Guernsey’s Sixth Form Centre
A Predictable Cost Overrun — And How to Avoid the Next One Guernsey’s education sector has been dealt another financial blow. The cost of building the new sixth form centre…
Spin
I read this: https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/news-ge/home-affairs-apologises-for-mistake-in-police-chief-statement/ piece in Bailiwick Express with interest. It’s based on this media release: I’d expect the States to handle claims of the former Chief Office lying under…
Guernsey’s Legal Duty: Implementing a Freedom of Information Act
Guernsey’s current Freedom of Information framework, reliant solely on a voluntary and unenforceable Code of Practice, is fundamentally inadequate and inconsistent with its obligations under international law. It fails to…
Noise – Why Guernsey Needs Objective Vehicle Noise Measurement, Not a Blanket Ban
Guernsey’s proposal to criminalise altered exhausts that “intentionally increase noise” might sound like a straightforward solution to nuisance vehicles — but it risks becoming an arbitrary, unenforceable, and ultimately counterproductive…
Guernsey Needs Its Own DOGE to Curb Civil Service Overreach
How Bureaucracy Is Killing Community Spirit – and What We Can Learn from the U.S. The recent cancellation of Guernsey’s Vintage Agricultural Show 1 should set off alarm bells far…
Institutional Sadism: When Power Corrupts Without Cause
Introduction When I launched www.stateofguernsey.com, I noted on the front page that Guernsey’s small talent pool had led to mechanisms designed to shield public officials from scrutiny and criticism. Over…
States IT meltdown
Guernsey’s Civil Service: A Catalogue of IT Failures and Negligence The recent public statement by the Data Protection Authority1 regarding the catastrophic failure of Guernsey’s government IT systems should send…
The Civil Service Illusion
Why Our Deputies Keep Believing the Bureaucracy Guernsey’s political structure allows the Civil Service to dominate policymaking, despite repeated failures. Senior Deputies, even those who should know better, continue to…
Public Servants Must Answer to Those Who Pay Them
In Guernsey, the economic balance is increasingly delicate, and the burden of supporting public services falls heavily on a relatively small proportion of the population. Of the 22,000 employed individuals,…
Told you so..£200m States IT project
For me, the warning signs were there from the very beginning. Discussions I had with senior Guernsey Deputies as early as June 3, 2019 raised red flags about the Agilisys…