HORSE owners could see a specialist facility built in St Ouen as a home for animals that are retired or recovering from injury or illness, if a planning application is approved. Seacliff Livery, the application explains, is designed as a specialist livery providing “high-standard, full-care livery with a strong emphasis on welfare, individualised attention and […]
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Planning are a huge let-down for the Island – with no vision or clear leadership policies in place
What is mostly being built is unaffordable box flats with inadequate parking provision By Terry Le Main IN this beautiful island of ours that has given me so many opportunities, it really is tragically sad that we now see such public dissatisfaction and negativity towards our government, and especially our second-rate public administration, from our […]
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We urgently need political leadership because no one knows how to deal with the exploding number of retirees
By Terry Le Main HELLO everyone. I am pleased to be back sharing my thoughts with you on many of the issues affecting our Island and people’s daily living and lives. Gosh, haven’t the years flown by? For some of us now, those who are a little elderly, it seems that each week is a […]
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Things have now become more difficult due to the empowerment of children from an early age
By Lindsay Ash SOMEONE once said that “teachers are well overpaid as educators and massively underpaid as child carers”, and I thought of that quote when I read that a recent survey stated that two out of five teachers in the UK said they had been attacked in schools. We also had something similar suggested […]
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'To succeed, the languages that will be most useful are English, Spanish – and possibly Mandarin'
By John Henwood Fort Regent – here we go again ONE cannot blame Infrastructure Minister Andy Jehan for passing off much of the responsibility for Fort Regent to the Jersey Development Company (JDC). After all, who would want such a political hot potato? Accountability for the Fort has passed from hand to hand for a […]
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Objections to request to let flat to tourists
A FORMER Housing Minister is among those objecting to a retrospective planning application to allow a three-bedroom flat to be used as tourist accommodation for six months of the year, arguing that there is already a ‘huge shortage’ of family homes in the Island. In a public comment, Terry Le Main described the application as […]
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Change in wording and location for care abuse apology plaque
A PLAQUE apologising to survivors of care abuse is set to be quiety installed on a bench – after plans to display it in the Royal Square received subtanstial public backlash. The plaque was slated for the south-facing wall of Piquet House and was designed as a public apology from the government on behalf of […]
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College takes P.R.I.D.E in students
HIGHLANDS College last week celebrated the achievements of its sixth-form students of 2024. Held on Thursday 20 June, P.R.I.D.E. of Highlands College Sixth Form Awards – the P.R.I.D.E. standing for potential, respect, imagination, diversity and excellence – took place in the main hall of the St Saviour school and saw dozens of students being recognised […]
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Railway tunnels tenants may be forced to move
TENANTS of the former railway tunnels at St Aubin who have used the site for decades face the prospect of having to find new premises after the government confirmed that their leases were not being renewed for “safety reasons”. A petition to remain by one of the groups – St Brelade’s Smallbore Rifle Club, which […]
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Morshead smashes it
THE crème de la crème of the Channel Islands took to the Guernsey Table Tennis Association over the weekend to compete in both the CI Championships on Friday and the Inter-Insular competition on Saturday. The Friday night saw a total of 20 individual trophies up for grabs between the best of the old rivals’ bat-weaving […]
