BEAU SEJOUR creche users have questioned the openness and transparency of the Culture and Leisure Department after it refused to allow the Guernsey Press to attend a consultation meeting.

GUERNSEY’S own language is to be the focus of an intense and organised effort to ingrain it into local society over the coming years.

PROPOSALS which could see the running of Beau Sejour and Footes Lane outsourced to the private sector will go the States in July.

JUST weeks after facing criticism for spending taxpayers’ money on a trip to the Edinburgh Cultural Summit, Deputy Mike O’Hara is travelling again – this time to Sri Lanka.

CULTURE and Leisure set aside £2,000 for delegates to attend a culture summit in Edinburgh, it has been revealed.

A TAXPAYER funded trip to an international culture summit was money well spent because the knowledge brought back to the island will greatly benefit its economy, the Culture and Leisure minister said.

WHEN the Culture and Leisure minister  dismissed the value of exploring whether a third party could run Beau Sejour and other leisure facilities more efficiently than the States he may have been off piste when it came to the commitment to the island’s financial transformation programme – but he was speaking from the heart.

CULTURE and Leisure minister Mike O’Hara has assured his Policy Council colleagues that he is fully committed to the Financial Transformation Programme.

ADY LE PAGE, president of the Guernsey Rugby Club, is highly critical of Culture and Leisure over the possibility of Footes Lane being tendered out in the future.

IF ISLANDERS were under any illusion that the States meant what it said about modernising the way it operates, slimming down and reducing its costs, the Culture and Leisure minister has convincingly destroyed the myth.