With the release of the Budget and a recession on the horizon, Nick Mann asks if the States has got the stomach to face the tough decisions ahead?
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On sacred dairies, retailers, farmers, consumers and cows
November 3, 2008 – 2:07 pm
TO SOME, the decision not to hand over exclusive delivery rights to milk retailers was the beginning of the end for the dairy industry and of traditional life in Guernsey.
Guernsey under attack
October 27, 2008 – 5:05 pm
SO THE attacks just keep coming. They may be ill-informed, sometimes just plain wrong, but there is no doubting Guernsey is making the headlines for the wrong reasons at the moment.
Credibility crunch
October 20, 2008 – 2:55 pm
The UK’s perception of Guernsey as a tax haven is one reason why we should expect little sympathy over the collapse of Landsbanki – however unjust.
Facing up to tomorrow
September 29, 2008 – 3:38 pm
EMPOWERING citizens is being seen in some circles as the next necessary shift in politics. A move from state control, although not dismantling it in the way some on the right would, but also away from the emphasis on the individual, two doctrines that have battled for supremacy over the past decades.
To party, or not to party
September 1, 2008 – 5:00 pm
It must be the summer. In the holiday vacuum the argument of party politics has surfaced again prompted by a colourfully worded post on an internet forum by Jersey senator Stuart Syvret.
Deal drops a key phrase
July 24, 2008 – 4:03 pm
While Lyndon Trott has his pen poised over the dotted line, Nick Mann looks at the fine print of a constitutional agreement between Guernsey and the UK and asks, will we live to regret it?
Information belongs to everyone, not just States
June 9, 2008 – 2:30 pm
The move towards freedom of information is growing. As Nick Mann reports, it is a lot more than a charter for nosy journalists to find things out.
Runway report will lengthen the time before a decision
TO LENGTHEN or not to lengthen the runway? That is the multi-million pound question.