The online newspaper of Tristan da Cunha
Issue No. 499	Online Edition	Tuesday 21 May 2013

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Add New Spatial and Temporal Closed Areas to Marine Protected Area - (21.01.2013)
Scientific advice and a stakeholder consultation have resulted in the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) announcing the addition of extra spatial and temporal protection to the existing South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area (SGSSI MPA). [More...]
Category: Fisheries

Pastoral Visit to Tristan da Cunha - 2012 - (25.10.2012)
This year my visit to Tristan got off with a very good start. The sail from Cape Town to Tristan was on the maiden voyage of the SA Agulhas II, and what a swanky ship it really is. [More...]
Category: People

NEW DIRECTOR FOR OVERSEAS TERRITORIES - (20.10.2012)
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has announced that the new Director for the Overseas Territories is Peter Hayes, who took up office on 15 October 2012, replacing Colin Roberts, who is taking up an [More...]
Category: Government

COUNCILLOR GREEN REPORTS ON COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE - (20.10.2012)
Councillor Tony Green returned to the Island last week, having attended the 58th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in Sri Lanka and the EU-OCT forum in Greenland [More...]
Category: Government

EU - OCT FORUM, 26- 27 SEPTEMBER, ILULISSAT, GREENLAND: UK STATEMENT - (07.10.2012)
Deputy Director General, Premier Kleist, Minister, Premiers, Heads of Delegations and other distinguished guests, the Minister for the British Overseas Territories, Mark Simmonds, can’t be here today [More...]
Category: Government

Tristan celebrates Queens Day 2012 - (11.03.2012)
Queens Day this year was held on Friday the 9th [More...]
Category: Education

Sustainable seafood on the Waterfront: Shoreline Café and Tristan da Cunha rock lobster fishery secure MSC certification - (20.07.2011)
Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium today hosted a special celebration as its Shoreline Café, destination for thousands of hungry visitors each year, became the first restaurant in Africa to be certified [More...]
Category: Fisheries

Tristan da Cunha rock lobster fishery enters full MSC assessment - (27.04.2010)
The sign-board that awaits you when finally reaching Tristan da Cunha Island after a week-long South Atlantic sea voyage from Cape Town says “Welcome to the World’s Remotest Island”. [More...]
Category: Fisheries

M/V KELSO Should Have Received Another Name - (07.04.2010)
The former M/V KELSO, renamed M/Y TIANIC, is in the news again because an RNLI lifeboatsman helped co-ordinate a Caribbean sea rescue while out DIY shopping in Britain after a friend called to say he [More...]
Category: Shipping/Freight

Tristan - An RSPB Success Story - (08.01.2010)
For the past few years, the RSPB under the South Atlantic Invasive Species project has provided poison and bait boxes, to be placed around the settlement and patches area. In all more than 300 bait s [More...]
Category: Conservation

Gough Island Eradication Project Report - (24.12.2009)
John Cooper, CORE Initiatives, South Afric [More...]
Category: Gough Island

Tristan Science - Research and conservation activities at Inaccessible Island - (19.12.2009)
Peter Ryan & Rob Ronconi tell us about valuable research on Inaccessible Island. [More...]
Category: Inaccessible Island

Tristan da Cunha in the News - (12.12.2009)
Scientists have long recognized marine transport as a vector for exotic species invasions. But relatively little attention has been given to the transport of semi-submersible rigs - the installations [More...]
Category: Environment

Tristan Fishing News 11.11.09 - (11.11.2009)
The 2009/10 fishing season has not started very well due to excessivebad weather. [More...]
Category: Fisheries

Up to the Hub of Utopia – Climbing Tristan da Cunha's Queen Mary's Peak - (26.10.2009)
In 1516 Thomas Morus published his “Utopia”, the design of an ideal community. Vulnerable as he sensed it to be, he placed it on an imaginary island. Photos (c) Wolfgang Schaub [More...]
Category: Environment

Gough and Inaccessible Ramsar Wetlands Designation - (10.08.2009)
With funding received from the Overseas Territories Environment Programme in 2007, Tristan da Cunha prepared information sheets to allow the UK Government to designate the Gough and Inaccessible Islan [More...]
Category: Conservation

New Fishing Season Gets Underway at Tristan - (29.07.2009)
The first official fishing day for the 2009/10 season, with catches being landed into Tristan’s new factory, got underway on the 28th July. Photo (c) James Glass (Tristan Times) -: One of the fish [More...]
Category: Fisheries

An Update for Tristan da Cunha's Tourism Industry - (29.07.2009)
The Tourist Department was set up last year (2008) and had a very successful trial season, since then the Tourist Department has undertaken a few projects. So for those of you who think we are having [More...]
Category: Tourism/Travel

Tristan Government taking Precautions for Swine Flu - (22.07.2009)
Given the concern of some members of the community at the news from UK about Swine Flu, the Administrator Mr David Morley has issued a public notice, letting the community know what precautions are be [More...]
Category: Health

New Fish Factory Opened on Tristan - (20.07.2009)
The Opening of Tristan’s new Fishing Factory seventeen months after being destroyed by fire. Photo (c) James Glass (Tristan Times) New Factory: Charl Project Manger of Apple Group: Left to Right - [More...]
Category: Fisheries