece on prospects for St Helena with the opening of its international airport, most probably next May, and which is expected to turn the mid Atlantic's island economy, particularly with tourism, since none less that Napoleon Bonaparte spent his last years until his death, almost two centuries ago.