he St Helena Herald has learnt that the island-based campaign to 'Save Our Airport' has more than doubled the number of its signed letters in support of Option A over the past week.
As was to be expected after a gap of two weeks the phone-in programme received a barrage of questions and comments, all of which were noted and are being dealt with. Councillor Mervyn Yon had received answers to a number of questions put forward on behalf of callers to the programme and these were relayed on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday morning e-mails were received from the Secretariat indicating an extraordinary meeting of the Planning and Building Committee would be held on Friday, 26 June 2009 at 1330hrs in the Liberation Room of the Secretariat.
There was only one item that the Hon Mike Rendell mentioned at GPC Brief and that was an investigation of customer complaints about billing for the use of broadband service by Cable & Wireless.
Yesterday there was a very important debate in Legislative Council. You will know that at the end of that debate the voting of your Elected Members was tied at four for the proposed new Constitution, and four against. The two Ex-Officio Members of Council, the Chief Secretary and the Financial Secretary, have the right to vote under the existing Constitution, but on my instruction did not do so as they are not elected by the people.
It seems that there was an implied threat concerning withdrawing the weekly LAN flight if Argentine Next of Kin weren't allowed to make their pilgrimage by air.
Both Argentina and the United Kingdom are claiming a vast area of seabed from South America to the Antarctic in their latest bids for control of the South Atlantic.
One of the nice things about having a Tristanian working for SARTMA is that the record can be set straight about various things, including the Island’s postcode. TDCU 1ZZ has been available for at least 18 months.
Photo (c) James Glass Tristan Times - the building that houses the Tristan Post Office
