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THE Billet for the February meeting of the States contains two policy letters that are donkeys’ years behind schedule.

TWO amendments to reports in the January billet caught my eye. Both those papers were proposing not spending money, but that’s about all they had in common. The first was the PSD proposal to ditch plans for full sewage treatment and the other was the Policy Council’s suggested freeze on Guernsey’s efforts to move towards [...]

WHEN the campaign was launched to get islanders on the new electoral roll, those responsible set themselves a target.

IT’S worth reading the Mulkerrin report on Guernsey’s education system more than once. First time round, the key findings about the main shortcomings at the Education Department hit you in the eye so hard it’s difficult to look beyond them.

THERE are two basic sorts of consultants’ reports. There’s the typical sort – long, verbose, laced with jargon and equivocal in its conclusions. About the only really firm proposal such reports usually include is a recommendation to commission a further expensive report.

THIS month the States will debate how to control Guernsey’s population.

DURING the recent Budget debate there was a heavy hint that the new States will be asked to reconsider closing St Andrew’s Primary School and St Sampson’s Infants School.

THERE seems to be a new trend among States departments which is childish at best and worrying at worst.

SO FAR, Guernsey has done better than Jersey when it comes to containing public spending and avoiding new taxes, but it seems as if the pinch-point has now arrived.

LAST week’s States meeting started with a lively question time dominated by the issue of low value consignment relief. But the most fascinating set of questions came from Deputy David De Lisle, who quizzed HSSD over the impact of PFOS pollution in St Saviour’s reservoir.