Matt Fallaize

3 days ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Fundraisers for a new spider’s web climbing frame at Saumarez Park secured key political support over the weekend. A story on the front page of Saturday’s Guernsey Press alerted Environment & Infrastructure president Lindsay de Sausmarez to fundraisers’ frustration about delays which have hit the project.

6 days ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

In 2020, his Partnership of Independents won a total of 10 seats in the Assembly, more than any other party, but within a year it had been dissolved. Three of Deputy St Pier’s nine former colleagues, Deputies Lyndon Trott, Heidi Soulsby and Al Brouard, are leaving politics at the end of the current States’ term in June. The other six told the Guernsey Press they would stand at this year’s general election but would not be aligned to any party or similar group.

6 days ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

The former treasury lead has become the first candidate to declare that he will stand for the presidency of the Policy & Resources Committee if he is re-elected as a deputy in the general election on 18 June. In an article in today’s Guernsey Press, Deputy Helyar said he wanted to ‘galvanise and inspire’ the next Assembly to achieve ‘a fundamental reset’ under which politicians would take back control from officials and provide stronger leadership over the States.

1 week ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

The Education Committee told the States as recently as last year that the project would cost about £25m., but it admitted yesterday that the figure had since climbed to approximately £40-50m. The development is currently on hold, with sixth form students preparing to move temporarily to La Mare de Carteret from September, but despite the spiralling construction costs Education still hopes to open a new sixth form centre at Les Ozouets by 2029.

1 week ago | guernseypress.com | Matt Fallaize

Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez is asking for more information about the declining number of students and withdrawal of courses once the centre moves to La Mare de Carteret in September. Education president Andrea Dudley-Owen, who recently announced a one-year pause to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) because of low student numbers, must provide written replies by 26 April.