THE public and the media were thrown out of a review hearing into the admissions policy for Notre Dame Primary School yesterday after the panel decided at the last minute to hold it in secret.

THE States Assembly and Constitution Committee will not investigate departments which settle legal disputes confidentially with taxpayers’ money, its chairman said in the States yesterday.

THE States does not have the right system to check deputies’ interests, it has been claimed.

PROPOSALS to introduce electronic voting in States debates could be finalised by the summer.

TIME is tight if Guernsey wants island-wide voting in the 2012 elections, according to the team designing it.

DEPUTY IVAN RIHOY, Guernsey’s longest serving States member, came into the chamber just over a quarter of a century ago.

DETAILED options for island-wide voting were released yesterday.

THE Policy Council has survived a challenge to its authority.

WHAT is known as the House Committee is shortly to seek to be called the States Assembly and Constitution Committee and new chairman Ivan Rihoy today sets out on page 17 a robust agenda for reform that would alone justify the name change.

ANOTHER political board is set to open up its decision-making process.