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…
States IT project – £200m down the pan?
The £200 million Agilisys contract 1 has exposed severe governance failures in Guernsey’s public sector. For an island with just 15,000 taxpayers, this amounts to over £13,000 per person—a financial…