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www.sams.sh THE South Atlantic Media Services, Ltd. Vol. 8,SENTINEL Issue 45 - Price: £1 “serving St Helena and her community worldwide” Thursday 13 February 2020 Solomon’s theft: Mr Grocock’s charges said to have been dropped Pilling Year 3 students talk about SHFC closure Blisters for Trees posing “significant Sisters risk to life/property” being removed The RMS: Memories from the final voyage Freight subsidised for Voyage 26 SHG wants telecoms providers who can ensure “cable delivers intended benefits” 2 www.sams.sh Thursday 13 February 2020 | THE SENTINEL THE SENTINEL | Thursday 13 February 2020 www.sams.sh 3 OPINION YOUR LETTERS ST HELENA NEWS Dear Editor, memories when you reminisce about to ceiling images of the Peaks, As the number of visitors are known impression once, and this is a missed it years later. Jamestown, High Knoll and so on. beforehand, the amounts needed can opportunity to create a truly unique SENTINEL An open letter to Airlink and St Now, not being one to just pass They could even be painted for a be managed. What a delight it would St Helenian welcome. Helena Airport comment and leave it at that. Here more personal touch. Maybe even be that once you clear customs a treat Please Airlink and St Helena Airport are some thoughts about how some of the larger endemics in pots awaits you. It would be a memorable do consider the thoughts of this COMMENT Flying into St Helena is an arriving on St Helena could be more could be arranged around the space arrival. letter not as a complaint on your Andrew Turner, SAMS exhilarating experience. Arriving on memorable. if possible. There were pictures I feel I should reiterate that arriving excellent service. But as a plea to look St Helena is not a memorable one. Make it more charming by playing displayed when we arrived, but on St Helena is a very professional at the arrival on St Helena, and how Will electric cars ever take off on St As the Island emerges from the the old “My St Helena Island” song they were framed and small within and efficient experience. This is it could be made more charming, Helena? deep blue, the excitement makes upon landing. I always found this the larger space. You have to wait an open letter with the ambition more visually interesting, and more Last year I met with the couple who you giddy. It looks so small. Before tradition to be a bit naff when it was to clear customs anyway, make it a of wanting it to be more. For it to delightful. How arriving on St Helena brought in St Helena’s first electric you can settle you’re gliding pass played on the RMS St Helena (quick visual feast showing off the best of be a truly memorable experience. could be made more memorable. car, a Nissan Leaf. aside - this isn’t some nostalgic the Island. Showing the things you Special and unique to St Helena. I I see that now this has been the Barn. Huge and intimidating, the Island introduces itself with longing to go back to the ‘good ole are about to experience. It would believe that the ideas outlined are Robin followed up with the importation of add colour and interest to an already not the only ideas, but they could be saintcooks.com St Helena’s first hybrid car, a Honda spectacular drama. The land seems days’ of the RMS, I believe in the to drop away as the cliffs get closer. Airport and what it means, but if efficient service. workable ideas that wouldn’t be a CRZ (if this is your car I’d be very P.S. These thoughts came from our interested to meet with you and find It is a bewitching illusion. Framed there is something to be learned For a final idea, influenced by the huge task to implement. Providing out more about it – andrewturner@ by the plane window, the Island about what worked on the RMS, it traditional Hawaiian Lei greeting. whatever international airport rules trip back to the island last year, flying sams.sh). stretches out before you as you touch shouldn’t be ignored because it was Give every arriving visitor a Coconut allow, and if they don’t perhaps into St Helena for the first time. As St Helena is now basing vehicle down. An exhilarating experience. then and this is now) However, naff Finger or another traditional Saint they could bend a little. Any trip to And came back to us while we were import taxes on emissions (well, From here onwards taxing to the I personally found the song, I grew to treat. We don’t have a greeting St Helena is special, but arriving on making our recent video about Flying a Google search really because we terminal and leaving the plane is love it because it had charm. It made like the Hawaiian’s, but we do love St Helena should have been more to St Helena. If interested that video don’t have emissions-testing gear efficient. Joy sweeps over you as you arriving at the Island memorable. To to feed you. Especially when you memorable than it was. It left a is now available on The Saint Cooks here yet), the trend towards more walk the runway to the terminal, you hear “My St Helena Island” meant are returning home. Visitors to the feeling of something missing, not Facebook page and Youtube channels efficient and eco-friendly cars is all are finally on the Island. Customs is you were home. You had arrived Island love Saint food as well. A quite right. Not quite a St Helenian to watch how exhilarating flying into but guaranteed – especially if the smooth. Anything is professional. It at St Helena. Why not play it when welcoming tradition could be created. welcome. You can only make a first St Helena is. rumours on emissions-based road is like arriving at any other airport the plane is taxing. Admittedly, I tax are true. in the world. Here lies the reason don’t know if there is some flight 90% of this trend is beneficial. The for this open letter. Arriving on St rule preventing this, but why not. island will be less reliant on fossil Helena is not a memorable one. It would create a special moment Trees posing “significant risk to life and/ fuels for transport; there will be Having travelled for days and for tourists and returning Saints cleaner air and the island will have a alike. Imagine the joy on a plane lessened carbon footprint. spent thousands, arriving at St Helena Airport should have been a singing “My St Helena Island” as it or property” now being removed For those who do have electric cars, taxis to the terminal. What a unique transport bills will be cheaper (as the memory to cherish. Instead it left Nissan Leaf has proven), the vehicles an underwhelming feeling, just a bit and charming way that would be to Emma Weaver, SAMS can be serviced locally and in every cold. Please do not misunderstand or arrive. It would be a story people other respect they are normal cars. mistake me, it is a very professional would tell for years. compromised,” SHG said. However, many will have a hard and efficient service, comparable to Another idea to make the arrival These trees are being removed time as a result of this necessary anywhere else in the world. But this more memorable, would be to show between Tuesday, Feb. 11 and change – the elderly/retirees, and is St Helena. It is special and unique. off the Island as you step into the Thursday, Feb. 13. Two tree limbs are young people just starting to work, Unlike anywhere else. It should be terminal. St Helena is an island of also being removed from trees near to name just two. more. It should be unique, it should contrasting unspoiled beauty, so the Arch and San Rays Bistro. The individuals in both these be charming, it should introduce the overwhelm and tease me with it as Car parks from the Arch through to group, lack the money for a new car. Island, it should fill you with happy I step inside. Why not have floor Donny’s are closed during the works. And especially for electric cars, Anyone accessing the area is asked which are still very expensive to to exercise caution and adhere to on- purchase overseas. site signage/instructions. And once you add to that the These immediate tree works will be ludicrous shipping costs, for many followed by further, more significant cleaner cars are simply unaffordable. tree works in the area – but as these But as SHG puts pressure on people tree works pose less of an immediate to give up their ordinary petrol danger, SHG said the works would and diesel cars, these cars too may not be undertaken until the cooler, become increasingly unaffordable winter months. to keep running – again, especially “The public should be aware that if emissions-based road tax is visually, significant changes are to introduced. I hope that, if this is something be expected in this area following SHG is working on, they can these works,” SHG said on Tuesday. introduce sensible alternatives for “However, ANRD advises the public those who cannot afford to buy a A number of trees near the Moat, SHG directorates decided that that all works will be undertaken shiny new (or even used) electric car Jamestown have been assessed as extensive works were required in sensitively and in consultation with or hybrid.