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1 week ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
The government said the switch to the online giant would save it about £100,000 a year, but the director of one local firm which has lost out has called it ‘short-sighted’ and another has already laid off a member of staff following the loss of a core part of its business. They warned that the move could end up costing the States more as it needed staff to handle large deliveries.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Skip to main content An election observer whose last experience was keeping an eye on the vote in the UK last year, is in Guernsey this week to help ensure that our general election is held in accordance with international law.
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2 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Louis Leonard Gerber and Matthew Wright, from court-appointed liquidators Leonard Curtis, are winding up the affairs of Hurel Ltd, the company which RG Falla became shortly before it was placed into liquidation in March 2023.
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3 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Although it has been many years since water restrictions were imposed locally, the utility has updated its Water Resources and Drought Management Plan to look at what the situation might be like in more than 50 years’ time, up to 2080, taking into account anticipated changes in weather patterns and population. Europe is anticipated to experience wetter winters but hotter, drier, summers.
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3 weeks ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Better monitoring of States employees working from home is being called for after it emerged that there are no detailed records kept of employees’ locations or working patterns, including for some who are based outside the island. In answer to written questions posed by Deputy Chris Le Tissier, Policy & Resources’ president Lyndon Trott said that there was no central data on the number of employees working from home either full- or part-time.
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1 month ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Skip to main content Fixing audio and video announcements of upcoming bus stops on board buses is a priority, the managing director of Stagecoach South-West assured members of the Bus Users Group at its annual general meeting. Peter Knight and Simon Ford, the company’s head of commercial, faced 45 minutes of questions from members about the first eight weeks of the company’s operation in the island at the meeting.
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1 month ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Skip to main content A contractor has been appointed to carry out a survey on fields at Route Isabelle where it is suspected that there might be unexploded bombs from the Second World War buried in the soil. The move by Home Affairs follows concerns expressed by local bomb disposal expert Ben Remfrey that a 2019 survey of the area did not probe deep enough.
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1 month ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
Skip to main content Famous ships, local locations and 1940s characters were brought to life by nearly 30 floats created for this year’s 80th Liberation Day cavalcade. Real nurses, staff from the PEH Critical Care Unit, dressed in the uniforms of their 1940s counterparts as they readied themselves to set off in a mock-up of the Guernsey emergency hospital from the Occupation era. As well as nurses, the 18 people on the float included ‘patients’ ranging in age from 10 months to 82 years old.
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1 month ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
And there were thousands out of Town too, since all along the east coast the pavements and grass verges were lined with cars and onlookers waiting to watch the hundreds of vehicles and floats in the cavalcade, while in Town itself the piers were buzzing with children’s activities and adults enjoying food and drink in the sun. The event was the culmination of the efforts of Education, Sport & Culture member Deputy Sue Aldwell and her team.
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1 month ago | 
guernseypress.com | Mark Ogier
La Vieille Plage at Sandy Hook has been built by the Guernsey Housing Association working with Health & Social Care and the flats have been designed to accommodate residents with varying degrees of physical and learning disabilities. Each of the one-bedroom flats has its own kitchen and bathroom facilities but there is also a communal kitchen and lounge area for those who want to socialise.
