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		<title>Issues are wider than just water</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/09/issues-are-wider-than-just-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/09/issues-are-wider-than-just-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A DECISION by the States to put off commercialising Guernsey Water until there is more information available about what that would mean was probably sensible – but for the wrong reasons.]]></description>
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		<title>PSD should say why it won’t work</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/08/psd-should-say-why-it-won%e2%80%99t-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/08/psd-should-say-why-it-won%e2%80%99t-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Why victims need this help</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/07/why-victims-need-this-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/07/why-victims-need-this-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>A decade of poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/06/a-decade-of-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/06/a-decade-of-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil the gadfly needs a comeback</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/04/cecil-the-gadfly-needs-a-comeback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/04/cecil-the-gadfly-needs-a-comeback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>Message of the parking blitzkrieg</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/03/message-of-the-parking-blitzkrieg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/03/message-of-the-parking-blitzkrieg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=87947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE’S something rather disconcerting about the alacrity with which Guernsey’s thin blue line leapt to safeguard the privileges of a handful.]]></description>
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		<title>Education shows the need to vote</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/02/education-shows-the-need-to-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/02/education-shows-the-need-to-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Who looks after your interests?</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/01/who-looks-after-your-interests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/02/01/who-looks-after-your-interests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=87350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The system is too cosy to change</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/31/the-system-is-too-cosy-to-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/31/the-system-is-too-cosy-to-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=87045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 running government?]]></description>
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		<title>Hard wired to spend your cash</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/30/hard-wired-to-spend-your-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/30/hard-wired-to-spend-your-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Poor? Just stay in the poverty trap</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/27/poor-just-stay-in-the-poverty-trap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/27/poor-just-stay-in-the-poverty-trap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=86256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>PR appeal really rather backfired</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/25/pr-appeal-really-rather-backfired/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/25/pr-appeal-really-rather-backfired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN AN article in this newspaper last week, Public Services and its harbour master explained why deputies had to support its proposals to replace cranes at St Peter Port Harbour and why any other outcome was unthinkable.]]></description>
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		<title>Hiding the truth helps nobody</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/23/hiding-the-truth-helps-nobody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/23/hiding-the-truth-helps-nobody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=85150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AFTER years of darkness, a harsh light has been shone on the island’s education service. A shroud of secrecy and misinformation has been pulled aside to expose some rather unpleasant truths.]]></description>
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		<title>When not to sideline the politicians</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/21/when-not-to-sideline-the-politicians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/21/when-not-to-sideline-the-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=84804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IN HIS advice to the Policy Council back in 2006 – when there were demands for an external review of the management of education in Guernsey – the then HM Procureur said politicians interfering in employment issues ought to be brought firmly under control.]]></description>
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		<title>Mulkerrin II needed for primaries</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/20/mulkerrin-ii-needed-for-primaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/gp-opinion/2012/01/20/mulkerrin-ii-needed-for-primaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE  of the more chilling findings of the Mulkerrin report into the provision of education locally is over the performance of the island’s primaries.]]></description>
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