The extra Nile
THE tour-leader gene was rampant as I walked the Old Winter Palace gardens in Luxor.
THE tour-leader gene was rampant as I walked the Old Winter Palace gardens in Luxor.
CAN a minister - no matter how good he or she might be - survive a shattering policy reversal and then go on credibly to pilot the complete reversal of his or her previous thinking back through the Assembly?
MEMORY boxes can be the key to unlocking the past for many older Guernsey people.
When the Commerce and Employment minister told this newspaper last week that 'I would prefer the pension to be set at a lower rate, perhaps kept at annual RPI increases only...', she may have alarmed countless OAPs but she has also curiously done them a favour.
Suggestions by the Commerce and Employment minister that the burden of providing an island-wide old age pension could be eased by reducing its value might be controversial – but she has a point.
WRITING here yesterday, we highlighted the rather arbitrary 'standards' demanded of the low tax jurisdictions by prime minister Gordon Brown - but it has taken publication of his letter to the Crown Dependencies to show just how much the goalposts have shifted.
PUBLICATION today of Treasury and Resources' capital prioritisation report shows how far those in charge of the island's finances are prepared to deviate from previous - and States endorsed - policies of paying for major works with money it has saved.
IT WASN'T the most dramatic of stories – but it was one guaranteed to cheer up islanders in this rain-soaked 'summer'.
Pets and prizes were the order of the day on Saturday as the GSPCA held its first summer festival. Nigel Baudains reports. Pictures by Daniel Guerin.
TAXI drivers want to increase fares, some by more than 8%.
IT'S not every day four 100-year-olds are in the same room.
Vet David Chamberlain is Guernsey's lord of the dance. He and his partner, Natasha Axworthy, wowed the crowd and the judges at this year's Martel Maides Dancefloor Challenge. Gemma Hockey reports. Pictures by Daniel Guerin
MILK quotas for farmers will stay and are being accepted by the dairy industry, according to the Commerce and Employment Department.
TREASURY minister Lyndon Trott has welcomed Gordon Brown's robust predictions for the economy.
Every port has its archetypal old salt sporting a skipper's cap and telling tales of derring-do. While many are charlatans, Bill Bell found out that there was even more to Bonnie Newton than met the eye