St Helena : SHARON WAYNWRIGHT: A SAD LOSS FOR ST HELENA
Submitted by Saint Helena Herald (Juanita Brock) 19.08.2011 (Article Archived on 02.09.2011)
It was with the deep and sincere regret that people in the Falklands heard of the sudden death in London of Sharon Wainwright.
SHARON WAYNWRIGHT: A SAD LOSS FOR ST HELENA
By J. Brock (FINN)
It was with the deep and sincere regret that people in the Falklands heard of the sudden death in London of Sharon Wainwright.
She was there working hard for St. Helena air access and was due to catch a flight to Jo’burg, South Africa on Monday in connection with our airport negotiations.
Sharon was a highly competent and much loved member of St Helena’s senior management team and will be sorely missed.
Born in St Helena, she was recruited from the UK to return to St Helena to facilitate the airport project. Before this Sharon had spent seventeen years working in the UK private sector. She spent a number of years working in the petrochemical industry in senior management positions, working throughout the UK. Sharon is also one of a small amount of people who have had the opportunity to work on an oil rig in the North Sea where she was based for over a year. One of her most exciting accomplishments was achieving her Master’s Degree in Business (MBA) while continuing to work full-time in a demanding management role and bringing up a young family.
Sharon felt that as with the other directorates within SHG, this is a very busy but particularly exciting time working together and uniting in preparation for taking our historic leap forward with regards to dramatically improved access to St Helena.
Recently she said that no change, especially a change as significant as the one we expect to go through is ever painless, but the Access and Shipping Directorate will continue to do its part in ensuring that the end result delivers the benefits and opportunities that we Saints so richly deserve.
Heartfelt condolences go out to her family and all her many friends at this time of grief. The Governor of St Helena has asked that flags are flown at half-mast on the Island for the next ten days as a mark of respect.
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