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OVER the last few months, a group of local and UK businessmen have been working on a long-term, integrated waste and sewage solution for the island and have now formed the Longue Hougue Project Development Company.

AROUND 12 months ago, this newspaper highlighted the appalling catalogue of abuse experienced by a young girl – now a young woman and a mother herself – at the hands of the serial paedophile Eugene Hughes.

ONE of the best things about Guernsey is its close sense of community yet, sadly, a resultant downside is that this can often lead  to some islanders hiding their problems away.

A CORRESPONDENT in the Guernsey Press letters page today suggests that reducing the number of deputies in the Assembly would not result in better government. Quite the reverse, as more views prevent the formation of coteries

THERE’S something rather disconcerting about the alacrity with which Guernsey’s thin blue line leapt to safeguard the privileges of a handful.

AS THE Education saga plays itself out now that it has, in the words of a former department deputy minister, exploded after simmering for 15 years, there are some elements underpinning it that have particular relevance as Guernsey heads towards a general election.

RECENT events have called into question the effectiveness of the level of scrutiny brought to bear on aspects of the States operation – but it is clear that the concerns are not restricted to the highest strategic and performance levels.

WHILE the Education saga has been playing out and the former minister and her acolytes stick to the script prepared for them – it’s all the fault of the 11-plus, Mulkerrin’s just opinion and everyone’s got it in for the director of education – there’s another thread to this that warrants examination: just who is [...]

IN HIS letter on this page today, the academic and advocate Dr Nicholas Le Poidevin sets out some of the key reasons why reform of the civil service and effective economies through public sector job cuts are taking so long to happen.

NEXT month, States members will be asked to consider modernising the island’s supplementary benefits system aimed at introducing a single rent and income support system that has a strong focus on work and personal responsibility.