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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.

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…

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.

SITTING in Guernsey, the world economic turmoil can sometimes seem a million miles away.

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.

MOST of Guernsey’s Education board has offered to resign over poor GCSE results and their initial refusal to divulge the statistics for individual schools. It’s puzzling why they even tried to keep those results secret when that policy was clearly unsustainable. Drawing a line in the sand and then rapidly backing down is the worst [...]

THERE was a strange and disturbing story on the front page of the Guernsey Press recently about a senior advocate overhearing a policeman addressing a black adult as ‘boy’.

IT WILL be very interesting to see if there’s any move for Guernsey to follow Jersey and introduce an ‘open election’ for chief minister.

A FASCINATING idea was floated by Jersey’s chief minister last week. Senator Terry Le Sueur suggested that Guernsey and Jersey could eventually federate and become a sort of European version of St Kitts and Nevis. It’s not the first time this concept has been explored, but I very much doubt we’ll see it come about [...]

POLITICS is funny. You start off with a very clear view on a subject and sometimes events force you to completely change your mind.