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ALDERNEY States is set for a major overhaul this year. Half of its 10 seats are up for election in December and three of those five have said they will not stand again.

SHOULD we make public what public servants are paid? As we the taxpayers fund them, should we not know what is being dished out on our behalf, and to whom, and what they are doing to deserve it?

MINISTERS suffer from an identity crisis, to the cost of the island they govern. Unsure whether to take a hands-off approach to policy implementation, or to roll up their sleeves and get involved in the day to day work of their departments, they are sometimes left floating about wondering where all the money is going.

WHAT would a Conservative UK Government mean for Guernsey?

THE political appetite for paid parking has risen once again as the cash-strapped States looks forward to 2010.

WITH the seismic shockwaves still spreading from last week’s news – broken by this newspaper – that Guernsey’s entire zero-10 tax strategy lies in tatters, it is clear that there is much that remains unsaid and some key questions that are unanswered.