THIS States is divided. Time and again decisions are being made by the odd vote here and there, or even being approved with a minority of the States members’ backing.
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Debate does nothing to bring back confidence in States
March 1, 2010 – 10:10 am
JOURNALISTS are often accused of hyperbole. It comes with the territory. So to say that this States seems intent to rip itself apart from the inside could leave me open to attack.
Time marches on, but waste debate still has twists and turns
February 22, 2010 – 10:00 am
THE phrase ‘last- minute intervention’ and waste are now synonymous. Cast your minds back to 2004 and it was Deputy Scott Ogier’s last-minute requete that stalled and eventually did away with the Lurgi incinerator.
Defining when the UK could interfere in island’s
February 15, 2010 – 4:03 pm
JUST what would it take for the UK to poke its nose in Guernsey affairs? That was one of the questions troubling the Justice Select Committee as it continues its review into the relationship between the Ministry of Justice and the Crown Dependencies.
Wind of change is blowing
February 8, 2010 – 2:30 pm
THE message across the Channel Islands appears to be getting clearer – it is time to prepare for more independence.
How to hit 50% target is burning issue
February 1, 2010 – 10:00 am
PUBLIC SERVICES won the minds if not the hearts of deputies when it proposed the Suez waste plant.
Deputy shows how States has dug £30m. hole into its own finances
January 25, 2010 – 2:30 pm
SO WHAT has this States ever done for us? Well, according to one deputy, it has landed us with a £30m.-plus hole in our finances.
Some change but it’s not enough, says critical WAO
January 18, 2010 – 2:30 pm
MUCH political currency has been made out of the word change in the past year. But change is coming. If slowly.
There may be trouble ahead
December 7, 2009 – 2:30 pm
IF THERE are a few yawns going round the chamber this week, they can probably be forgiven.
Successful government will need ‘broad church’ of skills
AS THE general election looms in the UK, talk has again turned to how representative the parties or Parliament is of society.