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IT just could not have been less scientific. There wasn’t a lab coat or a Bunsen burner in sight – what there was, and bear with me here, was a list of 51 names with a ‘P’ or an ‘I’ marked next to each one and two numbers scrawled across the bottom.

From Paul Le Claire. BOTH candidates for Chief Minister referred to the current housing crisis in their election statements. Senator Sir Philip Bailhache said: ‘The rate of home ownership at some 60% is too low and urgent steps should be taken to create affordable housing and the means to get on the housing ladder.’ Senator […]

GOOD news – the Senatorial election is pretty much over, bar the technical formalities of votes being cast, ballot papers being counted and results being read out.

HAVING just read some of the online comments about last Wednesday’s series of elections to the Big House, I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter what the outcome of the democratic process, someone will always call ‘foul’ if a particular result doesn’t suit them.

WHATEVER the outcome of Monday’s election for Chief Minister, a new beginning for the States is assured and a change of direction likely, with far-reaching consequences of obvious significance for all of us.

You could see it, feel it even. There was no escaping it: excitement. It was in their smiles, their giggles and their all too eager eyes. It hung around them like clouds of cheap perfume at a school disco and clung to them like the smell of freshly chopped onions in a hot sweaty kitchen.

I HAVE read this newspaper almost ever since I can remember and well recall it being a broadsheet, which meant that, in my younger days at least, the easiest place for me to give it the attention it merited was on the floor in front of the fire.