“I don’t think we’re really geared up,”? says Pat Williams, who works in the bank. Her speech, like that of many Saints, is a beguiling kind of mid-Atlantic drawl with inflections of antique cockney. “The infrastructure needs a lot of improvements, the roads, the water, even the electricity. There’s a lot of negativity about the airport. People got to change. We’ve got to take ownership instead of letting other people come in to run the island – and then there’s a hoo-ha because islanders have no say. Now’s the time when we should start moving with everybody.”?
The idea of St Helena “moving with everybody”? seems dizzying, two days later, when the RMS leaves for Ascension on the next leg of her round trip, which will bring her back to St Helena in four days, thence to Cape Town. As she disappears, you are as far away from everybody as it is possible to be, wonderfully marooned on an island so remote that even pirates never found it.
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Paradise Lost, or Found?
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