MONEY could be kept in Guernsey’s economy if the States reviewed its tendering process, the chief minister has said.

AN INDEPENDENT report has found that the States’ scrutiny processes are failing to operate effectively.

COMMERCE and Employment and the Policy Council have defended the appointment of an energy policy adviser.

GUERNSEY will defend its corporate tax regime next week when European officials meet to decide its future.

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 [...]

IN HIS advice to the Policy Council back in 2006 – when there were demands for an external review of the management of education in Guernsey – the then HM Procureur said politicians interfering in employment issues ought to be brought firmly under control.

LEGISLATION should go before the States early next year to limit the possibility of Guernsey courts being used by speculators trying to force developing countries to pay crippling debts.

THE Education Minister yesterday described as ‘old news’ an email in which she questioned whether she should still have confidence in the chief minister after he announced a review of her department.

DIVISIONS have been exposed in the Policy Council as the GCSE saga developed with Education minister Carol Steere questioning whether she should continue to have confidence in the chief minister.

BIG businesses establish themselves in Guernsey because standards are so high, the Policy Council has said.