I've heard that St Helena is not an easy place to do business if you are from outside...... to quote a saying about a N Ireland PM in the '60's
"He was born in Ballybog; many wise men have come from there and the wiser they've been the sooner they've come....."
But in this case many of the issues seem to be people in London applying standards that would grace LHR to what is a back country airstrip.............