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?
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...
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 passengers have welcomed the changes new ticket machines will bring to the service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AN ICE-CREAM kiosk owner has lost hundreds of pounds after two break-ins less than a week apart.
I THINK this £2 bus fare is absurd. I have operated Le Chene Hotel for a decade and this is the worst PR for Guernsey I have encountered so far. We get many guests exploring the lanes by bike and they are always impressed with local people helping them find their way and the friendliness in general of this community.
STARTUP Guernsey has declared its week's worth of drop-in events a success.
HOPES are high of Guernsey medal success as triathlon makes a return to the Island Games in possibly its best surroundings yet.
WHO would be a deputy?
THERE is something very telling about the state of island sport when the three biggest annual prizes on offer, are collected by stand-ins.
