Challenge in States ‘will be for the future of regulation’

A PLANNED challenge to the decision to reduce Guernsey Post’s monopoly will now look to change the role of regulation in the island, it has been confirmed.


Eighty jobs come under threat at Credit Suisse

AROUND 80 jobs are under threat at Credit Suisse after the company announced it was to sell its fund administration business.


Just the ticket

NO angst, no political message, no hidden agenda – meet Guernsey’s hottest new band – The Raffle. Having been voted by two local music critics as best new band of 2009, things are set to get better and better.


Insurrection resurrected

THERE can’t be many local bands who can claim to have been included on an LP that sold more than 7,000 copies or have five pages dedicated to them in a book.


Champion fires a warning to rivals

BELS boss Ian Champion has warned rival clubs that the best is yet to come from his side after they were drawn to play Athletics in the semi-finals of the Clydesdale Bank International Guernsey FA Cup.


Why police should have no games say

IT’S official, folks. We have gone soft.


Anatomy of a regulatory appeal path

ONE of the striking outcomes of yesterday’s Institute of Directors’ debate on the ownership of utilities and the benefits of regulation was just how entrenched views are on the subject.


Mother angered by school’s ban on nose-pierced daughter

THE mother of Shannon Penney, 14, claims she is missing out on a vital part of her education – because she has had her nose pierced.


Regulation has failed

UTILITY regulation in Guernsey is failing, business leaders were told yesterday.


Publicity ‘did the trick’ for pensioner in need of hip op

A PENSIONER who was left in constant pain when surgeons bungled the scheduling of her hip replacement operation will have the procedure by the end of the month.