The trouble with paradise… Yes, this island is beautiful, but living here is no holiday

SOMEONE asked me recently, why don't you write something positive about Guernsey? They said it is a beautiful place to live. My question is, what way are we looking at Guernsey being a beautiful place to live? Are we looking at the island from the point of what nature has provided for us that the government cannot charge us for? Or are we looking at whether we can afford to live on the island or not? If one has money enough to live on this beautiful rock they would be hard pushed to find a better place to spend their time, but if one is on the other side of the coin and struggling to make ends meet, it is another story.

La Mare pupils look to make waves with radio station

LMDC WAVES has arrived as the island's newest radio station and school news platform.

Islanders say travel links are priority at policy drop-in

IMPROVING travel links should be the top priority for the States over the next five years, according to islanders who wanted to make their voice heard at the first of three public drop-ins on the Policy and Resource Plan.

Committees drop-in morning held Saturday

MORE islanders should attend the States committee drop-ins, according to one man who went along and is eager to tell people about them.

Is it all just about retaining the Grammar school?

ON WEDNESDAY morning, 21 September 2016, Education, Sports & Culture president Paul Le Pelley gave a long-awaited update to the States Assembly on where the committee were with regard to the extant resolutions of the States from March 2016 on selection at 11.

Plug-ins, supported

Umpteen interlocking States policies, strategies and visions designed to save the planet want to see 'dirty' vehicles replaced by fewer electric cars. But how do people living in flats or houses without parking charge their silent saviours?  Horace Camp and family take advantage of this summer's political lull to come up with a solution

The £400,000 question

In the 13 years since the States passed a policy to instigate referendum legislation it has failed to do so. Why can't government just be brave enough to do what it has been tasked with and make a decision on island-wide voting, having all the information before it already?

Making a list and checking it twice...

Peter Roffey has a few gripes for local media and when better to get things off one's chest than Christmas Eve? Pouting in pictures and lazy journalism are just a couple of bugbears our political columnist is laying under the media's festive tree...

Attending rallies is not enough

IN JANUARY 2008, the Guernsey Press was kind enough to print a letter I had written under the heading 'Power to the people'. In the letter I urged my fellow islanders to:

Bus users welcome changes to ticketing

BUS passengers have welcomed the changes new ticket machines will bring to the service.

Many too proud to ask for benefits

ON THE phone-in on Sunday 12 April at 10am a lady called to say it is not fair to charge extra for land line holders but less for broadband, also about paying for tablets as people on supplementary benefit don't have to pay anything and it's not fair.

Fare-free bus plan is a farce

I WAS away for a few days and came back to find that all had been sorted, the States has voted for a funding system for the buses and everybody is happy. Really.

VIDEO - Miton Optimal complete the weekend double

MITON Optimal completed a Swoffers Weekend double in emphatic style at KGV and they did it with a man-of-the-match performance from 14-year-old Nairn Guilbert.

If it isn't broke...

I'VE BEEN following very closely the various articles and correspondence in the Guernsey Press relating to the changes and proposals our politicians are putting forward concerning the constitution of the States of Deliberation and taxation.

International expansion is planned for Arc under new ownership