THE immediate future of the Town Carnival is secure thanks to record fund-raising this year, organisers have said.

‘MY REPUTATION is paramount to me,’ Town Centre Partnership boss Jack Honeybill ringingly declared when defending his right to remain at the Environment board meeting considering the fate of the Co-op’s Leale’s Yard development.

COMMENTING here yesterday, we suggested that if Environment member Deputy Jack Honeybill, also the paid head of the Town Centre Partnership, played a part in the discussions resulting in a reduction of the Co-op’s Leale’s Yard development application, that would have been an error of judgement.

IT WAS put in place at the end of last year, yet already there are signs that something is amiss with the capital programme. Treasury minister Charles Parkinson said at the last States meeting that it was almost certain the plan, which outlines timings and costs of major projects such as Les Beaucamps High and [...]

CARNIVAL will come back to the streets of St Peter Port next year, although this year’s event left the organisers out of pocket.

TOWN Centre Partnership chief executive Jack Honeybill will not withdraw from helping to make a planning decision on Leale’s Yard.

A GUERNSEY representative at the forthcoming British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly has welcomed plans to step up security at the event after last week’s murders in Northern Ireland.

THE winners of the Guernsey Press competition for tickets for the Les Bourgs Million Pound Lottery have been chosen.

TALK of the States borrowing from a new local investment company is premature, deputy Treasury and Resources minister Jack Honeybill has said.

THE new Town Carnival could be all change again next year as organisers reconsider the event’s title.