Power and positive thinking
WITH various local profit-making establishments suffering from out-pricing due to ever increasing overheads, stagnation and potential decline, it is high time for some positive thinking to reverse this before outside events overtake us. Developing the endless wind supply for generating electricity could be a start.
Utilising disused quarries such as the oil-contaminated one to avoid the coming destructive export waste disposal charges, or using the solid waste to reclaim land to make room for a potential expanding population would be another.
Well-paid jobs are required to help fill the substantial unaffordable empty accommodation now available, in the process creating jobs for the building and supply trade, estate agents and charges collectors. Creating new chargeable parking places to help improve the blocked traffic flow, as well as widening traffic-delaying bottlenecks, and smaller buses on some routes would save time and costs.
To promote the tourist industry all-weather modern accommodation in Town would be useful, as due to the breathalyser socialising is best done within walking distance. Bringing more visitors into Town would improve it also as a social centre and for those doing business there.
Medieval banquets involving feasting displays of armour fighting, with the selling of Guernsey-promoting clothing and utensils could help to tempt more from the liners ashore to spend their funds here.
Rebuilding the tower struck by lighting, blowing up the armoury and displacing the Governor in the process, would draw further attention to the castle.
Utilising the remaining greenhouses for growing fresh fruit and vegetables, instead of importing them from miles away, needs making viable.
Making Guernsey cream an internationally registered trade name could help to preserve the local breed from being replaced by greater milk producing breeds.
Progressive positive thinking is urgently required by those standing for the coming election to avoid out-pricing the island internationally.
MARK HESSE,
Swallow Apartments,
Les Clotures,
L'Ancresse,
Vale,
GY3 5AY.