TWO amendments to reports in the January billet caught my eye. Both those papers were proposing not spending money, but that’s about all they had in common. The first was the PSD proposal to ditch plans for full sewage treatment and the other was the Policy Council’s suggested freeze on Guernsey’s efforts to move towards [...]

OVERSEAS AID spending will be maintained at its current level of £2.5m. a year plus inflation, the States agreed this morning.

PASSION plays its part in many speeches in the States, but it does not always win the day.

A BILLION people living on less than 60p a day was one of the reasons laid before deputies being asked to increase Guernsey’s overseas aid contribution.

A LONG-TERM overseas aid funding policy would show the island’s willingness to help some of the world’s poorest countries, a local charity founder has said.

THE work of the Overseas Aid Commission rarely has the spotlight shone on it. Announcements of the projects being supported come and go, often most prominently when there is an emergency, but it attracts little scrutiny.

DEPUTIES will debate the Overseas Aid Commission's work for the first time.

GUERNSEY is bottom of the global overseas aid league.

THE head of the Overseas Aid Commission has urged the States to commit more to helping poorer parts of the world.

A MAJOR increase in overseas aid funding is at least two years away.