Peter Ferbrache News Today

PROPERTY developers have been challenged to speed up house-building after winning their battle against planning policy GP11.

Policy & Resources president Lyndon Trott wants to be the first elected speaker of the States Assembly.

THERE is little appetite among some States members to rush a change to remove the Bailiff as presiding officer of the States Assembly.

SEPARATING the accounts of the harbours and airport is the next goal of boatowners after a second bid to prevent a major hike in mooring fees failed in the States on Thursday.

UK Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues and former Member of Parliament Lord Eric Pickles will be guest speaker at a dinner at the Old Government House Hotel next Tuesday.

The bridge to Castle Cornet is set to be rebuilt at a cost of £7m.

ASIDE from the muted celebration of, apparently once again getting the Les Ozouets monkey off their backs yesterday, deputies were a mix of frustration and incredulity at how, suddenly, books which just would not balance have seen the right numbers magically fall into place.

As the first States meeting with the new P&R president gets under way, Matt Fallaize considers how Deputy Lyndon Trott’s return to the top job came about and what we can expect from him in the role...

I CAN’T help but notice the irony of reflecting on people keeping their feelings to themselves while expressing one’s own feelings in the Guernsey Press. However, Ian Nason raised some interesting points in his reflection piece in the GP of 8 January. I’m not sure anyone is ever on solid ground when they argue that something shouldn’t be done because it has never been done before. Attitudes and behaviours change – thank goodness. I’m sure that Colonel Nason welcomes the fact that we ...

THE deputy who led a review of the electoral system last year will back a move to scrap island-wide voting in its present form.