“For too long, the States have scraped by on short-term solutions, unsustainable restrictions on infrastructure investment and stretching minor taxes and charges...
Author - Bob Murray
In the original post on ‘Taxation Options’ I provided the history of the ‘quest’ over many assemblies to address the very unpopular challenge of...
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump will have been formally appointed as Republican President of the US on 20th January on the back of a landslide victory over the...
It should be very apparent to Islanders that our Government Finances are very stretched. That we have not been spending enough on our Infrastructure for many years and...
As I write this, by coincidence, an announcement has been made about one of our Local Doctors’ Practices raising the fee for seeing a Doctor to £70. Nobody in...
Some Islanders might argue that Island Wide Voting (IWV), ‘lost’ the opportunity for the people’s voice to be heard. From two perspectives perhaps:...
In the UK, since about 2010, there has been an ‘Office of Budget Responsibility‘ who have a prime role in analysing the finances of Government independently...
As of today and for the next political term (2025-2029), The Assembly will comprise of 38 Guernsey Deputies, elected using the Island Wide Voting mechanism and 2 States...
I am sure I will upset the traditionalists over this, after all the Royal Court has been the home of the States since time immemorial. But times have changed and in...
There is (and has been) considerable talk centred around the ‘Transition’ in energy. This is a multi-faceted subject but the intention appears to be to move...