St Helena’s Day 2013
St Helena Independent
A year on St Helena
Best stories of 2012
What the astronaut saw
Carnival!
Ladder Hill Life
Ebony adventure
Reading Sports fun
World-class diving
Haunting of High Knoll
Picture special: island race
Open-air movie night
Governor’s Cup stories
Glider over Longwood
Undersea wonders
Lost tribe’s gift to island
Flight of fantasy?
AUDIO: Valley of despair
See St Helena disappear
Tortoise tales
St Helena ‘grand prix’
Free the facts
Tag Archives: Foreign Office
Experts, expats and what England expects: a governor’s view, part 2
Andrew Gurr, immediate past governor of St Helena, has been sharing his insights from his recent four-year stint behind the big desk in The Castle in Jamestown. See part one of his talk to the Friends of St Helena here. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Gurr, Ascension Island, Bank of St Helena, Department for International Development, DfID, Eddie Palmer, FCO, Foreign Office, Friends of St Helena, invertebrates, Prosperous Bay Plain, Shelco, spiders, St Helena, St Helena airport, Tristan da Cunha, wirebirds
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The inside story on St Helena, by former governor Andrew Gurr
While cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell was in Swindolena in May 2012, telling Saints about their island’s bright opportunities, Andrew Gurr was just 30 miles away in Oxford, sharing insights from his four years as governor (2007-2011). The two men were … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Gurr, Ascension Island, Bank of St Helena, Department for International Development, DfID, Eddie Palmer, FCO, Foreign Office, Friends of St Helena, invertebrates, Prosperous Bay Plain, Shelco, spiders, St Helena, St Helena airport, Tristan da Cunha, wirebirds
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Displaced islanders written off as “a few Man Fridays”
Newly-released secret papers show how officials conspired to remove the people of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s overseas territories. The UK government was negotiating a deal that would allow the United States to use the islands as a military … Continue reading
What the nurse said to the governor: Andrew Gurr looks back
When Andrew Gurr arrived on St Helena in 2007 as the first governor to be appointed through open competition, he found an island civil service that was financially adrift. It needed to undergo surgery – and so, later on, did … Continue reading →