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	<title>This Is Guernsey &#187; Peter Roffey &#187; This Is Guernsey</title>
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		<title>Review team is key</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/02/09/review-team-is-key/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/02/09/review-team-is-key/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE States is to debate a requete from Vale Deputy Matt Fallaize calling for a root and branch review of its own structure and governance.]]></description>
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		<title>The time is now</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/02/03/the-time-is-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/02/03/the-time-is-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Billet for the February meeting of the States contains two policy letters that are donkeys’ years behind schedule.]]></description>
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		<title>For richer, for poorer</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/30/for-richer-for-poorer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/30/for-richer-for-poorer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Overseas Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the international target for overseas aid.]]></description>
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		<title>Your island needs you&#8230; to vote</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/26/your-island-needs-you-to-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/26/your-island-needs-you-to-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN the campaign was launched to get islanders on the new electoral roll, those responsible set themselves a target.]]></description>
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		<title>Much more to learn from Mulkerrin</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/19/much-more-to-learn-from-mulkerrin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/19/much-more-to-learn-from-mulkerrin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Education minister ‘must go down with sinking ship’</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/14/education-minister-%e2%80%98must-go-down-with-sinking-ship%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/14/education-minister-%e2%80%98must-go-down-with-sinking-ship%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carol steere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mulkerrin Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Taking control</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/12/taking-control-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/12/taking-control-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS month the States will debate how to control Guernsey’s population.]]></description>
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		<title>Education cuts: we need straight answers</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/05/education-cuts-we-need-straight-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2012/01/05/education-cuts-we-need-straight-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>The public loses when politicians shut out media</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/12/28/the-public-loses-when-politicians-shut-out-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/12/28/the-public-loses-when-politicians-shut-out-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THERE seems to be a new trend among States departments which is childish at best and worrying at worst.]]></description>
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		<title>Budgetary battleground</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/12/12/budgetary-battleground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/12/12/budgetary-battleground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Troubled waters</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/12/09/troubled-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/12/09/troubled-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Dodging the issues</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/11/24/dodging-the-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/11/24/dodging-the-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As States members prepare to debate next year’s ‘predictable’ budget, Peter Roffey says that ministers are leaving the island’s most difficult and important issues – balancing the books, a new tax regime, a sustainable waste strategy and transport – for their post-election successors to resolve...]]></description>
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		<title>Utopian States needs more women and young deputies</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/10/27/utopian-states-needs-more-women-and-young-deputies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/10/27/utopian-states-needs-more-women-and-young-deputies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thisisguernsey.com/?p=65422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IT’S A cliche to say the States of Guernsey should be representative of the community it serves. In other words, it should have 50% women, an age spread reflecting the island’s general demographic, deputies from both a business and an employed background, and a fair representation of both locals and settlers.]]></description>
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		<title>Reality check needed on revenue</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/10/20/reality-check-needed-on-revenue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/10/20/reality-check-needed-on-revenue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SITTING in Guernsey, the world economic turmoil can sometimes seem a million miles away.]]></description>
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		<title>Education needs a searching review</title>
		<link>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/10/13/education-needs-a-searching-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisisguernsey.com/comment/peter-roffey/2011/10/13/education-needs-a-searching-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Roffey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IF THE Education minister and her colleagues felt that by tendering their resignations they could get a clear vote of confidence from the States, the strategy has clearly backfired.]]></description>
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