Public Services Department news


Public Services drops £50 per household ‘toilet tax’

PUBLIC SERVICES has removed the portion of the wastewater charge that relates to investigating full sewage treatment.


Recycling and export is waste disposal decision

GUERNSEY has finally committed to the export of waste and high levels of recycling some 20 years after deciding that an alternative to landfill was needed.


Amendment will have to beat ‘waste fatigue’

STATES members will not stall on proposals for a revised waste strategy after years of suffering from ‘waste fatigue’, a Public Services deputy has said.


PSD rebel looks to place waste strategy amendment

IDEALISTS rather than realists have been driving the Public Services Department Board, board member Deputy Tony Spruce has said.


PSD takes a step towards running ports commercially

GUERNSEY Airport and Guernsey Harbours are a step closer to being commercialised.


Paying the price of the truly inept

A PROPOSAL to remove half the commuter spaces on North Beach for three years from next April could not have been better conceived – if those behind it really do want to damage the viability of St Peter Port at a time when the economic outlook has not been bleaker.


Maria seeks compensation for drain slip

A woman has demanded that the States compensate her after she slipped on a wet drain cover, suffering significant wrist and ankle injuries.


Which course will be plotted for island’s waste strategy?

THERE should have been few surprises when Public Services released a letter detailing its progress on the new waste strategy.


Drop-in or public meeting? Opinion divided on best way

AIRPORT information drop-in sessions have been criticised by some in the western parishes.


Petit Bot conveyor could cost island up to £1.5m

MILLIONS of pounds will be spent to transport airport runway materials around the island, an independent consultant’s report has shown.

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