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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
‘Don’t panic’ is the message being sent to local pensioners as the United States’ volatile approach to global trade continues to hit stock markets. Rossborough Financial Services has sent emails to all of its investment and pension clients, advising them to avoid liquidating their investments to reduce the long-term impact on their assets from ups and downs in the markets.
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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Expanding Guernsey’s open market will allow the island to keep pace with other jurisdictions, said estate agent Savills in the wake of the recent States decision. The changes, approved last month, are expected to lead to an average of three new properties a year being inscribed on the open market register. Savills’ head of residential sales, Stuart Leslie, said that the move would also ensure the island’s housing stock meets modern buyers’ demands.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Skip to main content A family who have been building floats for many years and regularly enter the Battle of Flowers are also going to be taking part in the Liberation Day cavalcade this year, on board a wooden version of the landing craft that brought troops to Guernsey in 1945.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
A cut in interest rates to below 4% in May is being predicted by a local mortgage broker following the financial market turmoil caused by tariffs brought in by US president Donald Trump. For that reason, Pierre Blampied, MD of SPF Private Clients, said the company would not advise a client to take out a fixed rate mortgage at the moment. ‘We remain of the view that tracker/discount rate mortgages are the better option currently as we remain in a falling interest rate environment,’ he said.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Skip to main content Renewed calls have been made for a dog DNA database after the death of a sheep was linked to a dog off its lead. The incident highlighted the increasing number of cases where dogs have been let loose and disturbed livestock, said Guernsey Farming Association president Michael Bray.
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3 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Previous operator Condor has sold the Liberation, which was bought only 10 years ago, leaving Voyager as the only fast vessel on the route. Although it is now about 25 years old, Mr Mathieu said the life of a ferry depended on various factors, including how it was maintained. But it would not be long before a replacement would be considered. ‘These things will take now some additional work with Ports and the States on what is the next generation of ships,’ he said.
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3 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
While part of him was excited see the start of the new era for the company in Guernsey, he said he still had feelings of anger, frustration and disappointment at how the ferry tender process had concluded without Brittany being able to serve both islands. ‘The consequence of that is also the fact that we have to lose quite a few colleagues that were in Condor,’ he said. In total about 200 crew and shore-based staff were let go.
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3 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Currently using the working title Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation, the two-part series uses eye-witness accounts to tell the story of what it describes as ‘one the most controversial periods in WW2 British history’. Entries from diaries, memoirs and letters written by both the island residents and their occupiers will be brought to life by actors.
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3 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Herm Seaway Marine Ltd was once known as Herm Combine, a conglomerate of different boats owned by different people which all operated the route. Keith Duquemin and Tony Bougourd bought the business between them about 25 years ago after the ferry side of the operation stopped due to a decline in visitors. Mr Bougourd, however, also owned AB Marine and played no active role in Herm Seaways other than as a co-director with his wife, while Mr Duquemin and his wife were the other two directors.
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4 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
The concert will be held on Sunday 24 August and course director Charlie Cottam said the aim was for participants to turn up on the day to rehearse the chosen pieces of music and perform in the evening. He is calling for anyone who had not yet heard from him to get in touch, since although he has been able to contact former Elizabeth College students, and those whose details he kept from their time on the course since 2020, he had no contacts prior to that.
