Matt Fallaize

Guernsey

Husband of @NikkiF_84 | Dad of Joshua, Amelia & Megan | football; politics; news; Guernsey; France | Journalist, Guernsey Press | People's Deputy 2008-20.

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Deputies’ election pledges place GST-plus under threat

1 week ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

The current States agreed the tax package last November and directed that it should be introduced in 2027 to raise more than £50m. a year to help fill a black hole in public finances. But a clear majority of the 38 successful election candidates said during their campaigns that they were either firmly opposed to GST-plus or wanted other options looked at again before any moves were made to introduce a tax on all goods and services.
Canvassing is dealt ‘a major blow’ by withdrawal of maps

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Candidates fear that canvassing door-to-door will be almost impossible after changes were made to the presentation of the electoral roll. At previous elections, the roll has been available in walk order, often with roads appearing contiguously and maps to aid walking, and always with houses listed sequentially from one end of a road to the other, rather than alphabetically.
Opportunity knocks as 45 hopefuls sign up on first day

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Forty-five candidates for deputy put their names forward yesterday as nominations opened at the start of a five-week general election campaign. First-time candidate Heidi Almonte was at the head of a small queue waiting to submit their papers when the Bailiff’s Office opened at 9am.
La Mare sixth form ‘will be fully staffed’

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Skip to main content The States Sixth Form Centre will be fully staffed when it relocates to La Mare de Carteret in September. Parents of students at the Sixth Form Centre, and those planning to start there this year, received a letter yesterday aimed at reassuring them about preparations ahead of the move from Les Varendes this summer.
Decline in college students switching to Sixth Form Centre

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Fewer students are moving from the colleges to the States Sixth Form Centre after taking their GCSEs.Before 2020, at least 35 students a year, and in some years nearly 50 students, were leaving the colleges at the end of Year 11 and enrolling at the Sixth Form Centre at Les Varendes. But at the start of this current academic year only 21 students made the same move.
Sark Electricity owner in sudden departure

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

The managing director of Sark Electricity announced yesterday that he was leaving the island and was happy to negotiate the sale of the company to Chief Pleas. Alan Witney-Price said as recently as last week that there were no circumstances under which he would sell the company to Chief Pleas and that doing so would be ‘signing the island’s death warrant’.
Ferbrache reveals plan to stand again as States term finishes

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

He had said for months that he would leave the States at the end of the current political term, but yesterday he revealed that he was now almost certain to stand at next month’s general election. He told the latest Guernsey Press Politics Podcast that he was ‘pretty sure’ his name would be among the candidates at the second island-wide election on 18 June.
Deputies back two-pronged plan to combat noisy vehicles

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Legislation will be drawn up which will make it an offence to alter an exhaust on a car or motorbike to make it noisier and to drive a vehicle above a decibel limit yet to be stipulated.
States votes for water over waste at Les Vardes

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Inert waste will be disposed of instead in a land reclamation project at Black Rock, near the Vale Castle, as part of the Guernsey Development Agency’s plans to regenerate the Bridge. The Black Rock scheme was approved with only two deputies voting against, but the proposal to turn Les Vardes into the island’s largest reservoir was carried by 19 votes to 14, a majority of five, with six members abstaining.
Deputies agree to create Offshore Renewable Energy Commission

1 month ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Skip to main content Another step has been taken on a journey which the States hopes will end with wind turbines off Guernsey’s coast generating both energy and income for the island. Deputies agreed to create the Offshore Renewable Energy Commission as an independent body to issue the licences which companies will require if they wish to develop offshore wind facilities.