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Vol. 1, Issue 35 - Price: £1 Th ursday 22 November 2012“serving St Helena and her community worldwide”

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In a press release on Monday, the St Helena Government (SHG) announced the restructur-ing of the Infrastructure and Utilities Director-ate (I&U). In its place will be the Directorate of Physical Environment (PE) that will encom-pass services such as lands, buildings, transport, infrastructure and the environment. “We have been thinking about restructuring for a number of months,” revealed Chief Secretary, Owen O’Sullivan. “There has been consultation with the senior managers and this has gone through the appropriate internal SHG processes.” Re-structuring plans were presented to members of Executive Council on Tuesday, 13 November. “It is now a case of actual implementation,” he continued. “It isn’t sudden it has been carefully thought through. It is part of the modernisation process and in fact, if you look at past papers, over the last year and a half its been quite clear that this is the direction of travel that SHG is taking. The world is changing, there has been a lot of investment on the island with the airport and SHG has got to change along with the is-land.” He said that restructuring was an ongo-ing process.

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Sherrilee Phillips, SHBC

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Stories making the news in this issue:BABY NEWS page 2SUMMER ROADS PROGRAMME: fi nd out about road works in your area page 3LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH ON ST HELENA: It’s not cancer. see page 5NEW MANAGER AT THE PRISON: Martin David joins team page 10

ALL WHITE: White Ribbon Day, recognising & support-ing elimination of violence against women. page 12SPORTS ARENA: Youth games, cricket, shooting, yacht race profi les & golfback pages

O’Sullivan sworn in page 4

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Gary Stevens page 14

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ST HELENA NEWS SNIPPETSBABY BOYMatt Nysie Yon was born on Friday 9 Novem-ber at 5.50pm with jet black hair and startling blue eyes. He weighed 7lb and 15oz, mea-sured 45cm in length and had a 36cm head circumference. First time parents Gemma Andrews and Meshara Yon of the Briars are delighted with their little boy and look forward to parenthood as he grows and develops. They would like to say thank you to Midwife Rosie Mittens and Wendy Henry, Acute Community Health Manager, for the safe delivery of their son. Thanks goes to midwives Shirley Ander-son for her help during the day, Erika Benja-min for her help and support throughout the night and to all the hospital staff before and af-ter pregnancy. Also thank you to all who gave cards and gifts and made a million phone calls after Matt’s arrival.

RMS TURBO- CHARGER On the 13 November the RMS St. Helena reported a technical problem with the turbo- charger on its portside engine. Tim Walpole, Chief Engineer explained the function of the turbo-charger in plain terms is to get more air into the engine, in order to get more fuel in and produce more power. “It’s like a big air com-pressor,” said Tim. How serious is the techni-cal problem? “It is a catastrophic failure, but if we get the spare parts in Ascension we will hopefully freight them on passage from Ascen-sion back to St. Helena. It was quite a serious failure, and an expensive one.” The ship can now currently travel on one engine instead of two, as a major repair needs to be performed. Asking if it is dangerous just to travel on one engine, Captain Rodney Young remarked, “No not at all, one engine is just as good as two, just a bit slower.” Will the passengers feel any difference with just one engine? “No because the journey from St. Helena to Ascension is normally on one engine anyway, that’s why we take three nights, so you will feel no difference at all.” When the turbo char-

ger failed on Monday evening, Tim explained “Our managers have been extremely confi -dent and swift in managing sourcing spare parts from Switzerland and then get them with the help of the RAF sent to the middle of the South Atlantic in less than 7 days, so that will be certainly a feather in their cap.” The turbo charger is intended to get fi xed on the voyage back from Ascension to St. Helena, enquiring the likelihood of fi xing the components on the voyage, Tim was “extremely confi dent.” The RMS schedule has been put back one day due to the fault, Rodney explained, “We might be a day later arriving in Cape Town but it is too early to say, in a week’s time we will know certainly what we are going to do.”

CONTAINERS LEFT BEHINDAndrew Weir Shipping announced on the 22 November that due to gale force winds, Maersk made the decision that the vessel ‘Lars

Maersk’, carrying transhipment containers from the UK to connect with the RMS St Hel-ena on Voyage 182 in Cape Town proceeded to Port Elizabeth and Durban and did not dock in Cape Town as planned. The ‘Lars Maersk’ will now discharge the transhipment contain-ers on her return voyage to Cape Town. There were thirty-three containers that now have to be shipped on voyage 183 of the RMS St. Helena, expected to arrive on St Helena on 3 December 2012. Speaking to Captain Rodney Young, When asked whether it was possible to accommodate the additional containers as during the Christmas period the ship is often full, “when you say full, the ship can take 94 containers and at the moment we have booked 90 containers on this ship which includes 62 containers from the UK, so they are all booked onboard. Rodney continued that “all contain-ers that have been booked from the UK that was due to arrive on this call and next call will be onboard and in fact I can confi rm that half of those containers are already in Cape Town and the other ship is docking on the 19th I think and one on the 20th and that will make the containers up to 62.” Rodney remarked that there is no chance any of the containers will be left behind.

BIG BLASTBasil Read carried out a blasting operation on Prosperous Bay Plain at noon on Friday 16th November. This blast was the largest under the project to date and the largest blast ever on Island. An Access Offi ce Airport Update estimated 30 tonnes of explosives was to be used to shift rocky outcrops in the Dry Gut area, as works continued to fi ll the 8.1 million cubic metre gut in readiness for runway con-struction.Around 80 members of the public, many of which took time off work to witness the event gathered at a designated viewing area in the Millennium Forest. At noon large plumes of dust shooting into the air, was the fi rst sign

Baby Matt Nysie Yon

RMS Engineers

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that the blast had begun, followed 3-4 seconds later by loud rumbles that could be heard Is-land wide. Natalie Lawrence was one of the bystanders who witnessed the blast. “I came out around 11:45,” said Natalie, “there was a big hype surrounding the event so I thought I would come out to have a look. It was inter-esting to watch, I didn’t really know what to expect, but it was interesting.”Mario Green is a Basil Read Employee, who had the opportunity to view the blast. “It was quite spectacular,” said Mario, “bit of a shock really. It all happened quite fast. The dust gives you an indication of how big the blast actually was. I think if we had been allowed to go closer we would have felt the effects of the blast better. I’m a bit disappointed that it was over so fast, but it was a good blast.” GOVERNOR LEAVES THE ISLAND His Excellency Governor Capes departed St Helena on 15 November 2012, for Ascension Island, for a period of work and leave in the UK and South Africa.Whilst in the UK, Governor Capes will attend the annual Joint Ministerial Council held by the Foreign Offi ce and attended by all Leaders of the Overseas Territories. He will also call on various Government Departments, and he and Mrs. Capes will have an Audience with Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace.In South Africa, he will meet with the British Consul, the Western Cape Government, organ-

isers of the Governor’s Cup Yacht Race and with potential inves-tors.When the Governor Departs Ascension on 21 November the Chief Secretary, Owen Sullivan will become Acting Governor and the Deputy Chief Sec-retary, Gillian Francis, will become Acting Chief Secretary.His Excellency will re-turn to St Helena on 04 January 2013.

SUMMER ROADSPRO-GRAMMEThe Roads Section have commenced their Summer Programme. Their aim is to resur-face 10% of the Is-land’s main roads dur-ing the good weather. For the next few months there will be up to eight different teams working on the roads around the island, with up to three teams car-rying out major patching and surfacing work.

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Work has begun on roads in the Longwood area, Half Way and Blue Hill. Dave Malpas, Roads Manager explained, “Basically the plan is that we are going to clean the road, repair any major problems with the existing surface and put a new layer over the whole road as a fi nished surface.”The Roads Section has been trialling a mix-ture of aggregate and colas to create asphalt. Dave commented how he felt about the results, “The trials that we have been doing is a new process called slurry sealing. The process we have been working on at the moment is called surface dressing which is a traditional process. The slurry seal - I won’t be happy with the re-sults fully until we have had it down for 12 months and we’ve thrown the entire year at it but what I have seen so far yes I am happy that it is going to work in the future.”He clarifi ed what the main roads are on the island, “The main roads are predominately roads with the highest traffi c fl ow and strate-gic roads... such as the road from Jamestown to Longwood is obviously an important road. They are actually defi ned by one of my prede-cessors when the project was developed and it had been agreed with the European Union who are funding the project. We are starting

Sequence of photos taken by Nick Stevens from Levelwood direction

The blast as seen from the Millennium Forest.Note: Bradleys in foreground

Traffi c Lights in operation at Half Way


SENTINELCOMMENTChloe Terry, SHBC

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ACTING GOVERNOR SWORN INActing Governor, Owen O’Sullivan took the Oaths of Offi ce at 12 noon on Wednesday 21st November in the Governor’s offi ce at the Castle. Surrounded by government offi cials, councillors and administrative staff who came to witness the proceedings, Sheriff, Greta Pat Musk MBE JP offi ciated the ceremony. After solemnly reading out the oaths of allegiance,

O’Sullivan signed the register which was countersigned by the Sheriff. Attendees then bowed their heads as Father Dale Bowers led the room in prayer. In his speech the O’Sullivan said, “It’s a great honour and privilege to become Acting Gov-ernor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. I take the responsibility very seriously and will strive to make it a calm, peaceful and tranquil stewardship of the governorship dur-ing the Christmas period. Plantation House is getting a well deserved refurbishment so it will be quiet in terms of, there won’t be nor-mal Christmas offi cial functions. However, I will be looking forward in getting out into the community and marking the Christmas festivi-

We would like to apologise for an error printed in last week’s Sentinel. On page 2 an article on the ‘Ferry Service and Moorings Update’ quoted a fi gure of £70,500.This fi gure was wrong and should in fact have read, £17,500.Our apologies for any confusion or distress this may have caused readers.

Sophy and Rémi would like to thank all the hospital staff

for their kindness and help with the birth of their daughter

Ebony, born on the 14th November. Thank you also to everyone for their

radio requests, the wonderful presents and messages of congratulations.It must be getting close to Christmas! The

summer heat is becoming a permanent perk, the town is always bustling with people, shops are full with gift ideas and cheerful Christmas decorations can be seen hang-ing in the windows. On the front there is always an element of happiness – but what is happening behind closed doors? For some people Christmas isn’t a cheerful time, fi lled with merriness. On 25 November, White Ribbon Day is recognised. This global campaign is to raise awareness of violence against women and to ensure men take more responsibility for reducing the level of vio-lence against women. On the White Rib-bon Campaign website, 9,623 pledges have been made by men who are working to end violence against women, and the number is growing. St Helena celebrated the day for the fi rst time last year and in doing so I felt a big step was taken by raising awareness here on island of what is acceptable and what is wrong. However, unfortunately White Ribbon Day – a single day in a year is not enough to conquer the battles that many people face in the home – it is still a big problem. It is scary knowing that the num-bers of domestic abuse cases on the island are severe, common and rising. What makes it even worse is that victims feel repressed and trapped to move from such a dismal and fearful place. Fear from suffering more pain, fear of what others might think and fear of how life will move on after admitting abuse, are what victims face because of the worry of other’s judgmental opinions in such a tight, compact society. So wear a white rib-bon – your compassionate respect for suf-ferers might even give some the confi dence to get help.

ties.” He went on to thank his family for their continued support. A line of well wishers queued to congratulate the Acting Governor and Mrs O’Sullivan, drinks and eats were served by the Plantation staff to mark the occasion.The Acting Governor has a busy workload in the lead up to Christmas dealing with the SHG restructuring programme and constitutional reform. “The key thing is to just make sure that St Helena carries on in going forward particularly in this time of change,” he said. O’Sullivan will hold the post from 21 Nov un-til the return to Ascension Island of Governor Capes on 31 December. The Deputy Chief Secretary, Gillian Francis, will become Acting Chief Secretary during the period.

Fr Dale, Sheriff Musk & Acting Governor O’Sullivan

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ST HELENA NEWS SNIPPETSon roads in Longwood out by Ropery Field, White Wall to Half Way and also in Blue Hill.” Work in Blue Hill, Casons and French’s Gut area will be predominantly major patch-ing with surfacing to take place in the future. All the other schemes will be resurfacing with surface dressing, after any necessary patching to the base layers.Before chief roads such as Ladder Hill can be worked on, key diversion roads, such as Gordon’s Post and Constitution Hill need to be improved.During these works there will inevitably be disruption to travel. The Road Section have said that they will try to minimise the use of road closures, however some roads are sim-ply too narrow to work with traffi c going past. Other roads may have traffi c signals or other traffi c management arrangements in place. “We are programming the work carefully so we don’t have too much work on in one time. We are also using traffi c signals for the fi rst time which we hope will allow us to work without having to close roads and to keep traffi c fl owing smoothly past.” Dave stated, “There will be some teething problems with that and I hope the public will bear with us whilst we get that under control. We’re just trying to work without road closures and where we have to use road closures, we will try and use them for the shortest time pos-sible.” On Wednesday 14 November, the fi rst set of traffi c lights were erected at Half Way. This means that only one side of the road will allow cars to pass, whilst the Roads Section work on the other side. The traffi c lights are set to a 70 second timer.

THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH ON ST HELENA.Wednesday, 14 November was World Diabe-tes Day, established in 1991 by the Interna-tional Diabetes Federation and World Health

Organisation to create a global awareness of the disease.Jackie Henry is the Diabetic Nurse for the Health and Social Welfare Directorate (H&SW) and chairperson of the Diabetic As-sociation; an organisation that raises aware-ness of the lifelong disease.Locally, H&SW have 638 registered diabetic patients, accounting for 15% of our popula-tion. “That’s almost triple compared to the UK,” revealed Jackie. “The last time I looked on Diabetes UK it was around 6-7% of their population.” Trends in the last three year were stable, “But this year we have seen a big rise in people developing diabetes.” Of the reg-istered diabetic patients over half (57%) are female suffers. Weight loss is just one of the signs of diabetes. “For women, they can get genital itching like thrush,” said Jackie. “You’ll probably fi nd you’re going to the toilet more often because you have to drink a lot. A lot of people say ‘oh because the weather is hot’ and now the weath-er is warming they would drink extra. But if they know they have family history I would recommend they come because sometimes diabetes is asymptomatic; they don’t have any symptoms at all.” Jackie recommended a rou-tine three year check with those who have a family history.As conversation progressed, things took a more serious turn, “There is long term compli-cations if you don’t take care of your diabetes,” a point emphasised by Jackie as she explained the stark realities of the disease. “Sometimes it affects the eyes; people can go blind. Some-times you have leaky blood vessels at the back of your eye that will need to have laser treat-ment done so it doesn’t lead onto blindness. Diabetes and kidney disease is a big thing on St Helena. We don’t have facilities to have dialysis, it costs a lot to send a person to the UK or send them to Cape Town for kidney transplants or to keep them on dialysis. Kid-ney disease is another major complication that we are faced with at the moment. Impotency;

people don’t feel their sexual drive. You can also develop leg ulcers and then they are bro-ken down which leads on to them having their legs amputated; one of the leading causes of this is called sensory neuropathy, where they lose all sensation in their feet and they can’t feel if they have a wound there. So It’s quite dramatic really. People might think, ‘oh well I can’t worry over diabetes. They’ll give some tablet and insulin to get rid of the high sugar levels’, but it’s not like that. Diabetes is what we call a silent killer; you don’t know there are things happening because you feel good and when they are present it’s too late to be controlled.“I just want to tell people, I know they might think that cancer is one of the leading causes of death on St Helena because you always hear about it. But, we did a search for DFID and we found that diabetes is the leading cause of death on St Helena because of the complica-tions that is related to it.”

EDUCATION GOES TOPUBLIC CONSULTATIONOn 1 November, the Education and Employ-ment Directorate (E&ED) saw their ‘Educa-tion for the 21st Century’ discussions go to public consultation, after an attendance of 86 members of the public at the previous month’s informal talks. Councillor Rodney Buckley, Chairman of the Education Committee and Colin Moore, Director of E&ED headed the discussions that centred around the state of primary schools and spoke of two options: a purpose built central primary school or reno-vate primary schools.Moore told the Sentinel how the consultation is being carried out. “We sent out, to every family who have children in schools, a leafl et which briefl y and concisely sets out a range of options that we have for the future,” said Moore “...Rodney Buckley has been sharing a weekly panel on the radio which went out on television. That panel is made up of educa-tionalists such as myself and Beverley Francis, the Deputy Director and importantly we have had a wide range of parents on each of the panels and that’s been really good. It’s given parents a chance to respond to Rodney’s ques-tions but also on occasions to put questions to educationists such as myself. We have had two and we have got a further two, they go on a Wednesday night (21 November) at 7:30 to 8:30 (am) on StFM and being repeated on Ra-dio St. Helena on Thursday evenings.” Moore encourages parents to take part in live radio discussions and potential participants can be-come involved through contacting Buckley.Moore confi rmed that if the option of a new build went ahead that its location is not yet known. “The decision making process is two-fold: the community needs to respond through the leafl et,” said Moore, “and send their option choices to Rodney and myself and then any decision that we get, goes to be made as a de-cision by our politicians, our elected members

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Dear Editor

Re: Public Transport Service Review. I did not actually read the entire article in last week’s paper regarding the Transport meeting, but I realise it will be a big headache to get it right. I thought it would be amusing to quote an extract from the book - St. Helena 500 compiled by Percy Teale and Robin Gill.

New Bus Service September 1941 Commencing from “Under the Trees” via Sidepath to Hutts Gate and to White Gate. Fare 3d ( three old pence). Journey starts at 7.30 am. Experiment fails and is cancelled after one trip because it is too expensive and there is no return journey.!!!! Let us wish the Access and Transport Committee well in their deliberations! Yours sincerely Barbara B. George

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ST HELENA NEWS SNIPPETSwill make the decision. If they were to opt for a brand new 21st century school then the obvious choice, the obvious location would actually be Francis Plain and the reason why it would be the obvious location is we have the opportunity to put all of our schools on to one fl at area of land with a campus approach where the youngsters could also have the benefi t, on a daily basis, of the sports fi eld and land that we have at Francis Plain.” Advice is being sought from a building surveyor on other pos-sible locations.

CHRISTMAS IN THEFORESTThe Canister window display at the Art & Craft shop was exhibited on Saturday. The Christmas Forest theme showcases the an-gel outfi t modelled by Imogen Henry in last week’s Sentinel. A smaller angel version, a sheep, tree trunk and dangling branches adds to the theme, completed with wrapped gift boxes. They are all made of recycled Senti-nel newspapers, SHAPE handmade paper and cardboard. A range of Art & Craft wares that are for sale in the shop are also on display.JJ Dancoisne-Martineau the creator, collabo-rated with the Sentinel, SHAPE and the Art & Craft committee to come up with the concept. “It’s Christmas in the Forest,” said JJ. “It’s just a bit different than the normal wreath and tree. There is no ‘sparkly’ in the whole theme except the fairy lights and back lighting.”Giselle Richards, jewellery maker said, “I think it’s fabulous, I think it brings to light what we can do with bits of paper. It shows you what creativity can be shown through re-cycling it’s not just about reduce and reuse it’s creativity as well.” In the lead up to Christmas and since the Art & Craft shop’s move, busi-ness is getting busier. “It has literally tripled the sales since the move to the Canister, be-


cause it’s in such a great location. All round contributors have found that their sales have increased,” said Giselle.

DONKEYS - THE BEST 4X4(contributed by Dave Marr)Many people on St Helena may think that the use of donkeys for transportation is a thing of the past. But this is not so for the Thompson’s Wood Syndicate, where Trevor Fowler’s don-key was used last weekend to carry containers of water, to enable the syndicate to spray the Furze/Gorse bushes in a steep area of pasture land, that no four wheel drive can access.Without this help it would have been a lot more labour intensive not to mention time consuming for the syndicate to operate.So, donkeys still have their uses and are the

best 4 wheel drive.

EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAMME REVIEWDon Taylor, DFID Adviser, and Debbie Pritchard, National Foundation for Education-al Research arrived on the 13 November until the 22 November to conduct an evaluation of the three-year Education Support Programme. It is designed to raise educational standards through further improving the quality of teaching and learning in all schools. Taylor explained, “The programme has been running over the last three years, supported by DFID to provide additional support to the education system beyond what we fund through the bud-get through our regular contributions to the St. Helena Government.” He continued, “The ed-ucation sector support programme, which has essentially been a training programme to en-able teachers from St. Helena to go to the UK to acquire good practice, experience and new ideas. Simultaneously people from the UK are sent here to help train and demonstrate good practice to the teachers on the island.” Pritchard remarked that the evaluation will be carried out “through a mixture of ways, the project has been running for three years and they have done a variety of things and obvi-ously we need to look at the effectiveness of that. We are talking to people, seeing what their personal views are, examining data ... re-searching what’s good practice by looking at previous research documents and we are also looking at the reports that already exist.” During their visit Taylor and Pritchard will be meeting the Education and Employment Directorate, visiting schools and discussing the support systems that schools have had in place. As it is at the end of the three year programme, has it has been a success or not? “That’s what the whole reports been about, so we are in

The window display at the Canister

Working donkey on St Helena

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ST.HELENA NEWS SNIPPETSthe process of working that answer out.” The views from those involved in the project have been a mixture explained Taylor, “There are obviously some things that have worked well, and some things that may have not worked quite so well. We are hearing views about both sides, for the evidence and the experience that people have had, but we look forward to digesting all of that and presenting our fi nd-ings in the report.” “I think one thing is clear though,” said Pritchard, “it is the commitment that has been from staff here on the island, clearly working really hard, who are very passionate about the journey young people are working for and real commitment to think for the future for the is-land.” What’s the advantage of visiting the island, Pritchard explained, “someone who is sitting in the UK thinking well actually I can do this through Skype, I could read docu-ments, I can talk to people on the telephone, but actually unless you get some feel where you are talking about and the actual context then you can misjudge all sorts of things. It’s very important to understand the context and I don’t pretend to understand the whole of the context on my brief visit, but unless you have that you can be completely out of touch with reality.” Taylor said, “In my case, I am here as the DFID Education Advisor covering St. Helena from the UK. I have only been in this job for eight months so it’s my fi rst visit to the island, I am trying to get a wider perspec-tive, not just on the Education Sector Support programme itself but on all the issues to do with education on the island which DFID is involved, including for example the funds that we provide for the advisory teachers at Prince Andrew School and some of the other educa-tion personnel on the island.” Will the Education Support Programme con-

tinue? Taylor replied, “fi rm decisions have not yet been made about what will follow, that will partly depend on the outcome of the evalua-tion but there is a continuing DFID commit-ment to supporting education, either through the regular budget and possibly through ad-ditional means or additional support, some of which has already been discussed but nothing has been fi rmly agreed beyond the end of this fi nancial year at the end of March.”

NEWSPAPER BINGOHere’s a chance to win a Christmas bonus for the festive season. Newspaper Bingo is to be resurrected on 29 November by the Disabled Person’s Aid Society who will be offering £150 fi rst prize for a full house and £50 conso-

lation prizes there-after. Bingo books go on sale today for £1 that holds four tickets, one for each week. Ian Rum-mery, Chairman of the Working Com-mittee told us more, “Really what we are hoping, is it’s an on-going bit of fun for people, obviously, for some people winning prizes and also it will be a regu-lar source of income for the Disabled Persons Aid Soci-ety. Times are tough and it’s hard to raise money and there are a lot of people we need to help.”In the fi rst week, 55 numbers will be printed and then will increase by 5

numbers in the following weeks. “So pretty much by the end of the fourth week some-body will have won at least the fi rst prize,” Ian explained. “If the fi rst prize is won in the fi rst week then there will be three weeks with draws of £50 per week. Then it will start all over again and you buy another book.” Num-bers will be printed on Thursdays and winners will have up to the following Monday to make a claim at the Y&T shop in Jamestown. The person who gets a full house with the least amount of numbers wins. Different numbers will be drawn and printed each week, “It’s an equal chance for every-body to win,” said Ian. “That also means if you missed out on the fi rst week you can still buy a book, obviously the fi rst week’s, ticket is not good to you, but you’ve still got three chances to win at least £50.” Books are avail-able from the Rose & Crown, Longwood Su-permarket, Maisies, Y&T and the Mini Mart in Half Tree Hollow. It’s all done in aid of the Disabled Person’s Aid Society, we hope to sell some books, raise some money and do it on a regular basis. From what I understand newspaper bingo was really popular back in the old days so hope-fully it will just become an established part of the weekly cycle of things on St Helena,” remarked Ian. “So yeah get out there and buy your books and have a chance of winning 150 quid.”

FRENCH CLASSESIn September 2012 students at Prince Andrew School had the opportunity to study French. The French Consul, Michel Martineau and Modern Foreign Languages Teacher, Judith Moore volunteered their services. After school classes have also been offered at Prince An-drew School on Wednesday nights from six to eight. Sophie Young who attends the night class, explained she has always been inter-ested in the language, but could never pick it up at a younger age, at this point in her life

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ST.HELENA NEWS SNIPPETScontinued from page 7she felt like it was a good opportunity. The turnout of French classes has been “intimate” with about seven students which Sophie felt was a good learning and fun environment. How would you say your level of French is at the moment? “Two on a scale of ten” laughed Sophie. During the class those who attend are taught how to greet a person, learn to count and every day French phrases and anything personal that someone wished to know. So-phie was unsure of how long the classes would continue but thought they would be kept go-ing until the New Year. On enquiring about any phrases that Sophie has learnt during the classes, she responded “Bonjour, Je m’apelle Sophie” translating to “hello, my name is So-phie.”

SOLID WASTE GETSMANAGEDOne of the fi rst sights tourists will see before landing onto the St Helena runway is the Horse Point landfi ll site. It disposes all island waste and covers 10 hectares. The Environmental Management Directorate offi cially launched the Solid Waste Management Strategy at the Millennium Forest, on Tuesday 20 November. A dozen people joined Tara Pelembe, EMD Director, Ian Rummery, Environmental Risk Manager and Georgina Young, Senior Envi-ronmental Health Offi cer for a short talk be-fore going on site to the dump. One of the key objectives in SHG’s Strategic Plan is better

Enterprise St Helena are proud to announce the opening in December of their new training Restaurant situated at No 2 Main Street, Jamestown. If you are interested in on the job training whilst developing your catering skills we would like to hear from you. For more information on the Hospitality Training Restaurant project; Gillian Moore and Kirsty Joshua can be contacted at No 2 Main Street on Tel: 2110 or alternatively E-mail [email protected]

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management of solid waste. The solid waste project has a budget of £1.2m and falls under the Infrastructure portfolio. The main driver is development of the airport project.Tara spoke about the strategy, “It sets the di-rection and the goals of where we are going to go with waste management on St Helena over the next ten years.” An implementation plan has been set over the next 18 months and will be delivered by December 2013, in time for an ASSI visit to conduct an airport certifi cation exercise.It is estimated we produce 0.6kg/1.5lbs of black bag waste per day, per household, it

amounts to approximately 900 tonnes per year. “Projections are, these could rise to 2500 tonnes by 2032,” informed Ian. “It starts with the premise that everything that comes to St Helena stays on St Helena.” An exercise con-ducted in 2003 with the export of hazardous waste proved not to be workable and was too costly.The main element of waste management is the reduction of waste and included in the strat-egy is composting organic waste. Currently composting facilities have been put on hold, “But we will promote individual home com-posting schemes,” said Ian, “there are a lot of people already doing that.” The site has been

Georgina Young, Ian Rummery & Tara Pelembe


ST HELENA NEWS SNIPPETS

2onMain is looking for a Cleaner/General Assistant to help with the operation of the new training Restaurant in Jamestown.

This will be a part-time position; mornings and some evenings. Hours will be flexible.

Rate of pay will be £2.50 per hour.

If you are interested or require further information please contact Gillian Moore or Kirsty Joshua on Tel: 2110 or alternatively E-mail [email protected]

Cleaner

International Day for the elimination of Violence against women.

25th November 2012Come and join in the celebration of the pledge to support White Ribbon Day on the 25th Novem-ber 12. Be assembled by the Arch Jamestown at 7pm to join the vigil that will require you to wear something white, a white ribbon (supplied) and a candle. We will then walk to the Jamestown Com-munity to join in with a ‘Non Alcoholic Bring and Share’ and over a cup of tea you can share your experiences or just chat about the campaign to eliminate violence against women with a Guest Speaker.

Call Social Services on 2713 or 3628 if you re-quire more details.

sectioned off into areas for bulky, clinical and asbestos waste disposal. Cells have been iden-tifi ed for household waste to sustain landfi ll on the site for the next 50 years. A civic ame-nity site has been added, for the dumping of unwanted goods, such as sofas, TVs, fridges that can be collected by others who might have a use for it. Reinforcing the old saying, ‘one man’s waste is another man’s treasure,’ thus reducing recycling and reusing which are the three principles of the strategy.Another driver for management of the land-fi ll site is bird strike risk for the runway. It has been identifi ed that a colony of 150-200

pigeons use the landfi ll as its principal food source and poses a threat to fl ights. A pro-gramme called ‘lethal management’, of shoot-ing the pigeons has started. To date 59 birds have been terminated in two shoots. Because of the small numbers this method should prove effective in reducing numbers and eliminating the problem. Edible waste areas will be cov-ered by netting to deter birds and the National Trust will be monitoring numbers on a month-ly basis. This is to be reviewed by December next year in time for the airport certifi cation visit.

WEEKLY WEATHERHere are the weather readings from the Met Station at Bottomwoods and ANRD at Scot-land for the past week. Note the zero rainfall at Scotland. Bottomwoods ScotlandMin temp 14.5C 13CMax temp 19.3C 19CMean temp 15.8C 15.4CTotal sunshine 12.9 hrs 60.8 hoursTotal rainfall 0.4mm 0.0mmMean w/speed 14.5 knots

FORMER FALKLANDGOVERNOR DIESSir Rex Hunt, previous Governor and com-mander- in- chief of the Falkland Islands when Argentina invaded in 1982, which trig-gered the Falklands War, has died aged 86 on the 11 November 2012. When the Argentin-ians invaded he remained in his offi ce, diving under his desk for cover when gun fi re came close. Hunt sent his family and staff away for safety but remained, keeping in touch with the locals via telephoning on the local radio station. Hunt took the decision to surrender and as a result was captured and expelled from the islands. The islands recapture was completed by a British task force on June 14. Hunt, knighted in October 1982 was granted the Freedom of Stanley in 1985, to recognise his contributions to the Falkland Islands. His

Ian speaking at the Horse Point site


ST HELENA NEWS SNIPPETSPAS CERTIFICATE AND AWARD DAYThere was an excited buzz above the chat-ter of the crowd gathered in the sports hall of Prince Andrew School on Monday, before the start of the 2012 Certifi cate and Award Ceremony. Students were joined by parents, guests and teachers to honour Year 7s up to 13s and school leavers on their GCSE, GCE and VRQ achievements in the past academic year. Head Teacher, Abraham Swart opened with a speech. He thanked the staff and com-munity members for their support during the math teacher shortage and the students for their patience throughout the period. Penny Bowers, Deputy Head, Student Ser-vices, called out the names of certifi cate and award recipients as they were presented by Deputy Governor, Owen O’Sullivan. The Jean Beadon Art Award recognises out-standing commitment and achievement by young people in Art. This was won by Head Girl, Eira Stevens. The Governor’s Award celebrates academic excellence and achievement in Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9) with a special focus on English, Maths and Science. Award winners were, Lizemarie Robbertse, Andrew Turner and Ross Leo.The Bishop Houghton Award recognises stu-dents who give something special to the com-munity. Presenting the award, Cathy Hopkins, MBE, said, “He supports conservation work, walks the donkeys, gives pleasure to the wider community and also shows a more serious side to his nature as a member of the student coun-cil and the youth parliament. I understand he went to the assistance of a swimmer who was in great diffi culty in the pool. I am very pleased to be awarding this year’s prize to, Thomas Hickling.”Adam Francis and Chloe Terry won the PTA award sponsored by Cable & Wireless. Adam also won the Cable & Wireless Award for top performing student together with Anwen Da-

vis (currently in college in UK). The Joy George award recognises outstand-ing effort, progress and achievement as well as good attitude and behavior for students at the end of Key stage 3 (Year 9). Winners were Lizemarie Robbertse, Chelsea Henry and Andrew Turner. “I was very pleased with the winners and I thought well deserved and well nominated by the staff,” commented Joy after the ceremony.Kyle Yon won the Eliza Mary Lloyd Trust award which focuses on Agriculture. The most Enterprising Student, sponsored by En-terprise St Helena was Jamie Thomas of Year 11.Five teachers received local qualifi ed status, Lisa Benjamin, Steve Plato, Sherell Thomas, Anne-Marie Clarke and Laura Lawrence. Lisa is a speech and language teacher and studied for two years, “There are a lot of children needing language support. We do have some coming through with speech diffi culties but language is the main area we need to develop,” said Lisa. “So far it’s looking up for education and training. At the moment I’m the only one with this specialist training but we are trying to develop teacher’s knowledge in this area as well. This is a job you don’t go into for the money, although it is very attractive you have to have dedication and a passion for working with children and developing their needs. It is a tough training package but you need to be consistent and give it all you’ve got.”Steve teaches at St Paul’s Primary and spe-cialises in Science, “It was quite a challenge at fi rst. We have made real progress with those students and it’s a different kind of challenge but it’s really enjoyable. It’s hard work but you look forward to it everyday, it’s amazing because you see the children progressing and it’s a really rewarding job.” Abraham, attending his last formal function as PAS Head, included in his speech a research project undertaken on some of the world’s top performing schools and stated the fi ndings

Lisa Benjamin & Steve Plato new local qualifi ed teachers

memoir,’ My Falkland Days’, appeared in 1992. In the same year he was portrayed in a BBC television drama, ‘An Ungentlemanly Act’, about the Argentinian invasion. His last visit to the Falkland Islands was in June 2007, for the 25th anniversary of the confl ict. Hunt retired to Stockton on Tees and survived by his wife Mavis, son, Antony and daughter Di-ana. Prime Minister, David Cameron issued a quote, “Sir Rex Hunt should be a hero to ev-eryone in Britain.” Ownership of the Falkland Islands has again become an issue in recent years as Argentine President Christina Fernandez has reasserted her country’s claim to the islands.

NEW PRISON MANAGERThe St Helena Police Directorate is pleased to welcome Martin David as the new Prison Manager. Martin joins the service for two years, and is responsible for the overall man-agement of the Prison and Offender Manage-ment Service (looking after offenders outside of custody). Martin, arrived on 13 Novem-ber, and is joined by his wife and two young daughters. Martin’s primary role is to keep the public safe by ensuring that prisoners are appropriately managed and kept in secure and safe condi-tions, and that they are also treated decently. He is also responsible for managing prisoners’ risk on an ongoing basis and facilitating their safe return to the community when appropri-ate.The St Helena Prison is a relatively small unit with limited resources, posing both chal-lenges and opportunities. Martin commented: “The main challenge is trying to provide a fully comprehensive offender management service from arrest, into custody or probation and eventually release under supervision - all within limited prison resources - whereas in the UK we would have access to a signifi cant number of services to manage these.”The Prison has previously been labelled as be-ing ‘in poor condition’ which Martin explains is not necessarily the full story. He com-mented: “We have recognised that the current prison is not adequate, particularly for longer term prisoners, and one of my roles is to push forward the move to better premises. How-ever, I can assure the public that we are mak-ing the best use of the existing building and I was pleasantly surprised to fi nd a very clean, well ordered and calm environment, with good staff prisoner relationships. We will continue to ensure that the prison operates properly and decently.”Martin has extensive experience in working in the prison environment. He worked for HM Prison Service for 23 years and was a Deputy Governor at HM Prison Coldingley in Surrey - a smallish prison of 513 prisoners which spe-cialised in teaching prisoners a work ethic in commercial operations.



ST HELENA & WORLD NEWS SNIPPETSwere applicable and relevant to St. Helena. He deduced, “that ‘the quality of an educa-tion system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers.’ The evidence that getting the right people to become teachers is critical.” He listed a strategy to achieve this, “(a) A robust recruitment strategy which focuses on getting the right people with the desirable attributes to become teachers; (b) that all teaching staff have a fi rst-degree to bolster subject knowl-edge; (c) improving the remuneration to attract and retain teachers; (d) improving the status of teaching, in other words, making teaching a high status profession which will attract high-calibre people.” Swart ended with a message to the students of PAS, “Remember, the person you are and never forget your roots, your fam-ily, community and those who made a positive difference in your life, so make good choices for yourself in order to have a successful life.”A key element raised in Swart’s speech was ‘change’. We spoke to him after the awards, “It has been quite a challenging year due to the diffi culties caused by the lack of math teachers.

But the staff and the community pulled togeth-er to make sure that we achieved the goals and our students still come out with good qualifi -cations. But we can’t sustain that,” said Swart, “there needs to be other measures in place to make sure that doesn’t happen again. When I started there was already a management struc-ture change and that cannot continue. Staff also need time to have the new systems em-bedded to see what works, what doesn’t, refi ne and retune. You can’t just chop and change for the sake of chopping and changing. Staff are feeling quite tired because of all these changes and ever since I’ve been here there’s been two management changes and people in key posi-tions need to take note that this drains staff morale and it cannot continue.” Swart departs the island this week and his replacement, Paul Starkie is not due to arrive until March/April next year. During the interim period, Vanessa Tissington, the Raising Attainment Advisor will become Acting Head Teacher at Prince Andrew School.

WORLD NEWS SNIPPETS

The bodies of fi ve street children have been found inside a bin in southwest China after they climbed inside it to escape the cold, ac-cording to state media. The boys, who were aged about 10, died of carbon monoxide poi-soning after apparently burning charcoal inside the container to keep warm. A refuse collector discovered the bodies in the city of Bijie in Guizhou province. The overnight low tempera-ture in the mountainous city was 6C. Photo-graphs uploaded to the internet showed the bin was about 1.5 metres long and 1.3 metres wide, with an airtight lid. Post-mortem examinations confi rmed carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause of death.

How many people can you fi t in a Mini? If it’s a new BMW MINI and those people happen to be very fl exible then the answer is 28, as con-fi rmed today for a new Guiness World Record at Potters Field Park, London. The team, which consisted entirely of women, broke their previ-ous record of 27, which they set last year. As well as occupying all of the Mini’s seats, the team squeezed on to the dashboard and into the footwells, while four managed to fi t in the boot. Following the record, 23 of the women then squeezed into a classic Mini, beating the previ-ous record of 21. The two records were set as part of the eighth annual Guinness World Re-cords day, which commemorates November 15 2004, when Guinness World Records become the world’s best-selling copyright book.

A man who accidentally handed over wraps of cocaine instead of sweets to children trick-or-treating on Halloween night is facing jail. Donald Junior Green, an apprentice panel beat-er, fi shed into his pockets for a Haribo sweets to give to the youngsters when they knocked on his door. But instead he pulled out a plas-tic pack containing eight bags of cocaine he had bought for £200 earlier that day, Oldham Magistrates’ Court heard. He dropped the drugs into the goody bags carried by the three chil-dren, who knocked at his home to play trick or treat, escorted by their father, an off-duty policeman. The 23-year-old defendant then went back inside the house - put his hand in his pockets to get out his drugs and instead pulled out the Haribo sweets. Green immedi-ately realised what had happened and went to scoure the streets of Oldham nearby to fi nd the youngsters. But the offi cer, Pc Simon Fowell, had taken his children home and, as they emp-tied their goody bags to share the spoils, he spotted the drugs - and made a swift call to his on-duty colleagues. Green, who had never been in trouble with police before and worked and went to college, wiped his eyes with his hands as he stood in the dock and admitted a single charge of possessing a Class A drug on October 31. He will be sentenced this month.

School leavers

Kyle Yon & Darren Duncan


REPORT

The smiles, the laughter, the happiness – some-times these qualities fade away behind the pri-vacy of closed doors. Unfortunately for some people domestic violence is a reoccurring event in the home. On St Helena these types of cases are re-ported all too frequently, con-sidering the size of the popula-tion. 25 November is White Ribbon Day, recognis-ing and support-ing the elimina-tion of violence against women. “White Ribbon Day is a world led campaign to highlight violence against women,” stated Police Inspector Rod Paterson, “the Police De-partment plays an active role in this together with Social Services on the island, various departments in Health, the At-torney General’s (AG’s) offi ce and even the Public Solicitor.” It’s an illusion that St Hel-ena’s domestic violence problem is less than the UK. “ It’s important people realise domes-tic violence does take place on this island and the level used is seriously frightening. I’ve been here for a year and have personally seen victims with serious bruising, internal injuries; victims who have been subjected to serious, serious sexual assaults. It’s not any worse here (than UK), I don’t think it’s any better either, that’s a personal opinion.”Approximately sixty cases a year are reported on St Helena, often ‘repeat victims,’ people who come to the attention of the police more than once in the previous 12 months. “It’s not actual domestic violence but domestic abuse,” said Paterson, “you’ve got to differentiate be-tween the two. Domestic abuse covers domes-tic violence; that is a dispute between parties or families where the people concerned are over 18. When you actually realise how wide the term is you can see why the fi gures are quite high.” He explained their response pro-cedure. “We have a zero tolerance, we work very closely with the AG’s offi ce, we will ar-

rest the perpetrator, use the full force of the law with our powers, and we tend to remand people into custody for the protection of vic-tims. We will charge with whatever offences are apparent, even if it’s not just violence. We have a written, structured domestic abuse policy with the action my offi cers will take. Since we have introduced and enforced that policy and taken a very tough and fi rm but fair line, the number of repeat calls has dropped dramatically. Previously we would be going to the same people, seven, eight or nine times a year where people are being assaulted and they weren’t willing to proceed, weren’t will-ing to make statements and weren’t willing to go to court. The reason it’s dropped is we are

arresting the perpetrators, putting them before the courts and the courts are punishing them accordingly.”Issues that he felt contribute to domestic abuse included, poor housing, poor health, educa-tion, mental health and alcohol. A concern of authorities is most victims can’t recognise themselves as victims when it “becomes a way of life,” Paterson continued, “we’re dealing with a case where some poor woman has been abused for the past three years, everybody on the island knows she was getting abused but they never did stand up. It’s not until now she’s had the courage to come forward and speak to us, we are interviewing people and they are saying ‘yeah we knew it went on, but that’s the way it is.’ We are facing a cultural battle, a background battle where women have been the victims of violence on this island and of sexual abuse. They were scared to come forward, I can understand why they are scared because they may suffer further violence.”The Education Department is raising aware-ness of the day. Cheryl Bedwell is the school’s Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Edu-cation Coordinator. “In the primary schools we will talk with the Yr 5/6 children about

White Ribbon Day to make them aware and think about what violence is and how to have arguments without violence. In PAS we’re do-ing lessons on what is domestic abuse and de-fi ne it in more detail, where they can get help and also about confl ict resolution, how would they react to fi ghts or arguments. On Friday, we’re going to have a whole school assembly which focuses around domestic abuse, defi n-ing it and then recognising the International day for the Elimination of Violence against women by actually telling the story of how the day came about.” Cheryl highlighted the importance of making young people aware of domestic abuse, “If we don’t let children know that domestic abuse is something that is not

right, they may think it is ‘nor-mal’. They need to know to be aware of what is not right so they can get help for it and know that there are services available that can help them.” She told me the story of how the day originated, “In the 1960’s Dominican Repub-lic was ruled by a cruel dictator named Rafael Trujilo who bru-tally killed three sisters because they were activating against him. This day was actually done to re-member them.” She felt that the students responded well to White Ribbon Day last year and hopes for a similar response again, “we were wary of how children were going to respond to it because it is quite a sensitive subject, but it was received really well and they listened intently. We want them to continue learning that domes-tic abuse is not right and that any violence against anybody is not right. It could be emotionally,

somebody could be calling the other person names, criticising them, it could be fi nancial – people taking money away from the partners and not having enough money to live on, and then the physical is the worst where the part-ner actually gets beaten and not only does this happen to women, it also happens to men, so that is important to remember.” She explained that one of the aims for this year is to “get young men to be more aware of this so that they can be advocates for the women.”Social Services are organising events for the week in support of White Ribbon Day. Chris-tine Coleman, Social Care Manager and Dr Cilla McDaniel, Senior Social Services Man-ager Designate explained more about the day and the events planned. Having seen another domestic abuse case stated in last week’s Po-lice Report, I asked Christine how often call outs were made that needed to be attended by social services, “It varies. If children are in the household then immediately we would be con-tacted. However, every case is taken very seri-ously, if there are children in the household or not.” Having looked at statistics from previous years, Christine confi rmed she felt there was an increase in cases, “In 2009/2010 there were

Chloe Terry, SHBC

WHITE RIBBON DAY


REPORTsixty six reported cases and for 2010/2011 there appears to have been a drop with fi fty two reported cases. Then for 2011/2012 it has been on an increase up to sixty fi ve reported cases. I would say over the last couple of months there has been an increase of cases coming in. A lot of it is geared to alcohol being involved and mostly I would say at the weekend.” Refer-ring to the Police taking a much fi rmer hand to domestic abuse cases, Dr McDaniel remarked, “I am really proud that there has been a de-cided change for the Police approach in cases of domestic violence and the very fact that they separate the perpetrator from the victim is very important because it gives people a chance to rethink. The family has a chance to regroup as we all know in most cases of do-mestic violence, victims forgive perpetrators, particularly in intimate relationships, so I am very proud of how the Police operate a zero tolerance approach to domestic violence be-cause every single case of domestic violence, no matter how serious or how slight is very important it is a travesty against the victim.” She stressed the importance of the whole com-munity working together to eliminate violence against women, “We are not just talking about hitting and throwing somebody against the wall or pushing somebody out of a car. We are talking about coercive control where men are prone to control their women so they say you can’t wear short skirts, you can’t go to your mothers you can’t do this you can’t do that, you can’t have money to buy face cream - they are psychologically controlling of women, they tell women they are too fat or too thin, they are ugly – all of that kind of thing has much more impact on women’s psychologi-cal structure than the bruises. As we know the bruises fade but the psychological impact re-mains with women for a long, long time and it is very hard to handle.”Activities that will be taking place this week-end include support from the Salvation Army, who will be hosting a coffee morning on Saturday. On Sunday a vigil will be held, Dr McDaniel explained, “we will congregate on the seaside just through the Arch hopefully accompa-nied by lots of people. We will then walk in a nice, serene sombre fash-ion from the seaside up to Jamestown community centre. We will dress in white to symbolise White Ribbon Day and we will carry candles to symbolise change and the lighting up of lives when we do eliminate vio-lence against women.” The party will be accompanied by Police Offi cers up to the Community Centre where a talk will be given. Participants will then partake in a Bring and Share and drink that is purely non- alcoholic.” Dr McDaniel added, “Because it’s White Ribbon Day we want to make it as memorable as possible and a gentle reminder of elimination of vio-lence against women - so tie a white ribbon.”

Harley is a student in Year 11.He is studying a broad range of GCSE sub-jects, including distance Learning GCSEs. The DL qualifi cations demand a high degree of commitment and self -discipline in the style of independent learning.Harley has proved to be mature and deter-mined in his studies. He has already achieved high level GCSE passes in English Language, ICT and Psychology and his teachers believe that he will gain an excellent set of GCSE re-sults in the summer of 2013.Harley was recommended as Learner of the Month by a unanimous vote from the staff.( Vanessa Tissington, Acting Head Teacher)

At this time St. Helena is in a period of great change, which will open up a lot of opportu-nities for the youth of the island. I, myself being one of them have be-come very interested in the islands future. Politics and tourism will most defi nitely play an imperative part in St. Helena’s development. This directorate of work therefore has become a favourite among other job sectors.

I am currently a year eleven stu-dent at Prince Andrew School, and i am studying for my GCSEs. I do plan to apply to come back to school and study A- levels. I have several ambitions in life, including studying Politics at uni-versity. At this time in my life my preferred profession is to become a politician here on St. Helena.

As mentioned in the fi rst para-graph, politics will play a big part in the island’s development, how-ever, i am not only interested in the developmental process side of things but would also like to re-

store and have a positive impact on St. Hele-na’s electorate. Some of which have lost faith in their democratic government. Some people have lost faith due to (in my opinion) incidents such as the Land Develop-ment control plan which basically just takes peoples land. As the future of the island it is our responsibil-ity to make the right decisions for ourselves. Life can only become what we make it, and our choices will affect where we go in life. So i plan to fufi l my aims and look back with no regrets as i embark on the journey of life. Without a doubt there will be challenges but I will strive to overcome them, and make my-self proud.

By Harley Williams

Harley Williams (picture courtesy PAS)


LIFESTYLE & CULTURE

WORKING THE LANDSherrilee Phillips, SHBC

hope they will continue but what I’m thinking about the most is if their children will continue to work on the land. It will be a shame to let all this land go after putting so much work into it.” His garden also provides for his butchery. A patch of his fi eld is blooming with yellow, “That’s fl ower and weed,” said Gary who later told me that the fl owers were for the bees, “and then over there you see I have garlic, carrots, I have oats and maize for the cattle. You know, when you farm you must be into everything, so if you lose on one end you have to try and pick it up from the next end, otherwise you just go further and further down. Then you fall by the wayside so I also got goats and sheep.” I asked Gary about the hardships of farming. “It is defi nitely hard,” he responded, “you must work hard to sow it into the ground. If you don’t sow it you can’t reap it so it is hard

work. Sometimes you lose but can’t give up. At times you will lose but you got to really put your heart into it and next time you will get lucky.” He told me the “worst pests” were pheasants, “and you must spray otherwise you get blight and caterpillars so you must keep busy at all times. The weather also affects him, “This year we had lots of rainy weather so grass didn’t grow because it was cold. But now it’s starting to pick up and the animals have started to pick up too.”So what is most profi table for Gary? “I don’t know if any business is really profi table,” he said after a moments silence, “but we try to survive on the butchers business right now. Here [on island] we got a lot of potatoes so we can’t get a good price. I would say farming is okay and sometimes it’s not very good. If you give up then nobody would be doing it so we have to do it.”Conversation turned to the slaughter of his livestock. “You must slaughter your animals properly,” emphasised Gary, “they must be rested, you can’t kill an animal that has been worrying because your meat will be tough.” After a twenty four hour rest his animals are slaughtered, with a shot to the brain. “When you puncture the brain you cut of all the nerves so your carcass does not get that tension.”It was clear to me that Gary was a man who enjoyed his work but was there ever a moment where he wanted a change? “No I love it,” was his immediate response, “My dad used to do all the butchering and slaughtering, after he retired I took it on, then after I got fed up with that I handed it over to my sons. You can-not do that all your life. You can’t just look at blood and whatever all your life. So after a while I would say your nerve goes so you don’t want to kill the animals all the time. So then you come back to the ground here and you just work the ground and grow a few pota-toes and carrots.”

Head out to Jerusalem and beyond the multic-oloured earth lies the green pastures of Horse Ridge, where farmer, Gary Stevens works the land. As you enter his land, separated from the Fairyland trail by a rustic creaky old gate you’re immediately greeted by the bleating of his fl ock of sheep that graze lazily on the grass. Gary is busy digging potatoes that he will later sell in McDaniel’s and MTB’s shops. “I was actually born into farming,” said Gary as he reminisced. “I started as a young boy with my Daddy up here. Our only transport was donkeys it wasn’t like now, I’ve got a Land Rover. We had no water tanks, we used to cart it on the donkey for the animals, but now we got water to put on the ground.” His Horse Point land is now fi tted with a water tank that he uses to irrigate his crop and feed the ani-mals. Other residents on his farm are chickens and goats. His butchers business has grown from humble beginnings, established by his Grandfather. “My Grandfather used to slaughter in that old shed that you can see now,” he said, pointing to the small rusted tin shed, a short distance from where we stood. “They used to kill cattle in there and cart the carcasses from here to Red Rock near High Peak by horseback. I rode to Francis Plain once on a horse from Half Tree Hollow and owned the horse myself.” Since then his butchery business has evolved and operates from a building near Rosemary Plain. He has handed this side of the business over to his sons, “They’re doing well at the moment, I


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A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her. One of the bags was ripped and every once in a while a 20 dollar bill fell out onto the path. Noticing this, a policeman stopped her, and said, “Ma’am, there are 20 dollar bills falling out of that bag.” “Oh, really? Darn it!” said the little old lady. “I’d better go back and see if I can fi nd them. Thanks for telling me, offi cer.” “Well, now, not so fast,” said the cop. Where did you get all that money? You didn’t steal it, did you?” “Oh, no,” said the old lady. “You see, my back yard is right next to a golf course. A lot of golfers come and pee through a knot hole in my fence, right into my fl ower garden. It used to really tick me off. Kills the fl owers, you know. Then I thought, I would make the best of it? So, now, I stand behind the fence by the knot hole, real quiet, with my hedge clippers. Every time a guy sticks his thing through my fence, I surprise him, grab hold of it and say, ‘O.K., buddy! Give me 20, or off it comes.” “Well, that seems only fair,” said the cop, laughing. “OK. Good luck! Oh, by the way, what’s in the other bag?” “Not everybody pays.”------A farmer wants to know how many sheep he has in his fi eld, so he asks his border collie to count them. The dog runs into the fi eld, counts them and runs back to the farmer. The farmer says, “How many?” The dog says, “40.” The farmer is surprised and says, “How can there be 40 - I only bought 38!” The dog says, “I rounded them up.”

If you would like to take part, we need a good picture of you (which we can do) and your top 3 - it could be your top 3 movies, songs, books or cars. It could be your top 3 places on St Helena, or top 3 achievements. The more interesting the better chance of being chosen, as we will only print 1 per week! Email: [email protected] with subject heading, top 3.

Tim Walpole, RMS

1. It’s a challenging job

2. You get to meet different people

3. It’s enjoyable

• The lowest surface temperature recorded was in Vostok, Antarctica: -89°C (-129°F) on 21 July 1983;• The highest temperature recorded was in El Azizia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: 57.8°C (136,4°F) on 13 Sep tember 1922.• Did you know that hurricanes have an eye in the centre of its spiral that is calm and even sunny? How ever, the arms of the hurricane have a destructive force that can decimate entire coastlines and towns.• There are more than 35 different types of snow?• Hurricanes are called hurricanes if they develop in the Atlantic Ocean. If they develop in the Pacifi c Ocean, they are called typhoons.• Dust devils look like tornadoes, but are simply well formed whirlwinds of dust.• A lightning bolt travels up to 60,000 miles per second and can reach temperatures as high as 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.• The largest hail stone ever discovered was found in Nebraska and its circumference was that of a soccer ball!

TIME TO REBOOT - Going back to 22 November1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. “Blackbeard”) was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.

1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motor-cade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded.

1977 : Scheduled service from Paris and London to New York’s John F. Ken-nedy Airport began following the ban on Concord, due to a protest over sonic booms fl ying into JFK, being lifted.

1995 : Toy Story produced by Pixar is released as the fi rst feature-length fi lm created completely using computer generated animation. The fi lm was not only a commercial success it was given great ratings by critics and won a number of awards including an Academy Special Achievement Award in 1996 for the fi rst feature-length computer-animated fi lm

Famous Birthdays22 Nov - 28 Nov

Scarlett Johansson (28)US Actress - 22 NovMiley Cyrus - (20)

AKA Hannah Montana 23 Nov

Billy Connolly (70)Scottish Actor/Comedian -

24 NovTina Turner (73)

US Singer - 26 Nov

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Opposite page:Top: C&W shoot competitionMiddle: Amelia & Lyn at Yacht Club fun dayBottom: Levelwood All Stars cricket team celebrating a wicket on Sunday

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NOTICE BOARD

Building Services Manager

Solomon & Company (St Helena) Plc has a Vacancy for a

Job Purpose:

To manage all aspects of the Building Works and Electrical Section and be responsible for the delivery of the building services in accordance with the Company’s Vision, policies and Health & Safety requirements.

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

Salary will start at £11,100 per annum depending on qualifications and experience.

Solomons have enhanced their Terms & Conditions of Employment and offer an attractive benefits package which includes, free home-to-duty

transport, a Pension Scheme, Annual, Sick, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Training & Further Education Incentives, Discount on Purchases

and much more.

Solomons may consider funding travel fares to St Helena for the successful candidate on

specific terms!

For further information, please contact Derek Richards, GM (Services)

on telephone number 2380 or via email address: [email protected]

Application forms may be collected from Solomons Reception Desk and should be

completed and returned to Marianne Young, Human Resources Manager,

Solomons Office, Jamestown

by 27 November 2012

• To be responsible for the quality and cost control of all jobs.

• Respond to requests for building services and produce estimates, costing

and quotations.

• Attend site visits on a regular basis and assess the quality of work undertaken.

• Provide monthly progress reports on all aspects of the building services.

• Manage the building works budget and carry out a budget review on an annual basis.

• Manage two Foreman and a highly skilled team of 12 staff members.

• Meet the Company’s work and financial performance objectives.

• Ensure that work is carried out in a safe and competent manner.

Applicants should have a sound knowledge in most aspects of building and electrical services, be in possession of a Building Services Management Certificate, or a proven track record of working in a similar environment for a minimum of 5 years. Possess good managerial and communication skills, technical skills, ability to maintain high levels of productivity, be well organised and have the ability to work under pressure.

Should be in possession of a valid Drivers Licence. Web: www.solomons-sthelena.com

AVES Courses for December 2012 Are you interested?

Course Title Date Time Trainer Venue Closing date

Emergency First Response Renewals

5th December 2012

9am-12pm Anthony Thomas

ELC Hall 30th November 2012

Manual Handling Fundamentals

7th December 2012


Lecture Room 30th November 2012

Manual Handling Intermediate

7th December 2012

1pm-3:30pm Anthony Thomas

Lecture Room 30th November 2012

Excel Intermediate

10th & 11th December

2012

9am-12pm Mark Yon AVES IT Suite 3rd December2012

Emergency First Response

12th December 2012


Lecture Room 5th December 2012

Note: These are individual courses Spaces are limited to 12 people.

Spaces will only be confirmed upon receipt of registration forms by the closing date stated in the table.

For further information and registration forms please contact Reception at AVEC On telephone 2613 or email: [email protected]


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NOW SHOWING ONLINETraffi c Lights on St Helena

The Roads Section are continuing with their summer roads programme and have now begun work from White Wall to Halfway. In this short news clip, Chloe Terry reports on

the introduction of temporary traffi c lights on St Helena. This video is free to watch on our website www.shbc.sh

Presented by Chloe TerryCamera, sound & edit: Simon Benjamin


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CHURCH NOTICES

FaithMatters

Activities at the Army this week-end

Saturday 24th NovemberCoffee morning at 10am at the

Jamestown hall - Supporting White Ribbon Day. All are welcome.

Sunday 25th November Morning service at the Half Tree Hollow Hall

at 11am. All are welcome.

Mums & Toddlers at the Half Tree Hollow Hall every Monday at 10 o’clock.

There is always a warm welcome for you at the Salvation Army.

‘Quality Seconds’ Shop open every Friday and Saturday.

If you would like to know more about The Salvation Army’s activities, contact Lt. Coral

Yon on telephone nos 2703/4358. Take care & God bless.

Seventh Day Adventist

Saturday 24 November 9:15am- Hymn Singing

Lieutenant Coral Yon

BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday 25th November1) 8.45 am, Divine Service,Sandy Bay Chapel2) 10.45 am, Divine Service, Head O’Wain Chapel 3) 7.00 pm, Divine Service, Jamestown

DIOCESE OF SAINT HELENA

The Cathedral Parish of St Paul Sunday 25 November Christ the King8.00 a.m. Eucharist, Cathedral11.00 a.m. Sung Eucharist/Parade, St Andrew11.15 a.m. Eucharist, St Helena & The Cross5.30 p.m. Choral Evensong, CathedralThursday 29 November 10.00 a.m. Eucharist, St SwithinFriday 30 November7.00 p.m. Patronal Festival, St AndrewSunday 2 December Advent Sunday8.00 a.m. Eucharist, Cathedral10.00 a.m. Sung Eucharist, Cathedral3.30 p.m. Eucharist, St Peter

The Parish of St James Sunday 18 November 33 Sunday of the Year 9.30 a.m. Sung Eucharist, St JamesWednesday 21 November 7.30 a.m. Eucharist, St JamesThursday 22 November 7.00 p.m. Eucharist & Healing, St JohnSunday 25 November Christ the King9.30 a.m. Sung Eucharist, St James7.00 p.m. Evensong, St John

Parish of St MatthewSunday 18 November 33 Sunday of the Year 8.00 a.m. Eucharist, St Matthew11.00 a.m. Eucharist, Levelwood Community Centre3.00 p.m. Eucharist & Farewell to Mike Dean, St MarkTuesday 20 November 7.00 p.m. Eucharist, St MarkSunday 25 November Christ the King11.00 a.m. Sung Eucharist, St Matthew

BAHA’I FAITHwww.sthelenabahai.org

BAHA’I CENTREGumwoods

DEVOTIONAL MEETING

Thursday 22nd. November at 8pm

All are welcome.

“The fundamental basis of all religion is one ---the essence of religion is human fel-

lowship.”Baha’i Scripture

Hello everyone I would like to share a poem with you this week that has blessed me and I pray that you will be blessed as well.

Heartprints Whatever our hands touch…We leave fi nger-prints.On walls,On furniture,On door knobs, dishes and books.Smudges, showing we were there!

Oh Lord, please, wherever I go to-day…Help me to leave Heartprints.Heartprints of compassion,Understanding and love.Heartprints of kindnessAnd genuine concern.

I shall go out today…to leave Heart-prints…And if someone should say,“I felt your touch!”May that one feeling be Your loving touch,Lord, through me!

May my heart touch …My lonely neighbour, with a smile,A worried mother, with peace,A runaway child, with safety,A homeless person, with warmth,And my dear friends, with love. ~ Author unknown ~

Psalm 116 verses 1,2,5-7 says:I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;He heard my cry for mercy.Because he turned his ear to me,I will call on him as long as I live.The Lord is gracious and righteous;Our God is full of compassion.The Lord protects the simple hearted;When I was in great need, He saved me.Be at rest once more, O my soul,For the Lord has been good to you.

Take care and God bless.

SchoolroomSermon: (1) & (2) Pastor(3) Deacon Brian Thomas10.00 am Sunday School Baptist Manse2.45 pm Divine Service CCC (Pastor)

Tuesday 27th November5.00pm Bible Studies,Cape Villa7.30pm Bible Studies,Jamestown Schoolroom Wednesday 28th November7.30pm Bible Studies Deadwood at home of Winnie Thomas

Thursday 29th November5.30pm Bible Studies, Sandy Bay Chapel7.30pm Bible Studies, Blue Hill (Home of Vincent & Vilma March)

For more info contact Pastor Graeme BeckettEmail: [email protected]. 2388

9:30am- Sabbath School10:00am- Bible Discussion11:00am- 12:00pm- Divine Service 2:00pm- Youth ProgrammeWednesday 28 November7:30- 8:30pm- Prayer Meeting in ChurchThursday 29 November7:00pm- Bible study at Guinea Grass, (home of Andrew & Shara Robinson) 7:00pm- Bible study at Harford Community Centre.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTENDFor more information, contact Pastor Clack Tel No. 2267 Email: [email protected]


SPOT THE DIFFERENCE‘SHOW YOUR SPOTS’ (IN AID OF THE ST HELENA FAMILY SUPPORT TRUST)

The Sentinel are helping to get ‘SPOTTY.’ Can you spot 10 differences in thepictures below? Answers will be revealed in next weeks Sentinel.


REPORT

continued from front pageAs a result of the restructure, the role of Di-rector of I&U, held by David Thomson, “dis-appears” and he was “released” from his con-tract on 16 November. I asked if Thomson was aware of the situation. “David Thom-son was aware that we were making changes and he had seen the structure,” responded O’Sullivan. The press release stated that the decision was made to make better use of limited funding. Would that mean the creation of a new direc-tor of PE or would the new responsibilities be absorbed by existing government person-nel? “The restructuring is more signifi cant than that,” said O’Sullivan, “there is a role for a Programme Manager at the moment. The Infrastructure Programme needs more focus looking to the future. Obviously, there are a number of things that need to be done and I need to consult the staff and also get their views to the best way forward. Basi-cally, you will have a director in the very near future but it will be the Director of Physical Environment.”He went on to explain how the PE would be more productive and effi cient, “What it is ac-tually doing is the Director of Physical Envi-ronment will be at a strategic level and then those below will be at a much more opera-tional level. At the moment, I think, there is a mix between strategy and operations which has muddied the waters which hasn’t resulted in as benefi cial decision-making or as much implementation as would have been possible. So by separating the two and making it clear who’s accountable for what, including put-ting in place much stronger Project Manage-ment, that should provide benefi ts. This is a

small part of a much wider re-structure across Government, including the creation of Cor-porate Services and a Strategic Management Team. There will be more changes to come.”The I&U department is quite new and was previously called the Public Works and Ser-vices Department. Large scale change can sometimes create uncertainty. Is this a sign that the decision making of SHG modernisa-tion programme is not being thought through carefully enough? “No, I think this is a sign that it has actually been implemented,” re-sponded O’Sullivan, “there are some tough decisions to be made and maybe in the past tough decisions haven’t been taken. This is not a sign that it hasn’t been thought through, it is a sign that it has been taken seriously and implemented. I have been told by numerous people that action needs to be taken to im-prove Infrastructure. It is sad that now ac-tions are being taken, a number of those same people are not supporting the changes and looking to focus on negatives.”Mr O’Sullivan did not state a date for the launch of the new directorate but said, “all the SHG re-structuring changes will be com-pleted by April. It is going to be a phased ap-proach, it is not necessarily the Physical En-vironment Directorate is going to come in to force by April. There are a number of stages. First of all I would have to consult with staff as I have said.”

In response to a request from the Sentinel for further information regarding the SHG restructuring process, following Monday’s press release, the following data was supplied from the Castle.

• Public spending in St Helena has actually increased this year, and is more tightly focused on our immediate priorities.

Sherrilee Phillips, SHBC

Total package for 2012/13 is £24.4 million, an increase of 13.5% over last year.• Main increases are RMS, capital works on the Island’s infrastructure, addition-al support for medical services, education, environmental management and economic growth. RMS St Helena protected, with 29 additional berths funded by DfID. Addi-tional funding for health including improved facilities at the Hospital and two new doctors.• As part of its restructuring, the Gov-ernment has strengthened its internal “centre” and adopted a Corporate Services approach to supporting and coordinating the activities of government. • In terms of resources for infrastruc-ture capital expenditure for 2012/13, SHG requested (at the last DAPM) funding of £1.6 million to complement its own allocation of £2.1 million in the new Infrastructure Plan. DAPM agreed to meet this in the fi rst year and has made a provisional commitment of funds up to £5 million for the latter two years, dependent upon improved performance. This represents a signifi cant UK Government investment to improve the island’s essential infrastructure before the airport opens.• Part of the re-structuring aims is to improve signifi cantly the performance across the Capital programme.

SHGRESTRUCTURING

SHG RESTRUCTURING

The signing of the airport contract in Novem-ber last year represents a game-changing moment for St Helena and signalled a major transformation for the Island. Both the pub-lic and private sectors are adapting to the opportunities and challenges this presents, within the overall theme of economic growth and raised productivity and increased effi -ciency in the public sector. As part of its drive to make better use of limited funds, St Helena Government is modernising and restructuring to strengthen lines of accountability within Government, and more clearly link policy with political oversight, programme delivery and value for money. The full range of Government functions is being reviewed, including strengthening the delivery of functions such as Corporate Services, and creating a new Directorate of Physical Environment to include services such as lands, buildings, transport, infra-structure and the environment. As part of the latter, the post of Director of Infrastructure and Utilities disappears and, as a result, the current Director, David Thomson, has been released from his contract, with effect from Friday 16 November 2012. Once the restructuring process is complete, the new SHG structure will be published on our website.

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G O V E R N M E N T O F S T H E L E N A PUBLIC NOTICE

VACANCY FOR A MECHANICApplications are invited from suitably qualifi ed persons to fi ll the post of a Mechanic in the Transport Division of Infra-structure & Utilities Directorate.The successful applicant will be maintaining a fl eet of vehicles and heavy plant equipment to meet the demands of the government of St. Helena.The main duties of the post include:• Ensure that vehicles and heavy plant equipment are maintained in a safe operational condition; • Carry out vehicle inspections and diagnostic problem solving; • Carrying out advanced maintenance and repairs to the government fl eet of vehicles and heavy plant equipment, i.e. dismantling and reassembling engines and transmissions; • With the assistance of the Foreman (Mechanic), ensure that government fl eet of vehicles and heavy plant equipment are inspected and prepared for annual MOT’s and where necessary, remedy any faults appropriately; • Demonstrate good communication skills to be able to work as a team with senior staffApplicants should ideally have a Motor Mechanics certifi cate (or equivalent qualifi cation) plus at least 3 years practical experience and a valid driving licence. Salary for the post is in Grade C commencing at £6,479 per annum.For further details on the duties of the post or an informal chat, please contact the Senior Transport Manager, Nicholas George or the Garage Manager, Robert Augustus on telephone No. 3643 or 3065.Application forms are available from the Infrastructure & Utilities Directorate and the Human Resources Directorate and should be completed and submitted to Mrs Janatta Leo, Directorate of Infrastructure and Utilities, Jamestown by no later than 4pm, Monday 3rd December 2012.Administration SectionDirectorate of Infrastructure and Utilities 19th November 2012

G O V E R N M E N T O F S T H E L E N A PUBLIC NOTICE

VACANCY FOR A PLANT OPERATORApplications are invited from suitably qualifi ed persons to fi ll the post of a Plant Operator in the Transport Division of Infrastructure & Utilities Directorate.The successful applicant will be required to operate various types of equipment.The main duties of the post include:• Ensure that heavy plant equipment are maintained in a safe operational condition; • To have a tactical approach for performing excavation tasks• Excellent organisation skills and ability to work independently• Demonstrate individual imitativeness to ensure co-ordination of tasks for effi cient service delivery• Ensure that all excavation works are carried out in accordance with site plansapproved by the Land Planning and Development Control Agency; • Demonstrate good communication skills to be able to work as a team with senior staff and the publicApplicants should ideally have 5 years practical experience or be able to demonstrate satisfactory skills and a valid driv-ing licence. Salary for the post is in Grade C commencing at £6,479 per annum.For further details on the duties of the post or an informal chat, please contact the Senior Transport Manager, Nicholas George on telephone No. 3643.Application forms are available from the Infrastructure & Utilities Directorate and the Human Resources Directorate and should be completed and submitted to Mrs Janatta Leo, Directorate of Infrastructure and Utilities, Jamestown by no later than 4pm, Monday 3rd December 2012.Administration SectionDirectorate of Infrastructure and Utilities 19th November 2012

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A HEALTH NUGGETfrom your friends the Adventists: 1 Corinthians 6:19,20

________________________________________________________________________________________Sprouting is the practice of germinating seeds to be eaten. Sprouts are considered as wonder foods. They rank as the freshest and most nutritious of all vegetables available to the human diet. Sprouts are great for adding a bit of fl avor or crunch to a salad or sandwich, and can really boost the nutritional value of your meal. A variety of different seeds, grains, beans or legumes can be used. Mung beans or lentils are the easiest to begin with. Be sure to use fresh seeds and not commercial seeds which have been treated with poison. The seeds are placed in a sprouting vessel. Many different types of vessels can be used. One type is a simple glass jar with a piece of cloth or nylon window screen secured over its rim. “Tiered” plastic sprouters are also available, allowing a number of “crops” to be grown simultaneously. The important thing is that the water should be able to drain freely and it should allow enough air in. Typically the seeds are soaked for 20 minutes. After draining they are left in the jar at room tem-perature. Rinse them in clean, fresh water two or three times a day until tiny green leaves appear at the tips. Their nutritional value, fl avour and tenderness are then at their optimum. In the process of sprouting, the vitamins, minerals and protein increase substantially and are very

easy to digest. A healthy body is al-kaline and sprouts have an alkaliz-ing effect on the body. Try sprouts for an easy way to a healthy day!

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NOTICE BOARD

Island Wide Power Outage – Sunday 25th November 2012 From 4am to 8am

The Infrastructure and Utilities Directorate would like to inform all residents that there will be an island wide power outage in the early hours of Sunday 25th November from 4am to approximately 8am. This outage is to allow the contractor working at the Power Station to bring the station back into operation.Once again we would like to remind all resi-dents that all power circuits should be treated as live during this entire period since electricity might be restored earlier if the change-over is completed sooner than planned.


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EVENT NAME DISTRICT TIME POSITION100m Freestyle (FINAL) - Girls Sarafina Yon JBS 1.38.06 Gold100m Freestyle (FINAL) - Girls Charlotte Hubbard & Julianna legg SP& JBS 1.53.44 Silver100m Freestyle (FINAL) - Girls Chelsea Young LLA 154.16 Bronze100m freestyle (FINAL)- Boys Kyle Yon HTH 1.27.03 Gold100m freestyle (FINAL)- Boys Kalem Ellick LLA 1.27.91 Silver100m freestyle (FINAL)- Boys Scott George LLA 1.31.75 Bronze100m Breaststroke (FINAL) - Girls Madolyn Andrews HTH 2.04.23 Gold100m Breaststroke (FINAL) - Girls Karla Williams JBS 2.09.41 Silver100m Breaststroke (FINAL) - Girls Charlotte Hubbard SP 2.13.37 Bronze100m Breaststroke(FINAL) - Boys Josh Hubbard SP 1.47.72 Gold100m Breaststroke(FINAL) - Boys Jordie Andrews HTH 2.05.40 Silver100m Breaststroke(FINAL) - Boys Nandeli Pelembe LLA 2.24.50 Bronze100m Backstroke (FINAL) - Boys Ross Leo LLA 1.54.34 Gold100m Backstroke (FINAL) - Boys Nandeli Pelembe LLA 2.18.56 Silver100m Backstroke (FINAL) - Boys Thomas Hickling LLA 2.51.04 Bronze100m Backstroke (FINAL) - Girls Thomas Hickling LLA 2.51.05 Gold100m Backstroke (FINAL) - Girls Thomas Hickling LLA 2.51.06 Silver100m Backstroke (FINAL) - Girls Thomas Hickling LLA 2.51.07 Bronze33m Freestyle (FINAL) - Girls Sarafina Yon JBS 23.19 Gold33m Freestyle (FINAL) - Girls Charlotte Hubbard SP 25.84 Silver33m Freestyle (FINAL) - Girls Madolyn Andrews HTH 26.00 Bronze33m Freestyle (FINAL) - Boys Kyle Yon HTH 19.21 Gold33m Freestyle (FINAL) - Boys Kalem Ellick LLA 21.47 Silver33m Freestyle (FINAL) - Boys Josh Hubbard SP 21.60 Bronze33m Breaststroke (FINAL)- Girls Sarafina Yon JBS 29.93 Gold33m Breaststroke (FINAL)- Girls Charlotte Hubbard SP 33.36 Silver33m Breaststroke (FINAL)- Girls Madolyn Andrews HTH 33.50 Bronze33m Breaststroke (FINAL) - Boys Andrew Yon HTH 26.78 Gold33m Breaststroke (FINAL) - Boys Josh Hubbard SP 28.81 Silver33m Breaststroke (FINAL) - Boys Jordan Yon SP 31.40 Bronze33m Backstroke (FINAL) - Girls Charlotte Hubbard SP 36.25 Gold33m Backstroke (FINAL) - Girls Madolyn Andres HTH 35.16 Silver33m Backstroke (FINAL) - Girls Chelsea Young LLA 36.25 Bronze33m Backstroke (FINAL) - Boys Ross Leo LLA 29.86 Gold33m Backstroke (FINAL) - Boys Kalem Ellick LLA 34.72 Silver33m Backstroke (FINAL) - Boys Nandeli Pelembe LLA 36.35 BronzeI Medley 3x33m - Girls Sarafina Yon JBS 1.52.16 GoldI Medley 3x33m - Boys Ross Leo LLA 1.57.83 GoldI Medley 3x33m - Boys Nandeli Pelembe LLA 2.13.69 SilverI Medley 3x33m - Boys Thomas Hickling LLA 2.59.44 Bronze

4x33m Relay - Girls Sarafina Yon, Julianna Legg, Oksana Yon, Karla Williams JBS 1.55.85 Gold

4x33m Relay - Girls Tanisha Benjamin, Sonna Thomas, Asita O'Bey, Charlotte Hubbard SP 2.29.72 Silver

4x33m Relay - Girls Chelsea Young, Lisa marie Robbertse LLA 2.35.57 Bronze

4x33m Relay - Boys HTH: Dwane Yon, Andrew Yon Jordie Andrews HTH 1.49.27 Gold

4x33m Relay - Boys Callum Ellick, Scott George, Ross Leo, Nandeli Pelembe LLA 1.47.50 Silver

4x33m Relay - Boys Thomas Hickling, Anelka Leo, Jordan Yon, Josh Hubbard SP 2.01.09 Bronze

seconds. The boys events were won by Kyle Yon of HTH, he won the 33m race in a time of 19.21 seconds, and pipped Kaleen Ellick of Alarm Forest to the gold medal in the 100m event with a time of 1 minute 27.03 seconds, just 0.88 seconds ahead of Kaleen. “It feels good to be a winner,” said Kyle who also ac-knowledged the efforts of Kaleen who picked up the silver medal. “They were tough races. I had Kaleen Ellick on my tail.”The 2013 Island Games are set to be contested in Bermuda. Already those hoping to repre-sent St Helena at the games in swimming are hard at work training. “I’ve been training re-ally hard this last month,” said Kyle, “some-times 3 times a week. Johnny and his team are really helpful, I appreciate all the work they do in helping me in their free time.” [Johnny Dillon runs a swim club]The event was well supported by parents and a few members of the public, and time keep-ers, fellow competitors and spectators cheered competitors along during their races. Right, is a list of all medal winners.

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YACHT RACE PROFILES AARON LEGG

Aaron Legg has partici-pated in 2 Governor’s Cup Yacht Races (GCYR). The fi rst in 2002 saw him leave St Hel-ena for the fi rst time ever. At the age of 18 Aaron em-barked upon a journey which he describes as “absolutely f a n t a s t i c . ” However it didn’t start well, “I got seasick on my way to Cape Town,” re-called Aaron. Did that place just a smidgen of doubt in Aarons mind? “Of course it did,” replied Aaron, “but I went through with it and I was ok.”Upon reaching Cape Town, Aaron who was a sailing novice at the time, underwent training in Simon’s Town. “I attended sailing school in a Navy Barracks in Simon’s Town,” revealed Aaron. “It was run by Ian Ainslie.” Ian Ain-slie is a Director for the Izivunguvungu MSC Foundation for Youth Sailing School. He com-peted at the Olympic Games at the Finn Class Sailing in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000. “He nicknamed us his ‘St Helenian street kids’,” said Aaron. “We did a lot of sailing as well as school, we learnt by doing.”In his fi rst GCYR in 2002 Aaron joined the crew of yacht ‘Solitaire’ with 4 other Saints. After a hectic training schedule in Simon’s Town, he welcomed the peacefulness of the Atlantic Ocean. “It’s impossible to describe the sound onboard a yacht in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,” said Aaron. “No engine noise, just the noise of the sea and the sails

Former England captain David Beckham is leaving Los Angeles Galaxy next month after six years at the American Major League Soc-cer (MLS) club. He intends to quit after the season-ending MLS Cup fi nal on 1 December. In a statement Beckham, 37, said: “I wanted to experience one last challenge before the end of my playing career.” Lewis Hamilton says Sunday’s victory at the United States GP proved he is one of the top drivers in F1 after he “beat the supposed best.”Sebastian Vettel had looked dominant at the Circuit of the Americas after topping every practice and qualifying session, but Hamilton was on fi re in the race, recovering from a slow start on the dirty side of the grid to hunt down and pass the World Championship leader.The 2008 World Champion is out of conten-tion to win this year’s title, but after beating the only two men who can win it, he believes he should be seen in the same light as the sport’s other top drivers.The success of Tom Daley has led to a num-ber of the country’s most promising young divers moving to his home pool in Plymouth to further their careers. Daley’s coach, Andy Banks, was the master-mind behind his Olympic bronze medal and is

now in high demand from people wanting to emulate his success. The city’s new Life Centre com-plex, which features state-of-the-art diving facilities, opened earlier this year. “We’re now seeing a brain drain into Plymouth,” Banks told BBC South West.Sprint star Usain Bolt will not appear in this year’s Big Bash Twenty20 League but may con-sider switching to cricket or foot-ball after the 2016 Olympics. The Jamaican, 26, held talks with Shane Warne’s Melbourne Stars in October. But Bolt’s agent Ricky Simms told BBC Sport: “Usain is cur-rently an athlete focused on his preparations for the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.”

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fl apping in the wind. It’s an awesome sound.”After such an enjoyable experience in 2002, Aaron participated in the GCYR again in 2010. This race proved to be his moment of glory. “I helped crew yacht ‘Our Diane’,” revealed Aar-on, and we won the GCYR.” Being a winner of the race I wondered if Aaron had any advice for the St Helena team who will crew yacht

‘Patches’ in the 2012 race. “ J u s t e n j o y it,” said A a r o n . “ M a k e sure to enjoy the whole ex-p e r i e n c e to the full.”The St H e l -ena team who will be crew ‘Patches’ are sched-uled to d e p a r t for Cape Town this week.

Damien O’Bey SHBC

Previous GCYR participant, Aaron Legg

November 20th 2012Pin Breakers 330 bt Loose Ends 292

L HSc Joy Bowers 62 Gilly Stroud 55

G HSc Ronald Williams 65 Clint Peters 63G. HSp. Ronald Williams 13 Clint Peters 17L HSp

Lucky Strikes 347 drew with 6 Pak 347L. HSc. Sylvia Philips 58 Ann Andrews 61G. HSc. Charlie Young 73 Fabian Peters 65L. HSp. Sylvia Philips 13 Rosalie Lawrence 15G. HSp. Charlie Young 15 Fabian Peters 16

Fixtures 4th December 2012Weaklinks v PunishersFamily Favourites v 6 Pak

BLUE HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONSKITTLES RESULTS


SPORTS

On Thursday 15th November, Jamestown Rifl e Club held the presentation for the two night shooting competition which was spon-sored by Cable & Wireless South Atlantic Ltd. Seven teams entered and all who participated whether it was their fi rst time shooting or not, enjoyed it.It was a good night for all teams and even therapeutic! The advantage was that all teams who participated had the opportunity to win, as the two top scoring shooters in each team won a trophy. There was a cup for the win-ning team as well as individual trophies for the top three individual scores. The team with the highest score winning the fl oating trophy, was Cable & Wireless (1067.2 points), followed by Solomon’s team (1066.6 points). The top three individuals with the highest score was 1st place Carlos Yon (C&W team) 198.1; 2nd Kevin George (National Trust Team) 196.4; 3rd Megan Sim (Solomon’s Team) 192.2.Team winners, from Solomon’s in 1st place Kara Henry with 182.2 in 2nd place Leroy Fowler 181, BOSH 1st place Joey George 183.2 2nd place Mercia George 175, Thorpe’s 1st place ED Thorpe 182.1 in 2nd place Rico Williams 174.1, C&W 1st place Mario Cole-man 186.1 in 2nd place Deirdre Maggott 182, National Trust 1st place David Joshua 182 in 2nd place Sanjay Bargo 163.1 and Sharp Shooters 1st place Carl peters 183 in 2nd place Jordie Andrews 182.The youth team were also awarded medals for their participation and dedication: Maddie Andrews and Jason Lawrence both received a gold medal for 176 points each, Stefan Isaac 164 silver and Alex Reynolds 142 bronze

medal. Pat Henry, Jamestown Rifl e Club Chairman and Shara Robinson, Cable and Wireless Rep-resentative, presented the trophies to the win-ners. Shara Robinson gave a short speech to the teams, thanking them for their participation as well as Pat for helping to organise the event. Teams were encouraged to continue shooting in readiness for next year’s competition!

Cable & Wireless Win Team Cable & Wireless Win Team Shooting CompetitionShooting Competition

Shara Robinson, Cable & Wireless (Results From JRC)

First of all we had the honour of welcoming four visitors from South Africa to the Club this weekend, two of whom were keen golfers namely Chris Gerber and William Ross, ac-companied by their two friends Dougie Dug-

gan and Flip Van-der Merwe. Both Chris and William took part in Saturday’s competition. As reported previously two competitions were schedule over the weekend, on Saturday 24 players took part in an 18 hole Stableford for the Turkey & Ham. Stableford is played to a points system and each player is awarded their full handicap. In fi rst place playing of a 24 handicap was our visitor Chris Gerber with a very credible 38 points followed in second place by Patrick (Paddo) Johnson with 34 points. Chris was awarded a club polo shirt for his prize. Two players holed out in two to share the ball pool they were Henzil Beard and Paddo who had a birdie 2 on the 7th and 14 holes respectively.The shot of the day went to Arnold (Shotty) Green who holed out in one on the Par 3, 114 yard 7th hole. Shotty was presented with the traditional Hole-in-one Trophy, this was Shot-ty’s second hole-in-one in the last 4 years. Prior to the Presentation Tony Green (Club President) received from Chris Gerber on be-half of the Club a Floating Trophy inscribed with a picture of his 6 year old grandson Kyle. The trophy is to be presented annually to the winner of the Open Championship.Kyle was born prematurely and has had to overcome many diffi culties throughout his short life but hopes to one day visit St Helena with his parents. Chris was presented with a Golf Cap with the Clubs Logo to take back for his grandson. On Sunday we had 22 players taking part in the monthly medal competition this is a stroke play format where each player is awarded their full handicap which is deducted from the gross score. This is also the competition a players handicap is accessed each month.Two players returned scores of 69 namely Larry (Nails) Thomas and Paddo Johnson (who seems to have kept his form from the previous day). After a count back over the last nine holes Larry scored a very good 34 and Paddo had a 37, therefore Larry was declared the winner and Paddo runner up. Larry was presented with the Basil Read Mug and both received an assorted meat pack. Three players holed out in two to share the two ball pool they were Keith Joshua (KJ) and Peter Bagley on the Par 3 fi fth hole and Deon De-Jager on the par 3 seventh. The Club would like to thank Basil Read for sponsoring this competition. We would also like to thank Richard Wallis one of our members who has recently comput-erised the Club’s Handicap system. Competi-tion for coming weekend is a 36 hole Stroke play sponsored by Peter Bagley and will be played over two days. Members are also ad-vised that the Social Evening will be held at the Club on Friday 23rd November each mem-ber is ask to bring a plate of eats, fi nally the presentation for the 2012 Open Championship will take place at the club on Sunday 25th No-vember, following the fi nal round of the Peter Bagley Competition

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Contributed by Lawson Henry, Longwood Golf Club

Arthur Francis Putting on the 1st Green

Kara Henry recieves her trophy from Shara Robinson of Cable & Wireless


SPORTS

ZODIACS Make it 2 wins in 2 Games

Saturday 17th November: A fi ne spring day with a strong cooling breeze. Francis Plain eagerly anticipated the Island’s two most suc-cessful teams of recent years going head to head. Levelwood All stars won the toss and with the confi dence of champions decided to bat fi rst. Led out by skipper Darrel Leo and partnered by Ross Henry, who has started the season in fi ne form. It took just two balls to register the fi rst boundary from the bowling of Jason Thomas and with no time taken to play himself in, another followed from the fourth ball of an opening over costing ten runs. The promise of fi reworks continued in the second over as Damien O’Bey suffered at the bat of R Henry who hit another two fours before a single allowed D Leo to plunder a four of his own, the over had gone for fi fteen runs and Levelwood were 25-0. The fi rst ball of the third over had a huge effect on the outcome of the match; the hugely confi dent and aggressive R Henry was adjudged LBW off the bowling of Thomas for 18. I fi nd it diffi cult (even off of a full ball) to adjudge anyone plumb LBW, when they are virtually half way down the pitch, but that was the decision made by the umpire. If I could deviate entirely here for a few moments I would hate for anyone to think I was picking on the umpiring, it just so hap-pens that mistakes are made by the highly paid premier league referees and lesser paid pro-fessional umpires, often enough for them and not the quality of the game, to be the debating point, of far too many matches. Our umpires

are purely voluntary and should be applauded but unfortunately more controversial decisions were to follow. Following the dismissal of R Henry the Barracudas opening bowlers seemed to grow in confi -dence and a yard in pace as O’Bey got amongst the wickets by having Sanjay Clingham caught by An-drew Yon for 2 and the ever dan-gerous Darrel Leo, caught by Le-roy Caswell for 10. Two runs later Stefan Leo was clean bowled by Thomas for 1, leaving the Allstars struggling on 51-4. Without add-ing to the score the next controver-sial decision came with the 1st ball of O’Bey’s 4th over, Shavon Leo being adjudged caught behind, without any appeal from the bowl-er! for 10. A stand of 27 followed between Dane Leo (18) and David Francis (8) before Gavin George was brought on to replace O’Bey from the Red Hill end. Gavin bowling with grace and style was simply unplayable! His 1st over, had the attacking Dane Leo caught in a wicket maiden and the sec-ond saw a further 3 wickets from the 2nd, 3rd and fi nal ball without conceding any runs, fi nishing with the quite remarkable (brilliant ac-tually) fi gures of 2-2-0-4, meaning

two overs (twelve balls), two maidens (overs without any runs being scored), no runs con-ceded and four wickets, yes I think it deserved spelling out! The All stars had collapsed to 87 all out from just 14 overs.Jamestown Barracudas started their run chase very comfortably reaching 17-0 from the fi rst three overs before R Henry had O’Bey caught by Dane Leo for 9. This brought G George to the wicket to partner his son David (Interna-tional record holders). They pushed the score along comfortably before R Henry returned for his second spell and had D George caught behind for 14. As often happens in cricket once the partnership was broken the second falls quickly behind and G George was adjudged LBW to Greg Coleman for 16, however the Barracudas were still looking comfortable at 52-3. David Reynolds and Leroy Caswell were out cheaply the latter referring to another questionable decision but at the start of the 19th over the Barracudas were 86-5 and all but home and dried. David Francis was brought back into the attack and the fi rst ball of his 3rd over yielded the wicket of Dale Bowers LBW for 10 the second ball was a wide bringing the scores all level but the fourth and fi fth balls re-moved both Martin Andrews and Jason Thom-as without troubling the scorers and because Barracudas were playing with only ten men it left us with one run required with one wicket remaining and just the hat-trick ball remain-ing in the David Francis over and he…yes he bowled a wide giving the barracudas the one run they required for victory.

Defending Defending Champs DefeatedChamps Defeated

David George Batting for Barracudas

Les Baldwin

Ross Henry (All Stars) bowling from the Red Hill end

Anna Crowie

After twenty minutes, waiting on the Umpires to start the game, Lions won the toss and sent the Zodiacs into bat.Opening batsmen Dax Richards and Jerry Roberts were not off to a good start with Scott Crowie gaining himself a maiden on the 1st over. The game started at a slow pace until the third over; Richards and Roberts upped their game starting to hit fours, which made Zodiacs score look more interesting. After the 7th over Lions were throwing themselves across the fi eld; Gary Benjamin took a brilliant dive to stop Richards from achieving a four and near the ropes; Jeff Dawson stopped another pos-sible four. On the 9th over, Richards swiftly hit the ball towards Dawson in the inner ring and both batsmen started to run. Very quickly, Daw-son returned his ball to the wicket keeper and caused Jerry Roberts a run out. The Lions’ fi rst wicket against the Zodiacs and they applauded as if they had won the game. Adrenaline rush-ing, Lions tightened their game by shuffl ing players around the fi eld. The fi rst and only six of the Zodiacs came from Richards on the 10th over, feeling very comfortable with Anders Bowers alongside him; Richards was caught, after making 61 runs, by one of the Lions’ old-er players Gary Thomas who took a break last season but made a comeback by catching Zo-diacs’ top batsman and wicket keeper. Bowers and Michael Bedwell kept the game at a steady pace with the balls running over the ropes for fours. Scott Crowie took a few dives in the fi eld, again, stopping possible fours. Bowers and Bedwell were on a high scoring 117 runs


SPORTSCRICKET FIXTURES

CRICKET RESULTS

Wstrn Warriors 20 Lngwd Bees 1

Tommy Young 23E Williams 2/4

Marvin Benjamin 10

Saturday 17th 2012

47/0 46 all out

Jtown Barracudas 20 Lvlwd AllStars 6

Gavin George 15Gavin George 4/0

Dane Leo 18David Francis 3/18

88/8 87 All out

Gareth Johnson 3, T Young 2, S Henry 1

Gavin George 3, D O’Bey 2, D Francis 1

Saturday 24th November 2012 9am, Levelwood All Stars v Sandy Bay PiratesSaturday 24th November 2012 1.30 pmSt Matthews Lions v Longwood BeesOrganiser Levelwood RebelsSunday 25th November 2012 9amWestern Warriors v St Pauls BSunday 25th November 2012 1.30 pmJamestown Barracudas v HTH Dolpins Organiser Jamestown Zodiacs

Sndby Pirates 20 Lvlwd Rebels 8

Lynton Fowler 56Darren Isaac 4/27

Brendon Leo 46Scot Leo 4/24

188 all out 128 all out

Lynton Fowler 3, Brendon Leo 2, D Isaac 1Jtown Zodiacs 20 St Mtws Lions 8

Anders Bowers 65Anders Bowers 5/51

S Crowie 127N Stevens 2/5

272/7 214 all out

S Crowie 3, A Bowers 2, J Essex 1

until the 17th over when Bedwell was caught out by Johnny Crowie. Gibby Young came down and gained his fi rst four quite quickly; Lions tried hard to stop Zodiacs and after the 21st over Alan Thomas took a brilliant catch from Young. Young Jamie Essex had made a quick recovery from his injury last week and was ready to bat against St Mathews, hit-ting fours. On the 29th over Zodiacs reached a score of 200. Essex and Bowers continued to bat steadily against the Lions when on the 34th over Gary Benjamin bowled Essex out. Andrew George eagerly wanted his four, as it was customary for the Zodiacs to hit fours; he achieved this on the last ball of the 34th over. Bowers who made the highest score of 65 for the Zodiacs was well caught by young Ashton Benjamin near the inner ring. Nick Stevens came on the bowling for the last over and gained himself two wickets. Zodiacs reached a fi nal score of 272 for 7 wickets.Lions, very disheartened by the score they had to beat, made a quick recovery from fi elding and sent opening batsmen Patrick Crowie and Nick Stevens in to start the game. The game was off to a good start for Lions with Tyrel Ellick on the bowling for the Zodi-acs and Patrick Crowie hitting a six and four in the fi rst over. Both Bowers and Young running for the ball that eventually ended in Bowers hands, caught out P Crowie after reaching a score of 30 runs for Lions. Zodiacs were very thrilled knowing one of the two Crowie boys were out of the game. Scott Crowie started his game at a steady pace protecting his wicket the best way possible. On the 7th over El-lick gained himself a maiden over leaving Li-ons with a score of 31 runs. Bedwell made a good stop in the fi eld diving to stop the ball going towards the ropes. Essex came on the bowling and very relaxed, bowled Stevens. Alan Thomas very readily rushed to the fi eld to achieve his fi rst four on the 10th over. One third of the over’s nearly gone it was time for the Lions to up their game and S Crowie who

scored 141 runs in the game that was played for the Island team a few weeks back started to hit the ball for fours and sixes giving the Lions a foothold in the game. Climbing from a score of 42 S Crowie rapidly took the Lions to a score of 204 until the 27th over when he was quickly stumped from behind by the wicket keeper, leaving the fi eld with a fantastic score of 127, which included 16 fours and 8 incred-ible sixes. Zodiacs were so pleased when the umpire’s decision declaring out for S Crowie, it was as if they had won the game. Darkness was slowly creeping in and the remaining two Lions tried hard to accomplish the score but were all out with a fi nal score of 214 for 10 wickets.

Lions gather after taking a wicket

Lions batsman Alan Thomas gets beaten by a well pitched delivery

Dennis Lillee is one of the all time greats in the game of cricket. He supports the white rib-bon campaign in trying to eliminate violence towards women. He wears a white ribbon and has pledged to never commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women. Lets join the great Australian bowler and wear white ribbons for the weekends fi xtures.


SPORTSARENADamien O’Bey SHBC

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BOSH Staff taking part in the Cable & Wireless Challenge Cup

C&W TEAM SHOOT COMPETITION

BOSH YOUTH BOSH YOUTH GAMES BEGINGAMES BEGIN

The 8th Bank Of St Helena Youth Games offi cial opening ceremony preceded the swim-ming sector of the games on Friday 16th November at 6pm. Lyn Thomas, chairperson of the board of directors for The Bank Of St Helena wished competitors luck with the weather, but also wished them “speed, accuracy lots of energy, and commitment to do your best,” effectively declaring the games open.An encouraging number of youths, both male and female were present at the Jamestown swimming pool, ready to compete in 33m and 100m swimming events. The high number of competitors present, meant that a number of events required heats to whittle the numbers. The Free-style events winners medals are considered to be the most coveted awards. The Girls Freestyle races were dominated by former Island games competitor Sarafi na Yon of Jamestown, who won the 33m event in a time of 23.19 seconds and the 100m event in 1 minute 38.06

Results & report, page 29

Kyle Yon starts the 33m Freestyle for boys

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