RG Falla had put money, resources into Les Ozouets contract
BUILDING company RG Falla has confirmed it has already put ‘substantial resources and costs’ into work at Les Ozouets campus.
BUILDING company RG Falla has confirmed it has already put ‘substantial resources and costs’ into work at Les Ozouets campus.
NEW options for completing construction of the post-16 campus at Les Ozouets are immediately being investigated in the wake of the collapse of the States’ contract with RG Falla.
WORKING with RG Falla would be too risky for taxpayers’ money, the States of Guernsey has said, after it pulled out of a deal for the firm to construct the new post-16 education campus.
EDUCATION, Sport & Culture is keen to keep speaking to the parishes over Liberation Day, but will not be making any change to its favoured parish-based events until 2024 at the earliest, it has said.
MORE than half of parishes want Liberation Day celebrations to return to the centre of St Peter Port.
Richard Graham looks back at last week’s States debate – and its relevance to events in Westminster
GOODBYE Liberation Day. Or at least the annual big celebration in Town. Why? Because the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture has unilaterally decided that such a celebration will take place every fifth year.
Tax cuts to sweeten the imposition of GST won’t help ordinary islanders or make Treasury lead Mark Helyar’s sudden conversion to tax and spend any easier to swallow, says Richard Digard. Nor will the proposed changes on P&R
ELECTING Deputy Bob Murray to the vacant seat on Policy & Resources would have ‘no material impact’ on delivering the Education Committee’s mandate, the president of ESC has said.
ISLANDERS can now provide feedback with their views of this year’s new and alternative Liberation Day set-up to inform the plans which are already under way for 2023.
Richard Graham shares his thoughts on last week’s States debate.
THE first set of post-Covid GCSE results saw Bailiwick schools improving their performance since the last time students sat external exams in 2019.
A LACK of candidates means there will be unfilled fixed-term contracts in primary schools in September for the first time in three years.
WORK to create the new post-16 campus at Les Ozouets will begin ‘towards the end of this year’, after permission was granted at an open planning meeting yesterday.
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