Living on the world´s most remote island...

... makes you think how big your own island is... here.

Some of the comments are truly wonderful and telling...


e.g.

¨In 1964, with a wife and two small children I was appointed to look after The Salvation Army's three churches on St Helena (five services every Sunday). We were also engaged in relief work on behalf of Oxfam. Those were challenging days and years, in a unique and wonderful setting. Annual holiday was taking the 15-mile drive around the island. Great people, and our hearts often return there with only the choicest of memories. But if only we could return there, to meet again some of those folk we knew, and see again some of the sights that are uniquely St Helenian. But - impossible. Lack of realistic transport facilities and enormous costs put a visit well out of our (and most people's) reach. In 1965, two British MPs visited the island to look at improving transport and other services. Then, and once again, the outcome was unproductive. Britain owes its loyal Saints.¨

And...

¨I have lived on St Helena all my life. I have been fortunate in having the opportunity to live and visit a good few countries, but for me St Helena is and will always be home. The last thing I would want to happen is for the peace and tranquillity of the life that I enjoy here disrupted in any way. However, if St Helena does not become accessible by air then our community will certainly dwindle to nothing.

We were promised an airport in 2002. During this time millions of pounds have been spent on various studies - consultants have come and gone in droves, at huge expense. If this isn't a waste on British taxpayers money then I don't know what is. We are not asking for a big international airport as the possibility of tourists queuing to come here is rather slim. All we need is a small airstrip that will enable flights to move between St Helena and Ascension Island.
We have been for over 300 years loyal to the British Crown, our island was used during the time that Britain was developing its trading links with the Far East. Our people have supported the Motherland and fought in the two world wars, the Falklands War, Iraq and Afghanistan - what else have we to do to be treated as other citizens of the United Kingdom?¨