A DISTURBING trend has been disclosed by the annual meeting of Sarnia Housing, the increasing number of calls for help it is receiving from returning islanders, often those coming back from the UK.

TODAY we can finally reveal just how much our new bus service is costing the island – £100,000 more than with the previous operator.

AS PART of its long term planning for the island’s ports, Public Services has produced a master plan strategy setting out the areas it intends to consider in looking ahead over the next 25 years to make sure the harbours meet island needs.

IN AN interview with this newspaper, the new Treasury and Resources minister said he really could not understand why the current unaffordable and gold-plated pension scheme for civil servants and public sector employees hadn’t been closed to new entrants.

IT IS easy to forget quite how much of a budget basket case Health and Social Services was just a short time ago.

FOLLOWING the elections for choosing deputies for States departments, there were fears that the island could slide into a form of opposition politics because some experienced members were left at a loose end.

ONE of the topics in the annual Chamber of Commerce business trend survey that has received rather less attention is what organisations think of Guernsey as a place to operate from.

CONFIRMATION that the new Environment Department board members are by a majority probably opposed to the introduction of paid parking is a neat, early, illustration of some of the frustrations that the new Policy Council will face.

NOW that the final stages of the departmental elections have been completed, there is almost a sense of a government of unity having been created following the general election last month in which 22 new deputies entered the Assembly.

With more of a shrill peep on a kazoo than a trumpet fanfare, the States Accounts for 2011 were released on the internet shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

LESS than a month ago, the people of Guernsey voted for change. In one of the biggest upheavals in modern politics, 22 new deputies were brought in and 12 lost their seats.

PERHAPS it was not surprising after the explosive battle for the role of chief minister that yesterday’s ministerial elections ran rather short on fireworks.