OPINION: "it is unacceptable that we lack awareness of the number of mothers and families needing assistance" Thursday 14 November 2024

I recently asked about the rates of Postnatal Depression in Guernsey during Question time in the States.

OPINION: From all at the GSPCA "We Will Remember Them"

Every year at this time we remember the lost and fallen that have gone before us.
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OPINION: Trott says former States economist is confused and making foolish tax arguments

During the Budget debate, former States economist Andy Sloan wrote to States members with an argument he first set out for Bailiwick Express about what the income tax rise proposed in the Budget meant for the average worker.
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OPINION: There's been "zero effort by the public sector to first tighten its belt"

Last week, in the Guernsey Press, I wrote that the States needs to address the structural imbalance in the States finances created by zero ten some sixteen years ago (by introducing GST as we should have done back then), find another route to funding (all) the rising demands of demographics, reform the corporate tax regime and address its cultural disposition to keep spending more of our money because there wasn’t widespread public support for it. I called it ‘all of the above’. This was the key message I wanted to get across.
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