Friday, 19th March 2010

Daily Archives: February 3, 2009

Time for all to get real on spending

ONE of the consequences of the decision by the States last week not to close either St Andrew’s Primary or St Sampson’s Infant Schools is to focus attention on public finances and the stomach deputies have for making economies.

‘Expose airport fiasco’

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THE head of Guernsey’s junior rugby has criticised the Public Services Department for not sorting out the airport fire fighters’ dispute that led to young local sports people not being able to fly to the UK at the weekend.

It’s another day of snow chaos

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ISLANDERS are facing another day of travel chaos as more snow fell overnight.

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Recruitment, not redundancy is the message from BDO

A LOCAL accountancy firm has bucked the national trend for making people redundant by recruiting more staff.

‘It’s history: Alderney’s most famous wreck’

ALDERNEY diver Fred Shaw has welcomed news that the wreck of HMS Victory has been found.

Airport firefighters’ pay solution still grounded

YET more flights could be cancelled as a two-year dispute about firefighters’ on-call pay rumbles on.

Stranded – and kept in the dark

FRUSTRATED passengers were yesterday stranded at the airport until it opened at 2.30pm.

Rare falcon dies after being shot

A RARE bird of prey has been shot dead locally.

Islands in the clear

FEW references were made to Guernsey on BBC TV’s Panorama last night, which focused on so-called tax havens.

No fixtures crisis as yet

GARRY CORTEZ has said that there could be a fixtures crisis if the snow stays, but the GFA fixtures man is not worried at the moment.