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Sentinel 27 June 2013 THE South Atlantic Media Services, Ltd. www.sams.sh Vol. 2,SENTINEL Issue 14 - Price: £1 “serving St Helena and her community worldwide” Th ursday 27 June 2013 L-R Carlos Yon, Lee Yon, Patrick Young, Pamela Young & Martin Buckley When the RMS St Helena de- parted the Island on Friday, it took St Helena’s NatWest Small Island Games team on their fi rst leg of their journey to Bermuda. The team will St Helena Athletes arrive in good time to be among the many islands taking part in the Opening Ceremony before the se- rous business of the competition starts from the 13 to 19 July. Bermuda Bound continued on page13 THE HEAT IS ON Again there has been movement on the GOVERNOR COMFIRMS ISLAND TO GO TO THE POLLS Election front this week, as three new names get added to the unoffi cial SAMS confi rmed list; Cyril George, Brenda Moors-Clingham and Raymond Williams. The race has heat- ed up and now it looks as if there will defi - nitely be a General election on 17 July. With more and more candidates stepping up and entering the race, we are nearing the magic number thirteen. Only when thir- teen or more candidates stand will there be a general election where the people will be asked to go to the polls and vote for the chosen candidates. In the recent Exco report the Governor mentioned that as many as 16 people have shown interest in running. Brenda Moors-Clingham continued on page 7 Raymond Williams Cyril George Dottie come home pg 3 Corona celebrates diamond jubillee pg 6 Lifestyle & Culture - Ivylettes pg 14 2 www.sams.sh Th ursday 27 June 2013 THE SENTINEL ST HELENA SNIPPETS BABY NEWS The stork delivered baby girl, Laila-Rose Hudson on Wednesday, 22 May at 10.10am. The little sweet pea tipped the scales at 5lb 1oz and measured a length of 44 cm. Par- ents Barbarella Bone and Ross Hudson of Jamestown together with sister Anna-Jayne Thomas (7) are extremely proud of their family addition. Barbarella said, “It’s very tiring having a newborn but I love having her around. She brings a lot of love and smiles to the house.” They would like to thank everybody who helped with the delivery of Laila-Rose, es- pecially Midwife Rosie Mittens and Nurse Alana who helped out in the early hours be- fore the delivery. Health and Social Welfare Directorate St Helena Receives ‘A’ Ratings Magistrates’ The Health and social welfare directorate has ing for the project. “The overall aim was to received notifi cation from the Department for move away from the curative medical oriented Court 20th June 2013 International Development (DfID) of overall health provision to a social care model, with ‘A’ ratings for two major projects. The proj- particular emphasis on prevention of diseas- ects to receive the ratings are the Healthlink 3 es,” said Carol. and Health Strategy projects which started in It is possible to be awarded a rating as low PAUL WILLIAMS (49) of Alarm Forest had October 2008. as a “C” and as high as a “double A plus” for pleaded guilty to causing fear or provocation DfID has provided support to the health sector DfID funded projects. Carol was pleased with of violence. As Mr Williams had no similar for a number of years through a series of proj- the ratings achieved for both projects. “We’re court convictions the court ordered that Mr ects and Health Link 3 was the last of those. happy with the “A” rating because both of Williams be subject to a probation order for 12 “The project focused on the recruitment of key these major projects were working alongside months with £15.00 costs. health professionals, such as our doctors, sup- each other,” she said. “It took a lot of com- port nurses, and social workers,” said Carol mitment, hard work and dedication from our DANIEL JAMES YON (23) of Half Tree George Director of The Health and Social staff to make sure we achieved what we have. Hollow had pleaded guilty to domestic assault Welfare Directorate. Some of the goals set for Improvements have been demonstrated but off occasioning actual bodily harm and crimi- the project were; improving the management course there’s always room for more.” nal damage. As Mr Yon had no similar court of non communicable diseases, (diseases that convictions the court ordered that Mr Yon be are non-infectious or non-transmissi- subject to a probation order for 12 months in ble among people) improving mater- respect of the assault charge. Mr Yon was fi ned nity care by reducing the number of £120.00 and ordered to pay compensation of Caesarean sections per year, and other £325.00 in respect of the criminal damage developments such as establishing a charge with £15.00 costs. link with a National Health Service (NHS) department. Having achieved Ascension Magistrates’ Court an “A” rating means these goals were (sitting in St Helena) 20th June 2013 satisfactorily met. “The health strategy project, was BRYAN KEITH CONSTANTINE (52) of implemented alongside health link Near White Gate had pleaded guilty to theft. 3,” Carol explained. Following a re- Mr Constantine was ordered to carry out 200 view of health and social services in hours of community service, as a direct alter- 2007, which indicated that a number native to imprisonment, and ordered to pay of recommendations from previous £1,073.00 compensation with £15.00 costs. reports had not been taken forward for various reasons, DfID approved fund- THE SENTINEL Th ursday 27 June 2013 www.sams.sh 3 ST HELENA SNIPPETS L-R Richard Wallis, John Woolacott, Glen Westmore & Merrill Joshua. Can-can girls DDOTTIEOTTIE CCOMEOME HHOMEOME Chloe Terry, SAMS districts on the island. Helen has received posi- really enjoyed it because they were clapping so tive comments about bringing the show ‘out to much and it was rather nice that they brought it the country’. I asked whether there would be out to the community because it’s somewhere any diffi culties encountered with moving the for people to go and really enjoy themselves.” set to different locations, “We’re trying to keep Helen confi rmed that there is another per- The fi rst showing of the production ‘Dottie it as simple as possible. We’re not having a big, formance to look forward to later this year at come home’ by the Ivyletts was held last Friday elaborate set so people are going to have to use Christmas. “We’re thinking of doing Snow evening at Harford Community Centre. The va- their imagination a little bit. We will have some White and the seven dwarfs, as always with a riety show has a strong local fl avour embedded background scenery but other than that the good St Helenian twist to it.” The Ivyletts will in it and the story revolves around a young St scenes are fairly simple,” she replied. start auditioning for this pantomime towards Helenian woman in the seventies moving from Joan Thomas was amongst the audience and the end of August. the island to the UK for domestic service. she thought the show was wonderful, “People Helen Owen, a member of the Ivyletts told SAMS that roughly 70 to 80 people attended at Longwood on Friday and around 60 people saw the play at Blue Hill on Saturday evening. “The response from the crowd was great, they were joining in from the fi rst minute,” said Helen. The play, which has a cast of up to ten people, incorporated comedy sketches including a “rather spectacular cancan” at the beginning, commented Helen. She encouraged the pub- lic to attend the fi nal showing this Saturday at Jamestown Community Centre and remarked, “I’m imagining that we might adapt things as we go along, so you might see something different as the shows progress.” At the Blue Hill performance, an unexpected additional cast member made an appearance, which was a mouse running around the feet of both the actors and audience. “Our actors were also able to improvise around the mouse!” Helen laughed. The difference with this play to the panto- mime is the cast are performing at different 4 www.sams.sh Th ursday 27 June 2013 THE SENTINEL Dear Editor, of the remaining 11 existing councillors. To which he responded that they were embarrass- SENTINEL I have been following with interest the run up ing, in respect of the inability to display lead- to the General Elections 2013 and listening ership, application of self etc. comprehensively to the manifestos put for- COMMENT ward by the candidates in the running. In my 2. Mr Dollery then went on to state that if he opinion, the four years ahead are extremely was elected and was unable to see any change Sherrilee Phillips, SAMS important for St. Helena and if we, the elector- taking place within one year, he would resign. ate, do not make an effort to ensure we choose He explained that if the democratic process persons with the right calibre for our legisla- was not working and councillors were ram- tive council and indeed our executive council, bling like sheep, he felt there would be no who our island’s decision makers, I foresee a point in remaining in a group that was not bleak future. We might bear witness to an eco- achieving or moving forward. nomically sustainable and viable St. Helena, but one which will not embrace nor transport Personally, I have no objection to any of the our very own people along with it.
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