Tag: St Helena Island

• Saturday, January 30th 2016 - 12:52 UTC

  Ginny Ferson appointed to St Helena to oversee implementation of Wass Report.

  

  The Foreign Office can confirm that Ms Ginny Ferson has been appointed to British Overseas Territory St Helena, as UK Government Special Representative: Wass Inquiry Implementation. This is part of the UK Government’s commitment to implementing the Wass report’s recommendations.

• 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.

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

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

  

  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.

• Monday, November 16th 2015 - 06:49 UTC

  St Helena airport official opening has been delayed from February to May 2016

  

  The opening of St Helena Airport in the south Atlantic Ocean has been delayed from February 2016 to May 2016 to allow for additional refinement of the aerodrome's infrastructure.

• Monday, October 5th 2015 - 08:16 UTC

  St Helena airport certification exercises planned for this month and November

  

  British Overseas Territory St Helena is closer to the official opening of its airport following a series of calibration flights by the first aircraft to successfully land and takeoff from the mid Atlantic island.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2015 - 08:04 UTC

  History made as first ever plane lands at St Helena: day to remember 09/15/2015

  

  History was made on St Helena at 13.50hrs GMT Tuesday 15 September 2015, as a Beechcraft King Air 200 aircraft arrived from Angola and touched down at St Helena’s new Airport, prior to conducting a series of calibration flights.

• Saturday, September 12th 2015 - 11:27 UTC

  First landing ever in St Helena airport scheduled for next week as part of calibration flights

  

  A historic milestone is set to be reached next week when a Beechcraft King Air 200 aircraft is due to land at the new St Helena Airport to carry out a series of calibration flights. This will be the first aircraft to land on St Helena, the island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  On St Helena Day, 21 May 2016, begins air link of the island with South Africa

  

  British Overseas Territory St Helena only link with the outside world, currently by sea, will be coming to an end in May 2016, when the proposed official opening of the airport which is being built by South African contractors, will be taking place, according to the 12 May meeting of the island's Executive Council.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 20:12 UTC

  St Helena airport on track: runway 70% completed; grooving and sealing begins

  

  The government of the British Overseas Territory St Helena has given an update on the construction of the airport which is expected to become operational sometime in 2016, and which continues according to original plans.

• Thursday, April 16th 2015 - 08:57 UTC

  British team recovers U$S50m trove of silver coins from sunken ship south of St Helena

  

  A British-led team has recovered a $50m trove of silver coins that has lain on the seabed since the steamship carrying them from Bombay to England was sunk in 1942. The SS City of Cairo was torpedoed 772km south of St Helena by a German U-boat and sank to 5,150m. The 100 tons of coins, recovered in the deepest salvage operation in history, belonged to HM Treasury.