Somewhat old news now, but for completeness I really should report the resurrection of the St Helena Independent at the end of April, barely a month after the demise that was solemnly reported here and elsewhere.
The latest issue (May 25th) has a front page editorial about the need for sea links after the airport, and wonders why no consideration has been given to this before. I have to say that I have been wondering about this for some time. Doubtless all will be revealed eventually, but I am not convinced that anybody has got any answers at present. I will be very happy to be proved wrong.
The editorial also notes that current thinking is that Rupert's Bay should be the cargo terminal, and points out that EU money has been spent demolishing Jamestown's historic wharf buildings.
On a less solemn note, the following rather unusual advertisement from today's issue caught my eye.
I don't think I should offer any comment!
The raising of the roofs of the low
stores at the wharf has taken away a lot of the original char
acter and obviously, the new cargo and passenger terminals
are in the wrong valley if the sea access point to the Island is
in Rupert’s. The changes/improvements to the Jamestown
Wharf would obviously have looked different if the new DfID
schemes had been known a few years ago. Then, we could
have developed the Wharf as a tourism destination and not so
much as a cargo terminal. With this background, we could
say that we have wasted much of the EU money put into the
wharf development.
