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The Community Nursing and Health Promotion teams are hosting a stall at the Canister in Jamestown on Friday 17 May 2024 from 10:00 to 13:00. This event is to raise awareness for World Hypertension Day, with the theme ‘Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer’.

What is Hypertension?

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, occurs when the force of blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high. The World Health Organization defines it as having a reading of 130/80 mmHg or higher. Left untreated, hypertension can lead to serious health problems.

Hypertension usually has no symptoms until it causes damage. It significantly increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and more.

Here’s what you can do to manage your blood pressure:

• Get regular check-ups and have your blood pressure measured
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Eat a balanced diet low in salt
• Exercise regularly
• Limit alcohol consumption
• Don’t smoke
• Take medication as prescribed by your doctor

Visit our stall or contact us to learn more about hypertension, its prevention, and how to control it.

For more information, please contact:

• Community Nursing team: 22500 Ext: 2083 or 23563
• Health Promotion team: 22500 Ext: 2098 or 2094

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SHG

10 May 2024

The project to widen and resurface Field Road is progressing well. All hillside and road surfacing excavation works are now complete. The service strip, which contains an empty duct which will allow services to be installed in the future, is currently underway. The slipper drain is also now under construction. This collects and directs road and hillside surface water run-off into the cross drains, which then dissipate the energy of the flow before discharging the water downhill. These works are expected to be completed this month.

The geological conditions encountered during the construction works proved to be more challenging than anticipated. This resulted in the contractor having to undertake significantly more hillside excavation than originally estimated. This means that additional time and resources will be required to complete the project. 

Side Path Road will close for an additional six weeks to complete the concrete work at the transition and junction. We will provide specific closure dates as soon as they are confirmed.

The re-opening of Field Road, including the Side Path Road section, is now estimated to take place in late October 2024. However, this is subject to constant review as there are variables, such as weather conditions, which could impact progress further.

Notes to Editor

The Field Road project is part of the £30 million Economic Development Investment Programme (EDIP), funded by the UK Government.

The additional excavation quantities were only confirmed by the project team after ministers gave their updates on the Field Road project during their constituency meetings in March 2024. Therefore the information regarding the impact to the project were not available to ministers at that time.  

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SHG

08 May 2024

The Provisional Register of Electors for 2024 will be published on Friday 10 May 2024.

After its publication on Friday 10 May, eligible persons will have until 16:00 on Friday 24 May 2024 to submit applications to amend the Provisional Register.

Amendments that can be made include the following:

• Adding your name
• Removing your name
• Removing the name of someone who has died, left the island or who might no longer be eligible for inclusion in the Register.

The Registration Officer aims to publish a final Register of Electors which is as up-to-date and accurate as possible. Eligible persons will be able to apply to amend any of their personal details which may be out of date. For example, they may have changed their name or address and wish to update their registration details. 

The importance of including accurate information in the register cannot be overstated, so when it is published, please check it to make sure your details are accurate.  The Registration Officer can check the details for you if you will not be able to access a copy of the register when it is published.

It will be possible to amend the register to enable voting in a different district from that in which you reside. For example, an eligible person may live in Longwood and work in Jamestown, so when there is an election, it may be more convenient for them to vote in Jamestown during the working day. It is possible for the register to accommodate this, provided the eligible person makes an application to do so.

Persons eligible to be registered must:

• Have St Helenian Status as defined in the Immigration Ordinance, 2011
• Be 17 years of age or older with St Helena as their ordinary place of residence

For persons who are present on St Helena, applications to amend the register using the prescribed ‘Form A’ can be submitted to the Registration Officer, at the Castle, between 10 and 24 May 2024 or via email through carol.henry@sainthelena.gov.sh

Persons who have St Helenian status and who are ordinarily resident on the island but who are currently absent in connection with employment, education or training or for the purposes of medical treatment and have not been absent for a continuous period of 30 months or for periods exceeding in aggregate 625 days in the preceding 30 months, can apply to amend the register by using the prescribed ‘Form B’.

Further information about registering and making amendments may be obtained from the Registration Officer, Carol Henry, at the Castle, by telephone on 22470 or via email through carol.henry@sainthelena.gov.sh. Both Form A and Form B can be accessed on the SHG website at www.sainthelena.gov.sh/government/public-information/elections/.

The final Register of Electors for the 12 month period commencing 1 July 2024 will be published towards the end of June.

If your name is not on the Register of Electors you will not be able to stand or vote in any bye-election or general election. It is therefore your responsibility to check the Provisional Register when it is issued and to make an application to have your name included if it is not already listed.

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St Helena Government (SHG) recently announced that public information meetings to raise awareness of ongoing work towards the introduction of data protection policy/ legislation would take place during May 2024. These meetings will be held in various districts across the island. The first meeting will take place at the Half Tree Hollow Community Centre on Thursday 9 May at 19:30.

Subsequent district information meetings will take place at 19:30 as follows:

Venue	Date
Jamestown Community Centre	Monday, 13 May 2024
Guinea Grass Community Centre	Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Harford Community Centre	Thursday, 16 May 2024
Sandy Bay Community Centre	Monday, 27 May 2024
Blue Hill Community Centre	Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Levelwood Community Centre	Thursday, 30 May 2024
St Michael’s Church, Rupert’s	Monday, 3 June 2024

Residents of the Alarm Forest electoral district are encouraged to attend meetings at Harford Community Centre or Jamestown Community Centre.

The following information will be discussed:

• What is data protection?
• What does it mean to the individual?
• How might legislation affect businesses and organisations?

The public are encouraged to attend.

The Education, Skills and Employment Portfolio offers non-compulsory nursery education for all children between the ages of three to four years.    

We will be in contact with parents/guardians of those children born on island and who are eligible to enter nursery education in the school year September 2024 – August 2025. This is to offer a place in nursery education and to give details of school placement and date of admission.

It would be appreciated if parents of children who were not born on St Helena could submit the following information in writing to the Assistant Director of Schools Kerry Lawrence so that an offer of placement can be made:

• The child’s full name and date of birth
• Name and address of parent or guardian
• Telephone number and email address (if applicable)

Once all required information has been received, parents will be advised of their child’s nursery placement.

It should be noted that a child should attend school in the catchment area where he/she is resident.  However, for non-compulsory schooling, exceptions will only be made for regular attendance outside the identified catchment area if numbers in the requested school are low enough to accommodate the extra intake and if there is a valid reason for this, such as child care. 

Parents who would like their child to attend nursery schooling outside of their catchment area must apply in writing to the Assistant Director of Schools stating which school they would like their child to attend and the reason for the placement outside of their catchment area.   In such cases parents must be willing to take responsibility for transporting their child to and from school. 

Correspondence can be sent to the Assistant Director of Schools Kerry Lawrence at the Education and Learning Centre, Jamestown or by email to kerry.lawrence@sainthelena.gov.sh.

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