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SENTINEL Issue 25 - Price: £1 “Serving St Helena and Her Community Worldwide” Thursday 21 September 2017 Ascension Releases Airlink Price and Start Date ...See Page 3 www.sams.sh THE South Atlantic Media Services, Ltd. Vol. 6,SENTINEL Issue 25 - Price: £1 “serving St Helena and her community worldwide” Thursday 21 September 2017 Ascension Releases Airlink Price and Start Date ...See page 3 Rupert’s remains re- Appeal argues St Helenians membered ...See pages 25-26 only worth 1/3 of UK citizens ...See page 15 Sure celebrates two years of mobile service ...See page 7 Fruit and veg statistics from Legco review latest RMS voyage ...See page 37 ...See pages 9-11 UN World Day of Peace exhibit opens ...See page 47 Annual SPCA quiz night ...See page 5 Saint’s Kitchen...See pages 32-33 2 www.sams.sh Thursday 21 September 2017 | THE SENTINEL THE SENTINEL | Thursday 21 September 2017 www.sams.sh 3 ST HELENA SNIPPETS ST HELENA SNIPPETS Donna Crowie, SAMS Ascension Air Access Announcement Name: Cedella Marie Fowler Sisters forever DOB: 24th August 2017 Ascension prices and start date released, access discussions continue Weight: 7lb 8oz Emma Weaver, SAMS Time: 19:24 Parents: Kanisha Crowie and Stephen Fowler Yet more flight updates have appeared “Baby Cedella is great and over the past week. very happy,” mummy said. Most significantly, on Ascension Island, Big sister, Shakara, is so the long-awaited flight prices and a start happy to have her little sister. date for the SA Airlink bridge between St Shakara helps mummy with Helena Island (HLE) and Ascension Island feeding Cedella and putting (ASI) have been announced. nappies in the bed but she also Flights will start Saturday, Nov. 18, and loves waking her sister up. a return ticket will cost £845 (while a Mummy and daddy are over one-way ticket to ASI will cost £430 and a the moon with their new ar- one-way ticket to HLE will cost £415). The rival. schedule so far can be found in the photo The family would like to of the announcement in Ascension Island thank Robyn Bennett and Gina Government’s The Islander. Benjamin, Doctor Francisco “I feel disheartened,” said one Ascen- and midwives Rosie Mittens, sion Island resident. “I had hoped for the Victoria Thorogood and Erica prices to be lower. I would have loved to be Bowers for their help dur- able to visit more often, but at these prices ing and after the birth of baby I can't afford to go on my own, much [less] Cedella. bring all of my family. It has brought us Extended thanks to all family so close, but at the same time still so far and friends who sent gifts, apart.” cards and blessings. As St Helenians make up most of the workforce on Ascension Island, families on both ends feel an affordable link be- tween the two islands is critical. The Ascension resident was especial- ly concerned that the ticket price for a 2-year-old would be the same as the ticket price for adults. “Why isn't there a half price fare for Filling the Basket children 2-12 yrs?” the resident asked. Travel between Cape Town and St Hel- ena on the RMS St Helena, which takes five days each way, is understandably more ex- Statistics Office begins household expenditure survey pensive than travel to and from Ascension on the RMS, which takes two-and-a-half- Andrew Turner, SAMS days each way. The Ascension resident tween South Africa and St Helena – prices discussed, this time at the Executive therefore also questioned why – when the were nearly the same for both journeys. Council meeting. distance between Ascension and St Helena “It's horrendous knowing we can travel Unfortunately, there was no firm update was so much shorter than the distance be- Europe for half that price,” the resident on the actual availability of tickets. Those The Statistics Office will be conduct- said. “No way we can just up and travel excited by the announcements of prices ing a Household Expenditure Survey home to see family before our contract is and the promises of ticket availability, are (HES) from this week through mid-No- due.” still waiting to be able to actually purchase vember 2017. This is the ninth time they The ASI-HLE service will operate once a tickets despite the fact the first flight is have conducted this survey on the Island. month, on the second Saturday. An E190 now only three weeks away. The main purpose of the survey is to will be used. No announcement has been Ticket sales, it seems, still steadily and update the “basket of goods” that the made as to when tickets for this link will vaguely remain “imminent” and “days statistics team uses to measure inflation go on sale. away.” and cost of living on St Helena. While Ascension’s Islander published the “The final item on the Open Agenda con- ticket prices for the ASI-HLE link, the SHG cerned the Aerodrome Charges Regula- “We’re trying to find out, basically, Press Office said they have no information tions,” read Tuesday’s SHG press release. what families spend on St Helena and or announcement to share with the public “Council confirmed the approval that was what the expenditure patterns are,” said regarding flights between Ascension and given last week for these Regulations to Statistical Commissioner Neil Fantom. Reserve These Dates St Helena. be published and brought into force. It “The reason we do that is to try to come want to get an accurate measure,” Neil members. For Your Diary: But while the Ascension announcement was noted that these Regulations made up with a basis for measuring price in- said. “We basically draw a sample from a Details about purchases, such as of ap- overtakes social media and St Helenians provision for an ‘essential infrastructure flation, because price inflation affects St list of households that we keep. We keep pliances and furniture, are included in Friday 15th Dec - await an official announcement on our charge’ to be levied on each arriving and Helena quite dramatically at times.” it from the census, so we take that list addition to an expenditure diary that will Christmas Bonanzo end, other discussions about air access departing passenger at St Helena Airport. The survey will take about eight weeks and add to it any new households or any ask the households to describe and name prices and issues are still ongoing. This charge has already been included in On Friday, Sept. 15, at the second Formal the cost of tickets. In confirming the ap- to complete. new houses that have been built.” the price of every item they purchase Wednesday 20th Dec - Legislative Council meeting of the new proval, Council noted that IATA had ap- The Statistics Team is aiming to collect Statistics Officers will be visiting over a two-week period. Festival of Lights council, councillors again brought up is- proved this charge and that confirma- data from one in every 10 households. households to explain the purpose of the All results gathered from the survey sues and concerns about the island’s air tion had been received this morning from Households will be picked from a list of survey and to help people with complet- will be kept strictly confidential and will access – Councillor Cyril Leo’s Adjourn- Airlink that the ticketing system will be all households on the island that was ob- ing the questionnaires and forms. be used only for the purpose of compil- ment Debate can be found on page 11. updated over the next day or two and fol- tained during the 2016 Census. The questionnaire will be used to ask ing statistics, as required by the Statistics Additionally, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, de- lowing required testing, ticket sales will be “We have to do it randomly because we questions about the household and its Ordinance. tails of the SA Airlink service were again imminent.” 4 www.sams.sh Thursday 21 September 2017 | THE SENTINEL THE SENTINEL | Thursday 21 September 2017 www.sams.sh 5 OPINION ST HELENA SNIPPETS ST HELENA SNIPPETS SENTINEL Supertanker drops by Annual SPCA Quiz Night COMMENT Emma Weaver, SAMS £1,493 raised Ferdie Gunnell, SAMS The MT Anne, a Crude Oil Supertanker, arrived in James Bay late in the afternoon on Monday, Sept. 18 to “disembark a sick crew member.” The Emma Weaver, SAMS Supertanker left the same evening. I found the Councillor’s adjourn- Details: Last Friday, the home of the world’s ment debate heartening last week. In Built 2016 (launched in May 2016) oldest living land animal hosted an ani- the space available for this comment, I Length 333m mal-themed quiz night. would like to highlight aspects from one Breadth 60m new councillor and from one that has Though Jonathan stayed out in the pad- returned. Draught 7.7m dock, 80 people packed themselves into “Lovie, are we going to wait for a seri- GRT – 159,234 the dining hall of Plantation House at ous accident to happen first?” Port of Registry: Marseille, France 7pm for a Society for the Prevention of Such sentiments are often expressed Owned by EURONAV of Belgium. Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) fundraiser. by people trying to get the relevant au- Currently in ballast, heading to the Gulf of Mexico to load crude oil. “The event is becoming quite popular thority to actually do something positive ANNE landed a crewmember for medical attention. before the worst happens. Cyril Leo told and developing a reputation,” said At- his colleagues that a senior citizen had torney General Angelo Berbotto, one of said these words when she was asking St Helena’s “handful of” SPCA members.
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