ANYONE using a cab locally in recent months and asking the right question would have received the same answer: Delta Taxis is badly run and on borrowed time.
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Winning back what is already lost
March 18, 2010 – 2:30 pm
IN TODAY’S Guernsey Press, Deputy Tony Spruce sets out in detail the reasons why he is asking the States to revisit the incineration debate, a decision that has exposed him and his family to unwarranted and unacceptable levels of abuse and threats.
OK, so just where is the beef?
March 17, 2010 – 2:30 pm
BACK in 1984, Wendy’s burger chain in the United States launched a TV ad campaign to promote the size of its filling compared with rivals. It derided a competitor’s ‘home of the big bun’ product by getting a little old lady to poke it and demand: where’s the beef?
A shambles every step of the way
March 16, 2010 – 2:57 pm
WHEN he appeared on the BBC phone-in on Sunday, the deputy leading what is proving to be a hugely controversial attempt to reinstate the Suez incinerator made a remark that many islanders will consider to be rather unfortunate.
Cyber-park recognises a priority
March 15, 2010 – 2:29 pm
AMBITIOUS proposals by the Long Port Group to create a 16-acre ‘cyber-park’ in the north of the island are likely to have a mixed reception from islanders. It is, after all, a lot of land, especially in over-developed St Sampson’s, and, when’s all said and done, what actually is a cyber-park?
Silence is a failure of regulation
March 13, 2010 – 2:30 pm
TOWARDS the end of last month, the Office of Utility Regulation issued a release saying that following a request from Guernsey Electricity to increase tariffs it had approved an electricity price increase of 8.5% with effect from 1 April.
The paradox of decisive government
March 12, 2010 – 2:30 pm
NEARLY 60 years ago, when a young economist was working on his Ph.D. thesis, he produced a seminal work that is today known as Arrow’s impossibility theorem or Arrow’s paradox, which demonstrates why every voting system is fundamentally flawed.
Waste could yet become a crisis
March 11, 2010 – 2:30 pm
A VOCAL critic of this newspaper’s view that the current consensus model of government is largely unfit for purpose rang yesterday and wondered as a senior States member whether there was, after all, something to be said for executive government.
When will waste debate reach end?
March 10, 2010 – 2:45 pm
LOOKING purely at the numbers, it seems an odds-on bet that the Spruce requete to bring Suez back from the dead will succeed when debated later this month.
Good news on island’s economy
GUERNSEY’S chief minister was in upbeat mood yesterday as he spoke to members of the Institute of Directors. While members were expecting a sort of half-term report, he chose instead to deliver more of a ‘state of the nation’ assessment.