Requetes should be left alone
The unique Guernsey political petition that is the requete can be an immensely powerful tool.
The unique Guernsey political petition that is the requete can be an immensely powerful tool.
DEPUTY ANDY CAMERON is expected back around the Education Committee table this week after being excluded over the past few weeks from any discussions about its secondary and post-16 plans.
THE deputy leading a campaign to save Herm School from closure has said he is ‘not interested’ in an attempt to amend his requete which was published yesterday by Education, Sport & Culture.
It is estimated that more than a million people in the UK are living with heart failure.
BOTH the Guernsey Sports Commission and the Health Improvement Commission have come out in support of Education’s bid for future funding for the Active 8 strategy, even though it falls short of what is needed.
Taking patients whose hearts have stopped to a specialist centre rather than the nearest emergency department may be unnecessary, research suggests.
Researchers administered the jab to a group for one year and compared results to those given a placebo
The findings of the Japanese study suggested a lower dependency on nicotine in later life if a person started smoking after 22.
WHAT A relief. Sympathy and probity prevailed and the beleaguered Deputy Andy Cameron received backing from fair-minded colleagues of the Assembly. It must have been a strain on the Deputy’s mental health. What is it with some Deputies that they have this fetish, bordering on paranoia, for secrecy? They are elected by Guernsey people, their salaries are paid by Guernsey people, and the policies decided on, in committee, to be ratified by the Assembly are paid for by Guernsey people. Yet, we are continually treated as the baddies. Conspirators, not to be trusted, and not to be told anything about what concerns us in these times of austerity.
Researchers said that parents should encourage teenagers to be more physically active.
Researchers looked at whether fitness was related to the likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation.
Recent problems highlight the need for a fundamental review of the machinery of government, says Father of the House Deputy John Gollop
READING the Guernsey Press re the ongoing situation with the schoolchildren of Herm, I beg to think that our Education department has lost the plot.
THE deputy behind the requete into Herm school has said he is delighted that room has been made for it to be discussed at the next States meeting.
FORMER Education committee members are leading a requete to try and save Herm School.